Remembering the stars we lost in 2023
Paying tribute to the likes of Matthew Perry, Tony Bennett, Andre Braugher, Sinéad O'Connor, Tina Turner, Paul Reubens, Bob Barker, and more
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Clockwise from top left: Matthew Perry, Tony Bennett, Andre Braugher, Sinéad O’Connor, Bob Barker, Paul Reubens, Tina Turner Photo: Michael Buckner; JP Yim; Dia Dipasupil; Gaye Gerard; Mark Davis; Kevin Winter; Paul Natkin/Contributor
In 2023, we mourned the loss of a number of groundbreaking directors, visionary actors, and generational musicians who made an indelible impact on pop culture during their time on Earth. From Norman Lear to William Friedkin, from Matthew Perry to Paul Reubens, from Tina Turner to Tony Bennett, The A.V. Club pays tribute to all of the these talented artists and their many contributions.
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Remembering the clicks we want in 2023
Fortunately there’s now a moratorium on death for the rest of 2023 so these will be the only celebrities (or indeed people) who will die this year.
We can obviously avoid the problem by simply redefining the words “celebrity,” “death,” and “people.”
and “dirt”
You know damn well I’m immortal.
All hail Dirt! Dirt is LIFE!Are pigeons attracted to the sound of your voice?
No, but they are attracted to my manly beard, and the many crumbs caught within.
There was an old Dirt with a beard,
That most thought unkempt and weird
The birds came a-calling,
The smell was appalling,
Rest ye in peace, Norman Lear.
Next article: “Remembering the stars we’re about to lose in 2024.”Should we start a pool?
Next up, a retrospective of the halcyon days of January 2023.
This is gross.
We are 18 days into 2023. These are all people who have freshly passed and phrasing it like this makes it seem like a joke at their expense. On top of that, it’s a blatant grab for attention as no one, in 18 days, who cares about this stuff, have missed that these celebrities died.
Do better.
Thank you! Seeing the headline “Remembering the Stars we lost in 2023″ on the 18th of January 2023, I actually chuckled as I was pretty sure they weren’t serious, and thought it must be the headline for an AV Club tongue-in-cheek article that maybe acknowledges/responds to the countless comments pointing out how tacky it was in 2022 to keep having that list trotted out and updated every few weeks.But no, they are actually serious! (It’s kinda gross)I commented (twice) that it was quite the omission for the AV Club not to have an RIP article for Gina Lollobrigida – now I’m wondering if maybe someone read my comments and thought, “Hey, we messed up – I know! let’s slot her in with the others we did write about … in a Remembering the Stars slideshow! Never too early for one of those!”
Gina Lollabrigida made her English language debut in 1953 with John Ford’s Beat The Devil, but she had already made over 20 films in Eurore before arriving stateside, per The New York Times. Lollabrigida went on to make a significant impact on the U.S. film indurstry in the 1950s and 60s, starring in films like Trapeze, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Come SeptemberDamn, they got her name spelled right in the heading above the photo, then proceeded to misspell it everywhere else!Interesting to learn she was big in some mystical place called “Eurore”. Oh, and she made a big impact on the US film indurstry, yezzurrr!!
I honestly thought they made an error and meant 2022. Nope.
Almost seems more like a mistake. They might keep the running article in the publisher software all year and write the blurbs as deaths happen, then publish it at the end of the year.
Nah, this sub headline negates that ‘2023 has already seen the loss of Lisa Marie Presley, Jeff Beck, and more.
Hmm weird
fresh is better than rotten.
Little did you know they would return to it every few weeks when a new celebrity died, like a serial killer returning to fuck a corpse one last time.
It’s January.
Also dead in 2023 – any sense of taste or decorum at the AV Club.
I saw someone post this idea for an “article” as a joke in the comments the other day. I guess someone in charge saw the same comment but didn’t realize it was a joke.
