Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

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

wau

yeah that's amazing. rip, what a life.

Shifty Shellshock, the frontman of rap rock band Crazy Town who sang the hit song “Butterfly,” has died. He was 49.

wow. know he was in rough shape but damn.

Seeing on twitter/x that Rob Stone, the co-founder of music and culture magazine ‘The Fader’ and founder of Cornerstone agency, has died of cancer. He was 55.

Former Celtic player Landry N'Guemo, 38

https://www.thenational.scot/sport/24416133.former-celtic-midfielder-landry-nguemo-passed-away/

Country singer, mystery novelist and sometime political candidate Kinky Friedman - definitely one for the "thought he died years ago" file.

Finally got his Date With Elvis...

ah fuck, i was a huge fan in the 90’s

Martin Mull

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/martin-mull-dead-funnyman-fernwood-2-night-star-1235935445/

oh shit

“He was known for excelling at every creative discipline imaginable and also for doing Red Roof Inn commercials,” she wrote. “He would find that joke funny. He was never not funny. My dad will be deeply missed by his wife and daughter, by his friends and coworkers, by fellow artists and comedians and musicians, and — the sign of a truly exceptional person — by many, many dogs. I loved him tremendously.”

rip legend, so great

Damn, he was so great, RIP

I met him once in his San Francisco art gallery. He met with the art class I was in and we all talked about art for a while. He was legit.

For my high school friends and I, Fernwood 2 Night was much more of an obsession than SNL. I've always been curious how it would hold up--I expect I'd be disappointed.

(Or maybe I'd be surprised, I don't know. I tried rewatching Buffalo Bill with Dabney Coleman once and didn't get past an episode or two.)

I first thought of this episode. I remember when it aired and it was the weirdest thing I'd ever seen at that point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_4Rgz9xTac

:(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04-KLhgorb0