http://variety.com/2015/film/news/ro...ad-1201654545/
Was in one of my favorite movie scenes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPoCndjSGYg
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http://variety.com/2015/film/news/ro...ad-1201654545/
Was in one of my favorite movie scenes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPoCndjSGYg
Aww that sucks. I really liked Loggia, he could pull off all kinds of roles; the one in the scene above, to a gangster, to a cop, to a bumbling assistant college football coach.
Thought you guys missed this one. The grim reapers miss nothing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHfi4kGPFvc
Not a big surprise, but still sad. Death was from a combination of drugs and alcohol:Quote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
http://www.tmz.com/2015/12/18/scott-...eath-overdose/Quote:
Toxicology testing shows Scott Weiland died from an overdose of several drugs and alcohol -- and his history of addiction also played a role.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner says the results show he OD'd on cocaine, MDA ... which is old school Ecstasy ... and booze.
It also shows heart disease and asthma were "significant" conditions. The test results also revealed Scott's "multi-substance dependence" was a factor.
Sad.
As someone who spent time on medium-sized venues (>1,000 but <10,000) with other bands, I'm glad I didn't get wrapped up in drugs, but I've seen plenty of compatriots do so.
There's no real support group for how to cope with what happens when you come down from the high of having hundreds of people hanging on your every word for several hours at a time just because you hopped on stage.
I did way more drinking than was probably healthy at the time, but lots of my peers were heavy into any upper they could get their hands on, and tempered them with copious amounts of booze.
It's ugly, and I hate that so much scrutiny is put on it, both glamorization and schadenfreude without much care for helping people through it.
its also I think just the life of being on the road too that drives rock stars to abuse of substances. Substance abuse is also quite high in truck drivers who are long haulers. Stuck on the highway for huge stretches of time and never really a home city to be had.
http://www.todaysknuckleball.com/knu...way-at-age-57/
Quote:
Dave Henderson, the gregarious man known as Hendu, died Sunday, one month after getting a kidney transplant. He will be tremendously missed
Meadowlark Lemon, dead at 83:
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2015/1...ies-at-83.html
I loved watching him play. I got to actually see him and Curly Neal in the mid 70s and loved every minute of it. Sure, the act was similar from game to game, but they put on a great show for the fans.
I saw the announcement about Meadowlark Lemon, too, and like Khieran saw Globetrotters sometime in the 70's.
Seemed like a really small venue for guys of such talent. Like a special show for all the Scouts in the area, or some function like that. I can't remember the location, just that I was not more than six rows from the court, IIRC.
http://m.tmz.com/#article/2015/12/28...otorhead-dead/
He had failing health which is no surprise but still never good to hear about a classic rocker going.
Nooooooo! Lemmy! :(
Well,
shit.
Better drink one for Lemmy... it's what he would have wanted. RIP! :rockon:
RIP Trapper John (aka Wayne Rogers). I did not realize he was that old, but I guess that makes sense considering when MASH was produced.
Boba Fett... at least the man who did the voice, died :(
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/jason-w...m_content=link
I just watched the Twilight Zone "A Stop At Willoughby" yesterday (SyFy is doing a marathon of all episodes). He'd been in a lot of stuff. I had no idea he was Boba Fett's voice until now.
http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/petiti...=link#/slide/1Quote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
Help Lemmy live on by signing a petition to get a new heavy metal element named after him :)
Cheers, Lysandor. Made me think of you, man.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...-artist-854364
That's a huge loss. A true genius :(
He just released a really good album, too.
R.I.P. Mr. Bowie. That makes me sad.
A loss, but the great thing about musicians is their music is immortal. Some aliens will probably find it in a time capsule a billion years from now and wonder who Ziggy was.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Alan Rickman!!!! :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(
Cancer, once again. CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!
He just did this to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhfuuKiTcYQ
Damn! I liked pretty much everything I ever saw him in :(
Yeah, surprising to me, at least. Great character actor, will be deservedly remembered (by American audiences, at least) as Professor Snape first and then Hans Gruber. But I also was impressed by his take on Eamon de Valera in the film Michael Collins:
Civil War speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IOooSZbVA0
Argument with Michael Collins (start at 1:23):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVlMeIetRHw
By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Warvan, he shall be missed.
Shoot. The. GLASS!
Fuck Cancer.
Brutal year so far, taking the great ones.
Came here just to post how much I adored Rickman as De Valera.
It was my favorite role of his, although I enjoyed everything I saw him in.
Wow, never even knew he was sick. As has already been said, every role he played he nailed, he definitely will be missed.
Wife said the same thing about David Bowie too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonlainy
Two celebrities @ 69 by Cancer?
Almost sounds like a new "Celebrity Death Clue" game.
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Originally Posted by Mileron
And 69 sideways is the astrological symbol for cancer.
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Illuminati confirmed.
I remember that Beli really liked Rickman. He was a really good actor.
