Edith Windsor, the lead plaintiff in the SCOTUS case that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, 88:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/12/politi...ity/index.html
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Edith Windsor, the lead plaintiff in the SCOTUS case that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, 88:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/12/politi...ity/index.html
RIP - Harry Dean Stanton
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...star-91-766020
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Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, pro wrestling manager, 73:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment...ling-1.4294811
After 25 fucking years, I win:Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/i...ll-dies-age-95
Yeah, I know, Ozzy's still alive, but I'm told that we changed it to first one to 24, because back in 1992, someone drafted someone who was already dead (Ralph Bellamy). It was close though -- one person also was down to one (Carol Channing).
Lady Lucan, widow of Lord Lucan (one of the great disappearances of the 70's), 80:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-41409597
Wow, that's bringing it back.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
Wow. I had never heard of that story before. Crazy!Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
Me either. That's quite a story.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawlin
When I was a kid I used to love reading about people who disappeared, so I recognized the name.
This man helped develop stronger wrists for generations of males:
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...at-91.amp.html
https://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newsc...p-1200-800.jpg
I'll miss the articles.
There is no conceivable way that heaven could be a better place than earth for he,
Now HELL on the other hand...
I'd salute his passing, but I'd have to stand up to do it... and that would be awkward. Seriously, though, Playboy was an icon for decades.
The man every teen boy wanted to be back in the day. Apparently sex does make for a longer life, if he is any kind of an indicator.
A man so famous a type of D&D campaign was named after him: Monty Hall, 96:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manito...hall-1.4315396
I wonder if he was given a choice of which door to enter to the afterlife. "Aw, too bad, that one goes DOWN! See ya!"
"But wait! You can have what's behind these pearly gates... or you can trade it all for what's in this box!"Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
"what is in the box?"Quote:
Originally Posted by Khieran
"Unknown but the return address label says E. Schrodinger"
Manson (marilyn) got crushed by a stage prop. His career and condition are pending.
Also read up on the Jeremy Thorpe (MP) AffairQuote:
Originally Posted by Dawlin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorpe_affair
and while the "Scandal" film was glossy (not seen anything but scenes fo it) check into some of the ugly facts of the curiously convenient case of sudden death of the doctor turned pimp who was behind the Lolita call girls that were involved
the Romans were CHUMPS compared to the sleaze and convenient deaths the British Establishment got up to
And I can't wait for THIS evil son of a bitch to meet his Maker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_van_Hoogstraten
wiki doesn't come close to getting into all the things he's been up to
I can't believe Tom Petty died. We were supposed to see him here in Sacramento on Aug 25th, but he had laryngitis and had to postpone several shows, one of which was ours. So it was rescheduled for Sept 1st and of course we had a conflict that we couldn't get out of and ended up getting a refund on the tickets. I really wish we could have seen the show, I read really good things about it.
I think Tom Petty deserves his own thread. :(
Jesus, another great gone. Time to go hoist a cold one and listen to Runnin Down a Dream.....
Damn... Tom Petty... tons of great songs. Only 66... What a loss :(
I read Pajiba from time to time and they had a writeup about Tom Petty that sums up my feelings exactly:
http://www.pajiba.com/miscellaneous/...-tom-petty.php
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Because here’s the thing: You know what I’ve never in my life heard before? Someone utter an ill word about Tom Petty. That right there is an amazing accomplishment for a musician who has been performing and recording great music and charting singles for 40 years. Tom Petty has been a constant in the lives of many of us, quietly lurking, with songs popping up in our proms, at our weddings, in movies and in television shows. The man has 133 soundtrack credits. There’s a Tom Petty song for every occasion, it seems. He was there in the 1970s with songs like “Don’t Do Me Like That,” and “Refugee.” He was part of the MTV revolution in the 80s with songs like “Don’t Come Around Here No More.” He was that guy who you didn’t quite understand why he was in the Traveling Wilburys, but it somehow made sense. He had 5 huge hits on his 1989 album Full Moon Fever. He charted in the 90s with “Into the Great Wide Open,” and “Learning to Fly” and “Wildflower.” He played in a huge 9/11 benefit concert, America: A Tribute to Heroes. He played the Super Bowl in 2008.
Tom Petty was just always kind of there, in our lives, popping up on the radio and improving our car rides (what Tom Petty single do you not sing along to whenever you hear it? None of them, because they don’t exist). I’ve always liked him, but I don’t think I really started truly appreciating him until I started hearing other bands cover his music, which is when it kind of dawned on me that Tom Petty is a goddamn institution. The man has sold 80 million albums. He has 11 Grammy nominations and two wins, including this year’s Person of the Year. He’s in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, and here’s what’s kind of funny: I can instantly recognize any Tom Petty song, but I couldn’t tell you which era that it was from. Tom Petty has been making the same great music for 40 years, and he never saw any need to “change with the times.” Dude was timeless.
