Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

after reading that article I have formed a short mental list of friends of mine who might be convinced to change their name to "Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game"

As of today you can all refer to me as Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun.

can i call you HOTS for short?

sure

"If he'd become Sabbath Bloody Sabbath instead, he'd have lived to 200" muses Bill Magill

But then his soul would belong to Satan.

worth it imo

Hal Jackson, radio personality of 70+ years including pioneering stints at WABC and WBLS, at 96:

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/hal-jackson-pioneer-black-radio-dies-96-article-1.1083551

paul fussell

“From the 1950s on,” he wrote in “Doing Battle,” “my presiding emotion was annoyance, often intensifying to virtually disabling anger.”

Patron saint of IA thread?

Somewhere I have Class and BAD. Or at least, I did.

x-post from the Hal Jackson obit:

"Born in Charleston, S.C., Jackson grew up loving sports and school. He attended Howard University and made his way onto WINX by finding a white company to sponsor him and not telling the station owner who the announcer would be."

Is there an opposite of a RIP thread? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18219795

Filmmaker Kaneto Shindo (at 100), director of ILX fave Onibaba

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-kaneto-shindo-1912-2012/

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m527a9FJ0y1qz6f9yo1_r3_500.jpg

rip

RIP Eduard "Mr Trololo" Khil.

Dag

Ray Bradbury

Mars is heaven. RIP

Has own RIP thread: R.I.P. Ray Bradbury

i always think it's weird when people post really famous RIPs on this thread when it's pretty certain they're going to get a dedicated RIP thread. or is this thread just supposed to be a comprehensive list of dead celebs? i guess i don't understand what this thread is for.

Thought it was for people who might not be well-known for their own thread but could also be used to announce and link to standalone threads for more famous persons.

announce the passing of

also it's a handy one-stop REMINDER OF OUR OWN MORTALITY

ha, exactly.

RIP Bob Welch formerly of Fleetwood Mac. Shotgun suicide.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18363214

already discussion of this on his thread.

Oops, only just popped on the Beeb, hadn't heard.

A week late w/this, but:

Cinematographer Chris Challis (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Arabesque, Genevieve, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Top Secret! etc)

^Two major car films there

Didn't he understudy with Jack Cardiff or shoot some of his films when Jack turned director?

Wait, he shot The Small Black Room! RIP http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/Challis/Challis01.html

Of course I mean The Small Back Room.

Frank Cady

http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/obituaries/obituary-jan-fairley-writer-broadcaster-lecturer-1-2348562

ethnomusicologist and writer

Actress Ann Rutherford: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gone-wind-ann-rutherford-dead-336296

wiseguy Henry Hill

http://www.examiner.com/article/mobster-henry-hill-dead-at-69-heart-gave-out-over-unknown-illness

and as posted in the boxing thread, 3-time Olympic heavyweight boxing champ Teofilo Stevenson

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-teofilo-stevenson-20120612,0,308275.story

Rodney King

RIP, of course, my minds just elsewhere.

Just saw this, Drowned in his pool.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/17/us/obit-rodney-king/index.html

Victor Spinetti

and

Brian Hibbard

Not a good week to be Welsh and have cancer.

Had no idea that guy had a career outside of the Flying Pickets. RIP sideburns man.

Was just coming to post Victor Spinetti :(

His stage career saw him win a Tony award for his Broadway performance in Oh, What a Lovely War!, as well as co-starring with Jack Klugman when The Odd Couple toured London.

Hosni Mubarak according to BBC Newsnight. Not sure he deserves his own thread, but he was very powerful for a very long time.

Yeah, Reuters saying he's "clinically dead"

...after having a stroke in prison

B-movie/TV actor Richard Lynch, beloved by MST3K fans for Werewolf, best known to most other people maybe from The Sword and the Sorcerer?

More notably, Andrew Sarris/

Don Grady--Robbie on My Three Sons.

http://www.deadline.com/2012/06/r-i-p-don-grady/

Chip and Ernie, very much alive.

Doris Singleton from "I Love Lucy".

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/-i-love-lucy--star-doris-singleton-dies.html