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In Memoriam: Entertainment Industry Celebrity Deaths

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GreekGeek

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It says a lot that she and John Wayne respected each other a great deal.

 

What blows my mind even more is that he and Katharine Hepburn did the same.  I have little use for John Wayne, but that always gives me pause.

I think there's a lot to respect in people who say what they think and are true to themselves, even if a lot of people disagree with them. All of the above fit the bill. Ah, the good ol' days, when people with different opinions could respect each other and not accuse each other of lacking brains or a heart!

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Bastet
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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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Olivia Newton-John Has Died At 73

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legaleagle53

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I'm glad she wore the red wig.  That's how we'll remember you, Mo--as a beautiful, flaming red-head.

 

THIS.  And the thing is that she really was one of the most beautiful women in the world back in the day.

 

I think the reason that she commanded so much respect from everyone is that she had something of a dignified, regal air about her -- you would automatically want to call her "Ma'am" or "Ms. O'Hara."  And the women she played were always what used to be called "men's women" -- women who were strong and independent and who could keep up with any man because they understood men and how men think, women who were deeply feminine but expected nothing less than to be treated as equals worthy of respect, dignity and courtesy at all times.

 

She is truly irreplaceable.  Again, rest in peace, Ms. O'Hara.

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VCRTracking

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I always loved this story about when she played John Candy's mom in Only the Lonely. Candy had this big, fancy trailer while Maureen was in this little, dinky trailer. When John found out about this he was incensed and complained to the producers that she deserved a trailer like his. "She was in The Quiet Man! She worked with 'The Duke'!" but the producers said there wasn't any more money in the budget. Candy told them to give his trailer to O'Hara while he'd be in the "Honeywagon", which is a row of little portable bathrooms on a film location with a cot and a sink in each. That's where he slept for three days until the embarrassed producers "found the money" and gave Miss O'Hara a big trailer too.

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legaleagle53

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Now I hope that she met up with John Candy somewhere too. That would be awesome: Maureen O'Hara, John Wayne, and John Candy all hanging out together reminiscing about the old days...

 

And Lucille Ball.  She and Lucy were good friends who had worked together on a movie early on in their careers, and it was Maureen who introduced Lucy to Desi Arnaz -- reluctantly, because Maureen knew about Desi's reputation as a womanizer and even tried to warn Lucy about it before she introduced them.

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And Lucille Ball.  She and Lucy were good friends who had worked together on a movie early on in their careers, and it was Maureen who introduced Lucy to Desi Arnaz -- reluctantly, because Maureen knew about Desi's reputation as a womanizer and even tried to warn Lucy about it before she introduced them.

Ooh yes, I read that story in her memoir too. Maureen said "Be careful, he's a lady killer." To which Lucy replied, "And here comes his next victim." LOL.

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Now I hope that she met up with John Candy somewhere too. That would be awesome: Maureen O'Hara, John Wayne, and John Candy all hanging out together reminiscing about the old days...

 

And Natalie Wood, and Brian Keith. 

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magicdog

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I adored Al!  I knew him as Al first before seeing him in repeats of The Odd Couple (where he played Murray the cop).  I also seem to remember him playing in a paper towel commercial in the late 80s/very early 90s.

 

He was 96?  Wow!  I had no idea he was that old!  R.I.P. Mr. Molinaro.

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Blergh

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 Would it be considered horrible for me to be saddened re Senator  Thompson's agonizing death yet  relieved in the knowledge  that he will be making no more reverse mortgage commercials? Sorry but I hate ads  that encourage the elderly and others to risk homelessness  in their   waning years for fast cash .

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Ambrosefolly

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This one was a gut punch.   ET was such a great movie.   

 

But honestly, why did they have to mention she was Harrison Ford's ex-wife in the headline?   She had recognition in her own right.

Maybe, but I think it should be allowed because not only is Harrison still a huge star, but they were married for two decades and had two children together. 

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Bastet

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But honestly, why did they have to mention she was Harrison Ford's ex-wife in the headline?   She had recognition in her own right.

 

Sizable chunks of the average Lauren Bacall obituary were taken up by talk of Humphrey Bogart.  What chance did Harrison have?  Very frustrating.

