Milestone Moments: All The Celebrity Vitals

[Irlandesa]

For those wondering, John Amos does have a death certificate from LA County that says he died on Aug. 21 from congenitive heart failure.  So those authorities knew.

[giovannif7]

1 hour ago, BetterButter said:

Ron Hale Dies; ‘General Hospital’ Actor Was 78

Ron Hale will forever be smarmy cad Dr. Roger Coleridge from Ryan's Hope to me... a role he played masterfully during the soap's entire run (1975 - 1989)

 

Edited October 3 by giovannif7
Double post

[ABay]

Roger was my favorite character; he was refreshingly unself-righteous compared to the others

[cynicat]

8 hours ago, giovannif7 said:

Ron Hale will forever be smarmy cad Dr. Roger Coleridge from Ryan's Hope to me... a role he played masterfully during the soap's entire run (1975 - 1989)

 

The worst manager I ever had in my whole career was named Ron Hale, and so I have mixed emotions.

[tearknee]

At least your manager wasn't named Alan Hale Jr. :)

[Notabug]

12 hours ago, giovannif7 said:

Ron Hale will forever be smarmy cad Dr. Roger Coleridge from Ryan's Hope to me... a role he played masterfully during the soap's entire run (1975 - 1989)

 

I loved Ryan's Hope, watched it from the start, and Hale's Roger was one of those bad guys you just love to hate.

[Blergh]

On 10/2/2024 at 9:35 AM, Irlandesa said:

Authorities aren't going to investigate something that boils down to family drama unless there are other suspicious factors. 

Granted but IMO it would be better for the authorities to investigate and rule out that there's anything fishy going on (like possibly having the late Mr. Amos's properties having not been equally shared by all members of his surviving family). Even if the result winds up with Miss Amos having been a kook and the younger Mr. Amos having been a saint, IMO, it would be better to investigate to clear the air than to chance something going askance via going the 'nothing to see here,folks' route.

[Salacious Kitty]

It looks like the ugliness has just started.

[Bastet]

54 minutes ago, Blergh said:

Granted but IMO it would be better for the authorities to investigate and rule out that there's anything fishy going on (like possibly having the late Mr. Amos's properties having not been equally shared by all members of his surviving family).

Unequal distribution of assets is not a police matter.  Or inherently fishy; it happens in many different situations.  There's nothing for authorities to investigate in cases of family drama (abuse, on the other hand, is a criminal matter so those allegations were investigated [and determined unfounded]).

[Notabug]

6 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:

It looks like the ugliness has just started.

So, it turns out the daughter had taken out a restraining order against her brother that specified he could not contact her for any reason but it is HIS fault she wasn’t notified of the death?  And the death certificate indicates that Mr. Amos died of heart failure in a hospital under medical care but she thinks something nefarious happened?

 

5 hours ago, Bastet said:

Unequal distribution of assets is not a police matter.  Or inherently fishy; it happens in many different situations.  There's nothing for authorities to investigate in cases of family drama (abuse, on the other hand, is a criminal matter so those allegations were investigated [and determined unfounded]).

It appears that Mr Amos had a support team including attorneys handling things. I would presume that means he had a will.  If the daughter and other family members are in the will, the executor, probably an attorney, will notify them when the will is filed in Probate Court.  There is no obligation for anyone to notify heirs immediately upon the death, nor should anyone be rushing to grab up assets before the body is cold.

[methodwriter85]

On 10/2/2024 at 1:17 AM, Wiendish Fitch said:

"Jimmy/Oh, Jimmy/Silly boy/Gee what a real swell guy..."

48 is too young. RIP.

Thoroughly Modern Millie was a great show and it's sad Gavin Creel passed. He was so talented and Broadway should have had him for so many more years. 

Edited October 4 by methodwriter85

[meep.meep]

21 hours ago, Blergh said:

Granted but IMO it would be better for the authorities to investigate and rule out that there's anything fishy going on (like possibly having the late Mr. Amos's properties having not been equally shared by all members of his surviving family). Even if the result winds up with Miss Amos having been a kook and the younger Mr. Amos having been a saint, IMO, it would be better to investigate to clear the air than to chance something going askance via going the 'nothing to see here,folks' route.

No crime was committed so no authorities need to investigate anything.  Our taxes are high enough as it is, don't think the police need to be involved in anything like this.  They have real work to do.  He died, a death certificate was issued and the body dealt with.  

[Vermicious Knid]

Thomas Rockwell, author of How to Eat Fried Worms and other children's books has died at the age of 91.

He was Norman Rockwell's son!

[Blergh]

6 hours ago, meep.meep said:

No crime was committed so no authorities need to investigate anything.  Our taxes are high enough as it is, don't think the police need to be involved in anything like this.  They have real work to do.  He died, a death certificate was issued and the body dealt with.  

