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Title: Celebrity death thread
Post by: KevShmev on February 15, 2023, 01:54:54 PM
As it feels like we get one of these every other day now, it feels like a thread is needed.

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Racquel Welch passed at 82.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: lonestar on February 15, 2023, 02:05:10 PM
Tremendous woman, tremendous career. I'm sure half of us had her on our wall at some point in the 80s.


Also, her assistance in helping Andy Dufresne escape Shawshank Penitentiary cannot be understated
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on February 15, 2023, 02:06:30 PM
RIP Racquel Welch
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Harmony on February 15, 2023, 02:10:14 PM
Mary Tyler Moore Show 1973

Mary Richards: "I have to bring our obituary file up to date. The ones we do in advance. Next is Raquel Welch."

Rhoda Morgenstern: "Well, one thing we know for sure is she didn't drown."



Hopefully that isn't too soon for people.  I mean no disrespect.  I bet since 1973, she'd gotten over it and maybe even laughed at it.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: pg1067 on February 15, 2023, 02:11:20 PM
I don't know that I've ever seen anything in which she had more than a cameo role, but she remained hot way longer than anyone has a right to.

Fun fact:  Her cousin was the interim President of Bolivia.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Harmony on February 15, 2023, 02:13:24 PM
Her daughter was in an old (80s) favorite movie of mine.  She is also very beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AQNkoRS6-M
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on February 15, 2023, 03:05:04 PM
Did not know she was Bolivian. 
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: pg1067 on February 15, 2023, 04:45:35 PM
Did not know she was Bolivian.

Mixed race.  She was born in Chicago as Jo Raquel Tejada.  Her father (Armando Carlos Tejada Urquizo) was an aeronautical engineer from La Paz, Bolivia.  Her mother (Josephine Sarah Hall) was English.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: jingle.boy on February 15, 2023, 04:59:20 PM
Her daughter was in an old (80s) favorite movie of mine.  She is also very beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AQNkoRS6-M

I remember that scene rather well.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: KevShmev on February 16, 2023, 04:16:05 PM
Tim McCarver the latest.  Dead at 81.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: pg1067 on February 16, 2023, 05:25:00 PM
Tim McCarver the latest.  Dead at 81.

I really loved Tim McCarver as an analyst.  I recall noticing a few times that he wasn't calling games anymore, but I can't recall hearing when he retired.  Either I missed it or he stepped away quietly.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TAC on February 16, 2023, 08:11:51 PM
Tim McCarver the latest.  Dead at 81.

I really loved Tim McCarver as an analyst. 

I thought he was excellent.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Cool Chris on February 16, 2023, 09:52:45 PM
I thought he was a bit of a blowhard when calling MLB games.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: DTwwbwMP on February 16, 2023, 11:32:18 PM
Tim McCarver the latest.  Dead at 81.

I really loved Tim McCarver as an analyst. 

I thought he was excellent.

The ABSOLUTE GOAT! :hefdaddy :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
RIP
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on February 17, 2023, 06:41:35 AM
Tim McCarver the latest.  Dead at 81.

I really loved Tim McCarver as an analyst. 

I thought he was excellent.

I'm a big fan; his love of the game was evident from the first pitch. 
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: T-ski on February 17, 2023, 06:46:31 AM
Tim McCarver the latest.  Dead at 81.

I really loved Tim McCarver as an analyst.

Deion Sanders disagrees with you.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: pg1067 on February 17, 2023, 10:04:10 AM
I imagine Mr. Sanders and I wouldn't see eye to eye on very many things.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: mike099 on February 18, 2023, 04:52:49 AM
I loved the old science fiction movie Raquel was in called Fantastic Voyage.  She looked good in the suit.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: lonestar on February 18, 2023, 04:56:09 AM
I thought he was a bit of a blowhard when calling MLB games.

Except those 3 times he called the Giants winning the World Series.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on February 18, 2023, 07:06:53 AM
I imagine Mr. Sanders and I wouldn't see eye to eye on very many things.

I know that feeling!  :)
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: jingle.boy on February 19, 2023, 02:37:18 PM
Richard Belzer.  I remember him as a stand up comedian before his years on SVU.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: KevShmev on February 19, 2023, 02:49:52 PM
Munch was always a favorite of mine on SVU.

R.I.P.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on February 20, 2023, 10:16:17 AM
RIP Richard Belzer
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: jingle.boy on February 20, 2023, 12:05:28 PM
What’s the over/under on Jimmy Carter?
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TAC on February 20, 2023, 12:06:45 PM
Tuesday
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on February 20, 2023, 12:23:19 PM
Tuesday

Sadly, probably not far off. 
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: lonestar on February 20, 2023, 01:23:13 PM
Whenever it comes, I'd hope he gets his own thread. No matter what one thinks about his presidency, nobody can argue that he was definitely among the best of us as a human being.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: pg1067 on February 20, 2023, 07:19:25 PM
Carter left office over 43 years ago.  He is the president to live longest after leaving office by more than 11 years (#2 was Hoover, who lived nearly 32 years after leaving office; #3 was Ford, who lived nearly 30 years).

Other than those who died in office and those still living, the presidents who died soonest after their terms ended were Polk (103 days), Arthur (1 year and 259 days, and Washington (2 years and 285 days).
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on February 21, 2023, 02:15:38 PM
Whenever it comes, I'd hope he gets his own thread. No matter what one thinks about his presidency, nobody can argue that he was definitely among the best of us as a human being.

100%.  I never had the pleasure to meet him personally, but he did a lot with the school I got my MBA at, and one of my professors had a very close relationship with him over the years.  (Sidebar, my great uncle - and namesake - graduated the Naval Academy with Carter).
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: lonestar on February 21, 2023, 06:37:24 PM
Whenever it comes, I'd hope he gets his own thread. No matter what one thinks about his presidency, nobody can argue that he was definitely among the best of us as a human being.

100%.  I never had the pleasure to meet him personally, but he did a lot with the school I got my MBA at, and one of my professors had a very close relationship with him over the years.  (Sidebar, my great uncle - and namesake - graduated the Naval Academy with Carter).

I mean, talk about a guy who has the VIP backstage pass to the afterlife.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on February 27, 2023, 05:59:49 PM
here's the SAG Awards In Memoriam.

Some names likely missing, but also a few I don't recall like Fred Ward.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a968G4bUKqE
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on February 28, 2023, 07:00:20 AM
Looks like Tom Sizemore will be joining this list shortly.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on March 02, 2023, 12:20:34 PM
Wayne Shorter of Weather Report :(

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/02/wayne-shorter-icon-of-jazz-saxophone-dies-aged-89
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on March 02, 2023, 12:53:25 PM
Wayne Shorter of Weather Report :(

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/02/wayne-shorter-icon-of-jazz-saxophone-dies-aged-89
Oh man

RIP
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Harmony on March 03, 2023, 03:36:17 PM
We lost another great musician, David Lindley.  That man could play just about anything but he blew me away with his playing lap steel guitar.

He worked with many of the greats - Dolly Pardon, Warren Zevon, Ry Cooder, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, and Curtis Mayfield.

If you don't know who he is, do yourself a favor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n00fQvEHvX0
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Zydar on March 04, 2023, 01:31:26 AM
Looks like Tom Sizemore will be joining this list shortly.

Indeed, he died last night  :-\

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/tom-sizemore-taken-off-life-support-brain-aneurysm-1235538021/ (https://variety.com/2023/film/news/tom-sizemore-taken-off-life-support-brain-aneurysm-1235538021/)
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Cool Chris on March 04, 2023, 09:05:29 AM
Tom Sizemore delivers one of the most boss glares I've ever seen in a film, at 0:53. 

https://youtu.be/D_3xCnDxxU8?t=50

Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: El Barto on March 04, 2023, 09:12:09 AM
RIP Jack Scagnetti. When I saw that he'd checked out I watched the second half of Natural Born Killers (it was late). That's a top five movie for me, and he was a big part of it. His scenes with Tommy Lee Jones were excellent. Scagnetti was probably the most eccentric character until he met Warden McClusky, and he was damn near stoic next to him. That made him the prefect foil.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hunnus2000 on March 04, 2023, 09:25:45 AM
RIP Jack Scagnetti. When I saw that he'd checked out I watched the second half of Natural Born Killers (it was late). That's a top five movie for me, and he was a big part of it. His scenes with Tommy Lee Jones were excellent. Scagnetti was probably the most eccentric character until he met Warden McClusky, and he was damn near stoic next to him. That made him the prefect foil.

Yeah NBK was my first thought. He was downright creepy in that character!  :metal

Or was that his REAL personality?  :justjen
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: KevShmev on March 04, 2023, 11:02:57 AM
Heat is one of my favorite films, and Sizemore delivers a great supporting role in that one.

True Romance as well. That film is loaded with stars, but Sizemore and Chris Penn, both of whom do not show up until later in the film, steal literally every scene they are in.

R.I.P.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: jingle.boy on March 05, 2023, 06:33:09 AM
Heat is one of my favorite films, and Sizemore delivers a great supporting role in that one.

True Romance as well. That film is loaded with stars, but Sizemore and Chris Penn, both of whom do not show up until later in the film, steal literally every scene they are in.

R.I.P.

Heat is my #1 movie of All-Time; True Romance is #3.  Enemy of the State is another Top 10 movie for me.

Fun Fact... he is also the primary 'star' in a movie called The Relic - the first date for mrs.jingle and I.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: orcus116 on March 05, 2023, 07:57:17 AM
Back in late 2010 I had returned from college and met up with a friend of mine who invited me to work on a movie being filmed in town. I had nothing to do so I hopped on board. After that wrapped another friend got in with a producer and asked me if I wanted to help out again so I ended up on another weekend long project and Tom Sizemore was one of the leads. This is about the time he was attempting to revive his career with basically anything he could get cast in after rehab stints so it made sense that he was on this tiny indie project.

At one point I was tasked to go get cases of water for the crew and as I walking to my car I heard "Hey, kid, go long" from behind me. I turn around and Sizemore had a football with him so him and I played catch for a few minutes. He was definitely an interesting guy and I got to see the good and ugly side of him during that weekend but clearly he had demons he was working out. An unfortunate way to go out but such is life.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: XeRocks81 on March 05, 2023, 08:27:02 AM
Heat is one of my favorite films, and Sizemore delivers a great supporting role in that one.

True Romance as well. That film is loaded with stars, but Sizemore and Chris Penn, both of whom do not show up until later in the film, steal literally every scene they are in.

R.I.P.

Heat is my #1 movie of All-Time; True Romance is #3.  Enemy of the State is another Top 10 movie for me.

Fun Fact... he is also the primary 'star' in a movie called The Relic - the first date for mrs.jingle and I.

+1 for Sizemore in Heat « for me the action IS the juice »

https://youtu.be/t2ojmr1gDrY
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: KevShmev on March 05, 2023, 11:19:57 AM
I love that scene for how different the answers are from Neil's three guys.

Shiherlis does it because he is a degenerate gambler who is always broke and needs the money.  His answer takes about 20 seconds or so.

Cheritto really thinks it over for a minute or two, and even Neil tells him that he would be smart to cut loose from it since he has money saved and his wife takes good care of him, but because the action is the juice, he is in.

Trejo simply replies, "Sure, why not? Fuck it." :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Zydar on March 06, 2023, 12:37:43 AM
Gary Rossington, the last surviving original Lynyrd Skynyrd member, has died.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/05/entertainment/lynyrd-skynyrd-guitarist-gary-rossington-dies/index.html
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TAC on March 06, 2023, 03:20:22 PM
Gary Rossington, the last surviving original Lynyrd Skynyrd member, has died.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/05/entertainment/lynyrd-skynyrd-guitarist-gary-rossington-dies/index.html

Oh man, that's too bad.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Dublagent66 on March 06, 2023, 03:36:12 PM
Dearly departing Dallas.  :( RIP.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Harmony on March 09, 2023, 05:48:47 PM
Robert Blake has died.  From Our Gang to Baretta to accused murderer who was found not guilty in 2005.

https://deadline.com/2023/03/robert-blake-dead-actor-in-baretta-in-cold-blood-was-89-beat-real-life-murder-rap-1235284339/
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on March 10, 2023, 06:29:59 AM
Topol

maybe best known as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof and from Flash Gordon
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on March 10, 2023, 10:58:18 AM
Robin Lumley of MARSCAPE and Brand X has died.

Marscape is all-time favorite of mine.

RIP Robin 😢

https://officialbrandx.com/core-members/robin-lumley

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fq4EgGaXgAAs-_G?format=jpg&name=small)

https://open.spotify.com/album/1Oyz4Bk1W1hFLwgowUXSjk
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on March 11, 2023, 12:54:01 PM
Bud Grant, former Minnesota Vikings Head Coach and NBA Player

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fq9IVK8XsAAAV5Q?format=jpg&name=medium)
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: pg1067 on March 11, 2023, 06:09:29 PM
I'm surprised Bud Grant was still alive.  He seemed ancient to me when I started watching football in the 70s.  I didn't realize he had played in the NBA - and won an NBA title with the Lakers.  He's in both the American Pro Football HOF and the CFL HOF.  Eleven first place finishes in a thirteen season span with the Vikings.  FOUR Grey Cups!  Married nearly six decades and lived nearly 40 years after retiring from the NFL.  THAT is one hell of a life!
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on March 13, 2023, 09:12:48 AM
I'm surprised Bud Grant was still alive.  He seemed ancient to me when I started watching football in the 70s. 
He was.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on March 15, 2023, 10:29:21 AM
Bobby Caldwell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Y0SZrPdX0

https://www.tmz.com/2023/03/15/bobby-caldwell-dead-dies-what-you-wont-do-for-love/
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Harmony on March 16, 2023, 08:30:03 AM
That song, 'What You Won't Do For Love' is etched in my DNA from middle school.  It is one of those songs that instantly puts me in a different place and time.  And damn, I thought the guy was black for decades.  :blush

RIP
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on March 16, 2023, 09:19:14 AM
Stunningly, embarrassingly, I've never heard that song before.   Huh.   
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on March 16, 2023, 11:27:52 AM
That song, 'What You Won't Do For Love' is etched in my DNA from middle school.  It is one of those songs that instantly puts me in a different place and time.  And damn, I thought the guy was black for decades.  :blush

RIP

that seems to be the case for so many. They always assumed he was black. I suppose many singers who are considered "Blue Eyed Soul" that could be said about (Michael McDonald, Rick Astley).

A Popular YouTube Reaction Channel my wife and I watch did a reaction to WYWDFL a few years ago having his mouth drop seeing he was white
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGNVXR9RXT4
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: pg1067 on March 16, 2023, 02:19:54 PM
Stunningly, embarrassingly, I've never heard that song before.   Huh.

The opening horns sounded familiar, but it doesn't sound otherwise familiar, and I've never heard of him.


that seems to be the case for so many. They always assumed he was black. I suppose many singers who are considered "Blue Eyed Soul" that could be said about (Michael McDonald, Rick Astley).

I saw Rick Astley the same time I heard him, so I never had an opportunity to think he was anything other than the whitest guy ever.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TAC on March 16, 2023, 02:21:59 PM
Stunningly, embarrassingly, I've never heard that song before.   Huh.

Wow, even I know that song...not from the title, I clicked the link.


And damn, I thought the guy was black

Same.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: MinistroRaven on March 17, 2023, 01:06:06 PM
Lance Reddick has sadly passed away at the age of 60.

(https://i0.wp.com/marvin.com.mx/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/lance-reddick-resident-evil-netflix-live-action-elenco.jpg)

YESTERDAY:

Jim Gordon, Ex-Eric Clapton Drummer and 'Layla' Co-Writer Who Spent Four Decades in Prison, Died at the age of 77

(https://i.imgur.com/ypmOJ5R.png)

Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: faizoff on March 17, 2023, 01:07:10 PM
Damn that is very surprising.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on March 17, 2023, 01:32:50 PM
that is bizarre. Only 60? Natural Causes?

I really liked him on Fringe and more or less any time I saw him on screen he stood out.

RIP.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: faizoff on March 17, 2023, 02:36:03 PM
I first saw him on the wire. Was one of the best written and acted parts.

His role in the John Wick movies was great too.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: NoseofNicko on March 17, 2023, 02:42:27 PM
He was great in The Wire and Fringe. R.I.P. 😢
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: jingle.boy on March 17, 2023, 02:44:38 PM
that is bizarre. Only 60? Natural Causes?

I really liked him on Fringe and more or less any time I saw him on screen he stood out.

RIP.

This.  Never did watch The Wire though. 

And, he has one of my favorite .gif's of all time.

(https://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/this_is_bullshit_the_wire.gif)
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: lonestar on March 18, 2023, 05:55:49 AM
Aw man.. That sucks. He was amazing on Fringe.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: MirrorMask on March 18, 2023, 06:13:11 AM
That was sad and unexpected. Great loss for the TV world!
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: gmillerdrake on March 18, 2023, 09:41:17 AM
Aw man.. That sucks. He was amazing on Fringe.

Yep....loved him in that. He just 'commanded' a scene....just had a unique presence. 60 is SO young....
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: jingle.boy on March 18, 2023, 10:37:35 AM
Aw man.. That sucks. He was amazing on Fringe.

Yep....loved him in that. He just 'commanded' a scene....just had a unique presence. 60 is SO young....

Agreed.  I think he was my favorite actor on the show.  Anna Torv's hotness not withstanding.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: King Puppies and the Acid Guppies on March 18, 2023, 07:50:25 PM
Aw man.. That sucks. He was amazing on Fringe.

Yep....loved him in that. He just 'commanded' a scene....just had a unique presence. 60 is SO young....

