Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

just seen that, v. sad, such a great monster

aw :(

Italian actress and director Silvana Pampanini, who worked with Buster Keaton, Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Alberto Sordi, Totò, Jean Gabin, Henri Vidal, Abel Gance and Vittorio De Sica, passed away on January 6, reports the AFP. She was 90. “Pampanini never married but was reported to have sparked the romantic ardor of a string of famous men, from Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Egypt’s King Farouk I to Orson Welles and Omar Sharif.”

http://artdaily.com/news/84178/One-of-Italy-s-leading-post-war-cinema-stars--Silvana-Pampanini--dead-at-90-according-to-local-media#.VpJ9-PkrLDc

Richard Libertini.

oh no

you are verrry handsome *smak smak*

Hopefully someone put his soud backinbowl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9bkwy2w4qI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI8o5C5l9J8

Bowie :(

Ridiculous. Absurd.

David Bowie R.I.P

Darragh OTM.

probably time to move to a planet that doesn't seem quite as unhealthy as this one. place is a fucker

This has carried on all day and its gone well past annoying at this stage.

Presumably it'll all be sorted out in the morning.

Night.

baseball Hall of Famer Monte Irvin, 96, denied the major leagues til age 30 by segregation

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/13/sports/baseball/monte-irvin-star-outfielder-who-lost-his-prime-to-racism-dies-at-96.html

Lorraine Hearne, my great aunt, at age 100.

Good vibes crypto.

sorry, crypto

Stanley Siegel, goofy New York TV morning-show host of the '70s who had himself psychoanalyzed on air for 10 minutes every week. I also remember him interviewing a coked-up Truman Capote, who'd just come from Studio 54.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/13/arts/television/stanley-siegel-a-riveting-and-irrepressible-talk-show-host-dies-at-79.html

What about the punk rock episode(s), Morbs!

The non-fictional rival of the Quincy punk rock episode.

saw this for the first time (i remember) last night. he's pretty benign about it as these things went. his Sparks interview is on YT as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k37XXZL1YY

Seeing things on FB about Giorgio Gomelsky passing away from cancer at age 82.

C.D. Wright, Poet

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/stanza/c-d-wright-january-6-1949%E2%80%93january-12-2016

More on Gomelsky: http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_mad_genius_behind_the_rolling_stones_and_yardbirds_giorgio_gomelsky

Somehow completely missed that Brett Smiley died! Love this album so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4vn-c9iD8c

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/6836578/brett-smiley-dead

Really weird series of events: I posted "Va Va Va Voom" on a friend's FB wall Sunday morning, not because I knew Smiley had died (I didn't...actually, I thought he'd been dead for a few years, and that's why someone made a documentary about him), but because I'd finally burned his album onto a CD after it had sat on my hard drive for a year-plus and I thought he might like the song. Someone pointed his death out to me in a comment, then later that day news of Bowie's death.

Brian Bedford, 7-time-Tony-nominated actor

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/brian-bedford-peerless-classical-actor-at-stratford-and-broadway-dies-at-80-379395

Alan Rickman :-(

Sorry, link: http://gu.com/p/4fym5/stw

Fuck this

:(

That 69/70 age again....

cancer too, what are the odds

can we shut 2016 down and start over

(xp) Unfortunately, they're pretty high.

Another bummer, RIP.

Would love to know what that particular 1978 bag of cocaine was cut with.

Man, Alan Rickman was great in everything, wasn't he? Great as a villain, great as a romantic lead, great at comedy, great in kids movies.

even good in Dogma

Which might be the nicest thing I've seen you say about anyone, Morbs. Gawker is shitty, but they are otm when they referred to him as the star of every movie he is in. Rickman even made the Kevin Costner Robin Hood worth watching.

i actually haven't seen him in much, made biggest impact in Truly Madly Deeply; wish i'd caught him on B'way in Liaisons Dangereuses.

also keep sellin the Morbs Hates Everything line, why mess with cobwebs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bbIBs0P2t0

he was especially great in bob roberts, and galaxy quest

Sang ok in Sweeney Todd too.

RIP

ellen meiksins wood, marxist historian (had a hard time finding any of her books at the library recently)

https://twitter.com/VersoBooks/status/687686572163072000

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-35307831

Conrad Phillips, William Tell in the ITC series and many bit parts afterwards for ITC and beyond.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/14/franco-citti

Myra Carter, an essential Albee actress. Rough week for the Anglo-American theatre.

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/myra-carter-acclaimed-interpreter-of-edward-albee-plays-dies-at-86-379544

Rene Angelil

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/rene-angelil-celine-dions-husband-and-former-manager-dead-at-73-20160114

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/david-margulies-dead-ghostbusters-actor-a6809831.html

https://twitter.com/search?q=dan+haggerty&ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Esearch

Dan Haggerty - Grizzly Adams

Reported three days ago (though of course it's been a busy three days)

^Just breaking

My mom, my wife and I just went through the long list of notable deaths, and, man, the number of people who meant something to me. Just horrifying. So many names I'm ashamed I'd already forgotten were this year. Alan Rickman, Harper Lee ... Curtis Hanson, Kenny Baker ... Alan Vega, Anton Yelchin ... Bernie Worrell, Bill Cunningham ... Tony Conrad, Garry Shandling ...

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/notable-deaths/2016

Just remembered Michael Cimino

Another bow to Carlos Nine, one of my favourite artists. Barely any comics sites gave a toss despite his mad skills shitting all over 99.8% of the artists in the industry.

I saw on Facebook that Ethiopian drummer Temare Haregu, who played with Hailu Mergia and was a founder of the Walias Band and can be heard on an Ethiopiques compilation or 2, has passed away.

The Beatles' first manager Allan Williams

Wow. RIP, Man Who Gave The Beatles Away

rage is playing music by deceased people, including people i didn't know had died (pm dawn, the drummer out of inspiral carpets), so i'm learning about musical deaths via this uplifting playlist

William Christopher (MASH's Father Mulcahy)

http://abc7.com/entertainment/william-christopher-father-mulcahy-on-mash-dies-at-84/1680901/

Just came to post that. RIP

:(

he was so good

It feels so stupid to point out that this thread is almost over, but it also seems important. Need a good word for things that are important and stupid

'ilxor'

rip mariah carey

sad they paraded her half naked body around times square in the year's waning moments, 2016 is really ruthless

rip jim calhoun

I think Don Lemon is going to kill himself tonight.

Animation great and artistic pioneer Tyrus Wong, dead at 106 at the end of 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/movies/tyrus-wong-dies-bambi-disney.html
http://tyruswongthemovie.com/

Ross Johnson, RJR Nabisco chief exec in '80s

just so we could go on an up note

the Ghost Ship fire managed to escape mention on this thread. Cherushii at least deserves mention I'd suspect

http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2016/12/07/remembering-bay-area-producer-cherushii-a-victim-of-the-ghost-ship-fire

Is there a 2017 thread yet?

yes.

Specifically Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

thanks guys