Rashod Ollison, a truly great music writer and presenter of his own work. His appearances at the Pop Conference were wonderful.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 October 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
translator anthea bell
― mookieproof, Thursday, 18 October 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
I wish ppl posting in the rolling obituary thread would link to obituaries for these interesting sounding people
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 18 October 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
i wish ppl reading the rolling obituary thread knew how to use a search engine
― mookieproof, Thursday, 18 October 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 18 October 2018 17:49 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/18/anthea-bell-obituary
The term translator seems insufficient in this case. A great
― Number None, Thursday, 18 October 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
thanks that's a good one, what a career. I want to read that Tomcat book
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 18 October 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
Arkansas raised, Virginia -based music critic and author Rashod Ollison, mentioned above, died from cancer at 41. His writing about Aretha, Chaka Khan, and more was special.
https://pilotonline.com/news/local/article_9ea7895e-d31e-11e8-a7e0-bb75fff0a8b1.html
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 October 2018 04:04 (five years ago) link
today's been busy
― flappy bird, Friday, 19 October 2018 04:41 (five years ago) link
Danny Leiner, director of Dude, Where's My Car? and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
https://news.avclub.com/r-i-p-danny-leiner-director-of-harold-and-kumar-and-d-1829886429
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 October 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
RIP. great movies, the former is one of my favorites
― flappy bird, Monday, 22 October 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
pretty much the only stoner comedy films i've ever liked
(haven't sat thru Cheech & Chong)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 October 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
bad movies
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 22 October 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
actually i don't remember dude where's my car well enough but harold and kumar is bad.
his other credits are pretty stellar though. i just watched the sopranos episode "luxury lounge" on saturday
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 22 October 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
nah both DWMC and H&KGTWC are great, and this guy was no slouch on the tv credits either. A real loss imo. Great, consistent comedy directors are rare!
― Οὖτις, Monday, 22 October 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
harold & kumar was great! - i dont really remember Dude Wheres My Car except for the “and then?” bitrip
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 October 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
the continuum transfunctioner is a very mysterious and powerful device and its mystery is exceeded only by its power
― flappy bird, Monday, 22 October 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
one of the more honest bromance comedy scenes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghDDdQxgXRw
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 October 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
yesss
― flappy bird, Monday, 22 October 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
there is something very boyish and homoerotic about DWMC, much more so than Harold & Kumar. it's dreamlike, a fantasy movie in a way, & I don't mean the obvious alien stuff. like there's no reference at all to these guys being in/having gone to college, they work at a pizza place and can somehow rent that house (with the dude that lives in the closet), they've been dating the twins for a year and they still haven't had sex, and iirc are virgins? it's a bizarre movie
― flappy bird, Monday, 22 October 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
a friend of mine pointed out a significant plot hole recently though: no tailor would be open that late at night
― flappy bird, Monday, 22 October 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
Wim Kok, the last Dutch Labour politician (to date) to become prime minister, personification of the polder model and adherent of the Third Way:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-kok/former-dutch-prime-minister-wim-kok-dies-at-80-idUSKCN1MU0Q7
― breastcrawl, Monday, 22 October 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
comics artist Steve Dillon (Preacher, Hellblazer): https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/24/arts/steve-dillon-comic-artist-who-helped-create-preacher-dies-at-54.html
― rob, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
Damn, a ruptured appendix? Good lord. I had appendicitis when I was a teenager and knew something was seriously wrong within an hour, and mine didn't rupture. But I have an extremely low tolerance for pain. My dad had it a few years ago and also thought it was food poisoning, for three days - thank god he got to a doctor and had an operation in time. Was a big fan of Preacher when I was kid, was pretty o_O next to The Amazing Spider-Man and even The Punisher. RIP
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link
Steve Dillon died two years ago
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link
Yeah, when I read that post, for a minute I was like, did I dream of him dying a while ago?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
arguably the thread title only implies that this is 2018's thread for posting obituaries, not the thread for posting 2018 obituaries
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
ok lol at me. someone tweeted that and I didn't notice the date
― rob, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
via NYC's Film Forum:
Veteran Broadway, television and film actor James Karen, a frequent guest at Film Forum, died last night at his home in Los Angeles at age 94. Known for his roles in Poltergeist, Mulholland Drive, Wall Street, The China Syndrome, Return of the Living Dead, and many other movies, Jim was featured in a Vanity Fair article on Hollywood’s greatest character actors. To New Yorkers, he was familiar as “The Pathmark Man” on local television for over 25 years.
He's the director of Betty's screen test in MD, and was also a close late-life friend of Buster Keaton's. (see the recent documentary about Beckett's Film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKM8zdG1a9Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPSAgc5-uiI
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
that's arguably the best scene in Mulholland Drive. RIP
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:40 (five years ago) link
I could have sworn he died in the 90s.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
RIP James Karen. He and Don Calfa are both deliciously funny in Return of the Living Dead.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
RIP.
Career-summing 2015 interview on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast: https://www.gilbertpodcast.com/james-karen/
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
quintessential that guy
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
just been looking at his filmography and he's in everything!
RIP
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
how is it possible that he was never on murder, she wrote *or* diagnosis murder
at least he hit matlock
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
the pathmark man!!!
― maura, Thursday, 25 October 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
seconding gilbert gottfried's james karen interview cryptosicko mentioned, it's great
― la bébé du nom-nom (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 October 2018 14:03 (five years ago) link
tony joe white
https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2018/10/25/tony-joe-white-dead-obituary-rainy-night-georgia/1764875002
― mookieproof, Thursday, 25 October 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
oh shit! he played Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival just last year
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 25 October 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
Polk Salad Annie is a killer
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 25 October 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
Seconded. I put it number one on my Elvis ballot. Also really like “I’ve Got a Thing About You, Baby.” RIP.
― Buckaroo Can't Fail (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 October 2018 21:27 (five years ago) link
James Karen bought up the town at the end of Little House on the Prairie, and Pathmark got hate mail.
from his NYT obit:
When George Clooney accepted the American Film Institute’s lifetime achievement award this year, he tried to convey what the ceremony felt like to him by recalling that several years ago Mr. Karen, a friend, had asked him to write his obituary because he was near death. Weeks and then months went by; no death. Finally Mr. Clooney called Mr. Karen’s wife.
“Yeah, Jimmy’s doing fine,” Mr. Clooney said she told him. “He just wanted to know what everybody thought about him while he was still around. He got a bunch of people to do it.”
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 October 2018 04:15 (five years ago) link
Now that’s a move
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 26 October 2018 04:33 (five years ago) link
he really was on every fucking tv show for 30 years
in the Gilbert podcast he does a great bit of Arnold Stang squawking about losing billing to Schwarzenegger (then Arnold Strong) in Hercules in New York
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 October 2018 04:54 (five years ago) link
Well, he was used to being Top Cat.
― Mark G, Friday, 26 October 2018 07:04 (five years ago) link
RIP Tony Joe ;_;
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Friday, 26 October 2018 11:15 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dqdq1sSXcAEZu3h.jpg:small
― mookieproof, Friday, 26 October 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
Just in time for this to come out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riIPhs80ARk
Lots of competition in the "ashamed to be British" stakes, but this might take the dog biscuit
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 October 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
surely the imperialism was worse
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 26 October 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link