Obit watch: June 21, 2024.

Your Donald Sutherland obit roundup: NYT. THR. Variety. Variety tribute.

IMDB. I did not realize he was Wilhelm Reich in the video for “Cloudbusting”. And we’ve watched “Don’t Look Now”: I can’t recommend it, even with the sex scene. On the other hand, I would like to see “Kelly’s Heroes” again, not cut up for television. And I’ve never seen “M*A*S*H”.

Master Chief Petty Officer William Goines (US Navy – ret.). He was 87.

In his 32 years in uniform, which included three tours of duty during the Vietnam War, he received a Bronze Star and a Navy Commendation Medal among other decorations.
After the war, he joined the Chuting Stars, the U.S. Navy parachute exhibition team, performing 640 jumps over five years.

Master Chief Goines is credited as being the first black Navy SEAL (though the paper of record does note that there was at least one black frogman in the underwater demolition teams that preceded the SEALs).

Taylor Wily.

Hailing from Laie, Hawaii, Wily — who stood 6’2” and weighed 450 pounds, was recruited in 1987 into the Azumazeki stable of sumo, the century-spanning national sport of Japan. Wily, who wrestled under the name Takamikuni, was undefeated in his first 14 matches and soon became the first foreign-born wrestler to win the championship in the sport’s makushita division. Two years after starting his career in the sport, Takamikuni reached the rank of makushita 2; however, he declined to pursue sumo further after knee issues developed.

From sumo, he went into acting. Other credits include both versions of “Magnum P.I.” (an uncredited appearance in the first, “Kamekona” in the second), the “MacGyver” reboot, and “One West Waikiki”.

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4 Responses to “Obit watch: June 21, 2024.”

  1. Pigpen51 says:
    June 21, 2024 at 3:40 pm

    My wife and I spent yesterday in Chicago. We took a dinner cruise and then a 2 hour bus tour of the downtown area. The main idea of both was to see up old architecture of the downtown area.
    It was a birthday gift for me, I will be 64 next week. It was a good trip, we went by tour bus from here in Michigan, so I didn’t into drive.
    The only thing is that it was a long day, with a lot of time on a bus. But I did get an idea of just how nice the city of Chicago would be if they got the crime under control.

  2. Storyteller says:
    June 21, 2024 at 11:07 pm

    Wily was well thought of here. He was very active with Shrines Hospital.

  3. stainles says:
    June 22, 2024 at 10:43 am

    Pigpen:

    I’m not a big fan of Chicago in general, for the reasons you outlined. But that does sound like a whole lot of fun. Almost makes me want to go myself. Also, I’ve never seen the U-boat.

    Happy birthday. I hope you have another 64 more, at least.

  4. stainles says:
    June 22, 2024 at 12:18 pm

    Thank you, Storyteller.

    I have not seen any mention of his work with the Shriners hospitals, except for one short sentence in his Wikipedia entry.

    Anyone who goes to try to cheer up kids in the hospital is worth acknowledgment and praise.