RIP 2013
 

And we have our first contestant: Patty Page. She actually passed away on the 1st.

I guess that that confirms the rumors that he was sick when he announced his retirement a couple months ago.

My only exposure to him is Dana Gould doing long bits as Huell Howser on Adam Carolla's podcast. For a long time I didn't realize he was not doing an original character but an impersonation.

Huh. Just yesterday, at my farmer's mkt stand in Larchmont, near Huell's home, a customer asked me if I knew what had happened to Huell. Nobody had seen him around the neighborhood in a while. I had become used to Huell visiting my stand several weekends in a row, and then disappearing for a year. He talked a bit about the difficulty of being able to be openly gay, I teased him about his repeated questioning of a helicopter pilot about how much could actually be seen around backyard pools. I do believe he sported an "all-over" tan. At different times, he wanted to do a story on ThinKrisps (until I nixed the idea of cameras in the kitchen), and a story on Disneyland fan sub-culture, and things most people wouldn't know about the Park.

I'll miss him stopping by and "visiting."

Jeanne Manford, the founder of Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)

Conrad Bain, most famous for playing Mr. Drummond on Different Strokes

Don't forget his role as Dr. Harmon on Maude.

I always liked him. Sad to see him gone... :(

Wat U talkin' 'bout Szerby?

There was a time when if you tried to bet anyone that Todd Bridges would outlive all his co-stars, including Conrad Bain, no one would have taken the bet.

And it's a bad day for Hall of Famers

Stan Musial and Earl Weaver have moved on.

Patty Andrews (94) last surviving member of The Andrews Sisters

Not too often you get to post about a death before it happens. Regretsy

Former NY mayor Ed Koch (88)

André Cassagnes (86), inventor of the Etch A Sketch

I guess he had an illness he just couldn't shake.

I heard he tried real hard to shake it but it just wiped him out.

I heard he died and his family was sad.

I heard he said "J'ai toujours pas pardonné pour la vente de ma belle invention de l' graver un croquis mauvais goût dans ce pays appelé l'Amérique."* and that's why we invaded Iraq.


*Hecho poco conocido: en muchas partes de Francia, hablan un dialecto conocido como Google Traducir.**

**Я не говорю любой иностранный язык достаточно хорошо, чтобы сделать лучше. Но я могу читать по-русски.***

***โดยจุดนี้ผมถือว่าเฉพาะทารก kevy ยังคงหานี้ออก*****

*****קיין טאַקע, איך האב די סטאַימנאַ צו פאָרזעצן דעם וועג מער ווי איז צונעמען. אַזוי האַלטן

گيا یلیکس موجو

Uckfay ouyay

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/60805

Stuart Freeborn RiP

Damn you, I Googled that to see who it was.

Susan and I just a very hearty laugh

Obviously he was never a child:evil:





At least not one that spoke pig Latin!

I've spent enough time with him to assure you that he indeed is.

Petro Vlahos
1916-2013

I didn't know who he was either, but check out what Ain't It Cool News had to say about him:

Wow. History is littered with names that changed our lives in dramatic ways but that no one remembers. Thank you, Petro Vlahos!

Lakers owner, Dr. Jerry Buss

Are there any Whovians on the LoT?
 

Raymond Cusick (84)
creator and designer of the Daleks

Genius.

It's interesting how something can be so scary without the look of horror. I'm even looking at one on my desk right now.....

C. Everett Koop (96)
former US Surgeon General

Van Cliburn, my cheese is very sad.:(

Mine too, Snowflake :(

I've been aching to hear his rendition of Chopin's Scherzo in B flat minor all day. If I had a nickel for every time I played that record...

I'm sad about Bonnie Franklin. She seemed nice. I would also say that Ann Romano was possibly the first person that, had I known the word, my teenage self would have dubbed a MILF.

have to agree there. always had a very 'openly sexual but not slutty' quality to her that, even then I found appealing.

RIP

Dale Robertson

I don't really know who he was but I had a picture of him (on the cover of a comic book) on my desk at Wells Fargo for six years.

First of only two photos I've ever had on my work desks. Later replaced by an album cover featuring Jaye P. Morgan.

Paul Bearer

For real, this time.

Probably.

I loved this guy, he was probably the creepiest manager in WWF history. That is saying A LOT.

