RIP 2010

[€uroMeinke]

Art Clokey - Creator of Gumby (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-me-art-clokey9-2010jan09,0,3938052.story)

[Snowflake]

:(

Saddest cheese of all.

[Gemini Cricket]

Joe Biden's mom.

[Nephythys]

Casey Johnson

[CoasterMatt]

I shall wear my Blockhead shirt today in tribute.

[Kevy Baby]

Rory Markas - the Play-By-Play man for the Angels

[Morrigoon]

You have a blockhead shirt? That's awesome.

[Alex]

Eric Rohmer. The most important (to me) of the French New Wave.

[€uroMeinke]

Jack - our big orange boy - to congestive heart failure
:(

[LSPoorEeyorick]

So sorry, C&L. I loved Jack.

In other RIP news, my grandfather.

[€uroMeinke]

So sorry, C&L. I loved Jack.

In other RIP news, my grandfather.

Today is a sad cheese day
:(

[BarTopDancer]

Sad cheese day indeed.

[Nephythys]

Miep Gies (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100112/ap_on_re_eu/eu_netherlands_obit_miep_gies)

[Kevy Baby]

Jack - our big orange boy - to congestive heart failure
:(Well... crap

Sorry to hear of your loss Chris and Lisa!!!

[CoasterMatt]

:(

[Not Afraid]

http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs156.snc3/18354_1348425791154_1246598123_31000844_2267715_n. jpg

http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs156.snc3/18354_1348426271166_1246598123_31000845_7308608_n. jpg

[Snowflake]

RIP Jack

:(

[JWBear]

No! Jack was a sweetie! :(

[Strangler Lewis]

Today is a sad cheese day
:(

Sympathy to everyone for their losses.

[Strangler Lewis]

Miep Gies (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100112/ap_on_re_eu/eu_netherlands_obit_miep_gies)

This is sad. Perhaps it's silly, but the world seemed a more righteous place with her in it.

[lashbear]

Condolances to all. Here's hoping this thread is not required for the rest of the year. :(

[Ghoulish Delight]

Sitting on the front porch at the corner of Eucalyptus and 23rd, an inquisitive pumpkin-orange cat eyed me with suspicion. He knew he wanted to be in the house, but wasn't so sure about the weirdo hanging out outside. But the prospect of winning his way into the promised land was too tempting and figured if the Keepers of the Cats trusted me, I couldn't be all bad.

Jack (then Pumpkin) and I had some good evenings on that porch before he officially became one of the pack.

Goodbye sweet Jack, Pumpkin King. :( :(

[wendybeth]

Heidi, I'm sorry about your grandpa, and I'm so sorry about your kitty boy, Lisa and Chris. This is a :(day, indeed.

[blueerica]

<sigh>

*hugs* LSPE, €, & NA.

[wolfy999]

Twitter is sorry to hear his partner in crime has passed on, he'll be missed.

[Alex]

Coney Island strong man Joe Rollino (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rollino) died yesterday. I read about him in a book once (on sideshows) and had no reason to know he was still alive.

Making it all the way to 104 and then being taken out by a car while crossing the street. God must have gotten impatient waiting for nature to take its course.

[Andrew]

Sadness and condolences. I gave my kitties an extra hug last night.

[Alex]

No idea who he is but CNN breaking news did a tweet about it. So he must be somebody.

Teddy Pendergrass

[wolfy999]

Musician

Pendergrass's career began when he was a drummer for The Cadillacs, which soon merged with Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. Melvin invited Pendergrass to become the lead singer after he jumped from the rear of a stage and started singing his heart out. Months later the group signed with Gamble & Huff on the then CBS subsidiary Philadelphia International Records in 1972. The Blue Notes had hits such as "I Miss You," "Bad Luck," "Wake Up Everybody," the two million seller "If You Don't Know Me By Now" and many more. Following personality conflicts between Melvin and Pendergrass, Pendergrass launched a solo career and released hit singles like "The More I Get the More I Want," "Close the Door," "I Don't Love You Anymore," "Turn Off the Lights" and others.[1]

His first solo album was self titled Teddy Pendergrass (1977), followed by Life is a Song Worth Singing (1978), Live Coast to Coast and Teddy (1979), 1980's TP and the final Philadelphia International Records album It's Time for Love (1981).[1] He also sang a duet with Whitney Houston on "Hold Me", from her self-titled debut album.

[flippyshark]

This is the first time I've opened this thread - I'm sorry I wasn't there to offer my condolences for those of you who have suffered personal losses already this year. I will say, I am very glad that we have this place to keep up with one another, and share in the good times and the sorrowful ones.

There's a new, very big orange star in the sky.

[flippyshark]

StranglerLewis, you are absolutely right - it was wonderful to have Miep Gies as a living link to Anne Frank, and her parting makes that very important story recede just that much further into a past that we will have to work harder to make young people understand.

[Andrew]

Authors Erich Segal (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/19/international/i112440S50.DTL) and Robert B. Parker (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/19/entertainment/e092237S36.DTL).

