The rolling RIP/obituary thread - 2010 edition

Continuing from last year's thread

Knut Haugland, Sailor on Kon-Tiki, Dies at 92

pretty interesting dude! (via other ilx0rs)

kenneth noland RIP

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/e59b798f6ab2b966b2f2582c7069f14a882fe348_m.jpg

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/06/AR2010010600147.html?hpid=moreheadlines

Tsutomu Yamaguchi. I was unaware of this guy, but his experience is mindboggling.

mary daly, radical feminist philosopher and author who taught at BC, at 81

http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=100834

Donal Donnelly, 78, actor from Brian Friel plays and Huston's film of The Dead:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/arts/06donnelly.html

RIP Art Clokey, creator of Gumby

Art Clokey, whose iconic Gumby entertained generations of children, died Friday morning.

Gumby – the slender, green clay character partly modeled after Clokey’s father – was a fixture on television through the decades, starting with an appearance on the “Howdy Doody” show in 1956. Through the years, the stop motion star made several comebacks, including a new show in the 80s, after a “Saturday Night Live” skit with actor Eddie Murphy made the character popular again. Throughout Gumby’s long run, Gumby toys – most notably, the bendable – have been a staple of toy stores everywhere.

Clokey, who lived in Los Osos, was 89.

Despite Gumby’s positive demeanor, his origins stem from tragedy. When Clokey was 9, his father was killed in a car crash. He lived with his mother for a while, but when her second husband made her choose between him and her son, Clokey was sent to an orphanage. Fortunately, he was adopted by a good family. But Clokey wouldn’t forget his father, whose head shape – characterized by a cowlick hairdo – would later provide the inspiration for Gumby’s trademark lopsided head.

After studying film at USC, Clokey taught at a private military school, where he tutored the son of Sam Engel, a 20th Century Fox producer. After Engel invited Clokey to the studio, Clokey told Engel about a 3 ½-minute film he’d made called “Gumbasia,” featuring abstract clay objects changing shapes to jazz music.

“He said, ‘Art, we’ve got to go into business,’” Clokey told the Tribune in 2002. “I went back and experimented with clay to make a character, and I took into account the density of clay and figured out how the character would be shaped so it would be easy to animate and easy to duplicate.”

While Gumby’s head was modeled after Clokey’s late father, his walk was modeled after his infant daughter.

By the late 50s, Gumby was off the air, but the Lutheran Church paid Clokey to develop another kid’s show – “Dave and Goliath” – to promote morality themes. Clokey and is wife used proceeds from that to fund more Gumby episodes, which would air again in the 60s.

By that time, Gumby toys were already ubiquitous. But Clokey had mixed feelings about commercialization.

“I didn’t allow merchandising for seven years after it was on the air,” Clokey told the Tribune, “because I was very idealistic, and I didn’t want parents to think we were trying to exploit their children.”

NYC poet/spoken-word eccentric Bingo Gazingo, struck by a taxi on New Year's Day.

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/01/our-pal-bingo-gazingo-passed-away-on-new-years-day-heres-a-short-video-i-took-of-him-at-the-wfmu-record-fair-singing-his.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gfjtqrdwdo&feature=related

Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis.

Art Clokey was a great, original guy.

OH NO!!!! fuck that is sad. Really really really would love to see a DVD release of Mandala sometime.

damn, bingo gazingo :(

i met him at cmj once

Just heard about Miep. The man on the radio said she came to "embody goodness" to children, which is exactly how I thought of her when I was a kid. In the interviews I saw with her, she seemed absolutely lovely.

Art Clokey was a great, original guy.

He was an alumni of my high school and would visit every couple of years and show a bunch of movies and generally be like a beatnik grandfather to everyone - only he was the creator of Gumby too! Really awesome guy.

Very sad about Miep.

RIP Mick Green, the guitar player with Johnny Kidd and The Pirates.

> Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis.

bbc4 was, by coincidence, showing the documentary again last night and i watched it not knowing about her death until this morning. was quite a shock.

Art Rust Jr, black sports journalist who was a pioneer in NYC broadcasting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/sports/14rust.html?ref=obituaries

Wax Trax co-founder Danny Fleisher.

er, Danny Flesher.

And Canadian poet/novelist/painter P.K. Page.

Ed Thigpen, jazz drummer

Harold Bloom is ill.

A bad month for NYC pedestrians!

104 year old Coney Island strongman dies after being hit by a minivan

Aw, I went to Wax Trax when I visited Denver. Pretty sure it was recommended to me by somebody round these parts.

smart studios RIP

Taco Bell founder Glen Bell.

Mr. Country, Carl Smith

RIP guitar-players's guitar player Jimmy Wyble, who crossed over from Western Swing to jazz and LA studio work, playing with both Bob Wills (he played the solo on "Roly Poly") and Frank Sinatra, among many others. Jimmy passed away last week just shy of his 88th birthday.

(Can't find any info on the internet right now will post link when I find one)

(Can't find an obit, so read this interview instead)
http://www.jimmywyble.com/jimmy_interview.html

Dennis Stock, photographer

known for taking an iconic picture of james dean, among other photos

Now Kate McGarrigle (mother of Rufus and Martha Wainwright, sister of Anna)....WTF is up with January 2010 anyhow? http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2010/01/19/mcgarrigle-kate-obit.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/8468319.stm

Bill McLaren too.

RIP Bill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S617AieOPJo

"Erich Segal, best known as the author of Love Story, died on Sunday of a heart attack, his friend Ned Temko said today. He was 72."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/19/love-story-erich-segal-dies

RIP Chicago muckraker Carlos Hernandez Gomez -- he was only 36!

Robert B. Parker, creator of lit detective Spenser

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/robert-b-parker-mystery-writer-has-died-at-77/?hp

RIP Paul Quarrington, author and musician. Bad frigging year for the Canadian arts.

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2010/01/21/paul-quarrington-obit.html

RIP Jean Simmons.

Eugene McCabe, founder of McCabe's guitar shop in LA. He hosted peformers as well as sold guitars, and I saw Tom Verlaine there for his solo acoustic tour.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gerald-mccabe22-2010jan22,0,7399865.story?track=rss

Shit, Gerald, not Eugene.

RIP, 23 year old @diditleak dude.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2010/01/the_life_and_de.php

Wow.

James Mitchell, the stage and screen actor best known for playing tycoon Palmer Cortland for 30 years on the daytime soap opera All My Children, died Friday in Los Angeles. He was 89.

RIP you

Only vaguely aware of the guy in the past but got a load of hits to my site overnight and it made me go "aww, dude with my name".

pernell roberts (bonanza, trapper john md)

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/25/pernell.roberts.obit/?hpt=T2

Novelist Louis Auchincloss, at age 92.

Sorry about Pernell Roberts, we still love 'Bonanza' in this house!

Roberts walked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the historic 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama, the family said.

"On the set of 'Bonanza,' he protested the use of all white crews and guest stars, finding some support but never enough to satisfy his sense of outrage," the statement said.

Zelda Rubinstein, diminutive psychic from Poltergeist, RIP.

Howard Zinn, alas, says Twitter (though not Wikipedia).

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/01/howard_zinn_his.html

Fuck. Zinn was really something - always found him infinitely more tolerable than Chomsky for some reason. Can never think of him without remembering this:

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2003/04/22fellowship.html

RIP.

Aw. RIP. Probably would've checked you out much sooner, Howard, if it weren't for my confused belief that people were going on and on about how much they loved reading Howard's End.

Also , I thought Zelda Rubenstein had died a long time ago. Which (not to be callous) seems like a fair enough mistake to make, as she was in the cast of Poltergeist.

Which reminds me, I haven't done my dead pool this year!!!

According to Twitter reports, J.D. Salinger has died.

