Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

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

Hearing reports that Iasos has passed into the crystal realm. RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKRgNcqnoV8

I remember reading an Acocella review of Cirque du Soleil in the 90s in the Wall Street Journal (where she wrote before the New Yorker)...

Ahh here it is.

The "new circus" people are on the wrong track, I think. In their view, it seems, the acts are corny; what is important is the meanings that can be attached to them. But in fact it is those meanings that are corny. What is serious is the acts.

Del Palmer RIP

https://www.loudersound.com/news/del-palmer-dead-at-71?fbclid=IwAR2bmBVz2NTu9ifU2NUxvadA8-kqS6wdDgS5ZoBUFzehDN1LPzF0fvysocs

Franz Beckenbauer

According to David Grubbs, composer Phill Niblock has passed.

yeah all over facebook from people who know.

rip franz

2/3 men to ever win a world cup as both player and coach died on the same weekend

https://www.formidablemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/006_francoise_hardy_formidablemag-4.jpg

Jazz producer Jean-Philippe Allard.

Jerry West “The Logo”

Howard Fineman

(xpost) Old enough to have watched him when I was too young to appreciate him (probably saw him a couple of times on TV in the early '70s).

Tony LoBianco

http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/beefcake/tonylobianco/tonylobianco3.jpg

http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/beefcake/tonylobianco/tonylobianco3.jpg

sigh

terrific in the bonkers-mad God Told Me To

oh man - so great in Honeymoon Killers! RIP

Mark James, 83---wrote or co-wrote "Always On My Mind," Suspicious Minds," "Hooked On A Feeling." Songs with legs, as this reminds:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/mark-james-dead-elvis-suspicious-minds-hooked-on-a-feeling-1235921647/

RIP, great songwriter!

'Always On My Mind' is an absolute gem of regret

Sidney Felsen, beloved co-founder of Gemini G.E.L., dies at 99

The Melrose Avenue artists’ workshop and lithography publisher, which opened its doors in 1966, took off fast, attracting the likes of Josef Albers, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns, David Hockney, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Serra, Roy Lichtenstein and others, who produced pieces of modern printmaking history there over the years.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-06-10/sidney-felsen-dead-gemini-gel

Kevin Campbell, 54.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/jun/15/kevin-campbell-former-arsenal-and-everton-striker-dies-aged-54

Also Matija Sarkic, Millwall and Montenegro goalkeeper, 26

https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/jun/15/matija-sarkic-millwall-and-montenegro-goalkeeper-dies-aged-26

fuck sake

Angela Bofill, 70.

The BBC's headline was something like "ex-Arsenal striker Campbell dies", so my initial thought was that Sol Campbell had died. Which made me feel old. Sol Campbell made his international debut in Euro '96, which was only yesterday. It's hard to think that "Three Lions" etc is twenty years old. Why is everything so dark nowadays. Why do I have to use a torch to read things.

And when I realised it was Kevin Campbell, a completely different footballer. I'm also now terrified that I'm a subconscious racist because I mixed the two players up. It was accidental, but racism is racism. Do I say racist things when I'm asleep? You tell me, Ilxor. Are my paragraph breaks racist?

The headline got me wondering about relative levels of fame. Presumably if Sol Campbell had died the headline would be "Sol Campbell dies" because everybody knows Sol Campbell. He's Sol Campbell. The most famous man to be named after the sun. I wonder if the BBC deliberately wrote the headline in an ambiguous way in order to maximise engagement. In which case it worked.

It's hard to think that "Three Lions" etc is twenty years old.

twenty-eight years old to be precise.

Angela Bofill, 70.

― mike t-diva, Saturday, June 15, 2024 7:27 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

:(

I wonder if the BBC deliberately wrote the headline in an ambiguous way in order to maximise engagement.

Sol Campbell was very much not a striker.

Yoshiko Kuga, 93, actress in many classic Japanese films.

Aww man. What a week - Françoise Hardy and Angela Bofill. Two favorite voices.

RIP Ms. Kuga. What a remarkable career.

Sol Campbell was very much not a striker

Also he didn't make his international debut at Euro 96. Quite a litany of errors in that original post!

But, never mind that, RIP Kevin Campbell.

Angela Bofill was incredible, massive versatile voice and completely nailed the transition to the synthetic 80s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtPec862uyY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ_E3hP6v0k

Jeremy Tepper. https://variety.com/2024/music/news/jeremy-tepper-outlaw-country-dead-1236039151/

https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/sirius-xm-outlaw-channel-chief-jeremy-tepper-passes/

#BREAKING Paul Pressler, the monumental Southern Baptist leader and Republican activist at the center of a massive sex abuse scandal, died on June 7. He was 94. https://t.co/Km6uMmocv0

— robert downen (@RobertDownen_) June 15, 2024

Monumental? How fat was he? I mean, he looks John Goodman-sized in that photo, but that's hardly cause for "monumental."

did you honestly think this was funny?

you are the ilx bill maher

Graham ‘Dids’ Dowdall, longtime music guy in a ton of interesting projects from the UK, both on his own and with others, including Ludus and Gagarin.

Not familiar w the later, but I’m constantly going on about how wildly underrated Ludus is.

dario g

Terrible! Sunchyme >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Life in a Northern Town

the Sunchyme video is very much "Something you couldn't make anymore."

Don't think it would even occur to anyone to make something like that now

Loved how it was used in Derry Girls.