let's all have some drinks around the dead pool
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 17:54 (thirteen years ago)
whoops, can this be moved to ILE?
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 18:12 (thirteen years ago)
The rolling RIP/obituary thread
There's already this thread
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 19:25 (thirteen years ago)
the past two years have each gotten their own thread, figured i'd start one for 2k12 as well
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 19:30 (thirteen years ago)
Can I have an RIP please, Bob?
― James Mitchell, Friday, 6 January 2012 13:51 (thirteen years ago)
eve arnold, first female member of magnum photos who took those famous photos of monroe on the set of 'the misfits', among many other accomplishments:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/eve-arnold-pioneering-photographer-dies-at-99/2012/01/05/gIQAk2kXdP_story.html
(she also made one film, 'behind the veil', a documentary about harems in the UAE. 'sgood)
― donna rouge, Saturday, 7 January 2012 00:50 (thirteen years ago)
Tom Ardolino, NRBQ drummer
http://www.nrbq.com/
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 7 January 2012 17:53 (thirteen years ago)
Tony Blankley. He used to bug me in the '90s when he worked for Gingrich, but I didn't mind him when he reappeared the last couple of years. Amazing thing from the obituary that I never knew: he played Bogart's son in The Harder They Fall.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/08/tony-blankley-conservative-author-dies-at-63/
― clemenza, Monday, 9 January 2012 00:47 (thirteen years ago)
aw, he was the token right-wing dude on kcrw's left right & center, a pretty mediocre show but he did ok considering the terrible gop positions he had to routinely defend
― buzza, Monday, 9 January 2012 02:46 (thirteen years ago)
Frederica Sagor Maas, silent-era screenwriter -- at age 111.
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/frederica-sagor-maas-1900-2012
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 January 2012 03:58 (thirteen years ago)
!
― Cheap desert locations (Eazy), Monday, 9 January 2012 04:03 (thirteen years ago)
She was something like the fifth or sixth oldest person alive, IIRC.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 9 January 2012 04:09 (thirteen years ago)
Architect Ricardo Legorreta
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-ricardo-legorreta-20120108,0,3944916.story
― nickn, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 07:48 (thirteen years ago)
aww, i did a project on his pershing square redesign in grad school.
― reconstituted pork offal slurry (get bent), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 08:10 (thirteen years ago)
dara greenwald, artist/activist/journalist, at 40 :/
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:58 (thirteen years ago)
well, a couple of months ago it was kuchar and belson, and now a friend of mine just reported on facebook that robert nelson passed away. dag.
you can see some of his films here:
http://www.ubu.com/film/nelson.html
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 02:58 (thirteen years ago)
'bleu shut' is great but this isn't the best quality^
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 03:01 (thirteen years ago)
Jesus.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/greek-filmmaker-theo-angelopoulos-killed-in-road-accident/2012/01/24/gIQA4ZBMOQ_story.html
Terrible loss.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:04 (thirteen years ago)
still haven't seen any of his films :(
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:05 (thirteen years ago)
stage acting giant Nicol Williamson, whose best known films are probably Excalibur and Tony Richardson's Hamlet
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/nicol-williamson-1938-2012
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 January 2012 02:06 (thirteen years ago)
RIP. John Osborne called him the greatest actor since Marlon Brando. More impressive than John Osborne though, I have a friend who saw everybody in the 60s and 70s, and generally hasn't got a good word to say about anybody, who says Nicol Williamson's Hamlet at the Roundhouse in 1969 was and is the greatest Hamlet of all time.
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 January 2012 09:52 (thirteen years ago)
... born in Hamilton!
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 January 2012 09:53 (thirteen years ago)
robert hegyes (juan epstein from welcome back kotter)
― wad of baloney (Eisbaer), Thursday, 26 January 2012 22:07 (thirteen years ago)
God, ya took the wrong sweathog
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 January 2012 22:30 (thirteen years ago)
Ian Abercrombie, aka Mr. Pitt from Seinfeld, at 77:
http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/01/28/seinfeld-actor-ian-abercrombie-dead-at-77/
― Who wants to see the great Pavarotti sit on a pie? (jer.fairall), Sunday, 29 January 2012 01:12 (thirteen years ago)
Kevin White, 4-term mayor of Boston
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/us/kevin-h-white-82-boston-mayor-during-busing-crisis-dies.html
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 January 2012 12:54 (thirteen years ago)
(what're the odds he'd serve 16 years w/ that name eh)
if u didnt see it in ILM, Don Cornelius of "Soul Train"
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/02/soul-train-creator-don-cornelius-dead-in-apparent-suicide.html
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 15:14 (thirteen years ago)
shit, mike kelley. this is...really unexpected.
http://www.galleristny.com/2012/02/mike-kelley-has-died/
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 18:51 (thirteen years ago)
A bad troika today -- add Dorothea Tanning.
http://www.galleristny.com/2012/02/dorothea-tanning-surrealist-painter-and-poet-dies-at-101/
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 19:38 (thirteen years ago)
...and Kelley is now being reported as a suicide. Damn.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:20 (thirteen years ago)
i know it doesn't mean a lot in terms of larger-known artists and writers and personalities, but Stacy Doris, an amazing poet/writer and incredibly kind, wonderful woman, passed yesterday from cancer complications.
