Rolling Obituary Thread 2013

and singer Artie Blues Boy White

http://blogs.suntimes.com/hoekstra/2013/04/the_deep_soul_of_artie_blues_b.html

Allan Arbus, photographer and ex-husband of Diane, who turned to acting (guest shots as a M*A*S*H psychiatrist)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/arts/television/allan-arbus-mash-actor-dies-at-95.html

RIP crazy good guitarist Bob Brozman

http://www.santacruz.com/news/2013/04/25/santa_cruz_music_icon_bob_brozman_dies

Sad, only 59.

R.I.P. George Jones

master cellist janos starker

http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/world-renowned-cellist-janos-starker-dies-88-48050/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/arts/music/cordell-mosson-of-parliament-funkadelic-dies-at-60.html?ref=music

Deanna Durbin, silver-screen teen idol of the '30s and '40s

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/movies/deanna-durbin-1930s-star-of-universal-pictures-dies-at-91.html

RIP. Did you see Christmas Holiday when it played, I can't remember.

RIP DD

I don't think I've seen any of her films.

Came up recently on the Justin Bieber thread (re Anne Frank)...Had no idea she was still alive. My dad had a thing for her--bought him a CD once.

Kenneth Appel, the man who proved the four-color theorem using computers: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/29/technology/kenneth-i-appel-mathematician-who-harnessed-computer-power-dies-at-80.html?pagewanted=all

Best part is

Before their revolutionary work was published, Dr. Appel and Dr. Haken enlisted their entire families to check hundreds of pages of calculations, making sure that diagrams of map configurations matched the computer printouts and did not have typos. Andrew Appel said his sister, Laurel, found some 800 mistakes, most of which she could fix herself.

Chris Kelly of Kris Kross:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/showbiz/georgia-chris-kelly-obituary/index.html

Brozman was a suicide; he hadn't been able to play guitar for quite some time.

Should have said "play guitar up to his standards"; he had degenerative problems relating to an old car accident, and the rumor is that the deterioration was accelerating.

Jeff Hanneman of Slayer
http://thequietus.com/articles/12176-jeff-hanneman-of-slayer-r-i-p

http://www.memphisflyer.com/SingAllKinds/archives/2013/05/02/memphis-musician-sid-selvidge-dies-after-a-struggle-with-cancer

Also was a dj and a Professor

I know of his legend but not too much about his work. RIP

(ok, I did see Christmas Holiday!)

(Really enjoyed that one- both of them were playing against type!)

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Spotify has some Sid Selvidge-- quieter bluesy stuff with his unique voice, and youtube has some, but yep his legendary stuff with Jim Dickinson and others does not appear to be easily accessible

Believe he features prominently in the book It Came From Memphis, by Robert Gordon.

That's where I first heard of him. Author Robert Gordon once brought along great obscure film footage for a book tour and I vaguelly recall he might have had home movie quality Mudboy stuff.

Reggae legend Cedric 'Im' Brooks:
http://www.wral.com/jamaican-musician-cedric-brooks-dies-at-70/12412113/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqc9XEDHI-4

this week sucks.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/04/3380491/cuban-bolero-giant-cesar-portillo.html

Recently had to learn one of his tunes. RIP.

Not famous, but Greg Quill, a Toronto music writer:

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/05/05/toronto_star_entertainment_columnist_greg_quill_dies.html

Don't think I ever met him, but we probably reviewed some of the same shows in the '80s, and Wikipedia says he once edited a magazine I wrote for (unless he did that at the very beginning of the magazine's existence, I think that's probably incorrect). He's the first local music writer I can recall dying, so sobering.

Oh damn...didn't he write for Music Express? Or edit it or something? Pretty sure he wrote for Graffiti.

I think he did edit Music Express for a while, yes. I'd have to check about Graffiti--I don't remember him in there, but you might be right. I didn't realize he'd made albums until reading the obit.

Ray Harryhausen

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/movies/ray-harryhausen-cinematic-special-effects-innovator-dies-at-92.html?ref=arts&_r=0

Yeah, that's my saddest RIP for a while.

Cedric Brooks
:(

Custom car legend Dean Jeffries - responsible for the Monkeemobile, the cars from Death Race 2000, the Landmaster tank from Damnation Alley, the Diamonds Are Forever moon buggy, etc. etc.

Bryan Forbes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22459886

That's so weird--someone posted about the movie Gandhi yesterday on the Philip French thread, and I went on to say that Attenborough's Seance on a Wet Afternoon was an odd film. Then I remembered that it wasn't his film, he was just in it--Forbes directed. So I never posted.

I like The Stepford Wives a lot; think I voted for it in the horror poll.

Comic book artist Dan Adkins.
http://www.newsfromme.com/2013/05/08/dan-adkins-r-i-p/

Taylor Mead has really left New York

:o

now I can aim for the messiest apartment in NYC.

:-((((

have only seen 'seance' & 'the wrong box' but both are classic imo, rip b. forbes

I remember Seance being quite good, and also this one w/ Malcolm McDowell as a paralyzed soccer player:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067357/

yeah, forbes also acted in and wrote the screenplay for The League of Gentlemen movie (terrific british crime-comedy drama not to be confused w/...) and under his watch EMI Films produced a number of interesting genre pictures, as well as classics like The Railway Children. Can't think of a more 'hyphenated' brit film person, tbh.

katherine chancellor of the young & the restless

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22463848

malcolm shabazz, malcolm x's grandson, killed in mexico

steve martland, factory classical associated composer

Damn, that's a sad surprise. Quite young, wonder what happened there?