Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

RIP Natalie Cole

UK hip hop producer Mark B

http://www.factmag.com/2016/01/01/mark-b-died/

actor wayne roger who played trapper john

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35209348

Dale Bumpers

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/02/461774137/former-arkansas-gov-dale-bumpers-dies-at-90

oh shit, MArk B :(

Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/vilmos-zsigmond-dead-dies-cinematographer-1201670799/

The cinematographer of the 70s?

Yep, turns out he shot a few Mindy Project episodes too. Gotta keep busy!

Robert Stigwood

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/robert-stigwood-dies/

Zsigmond and Wexler so close together (five days) is almost a match for Antonioni/Bergman on the same day.

Mind=blown

Pianist-composer Paul Bley.

:-(

his open, to love album is some of my favourite solo piano playing

Pierre Boulez

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35241250

Elizabeth Swados

http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/elizabeth-swados-obituary_75480.html

Christy O'Connor Jr

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/35241893

Cuban trumpeter Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros. http://www.salsaforums.com/threads/rip-alfredo-chocolate-armenteros.26427/

Pat Harrington Jr.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/pat-harrington-jr-dead-one-844621

I had no use for his signature sitcom, but RIP anyway.

big band singer Kitty Kallen

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/kitty-kallen-silken-voiced-pop-singer-of-little-things-mean-a-lot-dies-at-94/2016/01/07/e4819528-b571-11e5-a842-0feb51d1d124_story.html

André Courrèges.

http://theboot.com/red-simpson-dead-dies/

Red Simpson, a pioneer of the “Bakersfield sound” and an icon in the sub-genre of country trucking songs, has died unexpectedly. He was 81.
According to the Bakersfield Californian, Simpson had suffered a heart attack on Dec. 18, after returning from a tour. Family friend Gene Thome tells the paper, “He seemed to be doing better,” but on Friday night (Jan. 8), Simpson went into cardiac arrest and could not be revived.

http://www.post-gazette.com/news/obituaries/2016/01/09/Soul-legend-Otis-Clay-dies-at-73/stories/201601090143

Mr. Clay, a 2013 inductee to the Blues Hall of Fame, grew up in the '40s in the small Mississippi town of Waxhaw, singing in church and hearing blues and soul on the radio.

In the late '50s he sang in Chicago gospel groups, and in 1962 split off with his first secular soul songs. He had his first R&B hit in 1967 with "That's How It Is (When You're in Love)" and a pop hit in 1968 with a cover of Sir Douglas Quintet's "She's About a Mover."

In 1972, he moved to Hi Records (home of Al Green) and released "Trying to Live My Life Without You," produced by Willie Mitchell, the man behind the Green hits. The song later became a No. 5 hit for Bob Seger.

Those early albums made him a popular touring attraction in Europe and Japan, where he recorded a number of live albums. He was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance.

In recent years, he recorded for Bullseye Blues and he recorded a gospel album in 2007 called “Walk a Mile in My Shoes.”

Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart

Phantasm star Angus Scrimm:

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/10/angus-scrimm-obituary-phantasm

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

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/

celine dion's 59yo brother, jeez

Knew it was coming, but still very upset about Paul Ray. Heard so much great music on his shows.

celine dion's 59yo brother, jeez

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xp and her husband/manager
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Angélil

http://www.eonline.com/news/731872/celine-dion-s-brother-daniel-dies-of-cancer-at-age-59-days-after-her-husband-rene-angelil

blowfly :(

aw, man. i heard he was ill but didn't know how badly. sad to hear.

Great r'n'b songwriter as well as proto-rapper

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/clarence-reid-r-b-singer-known-as-blowfly-dead-at-76-20160117

As one of the main songwriters for Miami label TK Records, Reid penned a string of songs in the Sixties and Seventies for numerous soul and funk artists, including Gwen McCrae's "Rocking Chair" and Betty Wright's "Clean Up Woman." He also wrote tracks for KC & The Sunshine Band, Sam & Dave and Bobby Byrd before giving birth to Blowfly, his outlet for performing comedic, explicit songs that over the years traversed the genres of soul, R&B and hip-hop; Blowfly is considered one of the earliest rappers. "He laid the foundation for hip-hop with 'Shake Your Ass' and 'Rap Dirty'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35342699

Dale Griffin, drummer for Mott The Hoople and arguably best known as producer of a great many Peel Sessions.

Wow, didn't realize he was the same guy as the Beeb producer.

RIP Buffin.

when i saw whiney last night we talked about how gen xers and earlier are gonna have near meaningful daily celebrity deaths now because we're in an era now of people aging out who made their bones in the first generation of 70's / 80's media saturation. I don't THINK this is just a lot of us getting old?

i'm just glad Springsteen is gonna outlive me at this point, cuz i would not be able to take the 6 weeks of gnashing after that one.

Springsteen is going to outlive us all.

Glenn Frey.

xp
Bruce and Keef will create the last "Rockin' Out In Heaven" poster.

The H is No Mo.

Man, though - a whole lot of aging boomer musicians in the bullseye. :(

next step

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm-o7_VVAoU

obit marked frey

Andy 'Dog' Johnson, brother of The The's Matt Johnson and artist on a number of his album sleeves (my source is Paul Gravett, who published his work in Escape magazine)

Sucks when you don't realise that "your hero" died five years ago

https://twitter.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fmusic%2F2010%2Fapr%2F08%2Fmalcolm-mclaren-dies-sex-pistols

Jeez, I just got word that the guy who got the local branch of the Quiz company I'm with going (and who'd since left for other ventures, but remained our mentor and guru) passed from a massive heart attack last night.

