Milestone Moments: All The Celebrity Vitals

[andromeda331]

He did a great job as Captain in Titanic. He was in Wimbledon and the Scorpion King.

[BetterButter]

Jeannie Epper, Legendary ‘Wonder Woman’ and ‘Romancing the Stone’ Stuntwoman, Dies at 83

[BetterButter]

Susan Buckner, Who Played Patty Simcox in ‘Grease,’ Dies at 72

[Angeltoes]

This one makes me sad.  Love Grease!  It used to be my album to blast when I was cleaning the house, with me enthusiastically adding my vocals to "Summer Lovin'" and "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee" (much to the horror of the neighbors, I'm sure).

 

[BetterButter]

Ian Gelder, Stage Actor Known for ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Torchwood,’ Dies at 74

[BetterButter]

Steve Albini, US alt-rock musician and producer, dies aged 61

[MissAlmond]

On 5/6/2024 at 2:10 PM, BetterButter said:

Jeannie Epper, Legendary ‘Wonder Woman’ and ‘Romancing the Stone’ Stuntwoman, Dies at 83

From Lynda Carter:

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Susan Buckner, Who Played Patty Simcox in ‘Grease,’ Dies at 72

Grease Tribute to Susan Buckner:

 

Edited May 9 by MissAlmond

[BetterButter]

Sam Rubin, Longtime KTLA Entertainment Reporter, Dies at 64

[Dimity]

Rex Murphy remembered as opinionated wordsmith, fierce Newfoundlander

[scarynikki12]

Pour one out for a legend.

[BetterButter]

Susan Backlinie, the First Victim of the Shark in ‘Jaws,’ Dies at 77

[MissAlmond]

 

Edited May 12 by MissAlmond

[AstridM]

On 4/12/2024 at 9:06 AM, CountryGirl said:

That is one of the things that chilled me to the bone when I thought about it. It wasn't enough that he slaughtered Nicole and Ron. That he gave no fucks that his innocent young children could have woken up at any time and witnessed this. Or, even if they did, in fact, sleep through the murders, that had it not been for their dog barking and the neighbor finding him with blood on his paws, they would have found their mother, nearly decapitated and covered in blood, and Ron as well. Nicole's last thoughts being that she was going to die and who it was that was going to kill her and her babies right upstairs. Hell is almost too good for the deceased murderer.

I’ve been thinking about that since 1995. 😪

[BetterButter]

David Sanborn, Jazz Saxophonist Who Played on David Bowie’s ‘Young Americans,’ Dead at 78

[MissAlmond]

 

[supposebly]

Alice Munro, Canadian master of the short story and Nobel Prize winner has passed.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/alice-munro-author-dead-obit-1.7203737

[shapeshifter]

“Daniel Kramer, Who Photographed Bob Dylan’s Rise, Dies at 91”
(NY Times gift link)

[Spartan Girl]

Dabney Coleman passes away at 92

He was one of those guys that was just in everything. I’ll remember him most as the scummy bosses in 9 to 5 and Tootsie…and the voice of Principal Prickly in Recess.

Edited May 17 by Spartan Girl

[Bastet]

19 minutes ago, Spartan Girl said:

I’ll remember him most as the scummy bosses in 9 to 5 

"That's Franklin Hart Jr.  But to me he'll always be [covers most of his nameplate with her folder] F. Hart."

He was so good as the sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot.

I also love him in an outtake from that film, from Violet's fantasy sequence; here's what was supposed to happen:

But in one take, when Lily Tomlin went to crank the chair into launch position, it malfunctioned and didn't go anywhere.  Dabney Coleman imitated the sing-song laugh she'd just done, as Mr. Hart's response to Violet's plan being foiled.  You can see it at around the 2:00 mark here:

 

Edited May 17 by Bastet

[Thomas Crown]

1 hour ago, Spartan Girl said:

Dabney Coleman passes away at 92

He was one of those guys that was just in everything. I’ll remember him most as the scummy bosses in 9 to 5 and Tootsie…and the voice of Principal Prickly in Recess.

Like him too as the father in "Cloak & Daggar" 

[giovannif7]

😢😢😢😢😢

 

[Calvada]

1 hour ago, Spartan Girl said:

Dabney Coleman passes away at 92

He was one of those guys that was just in everything. I’ll remember him most as the scummy bosses in 9 to 5 and Tootsie…and the voice of Principal Prickly in Recess.

Based on the fact that only 26 episodes were made, I was one of the few people who watched Coleman in Buffalo Bill.  I loved it.  The episode with all the Jerry Lewises is comedy gold.  Of his movies, my favorites are Cloak & Dagger and of course the iconic Nine to Five.

