Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

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Will we have a death pool this year?

I call American democracy

Is that the new Guns N Roses album?

Chris Karrer of both Amon Düüls

https://www.facebook.com/groups/10213321397/posts/10159782465886398/

One for the UK charity sector: Camila Batmanghelidjh, 61

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/02/kids-company-charity-founder-camila-batmanghelidjh-dies-aged-61

I think her given name was Camila Brucewayneghelidjh

Glynis Johns

Oh, shame, she reached the century though. RIP Glynis.

VOTES FOR WOMEN rip glynis
thx for teaching me abt the suffragette movement <3

Love her in this Amicus/EC anthology bit:

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

Derek Draper, covid-affected husband of Kate Garaway and former Labour Party ghoul.

tbf he possibly still qualifies as a labour party ghoul?

RIP David Soul, aged 80.

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don't ghouls feed on the flesh of the dead? I guess if he can manage to eat himself it will save on funeral expenses

Actor Christian Oliver, 51, and his two daughters, 12 and 10, killed in a plane crash in the Caribbean.

I just re-watched the 1979 Salem's Lot miniseries, David Soul was great in that... a lot of cool cameos by old-timey hollywood stars; it's still pretty freaky as well

Still has some of the scariest scenes I've ever seen from made-for-TV

it scared the shit out of me when I was a kid watching it on a b+w valve television

I can never remember whether he was Starsky or Hutch.

he was Starsky, the smart one.. Hutch was the 'street' one

xp Yeah, Tobe Hooper directed it, he didn't pull any punches with the scary stuff

James Mason as the vampire's henchman and keeper was so cold blooded, actually he was much scarier than the vampire

A lot of it was filmed up in Humboldt County (where I'm from), my uncle got paid $15 to put a Massachussetts plate on his car

The house was totally fake, we drove out to have a look at it while they were filming

I think you've got your cops mixed up. Paul Michael Glaser was Starsky (the street one), while David Soul was Hutch (the smart one.)

Ahh okay

See?

I felt so sure of myself

You don't have many of those renaissance men much anymore: stage actor, film actor, television, successful pop singer

it scared the shit out of me when I was a kid

Seeing a *trailer* for it freaked me out!

Vampire raising up through the kitchen floor with evil James Mason and killing the kid's parents in front of him seemed pretty hardcore for post watershed television at the time.

Heard some work people today commiserating with Kate Garraway but I said nothing because lol fuck Draper not soon enough

Died of long covid? weird

he was already dead tbf! When he got covid he was in an induced coma for 10 weeks, covid hated him more than uk ilx does.

I keep misreading gushing tributes to him as "lobbyist turned psychopath"

"turned" being the solecism

Glad to see that David Sole was well prepared, just in case he bumped into Derek Draper…. pic.twitter.com/ky1Ax5OTOc

— Zarah Bukake MP. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Dim ond parodi ydy (@XRLlareggub) January 5, 2024

I keep misreading gushing tributes to him as "lobbyist turned psychopath"

Same, except when hearing it.

Silver Lady is a banger and fuiud tbh

don't give up on us baby

calz isn't that the unfunny racist Zarah Sultana "parody" account?

yeah I just posted the first offensive post about Draper I found, apols

O T MF M

Draper Death is long overdue and

Welsh flag and horrid name should have been a dead giveaway, but I'm slightly pished tonight.

David Soul was a guy who had a lot of acting chops. Weirdly my first exposure to him was as one-half of a psychotic bank robbing duo in the TV film In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders. The other psycho was Michael Gross! They were both superb and the final shootout is genuinely intense and bleak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBGfKtuo2AM

Mário Zagallo

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/jan/06/mario-zagallo-world-cup-winning-player-and-coach-for-brazil-dies-aged-92

Cindy Morgan, who played Lacy Underall in Caddyshack.

And Yori in Tron

Rip Zagallo

Joan Acocella, New Yorker staff writer and dance critic, at 78:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/obituaries/joan-acocella-dead.html

Kris Kristofferson saw John Prine performing in Chicago, then helped him get his first record deal. “Kris did more for me than anyone, without looking for anything for himself,” Prine said. https://t.co/2hoSqH701p

— Robert Loerzel (@robertloerzel) September 30, 2024

Didn’t Sinead say he kind of took advantage of her?

She did, tho she clarified that she didn’t mean sexually. (They had sex but she said it was consensual.) In context, that was during a fairly distressing social media meltdown. Not saying she didn’t mean it, but she was kind of attacking everyone at that point. They also collaborated over the years fwiw.

