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Creator of popular Indomie noodles flavor dead at 59
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(CNN) The creator of Indomie's popular 'mi goreng' flavor, Nunuk Nuraini died on Wednesday. She was 59.
Nurlita Novi Arlaida, the head of Indofood's Public Relations confirmed Nuraini's death In a statement to local newspaper, Kompas.
The cause of death was not revealed.
Following news of her death, many fans took to social media to pay tribute to the recipe developer who worked at the company for nearly 30 years where she produced the hugely popular 'mi goreng' and other flavors for the brand.
Indomie, an Indonesian company under the Indofood umbrella, is the biggest noodle brand in the country.
However, the instant noodles influence has grown beyond the borders of Indonesia.
In Nigeria, Indomie is the noodle of choice for many in the country despite the prevalence of numerous brands on the market.
The instant noodle was first exported to Nigeria in 1988 and by 1995 had opened its first production factory. With three factories presently in the West African nation, the company says it produces eight million packets of noodles daily to meet the high demand.
This makes me sad. If I wasn't on a keto diet these days, I'd inhale a Mi Goreng packet right now.Quote:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKQ-gCXgMUk
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Mira Furlan passed away on January 20, 2021. She was a personal friend - we met because of her starring role as Ambassador Delenn in the TV series "Babylon 5".
Mira was born on Sept. 7, 1955, in Zagreb, Croatia, where she was a leading actress in theater, film and TV, and was part of the Croatian National Theater. Some had described her as “the Balkan equivalent of Meryl Streep.”
She emigrated the to United States in 1991 with her husband, Goran Gajic, a writer and director. She is survived by Goran, and their son, Marko Lav Gajic.
In addition to "Babylon 5", she was also known for the recurring role of Danielle Rousseau on the popular ABC drama “Lost".
I already miss her incredibly.
John Hudgens was hired by Joe Straczynski to create official "Babylon 5" music videos for him to use at science fiction conventions, and later to promote the show to networks. They produced eight video over the run of the series, with a series of memorials for fallen cast members over the years since.
I have no idea wtf u guys are talking about. Never have I heard of these, not seen these noodles. I am,however, going to attempt to locate them.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
Akar
thanks for posting that! :)
Delenn was an awesome character and very well played by Mira!
If there's an H-Mart or Lotte market near you, they sell them for less than $3 for a five-pack, usually. Unlike traditional Japanese or Korean ramen, they're not meant to be eaten in a soup -- the noodle are boiled for 3 minutes per usual ramen standards, but then drained and mixed with the flavor packets, which are a bit more complex than what you get in the aforementioned other ramen types.Quote:
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Just saw that one. While the actor is not the character, it was a show from childhood with a relatable character.Quote:
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Wow, three weeks. Sounds like something vicious like pancreatic...
Stage 4 lung cancer (specifically small cell carcinoma, a very aggressive cancer). He speculated that it was from all the seedy motels he's been in, since he's not a smoker, but his family does have a history of cancer.
Hospice care for Alzheimer's means his body is shutting down. He's likely stopped eating, and is currently starving to death. If he entered hospice care on the 30th, he should be gone by the end of the week.
Christopher Plummer, 91, cause not given ("peacefully at home"):
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55954950
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmrbiX9__wM
Christopher Plummer was an awesome actor, saw him in so much and his acting and amazing voice were a rich, meaty treat, sigh
oh, and...Skyrim...him and Max Von Sydow were a perfect pair to give that game some gravitas.
Very, VERY few like them left anymore :(
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night Mr. Plummer.
He pulled off one of the great sports upsets of the 1970s when he took the title from Muhammad Ali:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQQbPD-M3jc
Leon Spinks, ex-heavyweight champ who upset Muhammad Ali, dies at 67 (espn.com)
And there it is:Quote:
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NFL coaching legend Marty Schottenheimer dies at 77 (espn.com)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uJhRxzorWA
RIP, a true American hero:
Hustler Founder Larry Flynt Dead at 78 (tmz.com)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpkycQfbNek
I don't think any red-blooded male in the world of the United States, as well as beyond can truly live a day in the life without stress and not give at least a whispered thank you to the work that this guy pulled off.
