Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

Leonard Fenton, 95

Leonard Fenton, who played Dr Legg in EastEnders, has died aged 95, his family say https://t.co/2O6fwHK9yM

— Sky News (@SkyNews) January 31, 2022

Cheslie Kryst, winner of the 2019 Miss USA pageant, at the age of 30.

Ugh. Just read about that. RIP.

Is this where the term "Enormodome" originated?

It appears to be!

Oh, Dr Legg :(

seeing early reports that James Bidgood, director of 'Pink Narcissus', has passed

Ah man. Hell of an impact, not least with my beloved Pierre et Gilles...

i interviewed him by e-mail for a school project many years ago. just dug up our exchange; he signed every e-mail 'jimbo'. he was very kind and funny, wish i'd kept a longer correspondence with him beyond that one project

Bob Wall, martial artist and actor, best known as the evil O'Hara in Enter the Dragon

RIP Jimmy Johnson, older brother of Syl Johnson, frequent collaborator on songs including “Come On Sock It To Me” & a blues legend in his own right. Here he is in a clip from our film talking about Syl’s arrival in Chicago with their brother Mack Thompson (bassist for Magic Sam). pic.twitter.com/g1VgJkj5UH

— Syl Johnson Movie (@SylJohnsonMovie) February 1, 2022

Sam Lay, drummer for Waters, Wolf, Butterfield & Dylan

https://pitchfork.com/news/blues-drummer-sam-lay-dies-at-86/

Italian climber and mountain guide Corrado “Korra” Pesce has died following an accident in Patagonia (41).

https://gripped.com/news/top-climber-and-mountain-guide-korra-pesce-dies-in-patagonia/

Jonny Z

https://variety.com/2022/music/news/jon-zazula-megaforce-records-metallica-dead-dies-1235169137/

Hearing murmurs about Monica Vitti

Confirmed, sadly: https://www.google.com/amp/s/deadline.com/2022/02/monica-vitti-dies-italian-screen-icon-of-1960s-classics-was-90-1234924794/amp/

RIP Monica :(

RIP

Mandy Allwood, 56. What a way to start the day, reading this. RIP.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/octomum-dies-of-cancer-aged-56-b980653.html?amp

Jesus, what an absolutely tragic story. That poor, poor woman.

That is sad. Wasn't there another Octomom, an American one?

Yes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadya_Suleman

Dubbed "The most hated woman in Britain" for not giving interviews to the paper that dubbed her, for free. Doubtless.

Todd Gitlin: https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/todd-gitlin-prominent-activist-thinker-dead-79-82697239

Lata Mangeshkar, 92

Oh! RIP.

Syl Johnson, July 1, 1936- February 6, 2022.

Sock it to 'em wherever you end up next, old friend. pic.twitter.com/d0wv4mQ4OW

— numerogroup (@numerogroup) February 6, 2022

RIP Syl

Man and his brother just passed away too.

Composer George Crumb, 92

https://pitchfork.com/news/george-crumb-prolific-avant-garde-composer-dies-at-92/

Oh no! RIP George.

Noooooo

So very very dear to me

Heard Ancient Voices of Children in a music appreciation class in college. Loved him since. I just bought but I haven’t listened to the new Marcantonio Barone CD. Going to do that now.

it’s really great, not a huge departure from Makrokosmos I and II but a potent enchantment

Bamber Gascoigne, 87

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/feb/08/bamber-gascoigne-former-university-challenge-quizmaster-dies-at-87

Almost posted him the unexpectedly still alive thread the other week. RIP BG.

Tony "Strat" Thomas of P-Funk.

Don't think we mentioned Mark Levine yet.
https://www.wbgo.org/music/2022-01-31/mark-levine-a-versatile-artist-and-influential-teacher-in-jazz-and-latin-music-is-dead-at-83

Douglas Trumbull, who did more for a generation's idea of film SF than probably anybody else. And beyond, through his lasting influence.

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/douglas-trumbull-dead-visual-effects-1235174814/

Monumental loss but the legacy is forever now.

Oh man, that's a biggie. An unsung hero whose work is deservedly adored but whose name is probably unknown to most.

what a legend. RIP

Trumbull was so instrumental to so much and so many, revered by his peers, that it was probably the best, proudest kind of fame.

Oh wow. RIP.

I saw him introduce a print of Brainstorm at MOMI a few years back. He was lively and engaging, and laser-focused on the issues of film projection quality and (his longtime obsession) the possibilities of high-frame-rate cinema. Somehow he managed to complain about the proportions of MOMI's room/screen without it coming off as a faux pas. I saw 2001 for the first time a short time later, in a 70mm print on an IMAX screen, and his big final effects sequence made the case for grand projection all by itself.

Did Trevor Pinch get a mention at the end of last year? Don't think so.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/12/pioneering-professor-trevor-pinch-dies-69

seeing posts suggesting Betty Davis passed away, not yet confirmed

confirmed by Rolling Stone

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/betty-davis-dead-obit-1297372/

Oh fuck. RIP Betty.

RIP Betty :(

awww RIP