Else Marie Pade

Saw a report (in Italian) that film director Etore Scola has passed.

Kevin Junior of The Chamber Strings, Epic Soundtracks, Nikki Sudden, etc.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/6844129/kevin-junior-chamber-strings-dies

http://www.euronews.com/2016/01/19/italian-film-director-ettore-scola-dies-aged-84/

David Hartwell, sci-fi/fantasy editor.

Andy Dog, Matt Johnson's brother and the artist for all of The The's art/album covers over the years has passed away. He actually sent me a nice message once after I'd written about the art for the "Sweet Bird of Truth" sleeve. R.I.P. to him.

Didn't realized Johnson had two brothers. (Also didn't realize that apparently Matt Johnson has a cameo in Star Wars.)

Sandra Dee, who I didn't know was still around.

...because she died 11 years ago...fuckin' internet.

Ted Marchibroda, legendary NFL coach who was mentioned once before on ILX in '06

Rainbow / Dio / er, Wild Horses bassist Jimmy Bain:

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/former-rainbowdio-bassist-jimmy-bain-dead-at-68/

Born in Newtonmore!

when did 68/69 become such a dicey age for rockers??

It's an improvement on 27, you must admit that, RIP Jimmy btw.

rip Jimmy :/

Cecil Parkinson

He leaves a wife and a 30 year old injunction...

I actually didn't know about that. Holy fucking shit:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1380529/The-only-promise-Cecil-Parkinson-ever-kept-never-to-see-his-daughter.html

SHE was, until six days ago, the young woman who did not exist. Excised from school photographs, barred from class theatrical productions and left off the list of scholastic achievements displayed on her college noticeboard, Flora Keays has been forced, by law, to remain invisible. Until now.

Yep.

I get the impression Sara Keys agreed to the injunction initially for "not being bothered by press, allowed to live their life in privacy" reasons, until she discovered what it actually meant, at which point it was too late..

"A particularly nice man", according to William Hague.

Didn't know that about Cecil Parkinson, what an abominable fucking scumbag.

nor did i, that's fucking heavy reading.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/business/marvin-minsky-pioneer-in-artificial-intelligence-dies-at-88.html

Concepcion Picciotto: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/concepcion-picciotto-who-held-vigil-outside-the-white-house-for-decades-dies/2016/01/25/e0f829e2-c3b0-11e5-a4aa-f25866ba0dc6_story.html

Colin Vearncombe from Black

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jan/26/colin-vearncombe-dies-the-voice-of-black-aged-53

abe vigoda

No way. He has defeated death for so long

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgy5vRJDPUA

Would love to have seen him in Marat/Sade.

RIP Fish. He's one I've been consistently surprised to discover was still kicking.

update needed, i guess

http://www.abevigoda.com

"Tell Mike I always liked him. It was business."

the Spirit of Tessio lives on in Hillary Clinton

(had to)

(had to)

liar

http://isabevigodadead.com/ - updated

rip Tessio :(

rhode island legend buddy cianci

paul kantner

http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Jefferson-Airplane-s-Paul-Kantner-dies-at-74-6791483.php

RIP

Jacques Rivette (noted on his thread).

Frank Finlay

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/frank-finlay-dead-british-oscar-nominated-actor-who-played-opposite-olivier-dies-aged-89-a6844566.html

RIP Iago

Terry Wogan

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35453541

Now doing 'The Floral Dance' with Lemmy and Bowie.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/nyregion/former-daily-news-reporter-dies-abruptly.html?action=click&contentCollection=Magazine&module=MostPopularFB&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article

On Sunday, Mr. Feeney died in a New Jersey hospital of complications from a staph infection in his kidneys, his mother, Reba Willis, said.

Mr. Feeney, who was 32, went into cardiac arrest at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, N.J., the town where he grew up, just west of New York City, according to an obituary in The News. His sudden death was mourned by many in the journalism world, from reporters who worked with him on the city’s crime beat to those who fought alongside him to improve diversity in American newsrooms.

Signe Anderson of the Jefferson Airplane (that's her on It's No Secret) died the same day as Paul Kantner.

@AP
BREAKING: Maurice White, founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, has died at age 74.

Oh no, don't tell me...

BMX legend Dave Mirra by suicide. 41 years old. http://deadsp.in/i2x8kgZ

voice actor/impressionist joe alaskey

http://www.avclub.com/article/voice-actor-joe-alaskey-was-also-damned-good-impre-231742

Benoît Violier, chef of the Swiss Restaurant de l'Hôtel de Ville, regarded by many as one of the best restaurants in the world. Apparently a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Mary Fiumara, Boston homemaker and lungy star of this commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ti1hnLiLw

Edgar Mitchell of Apollo 14, one of the dozen men to walk on the moon

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-05/edgar-mitchell-astronaut-with-epiphany-in-space-dies-at-85

^also a Roswell believer

Seeing notices on FB that Dan Hicks (& His Hot Licks; Charletons) has died.

http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/News/1.2566576

Eddy Wally, Belgian language singer best known to Brits from Eurotrash. Also apparently an Internet meme in recent years.

Bingo, apparently

from the Banana Splits?

Lol.

James Goode, legendary Houston restaurateur & businessman

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/houstonchronicle/obituary.aspx?n=james-douglas-goode-jim&pid=177627387

xpost yes.

https://gooferie.com/2016/01/20/bingo-from-the-banana-splits-dies/

maybe not.