AP is reporting it.

http://cbs13.com/entertainment/jd.salinger.dies.2.1455307.html

This makes me so sad. Since reading his deeper bibliography, I felt Salinger was (of all things) underrated.

His last words were reportedly, "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I died, and what my lousy death was like . . ."

Jane Jarvis, organist at Mets' games from '64-79:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/arts/31jarvis.html

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwzdivDOXL1qz4b32o1_500.jpg

RIP Pauly Fuemana from OMC (the band that did How Bizarre)

RIP Karen Schmeer, documentary editor and regular Errol Morris collaborator. Very tragic circumstances.

RIP Franco Ballerini, 45, ex-Paris-Roubaix winner (twice), in a car crash during a rally this morning.

http://ilsecoloxix.ilsole24ore.com/p/sport/2010/02/07/AMQqPBMD-ciclismo_azzurro_ballerini.shtml

RIP johnny dankworth, who did the score for a whole load of classic joseph losey movies -- the criminal, the servant, modesty fkn blaise.

Ian Carmichael, of "Lucky Jim", "I'm alright Jack" and so on.

Ten years ago, he'd have got his own RIP thread, he was that well known...

Um, like this one?
Ian Carmichael RIP

Angus Douglas, guitarist of Aussie punk/post-punk band Tactics

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=108896614&blogId=528766287

Former longtime East Texas congressman Charlie Wilson has died. Staff at Lufkin Memorial Hospital confirmed the report. He was 76.

RIP, crab fishing captain dude Phil Harris.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-capt-deadliest11-2010feb11,0,3708085.story

stroke, would not have figured.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/2/12/1265977568609/Fred-Morrison-001.jpg

Walter Frederick Morrison, inventor of the frisbee

Dick Francis, the best-selling novelist and former jockey, dies aged 89

Doug Fieger, lead singer of The Knack, dies of cancer

If I was Dakota Fanning, David Foster or Donald Faison I'd be getting nervous right now.

xpost rip dude, you were always one of my favourite ilx gooners.

RIP (at least 12, could ultimately rise to 25) passengers on 0these two trains that crashed this morning near Brussels (one of them probably ignored a stop sign)

(that messed up wreckage somehow contains two complete passenger compartments, apparently)

RIP Dale Hawkins (Suzie Q etc)

http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2010/02/farewell_dale_hawkins.html

Goldmine, Louisiana! RIP, Dale.

MGM musical star Kathryn Grayson

http://www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/1521

Lionel Jeffries

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8524335.stm

;(

Comedian Jason Wood dies aged 38

That was a few days ago, Saturday I think. Surprised it's taken this long for it to become news.

Yeah, I read about it at the weekend. Surprised it took so long for the BBC to pick up on it, with him having been on Strictly.

Gena Dry (of Color Noise) R.I.P. (tremendously sad story w/evil therapist)

A talented songwriter has been found dead on a railway line in a suspected suicide.

Gena Dry, who worked on songs for George Michael, Boy George and Ian Dury, was one of six women who gave evidence against therapist Derek Gale before he was struck off by the Health Professions Council.

Ms Dry, 46, of Islington, was found dead at Burnham station near Slough last Thursday. British Transport Police are investigating whether her experiences with the therapist could have caused her to kill herself. Ms Dry revealed three years ago that she suffered from flashbacks and nightmares following 20 years of specialist “arts therapy” sessions with Gale, 59.

Blimey, Lionel Jeffries was 6 months younger than Dick Van Dyke!

Anyroad:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8533689.stm

Linda Stein, ex-manager of the Ramones.

.. in 2007, but.

Winston Churchill, a former Conservative MP and grandson of the Second World War prime minister, died today.

Robert McCall (space artist who painted movie poster for 2001: A Space Odyssey, NASA mission emblems, stamps, and a ton of other stuff)

http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Social/art/SH13G13.jpg

RIP, just saw 2001 again in rep last weekend.

RIP michael foot

i don't think we have a college chant, so uh "go eagles" big man, i guess

Didn't realise he was still around. Must've been quite old?

96

thought he'd get his own thread

Michael Foot was great: literate, intelligent, humane, a very appealing figure.

He used to come in the bookshop where I worked - hmphing, and cracking his walking stick on the floor - to enquire whether the penguin Gullivers Travels he'd written the introduction to had sold any. If it was in, he was delighted and would buy a copy ('I never have one, always giving it away to people') and if it wasn't (usually due to my negligence) he would also be delighted, as it showed it had been selling.

He wrote an excellent historical reimagining of Swift's world The Pen and the Sword as well.

RIP indeed.

I saw Mr Foot in the Gay Hussar restaurant in Soho about four years ago (well, he had been in the private room upstairs). I think he was in a wheelchair at that stage. If I'd been more drunk, I'd have quoted his own Ode To Everton FC back at him..."At Goodison I know a man can learn / Rapture more rich than Anfield can provide". 1983 must've been doubly hard then.

wow much love Robert McCall, RIP. huge, formative influence on me

RIP Fred Wedlock

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/8549732.stm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1tqIP5WKmw

RIP Fred, the man's a legend. My dad put one of his gigs on once, just before 'The Oldest Swinger' blew up.

Just the mention of his name has reminded me that I somehow still know all of the words to "The Oldest Swinger In Town" despite not having heard it since about 1983.

Lolly Vegas of Redbone fame died Thursday.

http://www.myspace.com/officallollyvegaspage

Damn.. that sucks... I only found out last week that Redbone guitarist/vocalist Tony Bellamy died on Christmas day last year...

The first Redbone is fucking great... RIP

RIP Andree Peel, heroine of the French Resistance

She was being lined up to be shot by firing squad at Buchenwald when the US Army arrived to liberate the prisoners.

Bob Biniak - one of the original Z-Boys

http://idealistpropaganda.blogspot.com/2010/02/bob-bullet-biniak-original-z-boy-bad.html

Corey Haim

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/entertainment&id=7322384

wau

Since last summer the icons of the 80s have been disappearing at an alarming pace. At least we've still got Feldman.

But for how long, Jon? For how long?

And Charlie Sheen still walks among us

he's the one eating the bodies, getting stronger. and duckie.

"icons"

And the addition of Feldman didn't tip you off to my heavy use of sarcasm?

http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/7827/howdoesthisevenhappen.jpg

R.I.P. Mr. Jeffrey Burton

rip tv's merlin olsen

Father Murphy noooo.

Also, the 'lousy butler' in Mitchell, who got a grappling hook in his chest from Joe Don Baker for his pains.

Peter Graves

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/03/graves_is_gone.php

What's our vector, Victor?

good night mr phelps

"Good Luck Jim"

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/02/14/article-1145434-0380914B000005DC-729_468x674.jpg

I saw he died - poor guy was only 21 years old :(

chainsmoker, apparently. grannies know what's up imo

RIP wee fella.

Charlie Gillet (BBC3 World Music Presenter)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/7470110/BBC-DJ-Charlie-Gillett-dies.html

Alex Chilton (thread on ILM here: Alex Chilton RIP 2010).

Oh, bloody hell, what a terrible start to the day, Gillett and Chilton both gone. 'The Sound of the City' should be on any musiclovers bookshelf and Chilton, 'September Gurls', 'Thirteen', 'Kangaroo'.....:-(

Okay, now I wanna go cry. Had been relistening to #1 and Radio City lately. :-((((((((((((((

Micky Jones of Man

Staying in Wales, John Sicolo, founder of a fairly famous venue, TJ's

Japanese DJ and hip-hop producer Jun Seba, AKA Nujabes died on February 26th in a fatal car accident in his native Japan.

TV Western star Fess Parker. My friends and I used to sing a rather off-color (by which I mean racist) version of the "Daniel Boone" theme song when we were kids.

Just came to post that. RIP.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/front_page/8580058.stm

'ARRY!

