Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

He'd be a legend if all he'd ever made were The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon. Curious, though: is anything he directed post-, say, 1985 worth a damn?

The Cat's Meow is fairly good (in spite of my grudge against it for perpetuating the stories about Thomas H. Ince's death).

Heard good things about his Tom Petty doc.

The hybrid documentary/biopic he did on Natalie Wood for ABC was interesting.

That Morbius quote is, of course, classic, although I ultimately ended up liking that movie, perhaps due to a form of Stockholm Syndrome.

I really liked it too.

Good thing I put a bunch of money into neckerchief and ascot stocks just last week. I had a feeling.

Lol. I know another guy who has a similar look. I suspect he’d better watch his back.

Two Bogdanoff's and a Bogdanovitch - Death is going alphabetically.

wade boggs better watch his back

Rest In Peace. Eternal thanks from me for “Saint Jack” and “What’s Up, Doc?”, a film I strangely had great affection for as a kid. And for housing Orson Welles. Imagine that as a sitcom.

Targets is great.

And for housing Orson Welles. Imagine that as a sitcom

Or as a remake of "The Man Who Came to Dinner"

I listened to an interview with him today and he said everyone always thinks he wore ascots, but it was actually just a bandana and it's a habit he picked up from the crew in Texas while filming Last Picture Show.

hah, yeah, he looks like a real Hud cowhound in that old rag

And for housing Orson Welles. Imagine that as a sitcom

Spin-off - Peter moves into Quentin's place for a while and all the roles are reversed

Sidney Poitier?

Certainly being reported in a few places. RIP. 94!

The beloved actor passed away at the age of 94, with his death confirmed by Minister of Foreign Affairs Fred Mitchell.

Harry Belafonte the last major figure of that generation still with us, I guess. Astounding, really.

what a life

(xp) Harry Belafonte, who is 9 days younger than Sidney.

RIP Sidney.

Ah man

In anticipation of "Buck and the Preacher" being re-run here's I-Roy's thoughts on it, both Sidney and Harry are namechecked...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiTHtAZ5ieU

RIP. Have never seen The Defiant Ones, only the 1001 parodies of it, but Morbs gave it a thumbs up.

I'm always talking about To Sir with Love; listed it on my favourite-movies-ever poll recently. If you're interested in Poitier, Mark Harris's Pictures at a Revolution is highly recommended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hs3S8gNIU0

I remember really liking To Sir with Love when I was coming up, haven’t watched in decades though. Still listen to the theme song of course.

My parents used to adore Lilies of the Field, but I haven't seen it in years... kinda want to revisit it

Poitier's heartbreaking dilemma is ar the heart of Pictures at a Revolution.

I almost never post GIFs, but I thought there might be one for this--looks like there's a dozen out there, at least.

https://media.giphy.com/media/Wrsr6oJfZ9YcHOA07L/giphy.gif

Poitier's heartbreaking dilemma is ar the heart of _ Pictures at a Revolution_.

RIP - my personal favorite was A Patch of Blue, mum gave me the book to read as a teen & i loved the movie so much, especially him. ;_;

Oddly enough, one of Peter Bogdanovich's TV movies was To Sir, With Love II, which is about Thackeray moving to Chicago and taking a job at an inner-city school. Lulu and Judy Geeson reprise their characters from the original.

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You can tell it's the '90s because all the students are staring down 30 hard...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPtXH2We4wY

Forgot about that (and haven't seen it)--good catch.

Lani Guinier, whose nomination for Assistant Attorney General was struck down by the GOP early in the Clinton era:

A loss that means more to me than words can say. Civil rights atty, professor, my mentor, member of our ⁦@NAACP_LDF⁩ family. A mother of the 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act. A scholar of uncompromising brilliance.
Rest In Peace and Power, dear Lani.#LaniGuinier pic.twitter.com/r3TmI9KRZF

— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) January 7, 2022

Bill Clinton sure showed her the respect she deserved.

I grew up w the story of how my dad met Mr. Poitier in an airport & said, "I was just about to purchase some earrings for my wife-who wld certainly leave me for u- wld you be so kind to pick them out?" He obliged. And that's how my mom has "the earrings that Sidney picked out."

— Saul Williams (@SaulWilliams) January 7, 2022

Harry Belanfonte on Sidney Potier’s passing:

“For over 80 years, Sidney and I laughed, cried and made as much mischief as we could. He was truly my brother and partner in trying to make this world a little better. He certainly made mine a whole lot better.”

🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/IRcZiyBx78

— Shanelle Genai✨ (@shanellegenai) January 7, 2022

Reasonably reliable source says RIP R. Dean Tayllor.

