Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

Pittsburgh musician B.E. Taylor, best known for regional 1983 hit Vitamin L

I always thought maybe I imagined this song, since nobody else ever remembered it. The lyric, "If you could buy, I'm sure they'd sell Vitamin L" always drove me bonkers.

tbf he was no donnie iris

Ah! Vitamin L....eah!

RIP R2-D2:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/13/kenny-baker-r2-d2-dies-star-wars

;_;

RIP

beep boop

I had no bloops for him, but RIP anyway.

sad boop

Michel Richard
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2016/08/13/acclaimed-chef-michel-richard-dies-at-68/88670084/
his tater tots recipe:
https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13886364_1345325458830339_3608708307530608883_n.jpg?oh=217078a29ed89ccc927f86753e20164a&oe=5859C61C
RIP

Marion Christopher Barry, dead at age 36 of a drug overdose.

Fyvush Finkel

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/theater/fyvush-finkel-pillar-of-yiddish-theater-dies-at-93.html?_r=1

Dalian Atkinson

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/dalian-atkinson-aston-villa-dead-taser-police-death-telford-footballer-latest-a7191601.html

Fucking phenomenal use of passive voice by the cops there.

"West Mercia Police can confirm that officers responded to a report for the concern for the safety of an individual at approximately 1.30am this morning at an address in Telford," the force said in a statement.

"Upon arrival Taser was deployed and a 48-year-old man, who subsequently received medical attention, was pronounced dead at approximately 3am.

I mean, PV to the point where it's suggesting he received medical attention after he was pronounced dead.

RIP Fyvush :(
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-3onBmTE3I3o%2FUnZ30Uwy9pI%2FAAAAAAAAGaQ%2FFzHVXrljO9g%2Fs1600%2Fdybbuk%2B5.JPG&f=1

RIP Bobby Hutcherson - played on some of my favourite jazz albs, and yrs too

https://www.sfjazz.org/onthecorner/bobby-hutcherson

:( RIP

:( RIP to another legend

goddammit

I just got into Bobby Hutcherson in the past year. Really good stuff. RIP.

Joao Havelange. So crooked they'll need a corkscrew shaped coffin.

RIP Bobby H.

John McLaughlin, longtime 'McLaughlin Group' host, dies at age 89

Not the fusion guitar player dude.

oh man end of an era

My parents made me watch The McLaughlin Group a lot. I always found him to be a bit of a humorless grump, tbh.

for some reason the McLaughlin Group was regular sunday morning viewing over pancakes at our house growing up

^^Same here. Motor Week=>This Old House=>New Yankee Workshop=>Gardening Shows=>McLaughlin Group=>Tony Brown's Journal=>Firing Line WERE our Sundays for years and years.

And of course there's this: https://video.yahoo.com/sinatra-group-000000236.html

McL Group was probably the last poli-panel showi hatewatched, in the '80s. no idea it was still going.

Yeah, in the obit I read they said he'd just missed his first taping in 34 years.

i'm going to resist looking up if any of the old regulars are still alive (mor-TON Kondracke, Jack Definitely Dead Germond, E Drew)

Dana Carvey did his McLaughlin for at least a couple seasons

Pat Buchanan outlived everyone

Eleanor Swellenor's still around--maybe she wasn't an original. I checked in last maybe a year ago. What did he make of Trump?

I swear I don't think I ever knew McL been a Jesuit, let alone Nixon's Priest. wtf happened there?

anyway, i wish i still believed in hell so he'd burn in it with Novak

Arthur Hiller

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/arthur-hiller-dead-love-story-720777

you did well with The In-Laws

i will run to the subway "serpentine!" in your honor

Is "The Hospital" any good?

patchy, well acted by Scott, Rigg; main problem is Paddy Chayefsky's typical reactionary-liberal hysteria

RIP Jack Riley

http://www.avclub.com/article/rip-jack-riley-bob-newhart-patient-and-rugrats-dad-241406

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7480170/matt-roberts-dead-3-doors-down-guitarist

Guy from 3 Doors Down. Had never known his name, tbh, but sorta shocked that he was close to my age.

Rot in hell, fucko

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7480171/lou-pearlman-dead

Garfunkel's cousin!?

Several of Pearlman's belongings, including his college degrees, were purchased by AV Club journalist and film critic Nathan Rabin during the eBay auction.[57]

Toots Thielemans, RIP
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/23/arts/music/toots-thielemans-jazz-harmonica-player-is-dead.html

^ was going to post that :)

great in
http://iv1.lisimg.com/image/137142/647full-the-sugarland-express-poster.jpg

amongst many other movies, obv.

solo in Midnight Cowboy still shines

not many can boast playing with Reinhardt, Parker and doing the theme music to Sesame Street .. and of course Midnight Cowboy, which still sometimes makes me a bit weepy.

Seeing reports that Gilly Smith of Gong has passed.

Steven Hill aka Adam Schiff on Law and Order.