Crowded House drummer is dead. Doesn't bum me out particularly, but this is the only celebrity death thread.....

hey, has the cellar ever run a celebrity dead pooL? a morbid but sometimes interesting distraction..

I submit michael jackson for the celebrity dead pool.

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.................if there is one thing that confirms in my mind that the kind of religion that drives people that are this feverant about stupid stuff like the whole schaivo case is nothing short of a dangerous cancer on society that should be treated like any other mental disorder it's stuff like this. Seriously, life is sacred! We need to protect it by...killing people!

To keep this more on topic - I can see why Hunter killed himself, if I'd seen the zenith, the highpoint in change and freedom and lived to watch this decline I'd have blown my brains out too.

the only problem with that, jaguar, is that every generation is convinced that the highpoint was somewhere 1-2 generations back - you know the "good old days".

[scratching head] When exactly was that?[/scratch]

: DOUBLETHUMBSUP!:

'65 IIRC. Maybe you're right lookout but I look around me, I look at the trends, hell, it's what I do and talk to those around me, it's just not pretty.

"'65 IIRC. Maybe you're right lookout but I look around me, I look at the trends, hell, it's what I do and talk to those around me, it's just not pretty," he typed on his high-speed-internet-enabled computer in her upper middle class flat, before draining the remainder of his chai tea and going to bed for 8 hours of slumber before getting up to go to his high-paying job. Ahh, the travails of the hunter-gatherer class.

I'm just kidding. Because I agree that things are getting generally more kooky and can look sort of depressing at times. I'm sure that our reasons for thinking so are on opposite poles, but anyway.

My point is, if you are reading this message, things could be worse.

her? his! Didn't think I came across that effeminate. I'm not talking about scientific progress or medical science, don't get me wrong, however if I got 8 hours sleep on a regluar basis I'd be jumping for joy. Nice flat wouldn't hurt either. Don't get me wrong, this isn't some kind of broad winge at the world in general, I guess what I'm waxing on about is a sense of social liberalism and forward momentum, nothing broader than that.

i edited it for gender, but too late.

i always get you and catwoman mixed up.

but how can we be sure these two ideas go together?

Ha! you probably carry a murse. (man + purse = murse) or as Joey called it - "a man bag".
what? how? one is a bitchy, american-capitalist hating, elitist... the other is... :eek:

J/K

Gotta draw the line somewhere, timbuk2 messenger bags and zero halliburton briefcases are the only things I carry.

Awwwww thanks.

How can they not?

just messing with you all the way around. well, except for the bitchy, elitist, purse carrying part. :eek:

i'm in more of a "poke them with a stick" mood than a debating mood.

I wasn't being sarcastic!

The Finn Brothers were just in Lawrence a few weeks ago. I really wanted to go see them, but noooo....

The final riddle was answered today for Frank Gorshin who played the Riddler in the 60's series Batman. He was really perfect for that part.

http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/riddle1.jpg

Also played in one of my favorite Star Trek (original) shows - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield - a comment on racial prejudice and hatred.

Grave Danger, the May 19th season finale of CSI will be a special two-hour episode written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and features big names such as John Saxon and Tony Curtis as well as Frank Gorshin's final acting role.

My PVR is on high alert. 8pm EST but double check.

Thanks for the heads up on the early start for CSI this week!

As much as I enjoyed him in Planet Earth (A Gene Roddenberry Pilot and follow up to Genesis II), and as an evil robot and, later in the series (apparently after three years we forget that he played someone else) an alien on The Six Million Dollar Man and the kindly dad/cop in multiple Nightmare on Elm Street, I don't know that "big" is a word I'd use to describe John Saxon. Great Character Actor, yeah ...

:blkwht: :whtblk:

:weird:
:question::thumbsup:

Gorshin was a mainstay on variety and talk shows in the 70's. He did an absolutely dead-on Kirk Douglas and Edward G. Robinson. He was also on the Ed Sullivan show on the same night that The Beatles made their US TV debut.

Frank Gorshin was a damn funny man, a gifted impressionist, and a great entertainer of the old school.