I disagree with all the above . If the authorities DO decide that things weren't entirely hunky dory with Mr. Amos's death and how it was handled by his son , I'll make no objections to having them investigate it because I believe a questionable death would be morally and fiscally worth investigating

I won't argue this any further though- unless there is further  news updating things in Mr. Amos's case.

[EtheltoTillie]

On 9/30/2024 at 3:03 PM, Irlandesa said:

How sad.  I remember a streaming service offering the ability to subscribe and watch a live stream of She Loves Me starring him and Laura Benanti. 

I thought he was so handsome and such a good performer.  It looks like he was only diagnosed in July and is now gone. Again, it's so sad. 

I saw that on Broadway!  

[Spartan Girl]

9 hours ago, Vermicious Knid said:

Thomas Rockwell, author of How to Eat Fried Worms and other children's books has died at the age of 91.

He was Norman Rockwell's son!

I had no idea! And yes I did read that book as a kid!

[ProudMary]

Warner Bros, via The West Wing's YouTube channel, has put together a clip package of some of John Amos's great moments as Admiral Percy Fitzwallace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (Length 22:39)

 

[BetterButter]

Allan Blye Dies; Emmy-Winning Comedy Writer Who Played Capt. Blye on ‘Mister Rogers Neighborhood’ Was 87

[Blergh]

Because this is the first time I've seen it in print: in the most recent People magazine, Riley Keogh (daughter of the late Lisa Marie Presley and granddaughter of Priscilla and the late Elvis) has announced that the name of her daughter by her husband Ben Smith-Petersen (born in 2022) is. ..Tupelo.

I know she wanted to honor the child's maternal-maternal great- grandfather's birthplace but I have to wonder how long before someone shortens it to 'Tupi') and will the child like or dislike either her formal name or any nicknames? Well, having that name would make it a bit tougher for the girl to avoid being linked the Presleys since who else but the most die-hard Elvis fans would name their offspring of either gender after that Mississippi town named for a tree that means 'swamp tree' in the Native American Creek language?

Edited October 6 by Blergh

[Bastet]

11 hours ago, Blergh said:

I have to wonder how long before someone shortens it to 'Tupi'

Tupelo sounds more like a name to me than Tupi. 

(I got curious if there was anyone/anything out there named Tupi, and learned from Brittanica that Tupi is an ancient language, now extinct.)

11 hours ago, Blergh said:

will the child like or dislike either her formal name or any nicknames?

That can be asked about anyone.  Time will tell.

Nick Cannon naming one of his eleventy children Zillion Heir raises my hackles.  Elvis's granddaughter naming her kid Tupelo -- when I first read that, I thought eh, whatever.  But in the time it's taken me to write this, it has come to sound like a cool name.  Especially that it means swamp tree; we name kids Willow, after all.

[Crashcourse]

Celebrities, in particular, like to give their kids weird names because it's not like the kid will be submitting a resume for a job.

https://www.vogue.com/article/celebrity-baby-names-unusual-apple-blue-ivy-suri-pilot-inspektor

[tearknee]

Madison means "son of Maud" and Ryan means "little king" but you see it a lot on girls now.

[SoMuchTV]

12 hours ago, Blergh said:

Because this is the first time I've seen it in print: in the most recent People magazine, Riley Keogh (daughter of the late Lisa Marie Presley and granddaughter of Priscilla and the late Elvis) has announced that the name of her daughter by her husband Ben Smith-Petersen (born in 2022) is. ..Tupelo.

Am I the only one whose first connection was to Van Morrison and Tupelo Honey?  So, not the most common name, for sure, but no unlikable connotations for me. 

[tearknee]

At least she didn't name the kid after one of her Grampa's song titles or lyrics.

Although Cold and Grey Chicago Morning would make her daughter's future board meetings interesting....

[Notabug]

7 hours ago, tearknee said:

At least she didn't name the kid after one of her Grampa's song titles or lyrics.

Although Cold and Grey Chicago Morning would make her daughter's future board meetings interesting....

Hound Dog comes to mind, too. Or Viva Las Vegas?

And, yes. because I am old and because he is a genius, Van Morrison's Tupelo Honey was the first thought I had upon hearing the name.

 

[Blergh]

As per the BBC, Cleo Sylvestre [born Cleopatra Mary Sylvestre] died on September 20,2024. She was 79.

She had the distinction of having  release single 'To Know Him is to Love Him' in 1964- backed by the then-unknown Rolling Stones . Mick Jagger has released a statement saying that he is 'so sad' at the news of her death. 

