Mike Ilitch, owner of the Detroit Red Wings, Detroit Tigers, and founder of Little Caesar's, at 87:
http://www.tsn.ca/tigers-red-wings-o...at-87-1.669160
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Mike Ilitch, owner of the Detroit Red Wings, Detroit Tigers, and founder of Little Caesar's, at 87:
http://www.tsn.ca/tigers-red-wings-o...at-87-1.669160
Damn. That's one cool dude.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
My buddy from Detroit used to speak very highly of him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tinthalas Tigris
Awesome guy, except for the Little Caesar's part.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tinthalas Tigris
$5 pizzas man!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonlainy
Another instance where the restaurant itself makes all the difference.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonlainy
There's a Little Caesar's about 25 miles from here that's 100% fantastic, high quality, tasty, perfectly-cooked pizza every time. During the dinner hour on Fridays, the pizzas don't have time to sit around. They're out the door the instant they're out of the oven and there are always lines. I wouldn't be surprised if the guy who owns that franchise came up with his own instructions for ingredient levels and cook time.
Most of the other ones turn out crap and the pizzas will spend hours sitting in the warmer.
Al Jarreau.
Damn, this one stings. My wife and I saw him perform several times - always amazing, always full of energy. Dwammit :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhq7fSrXn0c
I've played "Boogie Down" in a full horn section too many times to count at birthday parties, company Chrismas dinners and various parties. Always filled up the dance floor, no matter the venue - being able to write stuff like that is also a great, great gift, no matter if it's fashionable or not. Plus, you know, it's damned fun to play. Thank you for facilitating many tips Al - RIP!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL8vHOAp9E8
:( :( :( Mornin' is one of the songs in the rotation when I take the little one to preschool in the mornings.
Our son had severe baby colic, and I used to rock him to sleep while we listened to Al's take on Mas Que Nada:Quote:
Originally Posted by Grindel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-gyskWUty4
Like I said, this one stings. So many memories :(
I swear to God, I was just listening to this track by Tamba Trio on the way in to work today. I had no idea Al had a version too, but of course he did. Thank you for sharing this, it takes a little bit of the bite away.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawlin
The whole album is awesome, and filled with amazing jazz performers. Anything that contains Al, Joe Sample (RIP also :() and Marcus Miller is magic.
He paid the rent for Rosa Parks for a decade without making any noise about it. Very cool dude.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tinthalas
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/15/us/mik...rnd/index.html
Wow, that's AWESOME.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
I wonder how much he did for other people who weren't as famous, or perhaps even at all famous, that we'll never know about.
One of my now-deceased buddies who spent his whole life in Detroit was exactly the same way.
Anyone, anywhere, no matter who, if they needed ANYTHING, he had crash space to offer, food, assistance, ANYTHING, friend, acquaintance, or stranger.
He made big money early on in his career as an engineer for big motors, paid off his house, socked a crapton of money away, and basically spent time providing things for others, silently, never asking for recognition with the rest of what he made.
He lived modestly in a nice, paid-off house, and just enjoyed spending time with other people and helping them in any way if they needed it.
http://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/1...steele-dies-79
George 'The Animal' Steele. He made it to 79 though which is impressive for a wrestler, although he probably didn't do steroids and other drugs like so many do.
The Tigers collectively all were hoping to win the World Series a couple years back as they acknowledged he'd spent so money on the team and was getting aged. I think it was Leyland's last season back in 2013. That's the kind of team owner you hope for your favorite sports team, one the players want to perform for and not just to collect the paycheck.
Old Man Rooney was like that, a driving force for those first couple Steelers' Super Bowl wins in the 1970's.
That's the kind of person that is truly worthy of admiration. He helped someone for years, and didn't go out and broadcast that fact for the world to shower adoration on him - he did it because he saw someone in need and wanted to help. Truly awesome!Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
He was a pretty sharp fella in real life. Fun character in the ring and at the zoo:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shatter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDEghXFUSco
Had that, his name was Eddie DeBartolo. Sadly he had other stuff that was less fine-tuned than the Niners :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Gidizlo
If he had still been the owner, we'd be looking at a couple of more Lombardi tropies in the Niner collection.
Off to fight George "the Animal": Ivan Koloff, real name Oreal Perras, dead at 74, liver disease:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2...aign=editorial
Norma McCorvey, "Roe" of Roe vs. Wade fame, dead at 69:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/18/politi...ies/index.html
Game over man, Game Over!
This sucks, Bill Paxton had some of the best lines in movies like Aliens and Weird Science. Too young, but the "complications for surgery" thing tell me there will be a lawsuit involved in this one.
