Arte Johnson, 90, heart failure:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/03/enter...bit/index.html
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Arte Johnson, 90, heart failure:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/03/enter...bit/index.html
Aww man, loved Arte Johnson, especailly in the Laugh In years. I also listened to a Carl Hiaasen book that Arte narrated, and while not the best he did a good job.
Damn that is young
Cameron Boyce: Disney Descendants star dies age 20 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-48900121
Ross Perot, billionaire and former U.S. presidential hopeful, 89, leukemia:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/09/polit...ead/index.html
Bill Clinton should have been thanking Ross every day for the past 27 years. If Perot doesn't run, Bush the Elder is re-elected.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
https://www.latimes.com/local/obitua...709-story.html
Rip Torn dead @ 88
Even if you can dodge a wrench, you can't dodge death.
Possibly the greatest defensive boxer in history, and almost surely one of the top three, killed by a car at the young age of 55:
https://wtkr.com/2019/07/15/local-bo...irginia-beach/
https://youtu.be/0ZsO3PgRbDY
FORMER Supreme Court Justice (I missed the former when I first glanced at the headline and got worried) John Paul Stevens, 99, complications from a stroke:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/16/polit...ead/index.html
I'm sure "complications from a stroke" is accurate, but I'm also inclined to think that "complications from being 99" (yes, more people are becoming centenarians, but still) had something to do with it.
Damn! one of my fave character actors and I missed this one, was couple of weeks ago :(
Freddie Jones
Krull, Dune, Elephant Man...fantastic actor!!
sigh
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48940202
Former NFL offensive lineman Mitch Petrus, 32, heatstroke. Stay cool this weekend, Eastern U.S. posters:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/19/healt...oke/index.html
Oh crap. BummedQuote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
Rutger Hauer...oh crap :(
That speech is about the best thing ever filmed IMHO
Rutger was also in one of my absolute fave B movies: SPLIT SECOND
;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-M8PbnAiTc
omg, the patter in they film was absolutely hysterical, lol!
Couldn't get over how my Mum, of all folk, very well spoken lady, adored it and then out of nowhere, she'd quote it!
"Do you really get laid every night?!"
fuckin' hell, how can you answer THAT from yer Mom except face palm, cringe and laugh?! :p
and the pièce de résistance
"We need big Big BIG FUCKING GUNS.....Oh Yeah!"
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Toni Morrison, Nobel-winning author, 88:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49254776
https://www.startrek.com/news/barbar...mfv6w63z1nAEow
Barbara March (Lursa, Klingon sister of Duras), 65
RIP, Peter Fonda, we'll always have Easy Rider. Just rewatched some of it yesterday, mostly to watch the scene again with The Weight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsFOKNQxIhQ
Burn in hell. One down, one to go.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/u...koch-dead.html
That is a truly great song. Back 20 years ago, we'd whip that one out in front of the mead booth for the musician's jam at our local ren fest.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
I have never seen that movie.
I must now watch it.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cul...-record-crash/
Most here probably will remember her from a few seasons of Mythbusters where she did a lot of their welding.
While certainly sad, i guess it is nice she went out doing something she loved.
Franco Columbo :/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-68-1235881
Writer for Pinky and the Brain
Oh, that one hurts.Quote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
He dates all the way back to the Smurfs and the Snorks.
His sense of humor will live on, though, so there's that.
Without Franco, Arnold Schwarznegger might never have become iconic Ah-nuld:Quote:
Originally Posted by Silverblade-T-E
Arnold Schwarzenegger pays emotional tribute as 'best friend' Franco Columbu dies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBDdcY0Wx0I
Related-Quote:
Originally Posted by Merrick ap'Milandra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqMs9WsJg2k
Ppatty
yup
most folk will only know him somewhat from...in "Terminator", the scene where a disguised Terminator is unmasked by dogs at the entrance to a human underground enclave and begins shooting the place up, that was Franco
Hell has a new resident: Robert Mugabe, 95:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/06/afric...hnk/index.html
Maybe, but a more nuanced view might cast him as a Fidel Castro-like figure, coming onto the scene as a beloved liberator before succumbing to strongman temptations.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world...F1R?li=BBqdg4K
He is one of those world leaders i never paid any attention to. Tbh, I've probably only read his name 4 times before today.
Sounds like alot of the blame has been put on his 2nd wife for his tyranny.
Sounds like another place that the American world police force never got to or didn't have much interest in, either
https://6abc.com/sports/fmr-cardinal...at-38/5522094/
Cardinals outfielder Chris Duncan at 38 to cancer
A pioneer of corporate raiding joins the Great Big Takeover in the Sky:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mark...-91/ar-AAH9h7O
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news...cid=spartanntp
He looked on the verge of death for a long time, it finally caught up to him.
