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that REALLY freakin blows :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Ackar
he's one of the kind of actors I love and go on about...or rather go off about because the current plastic jackasses in Hollywood cannot compare to, sigh
absolutely beautiful voice ( in terms of rich and enjoyable)
and he was in so many things I enjoyed or out right adored, from Babylon 5 to Civ 5
I recall him in HAWK THE SLAYER, damn that was a fun movie!
sigh
Not a famous person, but the mother of a (Canadian) famous person: Hélène Rowley Hotte, 93, likely of exposure. She's the mother of former Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe. As someone with a mother in a care home, reading about this horrifies me:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46913324
The low in Montreal on Sunday was -21 degrees Celsius (-6 degrees Fahrenheit). With wind chill, it would have felt -29 / -19.
My favorite line of Channing's: "Rasberries !!!!"
For my next pick, one of baseball's all-time greats:
Report: Baseball Hall of Famer and former Cincinnati Reds great Frank Robinson 'ailing'
My top 3 this year
Kirk Douglas
Betty white (again)
Cher
USA TODAY: Grammy-winning R&B singer James Ingram dies at 66.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...66/2712651002/
One of the all-time all-around greats of baseball:
Hall of Famer Frank Robinson dies at 83
Too old for most of us here to have seen him, but his numbers speak for themselves, his teammates' recollections of him speak almost as much. Pioneering manager, too.
Former Congressman John Dingell (D-Michigan) and longest serving representative ever has died in Dearborn, Mi. at the age of 92.
He was a page in Congress when Roosevelt delivered the Day of Infamy Speech, and rose to Congress on his father's death in 1955, following his father's efforts working in Congress to achieve Medicare in the 1960's (and never gave up on his family's fight for Universal Health Care in the US) and some of the first and most impactful environmental protection regulations.
Obama's 2014 SOTU was Dingell's last in office. He allowed Nancy Pelosi to use the gavel he used when he presided over the House when Medicare was passed when she presided over the passage of Obamacare.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...es/2789108002/
Albert Finney, actor, 82:
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47175304
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Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
classic scene ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chXdw6sYOVs
Carmen Argenziano, 75, unknown causes.
I really enjoyed watching him on Stargate SG1 and House and the other bit parts I'd say "HEY! look who it is!"
I just learned today that Debbie lee Carrington died in March of 2018.she played Thumbelina in total rekall.
I always hoped she would play a miniature version of meg ryan.
Okay this is a stretch since not a person but...
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47231247
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The US space agency (Nasa) has called time on its Opportunity Mars rover.
The six-wheeled robot last contacted Earth in June last year, just before it was enveloped in the darkness of a global dust storm.
Engineers hoped Oppy would power back up when the skies cleared and sunlight hit its solar panels again - but there has not been a peep out of the rover.
The routine prompt commands that have been sent to Opportunity will now end.
Still worth mourning, though. It was a damn good probe/rover.Quote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
Not bad... 13 years for a mission that was only expected to be a few months at most. Well, done Opportunity!
Bruno Ganz, 77. What, you don't know Bruno Ganz? I bet you've seen his portrayal of Hitler in 2004's "Downfall":
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47264709
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbRC9GRc5ww
My fave silly version! :P
https://youtu.be/vK3pbyP-57A
Karl Lagerfeld, fashion designer for Chanel, 85:
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/ka...ntl/index.html
A pitcher perhaps underappreciated these days, but once upon a time, he was someone no batter wanted to face:
Don Newcombe, first man to win Rookie of the Year, MVP and Cy Young, dies at 92
Peter Tork of The Monkees, 77, tongue cancer:
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47319788
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcnsao7Y0gk
Not a celebrity, but I recently found out my debate coach and mentor Bill V. passed away. If I had the time and energy I'd rant about my friends keeping me in the dark for a year about it!!!
I'm realizing that I've reached that stage in life where I need to read the obits from my home town's paper just to keep up. :(
Now... Excuse me, I need to go tell some kids to, get off my LAWN !!!1!1!!