As sleazy as it might be, this guy was truly a pioneer in his cause. He had some tough ones, and some great ones, but 78 years lived is nothing to sneeze at, especially since many of those have been lived with the tragedy of surviving an assassination attempt.
Abiding by the advice to not speak ill of the dead, I will merely note:
Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio pioneer, dead at 70 | Fox News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G33fniLwroQuote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
I somehow felt this song was right.
CNN : Rush Limbaugh, conservative media icon, dead at 70 following battle with cancer.
http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_allpol...adU/index.html
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https://www.graffes.com/forums/showt...=1#post1912916Quote:
Originally Posted by Merkus
Rush literally had blood on his hands by pushing an extreme, hateful agenda.
hopefully he is now learning a better outlook
this world does NOT need his kind :(
Missed it! I saw the Larry Flint at the bottom and didn't scroll up.Quote:
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I know the dude is not really a celeb but the bull statue in New York is a major feature in American pop art.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56137600
A man who made it possible for lots of music celebs to exist
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/10/97559...-tape-has-died
Inventor of the cassette tape at 94
A technology with which I have a love-hate relationship. Cassettes helped me really get into music back in the day; I suspect that I would not appreciate music as much as I do now if my young self didn't have the portability that cassettes enabled, allowing me to listen to my music anywhere.Quote:
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But in retrospect, the sound quality was awful. Like, really, really awful. And having to spool the damn things with a pencil or nail whenever the tape popped out was a pain in the ass.
Worked great on my C-64..
I started out with 8-track tapes, and while portable they sure did fill up the backseat of a Pinto. I remember having to bang the damn things against my leg sometimes to get them to play right. I then went to cassettes, and also remember having them come unspooled and get stuck in the player, such a pain, but, like you said, great for having mobile music.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
They can be very high quality sound with metal tapes and higher end versions of Dolby NR. Though you need a “vintage” deck to get all those features now.
But honestly the tape was always more about the freedom than the quality. In many ways the direct predecessor to MP3, MP3 was not about quality as much as it was transportability over slow networks. RIAA hated mixtapes too.
Tape was also fundamentally vital to the birth of rap and Hip Hop as mixing was huge for that.
For the Stargate fans out there, The dude who played Ba'al died in a kite boarding accident.
https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/cli...-1-1234928931/
One of the best middleweight boxers of all-time:
Former Middleweight Champ Marvelous Marvin Hagler Dead at 66 (tmz.com)
Was a co-author of the greatest three rounds of pugilism you're ever likely to see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GYGThR8dKs
Jessica Walter, arguably best known for her role as Lucille Bluth on Arrested Development, 80. Lucille Bluth was the best character on the show, which had a slew of great characters.
https://www.newser.com/story/304135/...paign=20210325
And here is 10 and a half minutes of some of her awesomeness!
https://digg.com/video/jessica-walte...ed-development
She also played the ex-wife of George Segal on Just Shoot Me, and he just passed away as well. Laura San Giacomo better hide! I wonder what Archer will do without Jessica Walter to voice Mallory Archer?
One of America's great novelists has quit us:
Legendary Texas author Larry McMurtry dies at 84 (houstonchronicle.com)
Lonesome Dove has been recommended on this board before and I will do so again. If you haven't read it, you owe it to yourself to give it a try, even if you don't normally read Westerns. I also greatly enjoyed its sequel Streets of Laredo. There are also two prequels, Dead Man Walking and Comanche Moon, but I would say those are merely good rather than great.
Among his other works, I also loved The Last Picture Show (teens in a dying small-town in Texas in the 1950s) and Anything for Billy (his take on Billy the Kid), but those might be more acquired tastes. Buffalo Girls (about Calamity Jane) is just OK. Don't think I've read anything else by him.
Mr. Watergate is gone:
G. Gordon Liddy, undercover operative convicted in Watergate scandal, dies at 90 (msn.com)
Prince Phillip
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/09/uk/pr...ntl/index.html
Rapper DMX at 50
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dmx-dies/
Y'all gon' make me lose my mind.
