Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

RIP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri , the Iranian refugee who lived in the Charles De Gaulle airport's Terminal 1 in Paris for 18 years, died today. (The Terminal, with Tom Hanks, was based on his story)

(not quite sure on what happened but that 18 years was 1988->2006 , yet he died at the airport - was he living there again? - https://newsinfrance.com/mehran-karimi-nasseri-the-refugee-from-roissy-who-inspired-steven-spielbergs-the-terminal-died-in-the-airport/ )

Stateless (1977–2022)

life goals

"Stateless (1977–2022)" sounds like the name of another 22 CD King Crimson boxed set.

Velvet Underground manager Steve Sesnick - last month apparently, and only reported here:
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/stephen-sesnick-obituary?id=37154012&fbclid=IwAR0TpXZ293NuMToBAX3ojRnceVxmcaTIY6AcuMh1oHYpW8PUZpxG6ozgKOg

Wow. RIP, I guess.

Well there goes any chance of ever hearing his side of the story. RIP.

Golf consultant, biodegradable plastic developer, solar panel improver and Boston Tea Party + Velvet Underground manager. But of course. :-)

Haha.

Budd Friedman, Founder of the Improv, Dies at 90

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/budd-friedman-dead-improv-founder-1235260904/

When did Sesnick become VU manager? After 1967?

After they told Andy he was a rat, iirc.

I think it was like Summer '67.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/arts/music/joe-tarsia-dead.html

RIP Joe Tarsia engineer at his own Sigma studio in Philadelphia who worked on many a Philly soul record in the 70s

Soap Opera Legend John Aniston

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/14/entertainment/john-aniston-obit/index.html

RIP Viktor Kiriakis :(

Jazz guitarist and author of The Advancing Guitarist Mick Goodrick.

Kiko (Dr. Kiko) Loiacono, European tour manager for everyone.
https://www.nme.com/news/music/music-world-pays-tribute-to-tour-manager-kiko-loiacono-following-death-3348569

I never met him, but it seems like everyone I know who's in a band does. Love this picture of him with Bardo Pond

Beautiful words Stuart about a beautiful being. John took these. Worlds so fucked and now this bastion of humanity bows out. Hey Anton thank you for the kind words too.
Love you guys. RIP DoctorKiko pic.twitter.com/a8kGcd45ph

— bardo pond (@lemurhouse) November 17, 2022

Robert Clary, "LeBeau" from Hogan's Heroes, 96.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/robert-clary-dead-hogans-heroes-1235263555/

Robert Clary had quite a story.

The main cast of Hogan's Heroes is all gone now with the exception of Kenneth Washington who only appears in the last season. Nita Talbot, who had a recurring role on the show as the White Russian spy "Marya," is still with us at age 92.

had no idea he was a holocaust survivor
goddamn. RIP

adios to the last remaining cast member of Hogan’s Heroes. :(

main cast, i mean. sorry didnt see josefa’s post

I know this thread is for notables but damn you guys should've met Brandon Gibson. One of the smartest, funniest, most talented people I've ever known. I wrote this about him earlier in the year, when the opera he co-wrote inspired by the 2020 George Floyd protests debuted: https://compassknox.com/2022/02/18/giving-voice/. He was an amazing singer and co-director of a local indie opera troupe that commissioned original work (including one based on the life Beauford Delaney, with Brandon singing the lead). He was one of those people who helps bring and hold a whole community together. He died of natural causes — not sure, but I think something cardiac-related — only 36 years old. We're gonna miss him.

Ah man, sorry to hear that. Folks like that deserve their celebrations.

Ned Rorem, who just made it to 99.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/arts/music/ned-rorem-dead.html

Name-dropping is one thing. With the gossipy Mr. Rorem, it could reach the level of carpet-bombing

One day in Paris he visited Wanda Landowska, grande dame of the harpsichord, to show her a concertino he had written: “No sooner had I entered than she took the pins from her hair, which fell in waves to her waist. ‘Take it,’ she said. ‘Take it in handfuls and pull, pull it hard and never go tell people I wear a wig!’”

George Lois (who i did not think was with us!)

Danny Kalb of the Blues Project, 80.

SF author Greg Bear, 71
https://file770.com/greg-bear-1951-2022/

jean-marie straub, i'm hearing

Jason David Frank, who played Tommy the Green Power Ranger, 49

Damn, that's sad to hear. Both of my kids had their phases of binge-watching Power Rangers re-runs. I'll be honest that I didn't follow the show all that deeply, but he was one of the longest-running cast members through all of the series. Through multiple line-up changes of sometimes forgettable/interchangeable faces, his character kept coming back and was a huge through-line for the series. R.I.P.

Michael Feingold, Village Voice theater critic for decades, 77

Wilko Johnson, 75

RIP to these last two.

Oh no Wilko.

Bernadette Mayer, one of the finest poets of her generation and a countless inspiration to many, died last night in her sleep.

https://allenginsberg.org/2022/11/bernadette-mayer-1945-2022/

Wilko! It's sad but he also got a second act that few of us will likely receive

If you haven't seen Oil City Confidential, it's well worth tracking down.. I think I finally found it on Amazon

loving everybody sharing Bernadette’s poems on twitter this morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2bOIK_L4As

Hans Magnus Enzensberger has died aged 93, his publishers have announced this morning. Here's my interview with the "political dandy" of German letters from 2010: https://t.co/LW0wtLN3Vm

— Philip Oltermann (@philipoltermann) November 25, 2022

RIP. I saw him speak once at NYU. He lived up to his billing, was very witty and entertaining. Andrew Ross was in the audience. I tried to talk to him for a bit but had laryngitis and couldn't say more than "Are you Andrew Ross?" DIdn't speak at all to HME.

RIP Hans Magnus Enzensberger pic.twitter.com/wQ0NwoA5QP

— Tobi Haslett (@tobihaslett) November 25, 2022

Cool. I thought I had a Bloodaxe bilingual best-of but can’t seem to find it. Do have my English language copy of Mausoleum and another one collection I bought in Germany.

Found it!

Mausoleum is a favourite. Sadly I don't have my own copy but hope we can see a reissue.

Tim Beddows, founder and CEO of Network Distribution - the absolute boss of period UK television re-releases.

Irene Cara

This is the absolute worst part of being a publicist. I can't believe I've had to write this, let alone release the news. Please share your thoughts and memories of Irene. I'll be reading each and every one of them and know she'll be smiling from Heaven. She adored her fans. - JM pic.twitter.com/TsC5BwZ3fh

— Irene Cara (@Irene_Cara) November 26, 2022