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In Memoriam: Entertainment Industry Celebrity Deaths

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This thread is for deaths of celebrities in the entertainment business only. No notices about politicians, please. 

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Bastet
Bastet

Piss up a rope, Val Kilmer.  If your physical illness got so bad that your life utterly sucked and no end to that suffering was in sight, so that suicide was or seemed to be the best of the available

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BetterButter
BetterButter

Olivia Newton-John Has Died At 73

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Violinist Marya Columbia has died. She was 63 and her lung cancer was probably caused by her playing for the first responders on September 11, 2001.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/nyregion/marya-columbia-dead.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_191106%3Fcampaign_id%3D2&instance_id=13528&segment_id=18554&user_id=1cfeb35d0f58f520db633e593aefe558&regi_id=214875701106&fbclid=IwAR0ZvXpirwlW-7UDRTiQ287zngMA5prG3UD0oiFCudpwywxTCLzkt1UGC-k

MissAlmond

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Author Ernest Gaines (The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman) has died, age 86.

https://www.npr.org/novelist-ernest-j-gaines-dies-at-age-86

https://apnews.com/e9fe833a0686427eaa6cf3cc768d264d

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2019-11-05/ernest-gaines-jane-pittman-novelist-dead

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SuprSuprElevated

SuprSuprElevated

Further details of Charles Levin's death back in July are a bit grisly, and to me, leave more questions than answers. "One report, according to the outlet, it was noted the actor's body was "naked, missing internal organs and was wedged between trees."  Wha?

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Bastet

Bastet

What a clickbait headline - Golden Girls star?  He was in the pilot and never appeared again.

2 hours ago, SuprSuprElevated said:

"One report, according to the outlet, it was noted the actor's body was "naked, missing internal organs and was wedged between trees."  Wha?

He fell down a cliff and died in the woods; in the nearly week that passed before his body was found, it was scavenged by animals.

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Blergh

Blergh

31 minutes ago, Bastet said:

What a clickbait headline - Golden Girls star?  He was in the pilot and never appeared again.

He fell down a cliff and died in the woods; in the nearly week that passed before his body was found, it was scavenged by animals.

Likely, but it STILL sounds as though it was a horrible way to go!  Hard to believe that Betty White was the firstborn of the main cast but has been the last survivor for nearly a decade! 

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GHScorpiosRule

GHScorpiosRule

2 hours ago, MikaelaArsenault said:

https://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/tv-radio/2019/11/07/news/e_morta_maria_perego_creo_topo_gigio-240523772/?ref=RHPPLF-BH-I0-C4-P14-S1.4-T1

Can you please provide context? I can’t make out what you’re posting about with just that link. And the link isn’t clear what the article is about.

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BW Manilowe

BW Manilowe

23 minutes ago, Homily said:

My parents used to let us stay up to watch Ed Sullivan whenever Topo Gigio was going to be on!  Hadn't thought about that in years.

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As @Homily said, for those here who are too young to know about this, Topo Gigio was a mouse puppet who was voiced by a puppeteer with an Italian accent (so the mouse was Italian too) who appeared fairly frequently on The Ed Sullivan Show. That was a long-running variety-type show that aired on Sunday nights on CBS, back in at least the 1960’s & early ‘70’s. The Beatles (& I’m pretty sure Elvis, too) appeared on the program & made a huge splash. I think it was on in the hour when they now air 60 Minutes, or whatever comes on immediately after it. I remember watching Topo Gigio on the show, & I think comedy acts like Joan Rivers & Stiller & Meara. I might’ve also seen Shari Lewis & Lamb Chop. But I don’t remember seeing The Beatles. At least not live as it happened. I have seen tapes of that though.

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Was-MArsenault

54 minutes ago, GHScorpiosRule said:

Can you please provide context? I can’t make out what you’re posting about with just that link. And the link isn’t clear what the article is about.

51 minutes ago, Homily said:

My parents used to let us stay up to watch Ed Sullivan whenever Topo Gigio was going to be on!  Hadn't thought about that in years.

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Maria Perego dead

50 minutes ago, biakbiak said:

The creator of Topo Gigio Italian mouse puppet died

16 minutes ago, BW Manilowe said:

As @Homily said, for those here who are too young to know about this, Topo Gigio was a mouse puppet who was voiced by a puppeteer with an Italian accent (so the mouse was Italian too) who appeared fairly frequently on The Ed Sullivan Show. That was a long-running variety-type show that aired on Sunday nights on CBS, back in at least the 1960’s & early ‘70’s. The Beatles (& I’m pretty sure Elvis, too) appeared on the program & made a huge splash. I think it was on in the hour when they now air 60 Minutes, or whatever comes on immediately after it. I remember watching Topo Gigio on the show, & I think comedy acts like Joan Rivers & Stiller & Meara. I might’ve also seen Shari Lewis & Lamb Chop. But I don’t remember seeing The Beatles. At least not live as it happened. I have seen tapes of that though.

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Calvada

Calvada

23 hours ago, Bastet said:

What a clickbait headline - Golden Girls star?  He was in the pilot and never appeared again.

