In Memoriam: Entertainment Industry Celebrity Deaths

[kittykat]

Just look up the remarks he made about Michael J Fox and Chelsea Clinton and that's why there is absolutely nothing nice to say about the vile Limbaugh.  

[Browncoat]

Re: Limbaugh, I will quote a song from "A Chorus Line" -- "I dug way down to the bottom of my soul and cried.  'Cause I felt nothing."

[bmasters9]

53 minutes ago, Robert Lynch said:

What he did to Michael J. Fox........😠No comment!

You bet-- what if the shoe were on the other foot, and Michael J. Fox was the shock jock, and Rush had the problem that Michael J. Fox had; would Rush enjoy having the same things said about him?

[Popples]

#ripbozo

Rest In Piss

Satan

Those are some of the top trends on Twitter, and that's all I have to say.

[Crashcourse]

1 hour ago, scarynikki12 said:

“You should never say bad things about the dead, only good...Joan Crawford is dead. Good” -Bette Davis

Popped into my brain just now 😉

Ok, I've read that Joan Crawford was a piece of work, but that was pretty mean of Not A Saint Bette Davis to say that about her. 

[Annber03]

2 hours ago, AimingforYoko said:

My mom always said, if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. So in that spirit I say.....

Exactly what I was going to say. 

[BlackberryJam]

Rush spent so much time looking down at people, now he's going to spend eternity looking up. 

[WinnieWinkle]

I was glancing at the headlines on my local news and thought I read " American racist Rush Limbaugh dead at 70" it actually read "American radio host..." but I'm going to stand by my original reading as being accurate.

Edited February 17, 2021 by WinnieWinkle

[AimingforYoko]

6 minutes ago, WinnieWinkle said:

I was glancing at the headlines on my local news and thought I read " American racist Rush Limbaugh dead at 70" it actually read "American radio host..." but I'm going to stand by my original reading as being accurate.

[SuprSuprElevated]

RIP Rush.  Thanks.

 

[Robert Lynch]

There is nothing good for me to say about him and I am keeping that.....

[WinnieWinkle]

My husband mentioned Limbaugh's death at the office and one of his co-workers had never heard of Limbaugh.  I envy him.

[legaleagle53]

6 hours ago, scarynikki12 said:

“You should never say bad things about the dead, only good...Joan Crawford is dead. Good” -Bette Davis

Popped into my brain just now 😉

You beat me to it!

[Guest]

Roast in hell, asshole.

[Annber03]

Ugh. 

My dad worked in radio, and there was a time back in the '90s when he worked at a local talk radio station. That station carried Limbaugh's show, and my dad's show followed it. He'd spend much of his show refuting everything Limbaugh ranted on about.

[emmawoodhouse]

7 minutes ago, Giant Misfit said:

Roast in hell, asshole.

What a disgusting excuse of a human being. Rot in hell, pigface.

[Enigma X]

13 minutes ago, Giant Misfit said:

Roast in hell, asshole.

I don't believe in hell. But sometimes I wish I did.

[DollEyes]

"Disgusting" is the kindest word I've got to describe Limbaugh. To call him an evil, arrogant, racist, sexist and an all-around vicious piece of shit is an insult-to shit.

  Especially offensive were his cheap shots at a then 13-year-old Chelsea Clinton. Growing up in the spotlight is tough enough for any kid, let alone a President's kid, without assholes like Limbaugh making it even worse.

  Limbaugh's long-overdue demise reminds me of two quotes: the first, from Rising Sun: "If you sit by the river long enough, you'll see the body of your enemy floating by" and the second, from My Name Is Earl: "Karma. Gotta love it."

Good riddance, Rush. Better late than never.

Edited February 18, 2021 by DollEyes

[Bastet]

7 minutes ago, Enigma X said:

I don't believe in hell. But sometimes I wish I did.

Times like these, I kind of wish I did, too.  He was a hateful sack of shit.  Actually, that's unfair to a sack of shit; at least a sack of shit could be useful as manure, while there was no societal benefit - yet plenty of harm - from the existence of Rush Limbaugh.

The quote posted upthread (which was not actually said by Mark Twain [although something similar was said by Clarence Darrow] but is a good one) - “I have never wished death on any man but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure” - perfectly describes my reaction to this news.

[Drogo]

Fuck cancer. 

[RealHousewife]

1 hour ago, Giant Misfit said:

Roast in hell, asshole.

I knew enough about Limbaugh to know he wasn’t my kind of person, but I found this out today. Very disturbing he has so many fans. 

[magicdog]

1 hour ago, RealHousewife said:

I knew enough about Limbaugh to know he wasn’t my kind of person, but I found this out today. Very disturbing he has so many fans. 

I have never heard this.  Does anyone have it on tape to hear?  I've listened to his show on and off over the years and I've never heard of this segment.

[Hiyo]

Apparently, it could be true. And not that surprising at all, given what a vile piece of human excrement he was.

Also, there is this, and this.