Taco Bell founder Glen Bell Jr (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/19/BA7S1BJVUE.DTL).

[€uroMeinke]

Kate McGarrigle (http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9604168)

[flippyshark]

Kate McGarrigle (http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9604168)

Very sad - I loved the first McGarrigle sisters album (the only one I had, or have heard) - I didn't know she was the mother of Rufus Wainwright until just now. I'm going to have to do some "catch-up" reading and listening.

[Not Afraid]

NPR had a chat with Martha and Rufus tonight and it made me cry.

[Gemini Cricket]

Pernell Roberts (http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/25/pernell.roberts.obit/?hpt=T2)

Jean Simmons (http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9650865) (Not to be confused with the KISS guy.)

Robert Mosbacher (http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2010/01/25/daily2.html)

James Mitchell (http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/25/james.mitchell.obit/?hpt=T2)

Nancy Kerrigan's Dad (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/01/father-of-skating-star-nancy-kerrigan-dies-brother-charged-with-assault/1)

[Snowflake]

Casper, the bus riding cat (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/34936983/ns/today-today_pets_and_animals/) and another report here (http://www.pawnation.com/2010/01/20/r-i-p-casper-the-bus-riding-cat/). :-(

[Gemini Cricket]

And now Casper is a ghost.







I couldn't help it!
:D

[Kevy Baby]

Pernell Roberts (http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/25/pernell.roberts.obit/?hpt=T2)There goes the last 'Bonanza' star

[Not Afraid]

Nancy Kerrigan's Dad (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/01/father-of-skating-star-nancy-kerrigan-dies-brother-charged-with-assault/1)

The 45-year-old brother of Olympic skating star Nancy Kerrigan has been charged with assaulting their father, who was found unresponsive in his home and later died, the Boston Globe reports. (http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/01/brother_of_nanc.html)


Nice.

[MouseWife]

There goes the last 'Bonanza' star


I am sad. I am a BIG Bonanza fan. Loved watching the shows like 4-ever!

I dragged my family to The Ponderosa each time we went to Lake Tahoe until they closed it. :(

Right outside of the ranch house there, they had a little graveyard {I believe if you stood to face it, you would overlook the lake...I have to find my pictures. That would be lovely, wouldn't it?} with each of the family members who'd passed. It's closed now so Adam never made it.

And, James Mitchell. 'Palmer Cortlandt' 'Pete Cooney' on AMC. So sad, when you've watched a show as long as I have, a lot of the favs pass. Ruth Warrick, the actress who played Myrtle Fargate....

[JWBear]

Nice.

Such a lovely family...

[LSPoorEeyorick]

The brother, sure, but what's wrong with Nancy?

[Kevy Baby]

The brother, sure, but what's wrong with Nancy?She totally jumped in front of that swinging club

[wolfy999]

Zelda Rubenstein

[flippyshark]

Zelda Rubenstein

That's sad, but I just can't help adding:

Go into the light!

I wish she had been in more movies. She was delightful as Tangina. Gotta get out the Poltergeist DVD tonight.

[Alex]

The Poltergeist curse strikes again! Now it's going after the octogenarians! Craig T. Nelson must be knocking at the knees right about now.

[Gemini Cricket]

Ugly Betty

Canceled!

[Kevy Baby]

Ugly Betty

Canceled!Crap - that means we'll never see Hilda's baby

[Chernabog]

Zelda Rubenstein was also an AIDS activist in the 80s :)

And Ugly Betty deserved to die. That show totally fell apart somewhere in Season 2.

[flippyshark]

The Poltergeist curse strikes again! Now it's going after the octogenarians! Craig T. Nelson must be knocking at the knees right about now.

Much like the curse of Tutankhamen, the Poltergeist curse is taking it's sweet time with most of its cursees.

[lashbear]

Zelda Rubenstein was also an AIDS activist in the 80s
LOVED this poster:

http://www.lgbtpov.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Zelda-AIDS-poster.jpg

[Kevy Baby]

Every time I see the title of this thread, I think, "Did an entire year die? Already?"

[CoasterMatt]

I wish 2010 would die already.

[Deebs]

JD Salinger
(http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=162888&cat=0)
:(
Nine Stories is one of my very favorite books.

[JWBear]

JD Salinger
(http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=162888&cat=0)
:(
Nine Stories is one of my very favorite books.

He was still alive? Wow.

[Snowflake]

JD Salinger
(http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=162888&cat=0)
:(
Nine Stories is one of my very favorite books.

Ya know, I've never read another word of Salinger after Catcher in the Rye in school. I may have to check this out Deebs.

[Strangler Lewis]

Recently re-read "Nine Stories." I always liked Salinger except when he laid the Buddhism on too thick. I wonder if any scribblings will turn up.

[Deebs]

Ya know, I've never read another word of Salinger after Catcher in the Rye in school. I may have to check this out Deebs.

For Esme - with Love & Squalor (http://www.freeweb.hu/tchl/salinger/squalor.html) is my favorite story in the book. I also like A Perfect Day for Bananfish. It's a great book.