HARRY CARPENTER!

Lesley Duncan, singer/songwriter, backing vocalist for Pink Floyd, Dusty, Walker Brothers etc
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8577839.stm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4h7Qr5CRMA

harmonica master Jerry Adler

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/arts/music/22adler.html

Robert Culp dead @ 79

The '60s TV spies are droppin'

http://wemadethis.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c2d869e20111686013ce970c-800wi

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/8590231.stm

John Hicklenton of 2000AD.

:(

'Baby June' Havoc, actress and sister of Gypsy Rose Lee, at 97 (?)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/theater/30havoc.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-jaime-escalante31-2010mar31,0,7083760.story

Jaime Escalante

I just heard about Jaime's death on NPR... bummer. He was one of the good guys.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/03/30/escalante.obit/index.html?hpt=T2

Dammit. He was awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1S_MptIR44

David Mills: http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zontv/2010/03/david_mills_emmywinning_screen.html

I've also posted more about Mills (whom I knew) on the Treme thread and on the ILM New Orleans Brass bands thread. Shocking in its suddenness. I had just exchanged e-mails with him him a few weeks ago.

Jazz guitarist Herb Ellis' passing is noted on the jazz thread, and I documented some r'n'b passings on the Chitlin circuit soul thread (Marva Wright and others) and a bossa nova passing on a bossa thread.

RIP Johnny Maestro of The Crests and The Brooklyn Bridge: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/arts/music/26maestro.html

xpost - I'm really sorry curmudgeon.

Ed Roberts, designer of the Altair 8800
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/193238/mits_founder_and_altair_inventor_ed_roberts_dies_aged_68.html
http://www.kantl.be/ctb/vanhoutte/teach/slides/graphics/altair8800.jpg

8( i once fixed a cute girl's school grades with one of those, before nearly starting world war 3. good times.

(oops, right number, completely wrong name. the imsai in the film was a clone of the altair.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/arts/television/03forsythe.html

John Forsythe, Blake Carrington, Charlie, and Jacob Marley.

I had forgotten that Forsythe was in In Cold Blood and Hitchcock's Topaz.

Jerald terHorst, press secretary to Gerald Ford, who quit in protest at the Nixon pardon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/us/02terhorst.html

This one might be more of a Rot In Pieces:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/03/AR2010040302275.html

Rip, Chris Kanyon:

http://indywrestlingnews.com/newswire/7969-chris-kanyon-passes-away-at-the-age-of-40.html

xpost: good riddance.

not to get all shakey mo but

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African white far-right leader Eugene Terre'blanche, who fought to prevent the end of apartheid in the early 1990s, was beaten and hacked to death at his farm on Saturday, his party said.

couldn't have happened to a nicer fellow

anyone have him in the White Supremacists Death Pool?

RIP trombonist and music critic Mike Zwerin http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/arts/music/06zwerin.html?hpw

RIP total badass Wilma Mankiller http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0410/722981.html

yeah, she ruled.

Thomas Angove, inventor of wine in a box!
http://consumerist.com/2010/04/inventor-of-box-wine-dies-at-92.html

Corin Redgrave

... the bit that caught my eye in the obit was this:

For many years they were members of the Trotskyite Workers' Revolutionary Party, whose fellow travellers included Dame Helen Mirren, the Big Issue's John Bird and the actor and game-show host, Matthew Kelly.

Who knew?

Derek Crozier, cryptic crossword compiler extraordinaire

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0407/breaking29.html

My teacher, mentor and dear friend Janet Adelman. RIP.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4007/4500416716_f47712748c.jpg

This was taken on the date of her retirement from the English Department of UC Berkeley, the same date on which I received my phd. She was the advisor of my dissertation, my toughest critic, and, in a true sense, my "alma mater".

Very sorry to hear the news, D. She clearly did her job very well.

Christopher Cazenove, Ben Carrington in Dynasty (brother of Blake, played by John Forsythe who died earlier this week)

^ didn't realise he was that old (still pretty young though)

He was also in the Hammer House of Horror episode Children of the Full Moon, which I saw it when I was way way way too young and it terrified me in a way that very little else in my life ever managed.

Malcom McLaren (64)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8610423.stm

ILM thread: Malcolm McLaren RIP

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/10/dixie.carter.obit/index.html?hpt=T2

dixie carter was 70!

And married to Hal Holbrook!

Meinhardt Raabe sounds like he was a great guy.

Perennial boxing championship referee Arthur Mercante:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/sports/11mercante.html

Dede Allen, editor of Bonnie and Clyde, The Hustler, Dog Day Afternoon, Reds etc.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dede-allen18-2010apr18,0,1409759,full.story

James Aubrey, actor:

Aubrey died of a heart attack at his home in Cranwell Village Sleaford on 8 April 2010. Coincidentally, he played a character named B.J. in the Sex Pistols movie The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle and a subject of that movie, Malcolm Mclaren died the same day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Aubrey_(actor)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8641882.stm OK, maybe the least RIP in the history of RIP, but something to celebrate, and a reason to hope that his buddy Thatcher (via Pinochet) dies soon too.

Whitney Harris, the last living Nuremberg prosecutor, passed away today. He was 97, and had been battling cancer. I'm Jewish, and can't begin to put into words how much gratitude I have for him and his work. What incredible pressure he must have felt, given the task he was chosen to perform. God bless him.

Alan Sillitoe, author of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Lonliness of the Long-Distance Runner

Joe Sarno, sexploitation director:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_W._Sarno

Dorothy Provine, Milton Berle's wife in IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD:

http://m.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/apr/27/reclusive-actress-bainbridge-resident-dorothy/

Gerry Ryan, huge broadcaster in Ireland (our Jonathan Ross, basically) of a heart attack

His wikipedia-

"Ryan was found dead in his Dublin apartment on 30 April 2010. It is thought his last word were "Goddam I just had to have that last mussel in softened butter, garlic and parsley sauce washed down with a glass of Châteauneuf-du-Pape [cough] The 1986 vintage of course..."."

Daisy Duke's husband who was also one of Michael Jackson's attorneys:
http://www.current-movie-reviews.com/people/2010/04/30/catherine-bachs-husband-michael-jackson-attorney-peter-lopez-dead/

Peter O'Donnell, the creator of Modesty Blaise. 90 years old:

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/05/04/peter-o%E2%80%99donnell-creator-of-modesty-blaise-passes/

RIP, audio engineer Walter Sear
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/arts/music/07sear.html?ref=obituaries

Also here: http://moogfoundation.org/2010/in-memorandum-walter-sear-joins-bob-moog-in-analog-heaven/

Last surviving Ziegfeld Girl (age 106):

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/arts/dance/12travis.html?ref=obituaries

107-year-old queen of theater organists:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/arts/music/15rio.html?ref=obituaries

A little more than two weeks ago Mrs. Travis returned to Broadway to appear again at the annual Easter Bonnet Competition held by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, this time at the Minskoff Theater. She did a few kicks, apologizing that she no longer performed cartwheels.

man thank u for that morbs. it brought joy to my day.

Y'all aren't going to know about him and he was of another era where animal noises were funny and whistling cowboys with extremely Flemish accents sold records overseas, but RIP Bobbejaan Schoepen.

Yvonne Loriod, concert pianist and widow of Olivier Messiaen

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10147436.stm

You silly arse.

Oh man, that's a shame, he's about the only ventriloquist I've ever seen in my life who can actually do ventriloquism!

Stroke of genius, of course, to make your dummy a drunk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Zn3M-WMzM

This is all kinds of awesome.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10151406.stm

Number 2 from Slipknot.

Y'all aren't going to know about him and he was of another era where animal noises were funny and whistling cowboys with extremely Flemish accents sold records overseas, but RIP Bobbejaan Schoepen.