Agreed.  I think he was my favorite actor on the show.  Anna Torv's hotness not withstanding.
Huh, I always thought she was kind of weird looking. Still a great show!
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: bl5150 on March 19, 2023, 05:51:46 PM
Sorry to hear about Lance Reddick .  I'm not much of a TV watcher but did follow Fringe and Bosch and he was a key to both series - amazing screen presence as others have noted.  :sad:
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: wolfking on March 19, 2023, 06:00:56 PM
Sorry to hear about Lance Reddick .  I'm not much of a TV watcher but did follow Fringe and Bosch and he was a key to both series - amazing screen presence as others have noted.  :sad:

Jeez, I never heard of him or these two tv shows!  60 though is so young.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: ReaPsTA on March 19, 2023, 10:40:53 PM
RIP Lance Reddick
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: ErHaO on March 20, 2023, 01:07:51 AM
Man, loved him in the Wire and several videogames (namely Horizon). RIP.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on March 21, 2023, 01:29:33 PM
Willis Reed, 80.

Knicks Captain.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on March 21, 2023, 01:49:56 PM
Willis Reed, 80.

Knicks Captain.
RIP for sure, but honestly, I thought he had died several years ago.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on March 21, 2023, 02:19:49 PM
Willis Reed, 80.

Knicks Captain.
RIP for sure, but honestly, I thought he had died several years ago.

I'm reading the Steve Lukather autobiography and he talked about his good friend Miguel Ferrar passing from cancer, and I was like... he's gone? Wha?  When?
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Cool Chris on March 21, 2023, 05:42:19 PM
I'm reading the Steve Lukather autobiography and he talked about his good friend Miguel Ferrar passing from cancer, and I was like... he's gone? Wha?  When?

If I recall correctly, he was sick when they worked on the 3rd season of Twin Peaks a few years ago, but he toughed it out to let us all enjoy the wit and wisdom of Albert Rosenfeld one final time, and he died shortly after filming.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TAC on March 22, 2023, 07:14:01 PM
Not really familiar with the band..

https://bravewords.com/news/saliva-guitarist-wayne-swinny-dies-of-brain-hemorrhage-while-on-tour

59 y/o. WTF??
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Adami on March 22, 2023, 07:17:14 PM
Oh snap. I read about the hemorrhage but he was still alive last I checked. Damn.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Zydar on March 31, 2023, 03:33:00 AM
Keith Reid, the lyricist for Procol Harum, has passed away. He wrote almost all their lyrics.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/30/keith-reid-lyricist-for-procol-harum-dies-aged-76
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on April 01, 2023, 11:28:41 AM
Ray Shulman of Gentle Giant  :'(
https://www.facebook.com/gentlegiantband/posts/pfbid02XP1hfYTCgERrLAn2kKzWSobqqSuJRZGBLmqbdZyRem2XCbFzD5ad9utv2dofJJNcl
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on April 03, 2023, 06:58:15 AM
Seymour Stein, Record Label Executive and founder of Sire Records, 80.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/seymour-stein-record-exec-signed-madonna-dead-80-rcna77854
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on April 25, 2023, 08:32:09 AM
Harry Belafonte, 96

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/25/harry-belafonte-singer-dies-actor-singer-activist?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on April 25, 2023, 09:09:05 AM
Belafonte did a lot of civil rights work.  Honestly, I never cared very much for him as an actor.

Also honestly, I thought he was already dead.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: lonestar on April 26, 2023, 08:57:39 PM
Belafonte did a lot of civil rights work.  Honestly, I never cared very much for him as an actor.

Also honestly, I thought he was already dead.

I was listening to a bit about him on the radio yesterday, and his classmates in an acting workshop in his early career were Tony Curtis, Walter Matheau, Bea Arthur, Sidney Portier, and Marlon Brando. Jfc man....
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Zydar on April 27, 2023, 08:42:40 AM
Jerry Springer has died.

https://www.tmz.com/2023/04/27/jerry-springer-dead-dies/
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: lonestar on April 27, 2023, 08:44:55 AM
Wow... Didn't see that one coming.


Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on April 27, 2023, 08:53:13 AM
79; my brother met him a couple times (he lived in Sarasota), said he was the nicest, humblest guy on the planet. 
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: lonestar on April 27, 2023, 08:36:18 PM
79; my brother met him a couple times (he lived in Sarasota), said he was the nicest, humblest guy on the planet.

Doesn't surprise me a bit... I always felt the real Jerry was less of the shit show guests he had, and more of his final thought segment
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on April 29, 2023, 11:28:47 PM
not really a highly known celebrity, but someone who was known among the Prog Rock and Chapman Stick, and Dave Mathews Band fans communities,

Greg Howard, 59

https://snbc13.com/greg-howard-charlottesville-va-well-known-stick-musician-died-from-pancreatic-cancer-death-obituary/

this is really sad. I saw him at Nearfest in 2001, then opening for Tim Reynolds later that year in Minneapolis, and then opening for Porcupine Tree a year in Milwaukee.

I remember him kindly giving me a copy of his "Water on the Moon" CD for my radio show on KFAI.

Fantastic Chapman Stick player, and only 59?..way too young.

Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: KevShmev on April 30, 2023, 12:15:33 PM
The local legend Mike Shannon, the longtime announcer for the St Louis Cardinals, has passed.

Back when I cared about baseball, he had more memorable calls than I can count.

R.I.P.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: gmillerdrake on April 30, 2023, 01:41:26 PM
The local legend Mike Shannon, the longtime announcer for the St Louis Cardinals, has passed.

Back when I cared about baseball, he had more memorable calls than I can count.

R.I.P.

Saw that. He was an iconic figure in St. Louis baseball for sure.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on May 01, 2023, 09:02:15 PM
Gordon Lightfoot, 84 Canadian Singer/Songwriter

https://apnews.com/article/gordon-lightfoot-folk-music-diedc-4c5f0763797da6a5f3ea8c90947352fc
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: jingle.boy on May 02, 2023, 03:57:22 AM
That's a legendary loss right there.  He was basically the Canadian Bob Dylan.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on May 02, 2023, 06:34:29 AM
Big loss; "Sundown" is a legendary tune, and "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" was a song that my stepson and I were able to bond over (he's on the spectrum and went through a ship/shipwreck phase).   
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: romdrums on May 02, 2023, 03:33:25 PM
That's a legendary loss right there.  He was basically the Canadian Bob Dylan.

Having lived all but a few years of my life in the Great Lakes Region of the US, he got a ton of airplay around here as well.  The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is one of those "I remember doing X when I heard the news" moments in our regional history.  Besides the song, I remember seeing a play about it at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in high school, and I think there's also a classical piece about it as well.  Great Lakes Brewing Co. makes an Edmund Fitzgerald Porter.  My Dad was obsessed with the story.  I think, if he had been independently wealthy, he would have funded some of the expeditions to go down to the wreckage! 
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TAC on May 03, 2023, 03:56:42 PM
Big loss; "Sundown" is a legendary tune, and "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" was a song that my stepson and I were able to bond over (he's on the spectrum and went through a ship/shipwreck phase).

Interesting. My son had a Titanic fetish. Still kind of does.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on May 04, 2023, 05:50:28 AM
Big loss; "Sundown" is a legendary tune, and "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" was a song that my stepson and I were able to bond over (he's on the spectrum and went through a ship/shipwreck phase).

Interesting. My son had a Titanic fetish. Still kind of does.

Same here!  He and I went down to NYC to see a Titanic exhibit in November of last year.  It was pretty cool.

Funny story: Titanic is my daughter's favorite movie, so one day a couple years ago (he had to be about 8 or so) my stepson says to her "Hey, do you want to watch Titanic with me?" and she was all fired up to have something in common to share.  She gets some popcorn, puts the movie on... and my stepson proceeds to fast forward through every scene with Leo and Kate.  All he wanted to see were the scenes after they hit the iceberg!  They made it through the entire movie in about 45 minutes.  :)   We laugh about it now.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: El Barto on May 04, 2023, 08:10:38 AM
Big loss; "Sundown" is a legendary tune, and "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" was a song that my stepson and I were able to bond over (he's on the spectrum and went through a ship/shipwreck phase).

Interesting. My son had a Titanic fetish. Still kind of does.

Same here!  He and I went down to NYC to see a Titanic exhibit in November of last year.  It was pretty cool.

Funny story: Titanic is my daughter's favorite movie, so one day a couple years ago (he had to be about 8 or so) my stepson says to her "Hey, do you want to watch Titanic with me?" and she was all fired up to have something in common to share.  She gets some popcorn, puts the movie on... and my stepson proceeds to fast forward through every scene with Leo and Kate.  All he wanted to see were the scenes after they hit the iceberg!  They made it through the entire movie in about 45 minutes.  :)   We laugh about it now.
There's actually a fan-edit that does that. I think it's called "The Historical Edition." Knocks it down to about an hour-ten.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Chino on May 04, 2023, 08:34:02 AM
Big loss; "Sundown" is a legendary tune, and "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" was a song that my stepson and I were able to bond over (he's on the spectrum and went through a ship/shipwreck phase).

Interesting. My son had a Titanic fetish. Still kind of does.

Same here!  He and I went down to NYC to see a Titanic exhibit in November of last year.  It was pretty cool.

Funny story: Titanic is my daughter's favorite movie, so one day a couple years ago (he had to be about 8 or so) my stepson says to her "Hey, do you want to watch Titanic with me?" and she was all fired up to have something in common to share.  She gets some popcorn, puts the movie on... and my stepson proceeds to fast forward through every scene with Leo and Kate.  All he wanted to see were the scenes after they hit the iceberg!  They made it through the entire movie in about 45 minutes.  :)   We laugh about it now.
There's actually a fan-edit that does that. I think it's called "The Historical Edition." Knocks it down to about an hour-ten.

I definitely have a Titanic fetish  :lol I first took a liking to it when I was about 6, and when the movie came out when I was in 3rd grade, I was hooked. I even wrote a poem about it in 5th grade that got published in some national poems book.

That NYC exhibit was pretty cool, but I'd argue it was more of a White Star Line/Olympic Class exhibit more than a Titanic one. I love all of that stuff though, so I didn't care, but I know a handful of people that reviewed it poorly because they felt like it was misrepresented. They were expecting tons of artifacts that were lifted from the wreck itself, not just a few items pulled off bodies that were found or heirlooms that were donated by the decedents of survivors. There's actually a huge exhibit out in Vegas (at the Luxor I believe) that features all of that stuff. I wish I had known that was out there the five times I went between 2016 and 2020.


To the movie:

I used to dislike the love story aspect to Cameron's film, but I've come to really appreciate it as I've grown older. Not only have I come to like it, but I think it was necessary to give us an un-forced tour of the ship in under 3 hours while also acting as perfect mechanism to properly highlight the class differences of the time, both on the ship itself and in general culture.   

There's a movie from the 1950 called A Night To Remember that's really phenomenal. It's a Titanic movie that was every bit as big of a production at the time as Cameron's version was. Cameron actually incorporated a number of intentional calls/nods to that film, some shots being almost 1:1 colorized recreations. Fun fact, the guy who played Archibald Gracie in Cameron's Titanic also played Frederick Fleet (guy who spotted the iceberg) in the ANTR. I always thought that was pretty cool.

(https://preview.redd.it/blabhghw1cm61.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=01088069037213db7310d2ea9707170362ae257c)
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: HOF on May 16, 2023, 01:18:16 PM
A celebrity so minor I didn’t even know his name before today, but I think many of us have heard his work and I’m a little surprised I wasn’t more familiar with him until now.

John Giblin played bass for Simple Minds but also played on In The Air Tonight and other tracks by Phil Collins, as well as several other songs by Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Sting, Fish, Mark Knopfler, etc. He apparently played on the song “Chalk Lines” for Randy McStine’s Lo-Fi Fidelity project, which is an awesome song (I only have that on download so wasn’t familiar with the personnel). Anyway, can’t even find a news article about it, just mentions by people in the circles he played on. Kind of sad when someone who contributed to so much music passes in obscurity.

https://www.genesis-news.com/news-John-Giblin-has-died-n875.html

https://www.katebushnews.com/2023/05/16/remembering-bassist-john-giblin/
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Zydar on May 19, 2023, 01:06:26 AM
Andy Rourke, bassist for The Smiths, has died.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/19/andy-rourke-bassist-for-the-smiths-dies-aged-59
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on May 19, 2023, 02:13:22 PM
Jim Brown

NFL Legend, Actor and Social Activist.

Arguably the greatest and most dominant Running Back in the History of American Football.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: pg1067 on May 19, 2023, 04:20:15 PM
Had no idea he was still alive.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Sir GuitarCozmo on May 19, 2023, 07:19:20 PM
Slammer finally gettin some relief from that bunion.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: gmillerdrake on May 22, 2023, 01:38:54 PM
Ray Stevenson dead at 58  :(     That's SO young.




https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12112215/Ray-Stevenson-dies-58-Irish-actor-starred-Punisher-War-Zone-Marvels-Thor-movies.html
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on May 22, 2023, 02:00:37 PM
Oh man!  That's too bad!  RIP
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: lonestar on May 24, 2023, 01:05:01 PM
The legendary Tina Turner passes away at 83  :'(
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on May 24, 2023, 01:13:56 PM
The legendary Tina Turner passes away at 83  :'(
Just saw that!  RIP
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on May 24, 2023, 01:17:42 PM
yeah, another icon from my Youth gone. RIP Tina.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: jammindude on May 24, 2023, 02:05:28 PM
I’m going to have to spin Montana in her honor.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: El Barto on May 24, 2023, 02:57:43 PM
I’m going to have to spin Montana in her honor.
Only heard it live so I had no idea she was on it. And she wasn't even the yippi-aye-oh-aye-tay girl. Go figure. 

Never cared for her solo stuff, but the live videos of her with Ike and the Ikettes were really something else.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: KevShmev on May 24, 2023, 06:11:25 PM
I honestly only know a few songs by Tina Turner, with What's Love Got to Do With It being a mainstay on my 80s playlist, but she was obviously a giant in the industry for a long time. R.I.P.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: jingle.boy on May 24, 2023, 06:35:56 PM
I’ll always remember “Simply the Best” being used on a Stanley Cup Playoff summary/montage in 1990

https://youtu.be/e1GjxoMgdIA
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on May 25, 2023, 06:52:59 AM
I’m going to have to spin Montana in her honor.
Only heard it live so I had no idea she was on it. And she wasn't even the yippi-aye-oh-aye-tay girl. Go figure. 

Never cared for her solo stuff, but the live videos of her with Ike and the Ikettes were really something else.

Kind of me.  I get her place in history, I do, but her solo stuff never really resonated (at least not like someone like Cher for example, who I saw live and LOVED).   
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Anguyen92 on May 25, 2023, 09:30:09 PM
Never had a chance to type this and I don't think anyone here knows him, but Texas Dolly, poker legend, Doyle Brunson had passed away a few weeks back at age 89.

This guy has had quite a life and paths would have easily changed before he played poker professionally.  Was pretty athletic and almost would have had a career as a NBA player until an injury where he was in crutches for the rest of his life derailed that.  He could have been part of the Minnesota Lakers....  Soon after, he played all kinds of poker games around Texas, illegal games really, one where robbery and guns being pointed at the table on the regular.  Beaten cancer in the 1960s when doctors thought he would only have a limited amount of time left.

Eventually ended up in Vegas and took part in the first ever World Series of Poker in 1970 and became a regular in the yearly series, winning 10 tournaments in his lifetime.  Wrote poker books that became influential when it comes to how the game goes and what routes that could lead to winning poker games.  Pretty much beaten the highest limit games in Vegas in a variety of poker games through the decades and won and lost a lot of money in those games, but still was able to succeed in making a living in poker for decades.

The one thing I will miss about him watching old poker shows was his wit and banter at the table.  He always will find something snarky to say and has a nice grin about it that everyone in the table can laugh and enjoy the atmosphere.  The poker world will miss him, but thank him in his part of growing the game that he probably didn't imagine during his old days of playing illegal and life-threatening games in Texas in the late 1950s and 60s.  That said, he was the kind of guy that's not really looking for fame. He mainly says he's not an entertainer, he's a poker player and knew where to follow the money in the poker games.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: jingle.boy on May 26, 2023, 05:08:53 AM
When the NHL lockout was on in 2005, I ended up watching a lot of Poker.  Doyle looked 100 back then, so I'm actually quite amazed he was only in his early 70s.  He was the godfather of Poker back then, I'm sure that entire community is mourning.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on May 26, 2023, 06:20:18 AM
So, let me preface with two facts:   this could go here, or in the exasperated thread, and Paul McCartney is IMO the greatest living musician right now.  I got a notification yesterday from Apple News:  "Beatles bassist dead at 81".   Now, I don't know McCartney's EXACT age, but it's in the ballpark (turns out, he turns 81 in June. On the 18th, if you care).  My heart sinks, I click, and.... it's Chas Newby.  "Who?" you're saying.   Exactly.  I'm sort of a Beatles nut, and have won several trivia sessions regarding Beatles trivia, and I'm not sure I ever heard of Chas Newby.   Turns out he filled in for Stuart Sutcliffe for a couple gigs upon their first return from Germany, and when the band was to go back to Hamburg, he declined and at that point Paul drew the short straw and took over the bass guitar.   

Fun stuff (the trivia part, not his dying), but very questionable headline!   
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Lonk on May 26, 2023, 06:24:59 AM
So, let me preface with two facts:   this could go here, or in the exasperated thread, and Paul McCartney is IMO the greatest living musician right now.  I got a notification yesterday from Apple News:  "Beatles bassist dead at 81".   Now, I don't know McCartney's EXACT age, but it's in the ballpark (turns out, he turns 81 in June. On the 18th, if you care).  My heart sinks, I click, and.... it's Chas Newby.  "Who?" you're saying.   Exactly.  I'm sort of a Beatles nut, and have won several trivia sessions regarding Beatles trivia, and I'm not sure I ever heard of Chas Newby.   Turns out he filled in for Stuart Sutcliffe for a couple gigs upon their first return from Germany, and when the band was to go back to Hamburg, he declined and at that point Paul drew the short straw and took over the bass guitar.   