Holy shit! I'd completely forgotten Gorshin was an impressionist. :smack:

Didja ever see him imitate Cagney?

Now THAT was perfection.

Rod Serling, writer of many a fine drama, most of which were award winning in his day and are kinda rare to find today. Best known as creator of the Twilight Zone series, the first one, in the early sixties. I grieve he died suddenly on an operating room table, way too young, before I could shake his hand. Looking back, after my faith and my parents and grandparents, he did more for the way I look at the world and people than any other single person in my life, because of the the things he invited me to think through at such an early age. <deep bow>

Vincent Price. I know he was almost as old as Dick Clark, but I loved all his old horror movies, and he had a great voice for them.

Lady Sidhe, for a great treat, find a copy of Price's film "Champagne for Caesar". You may have to buy it used on Amazon if no videostore in your area has it. But under $20 used, it's a bargain you'll want to pass around the family. : )

Absolutely delightful.

None of them. Because they live in a "dream" world

I'll look for it. Thanks!

Lane Smith has died. He's that guy in movies and TV shows that makes you go, "Hey, it's that one guy...what was he in?"

He was a friend/client of mine - He will be missed. ("I -[clap for effect]- Dentical!" from My Cousin Vinnie.....)

well, that sucks, i've always enjoyed him.

Oh, that guy.

I saw something with him in it just the other day ... probably the Judging Amy episode. He was a decent character actor.

He was a good Perry White.

Not a bad Dick Nixon, and from what I heard he was good on Lois & Clark.

By golly, he *was* a fine character actor. I really enjoyed him in Son-in-Law, actually.

Mrs. Dar and I love "My Cousin Vinnie". We had to watch it tonight in his honor.

*southern accent* Uhn-huhn */southern accent*

Scotty beams up at last
I'll miss you, Scotty.

Dammit :bawling:

The Tribbles will miss him dearly. Me too.

'computer. computer. com-pu-ter."

"just use the keyboard"

"hmmm. how quaint."

"I canna change the laws of physics!"

Michael Stipe. :(

WHAAAAAAT?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

WHAT ARE YOU SAYING??? DID MICHAEL DIE???????????????????????????????????//

I think Mr. Mouse is kidding...god, I hope.

He died like two years ago.

Purhaps he means just his career.

NO! I had NO IDEA!

I am a walking commercial for why DRUGS ARE BAD, MMMMMKAY?

God. Now I am retroactively depressed.

And, I feel stupid.

I feel depressed AND stupid.

Jeez.

Um.... heh heh heh... OOPS.

My bad, sorry, Brianna, sorry, Mr. Stipe. He lives.

Can I change my pick to Earnest Borgnine?

Too late! You can't change! Now get out of line.

Just teasing. I was going to say, I Googled the crap out of Stipes and didn't see any mention of dying. In fact, they are starting a tour here in '05.

I just asked the guy I thought I'd remembered hearing it from and he really thought M.S. was dead.

Glad he's not, though.

Borgnine, on the other hand...

Goddamn! You nearly gave me a heartattack! JEEZ!

I'd have been happy to give you mouth-to-mouth inspiration. :)

*coy* well. Ok.

:lol:

For me it was a toss up between John Candy and Phil Hartman. I wasn't a really huge fan of Phil's it just effected me as if I was. I was depressed for days after. What a waste of life and talent over something so stupid. And to leave those kids behind with nothing....

As for John, again, another waste of life and talent. As is with most self-inflicted celeb deaths.

The thing about Phil Hartman was that he was young, healthy, and wasn't a crazy party guy you expected to die at any time. It was a real shock. He was in his prime. Plus, he was very talented. A shock and sad.

He was one of the original Solid Gold dancers.

A funny story about Michael Stipe:

Gibby, a la The Butthole Sufers, and the rest of the band found out where Stipe lived in Georgia. They bought a beat-to-hell van, parked it in front of his house in the dead of night, took the wheels off, and spray-painted on the side 'Michael Stipe, despite the hype, I stil wanna suck your big long pipe!'

True story.