RIP, famous person
Seems to me that we don't know whether to give dead celebs their own thread, put them in the "bummed you out the most" thread (even if it didn't), or pop them in the death pool thread (even if no-one picked them). So here's the answer, and I'm kicking it off with Susannah York
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12200725Trish Keenan
Died young, at the age of 42 from complications of pneumonia.
My favorite Christmas Carol is the George C. Scott version. In it York plays Mrs. Cratchit. That's the only thing I know her from.
Probably very few will get this, but this one's for Bri:
RIP Dr Creep. :(
http://www.drcreep.com/index.cfm
We grew up with Dr Creep, from
Clubhouse 22 to Shock Theatre, there isn't anyone in my age group, and younger and older, who didn't know and love the Creepster.
I had a special brush with greatness: I was at my best friend's house in Jr Hi, and her dad was also a fairly famous local entertainer. I was over there once and answered their phone "L___ Residence" and the man asked for my friend's dad and he said he was Barry Hobart. I told my friend, and she said "THAT'S Dr Creep!" I was all like "Dr Creep! Dr Creep! I love you Dr Creep!" Her dad wasn't home so I took a message, feeling pretty darn cool that I had spoken to Dr Creep on the phone.
I've also seen him more recently, at benefits and such.
I'm sure a lot of cities have their Clubhouse 22s and Shock Theaters and Docs of Creep, but for those of us in this neck of Ohio, Dr Creep was the one and only.
Yes, I have fond memories of Dr. Creep and Shock Theater! Ah, takes me back...
He was a good guy and I'll miss him and his hearse. :ghost:
:)
My friends and I would stay up late on sleepovers to watch Shock Theater. If it weren't for Shock Theater I never would have seen The Mole People.
He was a good guy and I'll miss him and his hearse. :ghost:
I'm glad you missed his hearse.;)
Jack LaLanne made it to 96. He was a real pioneer.
Jack LaLanne made it to 96. He was a real pioneer.
I met him once in CA. Nice but more than a little fruit loops.
I didn't know who he was
But I do nowLalanne quote: "My wife and I have sex almost every night of the week. Almost on Monday, almost on Tuesday, almost on Wednesday..."
Goodnight funnyman Charlie Callas
'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!' actress dies at 72
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Tura Satana, who gained cult status for her role in the 1965 Russ Meyer movie "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" has died of heart failure at age 72.
The Los Angeles Times reports Satana's death was confirmed by her manager, Siouxzan Perry, who said Satana died Friday at a hospital in Reno, Nev.
In "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" Satana played Varla, the leader of a trio of thrill-seeking go-go dancers who kills a man with her bare hands. The women then set out to rob a wealthy older man who lives on a desert ranch with his two sons.
Meyer has said the movie was an "absolute loser" when released but was rediscovered by the 1990s. It has since been shown at film festivals and art house cinemas.
Satana's other credits include the 1963 film "Irma La Douce" and the television shows "Burke's Law" and "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."
Ok Who Ol Benny laden on the Death pool ??
No-one as far as I can see.
Should he RIP, though?
bury him in pork left overs with a 1,000 hustler magazines. although the chics in there prolly aren't virgins! :p:
Just wanted to say I was sorry to hear about Henry Cooper passing.
He gave great interviews and is of my Dad's generation.
Carry on with the Osama bashing...
Just wanted to say I was sorry to hear about Henry Cooper passing.
He gave great interviews and is of my Dad's generation.
Carry on with the Osama bashing...
true dat and right oh right oh.
think i'll take a victory lap today at work with our american flag on the go kart.
Carry on with the Osama bashing...
EEEEhEEEM !!
Din Dong the sheet heads Dead,
the sheet heads dead ,
Shot him twice in the head ,
Ding Dong the fucken Sheet Heads Dead !!!
Sorry this has been runnung thru my head All day
Just to secure it in all my future searches:
dead; died; passed; RIP; Gary Speed; Ken Russell; The White Worm.
Thanks, Monster.
Tcha.
I'm an old fashioned Search kinda gal.
(probably why I needed help in the first place)
Davy Jones. OMG.
Sadness.
Davy Jones. OMG.
Sadness.
NO!
Yep. He's deader n' hell. Heart attack.
Probably a druggie who deserved to die. :eyebrow:
Aw, shit, man!
Momdigr loved her some Monkees...
So long, Davy.
Probably a druggie who deserved to die. :eyebrow:
Doubt it.
Doubt it.
Yeah, SARCASM.
Who would get all judgmental about a Monkee? Not me. I liked him.
Funny how shitty people can be when one person dies and how all kind and caring they are when someone else dies, depending on public opinion.
Just my humble non-public opinion. :right:
I liked Davy Jones, but love Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork. To this day I go back and forth on who I love better. Never cared for Mickey Dolenz, though.
I liked Davy Jones, but love Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork. To this day I go back and forth on who I love better. Never cared for Mickey Dolenz, though.
Funny, you think of Davy as the lead singer, but Mickey sang some of their biggest hits.
BTW, the writers of their show were definitely on acid.
Funny, you think of Davy as the lead singer, but Mickey sang some of their biggest hits.
Looked like it, anyway (mainly first season/first album stuff).
BTW, the writers of their show were definitely on acid.
The show was merely wacky. The acid-soaked Monkees made the movie, Head.
"I'll have a glass of cold gravy with a hair in it, please."
Gotta be acid.
Or Jack Nicholson's influence.
Or both.
Berlin (CNN) -- Former Nazi death camp guard and onetime Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk
[Ivan the Terrible] has died in Germany, a police spokesman said Saturday.
He was found guilty in the U.S., in Israel, and in Germany,
but died in a German home awaiting appeal of his conviction.
So much for swift justice...
So much for swift justice...
He lived in torment with the possibility of death hanging over him.
Appropriate.
Steve Bridges
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Impressionist Steve Bridges, who used prosthetics and wigs to turn into presidents and laughs to make a living, was found dead at his home, his manager said Monday. He was 48.
Bridges returned from China on Feb. 23 and complained to friends of "super jet lag," manager Randy Nolen said.
Bridges' maid found the comic dead about 9:30 a.m. Saturday in his Los Angeles home, Nolen said.
It appeared that he died of natural causes, but an autopsy will be conducted, said Craig Harvey, chief of operations for the Los Angeles County coroner's office.
Bridges' George W. Bush impression made him a regular on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" and earned him an invitation to the White House in 2003.
In 2006, Bridges joined Bush in a comic routine at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, D.C., and at a Ford's Theatre benefit.
Nolen said Bush called Bridges' brother, Phillip, on Monday and offered condolences.
"Steve was not only a funny man, but a kind and decent human being. My heartfelt sympathies go out to his parents, his siblings, and his entire family," Bush told The Associated Press through spokesman Freddy Ford.
"We had a great 10-year run," Nolen said. "He went to the White House, the Oval Office, toured with Barbra Streisand and was a regular on the 'Tonight Show' for almost eight years."
Bridges became Barack Obama, Bill Clinton or Bush for his most popular shows.
The makeup and prosthetics used for Bush and Clinton were designed by Kevin Haney, who won an Academy Award for aging Dan Aykroyd in "Driving Miss Daisy." Obama was done by Kazu Tsuji, who designed Jim Carrey's Grinch in "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
Mari Enyart was Bridges' makeup artist.
"From the neck up, everything but his teeth was covered in a prosthetic piece of some sort," Nolen said about the impersonations of presidents. "It was as extensive, as good and as complicated as anything you would see in a motion picture."
It took nearly four hours to apply the Obama makeup and nearly three hours to do Bush and Clinton. Close attention was paid to age marks and freckles on his hands because they were so visible, especially if a skit was being filmed.
Bridges had been scheduled to do three free shows on March 13, 14 and 15 for the Indian Wells Rotary Club to help raise money for students who wanted to go to college. Because of the time it took to get ready, he was going to be a different president each night.
Sometimes, Bridges would do shows without makeup that were titled "Steve As Steve" and showcased his 200 voices — from Bill O'Reilly to Rush Limbaugh to Tom Brokaw and all the presidents from Kennedy to Obama, Nolen said.
Born in Dallas, Bridges loved football and was a big Cowboys fan.
"He was courteous, kind, soft-spoken, reserved and respectful. He loved being on stage. He was a master at ad-libbing and improv comedy," Nolen said.
Bridges is survived by his parents, Thomas and Margaret Bridges, brothers Phillip and Jon, and sister Elizabeth Bridges.
A service will likely be held in the next few days near the family's Northern California home, with a memorial service to follow in Los Angeles.
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Jocky Wilson. Immortalised here.
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Jocky Wilson was a professional darts player.
Dexy's Midnight Runners had a hit with Jackie Wilson Said.
In the background, one of the screens is showing a photo of Jocky Wilson. In pre-internet (almost pre-video times!) it was a legendary blooper. Sometimes a mistake or misunderstanding, sometimes a prank and sometimes two fingers up at a band who took themselves too seriously.
None of the above.
It was a joke on the part of the band.
RIP John "Jocky" Wilson, died aged 62.
So as not to muck up the Dead Pool, I'll post this here.
I was vaguely associating Barnabas Collins with a board game. So I googled it. Yes! I remember this game now!
And the site is awesome. I keep seeing games that I remember.
http://www.angelfire.com/az2/gamesgoneby/desi5.htmlI had the Dark Shadows game. It also came with a set of vampire teeth. It wasn't a board game in the true sense of the word ... you used the spinner and it told you what skeleton parts to hang on your scaffold.
I loved Dark Shadows, and even to this day I think that Barnabas Collins was the coolest vampire ever.
As I said in the Death Pool thread, I really think what killed Jonathan Frid was seeing the trailer for the movie.
Even I was horrified.
Levon Helm has died. Drummer/vocalist for The Band.
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I had that dark shadows game. I remember the teeth.
Adam "MCA" Yauch, of the Beastie Boys, died today at 47. Jesus, that's my age, and it wasn't even drug or alcohol related. Fuck cancer.
Thanks for the great memories, Beastie Adam. :(
In memoriam, my favorite Beastie song:
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we must listen to the same radio feed....
Actually I saw it one of the TVs in the hallway here (the number call system on one side of the screen, this one had the news on the other side.)
The soundtrack to many college memories.
I love that song too.
I have great memories of driving around Wales for my 30th birthday singing along to that album. That and The Best of Dolly Parton :)
So manoeuvring into the tiny hotel carpark I would either be wailing along to Jolene or shouting "and the boys blamed me for bringing her home!"
I love that! I listen to Jolene from time to time too...and the contrast between Dolly (LOVE her) and the Beastie Boys is the awesome! :)
Which band?
http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php?t=26540&page=13
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There's a comedy routine in that. Firesign Theater, wasn't it?
No, it wasn't. Credibility Gap.
I hadn't heard of that before! So Lenny and Squiggy worked together before Laverne and Shirley...and then Lenny (sorry, Michael McKean) was with Shearer in Spinal Tap. All Credibility Gap folks. Coolness.
This just took me on a journey looking up all those guys. I remembered that both Shearer and Guest were on SNL. But I thought it was before Spinal Tap, not after. I guess I wasn't aware of Spinal Tap until years later on video.
And one bizarre thing I learned was that Christopher Guest (who is married to Jamie Lee Curtis) is a freaking Baron. But because he and Jamie Lee Curtis couldn't have kids and adopted them instead, his kids won't inherit the title. It will go to his brother when he dies.
And apparently he's a bit of a prick.
Really? The ever-funny Guest is a Baron, and a prick to boot?
He and Jamie have been married for like, ever.
Harlan Pepper: I used to be able to name every nut that there was. And it used to drive my mother crazy, because she used to say, "Harlan Pepper, if you don't stop naming nuts," and the joke was that we lived in Pine Nut, and I think that's what put it in my mind at that point. So she would hear me in the other room, and she'd just start yelling. I'd say, "Peanut. Hazelnut. Cashew nut. Macadamia nut." That was the one that would send her into going crazy. She'd say, "Would you stop naming nuts!" And Hubert used to be able to make the sound, he couldn't talk, but he'd go "rrrawr rrawr" and that sounded like Macadamia nut. Pine nut, which is a nut, but it's also the name of a town. Pistachio nut. Red pistachio nut. Natural, all natural white pistachio nut.
Donna Summer dead at 63. Fuck cancer.
Thanks for She Works Hard For the Money, Donna, it was an anthem for many of us 80s girls.
Already knows, she's seen her bad times
Already knows, these are the good times
She'll never sell out, she never will
Not for a dollar bill
She works haaaaard (for the money)
Yeah, I hated, HATED disco, but I was kinda bummed when I read Donna Summer died.
We ALL hated disco, after junior high.
But I like that old stuff now. ;)
Speaking of disco(-era) music,
Chuck Brown left us yesterday.
Bass player for Booker T. & The MGs,
Donald "Duck" Dunn died a few days ago also.
Chuck Brown? No way. that makes me sad.
And nobody had her on their celeb death list! UT, you missed one!
Johnny Tapia, boxing champ five times over,
found dead.
This guy was The Underdog From Hell. Watched him fight, albeit on tv, several times.
Dude had a sad life.
ETA:
YahooSports article.:sniff:
His musical accomplishments are cool and all, but I want to know how a blind man wired his house himself. How do you tell the black wire from the white wire?
The white one can't jump?
Richard Dawson known best for hosting the “Family Feud” and starring in “Hogan’s Heroes” has died, ABC News has confirmed. He was 79. Dawson was born Colin Lionel Emm in Gosport, Hampshire England on Nov. 30, 1932. Dawson hosted several incarnations of the popular game show the “Family Feud”
His musical accomplishments are cool and all, but I want to know how a blind man wired his house himself. How do you tell the black wire from the white wire?
He also repaired the shingles on his house after storms.
The white one can't jump?
Dat's wacist.:lol2:
ETA: One article I read about the late Mr. Dawson said he kissed around
20,000 different women.
He also met his wife on Family Feud. Kissed her before they knew each other.
Wow.
Not meaning to speak ill of the dead but I thought he was dead longh since.
I identified him with my Grandad's generation (eta he was older).
Still - RIP all the same.
He had some killer stories in him.
Ray is off to the Halloween Tree. He taught me about wonder, that reading is to be cherished, and that frightening is not the same thing as horrible.
Frightening is not the same thing as horrible.
My gosh yes. Excellent distinction.
And surely has to be up there on the list of best ever story titles, with 'Something Wicked, This Way Comes.
Ray is off to the Halloween Tree. He taught me about wonder, that reading is to be cherished, and that frightening is not the same thing as horrible.
Sad. What a great author. Timeless.
That's the ABCs of classic science fiction grandmasters all gone; Asimiov, Bradbury, and Clarke.
R.I.P. Bob Welch
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Dead of an apparant suicide.:(:(:(
omg...two of my old favorite songs. I always liked to imagine they were both written for me. ;)
RIP Bob.
(in the first vid it says "Bob Welsh.")
I was in Friend's backyard Thursday evening when "Ebony Eyes" came on the radio. We talked for a minute about how great a song it was, and I told my unaware Friend that Mr. Welch used to be in Fleetwoood Mac.
Turns out Bob Welch was less than forty miles away killing himself about that time.
and yet, you stood there, doing nothing but jawbonin...
I told my unaware Friend that Mr. Welch used to be in Fleetwoood Mac.
He left the band in 1974, this may be the biggest Fleetwood Mac song he played on.
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And surely has to be up there on the list of best ever story titles, with 'Something Wicked, This Way Comes.
One of my favorites. And the reason for my obsession with Jonathan Pryce.
and yet, you stood there, doing nothing but jawbonin...
:headshake
Eeehhh, fuck da bofe o' ya's. We weren't
"doing nuffin, but jawbonin"...
...we wuz also drankin and smokin and trade-fuckin the dawg.
You wasn't helping!I'll bet he carked it with your name on his lips too...
Remember the movie 'Good Fellas'? Ray Liotta played
mobster Henry Hill.
Henry Hill died yesterday in Los Angeles.
He was 69.
Rodney "can't we all just get along?" King went to the riot in the
sky. He was only 47!!!!
Yep.
He made a splash, though.
Apparently.
I remember his paintings when they were featured during one of the Olympics ... 72 or 76? Very distinctive style with a lot of movement and energy.
I have to confess, my first introduction to the man's work was in Playboy.
I have to confess, my first introduction to the man's work was in Playboy.
Say five Hail Marys O’Connor and you will be healed.
I have to confess, my first introduction to the man's work was in Playboy.
This post, absent the context of the thread title and current subject thereof (because I'd forgotten when I clicked the "last post" button in my precaffeinated stumbling), gave me a big laugh. Good for you Gravdigr. Always learning!
If you do anything and don't get something out of it, you've just wasted time. I try to learn something everyday, even if it's just hitting the "Random Article" button at Wikipedia.
"...precaffeinated stumbling..."
:D
RIP Norah Ephron. Remember that
great scene in When Harry Met Sally?
RIP Norah Ephron. Remember that great scene in When Harry Met Sally?
I loved her work but "When Harry Met Sally" ruined my life for about 2 years! LOL
I loved her work but "When Harry Met Sally" ruined my life for about 2 years! LOL
Why, did you harbor a burning desire to fake an orgasm for Billy Crystal?
Why, did you harbor a burning desire to fake an orgasm for Billy Crystal?
no. It was because I had to hear THIS every fucking day!!!:
Harry Burns: With whom did you have this great sex?
Sally Albright: I'm not going to tell you that.
Harry Burns: Fine, don't tell me.
Sally Albright: Shel Gordon.
Harry Burns: Shel? Sheldon? No, no, you did not have great sex with Sheldon.
Sally Albright: I did too.
Harry Burns: No you didn't. A Sheldon can do your income taxes, if you need a root canal, Sheldon's your man... but humpin' and pumpin' is not Sheldon's strong suit. It's the name. 'Do it to me Sheldon, you're an animal Sheldon, ride me big Shel-don.' Doesn't work.
:D --- Poor baby. That must hurt! :(
Yabbut, Billy Crystal was a big gay icon, back in the 70s. One of the first openly gay TV characters ...
RIP Norah Ephron. Remember that great scene in When Harry Met Sally?
That's a bummer. She was a very funny writer.
Wolf, that must have made it hurt even more.
:lol2: I read Wolf's post about Billy Crystal and saw 'characters' and all I heard was '-acters'...Oh, well, if that's the worst I do today, it was a good day.
Damn. Just heard.
Any time I hear the words 'Andy Griffith', I don't think about "The Andy Griffith Show", or "Mayberry, RFD".
I think of "What It Was, Was Football".
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/= just got this as the cookie at the bottom of the page..
Kinda looks like a big, dumb Andy Griffith. Well, a big Andy Griffith." "Just plain old Andy Griffith!"
- Tom Servo/Crow, "Mad Monster" (Mystery Science Theater 3000)
oof. too soon guys.
Hey!! You kids don't remember the movie, Onion Head??
I'll be honest here. I was surprised when I heard he'd died, because If you'd have asked me I'd have said he died years ago :p
Jon Lord, keyboardist for Deep Purple, has died of a pancreatic cancer-related pulmonary embolism.
He was 71.
One of the greatest rock keyboard players, EVAH.
I remember seeing Ernest Borgnine on David Letterman once.
Dave made a comment to the effect '91 yrs old? My God, ya look great.'
Borgnine leaned in and whispered (completely audibly) 'I masturbate a lot.'
:lol2:
Sir Alastair Burnet.
Remembered fondly by my brother and I for his Spitting Image puppet. Most notably for the line "Sir Alastair Burnet, white as ice-cream, so no worries here" following I assume a "report" on South Africa.
No more or less obscure than remembering Derek Hatton (the uncle of the evil ex as it turns out) for being chained to a dungeon wall and accused of uttering the heretical phrase "Lancashire, la la la la" during a cricket game.
Mustang Sally, think you better slow your mustang down.
Mustang Sally, think you better slow your mustang down.
You been running all over the town now.
Oh! I guess I'll have to put your flat feet on the ground.
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride.
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride.
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride.
One of these early mornings, oh, you gonna be wiping your weeping eyes.
I bought you a brand new mustang 'bout nineteen sixty five
Now you come around signifying a woman, you don't wanna let me ride.
Mustang Sally, think you better slow your mustang down.
You been running all over the town now.
Oh! I guess I'll have to put your flat feet on the ground.
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride.
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride.
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride.
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Chad Everett died yesterday.
Mustang Sally...
While we're at it...see if ya can keep your foot from tapping.
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Another sweathog gone. :(
RIP Phyllis Diller.
Phyllis Diller, the zany housewife-turned-stand-up comic with the electrified hairdo, outlandish wardrobe and a barrage of self-deprecating jokes punctuated by her trademark laugh, has died.
Phyllis Diller posed for a centerfold :eek: in the magazine Field and Stream :lol:
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First time I heard of her was in the Beastie Boys lyric, "I got more rhymes than Phyllis Diller"
I had to go to the reference library to look that up.
I really did.
I mean obviously it was pre-internet, but I mean I really did chase up stray references if my parents couldn't help me with them. Heterosexual for example (Mum confused it with homosexuality but it didn't fit in the context) and the Marquis de Sade who became a brief obsession of mine (although remained a lasting interest). Jonestown was another.
Kids this days have everything at their fingertips.
The bastards.
Heterosexual for example (Mum confused it with homosexuality but it didn't fit in the context)
:lol:
That's a distinction you might want to keep straight. So to speak.
Nina Bawden
:cry:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19341736
She was in the "I assumed she died forever ago" category. I'm sad now I know she didn't. But now she did. Carrie's War, The Peppermint Pig, and The Amazing Mr Blunden are the three books that stayed with me from my childhood (not all written by her)
This makes me sad. All that work thrown away... A true hero.
No significant human presence in space 40 odd years later. We are not Vulcans, robot missions are neat but lack the romance of humanizing space.
Small tangent:
When Kennedy said 'Let's go to the moon.', we went in nine years. Today, they say it'll take fifteen years to get to the moon.
Hell, if'n we use 1960s technology we could do it this weekend.
WTF?
Well, after seeing his job outsourced to machines, and seeing his namesake disgraced, it has been a shitty month for him.
Seriously, I am saddened by this. He was the symbol of the greatest - or at least most symbolic and dramatic - human achievement to date. Now he has died of old age. It drives home how long it has been since we did this.
Mentioned to my kids that Neal Armstrong had died and asked if they knew who he was, and they thought he was the Tour de France cheater. So I straightened them out, and they were all "oh, yeah, we knew that."
And then I saw on Facebook, a friend of mine who works at a university reported that many of his students were confusing Neal Armstrong, Lance Armstrong, and Neil Patrick Harris.
Neil Patrick Harris? WTF! Doogie Howser? :facepalm:
It's in the first 20 seconds
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The Neil Armstrong Space Museum is an icon to those of us who've travelled up and down I-75 near Wapakoneta. I went there as a kid, but now I'm thinking a second look would be nice.
By all reports, Mr Armstrong was an unassuming man. An engineer they wanted to make a star: a transition he shied away from.
R.I.P. Rocket Man. :(
Have you ever toured the soundstage where they filmed the landing? It's actually pretty small and unimpressive. The snack bar is cool though, they have these retro chairs and Tang and Space Food Sticks.
Michael Clarke Duncan, best known for The Green Mile, died from complications from a heart attack. He was only 54.
He also had a very awesome and funny but short-lived role as the father of the girl Jake was dating on Two and a Half Men.
RIP John Coffey :(
that's one hell of a smile.
RIP.
I liked the guy. First thing I saw him in was 'The Green Mile'. Good actor, and a great guy apparently. Craig Ferguson has had him on a lot, and they really let it hang out sometimes. Be interesting to watch Ferguson tonight (I think they tape a day ahead), I bet he makes a point to say something about Mr. Duncan's passing.
I feel I should acknowledge the passing of Max Bygraves.
Dad has a couple of his albums, but mostly to annoy other people.
He used to put them on when his brothers came round.
Farewell then Max.
One of your best known songs was You Need Hands.
You don't any more.
Bye bye Andy Williams. Gosh I remember his show. Remember Cookie Bear?
Thanks for so beautifully singing Mancini's Moon River, Andy. RIP.
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Damn song makes me cry anyway.
:sniff:
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Yahoo is reporting that Alex Karras has died.
I just read yesterday that his condition was deteriorating due to kidney failure. I believe he was also suffering from dementia. It's especially sad to see those big, nothing-can-harm-them-type guys go away.
RIP, Mongo.
On a somewhat related note, I read a few weeks ago that one of my favorite feetball players of all time, Jim McMahon, quarterback for the Chicago Bears, one of the toughest qbs in history, is suffering the early stages of dementia.
At 53.
On a somewhat related note, I read a few weeks ago that one of my favorite feetball players of all time, Jim McMahon, quarterback for the Chicago Bears, one of the toughest qbs in history, is suffering the early stages of dementia.
At 53.
Karas also suffered from Dementia related to his football days.
He was among those suing the NFL for not doing much regarding head injurys and concussions.
While he's not as famous as he deserves to be, I'm posting this here anyway.
John Jamieson Carswell 'Jack' Smart passed away on the 6th of October.
http://www.monash.edu.au/news/show/vale-j.-j.-c.-smart
J.J.C. Smart was one of the most influential professional philosophers in the English-speaking world in the second half of the twentieth century.
In the first place, he was extremely influential as an advocate of a theory in 'metaphysics’ concerning the nature of the soul or mind and its relationship to the human body. This theory, which Smart began defending in the early 1960s, was at first widely dismissed as “the Australian fallacy” (the English philosophers said that the poor fellow, having become Professor at Adelaide, had obviously had his brain addled by the Australian sun). But largely through Smart’s influence various species of Smart’s theory became extremely widely accepted among professional philosophers by the end of the century. The theory Smart launched was the theory that conscious experiences are identical with (and not just correlated with) brain processes. [It was later called "Australian Materialism" and now "Materialism" and is the predominant position today - ZG.]
Smart was also hugely influential as an advocate of a philosophical theory about the nature of time, closely related to Einstein’s theory of relativity. According to this theory time is a “fourth dimension” that is very much more similar than we normally realise to the familiar three dimensions of space. We normally think of things that are distant in space that they exist, even though they are not near to us; but we think of things that are distant in time as if they do not exist. Smart argued that science teaches us that this commonsense attitude to time is a mistake. He argued that although the past is distant from us it does still exist in exactly the same sense that things exist that are distant from us in space.
[New findings in quantum physics seem to require this approach - ZG]
Smart was also hugely influential as an advocate of grounding ethics in an attitude of universal benevolence. And he was influential as an advocate of atheism. Yet he was an atheist who never wavered in his sense of awe and wonder at the incredible beauty of the cosmos that science has discovered our world to be, governed as it is by astoundingly beautiful mathematical laws of nature. On top of that, he was a top bloke. His theoretical support of universal benevolence was accompanied by a genuine, heart-felt benevolence towards his family, friends, and colleagues. He was much loved and will be sorely missed. [I've heard that each year Jack would calculate the average income in Australia, keep that much of his salary fro himself, and give the rest to charity. And there are any number of anecdotes that begin "Jack took some visiting academics from US/UK/Etc for a hike, and ..."- ZG]
Even if he is right in his theory that his whole life does exist, though at a spatiotemporal distance from us, nevertheless the present and future parts of those who knew him, those parts that exist in the years after his death, will be pained by their temporal distance from him.
I had a little to do with him when I was a graduate student. Although he was well retired, he was still on the ball, and was pretty much the archetypical affable old professor type.
Although one time he knocked on my office door and asked for help with his computer, because there were cats running around on the screen and tearing holes in things. He got the idea of a screensaver pretty quickly for an octogenerian.
Smart was also hugely influential as an advocate of grounding ethics in an attitude of universal benevolence. And he was influential as an advocate of atheism. Yet he was an atheist who never wavered in his sense of awe and wonder at the incredible beauty of the cosmos that science has discovered our world to be, governed as it is by astoundingly beautiful mathematical laws of nature.
RIP, this is how I would like to be remembered too.
John Jamieson Carswell 'Jack' Smart
If you got
four names and go by a nick name, just change your fucking name. Any one or all of them.
And I've never understood getting 'Jack' from 'John' anyway, it's not shorter, it's not easier to say, so, WTF?!
How's this for thread drift....
PDX TV just had an ad for an event in Seattle.
It's a display of King Tut's funerary items,
The ad says it's the last time these will be on display in North America
I took my family to see the exhibit that was here many years ago,
and we were completely taken by the beauty, and their age.
Although Steve Martin made Tut popular, that exhibit was better .
If you can, take the opportunity to see this display.
Seeing the real objects is so much better than any pictures.
Larry Hagman. Goodbye JR, Major Nelson.
And I've never understood getting 'Jack' from 'John' anyway, it's not shorter, it's not easier to say, so, WTF?!
Jack is a
cool name.
Jack is a cool name.
Yeah?
I don't think you know Jack! :-)
Derived from Jackin (earlier Jankin), a medieval diminutive of JOHN. It is often regarded as an independent name. During the Middle Ages it was very common, and it became a slang word meaning "man". It was frequently used in fairy tales and nursery rhymes, such as 'Jack and the Beanstalk', 'Little Jack Horner', and 'Jack Sprat'
Makes more sense as a diminutive if you consider 'Johannes' for John and 'Jankin' for Jack.
http://www.behindthename.com/name/jackYeah?
I don't think you know Jack! :-)
You could be right...I don't think I know anyone named Jack. :lol:
One of my great-nephews is called Jack.
I'll introduce you.
I would love to meet him. I'm sure he's a cool kid, if he's your nephew. :)
I'm pleased to see no entry on either list matching my children's names.
I'm pleased to see no entry on either list matching my children's names.
Both my Great-Nephs' names are on there.
Knew she shoulda gone with Oscar and Felix.
Or Diz.
But then everyone wold think he was named after Dizzy rascal
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Gerry Anderson, Thunderbirds creator, dies.
I didn't realize Trey Parker and Matt Stone were doing a riff on Anderson's Thunderbirds Series in Team America.
Jack Klugman and Stormin' Norman Schwartzkopf...anyone have either in the pool?
and Bush Senior is in the ICU........ Maggie Thatcher just left hospital, though.....
Is this a thread to talk about the death pool thread, or to report on deaths??
I don't see JR from Dallas on here. Like me, who cares?
Damn, man, Mr. Drummond died.
Whatchoo talking bout, Digr?
I'm talking bout
Conrad Bain.
I thought he'd
been dead.
We really haven't mentioned
Aaron Swartz here? Driven to suicide by the fedgov.
Earl Weaver just died as well.
We really haven't mentioned Aaron Swartz here? Driven to suicide by the fedgov.
"Driven to suicide"?? He did the crime(s) and didn't want to do the time. I think he drove his own self.
Yeah, his death is weird. Its almost like he made a matyr of himself. He was very passionate about his cause.
The "crime" is interesting.
But not an untypical. The rich rob the poor...they skate. But rob the rich to give to the poor and its a total other story.
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sounds like Brave New World. Remember Soma- the drug they gave people? there really IS a drug called Soma--it's a muscle relaxer.
Stan Musial - he was a big deal when I was growing up in St. Louis.
Michael Winner. Loathe him or loathe him ...
What I can't believe was not only that I did not have him this year, but a search suggests I have not had him ANY YEAR!?
How can that be?
I might have narcolepsy.
What I can't believe was not only that I did not have him this year, but a search suggests I have not had him ANY YEAR!?
How can that be?
I might have narcolepsy.
Don't feel bad I had the wrong Ravi Shankar and I let Syung Myung Moon drop off the radar.
I had the wrong Ravi Shankar.
Yes, you did, but the right one
did die eventually.
Yes, you did, but the right one did die eventually.
What? When did that happen? Was he on my list?
OH NOV 2012! *checking my 2012 list*
Crap. He was 2011
Reg Presley of The Troggs
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Aww, shit, man!
Harry Reems died.
Fuck.
Richard Griffiths. Probably best known for his role in the harry Potter films, but for me will always be: Uncle Monty
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Indeed, always Uncle Monty to me too.
"I mean to have you, even if it must be burglary!"
A more innocent time, when male rape was a good subject for humour.
The fruitiest voice since Mr Kipling.
RIP, Roger Ebert. To paraphrase a friend: he had no choice but to be unflinching about what cancer had done to him, and so we didn't flinch back. Well done, sir.
I'm even more impressed by his comments on joy. Well done, sir, indeed.
I read this:
"We were getting ready to go home today for hospice care, when he looked at us, smiled, and passed away. No struggle, no pain, just a quiet, dignified transition," his wife, Chaz Ebert, said in a statement Thursday.
I thought that was nice. I'm a movie buff of sorts and I always enjoyed Siskel and Ebert. I hadn't really seen any of the later stuff with the guy who replaced Gene Siskel.
Love his critques or hate them, he was an icon.
Here are some great quotes from him:
Ebert: The film philosopher
-- "Every great film should seem new every time you see it."
-- "No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough."
-- "If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't."
-- "If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy."
--from his review of Tom Green's 2001 comedy "Freddy Got Fingered" of which he wrote one of his most scathing reviews:
"This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels."
--Reviewing "Crocodile Dundee II": "I've seen audits that were more thrilling."
See you at the movies, Mr Ebert.
Two Ebert quotes in my quotes file.
Note: The paintings in the Hamptons house are by Jack Vettriano, and the
drawings are by Paul Cox. I have no reason for telling you that, but I
couldn't stop myself.
- Roger Ebert in his review of "Something's Gotta Give"
But if you do not have some secret place in your soul that still responds even a little to brave cowboys, beautiful princesses and noble horses, then you are way too grown up and need to cut back on cable news.
-- Roger Ebert (Review for Hidalgo)
"Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way."
—from Battlefield Earth review, May 12, 2000
"If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination."
—from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen review, June 23, 2009
"I hated this movie. Hated, hated, hated, hated, hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it."
—from North review, July 22, 1994
Armageddon (1998):
“Here it is at last, the first 150-minute trailer. Armageddon is cut together like its own highlights. Take almost any 30 seconds at random, and you’d have a TV ad. The movie is an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense, and the human desire to be entertained. No matter what they’re charging to get in, it’s worth more to get out.”
Battle: Los Angeles (2011):
“Young men: If you attend this crap with friends who admire it, tactfully inform them they are idiots. Young women: If your date likes this movie, tell him you’ve been thinking it over, and you think you should consider spending some time apart.”
The Last Airbender (2011):
“The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. The laws of chance suggest that something should have gone right. Not here. It puts a nail in the coffin of low-rent 3D, but it will need a lot more coffins than that.”
Good ones, IM. He had a sharp tongue and wasn't afraid to use it.
I didn't always agree with Ebert, but I generally knew whether I wanted to see a movie after reading his review. And that's what you want a review for.