Fun stuff (the trivia part, not his dying), but very questionable headline!

Got you to click. I hate clickbait headlines like that.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TAC on May 26, 2023, 06:26:02 AM
How can you know Stuart Sutcliffe and NOT know who Chas Newby is? :lol
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Harmony on May 26, 2023, 08:36:54 AM
Yeah, I don't go on Twitter much anymore but when I see an older celebrity "trending" my heart always skips a beat.  Most recently it was Steve Martin.  Turns out he's fine and I'm not sure why he was trending but dayum, I don't like that initial 5 seconds of seeing that.

As for Tina Turner, I'm with some of the rest of you here.  I don't own any of her music aside from a couple of hits with Ike from back in the day and Acid Queen from Tommy.  But reading through all of the tributes and realizing the impact she had for SO MANY in the business, especially women, it is impossible not to appreciate her contribution.  And then thinking about the personal hardships and turmoil and watching her overcome those and rise to such heights makes her a trail blazer in so many ways for women.  Her latter music was also part of the soundtrack of my high school years. RIP

Anyway, this is the photo Paula Cole kept in her wardrobe case over the past few decades.  She'd get ready to go on stage by looking at this photo and channeling this power house of a performer.  I think it is an amazing photo.  Best legs in the business.  Credit: Herb Ritts

(https://i.imgur.com/Fobds2l.jpg)
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on June 02, 2023, 09:16:58 PM
Songwriter Cynthia Weil who with her husband Barry Mann, wrote several hugely iconic tunes and among others, "Love is Only Sleeping" and "Shades of Gray" for The Monkees.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TAC on June 12, 2023, 07:49:39 PM
Treat Williams
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/celebrity/treat-williams-star-of-everwood-and-hair-dead-at-71-following-motorcycle-accident/ar-AA1csJKK?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=eca47a1ec7a54b29979a94f1b6b1739d&ei=11
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Harmony on June 12, 2023, 07:56:55 PM
Treat Williams
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/celebrity/treat-williams-star-of-everwood-and-hair-dead-at-71-following-motorcycle-accident/ar-AA1csJKK?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=eca47a1ec7a54b29979a94f1b6b1739d&ei=11

Oh fucking hell.   :sad:
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TAC on June 12, 2023, 07:57:41 PM
Now that dude was handsome!
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on June 12, 2023, 10:42:07 PM
the details on the accident are bizarre. A car cuts him off while he was making a left turn with his motorcycle?

RIP. I probably knew him best from Everwood and that Journey to the Center of the Earth miniseries, but he was a very prolific working actor.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on June 13, 2023, 06:35:35 AM
the details on the accident are bizarre. A car cuts him off while he was making a left turn with his motorcycle?

RIP. I probably knew him best from Everwood and that Journey to the Center of the Earth miniseries, but he was a very prolific working actor.

But that's weird: "He was making a left or a right [and] and a car cut him off."
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on June 13, 2023, 06:35:48 AM
Now that dude was handsome!

Agreed
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on June 13, 2023, 06:57:57 AM
Long career.  RIP
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on June 27, 2023, 04:51:56 PM
Julian Sands

65, some hiking accident in Southern California?

 "Room With a View" was a among his most well known roles. Of course a clip from him in it was used in
Space Dye Vest.

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/julian-sands-dead-missing-room-with-a-view-1235656147/#recipient_hashed=299348b1ab5150937c7a705e139c6efa5552236880fdae1013dfafbb15973ed3&recipient_salt=c99b4beb7506981054d7d2fb8b51d7c3990c561fab35a84baffaee99535fc0da
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on June 30, 2023, 08:36:49 AM
Alan Arkin, 89

Little Miss Sunnshine I know him best from, but he had a very prolific career.

https://variety.com/2023/film/obituaries-people-news/alan-arkin-dead-little-miss-sunshine-argo-1235658718/
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on June 30, 2023, 08:50:15 AM
Alan Arkin, 89

Little Miss Sunnshine I know him best from, but he had a very prolific career.

https://variety.com/2023/film/obituaries-people-news/alan-arkin-dead-little-miss-sunshine-argo-1235658718/
Oh man.  RIP.  What a great talent.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Adami on June 30, 2023, 08:53:16 AM
Not surprising. But yea, dude was always amazing to watch. RIP.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: King Postwhore on June 30, 2023, 08:57:40 AM
Awe, dammit. 
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: faizoff on June 30, 2023, 10:29:28 AM
Alan Arkin, 89

Little Miss Sunnshine I know him best from, but he had a very prolific career.

https://variety.com/2023/film/obituaries-people-news/alan-arkin-dead-little-miss-sunshine-argo-1235658718/ (https://variety.com/2023/film/obituaries-people-news/alan-arkin-dead-little-miss-sunshine-argo-1235658718/)


Me and my wife used to quote his lines from that movie all the time, esp whenever she made chicken loll.

"Again with the fucking chicken. It's always with the goddamn fucking chicken."

He was in so many memorable movies.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: jingle.boy on June 30, 2023, 02:12:02 PM
Alan Arkin, 89

Goddammit.  He was fabulous in the Netflix sitcom with Michael Douglas, The Kominsky Method.  I'll also fondly remember him in Glengary Glen Ross.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Orbert on June 30, 2023, 02:40:54 PM
You kids are too young to remember, but he was the original Yossarian in Catch-22.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TAC on June 30, 2023, 02:41:31 PM
You kids are too young to remember, but he was the original Yossarian in Catch-22.

I'm too young to remember that! :lol
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Orbert on June 30, 2023, 02:58:14 PM
Get off my lawn!
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: MirrorMask on July 01, 2023, 12:16:10 PM
Alan Arkin, 89

Goddammit.  He was fabulous in the Netflix sitcom with Michael Douglas, The Kominsky Method. 

Ditto!
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Orbert on July 01, 2023, 01:33:26 PM
Sounds like I should check out that show.  I like both Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Zydar on July 21, 2023, 06:35:34 AM
https://variety.com/2023/music/news/tony-bennett-dead-dies-pop-vocalist-1235676390/

Tony Bennett dies at 96 years.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Adami on July 21, 2023, 06:41:19 AM
Yea. Makes sense. But a big loss. RIP dude.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on July 21, 2023, 06:58:48 AM
Wow; I'm sad.  I liked Tony Bennett.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: lonestar on July 21, 2023, 07:15:05 AM
Legendary singer, civil rights advocate, and of course, San Francisco icon. He's about as integral a part of what this city should be as anything else.

Doing a dive into his duets with Lady Gaga right now, amazing performances.

Rest in peace.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: romdrums on July 21, 2023, 08:20:21 AM
Man, Tony Bennett had a full and well-lived life!
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on July 23, 2023, 07:08:03 PM
RIP Tony Bennett...was reminded how dredg did a nice cover of I Left My Heart in San Francisco a few years back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_WbeVhrk6k
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Zydar on July 26, 2023, 12:09:46 PM
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/26/sinead-oconnor-acclaimed-dublin-singer-dies-aged-56/ (https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/26/sinead-oconnor-acclaimed-dublin-singer-dies-aged-56/)

Sinead O'Connor has died at 56.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: King Postwhore on July 26, 2023, 12:10:30 PM
I just saw. Wow. 
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: HOF on July 26, 2023, 12:20:06 PM
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/26/sinead-oconnor-acclaimed-dublin-singer-dies-aged-56/ (https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/26/sinead-oconnor-acclaimed-dublin-singer-dies-aged-56/)

Sinead O'Connor has died at 56.

Was never really a fan, but Nothing Compares 2 U is an incredible song, and she also sang with Peter Gabriel on the tremendous Blood of Eden, so this does make me a little sad.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: lonestar on July 26, 2023, 12:51:58 PM
Damn...56 years old, that's way too young.



Her voice on Come Talk To Me....just unbelievable... :'(
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on July 26, 2023, 01:26:34 PM
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/26/sinead-oconnor-acclaimed-dublin-singer-dies-aged-56/ (https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/26/sinead-oconnor-acclaimed-dublin-singer-dies-aged-56/)

Sinead O'Connor has died at 56.

Was never really a fan, but Nothing Compares 2 U is an incredible song, and she also sang with Peter Gabriel on the tremendous Blood of Eden, so this does make me a little sad.

Yeah, she will always be special for her work on "US".
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: KevShmev on July 26, 2023, 07:33:33 PM
I really didn't know much of her work outside of a few hits and her contributions to PG's Us, but Sinead O'Connor clearly touched the lives of many based on the response I am seeing in a lot of places today.  I know she struggled with mental health for much of her adult life, so hopefully she is in a better place now. R.I.P.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Dream Team on July 27, 2023, 08:11:54 AM
Alan Arkin, 89

Goddammit.  He was fabulous in the Netflix sitcom with Michael Douglas, The Kominsky Method. 

Ditto!

Oldest thing I saw him in is Wait Until Dark where he was a bad guy menacing a blind Audrey Hepburn.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: King Postwhore on July 27, 2023, 06:11:22 PM
Randy Meisner passed away at 77. What a voice in The Eagles.
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Post by: KevShmev on July 27, 2023, 07:22:11 PM
Randy Meisner passed away at 77. What a voice in The Eagles.

Indeed. 

If there is any justice in the afterlife, he has already gives a swift kick in the balls to that asshole Glenn Frey.

R.I.P.
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Post by: King Postwhore on July 27, 2023, 07:24:21 PM
That rock doc was brutal. I hated Henley for what he said about Rush but damn, Frey was the real villain watching the doc.
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Post by: King Puppies and the Acid Guppies on July 27, 2023, 10:06:33 PM
That rock doc was brutal. I hated Henley for what he said about Rush but damn, Frey was the real villain watching the doc.
I have no idea what doc you are talking about. What did Henley say about Rush?
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Post by: Stadler on July 28, 2023, 12:51:39 PM
That rock doc was brutal. I hated Henley for what he said about Rush but damn, Frey was the real villain watching the doc.

What rock doc?   

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Post by: jammindude on July 28, 2023, 03:04:53 PM
Dammit Kinger don’t leave us hanging!
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Post by: El Barto on July 28, 2023, 05:21:39 PM
He referred to Rush in some context and said "yuck!" He just doesn't dig their music, and given what he does that doesn't surprise me at all. Rappers probably don't like opera all that much. The Eagles and Rush are very different things.

He also had some kind things to say about them at the RRHoF induction.

Quote
DH: "Yeah, the Rush fans - I encountered them when I inducted Randy Newman into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Rush was being inducted the same night. They were a drunken, rowdy bunch. (Laughs) They shouted down Oprah Winfrey! It was funny. But Rush, they were very charming. Which one was it who got up and did a whole acceptance speech just using the words “blah blah blah”?

MG: That was Alex Lifeson.

DH: It was brilliant. It was fucking brilliant. Because you knew what he was saying, because of his inflection and his hand movements and stuff like that. It just brought the house down. I’ll never forget that. But I was lucky that night, because I got to go on first before their audience got toasted. So they were fairly quiet while I was on. I left after my bit was done, but I understand it got pretty ugly. Anyway …
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Post by: lonestar on July 31, 2023, 11:16:33 AM
Paul Reubens aka Pee Wee Herman succumbs to cancer. RIP
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Post by: gmillerdrake on July 31, 2023, 11:33:26 AM
Awww man....RIP  :'(


Pee Wee's Big Adventure remains such a fun movie.
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Post by: El Barto on July 31, 2023, 12:39:06 PM
I think they're Iranians!  :lol
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Post by: SoundscapeMN on July 31, 2023, 12:46:17 PM
Good Morning Mister Breakfast!

Pee Wee's Playhouse was a staple when I was a kid.

I'm likely not alone in realizing how involved Phil Hartman was with that show, movies and the character. Did Reubens appear on SNL? I'd guess he did.
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Post by: Stadler on July 31, 2023, 02:46:17 PM
He hosted once, and I think he auditioned once, too.

He used to appear on the new version of "To Tell The Truth" a lot; he'd appear in costume as one of the panel.
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Post by: Harmony on July 31, 2023, 06:55:35 PM
This has been a tough week for GenX fans.

My love for Paul Reubens and Phil Hartman began in 1981 with The PeeWee Herman Show - Live at the Roxy Theater

Cable television was sort of a new thing.  We didn't even have HBO at our house until 1983, so I saw this at a friend's house the first time and then watched it countless times.  My sister and I could literally recite every line and often lapsed into bits here and there to make each other laugh.  "I'm not wearing underpants." and about 100 other lines.

I still laugh at all the gags.  This show at the Roxy was not meant for kids.  I loved all the goofiness, innuendo and irreverence.

As for the kid's PeeWee's Playhouse, my kids were brought up on all of those.  All of those famous guest appearances - so many people loved PeeWee.  So in honor of his memory, I post the Roxy special - a live theater production!  I hope some of you youngsters will check it out.  It's campy and silly and a lot of fun.  It helps to be altered - if you are so inclined.  :hat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbhZZnIRPOI
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Post by: Cool Chris on July 31, 2023, 07:02:33 PM
I did enjoy Pee-Wee's Playhouse for a bit and recall liking the movie as a kid. Can't say I was aware of anything he did after that.

Randy Meisner is the Mick Foley of rock music: Way too nice a guy to be involved in the industry he is in. Posted in the Eagles thread a while back a link to a live performance of Take It To the Limit; gonna watch that right now.
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Post by: TAC on July 31, 2023, 07:03:41 PM
I loved Pee Wee's Big Adventure. I never saw Pee Wee's Playhouse though.
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Post by: Stadler on August 01, 2023, 06:43:45 AM
I did enjoy Pee-Wee's Playhouse for a bit and recall liking the movie as a kid. Can't say I was aware of anything he did after that.

Randy Meisner is the Mick Foley of rock music: Way too nice a guy to be involved in the industry he is in. Posted in the Eagles thread a while back a link to a live performance of Take It To the Limit; gonna watch that right now.

Long story short, I drank with Randy Meisner one night when I was living in Burbank back in 92-ish.  Not just me, but there was a table with about eight or ten people (I was working with a guy that in hindsight was probably not a friend but a "connection", but still) and at the end of the night he picked up the tab even though he knew maybe half the table.  Seemed very friendly, though pretty shy.  It was funny, though, you could tell who the "celebrity" was at the table; his chair had like ten people grouped behind it, every other chair, none. Haha.
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Post by: Anguyen92 on August 01, 2023, 09:55:20 AM
First thing when that came to my mind when I thought about Pee Wee Herman was this.  Does this actually work?

Pee Wees Big Adventure Deep In The Heart of Texas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJEwrw4VEls)
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Post by: Samsara on August 01, 2023, 10:20:51 AM
Pee wee was always funny. Loved the small role Paul had in the Gotham series as well. He played Oswald Cobblepot's (The Penguin) father.

Talented actor. Will be missed. Rest in peace.
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Post by: Metro on August 04, 2023, 10:15:50 AM
RIP Mark Margolis. Hector Salamanca from Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/mark-margolis-dead-breaking-bad-better-call-saul-1235551107/
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Post by: SoundscapeMN on August 04, 2023, 12:40:46 PM
RIP.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRfLcKkXwAIOjUE?format=jpg&name=medium)
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Post by: faizoff on August 04, 2023, 12:50:37 PM
I was doing a re-watch of all Aronofsky movies and he's in all but the last two in some role or the other. Always strange to see him in other normal roles. RIP Hector
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Post by: MirrorMask on August 04, 2023, 02:07:17 PM
RIP Mark Margolis. Hector Salamanca from Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/mark-margolis-dead-breaking-bad-better-call-saul-1235551107/

Last chance to look at me Hector  :'(
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Post by: El Barto on August 04, 2023, 03:35:48 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUSewlWWsAAMMQ4.jpg)

Interesting thing to ponder which of the two characters were scarier. Hector was certainly violent and ruthless, but the same could be said of Albert. The fact that neither had any qualms about killing innocent bystanders says a lot about them. The key difference is that one of them was over the top violent and the other was quiet and methodical. I'd probably go with Hector simply because the odds of running afoul of him are higher, but they were both really bad people.
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Post by: El Barto on August 07, 2023, 12:01:10 PM
William Friedkin has left the building. Most famous for The Exorcist and The French Connection, there were better films I remember him for. He made a wonderful remake of 12 Angry Men with Jack Lemon and George C Scott that was on par with the original. He also made one of the best car chases of all time (not The French Connection). The car chase in To Live and Die in LA tops my list because there's so much going on. They're in way over their head, and nobody knows how much and why. One of them is an adrenaline junky and the other is sobbing in the back seat scared shitless. There are actually 3 groups in the car chase and nobody knows who anybody is. I'd link to the video, but without a few minutes of context it'd lose much of it's greatness. It's a good movie, and worth seeing even if for nothing more than to see that chase sequence.

In any case, helluva director. I've long admired the guy.
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Post by: faizoff on August 07, 2023, 01:09:08 PM
William Friedkin has left the building. Most famous for The Exorcist and The French Connection, there were better films I remember him for. He made a wonderful remake of 12 Angry Men with Jack Lemon and George C Scott that was on par with the original. He also made one of the best car chases of all time (not The French Connection). The car chase in To Live and Die in LA tops my list because there's so much going on. They're in way over their head, and nobody knows how much and why. One of them is an adrenaline junky and the other is sobbing in the back seat scared shitless. There are actually 3 groups in the car chase and nobody knows who anybody is. I'd link to the video, but without a few minutes of context it'd lose much of it's greatness. It's a good movie, and worth seeing even if for nothing more than to see that chase sequence.

In any case, helluva director. I've long admired the guy.

Strangely Exorcist and French Connection are the only two movies of his that I've seen. Going to track down To Live and Die in LA. I remember you mentioning that car chase being superior to the one in FC.