Hold the obit, he may not be dead yet.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lapd-cl...m-petty-death/
Sam Smith didn't even have anything bad to say about Tom Petty, and Tom Petty took his money:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pajiba article excerpt
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...etty-1.2948473
its official he is dead, the reaper must hate good music.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41475013
66.... Only 1 year into retirement.
John Dunsworth, aka Mr. Lahey on Trailer Park Boys, 71:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-s...died-1.4357370
Roy Dotrice, reader of all the books from the A Song of Ice and Fire series, plus he was Hallyne in the HBO series. I listed to all five books, and his voice just seemed perfect for it.
https://www.inverse.com/article/3743...article-footer
Whom I only knew as Dave from SciFy's Haven. Loved him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip finally died, 53:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment...obit-1.4359906
Going to listen to 'New Orleans Is Sinking' right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
Bill Barilko disappeared that summer, and now Gord has disappeared this fall.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
Truth be told, although I first heard of the Hip a long time ago, I didn't know much about them and only really started looking into them when they did the farewell concert last year. They remind me of REM. Fifty Mission Cap is a catchy tune.
No shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonlainy
I personally didn't like him compared to other voice over artists, but wow.. I wonder who will replace him later.
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Very similar time periods, and a similar "we make our music, if you like it great" attitude. Fifty Mission Cap is my favourite Hip song, and I also really like Looking For A Place To Happen and At The Hundredth Meridian (all three off the same album, Fully Completely).Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
The local rock music radio station is doing a Hip tribute all day, with people phoning in to talk about how the Hip impacted them. On the way to get groceries I heard one guy talk about how he'd have to hug his ten month old son when he got home, he was so distraught over this. I can see how some Canadians would think of the Hip as the "soundtrack of their life", since they are so Canadian and they got so much radio play. When the Hip were at their peak I liked alternative rock more than the more mainstream sound of the Hip, and a lot of their songs are VERY "central Canada", so I'm not too crushed about this. It's not like the lead singer of Sloan died!
(Sloan, Canadian 90's alt-rock band named after the manufacturer of urinals. Songs that will determine if you like Sloan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RHf07SA3vg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX3uL2k4gxE
https://vimeo.com/24406724
The last one is one of the best hockey game songs ever.)
EDIT: the Youtube video won't play for Canadians due to copyright claims, so there's a Vimeo link to the song that everyone can hear.
Scared is the only Tragically Hip song I ever heard of, but loved it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
I find it fascinating that a some Canadian bands fail to make it south of the border, even though they sound a LOT like some of the US counterparts.
What is it? I can understand Rush not making it, since their sound is somewhat... different.
Rush didn't make it?
40+ years of albums and touring, 14 platinum (3 double-platinum) albums, admitted into the RRHoF, multiple Grammy nominations...
They didn't make it?
:)
That was a really, really, really poor choice of words on my part: I meant that they are not in the mainstream "thoughts" as such - difficult to explain. They have obviously sold a massive TON of albums.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khieran
Let me put it this way: Rush has, according to this chart, has sold 25 million albums in the US.
That puts them at a tied 83rd on the list, together with the following groups/people:
- Mötley Crüe
- Nirvana
- ZZ Top
- Creed
- Toby Keith
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
I'd call each of these bands more mainstream and known in the US than Rush. Yes, even Nirvana, who has transitioned from rebel grunge to "dad's semi-cool music".
If you do a vox populi, will more people be able to say "oh, I know those guys, they made that X song, that Y song..." about Rush than the other bands?
That's what I meant. I'm still not sure that I'm communicating it correctly.
My main point is: They SHOULD be a lot more famous than the above bands, considering what an influence they've had on numerous other bands (including a few from the list above).
I even remember that on the year that they got into the RRHoF, people on this very board went: "WTF!?! How come they haven't been inducted ages ago?!?".
Yeah, a lot of Sloan's stuff sounds very much like Weezer. And if you really want "OMG why didn't this work in the US", there's a local alternative rock band called 54-40 (reference to American desire to expand into Canada during the 1840's). In 1986, they released this song:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r1J0JY0bOo
It didn't chart. In 1995, Hootie and the Blowfish covered the song and it went to #13 on the US charts (#3 on the Adult charts). I get why the Hip didn't make it in the US - their songs are a series of Canadian references. But that song? Come on now!