Bernie madoff
I'm pleasantly surprised they actually kept him in prison. Good for the justice system for a change.Quote:
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Addams Family Actor Felix Silla, Who Played Cousin Itt, Dead at 84
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Felix Silla, who was known for playing Cousin Itt on The Addams Family and an Ewok in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, has died. He was 84.
The actor and stuntman died Friday after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, according to a tweet from his friend and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century costar Gil Gerard. Silla is survived by his wife Sue, whom he married in 1965, and their two children.
"Felix died just a few hours ago and the only good I can draw from his passing is that he didn't suffer any longer," Gerard wrote on Friday. "I will miss him terribly, especially the great time we had at our panels. Just him telling me to go 'F' myself."
Silla was introduced as Cousin Itt, the mumbling hair-covered relative of the titular spooky family, on the 20th episode of The Addams Family, which ran from 1964 to 1966. He appeared in 17 episodes of the beloved sitcom.
Silla also played roles in Bonanza, The Monkees, H.R. Pufnstuf, Bewitched, Battlestar Gallactica, Mork & Mindy, The Dukes of Hazzard, Star Trek and Married... with Children. In addition, the star appeared in such movies as Planet of the Apes, Spaceballs and Batman Returns, also doing stunts in films like E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Poltergeist as well as Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
"These two guys sat at a table," he recalled of getting his first role to The Los Angeles Times in 2014. "They take one look at me and say, 'You got the job.' And I say, 'That's it? Don't I even need to audition?' They say, 'No, just show up on Monday.' "
Before making it in Hollywood, Silla was born in Roccacasale, Italy, in 1937.
He performed on tour with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in his youth. In recent years, he's become a staple at fan conventions in Las Vegas, where he moved in 2003.
Shock G, aka Humpty Hump of Digital Underground, 57, cause unknown (had drug issues):
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56857349
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msrq0HjwJUM
He was on the "out" and stole from the Elite or made them lose money, so of he got jailedQuote:
Originally Posted by Dale
Epstein got their rocks off by 14 year old girls so the Elite did all they could to keep Epstein out
and then made sure he stayed in...forever
sigh
awww man.... i loved shock G. While everyone else would insist on HUmpty Dance, I loved Sex Packets as my fave.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56921562
Made his final reentry, Mike Collins.
Yesterday, El Risitas passed on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDiB4rtp1qw
Kaminsky couldn't hack it anymore:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nyt...-dead.amp.html
She earned an Oscar for playing the most memorable character in one of my favorite movies:
Olympia Dukakis dead: 'Moonstruck' actress was Oscar winner - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95VJBGC05xQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP3wrjHHL1M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBWxqcvH7Dk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UuVlfwAMDw
She was awesome. I could never get through Moonstruck, but my wife made me watch Steel Magnolias with her, and Olympia Dukakis was wonderful in that.
Norman Lloyd, 'Saboteur' and 'St. Elsewhere' Star, Dead at 106
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Rest in peace, Norman Lloyd. The actor, producer and director died at his home in Los Angeles on Tuesday, according to multiple reports. He was 106.
Lloyd was best known for his role in Alfred Hitchcock's 1942 film Saboteur; his character tumbled to his death from the top of the Statue of Liberty in the film's conclusion. He also starred as Dr. Daniel Auschlander on NBC’s 1980s hospital drama St. Elsewhere.
The performer was born in 1914 in Jersey City, New Jersey, and raised in Brooklyn. After childhood singing and dancing classes, he started his career at Le Galienne’s Civic Repertory Theater in 1932. He then joined the original company of the Orson Welles-John Houseman Mercury Theater.
In addition to his work with Hitchcock, which included a producing credit on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, an executive producing credit on Hitchcock Hour and directing and acting credits on several episodes of each series -- Lloyd collaborated with Hollywood legends like Charlie Chaplin, Bertolt Brecht and Jean Renoir.