Hell of a director indeed.
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Post by: Cool Chris on August 07, 2023, 06:53:02 PM
Strangely Exorcist and French Connection are the only two movies of his that I've seen.

This might be me as well, though that feels hard to believe. If I've seen To Live and Die in LA I cannot remember anything from it.

El Barto, I feel we may have discussed The Caine Mutiny here before. I posted in the upcoming movies thread about it as I didn't know there was a new version coming out directed by... William Freidkin.
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Post by: Zydar on August 09, 2023, 07:11:09 AM
https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/sixto-rodriguez-detroit-born-musician-and-subject-of-searching-for-sugar-man-documentary-dies-at-81

Musician Sixto Rodriguez has died. I don't know how many of you have watched the 'Searching for Sugar Man' documentary about him. It was a great one and won an Academy award in 2013.
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Post by: SoundscapeMN on August 09, 2023, 10:50:00 AM
great documentary. He toured including playing in hometown more than once since that documentary and my wife and I thought of but didn't manage to go see him. I feel kind of bad about that now.

RIP Rodriguez.
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Post by: HOF on August 09, 2023, 02:07:08 PM
Robbie Robertson has passed. To be honest, I only know of him because he did a cool solo album with Daniel Lanois that featured Peter Gabriel and band, U2, etc. But he was apparently in The Band, and also worked with Bob Dylan and did a bunch of film music.

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/robbie-robertson-dead-the-band-1235692172/
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Post by: King Postwhore on August 09, 2023, 03:47:28 PM
The Band was very popular back in the day. I remember his 80's solo albums from MTV.
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Post by: Stadler on August 09, 2023, 04:19:36 PM
Robbie Robertson has passed. To be honest, I only know of him because he did a cool solo album with Daniel Lanois that featured Peter Gabriel and band, U2, etc. But he as apparently in The Band, and also worked with Bob Dylan and did a bunch of film music.

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/robbie-robertson-dead-the-band-1235692172/

That solo album is VERY cool.   I went up to Woodstock to see the house once, from when he worked with Dylan.   I don't really like The Band, though.
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Post by: El Barto on August 09, 2023, 04:51:00 PM
Robbie Robertson has passed. To be honest, I only know of him because he did a cool solo album with Daniel Lanois that featured Peter Gabriel and band, U2, etc. But he as apparently in The Band, and also worked with Bob Dylan and did a bunch of film music.

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/robbie-robertson-dead-the-band-1235692172/

That solo album is VERY cool.   I went up to Woodstock to see the house once, from when he worked with Dylan.   I don't really like The Band, though.
I never got the appeal. I was in a friend's bar many years ago and The Last Waltz was on, and all the regulars were simply enthralled. Like it was a long lost video recording of the Who at Leeds or something. It didn't make any sense to me.
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Post by: TAC on August 09, 2023, 05:25:53 PM
The Band was very popular back in the day. I remember his 80's solo albums from MTV.

I don't remember that.


In the early days of MTV, they'd play a song or two off of The Last Waltz, but that's about it.
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Post by: King Postwhore on August 09, 2023, 05:28:05 PM
The Band was very popular back in the day. I remember his 80's solo albums from MTV.

I don't remember that.


In the early days of MTV, they'd play a song or two off of The Last Waltz, but that's about it.

His solo videos were played all the time dude. You just only watched the Headbangers Ball.
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Post by: TAC on August 09, 2023, 05:30:00 PM
The Band was very popular back in the day. I remember his 80's solo albums from MTV.

I don't remember that.


In the early days of MTV, they'd play a song or two off of The Last Waltz, but that's about it.

His solo videos were played all the time dude. You just only watched the Headbangers Ball.

That's not true! :lol

He may have had a video on MTV at some point, but it certainly wasn't memorable.
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Post by: King Postwhore on August 09, 2023, 05:32:05 PM
 :lol

Probably wasn't your thing and you turned the channel. Surfing was all the rage in the 80's. Lol
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Post by: Zydar on August 09, 2023, 09:53:28 PM
Sad to hear about Robbie Robertson. I like The Band a lot, plenty of great songs there.
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Post by: pg1067 on August 10, 2023, 09:33:40 AM
The Band was very popular back in the day. I remember his 80's solo albums from MTV.

I don't remember that.


In the early days of MTV, they'd play a song or two off of The Last Waltz, but that's about it.

Same, and that's almost the only reason I've ever heard of The Band.  I was all over MTV in the pre-Headbangers Ball era, and I have zero recollection of anything solo from Robertson.
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Post by: TAC on August 10, 2023, 12:16:46 PM
The Band was very popular back in the day. I remember his 80's solo albums from MTV.

I don't remember that.


In the early days of MTV, they'd play a song or two off of The Last Waltz, but that's about it.

Same, and that's almost the only reason I've ever heard of The Band.  I was all over MTV in the pre-Headbangers Ball era, and I have zero recollection of anything solo from Robertson.

Not only that, but my local rock station never played them either.
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Post by: Cool Chris on August 10, 2023, 06:18:07 PM
My local classic rock station played 1, maybe 2 of their songs.

I do remember watching Roger Waters Berlin performance of The Wall as a kid, and wondering who were the two guys ruining David's vocal sections of Mother, and when I looked it up I thought that The Band must be a awful group if those guys were their vocalists.
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Post by: coz on August 15, 2023, 12:20:08 AM
I do remember watching Roger Waters Berlin performance of The Wall as a kid, and wondering who were the two guys ruining David's vocal sections of Mother, and when I looked it up I thought that The Band must be a awful group if those guys were their vocalists.

Pretty kickass performance by Sinéad though.
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Post by: Stadler on August 15, 2023, 09:25:30 AM
I always thought The Band was VERY overrated; I hated (and still do) that song Cripple Creek or whatever it is, and The Weight is even worse.   But if you were at all in tune with that U2/REM/Gabriel/Sting do-gooder crowd in the late '80s, early '90s, you knew "Somewhere Down The Crazy River".   

I think Tony Levin and Peter Gabriel played on that solo record, and Manu Katche was the drummer.
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Post by: hefdaddy42 on August 15, 2023, 09:34:57 AM
I always thought The Band was VERY overrated; I hated (and still do) that song Cripple Creek or whatever it is, and The Weight is even worse.
I agree with this.  Can't stand that.  And I have a lot of love and respect for most classic rock acts.
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Post by: Harmony on August 21, 2023, 05:24:18 PM
Ron Cephas Jones of This Is Us and Hamilton has passed away from COPD at age 66.

https://people.com/ron-cephas-jones-dead-daughter-jasmine-cephas-jones-kim-lesley-tributes-7693651
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Post by: faizoff on August 21, 2023, 06:35:34 PM
Ron Cephas Jones of This Is Us and Hamilton has passed away from COPD at age 66.

https://people.com/ron-cephas-jones-dead-daughter-jasmine-cephas-jones-kim-lesley-tributes-7693651

I knew him from Mr. Robot. He was great in that show. Are you referring to Hamilton the musical ?
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Post by: Metro on August 21, 2023, 06:42:33 PM
I think Harmony misread the article. Ron wasn't in Hamilton, his daughter Jasmine was.
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Post by: Harmony on August 21, 2023, 07:55:20 PM
Yes, my bad.  I knew he was active in the theater and I saw Hamilton in that article and my brain did that thing where it puts things together. 

Unfortunately, I am not well versed in Hamilton casts past and present.  I know that many are and I misspoke.  Mistyped?  Whatever.  Sorry.
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Post by: SoundscapeMN on August 26, 2023, 10:50:05 AM
Bob Barker, 99.

One of a kind. He lived a full life.
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Post by: jammindude on August 26, 2023, 03:51:24 PM
Bob Barker, 99.

One of a kind. He lived a full life.

As close as possible to 100 without going over…  :hat
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Post by: lonestar on August 26, 2023, 04:00:50 PM
Bob Barker, 99.

One of a kind. He lived a full life.

As close as possible to 100 without going over…  :hat

Betty White was even closer... Just 17 days away.


As for Bob, spent many a day watching that show in my youth.
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Post by: Cool Chris on August 26, 2023, 04:00:59 PM
Bob Barker, 99.

One of a kind. He lived a full life.

As close as possible to 100 without going over…  :hat

HA!
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Post by: King Puppies and the Acid Guppies on August 26, 2023, 04:17:17 PM
Bob Barker, 99.

One of a kind. He lived a full life.

As close as possible to 100 without going over…  :hat
I see what you did there.... :neverusethis:
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Post by: King Postwhore on August 26, 2023, 04:21:38 PM
Bob Barker, 99.

One of a kind. He lived a full life.

As close as possible to 100 without going over…  :hat

You beat me to it.
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Post by: jingle.boy on August 26, 2023, 05:19:12 PM
The Price is wrong, bitch.
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Post by: Orbert on August 26, 2023, 07:48:23 PM
I remember Bob Barker from Truth or Consequences back in the 70's.  R.I.P.  :(
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Post by: Jamesman42 on August 26, 2023, 07:54:13 PM
Staying home sick from school was made better by TPIR.
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Post by: crazy climber dude on August 27, 2023, 01:18:45 PM
I remember Bob Barker from Truth or Consequences back in the 70's.  R.I.P.  :(

You met him as a child in a small town in southern New Mexico?  :biggrin:
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Post by: Orbert on August 27, 2023, 03:49:53 PM
In a manner of speaking, yes.  I mean, no.  Well, yes and no.  The town was named after the radio show, which led to the TV show, which is what I grew up watching.

And I realize you were making a joke, but I knew I was missing something so I looked it up and figured I'd share it here anyway.
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Post by: ozzy554 on August 27, 2023, 04:24:04 PM
R.I.P Arleen Sorkin the inspiration for and the original voice of Harley Quinn
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on August 28, 2023, 06:16:35 AM
I remember Bob Barker from Truth or Consequences back in the 70's.  R.I.P.  :(

You met him as a child in a small town in southern New Mexico?  :biggrin:

Hahaha, that's funny.  :)
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Post by: crazy climber dude on August 28, 2023, 05:11:53 PM
In a manner of speaking, yes.  I mean, no.  Well, yes and no.  The town was named after the radio show, which led to the TV show, which is what I grew up watching.

And I realize you were making a joke, but I knew I was missing something so I looked it up and figured I'd share it here anyway.

I was trying to have fun with it, yes. No insensitivity to his passing meant.

I remember the show...I also grew up with it. My parents used to watch it..... and To Tell the Truth, on a regular basis.
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Post by: HOF on August 28, 2023, 10:21:39 PM
Bob Barker, 99.

One of a kind. He lived a full life.

For some reason I thought he passed a while back? I saw someone else mention this today and didn’t investigate because I thought it wasn’t real. Haven’t seen any media coverage of it.

Price is Right was definitely a big part of my childhood. Summer vacation meant lots of Price is Right LOL.
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Post by: hefdaddy42 on August 29, 2023, 06:53:57 AM
We will occasionally watch the Price is Right channel on Pluto for several episodes.  It just shows old late-70s/early to mid-80s episodes with Bob Barker.  It's a trip.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TAC on August 29, 2023, 07:58:26 AM
We will occasionally watch the Price is Right channel on Pluto for several episodes. 

Wouldn’t it be easier to just watch it on Earth?
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on August 29, 2023, 08:10:03 AM
We will occasionally watch the Price is Right channel on Pluto for several episodes. 

Wouldn’t it be easier to just watch it on Earth?
Listen here, motherfucker
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on August 29, 2023, 08:18:06 AM
Bob Barker, 99.

One of a kind. He lived a full life.

For some reason I thought he passed a while back? I saw someone else mention this today and didn’t investigate because I thought it wasn’t real. Haven’t seen any media coverage of it.

Price is Right was definitely a big part of my childhood. Summer vacation meant lots of Price is Right LOL.

Funny enough, that was my reaction.  "Didn't he die a while ago?"
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Post by: Buckeye69 on September 02, 2023, 04:39:46 AM
RIP Jimmy Buffett

https://www.aol.com/entertainment/margaritaville-singer-jimmy-buffett-turned-085901887.html
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Post by: Metro on September 02, 2023, 06:12:54 AM
RIP indeed.

His sister owns a restaurant in Gulf Shores, Alabama. My family ate there once in I think ‘06, and he came by and went around table to table saying hi to people. Nice guy. Hope he found his lost shaker of salt.
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Post by: TheHoveringSojourn808 on September 02, 2023, 12:14:39 PM
his music touched the hearts of millions across generations.

jimmy's journey began in pascagoula, mississippi, in 1946. from humble beginnings, he grew to become a musical icon whose songs captured the essence of coastal living and a laid-back lifestyle. his melodies transported us to a world of endless summer days, white sandy beaches, and cool breezes. throughout his career, jimmy released hit after hit, each one a testament to his talent for storytelling. "margaritaville," "cheeseburger in paradise," and "changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes" are just a few of the classics that will forever be etched in our hearts.

jimmy's music wasn't just about catchy tunes; it was about escapism, celebrating life's simple pleasures, and embracing the idea that sometimes, it's okay to slow down and savor the moment. he was not just a musician; he was a way of life.

(https://i.ibb.co/yQWZ6x4/Screenshot-2023-09-02-at-13-05-03.png)
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Metro on September 04, 2023, 09:38:47 AM
Steve Harwell (singer of Smash Mouth) died. Just read yesterday he was on hospice care and didn’t have much time left.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: lonestar on September 04, 2023, 10:37:23 AM
Yeah, saw that...liver failure from chronic alcoholism, just a relentless disease. Rest in peace man.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TheHoveringSojourn808 on September 04, 2023, 11:02:09 AM
damn, this one hurts!

steve harwell leaves behind a legacy that will endure for generations. his music will continue to bring joy to countless people, and his memory will live on in the hearts of fans worldwide. he is survived by his family, friends, and the bandmates who shared the stage and created timeless music with him.

as we mourn the loss of this musical legend, let us remember the joy he brought into our lives through his music and the kindness he showed to everyone he met. rest in peace, steve harwell, and thank you for the unforgettable music and memories.  :hat
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Post by: ProgMasterMind92 on September 04, 2023, 11:24:14 AM
oh man, hearing about steve harwell from smash mouth passing away really hit home. even though their music wasn't my usual jam, they had a big impact on american culture, especially through "shrek." watching that movie with my kids and hearing "all star" always brought smiles to our faces. it's funny how music can create those special memories. steve, you may not have been my go-to, but you left a mark, and i'll remember those shrek moments fondly. :heart
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on September 05, 2023, 06:40:33 AM
You know, I don't think I've ever purposefully sat down and put on a Jimmy Buffett album, but he transcended that.  I have his greatest hits, and I have a live at Fenway Park album that is KILLER (he always did great live covers, IMO).  I've seen him several times and every time was a treat and a fun day out.   Everything I look for in a concert experience, frankly.

I don't know that "miss" is the right word for me, but I do know that I wish there was more of "him" - positivity, fun, camaraderie, community - in music today. 
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: The Great Ape on September 05, 2023, 07:23:38 AM
Steve Harwell and Jimmy Buffet, under moon's soft light,
Two ships passing in the night, on oceans of sound they'd write.
One rocked with "All Star" so bright, the other sang of paradise,
Their music, like stars alight, in different musical skies.

Harwell's voice, a powerful might, in Smash Mouth's catchy tune,
Buffet's tales of island life, beneath the sun and moon.
Though different paths they'd invite, their melodies took flight,
Two captains, so distinct, on separate seas of delight.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on September 05, 2023, 07:28:37 AM
Very sad about Jimmy Buffett.  He was one of my first "favorite" music stars.  I've read his books, and seen him live.  Just love him to pieces.

He also had one of my favorite live albums of all time, as far as capturing the electricity of live performance and interaction between performer and audience.  It's from the 70s, before he became HUGE, and it's called You Had to Be There.  If you already know you don't like his stuff, it probably wouldn't change your mind, but it's just great.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Zydar on September 05, 2023, 07:37:52 AM
He is one of those musicians whose name I've heard from time to time over the years, but haven't heard a single song from. Not even his biggest (?) song, Margaritaville. And I'm a big "classic rock" guy.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on September 05, 2023, 07:40:46 AM
He is one of those musicians whose name I've heard from time to time over the years, but haven't heard a single song from. Not even his biggest (?) song, Margaritaville. And I'm a big "classic rock" guy.
I wouldn't consider him classic rock.  Not really.  He was his own genre.

Closest category would be singer/songwriter, I guess, but definitely different than the usual suspects there (Dylan, James Taylor, Carol King, etc).  More lowbrow than them, always a nautical theme.  I can't see Bob Dylan writing a song called "Why Don't We Get Drunk And Screw?"
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on September 05, 2023, 07:57:46 AM
He is one of those musicians whose name I've heard from time to time over the years, but haven't heard a single song from. Not even his biggest (?) song, Margaritaville. And I'm a big "classic rock" guy.
I wouldn't consider him classic rock.  Not really.  He was his own genre.

Closest category would be singer/songwriter, I guess, but definitely different than the usual suspects there (Dylan, James Taylor, Carol King, etc).  More lowbrow than them, always a nautical theme.  I can't see Bob Dylan writing a song called "Why Don't We Get Drunk And Screw?"

He had his moments though; "Son of a Son of a Sailor" though still nautical, is a beautiful song.  He walked that line that a lot of artists do; he knew what buttered his bread - WDWGDAS, Fins, Volcano, Margueritaville - but he was more than that, and he was NOT a novelty act.  "One Particular Harbour" is another with a broader meaning.   
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TheHoveringSojourn808 on September 05, 2023, 08:05:44 AM
jimmy buffet was my dad
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on September 05, 2023, 08:17:04 AM
jimmy buffet was my dad

So you're the son of a son of a son of a sailor?
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TheHoveringSojourn808 on September 05, 2023, 08:17:44 AM
jimmy buffet was my dad

So you're the son of a son of a son of a sailor?

that's right
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on September 05, 2023, 09:18:14 AM
He is one of those musicians whose name I've heard from time to time over the years, but haven't heard a single song from. Not even his biggest (?) song, Margaritaville. And I'm a big "classic rock" guy.
I wouldn't consider him classic rock.  Not really.  He was his own genre.