I'm not sure who I'll be reading now.
My favorite is the North review. I don't even recall that movie...but his use of 'hated hated hated...' cracks me up.
I bet we would have had a lot of snarky laughs together. But yeah, I don't agree with all his reviews either.
Good ones, IM. He had a sharp tongue and wasn't afraid to use it.
I didn't always agree with Ebert, but I generally knew whether I wanted to see a movie after reading his review. And that's what you want a review for.
I'm not sure who I'll be reading now.
AO Scott has some great reviews. He's very witty and can be quite sarcastic when he needs to be.
My favorite:
This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels."
Just this morning I read an article on Ebert's review of "The Brown Bunny", (
here) directed by and starring Vincent Gallo.
It was quite entertaining (the article/review).
"I had a colonoscopy once, and they let me watch it on TV. It was more entertaining than 'The Brown Bunny.'"
:lol2:
Just this morning I read an article on Ebert's review of "The Brown Bunny", (here) directed by and starring Vincent Gallo.
It was quite entertaining (the article/review).
:lol2:
I wonder how he'd have reviewed the movie from his script for "More Valley Of The Dolls"?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/arts/music/richie-havens-guitarist-and-singer-dies-at-72.html?_r=0
There is a secret that has been kept from man 2,000 years
There is a secret that has been kept from man 2,000 years
And that secret is that there are only
twelve people on the earth at any given time
That there are only twelve people on the earth at any given time
And these people have been symbolized
Down through the ages of mankind, by many symbols
They were called:
Twelve tribes of Israel
Twelve sons of Jacob
Twelve gates of Heaven
Twelve inches in a foot
Twelve months to the year
Twelve men on the jury
Twelve days of Christmas
Twelve disciples of Jesus Christ
Twelve manners of fruit on the tree by the side of the river
Good for the healing of all nations
Good for the healing of all nations
And these people are
And these people are:
Aries, who is… I am, ain’t I?
Taurus, who is… I have, don’t I?
Gemini, who is… I think, I think…
I think so much I wish I could stop thinking
Cancer, who is… I feel, I feel,
and there are no words to describe how I feel
Leo, who is… I will, o’er my will
Virgo, who is… I analyze, I analyze
Libra, who is… I balance, I balance, I balance
between those who know and those who do not know
Scorpio, who is… I desire, I desire, I desire…
Sagittarius, who is… I see, I see… I see so much in
what I’m doing I cannot finish what I’m doing
Capricorn, who is… I use, I use… I use all of
my experience in order to survive
Aquarius, who is… I know, I know…
why do I know when no one around me knows what I know
Pisces, who is… I believe, I believe…
or there is nothing for me to believe in
These are the twelve people who inherit the earth
You are one of them and there are only eleven others
And if you get to know the eleven others
You will be able to get along with everyone all over the world…
all over the world
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Wow. That's some scary synchronicity. I was just listening to the Woodstock album on Sunday. And I hadn't listened to it for about a year.
One door closes, another door opens, eh?
Model T Ford. Crazy ass blues singer.
Should have said T model Ford
OH NOES! Mel Smith :(
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23390982
I know, that really made me sad.
Steve, my ex-housemate - said he was a nightmare to work with.
A real "never work with your heroes" situation.
But of course he wasn't really working with him (people on his level have praised his generosity and geniality) but working for him. It's possible he treated Steve like an lowly employee and he resented that.
Then again, this is the man who gave me 24 hours notice to leave his house (Steve, not Mel Smith) so it is completely possible he was a bad judge of character.
I'm sad too.
With Geoffrey Perkins dying young I worry that it's my generation now, the so-called alternative generation, that will start to be picked off.
J.J. Cale - Singer/songwriter
Newest member in The Greatest Band. Heart attack.
J.J. Cale - Singer/songwriter
Newest member in The Greatest Band. Heart attack.
Oh noes! :'(
Sent by thought transference
Actress
Karen Black, best known by me for scaring the shit out of me in "Trilogy of Terror".
I saw her in 'The Pyx' in the 70s.
Damn.
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August Schellenberg (1936–2013), died a few days ago.
I knew him as 'Geepaw', the title character's grandfather on "Saving Grace".
Poet Seamus Heaney dead at 74.
awww, i loved the poem "Under the Bleachers."
Boxer/actor, former WBO champion, great-nephew to John Wayne, 'Tommy Gunn' in "Rocky V",
Tommy Morrison died Sunday night.
Wife says he died of respiratory and metabolic acidosis and multiple organ failure.
Most likely related to HIV/AIDS...
"I lived a permissive, fast and reckless lifestyle."
He was
44.
Hello, good evening, welcome and goodbye.
Maybe not so famous outside of the DC area, but
this guy:
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died over the weekend. It's being investigated as a possible suicide.
I'd encountered him a few times over the last 15 years while he worked security at the 9:30 club in DC. He was a local celebrity of sorts. I never knew
his name, and probably most people didn't. But a lot of people around here knew who he was.
RIP, famous person's dog: Sarah Silverman's dog, Duck.
She writes a fine tribute to him which, of course, reminds me of Pearl. Both dogs lived far longer than they were expected.
That's great. i really like Sarah Silverman. She's funny and real.
RIP Duck.
Trish Keenan
Died young, at the age of 42 from complications of pneumonia.
was really sad at this one at the time
R.I.P. Tom Clancy
Dead at 66Whoa! I didn't see that coming.
Oh no ...
RIP, Tom Clancy.
I read a few of his novels whilst on my "hiatus from society", one of them twice. But, as always, the books are always better than the movie.
For the past 10? years, Clancy has used other writers to make his money. Yes he created the outlines, but it was HIS name at the top of the page. Yes a fabulous storyteller also great film adaptions.
That is some crazy synchronicity. I just pulled out Red Storm Rising a couple of nights ago to re-read. I'm up to the Iceland thing.
That is some crazy synchronicity. I just pulled out Red Storm Rising a couple of nights ago to re-read. I'm up to the Iceland thing.
second time huh? that good? i haven't read it yet. in fact, i haven't read any clancy since my hiatus.
This thread reminds me that I should look up Tom Clancy on amazon and order a few of his titles for my father, who loves political thrillers. I'm immigrating my Dad at the beginning of November, but for this month he's stressed with getting ready and could use some brain candy.
He is way over my head...but I enjoyed the movie "hunt for red October with alec Baldwin and sean connery
second time huh? that good? i haven't read it yet. in fact, i haven't read any clancy since my hiatus.
It's the sort of thing Clancy does so well. The intermingling of a dozen story lines. He leaves you at a cliff hanger and switches to another thread. It keeps you turning pages. I also like the hardware details he throws in. Aircraft, submarines, whatever. He does his research.
I've read several of his books, always a good read.
LOVED 'The Hunt For Red October'.
RIP Mr. Clancy.
That's the question. I'm not seeing it reported in all the two articles I skimmed.
FFS...This is from everyjoe.com, and is just ridiculous:
As you’ve undoubtedly heard, legendary author Tom Clancy has died. He was just 66 years old. While an illness is said to be the official cause of death, that hasn’t stopped the internet from throwing around alternative speculation.
Could Tom Clancy have been murdered by people within the federal government? One theory goes that the author was too good at predicting events and had become a threat to the nation. This man predicted everything from 9/11 to the Bin Laden raid with razor-like accuracy. To silence him, the feds had him killed — and they did so during the shutdown of the government so that as few people as possible could potentially ruin the plot … so says this theory.
Or, could he have committed suicide? Maybe he utilized his amazing speculative ability and saw something disastrous coming. Thus, in order to avoid a more painful demise, he decided to bow out gracefully now.
Personally, I believe the official word that his health failed. Some say it’s fishy that this illness took him so quickly — but that happens all the time, unfortunately.
Regardless of the manner, I hope you rest in peace, Tom Clancy.
:facepalm:
FWIW, it's been my experience that "after a brief illness" usually refers to cancer.
Fuck cancer.
66 yr old male...Ima guess prostate/colon cancer.
He looked like he was in his 60's when I started reading his stuff 20 years ago. He never looked very healthy.
Pancreatic cancer and leukemia can take you extremely quickly too. Once worked with a guy who seemed completely fine, went in for some minor issues, got a diagnosis of leukemia and was dead just a week or two later.
Yep, pancreatic cancer can take a woman who survived for 20 years after a breast cancer diagnosis. Thanks for the reminder.
Vicki Sue Robinson, a singer that was truly "Unsung." She should have been much more popular than she really every was.
Aw
Marcia Wallace! Mrs Krabappel and the receptionist on Bob Newhart.
Bum Phillips was a walking quote machine:
Bum Phillips, talking about Miami Dolphins head coach Don Shula:
He could take his'n, and whup yorn, and then take yorn, and whup his'n.
This is an article you have to read...
BBC News
11/14/13
Comedian Andy Kaufman 'faked his death', brother claims
Cult comedy star Andy Kaufman faked his own death
in 1984 and is still alive, his brother has claimed.
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Kaufman, best known for playing the incompetent Latka Gravas on
the 1970s sitcom Taxi, officially died from lung cancer in 1984.
But, appearing at an award show named in Andy's honour, Michael Kaufman
said he received a letter from his brother, confirming he was alive, in 1999.
He then introduced a woman who claimed to be Andy's 24-year-old daughter.
Her age would mean she was born five years after his death.
"He just wanted to be a stay-at-home dad, that's why he wanted to leave the showbiz,"
she explained at the New York event.
<snip>
Maby he is hanging out with Elvis.
I loved Latka. I hated Andy Kaufman.
Doris Lessing
never read any of her work, but now reading her obits wondering if maybe I should...
Doris Lessing
never read any of her work, but now reading her obits wondering if maybe I should...
Oh wow. One of my college lit professors was a freak for Doris Lessing. Yeah, she's good. RIP.
I know I have read at least one of her books. At least I really think I have. I hope so.
Will try to remember when I'm not supposed to be getting ready to go out (yes, it only happens a few times a year) and dallying here instead to heighton the tension.
Brian Griffin
So long, Brian, we hardly knew ye.
Expected though it was, I find myself unbelievably saddened by the death of Nelson Mandela, and pretty much lost for words. "Free Nelson Mandela" was the theme tune of my impressionable years. he had a good innings and still.... What a great person. The world is a much better place that he was in it and didn't take the easier path.
Yeah. He was a good guy. Sorry to see him go.
Nelson Mandela was a great man. How else can you describe someone who was jailed for almost thirty years, for essentially no good reason, did what he did from prison, got out, and forgave his keepers, and became one of the most influential people on the planet.
I didn't do anywhere near 30 yrs, and I still haven't forgave the snitch pussy motherfucker that snitched on me...and I never will.
Amy Winehouse singing 'Free Nelso Mandela'. Ironically they died about two years apart. She died at 27. He died at 95.
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Ahhh. This news makes me feel really sad. The great Peter O'Toole has died.
They broke the mould when they made him.
Last time I saw him was a (then new) VHS copy of "Caligula".
This made me smile from the BBC article
Broadcaster Michael Parkinson told Sky News it was hard to be too sad about the news of his passing, and smiled as he said: "Peter didn't leave much of life unlived, did he?"
too right, Michael. I'd like to be remembered that way. Must work on that.
I was interested to learn that he apparently survived stomach cancer back in the 70s. That's one of the more fatal ones, and treatment wasn't as fantastic back then either.
I bought Russell T Davies' Casanova twice (both DVDs lent out, neither returned) as well as watching it on transmission. The combination of talents involved was too fine not to spread the word. Davies, Peter O'Toole, Tennant (pre-Who) Penry-Jones, Lucas et al.
I liked the fact that Peter O'Toole was referred to by his full name, as if it was one word.
Peterotoole.
Even in comments from friends and colleagues on the radio today; Peterotoole.
Leslie Phillips said he was a wonderful actor, highly professional, a great ranconteur, but an intensely private man. Perhaps that's why people felt the need to gift him his whole name.
Yeah, that is kind of odd. And sweet.
He was wonderful in Casanova. He was wonderful in everything.
Nobody could play dissolute and derelict charm quite like Peter O'Toole.
Aw, shit, man.
Billy Jack died.
Tom Laughlin was 82.
Billy Jack (paraphrasing):
I'm going to kick you in the right side of your face with my right foot. And there's not a damn thing you can do about it.
Brian Griffin
So long, Brian, we hardly knew ye.
Nope, he's back... resurrected on Family Guy Christmas special.
But Joan Fontaine is still dead.
Ronnie Biggs
Rocking those deathpool points this month....
David Coleman.
Damn.
It's not even a cold Winter and it takes them anyway.
'The big Cuban opened his legs and showed his class'
David Coleman
Montreal Olympics, 1976
The man who gave his name to a commentary cock-up (the Colemanball) could sometimes be so bad he was good. Like here, for instance. As Cuban Alberto Juantorena - nicknamed 'El Caballo' (the horse) for his muscular appearance and nine-foot stride - powered to 400m and 800m gold medals in Montreal, Coleman began his fine foot-in-mouth tradition with this observation.
Actually this one might belong in the bummed out thread. For me.
Because I read Private Eye for years (and Colemanballs was their column) and because my bro and I laughed until we cried together over his howlers in print, by chance live or in compilations.
But he had a good and successful life, so it's not for me to be bummed.
And I think he'd laugh at that.
Mikhail Kalashnikov, designer of the AK-47, and AK-74, is
dead at 94.
"I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists ... I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work — for example a lawn mower."
~Mikhail Kalashnikov
I don't get how that information was buried [oops] at the end of the news when "Schumacher is still alive, no change" was headlines.
Very sad. The passing of part of a comedy era.
This will be only for Philly people, but
RIP Bill Conlin. Great baseball columnist... in the Hall of Fame... and then retired upon credible allegations of child abuse.
And yet, Pete Rose is banned for life?
And yet, Pete Rose is banned for life?
Amen brother!
Let Pete in the Hall!
The Hall looks more and more idiotic every year that goes by. You've got the child molesters voting on who is moral enough to go in...They look to be snubbing Mike Mussina now (not snubbed on morals just because stupidity).
He'll bet you they will.
He never betted on his own associations. So...no. ;)
Ahoy Professor. You taught me so much. You taught me that batteries sitting on a shelf could lose their power, then you taught me that coconuts will suffice just as nice.
RIP Russell Johnson.
Dave Madden, the band manager on "The Partridge Family"
died at age 82.
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Trigger from Only Fools and Horses died yesterday.
I was going to post about it, but my inability to open more than one Window at a time made it impossible for me to find out his real name. Back on the iPad now, despite the fact it's not as keyboard-friendly.
Roger Lloyd-Pack.
Emily Lloyd is his daughter.
Merkins might know him best from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Barty Crouch (David Tennant's dad).
Ah, I remember his face. Not a big Potterite so I prolly saw him in something else...
Chris chataway has died.
best known for racing with people like zatopek and '4 minute mile' bannister
I was just talking about him last week with my FIL and he was wondering if old Pete was still alive.
It was a nice slide show though. I hadn't seen those 90th birthday party pictures before. And I knew he didn't cooperate with the commie witch hunt, but didn't realize he went to jail for a year over it.
edit: I see he appealed and won, and never actually served time.
Pete Seeger was a hero of mine. And the Weavers reunion on PBS is one of my all-time favorite specials.
Philip Seymour Hoffman has left the building.
He was an alcohol and heroin kinda guy... helluva actor though.
Ah man, that's so sad. Mum just phoned me to tell me. We're all big fans of his.
What a tragic waste. He was such a talented actor.
Just read about that a few minutes ago. Kinda shocking. We were the same age, I thought he was 55-ish.
Suspected overdose, as he was found with a needle in his arm, per YahooNews.
He was the subject of a death hoax earlier this week they said.
... helluva actor though.
He was such a talented actor.
Yeah, he was a very good actor. Addicts are the best liars.
What a shame. The guy had talent. I saw a couple movies just because he was in them.
So you know he probably had Super Bowl tickets. Are those seats going to go to waste?
I read somewhere that he was only 15 the first time he went to rehab. Such a massive fucking shame.
I bet Robert Downey Jr. is having an intensely introverted day today.
Sucks. I thought he was a wonderful actor. RIP Mr Hoffman.
A perspective on addiction. That wasn't about PSH.
It was an interesting read. Just saying.
Yeah. It was a good read.
Oh noes. 69 years old is nothing.
Aw, damn. I didn't realize he was even that old.
wow...
RIP John Pinette
Probably best known for his Chinese buffet bit. My friends and I used to say things like this, working at the country club, but I wasn't sure which comedian had come up with it.
"You go now. You been here 4 hour!"
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Aw, shit, man. That one got by me somehow. I loved that guy's brand of humor.
Dude was 50.
Wrestling fans, brace yourselves:
The Ultimate Warrior died Tuesday night,
at 54. James Hellwig was walking his wife to the car at a hotel when he keeled over and died.
He was inducted to the WWE Hall Of Fame Monday and had this to say:
"...Every man's heart one day beats its final beat; his lungs breathe their final breath.
And if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others and makes them believe deeper in something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit will be immortalized by the storytellers, by the loyalty, by the memory."
And he died the next day. Is that foreshadowing, or what?
No cause of death yet, but...I've not been a wrestling fan for many years, but, I can remember watching The Ultimate Warrior when I was a child.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Sue Townsend, creator of Adrian Mole
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-26982680DJ E-Z Rock, real name Rodney Bryce, died Sunday.
E-Z Rock was the DJ for Rob Base. The two mad the big time with "It Takes Two", and "Joy and Pain, among other hits.
No cause of death, yet.
I bought that CD (Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock "It Takes Two") when it came in 1988. It is one of five rap albums/cd's I own, out of over three hundred.
Nooo! I hadn't seen that. That's so sad.
Pneumonia took him before the Parkinson's could. Not sure how to feel about that.
I couldn't remember who he was until I opened the link. Now I'm sad. I know he did a ton of stuff but for me he will always be from Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
I just read it...:eek:
I went to see "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and the engine siezed on my 73 Monte Carlo. Vette motor, 375 horse heads, lumpy cam, big honkin' Quadra-Jet...I about cried.
Good times, man, good times.
I just read it...:eek:
I went to see "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and the engine siezed on my 73 Monte Carlo. Vette motor, 375 horse heads, lumpy cam, big honkin' Quadra-Jet...I about cried.
Good times, man, good times.
how does that happen? radiator failure or oil leak?
re Bob Hoskins, I really enjoyed the film
"Unleashed", Hoskins was great, so was Jet Li.
Hoskins was an actor who was really accessible to independent film makers.
He had a great reputation for being willing to work on small budget productions if he liked the script. He was paid of course, but nowhere near the fees he could earn for international film shoots or even theatre, where he started.
His reasoning was that (well-organised) low budget shoots took up a sneeze of his time. He was "one-take-Hoskins" and believed in bringing anyone with talent up through the ranks both in front and behind the camera.
And yes, I'm writing as someone who knew people who worked with him.
An exceptionally generous man.
And yes, I agree with Monster, 71 is no age at all. Dads is 74 today.
how does that happen? radiator failure or oil leak?
Oil pump took a shit.
Rest In Pieces - After the autopsy, sold the heads, intake, and carb. The body went to the junkyard. Couldn't let it set in the yard til I could sell it to someone, so...
Wish I had those heads now. $$$
And by coincidence, I just this afternoon saw a movie with Bob Hoskins in it, called "Beyond the Sea." Story of Bobby Darin, starring Kevin Spacey--who does all his own singing in the movie. I guess it's not really surprising that he can sing well, but he can.
I've never watched that. Is it worth seeing?
It was good. Not mind-blowing, just about what you'd expect from a movie about the life of a famous singer. But I enjoyed it.
Edit: I take it back, there were a few darn good choreographed dancing scenes, if you're into that.
I've heard Spacey sing. I think that'll probably carry the thing for me.
Thx.
Spacey singing.
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He does excellent voice impressions as well.
Slight tangent here.
When I lived in London and was sharing a house with people I hated (pre-Cellar) I was stopped in my tracks as I was about to leave the house. A beautiful high tenor voice had just sung "The hills are alive..."
It was obviously a recorded voice (the story isn't that exciting) but I had to poke my head round the door of the living room to check it out.
And there on the screen was Ewan McGregor, who I knew from gritty independent British films, singing like a tripped out angel in a dream in Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge.
It's not fair tht some people get looks and talent and intelligence and social conscience and being all round jolly good chaps. And can sing too.
But life isn't fair, and where would we be without them after all.
Little Pete saw Arthur Darvill in Once, the boy can do it all.
He does excellent voice impressions as well.
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some tennis player chick aged 30 liver cancer. Never heard of her, but 30! :(
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/tennis/27280549With Spacey, I didn't know the first few impressions, then he did the worst Audrey Hepburn accent I'd ever heard... ( yeah, I worked it out).
But once he got going I was very impressed.
Re Elena Baltacha (I'm not a tennis fan but she was raised Scottish so I did know who she was) ouch. Cold water down my spine. Barring an accident I will die of something liver-related, so it always jars for me when someone goes that way. So young too, and SO healthy.
He said the word 'funny' as Al Pacino...I cackled.
He said the word 'funny' as Al Pacino...I cackled.
I know right? That's all he had to say. He nails the mannerisms and speech.
His regular work was far out enough that it passed as being produced by an extra-terrestrial.
Maya Angelou.
Gave me a different aspect on racism. Wrote amazingly accessible poetry.
An honest and beautiful black woman.
Oh, that's a sad one. I liked her. She was a good egg.
She came to my college when I was s student there and I got to hear her speak. I don't remember what she said, but she had this amazing presence.
What a loss for all of us.
Oh just remembered a dream about you, Glatt...
Will post in the appropriate thread.
Envy you majorly that you heard her speak. She was one of my heroes.
I have two of her poems by heart, and more lines randomly.
Oh, the passing of Maya Angelou got by me somehow.
ETA: Here's a sad commentary on my life: I don't personally know anyone who will know who Maya Angelou was. Ima test that notion, but, I'm betting it's true.:sniff:
Oh, the passing of Maya Angelou got by me somehow.
ETA: Here's a sad commentary on my life: I don't personally know anyone who will know who Maya Angelou was. Ima test that notion, but, I'm betting it's true.:sniff:
I saw her speak live when i was in college then again years later with my mom. I'm so sad. :(
Here is an excellent article on Maya Angelou.
In fact it is
the best news article I've ever read on Yahoo.
Hard to believe. 86 seems young to me.
Oh, that's a sad one. I liked her. She was a good egg.
She came to my college when I was s student there and I got to hear her speak. I don't remember what she said, but she had this amazing presence.
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Maya Angelou
Just read this quote today. Smart woman.
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Maya Angelou
Just read this quote today. Smart woman.
Here's a couple I like:
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
Oh, and...
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
Oh, and...
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
This is great! Thank you, Infi!
Sent by thought transference
Here's a sad commentary on my life: I don't personally know anyone who will know who Maya Angelou was. Ima test that notion, but, I'm betting it's true.:sniff:
I'm up to 14 people, now...no one has known who she was or even heard of her. I live in a cultural wasteland.
Ann B Davis. :cry:
We loved ya, Alice.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/01/showbiz/ann-b-davis-dies/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
[SIZE="1"]she might be on my list[/SIZE] :(
No way!!
Rik Mayall died :( 56 years old.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27770266
No details as yet.
I'm up to 14 people, now...no one has known who she was or even heard of her. I live in a cultural wasteland.
Don't feel bad, none of the teachers I work with had heard of her either. Go STEM!
No way!!
Rik Mayall died :( 56 years old.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27770266
No details as yet.
I know, so young!
Last I heard the Police were called to the scene of a sudden death at lunchtime today.
ETA, sorry the article says that. I heard it as an update on the original story on the radio.
The Police reunited in the wake of Rik Mayall's passing?
Sting, Andy, and Stewart must have been really big fans.
Don't feel bad, none of the teachers I work with had heard of her either. Go STEM!
That's effed up. STEM is good and all, but let's not forget the value of liberal arts. Sheesh. TEACHERS hadn't heard of her? Where'd they get their education...ITT or Miami Jacobs? :headshake
That's effed up. STEM is good and all, but let's not forget the value of liberal arts.
Paper or plastic?
Would you like fries with that?
I just read that
Ruby Dee died last night.
She was 91.
Man, the Casey Kasem story this past couple of months has just infuriated me.
:mad2:
Man, the Casey Kasem story this past couple of months has just infuriated me.
:mad2:
People are nuts.
There was a legal tussle between his adult kids and his second wife over whether or not to continue giving food and water in his last months.
Tony Gwinn, HOF dead at 54
Cancer sucks
AND
Chewing tobacco is just plain stupid.
Just read that. He played
all of his 20 year MLB career for the Padres.
From the San Diego Padres Twitter feed:
Rest in peace, Mr. Padre.
Heaven's band just got a lot better.
That should give the angels a break from all that kickass comedy and drama they've been enjoying lately.
I just read that
Meshach Taylor died.
I liked this guy. He was a pretty good actor.
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Fuck cancer.
I really liked him too. I think Designing Women did some groundbreaking stuff for its time. Meschach Taylor (Anthony) was a big part of that, and he was so funny.
I can't find any good short clips or even good quotes of parts I'm thinking of. One was where some woman snidely asked him if he was related to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Anthony's last name was Bouvier) and he went off on some reply about yeah, she's his sister and something about since she married Ari...etc. Another memorable one was when he ended up camping with the girls for some reason.
He and Delta Burke (Suzanne Sugarbaker) and he and Alice Ghostley (Bernice Clifton) had great comedic chemistry.
So sad...
Tommy Ramone dead at 62. :(
Tom Erdelyi emigrated to America in 1957 and grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, where he played with guitarist John Cummings – later Johnny Ramone – in Tangerine Puppets. He went on to study engineering and worked at the Record Plant (where he assisted on a 1969 Jimi Hendrix session) and other facilities. Elaine Stritch -
dead at 89.
Johnny Winter -
dead at 70. The band just got a
whole bunch better.
I saw Elaine Stritch in her one woman show in 2001. A great performer and story teller.
"It's a living music," Winter once said of his chosen genre. "For me, blues is a necessity." (from here)
Amen, Johnny. RIP.
James Garner,
dead at 86.
Man, I loved "The Rockford Files".
Hell, I think I liked everything I ever saw him in.
:sniff:
:blackr:
I can remember, when I was a kid, I had to go to bed when Momdigr did. But, on Thursdays (I think, or whatever night it came on) I would stay awake till "The Rockford Files" came on, I'd hear his phone ringing at the intro, then get up and sneak back to the living room and watch with Popdigr til it went off, then sneak back to bed.
One of my favorites, James Garner was certainly versatile. He further endeared himself by taking on roles in which his character was quick on the clever rather than quick on the trigger. A career well done.
Rockford files was so cool. He had that answering machine and the awesome trailer on the water.
Well, he had a trailer.
And it was on the water...
The answering machine was way before anyone had them in the real world.
But really, he was what made that show cool
He was a good one. Loved Rockford Files as well.
In everything he was in, he was funny and never full of himself.
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Only 63. Thought he was older.
Depression takes another one. People who can survive anything...ANYTHING...can not always survive depression. It's sneaky and mean and the perception of it has to change. It's a disease. No one would ask for it. No one who suffers from it can just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and put on a happy face. Not even a comedic talent such as Robin Williams. They can try and try and try. Sometimes they can make it. Often they do not.
My heart breaks.
Nanoo Nanoo, Mr Williams. I thought you were one who humor could help.
This is just so fucking sad. :(
Sorry to hear this news. His poor family .
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH heard it in a passing reference as I was flicking radio stations driving home from NJ a few hours ago. currently in motel made sure it had WiFi so I could find out what happened. My favorite comedian Evah, had hoped to get a chance to see him live. :cry:
I remember you saying Good Morning Vietnam is one of your favorite movies. I like that one too.
I'm a bit partial to many of his movies, and stand ups, and shows, but most of all The World According to Garp.
Here's something funny for those who care...gotta watch it through, it's so Robin Williams. I'm glad I found it.
Love ya monster!
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I'm heartbroken, tbh :(
O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won; 20
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
All RW youtube clips are telling me to try again later. I didn't realize it was so recent -I though it was something I'd missed because I've had not interwebs and barely any radio for a few days
If I had a desk I would stand on top of it right now!
I'm heartbroken too. It don't make no sense.
don't think I've ever cried for a celeb before
But I get it. It's a pretty tough one to take.
*hugz*
Here's Garp (I'm a big Irving fan as well)
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Ah man. That makes me want to cry.
'The World According to Garp' (film and, at one time, book) is a favorite of mine.
It always seemed/seems to be forgotten movie, never mentioned.
Certainly, I never heard Williams mention it, but then: he was always makin' with the funnies so...
'The World According to Garp' (film and, at one time, book) is a favorite of mine.
It always seemed/seems to be forgotten movie, never mentioned.
Certainly, I never heard Williams mention it, but then: he was always makin' with the funnies so...
I agree. Close and Lithgow were both nominated for oscars for their roles (love me some Lithgow too.)
I think I need a re-watch, and a re-read.
that clip may be quite apropos, IM.
I was thinking about depression. I don't remember hearing any poor people complain about it. It seems to be a rich person problem, doesn't it?
I'm wondering, that if people don't have enough adversity in their lives, are they somehow driven to create it? His money could have been his black gloves. any thing he wanted, for years and years.... he could get it, because he was so rich.... but did that take all the reward away, all the joy?
is that WHY he was into cocaine and drinking.... the loss of control? when in his normal life, everything was TOO easy?
Poor people are too busy surviving to worry about how depressed they are. they don't dwell on their sadness. they have to get to work, and to do that, they have to get their car fixed, so they have to get up early and jump the battery again... and then go to the laundromat to clean that uniform, and get the kids off to school, and what are they going to eat tonight, there's only $17 until payday....
I bet they sleep just fine when they finally lie down in bed.
No, Jim, I think you're very wrong there. Poor people with depression expect to be depressed/are expected to be depressed/self-medicate with drink or drugs until they die of excess/get treatment of they're lucky but don't hit the headlines because they have to just get on with the struggle. I can think of several examples among my RL and online acquaintance.
Maybe our definition of poor is different. The poor I'm thinking of don't have computers. They are not online.
Anyone with time in their day to dwell on how painful just living is, has too much of it.
Just getting on with it is the cure. It's when you check out of normal survival activities that you are considered depressed.
There are varying degrees of course. I've been very sad for extended time in my life.... I always got to work and supported my family though, so I would not say I was actually depressed.
It's not being sad. It's a chemical imbalance in the brain.
Depressed people can't just "get on with it".
You won't recognize it and identify it in people. If you've not had it, it's very hard to really understand what it is.
I knew a ghetto dweller whose doctors had him on anti-depressants until he became very obese and had to use a wheelchair. But when they took him off the drugs, he was suicidal. They decided staying on them was the best course of action.
that clip may be quite apropos, IM.
Thanks jim, I think it really is. Very poignant.
Poor people are too busy surviving to worry about how depressed they are. they don't dwell on their sadness.
Also, it's easier for them to find a legitimate reason to be down, they don't have to contrive anything.
It's not being sad. It's a chemical imbalance in the brain.
Depressed people can't just "get on with it".
A shitload of medical research has concluded that's true. However that shouldn't ever be an excuse for giving up all personal responsibility and not trying a little bit every day, to improve your life.
Yeah yeah, chances of defeating depression without medical help are slim to none. But the everyday problems that pile up as a result of the imbalance, you can work on. Force yourself to empty the litter box, take a shower, walk twice around the yard. These will feel like you climbed the Matterhorn, probably in difficulty, and definitely warm and fuzzy.
Goddammit, he was Garp.
Duncan began talking about Walt and the undertow – a famous family story. For as far back as Duncan could remember, the Garps had gone every summer to Dog’s Head Harbor, New Hampshire, where the miles of beach in front of Jenny Fields’ estate were ravaged by a fearful undertow. When Walt was old enough to venture near the water, Duncan said to him – as Helen and Garp had, for years, said to Duncan – ‘Watch out for the undertow.’ Walt retreated, respectfully. And for three summers Walt was warned about the undertow. Duncan recalled all the phrases.
‘The undertow is bad today.’
‘The undertow is strong today.’
‘The undertow is wicked today.’ Wicked was a big word in New Hampshire – not just for the undertow.
And for years Walt reached out for it. From the first, when he asked what it could do to you, he had only been told that it could pull you out to sea. It could suck you under and drown you and drag you away.
It was Walt’s fourth summer at Dog’s Head Harbor, Duncan remembered, when Garp and Helen and Duncan observed Walt watching the sea. He stood ankle-deep in the foam from the surf and peered into the waves, without taking a step, for the longest time. The family went down to the water’s edge to have a word with him.
‘What are you doing, Walt?’ Helen asked.
‘What are you looking for, dummy?’ Duncan asked him.
‘I’m trying to see the Under Toad,’ Walt said.
‘The what?’ said Garp.
‘The Under Toad,’ Walt said. ‘I’m trying to see it. How big is it?
And Garp and Helen and Duncan held their breath; they realized that all these years Walt had been dreading a giant toad, lurking offshore, waiting to suck him under and drag him out to sea. The terrible Under Toad.
Garp tried to imagine it with him. Would it ever surface? Did it ever float? Or was it always down under, slimy and bloated and ever-watchful for ankles its coated tongue could snare? The vile Under Toad.
Between Helen and Garp, the Under Toad became their code phrase for anxiety. Long after the monster was clarified for Walt (‘Undertow, dummy, not Under Toad!’ Duncan had howled), Garp and Helen evoked the beast as a way of referring to their own sense of danger. When the traffic was heavy, when the road was icy – when depression had moved in overnight – they said to each other, ‘The Under Toad is strong today.’
Christopher Reeve broke his neck in 1995, but lived another nine years with tons of medical attention and around the clock care. I couldn't even begin to figure what that cost.
Robin Williams paid it.
Goddammit, he was Garp.
:)
No, Jim, I think you're very wrong there. Poor people with depression expect to be depressed/are expected to be depressed/self-medicate with drink or drugs until they die of excess/get treatment of they're lucky but don't hit the headlines because they have to just get on with the struggle. I can think of several examples among my RL and online acquaintance.
Poor people are depressed as often as the rich; they just don't make the news. Bipolar disorder doesn't respect socioeconomic class. It runs in families and it's tightly connected with substance abuse ... the two run together. But it's no different than inherited type 2 diabetes or any other genetic predisposition.
People with major depression CANNOT just take a cold shower, walk around the block, do a good deed, and get over it. They can and will do all of the above - and Robin Williams is the quintessential example of a person who went far beyond that in carrying on, and in giving to others - but it doesn't touch the darkness that makes it impossible to go on. Read William Styron's
Darkness Visible. His description of suicidal depression captures its essence. The online blog Hyperbole and a Half: Adventures in Depression and Depression Part Two are also instructive.
