Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

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

yeah she was THE icon when I was a kid

I'm old enough to remember when "Physical" was really controversial, which is odd because it's not at all rude by modern standards and wasn't even all that rude back then. I've always wondered if they made the video in a deliberately Benny Hill style to distract people from the fact it was about... kissing, and stuff.

I mean, it was three years after "Hit me With Your Rhythm Stick" and "Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll", but people expected Ian Dury to be rude.

"Make a Move on Me" was my jam on that album.

RIP ONJ. I love “Magic” so much

I came to ONJ earlier: “If Not For You” and “What Is Life” are glorious.

lamont dozier, 81

whoa, damn

RIP

Also Issey Miyake
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japanese-fashion-designer-issey-miyake-dies-cancer-aged-84-media-2022-08-09/

I misheard her name as "olivia's nude with john" when I was a little kid and knew of John Travolta in Grease so she always seemed kind of salacious

gord lewis, guitarist of teenage head, apparently murdered by his own son

indeed: https://exclaim.ca/music/article/teenage_heads_gord_lewis_reportedly_found_dead_in_homicide

Pogues bass player, Darryl Hunt.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/09/the-pogues-bassist-darryl-hunt-dies-aged-72

Raymond Briggs :(

RIP. My favourite quote from him - "Travel narrows the mind"

Can you imagine releasing this as a kids picture book in the 1980s?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rq2tkepYHM

really thought Briggs was already dead

Oh no! There was a good episode of Backlisted about him quite recently: https://www.backlisted.fm/episodes/159-raymond-briggs-fungus-the-bogeyman

I once interviewed him on the phone about When The Wind Blows -- not as a journalist, but as a student journalist, writing my dissertation -- which was nice of him.

I told him how much WTWB had scared me as a kid, and he laughed and said "Great! It was supposed to." He told me he'd read a news story about boarding school kids who fainted after reading it, and "I was really proud of that".

I remember that the film had a distinctive style - like the Paddington Bear cartoons it had animated two-dimensional cut-out figures in little three-dimensional sets. Except that Paddington was a stop-motion bear and the characters in Blows were also cartoons.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bSyt4tYd7nY/hqdefault.jpg

Years later I remember watching Threads and thinking about the parallels between the two. Threads also has an elderly couple who survive the nuclear exchange, but they aren't out in the countryside, so without spoiling anything their fate is... I mean, they have the same ultimate fate as the people in Raymond Briggs' book, but they get there by a different route.

Can you imagine releasing this as a kids picture book in the 1980s?

― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, August 10, 2022 8:58 AM

I was just wondering who drew that one today. In highschool I met a really serious looking kid who showed me that book in the library and he was laughing hysterically at most of the pages

Gene LeBell Dies: Stuntman, Actor And Wrestling Legend Who Fought Bruce Lee & Chuck Norris Onscreen Was 89

One of my favorite anecdotes period. R.I.P. https://t.co/C5J62dYF28 pic.twitter.com/MX7R0hxgQk

— Vikram Murthi (@fauxbeatpoet) August 10, 2022