Closest category would be singer/songwriter, I guess, but definitely different than the usual suspects there (Dylan, James Taylor, Carol King, etc).  More lowbrow than them, always a nautical theme.  I can't see Bob Dylan writing a song called "Why Don't We Get Drunk And Screw?"

He had his moments though; "Son of a Son of a Sailor" though still nautical, is a beautiful song.  He walked that line that a lot of artists do; he knew what buttered his bread - WDWGDAS, Fins, Volcano, Margueritaville - but he was more than that, and he was NOT a novelty act.  "One Particular Harbour" is another with a broader meaning.   
Very true, and One Particular Harbor is one of my faves.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: pg1067 on September 05, 2023, 09:32:49 AM
He is one of those musicians whose name I've heard from time to time over the years, but haven't heard a single song from. Not even his biggest (?) song, Margaritaville. And I'm a big "classic rock" guy.

I first heard Margaritaville about 20-25 years ago when my wife and I were in Austin, TX for her cousin's wedding.  The bride's parents (my wife's uncle and aunt) took us out bar hopping on 6th Street (although we probably only went to 1-2 places), and there was some guy with a piano or acoustic guitar (I can't remember which) playing cover songs.  He did an audience participation segment.  I'll never forget that song for that reason.  If I've ever heard another song by him, I don't know it.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on September 05, 2023, 09:57:48 AM
Arguably, because of the covers/duets he did with the song, "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" is probably as well known.  The duet with Alan Jackson was pretty big.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Anguyen92 on September 05, 2023, 10:04:09 AM
I know he did a song with Zac Brown Band called Knee Deep and it's an island song.  It was all right.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: T-ski on September 06, 2023, 05:16:26 PM
Gary Wright, singer of “Dream Weaver” has passed….

https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/gary-wright-dead-dream-weaver-singer-dies-1235406056/
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on September 07, 2023, 05:48:04 AM
Gary Wright, singer of “Dream Weaver” has passed….

https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/gary-wright-dead-dream-weaver-singer-dies-1235406056/

Love that song and "Love Is Alive".  Quintessental '70s rock sound.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Cool Chris on September 25, 2023, 07:53:21 PM
David McCallum passed away at the age of 90. He was best known for his roles in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and NICS, though my introduction to him was as Ashely-Pitt 'Dispersal' in The Great Escape. I never watched The Man From U.N.C.L.E. but was a huge fan of NICS in the early days (I stopped watching around season 7 maybe) and he was an integral part of that cast and the show's appeal for me.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Orbert on September 25, 2023, 07:55:39 PM
I vaguely remember The Man from U.N.C.L.E. from my childhood, but I was much more familiar with Dr. Mallard a.k.a. "Ducky".
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: nobloodyname on September 26, 2023, 04:46:45 AM
What's slightly strange is the BBC article doesn't mention Sapphire and Steel which he starred in. It was a really creepy sci-fi drama in the late 70s/early 70s. Well, creepy to a seven year old.

Edit: it's all been updated now.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: pg1067 on September 26, 2023, 09:39:50 AM
David McCallum passed away at the age of 90. He was best known for his roles in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and NICS, though my introduction to him was as Ashely-Pitt 'Dispersal' in The Great Escape. I never watched The Man From U.N.C.L.E. but was a huge fan of NICS in the early days (I stopped watching around season 7 maybe) and he was an integral part of that cast and the show's appeal for me.

NICS?

Or did you mean NCIS?
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: King Postwhore on September 26, 2023, 09:44:24 AM
He meant NCIS. He played Ducky.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: El Barto on September 26, 2023, 09:46:40 AM
Great Escape caught my attention, but I had to look and see who he played. He might have actually been the escapee with the fewest lines.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Cool Chris on September 26, 2023, 09:56:58 AM
How did I make that mistake twice?

He seems to be an important part of the X organization but indeed does not have a lot of lines of dialogue. The only scene where he takes the lead is where he shows the guys how to disperse the dirt.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: El Barto on September 26, 2023, 10:06:12 AM
How did I make that mistake twice?

He seems to be an important part of the X organization but indeed does not have a lot of lines of dialogue. The only scene where he takes the lead is where he shows the guys how to disperse the dirt.
He was "dispersal." That was his whole gig.  :lol  More importantly, he was the guy that got killed trying to protect X and Mac from the SS.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Cool Chris on September 26, 2023, 10:38:37 AM
He seems to be an important part of the X organization but indeed does not have a lot of lines of dialogue. The only scene where he takes the lead is where he shows the guys how to disperse the dirt.
He was "dispersal." That was his whole gig.  :lol  More importantly, he was the guy that got killed trying to protect X and Mac from the SS.

As a kid I thought Dispersal was the lamest of the X Departments, especially compared to Intelligence, Forgery, Manufacturing, Scrounging... But that was an f#&$ ton of dirt they had to get rid of.  And I thought of his death but didn't mention it so glad you called it out.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on September 27, 2023, 10:03:56 AM
McCallum was in the Invisible Man as well.  I loved that show and was fascinated by how they filmed that.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on September 27, 2023, 10:13:41 AM
Brooks Robinson, 86.

1970 World Series: Maybe never a greater defensive performance in Baseball History.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Orbert on September 27, 2023, 10:44:17 AM
Bummer.  Baltimore Orioles 3rd Baseman for years and years when I was growing up.  Amazing guy.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Zydar on September 28, 2023, 06:30:08 AM
Sir Michael Gambon (who played Dumbledore in 6 of the 8 Harry Potter movies) has passed away.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12570815/Sir-Michael-Gambon-dies-aged-82-Family-says-legendary-actor-passed-away-peacefully-hospital.html
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: MirrorMask on September 28, 2023, 07:24:17 AM
Sir Michael Gambon (who played Dumbledore in 6 of the 8 Harry Potter movies) has passed away.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12570815/Sir-Michael-Gambon-dies-aged-82-Family-says-legendary-actor-passed-away-peacefully-hospital.html

Noooooooo   :-\ :-\ :-\
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TheHoveringSojourn808 on September 28, 2023, 07:53:30 AM
rip
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: ProfessorPeart on September 28, 2023, 01:00:17 PM
Namesake of Gambon Corner on Top Gear after getting the car on 2 wheels. I love the HP films, but any time I think of Gambon my brain always goes to Top Gear first.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: King Postwhore on September 28, 2023, 04:58:42 PM
Sir Michael Gambon (who played Dumbledore in 6 of the 8 Harry Potter movies) has passed away.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12570815/Sir-Michael-Gambon-dies-aged-82-Family-says-legendary-actor-passed-away-peacefully-hospital.html

Dammit, I loved him in Oprn Range as well.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: T-ski on September 28, 2023, 06:08:10 PM
Harry Potter is huge in our house, needless to say we very sad today.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Cool Chris on September 28, 2023, 10:28:57 PM
I was oblivious toward Harry Potter when the film Goblet of Fire came out. I went to it on a date with a few other people, who were serious fans. We went to the first midnight showing, actually. They were generally displeased with Gambon's portrayal of Dumbledore, this after just one movie. Maybe they warmed up to him after more movies, I don't know, there wasn't a second date. But as such, he was my first Dumbledore. And later, when I read the books, not having seen any other film yet, I thought "yep, that actor was Dumbledore."
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Harmony on October 15, 2023, 06:38:07 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/khOyxYE.jpg)

Suzanne Somers

Fuck cancer
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: King Postwhore on October 15, 2023, 06:42:28 PM
My wife is going through breast cancer and it's engulfing us.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: El Barto on October 15, 2023, 09:19:08 PM
My wife is going through breast cancer and it's engulfing us.
Fuck. I didn't want to hear that. Pulling for her.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: jammindude on October 15, 2023, 09:43:06 PM
My wife is going through breast cancer and it's engulfing us.

Dude, I am so sorry and I hope she fully recovers.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on October 16, 2023, 08:14:27 AM
My wife is going through breast cancer and it's engulfing us.
Fuck. I didn't want to hear that. Pulling for her.

Me too.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: gmillerdrake on October 16, 2023, 08:16:39 AM
My wife is going through breast cancer and it's engulfing us.

Oh my gosh Joe.....sorry to hear this.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TAC on October 16, 2023, 09:18:11 AM
So apparently Suzanne Somers was going to turn 77 today.
My mother turns 77 today.

Somebody’s lying.  :lol
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: King Postwhore on October 16, 2023, 12:49:07 PM
Thanks everyone. The 1st mass was the non spreading type.  The smaller, second one we're waiting for the result but we think it will be the same outcome. Which is good.  The other breast hS no issues.

So is it is the non spreading type, (her2 negative) she can have them surgically removes and then radiation.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: vtgrad on October 16, 2023, 02:12:40 PM
Thanks everyone. The 1st mass was the non spreading type.  The smaller, second one we're waiting for the result but we think it will be the same outcome. Which is good.  The other breast hS no issues.

So is it is the non spreading type, (her2 negative) she can have them surgically removes and then radiation.

I'm sorry to hear this as well... the Big C does indeed suck a big C.  Lost my Dad in 2012 to a cancer so rare that it didn't even have a proper name (still doesn't).

My mom is a 25-year Breast Cancer survivor... she had a single removal and was on low does Methotrexate for several years.  As you say, as long as it's benign and caught early, she can have a full life.  My mom is now 77.  Prayers for you and your family.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: pg1067 on October 16, 2023, 03:49:31 PM
Hope all works out, Joe!


I don't know why, but I was surprised to read that Suzanne Somers was 77!
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: coz on October 20, 2023, 03:25:52 PM
Best wishes for you and your wife Joe.

Also, RIP Paulie.   :'(
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: King Postwhore on October 20, 2023, 05:34:13 PM
So you guys know. That's from my Facebook. 

(https://i.postimg.cc/PrxQxgkm/Screenshot-20231020-191914-Facebook.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/Z0GdsDnR)
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: faizoff on October 20, 2023, 05:43:51 PM
All the best! Sending good vibes!
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TAC on October 20, 2023, 07:01:23 PM
So you guys know. That's from my Facebook. 

(https://i.postimg.cc/PrxQxgkm/Screenshot-20231020-191914-Facebook.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/Z0GdsDnR)


#like


dididothatright?
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Zydar on October 25, 2023, 01:24:48 AM
Richard Roundtree (who played Shaft) has died.

https://variety.com/2023/film/obituaries-people-news/richard-roundtree-dead-shaft-1235767495/
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Orbert on October 25, 2023, 06:58:06 AM
Bummer.  Shaft was a bad mother --
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Zydar on October 25, 2023, 07:04:31 AM
Shut your mouth.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Orbert on October 25, 2023, 07:11:42 AM
I'm just talkin' 'bout Shaft!
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Zydar on October 25, 2023, 07:20:47 AM
I can dig it.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Orbert on October 25, 2023, 10:14:08 AM
:tup
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: ProfessorPeart on October 25, 2023, 10:21:19 AM
Excellent tribute to Shaft right there.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: T-ski on October 25, 2023, 10:22:45 AM
Dwight Twilley passed away last week….

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/dwight-twilley-dead-im-on-fire-1235761600/
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: T-ski on October 28, 2023, 02:49:40 PM
Richard Moll, “Bull” from Night Court, has passed a the age of 80.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/27/entertainment/richard-moll-night-court-dead/index.html

Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: ReaperKK on October 28, 2023, 06:34:12 PM
RIP Matthew Perry https://people.com/matthew-perry-dead-at-54-7501992

I saw his interview with Bill Maher a few months back and it seems like he went through hell and back with his addictions but was on the mend.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Anguyen92 on October 28, 2023, 06:45:55 PM
^^ Oh no.....  I think when it comes to the Friends main cast, Chandler may have been my favorite character.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: XJDenton on October 28, 2023, 06:48:14 PM
Christ...that's young. :/ RIP
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: faizoff on October 28, 2023, 06:49:33 PM
Wow that was unexpected
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: jammindude on October 28, 2023, 07:23:31 PM
Wow that was unexpected

I was fairly shocked by it, but then I remembered that of all of them. He probably had the biggest problem with alcohol. Like, really bad.

Still, he’s my age. I knew he was in pretty bad shape, but I am still a little stunned.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TAC on October 28, 2023, 07:25:14 PM
Wow, that's shocking.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: ReaperKK on October 28, 2023, 07:34:43 PM
Whatever you might think of Bill Maher you should check out that interview, it's on hbo max. I've read and heard a lot of addiction stories but his was one of the craziest. Pretty tragic considering his age and that he was seemingly on the mend.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: jammindude on October 28, 2023, 07:44:16 PM
Drowned in his hot tub.

I don’t want to cause speculation…but one of the leading causes of drowning in your hot tub is drinking.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Lonk on October 28, 2023, 08:34:54 PM
That sucks, shocked by the news.

I felt bad for him when I saw the Friends reunion. He clearly looked out of place among the rest.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: ProfessorPeart on October 28, 2023, 09:42:29 PM
Seeing cardiac event being called out. Said no drugs, not sure about alcohol.

EDIT: And just saw he died not long after a 2 hour game of pickle ball.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: MirrorMask on October 29, 2023, 02:47:04 AM
That's sad  :-[
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: KevShmev on October 29, 2023, 07:29:56 AM
I have been watching a bit of Friends lately (I go in spurts with revisiting my favorite sitcoms), so this was a bit stunning when I heard the news last night considering how visible the show has been to me lately.

How utterly sad, after all that work he did to get clean. 

R.I.P.  Your long and grueling fight is over; you can rest easy now. 
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Orbert on October 29, 2023, 07:37:49 AM
I was never a big Friends fan, but of the male stars, Matthew Perry was probably my favorite due to his work other than Friends.  I thought he great in The Whole Nine Yards and even The Whole Ten Yards (it wasn't his fault that the script for that one kinda sucked), and also a few mediocre rom-coms back in the 90's.  I thought Studio 60 had potential and he was funny in that, even if he was basically playing the same character he always plays.  Oh well.  R.I.P. Matthew.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Indiscipline on October 29, 2023, 08:26:39 AM
I haven't seen much, and more or less the same character type, but done extremely well.

He fought, no matter the end result, hence my respects.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: pg1067 on October 29, 2023, 11:14:55 PM
Wow that was unexpected

I was fairly shocked by it, but then I remembered that of all of them. He probably had the biggest problem with alcohol. Like, really bad.

Still, he’s my age. I knew he was in pretty bad shape, but I am still a little stunned.

During the run of the show, he yo-yo'd between alcohol and pills.  I didn't read it, but he supposedly said in his recent autobio that, when Chandler appears skinny, he was on pills, and when Chandler looks "fat," he was drinking.  The last episode of season 6 ended with Chandler proposing to Monica, and Chandler looked about as heavy as he ever looked.  The first episode of season 7 began in the same scene.  However, over the summer, Perry had gone into rehab and lost about 20-30 pounds.  I don't think we noticed when the show was airing, but it's really bizarre when you binge the show and see the two episodes back-to-back.


Drowned in his hot tub.

I don’t want to cause speculation…but one of the leading causes of drowning in your hot tub is drinking.

My thought was that he was drunk or had a heart attack.

Too bad, really.  Per CNN:

"The medical examiner updated its online record for Perry on Sunday afternoon, listing his cause of death as 'deferred.'

'In cases where the cause of death cannot be determined at the time of autopsy, a deferred certificate will be issued until additional studies have been completed,' according to the LA coroner’s guidelines.

An autopsy has been conducted, but examiners are awaiting the results of toxicology reports in order to determine Perry’s cause of death, the medical examiner’s office told CNN on Sunday. Such reports can take weeks to complete.

Investigators are planning to use the toxicology reports to determine whether any foreign substances may have contributed to Perry’s death, according to a law enforcement source."
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: El Barto on October 29, 2023, 11:34:59 PM
Drowned in his hot tub.

I don’t want to cause speculation…but one of the leading causes of drowning in your hot tub is drinking.

My thought was that he was drunk or had a heart attack.
I've been out of the death watching business for a while, but as a rule it's never just alcohol. There are almost always pills involved. Most alcoholics won't get so loaded they drown in the tub. Throw in some benzos or an opiate and all bets are off, however.

That said, it was pretty early in the day, and he'd been working out. Heart attack seems more likely. Particularly given that he probably wasn't all that healthy anyway given his past.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: soupytwist on October 30, 2023, 03:32:05 AM
but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: KevShmev on October 30, 2023, 06:20:57 AM
Yeah, it's always interesting when I re-watch Friends to see how much Chandler's appearance changed from season to season. 

There are so many great ones, but I have long thought that Chandler Bing is one of the funniest sitcom characters ever, and I stand by that today.  Joey from the same show is also on that list.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on October 30, 2023, 07:17:13 AM
I actually watched a couple episodes the day before, the first ones I've seen in a long time.  Ross's teeth was one, Rachel and Phoebe taking self defense classes the second, and Chandler giving Monica the mix tape that his ex gave him the third (I think they were different ones).

They were mildly funny, with bits of really amusing in there as well.  Phoebe making out with Kenny the Copy Guy thinking it was Ralph Lauren was good.   Ross talking about "sensing" your enemy, and then going to the instructor and asking how he can assault two women was - darkly - funny. 

The sarcastic snark from Chandler didn't age well, though, I have to say.  Now I feel bad for thinking that.  I didn't really mean that Matthew had to die over that.  In all seriousness, I find these deaths to be sort of senseless. I know they happen, but it's hard not to wonder if that all would have went down if Perry was, say, a journalist in Ottawa.   But then again, he did have problems as early as age 14, so maybe that was his path. Who knows?
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: XJDenton on October 30, 2023, 07:55:40 AM
All deaths are, to a degree, senseless. Accidents and acute medical issues can happen to anyone at any time. I lost a schoolfriend to an aneurysm when she was only 27. My best friends sister died to an unfortunate car accident in her early 30s. I lost two other friends from university and high school to cancer before they hit 30. Maybe if they'd made different choices they'd still be alive, or maybe they would have died sooner from some other freak accident.