[Gemini Cricket]

JD Salinger
(http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=162888&cat=0)
:(
Nine Stories is one of my very favorite books.
So sad.
My heart just cracked.
One of the best books of all-time: "Catcher in the Rye".

[Alex]

Not a huge fan of Salinger (actively dislike Catcher) but "Seymour: An Introduction" is just about the most perfect piece of short(ish) writing I've ever encountered. And I love much about Franny and Zooey.

Two great pieces of writing and one hugely successful item is more than most people can expect from life so it was a great one.

[Gemini Cricket]

I missed the obit for Howard Zinn.
:(

[Ghoulish Delight]

John Murtha

[Tref]

John Murtha

John Murtha, what?

[Gn2Dlnd]

Oh, about 4 drachmas an hour.

No wait, about 3 pounds? I never remember the punchline to this one.

[Kevy Baby]

Bill Binder (http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_14363802) - former owner of Philippes (http://www.philippes.com/)

Phil Harris (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2010/02/deadliest-catch-captain-phil-harris-dies-after-stroke.html) - captain of the Cornelia Marie on Deadliest Catch (http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/deadliestcatch/deadliestcatch.html)

[Morrigoon]

Ah, I see Kevy got here first. RIP Capt Phil. He had a blood clot hit his lungs last season, so apparently he had more. My cheese is sad today.

[Stan4dSteph]

A pretty cut and dried example of what smoking will do to you. Too bad he didn't quit.

[Alex]

I must admit that sadness outpouring over Phil Harris is confusing me even more than normal. I'd say this out loud but I don't want GC to punch me in the nose.

[cirquelover]

I think a lot of us that watched Deadliest Catch really liked him. He seemed like a good old salt of a captain and he was one of my favorites.

[Strangler Lewis]

I was sad when Phil Harris died.

In fact, I was sad when all the Jack Benny regulars died.

[Ghoulish Delight]

There's also the fact that his two sons are on the show, so viewers have not only the connection (as irrational as it might be) to him as a celebrity, but add to that a connection to his family and thus a window into that side of the grieving.

[Gemini Cricket]

I must admit that sadness outpouring over Phil Harris is confusing me even more than normal. I'd say this out loud but I don't want GC to punch me in the nose.
VAM!

colon capital "d"


ETA: I just Googled him. I only saw the show a couple of times. Maybe at GD and CP's place.

[Kevy Baby]

I must admit that sadness outpouring over Phil Harris is confusing me even more than normal. I'd say this out loud but I don't want GC to punch me in the nose.Why would the sadness by some about his death be confusing? I understand if YOU aren't sad about it, but why would others being sad about it be an issue?

[Morrigoon]

Alex: Deadliest Catch does a really good job of showing their stars' personalities, so you feel like you get to know them. Plus, last season he had the blood clot hit his lungs, and the show took viewers through that with him, through the uncertainty, the diagnosis, his sons dealing with the possibility of their dad dying... so people are not just feeling bad about his death, but also the effect it's going to have had on his sons, who viewers also follow and care about. AND since this all happened during crab season, we're going to end up going through it again when the next season runs.

[Alex]

Why would the sadness by some about his death be confusing? I understand if YOU aren't sad about it, but why would others being sad about it be an issue?

It's not an issue, I am not bothered by other people being sad. I am confused by it for pretty much the reasons I gave when GC raised the issue earlier (that's what the punch in the note thing was about).

It is confusing to me because either people are labeling as "sad" something that is, to me, not actually sadness or I do not understand how they manage which deaths will be saddening without being so perpetually in grief over the millions of stranger deaths and thousands of stranger-but-I-actually-was-aware-of-them deaths that one is unable to function.

But everybody is free to feel whatever they feel. And I'm free to be confused by it.

[Morrigoon]

I guess ya had to be a fan of the show

[Alex]

You assume I'm not. While I'm hardly rabid, I have seen most of the series and am well aware of Phil Harris and his family. I'm not at all confused by finding his death noteworthy (though the more noteworthy thing is that he died in bed since his fame is based on being a show built around the fact that he was the most dangerous job in the world), just by finding it saddening. If I were saddened by his death then I would be sad all the time because people I know of are dying all the time. I would have been sad on Monday when John Murtha died. I would be sad now because Charlie Wilson (of the Tom Hanks movie fame) died today.

So again, others and I are actually having roughly the same reaction to these deaths and they label sad that which I wouldn't (in which case I am confused by our very different definitions of the word) or they actually do feel what I would call sadness but the threshold for that reaction is foreign to me, in which I am confused by how life isn't one unending string of grieving.

But mostly, the only reason I said anything initially is because I thought it was a joke that GC would be amused by.

[Gemini Cricket]

But mostly, the only reason I said anything initially is because I thought it was a joke that GC would be amused by.
And I was.
Except, I never would punch Alex in the face because I would get my butt kicked by Lani.

