Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

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

Might remove bookmark for a bit, just for the sake of my nerves (no disrespect to Dan Haggerty, your influence (and presumably death toll responsibility) lives on).

That's sad. Nice seeing those photos of him. I always found Grizzly Adams a singularly strange and relaxing show.

https://media.giphy.com/media/yjGdFXMtHLV0Cp1Mcg/giphy.gif

Robert Banks Stewart; creator of Bergerac,co-creator of Shoestring and writer of Seeds of Doom and Terror of the Zygons.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35323930

aw, that's sad. still waiting for them to release series 2 of Shoestring on dvd

The New York-based writer and activist Bryn Kelly has died: she wrote about HIV stigma, femme culture, the labyrinth of medical bureaucracy, and the tangles of queer relationships with verve and incisive wit. There's a memorial note here, with links to much of her available writing: http://topsidepress.tumblr.com/post/137350042394/i-love-your-profound-insecurity-i-love-you-even

we had some mutual friends though i didn't know her; really sad

same goes for LA chicana lesbian activist jeanne cordova, who passed away on sunday

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jeanne-cordova-20160115-story.html

this year is just brutal, so far - my whole FB feed reads like one long obit page

Longtime Austin TX radio personality and music scenster Paul Ray

http://music.blog.austin360.com/2016/01/15/longtime-kutkutx-dj-paul-ray-dies-at-73/

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