Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

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

Lol that's incredible

RIP Phill Niblock, the Emperor of Drone

Saw Beckenbauer play in the first soccer match I ever attended, 1977 or '78 when he was with the New York Cosmos. Great team that was.

Saw him with The Cosmos often as well. Amazing. RIP

Oh man, Phill and Franz RIP

I never got to see the Cosmos play live, but to the extent there was soccer on TV in the western U.S. (which was almost not at all), I did get to see that club, which consisted of several aging greats and Italian fugitive Giorgio Chinaglia. IIRC, they did play some friendlies with German clubs and got pasted.

But RIP Der Kaiser, the original sweeper.

rip franz. the first image of him to come to mind is always him playing in a sling during what I think was the 1970 world cup due to a broken collarbone.

JPR Williams

Larry Collins of early Rockabilly outfit The Collins Kids

https://www.vintageguitar.com/58564/renowned-guitarist-larry-collins-passes/

He co-wrote "Delta Dawn"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnAQvu7OqrY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cZ1TYUK8T8

Kind of hard to believe that no one here is a Iasos fan— him and Niblock dying around the same time seems wild to me

I can't call myself a fan but I have enjoyed what I've heard, he seems a true character. Wouldn't mind taking a deeper dive.

Damn, RIP Iasos. Was just listening to Bora Bora 2000 yesterday.

Confessing my own ignorance — I've never listened to Niblock (had him confused with Phil Minton in my head, in fact) and never even heard of Iasos.

Those Larry Collins clips are amazing, thanks for sharing

Bill Walton, at 71. Fuck cancer.

RIP

Walton's giddy pride at being a full-on Deadhead was quite endearing.

https://x.com/GratefulDead/status/1750943121888977275?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Damnit, Elon...

a true original, we’ll never see his like again

also was pretty damn amazing at basketball

Wow. I think I was watching when Notre Dame ended UCLA's winning streak. (Checked, and it was a Saturday, the one day when you'd get collage basketball in 1974.) Looking it up, Walton made 12 of 14 field goals that game.

his 1973 title game performance is probably still the most famous individual game in college basketball history: 21/22 from the field, 44 points

"The checks bounced higher than the basketballs when Donald Sterling took over. The basketball was awful, and the business side was immoral, dishonest, corrupt, and illegal. Other than that, it was all fine."

RIP, you amazingly talented and goofily endearing weirdo

he used to attend the Bridge School Benefit concerts in SF sometimes - I saw him once
& he was just the smiliest most gigantic hippie you ever saw <3

One of the most talented players of his generation, whose pro career was sadly truncated by injuries. He was always himself, though, always real. He will be missed.

oh man, Big Bill, love that guy

love that big smiling weirdo so much

throw it down, big man

Film Producer Al Ruddy

https://deadline.com/2024/05/al-ruddy-dead-godfather-million-dollar-baby-1235942541/

The Ruddy-Hal Needham commentary track for Cannonball Run is amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5NSmTD_mUw

Albert S. Ruddy produced Ralph Bakshi’s Coonskin, and for that alone I will be eternally grateful

Am glad someone cited that commentary track, it is almost as funny as the movie - two good old boys repeatedly crowing "We could make this film today, same script, and it would still be a hit" over scene after scene of Adrienne Barbeau escaping speeding tickets by unzipping her top and revealing her cleavage.

"When in doubt -- blow something up!"

Marian Robinson, mother of Michelle Obama, 86.

Scott Wampler - writer, critic & cohost of Kingcast pocast (i was a big fan, very sad loss)
https://deadline.com/2024/05/scott-wampler-dead-co-host-kingcast-podcast-stephen-king-1235946222/

he did a very funny interview in 2019 with Rian Johnson that I love where he started out with questions he didn’t get to ask Rob Zombie
https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2019/09/27/and-now-an-intimate-conversation-with-rian-johnson.html

I must admit I wasn’t aware of him until today, but reading stuff like the Rian Johnson interview makes me wish I’d known of him earlier.

Kingcast was great: highly recommend the Bryan Fuller guest episodes as they are fittingly crazy & interesting & insanely long lol

Mark Gormley!! Apparently he passed away a week ago. A songwriter in the 70's, he passed up a career in music in order to join the military, then decided to record his songs 30 years later, along with some truly incredible low-budget videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87nkJquHnAU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9J65j2GNzw

this dude became a meme for obvious reasons but I'll be damned if I didn't like his music. dude could sing too. and his power stance was legendary. rest in peace king.