Hyperbole and a Half: Adventures in Depression and Depression Part Two are also instructive
Good call.
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Yeah, that's pretty good. Thanks, Ortho. And thanks for the links UT.
Well, Lauren Bacall also passed away today. It just fits into this thread. She was like 89. She had a good life.
Not a huge shock like Robin, but she deserves to be noticed.
How many disorders fit under the label of 'depression'?
Bipolar disorder and actual chemical imbalances....
They go beyond what I think of as depression. I guess that's wrong.
Well ... what do you think of as depression? I can understand someone thinking that depression is a reaction to harsh life circumstances - that's reactive or situational depression, also known as exogenous depression.
Endogenous depression is the killer. It's the one that comes on with no identifiable cause, and it devastates lives. You're not wrong, it just that it's a complex beast.
Who said it was the reaction of a harsh life? What I said is it's easier for people living a harsh life to find excuses for their feeling depressed, so it's easier for them to overlook an underlying medical condition... plus not affording a doctor. I thought that's what Jim was talking about also.
When I was poor for a few years (I'm currently on the breadline - but by choice and with options) I used to think that, and my rocky relationship was why I was depressed.
But over the years I have noticed that it comes and it goes with very little connection to what is going on in my life. Sure, there are triggers like money stress but - it can drop in from a clear blue sky. I can be in the middle of a really happy time, with everything going right - feeling loved and cared for, secure and content and then bang - it's back. Or I can be in the middle of crisis and be fine.
The black dog comes when it wants to come. And leaves when it wants to leave.
Looking back on my life - I am fairly sure (always difficult to assess emotional state in the past) that I have had bouts of depression on and off since I was around 8 years old.
that clip may be quite apropos, IM.
I was thinking about depression. I don't remember hearing any poor people complain about it. It seems to be a rich person problem, doesn't it?
I'm wondering, that if people don't have enough adversity in their lives, are they somehow driven to create it? His money could have been his black gloves. any thing he wanted, for years and years.... he could get it, because he was so rich.... but did that take all the reward away, all the joy?
is that WHY he was into cocaine and drinking.... the loss of control? when in his normal life, everything was TOO easy?
Poor people are too busy surviving to worry about how depressed they are. they don't dwell on their sadness. they have to get to work, and to do that, they have to get their car fixed, so they have to get up early and jump the battery again... and then go to the laundromat to clean that uniform, and get the kids off to school, and what are they going to eat tonight, there's only $17 until payday....
I bet they sleep just fine when they finally lie down in bed.
Jim, have you ever been poor? What's the longest you've been unemployed? Ever been homeless? Ever lived, literally, on the street? Have you ever suffered from depression? I mean the disease...not when you felt down last time the Cowboys lost.
If you are not experienced in those things, I do believe you are speaking out of your ass on this.
I remember in one of Robin Williams' stand up shows he was talking about how his cat got into his stash of drugs.
He found the cat sitting up in the corner, with his back against the wall, staring at his paws going "Me-, me-, goddammit, how does that go again?"
:lol2:
The absolute manic energy that man had at times...:headshake
:blackr:
___________________________
And who could ever forget Bogie & Bacall?
:blackr:
Jim, have you ever been poor? What's the longest you've been unemployed? Ever been homeless? Ever lived, literally, on the street? Have you ever suffered from depression? I mean the disease...not when you felt down last time the Cowboys lost.
If you are not experienced in those things, I do believe you are speaking out of your ass on this.
I've lived in a van for 3 months. Was the happiest I remember being.
I am speaking out my ass, but not because I haven't been poor. Because I'm a happy person and I can't relate. That's why I phrased my comments as speculation.
I work my fucking ass off. Did 26 hours in the last 2 days. I get down like anyone else, it's just not chemical. It passes. Don't start taking tones with me. I'll beat you down and bring you up right.
Was the happiest I remember being.
:lol2:
VAN?!? You were the guy we wanted to be when we hit the lottery! You were the homeless elite! You lived in a mobile condo!
I am speaking out my ass, but not because I haven't been poor. Because I'm a happy person and I can't relate.
I sincerely hope your situation in life enables you to remain this happy person. Rly.[/no tone]
I work my fucking ass off.
As did I.
It passes.
Right up til it doesn't anymore. Be wary.
Don't start taking tones with me. I'll beat you down and bring you up right.
Didn't mean to come off 'toney'. And, I'd rather not be beaten.
You can lap my filthy bag, though. And, if mine ain't filthy enough for ya, ya can lap your own. Ya filthy bag-lapper.
It's just lint.
It's not like there's an old piece of candy stuck under there...
aaaaaghhhhh!
pass the brain bleach!
I work my fucking ass off. Did 26 hours in the last 2 days. I get down like anyone else, it's just not chemical. It passes.
That's the thing, in the past we always described a bunch of problems weighing on you as being depressed. Usually time and work would solve those problems and you'd feel better, but some couldn't.
Now all of a sudden there's a medical condition, chemical imbalance, they're giving the same goddamn name to. So when three people talk about depression, they could be thinking about something completely different, and cocksure they are right.
Another one, Autism. Most people had a rough grasp of what you were talking about when you mentioned it. But now, lo and behold, Autism is no longer a condition, it's a whole damn spectrum of conditions/problems, many with their own name. It seem half of clodfobble's posts on the subject are trying to educate people about the different points on the spectrum.
Language is a bitch, common language is impossible. :rolleyes:
I can imagine Robin doing stand-up at the pearly gates: Sometimes after a trying day, all a person wants is a stiff belt and to stretch out.
I have heard this befor , RIP Sir , you were one of the good ones
Apparently, we aren't so far along on understanding suicide as we may be believe.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/28773734
Robin Williams' daughter Zelda says she is leaving Twitter because of social media abuse after her father's death.
The 25-year-old posted that she was deleting Twitter from her devices "maybe forever".
It appears at least two people sent her "photoshopped" images claiming to show her father's body.
-snip-
British comedian Russell Kane told Newsbeat that he was "offended" by some comments made after the death of Williams.
"People's comments saying how selfish Robin Williams is for doing this, people just don't understand what depression is like," he said.
Fox News TV anchor Shepard Smith sparked criticism after suggesting the actor was a "coward" to kill himself.
Smith has now said he regrets using the word while speculating on air what Williams may have been feeling at the time, according to the Associated Press.
Meanwhile TalkSport has apologised after its radio presenter Alan Brazil said he had "no sympathy" for suicide.
How can anyone consider that a person who commits suicide is taking an easy way out, running away from their problems, and such like. To get to the stage that you would actually take your own life can only be because, for you, it is the only way out. You are crushed mentally, physically, all treatments have failed you, life is unbearable, you believe you are a burden on the people you love. Suicide resolves it all and become justified as the logical solution. Yet all these thoughts, reasons and decisions are withheld - in your mind, depression is your lonely battle and so it follows that the resolution becomes yours alone too. How terrible and how sad.
I think it's kind of a balancing act. You have to condemn suicide because the message should be that it's unthinkable. If you present it as a reasonable option to end depression, then more depressed people are going to choose it, causing more grief and anguish for their families and friends.
But that has to be balanced with compassion for the person who is hurting so much that it's the only path they can see.
We shouldn't condemn anyone for choosing suicide, but we also shouldn't praise them for it in any way, or put a positive spin on it by saying stuff like "at least now they found peace." Suicide doesn't solve anything. It's just game over.
I am still of the mind that suicide is the ultimate act of selfishness.
Still, I understand that there are many paths to that place. I have explored/lived many of those paths. These paths are wide, easy to find one's self on, and unfortunately, very well-traveled.
Fuck depression.
And cancer.
And arthritis, while we're at it.
I have heard this befor , RIP Sir , you were one of the good ones
Great minds... Great minds...
Or a couple of rednecks... :stickpoke
Guilty.
Just smile when ya say it.
:D
Yes master.
Don Pardo, NBC announcer, SNL announcer for all but one year is dead at 96.
I remember him more the sign off at the end of each SNL. "This is Don Pardo speaking." And, after that, occasionally, you'd get the sly, just-a-little-drawn-out "Good niiiight".
Only two people ever had a lifetime contract w/NBC, Bob Hope, and Don Pardo.
...Only two people ever had a lifetime contract w/NBC, Bob Hope, and Don Pardo.
And they are both dead. Coincidence?
Did 26 hours in the last 2 days.
Man, you are too
busy to be depressed. My worst times are during down times. No pun intended.
I am still of the mind that suicide is the ultimate act of selfishness.
Is it really any more selfish than divorce?
By a damn sight, I'd say.
But, then, I've never been divorced.
Or married.
Is it really any more selfish than divorce?
Since when is divorce selfish? IME it generally brings relief to more than it brings distress.....
I have heard this befor , RIP Sir , you were one of the good ones
You hit the nail on the head, zippyt. That quote about the famous clown Pagliacci is in every text on depression. Rightly so.
I can't comment more on suicide than I did in another thread ... all I know is that, sometimes, the compulsion is virtually irresistible. It's a horrible thing. I will never regard it as selfish, only as tragic.
Is it really any more selfish than divorce?
Sometimes divorce saves lives. An abused spouse gets out before being killed, and may take the minor children so that they don't have to be subjected to further abuse or watch a parent's death. Is that selfish?
And how is it that you are comparing suicide with divorce as a function of selfishness? Do you not see either tragedy in any other way?
Maybe his wife has filed and he thinks she's being selfish? :rolleyes:
YMMV, your mileage may vary, when it comes to divorce... and most other of life's potholes.
For some people, suicide is a deeply selfless act. If depression has convinced them that they are a burden on their family, that the world would be a better place without them in it. For some it is less a case of life is not worth living so much as they are not worthy of life; or that their death will bring peace or a lessening of trouble to thier family.
Depression does seriously weird things to a person's perceptions of the world and their place in it.
Suicide can be selfish - fear of the horror of a debilitating illness, inability to see a way forward from the point that they are at, the yawning howl of bleak nothingness opening up in front of them. That kind of tunnel vision that doesn't allow you to see to the side of you, but just straight ahead along a path that can only end one way. But we are all selfish at times- it comes from having a self.
James Alexander Gordon.
Read the football scores for 40 years. I think most people in Britain over 30 heard his voice at least from time to time. And many of us (especially those with parents who did the Pools) heard him every week for our whole childhood.
His was a beautifully modulated voice, even in ordinary conversation. And his reading of the scores was a masterpiece of controlled oratory. In a time before mobile phones, satellite TV, immediate communication between cities even 20 miles apart he was so important. Even after all of those became the norm, people would press their radios to their ears, listen on their iPods, tune in on the radio in the coach on the way home just to hear the comforting sounds in his voice and the scores all across the country.
JAG RIP. A true gent and master of the airways.
Is suicide more selfish than an expectation that someone in unbearable pain keep on living for whatever need they fill in us? To me, that expectation is far more selfish than suicide.
IMHO, suicide is killing. It's a killing of the self.
Of course we back away from those who kill - murderers!!! But people have and will kill in ways that society has sanctioned. The hangman, the soldier, the policeman.
The vast majority of people that kill take no pleasure in their acts.
Did WWI or WWII veterans come back just to be called serial killers?
So suicides should at least be granted the disparity of their own reasons.
Not all killing is violent. Not all suicide is revenge.
And sometimes it feels like a reasonable cessation.
That said, I still miss Brianna and need her more now than I did then. I still find it hard to believe I won't hear her voice again. Life moves on and we grieve and live and it feels like a betrayal.
Sorry. Probably the wrong thread for this.
Sorry. Probably the wrong thread for this.
No Sundae it had to be said.
Sometimes divorce saves lives. An abused spouse gets out before being killed, and may take the minor children so that they don't have to be subjected to further abuse or watch a parent's death. Is that selfish?
And how is it that you are comparing suicide with divorce as a function of selfishness? Do you not see either tragedy in any other way?
It seems to me that divorce is like suicide from a marriage, but instead of being dead, you get to go and live your life more happily. I think that's selfish.
I suppose you could argue that breathing is selfish. I breathe without even thinking, but I do it only for self serving reasons.
I think divorce is more like the funeral after the death.
Richard Attenborough
90 is a ripe old age, though
It seems to me that divorce is like suicide from a marriage, but instead of being dead, you get to go and live your life more happily. I think that's selfish.
I suspect you're viewing divorce from a personal point of view that doesn't encompass other situations. At least, I hope so.
when I told beest about Dickie, he told me Iyengar just died at an even riper old age. I totally missed that.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/wellness/2014/08/20/iyengar-yoga-death-india-guru/14324985/I thought "Iyengar?! Who the hell is Iyengar?"
But then I clicked the link.
I didn't know who he was, but, I knew his face. Somehow.
I thought "Iyengar?! Who the hell is Iyengar?"
But then I clicked the link.
I didn't know who he was, but, I knew his face. Somehow.
He's the guy that made it more difficult to please a sex partner.
Because of him, people could get into even more positions.
Downward Facing Dog, my ass!
:D
He's the guy that made it more difficult to please a sex partner.
Because of him, people could get into even more positions.
Downward Facing Dog, my ass!
:D
:lol2:
Bless your Upward-Facing Ass.
I thought "Iyengar?! Who the hell is Iyengar?"
Iyengarna tell you
Bill Kerr, Australian actor and radio star, dies aged 92
He was ninety-one when he recorded the 'Shooting of Dan McGrew' without script or autocue.
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RIP Joan Rivers. Parts of you were too young to die.
Ach. Bummer.
I liked that guy.
I always thought Richard Kiel looked to be in extreme pain.
Ach. Bummer.
I liked that guy.
word
He was a very impressive dude, just seeing him because of his impressive size and that controlled presence dancers have, plus that commanding voice. He probably could have started half a dozen central American revolutions if he had wanted to. :vader1:
Famous around these parts only is the legendary sports announcer
Bill Campbell.
Paul Revere (of the Raiders) died the other day. 76 years old.
Well that's just fucking sad. :( She was very funny.
Damn. That was a surprise.
Clang, clang, clang, went the trolley.
Clang, clang, clang, went the trolley.
Pssst. That's not the trolley.
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We're sad to report actress Elizabeth Peña, perhaps best known for 'Jacob's Ladder', 'La Bamba', and 'The Incredibles' has passed away at age 55. Rest in peace.
http://imdb.to/1w9enAqLinda Belligham
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29685903
Only last week or so I read an article where she said she was stopping treatment and hoped to die peacefully in January, so I'm kind of shocked it happened so soon
[COLOR="LemonChiffon"]Now I'll have to rething my 2015 pool list....[/COLOR] :eek:
I saw an article asking people if the thought ebola or ISIS was the bigger threat to America. It pointed out that statistically they should be more worried about cancer. (and moving large furniture)
Cure Cancer. (I'm sick of the "Fuck Cancer" thing)
Ben Bradlee
Ben Bradlee, the editor of the Washington Post during the Watergate scandal that toppled President Richard Nixon, has died aged 93.
BBC Link This morning, the Washington Post gave him the front page above the fold and like 7-8 pages in the A section. I wonder how many they gave US Presidents when they died? Can't remember.
Reminds me of when I was on yearbook staff in high school, I was able to get photos of all my siblings into the yearbook, while the year before, when I wasn't on the staff, none of us were in there.
We are all flawed...
The late Ben Bradlee, editor of The Washington Post during Watergate, is called “the least dull figure in the history of postwar journalism” in a personal obituary by David Remnick in The New Yorker. Bradlee, who Remnick says was an “expert in the art of florid dismissal”, liked to dictate his correspondence into a recorder but his secretary struggled with his industrial language. On one occasion she had to go and ask the advice of the custodian of the paper’s style guide: “Is ‘dickhead’ one word or two?”
The TimesLegendary bass man
Jack Bruce is
dead at 71.
:mecry:
Maybe his album I bought in 1962 will be worth something. :rolleyes:
Tom Magliozzi
Tom Magliozzi, Popular Co-Host Of NPR's 'Car Talk,' Dies At 77
I always listened to Car Talk on my trips to the US and subsequently on the Internet.
The great thing about about that programme was that you didn't have to have any interest in cars in order to enjoy it. The infectious laughter and banter was what made it.
RIP Old chap.
Posted at the same time as BigV.
Hey, did you guys hear that Tom Magli--oh, you did.
How do you know if you've got a good mechanic? By the size of his boat.
~Tom Magliozzi
I was surprised to read that he had worked until 2012 and died of Alzheimers. That's a very short time compared with most.
I loved that show whenever I listened to it and I don't even drive.
I was surprised as well, but if he just sat there and chuckled while his brother did the talking, I can see how that might work.
It's also common with Alzheimer's to remember old stuff just fine, it's the new memories that don't stick. They can't find their way home, but can tell you with precise detail how to get to the house they grew up in. Maybe he remembered the car stuff longer than the rest of it.
RIP Mike Nichols. Thank you for directing (and producing, in some cases) so many wonderful films such as (partial list):
2007 Charlie Wilson's War
2004 Closer
1998 Primary Colors
1996 The Birdcage
1991 Regarding Henry
1990 Postcards from the Edge
1988 Working Girl
1988 Biloxi Blues
1986 Heartburn
1983 Silkwood
1971 Carnal Knowledge
1970 Catch-22
1967 The Graduate
1966 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Those of us who live in the land of FilmBuffington mark this a very sad day, indeed. :(
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Ha!
The duchess, known for her frizzy white hair and squeaky voice, raised eyebrows nationwide and outraged her six children in 2011 when at the age of 85 she wed for a third time, marrying civil servant Alfonso Diez who was 25 years her junior.
At the wedding, she thrilled a crowd of several hundred when she hiked up her dress and did some flamenco dance steps on a red carpet at the palace, a 15th-century residence in the cobblestoned old quarter of Seville.
PD James and Phillip Hughes
terribly sad for Hughes' family. Imagine what the bowler must be going through, I'm guessing cricket doesn't have the same phenomena of pitchers intentionally hitting batters like we do here.
PD James
I think while I am alive, I shall write. There will be a time to stop writing but that will probably be when I come to a stop, too.
~PD James
I just recently got a PD James novel out of the library because she sounded like an author I might enjoy, but I just couldn't get into it, so I returned it mostly unread. Maybe I'll try again
Paul Ferrara has left the building
Paul Ferrara, drummer for Al Hirt and Louis Prima, has died at 76
P D James?
Shittington.
Loved her books.
His Aunt was Ruby Keeler. :eek:
I still think Morticia is hotter than a two dollar pistol.
I still think Morticia is hotter than a two dollar pistol.
And she was Aaron Spelling's first wife.
I still think Morticia is hotter than a two dollar pistol.
You can say that again, brother.
My favorite Morticia Addams quote:
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Billie Whitelaw - awesome awesome actor. She was magnetic. Real strength and presence.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30571601RIP Joe Cocker:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/22/joe-cocker-dead_n_6367648.html
I hadn't seen the reports about Cocker. That makes me feel just a little choked up.
Billie Whitelaw - awesome awesome actor. She was magnetic. Real strength and presence.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30571601
I agree
RIP Joe Cocker:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/22/joe-cocker-dead_n_6367648.html
I hadn't seen the reports about Cocker. That makes me feel just a little choked up.
Damn right. That pretty much shocked me.
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I remember seeing it live when Joe Cocker was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live waaaaay back in the day. Unbeknownst to Joe, John Belushi came out on stage behind him and began doing the most dead-on impersonation (of Joe) I think I've ever seen. The crowd is going bonkers, and Joe, I'm sure, thought "These people
love me!", either that or "What the fuck?"
It was hilarious watching Joe going through those contortions and ugly faces he was famous for in his earlier years, with Belushi behind him doing the exact same things.
I'll never forget that.
Couldn't find the full clip, but, here's a taste:
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He's almost good as Joe!
gentlemen you may skip this post
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Couldn't find the full clip, but, here's a taste:
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He's almost good as Joe!
I caught the whole thing on live leak. Joe knew he was doing it, but was unphased. It's actually a nice version. Belushi could sing, too, it would seem.
Oh, Belushi could have made a living singing. I enjoyed his singing. The Blues Brothers? C'mon, man!
He, and Aykroyd could both sing, when they wanted to.
Video of notable Brits who died this year. Didn't know about Donald Sinden, had forgotten about a few....
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30500702Christine Cavanaugh - the voice of Babe and Chucky from Rugrats! She was 51. Cause of death as yet unannounced.
Edward Hermann, the head vampire from "The Lost Boys", of brain cancer.
That was a lovely character to be remembered for.
I met her at one of those autograph events here in LA years ago. She was very friendly and energetic. Still wore the same clothes and hair style from the show even though she was in her late 60s then.
Elly May? That sweet young thing? 81? How did she pass me?
RIP Andre Crouch and Rod Taylor.
Taylor Negron. 57. cancer.
You know him from everything, he was in everything.
I didn't know he was Chuck "Three Dog Night" Negron's cousin
I didn't know he delivered the pizza to Spicoli in the classroom
He was in so many things. As soon as I saw the photo I'm like 'oh that guy!' I remember him from a Friends and a Seinfeld episode. He also was in Young Doctors in Love, I see from his credits. I need to see that again. In HS my friends and I were big General Hospital fans so we had to go see this spoof of hospital soaps.
Very sad.
Anne Kirkbride (Deidre Barlow)
Not the Corrie star I was expecting to go next!
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30891246I know, that really shocked me!
Otherwise known as 'The Singing Tent'.
He certainly had some memorable costumes. My mum played him a lot. I think more because she had a thing about Greece than his music, but who knows....
Was just showing the images of his outfits to Hebe who was expressing her interest in Grecian-style dresses for prom.....and we realized he was just way ahead of his time -they're just cotton Snuggies.... (The blankets with armholes)
they're just cotton Snuggies
:lol2:
I know that we should not make light of his passing, but I cannot help wondering if he died on the day a new Greek government took office, purely for tax reasons.
Bummer - He was definitely one of my favs...
One of my faves too, he LLAP'd.
While best known for the emotionless character Mr. Spock, his facial expressions alone could be quite entertaining as in this largely forgotten music video ...
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The voyage has been better with him. RIPAD (rest in peace and dance).
LLAP'd - Lived Long And Prospered
Man, I had to work on that for a minute.
:D
Aww that's so sad, though he had a good innings, as they say.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/02/27/the-jewish-roots-of-leonard-nimoy-and-live-long-and-prosper/
I've read Nimoy's explanation of how he suggested the Vulcan salute, but his five minute long version here is wonderful to view on this day.
ETA: found the video outside of WaPo's article:
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Just got a chance to watch that. I really liked it.
Came across this one too, which is also pretty good.
http://youtu.be/9QAYvI5CC5sDid I ever tell you about that dream I had where I was having some sort of group sex.... And Leonard Nimoy was there... I can't remember now if it was with jinx, or..... I just remember the floor was very shiny grey painted concrete, and there were puddles of water everywhere.
There was no actual sex, but you know. It was pretty weird. Mr Spock, for fux ache.
Leonard Nimoy was an icon. He created a character that actually changed how people looked at emotion versus intellect. Spock is perhaps THE single most manifest Sci Fi character ever created, and he wouldn't have been who he was with Nimoy.
NASA salutes 'Star Trek' icon Leonard Nimoy
Nimoy ... was honored by the agency in an ethereal photo of the bright blue earth captured by NASA astronaut Terry Virts aboard the International Space Station: ... NASA notes that Nimoy's hometown of Boston, Mass., is visible in the photo.
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President Obama joined other "Star Trek" fans and several lawmakers Friday mourning the actor's death, saying in a statement that "long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy."
"Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek’s optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity’s future," Obama said. "I love Spock."
There's a local ice cream shop that's been in town for years, run by second or third generation family, not sure. Back when I was in my early 20s the thing was that we knew spring was here because this ice cream place was open for the season. Well, they keep opening earlier and earlier it seems. I know the guy, Dave, and he's cool, used to have parties where he'd take the slushie machine to his house and have gin slushies. I went by there today and it was open so I had to read the sign. He has one of those plastic letter signs and it runs the gamut of serious to funny. Today it read "Live Long and Prosper. RIP Spock." I thought that was pretty cool, and SO Dave.
nice find Ocean's Edge.
nice to see you again, too.
The theme this week is bassists. The world lost two thick stringers this week.
Andy Fraser and Mike Porcaro.
You know Andy Fraser for co-writing and playing bass on this:
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And Mike Porcaro was the bass player for Toto, playing on such songs as Rosanna and Africa.
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When you listen to "All Right Now", consider that Mr. Fraser's outstanding contribution to the song was not playing at all for the first 50 seconds of it. Yes, the bass does not come in AT ALL until the first chorus. And then it changes everything, because suddenly... hey bass! It's a neat trick and shows everybody how important bass is.
Another example of this is AC/DC "You Shook Me All Night Long".
Thank you glatt for this post.
Africa is a song that always makes me a little emotional. I just really like it. RIP Mr P.
Thanks UT for pinpointing that aspect of 'All Right Now' and 'You Shook Me' - I've always loved how the bass comes in on both of those songs but didn't really think about it in any technical way. RIP both Mr. Fraser and Mr. Porcaro.
James Best, best remembered as Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane from 'The Dukes Of Hazzard',
dead at 88. Geoffrey Lewis, frequent co-star with Clint Eastwood, father of actress Juliette Lewis,
has died.
He was 79.
Geoffrey Lewis, frequent co-star with Clint Eastwood, father of actress Juliette Lewis, has died. He was 79.
Bummer. He was the J.K. Simmons of his generation
Every character he ever played was very likeable. Even as the head bad guy in "High Plains Drifter", he was very likeable.
I had no idea Juliette Lewis was his daughter. But now I can see the resemblance.
I liked him.
Stan Freberg, 88.
A funny sumbitch.
Stan Hochman a local sportswriter who had bit parts in Rocky. funny intelligent, driven, honest... all around great guy. I knew him a tiny bit. RIP sir.
I just saw that! I'd forgotten all about him. But that song was epic. what was it called again? ;)
Robert Z'Dar, famous for the "
Maniac Cop" movies,
died March 30. He was instantly recognizable due to his massive chin/jawline, which was due to
cherubism.
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Robert Z'Dar page at Wikipedia But that song was epic. what was it called again? ;)
Are you talking about
"When A Man Loves A Woman"?
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Yeah, no, I don't get it.
One of the most annoying Brits of the 70s
Keith Harris One of the most annoying Brits of the 70s
Keith Harris
Heaven knows the competition for that sobriquet is pretty stiff.
I think he rose in people's estimation when he wasn't investigated for Yewtree.
You have to be over 60 to remember Jane Meadows, from The Honeymooners...
Jayne Meadows, Actress and Steve Allen's Wife and Co-Star, Dies at 95
You have to be over 60 to remember Jane Meadows, from The Honeymooners...
No, no, no you don't.
I would have guessed she'd died years ago.
Suzanne Crough Condray, youngest daughter Tracy Partridge, on "The Partridge Family",
found dead at 52.
'Louie Louie' Singer Jack Ely of The Kingsmen,
Dies in Oregon at 71
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One of my favorite golfers,
Calvin Peete died this morning.
He was 71.Jack Ely of the Kingsmen.
"Louie, Louie, garble garble garble..."
I think the only lyrics to that song are "louie, LouIE, oh baby, we gotta go", the rest is just an aardvark being strangled in the [strike]studio[/strike] room in which it was recorded.
Ben E King is no longer standing by us.
The entries in this thread have been making me feel old lately. We're losing touch with the past when all these guys die.
If only we could predict which babies being born would become famous (for things other than being royal)
If only we could predict which babies being born would become famous (for things other than being royal)
I like your thinking. But if you'll permit, a slight amendment:
If only we could predict which babies being born would become famous reality tv stars, we could intervene Minority Report stylee.
better left unsaid why such a thing might be wished for, eh? ;)
Thank yours stars that no one suggested "Camilla"
Grace Lee Whitney, 85
As Janice Rand, Captain Kirk's Yeoman [strike]Purser[/strike] and original lust interest. Not mine, I was too young even when watching the show in reruns.
In the future we will all be equal, except there will still be hot women, except they will be Starfleet officers.
Didn't care for her in that role, liked her in other things better. RIP
You may not know who Errol Brown was, but, you know his voice:
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The Hot Chocolate singer,
Errol Brown was 71.
Man, music has taken a real hit in the last few weeks...
Came here to post that very story.
There is a huge, HUGE hole in the world today.
You may not know who Errol Brown was, but, you know his voice:
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I hate to bring this up, anyone remember the video of the mouse, to that song?
Not a good month for singers named King
I hate to bring this up, anyone remember the video of the mouse, to that song?
I'm quite sure I don't know what you're talking about.
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Heh...I had that song on a 45.
Important bassist Louis Johnson, one of the Brothers Johnson and session player for Quincy Jones, dead at 60. You have heard Mr. Johnson's work on half the hit records of the 70s and 80s. He was a monster.
This song showcases Mr Johnson's aggressive pop/slap technique in full. Just the first 15 seconds of it is enough to give you an idea:
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You could find him everywhere:
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Of course, the brilliant "Strawberry Letter 23", in which Mr Johnson's parts created a hidden rhythm that was one of the secrets to the single.
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You've never heard most of his part because it was mixed so perfectly and became part of the song, but here is the isolated bass part, and believe me, it's just unbelievably genius:
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Wow. I've always loved Strawberry Letter # 23...I think it's one of the prettiest funky songs I've ever heard (I had that 45 too!) It's hard for me to pick out particulars in arrangements, though I was taught how to try by my ex...so hearing the bass part isolated then listening again to the song. Just wow. It's so damn intricate. Thanks UT!
PS. what is making that clicky sound? Some kind of percussion, but what?
In the right channel during the verses? Don't know, it's a woodblock on the left, maybe just sticks on the right.
no, what video?
ffs.
I replied.
then, some time later,
I discovered, no, the cellar discovered for me, that there were more replies beyond the last post on an arbitrary page. the last page I saw, not the last post in the thread. D'oh!!!!
Mary Ellen Trainor - the mother in "The Goonies" - the psychiatrist in all four "Lethal Weapon" movies - appeared in tons of shows and movies -
dead at 62.
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Parker Lewis's mom? Noooooo
IMDb says born in 1950.
Wikipedia says 1952.
Now what?
You gave us the IMDb link, so go stand in the corner. :p:
Christopher Lee, dead, at how-ever-old-he-was.
Shit, Christopher Lee?
I had him on my Celebrity Death List in 2012...
Not that that's the only reason to mourn his passing this year of course.
Hah!
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Rick Ducommun, Tom Hanks' neighbor in "The 'Burbs",
died last Friday.
Wiki pagePatrick Macnee, star of 1960s TV series 'The Avengers,' dies ...
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I liked that guy.
Patrick MacNee
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ha. gazunped while I was looking for Kinky the Boots video
RIP John Steed
I used to sneak back into the living room, after Momdigr had gone to bed, and had put me to bed, to watch old 'The Avengers' reruns with Popdigr.
RIP John Steed
I used to sneak back into the living room, after Momdigr had gone to bed, and had put me to bed, to watch old 'The Avengers' reruns with Popdigr.
Aw..., you just had a teenager's thing for Diana Riggs
Aw..., you just had a teenager's thing for Diana Riggs
Rigg. Not 'Riggs'. And, that's
Ms. Rigg to you.
:p:
ETA: And that was
well before my teens. I was prolly 8, or, 9.
Olenna Tyrell, not so much.
Rigg. Not 'Riggs'. And, that's Ms. Rigg to you.
:p:
ETA: And that was well before my teens. I was prolly 8, or, 9.
OK, I should have said "... precocious teenager's thing ..." ;)
I used to watch them with my dad too. I think we both had a thing for Emma Peel.
A lot of it was The Gentleman Ass-Kicker, I have to admit.
She's been living proof that a woman needs neither a big rack nor a lot of thigh gap to be considered incredibly sexy.
Chris Squire passed away today. Bassist fro Yes since the beginning. The only member of the band to be on every album. He was one of THE BEST bassists ever... IMO. The concerts next month will be quite different without him. Thanks for the 30+ years of memories. RIP sir.
I was on the phone with an insurance company today doing a precert (convincing the insurance that the rehab deserves to be paid for treating a one of their subscribers. I was listening to Yes and had it on pretty low ... but I guess that Roundabout is pretty distinctive ... anyway the care manager said, "am I hearing Yes? Why are you listening to Yes?" So I told her it was because of Chris Squire's death. She hadn't heard and got quite upset ... she was a huge fan and had even gone to England to see them, and is in one of their videos. I did apologize for being a bit brusque with the death notification.
And I got the treatment authorized. I don't know if this was related in any way to the fan-sharing.
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Fuck
Chris Squire, Yes Bassist and Co-Founder, Dead at 67
Read more:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/chris-squire-yes-bassist-and-co-founder-dead-at-67-20150628#ixzz3eSHmJgm4
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Val Doonican. I'd honestly forgotten him, but he was a light entertainment icon in my childhood years. Grandparents loved him.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-33363938omg I kind of assumed he'd died years ago...
Omar Sharif died earlier today in Cairo, of a heart attack.
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Wiki He was the original most interesting man in the world.
Best looking man in film history?
'Aggravatingly handsome', is the term I use.
I hated his character (Robin Colcord, sp?) on 'Cheers'. Decent enough actor, just didn't like the character. I guess that's a compliment, now that I think about it, because the character was supposed to be unlikeable.
Also:
...survived by his husband, Rick...
Called it. Years ago.
I'd love to have seen him on stage. By all accounts he was mesmerising.
He was great as Sherlock's actor friend in Elementary. He was only in two episodes - only a couple of scenes altogether, but I loved his character.
Lord Marbury was our favorite character on The West Wing. So bitingly dismissive.
RIP Roger Rees
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jul/11/actor-roger-rees-west-wing-dies
One of the greats.
Really long time ago ... I think he starred in a production of Nicholas Nickleby that I really liked.
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I met him once. We were both flying first class to Paris, and we were enveloped in his cloud of celebrity in those close quarters. After we got off the plane, he generously allowed us to take a picture with him. He was very gracious, and as I remember, quite short.
That's pretty cool.
My only brush with fame was when I met Dennis Weaver in the Nashville airport when I was ten. (ETA: He was about thirteen feet tall.)
A buddy of mine does own Roy Orbison's old refrigerator.
Oh, and Momdigr and I once ate supper across the aisle from Ronnie McDowell at an Applebee's.
Wayne Carson who wrote
The Letter and
Always on My Mind. He maybe wasn't so famous but some good tuneage.
I just learned something. I thought Willie Nelson wrote 'You Were Always On My Mind'.
Cilla Black
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A true pioneer, giant amongst us. May God bless his resting soul.
Cilla Black
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I know!
