Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

xpost -- Damn sorry to hear that. I must have seen his work at numerous times over the years given how many musicians I know around here have been devastated by the loss.

Paul was a dear person and a tremendous artist. He will be missed.

That video of the advert for HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES is tremendous ! Old school Broadway corn.

John Mahoney was between 52 and 63 when he was in 'Frasier'

Is this another one of those 'too young to play his dad' things?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO1AKAKGCvk

YES Ste!

Old school Broadway corn.

Ohhh, you'd never guess how that play ends...

John Mahoney was between 52 and 63 when he was in 'Frasier'

This is crazy.

He was less than 15 years older than Kelsey Grammer.

Mahoney's character in THoBL was the world's worst songwriter, his wife (Kurtz) mentally ill, and his son planning to assassinate Pope Paul. So it was a "new theatre" black comedy, especially when the first production flopped in 1971.

Estelle Getty was 62 when she started playing Sophia Petrillo. Bea Arthur was 63.

https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2018/02/05/paul-clipson-visionary-filmmaker-and-projectionist-dies-at-53/

Proper obit for Paul.

John Perry Barlow

https://www.jambase.com/article/john-perry-barlow-grateful-dead-lyricist-died

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR_o5-fMQoE&

RIP Thomas Denis (aka Qebrus).

wow end of an era wrt barlow

i forget what his well username was

Another obituary from the other side of his career: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-internet-pioneer-1947-2018

Lovebug Starski, 57.

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/02/09/584488179/lovebug-starski-rapper-and-dj-who-stood-at-the-vanguard-of-hip-hop-dead-at-57

This obit says he was first to rap the term hiphop

damn, Reg E. Cathey at age 59 per David Simon's twitter.
He'll always be first and foremost one of the hosts of PBS's Square One TV to me, but had a great run in the 2000s between Pootie Tang, the Wire, House of Cards, Neon Joe Werewolf Hunter, etc.

wow, way too young.

John Gavin

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/john-gavin-dead-dies-psycho-spartacus-1202694312/amp/

Reg E. Cathey was also a guest star on the greatest SVU episode ever.

He played a homeless guy on regular Law & Order, too. He was great.

Liam Miller, former Irish international footballer and player with Utd and Celtic among others

... Celtic, Utd, among others.

If you must

John Gavin was Reagan's ambassador to Mexico as well as a boring actor

Always got him and John Saxon mixed up.

^^^^^

Lol

Johann Johannsson

https://deadline.com/2018/02/johann-johannsson-dies-obituary-the-theory-of-everything-composer-1202284591/

Wow

Really shocking. Reports indicate he was found in his Berlin apartment yesterday, and that there'll be an autopsy, cause of death unknown.

RIP John Gavin - I read somewhere on Fbk that his passing now only leaves Vera Miles (aged 88) and Pat Hitchcock (89) still with us from the cast of Psycho.

sad that johannsson's obit has the theory of everything as his most famous work

horrible

Ghanian singer Ebony Reigns

https://www.fashionghana.com/site/ghana-mourns-death-of-dancehall-afrobeats-artiste-ebony-and-two-others/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI1caSAjTgk

http://www.wideopencountry.com/daryle-singletary-dies/

Oof, only 46.

Per Damon Krukowski on Twitter, Pearls Before Swine's Tom Rapp.

Vic Damone

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8099139/vic-damone-dies-89

People you thought were.... RIP Vic.

Tom Rapp, according to his daughter-in-law, on Twitter

(oh, missed your post there Ned)

Just heard about Reg Cathey yesterday--excellent in House of Cards, especially the big episode involving his son.

Marty Allen--some other world, one I remember.

http://variety.com/2018/biz/news/marty-allen-died-dies-comedian-daytime-tv-favorite-1202696418/

goodbye dere, Marty

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Kenneth Haigh, who played Jimmy Porter in the original Look Back in Anger production, and told George Harrison "You can be replaced, chickie baby" in A Hard Day's Night.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/feb/13/kenneth-haigh-obituary

Peggy Cooper Cafritz, DC-area patroness of the arts.

https://wtop.com/dc/2018/02/peggy-cooper-cafritz-influential-education-and-arts-patron-dies-at-70/

As the obit notes, she fought against racism as a young student at George Washington university in the 60s and then later co-founded the Duke Ellington School for the Arts. For those 2 things alone she deserves kudos.