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I can't believe it.  

ProudMary
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Bradley Whitford has shared his thoughts on Matthew Perry's passing, along with a Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip-era video of the two of them on his Instagram.  https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzE2

MissAlmond
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News is breaking that Tina Turner has died at 83. Will update with links. First update: Will post later as more information becomes available. R.I.P. Ms. Turner! https://news.sky.com/story/t

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tearknee

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 :'(

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tearknee

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).

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Blergh

Blergh

On 1/23/2025 at 8:33 AM, tearknee said:

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Tempus Fugit... 

I wonder if anyone can beat Keith Thibodeaux's 'LOS' record? Billed as 'Richard Keith' he'd played Lucy and Ricky's drumming sensation son 'Little Ricky' from the time he was four. Now at age 74, Mr. Thibodeaux has   been the last surviving regular cast member of I Love Lucy (and the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour)since Lucy herself got her reward in 1989- 35 years ago! Of course, it helped that he was a preschooler while the rest of the cast was zooming if not already past their 40's during the show!

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tearknee

tearknee

Fawlty Towers is something Gen-X grew up with. I suspect that you know that that was what I meant from the context, given Birds of a Feather is the same.

3 hours ago, Blergh said:

I wonder if anyone can beat Keith Thibodeaux's 'LOS' record? Billed as 'Richard Keith' he'd played Lucy and Ricky's drumming sensation son 'Little Ricky' from the time he was four. Now at age 74, Mr. Thibodeaux has   been the last surviving regular cast member of I Love Lucy (and the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour)since Lucy herself got her reward in 1989- 35 years ago! Of course, it helped that he was a preschooler while the rest of the cast was zooming if not already past their 40's during the show!

With less drinking and smoking you will likely see in coming decades the "adults who played adults" lasting longer than the adult cast of TV's classic era did after their shows were over.

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Kel Varnsen

Kel Varnsen

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6 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:

Paul Reubens came out in upcoming self-made documentary “Pee-Wee as Himself”

I want to see this. I don’t know if he knew he was dying when he made it, but kudos to him for getting the last say in coming out. Literally.

I heard about that and want to see it too. I mean as a kid who was a big fan, any suggestions of him being gay would have gone right over my head. But looking back now the Playhouse Christmas Special had k.d. Lang, Little Richard, Cher and Joan Rivers as guest stars. And regular episodes had Tito, the jacked, shirtless lifeguard. It couldn't have been more obvious.

Although coming out as gay in the 80's would have probably been a career killer, especially once he started doing a kids show. I read somewhere once that he was also a heavy smoker and during the 80's he had someone on staff to make sure he was never smoking when kids were around or when there were photographers, because he thought that would hurt his image with the kids. I can imagine he would have felt the same about his sexuality.

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Vermicious Knid

Vermicious Knid

Former MTV VJ and Radio Host Matt Pinfield Suffers Massive Stroke

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According to TMZ, the former Columbia Records executive and radio show host suffered a stroke on Jan. 6 after enduring various health struggles over the years. The 63-year-old is now apparently incompetent, and his daughter Jessica filed for conservatorship to manage his health and financial decisions over concerns that his girlfriend will withdraw his money.

I remember he always had these wild, over the top stories about rock stars. He seemed like a fun guy :(.

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MissAlmond

MissAlmond

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Singer/actress Marianne Faithfull who had the Top 10 hit single As Tears Go By and inspired the Rolling Stones songs Wild Horses and You Can't Always Get What You Want as died, age 78.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8k931j423o

https://deadline.com/2025/01/marianne-faithfull-dead-1236273275/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/marianne-faithfull-dead-as-tears-go-by-mick-jagger-1236122613/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/marianne-faithfull-dies-78-rcna190050

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jan/30/marianne-faithfull-singular-icon-of-british-pop-dies-aged-78

 

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Anduin

Anduin

5 minutes ago, Annber03 said:

This is actually how I first learned who Marianne Faithful was - I remember this video getting some airplay on MTV back in the day and her part always stood out to me on this song: 

Also, "As Tears Go By" is a fantastic song. Rest in peace, Marianne Faithful. 

I knew her before that, but she still does it great!

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MissAlmond

MissAlmond

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ABC and NBC Sports figure skating commentator Dick Button who was the first American to win Olympic gold in the sport has died, age 95. 

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/nx-s1-5281468/dick-button-dead-skating-olympics

https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news/dick-button-dies-figure-skating

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/sport/dick-button-figure-skating-death-spt/index.html

https://www.usfigureskating.org/news/press-release/remembering-dick-button

 

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roamyn

roamyn

2 hours ago, MissAlmond said:

ABC and NBC Sports figure skating commentator Dick Button who was the first American to win Olympic gold in the sport has died, age 95

I was just thinking abt him earlier due to the plane crash in DC.

Was there ever a better skating sportscaster?  A legend in two fields.

Thank you for the memories.  RIP

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roseha

roseha

Very sad about Marianne Faithfull.  I remember reading an interview with her not that long ago in which she described barely surviving Covid.

Her obituary mentioned that she had gone through both a miscarriage and the lost of custody of her son.   It occurred to me to wonder if any of this inspired the lyrics to Jagger and Richard's As Tears Go By.

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Dimity

Dimity

19 minutes ago, roseha said:

Very sad about Marianne Faithfull.  I remember reading an interview with her not that long ago in which she described barely surviving Covid.

Her obituary mentioned that she had gone through both a miscarriage and the lost of custody of her son.   It occurred to me to wonder if any of this inspired the lyrics to Jagger and Richard's As Tears Go By.

That song was written very early in the Stones career and IIRC Faithfull was only about 17 or 18. 

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Blergh

Blergh

BTW, it needs to be said that the late Miss Faithfull's mother Eva von Sacher-Masoch Faithful had been from an ancient Austrian-Hungarian noble family who became anti-NAZIs in Vienna where Eva would meet Miss Faithfull's future English  father Major Glynn Faithfull a British Intelligence officer who met and married her then brought her out of war torn Austria for them to start a new life in . .. war torn Britain where Miss Faithfull would be born in 1946. .and if Mrs. Faithfull's original family name rings a bell, it needs to be said that  Eva was the great-great-niece of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch whose writings would eventually spur the term 'masochism'.

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Shrek

Shrek

1 minute ago, Blergh said:

BTW, it needs to be said that the late Miss Faithfull's mother Eva von Sacher-Masoch Faithful had been from an ancient Austrian-Hungarian noble family who became anti-NAZIs in Vienna where Eva would meet Miss Faithfull's future English  father Major Glynn Faithfull a British Intelligence officer who met and married her then brought her out of war torn Austria for them to start a new life in . .. war torn Britain where Miss Faithfull would be born in 1946. .and if Mrs. Faithfull's original family name rings a bell, it needs to be said that  Eva was the great-great-niece of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch whose writings would eventually spur the term 'masochism'.

Why does it "need to be said"? That's her mother not her.

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