Thereafter she would concentrate on a performing career which included being a regular from 1970 to 1972  the British soap Crossroads. More recently she was a semi-regular on the current production of All Creatures Great and Small playing Annie Chapman- a biracial farmer and matriarch to a multi-generational family  in rural Yorkshire in the late 1930's and early 1940's which, apart from the farming aspect,  was similar to  how her own life wound up. She had been married to an Ian Palmer from 1979 to his death in 1995 and was the mother of three children.

[SVNBob]

22 hours ago, tearknee said:

At least she didn't name the kid after one of her Grampa's song titles or lyrics.

Although Cold and Grey Chicago Morning would make her daughter's future board meetings interesting....

Unless of course those meetings were held...

in the ghetto.

[MissAlmond]

Grammy award winning gospel singer Cissy Houston has died, age 91. Houston was a member of the vocal group The Sweet Inspirations who sang backup for such singers as Otis Redding, Lou Rawls, The Drifters and Houston's cousin Dionne Warwick. Houston was also the mother of singer Whitney Houston.

https://people.com/cissy-houston-whitney-houston-mom-dead-age-91-alzheimers-disease-7501905

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/cissy-houston-dead-gospel-soul-singer-whitney-houston-1236170215/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/cissy-houston-dead-whitney-houston-mother-singer-1236025969/

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2024-10-07/cissy-houston-dead-whitney-houston

 

Edited October 9 by MissAlmond

[Blergh]

As per Hollywood Reporter,etc., Christopher Ciccone the younger brother of Madonna died on October 4,2024 from pancreatic cancer. He was 63.

[BetterButter]

Ed Wheeler Dies: Veteran Actor In ‘Law & Order’, ‘Blue Bloods’, Other Series & Films Was 88

[tearknee]

10 hours ago, SVNBob said:

Unless of course those meetings were held...

in the ghetto.

Elvis puzzles me because I never understood shoe shining. Who wants to see their face in a pair of blue suade shoes?

Edited October 8 by tearknee

[Palimelon]

Nell Smith, singer who recorded an album of Nick Cave covers with the Flaming Lips, dies at 17.

Smith was a major fan of The Flaming Lips and first met the band's frontman Wayne Coyne after her parents took her to their 2018 show in Calgary, according to Consequence of Sound. Coyne stayed in touch with the budding musician and her family as she learned guitar and started writing songs, which eventually culminated in them collaborating on the Cave covers album, Where the Viaduct Looms, in November 2021, when she was just 14.

Simon Raymonde of the Cocteau Twins also shared his condolences on Monday, revealing that Smith had been working on her debut solo album via his Bella Union record label, set for release sometime next year.

[BetterButter]

Nicholas Pryor, Actor in ‘Risky Business’ and ‘Beverly Hills, 90210,’ Dies at 89

[Bastet]

14 hours ago, BetterButter said:

Nicholas Pryor, Actor in ‘Risky Business’ and ‘Beverly Hills, 90210,’ Dies at 89

I love his note:

Quote

“Nicholas Pryor was enormously grateful to have been, for nearly 70 years, a working actor.”

 

[AheadofStraight]

Did you see the pic where it originally said 65 and he crossed it out to say that? Made me wonder if he lived longer than he expected!

[Bastet]

6 hours ago, AheadofStraight said:

Did you see the pic where it originally said 65 and he crossed it out to say that? Made me wonder if he lived longer than he expected!

He died of cancer, so that's possible.  Or maybe he misremembered how much time had passed since his career started, putting 65 years, then realized it was closer to 70.

(For some reason, I had read it as 67, rather than 65, so thought he simply decided on different wording ["nearly 70" rather than specifying 67] and didn't think anything of the change). 

Edited October 10 by Bastet

[Dimity]

Ethel Kennedy has died 😢

[Blergh]

It should be noted that Mrs. Kennedy appeared on both Cheers and  later that Tonight Show episode that was saluting that longtime comedy which had just had its Finale as 'herself' [from the RL Cheers bar in Boston!] . It was good to see her displaying a sense of humor about herself and having some fun!

RIP, Mrs. Kennedy

[Palimelon]

The Scottish DJ and producer Jack Revill, known to many as Jackmaster, has died aged 38.

 

[Blergh]

I guess this may be as good a time as any to mention this but even though Ethel Skakel Kennedy was widowed when she was forty and in the family way with her 11th and last child, there were indications that she did at least . ..enjoy the company of two well-known performers and entertainers  over the next few years.

She evidently had been a close friend (alongside her late husband Robert, Sr. ) with the singer Andy Williams (1927-2012) who even had his newborn son by his then-wife Claudine Longet named Bobby in Senator Kennedy's honor in 1969 and would escort Mrs. Kennedy to events in the early 1970s. However, whatever the nature of the bond Mr. Wiliams may have had with Mrs. Kennedy, he would stay wed to Miss Longet until 1975 but there would be no marriage between himself and Mrs. Kennedy after his divorce.