I know there are a bunch of math and logic folk on this board, so even though this isn't the usual kind of celebrity passing we get on the thread ...
William Craig, perhaps best known for the Craig interpolation theorem passed away yesterday. Here's the obit at UC Berkeley Philosophy.
The most common theory in general is things come in threes.
Lemmy and Bowie jamming with Snape. Earning 20% off Nakatomi bearerbonds...
Celine Dion's husband, Rene, passed today at 73 from.. dun dun DUN throat cancer.
Yep, 3/3 on cancer. Lots of work still to be done in that field :(
Today it's Grizzly Adams
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/15/entert...ams-dead-feat/
WOW I could of swore he died years ago...Quote:
Originally Posted by Merkus
Probably mistook him for the bear.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shatter
Gotta say I have never heard of him or even knew Celine was married.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mileron
He had been battling various forms for the past ten years. She haltdd her tour a couple years ago to take care of him.
So who's gonna die tomorrow?
Wow, I didn't realize that grizzly adams was late enough for stone-washed jeans.
I guess I thought those came out in the 80's.
I just looked it up and they were around in the 60's.
Little Buddy!
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/actor-bob-denver-dies/
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Originally Posted by Merkus
That was, like, a decade ago.
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Originally Posted by Merrick ap'Milandra
HAHA! i wonder why that popped in my news feed today.
Not a celeb, but Celine Dion's brother died two days after her husband did. :(
Oh, the intrigue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
But will her heart go on?Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
I am sure it will, I mean for her she lost him due to cancer unlike the movie song that made her famous where the girl let the man freeze on a piece of driftwood.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schezar
Eagles guitarist Glenn Frey, 67, dies - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35349025
Damn, it's a rough year so far for the music industry
The Month the Music Died...
Been playing GTA5. One of the characters, Michael, seemed vaguely familiar, but I couldn't put a finger on it. Today it dawned upon me (sorry about the massive image)..
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Former WWE star "Iron" Mike Sharpe dead at 64:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2...aign=editorial
I like how the article phrases it:
Many words to say "jobber".Quote:
Originally Posted by Excerpt
I still use the term WWF a lot for the wrestling, its like one knows its WWE but it was WWF for so long.
Celebrities are dropping like flies at the moment, geesh!
This one hit me right in the mortality. He was like synonymous with Miami Vice, which was synonymous with my teenage years. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
Abe Vigoda at 94. Mostly known for his Fish role on Barney Miller, but was a fairly substantial role in The Godfather. He was great on Barney Miller, that's what I remember him best for.
Noooooooooooooooo
Marvin Minsky, king of AI. Wow, 2016 is on a hot streak...
How many times over the last 20+ years have we all thought he was already long gone?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonlainy
Jefferson Airplane founder dies:
http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/...74-6791483.php
I'd post a link to Jefferson Airplane songs, but I'll save them for when Grace Slick dies.
R.I.P Maurice White.
JEEZ, 2016. Stop it!
In his honor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs069dndIYk
What's happening is the 70s/80s are dying and most of us were kids then. Hurts just a little bit more.
Definitely. Plus we're moving into the WWII birth years, and there are a LOT of people in that generation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daxil Solshok
Edgar Mitchell. Don't have a link.
Reddit was speculating he had CTE. I don't find that too unlikely. Even with just street the athletes get wrecked. In a recent x games a skateboarder nearly died when coming back down and missing the vert amp. It makes dropsins from helicopters (ala Danny Way) even more impressive to me. I can't find any decent YT clips of that event. It did not strike me as super impressive when I watched at the time because of how easy he made it look. I've grown to appreciate how dangerous it really was though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nadiar
Man that movie was fucking awesome! The opening credits were perfect. Ryan Reynolds killed it. Funniest movie I've seen in a long time.
part of me thinks this was actually intentional.Quote:
Originally Posted by Philo
Justice Antonin Scalia dies in sleep, age 79
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/13/politi...-79/index.html
Obama gets to name a Justice in his last year
Whoa???? I expected to hear Ginsburg had died (sooner or later) but not Scalia. And don't hold your breath on Obama getting to name a SC justice. GOP will just stonewall for a year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gidizlo
http://blackamericaweb.com/2016/02/1...hews-has-died/Quote:
Multiple sources including MC Hammer and Minneapolis-based singer Jill Jones have confirmed via social media that Denise “Vanity” Matthews has died. She was reportedly 57 and had been battling a number of illnesses for the past several years.
Matthews was best known for her work in Prince’s girl group, Vanity 6 for which she was the lead singer while the two were dating. The Canadian-based actress/model was originally supposed to star in Purple Rain but left the group before the film starting shooting. She was replaced by Apollonia “Patty” Kotero in both the film and the group, who hit with “Sex Shooter” as Apollonia 6.
Vanity 6’s big hit was 1982’s “Nasty Girl” written and produced by Prince. Matthews went on to two solo albums with Motown star in the classic Black karate movie The Last Dragon with Taimak, Action Jackson and 52 Pick-Up. In recent years, Matthews, who struggled with a drug addiction, became a born-again Christian and started a ministry.
