Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

His obituary in the guardian damned him with faint praise:

To be fair, he did have some good lines.

maybe.... yknow maybe yeah ill change my vote to that tbf

Walter Swinburn (perennial pub quiz answer as the jockey who rode Shergar to victory in the Derby).

http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-racing/three-time-derby-winning-rider-walter-swinburn-dies/2210291/#newsArchiveTabs=last7DaysNews

Alan Thicke

that's kinda crazy as this tweet was 4 hrs prior to yr post

Alan Thicke ‏@Alan_Thicke
Season 2 Fuller House looking good. I even like the ones I’m not in! #fullerhouse @fullhouseguy @bobsaget @candacecbure #netflix

The trouble with scheduled tweets.

enjoy your eternal napple, Dr. Thicke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfRQJ4tLS7I

he wrote a ton of cheesy tv theme songs because he figured out where the money is

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/books/e-r-braithwaite-author-of-to-sir-with-love-dies-at-104.html

ER Braithwaite, author of To Sir With Love. He was 104.

man alan thicke

not a good year for canada

most of Thicke's career looked like hot garbage, but he was head writer on "Fernwood 2 Night", so RIP

Pianist-composer Paul Bley.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, January 4, 2016 10:45 PM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:-(

― no lime tangier, Monday, January 4, 2016 10:59 PM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

his open, to love album is some of my favourite solo piano playing

― no lime tangier, Monday, January 4, 2016 11:01 PM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i missed this, RIP. i got this album on a whim recently and it's really intense and wonderful.

The majority of Thicke's career probably *was* hot garbage (the half-an-episode of Growing Pains I caught a few years back is proof that some things are best left back in childhood) but I had gotten to really enjoy him in recent years as an affable presence in his guest appearances on things like Bill Maher's TV show and Gilbert Gottfried's podcast.

Also, I loved his response to Kirk Cameron's homophobic ramblings: “I love Kirk but I may have to spank him…’tho not in a gay way!”

I remember seeing Thicke of the Night when it premiered. Hoo boy.

Right. Important.

Whoever it was has to do a Dead Pool next year. This year was the first time it got missed, and look what happened..

i worked w/his brother for a few years and the unmistakable thicke voice runs in the family.

he wrote a ton of cheesy tv theme songs because he figured out where the money is

― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Tuesday, December 13, 2016 8:31 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Seriously. Altman's son made more money for co-writing 'Suicide Is Painless' than Altman himself ever did for M*A*S*H.

RIP Dr. Seaver

Whoever it was has to do a Dead Pool next year. This year was the first time it got missed, and look what happened..

Amongst the carnage of the 2016 rolling obituary thread, I think Muhammad Ali has been the only one of my regular dead pool picks to go.

Jack Chick is the only one of my dead pool regulars to go.

Dr. Bombay!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bernard-fox-dead-bewitched-actor-who-played-dr-bombay-was-89-956294

dear Canadians, do not play hockey w/ your son when yer pushing 70, see what happens?

xpost

Didn't even realize he was still around. The last surviving of the key Bewitched players?

I would think so. Such great supporting weirdos--Bombay, Uncle Arthur, Aunt Clara, the Kravitzes...

Serena...

You do know who played Serena?

I do.

One of the best things about looking back on Bewitched is realising Elizabeth Montgomery was really left-wing, had a lot of control over casting choices and her cast was full of blacklisted and/or queer actors.

Valerie Gell of The Liverbirds
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/dec/14/valerie-gell-obituary

Craig Sager, the sideline reporter with the crazy suits

You do know who played Serena?

― jane burkini (suzy)

joeks.

Though I'll add that I thought "Serena" was much sexier than "Samantha" because of the character, even though they didn't really try to make her look different, besides the clothes (maybe Serana had straighter hair?).

Black hair.

OK, didn't remember that.

http://68.media.tumblr.com/695dfda4500afbff45f1fa2885fab1e2/tumblr_mj9yojxXX11qd9o48o1_1280.jpg

Looking about 10 years ahead of her time there!

Joan Jett's inspiration.

aww dr bombay :( though I must admit I had no idea he hadnt died long ago.

aw man sages

Henry Heimlich, of Manoeuvre fame
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38351903

I dont look forward to the false stories that he died choking.

oh he's that guy wins used for a Haim pun once:p

Whoever it was has to do a Dead Pool next year. This year was the first time it got missed, and look what happened..

― Mark G, Wednesday, December 14, 2016 2:55 PM (four days ago)

it got missed in 2015 as well. I'm not sure if this was a matter of ilx growing up and developing a social conscience or of the organizers being too lazy to start a new thread.

I have a strong apocalyptic feeling about 2017, so if there's a dead pool next year I'm gonna take a risk and fill my ballot with celebrity babies. sorry, Prince Alexander Duke of Södermanland, but if the world ends next year, you're going with it, and I may as well get some posthumous fake internet points out of the deal.

oh he's that guy wins used for a Haim pun once:p

haha good times

that was a real "rib-tickler"!!!!

http://www.who2.com/famous-people-died-at-age-99-years-old/

sadly all too brief!!!

imho 109 is the most tragic age a human can die at

rolling obit is much better than deadpool imo

xp 68 tho

Heimlich's family is, uh, interesting. His wife co-authored a book on homeopathy, one son became a Christian radio talk-show host and another has a website dedicated to showing what a fraud his dad was.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

http://m.tmz.com/#article/2016/12/18/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/

too soon

It is a condition of my age that I knew her best from the cop-slapping incident, which she later spoofed in the second Naked Gun movie ("This happens every fucking time I go shopping"). RIP.