Or maybe not.

go/no go for taylor

Still waiting for a report on that alarm, VG.

roger. standing by.

Indiana Got Him?

Shane O’Connor, son of Sinead. So awful.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/08/son-of-sinead-oconnor-dies-at-age-of-17-after-going-missing

Terrible.

Calvin Simon, vocalist with the Parliaments, Parliament/Funkadelic etc

https://www.nme.com/news/music/parliament-funkadelic-co-founder-calvin-simon-has-died-3132791

... he also served in Vietnam!

This book has been on my list forever/pvmic

it's a brilliant, brilliant read

Tarkovsky composer Eduard Artemeyev

i watched stalker recently and every bandcamp drone/field recordings album i hear now sounds like his stalker score from 50 years ago

Similarly if you died on a day when someone more famous than you died (like Huxley / JFK)

CS Lewis not even making that quote shows how effective the curse is.

Damn this is a rough day, one of those 'the 20th century is disappearing' moments.

i watched stalker recently and every bandcamp drone/field recordings album i hear now sounds like his stalker score from 50 years ago

And yeah, truth.

Also seeing reports that solid journeyman producer Paul Fox, who worked with a ton of bands (XTC, Robyn Hitchcock, They Might Be Giants, 10,000 Maniacs, Sugarcubes etc. etc.) has passed; he'd suffered from early onset Alzheimer's for some years, sadly.

Was just listening to the Fox-produced Our Time in Eden on this morning’s dog-walk. RIP.

Singer-songwriter Ian Tyson, probably best known for “Four Strong Winds” (and, I learned about two minutes ago, a friend of my uncle’s).

Tarkovsky composer Eduard Artemeyev

What a day.

My sister worked with Vivienne Westwood for over 30 years and is in absolute pieces over this. I just spent an hour on the phone to her trying to cheer her up a bit and she told me some of the most hysterically outrageous VW acecdotes. What a character, what a life!

Celebrated Modernist architect Arata Isozaki, 91.

Barbara Walters, wow. One of those people who already seemed like she'd been around forever when I was a kid.

Damn. RIP

Wow, that’s huge - she was a huge benefactor for my alma mater and hers.

this is a bit late on Pele but there used to be this very rough as fuck pub down the road from me in the 90's called the Nelson. The landlord had a framed pic of himself tackling Pele from when he played in the US behind the bar. It's just come back to me who he was - it was Roy Ellam who is more famous for the big gym he now runs than he ever was as a football player, but tbf he did get into the Revie era dirty Leeds side.

Former Pope Benedict XVI, aged 95

one for the pope stats fans: first one to stand down while still alive in 6 centuries

"he was forced to join the Hitler Youth"

I've heard that one many times!

Well you would do in Huddersfield.

reading the wikipedia entry on papal renunciation and of the six historically reliable resignations, benedict 16's is literally the only "bored now" -- the other five were all political in some sense (deposed, stepped aside to solve a schism, stepped aside when realised way out of depth)

benedict 9 was like the covid-bolsonaro of popes and kept popping back for another go

because Francis, the selfish fucker, decided not to die before him. Now there is an unprecedented (?) situation where a current pope gets the funeral gig of a dead pope. Which is obviously a much worse thing than laundering nazi gold or covering up decades of child abuse !

or if Francis died before him would they have waited for him to die before ordaining a new pope to avoid this situation?

I don't know, these modern popes, what will they get up to next?

"Well you would do in Huddersfield."

Well done Tom D!

is it pick on Hudds day or something?

lol I took it as you meaning Hudds as a hotbed of neo-fascism

Benedict 9 is featured in The Bad Popes, well worth a reminder how awful they were, absolute wronguns to a man!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Popes

2022 delivers! Maybe we can have an annual papal death from now on until the entirety of the Holy See is gone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD9PqpG1FFY

Reading about the pornocracy and Marozia will make for a delicious Wiki dive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeculum_obscurum

A surprising amount of Hitler Youth footage in the TV news packages about Benedict. All I'll say is, even if we take him at his word that he was forced to be a Nazi, nobody forced him to be a Catholic priest.

"Pope otm." is the single greatest sentence ever written on ILX.

― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Monday, February 11, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ema7lfEAMk

"All I wanted...in the WORLD...was to be a catlick priest.."

Now Ruth is the last surviving Pointer sister. R.I.P. Anita

Anita Pointer, Grammy-Winning Artist and Founding Member of R&B Group Pointer Sisters, Dies at 74 https://t.co/olqHAWTW9f

— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 1, 2023

Jeremiah Green of Modest Mouse

https://pitchfork.com/news/modest-mouse-drummer-jeremiah-green-dies-at-45/

It's a new year!

Rolling Obituary Thread 2023