Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

Benny Hill used to drag up to spoof K Boyle's ads in the '70s, I seem to recall. Clingfilm? Also flexed her linguistic skills presenting Eurovision.

I read her TV Times agony aunt column avidly as a boy. Scarcity of media and all that.

She used to win the TV Times awards' "Female Personality of the year" with an ubiquity like "Ant and Dec" had. It seemed very strange that the BBC news 'tribute' consisted of a couple of snips from Blankety Blank w/ Wogan, a few pics from Eurovision, and a matter of fact 'un yeah, she died OK?" (not an actual quote)

Les Payne, pioneering journalist of Long Island (NY) Newsday

https://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/newsday-les-payne-dies-1.17534552

aw man

If Ozymandias had lived: Toys "R" Us founder Charles Lazarus dies at 94

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/22/toys-r-us-founder-charles-lazarus-dies-at-94-as-toy-empire-liquidates.html

Oh he'll be back

another interesting fun fact I didn't know is that Frida from Abba was an OG Norwegian "Lebensborn-child" - Norwegian mother + Nazi officer father. I can't remember one that mentioned in the 1982 Look-In annual ABBA interview!

rong thread!

Oh he'll be back

a really cold part of me is dreading arnold schwarzenegger dying because every subeditor and ~twitterati~ on the planet will spew “he’ll be back” like it was their own special genius idea

Unless he's killed like Bennett in Commando, then they'll all be saying "let off some steam, Arnie"

Louise Latham

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/louise-latham-dead-tippi-hedrens-mother-hitchcocks-marnie-was-95-1096599?__twitter_impression=true

"unpredictable" Zell Miller, frequently a jerk

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/zell-miller-georgia-governor-and-senator-with-unpredictable-streak-dies-at-86/2018/03/23/9bc8a858-2eaf-11e8-b0b0-f706877db618_story.html

frequently a jerk

There were times when he wasn't, in your mind?

Never mind; I don't want to know. I'll just assume he said something shitty about Hillary.

wow, Zell Miller is a blast from the past

Bassist Buell Niedlinger has died. Played with Cecil Taylor, with Anthony Braxton, did sessions with Dolly Parton, the Eagles, the Village People. https://jazztimes.com/news/buell-neidlinger-dies-at-82/

Philip Kerr, author of the Bernie Gunther detective series dead from cancer

Oh man that's terrible

the Bernie Gunther detective series is great. The next and perhaps final one is out April 3 in the U.S.

Nice celebration of the books from last year:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/10/the-third-reichs-good-cop

And I gotta say, an anthology called The Penguin Book of Fights, Feuds and Heartfelt Hatreds is right up my street.

French actress Stéphane Audran

;_;

also

Barbara Stone, producer, distributor and founder of London’s Gate Cinema

Andy Lewis, who, along with his brother Dave, wrote the screenplay for Alan J. Pakula’s Klute

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5502-the-daily-remembering-stephane-audran-barbara-stone-and-more

the actor Bill Maynard

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20716037

the gaffer!

I always remember the bit from the titles where he pulls a parking ticket off the windscreen of his car, gets in, and then chucks it on the back seat on top of hundreds of other tickets.

Oh No, not Selwyn Froggitt!

^ that has to be a headline somewhere

http://img.sharetv.com/shows/standard/oh_no_its_selwyn_froggitt_uk.jpg

Bill Maynard was often very good and of course Alan Plater is an all time great but ONISF! really has not aged well at all

ONISF! is still good imo, it's a pity it doesn't get repeated more.

the pilot episode (by Roy Clarke) is interesting, it's a bit less broad than the series, emphasises the bleakness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q2HK10cvMQ

you Brits are really losing a lot of domestic celebs, so for our part, Rusty Staub

https://www.amazinavenue.com/2018/3/29/17175710/mets-rusty-staub-death-new-york

Bill Maynard a definite candidate for "people you thought died years ago".

Alias, the anticon guy

There’s no proper way to say this or deal with this, but so I want to put this out there and then step away for a while. Our great friend and longtime collaborator Brendon Whitney (@AliasAnticon) passed away of a heart attack yesterday. No one was nicer. No one. We love you, Bren pic.twitter.com/4TxOCPJo2z

— Sage Francis (@SageFrancis) March 31, 2018

damn, he can't have been very old at all. Loads of ppl in their 40's dying of heart attacks recently, well not all of them famous, but it seems to be a thing I've noticed a lot recently - including an old school pal.

Aw, Selwyn. The ubiquitous and emphatically not-Northern David Lodge playing his brother in that pilot. A little verklempt at the boom-in-shot around 3min. And applause from the studio audience over the titles! Another time.

Revived his own separate thread, but Steven Bochco:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steven-bochco-dead-hill-street-blues-la-law-nypd-blue-creator-741199

rip my tv watching in high school & college :(

never locked into any of his shows cept Hill Street, but that was certainly a landmark

Winnie Mandela

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/apr/03/janka-nabay-bubu-music-sierra-leone

The 54 year-old Nabay was back in his homeland of Sierra Leone when he became ill and died. He had been living in recent years in Philadelphia, Brooklyn and DC .

oh shit, he played here just a couple of months ago. man had some jams, rip janka

Ray Wilkins

It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we have learnt that former England midfielder Ray Wilkins has passed away, aged 61.

The thoughts and condolences of everyone at the PFA are with his family and friends. pic.twitter.com/pr0JBahJgQ

— PFA (@PFA) April 4, 2018

I'll go for the "if you haven't got anything good about the departed, then stfu" post!

Isao Takahata, director of Graveyard of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday, Tale of Princess Kaguya etc etc
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20180406-00000503-sanspo-ent

Eric Bristow!

that's big!

only 60 wtf? thought he was much older than that

also i'm surely not the first person to think that he's gone out on a single and double top

180 was never on. RIP Eric nonetheless.