So far all I've heard is that it was "natural causes". She was only 72 FFS. My Dad is 75 and if he dropped down dead tomorrow I'd think he was gone too soon.
Jean Redpath
Well, this bums my stone. I didn't realize she died last year on August 21st. I grew up listening to her music.
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"As I was walking o'er yon hill
It was a pleasant evening
'Twas there I spied a bonny lass
Skipping barefoot through the heather
And oh but she was neatly dressed
She needed neither cap nor feather
She was the queen among them all
Skipping barefoot through the heather
Her gown, it was a bonny blue
Her petticoat, a pheasant color
And in between the stripes was seen
Shining bales of blooming heather
Says I then, "Lassie, will you go wi' me?
Will you go wi' me and leave the heather?
It's silks and satins you shall have
If you'll wi' me and leave the heather"
Says she, "Kind sir, your offer's good
It's well I ken you will deceive me
So gin I gie my love all o'er
It's better no I've never seen ye"
And oh but she was neatly dressed
She needed neither cap nor feather
She was the queen among them all
Skipping barefoot through the heather"
I know!
So far all I've heard is that it was "natural causes". She was only 72 FFS. My Dad is 75 and if he dropped down dead tomorrow I'd think he was gone too soon.
Inasmuch as falling asleep on the balcony during a major heatwave and then falling/being hit by stroke could be considered natural.
Arfa Daley
George Cole
I loved Minder
NASCAR legend
Buddy Baker, dead from lung cancer.
Fuck cancer.
Stevie Ray Vaughan died 25 years ago today. (August 27)
Jackie Collins
Breast Cancer. she lived over six years after a stage 4 diagnosis and kept it a secret until last week, apparently
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34305950I always prefer the younger sister especially if named Jackie. RIP culture star
I only found out yesterday that
Moses Malone died earlier this month.
Yogi Berra died last night. Goodbye Sir.
Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
~Yogi Berra
Yogi was definitely one of a kind.
His real name was
Lawrence Peter Berra, and he was 90.
14 World Series appearances...Just sayin'.
:notworthy
Only a few blocks away from Yogi's house was the childhood home of Buzz Aldrin - 2nd man on the moon.
Well, I guess it's finally over.
RIP Yogi
Great story, thanks. :thumb:
never heard of any of them :/
Singer Billy Joe Royal dies at 73
It's one of the things that linger about being an expat. Lack of shared history. At the water polo score table over the weekend, the parents were all reminiscing about songs and TV shows I have no idea about. And I'll quote some show or ad from my childhood which should be hilarious&obvious in that moment, but I hear crickets.
I was at Mum & Dad's when the news about Lord Howe broke.
I couldn't help but be irritated at how often his resignation speech was mentioned, or Healey's quote that being criticised by him was like being savaged by a dead sheep.
I was not a fan of his politics, but he was an intelligent and dedicated politician, and had a distinguished career.
It reminded me of a quote after Russell Harty died and all everyone wanted to bring up was him being slapped by Grace Jones. Something along the lines of "That's like writing about St Michael and mentioning the M&S knicker department."
....or Healey's quote that being criticised by him was like being savaged by a dead sheep.
What is less well known is that Howe later responded that being attacked by Healey was like “being nuzzled by an old boar.”
The Noble Lords and their wives were good friends.
The GuardianThat's the problem, Carruthers, too damn friendly. That's where the dirty deals are done, at social functions away from the public and press.
Oh noes, not FDR... runs wailing from the room...
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Al Molinaro, who played Big Al Delvecchio, owner of Arnold's Drive-In on
Happy Days, has died at 96.
I saw that in the news. I'm kind of surprised he was still with us til just now.
I'd thought him dead for years.
Awww, he was such a big cutie.
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Leatherface is dead.
The "
Texas Chainsaw Massacre" star was 68.
Allen Toussaint, Iconic New Orleans Songwriter and Producer,
Dead at 77 One for the Brit of my generation: Cynthia Payne. Madam Cyn
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34828890Scott Weiland of STP and Velvet Revolver dead at 48.
WTF!?!?? Uh-uh...
Edit:
Damn if he ain't. 48. Forty. Fucking. Eight.
Dude rocked.
Wicked Garden - Stone Temple Pilots
:devil:
I heard that on the radio on my way home :( Found on the tourbus
Who had him in the death pool?
That tugged at a memory, so I had to check mine. I have Axl Rose. close, but no casket.
Well are we stupid? Could have gotten this one easy.
The Harlem Globetrotters'
Meadowlark Lemon, dead in Scottsdale, AZ.
:( two days after diagnosis. holy fuck
Yup.
Wish it was a joke.
It's not.
There have only been a few famous people who's death have had any real impact on me but when I saw the news today about Lemmy's demise just knocked the stuffing out of me.
I've been a fan of Motorhead and Lemmy for years and the old sod seemed indestructible but I suppose the lifestyle does catch up with you in the end.
I remember talking to him years ago after a gig and he signed an album I had of his, he took his time talking to all the fans after the gig and he was such a gentleman taking time to chat and only left when two roadies dragged him back to the tour bus , must have been there a couple of hours
RIP my man you will be greatly missed
Ace of Spades
This is my At Bat Song
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If you like to gamble, I tell you I'm your man
You win some, lose some, it's all the same to me
The pleasure is to play, makes no difference what you say
I don't share your greed, the only card I need is
The ace of spades, the ace of spades
Playing for the high one, dancing with the devil
Going with the flow, it's all a game to me
Seven or Eleven, snake eyes watching you
Double up or quit, double stake or split
The ace of spades, the ace of spades
You know I'm born to lose and gambling's for fools
But that's the way I like it, baby
I don't wanna live for ever
And don't forget the joker
Pushing up the ante, I know you got to see me
Read 'em and weep, the dead man's hand again
I see it in your eyes, take one look and die
The only thing you see, you know it's gonna be
The ace of spades, the ace of spades
Diagnosed on 12/26, passed on 12/28.
He lived his life on his terms, and I cannot think of a better role model.
at work today someone hit page then played Ace Of Spades from their phone over the system :D and then others chimed in to thank them.
Ha! I did that too! Just the intro... And everyone knew it was me, cuz I have the only good speakers in my office. \m/
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Wayne Rogers, "Trapper" John McIntyre from MASH, 82
and
Natalie Cole, 65
Natalie Cole (Daughter of Nat King Cole) I remember this song from my teenage years -it was on the half hour loop tape in the shop I worked in. That tape must've been used for about a year :eek:
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2016 is off to a bad start for music.
RIP David Bowie.
There's a starman waiting in the sky
I only own one David Bowie CD (Let's Dance, probably from the BMG music club) and I'm not a rabid fan, but this news saddened me more than I expected. I LIKED David Bowie. I feel like he was one of the good ones.
I loved Bowie and bought everything through Tonight. He was one of my favorites.
I loved Bowie and bought everything through Tonight. He was one of my favorites.
Still is
My bessie mate and I were heavy into Bowie when we were teens. I remember the excitement when we found a second-hand copy of the Diamond Dogs LP at the record shop up the road. I got it for a week and then she had it for a week.
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:sniff:
:blackr:
Saw him do that up close in person. What a show!
Oh no. Not Bowie. I'm super sad now.
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I've been listening to his library in chronological order - first up this morning is Pinups.
Oh shit, NO!
FUCK CANCER.
I know, it's just awful. These are all the immortals, wtf is going on?
Fuck no, i loved alan rickman. Also 69
FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHK.
Not another one! 2016 is off to a really shitty start.
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A small tribute to Alan Rickman. First, a clip where Benedict Cumberbatch and Jimmy Fallon have a "Rickman-off":
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Then later, Rickman comes back on the show, and chastizes Jimmy for being so disrespectful to him, but they each suck on a helium balloon to discuss it.
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Today, Glenn Frey from the Eagles joined that awesome concert that's being planned in the afterlife.
They're taking people of a certain age right now.
and at the same age (67) the drummer from Mott The Hoople.
All the not-so-old-dudes
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35342699Whoa, hey Dagney, long time no see.
All the not-so-old-dudes
:)
Today, Glenn Frey from the Eagles joined that awesome concert that's being planned in the afterlife.
♪ ♫My race is run♪ ♫
♪ ♫I’m moving on♪ ♫
♪ ♫Like the setting sun♪ ♫
♪ ♫No sad goodbyes♪ ♫
♪ ♫No tears allowed♪ ♫
♪ ♫You’ll be alright♪ ♫
♪ ♫It’s your world now♪ ♫
Here is a decent write up of some of Glen Frey's Eagles songs.
Hi nowhereman, what's happening?
Just chugging along. Waiting out the winter so I can get back to the bees and the greenhouse.
Just waiting for the river to thaw out.
I think this death march is bound to happen, cos we have a lot more celebrities now. We used to only have like 20 of 'em.
There is a part of my brain that is angry that the baby boomers are going to get yet *another* round of attention in their deaths. Haven't you people dominated the world enough already?
Olympic skier Bill Johnson makes the last gate.
Yeah, no. I would not want to linger like that.
Leave me to die in the snow.
Abe Vigoda is dead.
No, really, this time.
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Artur Fischer, inventor of the plastic wall plug / screw anchor, died Jan 27th aged 96.
He also invented [synchronised] flash light photography as he saw an issue with the previously used magnesium flash.
He held over 1100 patents and overtook Thomas Alva Edison, who held 1093 patents. Fischer also held 5867 trade rights.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_Fischer_(inventor)
Terry Wogan. He had a good innings though, I think
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35453541Oh no!!Not Uncle Terry!
I haven't checked headlines or listened to any news yet today so this is news to me.
And Frank Finlay as well.
He was in
'The Sins' a few years ago with Pete Postlethwaite who took the lead role and he was cast as Uncle Irwin.
I remember one episode being based largely on his character and he was outstanding.
Frank FinlaySurely the BBC, of all broadcasting organisations, should have got his name right.
It was corrected in short order.
This is a BBC website, so may not play overseas.
But it's Frank Finlay being given his Shakespearean head (as in a racehorse, not in a rude way) in the original Blackadder.
The man was a fine actor. And he eats up the pantomime villian role in The Witchsmeller Pursuivant. Which I think I know pretty much by heart.
When I finally get to the States, I'll amuse y'all (and family and friends) not just saying "Harry Potter" but also by with my Frank Finlay impression from this episode.
Except you'd have to watch it first.
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One of our all-time comedy forefathers, Bob Elliott, of "Bob and Ray", at age 92.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/arts/television/bob-elliott-of-bob-and-ray-comedy-fame-dies-at-92.html?_r=0
Father of Chris Elliott and Grandfather of Abby and Bridey Elliott.
Did I ever tell the story of the time I saw Chris Elliott at a Sears in Connecticut shopping for a washing machine in the '80s?
It was at the Crystal Mall in Watertown. He was shopping for a washing machine or similar appliance with a woman his age. This was when he was "the guy under the stairs" on Letterman. I pointed him out to my college buddies and he made eye contact with me when I did that. We didn't go over.
Good story, huh?
I have an even worse story about Richard Trethewey, the plumber on This Old House. Let me know if you want to hear it.
Oh Chris Elliott was hilarious on those early Lettermans. I remember every night watching it, I was hoping that he'd have a segment.
By all means go ahead on the Tretheway story
while we wait, here's some typical Bob and Ray.
They usually played this stuff extreme deadpan but here Ray can't help but crack up.
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I was on my way home from work, and I think it was raining because I cut through a hotel lobby to get to the Metro station instead of walking the extra two blocks outside. Richard Trethewey was in the lobby of the hotel talking to somebody. I noticed him, but continued on my way home without even slowing down. I saw in the paper the next morning that there was some home building convention in the convention center near that hotel. I told you it was a worse story.
I've got a slightly better story about Ross Perot. I'm just going to tell it without going through the charade of asking you to ask me to tell it. Because I probably ruined it with the plumber story.
I was walking with two cow orkers at lunch time near my office during that presidential election. We were waiting at a corner for the light to change so we could cross the street. A regular sized Town Car stopped to wait for some pedestrians to finish crossing the side street so it could turn. Ross Perot was in the front passenger seat, looking out the window sideways with the window rolled down. My one cow orker said loudly. "Hey!" and pointed at Ross. Ross smiled a big smile and waved at us from about 4 feet away as the car made the turn and was off.
I have several DC sidewalk stories. Wayne Newton coming out of the White House, Sam Donaldson crossing the street, Mikhail Baryshnikov walking with Twyla Tharp. When you turn it into a list, the stories are even less interesting.
Perhaps my favorite is seeing 'Los from the first season of MTV's Road Rules riding in a slouched "leave me the fuck alone" position on the Metro. You have no idea who he is today, but when I told friends back then that I'd seen Los on the Metro, they all knew who I meant. Stupid reality TV.
Bob and Ray are so young there.
I remember them more from this era:
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Notice but continue on your way is good policy IMO.
My only one like that, I think; I had dinner at a local seafood restaurant two tables over from Pete Rose. No big deal, I just let the man eat dinner in peace.
I have met Stacy Krass several times, and seen him tooling around in a pale yellow Rolls Royce. He was really nice guy. Story of his murder
here
But so was
Angelo Bruno, who I also met once. (ONCE!)
Earth, Wind and Fire founder Maurice White.
I hope he says hello to my mom. She loved some Earth Wind & Fire. "September" always reminds me of her. We listened to that a lot in September 2013, when I was taking her to treatment. :(
My personal favorite song by EW & F is "Saturday Nite"
RIP my funky man.
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Well, you can't call jinx 'cause my post was 3 minutes before yours. :p:
The same news posted in this thread @ 5:52 and then in Ticking Clocks @ 5:55.
Nancy Reagan, today.
Pat Conroy, this past Friday.
Ding Dong, the witch is dead.
Bruce, I thought you'd liked Pat Conroy! Shame on you.
George Martin, the 5th Beatle.
Anyone know Emerson's cause of death.
"Unannounced" But a Rock Star at 71, he had a good run. RIP, Sir. :notworthy
Suicide, he shot himself in the head.
Mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford
Somebody had him on their death pool list, didn't they?
I saw that in the news and was stunned that he was only 46. He looked older -I thought he was well into his 50s.
What surprises me is it wasn't the crack-smoking that killed him.
Mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford
me. :/
Somebody had him on their death pool list, didn't they?
ah man. I used to love Shandling.
Johan Cruyff just died.
He fixed soccer and nobody even knew it was broken.
I saw a show with Garry Shandling as a guest a couple years back. Dude was clearly on the way out even then.
I recently bought The Larry Sanders Show. Loved Shandling.
My favorite stand-up thing he did was about how people drive by fields of cows and say "moo" and Garry says the cow is like "Hey, there's a cow driving that car! How can he afford THAT?"
RIP
(sings) This is the theme to Garry's show, the opening theme to Garry's show...
"That Guy That Was In That Thing", aka,
Larry Drake died this past St. Patrick's Day.
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Omg - what was he in? Was he the....yeah, wasn't he the learning-disabled assistant or something in LA Law?
Glad he got some closure before he died.
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James Noble, he played Gov. Eugene Gatling on the Robert Guillaume series "
Benson".
Also, actress
Patty Duke.
It's dangerous for a celebrity to be 69 years old this year
Ronnie Corbett
Merkins won't recognize the name, because here is a comedy genius who never really crossed the pond.
This is his most famous sketch, as the shopkeeper in Four Candles.
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I turned 21 in prison doing life without parole. Great lyric.
R.I.P. Hag.:sniff:
:blackr:
I think he had predicted he would die on his birthday.
That is one crappy birthday present.
He was not evil. Wrong assumption.
If you say so, man. You're the King of wrong assumptions, so whatever you say.
I had to read that three times before I realized it did not say "King Kong of assumptions..."
Ronnie Corbett
Merkins won't recognize the name, because here is a comedy genius who never really crossed the pond.
This is his most famous sketch, as the shopkeeper in Four Candles.
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His partner in this sketch is Ronnie Barker, they had a two man sketch show for years, "The Two Ronnies", but also successful solo careers.
That is one crappy birthday present.
He was not evil. Wrong assumption.
I'm probably gonna regret this, but:
Whut?I'm probably gonna regret this, but:
Whut?
ikr?
I think he's referring to the engineer who tried and failed to get the Challenger launch scrubbed and he knew it was going to blow up.
I had a whole lot of trouble getting my head around this, till I figured out it wasn't the same night. :smack:
Rest in Piece, Mr Nice!
Howard Marks, who has died aged 70 of cancer, was Britain’s best-known and most charming drugs smuggler, and also a successful author and raconteur. He translated a lifetime of international cannabis dealing and a long stretch in an American jail into a bestselling book, Mr Nice (1996), and a career as a stand-up performer.
Born in Kenfig Hill, a mining village near Bridgend, in south Wales, to Dennis, a merchant sailor, and Edna, a schoolteacher, Howard spoke only Welsh for the first five years of his life. In 1964, he became the first boy from Garw grammar school to win a place at Oxford University and it was while studying physics at Balliol College that he first entered enthusiastically into the world of dope that was to define his life.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/11/howard-marks-obituary
My favourite part of his story is that, having been asked at one point by a friend of his who was in MI6 to help him gain contacts in the underworld, he then, when tried for drugs trafficking, claimed he'd been using that as a cover for spying ... and it worked.
he played his MI6 card and convinced the jury, through the help of a mysterious Latin American witness, that he was assisting Mexico in anti-terrorism work and the drug smuggling was just a necessary cover.
Amazingly, he was acquitted, not least because of his charm in the witness box; one of the jury members was seen doodling a heart. He pleaded guilty to an earlier charge, was given a three-year sentence and released soon afterwards because of time already served.
Victoria Wood. I'm a bit gutted by this. Damn, she was only 62.
The name probably means little to non-Brits - but she was a bit of a national treasure over here.
Here's the thing that always springs to my mind when I hear the name Victoria Wood: The Ballad of Barry and Freda.
She updated the song a few times, over the years. My favourite was the original from the 80s, but damned if I can find a copy on da toob. Closest to the original I can get is the 90's version, which is pretty close.
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:( fucking cancer. stupid bloody disease
Could be Prince's number is up, somebody died at his estate and he was sick apparently.
Female pro wrestler
Chyna (aka Joanie Laurer) died yesterday.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChynaAnd, yes, Prince is dead @ 57.
It looked like a question in response to Beest but we posted it at the same time. Actually heard about it on our local non-syndicated radio station and confirmed through ABC news.
Shocked, I am, by that one.
Prince?
Damn.
The corpse formerly know as Prince.
Google has a purple rain doodle up already, did someone whip that up, or do they have them prepared like obituaries for the queen?
That's a 10 minute job for those guys.
Fucker wasn't even 69, OR British.
Fucker wasn't even 69, OR British.
but he was 69 in Brit years
You forgot Glenn Frey.
oops, never mind.
Stop that! Stoppitrightnow!
:bawling:Oh no! OMG!! this is the worst after all the talent we've lost. It's just devastating!! Kayne West was found alive.
Fucking
Percy Sledge!
The kids and I just finished watching The Commitments..
"The Irish are the blacks of Europe, and Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland, and north Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it loud, 'I'm black and I'm proud.'"
:bawling:Oh no! OMG!! this is the worst after all the talent we've lost. It's just devastating!! Kayne West was found alive.
Somehow,
Lonnie Mack's passing got by me. He died on April 21. Absolutely
awesome guitar player.
That guy who was in that thing died.
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William Schallert, who played the dad on "The Patty Duke Show"
died Sunday.
Is it just me, or, is there a resemblance between
Clark Gregg and William Schallert?
I remember him as the dad in Nancy Drew.
Is it just me, or, is there a resemblance between Clark Gregg and William Schallert?
Definitely!
Yep, right after he got back from Tahiti, a magical place, before he regained his weight.
Aw shit, man.
Pat Rogers died, of natural causes. He was a giant in the firearms training community. He was Rangemaster at the legendary
Gunsite Training Academy for 12 years.
Here is a vid I posted here on Teh Cellah a year or so ago.
Here's another.
A very entertaining guy.
He was a retired Marine, retired NYPD, and ran his own firearms training company,
E.A.G. Tactical, for 27 years.
He trained countless soldiers, cops, and regular guys in the ways of the gun.
He leaves a giant, gaping hole in the military/law enforcement/shooting sports world.
RIP Pat Rogers.:blackr:
Walked in from [strike]cutting[/strike] cleaning up a cut pine tree in my backyard to learn that
Morley Safer had
died.
Shit.
bummer - I grew up watching him. I liked him.
Mr. Ed's sidekick... he made it to 96.
Former Megadeth drummer Nick Menza collapsed on stage and died. He was 51.
So, it wasn't the amps that killed him but the ohms...
progressive jazz is bad mkay?
So, it wasn't the amps that killed him but the ohms...
:drummer:
So, it wasn't the amps that killed him but the ohms...
Ohms, ohms on the stage.
Where the frets and vocal cords play.
Seldom is heard a discouraging rage.
And the sky is bright light bulbs each day.
Daniel Berrigan, Jesuit Priest, died on 20 April 2016. He was so famous that he should have been on Nixon's enemy's list for accurately defining a fiasco called Nam. Even I could not get on that list. But then I was not trying to save the world.
Ohms, ohms on the stage.
Where the frets and vocal cords play.
Seldom is heard a discouraging rage.
And the sky is bright light bulbs each day.
:lol:
I am the greatest
Imma let elspode finish
Well, shit.
I had a lot of respect for that man. For a long time. Class act all the way.
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So long Champ, we hardly knew ye.
:blackr:
A lot of folks are sad about his passing. Count me as one. Good night Cassius, you fought the good fight.
How do you know he's tough if nobody can hit him? :haha:
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Nobody, but no-body, slipped punches like The Greatest.
He was a top notch entertainer.
Yes he was, he worked at it. When he fought Joe Frazier he proved he could take it.
Kimbo Slice (real name Kevin Ferguson),
dead at 42. No cause of death yet.
:eek:
Howe played from 1946 to 1980. Gretzky played from 1979 to 1999.
Guitarist Henry McCullough, 72.
Who?
OK, here's his most remembered solo. And Macca reminds us today that he made it up on the spot, in front of a live orchestra. Sometimes simple is best.
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I read about his passing. I even went to listen to the guitar work on that song.
I'd forgotten that song ever existed. Pretty good old tune.
I read about his passing. I even went to listen to the guitar work on that song.
I'd forgotten that song ever existed. Pretty good old tune.
I should be so lucky.
It turns out that McCullough was also the guy who said,
"I don't know, I was really drunk at the time"
...on Dark Side of the Moon.
That right there is some excellent trivia.
It turns out that McCullough was also the guy who said,
"I don't know, I was really drunk at the time"
...on Dark Side of the Moon.
Speaking of being really drunk, there is an intro to a song (I thought it was the pixies doing Manta Ray, but it might be unrelated since I heard it on a mix tape -- get the hell off my lawn!) where a woman is talking about how she was at a party or something and she went swimming in the ocean at night and felt all one with the universe and could hear the music in the distance and she thought she was this luminous being when she suddenly realized that she wasn't one with the universe, she was just really drunk and about to drown so she got the fuck out.
My details are sketchy but that was the general idea of her spiel. I sort of remember the name Annie Anxiety but didn't turn up anything.
Ron Lester, 'Billy Bob' in
"Varsity Blues", died June 17 of liver and kidney failure after asking to be taken off of life support.
He'd had gastric bypass surgery in 2001, lost 348 lbs, and had 18 plastic surgeries to remove excess skin.
Ron Lester was 45 years old.
Ron Lester, 'Billy Bob' in "Varsity Blues", died June 17 of liver and kidney failure after asking to be taken off of life support.
He'd had gastric bypass surgery in 2001, lost 348 lbs, and had 18 plastic surgeries to remove excess skin.
Ron Lester was 45 years old.
So, no help with the song then?
not having any luck putting it together, is it maybe a movie clip?
So, no help with the song then?
Whut'sthatnow? I assume it has something to do with the movie, but, I haven't seen it.:o
The new Chekov, Anton Yelkin just died in a car crash.
Just read that, and came here to post it.
The article I read said he got out of his car to check his mailbox, left the car in neutral. The car then rolled down his driveway, pinning him between a brick mailbox pillar and the car.
27 is no age to die.
Whut'sthatnow? I assume it has something to do with the movie, but, I haven't seen it.:o
Up a few posts
Bad day for coaches
Pat Summitt, " a pioneer of women's college basketball who guided the Tennessee Volunteers to eight national titles in her 38 seasons at the university, died Tuesday morning. She was 64."
Buddy Ryan, "has died at the age of 82, his agent James Solano confirmed to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Over his 35 seasons of coaching in the NFL, Ryan spent time on the defensive staff for the New York Jets, Minnesota Vikings, Chicago Bears and Houston Oilers, and later worked as the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles and Arizona Cardinals. "
Ryan built that awesome Bears defense that stomped everybody in 1985.
Helluva coach.
He also produced a pretty good coach in his son, Rex.
So was Summit, by all accounts.
Aw. My father will be sad to hear this. I was indoctrinated from a young age on the importance of two books (still never read either): Future Shock, and Man Adapting.
Apparently, Mr. New Chekov was unaware that there was a recall out on his Jeep for faulty transmission. He should have been safe. Yes, his parents are suing.
it might be unrelated since I heard it on a mix tape -- get the hell off my lawn!
footfootfoot, that is awesomeness right there :D. I still have mix tapes people gave me when I was in high school back in the bright and psychotic era called the 80s...
Gravdigr, the FIRST thing I thought when I saw the pic of William Schallert was 'if his face was wider, he'd look so much like "His first name is Agent" Coulson...didn't know the actor's name.
Great minds think alike...and so do ours (what's left)... ;)
Is it horrible that the first thing to cross my mind every time a celebrity under the age of 75 (and a few over) has died since last Christmas-ish is "people who should still be alive instead of William Shatner"?
File Mr. Ebeling under how the hell did I miss this one???
I'm sure many of the American members are, like me, able to remember not just HEARING about the Challenger explosion.
I lived in a small Oregon coast town, and even we got live-feed access on enough TVs for 3 or 4 classrooms to gather up in front of each one. I remember the teachers' silent tears, and the kids suddenly so quiet that their silence became heavy and frightened. Grades 4, 5 and 6, 60-70 kids per monitor, and that total, shocked silence.
For comparison, the very first major news story I actually remember watching on TV at home was the fall of Skylab in 1979.
...back in the bright and psychotic era called the 80s...
I remember parts of the 80s. Vaguely.
Great minds think alike...and so do ours (what's left)... ;)
:lol2:
Ah man. 52 years old.
She was awesome.
Elie Wiesel died July 2, 2016.
He was 87.
How did [strike]we[/strike] I miss this?
it might be unrelated since I heard it on a mix tape -- get the hell off my lawn!
footfootfoot, that is awesomeness right there :D. I still have mix tapes people gave me when I was in high school back in the bright and psychotic era called the 80s...
The 80s music and movies were truly bizarre. Way too much coke green lighted a lot of stuff that never would have made it off the cocktail napkin today.
Holy Shit! Caroline Aherne
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36694598
fucking cancer
EYE cancer? Why the fuck do we even have that? It's not like there aren't enough kinds of cancer already.
Retinoblastoma I think it's called. She was born with it.
One of the admin team at university had a little girl who was diagnosed with retinoblastoma at 6 months old. The treatment was successful, but they were warned that children who've had that are highly likely to suffer other kinds of cancer during their lives. Sounds like that's what happened with Aherne.
Director, screenwriter, producer
Michael Cimino died July 2.
He co-wrote scripts for
Magnum Force and
Silent Running. Wrote the script for
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. He directed, produced and co-wrote the 1978 Academy Award-winning film
The Deer Hunter.
He also made one of the worst films of all time,
Heaven's Gate.
I think Terry Gross did an interview with him.
Garry Marshall, 81
This gentleman is responsible for most television in the 70s and some of it was actually good, or at least okay.
The Odd Couple, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy
and ahem Joanie Loves Chachi
He was the first person to cast Robin Williams
He was the one who decided it was plausible that Julia Roberts could be a prostitute who could fall in love etc. in Pretty Woman.
I was surprised to learn that
Garry Marshall was worth 'only' $80 million.
What with his resume, and all, I was expecting more, I guess. It
was the early 70's and 80's though.:neutral:
Miss Cleo died on the 26th, from cancer. Man, late night used to be just
plastered with her Jamaican-accented ads for 1-800 and 1-900 numbers for free psychic readings.
She was 53.
The 80s music and movies were truly bizarre. Way too much coke green lighted a lot of stuff that never would have made it off the cocktail napkin today.
Now that there's an all-80s music video channel on the Roku, we get to play "name that sexist/racist stereotype & trope bingo". Anything by Motley Crue before "Kickstart My Heart" will usually get you to about 80% of a bingo, and if that doesn't work they do have "Thriller", "Smooth Criminal", and even Cameo's "Word Up" featuring a VERY young Levar Burton. One thing I noticed that I didn't back then is in the video for "She Bop" by Cyndi Lauper. I'd straight-up forgotten Alice Cooper's in the damn thing, but that's not what I noticed.
...Is that ADAM BALDWIN whose motorcycle sidecar she occupies??? Cuz it
REALLY looks like a super-young Adam Baldwin. Someone please find this out!!! (if I wasn't leaving town on an unexpected trip to say goodbye to a friend short on time, I'd look it up myself...)
I forgot about this thread. Maybe this is where I shoulda put the link about Kenny Baker, instead of starting a new thread in CE.
It's OK, John, either way works. :)
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Now that there's an all-80s music video channel on the Roku, we get to play "name that sexist/racist stereotype & trope bingo". Anything by Motley Crue before "Kickstart My Heart" will usually get you to about 80% of a bingo, and if that doesn't work they do have "Thriller", "Smooth Criminal", and even Cameo's "Word Up" featuring a VERY young Levar Burton. One thing I noticed that I didn't back then is in the video for "She Bop" by Cyndi Lauper. I'd straight-up forgotten Alice Cooper's in the damn thing, but that's not what I noticed.
...Is that ADAM BALDWIN whose motorcycle sidecar she occupies??? Cuz it REALLY looks like a super-young Adam Baldwin. Someone please find this out!!! (if I wasn't leaving town on an unexpected trip to say goodbye to a friend short on time, I'd look it up myself...)
Name that channel!
Pretty please.
BigV, it's called Flashback 80s. Order is random and commercials are short but frequent. If you get stuck in a bunch of videos you don't like, back out to the main channels page and re-select it; you'll restart with a different video.
BigV, it's called Flashback 80s. Order is random and commercials are short but frequent. If you get stuck in a bunch of videos you don't like, back out to the main channels page and re-select it; you'll restart with a different video.
Thank you!
The
AP has a good take on his life.
When Gene Wilder came crawling out of "The Hole" in Stir Crazy begging 'please, please, just one more day!', I thought I would laugh for the rest of my life.
I won't even get into his role of 'Jim' The Waco Kid in Blazing Saddles.
Another irreplaceable talent gone.
My favorite
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"Yes, we are."
"Then we're awake, but we're very confused."
Aw shit, man, Wyatt Earp died.
Hugh O'Brian has died at 91.RIP Kevin Meaney
He had one of the greatest 5 minutes on Carson ever, I think it was late 80s. A tad dated now but...
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WTF? That is not right.
He's like a crazy person; dying like that.
God, he was so funny.
ETA: Shit he prefigured Richard Cheese by a couple of decades
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Pete Burns, 57, Heart attack
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And Bobby Vee, for those with less 80s musical tastes.....
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Janet Reno, First Woman to Serve as U.S. Attorney General, Dies at 78
Her sister, Margaret Hurchalla, said the cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease,
which was diagnosed in November 1995, while she was still in office.
I woke up to the news of Cohen's death this morning. Felt really, really sad.
His music was a huge part of my life in my late teens and 20s - and then rediscovered again in my 30s. I adored his voice and his mind. A great poet.
"Open channel D."
Farewell
Robert Vaughn.
Always liked him, a solid actor.
I liked him too. Such a face. That guy. I'm glad he had a good career, he was one of those kind of actors who just worked all the time. RIP, Mr. Vaughn.
Another member of The Wrecking Crew gone.
Never knew that lady's name.
61 is no age to die.
Aren't we down to like 2 or 3 living Brady Bunch cast members now?
(Brady Bunch) No, exactly 6 still with us... all the kids are still around!
It would have been more; but, the same actress played all three Marshas.
Hah!
Just read that ol' Fidel finally carked it. He made a run of it, he did. 90 years old.
(Brady Bunch) No, exactly 6 still with us... all the kids are still around!
Ron Glass, the black guy on Barney Miller.
Also played Shepherd Book on Firefly...that's for you youngins that don't know the joy that is Barney Miller.
Take me out to the black.
Tell them I ain't comin' back.
Burn the land
And boil the sea.
You can't take the sky from me.
God damn... This fucking year sucks.
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I love that song.
Just listened to it earlier (different version).
I saw him do it live, three times. The first time I was taken back because it was so different from the recorded version.
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Vocal track isolated:
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Nice article about John Glenn.
As a Marine fighter pilot, while flying 149 combat missions during World War II and the Korean War, he received the nickname “Old Magnet Ass” for his ability to draw enemy fire and keep the plane flying with huge holes blown into its exterior.
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No No, Bad Year, Bad 2016...
Did we catch
Brubeck here?
Maybe 4 years old... oops
What's the dog's name? I didn't catch any dogs dying this year.
Did we catch Brubeck here?
Maybe 4 years old... oops
:mock:
I hate when old news articles are recycled, for that very reason.
Did we catch Brubeck here?
To answer your question,
yes, we did.
:D
Time was wrong, should have been....
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Brits: Ian McCaskill
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2016 ain't finished...... Rick Parfitt from Status Quo is gone and Carrie Fisher of Star Wars ain't in great shape either after a heart attack.
I posted this link in the Death Pool thread
BBC: More celebs dead in 2016 than other years?I'm hoping Carrie can hang on until the first...
So you can out her on your list? ;)
But yeah, bad year.
and George Michael..... :cry:
Yeah, George kinda freaked me out. Carrie, according to her mother, is still in ICU but is stable. Or was last night.
At least since I'm 0 for 10, I can just roll my dead pool list over to next year, right?
Now she's dead.
Also liz smith (for the Brits), and Richard Adams, author of watership down
Carrie Fisher is dead and I just got back from watching the new Star Wars. Weird.
Carrie Fisher is dead and I just got back from watching the new Star Wars. Weird.
Correlation vs. causation.
If there is ever a movie made about me or with me or part of a franchise in which I once participated, I hope you don't go see it.
With great power comes great responsibility.
That is to say, I would never watch a movie with you in it.
That almost sounds kind but...