Dude was awesome. His funeral was in a circus tent!

Lord Charles has taken Ray Alan's death very badly, he hasn't spoken a word since it happened.

Gary Coleman, apparently.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10181246.stm Yeah. RIP :(

Dennis Hopper
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/37414779/ns/today-entertainment/

o shi

rip, you were a dick

fuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Abf415EUQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDp_VjMTFPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdrlALQVEKM

RIP

Just 10 minutes ago, the second paragraph of his wiki was listed Super Mario Bros. Movie as one of his important roles. It's now no longer the leading gem listed.

WTF did they have Waterworld 2nd after that?

There's a dedicated RIP Dennis Hopper thread now: Dennis Hopper R.I.P.

Temptations singer Ali-Ollie Woodson dies at 58
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hAqaOwUXQ2Y2QZYuiXefDciby9lgD9G1UOOG0

"A recorded message at a phone number for his wife said the voice mailbox was full."

Quality.

Taking off my Guerrilla Girls mask for a minute for this one:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/31/louise-bourgeois-artist-and-sculptor-is-dead/

98! a damn good innings

remember walking through roppongi alone in 08 going to meet friends - it was dusk and i was a bit lost, rounded a corner and suddenly came face to face (or...face to giant corrugated leg) with maman - was rather disconcerting as had only seen it a few months previously in london (for the second time) and had no idea there was a cast in tokyo too. it felt like the thing was stalking me for a moment.

Chris Haney, creator of Trivial Pursuit.

William A. Fraker, cinematographer of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Rosemary's Baby," "Bullitt" etc.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-william-fraker-20100602,0,7083799,full.story

Rue McClanahan, RIP

Dedicated Rue thread: RIP Rue McClanahan

RIP david markson

:(

Peter Orlovsky

Former Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2010/06/07/stuart-cable-found-dead-91466-26603479/

Blimey! (jaw drops)

I know!

Australian Wheel of Fortune co-host Adriana Xenides

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/tv-star-adriana-xenides-dies-aged-54-20100607-xqed.html

but:

Related Stories
30,000 ’Phonics fans have a nice day at stadium
Jun 7 2010

Needs rewording, I'd say.

Being a drummer in a mildly successful indie band now second most hazardous profession after oil rig diver.

Good old Mabel Cable.

Mabel Cable = the Neville Neville of rock.

I would assume he's just spent the last few years just sitting on a big pile of money + drugs?

Sadly not.

Then again, maybe.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/48014000/jpg/_48014011_cabledeath282other.jpg

Himan Brown - producer of dozens of radio serials in the 30s and 40s including Inner Sanctum, Dick Tracy and The Adventures of the Thin Man.

And most importantly to the Telecom household, Brown was the producer/driving force behind CBS Radio Mystery Theater in the 1970s - a HUGE influence on me when I was a kid

Arne Nordheim, Norwegian composer, died Saturday 5 June.

http://img.nrk.no/img/437805.jpeg

Andréas Voutsinas, aka Carmen Ghia in The Producers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/arts/09voutsinas.html

Brown was the producer/driving force behind CBS Radio Mystery Theater in the 1970s - a HUGE influence on me when I was a kid

me too - cherished memories of catching the CBS/RMT on the car radio while aimlessly cruising as a teenager, listening in (stoned) amazement

RIP Himan Brown & thanks

Egon Ronay

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10301459.stm

Arthur Herzog, author of THE SWARM (interesting obit - his father wrote 'God Bless the Child', for example):

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/arts/09herzog.html?hpw

Thought there was gonna be a Rob Green link

fuck sigmar polke painter and hero

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/12/arts/design/12polke.html?ref=design

RIP man

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10307181.stm

Jimmy Dean, who won't go hunting with you Jake...

Andréas Voutsinas, aka Carmen Ghia in The Producers

What a bummer, RIP Andreas!

Al Williamson, comic book artist and illustrator:

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2010/06/legendary-illustrator-al-williamson-passes-away/

http://home.comcast.net/~cjh5801a/images/fg_williamson4.jpg

Craig Lorenston, singer from wonderful 80s band Lowlife (ex Cocteaus bassist Will Heggie), RIP.

http://www.permanentsleep.com/

(sadness in the url too, I guess. And the fact Bimble loved these guys like I did. Sigh)

gary shider, parliafunkadelicment guitarist
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2010/06/garry_shider_of_p-funk_fame_di.html

Sebastian Horsley (born August 8, 1962; died June 16 2010) was a London artist best known for having undergone a voluntary crucifixion. Horsley's writings often revolve around his dysfunctional family, his drug addictions, sex, and his reliance on prostitutes. He died of a heroin overdose.

ty for posting that DJM, a great read - british life will miss him

Every time I saw him in Soho (generally at Bertaux/Groucho/Colony Room as was) he always made me smile. Knew him a bit when I was constantly out at art openings, knew he was massively fucked up, but still managed to be charming to people despite all that.

Crispin St Peters, the British singer who had the hit with "The Pied Piper" in the 60s. Don't have a link to an obit, but saw it yesterday.

Crispian, actually

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispian_St._Peters

My Mum was a (the?) big fan of Crispian St Peters.

RIP The Hackney Mole Man.

Uh-oh, big writer one. Reminds me of Gareth.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/06/18/world/europe/AP-EU-Obit-Saramago.html?_r=2&ref=obituaries

Ronald Neame, 99, cinematographer and then director of The Horse's Mouth, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Poseidon Adventure:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/19/movies/19neame.html

Manute Bol, 47, NBA star and humanitarian:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postmortem/2010/06/manute-bol-sudanese-basketball.html

heaven needed a 7-foot-7 shot blocker rip

RIP Really Big Man
http://deanos.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/035_monute_boll.jpg

This really sucks.

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1257872_frank_sidebottom_dies_after_collapsing_at_home

http://upload.tarad.com/images/3286081221.jpg

Edith Shain, 91

Pete Quaife, the Kinks' original bassist:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/arts/music/26quaife.html

“I am saddened that the family of U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., tearfully announces the passing of the longest serving member of Congress in U.S. history,” Byrd’s office said in a statement sent to the media around 5:15 a.m. Monday.

no RIP for you

rip don coryell. i liked his coaching.

The letters have left the page...
RIP RAMMELLZEE
[renaissance luminary of hip-hop]
http://www.hellyeahmag.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/rammellzee-acts-of-terrorism.jpg

RIP Beryl Bainbridge

Oh, sad. But no more complaining about Scouse speech for her...

Nick, this isn't up anywhere yet - source, please?

suzy, http://twitter.com/#search?q=bainbridge

Nick, this isn't up anywhere yet - source, please?

The Guardian website, but no further detail at the minute

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/02/beryl-bainbridge-dies

Thanks for that - I know her UK editor a little bit; that last book is in very good hands.

rip don coryell. i liked his coaching.

Just noticed the news -- spending so much time growing up in San Diego, dude was a local hero for sure. And if it hadn't been for that Cincinatti game...

http://www.spinner.com/2010/07/08/daniel-cho-cellist-regina-spektor-drowns/

(she played at the Cactus festival in Bruges on Friday but was in tears - his gear was on stage as a tribute)
(in dutch: http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail.aspx?articleid=DMF20100710_062&kanaalid=1371 )

Elliot Kastner, producer of Where Eagles Dare:

http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/Obituary-Elliott-Kastner.6404232.jp

some convicted felon/ baseball owner

harvey pekar :(

Steinbrenner's dead?

ding dong, he is. Reunited w/ Billy Martin, infernally.

EVERYONE IS DYING

James Gammon (Major League, Nash Bridges, etc)

Aw, he had the coolest voice.

Tuli Kupferberg

just saw the james gammon obit today! mad props to anyone who was in major league.