He produced and directed TV from the 1960s to the early 1980s, including Columbo and The Name of the Game. He was nominated for an Emmy in 1974 for Outstanding Special -- Comedy or Drama for Steambath, and helmed stage adaptations for TV like Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing in 1972 and the Philemon in 1976.
Lloyd made guest appearances on TV shows Star Trek: The Next Generation, Wings and The Practice, and appeared in films like The Green Years (1946), Anthony Mann’s The Black Book (1949), Losey’s remake of M (1951), Robert Wise’s Audrey Rose (1977), Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence (1993), The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000) and In Her Shoes (2005).
More recently, he appeared on Modern Family in 2010, and in Amy Schumer 2015 film Trainwreck, he played a friend of her father's in a nursing home.
Lloyd’s autobiography, Stages, was published in 1993, and he was the subject of a Matthew Sussman-directed documentary, Who Is Norman Lloyd?, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007.
He was married to Broadway actress Peggy Craven Lloyd for 75 years. She died in 2011 at age 98. Lloyd is survived by two children.
We just started watching st elsewhere during covid.
Seven people charged with homicide in the death of Diego Maradona.Quote:
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And speaking of sports, do near-deaths count?
John Tavares, Habs-Leafs playoff game last night.
He's been released from hospital but is out indefinitely. Based on the fencing response he had, I'd guess bad concussion. But did it ever look worse, especially when they try to get him up.
CNN : Former Utah Jazz center Mark Eaton dead at age 64.
http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topsto...kJs/index.html
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And the captain of the Love Boat, 90:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/29/enter...ary/index.html
o/~ Under da dirt...Quote:
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This guy was as famous as criminal defense lawyers ever get:
F. Lee Bailey, controversial defense lawyer in high-profile trials, has died (msn.com)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY4dQVaZK88
Ned Beatty, natural causes
Forever known for squealing like a pig
OTISBUUURRRG!?
One of the biggest SOBs who ever ran the Pentagon kicks the bucket. I imagine he may take that description as a compliment:
Donald Rumsfeld: Former secretary of defense dies at 88 - CNNPolitics
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Richard Donner, Director of ‘Superman,’ ‘The Goonies’ and ‘Lethal Weapon,’ Dies at 91
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrNwMXcKxWE
Biz Markie, yesterday, 57,diabetes.
Dusty Hill, ZZ Top base player, 72, "in his sleep":
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/28/enter...bit/index.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae829mFAGGE
Delores
that's a major pisser :(
I preferred their "rock" era: "Eliminator" and "Afterburner", but damn they had beautiful sound and song,
rich, gorgrous and "oomph!" plus hey, back then folks still made awesome videos: Legs, Rough Boy, Gimme All Your Loving are truly *iconic* vids as well as songs
(unlike the 99% god damn absolute garbage now)
ZZ TOP were also FUN! :)
often took mickey out of themselves and went along with gags.
never heard much if anything bad about 'em unlike many musicians
kind of wonder how their families' kids may have loved 'em, kind of like the perfect uncles, ya know? :)
Now Hill's gone...
fuck, 2020/21 SUCK! :(
infomercial pioneer Ron Popeil
https://www.wfsb.com/news/infomercia...lock_id=994141
Set it and forget it.
Their music before their MTV heyday (Eliminator, Afterburner) was even better in my opinion. La Grange, Tush, Jesus Just Left Chicago, Blue Jean Blues, Mexican Blackbird, Pearl Necklace, Francine, etc are awesome songs, with blues, rock, innuendo... If you've never heard their stuff from the '70s do yourself a favor and give it a listen.Quote:
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Dusty Hill, as well as Gibbons and Beard, are rock gods, and that little ol' band from Texas not being whole any longer is very sad.