(And yeah, I know, covers can be better than the original, or the timing could be right for a song later. Bruce Cockburn, Canadian folk-rock singer/guitarist, released Lovers In A Dangerous Time in 1984. In 1991, the Barenaked Ladies covered it on a tribute album to Cockburn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_oOc3Zj0KU
It was their breakthrough hit. I like that version much better than the original. But the Hootie version of I Go Blind is, imo, worse than the 54-40 version.)
To be fair, pretty much all Hootie & The Blowfish stuff is worse, and I'll leave it at that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
Very nice Gord Downie tribute from Polyphonic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlcuNupTI38
Robert Guillaume, TV's "Benson", from prostate cancer at 89:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...edium=referral
As much as I Benson and his character in it, he stole every scene he was in in Soap, he was ROTF funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
That's because he recognized from the start that the key to the character was subversiveness:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonlainy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w_MZcKytDs
Sports Night was cut woefully short. /mourn
He was also Rafiki in the Lion King - and Eli Vance in Half Life 2. Sad to see him go :(
Everything he was in, he was awesome. A huge loss for the world :(
Fats Domino, aged 89. :(
Man oh man. I listened to a TON of 50's and 60's Rock'n Roll while growing up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQQCPrwKzdo
Aww man... hope he found his thrill!
Just think of heaven as Blueberry Hill.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khieran
I hope he found his drill!Quote:
Originally Posted by Khieran
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That's just damned tragic :(
Who will look after the Robin Masters estate now?
John Hillerman, Higgins on ‘Magnum, P.I.,’ dies at 84
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIIn8tMw3pA
You may also remember him as Howard Johnson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jviz0gZks0I
Hillerman was an amazing actor.
Never watched Magnum, PI, but he was great in Blazing Saddles.
He was great in about anything he was in. He was one of those actors who never turned in a bad performance.
For my next pick:
Charles Manson
I find it amazing he hasn't "accidentally" died in prison after all these years.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
He is too valuable to other inmates. His celebrity makes prison life better for his coinhabiters. Gifts get spread out to others, and tbh, manson is not truly that bad in the grand scheme of things... Compared to others, anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonlainy
Sent from my 1+3t
I am pretty sure in a post 2008 era many folks will consider Bank CEOs to be worse than Charles Manson, Possibly even worse than Hitler.
Hitler is a stretch, but i am definetely half way with youQuote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
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Malcolm Young, AC/DC
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...&id=6750402929
And its confirmed
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42037566
Malcom Young that is, Figured id post the BBC since facebook is not exactly trustworthy news.
Yup that's why I made sure to triple check if it's off the "blue checkmarked" AC/DC account. Still good to have reliable sources. Someone cried "fake" right on the official AC/DC account in the comments and for a second I was confused :-pQuote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
man the music really has been dying over the past 10 years though.
Up on deck: David Cassidy:
http://www.tmz.com/2017/11/18/david-...re-near-death/
We ought to just rename this thread "TMZ news" -- it has become the site of record when it comes to celebrity illnesses and deaths.
They have sources at hospitals and police departments that more traditional media would kill to get. Money helps.
Local newspapers often have decent contacts at police departments and prosecutors' offices, but because they have to actually report real news, like crime and government accountability, they inevitably piss off their sources at some point. TMZ has no such issue, so sources are more willing to talk to them about things like celebrity deaths because there's no actual consequence to the departments from leaking the information.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
Mel Tillis
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/19/entert...ies/index.html
Past couple of years have been harsh to music, indeed.
Charles Manson
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/20/us/cha...ead/index.html
Happened about 50 years too late IMOQuote:
Originally Posted by Dale
Quote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tinthalas Tigris
Ayn Rand is one of the most evil fuckers in history, and responsible for spreading the soul poison that's destroying our current Western WorldQuote:
Originally Posted by Tinthalas Tigris
manson is a fucking damp squib compared to that destruction wrought by that foul cuntoid's followers :/
Malcolm Young
bleeeerg!
When I was early teens and moved to the Borders, met some pals into rock/metal, was kind of new ot me as was more used to classical music, The Shadows and 50s/60s music, "crooners" like Dean martin etc, from my folks
But when AC/DC released WHO MADE WHO, *that* I totally utterly adored and still do, since then loved their music.
High Voltage, Sin City, Hells Bells, Big Guns, Thunderstruck, heatseeker and some others, pure frikkin awesome!
and now the guys responsible are dying, fading...that pure sucks, man :(
dial this up to PURE FUCKIN' LALDY! ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiZHNw1MtzI
edit,
doh, names, get 'em so mixed up now, meant Malcolm not angus!
I never watched Touched by an Angel, and I doubt I could name any of her hits, but I remember her from several 70s sitcoms that she guest-starred on. She always struck me as a classy lady.