Tuli Kupferberg

Oh damn!

I've still never seen Major League, but I did see Gammon on Broadway in Buried Child.

Robert Sandall

http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1041908&c=1

Real shame about Robert Sandall, only 54. Pre-internet 'Mixing It' was an essential source of discovering new music. Turned me on to many things which would have otherwise passed me by.

^ OTM. RIP Robert.

Oh man, me too :(

http://forum.bcdb.com/forum/Belle_and_Sebastian_author_Cecile_Aubry_dies_at_81_P109189/

Read about Sandall over someone's shoulder in the Standard this evening. Very sad. I used to have MiniDiscs full of Mixing It...though, tbh, unless there was a studio guest of the calibre John Cale, I'd edit out the Sandall/Russell chat.

He/they introduced me to Penderecki, Aphex Twin, Stina Nordenstam... RIP.

Alex Higgins? (can't find anything official yet)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/snooker/7908601/Alex-Hurricane-Higgins-dies-aged-61.html

Damn... I remember watching Higgins' emotional win in 1982..... Definitely the most interesting player of that period.

I also just read about Robert Sandall... RIP too.. :-(

R.I.P. Alan Hume, British cinematographer - an incredible range of credits, including Carry On films, James Bond films, A Fish Called Wanda, Return of the Jedi etc etc:

http://www.cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/4757-ALAN-HUME,-ACCLAIMED-JAMES-BOND-AND-STAR-WARS-DIRECTOR-OF-PHOTOGRAPHY,-DEAD-AT-85.html

Ben Keith, long time Neil Young collaborator: http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2010/07/ben-keith-19xx-2010.html

character actor Maury Chaykin

http://www.cinematical.com/2010/07/27/maury-chaykin-passes-away-on-61st-birthday/

LA Times reporter Eric Malnic:

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-eric-malnic-20100729,0,2941134.story

Sounds like a character:

When a 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Central California town of Coalinga in 1983, reporters from scores of news organizations scrambled to reach the scene first. Malnic and colleague Cathleen Decker rode in separate helicopters but were stymied when the Federal Aviation Administration closed airspace over the area for miles around.

To Malnic, this was more an opportunity than a barrier.

'Eric touched down in Fresno,' Decker recalled, 'and promptly paid off all the cabbies to drive around off the airport so that the other arriving reporters from TV, radio and newspapers were stuck and he had the time advantage.'

Screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz.

Derf Scratch, bassist for FEAR.

Not to draw untoward connections or go for unnecessary lulz, but the obit for the creator of Cheez Doodles makes it so easy:

Morrie R. Yohai, the creator of the crunchy, finger-staining orange Cheez Doodles snack, has died. He was 90.

Yohai died of cancer on July 27 at his Long Island home in Kings Point, his son, Robbie, said Tuesday . . .

. . . The snack was coated with seasoning and cheddar cheese that colors hands bright orange. To make the Cheez Doodles healthier, they were baked, not fried.

Robert F. Boyle, production designer for Hitchcock:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/movies/04boyle.html

:(

rip 1970s
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/07/arts/dance/07yarnell.html?_r=1&hpw

Actress Patricia Neal

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-10911288

RIP Patricia, deserves her own thread imo

She was just so great in Hud.

A babe, too

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OQmEa5OKyOI/Saqvap7_o4I/AAAAAAAANA8/cOcyJkL6mo0/s400/PatriciaNealDeal02.jpg

RIP Patricia Neal

Jarring thing in that Lorene Yarnell obit was: "The death was confirmed by Mr. Shields’s wife, Jennifer.".

Matthew R. Simmons, an energy investment banker and author of the book “Twilight in the Desert” that suggested Earth’s supply of oil is dwindling, died yesterday. He was 67.

Simmons “passed away suddenly,” according to an e-mailed statement today from the Ocean Energy Institute, founded by Simmons in 2007 to explore opportunities for harvesting energy from the seas.

tony judt, historian, writer and adl antagonist, of als at age 62.

postwar is really good

http://www.qobuz.com/info/MAGAZINE-ACTUALITES/CHERS-DISPARUS/Chris-Dedrick-est-mort46645

chris dedrick of the free design. very sad (sorry it's in french - doesn't seem to have been reported anywhere else)

Antonio Pettigrew (400m runner) has been found dead aged 42

WOW former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens dies in plane crash.

sorry if this has already been posted. didn't see it, and the story is dated 4:21PM.

Exeter City striker Adam Stansfield, aged 31

Jeez that's terrible, only 31. Must admit I was only aware of him through Jeff Stelling's joke when he scored.

Jimmy Reid, trade unionist & journalist and all-round left-wing hero type

RIP Jimmy. I was just watching 'The Men Who Built The Liners' the other week - lots of coverage of Jimmy Reid and the work-in - telling them they had to be professional to show the govt how valuable and necessary they were "and that means nae bevy!" (cue laughter/booing)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nnm7k

^worth watching if it's ever available again on iPlayer

Can't find it on youtube but search out the Parkinson with Jimmy Reid and Kenneth Williams when he makes a total ass out of Williams.

this the one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0cRolJ_hIw

actually no it obv isn't, sorry

From Reid's inaugural speech as Rector of Glasgow University:

"A rat race is for rats. We’re not rats. We’re human beings.

"Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of self promotion and self advancement.

"This is how it starts and, before you know where you are, you’re a fully paid up member of the rat pack.

"The price is too high. It entails the loss of your dignity and human spirit."

Zen master/activist Robert Aitken.

Chicago politician, Dan Rostenkowski

Herzog's second-favorite actor Bruno S.

I can't find anything about Al Goodman on this thread or ILM--maybe I'm missing it. Anyway, a few days late:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/29/arts/music/29goodman.html

Don't think I know anything by Ray, Goodman & Brown, but "Love on a Two-Way Street" is as great as any early-'70s soul.

rip abbey lincoln
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTGUkQQkttg

I think there's a baseball RIP thread too, but this is bigger than just baseball:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/08/17/1779995/bobby-thomson-dead-at-86.html

I share a birthday with him. When I was at Cooperstown about 15 years ago, he and Branca were signing together. I've never paid for an autograph and never would, but I was thinking it would have been great to get a copy of Libra signed by both of them, and then later get DeLillo to sign it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrI7dVj90zs

Frank Kermode, yes?

Sorry, that's not hopeful, just read it on the LRB blog but couldn't find it anywhere else. Really top critic obv.

Yep - frieze and a bunch of other twitterers are reporting it, too.

I hadn't heard about Aitken! I knew he was sick, but I would have thought I'd hear bout it in one of a few other places first. He lived long and well. Will break out one of his books tonight.

Frank Kermode, who famously managed to throw his whole book collection in the rubbish.

Bruno S. RIP :(

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.obituaries/browse_thread/thread/93b59b039a922ecb/e72bf3bafc145ac0?lnk=raot

^ somebody posted about Bruno S on this thread 6 days ago, today was the first time I'd heard about it

"The Shot Heard 'Round The World" <- cannot compute - define "World" ?

Everywhere but Belgium.

Ah, shit. RIP Kermode. Epitome of all that's best in criticism and always came across as a good man.

"The Shot Heard 'Round The World" <- cannot compute - define "World" ?

It gained its famous moniker because of the number of United States servicemen around the globe - including those fighting in the Korean War - who were listening.

Was reading this backwards and thought

1. That Mark Kermode had died
2. That someone considered him the "epitome of all that's best in criticism"

All that's best in quifficism maybe.

NickB - all that's best in witticism

its the wayhetellicism

Cretinism more like.

Ah, ok, thx, Onimo! :-)

"The Shot Heard 'Round The World" <- cannot compute - define "World" ?

