Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

Could just about barely take Mama & Co. at non-lethal sketch length.

So it’s mentioned that Mayberry R.F.D. was cancelled by CBS as part of the “rural purge.” I wonder how often Ken Berry and Roy Clark crossed paths.

This article is full of interesting detail: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_purge?wprov=sfti1

this is an interesting contrast to the moonves-led regular bro and hot corpse uprising of the 90s

Kevin Grisham's The Rural Perjuror.

Rural juror?

oh wait I see

Funny, I never really thought about any sort of rural purge, but yeah, I remember all those hillbilly shows. Dukes of Hazzard, too, I suppose.

Right made that Rural Juror joke myself.

Think Dukes of Hazzard was later, when those shows started coming back, The New Wave of Rural Ruckus

Yeah, Dukes was post-Smokey, pure Carter Country.

Dukes might have been part of the Prime Time Stunt Man Pension Plan, along with A-Team and The Fall Guy.

Larry Storch lives

Exactly

DJ Paul ‘Trouble’ Anderson.

Cycling commentator and former pro rider Paul Sherwen, aged 62

no way. link?

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/dec/02/paul-sherwen-broadcaster-cyclist-dies-aged-62"> https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/dec/02/paul-sherwen-broadcaster-cyclist-dies-aged-62

33 years covering the Tour and 7 riding. Has always felt like he and Liggett would go forever.

yeah 33 years of commentary is nothing to sneeze at. He drove me bananas but I will miss him :(

NZ film director Geoff Murphy (Goodbye Pork Pie, The Quiet Earth)
https://variety.com/2018/film/obituaries-people-news/obituary-geoff-murphy-dies-dead-new-zealand-1203079148/

Hearing unconfirmed reports via a usually reliable friend that Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks has passed away.

Yep http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46476369

Damn, RIP.

RIP Pete. What a brilliant, brilliant artist.

And a really friendly guy, the couple of times I spoke to him.

RIP, one of the greats

fuck, rip pete :(

David Mossman, ex taxi driver and Vortex Club founder passed away on Friday night.

Chicago blues guitarist Jody Williams RIP at 83 . He played on famed sides like Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love" and "I’m Bad," Howlin’ Wolf’s "Evil" and "Forty Four" and Sonny Boy Williamson’s "Don’t Start Me Talking."...
He began performing at clubs at the age of 17, and within a few years became the house guitarist at Chess Records, a role he served in until he was called into the army in 1958.

Though he had backed a varied list of artists including Jimmy Witherspoon, Floyd Dixon, Dale Hawkins and Bobby Charles during his time at Chess, Williams left the music industry after returning to Chicago in 1960. He would only return in 2000

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/jody-williams-famed-chicago-blues-guitarist-dead-at-83

33-year-old singer Jackson Aluta Kazimoto, known as Dogo Jackie or Jackie Simela, of great Tanzanian band Jagwa Music died in a car accident

https://www.musicinafrica.net/magazine/tanzania-jagwa-music-frontman-dies

Potential heir to Howard Hughes Melvin Dummar
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900045831/utahn-melvin-dummar-who-claimed-to-be-a-howard-hughes-heir-dies.html

Sondra Locke

http://extratv.com/2018/12/13/clint-eastwoods-ex-girlfriend-oscar-nominee-sondra-locke-dead-at-74/

^^In November, but just publicized now.

someone needs to show The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

RIP Sondra

you'd think they could at least put 'clint's ex-girlfriend' *after* 'oscar nominee'

Nancy Wilson

https://apnews.com/2250c35bca12466a9f7a96523b0ff1fa?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

Better Sondra Locke obit:

https://news.avclub.com/r-i-p-sondra-locke-oscar-nominated-star-of-the-heart-1831088914

Melvin Dummar--would not have guessed in a million years he had still been alive.

Of local/regional interest only, Cleveland TV legend, weatherman Don Webster: https://www.cleveland.com/news/2018/12/don-webster-one-of-clevelands-most-popular-tv-personalities-has-died-at-79.html

I actually had occasion to interact with Don on several occasions. I was on my high school's "Academic Challenge" team when he was host of the long-running TV show; and when I was a button-pusher at WKNR 1220 AM, he provided the station's local weather forecasts, so I had to take phone calls from him a few times a day and record the weather onto a cart. Super nice guy.

damn, RIP Nancy

shit i just heard about ricky jay.

i got to see him at brown university in 1995 or so. it was billed as a "lecture" but it was basically his stage show at the time, framed around a history of sleight of hand. he did the watermelon thing.

the documentary about him is great. "deceptive practice" i think it's called? there's a story about a block of ice that literally makes me cry. there's another story from his karate instructor that probably ranks up there with the very best wtf how-did-he-do-that ricky jay stories.

Wrecking Crew bassist Joe Osborn.

:(

Colin Kroll, co-founder of HQ Trivia and Vine, dead at 34 of drug overdose.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/colin-kroll-co-founder-hq-trivia-vine-dead-769924/?fbclid=IwAR3KaKjGCOAy5LuhinJcrDZtKObFJN3iBOdYQcbzN3oAsyfkjaPwn3uUW0w

TCM's annual obit compilation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ewT7_NrGwM

Colin Kroll, co-founder of HQ Trivia and Vine, dead at 34 of drug overdose.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/colin-kroll-co-founder-hq-trivia-vine-dead-769924/?fbclid=IwAR3KaKjGCOAy5LuhinJcrDZtKObFJN3iBOdYQcbzN3oAsyfkjaPwn3uUW0w

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I've considered starting a rolling prominent person fentanyl overdose death because there seems to be at least one a month

Galt MacDermot, sampletastic composer of Hair.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/galt-macdermot-dead-hair-composer-dies-at-89-1170163

Penny Marshall ;_;

I had a friend who worked with Penny Marshall, and he would be... discreetly silent

RIP Myrna Turner

Yes, RIP this last

noooooo Penny, i loved her

her book is so good. such a rad lady.