Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

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