Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

Just coming to post that!

Wow! One of the more important figures in twentieth century comics for sure.

I say this without sarcasm: he will be missed

the final list from this thread is gonna be completely devastating

Picturing Chick waking up in, like, the Buddhist afterlife and being like, "Fuck, REALLY?!"

oh shit re: Jack Chick

I hesitate to say RIP

Roast in peace?

Sheri S. Tepper

Good GOD, today.

Actor Michael Massee. Predictably, most online resources are referring first and foremost to the awful accident he had no control over.

http://www.avclub.com/article/rip-actor-michael-massee-244905

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/kay-starr-ferociously-expressive-singer-who-had-pop-hit-with-wheel-of-fortune-dies-at-94/2016/11/03/e456531a-a21d-11e6-a44d-cc2898cfab06_story.html

Have to admit I never heard Kay Starr before tonight, but her voice seems to split the difference between Patsy Cline and Dinah Washington, which is fine by me.

And now I see that she was a big influence on Patsy Cline.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/bob-cranshaw-jazz-bassist-who-spent-five-decades-with-sonny-rollins-dies-at-83/2016/11/04/68ac5f44-a294-11e6-a44d-cc2898cfab06_story.html

Janet Reno, aged 78

Janet Reno by Anquette (1988)

[Intro]
In our town we have a State Attorney by the name of Janet Reno
She locks brothers up for not paying their child support
In your town you may have someone just like her

[Verse 1]
You think you're so slick, that you won't have to pay
You slay, get a baby, then run away
Oh, but I got a trick for your monkey ass
The boys that don't pay get cased up fast
You ask to Janet Reno and she lays the law
And when she's through with you, you'll wish you never saw
Me or the baby or the place where we met
Digging up old gold that you wish you could forget
The proof is here, it's living and breathing
And Janet Reno's makin sure that I start receiving
All the money you get, all the checks you make
Janet Reno will make sure and TAKE

[Interlude 1 (to the tune of "Yankee Doodle")]
Janet Reno comes to town collecting all the money
You stayed one day, then ran away, and started acting funny
She caught you down on 15th Ave., you tried to hide your trail
She found your ass and locked you up, now WHO can post no bail?
(Bust it!)

[Verse 2]
You're out in your 'vert, dicking it down
You start to get babbling when Reno comes around
You start changing your looks, your clothes and your car
You're not a mama's boy, you're a projects star
It's time to pay your dues, I mean pay in full
Janet's in control, you ain't got no pull
You can't boss around like the boys on the Ave
And slowly but surely I'm getting all that you have
From your bad-ass suits to your Revlon cologne
Your diamond rings, gold rope and everything you own
Will get taken and then you be sad to the max
And I'll even get your income tax

[Interlude 2 (to the tune of "Charlie Brown" by the Coasters)]
He walks in a courtroom, cool and slow
And calls Janet Reno a no good dirty ho
She locks yo ass up, now you don't know what to do
The boys on the Ave. are sure dissin you
(Hit it!)

[Verse 3]
Janet Reno gets justice for all
You can solve your problems with a phone call
So if you have a problem that you want resolved
Just straighten it out when you get in court
Put your faith in her and you'll want her respect
And if it's up to her you get all your checks
She helped me out of a jam, I'm doing well on my own
It could be the same for yours, been proven and shown

[Interlude 3 (to the tune of "This Old Man")]
Yes my man had a Brougham
But this time he's not driving it home
With a knick-knack-slam-splack, you hit it, now you're gone
Now I'm 'round town just pushing your Brougham
The next time you start to make a selection
Make sure that you got some protection
Think twice the next time before you jump right in the bed
Take a minute out to put a rubber on your head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l01vmgzm6fQ

Nobody's mentioned Jean Jacques Perrey?

damn.

An ilxor on hiatus mentioned on FB, I think

Damn, I was listening to Cranshaw on a Bobby Hutcherson album just two days ago

What? RIP JJP.

My kids love "Popcorn" because of this:

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

re: RIP Jean-Jacques Perrey: posted this on facebook, a must-see solo Ondioline demo + Gershon performance -- after this panel on 'I Got a Secret'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pOqkn9JgO8

O_ondioline specifically on this clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05sAxt8zNZI

Veteran broadcaster Sir Jimmy Young dies aged 95

How was Clive Dunn alive until today

make-up

I'm now older than Dunn was when he started playing Corporal Jones. Just as long as I'm not an actual grandad in three years' time.

http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2016/11/08/97001-20161108FILWWW00403-cinema-deces-de-raoul-coutard.php

Ugh. RIP :(

RIP Raoul

Clive Dunn died several years ago, no?

Yeah, yet another misunderstanding of a four year old anniversary revival of something on Twitter (though by the time I saw it trending on Twitter, all the tweets were people taking the piss of people who thought he'd just died). Like how Tony Hart dies every year.

America

Respect to anyone who dies today.

aaaaaaaaaaargh

Leonard Cohen :(
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/nov/11/leonard-cohen-obituary

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/leonard-cohen-makes-it-darker - this is great and made me a little more at peace with it.

http://tvline.com/2016/11/11/robert-vaughn-dead-man-from-uncle-died/

FUCK FUCKING FUCK THIS WEEK

he was old, rip

last of the Magnificent Seven

last Starfighter

no wait that was the kid

Are you thinking of Battle Beyond the Stars? Vaughn basically reprised his Magnificent Seven role in that.

no wait that was Battle Beyond the Stars

way to kill my punchline, Phil

I have nothing else in life besides being a killjoy, don't deny me

nah it's good i was rambling

i saw Battle Beyond the Stars at the movies when it came out, frightened to go back in case it's not as fun as 13 year-old me thought

also RV was on tv what feels like every Sunday lunchtime when i was a kid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUOPV32gq-c

Its probably not on anymore xpost