Rolling Obituary Thread 2014

Mian Mohammed Tayyab, founder of tge awesome Tayyab's restaurant in London (noted at the end of this review). http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/dec/07/maliks-tandoori-restaurant-review

:(((((

Illinois Comptroller Judy Bar Topinka

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-illinois-comptroller-judy-baar-topinka-dies-at-age-70-20141210-story.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/nyregion/juan-flores-a-scholar-of-puerto-rican-culture-in-new-york-dies-at-71.html?_r=0

Professor Flores was writing a biography of Eddie Palmieri, the Puerto Rican pianist and bandleader

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin-notas/6397824/juan-flores-scholar-nuyorican-music-dies

From the Ardent Studios FB page:

It is with deep sadness and regret that we announce the loss of our beloved John Hampton. Ardent's very own mad scientist, Hampton joined the Ardent family in 1977 and quickly made a home for himself here. We all will forever be touched by his talent and the music he helped create. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends.

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-hampton-mn0000183072/credits

Sy Berger, of Topps Trading Cards

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/15/sports/baseball/sy-berger-91-dies-created-the-modern-baseball-trading-card.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0&referrer=

Former Miss America, Elvis co-star and Match Game panelist Mary Ann Mobley
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/former-miss-america-actress-mary-ann-mobley-dies-at-75-1201375470/

Chespirito:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/29/chespirito-comedian-dies-simpsons-mexico-bumblebee-man

'60s cinema sort-of-icon Virna Lisi

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-virna-lisi-1936-2014

Can we be shown weirdos + Darlene Love?

Oops. wrong thread.

Indeed, RIP Virna!!!

Ardent Studios founder/Big Star producer John Fry. A sweetheart. He will be missed.

Mandy Rice-Davies (70) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30547066

Jane Bown

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/dec/21/observer-photographer-jane-bown-dies-age-89

Oh, she was so great ;(

I didn't mean that sadface to be winky obv.

https://medium.com/cuepoint/the-triumphs-and-tragedies-of-larry-smith-ca3f259eec70

Producer of early Run DMC and Whodinirecords

Billie Whitelaw

an English actress. She worked in close collaboration with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett for 25 years and was regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of his works

saw her do Rockaby in '84 in NY

Austrian singer-songwriter-legend Udo Jürgens.

RIP Billie Whitelaw. The fact that she was married to Peter Vaughan, and that Vaughan's best friend Donald Pleasance lived with them for a time, always makes me think - house sinister!

Peter Vaughan? Played Grouty in Porridge? Best friends with Donald Pleasance?

Hmmmm...

:-( first saw whitelaw in leo the last long before i knew of the beckett connection. also had no idea she was in her eighties (or married to peter vaughan!)

Joe Cocker

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30582761

RIP Billie Whitelaw. The fact that she was married to Peter Vaughan, and that Vaughan's best friend Donald Pleasance lived with them for a time, always makes me think - house sinister!

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler)

Weird! reviewing The Babadook last week, I noted how much Essie Davis reminded me of her.

Right hold on here. Billie Whitelaw AND Joe Cocker?!?!?!

Who will be the third?

Someone else from Yorkshire no doubt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

Come to think of it, with Bobby Keys recent passing, anybody remaining from that tour ought to watch their back.

A bit more obscure

http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/81889

Soul singer Wendy Rene has died at the age of 67.

The singer suffered a stroke last week (December 16) and passed away in her home town of Memphis, reports Billboard.

Born Mary Frierson, the artist was given her stage name by fellow singer Otis Redding. She signed to Stax in Memphis in 1963 alongside her group The Drapels and also embarked on a solo career, with songs such as 'After Laughter, Comes Tears', which was later covered by Lykke Li.

She had planned to retire from the music industry in 1967 to focus on family life, but was set to play one last show, with Redding and his band the Bar-Kays. However, she changed her mind at the last minute and Redding and his band perished in a plane crash on the way to the gig.

'After Laughter, Comes Tears' later went on to be sampled by the Wu Tang-Clan on their track 'Tearz' on their 1993 album 'Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)'. In recent years Rene experienced something of a resurgence, playing live in New Orleans in 2010, while her music was re-released on the Light In The Attic label, which also put out music by Rodriguez, with the 2012 compilation 'After Laughter Comes Tears: Complete Stax & Volt Singles, Rarities, 1964-1965'.

aw shit. that compilation is really good, too.

I keep two of her songs on my hard drive: "Gone for Good" and "Crying All By Myself."

Jeremy Lloyd ('Allo 'Allo and Are Your Being Served co-creator)

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30591740

Joseph Sargent, director of lotsa TV and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-joseph-sargent-20141224-story.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/us/in-marion-little-joe-washingtons-death-houston-loses-a-link-to-the-blues.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

Meant to post this a few days ago: Edward Greenspan, sort of the Canadian F. Lee Bailey. His clients included Conrad Black, Garth Drabinsky, and an author who wrote a book on Paul Bernardo.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/12/28/edward_greenspan_fought_well_against_unjust_laws.html

To round off the year (and finish this massive, pointless project I set myself for some long-forgotten reason), 2220 people who died in 2014:

http://haonowshaokao.com/2014/12/30/obituary-for-2014/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30631088

Luise Rainer, 104.

That's amazing that she was still alive--had no idea. I've never seen The Great Ziegfeld or The Good Earth. I bought a little pocketbook on the Academy Awards as a teenager, so her back-to-back awards were imprinted on my mind at an early age.

wow.

Of course, no one watches those two movies anymore, including me. I don't think I ever saw Ziegfeld.

she did a Frank Borzage film with Tracy, THAT I'd see.

http://www.eonline.com/news/610111/christine-cavanaugh-voice-of-chuckie-on-rugrats-dies-at-age-51

She retired several years ago, and apparently died of a sleep apnea related cause.

Aww. Loved her voice on a ton of cartoons in the 90s.

saw The Good Earth my freshman year of high school -- it made no impression other than how pious it was.

For some reason I remembered her turn as the son on The Critic as much as the others (Gosalyn from Darkwing Duck, Dexter from Dexter's Laboatory). Too bad that article doesn't explain how she died at only 51!

huh, i just saw her on "I Know That Voice" on Netflix Instant. RIP