Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

Not convinced, looks quite like a couple of other hoaxes so far. But guess we'll see at 5.

maybe he's going to be a dad again and someone misheard

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He's just dead, dead racist.

Think it's a slightly old-fashioned midlands thing to use 'dead' as a general intensifier, do other parts of the country / world do that? It's a feature in Mandarin too.

the scots think it's pure dead brilliant too

Every time someone starts a rumour about Prince Philip being dead, it adds another five years to his life. Please gossip responsibly.

— Hannah Erskine (@hanabizzle) July 20, 2018

Def an Edinburgh thing at least. Dead keen. Deid annoying. Dead tired.

'Dead wrong' is probably nationwide.

Shinobu Hashimoto, writer of many Japanese film classics

https://variety.com/2018/film/asia/shinobu-hashimoto-scriptwriter-akira-kurosawa-dies-dead-at-100-1202879323/

fuck me, that is some classic stuff he has had a hand on there. RIP.

for the next 25 minutes it's Schrödinger's Prince

goodnight racist prince

Adrian Cronauer, whose stint as a Vietnam DJ very loosely inspired a Robin Williams/Barry Levinson hit

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44897634

RIP. It must be odd to have outlive the person who played you in your biopic.

so the royal bucket's status remains unkicked?

Keep the Prince alive.

jonathan gold

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-fo-jonathan-gold-obit-20180721-story.html

Oh shit.

Goddammit.

This is totally fucked....

cancer grrrr

Is there a JGold appreciation thread?

I posted here...
things Billy Corgan said to Kim Thayil in Australia in 1994 poll

Bill Loud, patriarch of the Loud family, pioneers in reality TV (An American Family). Was 97.

Lucy Birley - model and former wife of Bryan Ferry.

The Vogue obituary is the one to read https://www.vogue.com/article/lucy-birley-obituary

The Times obituary today is unexepectedly bad and exploitative.

wow yeah that Vogue obit is beautiful <3

rip Lucy ;_;

Ron Dellums, 13-term liberal leader in the House (was called a "Watusi from Berkeley" by that ass Ed Koch)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/ronald-dellums-who-entered-congress-a-firebrand-and-left-a-statesman-dies-at-82/2018/07/30/cbc41d76-941c-11e8-810c-5fa705927d54_story.html

I used to like his son Erik as an actor - he played a drug dealer on Homicide: Life on the Street and a medical examiner on The Wire.

Bernard Hepton

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jul/30/bernard-hepton-obituary

Awww, so good in TTSS.

Tomasz Stańko, Polish jazz trumpeter

Sam Mehran, musician, 30.

*31

Joseph Maus, 30.

Last month, Esther Judith Singer, “Chichita,” translator and wife of Italo Calvino. http://www.lastampa.it/2018/06/23/cultura/e-morta-esther-judith-singer-la-moglie-di-italo-calvino-B6liQFz7YJRdR3PwAFldRM/pagina.html

Actress Mary Carlisle: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mary-carlisle-dead-bing-crosby-star-delightful-musicals-was-104-1085748

Fakir Musafar, body modifier who came to international prominence following his inclusion in Modern Primitives by Re/Search books.

(Can't find an actual obit but being discussed on twitter and confirmed)

Zombie Boy

The kid who said “I like turtles”!?

I thought Mustafar had died in the late '90s or early 2000s. I guess I was confusing him with Bob Flanagan (who died in 1996).

Sometimes it feels like a run of deaths has a theme.

Barry Chuckle
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/05/barry-chuckle-comedy-duo-the-chuckle-brothers-dies

the end of an era...

The funeral will be hilarious

Yes, I’m not sure whether it would be inappropriate for the pallbearers to do ‘to me, to you’ or inappropriate for them not to.

So the character on The Mary Tyler Moore Show was based on this guy?

RIP Barry

;_;

at least if one of Cannon or Ball dies, then they can hook up with t'other Chuckle Brother now!