Posted by Stan Musial, no less...Hyperbole, for sure. But it's supposedly one of those moments, like JFK's assassination, where every living American past a certain age could remember exactly where he or she was.

also has a good write-up at the beginning of don delillo's underworld

My favourite bit of the book. For some reason, although I don't follow it in the slightest, I get slightly teary when I watch old baseball footage, in the same way I do when I watch old cricket footage. There's something about the expectation and then the release of the momentous occasion - the bated breath.

My favourite bit of the book.

Same here, really seems to capture the sense of occasion. I think that's where I first discovered that the Seventh-Inning Stretch isn't some technical baseball term but a reference to fans standing up for a minute and maybe buying a pretzel or something.

Edwin Morgan, poet

Try that again, appy polly loggies, Edwin

Edwin Morgan, poet

RIP Michael Been, 60, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club sound technician and bassist Robert's father. Felt unwell, probable heart attack, backstage at Belgian festival Pukkelpop, rushed to hospital, but didn't make it, couple of hours ago.

Oh no, come on. I only just mentioned that the only 'celebrity' funeral I would attend would be his, today. I've met him a bunch of times, though, at his home, readings and classes. This is devastating - a lovely, lovely man, and was my favourite living poet.

re: Edwin Morgan, not Been.

At seventy I thought I had come through,
like parting a bead curtain at Port Said,
to something that was shadowy before,
figures and voices of late times that might
be surprising yet. The beads clash faintly
behind me as I go forward. No candle-light
please, keep that for Europe. Switch the whole thing
right on. When I go in I want it bright,
I want to catch whatever is there
in full sight.

Crap. RIP. First read him when this was in some school anthology:

The Loch Ness Monster's Song

Sssnnnwhuffffll?
Hnwhuffl hhnnwfl hnfl hfl?
Gdroblboblhobngbl gbl gl g g g g glbgl.
Drublhaflablhaflubhafgabhaflhafl fl fl –
gm grawwwww grf grawf awfgm graw gm.
Hovoplodok – doplodovok – plovodokot-doplodokosh?
Splgraw fok fok splgrafhatchgabrlgabrl fok splfok!
Zgra kra gka fok!
Grof grawff gahf?
Gombl mbl bl –
blm plm,
blm plm,
blm plm,
blp.

Yeah, I was asking some young folks if he was still on the school curriculum but they didn't know. I think he is. Watching him perform his sound poetry was always a lot of fun.

Yes, I know other people who have fond stories about him, he seems to have been a great guy. He was 90 though!

the hell is going on at Pukkelpop this year?

Ou Est Le Swimming Pool's singer kills himself after their show there today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ou_Est_Le_Swimming_Pool

^ the hell?!

that's just :(

yeah, never having heard of the band, it's still v sad.

A rather unusual story is starting to appear on Belgian news sites. During the last song of their set their keyboard player jumped into the crowd, injuring a girl who had to be taken to hospital. Everyone in the band was shocked/affected by how bad it was. It's not yet clear how this is related to their singer climbing up and jumping off a (light/flag?) pole on the artist's parking lot (which is what happened, apparently).

They looked like they were just starting to break through too, headlining tour in the UK until October and everything. Strange.

Michael Been dies. At Pukkelpop.
Man jumps to his death at Swell Season concert.
Man jumps from balcony at Phish concert the same night, remains in critical condition.
Charles Haddon scales a pole and falls to his death. At Pukkelpop.

wth is going on?

I fucking loved their breakthrough hit "dance the way i feel". Heard it several times on the radio and adored it. Rip

"Star Hustler" Jack Horkheimer RIP (mainstay of PBS late-night for eons)

Oh noooo! I loved Jack Horkheimer so much. And he got me into Tomita!
Rest well, Stargazer, if you look in the east horizon at 3 a.m. tonight, you'll see the once-in-a-lifetime sight of Horkheimer's soul winking at you.

oh man RIP star hustler may you find a poorly projected green screen ring of saturn to chill upon in the afterlife

that dude was really one of my favorite people of all time for some reason. i just saw him on tv a few weeks ago, i was happy to see he was still keeping it real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5QKUchnz8s

Er, NME, I can only imagine that red button is put there automatically - if not... :-(

http://i38.tinypic.com/292s8oy.png

tour dates and everything - http://www.nme.com/news/ou-est-le-swimming-pool/52576

just saw an obit on the star hustler!

RIP.

Send that to Private Eye. Not for the LOLs but for the WTF's.

RIP satoshi kon (director of paprika)

holy shit, i am shocked. 47 years old...

I am very sad to report the death of my friend and colleague, photographer Corinne Day. For those unfamiliar with her work, a reminder:

http://www.modelinia.com/__wordpress__/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/kate-moss-corinne-day.jpeg

Sorry to hear about your friend Suzy :(

Francisco Varallo, (formerly) last surviving player from the first World Cup final: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11134965

Laurent Fignon, 2-time winner of the Tour de France, at 50 from cancer.

Aiieee!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Jts7L87kB_w/Rp03D1tDomI/AAAAAAAAAo0/hORh8WL9Yzg/s400/fignon_lemond_1989.jpg

^ one of the best TdF's ever

Oh god, not Fignon!

And Corinne Day! :-(((((( Suzy, what did she die of? Not that it matters really. What a loss. :-(

Never mind, I just saw it was brain cancer. :-(

Cyril Smith

Gotta say, I thought he died sometime in the mid-'90s.

i remember him on swap shop (or whatever it was called at the time) being very un-politician and inviting everyone who 'phoned in on a trip around the house of commons whenever they were in the area.

Mike Edwards of the ELO

killed by a giant hay bale rolling down a hill and into his car. sheesh.

sorry, link should work here?

"It's a Living Thing" is the best I can do atm

and he was a cellist

it was out of the blue

Comedian Robert Schimmel, survivor of both lymphoma and hepatitis, in a fucking car accident: http://www.avclub.com/articles/rip-robert-schimmel,44874/

Nath, this was a weird one - I knew Corinne pretty well because my good friend/former landlady represents her; she did a Vincent Gallo shoot in my flat once. Spent most of last week helping ESM get people's thoughts for a couple of pages of tribute - which is excruciating to do: 'excuse me, I hope you don't mind me asking you for some words abut your good friend' is a horrible email to have to send two days after her death when there haven't been any obits yet, even if everyone I contacted was thrilled to be asked.

Glenn Shadix (of Beetlejuice fame)

noah howard, saxophonist

not otho!

LA Times political cartoonist/3xPulitzer-winner Paul Conrad

Met him once at a UCI lecture years ago. Awesomely funny guy. The obit is well-worth checking out.

Claude Chabrol: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11275980

Oh no. RIP :(.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2010/sep/11/lord-bingham-of-cornhill-obituary/print

A cool guy, for a judge.

Kevin McCarthy, at 96

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-12/kevin-mccarthy-star-of-1956-sci-fi-classic-body-snatchers-dies-at-96.html

Never knew he was Mary McC's brother!

http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2010/09/kevin-mccarthy-1914-2010.html

I love his cameo in Phil Kaufman's remake.

F Gwynplaine Mackintyre, IMDB's weird (and sometimes weirdly convincing)fantasist reviewer of old films that he can't have seen because they no longer exist, self immolation in his apartment:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/nyregion/12froggy.html?_r=2&hp

this is quite possibly the strangest story I have ever read, certainly the strangest in a long time.

whoa

damn. great article.

This is typical of his fare:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015946/

(scroll down) - there is no way he could possibly have seen this film, no copy of it is known to exist. On top of which, it's hardly "Flaming Youth" or "Convention City" or something, it's a Corinne Griffith romantic drama, pretty much the bottom of the heap in film preservation terms. And, he wrote LOADS of similar pieces on similarly obscure, lost movies. Gaze into the abyss.

those people interviewed in the nyt video are awesome

F Gwynplaine Mackintyre, IMDB's weird (and sometimes weirdly convincing)fantasist reviewer of old films that he can't have seen because they no longer exist, self immolation in his apartment:

This happened in June; I was going to post here about it then but never got around to it. Those IMDB reviews aren't even close to being his main claim to fame, his fiction output was quite extensive if rather variable in quality. (I wish I could give you some recommendations, but I can't think of any.)

this is quite possibly the strangest story I have ever read, certainly the strangest in a long time.