[Not Afraid]

Alex: Deadliest Catch does a really good job of showing their stars' personalities, so you feel like you get to know them. Plus, last season he had the blood clot hit his lungs, and the show took viewers through that with him, through the uncertainty, the diagnosis, his sons dealing with the possibility of their dad dying... so people are not just feeling bad about his death, but also the effect it's going to have had on his sons, who viewers also follow and care about. AND since this all happened during crab season, we're going to end up going through it again when the next season runs.


I'm reading this - or skimming it, really - because I don't know who this guy is or what this show is so it's all sort of blahblahblahblah to me......and then I get to this part: "AND since this all happened during crab season....." CRAB SEASON? WTF does CRAB SEASON have to do with anything?

[Ghoulish Delight]

The guy who died is the skipper of an Alaskan crab fishing boat, one featured on the show Deadliest Catch which follows several Alaskan crab fishing boats and their crews through crab season. Thus, he died while filming next season's episodes so if the show goes ahead and airs the next season, then his death will surely be addressed through the course of the season.

That's what crab season has to do with this.

[Not Afraid]

And, yet again, GD explains pop culture to the uninitiated. :)

[Tref]

And, yet again, GD explains pop culture to the uninitiated. :)


I hear the uninitiated will be opening coachella this year.

[Stan4dSteph]

Fashion Designer Alexander McQueen (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/11/AR2010021101929.html)

[JWBear]

Fashion Designer Alexander McQueen (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/11/AR2010021101929.html)

Oh wow! He was only 40!

[Snowflake]

Fashion Designer Alexander McQueen (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/11/AR2010021101929.html)

Holy Crap! :(

[JWBear]

This is really bumming me out. There are now reports that he hung himself. He was such an incredible artist. :(

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Walter Fredrick "Fred" Morrison (http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/12/frisbee.morrison.obit/index.html?hpt=T2), inventor of the Frisbee

[lashbear]

His last request was to be buried up a tree.

[Strangler Lewis]

Not eaten by dogs?

[Alex]

Dick Francis.

An author I've never read but who I probably had to reshelve more than any other back when I worked public libraries (almost 20! years ago now). Old people loved him.

[Tref]

Walter Fredrick "Fred" Morrison (http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/12/frisbee.morrison.obit/index.html?hpt=T2), inventor of the Frisbee

I hear they found his body on the roof of his neighbors house.

[Not Afraid]

Doug Feiger, lead singer of The Knack. (http://music-mix.ew.com/2010/02/14/r-i-p-doug-fiegler-lead-singer-knack/)

[JWBear]

Alexander Haig

[Capt Jack]

my 18 year old dog Ripley

http://www.loungeoftomorrow.com/LoT/attachment.php?attachmentid=207&stc=1&d=1186590025

bye buddy. see you on the flipside :snap: :snap: :snap:

[Betty]

Oh Captain. :(

[Not Afraid]

Have a safe trip over the bridge, Ripley. Run free, old girl!

[flippyshark]

Ripley is gorgeous. I'm so sorry, Capt. Jack.

[€uroMeinke]

So sorry Captain

[alphabassettgrrl]

I'm sorry, Captain.

[cirquelover]

I'm so sorry Captain. What a sweet face.

[RStar]

RIP Ripley

[Strangler Lewis]

Good dog, Ripley.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Ripley looks like a sweetheart. :(

[Gemini Cricket]

Hugs to Capt Jack.

[Kevy Baby]

Jack

I know what Ripley meant to you and my heart breaks for you. Hugs from Susan and me!

[DreadPirateRoberts]

:(

[blueerica]

So sorry to hear this, Capt Jack. *hugs*

[Snowflake]

HUGS Capt. Jack. Super Sad Ripley Cheese :(

[Stan4dSteph]

Sorry for your loss, Capt Jack.

[Capt Jack]

thanks folks.

[3894]

I'm so sorry, Capt Jack. He was family.

My good cat Sally died the other day. She owned me for 16 years.

[Stan4dSteph]

My good cat Sally died the other day. She owned me for 16 years.Sorry to hear about Sally. She was a great cat.

[flippyshark]

I'm sorry to hear about Sally. I'm sure she loved every minute of owning you.

[Capt Jack]

my heartfelt condolences. :(

[Not Afraid]

RIP Sweet Sally.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

http://www.loungeoftomorrow.com/LoT/attachment.php?attachmentid=207&stc=1&d=1186590025Such a sweet face. So sorry for your loss, Jack. And you, Helen.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

My sincerest condolences 3894. :(

[3894]

Thanks for your kind words. These guys leave a big hole in our lives when they die, don't they?

[Capt Jack]

Such a sweet face. So sorry for your loss, Jack. And you, Helen.

yeah, she was my honey. rotty sheppard mix, named her after sigourney weaver's character from alien, as I thought when I got her, she was gonna be one big bad beeyotch.

I couldnt have been further from right. nor could I have been happier to be wrong.

:)

[Stan4dSteph]

Thanks for your kind words. These guys leave a big hole in our lives when they die, don't they?On that subject, I came across this article via Roger Ebert's twitter stream. Link (http://worldsvet.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/some-thoughts-on-pet-loss-and-grief/)

From the article:
I personally feel that because our cats or dogs can’t communicate with us in precise words like our fellow humans can, we must then ‘talk’ to them on a different level.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Michael Blosil (http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/02/28/marie.osmond.son/index.html), Marie Osmond's 18-year-old son, by suicide.

