Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

Inventing the Afro pick AND being a pioneer of the Jheri Curl is an astounding resume. https://t.co/fR05gOq5BM

— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) July 2, 2022

Andy Goram:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61460438

RIP you useless hun bastard. Fuck Cancer forever seriously

In the Proclaimers song Cap In Hand, "Hibs goalie" was him, right? I will play that in tribute whatever

Peter Brook, influential theatre visionary, dies aged 97 https://t.co/Q6ibYGxkRA

— The Guardian (@guardian) July 3, 2022

Best in the game, working well into his 90s. His Hamlet with Adrian Lester was astonishing.

His Marat/Sade movie was too visceral for me to say whether I enjoyed it, exactly, but his King Lear was very good, whatever Pauline Kael had to say about it.

The Tightrope is a bit hard to find (used to be free on Amazon Prime), but it follows Brook in rehearsal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6johAzP2oI

“hammerin’” hank goldberg, former espn reporter and sportscenter fixture

Hank Goldberg, who worked at ESPN as an NFL reporter and handicapping expert for 17 years, died Monday on his 82nd birthday, his family confirmed. Goldberg had been in treatment for chronic kidney disease in recent years.https://t.co/iGal5YGB4c

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) July 4, 2022

Manny Charlton, founding guitarist of Scottish hard rock band Nazareth (he was with them from 1968 to 1990).

RIP

Now heaven is messing with a son of a bitch

RIP, a guitarist who didn't need to be flashy to get his point across

James Caan. I've still never seen the Godfather movies but anybody with Thief and Rollerball on their resume did it right.

james caan

fuck, what a legend

He was a great one

Huh.. IMDB says he was in 1941 as "Sailor in Fight (uncredited)"

Must have been hanging out partying, and they found a spot for him

Kazuki Takahashi, creator of Yu-Gi-Oh!
https://www.nhk.or.jp/lnews/okinawa/20220707/5090019050.html

His reply last week to an Academy tweet about Misery:

Pretty good movie 🤕😃 End of tweet

— James Caan (@James_Caan) June 28, 2022

amazing actor, his Thief performance is incredible, and yes one of the best celebrity tweeters

RIP what a fkn king

Michael Mann on James Caan: pic.twitter.com/521BuyUQaB

— Chris Evangelista (@cevangelista413) July 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWtlL95P0TM

So much of Freebie & The Bean is Gold (except for...you know)

The 1976 James Caan Playboy interview goes so hard pic.twitter.com/CSxmLCXW9E

— John Frankensteiner (@JFrankensteiner) May 26, 2021

"But there's lots of good-looking, well-built guys in this business, and most of them couldn't play a corpse on Medical Center."

Here’s James Caan working on a heater between takes of Sonny's death scene in The Godfather. pic.twitter.com/nNGnEfG7Z2

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) May 30, 2021

Historians now believe that James Caan was either heating a lung dart or covered in an inferior’s man blood after a physical altercation for 78% of the 70s. The other 22% of the time was both. pic.twitter.com/SJbfLUx4lu

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) May 5, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooXXec3mMIo

Amazingly--you've got about 10 minutes to tell me I'm wrong--there's not even an ILX thread for him. I'm going to start a click-box poll.

i couldnt find anything either !
poll is a great idea

Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe dies in hospital after he was shot at campaign event, say local mediahttps://t.co/lqtBtzsvLl

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 8, 2022

Mark Wilkins aka Mark Astronaut, of the Astronauts

Another good character actor down: Lenny Von Dohlen. Electric Dreams and Twin Peaks will dominate the credits but I thought his small but solid supporting role as the one guy from the band who track down Mac Sledge hit the notes of the film just right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EOrXtGco3o

https://deadline.com/2022/07/larry-storch-dead-f-troop-actor-obituary-1235060332/

Larry Storch, TV actor/stand-up comic, 99(!)

Aww, I'm sure Drew Friedman is bummed about that. Big Storch fan.

RIP. He’s in the arms of Morbius now.

Lol, pretty much every Larry Storch post in the archives is indeed by Morbius, usually to state that he was still alive.

Lenny Van Dohlen, who played Harold Smith on Twin Peaks, dead at 63.

I hate to say this, but I don't remember him from the show.

. . . to the point where I can't even spell his name. It's VON Dohlen. My apologies.

As I said a few posts back. :-D

If you need a reminder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAAF6lFehKc

Tony Sirico :-(

shit
immortal character work

commendatori

RIP Paulie, immortal is correct.

fuck RIP

Ride the painted pony, let the spinning wheel glide

Lenny Von Dohlen

It's probably not a good movie - I found it, ahem, problematic the last time I saw it over a decade ago - but Electric Dreams was a VHS we wore through back when I was a kid. Unfuckwithable soundtrack, too.

Genocidal motherfucker carks it

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/09/luis-echeverria-mexican-president-1970s-dies-100

As I said a few posts back. :-D

If you need a reminder:

Sorry, I missed it!

I watched that clip yesterday and it did not register at all! I watched that show religiously when it aired, but haven't really seen it since. It's largely evaporated from my mind.