Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

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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 (eleven years ago) link

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 (eleven years ago) link

"Languishing!! Goddamn campaign is languishing!!"

Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link

"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 (eleven years ago) link

love this guy, RIP

banlieue jagger (darraghmac), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 14:18 (eleven years ago) link

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 (eleven years ago) link

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 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/v/RiKy3ktxw6M

pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:00 (eleven years ago) link

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 (eleven years ago) link

sigh

pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link

Fontella Bass

WilliamC, Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link

Oh no you didn't, WmC .

Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:22 (eleven years ago) link

I didn't do it! It was a heart attack!

WilliamC, Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:29 (eleven years ago) link

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 (eleven years ago) link

seeing on twitter that norman schwarzkopf is dead

curly moe shempsen (donna rouge), Friday, 28 December 2012 00:23 (eleven years ago) link

RIP Fontella Bass, Stormin Norman, not quite so much, but still.

Alba, Friday, 28 December 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link

Jean Harris, Scarsdale diet doc killer.

something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 28 December 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link

tony greig

炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 29 December 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link

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 (eleven years ago) link

aw shit of course that happened five years ago.

I had such a fontasy (stevie), Sunday, 30 December 2012 00:42 (eleven years ago) link

Not going to be missed: Sir Irvine Patnick.

fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Monday, 31 December 2012 11:55 (eleven years ago) link

Ray Collins, singer with the Mothers

nickn, Thursday, 3 January 2013 06:22 (eleven years ago) link

need new thread

Jeff, Thursday, 3 January 2013 12:36 (eleven years ago) link

Rolling Obituary Thread 2013.

fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Thursday, 3 January 2013 12:56 (eleven years ago) link


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