So many memorable roles, and he even had a current TV series. He will be missed.
TMZ is saying he had heart surgery, had complications post-op and died from a stroke.
Mag the Mighty...
Game of Thrones star and UK's tallest man Neil Fingleton dies aged 36
https://news.google.com/news/amp?cau...e-50b6b490a877
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And the official news drop on Paxton
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39097834
Judge Wapner, 97
http://www.tmz.com/2017/02/26/joseph...peoples-court/
Not a good day then.
Game over man and Court is Adjourned.
This was kinda cool - a bunch of storm spotters got together and spelled out "BP" across Kansas/Oklahoma using their GPS trackers, to honor Bill Paxton's role in Twister
http://kdvr.com/2017/02/26/live-map-...m_content=link
I am emotionally worsened by the passing of Bill Paxton.
Too great a face. He was my hipster-fave, much like the hipster appreciation for Tim Robbins.
Rock and roll legend Chuck Berry dies - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39318602
Hey, those autographs will now finally be worth something!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XwNibBpDYU
Somehow I feel this clip is finally worth posting...
That was literally one of the first things I thought of when I heard this news.
Quite possibly the funniest scene in the movie and I don't think a lot of people got it.
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Originally Posted by Marvin
I am sure there are a ton of people who first experienced Chuck Berry through that movie.
First Chuck Berry song I ever heard was "My Ding-a-Ling". A friend of mine growing up had the record. We laughed our asses off listening to it (we were young and easily amused)
Surprisingly, that was supposedly his only #1 song.
I have a karaoke disc with it as a track. Never knew it was him until i got thst disc.
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Another Chuck, Chuck Barris, of mostly The Gong Show fame, but creator of many other game shows:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/a...w-creator.html
He also had this crazy story that he was a CIA assassin, which the movie Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was based on. I thought it was a pretty good movie, but then I'm a big Sam Rockwell fan.
For some reason I thought Chuck Barris died years ago...
Chuck Berry, Chuck Barris... who is next?
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Chuck Norris crosses his name off the list & tells Death to get the fuck out!Quote:
Originally Posted by Merkus
The Gong Show was AWESOME.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonlainy
I watched syndicated versions of it DAILY as a kid.
It was truly a unique thing for it's time.
I agree, I am old enough that I got to watch it during it's heyday when I wasn't in school. The Gong Show and Match Game were my two favorites growing up, both funny as hell, and Chuck Barris was a hoot to watch. The stuff he came up with after acts had finished were, I assume, ad libs, and usually damn clever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Merrick ap'Milandra
Same here. I absolutely loved the Gong ShowQuote:
Originally Posted by Bonlainy
Don Rickles. 90. Kidney Failure.
I got to see him about 5 years ago.
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Trans-Siberian Orchestra Founder Paul O'Neill Dead at 61
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Paul O'Neill, the producer who put together Christmas-inspired prog-metal group Trans-Siberian Orchestra, has died. The group's Facebook page reported the news Wednesday night, saying he had been suffering from a chronic illness. He was 61.
"The entire Trans-Siberian Orchestra family, past and present, is heartbroken to share the devastating news that Paul O'Neill has passed away from chronic illness," the group's Facebook page announced. "He was our friend and our leader – a truly creative spirit and an altruistic soul. This is a profound and indescribable loss for us all."
O'Neill co-wrote "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24," which combined the yuletide staples "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and "Carol of the Bells," with Jon Oliva, the keyboardist and sometime lead singer for the metal band Savatage, for that band's 1995 album Dead Winter Dead. Wanting to expand his vision on that song, he assembled Trans-Siberian Orchestra with Oliva and Savatage guitarist Al Pitrelli and keyboardist Robert Kinkel; they put out the album Christmas Eve and Other Stories and released the song as a single.
https://youtu.be/MHioIlbnS_A
The song has since been certified gold and has made appearances on Billboard's rock and adult-contemporary charts in 1996, 1998, 2002 and 2004. The album was subsequently certified three-times platinum, and the group has issued five other LPs, scoring another multi-platinum release with 2004's The Lost Christmas Eve and Top 10 releases with 2009's Night Castle and their most recent album, 2015's Letters From the Labyrinth.
The group regularly embarked on winter tours, mostly in the U.S., staging over-the-top arena shows with lasers and fire displays. Blabbermouth reports that last year, Trans-Siberian Orchestra sold more than 927,000 tickets, grossing more than $56.9 million. Billboard ranked them Number 25 on its list of Top Touring Artists of the Decade in 2009. They regularly donated portions of their earnings to various charities.