[Shannon L.]

He was also the guy in War Games who convinced the government to try out a computer as a way of replacing the humans in charge of the nuclear weapons.  

[Zella]

I think the only thing I ever saw him in was Boardwalk Empire, where he did a great job of being truly insidious. 

[Spartan Girl]

1 hour ago, Thomas Crown said:

Like him too as the father in "Cloak & Daggar" 

Oh I loved that one too!

[ProudMary]

He played Tom Hanks' father, in You've Got Mail, too.

[Browncoat]

21 minutes ago, ProudMary said:

He played Tom Hanks' father, in You've Got Mail, too.

"She left me for the nanny."

[voiceover]

It was years before I finally caught Dabney Coleman’s last line in Tootsie (“I knew there was a reason she didn’t like me!!”) — which was hilarious by itself, but you could never hear it in the movie theater because everyone was screaming at the Dorothy reveal.

RIP, Mr C.

[Spartan Girl]

There was this other comedy he did, Short Time, where he played a cop that thinks he’s terminally ill and tries to get himself killed in the line of duty right before he retires so his family can get a bigger pension. And as stupid as that sounds, it actually has a lot of sweet moments.

[andromeda331]

13 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:

Dabney Coleman passes away at 92

He was one of those guys that was just in everything. I’ll remember him most as the scummy bosses in 9 to 5 and Tootsie…and the voice of Principal Prickly in Recess.

He was such a horrible boss it was so great seeing him taken down. RIP Dabney Coleman.

[Wiendish Fitch]

Dabney Coleman could play sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigots like no one else. Too many actors try to be hilariously loathsome, but Coleman always succeeded (except Boardwalk Empire, where he really is just evil). 

[Blergh]

57 minutes ago, andromeda331 said:

He was such a horrible boss it was so great seeing him taken down. RIP Dabney Coleman.

Lily Tomlin has said on Twitter/X 'We just loved him' and the late Mr. Coleman said that he was thankful that his three colleagues (Miss Tomlin along with Miss Fonda and Miss Parton) made sure to include him in the movie's publicity,etc. It also needs to be mentioned that he and Miss Tomlin would play another unequal but  somewhat less toxic boss/employee duo in Beverly Hillbillies (1993) when they played the Clampetts' Mr. Drysdale and Miss Jane Hathaway - the latter not only was motivated to not only save the protagonists from harm but also to protect Mr. Drysdale from being ruined (IOW, Mr. Coleman was playing a boss who may have been a bit unfair and mean yet still had earned the  loyalty on the part of his employee).

I guess what I'm trying to say that it appears that despite having played a mean and (in the earlier movie, toxic) boss onscreen, Mr. Coleman seems to have been a more likable person offcamera- especially considering that Miss Tomlin was approached and recruited to play Miss Jane in the latter movie rather having auditioned for it and she could have turned it down had she not been willing to work with Mr. Coleman again!

RIP, Mr. Coleman.

[ABay]

Thank you @Shannon L.. I'd totally forgotten about him being in War Games! Matthew Broderick and John Woods I always remember, but not Dabney Coleman.

[AgathaC]

Aww man. We just watched 9 to 5 the other night. He was just awesome as a loathsome (but funny) boss. And I grew up on Cloak & Dagger, where I recall feeling confused at seeing him play a good guy. His Mr. Hart was so iconic.

There was something about him. For me, he fit into the category of “actors who play incredible jerks, but there’s something about them where you feel like in real life, they’re good, nice people.” I could have been wrong about him, of course, but I’ve never heard of anything to disprove my theory. And I feel like you’d have to be a decent guy with a sense of humor to play Franklin Hart the way he did.

[MissAlmond]

TCM Remembers Roger Corman:

 

Edited May 19 by MissAlmond

[DXD526]

Nice to see all the Dabney Coleman love. I first saw him in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman when I was a kid, and have followed him ever since. No matter how many roles he played, due to that first one I saw, the wonderfully sleazy Merle Jeter came to mind whenever he showed up in something! Which was pretty often. So much great work he leaves behind. 

[Lugal]

I remember Dabney Coleman from Drexell's Class, a short-lived sitcom in the early 90s where Coleman played a teacher.  Brittany Murphy played one of his daughters.

[bluegirl147]

It speaks to Dabney Coleman's talent as an actor that he is remembered for such a wide variety of roles.   He was great in everything.  9-5.  War Games.  Tootsie.  Cloak and Dagger my personal favorite. And many more. 