According to People Magazine, Matthews met Prince at the 1980 American Music Awards and they started dating. She was later engaged to Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx but the relationship was marred by heavy drug use by both. Matthews married former NFL star Anthony Smith who was just sentenced a few weeks ago to a life sentence for a triple murder. Matthews told Jet Magazine that she had renal failure and was on peritoneal dialysis for years. Matthews had recently experienced a health setback and was seeking funding to help pay for her medical bills via GoFundMe.
The fuck is going on? She put the erotic in dancer.
Death sux, she was my first teenage obsession :(
She also did a lot of hard drugs in her Prince years. The long term effects of that tends to be early expiration.
'Police Academy,' 'Punky Brewster' star George Gaynes dies at 98
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George Gaynes, who starred in all seven “Police Academy” movies and had a lead role in the 1980s sitcom “Punky Brewster,” died Monday in his daughter’s Washington state home. He was 98.
Iya Gaynes Falcone Brown confirmed her father’s death to The New York Times on Tuesday.
Gaynes had a role in 35 films over the course of his career, including starring oppose of Dustin Hoffman in the movie “Tootsie,” which received 10 Academy Award nominations. Other film credits include “The Way We Were,” “Altered States” and “Wag the Dog.”
He also appeared in several television shows, including “The Defenders,” “Mission: Impossible,” “The Six Million Dollar Man,” “Bonanza” and “Hawaii Five-0.”
Jonathan Howard, a longtime agent for Gaynes, told The Hollywood Reporter that his death was a “sad loss.”
“The last couple times I got in touch with him, even in his 90s, he was always happy to take the call and consider something,” Howard said. “He was really one of the true gentlemen in this business and was working steadily for 50 years or more. A sad, sad loss. But he had a really long, great life.”
Gaynes was born George Jongejans in Helsinki, Finland on May 16, 1917 to a Russian mother and a Dutch father. He was raised in France, England and Switzerland.
World War II halted his promising opera career and after spending three months in Spain, he traveled to the U.K. and enlisted in the Royal Dutch Navy.
When the war ended, he took his talents to New York and joined the New York City Opera. He got his first start on Broadway in the 1950s, starring in the musical “Wonderful Town.”
Gaynes retired following his appearance in the 2003 film “Just Married,” starring Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy.
Gaynes is survived by his wife, actress Allyn Ann McLerie, his daughter, one granddaughter, and two great-granddaughters. His son, Matthew, died in a 1989 car accident.
Harper Lee, author of "To Kill A Mockingbird", dead at age 89:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35616011
Probably the second most impactful book I read as a kid. Rest in peace, Scout.
Literary world got a two-fer on Friday: Umberto Eco is a goner too. Maybe the Illuminati, Knights Templar and St. Germain finally knocked him off.
For what little it's worth, I've read or tried reading all seven of his novels, loved two of them (Foucault's Pendulum, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana), enjoyed another on my second try (Name of the Rose, the book that made his name as a fiction writer). Just for those three books alone, I'm very glad Eco was around.
As for the others, I mostly enjoyed one (Baudolino), found myself uninterested enough to not finish two of them (Island of the Day Before and Prague Cemetery) and finished the last one but was very disappointed (Numero Zero) by its lack of depth or, for that matter, much of a plot of any sort.
If you know anything about wine then you know the Mondavi name. Peter Mondavi, brother of Robert Mondavi passed away today.
http://www.sacbee.com/food-drink/article61755542.html
Apollo Creed's (and later Rocky's) trainer has gone to the big gym in the sky:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/mo...ies-at-78.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtAdy4mfyJk
Apropos. Burning Heart by Foreigner has been stuck in my head lately.
Is it East versus West
Or man against man
Can any nation stand alone!!!
Survivor, not ForeignerQuote:
Originally Posted by Daxil Solshok
Frank Kelly (best known outside of Ireland as Father Jack in Father Ted) passed away yesterday, 18 years to the day that Dermot Morgan (the titular Father Ted) died
Quote:
Originally Posted by [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-35682191"
George Kennedy - star of tons of great movies, dead at 91:
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...edy-dies-at-1/
Not a celebrity, but someone who came up with something that most, if not all of us, use every day:
Inventor of email dies
I think I'll go check my email now.
Nancy Reagan passed away at 94.
ignore me
I saw the name, and was almost sad GoT would never be finished.
Oh, my sweet summer child.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schezar
Hodor?Quote:
Originally Posted by Schezar
When I hovered over the link, that was my first thought as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schezar
Drove by a Perkins on my way into work and was confused as to why the flag was at half staff.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaly
Ahh, Nancy. The lady who misled me into thinking that when I grew up, everyone was going to give me free drugs.
Apparently you and I weren't the only ones:Quote:
Originally Posted by Schezar
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...-producer.html