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Peter Tork was probably my favorite of the four, I thought he was funniest and had great facial expressions. Plus I always wished my hair would do what his did when I was a kid, but too many waves in mine.
Katherine Helmond, actress (Soap, Who's The Boss), 89, complications of Alzheimer's:
https://deadline.com/2019/03/katheri...as-1202567973/
She was fun to watch as Jessica Tate:Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vudJivvHWqI
Soap is still probably my favorite sitcom ever, it was brilliant, and Helmond was right there with Billy Crystal as my favorite characters.
SOAP was hysterical and brilliant, such a turn about for all the po-faced crap, lol
Prodigy Vocalist Keith Flint
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...ead-49-n978841
Luke Perry :(
https://ew.com/tv/2019/03/04/luke-perry-dies/
52 years old, died of a stroke. Wow!
Today has not been a good day for the 90's.
Sad day for 90s indeed
One of the many one-hit wonders of the wrestling world, but his timing was perfect, coming along right when Hogan was rising and needed big guys to slam.Quote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
But beyond that, there'll always be his Wrestlemania III match against lil folks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yKP8K66aPU
Approaching the on-deck circle:
Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek says he has Stage 4 pancreatic cancer
91 percent mortality rate for all stages, which suggests that Stage 4 (the worst) is even lower
Damn that man is classy.
I however...
Answer: This man faces a 91 percent mortality rate for the dis...
Crap. Can't do it.
What a fucking modest badd ass.
Love him so much.
Fuck cancer.
He's gone spinning into the sky:
‘Airwolf’ star Jan-Michael Vincent dies
Obligatory Youtube clip from the show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFLFH8GW4gs
I know he wasn't a top-tier actor or anything, but somehow it still makes me sad when someone who was once a TV star with their own show passes away and it doesn't come out in the news until a month later.
I know Airwolf is what he is best known for by most, but I still remember him best from Disney's "The World's Greatest Athlete".
He was creative with sounds. For this:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonlainy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3LFML_pxlY
All he did was move the recording gear into the hall and add reverb to the snare drum.
I like this from the article: The public is sometimes shocked to discover that musicians in famous bands didn't play on their records, "but not everybody can be a plumber and go fix a broken pipe," he told the Times in 2000. “Sometimes you need an expert, and that's all there is to it."Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47606592
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Surf guitar pioneer Dick Dale, whose song Misirlou played over the opening credits to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, has died aged 81.
Dale was known for his blindingly fast strumming style, which inspired acts like The Beach Boys and Jimi Hendrix.
He said the sound reminded him of the rumble and crash of the waves, and the noises of marine animals as he surfed in California.
Dale's bassist Sam Bolle confirmed the star had died on Saturday night.
The cause of death is not yet known, but the guitarist had a long history of ill health, including renal failure, diabetes and cancer.
81 ain't bad for a rock star with the trifecta of health issues.
Msirlou is a tough one. I have only played with two guitarists who could play it at full tempo.
Georgia Engel, the mother-in-law from "Everybody Loves Raymond" and Georgette on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", 70:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/16/us/ge...ies/index.html
Gene Wolfe, author. https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...r-dies-aged-87
I read The Book of the New Sun some years ago at the recommendation of this forum, maybe from Ppatty. I should probably read it again at some point, as I find my memory of it very vague, but remember liking it.
He's one of the greatest writers the English language has ever produced. And yeah, I've praised him as such several times on this board, but this post probably summarizes things for me (at least up to that point in time; he wrote a few after that).Quote:
Originally Posted by Deabn
Part of me feels very down about hearing of his death. The other part of me realizes that if quality of work keeps someone alive, then Wolfe will outlive almost anyone past, present and future.
Thanks, I think I'll try Latro in the Mist.
I loved the New Sun trilogy as well, but it's been way too long since I read it... need to add that to the read pile again.
Article from 2015....
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is also still dead.