[BetterButter]

Polish Composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Oscar Winner for ‘Finding Neverland,’ Dies at 71

[BetterButter]

Charlie Colin, Bassist and Founding Member of Train, Dies at 58

[Blergh]

1 hour ago, BetterButter said:

Charlie Colin, Bassist and Founding Member of Train, Dies at 58

As per the linked article, his own mother has said that Mr. Colin had been house sitting for friends in Belgium when he evidently fell in the shower and fatally injured himself- then wasn't discovered for five days until the friends returned to their home and found him there!

I don't know about anyone else  but I have to wonder why no one had seemed to have missed him for that link of time. I mean, whenever I have traveled, I've always made sure to CALL my mother daily  to let her know how I'm doing and if I were to miss more than two days in a row, my mother would do everything on her end to  get the ball rolling to see what might have happened to me.

Regardless, I feel sorry for Mr. Colin's mother to have had her son die before her and so tragically.

RIP, Mr. Colin.

[shapeshifter]

30 minutes ago, Blergh said:

I don't know about anyone else  but I have to wonder why no one had seemed to have missed him for that link of time. I mean, whenever I have traveled, I've always made sure to CALL my mother daily  to let her know how I'm doing and if I were to miss more than two days in a row, my mother would do everything on her end to  get the ball rolling to see what might have happened to me

He had a large extended family, including 2 sisters: https://thesuperslice.com/blog/train-band-bassist-charlie-colin-net-worth-big-family-wife-children-sister/
As a mother of 3 adults, five days doesn’t seem long to me to not call or text with all of them.

But a fatal fall in the shower at 58 makes me wonder about sedatives, heart attack, etc. 
🙁

Edited May 23 by shapeshifter

[MissAlmond]

2 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

But a fatal fall in the shower at 58 makes me wonder about sedatives, heart attack, etc.

Or a poorly designed shower where shower mats aren't provided and showering products/product holders positioned in such a way, a person finds themselves awkwardly twisting to use them. Ask me how I know. 

R.I.P. Mr. Colin. 

[Browncoat]

Or, as Sheldon Cooper said in The Big Bang Theory, "Lack of adhesive ducks."

[Blergh]

FWIW, Mr. Colin was one of the credited songwriters for the group's iconic hit 'Calling All Angels' (2003). If there is a service, I wouldn't be surprised if this got played. IMO, it would be apt.

BTW, he  had been living in Brussels to teach at a classical music conservatory.

[ProudMary]

From Variety:

Morgan Spurlock, ‘Super Size Me’ Director, Dies at 53

Morgan Spurlock, a documentary filmmaker who captured his own psychological and physical symptoms from eating McDonald’s every day for a month in the Oscar-nominated 2004 feature “Super Size Me,” died Thursday in upstate New York due to complications of cancer. He was 53.

[Ohiopirate02]

I didn't know Morgan had cancer.  What I do know is Twitter was a buzz talking about how much of a fraud he was earlier this week.  

[MissAlmond]

Actor Darryl Hickman who starred as a child actor in such films as The Grapes of Wrath and Leave Her to Heaven and later became CBS Executive Director of Daytime Television has died, age 92. Hickman was the older brother of actor Dwayne Hickman who died in 2022.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/darryl-hickman-dead-grapes-of-wrath-leave-her-to-heaven-1235908481/

https://deadline.com/2024/05/darryl-hickman-dead-actor-in-the-grapes-of-wrath-and-leave-her-to-heaven-was-92-obituary-1235940699/

[MissAlmond]

Author Caleb Carr who wrote the 1994 best-selling novel The Alienist has died, age 68.

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/24/nx-s1-4979767/caleb-carr-the-alientist-author-died-obit

https://deadline.com/2024/05/caleb-carr-dead-1235940232/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/24/caleb-carr-dead-author-alienist

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/books/caleb-carr-dead.html

[Wiendish Fitch]

4 hours ago, MissAlmond said:

Actor Darryl Hickman who starred as a child actor in such films as The Grapes of Wrath and Leave Her to Heaven and later became CBS Executive Director of Daytime Television has died, age 92. Hickman was the older brother of actor Dwayne Hickman who died in 2022.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/darryl-hickman-dead-grapes-of-wrath-leave-her-to-heaven-1235908481/

https://deadline.com/2024/05/darryl-hickman-dead-actor-in-the-grapes-of-wrath-and-leave-her-to-heaven-was-92-obituary-1235940699/

The Hickman brothers were very talented. Dwayne was so fun as Dobie Gillis (even if a young Bob Denver basically stole the show from him), and Darryl was unforgettable in the chilling swimming scene from Leave Her to Heaven.