Milestone Moments: All The Celebrity Vitals

[Spartan Girl]

11 hours ago, Wiendish Fitch said:

What a life, and imagine the stories she had. RIP, Ms. Plowwright.

I’m embarrassed that I knew her best as Nanny in the live action 101 Dalmatians. 

[MissAlmond]

TCM Remembers Joan Plowright

 

Edited Saturday at 08:28 PM by MissAlmond

[BetterButter]

Claire van Kampen, theatre director and composer, dies aged 71

[Fool to cry]

About Jeannot Szwarc, his best movie is definitely Somewhere in Time which is also Christopher Reeve's best non Superman role.

[BetterButter]

Lynne Taylor-Corbett Dies: Choreographer For Hollywood’s ‘Footloose’, Broadway’s ‘Titanic’ Was 78

[BetterButter]

Francisco San Martin, of Days of Our Lives and Jane the Virgin, Dead at 39

[Crashcourse]

That is so sad that he committed suicide.

[squeezel]

A sad day in the music world.  The last remaining Band member, Garth Hudson, has died. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/garth-hudson-the-band-dead-1234804659/

[Bookish Jen]

On 1/16/2025 at 4:00 PM, AgathaC said:

Bob Uecker has died. As a kid, I just knew him as the dad from Mr. Belvedere. I had no clue about his connection to baseball — until I got older and my dad let me watch Major League.

He was an icon here in Milwaukee.

[BetterButter]

Bertrand Blier, Provocative Oscar-Winning French Director of ‘Going Places,’ Dies at 85

[Vermicious Knid]

Jules Feiffer, Cartoonist, Playwright and Screenwriter, Dies at 95

Best known for the films Carnal Knowlege and Popeye, he won a Pulizer for his editorial cartoons. 

[Wiendish Fitch]

1 hour ago, Vermicious Knid said:

Jules Feiffer, Cartoonist, Playwright and Screenwriter, Dies at 95

Best known for the films Carnal Knowlege and Popeye, he won a Pulizer for his editorial cartoons. 

He also illustrated The Phantom Tollbooth, one of my all-time favorite books as a kid.

[andromeda331]

Just now, Wiendish Fitch said:

He also illustrated The Phantom Tollbooth, one of my all-time favorite books as a kid.

Mine too.

[Browncoat]

10 hours ago, Wiendish Fitch said:

He also illustrated The Phantom Tollbooth, one of my all-time favorite books as a kid.

I will still re-read it periodically.

[Wiendish Fitch]

24 minutes ago, Browncoat said:

I will still re-read it periodically.

It's an honest to God classic, and Feiffer's illustrations are just so right.

[Affogato]

Jules Feiffer has died

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/22/jules-feiffer-pulitzer-winning-cartoonist-and-writer-dies-at-95-00199846
 

 

 

[GHScorpiosRule]

48 minutes ago, Affogato said:

Jules Feiffer has died

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/22/jules-feiffer-pulitzer-winning-cartoonist-and-writer-dies-at-95-00199846
 

 

 

@Vermicious Knid posted about this yesterday upthread-4 comments above.

[Bastet]

16 hours ago, Wiendish Fitch said:

He also illustrated The Phantom Tollbooth, one of my all-time favorite books as a kid.

I just re-read that a few months ago, and enjoyed it every bit as much as an adult.  The illustrations are fun.

[BetterButter]

Barry Michael Cooper, Visionary Behind 'New Jack City,' 'Sugar Hill,' and 'Above the Rim,' Dies at 66