Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

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

no more dancing abt architecture :(

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

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 24 June 2024 bookmarkflaglink

:-(

really liked this performance David Wain just posted of Mull

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

He was good on Roseanne as her boss (and later partner) Leon:

Chuck Mitchell : [Leon has just told the poker group that he's gay] W-W-Well, y-y-you know, um, I-I-I know a gay guy. I, uh, his name's Bill. H-H-He lives in Chicago. M-M-Maybe you know him?

Leon Carp : Yeah, yeah, sure I know him. From Chicago. Gay Bill.

I had somehow never made the connection between his character in Clue and Roseanne's boss.

Peter Collins, producer of four Rush albums plus Operation Mindcrime and many others.

Ismail Kadare.

Only read The Palace of Dreams and must confess I didn’t realise he was still around.

Pretty impressive list of credits for Peter Collins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Collins_(record_producer)#Production_discography

Kadare was incredible, RIP.

‘Back in the 1960s, when I was studying to become a Sufi saint in North Africa, my Sheikh told me to read the Koran.’

Robert Irwin has died age 77. He wrote seventeen pieces for the 𝘓𝘙𝘉, including this, on translating the Koran:https://t.co/XdgtrhQVit

— London Review of Books (@LRB) July 1, 2024

United States, 248 years old

Oh please. The US died when Obama wore a tan suit.

time to re-read some Robert Irwin and check out Ismail Kadare i guess :(

I'm seeing second hand on facebook that Laurie Lindeen of Zuzu's Petals (and Paul Westerberg's ex-wife) has died from a brain aneurysm.

Yeah, I saw that posted by someone who knew her. R.I.P.

Robert Towne

Poor guy probably died due to the explicit Jake Gillis homage by Kevin Bacon in MaXXXine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt1kK8gsag4

Wow. Towne was almost as central to American film in the '70s as the big-name directors; going by Sam Wasson's The Big Goodbye, Chinatown was as much or even more his as it was Polanski's.

Texas Music Writer & Historian Michael Corcoran

https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2024-07-02/michael-corcoran-has-died-and-austins-lost-a-voice-that-always-kept-things-interesting/

June Leaf, artist and wife of Robert Frank

Tom Fowler, bassist for Frank Zappa 1973-75, age 73

Oh no, he was an excellent bassist

Norwegian pro cyclist André Drege, 25, during a descent at the Tour of Austria

https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling/andre-drege-25-tragically-dies-in-crash-at-the-2024-tour-of-austria

Pino d'Angio

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