I admit it, a snort escaped when I read this.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
Mark Medoff, 79. Not a huge celebrity, but he did pen 'Children of a Lesser God', which he won a Tony award for, and was also made into a movie. I post him because he was a legend at my alma mater.
https://www.krwg.org/post/playwright...medoff-dies-79
Geez...I wonder what algorithm caused that to bubble up in my feed!Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
Was gobsmacked at how damn good the first book of the New Sun was...after that...meh...I felt, alas, it wasn't really GOING any places :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Deabn
Incredibly evocative and inventive though
One that really upset me was death of Sterling E Lanier before he got to finish the third book of HIERO'S JOURNEY, which is IMHO, one of the most iconic ScifFi/post apocalypse novels ever written, and I have the 1st Ed AD&D DMG for suggesting in it's bibliography!
Another book that kind of puts me in mind of Shadow of the Torturer, is Fred Saberhagen's "Empire of the East"
I find the first novel of that SO damn heart-breaking in odd ways, so far ahead in time and change, that the folks don't recognize a tank for what it is, sigh :(
Quote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
Misirlou is one of the outstanding guitar works, IMHO :)
DAMN it has "balls"! (and after Pulp Fiction, hahaha, it's truly iconic! :evil: )
grew up with Mum always playing The Shadows, Beach Boys, Fleetwood Mack etc *totally* love suvh stuff (along with synth music, ok so I'm weird :p )
sigh so many greats going.
Still present in my heart, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
I had no idea until I saw this post that they were still playing as a team.
Watching Geese screw with the crowd was always amusing.
Found a clip with some of his antics.
The basketball skills for tricks were awesome, but you always had to watch everything or you'd miss the theater and their adoration for their fans.
https://youtu.be/d9wO_rJrQLI?t=78
I somehow doubt social media would be kind to the "Take off your shoes, Moses!" moment that's in there with the kid on the front row seats, though.
John Havlicek, pure shooter.
https://www.ozy.com/presidential-dai...5#article94090
When you're 5x all-defensive first team and 3x all-d 2nd team, and the most notable play of your career is a deflection of the other team's inbounds pass, and you were probably the best on your team at driving to the basket -- you're way more than a pure shooter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonlainy
So John Singleton might be on death's door, and Jessie Ferguson is dead. Ferguson played the harassing cop from Boyz N The Hood -- to this day, it remains one of the most intense scenes I've seen on film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPHv_-fqdjM
Hope Cuba Gooding Jr. and Ice Cube are staying healthy.
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/f...l_twitter_abcn
And of course the Reaper is still stalking Larry King
https://www.tmz.com/2019/04/29/larry...t-angioplasty/
What does Larry King say to the Reaper? Not today!
Vancouver sportswriter Jason Botchford, 48, heart failure:
https://www.reddit.com/r/canucks/com..._sportswriter/
The Athletic, the pay site where he worked recently, has made all his columns available for free:
https://theathletic.com/tag/the-athletties/
Also: Boon Gould, guitarist/sax player for Level 42, 64:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-48117414
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz2szRFTp60
Aw, damn! We'll miss you, ya big furball!
Alot of these guys recently dying are born just a couple years after my dad, and that freaks me out. Because, he still looks great and is going backpacking across the world.
Peggy Lipton, "Mod Squad" star and mother of Rashida Jones, 72, cancer:
https://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...511-story.html
I honestly had no idea she was Rashida Jones' mother. Wow. I loved her on Mod Squad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
Tim Conway, 85, undisclosed illness:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/14/enter...ead/index.html
The pallbearers should all do the slow shuffle walk.
Tim Conway was a true comedic genius. I loved watching him on Carol Burnett all those years ago.
Oh damn, this one hits as hard as when Jonathan Winters died. Tim Conway was easily my favorite on The Carol Burnett Show, he cracked me up with everything he did.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
Two of his best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IUSM4EKcRI
YTMND, 18, neglect:
https://boingboing.net/2019/05/15/ytmnd-disappears.html
Tardar Sauce, aka Grumpy Cat, 7, complications from a urinary tract infection:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/17/celeb...cli/index.html
Sad for the sake of being sad, but I'm more concerned about what their financial future will look like.
I hope they did what liam lynch did, and cloned their cat.
