Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

Abbas Kiarostami

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36709240

John McMartin, Broadway star of Sweet Charity and Follies

http://www.playbill.com/article/follies-star-john-mcmartin-dead-at-86

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTWezTaM2u0

Sydney H. Schanberg

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/business/media/sydney-h-schanberg-is-dead-at-82-former-times-correspondent-chronicled-terror-of-1970s-cambodia.html?_r=0?_r=0

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/wbls-quiet-storm-dj-vaughn-harper-dies-71-article-1.2705633

geneviève castrée elverum aka ô paon

So young. So sad

rip schanberg

John Brademas, Indiana Dem congressman who became prez of NYU as it became an all-devouring landlord and unaffordable learning institution

Hector Babenco

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-hector-babenco-1946-2016

Author Carolyn See, age 82.

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-me-carolyn-see-snap-story.html

Qandeel Baloch. Killed by her brother...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36814258

Can't find an online obit for him yet, but the great English film theorist V F Perkins has died

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V.F._Perkins

alan vega, 78

http://www.vanyaland.com/2016/07/16/rip-alan-vega-electronic-protopunk-duo-suicide-dies-78/

Interviewed him in 1986--talked enthusiastically about his New York Rocker cover with Johnny Thunders. I liked the weird quasi-rockabilly album he put out around that time.

Frank Dickens, cartoonist and creator of Dickens:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/07/11/frank-dickens-creator-of-bristow-comic-strip--obituary/

Billy Name

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/billy-name-dead-dies-andy-warhol_us_578d33afe4b0a0ae97c2ff35

But Billy said
That both those words are dead
RIP

Weird or random RIP connection: Carolyn See's husband was a cousin of Andy Warhol's and used to torment him as a child.

RIP Billy

He's really funny in the great PBS American Masters.

https://twitter.com/AlbertBrooks/status/755596057724194816

Garry Marshall died.

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/garry-marshall-dead-dies-pretty-woman-happy-days-1201817964/

I've trashed him a lot over the years, but he's great here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Eh8lDJpwZc

RIP

RIP.

A friend of mine who was pretty close with Jerry Belson once told me about Jerry's sharp sense of Schadenfreude. Exhibit A was a quote which started: "Yes, this was a good year for me, 'Exit To Eden' came out."

Also yet another chance to recommend the novel Martian Dawn, by Michael Friedman.

Donal Logue just told this story about Garry Marshall on fb:

"Now this is a story I heard second-hand (so take it with a grain of salt.) Back in 1990, Garry was directing an adaptation of the Terrence McNally play “Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune.” The film’s title was shortened to “Frankie and Johnny,” and starred Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino.
I wasn’t there, but I feel confident the vibe on the set was less of a free-for-all than it was on “Dear God.” I don’t know Al Pacino, I met him only once to do a read-through of his Kervorkian project. While he was as nice as could be, I got the sense when he worked, he didn’t like to f**k around (as Tony Montana might say). I respect that. The proof ‘s in the pudding of his work and he’s on the Mount Rushmore of film actors as far as I’m concerned.
So Al comes into the diner to film a scene with Michelle Pfeiffer and they’re doing the scene and it’s intense and all of a sudden, Pacino goes off. “What the f*&K?! Garry?! I’m doing this scene, I’m trying to work and I look over and I see myself in a MIRROR? What the hell is a god***ned mirror doing in here?!
Garry comes over to placate Al and asks what’s wrong and Al points out some small mirror on the set (that I think was part of the diner) and that he could see himself and it was unacceptable. Garry agreed and apologized and told Al to go back to his trailer while he took care of the problem. So Al leaves the set and immediately Garry grabs a couple of PA’s and says, “Get on the phone, do whatever you have to do, but buy me the biggest damn mirror in New York and get it here as fast as possible.”
A half hour later, Al Pacino comes back on set and Garry apologizes again and tells him everything’s fixed. Al nods and they roll the cameras, start the scene and when Al looks to his left, he’s staring at his reflection in a mirror it takes eight guys to hold in place. He laughs so hard, he cries."

Hahahahahaha that is great

I always liked Marshall as an actor - not just Lost in America but also in Soapdish, Keeping Up With The Steins and an episode of Murphy Brown

also as Myrna (Penny Marshall)'s brother in an Odd Couple ep (the whole family had the same vocal whine)

Felix: It's like stereo!

former vikings/cardinals coach dennis green

Bassist/composer Dominic Duval (probably best known for his work with Cecil Taylor).

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/arts/music/marni-nixon-singer-soprano-dies-86.html

Marni Nixon, singer.

rip

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawshank_tree

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/arts/music/marni-nixon-singer-soprano-dies-86.html🔗

Marni Nixon, singer.

i saw/heard Marni sing "Happy Birthday" in a comedy club 5 years ago, still had that voice. RIP.

(to Larry Storch if u must know)

Sandy Pearlman

http://bestclassicbands.com/sandy-pearlman-dead-blue-oyster-cult-producer-7-26-16/

RIP Sandy ;_;

Rip miss Cleo

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/cleo-iconic-tv-psychic-dead-cancer-53-article-1.2726689?utm_content=buffer524f6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxopPDMq7rs

I saw that one coming.

Tim LaHaye Dies at 90; Fundamentalist Leader's Grisly Novels Sold Millions

The Pitchfork obit for Sandy Pearlman is some kind of ...well, it's something:

http://pitchfork.com/news/67089-producer-sandy-pearlman-dead-at-72/

Touching In Depth

I got a fever and the only cure is an obit hurriedly compiled from a single source with an inappropriate bit tagged in the end

The other Richard Thompson, Cul De Sac cartoonist:

http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/richard_thompson_rip/

And the very great cartoonist and illustrator Jack Davis. Weirdly, this is the only online obit I can find for him at the moment:

http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2016-07-27/famed-cartoonist-jack-davis-noted-uga-bulldog-drawings-has-died

Oh, what the fuck? What an awful two-fer.

Aw, man. Jack Davis's artwork accounts for like 25% of my pre-teen exposure to popular culture via MAD. I've got a great book of his art at home.

I love Jack Davis too. Such a great style.

Thread that wouldn't exist/be the same without Davis: post movie posters done in a busy/claustrophobic caricature style from the 70s and 80s