Daws Butler (voice) died in '88
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0124889/?ref_=tt_cl_t18

Terry H Winkless (inside the suit) still alive
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0935288/

Trifon Ivanov, aged 50!

http://skandalno.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/trifon_ivanov.jpg

http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ivanov-trifon-bulgaria-crown.png

Judge Scalia, apparently. See the supreme court thread.

http://www.kvia.com/news/breaking-surpreme-court-justice-scalia-dies-during-hunting-trip-in-marfa/37981652

😁

Oh yeah, Where is Dick Cheney?!!!

UK indie band Viola Beach.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35572838

Jesus

Awful.

Vanity?

http://www.tmz.com/2016/02/15/vanity-dies-singer-nasty-girl/

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former UN secretary general, at 93.

Was one of those names I knew before I knew the person.

"the Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Neither does the United States."

God rest ye.

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/george-gaynes-dead-1201707777/

Henry from Punky Brewster/Commandant Lessard from the Police Academy franchise. Made it all the way to 98!

Aww, RIP. I think I mentioned him on the famous people you were surprised to learn are still alive thread a year or two back. He's great in Tootsie.

http://www.themoviescene.co.uk/reviews/_img/1424-3.jpg

Think I'll rewatch Tootsie asap.

Awwww

also his Giving-a-speech-while-receiving-a-below-the-lectern-blow-job performance should never be forgotten.

I actually used that line "I think we should just look at this.." in a presentation once, it wasn't until some time after I remembered where it came from.

Andrej Zulawski. Who apparently has just recently finished his first film in 15 years. You made probably the best horror film ever, RIP.

Acel Moore, trailblazing black journalist

http://6abc.com/news/longtime-philadelphia-journalist-acel-moore-dies/1199634/

William Tankersley, CBS in-house censor in the Smothers Bros/ Norman Lear era

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/18/arts/television/william-h-tankersley-watchdog-for-cbs-taste-standards-dies-at-98.html

harper lee

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/02/harper_lee_dead_at_age_of_89_t.html

Aww

Thank goodness she cranked that new book out just in time.

Seriously though, she's been both dead for decades and more alive than any American. It's like the death of the person who wrote the dictionary. RIP.

Renato Bialetti, coffee pot king, last week. Ashes put in a Moka pot urn.

http://qz.com/618734/italys-coffee-pot-king-was-buried-in-the-appliance-that-made-him-famous/

Umberto Eco?

Confirmed.

well this is quite the year

:(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35615205
Hafiz Patel, leading figure and respected cleric of the Tablighi Jamaat branch of the Islamic faith. Over 20000 people turned up for his funeral earlier, which is an incredible sight in such a small area as Savile Town, Dewsbury. It's roads are completely ill-equipped to deal with such numbers, especially on a Friday. I was passing en-route to the sports centre and we had to abandon the taxi.

According to the Cravats, Vi Subversa has died. Can't find a story link but Wiki is claiming too.

Came here to post that. Also reported by Anthrax (UK) and Burnt Cross, but I'd assume they're getting it from the same source.

rip bruce lacey!

eco is a bit of a heartbreaker for me.

Samuel Willenberg, last survivor from Treblinka

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35623492

I have seen him on a few documentaries, he was part of the Treblinka rebellion and a very impressive dude. RIP

Peter Mondavi, Sr.

Douglas Slocombe, cinematographer on everything from Kind Hearts and Coronets to Raiders of the Lost Ark, died age 103:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35635360

Wow. The Servant! And some more Ealing comedies. Feel bad I had never known his name until now. RIP.

Wow, Dead of Night too!

ramon (not fidel, not raul) castro, 91

The Jeb Bush of the Castros.

slocombe also did polanski's dance of the vampires. he had an impressive career that i never knew about.

Word

Bye, Dr. Nick

Frank Kelly, aka Fr Jack Hackett (and a long career before and since)

http://www.thejournal.ie/frank-kelly-rip-father-jack-2630816-Feb2016/

RIP

Really lovely man. I used to go to Father Ted tapings and he was always charming and softly-spoken (and reminded me of my own grandfather, who had the genes but not the accent).

http://worldmusiccentral.org/2016/02/25/cuban-musician-reinaldo-hierrezuelo-rey-caney-dies-at-89/

Cuban vocalist, songwriter and tres player Reinaldo Hierrezuelo, better known as Rey Caney, died on Tuesday, February 23rd in Havana. Rey Caney was a highly influential figure in Cuban music.

Reinaldo Hierrezuelo, was born December 30, 1926 in Santiago de Cuba. In 1930 Rey Caney founded the seminal Cuban band Cuarteto Patria along with his cousin Francisco (Pancho) Cobas, Emilia Gracia and Rigoberto “Maduro” Echevarría. They performed traditional trova, boleros and música guajira (Cuban country music).

In 1952, Rey Caney formed the popular duo Los Compadres together with his brother Lorenzo. They accompanied celebrated singer-songwriter María Teresa Vera and Compay Segundo throughout the world.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/22/entertainment/sonny-james-obit-feat/

From 1960 to 1979, he spent 57 weeks at the top of the charts, according to Billboard and the Country Music Hall of Fame. James was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2006.

george kennedy

best in Cool Hand Luke and Modern Romance; eff off "Naked Gun star"

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/george-kennedy-dies-dead-airport-cool-hand-luke-1201718567/

can't believe you left out the eiger sanction

I haven't seen any of those Eastwood films he did! Not even Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.

Who's calling him "Naked Gun star?" Both of the obits went with Airport in their headlines.

Liked him best in CHL and, yes, The Naked Gun flicks. Why can't I remember him in Modern Romance?