It was also known that Mrs. Kennedy became at least platonic friends with the football player turned sportscaster Frank Gifford (1930-2015) sometime in the mid 1970's.  Yet, when Mr. Gifford became legally single, this did not result in marriage between the two. 

Whether Mrs. Kennedy didn't believe that her faith would allow her to wed a divorced man or whether she didn't want to give up whatever extra clout she may have had being Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. or he wasn't interested in marrying her is conjecture.

However their dealings with each other may have gone, Mr. Gifford and Mrs. Kennedy would be bonded together for the rest of his life via the marriage of his daughter Victoria with her son Michael. Yes, even though that union was in the process of being dissolved at the time of the younger Mr. Kennedy's sudden 1997 death, the two of them DID provide Mr. Gifford and Mrs. Kennedy with three mutual grandchildren.

[BetterButter]

John Lasell, ‘Dark Shadows’ and ‘Twilight Zone’ Actor, Dies at 95

[MissAlmond]

19 hours ago, BetterButter said:

John Lasell, ‘Dark Shadows’ and ‘Twilight Zone’ Actor, Dies at 95

Ah! Danny Shine from Perry Mason: The Case of the Crafty Kidnapper. Married to Cloris Leachman. Having an affair with Pat Priest. Murdered by 

Spoiler

Gary Collins.

  R.I.P. Mr. Lasell.

 

Edited October 14 by MissAlmond

[methodwriter85]

On 10/6/2024 at 4:31 PM, SoMuchTV said:

Am I the only one whose first connection was to Van Morrison and Tupelo Honey?  So, not the most common name, for sure, but no unlikable connotations for me. 

I feel like the nickname I'd give her is Tully.

[Vermicious Knid]

Former MTV VJ Ananda Lewis has stage IV breast cancer.

She had announced she was diagnosed with stage III in 2020 but persued homeopathic treatment instead of the recommended double mastectomy. Please, please, people stop doing this with cancer. 

[Annber03]

Oh, that's awful. Wishing her the best with her efforts to fight this. 

[roamyn]

14 hours ago, Vermicious Knid said:

Former MTV VJ Ananda Lewis has stage IV breast cancer.

She had announced she was diagnosed with stage III in 2020 but persued homeopathic treatment instead of the recommended double mastectomy. Please, please, people stop doing this with cancer. 

That should be their choice.  

Sometimes there are religious issues with traditional treatments, trauma from perhaps another loved one's treatment.

Dirk Benedict sought homeopathic treatment for his cancer and beat it - in the 1980s.  I'm sure there are others.

All I'm saying is we should respect another's decision and not shame them (not that anyone was) for the way they choose to treat their illnesses.

[Dimity]

19 minutes ago, roamyn said:

That should be their choice.  

Sometimes there are religious issues with traditional treatments, trauma from perhaps another loved one's treatment.

Dirk Benedict sought homeopathic treatment for his cancer and beat it - in the 1980s.  I'm sure there are others.

All I'm saying is we should respect another's decision and not shame them (not that anyone was) for the way they choose to treat their illnesses.

 

Respect, maybe, and only if they are not making those choices for a minor. Do agree about not shaming. Unless this is a close family member it is very much mind your own business.

[Notabug]

1 hour ago, roamyn said:

That should be their choice.  

Sometimes there are religious issues with traditional treatments, trauma from perhaps another loved one's treatment.

Dirk Benedict sought homeopathic treatment for his cancer and beat it - in the 1980s.  I'm sure there are others.

All I'm saying is we should respect another's decision and not shame them (not that anyone was) for the way they choose to treat their illnesses.

Point of information:  Although Dirk Benedict claimed to have beaten prostate cancer; he never actually had it biopsied and the diagnosis confirmed.  I saw an interview in which he said he had a rectal exam at the doctor's office and the doctor felt a lump in his prostate.  The doctor told him it could be cancer or it could be something else and referred him to a specialist for a biopsy.  Benedict chose not to have the biopsy, so he never had confirmed prostate cancer.  He was also quite young, in his 20's I think, which makes it far more likely that he had some other condition and not cancer in the first place.

 

I was his choice to not have the biopsy just as it was Ms Lewis' choice to avoid mammograms and traditional therapies.  I am glad that she has, however, stepped forward and is telling her story and suggesting that, knowing what she knows now, she would've made a different choice.

Edited October 16 by Notabug

[BetterButter]

 

[Notabug]

3 minutes ago, BetterButter said:

 

Interesting article concerning another aspect of Mr. Payne's life which was published yesterday.  I hate to think what I am thinking.

He also had a history of alcohol abuse although was reportedly sober for the last year and a half or so.

https://metro.co.uk/2024/10/15/liam-payne-facing-legal-action-ex-maya-henry-obsessive-contact-21797368/?ico=trending-post-strip_item_1