It doesn't seem like anyone died with him, so I guess that other ticket wasn't used.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonlainy
Well done, sir.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
He had some good, easily enjoyable songs.
Now Ric Ocasek can Shake It Up in the afterlife:
https://www.tmz.com/2019/09/15/ric-o...-dead-dies-75/
"Drive" and "Emotion in motion" are absolutely superb, sigh, thank you for your music, Ric! :(
We went to a Bryan Adams concert last night, and in the middle he performed Drive in honor of Ocasek. The Cars is one of the bands I regret never having had the opportunity to see live.
How was the Bryan Adams concert overall?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonlainy
It was good, he had more hits that I remembered, mostly because I haven't heard them in a while due to the fact I don't really listen to the radio anymore, too many commercials. His voice was still strong and he was very engaging with the crowd, had a huge screen behind him showing the crowd dancing during one song he called a "dance tune". When he played It's Only Love, he had the lights off and a spotlight shine into the side of the stage with a drum roll going, like Tina Turner was going to come out, then stopped it all abruptly and said, "Not really, she isn't here." It was pretty funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
I went because my fiancé really wanted to go, not thinking I would enjoy it, but I was wrong, it was fun.
I didn't realize the actor was that old when he played the character.
That bums me out, Nog's arc was the best thing in DS9. For being a supporting character, he was the heart of the show. Time to watch In the Cards and listen to I'll Be Seeing You :(
DS9 was overall a fantastic trek, It not only went against the usual grain and riled up some traditionalist trek fans but the stationary nature of a station let them have a lot of long running arcs which gave them lots of B-Story material to use along side main plots. Which for a show that runs for 7 years lots of B-Story characters is a massive enhancement.
I just started DS9 when the anniversary came up. I'm still in the first season. Never was a fan as a kid, because everything was constable broken, but i am liking it so far.
Quark is really good.
It gets better as it goes and they get further into the big plot elements and lose the bad stuff (like the Jake plots). Yes, Quark is awesome. Just wait for the "Quark marries a Klingon" episode.
Uncle John's Band and Ripple are the two Dead songs I like the best, but I assumed Jerry Garcia wrote the lyrics.
Damn.Quote:
Originally Posted by Philo
What an artistic loss for the world as a whole.
For my next pick, a perpetually pissed-off percussionist:
Ginger Baker critically ill
"put him in a body bag!" rob garrison, 59, karate kid fame.
Loved his character.
USA TODAY: 'Karate Kid' star Rob Garrison, who played villain Tommy, dies at 59.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/enter...59/3790558002/
I find that the really memorable evil characters are truly good actors.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tinthalas Tigris
It's easy to be a flatline on camera, it's hard to sell a role, especially a villainous one.
I can't tell if, in this case, it's people speaking kindly about him after his passing or if he just pulled Jack Gleeson and retired from acting.
And there it is:Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
Legendary Cream drummer Ginger Baker dies at 80
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GDDPn4k10WU
All this time, i always thought rip torn and rip Taylor were the same two person.
I remember watching him on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and laughing my ass off. I thought he was one of the funniest ever. To be honest, though, I thought he was already dead.Quote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fox...ad-dead-78.amp
Robert Forster, Jackie Brown Star and penultimate character in Breaking Bad: El Camino
Bummer, but 78 is still pretty good. He was such a great highlight in El Camino
This guy was a giant among conservative cultural critics:
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/14/77018...tic-dies-at-89
You may not remember his heyday as a player, but if you're an NFL fan, at some point you've probably seen his Super Bowl clip running straight at the camera:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN5SYjYZTL8
Raiders legend, Hall of Famer Willie Brown dies at 78
One of the original Survivors survives no longer:
https://www.tmz.com/2019/11/02/oldes...egend-dead-91/
He's been on deck for a while. It's good his suffering is over.
Hes celebrity enough around here considering his game is why this place exists.
https://www.pcgamer.com/amp/everques...uaid-has-died/
Damn
They don't mention cause of death. Back in the day there were rumours about drug use.
EDIT: but there is some indication of an ongoing medical issue, from when he took $45 K of the $147 K the game had raised to pay "medical and other bills". That could be an excuse, but I'd prefer to believe it was the truth:
https://forums.mmorpg.com/discussion...e-crowdfunding
51 is too damned young. But there are numerous stories of drug abuse in his past. My guess is either that past abuse finally caught up to him, or the problem never really went away
Sad either way.
