Bob Feller: fireballer and curmudgeon at 92.

When I was seven or eight, I read a book of baseball history that had a chapter on Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Bob Feller and Stan Musial as heroes of the transition from the Ruthian era. Musial's still alive, perhaps because he only lost one year of his career to World War II.

I never met Blake Edwards, but I did see Joe DiMaggio on the street in San Francisco once. I wanted to knock him down so I could help him up.

Only 15 more days left to die to make it into this thread.

I'm working on it...

Damn. This is a biggie for me. I'm the only person I know who fell in love with Trout Mask Replica at the age of twelve. (In fact, I might be the only person I know to have fallen in love with that album at all. Maybe some of you are similarly smitten.) Looks like I'll be putting that, Doc At The Radar Station and Ice Cream For Crow into heavy rotation for the next few days.

In case you don't want to wait for the Oscars, a 2010 recap from TCM. It was a bad year for people in Airplane!

I have no idea who she is (and reviewing the web site I still have no idea) but she really makes me think of Phyllis Diller. And so I looked her up and am shocked to learn she is still alive considering she was 106 years old when I was a kid.

Witch!

That's probably because you're not a Broadway aficionado.

Probably, but that doesn't explain why I have no idea who Captain Beefheart is.

I've never heard of her either.

As a general rule for me, when people started talking about someone I've never heard of I assume it's a sports figure. Although I expect that's not the case here.

which?

At this point, the title of this thread seems to be mourning the end of the year.

Yesterday's news, but needed to be reported.

Steve Landesberg

Do people die of "natural causes" at age 54 in this day and age?

Bobby Farrell of Boney M

Geraldine Doyle, the woman who inspired the WWII "Rosie the Riveter" poster

Agathe von Trapp, eldest child of the von Trapp children and inspiration for Liesl von Trapp in The Sound of Music

Better hurry up and die people if you want to make this thread. Less than 36 hours remain on the left coast of the US - less down under and across the pond.

Man Behind R2-D2, Grant McCune, Dead at 67

Read more: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b218...#ixzz19fOrshb2

Alrighty,

This thread is done.

Yay....

Now no one important die in 2011 so we don't have to start a new one, k?

A missed 2010 since it was the 28th of December

Bill Erwin age 96
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0259984/

Was in some of my fav's - Somewhere In Time - Planes Trains and Automobiles - Land Before Time and a billion other character roles.

RiP

Apparently, it wasn't...

A few stragglers. Oh well. Gotta keep it organized...

Another "late" entry: Tsutomu Yamaguchi

Haven't heard of him? Neither had I until I heard about him on the SGU. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was on a business trip in Hiroshima on Aug 6, 1945. In case you don't remember that date, it's when we dropped the first atomic bomb. However, he survived and returned to his home in Nagasaki a few days later, just in time for the second bomb to be dropped—and he survived that as well!. He is the only person to be officially recognized by the Japanese government as surviving both explosions. He passed away at the age of 93 last January.

Lionel Jeffries.

(Thanks Oscars!)

Posh!