I don't think its productive to dwell on the "What ifs". We can only do the best we can given the info and hand we were dealt at the time, and given that all our stories will end the same way (death) and likely not in a manner or time of our choosing, the best we can do is try to ensure the journey there is as good as one that is good as possible. Perry ended up making the whole world laugh, and then went on to dedicate his time to helping others who were suffering from the same hardships as he suffered earlier in life. In that respect, it was one to celebrate.

Yeah, it's always interesting when I re-watch Friends to see how much Chandler's appearance changed from season to season. 

There are so many great ones, but I have long thought that Chandler Bing is one of the funniest sitcom characters ever, and I stand by that today.  Joey from the same show is also on that list.

I'd say he and Rachel probably had the best development on the show, and it was great to see the commitment-phobe be the one who first settled down and made a stable family with Monica. There's a lot about friends that has not aged particularly well but the character writing was always on point.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Harmony on October 30, 2023, 08:26:23 AM
I read somewhere he was taking medication for COPD.  People with COPD have something like a 5x risk of sudden cardiac death.  My mom died from cardiogenic shock due to COPD.

I really hope for his sake that he went out sober.  I mean, I can see why someone would say hey - if you're going to die anyway, why not die high.  But after dealing with his own demons and the things he said about wanting his sobriety - and helping others with their sobriety - to be what he was ultimately remembered for, I wish that for him.

I understand the inclination to make assumptions based on his history.  But I don't find that to be fair until the facts are released.

And that's another thing.  Why if someone is a celebrity does their cause of death carry an expectation that we all get to know?  It seems like none of our business really.

It is like another layer of grief the family has to be put through. 
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: KevShmev on October 30, 2023, 12:20:44 PM
I agree with most of that.  It is natural for us to want to know why a celebrity (actor, musician, athlete, etc.) we liked/followed died, but ultimately it is none of our business.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on October 30, 2023, 12:37:06 PM
I read somewhere he was taking medication for COPD.  People with COPD have something like a 5x risk of sudden cardiac death.  My mom died from cardiogenic shock due to COPD.

I really hope for his sake that he went out sober.  I mean, I can see why someone would say hey - if you're going to die anyway, why not die high.  But after dealing with his own demons and the things he said about wanting his sobriety - and helping others with their sobriety - to be what he was ultimately remembered for, I wish that for him.

I understand the inclination to make assumptions based on his history.  But I don't find that to be fair until the facts are released.

See the Portnoy thread; I'm with you 100% percent. But that's our society. We LOVE to speculate, whether it's Perry on vodka, or Mike Johnson and his adoption (that whole line of reasoning is too sick to put into words, and I'm not talking about Johnson, I'm talking about the responses), or whether Mangini was fired or left of his own accord.  We all know - or think we know - better.  We all know - or think we know - how things "should" go. 

Unfortunately, life doesn't work that way.  People don't always play by "our" arbitrary rules.

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And that's another thing.  Why if someone is a celebrity does their cause of death carry an expectation that we all get to know?  It seems like none of our business really.

It is like another layer of grief the family has to be put through.

Part and parcel with the speculation; "they're public, they put themselves out there, what did they expect?"  It's certainly an unanswered question though; celebrities often do seem to want their cake and to be able to eat it too; the fame and scrutiny is great when it's the new album or new book or new movie, but how do you arbitrarily close the door when it's subjectively "too much"? Jada Pinkett Smith comes to mind  here, Britney Spears is another.   EVERY bit of their lives are or have been scrutinized, because often THEY put the info out there to start with. How do you flip that switch when it's death?
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: cramx3 on October 30, 2023, 12:40:31 PM
I read somewhere he was taking medication for COPD.  People with COPD have something like a 5x risk of sudden cardiac death.

I'm not following too closely but I haven't seen any talk of this.  It would make a lot of sense.  Maybe people should be talking more about this for awareness of such risk.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: ProfessorPeart on October 30, 2023, 12:40:59 PM
His death actually brought to light something about his guest spot on Scrubs that I never knew.

A patient is in need a of kidney transplant and JD tracks down his estranged son (Perry) to see if he'd be willing to donate a kidney only to find out that they are not biological Father/Son. The Dad in the episode is Perry's actual biological father and Perry also directed the episode.

Scrubs is to me what Friends is to a lot of people. A comfort show that I have seen too many times to count and I cannot believe I never knew these tidbits.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on October 30, 2023, 12:57:29 PM
His death actually brought to light something about his guest spot on Scrubs that I never knew.

A patient is in need a of kidney transplant and JD tracks down his estranged son (Perry) to see if he'd be willing to donate a kidney only to find out that they are not biological Father/Son. The Dad in the episode is Perry's actual biological father and Perry also directed the episode.

Scrubs is to me what Friends is to a lot of people. A comfort show that I have seen too many times to count and I cannot believe I never knew these tidbits.

And Perry's stepdad is Keith Morrison from Dateline.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Harmony on October 30, 2023, 03:35:01 PM
Part and parcel with the speculation; "they're public, they put themselves out there, what did they expect?"  It's certainly an unanswered question though; celebrities often do seem to want their cake and to be able to eat it too; the fame and scrutiny is great when it's the new album or new book or new movie, but how do you arbitrarily close the door when it's subjectively "too much"? Jada Pinkett Smith comes to mind  here, Britney Spears is another.   EVERY bit of their lives are or have been scrutinized, because often THEY put the info out there to start with. How do you flip that switch when it's death?

I'm not sure I agree with this.  "Putting themselves out there" is literally their jobs....whether an athlete, an author, a politician, a television star, a musician...this does not give the public the RIGHT to personal/private information unless/until the person in question chooses to do so.  That would encompass what Jada and Britney are doing.  THEY are making that choice as you correctly state.  But that does not give me or anyone else the right to private information such as protected health information.  It doesn't matter what you or I want with regard to the flip of that switch.

And once someone is dead, those rights are left to the next of kin or appointed executor of the estate.  Even in death, our health information is protected.  And I think often families of celebrities are pressured to release information even if they don't want to in order to AVOID erroneous speculation.  Or in order to call attention to a condition or disease, such as Robin Williams' Lewy Body Dementia.

What the public wants/demands =/= illegal disclosure of PHI.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TheHoveringSojourn808 on October 30, 2023, 04:22:41 PM
His death actually brought to light something about his guest spot on Scrubs that I never knew.

A patient is in need a of kidney transplant and JD tracks down his estranged son (Perry) to see if he'd be willing to donate a kidney only to find out that they are not biological Father/Son. The Dad in the episode is Perry's actual biological father and Perry also directed the episode.

Scrubs is to me what Friends is to a lot of people. A comfort show that I have seen too many times to count and I cannot believe I never knew these tidbits.

wasn't this a Lost plotline with John Locke?
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on October 31, 2023, 07:21:05 AM
Part and parcel with the speculation; "they're public, they put themselves out there, what did they expect?"  It's certainly an unanswered question though; celebrities often do seem to want their cake and to be able to eat it too; the fame and scrutiny is great when it's the new album or new book or new movie, but how do you arbitrarily close the door when it's subjectively "too much"? Jada Pinkett Smith comes to mind  here, Britney Spears is another.   EVERY bit of their lives are or have been scrutinized, because often THEY put the info out there to start with. How do you flip that switch when it's death?

I'm not sure I agree with this.  "Putting themselves out there" is literally their jobs....whether an athlete, an author, a politician, a television star, a musician...this does not give the public the RIGHT to personal/private information unless/until the person in question chooses to do so.  That would encompass what Jada and Britney are doing.  THEY are making that choice as you correctly state.  But that does not give me or anyone else the right to private information such as protected health information.  It doesn't matter what you or I want with regard to the flip of that switch.

And once someone is dead, those rights are left to the next of kin or appointed executor of the estate.  Even in death, our health information is protected.  And I think often families of celebrities are pressured to release information even if they don't want to in order to AVOID erroneous speculation.  Or in order to call attention to a condition or disease, such as Robin Williams' Lewy Body Dementia.

What the public wants/demands =/= illegal disclosure of PHI.

I'm with you with respect to PHI. No question.  But beyond that, I'm really just calling out the fine line; I think I'm parked more in your territory than not. I'm just asking the question how do you put out parts of information and not all of it - and is it even reasonable to expect that the "incomplete" part will be ignored? And how do you police it if you do?  I'm sorry I keep going back to the political, but our (national) politics are such a shit show that they are a sort of harbinger for this stuff.   You have "body language experts" and "trained pychologists" weighing in on Trump and Hilary and others, and the excuse is, "they put themselves out there".   Matthew Perry has most certainly put his substance issues "out there", for better or worse, and I think there's a certain critical mass - helped/hurt depending on how you look at it - by the media who has made it their job, their reason for being, to uncover these details, that believe this opens the door.

I'm not arguing with you, I'm being critical of this mindset.  While I like my information as much as the next guy, I think our level of speculation and the degree to which mere "speculation" has too often transcended into perceived "fact" is really problematic.   Like I said, see the Portnoy thread in the main DT section; there ARE people here that are CONVINCED beyond any doubt that Mangini was FIRED, unceremoniously, and that he cried over his leaving in Rodrigo's interview.   Three lawyers and a couple people close to the band have indicated that there is no evidence to that effect (and that even if Mike was asked to leave, that's not tantamount to a "firing", with all that that entails). It's like we can't help ourselves.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: pg1067 on October 31, 2023, 10:53:01 AM
His death actually brought to light something about his guest spot on Scrubs that I never knew.

A patient is in need a of kidney transplant and JD tracks down his estranged son (Perry) to see if he'd be willing to donate a kidney only to find out that they are not biological Father/Son. The Dad in the episode is Perry's actual biological father and Perry also directed the episode.

Perry's father also appeared on an episode of Friends, playing the father of one of Rachel's love interests, Joshua (aka Josh-OO-AH).
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: pg1067 on November 01, 2023, 05:53:39 PM
Bobby Knight - 83

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/01/sport/bobby-knight-death-coach-health-spt/index.html
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: KevShmev on November 01, 2023, 05:54:40 PM
Was just about to post that one.

Knight was great for a soundbite back in the day and not always in a good way, but he certainly let his mark on the sport of college hoops.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on November 01, 2023, 05:58:16 PM
Holy shit
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TAC on November 01, 2023, 06:02:52 PM
At the risk of offending any Bobby Knight fans, can I just say...Who gives a shit? The guy seemed like a total fucking asshole.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: KevShmev on November 01, 2023, 06:07:03 PM
At the risk of offending any Bobby Knight fans, can I just say...Who gives a shit? The guy seemed like a total fucking asshole.

https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=52359.0

Just some food for thought... (no judging)
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TAC on November 01, 2023, 06:11:51 PM
At the risk of offending any Bobby Knight fans, can I just say...Who gives a shit? The guy seemed like a total fucking asshole.

https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=52359.0

Just some food for thought... (no judging)

Well, alright. I'm a dick then.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: KevShmev on November 01, 2023, 06:25:57 PM
At the risk of offending any Bobby Knight fans, can I just say...Who gives a shit? The guy seemed like a total fucking asshole.

https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=52359.0

Just some food for thought... (no judging)

Well, alright. I'm a dick then.

But we knew that already. :P :lol (levity!)
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TAC on November 01, 2023, 06:29:32 PM
At the risk of offending any Bobby Knight fans, can I just say...Who gives a shit? The guy seemed like a total fucking asshole.

https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=52359.0

Just some food for thought... (no judging)

Well, alright. I'm a dick then.

But we knew that already. :P :lol (levity!)

Hah! I know.

I'm not saying I'm glad he's dead or anything. I don't know. Maybe I'm just being cranky.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: KevShmev on November 01, 2023, 06:34:23 PM
Go listen to Somewhere in Time at a loud volume. That will cheer you right up.  :metal :metal
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TAC on November 01, 2023, 06:43:18 PM
Go listen to Somewhere in Time at a loud volume. That will cheer you right up.  :metal :metal

It will. I'll be staring at my tickets..well, phone screen.  ;D
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: KevShmev on November 01, 2023, 06:48:27 PM
Yeah, I missing getting actual tickets that you can hold in your hand.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: DragonAttack on November 01, 2023, 09:01:28 PM
I wanted to show the wife a memorable incident in Mr. Knight's career, so I went to you tube, and started to type in

'bobby kni'

and it instantly did an auto fill 'bobby knight throws chair'   :lol :lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukpekodCQ-U

I so remember this, as it was the Saturday regional 'Big Ten Game Of The Week'.  I grew up rooting against Indiana no matter who they played. 

I will say that his players did admire him (if he didn't grab them around the neck).  He helped raise close to half a mil when Landon Turner was paralyzed in an auto accident before his senior year.  And his players graduated.  So I begrudgingly give him respect for that, his coaching, the three NCAA titles, etc.

Then, as now, it didn't matter if you were a Michigan or Michigan State fan, there was one thing all agreed on:  Bobby Knight was a  :censored

Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on November 02, 2023, 09:06:05 AM
I met him briefly in Hartford at the NCAA Tournament Round one; I was working security and as he walked past to get to the court, he turned around and grabbed a couple of sodas from one of the managers (who had a tray of them) and handed them to me and one of my colleagues.  He chatted for a minute or two about the crowd and stuff and then went out and coached his team to like a 20 point blowout. 
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: cramx3 on November 02, 2023, 11:20:42 AM
At the risk of offending any Bobby Knight fans, can I just say...Who gives a shit? The guy seemed like a total fucking asshole.

Well, he certainly seemed like an asshole, but he also seemed like a good coach who did want the best for his players.  It's one of those odd coaches who is probably not universally liked by his attitude, but if you connected with him, you probably loved him.

He certainly was entertaining though, I always liked him.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Zydar on November 30, 2023, 05:37:50 AM
Shane McGowan (from The Pogues) has passed away. I guess he's mostly known to the masses for the Christmas song 'Fairytale Of New York'.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C0RN60nstwc/
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Indiscipline on November 30, 2023, 06:01:14 AM
Damn. It's truly heartbreaking.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: KevShmev on December 04, 2023, 05:09:08 PM
For the four people around here who had probably heard of April Wine, their singer/guitarist/songwriter Myles Goodwyn died.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/myles-goodwyn-april-wine-dead/
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TAC on December 04, 2023, 05:14:01 PM
For the four people around here who had probably heard of April Wine, their singer/guitarist/songwriter Myles Goodwyn died.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/myles-goodwyn-april-wine-dead/

Oh wow! They had a bunch of great tunes. Jeez.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: KevShmev on December 04, 2023, 05:15:40 PM
For the four people around here who had probably heard of April Wine, their singer/guitarist/songwriter Myles Goodwyn died.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/myles-goodwyn-april-wine-dead/

Oh wow! They had a bunch of great tunes. Jeez.

I actually saw them in 1993.  It was my 8th concert ever - April Wine, Loverboy and Nazareth.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TAC on December 04, 2023, 05:16:48 PM
For the four people around here who had probably heard of April Wine, their singer/guitarist/songwriter Myles Goodwyn died.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/myles-goodwyn-april-wine-dead/

Oh wow! They had a bunch of great tunes. Jeez.

I actually saw them in 1993.  It was my 8th concert ever - April Wine, Loverboy and Nazareth.

Nice. I can't recall them ever coming around here. They must have though.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: KevShmev on December 04, 2023, 05:18:18 PM
I literally never listen to them anymore, and they were always more of a "I like a handful of their songs or so" band for me, but that was during my classic rock radio listening period, so when a few friends mentioned about getting tickets, I was like, sure, why not.  I don't remember much about it, but I know I enjoyed it.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Orbert on December 04, 2023, 05:21:34 PM
I've definitely heard of April Wine and even have a few of their songs on my iPod.

Okay, that doesn't prove anything, I guess.   I'm probably just one of the four.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: KevShmev on December 04, 2023, 05:24:14 PM
I Like to Rock and Roller in particular were major staples on rock radio here back in the 90s.

They also had a super obscure song called Shot Down that was huge on rock radio here in St. Louis, but apparently never played anywhere else.  A friend remembers an interview with them where one of the local DJs told them that and they were stunned.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Orbert on December 04, 2023, 05:41:35 PM
They broke big in the midwest with "Roller" and the album was called First Glance, so we assumed it was their first album.  Turns out it was their seventh album.  "I Like to Rock" was pretty fun, too.  Played that song in one of my first bands.  But the gem from that album (Harder... Faster) was their cover of "21st Century Schizoid Man".  Pretty ballsy to cover King Crimson, but it's a great version.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: El Barto on December 04, 2023, 05:57:51 PM
I saw them in 93 playing with Jackyl at the local shed. Can't find any mention of it other than AW's website, and it appeared to be a one-off kind of gig. Some other bands were there, too (I despise Jackyl and we left when they came on). I remember it was a very good set, and included one of the best drum solos I've ever seen. The drummer, Jerry Mercer, was a real badass.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: lonestar on December 04, 2023, 08:35:24 PM
For the four people around here who had probably heard of April Wine, their singer/guitarist/songwriter Myles Goodwyn died.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/myles-goodwyn-april-wine-dead/

Roller was such a solid tune.

In the early 90s I actually won tickets in the radio to their show, had to work so my brother went. Said they kicked ass.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: T-ski on December 04, 2023, 08:51:39 PM
I remember “Sign of the Gypsy Queen” and “Just Between You and Me” being played on the radio in my youth.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TAC on December 04, 2023, 08:54:27 PM
I remember “Sign of the Gypsy Queen” and “Just Between You and Me” being played on the radio in my youth.