He also backed her after the SNL appearance. RIP.

Dikembe Mutombo

Only 58

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

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/41530918/hall-famer-dikembe-mutombo-dies-brain-cancer-age-58

I didn't know anything about him or sports in general and have never been a fan of Geico ads esp the ones ending with those banjo guys, but that add always cracked me up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZa0Xhx6Yso

awww. sad. he was at my wedding!

https://playbill.com/article/tony-winning-actor-gavin-creel-passes-away-at-48

xpost Once again, Scott, you drop a random detail that has the rest of us asking "Wait, back up, say a little more here?"

well, he was in the locker room DURING the wedding, but he came back out and played so i consider him and allen iverson and john stockton and karl malone to be part of the wedding party.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixQ6o3GE7i0

omg yall are adorable

Wow.

Bruno Sacco, 90. Chief designer and engineer for Mercedes Benz through the 70s-90s.

https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/sacco-gray-66f8b14d44801.jpg

https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/22C0267_002_0.jpg

Lord: Please design me a Mercedes Benz

He sure does look like his part!

Warren Benbow, drummer for James "Blood" Ulmer's Odyssey band and Breath Of Air, a trio with guitarist Brandon Ross and violinist Charles Burnham that put out their debut album on my label in 2022.

Pete Rose

https://www.tmz.com/2024/09/30/pete-rose-dead-major-league-baseball/

holy shit

complicated figure

wow yeah

Warren Benbow, drummer for James "Blood" Ulmer's Odyssey band and Breath Of Air, a trio with guitarist Brandon Ross and violinist Charles Burnham that put out their debut album on my label in 2022.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson

Actor John Amos, 84

Not sure I knew his name but I definitely recognize his face

Good Times, Roots and Coming to America is an iconic resume.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djI_ret3S9g

RIP fellow Patersonian!

Oh, wait... He was from Newark, NJ. Still... a great one. Rest In Peace.

RIP - loved him so much!! he was also Gordy the weatherman on Mary Tyler Moore, and Fitz on West Wing <3

He provided one of the more excellently shocking moments in the Die Hard franchise too, the dad from Good Times breaking bad.

In 2009, he released We Were Hippies, an album of original country songs by Gene and Eric Cash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLtoq64jLfI

Oh man, Frank Fritz, 60: had stroke in 2022, but longtime brother of the road on nice roving dealers-mavens-geeks show-- always capable of suddenly buying what he wanted, deep in vast boondocks troves, damn the cost:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/american-pickers-star-frank-fritz-dies-60-rcna173452

John Amos got a great little cameo playing himself as Julia Fox's neighbor in Uncut Gems.

Martin Lee of Brotherhood Of Man, 77.

RIP Martin, up there in heaven with Angelo and (unnamed girl).

Grey 90s tory wanker Michael Ancram

The Untouchables singer Jerry Miller

https://www.instagram.com/p/DAq2UIsyiAN/

Now I might have to finally watch Uncut Gems

That video is something.

Aw man... Saw The Untouchables at least 6-7 times in the early 80s. "Free Yourself" is still all-time.

"Free Yourself" - "I Spy (For the FBI)" - "Agent Double-O Soul"...they definitely should have been bigger but never got to be more than an L.A. thing.

Free Yourself was top 30 in the UK and i definitely heard FBI quite a lot (on radio luxembourg anyway)

I recommended that The Untouchables get hired to play a party at my school in New Orleans in the mid-80's and they were a blast. We had Fishbone at the same party a year prior and I thought The Untouchables would bring that same magic and they did.

The Untouchables played an unbelievably great show at my college gym in 1986. The Red Hot Chili Peppers opened - only Anthony was nowhere to be found, so the band pulled audience members up on stage to sing. It was kinda working too... Hillel was an erratic genius and just as they were getting better at handling whatever college kid was shouting about on stage they started getting heckled by a guy in the back. It was Anthony heckling his own band and after whatever they were playing ended, the drummer (Jack Irons?) ran off the front of the stage and made a beeline for Anthony, fists out in front. They went down and that was it. The Untouchables played and fucking killed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57OZDh6VrJY

Bad year for Jerry Millers.

Ken Tobias, New Brunswick soft-rock singer-songwriter, 79. I only found out about this because "Every Bit of Love" came to mind unbidden tonight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tFhe3atUeg