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