[cirquelover]

How very sad for her and her family.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Finally following in the footsteps of his career - Corey Haim (http://news-briefs.ew.com/2010/03/10/corey-haim-dead/)

[wolfy999]

Read the article.....who is he?

[flippyshark]

Gosh, I remember the "Lost Boys" era Corey-mania quite well. And I remember about twenty years later meeting a lot of young cast members at Disney named Corey. (And asking whether they were named for Haim or Feldman)

Note to Corey Feldman - Get ready to tell a lot of people you aren't dead.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Read the article.....who is he?I don't think I ever saw a movie of his, though I remember the Two Coreys in their heyday. I was more of a Feldman fan.

http://christineone.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/license-to-drive.jpg

I feel very sad that another child star ended up such a mess. It's almost as if it's a murderous profession, like high seas crab fishing.

[cirquelover]

I really liked Lost Boys. I wasn't a big fan of the two Coreys but they were popular in their heyday.

It's sad to see so many young actors die recently.

[BarTopDancer]

The Lost Boys is one of my favorite movies and I remember "the Corey's" being plastered all over Bop and Big Bop magazine. It's tragic that another child star of the 80s is gone due to drugs. I wonder if lessons have been learned and the child stars of the 90s are on a mostly better path (Brittany & Lindsey not withstanding).

On a side note, I find it amusing that the media is making this out to be as big as Michael Jackson's death. Coverage wise at least.

[Mousey Girl]

Lucas is one of my favorite 80's movies.

[Gn2Dlnd]

This news saddens me. So many people in his life trying to help him get clean, and him doing everything but. The article had him working with an "addictionologist," which sounds like a fancy term for snake-oil salesman (went back to the link but the original article is gone) and on some medication to help with his substance abuse issues. I'm guessing the OTC stuff was abused (really easy to overdo robitussin) and combined badly with whatever other meds he was taking. Poor guy.

[CoasterMatt]

RIP Merlin Olsen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmQ0j1c3akk). Goodbye to one of the Fearsome Foursome.

[RStar]

I'll always remember him as Jonathan Garvey from Little House. I didn't even know he was a football player with the Rams until now....

[Kevy Baby]

Star of Airplane and other movies, Peter Graves (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/03/actor-peter-graves-found-dead-at-his-home-in-pacific-palisades.html)

[Tref]

I'll always remember him as Jonathan Garvey from Little House. I didn't even know he was a football player with the Rams until now....

That may be because as a football player he went by the name Steve Garvey.

[€uroMeinke]

Peter Graves (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35866150/ns/entertainment-movies/)

[Snowflake]

:-(

I loved Mission Impossible. Peter Graves was terrific and he was hilarious in Airplane. RIP

[JWBear]

Peter Graves and James Arness were brothers!? I did not know that!

[Kevy Baby]

Peter Graves (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35866150/ns/entertainment-movies/)Jinx

Star of Airplane and other movies, Peter Graves (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/03/actor-peter-graves-found-dead-at-his-home-in-pacific-palisades.html)

[cirquelover]

He was a funny man! We just watched Airplane on Friday. I still find it just as funny as the first time I saw it and the boy loved it!

[Gemini Cricket]

Aww. Fess Parker.
:(

[Snowflake]

:-(

[Kevy Baby]

Bummer - he was one of the good ones.

[RStar]

Oh, man! RIP Davy......

:(

[Tref]

Aww. Fess Parker.


Fess Parker outlived the real Davey Crockett by 35 years and Detective 'Sonny' Crockett by nearly 20. Not bad.

[CoasterMatt]

Fess Parker isn't dead, he'll live on in the memories of a ton of young kids in coonskin caps and rolled up jeans, battlin' injuns in backyards and schoolyards across the country.

[Not Afraid]

Wait, Sonny Crockett died?

[Capt Jack]

no, just his career

[Snowflake]

Robert Culp, the other cool half of I Spy.

[Capt Jack]

:(

[RStar]

Fess Parker isn't dead, he'll live on in the memories of a ton of young kids in coonskin caps and rolled up jeans, battlin' injuns in backyards and schoolyards across the country.

I went to DL this past weekend to pay homage to Fess (at his window), and bought my first coonskin hat.....

[wendybeth]

Robert Culp, the other cool half of I Spy.


I loved Robert Culp! This made me sad.:(

[RStar]

Looks like Dennis Hopper will be added to this list soon. I hope not, but he says he's termanal with prostate cancer. Very sad, but at least he got his star on the walk of fame in Hollywood.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Comic legend Dick Giordano at 77
A staple in the history of comics.
RiP
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=25442

[Kevy Baby]

It was a couple of days ago, but iconic rock n roll photographer Jim Marshall (http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/25/local/la-me-jim-marshall26-2010mar26)passed away at 74.