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Inquisitionist

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I'm cool with mentioning it in the body of the article itself, but why is it part of the headline?

 

Click-bait.  I hope folks who recognized only Ford's name will actually click through and read the obituaries.  Mathison leaves an impressive legacy.  I've never watched The Black Stallion, but can still remember Sisket & Ebert raving about it when it was release.

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I've never watched The Black Stallion, but can still remember Sisket & Ebert raving about it when it was release.

 

If you get the time and the chance, you really should.  One of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen.  Why yes, I own a copy.

 

R.I.P. Ms. Mathison. 

 

 

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Legendary New Orleans Singer-songwriter Allen Toussaint Dies at 77

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2015/11/allen_toussaint_dies.html

Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Dies at 96

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0SZ1T020151110

Actress Betsy Drake, Third Wife of Cary Grant (She Also Introduced Him to LSD), Dies at 92

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/betsy-drake-dead-cary-grant-838970

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Jaded

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TVLine is reporting that Nathaniel Marston (One Life To Live, As The World Turns) has passed away as a result of injuries sustained in a recent car accident.

How absolutely awful. I'm not sure I would have wanted to live with all those injuries after a crash like that though. I hope he's at peace now.

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BW Manilowe

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How absolutely awful. I'm not sure I would have wanted to live with all those injuries after a crash like that though. I hope he's at peace now.

What I found interesting was that his Mother's Facebook post said that had he lived he would've been left a quadriplegic, on a ventilator, & unable to speak.

I wonder if that has to do with the level his neck injury was at, or what? (I'm from a medical/neurosurgical family but I don't know) I'm curious about it because when the late actor Christopher Reeve was injured all those years ago in his horseback riding accident (he was injured at basically the very top of his neck), he was left a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic... BUT he could still speak following the accident.

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wilsie

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I saw Keith Michell in a movie with Carol Burnett called The Tenth Month,  And a lot of Murder She Wrote episodes and I really liked him in those.  But he really was magnificent as Henry VIII.

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legaleagle53

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I'm not sure I've ever seen Keith Michell as anything BUT Henry VIII.  He was magnificent.

 

Not only was he magnificent, but he was the definitive Henry VIII, just as Glenda Jackson was the definitive Elizabeth I in the spinoff/sequel about her.

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NewDigs

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That's sad. I spent many many happy hours in Pine Valley. Many of them alternately loathing and loving Canary's characters.

Bolding mine.

Jerry Parr, the Secret Service agent who saved the late Former President Reagan's life during the 1981 assassination attempt by John Hinckley, has died at 85.

http://wane.com/2015/10/10/secret-service-agent-who-saved-reagan-after-shooting-dies/

(He had the Presidential limo turned around to go to George Washington Hospital, instead of the White House, when Reagan began complaining of chest pain & bleeding from the mouth after the shooting)

You mean they didn't just automatically transport him to an ER? Wonder if that's "normal".

RIP Jerry and esp. (to me) Canary.

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scarynikki12

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You mean they didn't just automatically transport him to an ER? Wonder if that's "normal".

 

I'm only going off the comparable scene in The West Wing season 2 premiere In The Shadow of Two Gunmen Part 1 but, when Head of Secret Service Ron Butterfield and President Bartlet are in the limo on the way back to the White House after that shooting, Bartlet is insisting they return to the scene (the staff, reporters and onlookers were still there) and then that they go to the hospital when he sees that Ron's hand is bleeding from being shot.  The two characters argue for a bit and, finally, Ron loudly tells him "I HAVE to put you inside the White House, Mr. President.  This isn't something we discuss."  The driver refusing to heed Bartlet's demands to turn the limo around during this exchange support what Ron says.  It's only when Ron sees blood coming out of Bartlet's mouth, and quickly realizes he's been shot, that the destination changes to the hospital, at which point the driver complies.  The West Wing prided itself on being as authentic as possible, especially in the early seasons, so I always just assumed that Secret Service protocol was that, in the event of a shooting, the President and his family MUST be transported directly to the White House barring serious injury.  No idea if that's still the case.

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