RIP.

it was a TMZ headline... He's the ship captain in the cheap scifi film Brooks is working on.

i will admit "Earthquakes bring out the worst in some people" is the funniest line in any disaster film.

Oh man, how could I forget the film (within a film) that inspired the line "uh, space floor?"

"I belive I know the code, sir"

"You know nothing!"

RIP

I haven't seen any of those Eastwood films he did! Not even Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.

He's pretty scary in that.

i guess it's just those 2 films, actually

https://vimeo.com/156654781

Film editor and director Jim Clark

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/jim-clark-dead-dies-killing-fields-editor-1201719806/

William Schaap, radical lawyer, author, publisher (co-founded Lies of Our Times)

wondered if he was the late sportswriter/critic Dick Schaap's brother -- yes

http://mondoweiss.net/2016/03/william-h-schaap-radical-lawyer-and-publisher-dies-at-age-75/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/04/bernie-baby-the-adorable-4-month-old-sanders-lookalike-has-died-unexpectedly-from-sids/

tennis commentator bud collins

Delmer Berg, last known survivor of the antifascist Lincoln Brigade dies at 100

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/2/headlines/last_surviving_veteran_of_abraham_lincoln_brigade_dies_at_100

Gayle McCormick, singer of Tarentino faves Smith (My parents saw ZZ Top open for them in 1970)

http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/columns/joe-holleman/gayle-mccormick-lead-singer-of-smith-dies-of-cancer/article_2e05d308-f9ca-584f-9637-68dbbf3bc40f.html

John Thomas of Budgie

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/former-budgie-guitarist-john-thomas-dies/

novelist Pat Conroy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/pat-conroy-best-selling-author-of-great-santini-and-prince-of-tides-dies-at-70/2016/03/04/9390e9a4-e288-11e5-8d98-4b3d9215ade1_story.html

Gayle McCormick, singer of Tarentino faves Smith (My parents saw ZZ Top open for them in 1970)

the ones who did the cover of "the weight" on the easy rider soundtrack? sad.

Nancy Reagan.

Farewell, uptight cold lady in Galliano gowns for whom we owe some debt for turning Ronnie into a peacenik.

Famous People You Forgot Were Still Alive.

Good riddance

First Angie Bowie's husband now this

my mom just asked me yesterday if nancy was still alive

Don Regan cackling in hell

callous Hollywood trollop

Yes, but remember when she ended America's drug problem with that Very Special episode of Diff'rent Strokes?

An attempt at balance.

One of those somebody-must-have-invented it guys:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/07/ray-tomlinson-email-inventor-and-selector-of-symbol-dies-aged-74

^^^ I worked with him for 3 years and was just about to post his obit; he was a fantastic guy and someone I regretted falling out of touch with

That's amazing.

Concur re: that's amazing

I am really saddened by every early Internet person who passes because even though my field isn't really Fundamentals Of Internet I do feel like a lot of the people who invented what I do are getting closer all the time and nobody, as far as I know, is trying to do even a cursory oral history of how this business started and who did what, like handling "the posse" in the early 90s or any of the series of other similarly nasty internet worms that followed Morris

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/6/11168718/ray-tomlinson-dead-inventor-of-email-obituary

as he liked to say, "It's the only preposition on the keyboard."

I read this a few years ago and learned lots:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Qk3dIqeNL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

Will take a look to see if Tomlinson's in there.

So why was the @-sign on keyboards before email? What was it used for?

price

as in "i bought 3 slices of pizza @ $2.00 each"

Okay, thanks for the info!

Don't know if this is true, but I was told it stood for 'each at', so is a combination of an e and an a.

bbc commentator tony gubba:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/21740038

doh, that's from 3 years ago

well rip anyway old tones. until next time!

We could do with a "people you forgot were dead" thread to sit alongside the "people you forgot were still alive (except half them are now dead)" one.

everything would be so much simpler if people just stopped dying tbh

People who died twice.

It's a blessing to live so long everyone thinks you're already dead.

Reported on FB: Music Writer John Morthland

Saw that. RIP

http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/local/john-morthland-renowned-music-journalist-and-longt/nqgXx/

http://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2016/03/08/17739955/andrew-loomis-drummer-for-dead-moon-has-died

George Martin

Nana Vasconcelos :(
http://musica.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2016/03/09/morre-o-musico-nana-vasconcelos-aos-71-anos.htm

Oh no!

Sad, loved his work on Pat Metheny's Offramp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZF17VwrOYQ

george martin and nana vasconcelos are kind of connected through their work with collin walcott

shit, at this point can we just say "everybody"? fucking bowie even had to beat everybody to dying.

Was tempted this morning to start a thread titled "they're ALL going to be bad years from here on out" this morning, to explore the idea of what is turning into constant cycle of mournful tributes supplied by a now neverending supply of elderly celebrities of whom we are fond.

Based on

jesus, 2016 has been a bad year. RIP.

― Bee OK, Wednesday, March 9, 2016 12:27 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

from the George Martin thread. No offense to Bee OK. It just got me thinking that this bad streak isn't going to stop now, its going to keep on going.

Seriously, given the ages it's going to be bam bam bam bam, one after another, as it's playing out.

the bad streak has been going since they invented death I think

yes it's just that the lords of what the young-turk academics call boomer hegemony are reaching deathy ages.

One day we'll be dignified and ... oh wait

It just got me thinking that this bad streak isn't going to stop now, its going to keep on going.