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/702
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Doris.php
― Sophomore subs are the new Smith lesbians. (the table is the table), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:30 (thirteen years ago)
i remember Stacy Doris!
And damn, Mike Kelley, one of my favorites.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:44 (thirteen years ago)
Poland Nobel poetry laureate Wislawa Szymborska dies
― Flag post? I hardly knew her! (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 23:26 (thirteen years ago)
Muhammad Ali trainer Angelo Dundee dies
... one of those guys you thought had died years ago
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 February 2012 10:49 (thirteen years ago)
Oh, I had no idea that Dorothea Tanning was still alive. That's her and Leonora Carrington passing away in the last few months, must be the last of that whole wave of Surrealists?
― Phibes Kartel (NickB), Thursday, 2 February 2012 10:59 (thirteen years ago)
*sadmeltingfacewithboobsforeyesorsomething*
― Yeah Yeah Bohney (Craigo Boingo), Thursday, 2 February 2012 11:48 (thirteen years ago)
ben gazzara
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/movies/ben-gazzara-actor-of-stage-and-screen-dies-at-81.html
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Saturday, 4 February 2012 00:11 (thirteen years ago)
aw, rip
― buzza, Saturday, 4 February 2012 00:15 (thirteen years ago)
so so great
rip
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Saturday, 4 February 2012 00:16 (thirteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLdyuwqik4Q
;_;
― wad of baloney (Eisbaer), Saturday, 4 February 2012 01:13 (thirteen years ago)
goddamn you.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 February 2012 01:26 (thirteen years ago)
i speak for the common man here, morbz
― wad of baloney (Eisbaer), Saturday, 4 February 2012 01:30 (thirteen years ago)
ha
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Saturday, 4 February 2012 01:32 (thirteen years ago)
The very last quote in that Times obit is amazing.
― I Can Only Give You Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 February 2012 02:07 (thirteen years ago)
gonna have to put They All Laughed in the library queue.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 February 2012 02:18 (thirteen years ago)
It was on HBO once many moons ago when I was home from college on break and in my vegetational state I watched it many times. I don't think overall it was very good but yeah, he and some of the rest of the cast did a good job.
― I Can Only Give You Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 February 2012 02:22 (thirteen years ago)
And also, Wild Orchid director Zalman King:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/zalman-king-dies-69-red-shoe-diaries-nine-half-weeks-287000
Which makes me feel horribly shitty for blurbing this only days ago:
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=4893&cpage=1#comment-129068
― Who wants to see the great Pavarotti sit on a pie? (jer.fairall), Saturday, 4 February 2012 03:04 (thirteen years ago)
John Christopher.
― Fizzles, Monday, 6 February 2012 17:38 (thirteen years ago)
That last one makes me sad. The Tripods and Sword of the Spirits trilogies were hugely important to my younger self.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 6 February 2012 17:42 (thirteen years ago)
RIP Weston. I've "enjoyed" his work over the years.
― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago)
Co-sign (his early, not totally irresponsible work, I mean).
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago)
Honestly didn't know he had gone the irresponsible route, but I guess it explains a lot.
― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago)
Prince Fatty, UK producer RIP:http://www.facebook.com/gentlemansdubclub/posts/436438596409492
― Neil S, Thursday, 20 December 2012 13:42 (twelve years ago)
http://www.facebook.com/princefatty
hoax.
― mark e, Thursday, 20 December 2012 14:04 (twelve years ago)
ha I'm gullible! sorry.
― Neil S, Thursday, 20 December 2012 14:07 (twelve years ago)
Mike Scaccia, guitarist for Rigor Mortis, died onstage in Fort Worth last night:
http://centraltrack.com/Music/3040/Rest-in-Peace/Rigor-Mortis-and-Ministry-Guitarist-Mike-Scaccia-Died-After-Falling-Onstage-on-Saturday-He-Was-47
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 23 December 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago)
:/
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 December 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago)
Rest In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Lee Dorman.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/arts/music/lee-dorman-bass-guitarist-for-iron-butterfly-dies-at-70.html?_r=0
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 23 December 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago)
http://www.noise11.com/news/legendary-funk-diva-marva-whitney-passes-away-20121224
Marva Whitney, one of the greats of funk and soul and the woman whom James Brown called “Soul Sister #1″, passed away last night (December 23, 2012). She was 68.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 December 2012 08:03 (twelve years ago)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/arts/music/jimmy-mccracklin-rb-singer-and-songwriter-dies-at-91.html?ref=music&gwh=91AD3338CFE178EEE2E227B4A6357A56
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 December 2012 08:30 (twelve years ago)
aw shit marva no
― You're gonna need a fruit kebab. Trust. (stevie), Monday, 24 December 2012 10:39 (twelve years ago)
Jack Klugman:(
― Zweitgeist (doo dah), Monday, 24 December 2012 23:16 (twelve years ago)
Quincy.M.E :(
A little more of my youth has just faded.
― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 00:36 (twelve years ago)
last of the Angry Men
now he can play more Challenge Yahtzee with Tony Randall
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 00:39 (twelve years ago)
Forgot about challenge Yahtzee. RIP, Jack. I don't like pits pits pits in my juice juice juice either.
― Rumba de Schmillsson (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 02:56 (twelve years ago)
Charles Durning
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-mew-charles-durning-dies-20121225,0,7403321.story
(Santa Claus in 4 different movies)
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 12:47 (twelve years ago)
:-(
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 14:36 (twelve years ago)
Was particularly good in Tootsie. RIP
― Rastaquouere Vibration (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 15:04 (twelve years ago)
RIP Pappy ODaniel and Waring Hudsucker
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago)
and Sgt. Moretti :(
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago)
Weird that for all the Tootsies and Dog Day Afternoons he was in, my immediately association with him is always as Holly Hunter's father in Home From The Holidays (which is underrated, and which it's been far too long since I've watched).
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago)
i always think of him in O Brother Where Art Thou
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago)
search: Twilight's Last Gleaming, True Confessions
Saw him as the ex-prez in The Best Man on Broadway in 2000. He was very heavy but the line readings were gossamer.
NYT:
Mr. Durning was also remembered for his combat service, which he avoided discussing publicly until later in life. He spoke at memorial ceremonies in Washington, and in 2008 France awarded him the National Order of the Legion of Honor.
In the Parade interview, he recalled the hand-to-hand combat. “I was crossing a field somewhere in Belgium,” he said. “A German soldier ran toward me carrying a bayonet. He couldn’t have been more than 14 or 15. I didn’t see a soldier. I saw a boy. Even though he was coming at me, I couldn’t shoot.”
They grappled, he recounted later — he was stabbed seven or eight times — until finally he grasped a rock and made it a weapon. After killing the youth, he said, he held him in his arms and wept.
Mr. Durning said the memories never left him, even when performing, even when he became, however briefly, someone else.
“There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don’t want anyone to know about,” he told Parade. “There’s terror and repulsion in us, the terrible spot that we don’t talk about. That place that no one knows about — horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.”
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago)
For whatever reason, him yelling "I don't give a fuck!" in Sharkey's Machine has always been one of my favorite lines in a film. RIP.
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago)
Two consecutive best supporting actress noms in the early eighties (never saw Best Little Whorehouse in Texas).
He plays this beautifully:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvMKDVUoTqc
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfNMsVdRmeU
(not the scene i was hoping to find, but a good, and appropriate, one)
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago)
"Languishing!! Goddamn campaign is languishing!!"
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 22:36 (twelve years ago)
"Eckard! You may as well start draftin' my concession speech right now.""OK Pappy.""I'm just makin' a point, ya stupid sonovabitch! Gimme back my hat!""Pappy just makin' a point.""Shut up!!"
(it's a lot funnier when you see it)
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago)
love this guy, RIP
― banlieue jagger (darraghmac), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 14:18 (twelve years ago)
My favourite moment of his is right at the end of Alfred's first clip above: where he fake-punches Hoffman out of exasperation/affection after Hoffman confesses. It's like Keaton fake-strangling his girl in The General.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago)
Let's all dance a little sidestep in his honor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJG75FJkjr8
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago)
http://www.youtube.com/v/RiKy3ktxw6M
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago)
Someday I will figure out how to embed videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiKy3ktxw6M
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago)
sigh
Fontella Bass
― WilliamC, Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:09 (twelve years ago)
Oh no you didn't, WmC .
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago)
I didn't do it! It was a heart attack!
― WilliamC, Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:29 (twelve years ago)
I think it was the image posted here that did it: "Rescue Me" (Denis Leary firefighter show on FX) - anyone?
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:35 (twelve years ago)
seeing on twitter that norman schwarzkopf is dead
― curly moe shempsen (donna rouge), Friday, 28 December 2012 00:23 (twelve years ago)
RIP Fontella Bass, Stormin Norman, not quite so much, but still.
― Alba, Friday, 28 December 2012 00:36 (twelve years ago)
Jean Harris, Scarsdale diet doc killer.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 28 December 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago)
tony greig
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 29 December 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago)
Former Indy 500 driver, wannabe actor, and hard-luck case Salt Walther. Perhaps most remembered for this crash in 1973
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-IsOuo5be8
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 29 December 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago)
http://www.tmz.com/2007/12/04/rapper-pimp-c-found-dead-in-hollywood-hotel-room/
― I had such a fontasy (stevie), Sunday, 30 December 2012 00:42 (twelve years ago)
aw shit of course that happened five years ago.
Not going to be missed: Sir Irvine Patnick.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Monday, 31 December 2012 11:55 (twelve years ago)
Ray Collins, singer with the Mothers
― nickn, Thursday, 3 January 2013 06:22 (twelve years ago)
need new thread
― Jeff, Thursday, 3 January 2013 12:36 (twelve years ago)
Rolling Obituary Thread 2013.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Thursday, 3 January 2013 12:56 (twelve years ago)