Some of his more famous shots:

(The first one is probably NSFW)

http://www.b12partners.net/mt/images/artwork_images_113308_150355_Jim-Marshall.jpg

http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_113308_124758_jim-marshall.jpghttp://www.smashboxstudios.com/yello/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bob.jpghttp://www.smashboxstudios.com/yello/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/jimi_hendrix_800_6001.jpghttp://www.smashboxstudios.com/yello/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/janisjoplin1.jpghttp://digiphotomag.com/wp-content/uploads/%C2%A9JimMarshall_1000.jpg

[Ghoulish Delight]

(The first one is probably NSFW)

My manager has a print of that framed in his office.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

June Havoc (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/theater/30havoc.html), Gypsy Rose Lee's sister.

[Capt Jack]

My manager has a print of that framed in his office.

I so love that picture. Ive used (parts of) that as an avatar and sigs, or other 'get my point across' items on more than one occasion.

[JWBear]

June Havoc (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/theater/30havoc.html), Gypsy Rose Lee's sister.

Rest in peace, Dainty June.

[Morrigoon]

Jaime Escalante (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/30/AR2010033004324.html) - teacher profiled in Stand and Deliver

[Snowflake]

John Forsythe.

RIP Blake Carrington, Charlie and I can't remember his 1950's TV show Life With Father, that was before my time.

Obit here (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100402/ap_on_en_tv/us_obit_john_forsythe)

[JWBear]

John Forsythe.

RIP Blake Carrington, Charlie and I can't remember his 1950's TV show, that was before my time

Beat me to it. I was just coming on here to post it.

[Snowflake]

Beat me to it. I was just coming on here to post it.

That's what you get for gloating over having bacon

[JWBear]

That's what you get for gloating over having bacon

:snap:

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

My friend, writer, artist, Comic-con roommate, co-publisher and great guy. Bruce "kimo" Brown

http://fetorpse.livejournal.com/226941.html

RiP

[Strangler Lewis]

John Forsythe.

RIP Blake Carrington, Charlie and I can't remember his 1950's TV show Life With Father, that was before my time.

Obit here (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100402/ap_on_en_tv/us_obit_john_forsythe)

First Robert Culp. Now John Forsythe. Bad week for handsome actors.

And it's Bachelor Father, which I remember from reruns.

[Snowflake]

First Robert Culp. Now John Forsythe. Bad week for handsome actors.

And it's Bachelor Father, which I remember from reruns.

SL, you're so right. Life With Father, movie with William Powell and Irene Dunne, duh.

[Not Afraid]

He'll always be Charlie to me even thought I was a Dynasty fan. I just made a Charlie reference the other day. RIP Mr. Forsythe.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Eddie Carroll (http://www.examiner.com/x-32393-Childrens-TV-Examiner%7Ey2010m4d7-Jiminy-Cricket-Disney-voice-actor-Eddie-Carroll-dies) - voice of Jiminy Cricket since 1971.

[Tref]

Eddie Carroll (http://www.examiner.com/x-32393-Childrens-TV-Examiner%7Ey2010m4d7-Jiminy-Cricket-Disney-voice-actor-Eddie-Carroll-dies) - voice of Jiminy Cricket since 1971.

He was also the voice of Cliff Edwards.

[Snowflake]

1381

[CoasterMatt]

I'll always think of "Buffalo Gals (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SgvJY9xxcA)" when I hear the name Malcolm McLaren - RIP :(

('round the outside, 'round the outside, 'round the outside)

[Not Afraid]

McLaren's death makes me feel really old.

What's odd, is that I was not singing Sex Pistols or McLaren's tune but Bow Wow Wow's C30 C60 C90 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KRHudaHUo0) GO! interspersed with Madam Butterfly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Drw2_HmK0). I'll probably wake up with Adam and the Ants Kings of the Wild Frontier (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT27A6Sa10k).

McLaren had his finger in many parts of my youth. RIP.

[€uroMeinke]

As an aging punk rocker it's hard to imagine how I might have otherwise misspent my youth without him. I pulled out the Great Rock 'n Roll Swindle to pay tribute tonight. No Future.

[mousepod]

As an aging punk rocker it's hard to imagine how I might have otherwise misspent my youth without him. I pulled out the Great Rock 'n Roll Swindle to pay tribute tonight. No Future.

Good call. Going to watch that tonight.

[Alex]

Dixie Carter.

I didn't know that she was married to Hal Holbrook.

[Not Afraid]

That's what I got out of it too. Hal Holbrook, eh.

[Mousey Girl]

he did some guest apperances as her bf on Designing women.

[Kevy Baby]

Former LA Police Chief Daryl Gates (http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-daryl-gates17-2010apr17,0,5454522.story)

[Promo-Man]

Carl Macek, April 17, 2010 of an apparent heart attack. He was a writer, producer, anime pioneer...look him up on Wikipedia, IMDB...or just Google his name.
We attended High School together he will be missed

[BarTopDancer]

Former LA Police Chief Daryl Gates (http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-daryl-gates17-2010apr17,0,5454522.story)

I'm not sure why, but wow is my reaction to that.

