Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

katherine dunn

http://www.wweek.com/news/2016/05/12/katherine-dunn-author-of-geek-love-dies-at-70

Darwyn Cooke

https://joeshusterawards.com/2016/05/14/darwyn-cooke-1962-2016/

Last surviving Casablanca actress Madeleine Lebeau dies

William Herz - last surviving participant of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast.

Beatles press officer Tony Barrow

Julius La Rosa, pop singer/DJ/actor still most famous for being fired from Arthur Godfrey's radio show in 1953

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/julius-la-rosa-dead-godfrey-894207

RIP. Didn't know he was still around.

Makiko Futaki, key animator on nearly every Ghibli film as well as Akira and Wings of Honneamise.
You can watch clips of some of her best work here.

Susannah Mushatt Jones passed away a few days ago - up until that moment, the world's oldest living person and the last American born in the 19th century. She was 116 years, 311 days.

(The oldest now is Emma Moreno from Pallanza, Italy - the only remaining person alive verified to have been born in the 1800s).

There's a thread for the world oldest person (and cat)

WORLD'S OLDEST PERSON!!!!

Oh, I see.

Guy Clark, Nashville songwriter extraordinaire

http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/05/17/guy-clark-dead-74/80932338/

Jane Little, double-bassist and founding member of the Atlanta Symphony and record holder for longest tenure with a symphony orchestra (71 years):

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/16/us/jane-little-atlanta-symphony-orchestra/

I feel your pain, nurse Mary Anne Noland of Richmond, Va. RIP.

https://twitter.com/thegarance/status/732629278555267074

Emilio Navaira, who, after Selena, was seen as the one to bring Tejano music into the mainstream.

http://m.chron.com/entertainment/music/article/Tejano-star-Emilio-Navaira-reportedly-dead-of-7520484.php

http://www.factmag.com/2016/05/18/marlene-marder-kleenex-liliput-dies/

At 61. guitarist and more

aw, rip.

aw, loved kleenex/lilput...

morley safer

Ah, hell. I wondered why Liliput/Kleenex threads were being revived. RIP.

didn't know Safer was alive, or merely 84

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/05/19/morley-safer-dead/

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/original-beastie-boys-member-john-berry-dead-at-52-20160519

^this was the fourth from top story on the Guardian website earlier which was somewhat o_0

can only assume that someone just saw 'dead Beastie Boy' and uploaded it without noticing that it was a guy who played on one single in 1982

He did name the group and uh, well he was in an obscure band with Jack Rabid too...I like the story too of his Dad screamin at them, when they were playin at his home

i can't believe you used "obscure" and "Jack Rabid" in the same sentence

The band was called Even Worse

I have the Even Worse compilation CD. Don't think John Berry played on it though.

Alan Young, 96, natural causes
Wilbur on Mr. Ed, voice of Scrooge McDuck

RIP. He's reunited with Bamboo Harvester now.

Burt Kwouk at 85.

Oh no! I'll have to tell my friend who used to bump into him all the time after hours Soho drinking dens.

"Just a guy try'n'a make a livin'..." That's what Burt told him. RIP

There's gonna be karate fighting on the BBC News tonight.

RIP

just saw Burt on Saturday in Spielberg's Empire of the Sun

and always forget that he was in Goldfinger, same year he first played Kato in A Shot in the Dark

He has a great cameo in 1970's Deep End where he runs a (after hours Soho) hotdog stand

Nice little Burt memoir by Harry Hill:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/may/24/burt-kwouk-harry-hill-pink-panther

Alto saxophonist - composer Marco Eneidi, a major figure in the Bay Area and Vienna scenes, best known for his work with Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon, William Parker, and Glenn Spearman.

Beth Howland, best known for playing Vera on TV's "Alice."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/arts/television/beth-howland-accident-prone-waitress-from-the-sitcom-alice-dies-at-74.html

General Boy! http://exclaim.ca/music/article/rip_devo_figure_robert_general_boy_motherbaugh

Beth Howland's first husband was Michael J Pollard!

had a crush on vera when I was a kid, tbrr

The Beth Howland thing is weird. "...died on Dec. 31, 2015, in Santa Monica, Calif., her husband said on Tuesday. He had refrained from announcing her death earlier in keeping with her wishes."

Her wishes were to wait 147 days to make an announcement?

per Boston tradition

Was going to say, I think Vera was my first crush (age 9 or so). Geeky, charming.

Beth Howland's first husband was Michael J Pollard!

Had no idea about this, just Googled some pictures and fell straight into the 70s. Yikes.

didnt realize she sang this song in Company

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuQea2eVL2Y

cartoonist mell lazarus, of 'miss peach' fame:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/05/25/rip-mell-lazarus-colleagues-salute-the-warm-wit-of-the-momma-and-miss-peach-creator/

RIP, people I haven't thought of in decades.

Tempted to revive my Michael J. Pollard thread.

Just saw a headline that said 'X-Men Apocalypse' to top 'Alice' sequel on Memorial Day Weekend and was confused for a second.