O'Neill explained the influences that led to his vision for Trans-Siberian Orchestra in an interview with The Morning Call last year. "[Effects-heavy concert production] was always part of the vision for Trans-Siberian Orchestra, [and] the mixing classical with rock, which I obviously got from bands like Emerson, Lake and Palmer," he said. "The rock-opera aspect, which I love because it gives a third dimension, which I plagiarized from The Who."
He began his music-industry career as personal assistant to manager David Krebs at Leber-Krebs, a management company that worked with Aerosmith, AC/DC and others. O'Neill promoted tours in Japan and co-produced Aerosmith's two Classics Live! volumes in the mid-Eighties. Around that time, he also forged a relationship with Savatage, a dramatic power-metal band from Tarpon Springs, Florida, producing their 1987 LP, Hall of the Mountain King, and each of their subsequent releases through 2001's Poets and Madmen. He also produced albums by Badlands, Heaven and Metal Church.
In Trans-Siberian Orchestra's announcement of O'Neill's death, they asked for fans to respect the privacy of his family. While a specific cause of death remains unknown, the band wrote that they would be sharing more news about his death soon.
https://youtu.be/4cP26ndrmtg
https://youtu.be/pWBjl-jPcVM
https://youtu.be/6P9xxJ4V7no
Don Rickles: funny guy, no matter how many times I saw him on something, I never failed to laugh.
Paul O'Neill: damn, that guy's done some great music. I was a big fan of Savatage and actually thought Dead Winter Dead was one of their better albums. Also, TSO puts on a hell of a show.
Don Rickles has always been one of my favorite comedians, loved his style.
TSO is one of the, if not THE, best shows in the history of shows. We went and saw them last December, and it was as incredible as the first time I went. Paul O'Neill was a serious talent, very sad to lose him.
What, no fans of the J. Geils Band here?
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...411-story.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqDjMZKf-wg
I'm definitely a fan of The J. Geils Band, I just never saw the story. My favorite song of theirs is still Love Stinks.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0LAs7X5ybE
Musta Got Lost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW0hxbrmFhM
and anyone near Detroit loves
Detroit Breakdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKNANo2BgBs
Charlie Murphy, dead at 57. I loved him on the Chappelle's Show - very funny guy :(
http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/...-at-57-w476365
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Charlie Murphy, the older brother of Eddie Murphy, a Chappelle's Show star and an accomplished comedian in his own right, died Wednesday in New York City. He was 57. Murphy's publicist confirmed the comedian's death to Rolling Stone, adding that the cause of death was leukemia.
Dan Rooney, chairman of the Pittsburgh Steelers and former US ambassador to Ireland, at 84:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2...aign=editorial
That's a great picture with Antonio Brown.
Author of the NFL's most frequently circumvented rule. And that's to the shame of his fellow NFL owners, not him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
Am not and have never been a Steeler fan, quite the opposite in fact, but Rooney knew how to run a team.
We are all here on this message board largely because of efforts led by this guy:
Robert Taylor, innovator who shaped modern computing, dies at 85
Somehow, despite enjoying their music, I have never owned any of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
Something disparate disparate radio-to-cd era something something.
I was never allowed to touch the vinyl or 8tracks and since I was born in the late 70's and didn't have money to afford my own stuff until compact discs were a thing (and EXPENSIVE at first) I feel I missed out on a lot.
I'd probably recognize tunes due to american bandstand and the like but I couldn't name a single one, which is pretty sad.
I guess this as good a place as any to put this:
https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/04/19/aa...ommits-suicide
That's weird.
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Everything about the guy was weird.
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Sad story with a sad ending for a lot of people. A true tragedy :(
I have my doubts that he did it himself. Looks like craftwork imho. The "sealing himself in" is a trick plenty of people know how to do in order to create such an illusion, just like locking a keyless deadbolt from the outside.
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At least Dmitry doesn't need to prep for the appeal.
Imagine how scary the Pats offense would have been had Hernandez not been such a reprehensible human being. Then again, if he were a better person, he wouldn't have been around for the Pats to draft him in the fourth round.
Pfft, that's nothing, an MI6 officer dying by zipping yourself into a luggage bag and being ruled "Suicide",Quote:
Originally Posted by Tinthalas Tigris
or
Rudolf Hess old man with severe spinal and other problems who can't stand up straight, can'tlifr his arms above shoulder height, somehow manages to tie a knot for hanging way above his head,
now that's S.O.P dirty British "craftwork"
This. He'd have been first round material.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
http://6abc.com/entertainment/singer...calif/1898331/
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Soul singer Cuba Gooding, Sr. was found dead in a car Thursday in California.