― how's life, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 23:38 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I too predict that this trend of notable people not being immortal will continue

I am really saddened by every early Internet person who passes because even though my field isn't really Fundamentals Of Internet I do feel like a lot of the people who invented what I do are getting closer all the time and nobody, as far as I know, is trying to do even a cursory oral history of how this business started and who did what, like handling "the posse" in the early 90s or any of the series of other similarly nasty internet worms that followed Morris

http://www.amazon.com/Where-Wizards-Stay-Up-Late/dp/0684832674

my coworkers and I all got a free copy of this when it was published

lol I should have clicked on clemenza's picture; images off strikes again

xxp:

Yeah, but I think we're really starting to approach the end of natural life cycle for people from the peak of the music industry. Late 60s/early 70s to me feels like the onset of a glut of approachable celebrity. Yes, notable people from earlier eras have always died, but I don't know if there were quite so many of them. Or maybe there were similar numbers of them but they weren't relevant enough to me personally? But at any rate this year it feels like they're going down like dominoes.

being totally selfish here but the real problem imo is that i'm getting ever closer to the front of the queue

Pop culture as youth culture, we're talking '50s and beyond, right? Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, ground-zero folks like that are still around, but not for long, and after that, things are really going to accelerate for pop/youth culture icons of the 20th century.

Those three in particular have remarkable longevity.

production designer Ken Adam

http://www.filmandfurniture.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/dr-strangelove-ken-adam-film-set-war-room.jpeg

good innings

also did all the early Bond films

Probably mostly personal on this one, but the founder of Catalinbread pedals in Portland, one of the most creative effects companies out there, and in an endlessly tragic way.

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/03/37-year-old_portland_man_trave.html

I'm so sorry jjj. I remember when you got your first batch of his pedals. This is real sad.

oh that sucks bad

Ugh. Sorry

Yeah a bunch of us in th pedal industry are sorta reeling about this - we're all in the same age category, and it's a small and very personal world. It's also bringing up memories of Andy from Zvex from last year for a lot of people i think. Dark stuff.

John Gutfreund, Wall Street thief

http://fortune.com/2016/03/10/john-gutfreund-died/

Bristolian seventysomething reggae selector DJ Derek: http://www.bristol247.com/channel/news-comment/people/obituaries/obituary-dj-derek

rambling bike race commentator david duffield:

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/mar/11/david-duffield-obituary

Oh they found Dj Derek:( . There was a short R4 doc on him a few months back, one of his nieces was still looking for him. RIP. He sounded like a character.

They found a body on Friday, and are presuming it's Derek because of "personal items". Autopsy pending, etc.

I was lucky enough to know Derek quite well when he was drinking in the Tavern (after the Tragic Box closed) and probably spent a couple of nights a week with him. We'd mainly talk about real ale and his next Wetherspoons trip, and Keith Hudson. Always Keith Hudson. Derek was definitely part of the Bristol obsession with such a relatively obscure reggae artist (along with Revolver dude who I also had many long discussions about KH). But his favourite was always Chase The Devil, which he had been playing since it was released.

RIP Iron Shirt.

keith emerson?

I met Derek a couple of times, I'm pleased to say, at the dear old Star and Garter; seemed like a fine fellow. Listening to that documentary last month I learned his surname for the first time, and realised his older brother (Gerald on the doc, Gerry to us) had been big mates with my mum and dad in the 70s. That was a surprise.

Now seeing reports that music writer Ben Edmonds has died.

Harsh fucking times. Not cool, planet earth, not cool

Ben Edmonds obit:
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/03/11/music-journalist-ben-edmonds-dies/81659064/

http://dailynous.com/2016/03/13/hilary-putnam-1929-2016/

Aw, Hilary. RIP

RIP

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35802564

Mondo we Langa/David Rice

http://atlantablackstar.com/2016/03/14/former-black-panther-mondo-we-langa-dies-in-nebraska-prison/

Anita Brookner

Indiana Jones

No, wait, he died six years ago.

Sylvia Anderson, of Thunderbirds and that.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35818530

> "voice of Thunderbirds' Lady Penelope"

hows about "co-creator"? and all the rest.

she was in a couple of episodes of the new series, playing the new lady penelope's snobby Great Aunt Sylvia, which was a nice touch.

Ben Bagdikian, ace investigative reporter

http://www.motherjones.com/media/2016/03/ben-bagdikian-tribute

The remains are confirmed as being DJ Derek.

Frank Sinatra Jr.:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/frank-sinatra-junior-dies-at-72-1.3495035

When I looked at that obituary, at first I thought they'd accidentally used a photo of his father.

about time

there's a nice bit in bob dylan's chronicles about him

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35828566

Cliff Michelmore. Would have belonged in the 'people you thought were dead' thread a couple of days ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35829251

Paul Daniels

:-(

I know

it's like every single day now.

like to think they'll saw his coffin in half at the funeral, just for old times sake

now that's tragic

His political views were ridiculous

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Daniels#Outspoken_views

Here's my favorite of his performances

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7B0lf_CR0A

Larry Drake!

lol at lindsey graham now supporting cruz

Consistency...died.

RIP Cruz

*dies*

According to his son on FB, Outlaw Country singer Steve Young.

RIP. Met him once, talked about house sitting for him before he went out on one of those State Department tours, he was other going to or had recently come back from Mongolia but I ended up living somewhere else.

