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

[tearknee]

Tempus Fugit... 

[shapeshifter]

Lynn Ban, Jewelry Designer and ‘Bling Empire’ Star, Dies at 52
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/fashion/lynn-ban-dead-bling-empire.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rU4.Sz5C.fZbH-IVGeTMm&smid=url-share

[Dimity]

I don't have a link right now but I've just heard that the British actress, Pauline Quirke (perhaps best known for Birds of a Feather) has retired from acting due to a dementia diagnosis.  I feel so badly for her.  She's only 65.

[Annber03]

Aw, damn, how awful. 

[shapeshifter]

1 hour ago, Dimity said:

I don't have a link right now but I've just heard that the British actress, Pauline Quirke (perhaps best known for Birds of a Feather) has retired from acting due to a dementia diagnosis.  I feel so badly for her.  She's only 65.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxengknyvgo

[tearknee]

4 hours ago, Dimity said:

I don't have a link right now but I've just heard that the British actress, Pauline Quirke (perhaps best known for Birds of a Feather) has retired from acting due to a dementia diagnosis.  I feel so badly for her.  She's only 65.

Prunella Scales is another Gen-X British TV icon that has dementia :'(

[SVNBob]

15 hours ago, tearknee said:

Tempus Fugit... 

Idea:  A sitcom starring these four about a grief support group for the survivors of the deceased.

Titled "Last Ones Standing"

[tearknee]

30 minutes ago, SVNBob said:

Idea:  A sitcom starring these four about a grief support group for the survivors of the deceased.

Titled "Last Ones Standing"

You wonder what the Drummond penthouse is like to visit now in the DS universe given only Willis and Sam would be there (according to the cameo in the final ep of TFPOBA, Arnold Jackson was pushing thirty and still living with his adopted father).

By "now", Willis would have inherited ownership of his dad's company (which may still own the radio station in Hello, Larry! brought about by that DS/HL crossover storyline, as many stations in the real world are still owned by the same company as decades earlier or a direct descendent).

[Affogato]

On 1/22/2025 at 1:40 PM, GHScorpiosRule said:

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

Oddly when I posted it I checked and did not see another post about it. Anyway, it doesn’t seem to have harmed anyone.