Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

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.