Richard Adams :( Author of Shardik, Maia, Plague Dogs, The Girl in a Swing, and most famously, Watership Down. At least he had the good graces to wait until he was 96! Died on Christmas Eve (within a few hours of George Michael, apparently).
Srsly...just f*kk this year.
Carrie Fisher is dead and I just got back from watching the new Star Wars. Weird.
Carrie Fisher, how did you get the part of Princes Leia?
I slept with some nerd. I hope it was George.
I took too many drugs to remember.
That is to say, I would never watch a movie with you in it.
Well, the book would be much better.
(other weird coincidences, literally just now I heard from the other room, as my kids are watching the Doctor Who Christmas special, The Doctor said, "With great power comes great responsibility."
For those who don't read the death pool thread... Debbie Reynolds joined her Daughter Carrie Fisher today.
She was a well rounded performer.
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Sucks...I'd heard Reynolds was hospitalized with a possible stroke, but no further news because shortly after that I started chugging children's-strength cough meds and finally sleeping after 3 days of being too sick to snooze.
William Christopher, Father Mulcahy on MASH.
12\31\16.
There will be no jocularity.
Ah, shit.
I liked Father Mulcahy. He reminded me of Popdigr.
One last cruel twist of the knife from 2016.
Well guess what motherfucker - you are DONE!
Fucking fucker.
Boy, that Death guy, he wanted to keep his job, didn't he?
Tony Rosato, Saturday Night Live &
SCTV alum, died this past Tuesday.
Sad story there.
He was 62.
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Jimmy 'Superfly' Snuka
died yesterday, Jan 15.
Gene Cernan, last man on the moon
Colo the gorilla died on the 17th. She was born at the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium in Ohio, and lived there her entire life. She was the first gorilla in the world to be born in captivity. She was also the world's oldest known gorilla. Her favorite food was tomatoes. She was 60 years old.
Gene Cernan, last man on the moon
The end of greatness in America. He and we had a nice run.
Well, there are still 6 living people who have walked on the moon. IIRC
Well, there are still 6 living people who have walked on the moon. IIRC
Or was that walk at the film studio? :shock: There are a lot of people out there who think it was all a set up.
That's what Elvis was saying from his wheelchair just the other day.
That's what Elvis was saying from his wheelchair just the other day.
He was with Black Kennedy fighting Bubba HoTep at the time....
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Mary Tyler Moore died today. She was 80.
Goodbye Goodbye...
Gorden kaye AKA Rene Artois in Allo Allo
Awww. I always liked him in Allo Allo
I worked with a guy a long time ago who thought a young Mary Tyler Moore was the the most attractive woman on the planet. He had serious lust for her. Mentioned it often enough for me to remember it 25 years later.
I have an uncle like that. He thought MTM was the beginning and end of women. I mean, you could really see it in his eyes when he looked at, or was talking about her. He would go on and on about her legs.
She did have a nice pair of pins under her.:rolleyes:
I have an uncle like that. He thought MTM was the beginning and end of women. I mean, you could really see it in his eyes when he looked at, or was talking about her. He would go on and on about her legs.
She did have a nice pair of pins under her.:rolleyes:
The Capri pants helped. ...
I worked with a guy a long time ago who thought a young Mary Tyler Moore was the the most attractive woman on the planet. He had serious lust for her. Mentioned it often enough for me to remember it 25 years later.
I have an uncle like that. He thought MTM was the beginning and end of women. I mean, you could really see it in his eyes when he looked at, or was talking about her. He would go on and on about her legs.
She did have a nice pair of pins under her.:rolleyes:
Come on, who hasn't rubbed one out to MTM?
She had that Jackie O. look.
Come on, who hasn't rubbed one out to MTM?
Guilty.
But, not lately.:lol2:
Pete Overend Watts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38716635
Base player and founding member of Mott the Hoople nearly a year after the drummer Dale Griffin, I loved that band, played Glam rock with a heavy blues base outstanding live act, never quite transferred the energy on to record though but so good anyway
Butch Trucks, drummer for, & founding member of The Allman Brothers Band, uncle to Derek Trucks,
dead at 69. Suicide.
Not really famous, but Kevin, who ran one of my favorite
websites has died of lung cancer. RIP Sir. :(
He was a confirmed, card carrying introvert, refusing help from a ton of people, even the UK health system until it was too late. I had a short email exchange with his sister in Canada today and learned more about him than I had in years of interaction with him. :rolleyes:
I am still so, so proud of him for having the sense of humor to redo the chestburster scene for Spaceballs...
http://www.rantlifestyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/John-Hurt-Himself.jpgAs for Supafly, he was in a world of legal AND health hurt...think he'd just been determined incompetent to stand trial for killing a girlfriend in the 80s or so. DQ'd from trial due to dementia from all the wrestling-related injuries.
All I can say further about that is HULK HOGAN BETTER NOT OUTLIVE MICK FOLEY GODDAMMIT!!!
Aw shit, man.
Mannix died.
Mike Connors died the 26th. He was 91.
Maggie Roche
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I am still so, so proud of him for having the sense of humor to redo the chestburster scene for Spaceballs...
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The best scene in the movie, esp. the alien with the boater.
"Hello ma baby, hello ma honey hello, ma ragtime gal, Send me a kiss by wire, Baby, my hearts on fire ..."
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Lt. Gen. Hal Moore, the commander from 'We Were Soldiers' portrayed my Mel Gibson.
I read that this morning.
Also
Al Jarreau.
Wrestler
George 'The Animal' Steele (real name William James Myers)
has died of kidney failure at age 79.
Lt. Gen. Hal Moore, the commander from 'We Were Soldiers' portrayed my Mel Gibson.
That was required reading bitd. RIP
At least The Animal wasn't 48, like Eddie Guerrero... :( My sweetie started being a huge pro wrestling fan back when ECW was still a new federation, and ol' George was one of his very favorites.
I really wish Satan would revoke Hulk Hogan's contract, tho. Shatner's too.
Michigan J. Chestburster
That is SO PERFECT! I don't even care if that's really its name or not, that is just awesome.
Gravdigr was being his usual hilariously clever self and riffing on the
Michigan J. Frog character that Spaceballs was riffing on.
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Gravdigr was being his usual hilariously clever self and riffing on the Michigan J. Frog character that Spaceballs was riffing on.
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Man, that Gravdigr guy, he just slays me sometimes.
He's like a Kentucky version of Shawnee123.
He's like a Kentucky version of Shawnee123.
DOMFCOTL,ISN
Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.
DOMFCOTL,ISN
Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.
Well played.:D
He's like a Kentucky version of Shawnee123.
I think you just made both our lists.:lol2:
Just don't cross the streams
Gravdigr was being his usual hilariously clever self and riffing on the Michigan J. Frog character that Spaceballs was riffing on.
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Which is why I will never again watch Spaceballs without bursting out laughing at Michigan J. Chestburster. That's a ray of light for me; I cried for days back in the 1990s when I realized that "political correctness" meant the end of Mel Brooks being allowed to be funny.
NOBODY NOTICED BILL PAXTON YET???
We spent last night watching Predator 2 and then Aliens, then trying to find Vertical Limit which is a terrible movie but features Paxton as an outstanding villain and a personal fave of mine, Scott Glenn, as his expedition-guiding nemesis.
Oh, and Judge Wapner, and a bit player (Mag the Mighty is the character) from Game of Thrones.
At least now we can tell Bill Paxton and Bill Pullman apart a lot easier... If he's breathing, he's Pullman. :sniff: :(
Thomas Starzl "Father of Transplantation" who pioneered liver transplants, nwhich are now almost routine.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39174779And some singer from the 90s who had a career while I stubbornly kept my car radio (only one I owned) turned off due to an ongoing squabble between me and a buncha teenagers I kept having to ferry around Seattle. Only band in Seattle in the 90s I liked was Queensryche; never did go for the switch from "sex, drugs, and music are AWESOME" lyrical aesthetic from 80s hair metal to "life is horrible, everyone I love is a monster, and oh yeah let's write another song about a kid who guns down half his homeroom" tone of what I still refer to as Pearl-Garden-In-Chains.
A very old, like Golden Age of Cinema old, fella who I believe was an announcer or commentator or the like. Vaguely remembered his name when I read about it, can't think of it now.
Coroner's report finally came back on George Michael and the verdict is: "shoulda cleaned up your life sooner, bucko." Fatty liver, myocarditis (which nearly killed my mom and my neighbor's mom both), and dilated cardiomyopathy (left ventricle of the heart becomes oversized in muscle thickness, which can lead to poor circulation and other problems as that ventricle is the heart's main engine, driving the rhythm of all 4 chambers). All are known side effects of repeated bouts with both drug addiction and weight gain/loss cycles.
Live hard, die young.
This is a clip from 1958. Look at the audience. They don't even know what they're looking at. Undoubtedly, some are wishing someone would stop what that fella was doing to that poor guitar.
These people didn't know wtf hit them:
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Chuck Fucking Berry, man.
:mecry::notworthy:devil:
Mom&Popdigr tell me that I used to walk around as a small child singing "Yesterday" & "Maybelline".
This is a clip from 1958. Look at the audience. They don't even know what they're looking at. Undoubtedly, some are wishing someone would stop what that fella was doing to that poor guitar.
These people didn't know wtf hit them:
Chuck Fucking Berry, man.
:mecry::notworthy:devil:
How the fuck could anyone with a soul not be toe tappin' or head bobbin'?
Chuck Barris, The Gong Show.
My favorite Gong Show act:
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Stay til the end, the panelist to Jamie Farr's left makes the whole clip.
He also wrote “Palisades Park” that Freddy Cannon took to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Chuck Barris, The Gong Show.
And The Dating Game.
And The Newlywed Game.
Three years after he started Chuck Barris Productions he was supplying 22 half hour packages to the networks every week.
Chuck Berry. RIP.
I saw Chuck Berry in concert in the early 80s at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. It was so cool, absolutely a bucket list show for me. The opener was The Stray Cats. They were new, they were pretty good. My friend and I had fun mocking the guitarist who was playing like a mofo, but not plugged in. We could see his cable on the floor. That was funny.
Chuck Berry was fantastic! So much energy, so much fucking Rock and Roll. He sang, he duck-walked, it was great. The last song/encore (don't remember) was Johhny B. Goode, it went on forever. Kids came up onto the stage and played air guitar alongside him. They danced and duck-walked all over the stage. Chuck Berry just carefully backed up onto the drum riser, still playing, never missed a lick. It was a joyous party. Fucking Rock and Roll.
RIP Chuck Berry.
And he punched Keith Richards in the face for touching his guitar in the dressing room.:lol:
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Guess who died you hockey pucks. The original
Donald J.Mr Warmth, cool at last.
RIP.
I watched him deliver roasts in several videos in a recent youtube expedition. He was gifted. It's worth watching them again (or for the first time for the youngsters out there).
He was a Master Insultician.
RIP J Geils
John Warren Geils Jr., lead guitarist and co-founder of the J. Geils Band, was found dead Tuesday (April 11) in his Groton, Massachusetts, home. He was 71.
Groton Police went to Geils' home for a simple well-being check, but he was found to be unresponsive and was declared dead at the scene. Foul play wasn't suspected, and preliminary investigations suggest Geils died of natural causes, according to police.
Peter Wolf, the J. Geils' Band's longtime vocalist, shared a brief message on his Facebook page: "Thinking of all the times we kicked it high and rocked down the house! R.I.P. Jay Geils."
Man, I used to love "Centerfold". That's a great old song.
:blackr::blackr::blackr:
Aw shit, man, Joanie died!
Erin Moran dead at 56.
Cause of death should be interesting, re: "hard partying ways".
ETA: I just read it:
“likely succumbed to complications of stage 4 cancer.”
Also: "no illegal narcotics were found at the residence".
ETA: I just read it: “likely succumbed to complications of stage 4 cancer.”
Also: "no illegal narcotics were found at the residence".
Stage 4 cancer. No illegal narcotics. That's a damn shame. :(
Director Jonathan Demme,
dead at 73.Next up is probably gonna be actress Charlotte Rae, who at 91 has just been diagnosed with bone cancer and who is already a VERY rare survivor of pancreatic cancer.
Her birthday was just a week or so ago.
Michael Parks, character actor, most familiar to my generation as a number of dudes named Earl McGraw in a bunch of Tarantino movies--From Dusk Til Dawn, the Kill Bills...I haven't seen most of his IMDb credits, but he'd been around a LONG time.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662981/?ref_=tt_cl_t11I remember him:
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He's that guy, who was in that thing.
Chris Cornell- eleven days older than me and a lot more talented. I really liked Soundgarden and Temple of the Dog, but loved Audioslave. Audioslave was crucial for getting me through a kinda terrible job I needed to find my career path. Cranking CC while inputting data made it bearable. I will miss his amazing pipes.
Dude had a fantastic rock n roll voice. Loved Soundgarden, and Temple of the Dog.
Total shocker. Out of the blue.
I didn't know he was as old as he was, 52 is no age to die though.:(
I read Detroit police think maybe it was a suicide.
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That band they got up there just got a lot better.
I know the names of all those groups but I couldn't tell you if I was listening to one of their songs. What do I need to listen to?
Anything by Soundgarden -Spoonman, Outshined, Black Hole Sun, Fell On Black Days, Rusty Cage (<--also check out Johnny Cash's cover)
Temple Of The Dog - Hunger Strike, the above-posted Say Hello To Heaven
Chris Cornell- eleven days older than me and a lot more talented. I really liked Soundgarden and Temple of the Dog, but loved Audioslave. Audioslave was crucial for getting me through a kinda terrible job I needed to find my career path. Cranking CC while inputting data made it bearable. I will miss his amazing pipes.
Amazing voice. :(
A commenter of a YahooNews article on Cornell said:
I don't blame him, if I had to spend the night in Detroit, I'd hang myself, too.
Waaay too soon.
I know the names of all those groups but I couldn't tell you if I was listening to one of their songs. What do I need to listen to?
http://youtu.be/hWlkmkZW2hk
This is his voice
Roger Moore, 89.
Seems most people remembering him as bond, he did a lot of action roles, I remember a lot of war movies, The Wild Geese comes immediately to mind.
I remember Ffolkes, in which the entire premise of the movie is Roger Moore getting an ally to drop some cigarettes at just the right time to distract the bad guy's attention to the fallen cigarettes on the floor so he can pop up in a window and shoot him. They had to synchronize their watches. That was part of it too.
Two hours, and that was the whole plot.
My first exposure to Roger Moore was when one of the Nashville tv stations ran reruns of
The Saint after the news.
This was at least four hundred years ago. [size=1]Well, it was a long time ago.[/size]
In my mind, he was the second best Bond, behind Connery.
Moore was a great James Bond. Perfect combo of swagger and I'm-better-than-you stuck upness.
Gregg Allman has cancelled all his 2017 tour dates.
Only Brits my generation knew him, but he was a huge part of our adolescent years whether we loved or hated him..
John Noakes
"Get Down, Shep!"
Manuel Noriega, 'nuff said.
If you do anything and don't get something out of it, you've just wasted time. I try to learn something everyday, even if it's just hitting the "Random Article" button at Wikipedia.
"...precaffeinated stumbling..."
If you do anything and don't get something out of it, you've just wasted time. I try to learn something everyday, even if it's just hitting the "Random Article" button at Wikipedia.
"...precaffeinated stumbling..."
:D
If you do anything and don't get something out of it, you've just wasted time. I try to learn something everyday, even if it's just hitting the "Random Article" button at Wikipedia.
"...precaffeinated stumbling..."
Hmm...
*looks over at ban hammer*
Interesting.
I had no idea I said that.
ETA: What on Earth made you search that phrase?
For dead stuff, there's a lot of funny in this thread.
I searched because the post had been reported, and I investigated.
You're such a diligent Glatt.
We thank you for your service.
There used to be a site (Stop Forum Spam) where you could go and enter an IP address, user name, or email, and see if any other forum had reported a user as being a spammer. I went to that site to check this guy out and see that they have changed their format so now you have to install a site plugin that does it automatically. Above my pay grade.
So I just made a judgement call in this case.
But then just now for shits and giggles, I googled his user name and see that at around the same time, the guy made posts at numerous other forums. And when you go to any one of those forums and read his post and then Google search for that phrase in quotations, you see that he's just copying posts from earlier in the threads of every forum he's visiting.
*looks over at ban hammer*
*the ban hammer winks seductively*
... But then just now for shits and giggles, I googled his user name and see that at around the same time, the guy made posts at numerous other forums. And when you go to any one of those forums and read his post and then Google search for that phrase in quotations, you see that he's just copying posts from earlier in the threads of every forum he's visiting.
That user's homepage is Vietnamese. Translation of the URL indicates sales of home document printers. Probably doesn't write the lingo here well enough to post; so, cuts and pastes a few times to garner attention as a newbie before spamming with links.
Ah, yes, the ol' lie-to-their-face-then-spam-'em-in-the-ass routine...
Crackin' Life, Grommit
Peter Sallis. 96Yeah, hey. Thanks glatt, for tidying up like you do. We don't often get to see the work you put in with this kind of shenanigans.
Do you, sometimes, send a suspect a PM asking if they're up to something?
I've never sent them a PM before. It might be amusing to see what they say, if they can even respond in English. My worry (if you can even call it that) is that they might jump right into spamming because they fear being banned, and then there would be a mess to clean up.
I love Dirty Rotten Scoundrels! :*(
Ah, yes, the ol' lie-to-their-face-then-spam-'em-in-the-ass routine...
Ha!
Mayor West is no longer.
Twill be interesting to see how Family Guy handles his death.
For the uninformed, Adam West voices the Mayor of Quahog, RI on Family Guy.
The Mayor is dead. Long live the Mayor.
He was 88, btw.
Meh, ham n pineapple, will do for sustenance, but, I'm not sure it's "pizza".
It's not too bad, though.
50 years ago...
Never my thing; I'm a purist. NYC style Neapolitan pizza.
Maybe with pepperoni.
I've had it, and it was OK, but pineapple is one of my favorite fruits.
Normally thin crust, pepperoni, black olives, mushrooms(they use fresh here), and fried onions(not raw).
But back on track, Vic Edelbrock Jr died. You may not know him but he was famous to millions.
...Vic Edelbrock Jr died. You may not know him but he was famous to millions.
In the 21st century,
2017, the man died from
complications from a cold.:3_eyes:
I mean, the man was 80, but, how the hell does that happen?!
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Probably he said, fuck it, it's only a cold, I got shit to do. The problem is at that age pneumonia comes on quickly and deadly. :(
My SIL emeritus, a nurse, says they call pneumonia the old people's friend.
another staple of every middle-aged Brit's childhood
Brian CantAnd
Michael Bond creator of Paddington Bear
Nope, you're not sad, you're jealous he got out clean. :p:
I was really sad when I heard about Ellis. He was one of my favourites in True Blood - and he was great as Shinwell in Elementary. He brought a strange gravitas to his roles. Very talented actor.
Stephen Furst, known to most as Flounder from Animal House, but to me primarily as Vir from Babylon 5, a show whose regular cast has now lost at least a third of its number.
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Martin Landau, dead
at 89.
And Romero - he's gone to the big film set in the sky to walk slowly and eat brains.
Aw, damn.
Night of the Living Dead :devil:
Chester Bennington, lead singer for
Linkin Park, dead by suicide.
Hung himself.
He was 41.
Red West, actor, and Elvis Presley confidant, died 7/18, of an aortic aneurysm.
John Heard, known in my house from Cat People, CSI: Miami, and assorted bit parts. Cause as yet unknown last I read.
CSI: Miami!! That's the one I couldn't think of! He played my sweetheart's daddy on CSI :Miami!!
Also, Frank Sinatra's widow passed away last week of natural causes, age 90.
Just about everyone I know IRL thinks Trump doesn't have long. He appears to be bloating in a way consistent with congestive heart failure, and his lack of popularity is making him so frustrated and angry they're practically running a betting pool on whether he's gonna have a heart attack or a stroke. First.
I don't want him to die, but I would like to have him retire.
I would wish death on very few people, even the current President...but he looks very, very unhealthy and has a reputation for not taking care of himself physically. Add one of the highest-stress jobs in the world, and medically he's a ticking bomb.
Sam Shepard, 73, complications of ALS.
Well, shit.
I liked the dude.
BlackthornNotre Dame football coaching legend, last living member of The Holy Trinity of Notre Dame football coaches (the others being Frank Leahy & Knute Rockne),
Ara Parseghian died 2 days ago.
Chantek, the orangutan at the Atlanta zoo died yesterday. He could communicate using American Sign Language, like Koko the gorilla. Chantek could give driving directions to his favorite fast food resaurant, Dairy Queen.
He was 39 years old.
I wonder how many of The Wrecking Crew (of which Mr. Campbell was a member) are still alive?
One. Carol Kaye. Always the bass player, eh?
I wonder how many of The Wrecking Crew (of which Mr. Campbell was a member) are still alive?
did you ever watch the movie as I urged you to do?
Oh, hells yeah.
And thank you for doing so.
I also watched the documentary on the Muscle Shoals scene. Also very good.
It's neat learning how those great old songs came together.
Speaking of Kaye and Campbell, she was the one who came up with the basic melody for one of Campbell's biggest hits, and I CANNOT remember which one. Wichita Lineman, maybe.
Jerry Lewis, dead at 91.
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Also,
Dick Gregory died Saturday night.
He was 84.
Jay Thomas, dead at 69.
The headline that I clicked read "Cheers Favorite Jay Thomas Dies At 69"...
Jay Thomas (at the time appearing on Cheers as Carla's boyfriend/husband/whatever) that he had the hardest job in Hollywood, he had to kiss Rhea Perlman. They killed him off the show after that. His character was run over by A Zamboni. Yeah, I would call that being a favorite.
YouTube 'Jay Thomas Lone Ranger Story', though, you won't be disappointed. Very funny. There is more than one instance of him telling this story on Letterman, it's kind of a tradition.
Apparently Bruce Forsyth died when we were away with no interwebs
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40978576Tobe Hooper, director of
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,
died this past Saturday. He also adapted
Salem's Lot into the 1979 mini-series. Didn't know that.
Walter Becker of Steely Dan died Sunday, he was 67.
That really bummed me out.
Half of country duo Montgomery Gentry, Troy Gentry, died in a helicopter crash on his way to a show. He was 50.
When will people learn, the only people who should be in helicopters should not be paying for it, they should be paid or drafted. :crone:
Author
Jerry Pournelle has
died. On Sept. 8th.
The only book of his I read was
Footfall, written with Larry Niven, as were several other novels.
I was in a
freedom-challenged period of my life.
That novel was a great escape.
Author Jerry Pournelle has died. On Sept. 8th.
The only book of his I read was Footfall, written with Larry Niven, as were several other novels.
Loved that novel. Intertwining stories and easter eggs for sci-fi enthusiasts. Everyone should know who the scientist with a head like a bullet and a razor mustache was.
Sorry to hear about Pournelle's passing.
Author Jerry Pournelle has died. On Sept. 8th.
The only book of his I read was Footfall, written with Larry Niven, as were several other novels.
I was in a freedom-challenged period of my life.
That novel was a great escape.
thumbs up
Harry Dean Stanton
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/harry-dean-stanton-died-91-230912553--abc-news-celebrities.html
I liked him. He was always good in whatever he did. But that screen preview isn't him.
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For me, Harry Dean Stanton will always be the Harry Dean Stanton in Cool Hand Luke.
Ol' Harry was a Kentuckian, y'know.
His cameo in the Marvel Universe, when he finds a naked, post-Hulk Bruce Banner. We were happy to see him pop up in unexpected places.
At first I was all "WTF is a Basil Gogos?"
And then I was all "Hey, I know this guy's work!"
Here's his version of the "Creature From The Black Lagoon", the only monster that I ever dreamed about:
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Professional wrestling manager, former wrestler
Bobby "The Brain" Heenan (real name Raymond Louis Heenan), dead at 72, throat cancer.
Also, the world's oldest living person isn't, anymore. Living, I mean.
Violet Brown died at the ripe old age of
117 years, 189 days.
She was the second to last living person born in the 19th century.
Nabi Tajima is now the oldest living person on Earth, and the last living person born in the 19th century. 117 years, 45 days.
At first I was all "WTF is a Basil Gogos?"
And then I was all "Hey, I know this guy's work!"
Here's his version of the "Creature From The Black Lagoon", the only monster that I ever dreamed about:
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Kinky.
Sooooo, you are into watersports?
Kinky.
Sooooo, you are into watersports?
Well, I didn't dream about it
that way.
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Well, I didn't dream about it that way.
[SIZE="1"]Well, ok, there was that one time...[/SIZE]:p:
I dream about it that way.
FWEEEP! :redcard: Thread foul, unnecessary cheap shot, five minute penalty.
Overruled, the Russians have pictures. :p:
I saw a clip of Seth MacFarlane on one of the talk shows talking about hosting the Trump Roast. One of his jokes (on the roast) was that when Donald Trump has sex, he thinks of himself jerking off. He said Trump nodded his head like "That's fair."
I guess. Kind of pathetic, if you ask me. Surrounded by yes-men, and always knowing in the back of his mind that not one of the women ever really wanted to be with him as a person. No amount of money is worth that.
How do you know none of them was really in love with him, wanted him for him? Not even Barbi Benton, or his wife Kimberly Conrad?
Hmm, if you are correct and he ended up an old man loved by none, I'd say he had a hell of a better time getting there than I did. :yesnod:
...at age 18 took a job with Playboy to appear on their entertainment show Playboy After Dark. Her role was as co-host and beautiful companion to the show's director of entertainment, Hugh Hefner. After recording two sessions, Hefner asked the young co-ed for a date. Upon being asked, she reports demurring to the then-42-year-old Hefner: "I don't know, I've never dated anyone over 24 before." To which Hefner replied, "That's all right, neither have I."
Sure. 18-year-olds are known for falling deeply in love with all the unwealthy 42-year-old men in their lives. :rolleyes:
There are people (still) who get by just fine without true love. You can learn to love anyone/thing, and you can learn to get by without it.
Yep, Old Hef was surrounded by beautiful women, slept on piles of hundred dollar bills, partied his phucking ass off his entire life, and died, at the Playboy mansion, at the age of ninety-fucking-one. Yeah that fellow was pathetic alright.[/immeasurablesarcasm]
And he was on
my list.:(
Wonder how long they've been saving this one?
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Sure. 18-year-olds are known for falling deeply in love with all the unwealthy 42-year-old men in their lives. :rolleyes:
There you go with personal opinion and tropes. You have no way of proving who was, or was not, in love with whom. You'd even have to define what is, and is not, love. If a 13 year old girl says she's madly in love with her French teacher, everyone is quick to scoff at her because they are older, wiser, and know better. Granted it's best to discourage her because of the social and legal nightmare. But that does
not mean she is not truly and deeply in love.
There will always be those who love famously, and those who love fame. I don't presume to know how many of Hef's lovers fit which category, and the reality is, it doesn't matter at all. Those were Hef's personal choices to make and they didn't effect me (or anyone else, other than Hef and his girlfriends) in the least.
I don't recall hearing about Hef being a shitty human being, or seeing news stories about former girlfriends writing ugly tell-alls about his behavior. I know he was fairly philanthropic and that he fought for and supported civil rights issues (same-sex marriage, for one).
His passions were beautiful women and sexual freedom, and he followed them to great success and wealth. I don't have any beefs against the guy.
:neutral:
I don't recall hearing about Hef being a shitty human being, or seeing news stories about former girlfriends writing ugly tell-alls about his behavior.
Jennifer Saginor
Izabella St. James
Kendra Wilkinson
Holly Madison
Dorothy Stratten
Gloria Steinem
And those are just the ones who could write a coherent sentence. I'm not absolving the girls of their own responsibility for their situation. And there are certainly some who understood what they were getting into, took it for the career boost it was, and successfully moved on to bigger and better things. I'm not saying he was a brutal rapist or anything. But the glamour was a lie, and the emotional abuse was real, not to mention the pressure to get high and have sex with his friends or else risk being banished from his good graces.
He fought for LGBT rights when no one else was. He fought for women's rights way before a lot of other people (with the exception of the women living in his home.) He wasn't all bad. But like anyone with a public brand to maintain, the truth is always uglier than the Instagram photos.
His daughter is a highly able, strong, and philanthropic woman and I will partly judge him by that
I have heard Ms. Madison tell some of her tale, and it is appalling.
Jennifer Saginor [COLOR="red"] - she was the daughter of Hef's private doctor, who brought her to live at the Mansion because she
demanded to live with her father at the Mansion. Not Hef's doing (although he should have insisted his doctor remove her from the house).[/COLOR]
Izabella St. James [COLOR="red"]-
Aw. The Mansion was "shabby," and she had to be in by 9 p.m. most nights. How awful for her![/COLOR]
Kendra Wilkinson [COLOR="red"] - Her life with Hef doesn't sound so terribly ugly or damaging. In fact, she says some very kind things about him.[/COLOR]
Holly Madison [COLOR="red"]- Apparently life after Hef consists of writing
whiny books about how innocent she was, how damaged she is, and how MEAN everybody has been to her. *
pout*[/COLOR]
Dorothy Stratten [COLOR="Red"] -Murdered by her husband; hardly Hef's fault.[/COLOR]
Gloria Steinem [COLOR="red"]- Paid by her magazine employer in 1963 to reveal what it took to be a Bunny. The astonishing answer: pretty, thin, and able to serve drinks in high heels. I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.[/COLOR]
Meh.
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He's probably standing before Saint Peter who's asking him -
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:blackr:Tom Petty:blackr:
Oct 20, 1950 - Oct 2, 2017
[size=1](Fellow gravedigger, btw)[/size]
I was in high school when "You Don't Know How It Feels" came out. The student-run news program used a clip of the song as the intro to their broadcast one morning, and my whole classroom started singing along, "let's get... to the point, let's roll... another joint."
And then it was a big school-wide scandal, and the news crew wasn't allowed to use music with lyrics anymore. Good times.
Three down two to go, Dylan is 76 and lynne is near 70.
It's true, there ain't a lot o' Wilburys left.:(
I'm sad. I never got to see Tom Petty in concert.
I'm affected. Famous people dying don't usually bother me very much.
Ol, Tom was making the same music at the end that made him famous in the beginning, and he was still relevant.
I only know of one person who didn't like Tom Petty. My wife's aunt loathed him. I have no idea why.
I liked him. He seemed like the kind of a guy you would want as a friend.
He's always been in play rotation in our house.
Tom Petty once got me laid.
It was this song that done the trick:
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My wife's aunt loathed him.
Makes no sense. I suspect she would not be enjoyable to be around. Like a person that looks for bad in everything.
The thing about Petty's stuff is that it always seems absolutely genuine.
Also he was an outstanding talent at getting the exact right guitar sound for a song.
She's a fine person, but quirky.
Still, it makes no sense.
I think it doesn't have anything to do with Tom Petty, rather she has a specific psychological trauma which is peripherally associated with Tom Petty. Example: she had an abusive boyfriend who listened to Tom Petty. Or, she was at a bank robbery and almost lost her life --while a Tom Petty song was on the radio. Afterwards, compartmentalization kicks in, and Tom Petty is stored in the "inaccessible file" that contains the bad memory. Thus, Tom Petty is a pointer to a locked file. Tom Petty = [error message]
I will grant you, I always found his face to be creepy beyond belief. The stringy hair, and the gaunt cheeks--straight up murderin' hillbilly aesthetic. But as long as I avoided the music videos, it was fine.
Apparently my little brother grew up in a different house than me. We were comparing notes on Petty and he revealed that Mom gave him a pretty thorough break down of why Learning to Fly is so real. This was around the time he told her he was an atheist and she didn't flinch. many layers...
I guess your dad wasn't around for that conversation either. ;)
I'm sad. I never got to see Tom Petty in concert.
You should be sad. I did see him in concert. He *opened* for B. B. King at the Hollywood Bowl. What a concert that was...
That must have been one great concert.
I will grant you, I always found his face to be creepy beyond belief.
Without a beard he looked just like a corpse.
His daughter posted some candid snaps that made him look less gaunt and spooky.
Three down two to go, Dylan is 76 and lynne is near 70.
Jeez, I saw Jeff Lynne years back at the Schubert Theater with ELO. The opening act was supposed to be Robin Trower and instead we got Fleetwood Mac. Of course this was before Stevie Nicks and they weren't very welcomed by the audience. I'm sure it was a low point for the band.
Actually, I as just looking at the Wiki for Fleetwood Mac and it's entirely possible I got to see the "fake" Fleetwood Mac. What the hell did I know, I think I was in ninth grade at that point.
Excerpt from
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"The fake Fleetwood Mac (1974)[edit]
In 1974, the band's manager, Clifford Davis, then claimed that he owned the name Fleetwood Mac, and recruited members of a band called Legs (which had recently issued one single under Davis' management)[26] to tour as Fleetwood Mac.
The fake Fleetwood Mac consisted of Elmer Gantry (vocals, guitar), Kirby Gregory (guitar), Paul Martinez (bass), John Wilkinson (keyboards) and Australian-born drummer Craig Collinge (formerly of The Librettos, Procession and Third World War). Fans were told that Bob Welch and John McVie had quit the group, and that Mick Fleetwood and Christine McVie would be joining the band at a later date. The members of the fake Fleetwood Mac apparently had been told that Mick Fleetwood would join them on later dates, and averred that Fleetwood had been involved in the early planning stages of the tour before dropping out.[27]
As the tour got underway, Fleetwood Mac's road manager, John Courage, realised that the line-up being used wasn't authentic. Courage ended up hiding the real Fleetwood Mac's equipment, which helped shorten the tour by the fake band, which soon dissolved. But the lawsuit that followed—regarding who actually owned the rights to the band name "Fleetwood Mac"—put the real Fleetwood Mac out of commission for almost a year. While the band was named after Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, they had signed contracts that showed the band forfeited the rights to the name."
PS: Hello to the original members of cellar.org (with Waffle BBS!). This is the long lost meph AKA Chowderhead #1. I tried to activate my account but I'm guessing the email I used to register is an old domain that's long gone. So it's a new account.
One of the Cellars prodigal sons? :welcome: home.
I remember every once in awhile a DJ would talk about the Fleetwood Mac story as it happened. Of course with legal crap it can be months before the next shoe drops so it sounded very confusing getting snippets as it developed.
Aw, shit man...Ralphie May died?!
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Y.A. Tittle
1926 - 2017
In the above pic, Tittle just had the slobber knocked out of him by John Baker of the Pittsburgh Steelers (perhaps you've heard of them?;)), after throwing a Pick Six interception. He suffered a concussion, and a cracked sternum, but managed to finish the season, his 17th, and, final.
That photograph became one of three that hung in the lobby of The Press Photographers Association, alongside the Raising Of The Flag On Iwo Jima, and the Hindenburg Disaster. A copy now hangs in the Football Hall Of Fame.