Edited February 18, 2021 by Hiyo

[cynicat]

6 hours ago, Drogo said:

Fuck cancer. 

I've never heard of Limbaugh being referred to as cancer, but that works.

[Guest]

4 hours ago, magicdog said:

I have never heard this.  Does anyone have it on tape to hear?  I've listened to his show on and off over the years and I've never heard of this segment.

Happened in the 90s. Read about it here. 

Quote

Iowa’s Cedar Gazette reported in 1990 that Limbaugh’s “AIDS Update,” a recurring segment in which he made jokes about a disease that had killed more than 100,000 people in the United States the previous decade, started by playing songs such as “Back in the Saddle Again,” “Kiss Him Goodbye,” “I Know I’ll Never Love This Way Again,” and “Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places.” 

The “Aids Update” segment was short-lived. According to The New York Times, it ended after a few weeks. Limbaugh would call the segment one of “most regretful things I’ve ever done” because it was “making fun of people who were dying long, painful and excruciating deaths.” 

I am disinclined to believe, given his ongoing hateful rhetoric post-1990, that his so-called regret was sincere.

Edited February 18, 2021 by Guest

[roamyn]

I wish Larry Flynt a better after life, than Rush.  Flynt owned up that he was a loud mouthed jerk.  He never trashed children or the disabled, either.

[DearEvette]

2 hours ago, roamyn said:

I wish Larry Flynt a better after life, than Rush.  Flynt owned up that he was a loud mouthed jerk.  He never trashed children or the disabled, either.

I am really curious.  What did Larry Flynt do that was so terrible?  Admittedly I have never followed anything about him, but generally speaking I thought he just published hard core porn and fought against hypocritical conservatives.  Did he do something else? 

But yeah, based on what I know of the two I'd wish Larry Flynt RIP and just assume that Limbaugh will rot in hell.

[ifionlyknew]

I'm going to give Rush Limbaugh as much respect in death as he gave Michael J Fox, Sandra Fluke, Chelsea Clinton and the list goes in life.  So zero respect.  He was one of the first to capitalize on spreading such hateful political partisanship.  I don't believe in hell but wherever he is I hope he suffers greatly.  

[meowmommy]

And don't forget the time when for some unimaginable reason, TPTB at ESPN decided he should be part of their NFL pregame show, but he got his ass canned within a few weeks for making racist comments about Donovan McNabb. 

 

[Lugal]

19 hours ago, Giant Misfit said:

Roast in hell, asshole.

I hope he has to face every single one of them now before he goes to wherever he ultimately ends up.

[shapeshifter]

The most appropriate death for such as he was is IMO to have an interminable moment before death of realization of how he has wasted his life and to experience infinite regret. 

[BetterButter]

R.I.P. Prince Markie Dee, of The Fat Boys

[BW Manilowe]

19 hours ago, roamyn said:

Flynt owned up that he was a loud mouthed jerk.  He never trashed children or the disabled, either.

Considering he was disabled by an attempted assassin’s bullet, at least after that point in Flynt’s life I would think it’d be hard for him to mock/otherwise badmouth others in a group of people he himself now belonged to. You know?

[Robert Lynch]

1 hour ago, BetterButter said:

R.I.P. Prince Markie Dee, of The Fat Boys

Oh, man! I loved Disorderlies and I use to watch that movie all the time. They were trailblazers as well. It's regarded as the first movie to ever have hip hop artists star in their film and the trend followed after that. So if you think Kid n' Play and others were the first, think again. These guys set the record for future artists of the hip hop genre to become mainstream in films.

[roamyn]

On 2/19/2021 at 2:50 AM, BW Manilowe said:

Considering he was disabled by an attempted assassin’s bullet, at least after that point in Flynt’s life I would think it’d be hard for him to mock/otherwise badmouth others in a group of people he himself now belonged to. You know?

Exactly.  But he was a loud mouth before that, and he never did because he respected & stood up for, service members - specifically those who were homeless.  

He could be obnoxious, and his “job” was offensive, and I believe he had a few  instances of accused sexual assault.  But I’d still rather share an afterlife with him than Rush.

Edited February 20, 2021 by roamyn

[Blergh]

2 hours ago, roamyn said:

Exactly.  But he was a loud mouth before that, and he never did because he respected & stood up for, service members - specifically those who were homeless.  

He could be obnoxious, and his “job” was offensive, and I believe he had a few  instances of accused sexual assault.  But I’d still rather share an afterlife with him than Rush.

Not me! Both  Messrs. Flynt and Limbaugh would be  among the folks who I would hope would  be a very different place from myself and my loved ones- as in a spot that that our   reunion wouldn't have even the slightest risk of either of them souring it via being seen or heard from again! 

[praeceptrix]

Arturo Di Modica, sculptor of the Charging Bull statue on Wall Street in NYC, has died at the age of 80. No official cause of death is given in the article, but it does say that he had been fighting cancer for many years.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56137600

[katie9918]

RIP to Rush.