Come to think about it, at that time in Austin, you would see certain people out on the scene over and over again, but rarely/hardly ever somebody at that level, of that generation. I didn't come across Jimmy Dale Gilmore until I moved back to New York and one day walked out of my office on 52nd Street and there he was walking by.

http://www.savingcountrymusic.com/outlaw-country-songwriter-steve-young-dead/

http://theind.com/article-22882-David-Egan-has-died.html

David Egan, one of the bright lights in South Louisiana’s musical firmament, has died. The singer-songwriter, whose tunes were covered (and on Grammy-nominated and -winning records) by Irma Thomas, Joe Cocker, Solomon Burke, Etta James and many others, succumbed to cancer after a two-year battle. He died at home surrounded by family.

Egan was a member of several trailblazing Louisiana bands including A-Train, Filé and Lil’ Band O’ Gold.

Joe Santos, the harried Sgt Dennis Becker of The Rockford Files

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/joe-santos-dead-dies-rockford-files-1201733894/

Barry Hines

RIP Barry:( Kestrel For a Knave and Threads were classics.

;_; RIP Mr Hines, Threads is one of the greatest things ever created... and Kes isn't too bad either.

RIP BH

When Threads first aired we still had this "duck and cover" leaflet from the local council that put us in the A-zone of a potential Soviet H-bomb attack, it was even scarier than Salem's Lot.

RIP. Never read but loved the film Kes and see there is an ebook available from, of course, Valancourt. Also used it for a screenname once which I remember fondly: rejected JBR screen names

A Kestrel for a Knave is a bloody great book and really deserves to be known as such rather than just the book that Kes is based on.

Yes, great book. Somehow had no idea he did the screenplay for Threads - too busy hiding behind the sofa to read the credits I suppose.

RIP.

Hopefully will be reading soon.

One of the actors who worked with BH on Threads is a frequent contributor to another message-board I frequent. He says says in luvvie speak that he was a beautiful person, but you can tell he means it.

Czech New Wave director Jan Němec

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-jan-nemec-1936-2016

RIP. Really like The Party and the Guests, and Diamonds in the Night. Seems like a tough year for Eastern European cinema.

Barry Hines' brother Richard was interviewed by Jarvis Cocker on 6Music a few weeks ago; it was Richard who trained the kestrel - he published his memoir recently, No Way But Gentlenesse. Barry got into grammar school, but Richard was the secondary modern kid. It was such an odd, faltering, downbeat bit of radio, but all the better for it.

Barry H's The Price Of Coal (also directed by Loach) is worth seeing too.

Richard was on radio4 last week too (i heard the trailer, not that actual show)

MidWeek Wed 16 Mar 2016
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0738hlr

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lee-andrews-doo-wop-singer-and-questloves-father-dead-at-79-20160317

Adrienne Rich RIP

Rob Ford

Andy Grove - early Silicon Valley guy:
http://fortune.com/2016/03/22/andy-grove-engineer-rest-in-peace/

Adrienne Rich, that's terrible.

Adrienne Rich died in 2012.

whoops! blame my stupid fb friends.

i really need to make it a rule to double check the date of every article that gets posted on facebook

Got a facebook post about the death of Leo Fender and how disgusting it is that the mainstream media ignored it but still fawns over Kanye's latest attrocity. Fender died on March 21, 1991.

To be fair, Polaris High School 9th graders did find him pretty odious.

Phife Dawg, of A Tribe Called Quest.

http://allhiphop.com/2016/03/23/phife-dawg-of-a-tribe-called-quest-dead-at-45/

:( ok, feelin that one

That's terrible. Didn't he just have a transplant?

a few years ago acc to that obit

Bet it was cancer from the immunosuppressants.

joe garagiola

ken 'the white shadow' howard

I watched the almost the whole White Shadow series when it was on Hulu and it was free a couple of years ago. Was great to see again.

oof I feel like I am at an odd cultural nexus where losing Phife and the White Shadow coach in one day feels especially acute.

Watched White Shadow a lot as a kid (in retrospect primarily because my dad liked it, being a school b-ball coach himself), distinctly remember it as my first real exposure to a certain strain of late 70s/early 80s black culture; like that was the first time I saw a "realistic" (as opposed to sitcom) depiction of black teenagers.

Joe Garagiola was an American TV icon who p much doesn't mean shit to anyone under 50... the ultimate jock turned ubiquitous bald TV guy.

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/joe-garagiola-dead-dies-cardinals-baseball-broadcaster-1201737655/

never saw a full ep of The White Shadow, know him mostly as Thomas Jefferson in 1776 and one of those kinda crappy "swingin" Otto Preminger films i just saw, Such Good Friends.

http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnsqdcYOEx1qfrw84o1_500.jpg

btw Fred Willard based his Best in Show announcer on Garagiola

Under-50 here--do know Garagiola, but as a Today show personality mainly.

i had no idea he came back to Today for two years in the '90s -- didnt think they hired anyone in Willard Scott's generation. He'd been on it in his '70s heyday.

It was also in that period that I learned he had Topps make his business cards.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8BVcGoREYwc/TCq1k_XPJyI/AAAAAAAAGf0/E-HxiNvPuZ8/s400/garagiola+front+cleaned+up.jpg

Johan Cruyff :(

(if anyone can do a Cruyff-turn emoji, this would be the time... Maybe I'll settle for a gif)

RIP

http://45.media.tumblr.com/d0be1772d8f2c84cfaa08d9ea3df233e/tumblr_n4k5pl1czK1tp5565o1_400.gif

^that and a drop of the shoulder were all your needed to be a tricky winger in my day. CR7 & Co incorporating backflips and elbow drops has killed that off.

"I played 18 years in top football and seventeen times for Sweden but that moment against Cruyff was the proudest moment of my career. I thought I'd win the ball for sure, but he tricked me. I was not humiliated. I had no chance. Cruyff was a genius."