Harry Reems of Deep Throat fame:

http://m.gawker.com/5991506/legendary-porn-pioneer-harry-reems-of-deep-throat-fame-dead-at-65

for non-mobile users:
http://gawker.com/5991506/legendary-...ame-dead-at-65

Frank Thornton (92)
famous for playing Captain Peacock on Are You Being Served?

Richard Griffiths (65)
Many people will know him as Vernon Dursley from Harry Potter.

Jane Henson: Muppeteer and widow of Jim Henson

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Award-Winning Novelist And Screenwriter

http://www.newsfromme.com/2013/04/04...-gladir-r-i-p/

Prolific Archie & Cracked comic writer George Gladir. Started sometime around 1944 and wrote right up until recently.

The balcony is truly closed.

Roger Ebert.

I will miss him :(

Time for another viewing of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Comicbook Legend Carmine Infantino.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=44738

And Anette Funicello

:(

wow...

scary to think who #3 will be.

Awwww, how sad.

Annette had such a sad debilitating disease which she fought with courage and she seemed to be a genuinely nice person. I hope the end was peaceful and filled with love. RIP. Sad day. :(

I heard that Annette has been in a coma for YEARS? Was that true?

The TMZ article I first saw this from this morning said that. But then later in the same article mentioned stuff from last year.

Here's a TMZ article in which they were trying to contact her from last September: http://www.tmz.com/2012/09/08/annett...ghbor-lawsuit/

In this article a grandson says that the TMZ report of a "coma for years" and an Extra report that she'd been in a coma for a week were both wrong.

My cheese is sad.

sad day. I found Jonathan Winters extremely likable. However, I never found him as funny as I think I was supposed to. Perhaps I didn't see enough of his early stuff.

I loved the Johnathan Winters Show! I remember watching with my Dad and laughing hysterically. So many good old comedy shows I miss, wish they still had something like them.

LOVED Jonathan Winters. One of my favorite memories of him was with Robin Williams on Letterman (back when Letterman was good). Robin did a walk-on towards the end of Jonathan's interview.

Robin's walk-on is towards the end of part II, but I have linked both parts:
Part I
Part II

Gee, Lumpy, that's really goofy. Dying and all.

Frank Bank

Chrissy Amphlett. :(

Chris Kelly (34)
one half of the 1990s rap duo Kris Kross

30's child actress Deanna Durbin. RiP
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/.../deanna-durbin

Stop-motion animation master, Ray Harryhausen.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/62295

He was still alive in 2013?!? Not sure why, but I thought he dies ~20 years ago.

Regardless, he was an amazing innovator and made an indelible mark on the film industry.

Very sad day, RIP. He was a master craftsman and story teller. I loved his films.

Even though traffic is down and I don't post here much, most of the time when I find something that makes me laugh in a juvenile way I think of posting here.

Apparently, some racing guy named Dick Trickle died.

Dick Trickle. Bwahahahahahaha.

Ed Shaughnessy, the longtime drummer for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

RIP Warden Hodges (to anyone who watched "Dads Army"). AKA Bill Pertwee

Pssst that obit is from 2008.

OOPS

I check the date this time.
Jean Stapleton

Ester Williams (91)
swimmer, star of the MGM aquatic musicals, synchronized swimming commentator

I first went to death row visiting in the mid 1990s back when families and lawyers could meet the inmates in a fairly convivial group lunchroom setting instead of the one on one cages they use now. I saw Richard Ramirez a couple of times. I had the usual "oh, wow, there's . . ." reaction one has when seeing a famous person.

He was there with his very strange wife. She seemed to make him uneasy.

I think life made him uneasy. Which may explain why he did what he did...

James Gandolfino and Slim Whitman.

Shocking to head James Gandolfini is dead at 51.
Shocking to hear that until yesterday Slim Whitman was still alive.

I'll miss seeing James at Kings games. :(

Cory Monteith 31
famous for playing Finn on Glee

RIP 2013 thread

Helen Thomas

Dennis Farina

Twister co-inventor Charles Foley

author Richard Matheson

Why did you link to the RIP 2013 thread?

Probably because despite the fact that approximately 4,500,000 died in the last month we only mentioned the one who was a star on a well-past-its-prime TV show with a history of drug abuse.

It seemed to have died.

