Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

So many moments but this one, man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4nwMDZYXTI

boggles my mind that he started his career doing play by play for the **brooklyn** dodgers

All off the top of his head

https://www.salon.com/1999/10/12/scully_koufax/

he called henry aaron’s record-breaking homer and that dwight clark catch for the 49ers too. just the best

I love this one

how the hell do you tell the story of a wolf attacking a boy during an at bat calmly, colorfully and without missing a pitch? Vin Scully was an absolute artist pic.twitter.com/aLjUYv7mme

— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) August 3, 2022

RIP Vin. Never will be another like him.

Nicky Moore, British blues-rock hollerer who sang with Samson, Uli Jon Roth, Big Jim Sullivan and shitloads more, 75.

Alistair Little, chef.

Vin's truest peer with the salute.

Se ha ido el más grande de los cronistas de béisbol y otros deportes. He perdido al arquitecto de mi vida profesional; un amigo entrañable: Vin Scully. Experimento ahora lo más difícil para hilvanar mis pensamientos y solo puedo decir paz en su tumba,volveremos a vernos pronto.

— Jaime Jarrín (@JaimeJarrin) August 3, 2022

Amazing

Oh, we’re all telling our Vin Scully stories? Alright, here’s mine.

I was working for a radio station in LA and helping where I could. They asked me to call Vin and get him ready to be on the radio in the next few minutes…

— John Gennaro (@johnmgennaro) August 3, 2022

Sam Gooden, vocalist with The Impressions.

Larry Josephson, pioneer of '60s New York liberal talk radio at WBAI alongside Bob Fass and Steve Post.

that absolutely awful slaphead cunt with the moustache from the recurring oxo family ads in the 80's. Can neither remember his name, nor do I care to find it. Special place in hell for people that accept gravy that looks like sewerage mixed with wallpaper paste.

That'll be Michael Redfern you're talking about, also notable for playing the copper who busts up the house party in an episode of The Young Ones. Plus he was in Terry and June once. Thanks, Wikipedia!

yeah I think he was a bald copper in Filthy, Rich & Catflap as well!

other people from awful recurring UK television ads like Kris Marshall and Maureen Lipman are probably far more annoying than he was tbf. But I really loathed that oxo family when I was a kid.

Judith Durham of The Seekers, rather a curious character and a group I am entirely indifferent to

Clu Gulager, 93

Man THERE was a lifer.

Still tickled to see him as the bookstore guy in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I remember first time through I saw his name in the credits I was all "Wait WTF" and then looked for him again on a rewatch.

Just found that one of my school classmates was in those OXO adverts - and is currently masquerading as some kind of songwriter and producer.

Nice thread on Gulager from an acquaintance of mine:

I had the pleasure of meeting Clu a couple of times. Well, the first time, I didn't actually meet him. I was attending my first movie at The New Bev, back in 2010, I think. He just happened to be there. I kept my distance, because I was in awe of his presence. 1/ https://t.co/sGJ68nFlhR

— Jeremy Sumrall - Flickmaker (@JNSumrall) August 6, 2022

Wow, Clu stood out even among other frequently amazing quotees of "Splendor in the Short Grass," dispatches from the set of The Last Picture Show: one of those pieces by Grover Lewis that really helped to establish/firm up Rolling Stone's New Journalism cred. Gallagher was very articulate about his ambitions, creative and commercial, and this was the ideal step from TV cowpoke journeyman to big screen Texasestenial star, or at least worth a shot. Somebody should do a streaming docudrama of this report, which earns its approx. 1400 words. Looks like online Stone doesn't have it,but Splendor In The Short Grass:The Grover Lewis Reader is still fairly easy to find. Lots of loose talk on sets and elsewhere back then, though GL's edits are a bit "flinty," as Roy Blount Jr. observed (suck it up, Jr.)https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/books/review/splendor-in-the-short-grass-romancing-the-stoned.html

Let's make that "Texastential."

Hold on, it's my job to mention Clu Gulager on this thread.

... oh wrong thread, he's actually dead this time!

Farewell carrot juice-drinking hitman. If you have access to the Criterion Channel, they have the 1969 short he directed, "A Day With the Boys."

Markie Post, the actress known for her roles in "Night Court" and "The Fall Guy," has died. She was 70 years old.

Post passed away Saturday, her manager Ellen Lubin Sanitsky of Wright Entertainment confirmed to CNN on Sunday.
"With great sadness, the family of actress Markie Post tonight shares her passing after a three year, ten month battle with cancer," her family said in a statement.
Post chose to continue working despite battling cancer and going through chemo treatments, "determined to make it her 'side job,'" the statement said, adding that the actress played a role in a Lifetime Christmas movie and was a frequent guest star on the ABC series "The Kids Are Alright" during that fight.
"But for us, our pride is in who she was in addition to acting; a person who made elaborate cakes for friends, sewed curtains for first apartments and showed us how to be kind, loving and forgiving in an often harsh world," her family said.

Maybe I shouldn't have POSTed all that, but there it is. Farewell, brave-and-nice-seeming trouper.

Wow Dan Fielding’s the last man standing

Post died last year.

Gulager threatened to sue Rolling Stone/Lewis for libel for his being portrayed as an insatiable womanizer* in that TLPS piece.

*A bit of a staple of Lewis articles, seizing on a guy with a tired pick-up rap and making him a star of the piece (see also: Red Dog & Bunky Odum in his notorious Allman Bros. tour report).

Wow Dan Fielding’s the last man standing

― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Saturday, August 6, 2022 9:32 PM

Richard Moll and Marsha Warfield would like a word.

Although, wow I had no idea Richard Moll was knocking on the door of 80. That would put him already in his 40s for all of his Night Court run?

Post died last year.
Wait, wtf, CNN,or Google News app, why was this on here today? Sorry yall.
However, I don't think Grover Lewis gave too much room to the bigmouthed womanizers. Even in his feature starring Robert Mitchum, there was a pretty voluble ensemble.

It's an interesting Maker's Mark; certainly it wasn't hard to find dudes like that in '70s entertainment biz, but Lewis always refuses to indulge them as anything but desperate losers, which was certainly not the style of the time.

Beloved actor, director Roger E. Mosley has died at 83

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/beloved-actor-director-roger-e-mosley-has-died-daughter-announces/

:( rip
he was super cool

https://c.tenor.com/9z7a8JLxxPIAAAAM/all-done-wipe-hands.gif

the best <3

David McCullough

Gord Lewis. This will register with anyone older and Canadian (with the details shocking):

https://globalnews.ca/news/9044029/man-60s-dead-homicide-central-hamilton-aug-2022/

Just posted on the official FB page of @olivianj: Dame Olivia Newton-John (73) passed away peacefully at her Ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends. We ask that everyone please respect the family’s privacy during this very difficult time. pic.twitter.com/fvovpW8kEC

— David Whisenant WBTV (@DavidWhisenant) August 8, 2022

Oh no! :-(

I wanted to marry her in third grade, but then I realized by her last name that she was already married to Elton John

she was such a huge star when I was a child, the Grease soundtrack was one of the first records I owned. RIP

Xanadu!

she was magic!

Judith Durham, who as part of the Seekers sang the brilliant "Georgy Girl" (but was not part of the New Seekers or "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing").

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/06/entertainment/judith-durham-the-seekers-singer-death/index.html

cannot cope w this ONJ news
gutted