Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

What?!

Christ. RIP. I liked him back in those primal days of reality pop tv - a little odd, ridiculous, a different era's good looks, a knowing air sometimes.

Yeah, that's a shocker. RIP.

yeh that sucks, rip
thoughts for the family x

Wolfgang Petersen, who rode his acclaimed German-language film “Das Boot” into a career directing Hollywood blockbusters such as “In the Line of Fire,” “Air Force One,” “The Perfect Storm” and “Troy,” has died. He was 81.https://t.co/rqJHzNn5vX

— Variety (@Variety) August 16, 2022

dang, RIP, was just wearing my promotional bucket hat for his 2006 remake Poseidon at Six Flags this weekend.

Couple of great movies, couple of kitsch classics, couple of camp classics, handful of garbage. Kind of epitomized the trajectory of so many non-English speaking directors who go Hollywood, but to be honest the only German film of his I've seen is Das Boot.

Diane Luckey aka Q Lazzarus of "Goodbye Horses"

https://www.stereogum.com/2196708/goodbye-horses-singer-q-lazzarus-has-reportedly-died/news/

Fuller obit here, with the news that there will be a documentary and retrospective album next year:

https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/25644374/diane-luckey/neptune/new-jersey/jackson-funeral-home

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/17/1118090168/hanae-mori-a-designer-for-japans-films-working-women-and-an-empress-dies

Designer Hanae Mori, 96

didn't know about that Q Lazarus movie, the director Eva Aridjis is an old friend from NY in the early 00s. Really cool to hear.

She just posted this on facebook:

"Now that her obituary has been published and the news of Q’s tragic and untimely passing is public, I just want to say how grateful I am to have met Q three years ago and to have been entrusted by her to help tell her incredible story. Over the past three years Q became one of my closest friends and we were in touch almost daily, sometimes to talk about the film or her music, but mostly just to talk about our personal lives and everyday matters. She used to come over and we’d sit in my living room eating Middle Eastern food, listening to records and having drinks and cigarettes. She loved my daughter Josephine- she said it was when she saw a picture of her that she decided she could trust me- and she always insisted on picking up my elderly parents at the airport when they arrived from Mexico, on bringing me medicine if I was sick, and on cooking for me and my crew when we filmed at her house. She was simply one of the most generous people I have ever encountered, and a wonderful story teller with a great sense of humor. She had an amazing sense of style all her own, and turned heads and lit up the room wherever she went. Despite having had a very hard life, she was not jaded at all. On the contrary- she was full of enthusiasm, passion and humor. Q had one of those life forces that you simply can’t imagine being extinguished or ceasing to exist, because it was so vital and radiant and exuberant.
In addition to being a wonderful person, mother and friend, Q was of course an incredibly talented singer and songwriter who never got her due. It is truly tragic that, when she finally does, she will not be here to see it happen. But I like to think that she will and that, as she sang in Goodbye Horses, “I’m flying over you". I am heartbroken knowing I will never see her again and I am devastated for her family. I am also now more determined than ever to get her incredible story and amazing music out into the world. RIP beautiful Q, thank you so much for everything you shared with me and taught me 💔✨🌹 💛"

ah fuck what a sadness :(

Mr Veg and I were talking this morning about how if you leave one song behind, make it this: a vast, beautiful song that always sounds like it’s from some ~other time~

even when it was new it sounded like maybe it had bled over from an alternate universe, yknow?

<3 RIP

Josephine Tewson, British sitcom great.

Americans may know her as Elizabeth the next-door neighbour in Keeping Up Appearances.

Also, she was married to Leonard Rossiter!

Also female lead in Clarence, the ill-fated Ronnie Barker vehicle.

RIP, excellent comic actress. Had no idea she was married to Leonard Rossiter either.

Oliver Frey RIP

It's with great sadness that we have to announce that Oliver Frey passed away this morning at 7.55.

Rest in Piece Oli - hope you are up there in heaven painting the angels.#ZXSpectrum #commodore64 #cpc464 pic.twitter.com/TP2pjxPdMO

— Fusion Gaming Magazine (@FusionGameMag) August 21, 2022

Oh no! RIP

https://pic.ebid.net/upload_medbig/9/4/2/uo_1567270903-16278-225.jpg

his pull out Valentine's Day poster from Zzap! 64.

I'm not happy with that ZX Spectrum bias in the obit photo

RIP, Oli. I spent a lot of time as a kid admiring his cover art and illustrations for Crash.

Fuck. Leon Vitali.
https://www.instagram.com/p/ChhNfxLoICR/

xxp

obviously the more popular home computer got listed first

the C64 community ran things at the community centre computer club I went to. Spectrum owners were tolerated but remained a quiet minority. That Dragon 32 owner didn't last long, lol.

The great Tom Palmer, comics inker extraordinaire, at 81. If you ever read “Tomb Of Dracula” or the early Marvel Star Wars comics you’ll know the man’s work. A master with a brush.

Science Fiction writer and critic Alexei Panshin:

https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/panshin_alexei

RIP Person I heard of but can’t remember reading at all.

Maybe finally time to read Rite of Passage.

Surprised nobody else seems interested in Leon Vitali! Key Kubrick legacy curator, unforgettable as Lord Bullingdon.

oh, he was the Filmworker guy

yep

this is a pretty good piece for the curious - https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/filmworker-how-leon-vitali-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-kubricks-dark-moods-628242/

RIP Oli Frey, Pretty incredible that he had a gay erotica comic career running in parallel with inking super macho computer game magazine covers, given the casual playground homophobia of the 80’s.

I can vaguely remember a feature on Rob Hubbard in Zzapp! 64 that contained homophobic attempts at humour about the gay characters in "Eastbenders", the sort of shit Gary Bushell would have come out with. I had no idea about Oli's other career in gay erotica!

My friend Paul Gravett has a good interview with him about both sides of his career:

http://paulgravett.com/articles/article/oliver_frey

Virginia Patton Moss, age 97. The last surviving member of the adult cast of It's a Wonderful Life. She played Harry's wife.

https://extratv.com/2022/08/21/our-gang-actress-mildred-kornman-dies-at-97/

Our Gang actress Mildred Kornman, 97.

curse of the 97-year-olds strikes again!

That damned "97 Club".

Mildred Kornman under her modeling name, Ricki VanDusen, Irving Penn photo:

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-x0Qf9gOmwjs/WM8pr_o1mII/AAAAAAAAEBM/CiZ-MacmotI64lRK2HRkYFqGkr6g8MkPQCLcB/s1600/25099897695_9020b6900c_o.jpg

Seeing reports from people who would know on FB that Jerry Allison of Buddy Holly & the Crickets has passed on.

New Zealand lost singer Margaret Urlich.

This 1985 song was a #1 hit in NZ, but maybe could have gone on to international success.

:(

Report in from Facebook that abstract/experimental filmmaker and co-founder of both the NY Collective for Living Cinema and LA Independent Film Oasis Amy Halpern passed away.

Creed Taylor, legendary jazz producer — he founded Impulse! and CTI, and also worked for Bethlehem and Verve.

https://www.wbgo.org/2022-08-22/wbgo-remembe
WBGO’s Michael Bourne

trumpeter-composer Jaimie Branch.

What the fu k I can’t find this anywhere

Word's getting around — I saw it from Angel Bat Dawid on FB.