—Sweden defender Jan Olsson, victim of the Cruyff Turn at the 1974 FIFA World Cup

RIP Johan ;_;

From a friend of mine on Facebook:

Met him once in Barcelona, I said "You're Johan Cruyff" he said "I know ".

Joe Garagiola was an American TV icon who p much doesn't mean shit to anyone under 50... the ultimate jock turned ubiquitous bald TV guy.

The very first MLB game I ever attended was the July 24, 1976 game between the Indians and the Tigers at Cleveland Stadium, which was also an NBC Game of the Week. (Mark Fidrych was pitching, and had a rare bad appearance, but the Tigers still won 5-4.) I very vividly remember my dad catching a view of the broadcast booth from our seats and saying, "Hey, look! It's Joe Garagiola!"

rip Johan

I only know Garagiola from Peanuts

in the early to mid '70s, when he was on Today and hosting a game show, he was very well known to people who didn't know he was a baseball player-broadcaster.

Rita Gam, '50s glamor girl

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rita-gam-dead-glamorous-actress-877486

good memories as a boy learning cruyff's footwork

Garry Shandling

WTF?!

Yup

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/garry-shandling-dead-larry-sanders-show-show-1201738601/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiWiJW_nsw8

No. Man.

What?!?!

This is getting stupid now

yow, that's another tough one. i grew up watching him, same as the rest of you. RIP

his show was the greatest takedown of Letterman ever

err Carson

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/mar/24/johan-cruyff-barcelona-legacy

Nice Cruyff piece/obit concentrating on Barca

that's a beautiful piece

As well it should, this thread is giving me more anxiety than the Supreme Court thread used to.

Space shuttle engineer Robert Ebeling:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/science/robert-ebeling-challenger-engineer-who-warned-of-disaster-dies-at-89.html

jim harrison

Earl Hamner Jr, creator of The Waltons

As well as one of the top three most prolific writers of Twilight Zone episodes, I believe. RIP.

(the other two being Serling and Matheson)

yes, 8 of em (which wd put him 4th behind George Clayton Johnson too)

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-earl-hamner-jr-dies-20160324-story.html

http://www.rodserling.com/EarlHamner.htm

Thought GCJ wrote seven of them. Anyway

http://file770.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Earl-and-George-2012-07-22_13-56-55_668.jpg

Did you know that those two shared a birthday?

who me? not fannish enough to know; i probably forgot who GCJ was until he died.

German "jazz" singer (which in this case means bad but hugely popular Sinatra imitator) Roger Cicero.

who me? not fannish enough to know; i probably forgot who GCJ was until he died.

Patty Duke

oh no

my FB feed will be filled with gays posting NEEEEELEY O'HAAAAAAARA

“Adrienne Corri, who has died aged 85, was an actor of considerable range and versatility whose career ranged from the high—with Shakespearean roles alongside Ralph Richardson and Alec Guinness—to the decidedly low, including appearances in many quota quickies and low-budget horror movies that showcased her striking red-haired beauty.... Although seen regularly on big and small screens in the 1950s and 60s, Corri is mainly remembered for her participation in the short but notorious gang rape scene from Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971).”

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/mar/28/adrienne-corri-obituary

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

Kind of odd that both William Schallert and John Astin outlived Patty.

Was wondering about Schallert.

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

Patty Duke and Helen Keller:

http://bestteenagersever.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/tumblr_m6apr4r8lx1qbz9meo1_500.jpg

Photos taken of famous people together that you would never have expected to be together but make you happy all the same.

Beautiful photograph. Sorry to say, but I'm pretty sure I've never seen The Miracle Worker. Kael likes it: "Truffaut's The Wild Child is a more beautifully conceived picture on the same theme, but even with its imperfections and staginess this early Penn film is extraordinary."

Feel like it was in broadcast television regularly back in the day.

Yeah, I've had numerous chances, I just was never sure that I could make it through all the screaming and tantrums. (Totally different, but why I had no interest in Whiplash.) Seeing as it's Arthur Penn, I should give it a chance.

Ronnie Corbett

https://twitter.com/PA/status/715490421095333888

and it's goodnight from him etc

:(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJQ-ZircSO0

RIP big man

Guilty lol at the comment I just saw elsewhere about him having died after a short illness being exactly the kind of gag that would have been in the news roundup at the end of an episode of the Two Ronnies.

last Friday, but Terry Brain, creator of 80s cartoon Trap Door, died aged 60

LOL short illness, that's very good.

Love this remix too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmL-OT4Q3sc

Andy "Thunderclap" Newman

(according to the Who's fb page)

"Something in the Air" is one of the oddest, most brilliant one-shots ever--written by Speedy Keen, checking, but it's the image of Newman that comes to my mind when I think about how visually perverse they were as messengers of the impending revolution.

https://cdn.discogs.com/hlY6LtXVrhCkiaN0AdROIRe2qzs=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/A-303487-1306315192.jpeg.jpg

Blimey, RIP Andy

Zaha Hadid

bloody hell it's a busy day for the grim reaper

Really upset about Zaha: the Times sent me to interview her BITD and instead of being arsey and intimidating, she was raucously funny and wore her intelligence with a great deal of style. I'll miss her putting the wind up what can be a very boysy profession.

Imre Kertész

aw RIP Corbet, Brain, Hadid (with apologies to Kertész for being unfamiliar with his work but RIP to him too)

what a great theme tune Sorry! had

Oops Corbett

Ronnie ;-;

Ah Zaha was the architect who live walked out on the today program a few months back, she didn't sound like someone who takes much shit.