Anyone who watched American TV regularly in the 70s, 80s, 90s or early 2000s has seen this infomercial icon:
Ron Popeil, king of the late night infomercial, dies at 86 - CBS News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGo7W_mbWCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSEDyOAGS4E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8WMXyXBGpM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFugZm6TWzk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG43jyZ65R8
Trevor Moore of Whitest Kids U Know just died at 41. He was my favorite comedian. Crazy, he was just live streaming yesterday, life just really sucks sometimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFUvmZWf4hI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_dRw62qVLs
He made Florida State something in college football:
Longtime Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden dies at 91 (espn.com)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKav2eSwlgo
Sonny Chiba, Actor Who Played Hattori Hanzo in 'Kill Bill,' Dies at 82 of COVID Complications
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Shinichi "Sonny" Chiba, a martial arts master and a Japanese actor who played legendary sword maker Hattori Hanzo in "Kill Bill," has died at age 82, according to Japan's Oricon News.
According to Oricon, Chiba died Thursday in Chiba Prefecture Kimitsu hospital from pneumonia caused by COVID-19. He had been hospitalized since August 8.
Chiba, a skilled martial artist, starred in dozens of films and television shows since the early '60s. Among his popular films were the "Yakuza Cop" and "Street Fighter" series in the '70s, which launched his international career when New Line released the film and gave it an X-rating for its extreme violence.
But he became popular with modern, Western audiences after his portrayal of Hanzo in Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill." He played a sushi restaurant owner who was actually a legendary sword maker who crafted a katana for Uma Thurman's Bride after she asks for "Japanese steel" in her quest for revenge.
Sonny Chiba, who was born Sadaho Maeda and took the name Shinichi in his acting career, trained under karate master Masutatsu "Mas" Oyama, someone whom he would later portray in a trilogy of films, those being "Champion of Death," "Karate Bearfighter" and "Karate for Life," Chiba reached the rank of a first-degree black belt in 1965, and he also held black belts in Judo, Kendo, Ninjutsu and other fields.
Chiba would also appear in "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" as a Yakuza boss, and some of his other film credits include "The Bullet Train," "Champion of Death" and "The Storm Riders."
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58316842
Charlie Watts, Drummer for The Rolling Stones, 80.
Underrated as a drummer. He could really keep a groove.
Example of such:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-bBhgMtPsc
It's sad he passed, he was said to have been a nice guy, who would have thought he would die before Keith. Crazy! Of the 4 main members he was the only one who didn't, for whatever reason, annoy me, and while their music was ok (although the Some Girls album was great) overall I could take or leave them.
Yes, he was a decent drummer, but he was no John Bonham or Neil Peart.
And none of them were Dave Weckl, Vinnie Colaiuta or Buddy Rich.Quote:
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But more important, he wasn't trying to do what they did and they weren't trying to do what he did. The only thing all of them have in common is that they were perfect for their bands.
Since you liked the last DListed quote, from their obituary article:Quote:
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Truth
Life getting a little too close to art:
Omar Little actor dies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yuzc_8so8E
Norm Mcdonald of Weekend Update fame at 61 after long battle with cancer.
https://www.newser.com/story/311046/...paign=20210914
He's one of my favorite of the post-Not Ready For Prime Time Players SNL alums, especially his Weekend Update stint. I read his autobiography a couple of years ago and enjoyed it as well. I'll miss his humor and the way he delivered it.
Yup. Cancer is a real asshole.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58587521
Clive Sinclair(of the computer company of the same name) 81
R.I.P. Ruthie Tompson, Disney Legend who worked on Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
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Ruthie Tompson, who worked on such cornerstones of Disney animation as Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, Bambi, and Sleeping Beauty, has died. Per The Hollywood Reporter, a Disney spokesperson confirmed that Tompson died on Sunday at the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. She was 111.
Born on July 22, 1910, in Portland, Maine, Tompson’s family resided in Boston. When Ruthie was eight, the Tompsons headed west, reaching Oakland, CA on Armistice Day to celebrate the end of World War I.
Though largely uncredited, Tompson’s work includes scene planning on Disney’s earliest works, but her collaborations with Disney predate the proper formation of Walt Disney Studios. Growing up near Disney Bros. Studio in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, Tompson would occasionally appear in Roy and Walt’s early films. As Ruthie often put it, “Mickey Mouse and I grew up together.”