― mc banhammer (Pashmina), Monday, 13 September 2010 21:19 (43 minutes ago)

there's always these ppl who were mentioned in the nyt vid

Mackintyre's best stuff was his short stories in and letters to Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, which I read and enjoyed as a young nerd. Had forgotten him completely until I read this article.

Harold Gould, R.I.P.

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100914/capt.06b4a4f463ca4610b2d2f4dc760cc94f-06b4a4f463ca4610b2d2f4dc760cc94f-0.jpg

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100914/ap_en_mo/us_obit_harold_gould

Edwin Newman

No idea Newman was still around... On top of everything else, he did really awkward news updates during Letterman's live morning show circa '81, in front of the studio audience.

Ha, wish I could remember those. I do remember seeing those morning shows in general, though -- I remember being disappointed Letterman moved to late night and I couldn't watch him anymore!

Let us not forget this gig of Newman's.

soca's Arrow

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/16/arts/music/16cassell.html

The theme tune for cremations everywhere!

Bobby Smith, former Tottenham Hotspur soccerball hero:

http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/articles/bobby-smith-190910.html

Looks like Bobby Hebb, the man behind "Sunny" passed away this summer: http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2010/08/03/bobby-hebb-sunny-songwriter-and-revered-singer-dies-at-72/

Surprised that wasn't flagged up on ILM. I can only imagine he must have been incredibly rich judging by the amount of cover versions of "Sunny"!

That's what I thought, but search revealed nothing.

I was surprised when I read the "Crawdaddy" book to see how highly at the time Paul Williams rated Hebb as a songwriter. There was a good run in the "What Goes On" columns where he'd have some serious plugs/factoids about Hebb (how he'd written 2000 songs in 3 years, how he--along with folks like Ray Davies & Gene Clark--were underutilized songwriters for interpretive singers etc.)

RIP Buddy Collette

screenwriter Irving Ravetch

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/movies/21ravetch.html

Film and TV composer Geoffrey Burgon

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11393354

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/afterword/2010/09/actress-gloria-stuart-rose-in-titanic-dies-at-100.html

yes, rip gloria stuart - until yesterday, prob the last person living to have worked for james whale

George Blanda. He was still playing when I might've last called myself a football fan.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/football/nfl/09/27/raiders.blanda.ap/index.html?eref=sihp

same here

Rocket pioneer Robert Truax. First half of his career was very straight-forward: Navy, rockets, submarines, and the intersection of all three but it was after his retirement that his career got really interesting. He pretty much dedicated his life to working on cheap and public access to space and set about building rockets in his San Diego backyard long before the X-Prize got started. He was a serial guest on Johnny Carson - showing off the latest rockets he built and always expounding on how space exploration doesn't have to be monolithic and expensive. Kind of a mad scientist figure.

Perhaps most notably, Truax was most famous for building the rocket engine for this guy (that's Truax on the left)

http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld/images/blog/11-07/evel3.jpg

Sally Menke

Tony Curtis

Greg Giraldo, comedian, dead at 44

Stephen J. Cannell

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Was just about to post on that. Patton Oswalt OTM

My printer has decided to chew up and spit out a sheet of paper in tribute.

Damn, how did I miss this -- Richard 'Dick' Griffey, founder of SOLAR Records.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEPf9BIf_hM&feature=player_embedded

loving the salmon-coloured pop-collar polo at 1:27

Neil Alan Smith. Never famous, just a working man, and this is a hell of a way to remember him and reflect on where so many are at.

That obit's gone viral -- three other friends have linked to it.

Deservedly so. Heard about it from stet and grimly fiendish on Twitter.

That's a very touching tribute.

Joe Mantell. If you don't know both of those famous lines you know at least one of them.

In memory of Stephen J. Cannell, everyone plz stop the new Rockford Files by any means necessary.

Norman Wisdom was still alive, apparently! RIP, 95 years old.

Link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11473192

I honestly searched for a Wisdom thread on the Site New Answers page and didn't find one - sorry, revivers of the other thread :-/

Roy Ward Baker, director of A Night to Remember, a film about the Titanic for adults:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/08/movies/08baker.html

Didn't realize he was still alive. Great film, that.

Me neither. He didn't do enough film work. His Amicus horror comp, Asylum, is one of the best of its kind too.

Didn't know abt Baker. He was a bit of a hack - his Scars of Dracula is easily the worst of the Hammer/Lee Draculas - but Quatermass and the Pit is superb, and yeah Ayslum is great fun.

Also, RIP William Norton, screenwriter of Corman's Big Bad Mama, Brannigan (w/ John Wayne), and White Lightning (w/ Burt Reynolds). Great obit - "In his later life, Mr. Norton was imprisoned for running guns, killed a home invader and was smuggled back into the United States by his daughter and former wife."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/09/movies/09norton.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=william%20norton&st=cse

Benoit Mandelbrot RIP
http://kottke.org/10/10/benoit-mandelbrot-rip

Barbara "June Cleaver" Billingsley no longer speaks jive

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/arts/television/17billingsley.html?_r=1

Whoa, I didn't hear about Mandelbrot. RIP. I guess once enough of the chaos/fractal guys die off then whoever is still living will finally get a Nobel Prize. That's one way to solve the dilemma of who to give the prize to, I guess.

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

Tom Bosley

oh man, howard cunningham

Mr. C! R.I.P.

aka Broadway's Fiorello!

dammit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DeM15xpLQY

:(
Night Mr C

rip.

Time to put on your fez and head down to the Lodge for one last drink. Gnight Mr C

First Mrs. Cleaver, now Mr. Cunningham. If I were Florence Henderson, I'd think twice before venturing out of the house for the next few days.

did any of Richie's friends suck up to Mr or Mrs Cunningham like Eddie Haskell?

Yes, either Potsie or Ralph tried it, can't remember which, but it wasn't a patch on the pants of Eddie Haskell's routine.

the fonz ("arthur") used to flirt with mrs. c on the reg iirc

Totally. I always thought Mrs C had a crush on him

When people said "Mr. C" had died, at first I thought they meant Mr. C, but thankfully not.

lol me too

Guest appearances
In 1999 he was interviewed by Melinda Messenger

Really struggling to fill Mr C's wiki page eh

RIP Bob Guccione.

Ari Up died. :-((((((

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/former-slits-singer-ari-up-dies-age-48-2112730.html

Holy balls, that sucks.

I watched this video of Tom Bosley and got really sad. Such a different time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_dwTCKmk5k

Ari Up died. :-((((((

Oh, shit.

Gregory Isaacs, dead at 59. :(

Fuck.

Crank cryptozoologist and ancient astronaut proponent Zecharia Sitchin dead at 90.

That is easily one of the best names ever.

Paul the Octopus

I watched this video of Tom Bosley and got really sad. Such a different time.

yeah. watching stuff from the 70s gives me a sad nostalgic sense. sadness about getting older, i suppose.

rip Danno

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/arts/television/29mccarthur.html?hpw

the name Joyce Bulifant is so evocative of my 70s childhood, i can't even explain

Gerard Kelly, actor featured in City Lights and just about everything else that features Scottish people.

Loved him in Extras, and only just realised he was Callum Finnegan in Brookside!

Went to see him in pantomime the last couple of years, he was the absolute master at it.

Don't know I'd ever want to see City Lights again, I suspect it hasn't aged well at all, but his turn in Brookside was awesome.

