Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

Ivan Boesky

I don't know if the reaper is taking requests, but iranian president Ebrahim Raisi next please thank u

You wish has been granted, apparently

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I know him, so pretty infamous:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/20/investing/ivan-boesky-dies-wall-street/index.html

I Remember You - that's the one Bjork covered, right? it's lovely.

I remember this cover

https://content.time.com/time/magazine/archive/covers/1986/1101861201_400.jpg

Karl-Heinz Schnellinger has died at the age of 85.

RIP Karl-Heinz Schnellinger (1939-2024). He played in four World Cups but his only goal for his country forced the most famous period of extra-time of all time. I once read he admitted he was only at that end of the pitch because he’d started making his way towards the tunnel. pic.twitter.com/yUYXFzjVPf

— James Campbell Taylor (@jamestaylor) May 21, 2024

Hollywood Producer Fred Roos

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/fred-roos-dead-godfather-2-megalopolis-1236009965/

David Wilkie, 70: 200m breaststroke gold in Montreal '76, and double world champ:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/articles/c3ggndekv8lo

Oh wow. RIP.

i have a photo, somewhere, of 11 year old me, puny, pasty, sat next to bronzed Olympic gold-winner David Wilkie after doing a sponsored swim.

Yeah, he was the face of "ok kids, swimming is great!" back in the day. Before that, it was Rolf Harris.

Kabosu of Doge meme fame, age 18

a decent innings then

Shiba Inus are, overall, a very healthy breed with an average lifespan of 13–16 years

Morgan Spurlock, 53

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/24/super-size-me-director-morgan-spurlock-dies-aged-53

REALLY.

Younger than I thought...

this is the perfect ending for Super Size Me 2 though

Greg Philo of the Glasgow University Media Group

bob schick of richmond, va bands honor role/coral/dynamic truths etc.

:-(

One of my all-time favorite songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abzP3Y1BBSU

RIP Bob

big influence on drive like jehu iirc?

Caleb Carr, the son of the Beat poet Lucien Carr who endured a traumatizing childhood and became a bestselling novelist, accomplished military historian and late-life memoirist of his cat, Masha, has died at 68.

There's part of me that wonders "if you're going to die of cancer at 53, isn't it OK to enjoy every Big Mac along the way?"

yeah, I don't think a month of McD's is what killed him, he shoulda kept going with it

Ah man, sad news about Carr. The Alienist is a hell of a book.

Yeah RIP Carr. Alienist is an all-time great, for sure.

Had no idea about the range of his career, his wiki is a good read, "During this period, he published his first nationally noticed broadside: a long indictment, published on the letters page of The New York Times, of Henry Kissinger's foreign policy"

xpost RIP. Great book.

Doug Ingle of Iron Butterfly, 78. RIP Mr One Riff Guy, it was a good riff though.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/doug-ingle-iron-butterfly-dead/

Golfer Grayson Murray, 30.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/25/grayson-murray-golfer-death-obituary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulDC1w1ydLI

Richard M. Sherman, 95, writer (with his brother) of “It’s a Small World (After All)” many other Disney songs, also Ringo’s “You’re Sixteen”

jesus i had no idea he was still alive!

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