Rolling Obituary Thread 2014

You know that Mahalia Jackson sang at her funeral? In the movie, that is

http://lordheath.com/web_images/oliver_hardy___they_go_boom_.jpg

Oh man, did Lou Costello die, too?

And her daughter is the mother of those American Pie guys? Daughter in the movie, that is.

bob grant, roasting for sure in hell if there is one

http://t.co/5WG7ffUr2q

^^^^^^

(you Tom Schapling fans may not know "Get off my phone" was a Grant trademark)

Tom's been pretty keen on giving credit where credit is due.

Mike Vraney, founder of the Something Weird video label:

http://dailygrindhouse.com/thewire/memory-something-weird-founder-mike-vraney-1957-2014/

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/5862239/the-everly-brothers-phil-everly-dead-at-74

Phil Everly at 74

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/oscar-winning-producer-saul-zaentz-dies-at-92-1201025366/

Saul Zaentz at 92*

*Get Fogerty on the phone for remarks, plz!

Oh man mike vraney news is a huge bummer

Elizabeth Jane Howard:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16051546

Astronomer and radical cosmologist Halton Arp

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2014/01/astronomer-halton-arp-dies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halton_Arp

Damn, Eusebio has died:

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jan/05/eusebio-portugal-football-hero-dies-71

footage of the '66 portugal - north korea match on the bbc site http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25611509

Saul Zaentz at 92*

*Get Fogerty on the phone for remarks, plz!

The obit in the LA Times today said that Fogarty posted a link to his song (now called Vanz Cant Danz) but "no comment" otherwise.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/nyregion/donald-h-forst-feisty-newspaper-editor-dies-at-81.html?ref=nyregion&_r=2&

Donald H. Forst, the feisty former top editor of New York Newsday, The Village Voice and The Boston Herald, died on Saturday in Albany. He was 81.

Was with the Voice from 96 to 2005.

rip, phil everly.

Simon Hoggart of the Observer and Guardian

oh jeez :(

rip.

didn't realise he was Richard Hoggart's son.

rip

Knew he was Richard Hoggart's son, but had to check if RH was still alive - and he is, 95 years old!

Run Run Shaw, Chinese movie/TV producer. 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Five Venoms, many more. 106 years old.

Wow, that's too bad. I didn't know he was still alive. I've enjoyed lots of Shaw Brothers.

106? damn! shaw bros. responsible for a major chunk of my childhood

http://www.nola.com/music/baton-rouge/index.ssf/2014/01/tabby_thomas_founder_of_tabbys.html

Soulful bluesman and Louisiana club owner

Also father of singer/actor Chris Thomas King

Amiri Baraka.

Trumpeter/composer Roy Campbell, Jr.

(no obit online yet; saw the news posted by his friends and collaborators in my fb feed)

wow amiri baraka.

sportswriter bill conlin -- really weird feeling that it at least fleetingly occurred to me to list him in dead pool picks (which i posted today) but didnt - seems like there should be a german word for this feeling

:(( amiri baraka

Reagan press mouthpiece Larry Speakes

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/reagan-spokesman-larry-speakes-dies-at-74/2014/01/10/2e113276-7a4f-11e3-8963-b4b654bcc9b2_story.html

some of his primo material:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/times-the-reagan-white-house-press-briefing-erupted-with

Ariel Sharon

... hot off the presses?

What a surprise

baruch dayan emet

Alexandra Bastedo:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/alexandra-bastedo-actress-best-known-for-her-role-in-the-1960s-television-scifi-series-the-champions-dies-9054808.html

Bobby Collins, who played for lots of teams I like, and Leeds.

http://www.leedsunited.com/news/article/90m4jnapb79f1ajeq55lar4a4/title/bobby-collins

Detroit-based psychedelic concert poster artist Gary Grimshaw

Roger Lloyd Pack :-(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25762006

Oh no, RIP Roger

^ v. good as David Irving in the TV version of Selling Hitler

Bobby Collins, who played for lots of teams I like, and Leeds.

Briefly misread this as Bootsy and was bummed.