“I used to walk by the Disney Bros. storefront,” Tompson said. “I was curious and snooped around, and, finally, they invited me in for a look. After that, I’d visit quite often. I remember sitting on the bench and watching Roy shoot the animated cels onto film.”
“Once Roy asked us neighborhood kids to play tag in the street, while he photographed us with a movie camera. I suppose it was for the Alice Comedies; he paid each of us a quarter, which I was glad for because I could buy licorice.”
At age 18, Walt Disney offered Ruthie a job as a painter in the Ink and Paint department. Her first assignment: Putting the finishing touches on the studio’s first animated feature, Snow White And The Seven Dwarves. Over the next four decades, she worked on “virtually every Disney animated feature up through The Rescuers,” according to her Disney Legends page. She would also stake her claim as the first woman allowed in the Hollywood camera union.
“Ruthie was a legend among animators, and her creative contributions to Disney—from Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs to The Rescuers—remain beloved classics to this day,” said former Disney CEO Bob Iger in a statement. “While we will miss her smile and wonderful sense of humor, her exceptional work and pioneering spirit will forever be an inspiration to us all.”
Ruthie’s filmography includes Disney’s earliest and most beloved films, including Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, and Robin Hood. In addition to her time at Disney, Tompson worked on the 1960s Popeye The Sailor cartoon and Ralph Bakshi’s The Lord Of The Rings.
“The best way to describe Ruthie is simply ‘remarkable,’” said Mindy Johnson, Disney historian and author of Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney’s Animation, in a statement. “She was perhaps the last link from the earliest origins of animation in Hollywood. Ruthie was a living witness and vital contributor to the progress and growth of the animation industry as we know it today.”
Ruthie retired from Disney in 1975, following her work on The Rescuers. At D23, she delivered some remarks in celebration of her 110th birthday. “Try to do as much as you can for yourself,” she said. “Remember all the good things in life.”
This seems to be making some news today:
Colin Powell, first Black US secretary of state, dies of Covid-19 complications amid cancer battle
Bush Jr. apologist (at least publicly) as secretary of state, but had an accomplished Pentagon career before that, so that's something.
Dean Stockwell, shit!! :(
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainm...edgdhp&pc=U531
one of my faves, again I love a lot of the actors who were relegate dot character/b roles, or way back when they allowed folk like that to be A list actors like Humphrey Bogart etc,
folk with character, humour, who could do actual menace instead of posing like a wanker etc
Me and Mum used to love watching "Quantum Leap" together
and he was tragically overlooked and truly excellent in "Dune"
can i say once again: 2021 FUCKING SUCKS! :(
Wilbur Smith, novelist, sigh
one of first novels I read was his "Sunbird" when I was wee.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/...?ocid=msedgntp
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This guy was the most famous defensive player of his era:
Sam Huff, legendary Giants, Washington linebacker, dies at 87
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch5LWe1BCSk
He became a household name during his playing days largely because of this documentary (can't watch it embedded here, unfortunately).
The greatest all-around songwriter America has ever produced:
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment...es-91-81411765
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XPfnubkFD8
https://youtu.be/HxAnVUnLb5k
Michael Nesmith, member of the Monkees, 78, heart failure:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/10/enter...ead/index.html
Micky Dolenz gets to be Last Monkee Standing!
Sigh, used to love watching their show when I was a kid :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
Nesmith's "Fly Down to Rio" is an great fun, very overlooked song and IIRC is arguably the first ever music video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnpcTsy10dE
Wow didn't know this about Mike Nesmith!
his mum basically invented Tipp-Ex and made a fortune form it, and he created the concept what would become MTV!
Much impressed :)
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainm...edgdhp&pc=U531
I knew his mom invented Liquid Paper but I did not know he was behind MTV. I used to watch the show as a kid too, and I think I still have some of their vinyl albums somewhere in storage. For a band that was really only active for four years, they had a pile of hits, especially here in Canada (eight #1's in three years).
Anne Rice, author
loved her Vampire trilogy back in the day
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59627125