Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

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.

Are fucking shitting me, Jesus

Sadly confirmed

At 9:21 pm on Monday, August 22, composer and trumpeter jaimie branch passed away in her home in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Her family, friends and community are heart broken. pic.twitter.com/nGAkHpfPab

— International Anthem (@intlanthem) August 23, 2022

absolutely awful, I just discovered her music like two months ago and had become totally enamored with it, what a blow

This hit me hard, and I’m not even a huge fan, but they had a unique voice and was gonna be an artist who was going to be interesting to watch.

And already was interesting to watch, I should clarify

I got into Fly or Die a few years ago, but had really been into this year's Anteloper album. Still having trouble wrapping my brain around this.

Three of my favorite moments at Big Ears this year revolved around Jaimie Branch — her set with Fly or Die, which was fierce and fiery and fun; then she and the band backed up Alabaster DePlume; and then while I was watching Lonnie Holley she came and sat right in front of me, trailing plumes of weed and tobacco, she was super into the set. R.I.P. to a great player.

I just started listening to the new Anteloper just a couple days ago and was thinking about how much fun and far out it is. This sucks.

shocking news, way too young.

Just woke up to this news. Devastated. RIP Jaimie.

Hall of Fame KC Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson, at 87.

I liked how Len Dawson stuck with a 1950s haircut right through to the mid ‘70s. RIP

aw shit, RIP. My father inlaw used to play football for UOP back in the mid 50’s and talked about lining up against Dawson when they played Purdue on occasion.

Always seemed like such a classy dude

Just saw that Dean Young died last week

https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/in-memory-of-dean-young-1955-2022/

The actor who played the owner of the Peach Pit on "Beverly Hills, 90210" -- the watering hole for Brandon, Brenda, Dylan, Kelly and the rest of the high schoolers -- has died. https://t.co/OszFUdkR7P

— TMZ (@TMZ) August 25, 2022

Little-known fact: He was actually two years younger than Gabrielle Carteris!

Ernest Bryant Crutchfield (1937-1922), inventor of the Trapper Keeper school binder

I had one or two in high school

-2022)

Joey DeFrancesco.

Mable John, the first female solo artist signed to Motown (then Tamla) Records, a Stax singer and longtime Ray Charles collaborator, has died at the age of 91 https://t.co/5W8Ac6yOaP

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) August 27, 2022

oh man RIP
“Your Good thing is about to end” is such a stone classic

RIP Able Mable

Activist, Scholar, Historian, Professor Gwendolyn Midlo Hall RIP. Best known for her book Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Last year Hall published her final book, a memoir. Haunted by Slavery: A Southern White Woman in the Freedom Struggle

https://64parishes.org/remembering-gwendolyn-midlo-hall

Midlo Hall was 93.

Robert LuPone, Dr. Cusamano on The Sopranos.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/30/entertainment/robert-lupone-the-sopranos-dead-intl-scli/index.html

WTAF https://variety.com/2022/film/news/charlbi-dean-dead-triangle-of-sadness-black-lightning-1235354577/

I know nobody owes anyone an explanation for dying, but I hate to see these vaguely worded death announcements for young-ish people because they all just fuel the anti-vaxxers.

Mikhail Gorbachev