Russell Johnson of "This Gilligan's Island Earth"

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/gilligans-island-star-russell-johnson-dies-kidney-failure/story?id=21561740

RIP, we are never gonna get off the island now

remember that Twilight Zone where he failed to save Lincoln?

Roger Lloyd Pack :-(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25762006

― ailsa, Thursday, 16 January 2014 12:20 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh no, RIP Roger

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 January 2014 13:26 (8 hours ago) Bookmark

i used to work in a bookshop and he used to come in to sell tapes of him reading keats and other romantic poets. they never sold anything. always wanted to say to him if he sold them as keats read in the manner of trigger he'd've had a bestseller.

http://www.tmz.com/2014/01/16/dave-madden-dead-partridge-family-reuben-kincaid/

Didn't know The Prof. & Mr. Kincaid were still around. RIP guys.

Also from TMZ: http://www.tmz.com/2014/01/16/playboy-playmate-cassandra-lynn-hensley-dead-overdose-od/?adid=hero3

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

Rainer is well-known to people who participate in dead pools. Good for her for proving them wrong.

I watched Ziegfeld around a year ago in an attempt to watch all the Best Picture winners. It's not a good movie, but I made it through. (I did not make it through Cavalcade.) Rainer plays the person who Z hyped up as always bathing in milk. Her acting is extreme emoting that happens to be in-character.

Last time she was mentioned in these parts prior to today was here, I think: I saw Mickey Rooney "perform" tonight at the Cinegrill in Hollywood

Edward Herrmann :-(

http://www.tmz.com/2014/12/31/edward-herrmann-dead-gilmore-girls/

i'll always remember him from 'the lost boys'

I really loved him as The Hay's Code rep in The Aviator...and of course Gilmore Girls and his Dodge commercials...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRugI7SMXLk

I've seen him in a lot of movies, but I had to check his IMDB page to remember which ones. The two things I most associate him with: The Paper Chase, and playing Nelson Rockefeller in Nixon.

https://33.media.tumblr.com/53d9eb7aa7a9cc5f923430adfb8ea906/tumblr_mmaq7bkQLJ1rbgu1so2_250.gif

To those of us of a certain age, he was FDR in a couple '70s miniseries (opp Jane Alexander as Eleanor). And in the John Huston film of Annie, which I've never seen.

First thing I thought of was this:http://blogs.indiewire.com/pressplay/rip-edward-herrmann-1943-2014-a-john-cheever-memory-20141231aa

Probably time for somebody to roll thread.

Sorry that link had some extra junk on the end. Reposting
http://blogs.indiewire.com/pressplay/rip-edward-herrmann-1943-2014-a-john-cheever-memory-20141231

there will be spillover deaths for a few days yet

Rainer is well-known to people who participate in dead pools. Good for her for proving them wrong.

― Whitney Di-Ennial (I M Losted)

by dying

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/mario-cuomo-new-york-governor-dead-82-article-1.2063258

I thought the late WBAI/WABC radio iconoclast Lynn Samuels summed up Mario's liberal bona fides rather well: "Makes pretty speeches."

(more than the son manages, God knows)

Forgot this was presented as a New Year's commercial...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z4JDBgVWKs

http://artsfuse.org/120300/fuse-remembrance-bishop-lee-mitchell-an-appreciation/

excerpt:

A beloved figure to both the local gospel community and deep southern soul collectors, Bishop Lee Mitchell has passed following a long illness, according to social media reports from his friends and family. Mitchell was 75.

One of the leading deep soul websites called the Alabama-born Mitchell “one of the great unknowns who never made a bad disc” because of the staggering secular 45s he released in the ’60s and ’70s.

After moving to Boston in 1958, Mitchell replaced the renowned Bill Moss in the Bibletones. In 1967 he cut a record for Sure Shot, a label owned by the infamous Texas wheeler and dealer Don Robey. The discs he made in the ’70s weren’t big hits, but in recent years they’ve been spun by the legendary British DJ John Peel and fetched upwards of $350 on eBay. According to one story, Mitchell was offered “Let’s Stay Together” before Al Green cut it but turned it down. Sessions for the great Alabama producer Neal Hemphill resulted in a few 45s, but the full album has still never seen the light of day.

Recent years?

Never mind..