Ironically(?) he dies the same weekend the current Steelers QB cried no mas and quit in the middle of a game.
Stan Kowalski died on Oct 20.
No, not the guy who yelled "STELLLLLLLLAAAAAAA!!!!!", the wrestler.
No, not the wrestler
Killer Kowlaski.
His name was Walter.
The other wrestler. Tiny Mills' tag team partner.
Aw, shit, man. Benson died.
Robert Guillaume, dead at 89.
Dude was a class act all the way.
Fuck cancer.
He was excellent on "Sports Night".
Misters Domino and Guillaume were both 89, and both died on the 24th of October.
Just stunned Momdigr with this news. She's watched Sewing With Nancy for as long as I can remember.
Thanks for the news, Fargon.
Can't believe no one has posted that Malcolm Young, of AC/DC fame has died of dementia at age 64.
That band was my first concert. I think it was Fly on the Wall. Love my AC/DC. He will be missed.
While dementia can be a stand alone diagnosis and cause of death, at that age there's often more to it. Perhaps people were just waiting to see what gives.
THE greatest rhythm guitarist ever.
Malcolm Young was 64.
Can't believe no one has posted that Malcolm Young, of AC/DC fame has died of dementia at age 64.
That band was my first concert. I think it was Fly on the Wall. Love my AC/DC. He will be missed.
THE greatest rhythm guitarist ever.
Malcolm Young was 64.
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Earl Hyman died, too. He played Cliff Huxtable's father on The Cosby Show.
Rance Howard died on the 25th. He was father to Ron Howard, the director, and Clint Howard, actor.
Yeah you know
ol' Rance.
Man,
he got work!
I'm sure I've seen him in scores of roles, but I remember him best as Captain Sheridan's father on Babylon 5.
Apparently he was on a Mork and Mindy episode.
"Mindy brings home a record of Robin Williams' "Reality, What A Concept" and notices that Mork greatly resembles the comedian on the album cover. Mork doesn't see it but the people in Boulder do because they think he "is" Robin. Robin happens to be coming to Boulder for a live show and Mork is nearly trampled by crazed fans. Mindy gets to interview Robin and brings Mork with her."
Native American actor
Steve Reevis died yesterday. You probably know him from
Last Of The Dogmen, he had a non-speaking role in
Dances With Wolves, and was also in
Geronimo: An American Legend.
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He was 56.
Wiki linkBrits! Cheggers! He was 60 and had lung disease.
Keith ChegwinBrits! Cheggers! He was 60 and had lung disease.
Keith Chegwin
I know, right? Man, that threw me. I felt quite sad.
Talking of, but on a slight tangent, there was a programme on tv last night about John Noakes. I actually felt a little teary watching it. Especially when they showed the clip of him announcing Shep's passing.
That was a fantastic movie, I watched it the first time on a screen set up infield of Pocono Raceway. It was Saturday night, in the middle of two days of motorcycle races.
I know all the kids in that movie. I grew up in that neighborhood.
The Capistrano Beach Palisades. GOD'S COUNTRY!!!
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Dick Enberg died the 21st of Dec. Heart attack. He was 82.
Rose Marie, 94, she was a trooper.
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Rick Hall, owner/operator of FAME Studios (FAME's house band were
The Swampers, they've been known to pick a song or two) in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, developer of "the Muscle Shoals sound",
died on January 2.
Fuck cancer.
John Young, NASA astronaut.
Young flew on six space missions in the Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle programs.
He was the ninth of twelve astronauts to walk on the moon when he commanded Apollo 16.
And I bet he could leap tall buildings in a single bound.
RIP, sir.
Two gentlemen who counted.
John Young, NASA astronaut.
Young flew on six space missions in the Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle programs.
He was the ninth of twelve astronauts to walk on the moon when he commanded Apollo 16.
And I bet he could leap tall buildings in a single bound.
RIP, sir.
Astronaut for
42 years. Piloted and commanded 4 different classes of space craft (Gemini, the Apollo Command/Service Module, the Apollo Lunar Module, and the Space Shuttle).
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She died on January 7, age 97.
That's a pretty good run.:devil:
She coulda been buried in Arlington, but chose to be buried with her father.
Motörhead is dead.
Eddie Clark, guitarist for Fastway & Motörhead, and last surviving member of the original Motörhead line up,
died yesterday, at age 67.
Complications of pneumonia.
Do it now. Listen to Ace Of Spades for 3,725th time. It’s still fucking amazing, isn’t it?
~TeamRock
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Bella Emburg was the first person I really remember embracing her big and having fun with it rather than being ashamed. hadn't though about her for years, hope she had fun after her stint in the public eye -I bet she did! Hated Russ Abbot, but she was a card.
Surgeon Captain Rick Jolly
His isn't a household name, but I remember him being interviewed in the Falklands after the Argentinian surrender.
This extract from his obituary gives an indication of his character.
Jolly’s first personal act of bravery during the war came after the frigate Ardent had been hit by bombs in Grantham Sound on the afternoon of May 21. He was scrambled in a Wessex helicopter to help search for casualties on the water, and as they hovered close to the burning ship, through the plumes of thick, black smoke which towered into the sky, he saw a man struggling to stay afloat.
“It was clear he wasn’t going to survive for too much longer,” Jolly recalled. “I didn’t have my immersion suit on. Apart from my uniform, the only extra bits of kit were a pair of gloves and a thin life jacket; I hadn’t intended to go for a swim. Suddenly everything went quiet, as your body does when it prepares itself for serious demand. I just remember thinking: if I don’t act now this man will die …
“I dropped into the ocean, which was freezing: barely two degrees. My heart slowed down and my vision changed like I was in a tunnel. I bear-hugged him and before I knew it we were back in the helicopter cabin. I literally jumped on the sailor and he vomited up all the seawater. He was alive. I was exhausted.”
No sooner had Jolly caught his breath, than the Royal Marines aircrew-man in the helicopter cabin pointed down. Jolly knew what he meant, and taking a deep breath, prepared himself for the second plunge.
“I dropped into the water but I was too weak to lift the casualty. He was in a terrible state, with a huge gash in his head and blood all over his face. I submerged and placed a hook through his life jacket. He was in such a bad state, I’m not even sure he was aware he’d been saved. Even now, that whole experience fills me with the deepest spiritual sense of pride.” The second sailor also survived.
Link
The above link is behind a paywall. The obit is well worth reading, but if it remains out of reach try the
BBC report.
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Dolores O'Riordan singer for the Cranberries has died at 46. bummer
Re: Captain Jolly...
...decorated by both the British and Argentine governments for his distinguished conduct...
~
WikiDolores O'Riordan singer for the Cranberries has died at 46. bummer
Well, dammit. That's no age to die.:(
She was hot, too.:love:
Auto racing pioneer/god Dan Gurney died on Jan 14, 2018.
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Really good article on his career
here.
I've still got my charter member shirt from the sixties.
The passing of Dolores O'Riordan takes from us the pure and earnest voice of one of the most powerful songs ever created to address human pain and loss as the cost of violence in the name of political end. The stupidity of war, in particular the irreparable harm it brings to children and families, is ever present, and grows more indiscriminate, more inescapable with each passing day.
Let us not forget the message of "Zombie", and the fact that it was created by a mother upon seeing the grief and pain experienced by another mother who had lost a child in the name of political warfare.
RIP, Dolores. You have moved on, but your creation and its meaning remain with us, now stronger than ever. Your song brought the horror of war into our hearts and minds in a way that may have otherwise been overlooked. I believe I can safely state that millions of us are walking around today with your strident and heartfelt words echoing in our thoughts, reminding us that we, as a species, need to do better.
We should all have such a legacy.
Pioneering, inspiring snow-sports filmmaker Warren Miller, 93, dies at Orcas Island home
Man. :(
I watched so many of his films when I was a kid. I even became a Tahoe snow bum the year I turned 21, working (and skiing my brains out) at Kirkwood.
For one glorious season, I lived the dream.
Thanks Warren.
:ipray:
I even became a Tahoe snow bum the year I turned 21, working (and [COLOR="Magenta"]skiing my brains out[/COLOR]) at Kirkwood.
Ah, dat splain it.
:lol2:
Ah, dat splain it. :lol2:
:p:
Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad dies in Sweden at 91.
I understand that his funeral has been delayed while they work out how to put his coffin together.
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Mort Walker, creator of Beetle Bailey, and Hi & Lois, died on Jan 27, from complications of pneumonia. He was 94.
I've actually met Jerry Butler. I remember him as a nice, friendly sort of man. Not plagued with a huge ego like many of his peers.
That one put a lump in my throat.
First saw him in Suspect, with Cher & Dennis Quaid. One of my favorite actors. Loved him as 'Martin Crane' on Frasier.
That guy who was in that thing...
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Mickey Jones has died, after a "lengthy, but, unspecified illness". He was 76.
Drummer for Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, and Bob Dylan on his 1966 world tour, Jones was a character actor who acted in almost every TV show made in the 70s and 80s.
Fuck lengthy, unspecified illness.
John Perry Barlow- wrote some Grateful Dead lyrics, some poetry, founded EFF and wrote Principles of Adult Behavior. Dead at 70.
1. Be patient. No matter what.
2. Don’t badmouth: Assign responsibility, not blame. Say nothing of another you wouldn’t say to him.
3. Never assume the motives of others are, to them, less noble than yours are to you.
4. Expand your sense of the possible.
5. Don’t trouble yourself with matters you truly cannot change.
6. Expect no more of anyone than you can deliver yourself.
7. Tolerate ambiguity.
8. Laugh at yourself frequently.
9. Concern yourself with what is right rather than who is right.
10. Never forget that, no matter how certain, you might be wrong.
11. Give up blood sports.
12. Remember that your life belongs to others as well. Don’t risk it frivolously.
13. Never lie to anyone for any reason. (Lies of omission are sometimes exempt.)
14. Learn the needs of those around you and respect them.
15. Avoid the pursuit of happiness. Seek to define your mission and pursue that.
16. Reduce your use of the first personal pronoun.
17. Praise at least as often as you disparage.
18. Admit your errors freely and soon.
19. Become less suspicious of joy.
20. Understand humility.
21. Remember that love forgives everything.
22. Foster dignity.
23. Live memorably.
24. Love yourself.
25. Endure.
Vic Damone
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/obituaries/vic-damone-singer-dies.html
As a child, I always thought that his name was Victor Moan.
No honestly, I did. :blush:
As a child, I always thought that his name was Victor Moan.
No honestly, I did. :blush:
I'm sure that you are not the only one.
Billy Graham
I thought he was immortal.
I thought he was immortal.
Thank ghod he's not.
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Thank ghod he's not.
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Well, he was better connected than most of us. ;)
I literally just read that.
88, he had a pretty good run.
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David Ogden Stiers
In the first place, Winchesters do not sweat, we perspire. And in the second place, we do not perspire.
Trevor Baylis: Wind-up radio inventor dies aged 80.
His springs have finally wound down.
RIP Old chap.
Never heard of a wind-up radio. Have heard of the crank type that followed it.
Bud Ross, creator of the coolest looking amps ever as well as radar guns via his Kustom Electronics, which started out in Chanute, Kansas, just down the road a ways from KC.
https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/bud-rossRadar guns? Fuck him, rot in hell.
Without him we wouldn't know just how fucking awesome Nolan Ryan was.
Steven Hawking just passed
pretty much the same time as beest, I'd say.
Steven Hawking just passed
He'll be remembered for all eternity. Or perhaps even longer.
Was Hawking our first Who Is This??
I wonder if Hawking has met the God he said doesn't exist?
Surprise!
Or worse...
Wouldn't it be extra bad if ya got to hell only to find that Satan was extra pissed that you'd denied him too?
I wonder if hell has handicapped access? It's the law, ain't it?
Wonder how John's doing?
What are the chances John Sellars and Stephen Hawking are the same person? I've never seen them in the same place at the same time...
Was Hawking our first Who Is This??
Why, yes, Gravdigr, he
was our first Who Is This?.
You're a sexy sumbitch, you know that?
You're a sexy sumbitch, you know that?
Yeah, I get that all the time.:cool:
I know he was a genius because people who understood what he was talking about told me so.
He'll be remembered for all eternity. Or perhaps even longer.
AI to take over after a mass extinction. Hawkings will be replaced by R2D2.
Too soon?
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Tenacity. He did not give the fuck up.
I wonder if the stairway to heaven has a wheelchair ramp?
I wonder if the stairway to heaven has a wheelchair ramp?
Isn't that the law?
Yeah but Congress has made it so nobody has to build one until there's a complaint filed, so Stephen will be sitting at the bottom of the stairs for a while. To be fair, it's only been the law for 25 years so who'd expect to have to make heaven accessible.
and if your eye gets poked out in this life...
will it be waiting up in heaven with your wife?
Reflecting on this, my gut says all these Hawking in heaven memes floating around the net are pretty disrespectful of the confirmed atheist.
Reflecting on this, my gut says all these Hawking in heaven memes floating around the net are pretty disrespectful of the confirmed atheist.
I see your point, but I think I disagree. he's dead and gone, he doesn't care, so it'snot disrespectful. He didn't believe he'd be able to see what happened after he died.
Or do you mean to the family? in which case, maybe..
I guess I see it as the believing public appropriating his life... I often don't get stuff so maybe I don't get this.
well and I'm not in the best place to be an impartial judge either. Beest was also an ardent atheist and because he believed he would not have any knowledge of what happened after his death, he didn't care. He expressed that he had no wishes about anything that happened to his body or in his name. Do what we like. He didn't care. He vehemently did not give a shit, and I kind of feel SH would have felt the same. But I never knew him, so it's just speculation based on my experience and beliefs. I understand it is very hard for people to be irreverent about death. I've made so many people uncomfortable already. Beest would have been proud.
Enough about me, back to you regular celebrity death programming.
The Hawking memes making me a little uncomfortable are the machines mourning based ones, tbh. That man fought so fucking hard to conquer a terrible terrible thing, and the world was an infinitely (;) ) better place for it.
Reflecting on this, my gut says all these Hawking in heaven memes floating around the net are pretty disrespectful of the confirmed atheist.
I felt pretty well disrespected when he said my God didn't exist.
If Hawking finds out that there really is a life hereafter, the first thing he will do is seek out Albert Einstein and Max Planck to compare notes.
And ask what they thought of 'A Brief History of Time'. ;)
I felt pretty well disrespected when he said my God didn't exist.
but you were still able to defend yourself/your beliefs. The dead can't. I think that's where the respect aspect comes in. And also his loved ones are not responsible for his actions during life, but could be hurt by people being "disrespectful" after death.
Well, fuck him, then. And them, too.
Twice.
Outside.
In the rain.
ETA: After they're dead, though. Obviously I would never want to offend a living person who could defend themselves. I'm just not a confrontational person. That's why I prefer to argue/offend/fight with dead people and small children. Mostly little girls.
you mad bro?
Not at all.
And I ain't yer bro.
I hope your God isn't the Christian God because that sure as shit didn't sound very christian to me.
Not at all.
And I ain't yer bro.
Aren't we all brothers in Christ?
I never said I was a good Christian.
Just forgiven.
ah... well, I don't have the rule book.
And I ain't yer bro.
Settle down there BoBo
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Well, they're interring his ashes in a church, so perhaps that will bring you some peace. he won't give a shit.
While we wait for the next dead guy, here's an interesting Fresh Air from yesterday.
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/20/595161200/author-traces-christianitys-path-from-forbidden-religion-to-a-triumph
The author had a very similar evolution to my own.
Given Stephen Hawking's atheism, it's a puzzle that his ashes are to be interred in Westminster Abbey.
As has been posted, it doesn't matter to him but all the same...
Professor Stephen Hawking to be honoured at the Abbey
Westminster Abbey has today announced that there will be a Service of Thanksgiving later in the year for Professor Stephen Hawking, during which his ashes will be interred in the Abbey near the grave of Sir Isaac Newton.
The Dean of Westminster, the Very Reverend Dr John Hall, said today:
It is entirely fitting that the remains of Professor Stephen Hawking are to be buried in the Abbey, near those of distinguished fellow scientists. Sir Isaac Newton was buried in the Abbey in 1727.
Charles Darwin was buried beside Isaac Newton in 1882. Other famous scientists are buried or memorialised nearby, the most recent burials being those of atomic physicists Ernest Rutherford in 1937 and Joseph John Thomson in 1940.
We believe it to be vital that science and religion work together to seek to answer the great questions of the mystery of life and of the universe.
Westminster Abbey
Scientific American
Why is it always Religion v Atheism? Poor agnostics never get a look in.
It's not religious, it's political.
If Hawking finds out that there really is a life hereafter, the first thing he will do is seek out Albert Einstein and Max Planck to compare notes.
And then they will all play poker on the Holodeck with Data. A good time will be had by all.
And then they will all play poker on the Holodeck with Data. A good time will be had by all.
Omg - I think I just had a nerdgasm
Why is it always Religion v Atheism? Poor agnostics never get a look in.
Most atheists are agnostic, and vice versa.
Why is it always Religion v Atheism? Poor agnostics never get a look in.
because they are the SDP of the issue, sitting on the fence
because they are the SDP of the issue, sitting on the fence
Borne of a wish never to offend. Which is why I voted for them.
The SDP that is, not the agnostics. Just once.
Steven Bochco, creator of my two favorite tv shows , Hill Street Blues, and NYPD Blue:devil:, died April 1st, at 74.
Fuck leukemia.
Brits:
The Crafty Cockney
I can't think why I have him noted as "the enemy" in my failing memory. Can't even remember his main competition now to think who I might have been supporting. Probably someone northern
That guy who was in that thing has died. Again.
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That guy who was in that thing has died. Again.
Soon-Tek Oh
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He was on Magnum PI several times
Magnum PI was probably a cushy job for him compared to some ...
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Whew. Saw the last post first and thought Tom Selleck had carked it.
Uh, sorry, Secret Asian guy. We hardly knew ye.
For everyone else:
Secret Asian ManI read that link title to the tune of Secret Agent Man.
Yet another one of those guys who was in that thing has died.
Children's show host/tv/commercial actor
Chuck McCann (<--Google Image link, you'll remember him) died April 8th, of heart failure, at 89.
Art Bell, out there late night radio call in talk show host (Coast To Coast, Dark Matter) died yesterday, age 72.
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Director
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Peopl Vs. Larry Flynt) also died yesterday after a short ilness. He was 86.
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Last Laugh for Outdoor Life for decades. It was the very first thing I read every issue. His brand of humor was like no one else's. Extremely self-deprecating humor, focusing on the ineptitude of the human animal in the great outdoors.
9. “Poking at a campfire with a stick is one of life’s
 great satisfactions.”
12. “It is best not to use a sleeping bag on your first attempt to sleep outside alone in the dark. Sleeping bags are not 
made for running.”
13. “In my own defense, I have nothing against standards. Years ago I'd even possessed one myself. It was not a high standard by any means, but rather a low one, so low in fact I was forever tripping over the blasted thing. So I got rid of it.”
16. “Tell her that a gun collection is like wilderness. 
Even though we don’t use all of it all the time, we need to 
know that it’s there.”
~Patrick McManus,
link I didn't know they stacked shit that high
R Lee Ermey, the actor who played the drill sergeant in Full Metal Jacket
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43779357
(also Barbara Bush is on her way)
R. Lee Ermey
That man was an icon.:sniff:
:blackr:
You're ass looks like 150 lbs of chewed bubble gum!
You climb obstacles like old people fuck.
You're so ugly, you could be a modern art masterpiece.
I think the best part of you ran down the crack of your mama's ass and wound up as a brown stain on the mattress. I think ya been cheated.
There is no racial bigotry in my beloved Corps. We do not look down on niggers, kykes, WAPS, or greasers. Here, you are all equally worthless.
God has a hard-on for Marines, because we kill everything we see! He plays His games, we play ours! To show our appreciation for so much power, we keep heaven packed with fresh souls! God was here before the Marine Corps! So you can give your heart to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the Corps! Do you ladies understand?
The best part of Ermey in FMJ was the story of how he got the role. Might be part urban legend.
He was a military/technical advisor on the film, and knew the guy in the role he would get was not cutting it. He made and sent a video of himself to the director/producer/whoever. In the vid he was being pummeled in the face with oranges and tennis balls, whilst spewing the most vile stream of wordsinsults a human has ever been exposed to. For
15 minutes he hardly took a breath, or blinked. Indeed, I watched the flick once to see if I could catch him blinking. I don't think I did.
I just read/understood he was the adviser and stepped up to demonstrate what it should look like ...and was hired....
Coulda been. Might have happened that way. Maybe. Possibly. Perhaps.
Did it really happen? Who can say?
Who can say?
Well, not R Lee Ermey. Not any more. They tell no tales.
I mean Martha Washington.
Dammit.
I mean Barbara Bush.
It was either Barbara Bush, or the guy on the Quaker Oats box, I had the sound off.
Dale Winton, known to Brits. 62, cause unknown
Dale Winton. Man, that surprised me when I heard it on the news this morning.
Now I gotta go see what a Dale Winton is.
Was.
Now I gotta go see what a Dale Winton is.
Was.
effeminate daytime gameshow host.
Now I gotta go see what a Dale Winton is.
Was.
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I'll be damned, Margot Kidder died. She was 69.
Bummer. She was in an obscure adventure game in the 90s called "Under a Killing Moon," and I always liked getting to see her as anything other than Lois Lane.
No, nobody gives a fish around here....
No, nobody gives a fish around here....
Um, translation please.
Um, translation please.
COD. it's a fish
It seems kind of young, but the life expectancy for a white female born in 1950 is only 72...
https://www.infoplease.com/life-expectancy-birth-race-and-sex-1930-2010
(if this source is accurate)
COD. it's a fish
<smacks forehead>
Author
Tom Wolfe died yesterday.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities...:rolleyes:
He was 88. His fish was an infection.
J's dad bought me a copy of the Electric Kool-Aid Acid test for my 21st birthday. And a biography of Janice Joplin (my obsession at the time)
Good times.
Author Tom Wolfe died yesterday. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities...:rolleyes:
He was 88. His fish was an infection.
The fish was the caused by the infection?
The COD, cause of death, and a childish fish pun. :rolleyes:
You got a problem with "childish," mister? :p:
Yes, yes I do, we're better than that stupid shit.
Yes, yes I do, we're better than that stupid shit.
Dude, you just
did "that stupid shit." ??
The COD, cause of death, and a childish fish pun. :rolleyes:
I'm lost. :(
Go back to #1454 and start over.
The COD, cause of death, and a childish fish pun. :rolleyes:
you can't predict the future. ;)
psst Glinda... sour grapes.....
....absolutely carp at puns, doesn't have an a-fin-ity for it, so tries to scale it back. Any good and he'd be singing a different tuna. I've Haddock with this, I'mm'a try to salmon the energy to find a different plaice for mahi wordplay
psst Glinda... sour grapes.....
....absolutely carp at puns, doesn't have an a-fin-ity for it, so tries to scale it back. Any good and he'd be singing a different tuna. I've Haddock with this, I'mm'a try to salmon the energy to find a different plaice for mahi wordplay
[YOUTUBE]6l1GvDWtccI[/YOUTUBE] :D
psst Glinda... sour grapes.....
....absolutely carp at puns, doesn't have an a-fin-ity for it, so tries to scale it back. Any good and he'd be singing a different tuna. I've Haddock with this, I'mm'a try to salmon the energy to find a different plaice for mahi wordplay
When I suggested you be nice to banana lady you told me to fuck off so I did.
But if it's war you want bring it on, cunt.
Dude, don't have a myocarpial incarption.
That fish is too common already.
AndholycrapJosephCampanella[strike]is[/strike]wasstillalive!
I thought he'd been dead for twenty years.
No fish was given, but, dayum, the man was 93.
psst Glinda... sour grapes.....
....absolutely carp at puns, doesn't have an a-fin-ity for it, so tries to scale it back. Any good and he'd be singing a different tuna. I've Haddock with this, I'mm'a try to salmon the energy to find a different plaice for mahi wordplay
The Winnah!
Really, you think a thread about people dying is the place for that bullshit, Pete?
Then maybe we should play with some other threads about people dying. I can think of a couple. :eyebrow:
The Winnah!
Winner, winner, chicken-of-the-sea dinner? :D
I hope that wasn't gill-ding the lily. :eek: But some things are betrout than in, and fewer celebs fall off the perch in the summer so this thread was floundering. It's always fun to fillet gap with a load of pollocks.
Someone possibly just needs to turn their herring aid off.
Eel get my coat....
Mmmm...thread drift. In a nice thick gravy.:drool:
Needs more fishpun.:yum:
you bastard, fishpun killed my celebrity on 9/11
I think it's more of a place holder than a drift.....and I'm glad. Sometimes we go through rough patches of losing our heroes. Nice not to be in one....
you bastard, fishpun killed my celebrity on 9/11
Hey! Nobody made that dumbass do all that fishpun! They was fishpunnin' urrwhur. They was beboppin' and scattin' all over the place...
There was fishpun laying out right thar on the table for Dog's sake.
Really, you think a thread about people dying is the place for that bullshit, Pete?
Then maybe we should play with some other threads about people dying. I can think of a couple. :eyebrow:
I can see that you're really upset, Bruce. But I have to say that I don't understand. Monster was not making fun of anyone - living or dead. And so far as I know, no one who knew Margot Kidder has visited the thread.
She's been doing this shit all over the board, except of course in her own poor me threads.
Do I begrudge you your coping mechanisms?
-- Castle on Castle
Do I begrudge you your carping mechanisms?
-- Castle on Castle
FIFY.
Where are my "poor me" threads?
Doing What? posting?
here are my recent posts, first page covers the last 10 days:
http://www.cellar.org/search.php?searchid=9190415
I see this thread and one other with puns (in which I am not alone), I see one thread about the death of my husband and one about earworm songs in which I have shared that I have some sad songs stuck in my head.
then I see posts in threads about camping, happiness, mass shootings, taglines,Crohn's disease, new member... none of which are punny or self pitiful.
Or perhaps it isn't all about me and you were referring to someone else?
I hope you find peace soon
I hope you find pisces soon
fify
Ya get hooked on that fishpun, man, ya headed for treble.
Ya get hooked on that fishpun, man, ya headed for treble.
no, we all about that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
(as long as it's in tuna)
no, we all about that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
(as long as it's in tuna)
I can testify. It is indeed … all about that bass.
You guys are all too funny. Who is the new member?
No newbies here, just us old timers.
Just us old sexy basstards.
Phil Emmanuel, older brother to guitarist Tommy Emmanuel, and an accomplished guitar player himself,
died last night. They lost a sister in April, as well.
He was 65. His fish was an asthma attack.
Also, Clint Walker,
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aka Cheyenne Bodie, died a few days ago. He was 90. In nine days he would have made 91. His fish was congestive heart failure.
Alan Bean, lunar module pilot on Apollo 12 and fourth man to walk on the moon.
Bean was a former test pilot who went on to command the second manned mission to Skylab.
Link
LinkWalking on the moon wasn't hard once you're there, but the shit these guys went through just to become astronaut candidates, then the training regime after being chosen, was incredible. :notworthy
These guys will all be dead soon and it will be official. The American Empire is in decline.
These guys will all be dead soon and it will be official. The American Empire is in [strike]decline[/strike] freefall.
Fixed that for you. :haha:
What? He's not old. Boo. I call a foul.
Bourdain
fuck
Yeah, that caught me off guard.
He was 61.I think this one will. Some people go out kicking and screaming. Others go out with grace and dignity like him.
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Also, Fleetwood Mac guitarist
Danny Kirwan died June 8.
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Today was greeted by the sad news of the passing of Danny Kirwan in London, England. Danny was a huge force in our early years. His love for the Blues led him to being asked to join Fleetwood Mac in 1968, where he made his musical home for many years.
Danny’s true legacy, in my mind, will forever live on in the music he wrote and played so beautifully as a part of the foundation of Fleetwood Mac, that has now endured for over fifty years.
Thank you, Danny Kirwan. You will forever be missed!
~Mick Fleetwood and Fleetwood Mac
Bourdain
fuck
Yeah this. Not unexpected really but he was a really interesting dude.
One thing about getting old though, it doesn't last forever.
That's not a break.
That's a conclusion.
:drummer:
D.J. Fontana, Elvis Presley's drummer for 14 years,
died in his sleep June 13, at the age of 87.
He played on more than 460 RCA recordings w/Elvis.
No fish.
Matt "Guitar" Murphy, guitarist for Howlin' Wolf and The Blues Bros,
died. He was 88.
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Koko The Gorilla died Tuesday.
She was 46.
She learned and communicated using sign language, if you somehow missed it.
I'm quite saddened by this, and I don't know why.
I'm quite saddened by this, and I don't know why.
She was a Cat Ape.
Well played.
Koko matters to me as well. There was something profound being exposed there.
Matt Murphy RIP
As a young psychiatrist, Charles Krauthammer worked as an intake doctor in a large city facility. I always wondered how terrible it would have been to have to deal with him when suffering mental distress.
He was a nasty man whose columns served only to make sure one knew the wrong side of an issue.
When he said he was done, he wasn't messing around.
Vinnie Paul.
I'm like wtf. No details. These guys were from my hometown, I partied with them-- they were totally down to earth, even after Pantera got big. First Dimebag, and now.. what happened?
Vinnie Paul
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Yeah, I
just read it. That's kinda of a shocker. He was just 54, that's no age to die. Liked him and his brother, too.
I couldn't find a fish, either.
:drummer::devil::blackr:
Damn.
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The Old Man died.
Richard Benjamin Harrison was 77, died of Parkinson's Disease.
Joe Jackson, dead at 89.
His fish was pancreatic cancer.
As a young psychiatrist, Charles Krauthammer . . . was a nasty man whose columns served only to make sure one knew the wrong side of an issue.
Nah. He had smarts, and wisdom also.
Smarts and wisdom are the reasons I have ceased to vote for Democrats or progressives, who are progressive only of the insensate power of the State. This progress is not what any wise and fully adult human wants.
Concern for liberty is never nasty. Unconcern for liberty is the nastiest.
Well, he didn't like Trump. I guess that's what passes for smarts and wisdom in the Republican party these days.
Concern only for the liberty of those with power to exercise it over those without is the nastiest.
People call me an asshole. I could take lessons on being an asshole from Harlan Ellison.
I could prolly take a lesson from a lot of people on a lot of things. I'm not a particularly good person.
You ain't nearly as bad as you think you are. :headshake
People call me an asshole. I could take lessons on being an asshole from Harlan Ellison.
I could prolly take a lesson from a lot of people on a lot of things. I'm not a particularly good person.
We can easily find worse than you brother.
You could much more easily find someone better.
I don't know what I ever did to 2018, but, everything after February has been one long, continuous kick square in the nuts.
You could much more easily find someone better.
Of course, easily find somebody better than anyone I've ever known.
The truth is in how easily and how many I can find worse than someone.
In your case not so easy, and not so many, I think.
You retired too young, only really rich people can pull that off without becoming bored and unhappy.
Mrs. Garrett from The Facts of Life died on July 5. Charlotte Rae was 92.
Her fish was bone cancer.
I would be ecstatic to make 82.
Sam Kinison said "Ya shouldn't be a life pig. Check out about 60, leave a good-looking corpse. People walking by your casket saying "Geez, he looks great doesn't he?"
There's gonna hafta be some sort of world-shift for me to make 82.
My limit is 62. I'll be signing off then.
My limit is 62. I'll be signing off then.
WTF, and leave all that Social Security and Medicare on the table? Let the bastards win? C'mon Bro stick around. :crone:
WTF, and leave all that Social Security and Medicare on the table? Let the bastards win? C'mon Bro stick around. :crone:
It's a family tradition.
Remember Jim 'The Anvil' Neidhart? Pro wrestler? Made a living being thrown around and throwing people around.
Fell and hit his head at home. He was 63
Undisputed Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin, 76, fuck cancer
Mama played Aretha records a lot when I was a kid.
The Queen is dead, long live the Queen.
I can remember listening to a song on the radio I was transfixed by, but didn't recognize. I pulled off the road and into the local record store, Licorice Pizza (get it?) and sang a little to the guy behind the counter. He said, "What?! You don't know The Queen of Soul?". I traded my ignorance and a little money for a copy of "I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You" and my life was permanently improved.
I will miss her, but I will never be without her voice in my heart, in my soul.
[YOUTUBEWIDE]6FOUqQt3Kg0[/YOUTUBEWIDE]
:notworthy
76 is a decent age, though, although I see she was diagnosed a pretty long time ago. Good for her for fighting for so long. Pancreatic cancer is a fucker. They all are.
[sidestep] I just googled life expectancy and learned that Canadians live three years longer than Americans. :/
(I wonder if the cold slows them down a bit, like food lasts longer in the fridge?)
There's a great old movie called "American Hot Wax" that features, among other stars-before-they-were-stars, a very young Jay Leno and Fran Drescher, plus Aretha Franklin as a diner waitress who tells off her boss by singing R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
You can't get it anywhere except bootleg VHS from the original TV broadcast, because of undisclosed rights issues. My dad always insisted it had to be because of Aretha Franklin (she was no doubt underpaid for the role, and now the music rights would be astronomical,) but given how widespread her stuff actually is, I'm inclined to think it's something like Jay Leno is embarrassed at his performance and wants it to rot in the vault so no one can ever make fun of him.
That used to play on tv a lot.
...plus Aretha Franklin as a diner waitress who tells off her boss by singing R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
Didnt she tell off her boss, or boyfriend, w/a musical number in a diner in The Blues Brothers, too? The song was
Think, I think.
Sheeeit.
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:devil:
I saw Aretha on Murphy Brown last night.
Didnt she tell off her boss, or boyfriend, w/a musical number in a diner in The Blues Brothers, too? The song was Think, I think.
I was thinking the same thing, but it's the kind of thing you can see her being typecast in.
Didnt she tell off her boss, or boyfriend, w/a musical number in a diner in The Blues Brothers, too? The song was Think, I think.
You're totally right! Either I or my father have completely confused the two movies (I'm inclined to blame my dad, since I haven't seen either American Hot Wax
or the Blues Brothers since I was too young to know who Aretha Franklin was.) Having just re-watched AHW thanks to UT, I'm thinking my dad probably meant his whole rant to be about Chuck Berry or Jerry Lee Lewis, who both appeared in it as themselves.
Hey nineteen lyrics.
:devil: Good reference.
Ed King, guitarist with Lynyrd Skynyrd died yesterday at his home in Nashville, at 68.
It's King's voice ya hear counting "1, 2, 3..." before he starts that famous riff, at the beginning of Sweet Home Alabama, which he co-wrote, along with many of Skynyrd's more well known songs.
