Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

Denis, Denis.

I thought it was Denis but someone else put Dennis so I changed it.

Marceline Loridan-Ivens, 90

RIP Denis. Back in the early 2000s I worked in Central London and walked to work in Clerkenwell along Oxford Street. Often walking in the opposite direction was Denis Norden. Very tall, even taller than you might imagine, and very pale. More or less dressed exactly as he appeared on TV in later years: dark blue blazer, light brown trousers, white shirt, cravat, all at quarter to eight in the morning.

Arthur Mitchell
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-45583244

Kirin Kiki, so good in so many Kore-eda movies

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/09/16/films/veteran-japanese-actress-kirin-kiki-dies-75/

Robert Venturi (1925-2018), whose early writings and buildings defined an aesthetic of "complexity and contradiction" that would later be taken - especially after his collaborative work with Denise Scott Brown opened up new frontiers in the theory of the Pop landscape - as one of the first signposts of "postmodernism," though he did not originate or use the term.

Wow I just bought Learning from Las Vegas at the MIT Press Bookstore last week. Can’t wait to read it.

I've loved Kirin Kiki in everything I've ever seen her in. She was still married to Yuya Uchida despite separating from him in 1975! Their daughter Yayako and Kirin recently played younger and older versions of the same character in a film.
She was so great in Still Walking and After the Storm - apparently-sweet-old-lady characters with subtle depth and complexity, she was a true master. Damn.

Hearing on FB that Hardy Fox of Residents fame has died.

Man, not another. i would've guessed, from appearances, that he was healthiest of the bunch. I swear this never-ending rolecall of dying/dead u-ground peeps of importance in my life totally fucking SUCKS!!

Still here, but not for very long :( https://www.residents.com/news/?article=20180921-0732

Chas from Chas and Dave.

Thanks Tom. I was going by the mentioned dates on his website. Still sucks etc. What an amazing body of work though. Not perfect of course, nothing is. But definitely amazing.

Some think Chas never really wanted Gor to blimey him. It was just the way he talked probably.

hearing his dying wish was for Spurs to play out an error-strewn 2-1 defeat to Brighton this evening

apparently he had the best medical ppl on it but unforch twas eric dier tasked with handing them the implements and well

lettuce pray that Spurs shit defence will struggle to cope with a 34 year old carthorse and deliver this last wish to Chas!

NYers: Anne Russ Federman, 97, the last surviving daughter of Russ & Daughters appetizing store. She started working at the store at age 14, which means c. 1935. She died one day after Yom Kippur, one of the rare days in the year Russ & Daughters is closed.

Ok, I just heard about Chas Hodges and had a genuine 'Oh No' reaction. RIP.

RIP Russ daughter. I recently mail ordered my wife some smoked fish from there as a birthday gift.

i wonder whether dave will pull a sam and dave and replace chas with another chas?

hes hooking up with the other krankie and the last beegee

Former Lucasfilm producer Gary Kurtz

(xp) just realized deems has got his Chuckle Brothers and Krankies mixed up, not on, frankly.

the other krankie

both krankies are still alive and well u heathen

tom d and me, united in our kneejerk defence of scottish light entertainers

two krankies right here anyway

Kurtz gone, dang. Hell of a life and legacy, though.

Mistah Kurtz, he dead

Al Matthews, cigar-chomping Sgt. Apone in 'Aliens,' dies at 75 https://t.co/vmjMQJ7YhV pic.twitter.com/0KCaDJjGB6

— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) September 24, 2018

Holy moly, this interview with Al Matthews is worth reading in full: http://www.elegantastronaut.com/2012/08/al-matthews-real-life-marine-in-aliens.html

Apparently Norm Breyfogle, probably most famous for his Batman art of the early 90s. He had a stroke a couple of years ago, I know.

Dale Barclay (The Amazing Snakeheads, And Yet It Moves) at 32 from brain cancer :(

I supported the latter band a year or two back and he was lovely despite downing more Bucky than I would have thought humanly possible prior to getting up on stage and killing it.

Creator of Postman Pat dies: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-45666642

:(

;_;

Marty Balin, at 76.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jefferson-airplane-guitarist-marty-balin-dead-76-730912/

CBeebies currently airing the episode of Postman Pat with a guest appearance by Professor Brian Cox.

too soon for such a damning indictment of his legacy.

Seeing posts on FB about Otis Rush passing.

Yeah. I had no idea he was still alive, but apparently he was mostly inactive since having a stroke in 2003. This is such an amazing song (he re-recorded it in the early 70s, but the original just kills):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCD83igIShM

Yeah, those Cobra sides are all killer.

I saw Otis once, in 1987, opening for Los Lobos. To this day, he’s the only opening act I’ve seen where the audience demanded an encore.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/otis-rush-seminal-chicago-blues-215821929.html

https://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/local/ken-professor-philmore-has-died/article_3c5cbb0a-c4bb-11e8-b76d-9fb680ecc4d4.html

Trinidadian steel band pan player Ken Professor Philmore died at 58 after a car accident

Geoffrey from Rainbow

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/oct/01/rainbow-host-geoffrey-hayes-dies-aged-76

Aw, RIP. Loved that smutty routine they did, never intended for broadcast.

Charles Aznavour

http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2018/10/01/03004-20181001ARTFIG00151-mort-de-charles-aznavour-apres-une-longue-et-belle-vie-de-boheme.php

ahh bon soir

RIP. Saw him on Broadway a few decades ago, around the time I saw The Capeman.