I saw him about 10 years ago playing Buttons in Alladin with Elaine C. Smith, great comic performer who clearly loved what he did and transmitted that to the audience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru7LFk7DuBA

Lisa Blount of Officer & A Gentlemen fame

is the rikki fulton punchline english or gay or both?

Lamont Johnson, TV/film director:

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/2466

I would definitely recommend The Last American Hero, Johnson's film about Junior Jackson. There's a good Kael review of it in Reeling.

Don Donahue, publisher of Zap and other legendary underground comics

Billy Ruane, Boston/Cambridge-area promoter (first comment here by Steve Albini)

The Pontiac, my dad's favorite car:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/101031/business/us_goodbye_pontiac

Film maker George Hickenlooper, age 47.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2010/10/george-hickenlooper-dies-casino-jack.html

Oh heavens - I had a meeting on Thursday with someone who was working with Hickenlooper on a new film project.

That's amazing. Mayor of the Sunset Strip was my favourite film of its year; Factory Girl was pretty good, too. I see from IMDB that he made short documentaries on Monte Hellman, Bogdanovich, and Dennis Hopper.

Ted Sorensen, JFK's main speechwriter:

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20101101/ZNYT02/11013013/-1/news?Title=Theodore-C-Sorensen-82-Kennedy-Counselor-Dies

He would seem to have written the "torch has been passed" and "ask not" lines in the inaugural, although it's hard to tell for sure.

Denise Borino-Quinn, age 46. Played Ginny Sac on The Sopranos

Always liked this story about how she got the part...

Ms. Borino-Quinn had no acting experience when she was cast, in 2000, a year after “The Sopranos” began its long run on HBO, as Ginny, the wife of the New York City crime boss John Sacramoni. She later said that she had attended the casting call, in Harrison, N.J., partly in search of a role but mostly to support a childhood friend, and that she was shocked when, after being called back for an audition, she was offered the part.

46, jeez. And her husband died in March.

Former Models singer James Freud

former singer of Models i mean

D: so it is true? fuuuuuuuuuu

Ohhhhhhhh no

And suicide...man....fuck

Hmm now its on ABC news but quoting the same (single) source. I'm always a bit bugged when there's no verification.

Yeah I'm not seeing anywhere that isn't quoting Undercover atm...hurm

on the age and the oz now. age quotes scott carne who apaz heard it from sean kelly

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/the-models-james-freud-dead-20101104-17f7r.html

was just coming here to post that...

Welp

Bugger it.

RIP Motown session man and jazz vibraphonist Jack Brokensha http://www.freep.com/article/201010281846/ENT04/101028068?ref=nf

Dino De Laurentiis

He produced a lot of major hit movies, but let's not forget he also did David Lynch's Dune and Blue Velvet

RIP Henryk Mikołaj Górecki.

Coleman Jacoby, TV writer for Gleason and "Bilko"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/13/arts/television/13jacoby.html

Baby Marie Osborne, child star of the silent era, at 99

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/arts/17osborne.html?_r=1&ref=movies

RIP Countess Dracula

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/nov/23/hammer-horror-ingrid-pitt-dies

leslie nielson??

;(((((((
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5egaR4WvLPY

Irvin Kershner

oh hells no

I remember liking A Fine Madness and The Luck of Ginger Coffey, but I.K. had a weird resume for Lucas to hire him for Empire.

i think IK taught Lucas at film school, or some similar connection?

I remember liking A Fine Madness and The Luck of Ginger Coffey, but I.K. had a weird resume for Lucas to hire him for Empire.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, November 29, 2010 3:13 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

probably the last good artistic decision Lucas ever made

Mario Monicelli, director of Big Deal on Madonna Street -- jumped out a hospital window at 95.

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/2589

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/us/02cohen.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Neutron bomb inventor, Samuel T. Cohen.

I mean, say what you want, but that's one bitchin' weapon.

RIP Maurice Wilkes, computing pioneer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Wilkes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11875821

Here is Maurice Wilkes looking at one of his inventions: a foot wide, 5' long tank of mercury delay line memory, offering 32 17-bit bytes, i.e. not enough memory to store the text in this sentence as ASCII characters. (Which hadn't been invented yet anyway, obv.)

http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/5339/edsac28929.jpg

Elaine of Elaine's. I guess that cameo in Morning Glory was a bad omen.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/04/nyregion/04kaufman.html

dandy don meredith, mnf announcer. he was 72.

The celebrity deaths that resonate most for me are those I associate with the early-mid '70s, and Meredith definitely qualifies. All I remember is that he was a real character, and that listening to him and Cosell (with Gifford as stodgy-guy foil) was a real hoot.

RIP Elizabeth Edwards

Oh shit really? They were just talking about her on NPR this morning saying that she couldn't receive any further cancer treament.

Enrique Morente.

Woolly Wolstenholme of Barclay James Harvest (http://www.woollywolstenholme.co.uk/)

Sorry to hear about Woolly Wolstenholme, my brother knew him pretty well so it's hit home somewhat. Haven't listened to BJH in years but they mellotroned their way into my 14 year old brain as well as Crimson, Genesis etc. RIP, such a shame he couldn't find peace in his life.

RIP Jean Rollin:

http://www.fangoria.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2901:rip-jean-rollin&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=167

Beefheart?

^^ serious bummer

He really splits opinion among my friends, and between albums as well, but dammit I was listening to Steal Softly Thru Snow the other day and it was wonderful.

RIP Anthony Howard

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/19/political-journalist-anthony-howard-dies

just going to post that

he always seemed interesting on newsnight etc

rip big man

Ralph Coates

http://www.myfootballfacts.com/files/QuickSiteImages/THFC47.JPG

Steve Landesberg, R.I.P

http://www.avclub.com/articles/rip-steve-landesberg-barney-miller-actor,49325/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGv_7VgFgeg

most deadpan sitcom of all time?

I was very young when Barney Miller was on, but I would watch it with my parents and remember Dietrich/Landesberg being my favorite.

I think he replaced Abe Vigoda? who has amazingly outlived him.

nola rapper magnolia shorty, by homicide. she was 28 :(

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2010/12/murder_victim_is_rapper_magnol_1.html

really sad...she actually had a great 2010 between being featured on "My Boy" by Kourtney Heart and this song "Smoking Gun" that was on a bounce comp i picked up earlier in the year

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

her verse on "Blood Thicker" is something else the way she (a fifteen year old girl) comes in at the end of the track and outdoes all of the hot boys + baby

"they found ya dead in the projects
Have people cryin and thankin
But yo' body been stankin'
On the ground 16 holes
Shot up head to ya toes
Blood all over ya clothes
Don't fuck with me no more
Now they know
I ain't no hoe"

Judge James Pickles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f39wk4UxqUE

a day late, but RIP Steve Landesberg ... Barney Miller was one of those after-school/weekend syndicated sitcom regulars when i was growing up.

Wombles' creator Elisabeth Beresford

;_;

RIP Teena Marie

RIP Magnolia Shorty

ugh that sucks :/

Former Liverpool and Rangers player Avi Cohen

Bobby Farrell of Boney M:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/dec/30/bobby-farrell-boney-m-singer-dies

Inevitably if you're familiar with his writing, the proximity of Bobby Farrell and Teena Marie has made me think of Chuck Eddy. Hopefully all is well with Stacey Q and Kix.

Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor:

http://beta.ca.news.yahoo.com/swedish-actor-cannes-award-winner-per-oscarsson-believed-20110102-091650-339.html

Read the novel Hunger years ago; always wanted to see the film on the strength of Stanley Kauffmann's review, where he heaped praise on Oscarsson.

Pete Postlethwaite at 64. Didn't even know he was ill.

Sorry, wrong thread I suppose.