You may remember the ABC miniseries that were made from two of this guy's novels:
Herman Wouk Dies: ‘The Winds Of War’ Author Was 103
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xKJQmRTjNI
https://www.bbc.com/sport/american-football/48416712
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Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr has died at the age of 85.
Starr, who suffered a major stroke in 2014, played for the Packers from 1956-71 and led them to five championships.
That included the first two Super Bowls, in 1967 and 1968, when he was named the game's most valuable player.
"His true legacy will always be the respectful manner in which he treated every person he met, his humble demeanour, and his generous spirit," read a family statement.
"He battled with courage and determination to transcend the serious stroke he suffered, but his most recent illness was too much to overcome."
After retiring as a player, Starr coached the Packers from 1975-83 although they only reached the play-offs once during his tenure.
Starr last visited Lambeau Field in 2017 to take part in the festivities commemorating the 50-year anniversary of the Packers' 1967 championship.
Murray Gell-Mann, 1969 Nobel winner in physics and creator of the term "quark", 89:
https://gizmodo.com/murray-gell-mann...rks-1835049320
Bill Buckner, my favorite player when I was little, passed away today. He was more famous for a certain missed ground ball in Boston, but I always remember him as a Cub.
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As good as he was as a ballplayer, and he was quite good, he would not be appearing in this discussion thread if not for the booted ball in Game 6.
I might have put him in here...depending on my mood. As I said, he was my favorite player back when I was barely old enough to know what a favorite player was. He helped introduce me to baseball. But as far as anyone else on here? Yeah, most probably wouldn't know who he was.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
I used to watch Cub's baseball on WGN all the time when I was in college and he was playing for them. Sucks he will live on in infamy for that one ground ball, even though he was a damn good hitter. I saw a graphic yesterday that showed between 1970 and 1989 the only player with more hits than Buckner was Pete Rose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dramadon
The defendant in the most famous trial involving Dmitry has died:
Claus von Bulow, socialite accused in sensational trials of trying to kill wife, dies at 92
People forget now, but at the time, it was one of those "trial of the century" type of deals.
Twofer today: Gloria Vanderbilt, 95, fashion designer/socialite: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/17/enter...ies/index.html
Mohamed Morsy, former Egyptian president, 67, collapsed in court: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/17/middl...ntl/index.html
67. Ouch
He'd been fighting a few things for quite a while (Diabetes and other ailments), and he wasn't getting any treatment in jail, so not all that surprising.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tinthalas Tigris
And three years later, the dad has joined him:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ackar
https://www.tmz.com/2019/06/26/max-w...d-dies-cancer/
I thought the bump was going to be for Beth from "Dog The Bounty Hunter".
This forum doesn't seem like a Dog kinda place. I've seen quite a bit of the show, though, and I can say that she was as much a part of it as he was.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...s?platform=amp
Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs dead at 27
Funny anecdote... the Twitter hashtag #RIP45 was trending for a while yesterday, in his honor. At this same time, there was some unknown emergency in Washington that caused VP Pence's plane to have to turn around and return to the airport either just before or just after takeoff (conflicting stories) and Pence was rushed back to the White House. We still don't know why, but supposedly we'll find out "in a few weeks".Quote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/u...cels-trip.html
But, the fact that this happened during the #RIP45 trending caused some people to be very disappointed
https://toofab.com/2019/07/02/rip45-...p-is-not-dead/
Lee Iacocca, car guy, 94.
https://www.newser.com/story/277311/...paign=20190703
That's akin to saying "Steve Jobs, computer guy." Lee Iacocca, the greatest marketer in the history of American autos, was the only car executive since Henry Ford to become a household name.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonlainy
He invented the minivan which was probably one of the most important automotive changes in history. And honestly as a family hauler the minivan is still to this day superior to the SUV or crossover in pure utility.
Tempted to go have a burger and fries in honor of the Hefty Lefty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgYtRELShDY
Yeah, I know that was an understatement, kind of why I did it.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
My Dad isn't a recreational reader - you could count the number of books he's read for pleasure on one hand. Iacocca's biography is one of those books.