Sue Grafton, mystery novelist, 77, cancer:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42522100
My friend from grad school loved her novels. She'll be very sad that the series stopped at "Y", one short of the end.
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Sue Grafton, mystery novelist, 77, cancer:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42522100
My friend from grad school loved her novels. She'll be very sad that the series stopped at "Y", one short of the end.
I wonder what she would have done if she had lived long enough to get to No. 27 in the series.
She'd already announced that "'Z' is for 'Zero'" would be the final book in the series. Sort of sad that she had an end planned, but couldn't quite get there.
Maybe GRRM can finish it for her... he's (apparently) not doing anything at the momentQuote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
Hey now, it takes a lot of effort to write one word a day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khieran
The first possible celebrity death for 2018:
Jon Paul Steuer who played Alexander Rozhenko (Worf's son) from ST:TNG and DS9. He passed on the 1st of unknown causes.
He was younger than me.
Not the typical person one defines as celebrity today but...
https://youtu.be/6qBb_iKZbGM
Not sure if she's on anyone's list... but Tara Reid doesn't seem to be long for this world.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbi...-mexico-beach/
http://www.57hits.com/wp-content/upl...5/pe630728.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
Although...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e04_AMh2IlU
Tara Reid has looked like that for years. Don't go cheap on plastic surgery.
Donnelly Rhodes, Canadian actor (you'd likely know him as Doc Cottle from Battlestar Galactica), 80, cancer:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...inci-1.4478607
Last of the original members of Motorhead, guitarist Eddie Clarke, 67, pneumonia:
http://www.tmz.com/2018/01/11/motorh...rke-dead-dies/
Cranberries Singer Dolores O'Riordan
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/15/entert...ntl/index.html
Keith Jackson, one of the best sports broadcasters ever. I grew up loving this guys calls on all sports, but especially college football, he came up with so many great catchphrases.
http://www.espn.com/college-football...on-dies-age-89
I did not even think to post about him but they have been discussing him during all the football this week. Sadly no clips of his work because none of the games were on ABC.
but oh Wide World of Sports, That was THE place to see the stuff you would never had seen or heard of in an era before 20 sports cable channels. In some ways that is why WWoS has fond memories, While today you can see anything on cable or online that show you never knew what you might see each week.
I just saw this and came to post it as well. Wow, 46 is way too young.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shatter
She's on my list of "hauntingly beautiful voices I could listen to for hours". Tres sad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khieran
Back in the mid 90's, I dated a chick who would put her favourite album by Haddaway on repeat whenever I was at her place. I gave her "Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?" just so she'd stop playing that damned record. So goodbye, Dolores O'Riordan, and thank you for stopping me from being conditioned to get an erection every time I hear "What Is Love". Much appreciated.
Yeah - I really hope it isn't suicide or drugs. Fit 46-year-old women don't usually drop dead from one day to another.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khieran
She had troubles with eating disorders in the past.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawlin
That often leads to heart failure in one's 40's.
This sucks.
She had a history of back problems, so suicide and opioids are on the table, as well as heart problems from her eating disorder.
Sells 40 million albums, still has life issues. *sigh*Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
Tbh I think being a rockstar is mentally shredding on people.
What the fucking fuck? Dolores O'Riordan? Jeeeeeesus.
Huh, was listening to my Cranberries CDs a couple weeks ago. That is sad.
If you're a fan of racing like me you knew who Dan Gurney was, a legend of motor sports. He passed away this past weekend.
http://www.roadandtrack.com/motorspo...rney-has-died/
Tom Petty's autopsy results are in: accidental overdose due to multiple medications.
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/19/health...ath/index.html
Oxy and Fentanyl? Probably a pretty potent combination. Sad :(
RIP to a sci-fi pioneer:
Ursula LeGuin, master of speculative fiction, dies at 88
Man - I remember reading the Earthsea novels in my room in the '80s. :(
DAMN! I just finished listening to the first two in Audiobook form.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawlin
I loved them as a child, but not quite as much this second go around. Even so, they were definitely a step of me getting into my geeky side.
I have a soft spot for Beetle Bailey - I grew up on them. RIP indeed, working 68 years on a comic strip... wow.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
Founder of IKEA dead at 91
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42851008
nevermind
Mark Salling, the actor who played Puck on "Glee", age 35, suicide:
http://www.tmz.com/2018/01/30/mark-s...-suicide-dies/
He apparently tried once before after being convicted on possession of kiddy porn (per article, 50000 images of prepubescent children). Can't feel bad about this one.
I have never heard of him.
But 50k images of kiddie porn holy shit.
I cannot find sympathy here honestly, Special Hell time for him.