Perhaps that news was greatly exaggerated.

Sex researcher Virginia Johnson:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/07/26...tw-share&_r=0&

Also, co-inventor of baby shampoo.

It just smelled that way.

Eileen Brennan (80)

I haven't thought of her much in years, and I suppose it makes sense, but I'm surprised to find out she was 80.

Just found out Michael Ansara died. Funny thing about that is that I had just been saying to my dad that for me the best version of any Batman character was the version from the 90s Batman: The Animated Series. Micheal Ansara played Mr. Freeze and was brilliant in the role. "Heart of Ice" is probably one of the greatest episodes in that series and is one of my favorites.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/ar...t-91.html?_r=0

There was a sex researcher named Virgin Johnson?

No, it's VirGINA Johnson....

:D

I haven't thought of him much in years. One of the great handsome guest stars of the '60s.

Not as good as Vagina Johnson.

I always thought her name was Cùnt Johnson

Cute, Kevy....

I'm ashamed of myself. I blame it on having just finished a very long solo drive.

Nope, she changed her name years ago to Anthony Weiner. That was after the sex change op.

Karen Black (74)

Eydie Gormé (84)

One of my favorite writers Barbara Mertz aka Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels.

Oh God how I adore Amelia Peabody....a delightful writer.

Julie Harris

****, I hope someone had time to notify the family before it got out to the press.

Ack. Turns out that article is a year old, LOL.

It's interesting that Jimmy Buffet's new album has a song about Neil Armstrong (Story Here), and a few days later I hear he was dead (Armstrong, not Buffet). I'd forgotten that he passed.

I saw a commercial of his over the weekend and noticed how frail he looked & sounded. I knew he was old, but didn't realize he was 92.

I heard him interviewed on the Mr. KABC show many years ago. He was a fascinating guy.

I remeber seeing him on TV as a kid. I've been amazed that he was still on the air. It's like a part of my childhood has died. RIP, Cal.

I used to work as a petroleum transfer technician at LB airport. He used to keep his plane there.

Gas pumper.

We used a slight variation: Petroleum Transfer Engineer

Petrol fluffer.

Is that European?

Gas Pump Jockey

Petroleum transfer technician looks better on the resume.

Tom Clancy (66)

Perhaps this had something to do with the early demise?

Especially when you learn that "Merit menthol" is what he called his penis.

And sad for him to have died so young and yet it has been so long since he'd written a remotely good book.

Marcia Wallace (70)
Noted roles included Carol Kester on The Bob Newhart Show and Edna Krabappel on The Simpsons.

Diane Disney Miller 79
It's so sad that all of Walt's immediate family is gone now, not to mention the one who fought for his legacy and historic accuracy the most.

Awww so sad, RIP Diane.

Sylvia Browne.

I almost take some pleasure in that, she was a despicable hurtful awful human being.

Children's author Charlotte Zolotow.

Charlotte Zolotow was once my favorite children's author and yet I don't believe I've ever read one of her books. She was my favorite because when I worked as a page in public libraries one of the worst tasks you could draw was reshelving (or worse, shelf reading) in the children's section. This is awful because

1) Surprisingly, young children aren't great at putting books back in the right place, and

2) The books are all super narrow so often there isn't enough spine to see any useful information so you're constantly pulling books out to see where you are, and

3) The books are all very different heights and widths so when the shelves are packed at all tightly weird things start to happen to the orderliness.

So, with a name like Zolotow it was always easy to find where her books should go. Over at the end.

Plus, her daughter is named Crescent Dragonwagon (not her birth name).

You're far classier than I am. (which will surprise exactly zero people) I take great pleasure in knowing that deceitful [expletive] will no longer be profiting off the misery of the bereaving.

Side Note: She failed to accurately predict the correct year of her own death.

Judy Rodgers of Zuni Cafe

Still our favorite place. My cheese is sad. My oysters are, too.

Paul Walker (We don't want to snub anyone) ;)

Nelson Mandela (95)

Peter O'Toole (81)

And Tom Laughlin of Billy Jack at 82.

If you'd told me he was older than Peter O'Toole, I would not have believed it.

Ronnie BiggsRonnie Biggs

I'll masturbate to honor his memory

I can think of no greater tribute.

Of course you'll have to have a copy of his magazine handy...