[Hiyo]

Chris Cramer, veteran journalist and pioneering former CNN executive, dies aged 73.

Cramer, who died of cancer, dominated the world of news broadcasting, becoming head of BBC newsgathering before taking charge of CNN International in 1996.

 

Edited February 22, 2021 by Hiyo

[praeceptrix]

Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died at the age of 101. This one surprises me, as I had no idea that he was still alive.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/obituaries/lawrence-ferlinghetti-dead.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

[dalek]

26 minutes ago, praeceptrix said:

Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died at the age of 101. This one surprises me, as I had no idea that he was still alive.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/obituaries/lawrence-ferlinghetti-dead.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

101 is a good run.  I can remember making a pilgrimage to City Lights the first time I visited San Francisco around 30 years ago.

[ratgirlagogo]

14 hours ago, praeceptrix said:

Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died at the age of 101. This one surprises me, as I had no idea that he was still alive.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/obituaries/lawrence-ferlinghetti-dead.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

A Coney Island of the Mind, 20

The pennycandystore beyond the El
is where I first
                        fell in love
                                         with unreality
Jellybeans glowed in the semi-gloom
of that september afternoon
A cat upon the counter moved among
                                             the licorice sticks
                         and tootsie rolls
            and Oh Boy Gum

Outside the leaves were falling as they died

A wind had blown away the sun

A girl ran in
Her hair was rainy
Her breasts were breathless in the little room

Outside the leaves were falling
                                 and they cried
                                                      Too soon! too soon!

 

I think anyone who hung on to life to the age of one hundred and one was still fighting to live right down to the end and saying "too soon! too soon!" Bless him for the support City Lights gave to poets and artists and anarchists and other weirdos.

[MissAlmond]

Peter S Davis, producer of Highlander franchise has died, age 79.

https://deadline.com/2021/02/peter-s-davis-dead-the-highlander-producer-of-highlander-franchise-obituary-1234699557/

[MissAlmond]

Douglas Turner Ward, co-founder of the pioneering Negro Ensemble Company has died, age 90.

https://deadline.com/2021/02/douglas-turner-ward-dead-obituary-negro-ensemble-company-cofounder-was-90-1234698981/

https://www.playbill.com/article/douglas-turner-ward-tony-honored-co-founder-of-negro-ensemble-company-dies-at-90

https://www.broadway.com/buzz/200420/douglas-turner-ward-co-founder-of-the-celebrated-negro-ensemble-company-dies-at-90/

[praeceptrix]

Cornelia Vertenstein, 93 year old piano teacher and Holocaust survivor who was profiled in the New York Times last May, died on February 12th. The cause was not Covid.

The profile from May 2020:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/us/virus-piano-lessons.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article

The obituary from today's New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/20/insider/cornelia-vertenstein-piano.html?action=click&module=Features&pgtype=Homepage

My favorite part of the obituary: The rabbi quoted Plato’s line about music giving “soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination” — the same line that Ms. Vertenstein chose for the program for last spring’s recital.

Minutes before her small, plain coffin was lowered into the earth, notes from former students were read. One recalled how Ms. Vertenstein never liked the word “practice.”

You do not practice, she would say. You make music.

 

[Leeds]

3 hours ago, praeceptrix said:

Cornelia Vertenstein, 93 year old piano teacher and Holocaust survivor who was profiled in the New York Times last May, died on February 12th. The cause was not Covid.

The profile from May 2020:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/us/virus-piano-lessons.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article

The obituary from today's New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/20/insider/cornelia-vertenstein-piano.html?action=click&module=Features&pgtype=Homepage

My favorite part of the obituary: The rabbi quoted Plato’s line about music giving “soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination” — the same line that Ms. Vertenstein chose for the program for last spring’s recital.

Minutes before her small, plain coffin was lowered into the earth, notes from former students were read. One recalled how Ms. Vertenstein never liked the word “practice.”

You do not practice, she would say. You make music.

 

Oh, but then that old joke about the tourists asking how to get to Carnegie Hall wouldn't work!

[Hiyo]

Ronald Pickup dies aged 80.

The actor found global fame with The Crown and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, following a prolific and acclaimed career in the theatre and on television.

[ABay]

It was always a pleasure when he showed up in something I was watching. I just saw him in old episodes of Midsomer Murders and Doc Martin.

[praeceptrix]

2 hours ago, Leeds said:

Oh, but then that old joke about the tourists asking how to get to Carnegie Hall wouldn't work!

After performing in Carnegie Hall twice a year for almost a quarter century (minus the concerts cancelled due to the bleeping pandemic), I don't mind not hearing that joke anymore. 

[MissAlmond]

1 hour ago, Hiyo said:

Ronald Pickup dies aged 80.

The actor found global fame with The Crown and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, following a prolific and acclaimed career in the theatre and on television.

Just recently saw him during a re-watching of The Day of the Jackal.  R.I.P. Mr. Pickup.