Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

Powell was always a centrist political shithead, following and amplifying whatever he thought was politically popular.

for instance, https://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/clinton-documents-gays-in-the-military-111784

Skin color is a benign, nonbehavioral characteristic. Sexual orientation is perhaps
the most profound of behavioral characteristics. Comparison of the two is a
convenient but invalid argument. As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as
well as an African-American fully conversant with history, I believe the policy we
have adopted is consistent with the necessary standards of order and discipline
required of the armed forces.

Powell said he was making “no moral judgment” on gays but believed “they can best serve in other areas.”

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Marine Commandant Gen. Carl Mundy may have been the most strident opponent of allowing gays to serve openly. Quoting someone involved in a Queer Nation parade, Mundy said people associated with “gay pride” are licentious and unconstrained by law or morality. Mundy, who died earlier this year, also suggested that announcing “I’m gay” was the “same as I’m KKK, Nazi, rapist,” the notes show.

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Powell said Friday that he did not believe that Mundy breached decorum with his remarks.

“Carl Mundy who died recently was the most outspoken, but I don’t think that he crossed a line, nor has that ever been mentioned to me,” Powell wrote in an email to POLITICO.

“I’ve never seen these notes before, of course,” the general said, while adding that they appeared to be accurate. “The Chiefs head these services, not me, and I wanted (the) President to hear their views. The real story was Congressional opposition. The Dems came back after the Easter Recess pleading for a compromise. DADT was that compromise. Congress might well have gone back to greater restrictions. (The) President was pleased by June to get it off the table.”

As for the comparison between gays and African-Americans, Powell said: “I did not think they were equivalent; although both were discriminatory. The armed force(s) to do their job have to do things that are discriminatory, e.g. capital punishment for walking off the job.”

ngl, I do not give a rat's ass what some asshole homophobe has to say about gay people or other bigots. The guy directly contributed to the deaths of millions. Hope he's being chopped up a distributed in equal measure to the lowest circles of Hell.

Jerry Pinkney, awesome children’s book illustrator.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/20/1047786312/jerry-pinkney-illustrator-obituary?t=1634833802641

He was the best. My kids loved to get lost in his pictures. Just looked at his wikipedia and my god he illustrated a lot of books!

Peter Scolari

https://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/peter-scolari-obituary_92907.html?

oh no!

Bernard Haitink

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/oct/22/celebrated-conductor-bernard-haitink-dies-aged-92

Been listening to live radio recordings of Haitink all day

Newhart on Scolari:

Bob Newhart, who is 92, just issued a statement to us (I cried as I added it): https://t.co/PT6gfTxxHc pic.twitter.com/kpfG0JYjNK

— Kate Aurthur (@KateAurthur) October 22, 2021

Wonderful runner Agnes Tirol. Terrible news, which I’ve only just read.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-58919391.amp

Agnes Tirop, sorry, not Tirol.

oh man, rip Peter :( :(

prob going to hell for this (and i like his work a lot) but
Homemade Jokes

Was thinking about you and that joke when I saw Scolari’s name pop up in here, Forks!

salute

Jay Black, the second 'Jay' of Jay & The Americans, who sang on most of their hits

https://deadline.com/2021/10/jay-black-dead-jay-and-the-americans-frontman-was-82-1234861322/

Oh wow, this news got lost a bit -- RIP Leslie Bricusse

Same guy who wrote the song “Pure Imagination” from Willy Wonka is the same guy who wrote Nina Simone’s banger “Feeling Good.” And he ALSO wrote “Goooooldfingerrrr....” from James Bond. His name was Leslie Bricusse (BRICK-us), he passed away yesterday at the age of 90. RIP king.

— Ariana Lenarsky (@aardvarsk) October 23, 2021

Oh that’s too bad, RIP.

Believe the last time he came up was dolittle

I have been pronouncing his name incorrectly for quite a while, based on some misleading info from I won’t say who.

Actress JoAnna Cameron, known to American kids of the 1970s as “The Mighty Isis” (70)

JAMES MICHAEL TYLER, Gunther from 'FRIENDS' dead at 59 from cancer.

https://www.tmz.com/2021/10/24/friends-star-james-michael-tyler-gunther-dead-dies-prostate-cancer/

https://www.tmz.com/2021/10/24/friends-star-james-michael-tyler-gunther-dead-dies-prostate-cancer/

Former Scotland manager Walter Smith: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56381264

Mort Sahl, whose biting political and social commentary revolutionized stand-up comedy in the 1950s, has died at 94. https://t.co/1LSkTdeG8W

— NYT Obituaries (@NYTObits) October 26, 2021

Not good at playing the woke guy, but wasn’t he kind of a jerk, I seem to recall thinking when watching him in The Dick Cavett Show recently, I think.

Ugh. Can’t seem to type a sentence today without regretting it immediately after

Without checking, I'm trying to think of a movie or a TV show where he plays himself, or maybe plays a character--it's the only time I ever saw him, although I would always hear about him.

Took a look at IMDB: thinking maybe Laugh-In.

He did have a small part in Nothing Lasts Forever (1984).

i only went back and discovered sahl a couple years ago, his stuff holds up very well imo. well worth digging into old youtube clips if you haven't already.

I don’t know if anyone comes off too well in this: https://mortsahl.tripod.com/id21.html

https://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/that-time-a-critic-destroyed-a-satirist-on-tv

I only happened to watch that because it is the show immortalized by Greil Marcus with his fabrication of Little Richard’s statements in Mystery Train.

Max Stahl, who more or less on his own brought the East Timor struggle to Western eyes.

Or as many Brits will know him, Christopher Webber. Blue Peter presenter alongside Simon Groom directly after Noakes/Judd/Purves

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59075271

*Wenner*

Bloody autocorrect

First Mort Sahl and now Max Stahl?

Chris Serle must be glad he's not called Mike.

Motorcycle racing legend Paul Smart, aged 78 - died in a motorbike accident, fittingly enough

https://mcn-images.bauersecure.com/PageFiles/692000/822x548/Paul-Smart-Diesjpg.jpg

Did anyone mention Andrea Haugen from Aghast being dying in those recent arrow killings in norway? I really love that first Aghast album but never heard any of the Aghast Manor albums

Metal journalist Malcolm Dome, 66. Credited with coining the phrase "thrash metal".

That's a shame, he seemed like he was just always running on endless enthusiasm. He done pretty extensive writing on prog rock too. Can't find the cause of death right now.

I thought I'd read one of his books, but I confused him with Mick Wall. I did see Dome in a couple of rock documentaries though.

Jazz guitarist Par Martino, 77.

Oops, Pat Martino

Oh man, what a shame. He made some great records.

if the internet is to be believed, Sean Connery died again today

He’ll only do it twice

Die Another Day

No Time to Die Again