Big time!
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: jingle.boy on December 04, 2023, 08:57:45 PM
Jay was pumping them pretty hard in the Hard Rock thread earlier today.  As a Canadian, I'm rather familiar with April Wine.  I like the description of being Canada's Blue Oyster Cult.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Ben_Jamin on December 05, 2023, 12:50:51 AM
For the four people around here who had probably heard of April Wine, their singer/guitarist/songwriter Myles Goodwyn died.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/myles-goodwyn-april-wine-dead/

Coincidentally, my local radio station ended up playing one of their songs. I was all, April Wine, never heard of them but not bad of a song. This was played a couple days before he passed.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: KevShmev on December 05, 2023, 06:27:28 AM
I don't agree with the April Wine/BOC thing (I know 99% of the BOC catalogue like the back of my hand, they were 8th on my favorites list, and I just don't see it), but it's cool to see than more than I would have thought here are familiar with April Wine.  :tup :tup
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on December 05, 2023, 08:19:57 AM
I haven't listened to April Wine in a LOOONNNGGG time.  But that's too bad.

RIP
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: KevShmev on December 06, 2023, 09:42:41 AM
This is a big one:

Norman Lear has passed at the age of 101.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: pg1067 on December 06, 2023, 09:48:52 AM
I heard on the radio yesterday that Denny Laine from Wings died.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Orbert on December 06, 2023, 09:52:55 AM
Yeah, Denny Laine died on the 50th anniversary of Wings' Band on the Run album.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on December 06, 2023, 12:16:55 PM
This is a big one:

Norman Lear has passed at the age of 101.
Oh wow

RIP
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: El Barto on December 06, 2023, 01:25:25 PM
Dude's impact on television really cannot be overstated. While Mary Tyler Moore was quietly opening the door, he blew it off the wall Tony Montana style. That changed the entire mindset of TV programming in this country from trying to offend the least number of people with lots of rural stuff to making TV more representative of the times. I wasn't real crazy about most of his shows, but as someone who had to watch way too much Hee-Haw, I'm sure glad he came around.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: KevShmev on December 06, 2023, 03:03:24 PM
Dude's impact on television really cannot be overstated. While Mary Tyler Moore was quietly opening the door, he blew it off the wall Tony Montana style. That changed the entire mindset of TV programming in this country from trying to offend the least number of people with lots of rural stuff to making TV more representative of the times. I wasn't real crazy about most of his shows, but as someone who had to watch way too much Hee-Haw, I'm sure glad he came around.

You never struck me as a Hee-Haw guy. :P :biggrin:

I grew up watching All in the Family, and it's still one of my favorite sitcoms ever (top 5 easy).
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: HOF on December 06, 2023, 10:35:16 PM
I have heard of April Wine, but I don't think I could name a song off the top of my head.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on December 07, 2023, 06:25:22 AM
Dude's impact on television really cannot be overstated. While Mary Tyler Moore was quietly opening the door, he blew it off the wall Tony Montana style. That changed the entire mindset of TV programming in this country from trying to offend the least number of people with lots of rural stuff to making TV more representative of the times. I wasn't real crazy about most of his shows, but as someone who had to watch way too much Hee-Haw, I'm sure glad he came around.

I'm pickin', and I'ma grinnin'!!!!
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: pg1067 on December 07, 2023, 09:28:59 AM
I have heard of April Wine, but I don't think I could name a song off the top of my head.

I remember in the early days of MTV, there was an April Wine video that used to run all the time (and which I believe was one of the first day videos).  Something about a Gypsy.  They never resonated with me.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: jingle.boy on December 07, 2023, 09:33:20 AM
I have heard of April Wine, but I don't think I could name a song off the top of my head.

I remember in the early days of MTV, there was an April Wine video that used to run all the time (and which I believe was one of the first day videos).  Something about a Gypsy.  They never resonated with me.

Sign of the Gypsy Queen :2metal:
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on December 07, 2023, 09:40:03 AM
I mean, I liked Hee-Haw.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: jingle.boy on December 07, 2023, 12:59:30 PM
I mean, I liked Hee-Haw.

That's what she said.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: El Barto on December 07, 2023, 01:19:20 PM
I mean, I liked Hee-Haw.

That's what she said.
No, that was hoo-ha.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on December 07, 2023, 03:36:37 PM
I mean, I liked Hee-Haw.

That's what she said.
No, that was hoo-ha.
I like that too.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Orbert on December 07, 2023, 08:44:10 PM
Hee-Haw was awesome.  Roy Clark was a boss, and 99% of country girls are absolute babes.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on December 07, 2023, 09:25:36 PM
Hee-Haw was awesome.  Roy Clark was a boss, and 99% of country girls are absolute babes.
This guy knows what's up.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: T-ski on December 08, 2023, 12:47:13 PM
Hee-Haw Honeys were the only reason to tune in.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on December 08, 2023, 01:01:52 PM
That's why Roy Clark always had that big ole grin on his face!! (Seriously, though, that man could PLAY.)

Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: El Barto on December 08, 2023, 02:13:28 PM
That's why Roy Clark always had that big ole grin on his face!! (Seriously, though, that man could PLAY.)
I consider Roy Clark the very first shredder. He strikes me as the first guy to just go out and play hard for the sake of playing hard, song not required.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: King Postwhore on December 08, 2023, 02:15:33 PM
Brings back so many memories with my grandmother. 
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on December 08, 2023, 03:38:08 PM
That's why Roy Clark always had that big ole grin on his face!! (Seriously, though, that man could PLAY.)
I consider Roy Clark the very first shredder. He strikes me as the first guy to just go out and play hard for the sake of playing hard, song not required.
Indeed, he was a stud. And he could play anything with strings.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: KevShmev on December 09, 2023, 06:56:20 AM
Ryan O'Neal dead at 82.

And given my stance in the below thread, I'd be a hypocrite if I said anything else, so I won't.

https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=52359.0
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: ProfessorPeart on December 12, 2023, 08:45:13 PM
Andre Braugher, gone at 61. Wow, loved his part on House when he was House's shrink. He will always be Captain Holt to me. 9-9!

https://deadline.com/2023/12/andre-braugher-dead-reactions-1235665592/
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Adami on December 12, 2023, 08:59:43 PM
Andre Braugher, gone at 61. Wow, loved his part on House when he was House's shrink. He will always be Captain Holt to me. 9-9!

https://deadline.com/2023/12/andre-braugher-dead-reactions-1235665592/

This one hurt. My wife and I are currently about half way through Brooklyn 99. My second time, her first time. Gonna make watching it now a bit hard.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: axeman90210 on December 12, 2023, 09:01:26 PM
Yeah, this one sucks. I put on The Cage just now, a 99 classic.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: El Barto on December 12, 2023, 10:27:37 PM
Andre Braugher, gone at 61. Wow, loved his part on House when he was House's shrink. He will always be Captain Holt to me. 9-9!

https://deadline.com/2023/12/andre-braugher-dead-reactions-1235665592/
As far as I know that's the only thing I've seen him in, but he was really great in that part.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: MirrorMask on December 13, 2023, 03:49:34 AM
Whaaaaat? this came suddenly..... shocking  :-[ :-[ :-[

This is so sad.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: XJDenton on December 13, 2023, 03:51:01 AM
Goddamn, B99 was one of my favourite comedies of this decade and he was a huge part of that. Rest peacefully, Andre. You went too goddamn young.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: King Postwhore on December 13, 2023, 04:07:19 AM
Terrible loss. Way too young.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on December 13, 2023, 06:29:35 AM
What a great actor.  He was one of those guys that always looked 44, no matter what age he actually was.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: pg1067 on December 13, 2023, 10:00:59 AM
RIP Capt. Holt.  B99 is the only thing I've ever seen him in.  The first 5-6 seasons were absolutely awesome.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: DragonAttack on December 13, 2023, 02:50:03 PM
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b0/6d/91/b06d91f0596be5f24b5b8a3a6f7e50d9.png)

An absolutely fantastic actor.  He was in what my wife and I agree to as one of the ten best TV episodes ever, sitting comfortable alongside a couple each from ‘Breaking Bad’, 'The Wire', ‘The Sopranos’, 'Better Call Saul', and the finale of ‘Six Feet Under’.

He won two Emmys as Detective Frank Pembleton in ‘Homicide:  Life In The Streets’.  An incredibly intelligent, and at times overly arrogant homicide detective. I watched the show when I could when it first aired on Friday nights at 10pm.  My wife and I watched the entire series during the initial airings of 'The Wire', and watched it again over the last decade.  It was certainly ‘the best show that people didn’t see’, and, like ‘The Wire’, showed Baltimore, many warts and all.  Always loved the cross over 'Law & Order' episodes, especially Monch and Lenny.

The series itself became the first to win three Peabody Awards for excellence in broadcast television.  What a talented cast that show had throughout its run (from Season 5)
(https://diariodeunatelefila.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/reparto-t6-homicide.jpg?w=768&h=432)

For the longest time, I had wanted to post the following in the 'Breaking Bad' thread, but never got around to it. Some should find it quite interesting.

1998, ‘Subway’, Season 6, Episode 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subway_(Homicide:_Life_on_the_Street)#:~:text=In%20the%20episode%2C%20John%20Lange,Lange%20in%20his%20final%20minutes.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/Homicide_life_on_the_street_subway.jpg)

The character played by Vincent D'Onofrio (Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Full Metal Jacket, Men In Black) ends up being trapped between a subway car and the platform.  The ebb and flow of the situation, dialogue, etc is spellbinding.  The victim is not a likeable or entirely sympathetic person.  And Pembleton opens up a personal side not shown during the prior years. The episode won a Peabody award, and received Emmy nominations for best script and best guest performance (D'Onofrio)

Episode influences  (Vince Gilligan, Bryan Cranston)
from wiki
"Vincent D'Onofrio's character in "Subway" partially inspired the creation of the antagonist played by Bryan Cranston in "Drive", a sixth season episode of The X-Files, which first aired on November 15, 1998. In the episode, Cranston's character is unpleasant and anti-semitic, but he is dying throughout the episode, and screenwriter Vince Gilligan intended for the audience to sympathize with him despite his unlikeable qualities. Gilligan said that this was influenced by "Subway", which he called an "amazing episode". He said of D'Onofio's character: "The brilliant thing they did in this episode, the thing that stuck with me, was this guy's an asshole, the guy really is unpleasant, and yet at the end (you) still feel his humanity." The casting of Cranston in this role directly led Gilligan to eventually cast him as the lead in his television series Breaking Bad."

We watched that episode some time around when we'd finally watched BB.  Worth checking out for the few that might not have been familiar with the story.

A few 'Homicide' episodes are available only on youtube.  This episode has one of those annoying 'reaction' cam shots available.  No streaming. A real frickin pity :tdwn  The only way to watch ‘Homicide’ is to purchase the DVDs or find a copy at your local library. Included with Season 6 was a PBS documentary about the writing and filming of ‘Subway’.  All are worth searching out.

Oh, and 'The Waterfront Bar' in the TV series is still open in Fells Point.

RIP, Mr. Brougher







Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on December 14, 2023, 06:16:50 AM
"Homicide" was an AMAZING show.  Really, really good stuff.  Thanks for the back-story tying it to "Breaking Bad" (I don't watch the "X-Files"); I remember that episode.  I'm a huge Vincent D'Onofrio fan.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: King Postwhore on December 14, 2023, 07:13:50 AM
Homicide was an amazing show.  Some great actors in that show.  Great writing as well.  Brooklyn Nine Nine is where my heart is with him.  For him to finally play a comedic role and how good he was in is blew m away.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: pg1067 on December 14, 2023, 10:16:28 AM
I didn't realize that the Law & Order: SUV guy originated on Homicide.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: King Postwhore on December 14, 2023, 10:23:48 AM
I didn't realize that the Law & Order: SUV guy originated on Homicide.

Same character as well.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TAC on December 19, 2023, 05:03:20 PM
We were just talking about the Innerview show in the Rush thread I think..

https://bravewords.com/news/jim-ladd-famed-l-a-disc-jockey-who-inspired-tom-petty-song-the-last-dj-dead-at-75
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: pg1067 on December 19, 2023, 05:09:06 PM
Jim Ladd was awesome.  An absolute boss and a legend.  I haven't listened to music on the radio in a LONG time, but he will always be #1.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: MirrorMask on December 27, 2023, 05:56:34 AM
Lee Sun-kyun, one of the protagonists of Parasite (he was the rich guy, head of the family), was found dead in a car.

He was involved in a scandal about marijuana, interrogated for 19 hours by the police, and it seems he left a note, so it's likely he took his own life after the ordeal.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on December 27, 2023, 09:39:51 AM
Neel Nanda, a somewhat new/up-and-coming comedian, 34 (the media reports are incorrect).

He may be best known for appearing on Jimmy Kimmel.

Really young, and sad to learn. Some reports have said suicide, but that is still unclear and unlikely. More likely some kind of unforeseen condition or accident.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: jammindude on December 27, 2023, 02:45:03 PM
RIP Tom Smothers

One half of the famous Smothers Brothers comedy team.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on December 28, 2023, 08:24:45 AM
RIP Tom Smothers

One half of the famous Smothers Brothers comedy team.
Oh man.  RIP
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on December 30, 2023, 03:15:08 PM
RIP Tom Wilkinson.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/dec/30/full-monty-actor-tom-wilkinson-dies-aged-75

In the Bedroom
Michael Clayton
The Ghost Writer
Batman Begins
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

The guy was a fantastic actor in several of my favorite movies. He will be missed.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Adami on December 30, 2023, 03:20:28 PM
RIP Tom Wilkinson.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/dec/30/full-monty-actor-tom-wilkinson-dies-aged-75

In the Bedroom
Michael Clayton
The Ghost Writer
Batman Begins
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

The guy was a fantastic actor in several of my favorite movies. He will be missed.


Oh man. I haven't seen a ton of his stuff, but I always enjoyed him in what I did. And I love The Full Monty.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: XJDenton on December 30, 2023, 04:08:04 PM
Damn, that sucks.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: T-ski on December 31, 2023, 09:25:01 AM
Legendary NASCAR driver Cale Yarborough passes at the age of 84. Won three championships but is probably best known for the fight he was in with the Allison brothers at the end of the 1979 Daytona 500….

https://youtu.be/ZDDcmz8VMew?si=igloHBxexA1pw9o4
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: pg1067 on January 02, 2024, 05:30:35 PM
Legendary NASCAR driver Cale Yarborough passes at the age of 84. Won three championships but is probably best known for the fight he was in with the Allison brothers at the end of the 1979 Daytona 500….

https://youtu.be/ZDDcmz8VMew?si=igloHBxexA1pw9o4

I remember him from the brief period in my youth when I found people driving cars to be enjoyable.  Honestly, I most remember him from some comedian who used to do an impression of Jackie Stewart, who...checking...is still alive.  He did this super exaggerated thing where he said, "and here come Cale Yarrrrrrrborough."  I wish I could remember who the comedian was.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on January 03, 2024, 09:02:31 AM
RIP Cale.  My dad knew him.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Zydar on January 05, 2024, 07:48:40 AM
Actor David Soul, best known for his role in TV series Starsky & Hutch, has died.

https://news.sky.com/story/actor-david-soul-best-known-for-his-role-in-tv-series-starsky-hutch-has-died-13042663
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on January 06, 2024, 06:42:27 PM
RIP David Soul..I always loved Salem's Lot.

Cindy Morgan, 69. from Caddyshack and Tron..very sad to learn. And the circumstance of how she died appear mysterious.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: King Postwhore on January 06, 2024, 06:43:46 PM
I still wrap my neck with blankets because of Salems Lot.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TAC on January 06, 2024, 06:50:05 PM
I still wrap my neck with blankets because of Salems Lot.

Oh man, that movie was so freaky.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: King Postwhore on January 06, 2024, 06:51:08 PM
I still wrap my neck with blankets because of Salems Lot.

Oh man, that movie was so freaky.

To this day, vampire movies scare me. I'm I big pussy with them.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: jingle.boy on January 06, 2024, 08:40:26 PM
I still wrap my neck with blankets because of Salems Lot.

Oh man, that movie was so freaky.

Wait, wut?  You watched a movie?
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Cool Chris on January 06, 2024, 09:34:38 PM
I never saw Salem's Lot, and it's never been high on my list of favorite King novels either.

Honestly, I cannot say for certain I ever saw Tron.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: pg1067 on January 07, 2024, 03:37:32 PM
I never saw Salem's Lot, and it's never been high on my list of favorite King novels either.

Honestly, I cannot say for certain I ever saw Tron.

I recall one of my sisters saying that Salem's Lot scared the crap out of her.  I think she was talking about the book.  I never saw the movie, and I'm pretty sure I never saw the original Tron.  I did see the remake, which I don't recall being very good.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Orbert on January 07, 2024, 05:11:29 PM
The remake/sequel of Tron was garbage.  The original Tron was absolutely amazing in its day, but I don't know how well it would hold up for a first-time viewer today.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: jammindude on January 09, 2024, 12:10:56 PM
RIP James Kottack drummer for Kingdom Come and Scorpions. Aged 61.

 :'(
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: MirrorMask on January 09, 2024, 12:57:11 PM
And on the same day, as discussed in the Magnum thread, we lost Tony Clarkin as well. He just announced one month ago he had a spinal condition that would prevent him from touring, I guess nobody could have imagined he had just few weeks left to live.... : (
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Zydar on January 13, 2024, 02:07:34 AM
RIP Peter Crombie, who played 'Crazy Joe Davola' on Seinfeld.