Holy moly. That Glee cast leads stormy lives...Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
I hadn't heard about the child porn, but I remember him being in trouble for something shortly after Glee went off the air... drugs maybeQuote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
Warren Miller, 93, the guy who made some fantastic skiing films.
https://www.outsideonline.com/227745...utsidemagazine
John Mahoney, the dad on Frasier, 77. He was in hospice care, so expected:
http://www.tmz.com/2018/02/05/john-m...-dies-frasier/
Billy Graham, 99:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/21/us/bi...bit/index.html
In lieu of the flowers, the Graham asks instead you be caught on tape making anti semitic remarks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
Ouch!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ninetoes
The Evangelicals won't love you Sons of Abraham until you quit secretly trying to run the world (*), and get on with restoring Eretz Israel and then dutifully get turned into radioactive carbon so all the Evangelicals can fly up on a Mushroom Cloud to Buddy Jesus-land!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ninetoes
(*) the vast majority of Latka-Lovers who just like beer n' football, or, MMORPGs nowadays, are of course, letting the side down, and should get back to secretive world domination!
:p
They can have their mushroom cloud, I will take the BFR made by Science. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Silverblade-T-E
Big Fucking Rock?
Kinetic strikes, did I guess right?
Or have I been reading too many space operas where that abbreviation is common? :p
Big Fucking Rocket, The one that SpaceX will use to take folks to Mars. And yes its actually called "Big Fucking Rocket" (though in press releases its Big Falcon Rocket so that it can be said on TV).
Filan
lol, I didn't know that! :p
Yikes!
Damn, he's 10 years younger than meQuote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
Lots of smoking, drinking and being overweight for a long time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khieran
Oh, and his dad died of a massive heart attack, so there's probably a hereditary component to it as well.
Time for some serious lifestyle changes!
You're 57??? Jebus. Are we going to need to start posting links to AARP interest sites?Quote:
Originally Posted by Khieran
I mean, at 43 am I like one of the youngest people posting here?
I'm 38Quote:
Originally Posted by Dramadon
I've been getting AARP applications in the mail since I turned 50. I've ignored them so far, but now people at hotels and restaurants are asking if I want the AARP discount, so I must look my age :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Dramadon
I've been getting them since I was 25 :( They stop for a year or two, then I have to call them when I get three in a week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khieran
"Sir, you're on our list to receive..."
"I am thirty eight!"
"I'll take you right off, sir."
On the other hand, I have enough gray hair that people call me "sir" but I still get carded when buying beer for making chili :(
I just got one this week. Strangest thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mileron
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RIP David Ogden Stiers :(
http://www.tmz.com/2018/03/03/mash-s...rs-dead-at-75/
Sir Roger Bannister, first man to run a four minute mile, 88:
http://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/43273249
Khieran
I loved MASH, Ogden Stiers played such a wonderful arsehole, lol ;)
and another death
Inventor of the wind up radio
maybe not a "celeb" but he sure was important
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-43290756
I liked Ogden Stiers when he was on Stargate: Atlantis. Looking at his IMDb, he did a lot of voice work, including as the narrator for Icewind Dale. Solid geeks creds.
He's been in a lot of great stuff - it's a big loss
yeah, as I keep saying I love a lot of the older generation actors because they had such beautifully rich, interesting voices :)
may sound odd, but like the older generations more lived in experienced faces being intensely interesting for an artist, many of the older actors came from the theatre, where voice and expressive ability was far more important than looks
Icewind Dale, ah, now it clicks! :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67FuWzixduc
Stiers was also in Myst the series, the voice for Esher in Myst 5 and some Uru stuff too it appears.
don't suppose many of the Americans knew about Ken Dodd, comedian, but he was indeed, a laugh riot, and extremely popular over here :)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-43367267
Bye, Stephen, have fun breaking down the qualities of the Big Black Hole in the Sky:
http://www.nydailynews.com/amp/news/...icle-1.3873215
76 years he got on this earth.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
He got ALS at the age of 21, and the doctors gave him two years to live. Crazy.
Truly a beacon of science!
From bikes to trains to video games to ... liquidation:
Toys R Us, 1948-2017
Very sad. The $400 million per year in debt servicing charges that Bain Capital saddled them with didn't help. Toys R Us UK is also going down, although Toys R Us Canada says it's operating as normal and there's a California toy company that wants to buy the Canadian operations.
