Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

Ah man

Yosser RIP

... fuck yer Titanics and hobbits.

hes exquisite in lotr, almost certainly the best performance in it

Yeah, was just thinking that. It's a performance that is both consistent and has range, and absolutely plays off with everyone around him just so, especially Miranda Otto's Eowyn. Each of their scenes together are fantastic.

(And Tom D., we never got Blackstuff over here at the time! Wish we had!)

Damn RIP

His character arc is one of the more impressive and complex ones, if not the most. He's performed as flawed, prone to moments of selfishness and anger, occasional poor judgement, absolutely human, and the most astonishingly and thrillingly heroic at the perfect time. I think him and Otto were in the running for the MVPs of that series in terms of how they grounded it.

yep his stuff in LOTR is top grade acting - what comes to mind would be someone like christopher lee; full commitment and seriousness regardless of the possible sillyness of the content

Yeah, it's very Tolkien to not let the interiority of his characters out much aside from the hobbits themselves, and so the translation to a different medium by default allows for more. That plus the screenwriting team decided -- I think rightly -- to foreground his son's death more, adding weight to his reactions and decisions. (That plus, per Hill's own mention of it in the DVD commentary, he was the one who came up with the "No parent should have to bury their child" moment, drawing on an instance some years prior where, IIRC, he'd been talking with a mother who'd lost a child in a bombing in the UK or Ireland and she said that to him. It's not Tolkien's Theoden but it absolutely works in the film.)

I was thinking he'd already passed but was mixing him up with fellow Blackstuff actor Michael Angelis.

rip bernard hill, he nearly steals the third movie from under everyone’s noses

i didn't know who he was and i clicked on the link and went ah yeah! he was awesome! but i was totally thinking of the other dragon show. the jean reno type guy. so now i still don't remember this guy but RIP! great job. you obviously made quite an impression on real fans of the thing.
for the record the other guy was my favorite character on the other dragon show. and i still like jean reno.

Hill is really good in Greenaway's Drowning By Numbers.

Late to thread.
So great in lotr
Every single fucking time, when he leads his people into battle screaming “deeaaaathhhhh!” my eyes fill with tears
Idk why, some weird buried dna memory of my Viking ancestors (me: 5’4” never been in a fight, chronically sickly)

Forgot he was in drowning by numbers, absolutely one of my all time favorite films

Jazz Musician, Bill Holman, 96

STEVE ALBINI

https://pitchfork.com/news/steve-albini-storied-producer-and-icon-of-the-rock-underground-dies-at-61/

holy shit

i dislike this very much

yeah we need his curmudgeoning now more than ever

Rip to one of the best x

and despite his storied credentials, he'd happily record your buddy's band as well.. not one to rest on his laurels

what the actual

fuck

?!

what the hell??

too young! And he's on the cover of this month's Wire!

Well, this sucks.

What the hell

Good piece from last year

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/15/the-evolution-of-steve-albini-if-the-dumbest-person-is-on-your-side-youre-on-the-wrong-side

Heart attack apparently

Just the worst news

Only just seen this, jesus christ thats horrible news

damn

apparently died at his studio? I mean... if you have to go, there could be worse ways

It seems such a blue collar way to die, heart attack at your work place. None of your ODing after a coke binge.

Dennis Thompson, Drummer & Final Member of The MC5

https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2024/05/09/dennis-thompson-mc5-drummer-obituary/73629138007/

Pete McCloskey, former Congressman and Presidential candidate.

In a 1981 interview, he stated that he thought he "was the first Republican elected opposing the war" despite the fact that his "constituency, two to one, favored the war in 1967."

McCloskey was the first member of Congress to publicly call for the impeachment of President Nixon after the Watergate scandal and the Saturday Night Massacre. He was also the first lawmaker to call for a repeal of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that had allowed for the War in Vietnam. He chose, in early 1975, to see for himself the effects of US bombing in Cambodia, stating afterwards that his country had committed "greater evil than we have done to any country in the world, and wholly without reason, except for our benefit to fight against the Vietnamese."

Italian singer/Songwriter Giovanna Marini

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/w/c61006352566429c4afc3f303db776cc/4386243/giovanna-marini-la-vivazione-la-partita-truccata-Cover-Art.jpg

xxpost Dennis Machinegun Thompson, also of one-off supergroup New Race

Crazy that anyone in MC5's orbit made it 75.. It's too bad Thompson won't be there for the Hall of Fame induction, I think he actually cared about it

RIP dennis, RIP MC5 ;_;

Shirley Conran, writer and mother of designer Jasper, 91.

Oh fuck, RIP Dennis ;_;

Infamous global money launderer ​​Ramón Fonseca Mora of the Mossack-Fonseca law firm made famous in the Panama Papers investigation, 71
https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/panama-papers-law-firm-co-founder-ramon-fonseca-mora-dies-in-hospital/

Gosh, I'm reading Shirley Conran's novel Lace right now and have been for a couple of months. It's quite saucy... and long (over 700 pp). It's what's known as a "bonkbuster," a term I learned recently. There was a TV miniseries made of Lace in the 1980s.

Ha, we had a copy of Lace around the house — maybe my sister had it, I think she and her friends all read it — and as a teenager I remember skimming it for the sex scenes. There were a bunch!

"Which one of you bitches is my mother?" is an all-time line, too.

[iSmithsonian Folkways mourns the passing of blues musician and harmonica player Phil Wiggins (1954-2024). He died peacefully at his home on Tuesday morning, one day before his 70th birthday. Wiggins was a Folkways recording artist, teacher, NEA National Heritage Fellow, and frequent performer at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival along with his longtime musical partner John Cephas. He was known throughout the international blues community and his hometown of Washington, D.C., for his wit, humor, and powerful playing.[/i]

Producer and engineer Eric "ET" Thorngren, apparently. Was just thinking about him the other day because I watched Stop Making Sense (it's now streaming on Max); he mixed the original soundtrack album. Don't know if he worked on the remix/remaster for the new version of the movie/soundtrack.