18 days in, and we’re doing this? This is beyond scraping the bottom of the barrel. You’ve gone and scraped through the bottom, and dug yourself into a six foot grave. You should be fucking embarrassed by this attempt at “journalism” for (apparently, rage) clicks.
I’m a data-driven kind of guy, so every time this slideshow comes up I’m going to record how long it’s been since the previous posting and how many new people are on the list. Last year after about mid-year the list was reposted again after three new stars died, and the time between postings averaged around 14 days, but varied from about five up to 28 days.Why am I doing this? I don’t know. Let’s start:First appearance of the year on 1/18, five stars dead, 18 days since the beginning of the year.
Keeping up with this?
Thanks! I was on vacation.Unlike in 2022, the AVClub is showing restraint and good taste this calendar year, so this isn’t as fun as I thought it would be. It looks like the most recent update was on 6/30, which is 163 days since the previous update. Twenty-seven new people on the list gives us and average of one (AVClub-worthy) celebrity death about every six days. Again, this isn’t as interesting when the list isn’t ghoulishly updated every couple weeks, but there’s plenty of time in 2023 for the AVClub to dive back into tastelessness.On a personal note, the death of Cormac McCarthy hit me hard. Besides a few bits of small talk, I didn’t know the guy, but I’ve known his youngest son since he was a child. (There are divots in our driveway from where Cormac’s much-too-powerful pickup spun out picking him up from a playdate with my son.) He’s a really great guy with great moral character, and given his father’s success and wealth, that could have easily gone the other direction. Send some good feelings his way, because he lost his father, and all this celebrity stuff must make it a lot harder.
That’s a great anecdote, and Cormac’s death hit me the hardest on this list. I don’t think I’ll see another writer of his caliber in my lifetime. It makes a lot of sense that he would have raised a good person. Thank you for sharing that, and for what it’s worth, I’m genuinely glad I got to communicate with you as well.
It’s August 10th, and there’s a total of 35 people on the list. There have been five more added in the last 41 days, which is about one per eight days. The overall rate since January 1 is about one per 6.3 days.The previous time between updates was 163 days, so AVClub has increased its ghoulishness by a factor of four.
You know, this slideshow isn’t showing up in the regular “latest” chain of posts anymore, and I’m not going to search for it every few days, so I’m not going to do this anymore. Having to search for data is the least fun part of data analysis.
Not just posting but re-posting this in January.Fuuuuuuck you AV Club.
Hey why is there no POC in the title picture??
.Just a thought, but when you’re showing images of celebrities who have recently died you might want to include their birthdate and date of death right next to their name (or simply their age at death next to their name), since the first question most people will have will be, when were they born, and how old were they when they died (and may not want to read all the descriptions for all the photos to try and find that information)…..
Was wondering how soon this would be updated after Arkin died. Honestly, a respectful amount of time.
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I’ve been annoyed since yesterday that there wasn’t a Robbie Robertson obit. Now I’m even more annoyed they didn’t manage to include him in the stupid slideshow.
Remembering the A.V. Club writers we lost to A.I. in 2023.
Omitting Trugoy is a massive oversight. You should be more ashamed of yourselves than we are of you
Turner Classic Movies always makes these into true pieces of art, and they really outdid themselves this year.
Plus the TCM is way more comprehensive. Although not including Earl Boen seems a bit mean.
Well, the inevitable re-posting when it should have been posted in the first place. We made it, AVCommenters!All snark aside, I appreciate how comprehensive this list is.
And as a film buff, nothing makes me quite so extra-sad as the loss of great character actors and composers.
Odd that there was no mention of Gordon Lightfoot’s The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?
It SINKS!!!
Thanks for the epilogue. Real cliffhanger there for sure..
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Gina Lollabrigida worked in “Eurore” before coming here, huh? Thanks for nothing bots.
There are quite a few notables that, because they aren’t the usual “Hollywood” types, get left off these lists – despite being worthy of at least a tip of the cap in a final farewell:https://pureblather.com/2023/12/27/requiescat-in-pace/