*edit* removed my link - oops, sorry... didn't see Filan's link as it was on a new page.
Another person on the edge:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2...aign=editorial
All I can think of when I think of David Cassidy is Richard Hatch tearing him apart in the boardroom on Celebrity Apprentice.
When I think of David Cassidy, I get happy.
Given the current frequency of men behaving badly in the news I wonder if we want a graffes celebrity sexual harrasment thread.
I wonder how many people our age or younger are mainly aware of Gomer Pyle from the Full Metal Jacket reference. I don't recall watching the actual show, although I do remember Jim Nabors as the android on that Krofft show The Lost Saucer (and while I do recall watching the show, I had to look up its name just now).Quote:
Originally Posted by Ackar
I do, and I only just turned 40, but as a kid I wasn't allowed to watch anything that my parents or grandparents didn't deem "wholesome television", so I grew up with a lot of patty duke and stuff featuring frankie avalon, annette funicello, doris day, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
Surprise, surprise, surprise!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ackar
One online gossip blogger is calling it the Hollywood Pervert Advent Calendar. Every day, open a door and a new pervert comes out. I talked about some of it in one of the DC threads, re. Gal Gadot wanting Brett Ratner's association with Wonder Woman 2 to be severed. The guy from today's calendar, Russell Simmons, is a close associate of Brett Ratner. There's going to be a lot of very powerful people taken down by this by the time the dust settles, although some people are getting away with it:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mircadius
http://www.laineygossip.com/wme-powe...usations/48545
If you folks want such a thread, let me know. I follow a lot of the Hollywood stuff because it impacts the local economy (and it gives me something to talk about with non-geeks), so I could put together a fair summary thread with a lot of big-picture stuff. To this point I've just been mentioning stuff that impacts crap we care about, like Ratner and Wonder Woman, or Lasseter and Pixar/Incredibles 2.
It's funny how I know on a logical level that the movie industry makes a ton of money.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
It's quite another to have that actually impact your local economy; I don't give it much thought, because that's never the case around my parts.
Sure, Copenhagen gets used for this or that dark Scandinavian-style murder mystery, but the focus is usually on how it disrupts traffic :grinyes:
its odd all these women are coming out now, Seems really crazy. But I tend to believe them simply because of the image I always had of Hollywood where for ladies it was sleep to the top or get blacklisted by some worm like Weinstein.
I'll let the Vancouver Economic Commission's page on film and television tell the tale:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawlin
http://www.vancouvereconomic.com/film-television/
I have 43 shows set up on my DVR for recording. A lot of them are seasonal, like Big Brother only coming on in the summer, so I'm not actually watching 43 shows per week, and there's a mix of scripted stuff, reality TV (BB and BBCan, TAR and TARCan, MasterChefCan, Survivor), and even one talk show (Talking Dead). Of those 43 shows, nine are shot here in town: Supergirl, Arrow, Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Travelers, The 100, iZombie, The Magicians, and Legion. Three more have shot at least some episodes in town: The Amazing Race, The Amazing Race Canada, Fear The Walking Dead. I can't leave the house and go any great distance without seeing direction signs for at least one shoot (especially since The 100 shoots five minutes or so away from my place). I've driven past scenes being shot live that I've later seen on TV (iZombie shoots a lot on the route I take to Rogers Arena). My Dad had one of his collector cars on The Flash.
Shit. Collector cars. Timeless shoots here, too. Add it to the list (I pulled it off my DVR when they cancelled it, then they announced it was coming back - cars thing reminded me because they use cars from people in some of Dad's old car clubs).
Anyways, yeah. I live like a hermit, and this stuff impacts my life. So I keep watch on it, because it's a lot more interesting to read than a forestry or mining blog!
I watched Gomer Pyle when I was young. It was a funny show (for its time). But then, I grew up on Andy Griffith, Gilligan's Island, Brady Bunch, and Partridge Family (Lori was soooo hot!), so that was right in that same time frameQuote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
Just list every male executive in politics, big business and show business... then cross them off the list as their name comes up. The way it's looking, it's going to be pretty much all of them :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Mircadius
I remember watching Gomer Pyle all the time, especially with my grandmother, and really liking the show. I also remember the first time I saw Jim Nabors sing "Back Home in Indiana" at the 500 and being totally confused how that singing voice came from Gomer Pyle.
That blew me away as well the first time I heard him singQuote:
Originally Posted by Bonlainy
Not really a celebrity... but responsible for one:
Bob Givens, one of the original designers of Bugs Bunny has died.
http://uproxx.com/tv/bob-givens-bugs...er-dead-at-99/
Bugs Bunny was pretty much my childhood go-to cartoon.