She took absolutely no shit and she maintained this take-no-shit/antagonise-the-chauvinists hardline while dressed from top to tail in black Issey Miyake.

This Morning agony aunt Denise Robertson

Gato Barbieri

This is the year that I've realized when you hit a certain age it starts to feel like celebrities are dying more rapidly, because more of them are people you actually know and not old-timey silent movie comedians your parents know.

RIP

Listening to his Don Cherry collaboration right now

nearly all the old-timey silent movie comedians have been dead for 40 years, Mr Hyperbole

lol duh

Senor Obvio

congratulations on missing the point morbs

RIP Gato :(

i was half asleep, gimme a break

Cesare Maldini. I saw him in 1997 in Bergamo, near the Atalanta stadium, where we were both headed. Always presumed he was there to check out Inzaghi, who got his first cap shortly after.

Getatchew Mekuria, aged 81. Posted by The Ex.

http://www.theex.nl/news.html

RIP, Getatchew, great sax player

merle haggard

http://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/country-music-legend-merle-haggard-turned-79-years-old-wednesday

holy fuck

AAAAGHGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

this year is so fucking lame

What???!?

rip to merle haggard, okie from muskogee is one of my karaoke go tos

Love Merle, RIP

79 added to 69 on the list of years under evaluation.

(Also, fuck)

Jesus Merle better get his own RIP thread as long as Bowies or this place can go to hell

Aw, man, this year is the worst :-(

bowie drummer dennis davis

http://www.nme.com/news/david-bowie/92812

Bummer, what a rhythm section that was. RIP Dennis.

Bill Henderson, jazz vocalist who did quite a bit of acting in the 80s and 90s (he was as the cop in Clue!).

Barbara Turner, screenwriter (Petulia, Georgia, The Company) and mother of Jennifer Jason Leigh

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/barbara-turner-dead-screenwriter-producer-881262

Jim Ridley, editor and longtime film critic for the Nashville Scene, dies at 50:

http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2016/04/08/scene-editor-jim-ridley-dies-at-50#more

I think he hadn't been writing as much about film since he became editor in chief, but he was a good critic. He got national distribution for a while, while the Scene was part of the Voice/New Times empire.

RIP, 50 is way too soon! i grew up reading ridley, he was one of the few consistently good writers in local nashville media in the 90's.

musician/composer Tony Conrad

Almost getting blasé to this succession of excellent people dying. RIP Tony.

Howard Marks. Currently honouring his memory in an obvious way, RIP.

No more "Mr Nice" guy.

Winston Moseley, killer of Kitty Genovese
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/nyregion/winston-moseley-81-killer-of-kitty-genovese-dies-in-prison.html

(genuinely surprised that he was still alive)

David Gest

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/7070076/David-Gest-has-been-found-dead-in-his-hotel-room.html?token=1434403479

David, who appeared on the most recent series of Celebrity Big Brother, was set to begin a UK tour 'David Gest Is Not Dead, But Alive With Soul' in July.

The show must go on!

It probably seems kind of ghoulish - in fact (I'm assuming) it's incredibly ghoulish since it refers to the scene where he was asleep in the Celebrity Big Brother house when Angie Bowie heard that her ex-husband was dead. She told a US reality TV show star "David's dead", and before she could clarify, the younger lady ran off to tell everyone else that Gest was dead.

Reminds me of Joan Rivers' sadly unfulfilled 'Before They Close The Lid' tour

Mr. Moseley, a psychopathic serial killer and necrophiliac

nytimes not really beating around the bush there

Hearing R Crumb, hoping not so.

maybe in reference to this?
http://observer.com/2016/04/robert-crumb-is-dead/

thankfully i'm not seeing anything else.

omg plz no

^ xp this is an immensely shitty profile btw

Sorry - false alarm

also yeah wtf at that piece totally terrible, near incoherent

Jesus Christ that profile!

He spends his days looking at his old comix and fucking that disgusting wife of his which might very well explain why every man over 70 is looking for his Tadzio.

His wife, Aline the star fucker, is vile. She is what you would imagine the screaming brunette standing at the stage door on 53rd of the Ed Sullivan theater on that chilly 9th of February 1964 who left with one of them would look like today. She hated me on the spot. Vermin have a chemical way to sense their own kind.

Maybe Crumb is indeed a nasty antisemite, but what has Aline Crumb done to deserve this?!

ffs, that piece is beyond horrendous.

Vermin have a chemical way to sense their own kind.

he accuses Crumb of anti-semitism and then literally drops an anti-semitic insult on his wife a few sentences later!

Aline's Jewish btw (not sure Tuomas was aware of that)

I wasn't, but apparently the writer is too. So he thinks Aline and himself are both "vermin"? I thought the Observer was some kind of a quality paper, why would they publish self-centred, misogynist "gonzo" shit like that?

the line about Howard Stern being the embodiment of the jock ethos in a reject's carcass is otm, though.

he's an ex-hebdo guy doing the "gonzo" thing by way of being a generally embarrassing writer
recently kicked up a lot of dirt and created an internet kerfuffle over a spiked piece for Elle
http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/03/how-to-alienate-everyone-in-your-industry.html

profile reminds me of this: http://www.sparehed.com/2014/03/05/high-times-r-crumb/

I thought the Observer was some kind of a quality paper, why would they publish self-centred, misogynist "gonzo" shit like that?

this is a different Observer from the UK newspaper the Observer, I don't know if that is the one you were thinking of?

Ah, okay,

that's the one I thought it was.

ohhhhhhhhh THAT GUY