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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
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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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17 hours ago, Wiendish Fitch said:

Tony Walton, award-winning set and costume designer, died March 2 at 86.

Walton had one hell of a resume: Mary Poppins, All that Jazz, The Wiz, Death of a Salesman, and so much more. 

ITA. Walton was a brilliant costume director. I'm a huge fan of the three John Brabourne produced Poirot films (Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, Evil Under the Sun), all of which have fabulous costumes. With Walton's death, the two men who created them (Walton for MOTOE, Anthony Powell for DOTN and EUTS) are both gone.  R.I.P. Tony Walton. 

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20 hours ago, Wiendish Fitch said:

Tony Walton, award-winning set and costume designer, died March 2 at 86.

Walton had one hell of a resume: Mary Poppins, All that Jazz, The Wiz, Death of a Salesman, and so much more. 

He was also Julie Andrews's first husband, and while the marriage didn't last, their parting was amicable and they remained good friends until the end. 

The sad thing is that, as per her autobio, their marriage ended because he wasn't able to adjust to the two of them living on separate coasts and having to fly their tiny daughter Emma back and forth. Well, they wound up doing that for the rest of Emma's childhood. Then she married Blake Edwards- and he was MUCH more difficult and egotistical than Mr. Walton had been but, somehow they stayed married until Mr. Edwards's death and by that time had resumed their friendship. However, Mr. Walton himself had remarried. I can't help but wonder if Miss Andrews had wished more effort had been put in reconciling her 1st union and may have, in retrospect, even wished to stayed married to him to the end and skipped the 2nd one (although she DID become stepmother to Mr. Edwards's children and they adopted two more children together).

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Elsa Klensch, pioneer in television fashion journalism, dies at 92
 

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Elsa Klensch, who was among the first to bring fashion to TV screens with CNN's "Style with Elsa Klensch" in the 1980s, has died at 92 in New York City, CNN has confirmed.

For two decades, she gave CNN viewers a front row seat to runways all over the world, including New York, London, Milan and Paris.

"There is nothing as exciting as a good collection. I can go in like many other fashion editors -- tired, depressed, fed up," Klensch said on her show in 2000. "Once those good clothes come down the runway, the whole world changes."

 

 

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Prairie Rose

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1 hour ago, MissAlmond said:

Actor and jazz trombonist Conrad Janis best known for playing Pam Dawber's father on Mork & Mindy has died, age 94.

https://deadline.com/2022/03/conrad-janis-actor-dead-obituary-mork-mindy-cable-guy-94-1234974295/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/conrad-janis-dead-mork-mindy-1235107604/

 

He also played the MC in "One For the Money", one of my all-time favorite sequences of The Golden Girls (aka the dance competition). He was great. RIP.

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Bastet

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3 hours ago, Prairie Rose said:

He also played the MC in "One For the Money", one of my all-time favorite sequences of The Golden Girls (aka the dance competition).

Yes - all the things I've seen him in over the years (including an episode of Remington Steele in which he was just terrific), and that's my primary association because I love that episode so much.

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5 hours ago, MissAlmond said:

Actor and jazz trombonist Conrad Janis best known for playing Pam Dawber's father on Mork & Mindy has died, age 94.

https://deadline.com/2022/03/conrad-janis-actor-dead-obituary-mork-mindy-cable-guy-94-1234974295/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/conrad-janis-dead-mork-mindy-1235107604/

 

He'd been a steady performer for many decades before and after this. However,    his role as Mr.McConnell was tricky in that he was supposed to be the foil to Mork being able to move into Mindy's place unimpeded but he couldn't have been TOO oppressive or else the entire premise of Mork moving in so he could observe Earthlings while gradually romancing Mindy wouldn't have gotten off the ground. One never lost sympathy for Mr. McConnell because of the fact that he'd been widowed early on and had raised their  daughter with his mother-in-law and didn't think this oddball from . . out of town was worthy of her and then had to deal with Mindy's own angst when he decided to belatedly remarry (and had to deal with a baby grandson that looked like Jonathan Winters)  Not easy to pull this all  off AND keep the comedy train going but it's a testament to his talent and likability that  he did this! RIP, Mr. Janis! 

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2 hours ago, Blergh said:

He'd been a steady performer for many decades before and after this. However,    his role as Mr.McConnell was tricky in that he was supposed to be the foil to Mork being able to move into Mindy's place unimpeded but he couldn't have been TOO oppressive or else the entire premise of Mork moving in so he could observe Earthlings while gradually romancing Mindy wouldn't have gotten off the ground. One never lost sympathy for Mr. McConnell because of the fact that he'd been widowed early on and had raised their  daughter with his mother-in-law and didn't think this oddball from . . out of town was worthy of her and then had to deal with Mindy's own angst when he decided to belatedly remarry (and had to deal with a baby grandson that looked like Jonathan Winters)  Not easy to pull this all  off AND keep the comedy train going but it's a testament to his talent and likability that  he did this! RIP, Mr. Janis! 

Marion Ross' memoirs contain a quote from Garry Marshall about the peacemakers/go-betweens on his shows. They were Marion Ross on Happy Days, Phil Foster on Laverne & Shirley, and...Conrad Janis on Mork & Mindy. 

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16 hours ago, Prairie Rose said:

Marion Ross' memoirs contain a quote from Garry Marshall about the peacemakers/go-betweens on his shows. They were Marion Ross on Happy Days, Phil Foster on Laverne & Shirley, and...Conrad Janis on Mork & Mindy. 

I'll bet Mr. Janis and the others would have been in good company with The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy regular Mary Jane Croft (who played the ditzy character of Mary Jane Lewis), who Desi Arnaz, Jr. later  praised as 'a calming influence on the set. ..which was always sorely needed!'

