Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

Sorry wrong thread

is it

looks like Chomsky is alive!

His wife says he's alive

And she should know.

so happy to hear.

New Statesman published an obit:

https://archive.ph/P35WA

must be quite a thing to be able to read your own obituaries

James Chance, after a long period of illness.

aaaw

https://www.gofundme.com/f/for-james-chance-and-judy-taylor?viewupdates=1&rcid=r01-171875274229-2af0ec102dc911ef&utm_medium=email&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_email%2B1137-update-supporters-v5b

I read a few days ago that Chomsky had a massive stroke and is now non-verbal...

WILLIE MAYS

deserves the all caps. so long say hey kid

Damn, Willie definitely in that category of "didn't know he was still alive" for me. R.I.P. to an utter legend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bLt2xKaNH0

What a loss :(

He was still alive??? Wow

:( I was looking forward to seeing him in the stands at Rickwood Field this week for the Field of Dreams game.

Died at 93 just before he was due to be honored there at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, and just before the release of Nelson George's film doc on him.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c06618ln7xlo

Arthur "Gaps" Hendrickson, a vocalist alongside Pauline Black in 2-Tone band The Selecter, has died at age 73 from cancer.

Donald Sutherland

With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more… pic.twitter.com/3EdJB03KKT

— Kiefer Sutherland (@RealKiefer) June 20, 2024

Oh no!

aw :(

Boooooooooo

And without a single Oscar nomination

Ridiculous. At least he got an Emmy (and Citizen X is pretty good).

Never a dull performance. RIP

I think his pre-fame movies of Castle of the Living Dead, Dr Terror's House of Horrors and Die! Die! My Darling! is as good a three-film run as he made.

Aww, bugger. Superb actor.

RIP

Also love the story that he couldn't afford to go to the audition for The Dirty Dozen and Christopher Lee gave him the money because it seemed like a really good opportunity.

the wrong Donald died

xpost Read that it was Plummer, not Lee. Some Christopher somewhere at least.

We could mention the obvious headlines, but the first role that came to mind was his bit -- a cameo really -- in the dire Backdraft playing an arsonist. In the year of Hannibal Lector he's low-key scary.

I watched Six Degrees of Separation again last summer; he's divine as the racist self-absorbed art dealer opposite Stockard Channing.

cannot name a role i didnt just love watching him in. and endlessly fascinating presence on amy screen at any time.

One of the best Simpsons guest voices too

xpost Read that it was Plummer, not Lee. Some Christopher somewhere at least.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 June 2024 17:44

I found it out on the Castle of the Living Dead bluray, which is why I think it was Lee.

Six Degrees of Separation is superb, no idea why nobody seems to talk about it. DS one of the best things in it of course.

Time to watch the "Cloudbusting" video.

I think this might've been the first thing I saw him in - nothing like it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IatwoA00E0

Sutherland at the end of Body Snatchers probably scared me more than any other movie when I was young

Bottoms-less in Animal House!

THE CLUMSY WAITER!

Sutherland at the end of Body Snatchers probably scared me more than any other movie when I was young

That movie is still terrifying, and yeah, he's incredible in it.

Underrated Part of Body Snatchers: When Brooke Adams literally melts in his arms.

The original Homer Simpson, in Day of the Locust

And his cry of despair xpost

I bumped the JFK thread the moment I heard. I can't think of another actor clocking in for exactly one scene and more wholly knocking it out of the park than he does in that movie. Just a master class

Mr Veg and I were talking about how great he was in M*A*SH* as Hawkeye. His choices are so eccentric but so excellent at telling you who this guy is, he just feels so perfectly of that time period — and look I love the tv show & Alda forever but the movie version of Hawkeye, the Sutherland version is so much more naturalistic & human, he is a goddamn delight.

And adjacently, Oddball in “Kelly’s Heroes”. Comic relief sure but again with such specific choices & so lived-in that it feels current for the time period

like with both roles it’s like he’s bringing the counterculture *to* these movies rather than observing it as an outsider or aping something he’s not part of. He gets the good knowing laughs because they feel more like real burn-outs idk

What a goddamn legend he was.

Ángeles Flórez Peón, 105. Last remaining militiawoman of the Spanish Civil War
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/world/europe/angeles-florez-peon-dead.html