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He also played with Strawberry Alarm Clock, and co-wrote and played on Incense and Peppermints.
RIP John McCain
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Neil Simon.
91.
Complications from pneumonia.
Burt Reynolds!
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45441860
I saw his Obit on the BBC and searched all over for the news, then a few minutes later this popped up :/
Bill Daily, best known as Major Healey in "I Dream of Jeannie", also a fixture in "The Bob Newhart Show". 91.
^^^Linky no worky.
Izzis whatchya was talking about?
Montserrat CaballéAw shit, man. Hershel died.
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Scott Wilson (The Walking Dead) died yesterday, at 76.
No fish.
^^^Linky no worky.
Izzis whatchya was talking about? Montserrat Caballé
corrected Linkie
here
I swear I checked it before posting.....
Monserrat Caballé
A special show.......
Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé - Barcelona (Live at La Nit, 1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkskujG0UYc
JR
A special show.......
Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé - Barcelona (Live at La Nit, 1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkskujG0UYc
JR
that's how I heard of her.
Die-hard Queen fan regards.
But, did Herschel come back? Did they stab him in the head, just to be sure?
Asking for a friend....
I spoke of the actor Scott Wilson, who played Hershel.
Scott Wilson will not be coming back.
I say you he dead.
Just heard on the radio that Paul Allen has died from complications surrounding his Non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
corrected Linkie here
I swear I checked it before posting.....
I didn't have a trouble.
Monserrat Caballé
I didn't have a trouble.
So, that link works for you?
Monserrat Caballé
I didn't have a trouble.
So, that link works for you?
Seems OK.
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Hank Greenwald, San Francisco Giants (and other teams) radio announcer.
He made you feel like you were friends and like you were watching the game on the radio.
Knowledgeable and funny, dead at 82.
I still chuckle over a game where he described a Dodger pitch called a strike on the outside corner as "yeah, on the corner of Pico and Figueroa."
My only question is, did they put a layer of crispy onion rings on top of her grave?
My only question is, did they put a layer of crispy onion rings on top of her grave?
Right on top of the cremation of mushrooms
Singer/songwriter
Tony Joe White died Oct 24 of a heart attack. He wrote
Polk Salad Annie and
Rainy Night In Georgia, among other songs.
He was 75.
Fuck, he was 89 years old. Killing him was just downright impatient.
A payback is a payback at any age.
Remember
Dave & Sugar? Country act?
Well, Dave died. Back on Nov 1. His fish was a stroke.
Useless Factoid: Dave Rowland a member of J.D. Sumner & The Stamps Quartet when they toured w/Elvis.
I guess Dave's not here.
Not anymore...
Remember Dave & Sugar? Country act?
Well, Dave died. Back on Nov 1. His fish was a stroke.
Useless Factoid: Dave Rowland was a member of J.D. Sumner & The Stamps Quartet when they toured w/Elvis.
Fixed it.
Sorry, urrbody.
thx for fixing that....
his fish?
did you mean
his finish was a stroke?
his fish was a stone?
Now we have to play this, what the fuck are you talking about.
Fish is supposed to refer to Cod, the fish or cause of death.
But you need a fucking interpreter to decipher this gibberish. :facepalm:
I knew it, I fuckin' knew it.
Yeah man, like if someone died in a plane crash, that would be a flying fish.
Now we have to play this, what the fuck are you talking about.
Fish is supposed to refer to Cod, the fish or cause of death.
But you need a fucking interpreter to decipher this gibberish. :facepalm:
I knew it, I fuckin' knew it.
:chill:
I propose we eliminate the confusion, and use "ghoti" instead of "fish".
Now we have to play this, what the fuck are you talking about.
Fish is supposed to refer to Cod, the fish or cause of death.
But you need a fucking interpreter to decipher this gibberish. :facepalm:
I knew it, I fuckin' knew it.
:lol2:
Well that put you in your plaice, grav.
I laughed aloud. I shouldn't have, but, I did.
I just re-read from V's post (#1580).
And laughed again.
Harder than the first time.
Sorry, Bruce.:D
Yeah man, like if someone died in a plane crash, that would be a flying fish.
There are more planes in the ocean than submarines on the sky.
Yeah man, like if someone died in a plane crash, that would be a flying fish.
the flying is over at the crash site. just a fish
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I propose we eliminate the confusion, and use "ghoti" instead of "fish".
I just want you to know that I saw what you did, and approve. :thumbsup:
the flying is over at the crash site. just a fish
I suppose we'll have to limit flying fish to mid-air collisions.
Stan Lee... No Namor reported as of yet.
The voice of the HAL 9000 from
2001: A Space Odyssey died yesterday.
Douglas Rain was 90.
His fish was he was fucking 90.
Um...
How does one pronounce Gisbourne?
Please, please tell me it's with a soft G.:lol2:
I propose we eliminate the confusion, and use "ghoti" instead of "fish".
:eek: I hope no-one confuses ghoti with g0atse :eek:
/ˈfɪʃ/ is one thing, that other thing is a *different* thing.
That man was put on Earth to play guitar.
Buckle up:
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I'd heard that one before--loved it.
*This one*, this one is new to me. Same song, but with video of the action:
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This is what I hear, when I hear 'Roy Clark':
Malaguena - w/sideburny goodness!!
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Well, that and Thank God And Greyhound You're Gone.:lol2:
Writer Wm Goldman died today. He won Oscars for the screenplays for Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, and All The President's Men. He wrote the novels The Princess Bride, and Marathon Man, and also adapted them for the screen.
Hard core Knicks fan, too. Season tickets for over 40 yrs.
William Goldman was 87.
Goldman wrote (or consulted on) screenplays for:
Masquerade
HarperButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Hot Rock
The Stepford Wives
The Great Waldo Pepper
Marathon Man
All the President's Men
A Bridge Too Far
Heat
The Princess Bride
Twins
Misery
A Few Good Men
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Chaplin
Indecent Proposal
Last Action Hero
Maverick
Dolores Claiborne
The Chamber
Extreme Measures
The Ghost and the Darkness
Fierce Creatures
Good Will Hunting
Absolute Power
The General's Daughter
Hearts in Atlantis
Dreamcatcher
This a partial list.
BBC Newsreader (and more) Richard Baker will always be the voice of the news for me. When I read the news on the BBC, I hear it in his voice. He was 93. I was surprised by that. Guess I'm old too
Guess I'm old too
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Stephen Hillenburg, cartoonist, animator, marine biologist, teacher, also creator, producer, director, and writer of
Spongebob Squarepants died yesterday, at 57, from complications from
ALS, aka Lou Gehrig's Disease.
He also worked on
Rocko's Modern Life.
Also, actor and magician Ricky Jay died on the 24th.
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If you care anything about magic watch the documentary Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay. It's not a magic show. It's a show about Jay and other magicians. Very good.
No fish.
I couldn't agree more about the movie.
There is magic in it though. But it's not a magic show. Highest recommendation.
Italian director
Bernardo Bertolucci (
Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor) died on Nov 26.
Cancer got him at 77.
I’m having trouble picturing a Republican who’d sign the ADA today. Safe flight Poppy.
Ken Berry,
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from
Mayberry, RFD, as well as
The Carol Burnett Show, F Troop, and
Mama's Family shook his mortal coil December 1. He was 85.
Of all the George Bushes, H.W. was my favorite.
Funny, all I remember is the negative reporting condemning GHWB.
Apparently, the only good Republican is a dead (or turncoat) Republican to some people.
Yeah I thought he was deserving of criticism back in the day until I saw the types of Republicans who followed him. He's a fucking saint on comparison.
Politics aside, he was kinda a badass. Combat pilot, CIA director, vice pres, pres...
Prime example of the Overton window. If your successors are bad enough, people will look back on you fondly.
Trump is the best thing to happen to Nixon's legacy since G.W. Bush.
Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, [strike]you're[/strike] we're welcome
We've been able to endure a parade of characters through the White House because of our three legged stool, checks and balances, style government. The problem now is congress abdicated so there's only two legs. It can be done but dangerous as hell.
Do you mention a three legged stool because it will sit solid on an uneven floor.
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Well I guess it's a good thing he died then ain't it?
I mean, somebody does or says something ya disagree with, they're as good as dead anyway, right?
So, who's baking the cake?
Yeah I thought he was deserving of criticism back in the day until I saw the types of Republicans who followed him. He's a fucking saint on comparison.
Reposted for truth. I never thought he was all
that bad, but given the sort of shitheads we've now got on the R side, I'd vote for someone like him in a heartbeat.
RIP George. Hope you and Babs have hooked up again in the great hereafter.
He's in the top two of the last six Republican presidents.
GHWBush's Secret Service code name was 'Timberwolf'.
old saying, " the living deserve respect, the dead, the truth,"
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I'd say that the other way 'round.
There have been alot of presidents I did't like and a few that were ok, none even close to perfect. But most people don"t think what it would be like to wake up every morning and about 50 people are trying to feed you a SH*T sandwich for breakfast. The average persone doesn't take time to think about what our leaders have exposure to, the information they receive minute by minute, the decisions they have to make that affect millions of people, and doing your best to keep it all together. Some take the job to satisfy their ego, some think they can repair a broken system, and some to quench thier thirst for power and to line their pockets.
Treat them with respect and after they pass the truth always comes out. For good or ill.
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There have been alot of presidents I did't like and a few that were ok, none even close to perfect.
Because tw wasn't elected. :nuts:
help me out, TW?
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Just call him dubya and he'll be happy to help you out.
help me out, TW?
Why didn't ya just put a pistol in ya mouth?
:headshake
Hopalong48 - "tw" is the username of a particularly long-winded and politically aggressive member of the Cellar who frequently goes on tangents connecting whatever he's arguing about to General Motors, cigarette smoking, Nixon, Saddam, and how only children have emotions.
Thx, I couldnt come up with a polItician with the initials TW.
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Sorry for the confusion. Wow, you've been here 2 months and haven't been molested by tw yet? Amazing. :haha:
Hopalong48 - "tw" is the username of a particularly long-winded and politically aggressive member of the Cellar who frequently goes on tangents connecting whatever he's arguing about to General Motors, cigarette smoking, Nixon, Saddam, and how only children have emotions.
Connecting?!
And don't forget business school graduates, and that a business' purpose is not to make money.
I will just tell him to ,"GET OFF ME!"
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That'll work about as well as it does with mosquitoes.
Remember
Roger the
buff kangaroo?
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Yeah,
he dead.
His boy Monty seems sufficient for the task.
I'd kick his...[SIZE="1"] psst, he's in Australia, right... good[/SIZE]... ass. :haha:
Joe Osborn, one of the bass players associated w/
The Wrecking Crew, died
on the 14th, pancreatic cancer.
He bassed on Glen Campbell's
By the Time I Get to Phoenix, The Mamas & the Papas'
California Dreamin', Richard Harris'
MacArthur Park, and the 5th Dimension's
Up, Up and Away and Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In, S&G's
Bridge Over Troubled Water, America's
Ventura Highway and many, many others, including tv theme songs and commercials.
:bass:
Penny Marshall
She shall be missed. Another piece of my childhood is gone.
Yup I woulda screwed Penny Marshall if I had the chance. She wasn't pretty and a voice like fingernails on a blackboard, but she was the homey type that I like.
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...but she was the homey type that I like.
She was the funny type I like. Rich and funny.
And:
Hello Moto!
She was the funny type I like. Rich and funny.
And:
Hello Moto!
A new phone to play with it took awhile just to figure how to post pics again.
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Whatchya gonna do with all that phone?
Kat pikshurs?
Mrs. Dr. Suess died. The most recent Mrs. Dr. Suess.
She was 97.
That's all I got.
I didn't confuse him, or her, with anyone.
I just can't speel.
So glad to make your day.
Sister Wendy passed the day after Christmas.
[size=1]No confusing who
her husband was...[/size]
June Whitfield Gran in Ab Fab among many, many other things.
I think this is the last time I saw her work:
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I kinda liked ol' Super Dave. Unique.
Albert Brooks brother? That explains a lot.
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Pro wrestling announcer/commentator
"Mean" Gene Okerlund died, also on Jan 2.
Okerlund had received three kidney transplants, and had suffered a fall in the weeks before his death.
They should put his smiling face on the cover of the Rolling Stone.:yesnod:
They should put his smiling face on the cover of the Rolling Stone.:yesnod:
I can see it now, he'll be up in the front, smilin, man.
Ah, beautiful.
Remember the college dean's wife in
Animal House? No?
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Remember the soiled dove/slattern in
High Plains Drifter?
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Well, her name was
Verna Bloom, and she died, from complications of dementia. She was 80.
I heard that this morning, and learned she's from Seattle.
Learning learning learning....
It just never ends!
I thought Ms. Channing had been dead for a few years.
Re: Newman
We just lost our oldest WWII vet a few days/weeks ago.
For a classic pieces, find "Rowan and Martin's Laugh In' episode where Carol Channing and Goldie Hawn celebrate a song called "Blonds" written by Billy Barnes.
Yes, she is better known for Hello Dolly. But she was always a classicly entertaining performer.
Retired Air Force Col. Joe M. Jackson, a Medal of Honor recipient, a veteran of three wars and Air Force legend, has died. Jackson, a native of Newnan, Ga., was famous within the aviation and special operations community for his daring rescue of a team of Air Force combat controllers who were stranded at the besieged airfield of an abandoned Army Special Forces camp during the Tet Offensive.
His exploits saved the lives of three men, but risked his own, as the airfield had been the site of multiple U.S. aircraft shootdowns and aircrew fatalities over the past 24 hours.
Although Jackson has passed, his exploits and the significance of the battle he took part in were recorded in the Southeast Asia Monographs, Volume V-7, at the Airpower Research Institute of Maxwell Air Force Base, as well as first-person accounts archived by the Library of Congress.
Pause and give salute and prayer for this old warrior. He won't be featured on the news, but he was truly a legend. I'm attaching a copy of the famous artist rendering of the rescue.
Retired Air Force Col. Joe M. Jackson...
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Korean War/Early Cold War accomplishments:
Discovering a formulaic method of navigating an aircraft back to base in poor weather
Developing Standard Jet Penetration, a popular method of landing a jet aircraft with low ceilings and low visibility
Developing mass transoceanic ferrying flights
Creating a bomb-throwing method allowing nuclear weapons to be delivered by fighter aircraft
Planning and directing aerial reconnaissance over Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962
Becoming one of the first Air Force pilots to fly the U-2 Dragonlady reconnaissance aircraft
MoH citation:
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Lt. Col. Jackson distinguished himself as pilot of a C-123 aircraft. Lt. Col. Jackson volunteered to attempt the rescue of a 3-man USAF Combat Control Team from the Special Forces camp at Kham Duc. Hostile forces had overrun the forward outpost and established gun positions on the airstrip. They were raking the camp with small arms, mortars, light and heavy automatic weapons, and recoilless rifle fire. The camp was engulfed in flames and ammunition dumps were continuously exploding and littering the runway with debris. In addition, eight aircraft had been destroyed by the intense enemy fire and one aircraft remained on the runway reducing its usable length to only 2,200 feet. To further complicate the landing, the weather was deteriorating rapidly, thereby permitting only one air strike prior to his landing. Although fully aware of the extreme danger and likely failure of such an attempt. Lt. Col. Jackson elected to land his aircraft and attempt to rescue. Displaying superb airmanship and extraordinary heroism, he landed his aircraft near the point where the combat control team was reported to be hiding. While on the ground, his aircraft was the target of intense hostile fire. A rocket landed in front of the nose of the aircraft but failed to explode. Once the combat control team was aboard, Lt. Col. Jackson succeeded in getting airborne despite the hostile fire directed across the runway in front of his aircraft. Lt. Col. Jackson's profound concern for his fellow men, at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of the U.S. Air Force and reflect great credit upon himself, and the Armed Forces of his country.
:devil:
ETA:
From Wiki:
On January 16, 1969 [Fifty years ago today!], President Lyndon B. Johnson presented Jackson with the Medal of Honor at a White House ceremony. Also receiving the Medal of Honor that day was fellow Newnan, GA native Stephen W. Pless, a Marine Corps aviator who, like Jackson, had earned the decoration for an airborne rescue operation. Legend states that, upon realizing that both Pless and Jackson were from the same small Georgia town, President Johnson quipped "there must be something in the water down in Newnan."
Definitely worth a moments pause to consider.
Movie producer
Andrew Vajna died today (Jan 20). He was 74.
Even if you've never heard of him, you've seen
a bunch of
his movies.
Actor Albert Finney, 82, following a short illness.
ETA: He was kinda Trumpian, when he was younger:
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John Dingell. Longest ever serving Congressman. Succeeded by his wife Debbie. I was kind of skeptical about such shennanigans, but I'm a convert. Debbie Does Good. Pologirl and I heard her speak at the first Women's march here in AA and she was impressive. Wasn't a citizen with voting rights when john was our Rep, but locals and respected friends are mourning.
https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2019/02/dingells-last-words-i-now-leave-you-in-control-of-the-greatest-nation.htmlIf you've ever toiled within or beneath your car with spanner and Haynes Manual to hand, you'll be sorry to hear of the death of John Haynes.
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John H Haynes OBE dies aged 80: obituary to the founder of Haynes Publishing Group and Haynes International Motor Museum.
He would always greet others with 'his infectious warmth and engaging, enthusiastic boyish smile'
The death has been announced today (February 11) of the creator of the Haynes Manual and founder of a publishing empire and motor museum.
The Haynes International Motor Museum is situated at Sparkford, Yeovil which for many years has been the main base for Haynes publishing.
The company has paid tribute to its founder, saying he will be "missed enormously" and has issued an obituary.
A spokesman for Haynes said: "It is with great sadness that we announce the death of John H Haynes OBE, the creator of the famous Haynes Manual, founder of the Haynes Publishing Group PLC and the Haynes International Motor Museum.
"John passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on the evening of Friday February 8, aged 80, after a short illness.
"John was a kind, generous, loving and devoted husband, brother, father and grandfather, who will be missed enormously.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife Annette, his brother David and sister Mary, his sons J and Chris and their families."
Link
I've got about a dozen Haynes Manuals including, Heathrow Airport, The Moon, Apollo 11, Airbus A380, D-Day, London Underground, Flying Scotsman and the Cold War.
Strangely I don't appear to have the VW Passat 1988-96 edition. ;)
Engine Removal
Step 1. Disconnect all wires, hoses, and electronic connections.
Step 2. Remove the bolts from the motor mount(s).
Step 3. Remove the engine.
Installation is the reverse of removal.
Yeah, loved those Haynes manuals.
Engine Removal
Step 1. Disconnect all wires, hoses, and electronic connections.
Step 2. Remove the bolts from the motor mount(s).
Step 3. Remove the engine.
Installation is the reverse of removal.
*Step 0. TAKE PICTURES
Who needs pictures when you have a Haynes manual?
It comes with pictures.
If it only came with instructions that helped. :rolleyes:
Motorsports artist
Sam Bass died Feb 16. He was 57.
You may have seen
his work at some point; he had pretty distinct style.
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Also,
Dick Churchill, the last survivor of the actual Great Escape, not the movie, the actual escape from Stalag Luft III.
He was 99.
Dick Churchill was the last surviving of the 76 escapees before his death on 15 February 2019; then an RAF Squadron Leader, he was among the 23 not executed by the Nazis. Churchill, a Handley Page Hampden bomber pilot, was discovered after the escape hiding in a hay loft. In a 2014 interview at the age of 94, he said he was fairly certain that he had been spared execution because his captors thought he might be related to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Also, Dick Churchill, the last survivor of the actual Great Escape, not the movie, the actual escape from Stalag Luft III.
He was 99.
A few years ago there was a Ch 4 documentary about an excavation of the Stalag Luft III site.
I recall that the archaeologists found a number of the powdered milk tins that were used to dig the tunnels in the Great Escape.
I'm not a fan of dramatised documentaries but, as a whole, it's worth watching.
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Ken Nordine died Saturday at 98.
I guess I thought he died years ago.
Someone stole my two albums of his "Word Jazz" and "Son of Word jazz," so they hadn't popped up in going through my LP shelves over the years and stayed gone against hope this morning.
He has a shitload of videos on YouTube, however, and I am going through some great old memories as I type.
Flibberty Jib, Hunger is From. Looks like its going to Rain!!!!
OK, that is officially weird. It must be that Ken Nordine didn't affect anyone here but me.
What he did:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k88msPKWkKY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4qdLuwCib0OK, that is officially weird. It must be that Ken Nordine didn't affect anyone here but me.
What he did:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k88msPKWkKY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4qdLuwCib0
That is some weird, lame shit. People actually spent money on this guy's albums? Did they come with a tab of acid tucked inside? :rolleyes:
The telling of a "story," with obnoxious human/mouth noises and overproduced sounds in the background, sort of reminds me of this (made better with commentary by Mark and Brian):
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Karl Lagerfeld, fashion designer, died Feb 19. He was 85.
No fish as of yet.
Lagerfeld owned a red point Birman cat named Choupette, which, in June 2013, he indicated he would marry, if it were legal.
~Wiki
Also, there was a classical scholar from New Zealand, that died on Feb 18, whose name was George Cawkwell.
If his name wasn't pronounced 'Cockwell', it should have been.
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The guy who coined the term 'global warming', helping start the biggest, longest argument in the history of mankind, died the 18th as well.
Wallace Smith BroeckerGlinda posted: "That is some weird, lame shit. People actually spent money on this guy's albums?"
Gee, I wish you had been around to save me in 1959 when I bought those disgusting albums.
I guess it was just lucky that someone else stole them from me 20 or 30 years later to prevent me from listening again.
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Monkee Peter Tork died today, at the age of 77. His fish was Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma, which he battled ten yrs ago.
Douglas the Parrot has died.
Douglas (ca. 1967 – 23 February 2019) is the male scarlet macaw that played the parrot Rosalinda in the 1970 Pippi Longstocking movie Pippi in the South Seas.
Douglas was imported from Brazil to Sweden in 1967. Three years later he starred as the female parrot Rosalinda in the popular movie Pippi in the South Seas. Douglas is capable of singing and of speaking a few dozen words. In 2002, 32 years after the movie, Douglas garnered a lot of attention in the Swedish press, when the authorities were considering to put him to death due to its owner at the time not having the proper paperwork. A petition pleading for Douglas' life comprised over 50,000 signatures including one by the actress Inger Nilsson, who played Pippi in the 1970 movie. Ultimately Douglas was spared after its first owner in Sweden produced the proper paper work, showing that he was legally imported from Brazil in 1967.
In 2005 Douglas moved to a small zoo in Malmö, where he lived together with a female blue-and-yellow macaw called Gojan until 2016. Early in 2016 Douglas once more attracted the attention of the Swedish media and later of the German one as well. Swedish authorities had again plans to put Douglas to death due to its cage of 3 m2 being too small and not allowing him to fly. The authorities requested an aviary of at least 30 m2, which the zoo couldn't provide. The zoo's director Frank Madsen tried to get an exception arguing that due to its very old age Douglas was incapable of flying anyhow and that it made no sense to cut short his remaining final years. As the authorities were unwilling to grant an exception, Madsen turned to the press and received soon over 100 offers for a new home for Douglas and Gojan. Ultimately the Karlsruhe Zoo in Germany was selected and in April Madsen himself delivered Douglas and Gojan to Karlsruhe, where they were greeted with a public welcome party.
Five months later in September 2016 Gojan died at an age of 45 and the zoo was planning to pair Douglas with another macaw. The new partner became Rubin, a 22 year old scarlet macaw, that arrived in October of the same year.
Douglas died at the Karlsruhe Zoo on February 23rd, 2019 being 51 years old, an extraordinary old age for macaws.
He's not pining for the fjords.
'E's nowt sleeping.
This birb is no more.
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[COLOR="Gray"]Douglas (ca. 1967 – 23 February 2019) is the male scarlet macaw that played the parrot Rosalinda in the 1970 Pippi Longstocking movie Pippi in the South Seas.
Douglas was imported from Brazil to Sweden in 1967. Three years later he starred as the female parrot Rosalinda in the popular movie Pippi in the South Seas. Douglas is capable of singing and of speaking a few dozen words. In 2002, 32 years after the movie, Douglas garnered a lot of attention in the Swedish press,[/COLOR] when the authorities were considering to put him to death due to its owner at the time not having the proper paperwork. [COLOR="gray"]A petition pleading for Douglas' life comprised over 50,000 signatures including one by the actress Inger Nilsson, who played Pippi in the 1970 movie. Ultimately Douglas was spared after its first owner in Sweden produced the proper paper work, showing that he was legally imported from Brazil in 1967.[/COLOR]
[COLOR="gray"]In 2005 Douglas moved to a small zoo in Malmö, where he lived together with a female blue-and-yellow macaw called Gojan until 2016. Early in 2016 Douglas once more attracted the attention of the Swedish media and later of the German one as well.[/COLOR] Swedish authorities had again plans to put Douglas to death due to its cage of 3 m2 being too small and not allowing him to fly. [COLOR="gray"]The authorities requested an aviary of at least 30 m2, which the zoo couldn't provide. The zoo's director Frank Madsen tried to get an exception arguing that due to its very old age Douglas was incapable of flying anyhow and that it made no sense to cut short his remaining final years. As the authorities were unwilling to grant an exception, Madsen turned to the press and received soon over 100 offers for a new home for Douglas and Gojan. Ultimately the Karlsruhe Zoo in Germany was selected and in April Madsen himself delivered Douglas and Gojan to Karlsruhe, where they were greeted with a public welcome party.
Five months later in September 2016 Gojan died at an age of 45 and the zoo was planning to pair Douglas with another macaw. The new partner became Rubin, a 22 year old scarlet macaw, that arrived in October of the same year.
Douglas died at the Karlsruhe Zoo on February 23rd, 2019 being 51 years old, an extraordinary old age for macaws.[/COLOR]
What the fuck is wrong with those "authorities", don't they think at all, are they never reasonable? Is an exemption that much paperwork? :eyebrow:
Pfft, that's the Parrot Police for ya...
Pianist and composer Andre Previn died today. He was 89.
He and Mia Farrow are the adoptive parents of Soon-Yi Previn (Woody Allen's wife).
Aw man. I missed this one.
Character actor, that-guy-who-was-in-that-thing, Morgan Woodward died back on Feb 22.
He played a recurring role on Dallas (the first one), and he also played the rifle-toting road gang boss with the mirrored sunglasses in Cool Hand Luke.
If ya don't remember him, you'll know his face, he was known for his face.
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Dude was in everything on TV in the 70s. He guest-starred on Gunsmoke 19 times, more than anyone else but the regular cast.
Pianist and composer Andre Previn died today. He was 89.
I always liked Andre Previn. I think it's fair to say that classical music conductors are rarely known for their sense of fun but Previn was cast in a different mould.
He famously appeared with Morecambe and Wise in a sketch in their show while he was principal conductor with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Morecambe and Wise with Andre Previn.I always liked Andre Previn. I think it's fair to say that classical music conductors are rarely known for their sense of fun but Previn was cast in a different mould.
He famously appeared with Morecambe and Wise in a sketch in their show while he was principal conductor with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Morecambe and Wise with Andre Previn.
A superb sketch. The best bits are where he’s struggling not to corpse [emoji16]
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A superb sketch. The best bits are where he’s struggling not to corpse [emoji16]
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Corpse? I don't speak the Queen's English.
Corpse? I don't speak the Queen's English.
It's to become convulsed with laughter to the extent that it is impossible to deliver your own lines.
Generally the greater the effort not to laugh, the worse it becomes.
I'm on my iPad at present which doesn't lend itself to posting links, but there's a Wikipedia article on 'corpsing' which sheds some more light on the subject.
I'm sorry Carruthers, I thought limey answered me.
I'm sorry Carruthers, I thought limey answered me.
Don't worry! :thumb:
Be happy!
Oh, this isn't word association. Never mind.
The Word Ass games are waiting.
Katherine Helmond
Who's the Boss, Soap, Time Bandits, Brazil.
She was excellent on Soap. Takes great acting to play a dim-wit character.
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And she had an awesome rack
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I watched "Who's The Boss?" every single day of my childhood.
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She played crazy very well.
Nathaniel Taylor died on Feb 27. His fish was a heart attack. What's that? Never heard of him? Maybe not, but you know him:
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He played 'Rollo' on
Sanford & Son.
He said he was sick.
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He said he was sick.
If you refer to Rollo Time's
Sick & Tired...
God
damn, that's just awful.
Lead singer of The Prodigy was found dead today. Keith Flint was 49. Looks like a suicide.
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Luke Perry, surprisingly. Stroke.
Luke Perry, RIP
In point of fact, I never watched even
one episode of
90210. I worked just down the road from 90210 for several years, but never had much of an interest in prime time soap operas. *
shrug*
Luke Perry, surprisingly. Stroke.
HA! and you beat
me to it!
Never saw 90210 either, but I liked him in Jeremiah.
Only thing I saw him in was a couple of B westerns...And Family Guy.
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Actor
Jan-Michael Vincent's death was announced yesterday.
He died on Feb 10 of cardiac arrest.
Anytime I think of him or hear his name, I think of Damnation Alley.
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The last time I saw Jan Michael Vincent was on some talk show and he was hammered and was talking gibberish and had an argument with the host. may have been letterman. Hollywood chews up another one.
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Anytime I think of him or hear his name, I think of Damnation Alley.
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For me, it's
The Mechanic. One of my all-time favorite films.
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Anytime I think of him or hear his name, I think of Damnation Alley.
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I haven't see the movie but it's weird that in the clip, the black actor is wearing a shirt with a flag patch sewn on his sleeve upside down.
A possible explanation: flying the US flag upside down has long been recognized as a distress signal.
I've seen protesters do that.
Just some FYI:
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The vehicle featured in
Damnation Alley was not the spawn of special effects. It was called the
Landmaster, and it's a real genuine vehicle. Well, it was made for the movie, but it's real. Motorvation was supplied by 390 Ford motor, and it steered by articulation, like a large tractor or earth mover.
The Landmaster had twelve wheels , and all were driven, but only eight wheels were on the ground at any given time, and the three-wheel (on each corner) assemblies could rotate around the centerline to get the Landmaster over rocks/boulders/debris. It even made a 25-foot jump with no damage. Try that in
your 10 ton amphibious-surviving-the-end-of-the-world vehicle.
Yep, I said amphibious. It goes on/in water, and will float half-full of water, and can be fully submerged with no worries.
In 2016, the Landmaster was moved to Gene Winfield's Custom Shop on Sierra Highway between Rosamond, California and Mojave, California. It can be seen from the road and is open to public viewing during the week.
~Wiki
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Legendary drummer Hal Blaine, 90
Who?
Well he was the drummer on every recording made. Just click anywhere in this video and you'll find a solid piece of pop culture. 150 top ten hits, 40 #1 hits.
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Another member of The Wrecking Crew gone.
Forgot to recognize Mark Hollis, of Talk Talk, who died 2 weeks ago.
Back in the day, we hated musicians who would sell out - take their artistic success and flatten it for a commercial success.
Talk Talk was a remarkable reverse sell-out. In three albums, they went from making new-wavey synth singles ("Talk Talk"), to deeper, more sonically-interesting singles ("It's My Life", "Life's What You Make It")...
Then the fourth and fifth albums "Spirit of Eden" and "Laughing Stock" are utterly serious art. Unsellable. The opener is to "Spirit of Eden" is nine slow, deliberate minutes long, and the first two minutes are not song at all. It's almost just noise. Impenetrable. If the first records with singles sold a million, the last two probably sold 50,000 each.
And then, over time, that reverse sell-out paid off. People found the uncommercial records, and realized how goddamn good they were if you put the time in. They are now regarded as superb art. Very influential. Some people feel those records mark the founding the genre of "post-rock".
Spotify reports that the first single "Talk Talk" currently has about 4 million plays. "The Rainbow", that nine-minute opener to "Spirit of Eden", also has about 4 million plays.
I think that is a fine outcome. RIP Mr Hollis.
Forgot to recognize Mark Hollis, of Talk Talk, who died 2 weeks ago.
Back in the day, we hated musicians who would sell out - take their artistic success and flatten it for a commercial success.
Talk Talk was a remarkable reverse sell-out. In three albums, they went from making new-wavey synth singles ("Talk Talk"), to deeper, more sonically-interesting singles ("It's My Life", "Life's What You Make It")...
Then the fourth and fifth albums "Spirit of Eden" and "Laughing Stock" are utterly serious art. Unsellable. The opener is to "Spirit of Eden" is nine slow, deliberate minutes long, and the first two minutes are not song at all. It's almost just noise. Impenetrable. If the first records with singles sold a million, the last two probably sold 50,000 each.
And then, over time, that reverse sell-out paid off. People found the uncommercial records, and realized how goddamn good they were if you put the time in. They are now regarded as superb art. Very influential. Some people feel those records mark the founding the genre of "post-rock".
Spotify reports that the first single "Talk Talk" currently has about 4 million plays. "The Rainbow, that nine-minute opener to "Spirit of Eden", has about 4 million plays.
I think that is a fine outcome. RIP Mr Hollis.
https://pour15minutesdamour.blogspot.com/2019/02/tomorrow-started-pop-supreme.htmlI think someone hacked that website.
It's just gibberish.
:o
Chrome offers to translate the page from French to English on my system.
Tomorrow Started (Supreme Pop)
A prince of Pop * is gone. In the summer of 1986 in Montreux, Talk Talk, of which Mark Hollis was the undisputed frontman gave a concert off stars . The announcement of his death made me all shabby.
I wanted to hear the stirring I Believe In You again on the album Spirit Of Eden . Mark had never sung so well.
Despite my promise, I pay tribute to a musician whose albums were bedside records when we thought we were masters - maybe not the world, though ...;) - but in any case radio. Without this, how can one claim to have been young?
* Cataloged a little fast "new pop" in the early 80s, Talk Talk has eliminated the gimmicks of a production dated for album after album, to achieve essential music that flirted with jazz and contemporary classical music.
Photo: Rob Ellis
Listed 3 months ago by R. Claude
Labels: 80's those who leave us britain pop
I was just trying to be silly.
Guitar God, "father of heavy metal",
Dick Dale died on Mar 16, of heart failure.
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Dick Dale was 81.
And yes. In the vid above, he's playing a left-handed Strat strung upside down.
My god, he was so good, so original, when that would come on in the car my father would turn it up, when my mother was there she would turn it off.
"You Know They Have A Hell Of A BAND!!!" The lead guitar has just shown up.
Dick Dale, King of the Surf Guitar.
His music, invented by and played by him, was in HEAVY ROTATION, during my life at college, and ever since. I had headphones as a kid, but it wasn't until college that I had the freedom to listen to what I wanted, as loud and out loud as I wanted.