He fell down a cliff and died in the woods; in the nearly week that passed before his body was found, it was scavenged by animals.

I hate these type of headlines.  You see something like "Cheers Star DIes" and you click on the story thinking Ted Danson, Kirstie Alley, or Shelley Long died, and then you realize it's an actress who played one of the character's Aunt Sally in two episodes.  

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MsTree

MsTree

9 hours ago, BW Manilowe said:

The Beatles (& I’m pretty sure Elvis, too) appeared on the program & made a huge splash. I think it was on in the hour when they now air 60 Minutes, or whatever comes on immediately after it.

Yes, Elvis appeared on Ed Sullivan too. And because of "standards" back then, he was only filmed from the waist up.

The Beatles actually had a 3-show contract, with the first show airing February '64. I believe this was their first major introduction to a U.S. audience.

Ed Sullivan's show was on every Sunday night at 8pm.

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BW Manilowe

BW Manilowe

9 hours ago, MsTree said:

Yes, Elvis appeared on Ed Sullivan too. And because of "standards" back then, he was only filmed from the waist up.

The Beatles actually had a 3-show contract, with the first show airing February '64. I believe this was their first major introduction to a U.S. audience.

Ed Sullivan's show was on every Sunday night at 8pm.

Now I know why I didn’t see at least the 1st appearance by The Beatles live on The Ed Sullivan Show. In February, 1964 I was only 6 or 7 months old, depending on if they were on before or after the 5th of the month. 

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On 11/10/2019 at 4:21 AM, MsTree said:

Yes, Elvis appeared on Ed Sullivan too. And because of "standards" back then, he was only filmed from the waist up.

A bit OT, but this article goes into detail about Elvis's famous appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show:

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Contrary to popular belief, this was not the performance in which Presley was only filmed from the waist up. Although cameras mainly stayed on the top half of his body as he sang his first number, he was shown in full-length for his final two songs.

However, it was clear that his movements were causing excited reactions from some of the girls in the studio audience, so during his final number the cameras began to find tighter shots of the singer so as not to disturb the more easily offended members of the viewing public.

 One interesting detail I had forgotten was that Charles Laughton was substitute hosting for Sullivan that night.

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1 hour ago, MikaelaArsenault said:

https://people.com/theater/broadway-mourns-rising-star-laurel-griggs-13-after-her-death-we-will-never-stop-loving-you/

This is so very sad.  My goodness, I can't imagine the grief and pain.  She was certainly a talented and well loved young lady.  What a terrible loss.  

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biakbiak

biakbiak

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Rick Ludwin, NBC late night exec who basically is the reason Seinfeld exists (he paid for the first four episodes out of his late night/specials budget when the prime time execs didn’t want to make it) and mentored a lot of late night writers/comedians from SNL and the other writing staffs.

John Mulaney and Mike Schur (along with many others) both shared some stories about him on twitter (both threads)

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Was-MArsenault

Was-MArsenault

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1 hour ago, biakbiak said:

Rick Ludwin, NBC late night exec who basically is the reason Seinfeld exists (he paid for the first four episodes out of his late night/specials budget when the prime time execs didn’t want to make it) and mentored a lot of late night writers/comedians from SNL and the other writing staffs.

John Mulaney and Mike Schur (along with many others) both shared some stories about him on twitter (both threads)

Oh that’s too bad. 

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spiderpig

spiderpig

On 11/13/2019 at 10:23 AM, BooksRule said:

Actress Virginia Leith has died at the age of 94.  She was in a bunch of movies, but she will always be remembered as Jan Compton (aka 'Jan in the Pan') in the 'The brain that wouldn't die'. 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/virginia-leith-dead-star-brain-wouldnt-die-was-94-1254393

Gosh - that movie was a staple late Friday nights on the locally-produced Shock Theater (hosted by Ghoulardi).

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MissAlmond

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Actor and casting director Jane Galloway Heitz has died, age 78.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jane-galloway-heitz-dead-glee-actress-was-78-1256689

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/11/21/20975142/jane-galloway-heitz-actor-casting-director-dead-eric-stonestreet-modern-family

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Was-MArsenault

Was-MArsenault

1 hour ago, MissAlmond said:

Actor and casting director Jane Galloway Heitz has died, age 78.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jane-galloway-heitz-dead-glee-actress-was-78-1256689

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/11/21/20975142/jane-galloway-heitz-actor-casting-director-dead-eric-stonestreet-modern-family

Oh that's a shame to hear about.

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Oscar Nominated ‘House of 1000 Corpses’ Actor Michael J. Pollard

https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3595146/r-p-house-1000-corpses-actor-michael-j-pollard-passed-away/?fbclid=IwAR0M9ssOH2R4wIyXOdwpa-VC7rgwwbiV1RUN8G3cm7ZGqYAu_D8Xh-3DwmM

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Nordly Beaumont

Nordly Beaumont

5 hours ago, MissAlmond said:

Oh no!  I thought of him the other day while watching a show about the real Bonnie and Clyde. R.I.P. Mr. Pollard.

I was thinking about him Monday watching the movie Bonnie and Clyde! I remembered having a crush on him the first time I saw B&C. May he rest.

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