What is debt servicing? Is that interest or just another name for bullshit fees
Yes, basically. In the case of companies, it can be either interest on a line of credit to a bank or the yield on corporate bonds issued.Quote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
But don't worry, not everyone at Toys R Us will suffer:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money...out/925447001/
It's the annual payments you have to make on principal and interest. It's the payments you have to make to "service" the debt.Quote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
Or put another way, it's the corporate equivalent of the minimum payments on a personal credit card.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khieran
I am not surprised execs still get their bonus. That is how America works unfortunately, personally I think taking a company to chapter 11 should result in no bonus. But hey they gotta get that new gulfstream
Well, kinda. Credit card minimum is almost all interest. That's why it takes 30 years to pay off a credit card if all you pay is the minimum, because the minimum payment drops as you pay the card down.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
Debt Servicing is usually scheduled so you pay close to the same amount every year, and over time the interest portion of the payment shrinks (as the balance drops) and the principal portion grows
They didn't even take it to Chapter 11 -- this is going to Chapter 7. I think that means their bonus is a mere $9 million rather than $14 million, if the news story is correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
RIP Keyboard Cat
https://news.avclub.com/r-i-p-keyboa...-of-1823888256
My local toys r us was one of their flagship profit stores, never in the red. It employed over 150 people.
Very sad.
And just to top it off:
Charles Lazarus, who turned a Washington bike business into Toys R Us, dies at 94
Old death pool story: Anton Yelchin's parents have settled with Fiat Chrysler in the wrongful death suit:
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43513901
New death pool story: Wayne Huizenga, former owner of Blockbuster and multiple sports teams in Florida, 80:
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-43521035
I didn't realize he was behind AutoNation.
Poetic, if ever i saw it.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
Sorry I don't have a link. I saw the guy that did Bozo the Clown died this week too.
Steven Bochco, TV producer (Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, LA Law, Doogie Howser), 74, leukemia:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/01/tv-sh...bit/index.html
I never knew he was sick or that he was involved in Doogie Howser.
Leukemia can be fast for the elderly. One of the people who sat beside us at Canucks games died recently of leukemia. His grandson told us that when he was diagnosed, he was given one week to live without chemo, two to four weeks with, and died a couple of weeks after diagnosis.
EDIT: oh, and Winnie Mandela died, too.
Former pro wrestler Johnny Valiant, 71, struck by a car while crossing the road:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43653809
Isao Takahata dies at 82
I would not call him the best animation director ever (his Ghibli colleague Miyazaki gets that one), but there's an excellent case to made for him as the most creative and original one. If you haven't, go see Grave of the Fireflies (honest but profoundly bleak), Only Yesterday (maybe the best rom-com ever made, and almost surely the most visually striking) and Tale of the Princess Kaguya (I've never seen anything like it, and really it should be seen on the biggest screen you can find). You might not like them, but you won't forget them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vPeTSRd580
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0ZrjocXVJ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM6hcHp0_kU
I remember watching Grave of the Fireflies in high school. I don't remember which class it was for, but I remember watching it. Tough movie to get through, but then I still vividly remember it so it was effective.
I saw the Takahata obit on BBC and thought, "I should leave that one for PPatty."
This one is questionable for a celebrity death pool thread, but it's close for the affected communities:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskat...rash-1.4609554
SJHL is Junior A, meaning one skill level below the players typically selected in the NHL draft. Junior A is the preferred league for players that want to play NCAA hockey, since the NCAA considers Junior A to be amateur for the purposes of eligibility (which Major Junior is not). When one of the Canadian sports channels, Sportsnet, went to their Sports Desk-style program this evening, the anchors looked like they'd seen a ghost as they read the story. Just horrible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Article excerpt
I saw a photo of the aftermath in the paper yesterday, and it was horrific. Very, very sad and tragic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
Do they even know what happened? As in why the bus was hit by the semi.
Even more tragic: one of the dead was misidentified as one of the players that's still in hospital. Horrible for the families, and an indication of how bad the accident was that they can't identify someone who is still alive.
Here's an article that shows crash scene photos (no bodies), including aerial shots of the area:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskat...tion-1.4610707
The original theory was that the semi t-boned the bus. Looking at the wreckage, it's difficult to tell what happened. The position would indicate the truck came through the stop sign with speed and hit the bus, carrying the wreckage in the direction the truck was traveling. But the truck shows damage to the middle and not the front, and the bus shows extensive damage to the front and not the middle. That would lead one to conclude that the bus t-boned the semi. The only thing that seems correct is that the semi advanced into the intersection and the bus didn't expect it. The corner is a bit of a blind corner due to the trees (as the article mentions, there was a previous fatal accident here), so I could see the semi either advancing without seeing the bus coming, or just blowing through the stop sign because they didn't spot the bus.
Art Bell passed away
One of his stranger calls... even made it onto a Tool album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee3bld4lTG0
Barbara Bush will be on the list very soon. I wonder how much longer her husband will last after.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/15/polit...lth/index.html
Wow. I did not expect him so soon.