And I wanted Dick Dale. And Jon and the Nightriders and The Ventures and The Surfaris and The Bel-Airs and and and... To this day, my favorite surf track is Mr. Moto. Unless it's Miserlou.
You're right, that is one helluva band.
Pete was pretty bummed. His ring tone is Dick Dale. I was over at his shop when the news dropped. We immediately changed the record (yes, vinyl) to Dick and we cranked it up. His phone pinged the rest of the night with people texting him the bad news.
Pete had met Dick a couple years ago, and the record we played, he had bought from his hand 2 years ago.
Sad. He was a really cool old dude from all accounts. At the show that night, someone threw their gum up on stage, and Dick picked it up and popped it in his mouth and chewed it for the rest of the set.
You may remember the [English] Beat for "Mirror In the Bathroom" and "Save It For Later". You may remember General Public for "Tenderness" and their cover of "I'll Take You There". Co-founder/singer Ranking Roger, has died of cancer, age 56.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6853821/Ranking-Roger-Dead-Beat-singer-passes-away-aged-56.htmlRemember the movie
Quiz Show?
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Charles Van Doren died April 9. He was 93.
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I love this part:
As the clock ticks away a lifetime,
hold your head up to the gun of a million cathode ray tubes
aimed at your tiny skull.
May you find sweet inspiration, may your memory not be dull.
May you rise to dizzy success.
May your wit be quick and strong.
May you constantly amaze us.
May your answers not be wrong.
May your head be on your shoulders.
May your tongue be in your cheek.
And most of all we pray that you may come back next week!
Be a quiz kid.
Be a whiz kid.
Lead singer of The Prodigy was found dead today. Keith Flint was 49. Looks like a suicide.
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The band's long-time body guard,
Con, just died.
Aw, man, Georgette died.
She passed on April 12.
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Georgia Engel played Georgette Baxter on the Mary Tyler Moore Show for 5 years.
Cause of death is unknown, she was a Christian Science practitioner, and as such did not consult doctors. She was 70.
Director/producer John Singleton
Remember Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom? Remember Marlin Perkins?
Well, do you remember the guy who did all the dirty work?
Jim Fowler died on May 8th. His fish was complications from heart disease.
I'm going to describe it from this nice warm studio, while my friend Jim attempts to circumcise a live water buffalo.
~Some comedian
Aw, shit, man.:sniff:
Grumpy Cat,
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(real name Tardar Sauce) has died (May 14). She was 7 years old. The mixed breed cat died of complications of a urinary tract infection.
Her 'grumpy' appearance was caused by an underbite, and feline dwarfism.
Also, architect, and crossword puzzle clue/answer
I.M. Pei died May 16, at 102. As for his fish...
He was 102!
He and his wife were married for over 70 yrs when she died in 2014.
Grumpy Cat, aka Tardar Sauce, 7.
This is a true loss for the Internet. Grumpy Cat represented a better time, when we used social media to just enjoy pictures of a cat who looked grumpy.
I cried real tears when i read about Her this morning.
Writer
Herman Wouk, if ya can believe
he was still alive to begin with.
The author of
The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance died in his sleep, ten days shy of his 104th birthday.
Former F1 World Champion
Niki Lauda
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died in his sleep yesterday (May 20), at the age of 70.
His and James hunt's F1 rivalry was the subject of the movie
Rush.
Leon Redbone ,
one of my faves
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Dr. John.
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The Night Tripper died of a heart attack "at the break of day" on June 6th. He was 77.
I bet he and Leon Redbone are already jammin'.
Gloria Vanderbilt, who I thought had been dead for years. She was 95. No fish.
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Bishop Bullwinkle, of
Hell To Da Naw Naw fame, died June 16, of complications of a heart attack. He was 70.
I learned just recently that she was Anderson Cooper's mother...
I learned just recently that she was Anderson Cooper's mother...
Same here.
That is some weird stuff.
Author
Judith Krantz died on June 22.
At least a half-dozen of her novels were turned into TV mini-series, including
Scruples, probably the most famous.
She was 91.
Actor Billy Drago died on June 24 (complications from a stroke). He's been in everything.
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His real name was William Eugene Burrows Jr., and he was 73.
Rip Torn's Hairy, Shirtless Brawl With Norman Mailer Remains A Legendary Moment of Movie History
Read that first, then watch.
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Rip Torn's Wiki page is worth a read.
Charles Levin, Seinfeld's nervous mohel, and The Golden Girls' "fancy man."
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.
o o f
'A long time ago I was one of you. You're all brand new and perfect. No mistakes, no regrets. People look at you and think of how wonderful your future will be. They want you to be something special... like a... a doctor or a lawyer. I hate to tell you this, but if you grow up here, you're more likely to wind up selling your bodies on the streets, or shooting dope from dirty needles in a bus stop. And if you're successful, you'll make money selling junk to crackheads. And you won't think twice about killing someone's wife, because you won't even know what was wrong in the first place. Or, maybe... you'll end up like me - a hobo with a shotgun! I hope you can do better. You are the future.'
In a good mood are we Henry? :D
Hobo With A Shotgun
Not lost on all of us...
"Hobo With A Shotgun Not lost on all of us..."
No, just Bruce.
I asked if you were in a good mood, in other words sarcastically asking if you're having a bad day, which would be a logical reason to post that quote. It was marked as a quote, but I didn't know where it came from because I don't watch that crap. I thought it more important as to why you posted it.
Henry Fonda is no longer in any mood.
Henry Fonda is no longer in any mood.
In other news,
Peter Fonda has died.
Peter Fonda has taken that last ride.
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Hey, did you guys know that Peter Fonda died?
Were you fonda him? I guess he just petered out
He was a lousy actor and looked better with large sunglasses.
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What's the word on Peter Fonda?
What's the word on Peter Fonda?
He's brought down the curtain and joined the choir invisible...
He is an ex-actor, he is bereft of life...
The only reason he had been standing on stage in the first place was because he had been nailed there!
He's just having a bit of a kip. Must be pining for the fjords, is all.
I totally forgot that that skit led into the lumberjack song.
What's the word on Peter Fonda?
It's not looking good...
:lol2:
Thats sick, but funny.
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However you feel about David Koch he got the same as everybody else.
I'm not looking forward to the +-1% uploading consciousness.
Rest in Pain, David Koch.
Years ago, mostly in the '50s and '60s, trying to get a look at automobiles under development was a sport.
A guy named Jim Dunne made it his profession, photographing primarily American cars using subterfuge, gate-crashing, and long-lenses.
A very interesting fellow who died this week at 87.
Sadly this guy isn't/wasn't famous.
But he should have been.
Alfred C. Haynes was an airline pilot that crash-landed a DC-10 in Sioux City, Iowa with almost no controls (no hydraulics) after a catastrophic rear engine failure. 111 people died, but more importantly, thanks to Mr. Haynes and the crew, 185 survived.
You may remember the video of the crash with plane cartwheeling into the picture way short of the runway:
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Mr. Haynes was 87 years old.
I remember Capt. Haynes and the Sioux City accident.
It was a remarkable feat of airmanship to have put the aircraft down under the circumstances without greater loss of life.
By coincidence, in my book stack I have 'Flight 232' by Laurence Gonzales which is an account of the flight and subsequent investigation.
I've just moved it to the top.
RIP Captain.
Holder of the women's land speed record, killed testing her car in Oregon.
Comedian Kip Addotta, 75; best known for the ultimate fish pun song "Wet Dream".
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Valerie Harper, of "Rhoda", and IIRC often active in the actors' union, 80
Eddie Money has died. He was 70, and his fish was esophageal cancer.
Rosanna's daddy had a car she loved to drive
Stole the keys one night and took me for a ride
Turned up the music just as loud as it could go
Blew out the speakers in her daddy's radio
:devil:
Fish has more lettters than COD
oh don't carp on about it
Mahi mahi, look at you, straightening the hook...
Sadly this guy isn't/wasn't famous.
But he should have been.
Alfred C. Haynes was an airline pilot that crash-landed a DC-10 in Sioux City, Iowa with almost no controls (no hydraulics) after a catastrophic rear engine failure. 111 people died, but more importantly, thanks to Mr. Haynes and the crew, 185 survived.
You may remember the video of the crash with plane cartwheeling into the picture way short of the runway.
Mr. Haynes was 87 years old.
A couple of extracts from his obituary in this morning's Daily Telegraph.
Alfred Haynes, pilot who saved 184 lives following a mid-air explosion – obituary
Captain Alfred C Haynes, who has died aged 87, was hailed a hero in 1989 when, with the help of his crew, he managed to land his stricken United Airlines DC-10 aircraft at Sioux City Airport in Iowa despite having no conventional control over it; 184 of the 296 people on board survived, and in simulated tests afterwards not one of 57 pilots could replicate what Haynes had accomplished.
On the afternoon of July 19 1989, UA Flight 232 took off from Denver, Colorado, bound for Chicago. About an hour into the journey, while the aircraft was at 37,000 feet over Iowa, the foot-wide titanium fan disk in the tail engine exploded. Shards from the debris penetrated all three of the aircraft’s hydraulic systems in the area, causing all of the fluid in them to leak out in a matter of seconds.
Haynes was a highly experienced pilot, and when he became aware that there was a problem of some kind, he shut off fuel to the rear-mounted engine, knowing that the DC-10 could fly on its other two. Yet his first officer, William Records, told him that whatever he did with the control column, it did not manoeuvre the tail or the wings. The loss of hydraulics meant that the aircraft was almost impossible to fly, let alone to land.
They and flight engineer Dudley Dvorak were joined in the cockpit by Dennis Fitch, a United training captain who was one of the passengers. With his aid, and with Fitch kneeling between the seats, they switched the thrust between one engine and the other to provide a crude form of control.
Nevertheless, all they could achieve was to straighten out the jet as it made a series of right-handed spirals and descended at about 1,000ft per minute for the next half an hour. Haynes said later that he was too busy to be scared.
He was keenly aware that about 50 of the passengers were children – the airline had been running a cheap-fares promotion – some seated on their parents’ laps. Retaining his composure, he told all aboard to brace for a bump harder than any they had experienced as the aircraft came in to make an emergency landing at Sioux City. When the controllers said they could land on any runway, Haynes, with humour, said: “You want to be particular and make it a runway?”
Fitch said he would buy him a beer afterwards. Haynes replied: “I don’t drink, but I’ll sure as s––t have one.” Flight 232 made its approach at 220 knots, instead of the usual 140, dropping through the air at a rate six times faster than normal. The tip of its right wing struck the ground first, gouging a hole 18 inches deep in the concrete. The jet pivoted, broke up and burst into flames as it ploughed into a cornfield. Haynes was knocked out, but when the shattered remains of the cockpit were found half an hour later, all four men in it were alive.
Haynes gave much of the credit to others, including those in the control tower and the emergency workers, and to luck – having good weather, for instance. For a time, he said, he had felt guilt, wondering why 111 people had died. Then he had started to wonder how it was that 185 had survived. It was the passengers’ behaviour during the flight and its aftermath that stayed with him: “I will stand in awe of them for the rest of my life.”
Haynes resumed flying three months after the crash and retired in 1991. Several survivors of Flight 232 accompanied him on his last flight.
Thereafter he became a public speaker, extolling the value of teamwork and speaking about post-traumatic stress disorder. He raised more than $1 million in donations for the accident’s survivors.
In 1996 he suffered more tragedy when his elder son, Tony, was killed in a motorcycle accident. The following year, his wife of four decades, Darlene, died of a rare infection. Haynes said that what he had learned was that there were no healing explanations for such events; they simply had to be accepted.
Several years later, his daughter Laurie needed a bone-marrow transplant, but her insurance did not cover the operation. An appeal by Haynes raised some $550,000, much of it coming from the crash survivors and enabling the procedure to be carried out successfully.
He is survived by his daughter and by his younger son.
BiB I doubt very much that I would have gone anywhere near an aircraft ever again after an experience like that.
Ric Ocasek.
When I was in college there were always classic rock people who didn't like the Cars. I understood it, because they were pretty keyboard-oriented, despite having the great Elliot Easton come up with amazing guitar solos for every bridge.
He and The Cars provided a lot of the soundtrack to my teenage years.
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This is a bummer. I didn't realize how much producing he was doing. My office mate met him once when he was trying to resuscitate Heart.
Who's gonna drive us home now?
how much producing he was doing
Like Romeo Void's 1981 new wave single "Never Say Never", while trying to set up an art studio in Boston like Andy Warhol's Factory. Ocasek was more complicated than his songs.
Also, the entire Weezer catalogue. Well, OK.
I've always thought he looked kinda like an alien.
Aw shit, man.
Capt. Spaulding died.:sniff:
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Sid Haig was 80 years old. Death came by way of a lung infection suffered after he vomited in his sleep, while recovering from a fall.
And Robert Hunter checks out. That ripple in still water.
RIP Tonchi,
Tonchi passed away on August 18th. She was well known to fans of the Mexican-American actress and singer Thalia, having been manager of international relations for the celebrity's world wide fan club and moderator; then, administrator of her website. Tonchi, a native English speaker, was adept in Spanish and coordinated activities for satellite fan clubs in the Americas, Europe and Asia.
A few of Tonchi's contacts were even introduced to the Cellar. A gentleman in Hungary, a lady in the Philippines (whom slang met), and myself (thank you Anne). Tonchi was a tough cookie and fiercely loyal to her charge; but, we had some things in common. She was a military brat who had lived on one of the military installations where I served. Also, she sent me Alien vs Predator and steampunk comic strips. I sent her mother (predeceased) a wine magazine subscription to bone up before visiting Tonchi's sister in Switzerland.
We drifted apart after she stopped posting here (too busy IRL I presume). I heard from her only a few times afterwards and am just now hearing about her death. Tonchi's accolades will be more in the Spanish speaking world. The celebrity Thalia had this to say (translation follows):
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The ThalyFamilia lost
a woman very dear
to me and all of us,
Tonchi is no longer in
this plane, now she is
finally free from so much
struggle. Thank you for so much,
Thank you for being by my
side for so many years dear
friend. God bless you and
your family. Here we will
remember you with all
your passion and unconditional
love
If so inclined, do a search for simply
Thalia Tonchi and numerous articles will result about Tonchi's passing (in Spanish of course, use the
Translate this page feature).
Tonchi the former Dwellar passed away?
That's her. I believe she was 73. She discussed her rare medical condition, which kept her from regular jobs, in her posts.
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Robert Forster died Oct 11, of brain cancer.
Which is kinda weird (not really) because he was a member of the
Triple Nine Society, whose members must score in the 99.9th percentile of the human population for IQ.
He was 78.
Aw, shit.
Actor
John Witherspoon
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died "suddenly" at his home on Oct 29.
He was 77.
I loved his character in the
Friday movies.
Rudy Boesch
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from reality show
Survivor died on Nov 1. He was one of the first navy SEALs. He set the physical and operational standards for SEAL Team 2. Underwater Demolition Team (2 different ones), 2 tours in Vietnam, Bronze Star, Senior Enlisted Advisor for United States Special Operations Command, 45 continuous yrs in the US Navy.
He was 91, and died exactly 11 years after his wife.
I didn't, and don't, watch
Survivor, but, I watched Rudy.
My favorite character actor has carked it.
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Michael J. Pollard died on the 21st of November.
He was 80.
A few interesting facts about Mr. Pollard:
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Links no worky. Iz pikshur.
Really weird, a day ot two ago I was driving by an old run down diner and that image poppped in to my head. Now here it is again.
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Gahan Wilson seemed to be sort of an heir to Charles Addams.
Miss them both.
Not only have Clive James and Jonathan Miller departed this mortal vale of tears, but celebrity chef Gary Rhodes has also made his last souffle.
I do hope no one is unkind enough to dance on his gravy.
Shelley Morrison died Dec 1. You'll remember her role as Megan Mullally's maid on
Will & Grace, and maybe from
The Flying Nun.
She was 83, and her fish was heart failure.
I enjoyed Harry Belafonte's music, acting and social commentary for many, many years. I am sorry to see him go.
Belafonte's still alive according to Wiki.
The guy what wrote Day-O just died.
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I'm too stoned, I should go to bed.
René Auberjonois Dies at 79
I liked him in everything I ever saw him in.
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61 wow. Now I feel even older. I wondered why she was popping up in my google search suggestions
Danny Aiello died yesterday.
Family sources state that Aiello passed away at a medical facility in New Jersey where he was being treated for a sudden illness. He reportedly suffered an infection related to his treatment for this illness. Aiellos's family visited him Thursday, and it is reported that he died shortly after they left that evening.
David Bellamy. Brits my age probably worked onbtheir Bellamy impersonation at school
René Auberjonois Dies at 79
I liked him in everything I ever saw him in.
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He was the skeleton that wanted to taste wine, in The Last Unicorn.
"Seventh Python" Neil Innes, 75. Writer performer musician, he wrote things like "Knights of the Round Table" in
Grail (where he was also the serf crushed by the giant "trojan rabbit"). He was a Rutle, wrote all the Rutles songs, and he was founder of The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.
Cleese and Palin weigh in with their remembrances, along with Stephen Fry, Charlie Brooker, Diane Morgan and Billy Bragg.And that NBA guy, whats his name.
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RIP Neil Peart. You changed everything sir
RIP Neil Peart. You changed everything sir
Neil Peart died?
67, brain cancer :thepain:
Buck Henry.
I would see him hosting SNL, and wonder who he was and what he was famous for.
Apparently he wrote scripts and made movies from behind the camera.
RIP Neil Peart. You changed everything sir
damn
Edd Byrnes from 77 Sunset Strip, too.
Neil Peart was a shocker.
I use a Rush-based name on another forum. It feels a bit stupid today.
Christopher Tolkien, 3rd son of J.R.R. Tolkien.
He edited much his father's work, and drew the maps for The Lord of the Rings. He was 95.
Also passing recently,
Rocky Johnson, pro wrestler, and father of wrestler/actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
He was 75.
I just read that. I was a little stunned.
From his Wiki page:
In 2015, Jones was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia, a form of frontotemporal dementia that impairs the ability to speak and communicate. He had first given cause for concern during the Monty Python reunion show Monty Python Live (Mostly) in July 2014 because of difficulties learning his lines. By September 2016, he was no longer able to give interviews. By April 2017, Jones had lost the ability to say more than a few words of agreement.
Jones died on 21 January 2020 from complications of dementia at his home in North London.
Terry Jones was 77.
Jim Lehrer, the retired PBS anchorman who for 36 years gave public television viewers a substantive alternative to network evening news programs with in-depth reporting, interviews and analysis of world and national affairs, died on Thursday at his home in Washington. He was 85. ...
… “I have an old-fashioned view that news is not a commodity,” Mr. Lehrer told The American Journalism Review in 2001. “News is information that’s required in a democratic society, and Thomas Jefferson said a democracy is dependent on an informed citizenry. That sounds corny, but I don’t care whether it sounds corny or not. It’s the truth.” …
… Critics called Mr. Lehrer’s reporting, and his collaborations with Mr. MacNeil, solid journalism, committed to fair, unbiased and far more detailed reporting than the CBS, NBC or ABC nightly news programs. To put news in perspective, the two anchors interviewed world and national leaders, and experts on politics, law, business, arts and sciences, and other fields. ...
Jim Lehrer was a great fan of public bus transportation writing both fiction and nonfiction about them. He may have even driven them.
He also replied personally to every letter I wrote him.
Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash.
Dr. Frieda Rapoport Caplan at 96.
She introduced America to kiwi, mango, blood orange, endives, kumquat, chayote squash, shiitake mushrooms, tamarind, and ghost peppers among dozens of other things.
Nicolas Parsons, British Entertainer
Nicolas Parsons, British Entertainer
I'm pretty sure he was on [strike]our[/strike] Mr Limey's list for years. but not this year ...
I'm pretty sure he was on [strike]our[/strike] Mr Limey's list for years. but not this year ...
lol, yes first thing I did was go and check your list :D
Kirk Douglas, a Star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Dies at 103
Orson Bean was killed by a car while walking.
He was a very funny man.
I am pretty sure it was in Mad Magazine where he showed how to make a fir tree out of a newspaper. I made two many years apart, but can't find the instructions now.
Robert Conrad, Star of Television Series The Wild Wild West, Dies at 84
I always liked his work.
… In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Wounded Warrior Project and The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation. …
I think he was a good guy too.
I dare ya.
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I liked his portrayal of Pappy Boyington.
Robert Conrad vs Lou Ferrigno (TV's The Incredible Hulk):
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I liked his portrayal of Pappy Boyington.
It made for good TV, but Black Sheep Squadron was not anywhere close to real life, despite Greg Boyington consulting on the project. I've read two biographies on Major Boyington and in an interview he said as much.
The men of VMF-214 were neither misfits nor screwballs; they were simply Marine aviators who happened to be either unassigned or available at the time when 214 was being assembled. Their planes were not stolen, they were merely being turned in from another squadron and Boyington only appropriated them.
Major Boyington was a colorful figure and fascinating to study.
The men of VMF-214 were neither misfits nor screwballs; they were simply Marine aviators...
Isn't that the same thing? :lol:
It made for good TV, but Black Sheep Squadron was not anywhere close to real life, despite Greg Boyington consulting on the project. I've read two biographies on Major Boyington and in an interview he said as much.
The men of VMF-214 were neither misfits nor screwballs; they were simply Marine aviators who happened to be either unassigned or available at the time when 214 was being assembled. Their planes were not stolen, they were merely being turned in from another squadron and Boyington only appropriated them.
Major Boyington was a colorful figure and fascinating to study.
Definitely made for tv stuff. I think I'm gonna start reading on the 214.
snip-- Their planes were not stolen, they were merely being turned in from another squadron and Boyington only appropriated them.
--snip
Isn't that the same thing? :lol:
what he said.
Aw, shit, man. Willona died.
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Ja'Net DuBois (who played 'Willona' on
Good Times) died on Feb 17 of natural causes. She was either 74, 81, or 87.
Also, Kellye Nakahara, who played 'Nurse Kellye' on M*A*S*H,
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I’m not only the Hair Club president, but I’m also a client.
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Hair Club for Men founder Sy Sperling died Feb 19. He was 78.
Katherine Johnson.
She wasn't famous, but she should have been.
Katherine Johnson.
She wasn't famous, but she should have been.
was famous among nerds, John Glenn, and other npr listeners
Semi-famous, I had heard of her.
Maybe I'm a semi-nerd. :smack:
I didn't know her until the movie and surrounding buzz. smrt lady.
Author/explorer
Clive Cussler.
He was 88.
A goddess at NASA, (except when it came to pay or recognition) made it to 101.
Sad to hear about Clive Cussler. He is my favorite fiction/adventure writer.
I hope the books keep coming from the co-authors!
James Lipton,
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His fish was bladder cancer.
He was 93.
You cross 90, I just say old-age.
Ya know the grocery chain Trader Joe's?
Yeah, Joe died.
Joe Coulombe was 89.
Poet Lisel Mueller at 96.
David Paul, who starred with his twin brother, Peter, in
The Barbarians,
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died March 6, two days shy of his 63rd birthday.
No fish yet.
I saw "The Seventh Seal" when it came out; I was in high school and I thought von Sydow was an old man.
Here it turns out he was just a little older than I am.
UK:
Roy Hudd I used to get him confused with Rod Hull.
Is it a rule over there about being on Corona[strike]virus[/strike]tion Street and then dying?
I mean everyone who has been on the show dies. Or rather, everyone in England who dies has been on the show...:stickpoke:p:
Is it a rule over there about being on Corona[strike]virus[/strike]tion Street and then dying?
I mean everyone who has been on the show dies. Or rather, everyone in England who dies has been on the show...:stickpoke:p:
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You've got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
And know when to die
Say what?His condition ain't in too good a condition.
Adam Carolla, Norm MacDonald and Teresa Strasser break down "Ruby" and "Coward of the County"
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Adam Schlesinger, 52. Of the bands Fountains of Wayne, and Ivy. Bass player, power pop specialist, and a great great songwriter. Known for "Stacy's Mom", but he also wrote the title song for the movie "That Thing You Do".
COD: Coronavirus
:thepain:
:cry: I loved Schlesinger's band Ivy. This is probably their biggest hit.
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New Orleans jazz musician Ellis Marsalis has died. He was 85.
COD: Corona
:cry: I loved Schlesinger's band Ivy. This is probably their biggest hit.
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I had no idea that was the same guy. bummer
Brit Comedian from the 70s 80s
Eddie Large one half of Little and Large. Syd is still alive.
COD COVID19 (was already hospitalized for heart problems)
tbh never occurred to me he was still alive -he was younger than I thought.
Tom Dempsey, 73, ex-NFL kicker who for six decades held the record for longest field goal
COD: "Dempsey contracted the coronavirus in March at the Lambeth House, a retirement home in New Orleans, and is one of at least 15 residents to die from the virus."
:thepain:
Honor Blackman
COD old age @ 94
Kinky Boots forever!
John Prine
Fuck. That sucks.
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Apparently I met John Prune when I was on tour. He was at the rainbow family gathering in Shawnee.
Cartoonist Mort Drucker, 91
COD: he was 91
One of the guys responsible for Mad Magazine in its heyday, it's nostalgic just
looking at the guy's style of drawing.
Man I loved that magazine.
It was the only thing we could get that pointed out the stupid shit in the world that nobody else would admit seeing. It validated what we saw and occasionally caused a forehead slap pointing out something we hadn't noticed but would add to your toolbag of critical thinking. That popular internet hook, "you'll never see ____ the same way again", was a Mad guiding principle.
A fantastic caricaturist; never any moments of "wait who's that supposed to be?"
RIP Mort; RIP MAD.
Man I loved that magazine.
I've been a fan since I was a kid. I still am.
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As a kid I noticed there were two types of kids on the playground; kids who read MAD and kids who read CRACKED.
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For our Brits
Tim Brooke-Taylor, 79
COD: Coronavirus
I loved The Goodies when I was there as a young 'un; I was 14, and that might have been exactly the right age to encounter them. Their silliness was charming and their wild sped-up slapstick camera effects were hilarity. There was something adorable about them.
For our Brits
Tim Brooke-Taylor, 79
COD: Coronavirus
I loved The Goodies when I was there as a young 'un; I was 14, and that might have been exactly the right age to encounter them. Their silliness was charming and their wild sped-up slapstick camera effects were hilarity. There was something adorable about them.
I hadn't heard that. Poor old Tim.
He was also great in 'I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again' with John Cleese amongst others, and a long running panellist on 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' both on the radio.
I've got all The Goodies DVDs. Time to bring them out again for another viewing.
RIP TB-T.
They never really exported The Goodies to the US, and I have just watched "
Kung Fu Kapers" and I can see why. It's about the ancient Lancastrian martial art of Ecky Thump, in which black puddings are the secret weapon, black braces are awarded in addition to black belts, and comically large flat caps are awarded to grand masters. It may just be too British for any audience... the silliness always translates perfectly though.
It's about the ancient Lancastrian martial art of Ecky Thump, in which black puddings are the secret weapon, black braces are awarded in addition to black belts, and comically large flat caps are awarded to grand masters. It may just be too British for any audience... the silliness always translates perfectly though.
By strange coincidence, I was talking to Dad about that very episode just minutes ago.
I don't think that it would have travelled well though. :)
Also racing legend
Sterling Moss
COD old age
Mathematician
John Conway, most famous for his "
Game of Life". COVID-19.
Yes: Stirling Moss
Easily in my top few sports heroes and one I met and spoke to personally.
I have a photo from the LA Times Sports section of Moss, Phil Hill and a handsome unidentified UC Riverside freshman in deep conversation in the Riverside Raceway pits. c.1960.
RIP bassist Matthew Seligman, 63. COD: COVID-19
Not a lot of people will know about this gent but he was highly influential on me.
Thomas Dolby, Robyn Hitchcock, The Soft Boys, Thompson Twins... he was in David Bowie's band for Live Aid, and guested on many many recordings. People knew he was one of the good 'uns.
RIP Ty
Old school British rapper, highly respected, very talented - 47 years old. COD: COVID-19
Ty, the acclaimed, Mercury-nominated UK rapper, has died aged 47 after contracting coronavirus.
The Nigerian-British musician was known for a witty, mature style that owed more to the old-school US rappers than the grittier street sounds of London.
In 2004, his second album, Upwards, was nominated for the Mercury Prize alongside Amy Winehouse, The Streets and eventual winners Franz Ferdinand.
His death was mourned by stars including Ghetts and Roots Manuva.
DJ Charlie Sloth called him "a friend, a role model and a true foundation to UK rap".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52584834Little Richard
Probably Not COVID
and COVID finished what the tiger started.....
Roy HornLittle Richard
Probably Not COVID
The other Big C, cancer.
I came here just to say
WOPBOPALUBOPAWOPBAMBOOM!![strike]Frank Costanza[/strike], I mean Jerry Stiller died today (May 11) at age 92, of natural causes.
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That's too bad.
Lotta bad news lately. :yelsick:
Gravdigr made him famous here in [post=1016052]The Cellar[/post].
Ronald J. Shurer, Medal of Honor recipient, age 41, has died from cancer.
Medal of Honor recipient dies; saved lives in AfghanistanPhyllis George, former Miss America, and the first major network female sports reporter, longtime host of CBS'
The NFL Today, also
died recently, of a blood disorder. She was 70.
That's the second famous person in two days who has died from a preexisting "blood disorder" (the other being Lynn Shelton, indie film director and girlfriend to Marc Maron). Didja know COVID-19 presents with abnormal blood clotting--hence all the heart attacks and strokes--and is now frequently being treated with
blood thinners, among other things? Just saying.
Jimmy Cobb @ 91. Drummer for Miles Davis also played on this:
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Bob Kulick, older brother to Bruce Kulick (former KISS guitarist), and mad guitarist in his own right, died May 28.
Bob Kulick played on albums by Lou Reed, KISS, Meat Loaf, Michael Bolton, Diana Ross, WASP, and Tim 'Ripper' Owens, among others.
He was 70.
Also, that guy, who was in that thing, remember that guy? Yeah, he died, too.
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Anthony James died May 26, and was 77 years old.
He was in everything. Sometimes multiple times, like we wouldn't remember he was a different bad guy last year.
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
Remember how she said that
We would meet again
Some sunny day?
Vera, Vera
What has become of you
Does anybody else in here
Feel the way I do?
Vera Lynn was 103.
Ian Holm, 88. Loved him in everything he was in. Henry V and Brazil in particular. Lord of the Rings and Fifth Element as well. And, of course, Alien.
He was as frightening in Alien as the Alien.
Aw shit, man, Bilbo done died.
He wasn't even eleventy-one years old yet.
Designer Milton Glaser at 91...
RIP Author Rudolfo Anaya, who wrote the classic New Mexico novel “Bless Me, Ultima” and was revered as the dean of Chicano literature. We in New Mexico are diminished by his loss.
RIP Mythbuster Grant Imahara
Bit late posting this but Michael Brooks - died too young.
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Probably a coincidence, but SNL reran an old episode this past weekend with a sketch where the joke was that Regis was old...
Trini Lopez
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Kamala the Ugandan Giant
I remember his wrestling debut as 'Kamala'. I was 10.
Aw..., you just had a teenager's thing for Diana Riggs
Rigg. Not 'Riggs'. And, that's Ms. Rigg to you.
:p:
ETA: And that was well before my teens. I was prolly 8, or, 9.
Well now she's gone too
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment_and_artsKamala the Ugandan Giant
I remember his wrestling debut as 'Kamala'. I was 10.
I remember him from '
World Class Championship Wrestling (1983–1985)' the regional wrestling promotion based out of Dallas, Texas.
Mainly this:
...a lengthy feud with the Von Erich family, repeatedly facing brothers David, Kerry, and Kevin...
--Kevin is the only one of those brothers who didn't pass away in the 80s.
Not Kool...
Ronald "Khalis" Bell, a co-founder, songwriter, saxophonist, vocalist and producer of the chart-topping group Kool & The Gang, died Wednesday morning at his home in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He was 68.
Ms Rigg with Honor Blackman(Pussy Galore), both holding cigarettes.
And here with Helen Mirren in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Besides being a superb actress winning a closet full of awards, and being made a Dame of the Empire, she was real...
I honestly had never heard of her until I hooked up with a bass player in college (who doesn't?) who was in
this band and played a song with her name in itNot Kool
Nope. Kool's brother.
Nope. Kool's brother.
He was the opposite of Kool. He was...
un-kool.
/zootopia
Aw shit, man.
Mac Davis died.
I always liked Mac Davis.
He was 78.
Helen Reddy also died . And she was also 78.
Wow, I hadn't thought of him since his tv days add in Helen Reddy and my childhood music starts taking shape.
Also Rocco Prestia from Tower of Power (bass player), 69. Damn. 2020 just keeps on beating us.
Bob Gibson taking the great mound in the sky. COD cancer
Eddie Van Halen
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Fan of Eddie not of cancer.
That was a little shocking for me.
Didn't know he was ailing.
I had no idea he was sick either.
Seems like all my rock and roll heroes from my youth are dying. Another decade and there won't be any left.
The Nashville classic rock station played a whole VanHalen concert.
The DJ said he always finds it weird to hear someone play 'live' after they're dead.
I think, as long as we have these live recordings, the artists never really die.
I had no idea he was sick either.
Seems like all my rock and roll heroes from my youth are dying. Another decade and there won't be any left.
not a Rolling Stones fan!?!?
Seems like all my rock and roll heroes from my youth are dying. Another decade and there won't be any left.
Remember your parents saying the same thing about the music they liked? :D
It's OK, I'm old too ;)
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The Nashville classic rock station played a whole VanHalen concert.
The DJ said he always finds it weird to hear someone play 'live' after they're dead.
I think, as long as we have these live recordings, the artists never really die.
Coast to coast has a tribute to Van Halen tonight. I'll listen. I never knew of him but believe he was married to Valerie Bertonelli.
my father once knew a man! he was on the radio, or so I heard. not sure on that part, to be honest,
but I've seen a lot of stuff in [x number of years]. just wanted to put in my zero cents worth..
Whitey Ford died COD = old. He used to fish and drink with my great uncle (?) Pete. Apparently Pete knew nothing about baseball which Whitey appreciated.
My ex-father-in-law was asshole buddies with Tommy Lasorda. I couldn't get it through his head (Griffin not Lasorda) I didn't give a shit about baseball.
Lasorda probably wouldn't have bought it either.
And now
Berta died. The housekeeper on
Two And A Half Men?
Shit.
I really liked
Conchata Ferrell, and I loved the character of Berta. I thought she deserved a spin-off.
you can stop running now.
Spencer Davis had stopped chasing you
81 pneumonia
Billy Joe Shaver
He was 81, had a stroke.
can't be stroking it too fast at that age....
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