[Nephythys]

Peter Steele (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/arts/music/20steele.html)

On my darker occasions I really enjoy Type O Negative-

[Tref]

When my friend, Elbows, went to NY he asked if there was anything I wanted him to bring back. I replied, a pack of those coffee cups what I see on Law & Order. Well, long story, short, he forgot. Though he did just send me this link (http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/04/30/coffee.cup.designer.dies/?hpt=T2).


(Pic related)

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z1/Tref_foto/1272092909954.jpg

[Alex]

Lynn Redgrave

[Tref]

Lynn Redgrave

Lynn Redgrave, what?

[Alex]

..is apparently a Peter Steele copycat.

[Capt Jack]

:(

[flippyshark]

I still haven't gotten over Natasha Richardson. Now Lynn Redgrave. Major sad cheese. :(

[JWBear]

Poor Vanessa.. Lost her daughter last year, and now both her brother and sister within a month of each other.

[mousepod]

I liked Lynn Redgrave. My opinion of Vanessa has been forever tainted by her Oscar acceptance speech for Julia.

[Gn2Dlnd]

Lynn Redgrave has always struck me as a genuinely nice person. She used to teach free Shakespearean acting classes at the Motion Picture Retirement Home. Some of the most entertaining theatre related evenings I've ever had.

[Alex]

I must say that pretty much the only thing I think of when hearing her name is "Weight Watchers commercials when I was a kid."

[Tref]

I must say that pretty much the only thing I think of when hearing her name is "Weight Watchers commercials when I was a kid."

Must you?

[Alex]

Yes

[Strangler Lewis]

Run, run, run, run, pant, pant, pant, pant, climb, climb, climb, climb.

Smash door . . .

Damn! Too late again. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36936620/ns/health-aging/)

[Strangler Lewis]

The scary thing is . . . if George Burns were still alive, he'd be next!

[Alex]

I still think it should be news every time the second oldest person dies, that just feels a bit sadder.

[Tref]

Run, run, run, run, pant, pant, pant, pant, climb, climb, climb, climb.

Smash door . . .

Damn! Too late again. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36936620/ns/health-aging/)

It appears the title of "World's Oldest Person" is practically a death sentence.
The curse continues!

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Did you see the photo of the new oldest person?

I'm pretty sure I don't want to live that long.

[Capt Jack]

Did you see the photo of the new oldest person?

I'm pretty sure I don't want to live that long.

amen to that!
not that Im in the least bit concerned with that actually happening.


party on wayne :snap:

[Kevy Baby]

Did you see the photo of the new oldest person?

I'm pretty sure I don't want to live that long.Yeah, my thoughts exactly! I'm not sure she is even alive in that photo. It reminded me of the parrot sketch from Monty Python.

Also from that article:There were more than 40,000 Japanese over 100 years old when the government released its annual report in September. Over 86 percent of them were women.There's a really good sexist joke in there.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I just found out that the inventor of Spaghetti-O's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Goerke) died the day after Theo was born. If it was posted here, we missed it for good reason.

[Kevy Baby]

He had wanted to stick around until Theo was born - after that, his life was complete.

[Tref]

Chicago Train director walks directly in front of Chicago train (http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/07/illinois.metra.suicide/)

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Chicago Train director walks directly in front of Chicago train (http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/07/illinois.metra.suicide/)

I always feel sorry for the engineer in these cases.

[Tref]

I just found out that the inventor of Spaghetti-O's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Goerke) died

Oh oh.


(pic unrelated)

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z1/Tref_foto/1272789739829.jpg

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Missed this one somehow
Dorothy Provine - It's a Mad Mad World

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-0430-dorothy-provine-20100430,0,5964943.story

[Gemini Cricket]

"Mother, Russell's not that good a driver!"

[Snowflake]

RIP Lena Horne:(

[JWBear]

Missed this one somehow
Dorothy Provine - It's a Mad Mad World

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-0430-dorothy-provine-20100430,0,5964943.story

And The Great Race (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdoYUjQci0g)

[Gemini Cricket]

RIP Lena Horne:(
Aww. She was fantastic.

[Gemini Cricket]

Frank Frazetta.
Talented man. But I must say his art kinda creeped me out.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Frazzeta was amazing. RiP

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=26160

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Doris Eaton, the last of the Ziegfeld Girls, died Tuesday at the age of 106 (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/theatre-obituaries/7716624/Doris-Eaton.html)!

[CoasterMatt]

RIP Ronnie James Dio (http://www.ronniejamesdio.com/) :(

[Capt Jack]

RIP Ronnie James Dio (http://www.ronniejamesdio.com/) :(

holy effing snit :eek:



:(

[Kevy Baby]

Crap. That was a unexpected.

Wow.


He will be missed

[flippyshark]

Frazetta and Dio, both unexpected (especially Dio) - not long ago, I watched a nice documentary about Frazetta that is included with the DVD of Ralph Bakshi's Fire and Ice. His museum is here in Florida, so I may just have to make a trip.