(https://tv-fanatic-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s--JNPDR95t--/t_full/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1371212813/the-opera-picture.png)


Peter Crombie Dead: ‘Seinfeld’s Crazy Joe Davola Was 71 – Deadline (https://deadline.com/2024/01/peter-crombie-dead-seinfeld-cast-favorite-crazy-joe-davola-was-71-obituary-1235731850/)
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Metro on February 02, 2024, 12:57:34 PM
RIP Carl Weathers

https://deadline.com/2024/02/carl-weathers-dead-1235812684/
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: King Postwhore on February 02, 2024, 12:58:28 PM
I just posted this on Facebook.  What a shame. R.I.P.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: jingle.boy on February 02, 2024, 12:59:46 PM
Well fuck.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TheHoveringSojourn808 on February 02, 2024, 01:05:09 PM
rip
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Adami on February 02, 2024, 01:08:05 PM
SOMEONE FIND AND ARREST DOLPH LUNDGREN !!



But yea. RIP. Great charisma.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: jammindude on February 02, 2024, 01:13:57 PM
That sucks! I didn’t even know he was sick. He looked great in The Mandalorian!

This one is a shocker.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Adami on February 02, 2024, 01:15:48 PM
Was he sick? I didn't see cause of death. I assumed he died in a shoot out.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: lonestar on February 02, 2024, 01:21:29 PM
One piece said he passed in his sleep but mentioned no cause, wonder if it was a heart attack or stroke...


Sucks man, he seemed like a genuinely good person throughout.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on February 02, 2024, 01:27:52 PM
RIP
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Samsara on February 02, 2024, 01:31:24 PM
Damn it man. Not Carl. Sucks.

Apollo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


RIP, legend.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: faizoff on February 02, 2024, 01:33:39 PM
Dylan you sunovabitch!

RIP
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Anguyen92 on February 02, 2024, 01:54:21 PM
I know him best as Chubbs from Happy Gilmour and this great scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMUVKuSJHco
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: T-ski on February 02, 2024, 05:53:31 PM
Combat Carl never gives up…
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Cool Chris on February 02, 2024, 06:02:49 PM
Apollo Creed was one of the truly great film antagonists. Rocky is a great movie regardless, but having him as Rocky's adversary elevates that film to tremendous heights.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: wolfking on February 02, 2024, 06:38:01 PM
I know him best as Chubbs from Happy Gilmour and this great scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMUVKuSJHco

What a great actor that he was Apollo Creed but was able to fucking nail it in this movie.  Possibly the start of the whole movie.

Tragic shit.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: HOF on February 02, 2024, 09:13:23 PM
I've seen a lot of these movies he was in, but I had no idea while watching The Mandalorian that he was somebody known outside of The Mandalorian.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Cool Chris on February 02, 2024, 09:45:53 PM
I had no idea while watching The Mandalorian that he was somebody known outside of The Mandalorian.

I had no idea anyone would think of him as anyone other than Apollo Creed.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: HOF on February 02, 2024, 09:51:41 PM
I had no idea while watching The Mandalorian that he was somebody known outside of The Mandalorian.

I had no idea anyone would think of him as anyone other than Apollo Creed.

Been a long time since I've seen any Rocky movies.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: axeman90210 on February 03, 2024, 04:51:05 AM
My first time seeing Carl was his wonderful appearances as "himself" on Arrested Development

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_9R5vWXjAs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDOffqDsV5Q

Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Zydar on February 06, 2024, 05:18:14 AM
I'm not into country music at all, but Toby Keith has passed away.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/toby-keith-dies-country-singer-stomach-cancer-rcna137412
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: ReaperKK on February 06, 2024, 06:12:29 AM
Wow, only 62, RIP
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on February 06, 2024, 07:03:36 AM
I'm not into country music at all, but Toby Keith has passed away.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/toby-keith-dies-country-singer-stomach-cancer-rcna137412

I saw him live twice; I get not being into his schtick, but underneath all that, he was the real deal. Wrote his own songs, and was one of those guys that could stand in front of 10,000 people with just his voice and a guitar and hold you captivated.   

I love that song "Beer For My Horses".   What a great tune.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on February 06, 2024, 08:26:47 AM
RIP Toby Keith.  Not a huge fan of his overall output, but he had several songs that were fantastic and get regular replay from me.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Chino on February 06, 2024, 08:53:19 AM
I've seen Toby a number of times in concert and always had a great time. He was one of the last few monsters before the era of bro-country (though he got pretty close at times). I've done Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue for karaoke dozens of times. 
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Grappler on February 06, 2024, 08:35:16 PM
20 or so years ago, I really got into country and LOVED a lot of Toby Keith's songs.  Courtesy of the Red White and Blue is awesome, and his songs were just fun and generally uplifting - What About Me, Whose your Daddy, I Love This Bar.   

Just a great musician all around.  I didn't even realize he was sick - it's too bad he's gone. 
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on February 07, 2024, 06:30:31 PM
RIP Mojo Nixon
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: TheHoveringSojourn808 on February 10, 2024, 10:38:11 AM
Damo Suzuki passed away. :(

His 3 records with CAN are among some of the coolest things I've ever heard. RIP

https://www.stereogum.com/2251276/can-vocalist-damo-suzuki-dead-at-74/news/
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Orbert on February 10, 2024, 10:49:18 AM
Bummer.  I checked out some Can a while back, and while I don't remember a lot of specifics, I do remember liking a lot of it and thinking they were a pretty cool band.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Buckeye69 on February 28, 2024, 04:25:20 PM
Double whammy.....

Richard Lewis

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/28/entertainment/richard-lewis-death/index.html


Former pro wrestler Virgil

https://www.cbssports.com/wwe/news/michael-jones-best-known-as-wwfs-virgil-and-his-work-with-the-million-dollar-man-ted-dibiase-dead-at-61/



Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: gmillerdrake on February 28, 2024, 06:29:43 PM
Richard Lewis

Obviously knew him from 'Curb' but outside of that and one of the greatest comedies of all time.....The Wrong Guys......other than that....he was always just randomly here and there but apparently made a good living at it.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Cool Chris on February 28, 2024, 06:50:05 PM
Richard Lewis was an A+ level comic.

When I was in 5th/6th grade, I was the biggest kid in the class. I wasn't abnormally large, just noticeably taller and a little chubbier than everyone else. One of the kids fancied himself the Million Dollar Man, and he would always point a thumb my direction and say "Virgil... show 'em my money!"
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: El Barto on February 28, 2024, 09:16:52 PM
No idea who Virgil was, but I saw in the same article that Ole Anderson died the same day. That's one I actually do remember.

 
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Zydar on February 28, 2024, 11:54:13 PM
Richard Lewis

Obviously knew him from 'Curb' but outside of that and one of the greatest comedies of all time.....The Wrong Guys......other than that....he was always just randomly here and there but apparently made a good living at it.

I mainly remember him from Men In Tights, playing the king with the mole.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on February 29, 2024, 08:25:23 AM
No idea who Virgil was, but I saw in the same article that Ole Anderson died the same day. That's one I actually do remember.

I know Virgil from his "work" with the Million Dollar Man, but Ole is the one that registered with me.  I started watching wrestling with World Championship Wrestling out of Georgia (thanks, cable!) with Piper, and those guys, and the Anderson's were a part of that.  Ole and Arn.  I watch wrestling a bit now, but it's not what I remember; it's like seeing your favorite band that you saw in a club or as an opening act now headlining stadiums.  :)
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: El Barto on February 29, 2024, 08:35:43 AM
No idea who Virgil was, but I saw in the same article that Ole Anderson died the same day. That's one I actually do remember.

I know Virgil from his "work" with the Million Dollar Man, but Ole is the one that registered with me.  I started watching wrestling with World Championship Wrestling out of Georgia (thanks, cable!) with Piper, and those guys, and the Anderson's were a part of that.  Ole and Arn.  I watch wrestling a bit now, but it's not what I remember; it's like seeing your favorite band that you saw in a club or as an opening act now headlining stadiums.  :)
In our time there was a darkness to it. That's been replaced by camp now.

Obviously I was watching WCCW here in Dallas, and a regular schedule of ODs, murders, and suicides certainly contributed to that darkness.

What I've enjoyed is watching the old timers tell stories about wrestling back in the 70s and 80s. It was a lifestyle that's nearly incomprehensible to sane, rational people. It's like a bizarre combination of circus folk and rockstars. That fascinates me.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on February 29, 2024, 08:39:16 AM
No idea who Virgil was, but I saw in the same article that Ole Anderson died the same day. That's one I actually do remember.

I know Virgil from his "work" with the Million Dollar Man, but Ole is the one that registered with me.  I started watching wrestling with World Championship Wrestling out of Georgia (thanks, cable!) with Piper, and those guys, and the Anderson's were a part of that.  Ole and Arn.  I watch wrestling a bit now, but it's not what I remember; it's like seeing your favorite band that you saw in a club or as an opening act now headlining stadiums.  :)
In our time there was a darkness to it. That's been replaced by camp now.

Obviously I was watching WCCW here in Dallas, and a regular schedule of ODs, murders, and suicides certainly contributed to that darkness.

What I've enjoyed is watching the old timers tell stories about wrestling back in the 70s and 80s. It was a lifestyle that's nearly incomprehensible to sane, rational people. It's like a bizarre combination of circus folk and rockstars. That fascinates me.

Me too; I find it fascinating as well.  And that's a great description; they ACTED like rockstars, but the living conditions and pay... those guys were doing it for the love of the "game".  Kudos - I guess - to Vince McMahon for getting the money to flow, but you're right; the darkness was scrubbed for the masses.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: El Barto on February 29, 2024, 08:56:06 AM
No idea who Virgil was, but I saw in the same article that Ole Anderson died the same day. That's one I actually do remember.

I know Virgil from his "work" with the Million Dollar Man, but Ole is the one that registered with me.  I started watching wrestling with World Championship Wrestling out of Georgia (thanks, cable!) with Piper, and those guys, and the Anderson's were a part of that.  Ole and Arn.  I watch wrestling a bit now, but it's not what I remember; it's like seeing your favorite band that you saw in a club or as an opening act now headlining stadiums.  :)
In our time there was a darkness to it. That's been replaced by camp now.

Obviously I was watching WCCW here in Dallas, and a regular schedule of ODs, murders, and suicides certainly contributed to that darkness.

What I've enjoyed is watching the old timers tell stories about wrestling back in the 70s and 80s. It was a lifestyle that's nearly incomprehensible to sane, rational people. It's like a bizarre combination of circus folk and rockstars. That fascinates me.

Me too; I find it fascinating as well.  And that's a great description; they ACTED like rockstars, but the living conditions and pay... those guys were doing it for the love of the "game".  Kudos - I guess - to Vince McMahon for getting the money to flow, but you're right; the darkness was scrubbed for the masses.
The money flowed straight to Vince. While worker pay did increase, it was still a far cry from reasonable. The bennies are good IF you're working. The day you leave you're pretty much on your own. Wrestlers are independent contractors and will never be anything more. The only thing that changed is bad press from Chris Benoit forcing him to start taking drugs seriously, and CTE will eventually force another big spending program.

Some former wrestler, another guy I'd never heard of, Macy or something, has a YT channel where he provides a lot of the details on how the WWE really worked, and it was all pretty interesting. It wasn't a bad gig, but unless you're The Rock or Hulk Hogan it wasn't a great career.

And in many ways they really were rockstars. While I seriously doubt they were getting the quality of tail that David Lee Roth was, the quantity was still there.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Cool Chris on February 29, 2024, 07:16:02 PM
Some former wrestler, another guy I'd never heard of, Macy or something, has a YT channel where he provides a lot of the details on how the WWE really worked, and it was all pretty interesting. It wasn't a bad gig, but unless you're The Rock or Hulk Hogan it wasn't a great career.

You probably mean Maven. He is an interesting case as he did not come up through normal channels but won their 1st Tough Enough competition. I was watching WWE at the time and thought he made the best of the incredible opportunity he was given. He has become a bit of a YT wrestling celebrity lately, I've heard good things about his channel. I've watched a few minutes of his videos here and there.

It was a lifestyle that's nearly incomprehensible to sane, rational people. It's like a bizarre combination of circus folk and rockstars. That fascinates me.

Well said.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: El Barto on February 29, 2024, 08:12:58 PM
Some former wrestler, another guy I'd never heard of, Macy or something, has a YT channel where he provides a lot of the details on how the WWE really worked, and it was all pretty interesting. It wasn't a bad gig, but unless you're The Rock or Hulk Hogan it wasn't a great career.

You probably mean Maven. He is an interesting case as he did not come up through normal channels but won their 1st Tough Enough competition. I was watching WWE at the time and thought he made the best of the incredible opportunity he was given. He has become a bit of a YT wrestling celebrity lately, I've heard good things about his channel. I've watched a few minutes of his videos here and there.
Yeah, that's the guy. Kind of an effeminate fellow. The rest of the wrestlers kind of resented him for the way he came up. He was good enough that most of them came around. Most of what he's talking about was well after I'd lost interest, so outside of a few of the legendary guys not much of it rings with me, but he's nevertheless interesting when talking about the business side of things.

He made enough of the opportunity to establish himself, but not enough to keep from getting shitcanned. They fired him because they didn't think he was still trying to get better and figured he'd gone as far as he'd ever go (an assessment he agrees with, even if he regrets it).

Personally, I'd rather watch Gary Hart tell stories. He was everywhere for everything so he's got stories galore, and he's not bad at telling them. His stories about The Spoiler really cracked me up.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Cool Chris on February 29, 2024, 08:22:29 PM
Personally, I'd rather watch Gary Hart tell stories. He was everywhere for everything so he's got stories galore, and he's not bad at telling them. His stories about The Spoiler really cracked me up.

Spent too many seconds trying to figure out why you brought up a politician in this thread...

I used to listen to Bruce Pritchard's podcast quite a bit but then I lost interest. I will still listen to Cornette talk about wrestling on occasion. There are few individuals I'd rather listen to talk about one topic than Cornette and wrestling.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Indiscipline on March 08, 2024, 06:38:03 AM
Akira Toriyama, legendary mangaka, has passed away.
 
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Zydar on March 08, 2024, 08:06:08 AM
Steve Lawrence from Steve & Eydie has passed away.

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/07/1236780408/steve-lawrence-singer-dies
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: XJDenton on March 08, 2024, 09:47:28 AM
Akira Toriyama, legendary mangaka, has passed away.
 

This one hit hard. A veritable legend of an entire industry.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: King Puppies and the Acid Guppies on March 08, 2024, 11:57:36 AM
Akira Toriyama, legendary mangaka, has passed away.
 

This one hit hard. A veritable legend of an entire industry.
Is this the guy that created Dragon Ball?
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Indiscipline on March 08, 2024, 12:12:31 PM
Yeah, and Dr. Slump.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: XJDenton on March 08, 2024, 01:26:19 PM
And did the character designs for all the Dragon Quest games, Chrono Trigger, among others.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on March 11, 2024, 10:15:32 PM
Eric Carmen, 74, lead singer of The Raspberries and then had a successful solo career.

My wife is a pretty big fan, Very sad :(

https://abcnews.go.com/US/singer-eric-carmen-dies-74/story?id=108032890
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on March 12, 2024, 07:41:36 AM
Eric Carmen, 74, lead singer of The Raspberries and then had a successful solo career.

My wife is a pretty big fan, Very sad :(

https://abcnews.go.com/US/singer-eric-carmen-dies-74/story?id=108032890
Oh wow.  RIP
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Orbert on March 12, 2024, 08:05:43 AM
One of my wife's faves, and I thought he was pretty cool, too.  Great voice, and that one song of his "All By Myself" has a Rachmaninoff piano concerto worked into the bridge, which was pretty nuts for a pop singer in the 70's.  It was cut out of the single version of course, but I've got the album version on my iPod.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on March 21, 2024, 12:05:12 AM
M Emmet Walsh, 88 (would have been 89 on Friday).

Character actor whose credits in movies and tv are very extensive.

Maybe Most notably for me

-Fletch
-The Jerk
-Slapshot
-Blade Runner
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: hefdaddy42 on March 21, 2024, 06:35:26 AM
Also A Time to Kill, among many others.

One of my favorite character actors.  RIP
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: SoundscapeMN on March 21, 2024, 07:26:29 AM
also Back to School..so many others. The guy was everywhere.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: El Barto on March 21, 2024, 08:13:16 AM
also Back to School..so many others. The guy was everywhere.
And like so many good character actors I couldn't connect him with any of his various roles. At no point have I wondered "where have I seen that guy before."
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Stadler on March 21, 2024, 08:25:20 AM
also Back to School..so many others. The guy was everywhere.
And like so many good character actors I couldn't connect him with any of his various roles. At no point have I wondered "where have I seen that guy before."

That was me with the name.  "Who?"   <Quick google search> "Oh, yeah, he's AWESOME!"
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Zydar on March 21, 2024, 08:31:02 AM
Yeah I have to admit I had to google his name, and recognised him a little bit. Can't attach him to any specific role/movie though.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Adami on March 21, 2024, 08:39:14 AM
Loved M Emmet Walsh. But honestly assumed he was dead for a while.

RIP dude.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Indiscipline on March 21, 2024, 08:49:27 AM
One of the all time "that guy"s.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Adami on March 21, 2024, 09:12:15 AM
One of the all time "that guy"s.

He’s one of the few “that guys” that I actually knew his name.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: coz on March 21, 2024, 12:39:57 PM
It was his parts in The Jerk and Raising Arizona for me.

"Die Navin R. Johnson. Bastard, random son of a bitch, typical run of the mill bastard."
"Die milk face!"
"Die gas pumper!"
 :rollin

RIP Mr Walsh  :(

Edit:  Looking at his credits, I forgot he was in Harry and the Hendersons and Slap Shot!  The Dr. in Fletch was classic too.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: HOF on March 21, 2024, 01:01:08 PM
Yeah, I only recognize him from The Jerk. He was apparently in Knives Out too, though I can’t picture the role.
Title: Re: Celebrity death thread
Post by: Cool Chris on March 21, 2024, 06:28:31 PM
Dr. Jellyfinger!