I believe that ,since  Miss Ross and the late Messrs. Foster and Janis and Miss Croft all had been supporting players working steadily for decades before their big shows came to be,   they were somewhat immune to the hype and, hence, the ego explosions that other performers who'd had less experience were prone to!

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Bastet

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Aw, I hardly remember most of the human characters (I was mostly in it for Oscar the Grouch, and also liked the friendship between Big Bird and Snuffleupagus [and felt so bad for Big Bird when the adults convinced him Snuffy wasn't real]), but I liked Luis.

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Mr. Delgado played Luis on Sesame Street on a regular basis  from 1971-2016- 45 years which is a record for the longest continuous Hispanic male role on a television series! I liked how Luis wasn't as easygoing as the other adults and showed signs that he had to work to control his temper (that, thankfully, he never truly lost on the show). This gave some hope for those of us kids at home who also weren't entirely easygoing. RIP, Mr. Delgado!

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I love that classic sketch when Luis, David, Gordon and Bob sang a song about the number 5 in the style of a 70s R&B group. Each got to do a spoken word bit about what they love about the number 5, and Luis got to say his in Spanish, about "Numero Cinqo"!

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46 minutes ago, DearEvette said:

Aww.  SO sad.  I legit remember watching when Luis and Maria got married and being happy for them.  And I was a teenager at the time!  LOL.  Also weren't they married IRL?

No, Mr. Delgado and Miss Manzano never were married IRL. However, Luis's and Maria's daughter Gabi has the same name as Miss Manzano's RL daughter who played the part from infancy through the next three seasons. 

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17 hours ago, DearEvette said:

Aww.  SO sad.  I legit remember watching when Luis and Maria got married and being happy for them.  And I was a teenager at the time!  LOL.  Also weren't they married IRL?

They weren’t. But I remember Sonia Manzano telling a great story that one day they were out in public together and a lady stopped them and said something that made it clear she thought they were married. They corrected her and she paused, taken aback.

”Oh. Well, that’s all right as long as you really love each other.”

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On 3/5/2022 at 4:54 PM, Prairie Rose said:

I always felt bad for him with the numerous fat jokes and the fact that Bookman was basically always a one-note buffoon

Sadly, too many characters on sitcoms were or became one note, including stars on which the show wrapped around that one note, and it ruins sitcoms for me. Also, lots of comedies had a "buffoon" character, so this guy wasn't alone in that. I always think about actors who talk about having to pay the rent, support their families etc, or "couldn't get a job," meaning an acting job, as thinking it is their God given right to work in that business. That sounds too "entitled" to me.

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Blergh

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33 minutes ago, legaleagle53 said:

Confirmed from about three minutes ago: https://deadline.com/2022/03/william-hurt-dies-oscar-winning-actor-was-71-1234977307/

Undoubtedly Marlee Matlin and Mary Beth Hurt's reactions to their ex's passing may be a bit complex inasmuch as while the bonds initially put each of them on the proverbial map, they also ended rather badly with not a little angst- and it seems Mr. Hurt had long since been single. 

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SusanM

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Definitely one of those people where I think "fabulous actor" and "problematic  person" at one and the same time.  Amazing how many of them are out there. :shrug:  Still a sad day.  RIP Mr. Hurt.

 

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I know nothing about William Hurt as a person (I didn't even realize until reading it here Mary Beth Hurt had been married to him, thus the name).  For as prolific and respected an actor as he was, I have not seen him in very many things, but I always thought he was good in the things I did see (especially Broadcast News).

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2 minutes ago, Spartan Girl said:

Fuck cancer.

I'm not that familiar with William Hurt, but, for the past 2 years, every time I read about someone dying of typically treatable cancer (prostate cancer, in his case), I can't help believing that they would have survived if not for the impact of the pandemic on health care. 
If I'd discovered the same, innocuous lump in 2020 I found in 2016, I would be dead now.

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Bastet

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2 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:

I'm not that familiar with William Hurt, but, for the past 2 years, every time I read about someone dying of typically treatable cancer (prostate cancer, in his case), I can't help believing that they would have survived if not for the impact of the pandemic on health care. 

The Deadline obituary says the prostate cancer had already spread to the bone well before the pandemic:

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It was announced in May 2018 that the elder Hurt had terminal prostate cancer that had spread to the bone.

 

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Spartan Girl

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Hurt was looking shaky the last time he played Thunderbolt Dickweed Ross in Black Widow. I’ll say one thing, Hurt sure did a great job making the character despicable.

And I still feel bitter that the MCU didn’t give him the comeuppance he so richly deserved, and just let him show up at Tony’s funeral. Boo!!!

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GreekGeek

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My favorites of his films were Broadcast News and The Doctor. In the latter he played an aloof doctor who learns what it's like to be a patient. He was a bit miscast in The Kiss of the Spider Woman, but I enjoyed his performance anyway. May he rest in peace.

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SunnyBeBe

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14 hours ago, GreekGeek said:

My favorites of his films were Broadcast News and The Doctor. In the latter he played an aloof doctor who learns what it's like to be a patient. He was a bit miscast in The Kiss of the Spider Woman, but I enjoyed his performance anyway. May he rest in peace.

William Hurt was one of my very favorite actors.  He had range like no one, but perhaps Streep.  His performance was always a joy to watch.  He could play any character and really pull you into the film.  In addition to his great movies, he also played in several tv series that I enjoyed, such as Damages and Goliath.  What a loss. RIP Mr. Hurt.  Here’s a nice tribute about him.

 

https://variety.com/2022/film/columns/remembering-william-hurt-tribute-1235203795/

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