[blueerica]

RIP Ronnie James Dio (http://www.ronniejamesdio.com/) :(

Wow.

RIP

[Alex]

At the risk of GC punching me in the face, how unexpected can the death of a nearly 68 year old man with stomach cancer be?

[blueerica]

To that point, I hadn't heard (prior to his passing) that he had stomach cancer.

That doesn't sound comfortable in the slightest...

[Alex]

Ah, I assumed it was relatively common knowledge since I'd heard about it was it was in the news last year and I don't even know who he is (other than first learning he had cancer and now learning he was dead; just now looked him up to learn that Ozzie Osbourne was also in Black Sabbath).

[Kevy Baby]

Not that I was a huge fan, I do have a fair amount of respect for RJD. He was a great musician, but more importantly, by all accounts, he was a pretty decent guy. He was well liked and respected amongst his peers.

And he is credited with popularizing Devil Horns:
http://www3.images.coolspotters.com/photos/206087/devil-horns-hand-gesture-profile.jpg

[Alex]

Is it just me or is that an incredibly short pinky compared to index finger length?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Forced perspective?

[Alex]

Maybe, but if anything it looks like the pinky side is closer to the camera.

[Ghoulish Delight]

But when you hold your hand like that the pinky is angled away from the camera. As a matter of fact, I just did and looked at my hand with one eye closed and it does indeed look quite a bit like the photo. From what I can tell it's a function of the angle of the pinky, as well as the proximity of the pinky to the ring finger that causes the illusion.

[cirquelover]

RIP Ronnie James Dio (http://www.ronniejamesdio.com/) :(

I was a big fan of his in the day. RIP Ronnie

[Kevy Baby]

I was a big fan of his in the day.What about at night?

[RStar]

But when you hold your hand like that the pinky is angled away from the camera. As a matter of fact, I just did and looked at my hand with one eye closed and it does indeed look quite a bit like the photo. From what I can tell it's a function of the angle of the pinky, as well as the proximity of the pinky to the ring finger that causes the illusion.

Nope, it's a short pinky alright.

:p

[cirquelover]

What about at night?

Especially at night:evil:

[Not Afraid]

My brother's GSD, Wiley died this morning. A client of mine died this afternoon and a pug rescue friend is fighting for her life. This has not been a good day!

[Gemini Cricket]

NA ~ Yikes! Hang in there!

[Strangler Lewis]

Lima Time (http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-obit-lima)

Funny guy. Very sad.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Comic artist/Animator Howie Post - co-creator of HOT STUFF and Spooky from Harvey Comics and drew Heathcliff, Stawberry Shortcake & MadBalls for Star Comics

RIP

http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/howard_post_1926_2010/

[CoasterMatt]

Art Linkletter (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/05/art-linkletter-iconic-tv-and-radio-showman-has-died-at-97/1)

:(

He lived a long, wonderful life, despite a tough start- RIP sir.

[Not Afraid]

Awwwww. I knew him when I was a kid. I was even on his show.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

It was amazing seeing him at the 50th. Surpised to read about many of his kids died so tragicly.

RIP!

[innerSpaceman]

Aw, so sad for Art. Is he the last of the Opening Day hosts to go??

[Snowflake]

Awwwww. I knew him when I was a kid. I was even on his show.

No kidding. I'll bet YOU DID say the darndest things.

[JWBear]

No kidding. I'll bet YOU DID say the darndest things.

Even then!

[Alex]

But with him dead how will the next generation learn about Walt giving him the film concession!

[wendybeth]

It was pretty cool seeing him on the 50th- he seems to have been a very kind man, and while I'm glad he lived to a ripe old age, I'm sorry he had so much tragedy in his life.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Sad turn of events:

Police confirm that ThunderCats writer Stephen Perry was murdered
Police in Zephyrhills, Florida, have confirmed that ThunderCats writer Stephen Perry, who has been missing (http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2010/05/thundercats-writer-stephen-perry-missing-after-grisly-discovery/) for more than two weeks, is the victim of an apparent homicide (http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/may/27/271644/police-missing-zephyrhills-comic-writer-victim-hom/news-breaking/).

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2010/05/police-confirm-that-thundercats-writer-stephen-perry-was-murdered/

[CoasterMatt]

Gary Coleman (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/05/actor-gary-coleman-reported-dead-of-brain-hemorrhage/1)

I think I'll play Postal 2 this afternoon in rememberance. :( RIP

[Alex]

Who would have guessed that Charlotte Rea and Conrad Bain would outlive two of the kids.

[sleepyjeff]

:(

[Kevy Baby]

Who would have guessed that Charlotte Rea and Conrad Bain would outlive two of the kids.I actually had to check to confirm that Todd Bridges hadn't died too (I thought he had).

[Alex]

Jeff Bridges is most definitely alive, and probably still enjoying the glow of his Oscar win.

Todd Bridges is also still alive.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Oddly I happened to see Todd Bridges on a terrible new show yesterday (one of the zillions of shows that show videos and then have H-list celebrities comment on/make jokes about them).