Gooding is best known for the 1970's hit "Everybody Plays the Fool" with the band "The Main Ingredient.
He was also the father of Oscar winning actor Cuba Gooding, Junior
Which one is that?Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
Erin Moran from Happy Days
http://www.tmz.com/2017/04/22/happy-...in-moran-dead/
The Rooney RuleQuote:
Originally Posted by Merrick ap'Milandra
Many franchises already have someone in mind before they fire a coach, so they do some token minority interviews to make a show of complying with the Rooney Rule while ignoring its intent.
Joanie dies. Another celeb who landed hard when the spotlight ended, I guess.
Edit: Whoops, beaten to it by Shatter while I was posting about the Rooney Rule.
Not that I would wish ill on anyone... but I hope there was something besides natural causes behind Erin Moran's death... we were the same age :(
Ill be shocked if it isnt drug related. I'm pretty sure she smoked and drank as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khieran
Yeah, it sounds like maybe the accumulation from a lifetime of substance abuse maybe. Haven't heard anything concrete yet.
It was stage 4 cancer:
http://dlisted.com/2017/04/24/erin-m...complications/
Wow, some harsh words for Chachi in that article. I was a huge fan of Happy Days when young, and kind of had a crush on Joanie as the show progressed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
Scott Baio is a vocal Trump supporter. This is a quote of his defending Trump's "grab 'em in the pussy" comments:
See where the harsh words might come from? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott Baio, from a Fox interview
Oh, I knew he deserved them, but just didn't expect them in something about Erin Moran's stage 4 cancer. I hadn't seen that quote you put in either, based on that he definitely deserves to be called a dick slit, among other colorful adjectives.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
Damn, that sucks :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
Baio made some shitty comment yesterday about how he wasn't surprised she dies since drugs and booze will kill you - today when he found out it was cancer he was all "oops no really I feel sorta bad and don't hate me I'm not a total Dbag". Dude is a total Dbag.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonlainy
tbh I had no clue he was in Happy Days, I remember him from that low rent teen sitcom "Charles in Charge".
More on Rexlar's post:
http://dlisted.com/2017/04/25/leave-...l-victim-here/
Poor, poor Chachi:
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/small-violin.gif
She is still alive as of this post.
But I call Angela Lansbury by August 2017.
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no, she's obviously a vampire living off all those poor bastards she killed in Cabot Cove, then setting their deaths up as murder mysteries to solve to make a living! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Tinthalas Tigris
Jonathan Demme, director of Silence of the Lambs and many other films, at 73 from esophageal cancer.
http://boingboing.net/2017/04/26/jon...rector-of.html
potential future spot on this list unless he gives up belief that his space wizard will save him
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39769372
For some reason, I thought that was going to be a link to an article about David Icke.Quote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
Sometimes it takes a high profile death to get that sort of stupidity in the limelight again.Quote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
RIP Michael Parks:
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainmen...&ICID=ref_fark
Great actor, loved just about anything he was in.Quote:
Michael Parks, who was named by directors Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith as one of their favourite actors, has died at the age of 77.
Oh.
Earl McGraw from the Tarrantinoverse.
Yeah, that guy could act.
I've probably only seen about 5% of what he's been in, but I liked his work in all of it.
Powers Boothe, who played Gideon Malick on Agents of SHIELD, age 68, natural causes in his sleep:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/14/entert...ies/index.html
It's a little sad that someone with that long a career gets remembered in an online obit for a recent part that wasn't exactly spectacular.
He was damn good in Deadwood, played a real conniving asshole saloon owner. Didn't he also play Jim Jones way back in the 80s or 90s? He was good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
Bah, his best role was Colonel Tanner in Red Dawn. Or, maybe that's because that was my favorite movie that he was in. Either way, "Wolverines!"
damn. Chris Cornell.
Hrm. Sudden death like that in a 52-year old, non-morbidly obese male?
Either heart failure from earlier drug use, or overdose.
Nothing definitive yet, but it's being investigated as a suicide:
http://variety.com/2017/music/news/s...de-1202433515/
Damn. I deliberately didn't mention that option - I was trying to will it away :(
Roger Ailes, dead at 77 - no cause of death given yet
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/18/fox-n...d-reports.html
I'm starting to think grunge might be unhealthy:(
Imho, drugs. Chris cornell didnt suicide. That was drugs.
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