Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

...who also wrote some of the greatest feminist anthems after living with a rotten sonofabitch husband.

Coal Miner's Daughter is one of the (very!) few biopics that makes me grin from end to end watching it; it takes its cue from her smile, her determination.

Yeah was just saying that on FB -- a biopic that actually works and Sissy just nailed it. Levon Helm was brilliant casting in turn.

The Trump turn I take on board, but I didn't throw out my VU records when Mo Tucker went Tea Party; what's past is not always present.

Think she even did a good collabo with Elvis Costello too.

Think she even did a good collabo with Elvis Costello too.

Raymond Allen, writer of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

Comedienne-accordionist Judy Tenuta

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/judy-tenuta-dead-eclectic-comedienne-1235235361/amp/

I just came here to post that. I saw the headline and said "Judy, JudyJudyJudy" (actually, what I said was, "Aw, damn").

I knew she had been ill but very sad to hear regardless

:-(

It could happen

RIP Bruno Latour

⚫ Le philosophe Bruno Latour, figure majeure du monde des idées, est mort

https://t.co/uIIWxYLAjR

— Libération (@libe) October 9, 2022

Damn, RIP. Aramis in particular blew my mind a few years back, in the lead up to my dissertation.

Oh! RIP

TOLDJA! RIP Deadline's Nikki Finke

During my tenure as a @newyorker fact checker, I spoke with CIA agents & North Korean diplomats & movie stars, but the most difficult subject I ever interviewed was Nikki Finke, who died this weekend.

— Lila Byock (@LByock) October 10, 2022

longtime NYT art critic Grace Glueck

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/business/media/grace-glueck-dead.html

Legendary Los Angeles disc jockey Art Laboe:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-10/art-laboe-dead

Man. Jaime Jarrin retires and then Laboe goes. At least Jarrin's still with us but with Vin out too that's the last of the great LA radio voices of that generation gone from the airwaves, really.

I interviewed Jenni Rivera in 2010 and she talked about how the only way she would ever make an English-language album would be if it was a collection of oldies, and she specifically said "like you might hear on the Art Laboe show."

That's damn right.

Artist Billy Al Bengston, 88

https://hyperallergic.com/768290/billy-al-bengston-dies-at-88/

Angela Lansbury

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/angela-lansbury-murder-wrote-beauty-beast-star-dies-96-rcna42421

holy shit that's big time

...and thus ended the series of murders in Cabot Cove.

RIP, but i just wanted to be the first to mention the manchurian candidate (she is amazing in the manchurian candidate)

That she is.

That _Sweeney Todd_ which endlessly ran on PBS was great.

yeah she is so excellent as Mrs Lovett

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_iBcXCu84w

She could sing, she could do comedy, she could play sweetness and light, she could play villains. She could play statues the park like Jessica Fletcher.

RIP

RIP Angela Lansbury, seem here in 1969’s Battle of Britain pic.twitter.com/XaCWXnckok

— Alan Owl-Port 🦉 🎃 (@Alan_Allport) October 11, 2022

And Gaslight. And her incredible fitness video. Always incredible. Damn.

R.I.P. to an incredible actress. Of course Angela Lansbury transcended this role, but I strongly encourage you to check out this supercut of every time Jessica Fletcher has a twinge of intuition on "Murder She Wrote" because it is quite a ride: https://t.co/MWqNES6ckH

— DREW “𝙟𝙤𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙢"🪱 DANIEL (@DDDrewDaniel) October 11, 2022

How Lansbury was cast in her first film, Gaslight: She was 17, had never performed in front of a camera (& only a bit on the stage), & was working as a shopgirl at Bullocks department store. The screenwriter met her at a party & told George Cukor she should do a screen test.

— Dana Stevens (@thehighsign) October 11, 2022

Yeah, Cukor said he'd never seen a newcomer make such an impression in a screen test.

One of my favorite screen moments:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd0_K0fqGVA

Wes Anderson cast her in The Grand Budapest Hotel, but she ultimately had a scheduling conflict and was replaced by Tilda Swinton.

That might've been cruel considering how Swinton's made up.

I met her once when I was working in the King’s Road Body Shop and got her to sign our save-the-rainforest petition.

RIP you magnificent socialist lady.

Worth a peek. Used to be on the VHS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjEWLmc1p0U

thread

pic.twitter.com/rHngHeZerm

— Brandon Bird (@Brandon_Bird) October 11, 2022

Aw shame, RIP Angela ;_;

Anita Kerr

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/arts/music/anita-kerr-dead.html

xp to Suzy - I only found out yesterday that her father was in the Communist Party of Great Britain, and her grandfather was leader of the Labour Party!

I roll my eyes a bit at the "newcomer discovered at a shop-counter" - her mother was a well-known Irish actress with her own film career, and her half-sister had married Peter Ustinov.

She aged quickly into maternal roles by the (bullshit) standards of the time - she was only three years older than Raymond Shaw in the Manchurian Candidate, four years older than Joan Plowright in A Taste of Honey, nine years older than Elvis in Blue Hawaii.

Anyway she was great, RIP

Seeing reports from people who would know on FB that bassist JW Brown (father of Myra Gale Brown, cousin and 3rd wife of Jerry Lee Lewis) has passed away at age 95.

important memories of bruno latour rip:

These came back up on Facebook memories this week. I no longer remember why people started telling their very cute “I met Bruno Latour” stories on my twitter. But with his passing, it felt like a good time to reshare these sweet little moments. pic.twitter.com/sLvoRF5xpH

— Maggie Koerth (@maggiekb1) October 13, 2022

SALUT VIEUX!

RIP Mike Schank pic.twitter.com/8UomJv74tt

— ❐ (@ruderubin) October 13, 2022

Aw man