Brad wasn't the only former Everquest Dev to leave us:
https://massivelyop.com/2019/11/18/f...or-his-family/
Matt McDonald passed away on the 9th. Damn!
Love it or hate it, Everquest gave me a lot of years of fun. This sucks!
You have to wonder if opioids claimed another victim.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khieran
Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk
Wait, what? HTF did I miss this one yesterday? Hm -- as much as his game sucked a few years out of my life that I'm never getting back, I can't say I didn't enjoy it while I was doing it. I wish you'd evolved with the times, but the original creation stands as a milestone for many reasons. RIP.Quote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
A guy I know here through greyhound adoptions was good friends with McQuaid when he lived in SoCal, and said he was a great guy, but nothing about any abuse issues. EQ was my first foray into online games, and was accidental, I thought it was a single-player game when I bought it. Decided to take advantage of the free 30 days and then continued playing it for the next 6 years. Very sad to pass so young.
well I mean EQ basically invented the MMORPG as the world knows it today.
Sure some things like UO predated it but it was EQ that took the idea to a wide audience. I mean I was all "Who the fuck pays monthly to play a video game when my Playstation is free once I buy the game?" Then a friend got me Everquest...
But the MMORPG revolution of the mid 2000s was pretty much spawned by multiple companies wanting to improve the EQ formula, Blizzard being the one with the most success*.
*In the western market at least.
I don't know if it ever had a wide audience; subs topped out around 550K, if I recall correctly (and I may not). I tend to view UO and EQ as co-equals in terms of their importance to the genre — just about every fundamental idea of the genre traces back to those two games, not only for what they did right, but for what they did wrong. Origin Systems and Verant/SOE made the laboratory mistakes that made subsequent products better. And although they were very different in terms of their gameplay, they were both rooted in the same philosophy, as articulated by Brad McQuaid in an interview a couple of years ago: "I want to make worlds, not games." (which probably helps explain why things like combat mechanics in UO/EQ were almost laughable compared to the best single-player games)Quote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
UO got there first, but EQ seemed to be a lot more accessible for most people. But yeah, both had a huge effect on what came after.
Being the first 3D graphics MMO was the main reason for that, I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khieran
Of secondary but still significant importance, EQ was able to gradually ramp past UO because Brad & Co. learned from Richard Garriott/Starr Long's two biggest MMO mistakes: An insufficient amount of PvE content and a PK system that promoted anarchy. So, well done there, Mr. Aradune.
John Mann, 57, lead singer for Spirit of the West, early-onset Alzheimer's:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...dead-1.5367381
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crIk87-mPzY
Alzheimers at 57? Damn! Too many people younger than me are passing now... it needs to stop
Not a celebrity except to old-time Vikings fans, but if you invented the Nerf football, you've made your mark on American culture:
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...otball-dies-80
Alzheimer's is terrible. My mother passed away from it two weeks ago. By the end she had almost no ability to communicate and it shut down her body so she essentially starved to death (she was DNR, so no IV feeding). A woman whose "goal weight" all her life was 120, under 80 pounds when she passed. I'm just glad I was able to tell her how much she meant to me a few days prior (she had stopped eating then, we knew she was in end of life).Quote:
Originally Posted by Khieran
Sorry to hear of it. You have my condolences.
So sorry to hear that!Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
We lost my mother-in-law last spring. She was suffering from dementia the last couple years of her life. Wasn't full-blown alzheimers, but a lot of the same results. I know how hard those last few days can be...
So sorry to hear your mom passed away.
I was a Tarkenton and Gene Washington fan, so I remember Fred Cox from my younger days. I had no idea he was behind the Nerf football, one of the greatest inventions ever!Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
Thank you all.
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ns...&pid=194494565
Master of the macabre meets his maker:
https://deadline.com/2019/11/gahan-w...89-1202793836/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ruXxULtFZg
Sorry to hear about that Delores, its always very hard to see someone you love so much and who was so full of life be so weak and in that condition at the end. But its good that you got to give her a proper goodbye and be there for her at the end.
So sorry Delores. May her memory be a blessing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
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Creating the character of Sarek certainly counts for something.Quote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
René Auberjonois passed away :(
https://apnews.com/1c97415ab6cab1caf54a7a88fb17c37a
Should've sent him back to the Founders when he was sick, they could've cured him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Philo
But in all seriousness, he had some good work over the years, not only as Odo, but also Clayton and the Le Poisson chef. RIP.
Yeah, his role on Benson is still my favorite.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
This man was the most consequential Fed chairman ever:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/...-died-67597416
He basically saved the U.S. economy.
But it's over now: Marie Fredriksson, 61, lead singer for Roxette, cancer:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/10/enter...ntl/index.html