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In Memoriam: Entertainment Industry Celebrity Deaths

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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

wilsie
wilsie
BetterButter
BetterButter

Olivia Newton-John Has Died At 73

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MissAlmond

MissAlmond

Pittsburgh Steelers Football Hall of Fame running back Franco Harris whose "Immaculate Reception" remains iconic in NFL history has died, age 72.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/hall-of-fame-rb-franco-harris-dies-steelers-legend-of-immaculate-reception-fame-was-72/

https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2022/12/21/franco-harris-pittsburgh-steelers-immaculate-reception/stories/202207310149

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nfl-legend-franco-harris-known-immaculate-reception-dead

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35296389/steelers-hall-fame-running-back-franco-harris-dies-72

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willco

willco

8 hours ago, MissAlmond said:

Pittsburgh Steelers Football Hall of Fame running back Franco Harris whose "Immaculate Reception" remains iconic in NFL history has died, age 72.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/hall-of-fame-rb-franco-harris-dies-steelers-legend-of-immaculate-reception-fame-was-72/

https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2022/12/21/franco-harris-pittsburgh-steelers-immaculate-reception/stories/202207310149

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nfl-legend-franco-harris-known-immaculate-reception-dead

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35296389/steelers-hall-fame-running-back-franco-harris-dies-72

Harris was a pretty popular player back when I was in school. A guy who played drums with me in band always said he was great ( Franco, not himself :)

Another sports guy just passed, I heard it this morning, though he wasn't as well known maybe as Harris. Tom Browning was a pitcher, for Cincinnati for most of his career. He was 1 of only 12 ( I think ) pitchers to throw a perfect game.

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MissAlmond

MissAlmond

Actor Diane McBain who co-starred with Elvis Presley in Spinout and played yacht owner Daphne Dutton in Surfside 6 has died, age 81.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/diane-mcbain-dead-surfside-6-spinout-1235286200/

https://deadline.com/2022/12/diane-mcbain-dead-obituary-spinout-surfside-6-actor-was-81-1235204596/

https://people.com/movies/diane-mcbain-elvis-presley-spinout-costar-dead-at-81/

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MissAlmond

MissAlmond

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Grammy winning producer Thom Bell who co-created what became known as "The Sound of Philadelphia" has died, age 79.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/thom-bell-dead-age-79-1234652239/

https://pitchfork.com/news/thom-bell-producer-and-sound-of-philadelphia-architect-dies-at-79/

https://www.inquirer.com/news/thom-bell-sound-of-philadelphia-dead-obituary-20221222.html

https://deadline.com/2022/12/thom-bell-dead-grammy-winning-producer-architect-of-the-sound-of-philadelphia-was-79-1235205450/

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2022-12-23/thom-bell-an-architect-of-1970s-philadelphia-soul-dies

 

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DearEvette

DearEvette

Whenever someone says 'the sound of philadelphia' to me the quintessential song that embodies that is of course the Soul Train theme (which is actually named 'The Sound of Philadelphia') but also 'Love Is the Message' by MFSB.  It always feels like sweeping orchestral music married to R&B and Funk.

RIP Mr. Bell. 

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Bastet

Bastet

11 hours ago, MissAlmond said:

Grammy winning producer Thom Bell who co-created what became known as "The Sound of Philadelphia" has died, age 79.

Damn -- I was just bopping along to "The Rubberband Man" last night.

At the beginning of the year, it was announced a new documentary about Bell, Huff, and Gamble and Philadelphia soul was in the works, and the Mighty Three would be giving exclusive interviews and never-before-seen footage.  I hope it was completed.

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MissAlmond

MissAlmond

Actor Ronan Vibet who appeared in Saving Mr. Banks and The Borgias has died, age 58.

https://deadline.com/2022/12/ronan-vibert-dead-actor-saving-mr-banks-and-the-pianist-at-58-obituary-1235206041/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/ronan-vibert-dead-saving-mr-banks-1235287233/

 

 

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MissAlmond

MissAlmond

Art director James J. Murakami who won an Emmy for Deadwood and nominated for an Oscar for the film Changeling has died, age 91.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/james-murakami-dead-changeling-deadwood-clint-eastwood-1235286950/

https://deadline.com/2022/12/james-j-murakami-dead-emmy-winning-art-director-lifetime-achievement-honoree-was-91-obituary-1235205558/

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MissAlmond

MissAlmond

15 hours ago, Bastet said:

Damn -- I was just bopping along to "The Rubberband Man" last night.

I fondly remember Office Max's Back to School commercial where Eddie Steeples happily bops along to The Rubberband Man as he replaces kid's summer activities/gear with school supplies. 

Back Stabbers will forever be relevant. What they do?!

15 hours ago, Bastet said:

At the beginning of the year, it was announced a new documentary about Bell, Huff, and Gamble and Philadelphia soul was in the works, and the Mighty Three would be giving exclusive interviews and never-before-seen footage.  I hope it was completed.

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R.I.P. Mr. Bell. 

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Jaded

Jaded

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5 hours ago, MissAlmond said:

I fondly remember Office Max's Back to School commercial where Eddie Steeples happily bops along to The Rubberband Man as he replaces kid's summer activities/gear with school supplies. 

I still remember that one and a back to school version with him in it too. They always got my attention because of that song.
 

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oliviabenson

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On 12/14/2022 at 10:21 AM, DearEvette said:

Whoa.  Stephen 'tWitch' Boss from So You Think You Can Dance had died at age 40.

https://tvline.com/2022/12/14/stephen-boss-twitch-dies-sytycd-ellen-cause-of-death/

I’m shocked he seems so happy! His poor 3 little kids are beyond devastated. One doesn’t get over a parent dying.

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Trini

Trini

Some of you may know her as Syonide from CW's Black Lightning : 'Charlbi Dean's Cause of Death Confirmed by Coroner'

(She passed earlier this year in August.)

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A spokesperson for the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner confirmed to PEOPLE on Wednesday that she died of bacterial sepsis.

The sepsis "was a complication from asplenia (the absence of a spleen) due to "remote blunt trauma to her torso," the spokesperson tells PEOPLE.

The South African actress' death was ruled an accident.

More details at the link.

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Pele was in a 1981 Sylvester Stallone film, Victory.  It was a Great Escape sort of movie: they were in a WWll German POW camp (along with Michael Caine), and there was a soccer grudge match played between the prisoners and the guards.  

At one point, Pele made one of his patented, flipping strikes on goal — and the German commandant (Max Von Sydow) stood to applaud.

RIP to a star. 

 

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Blergh

Blergh

5 hours ago, Domestic Assassin said:

Not sure if sports celebrities count, but sad to hear that Pele has died. He's the only soccer player I knew by name.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/29/football/brazil-pele-soccer-died-intl-latam-spt/index.html

I've never been a soccer fan per se but I've always admired how Pele was able to use that to not only propel himself out of grinding poverty via soccer but also put soccer on the global map (and, perhaps to some degree, even his nation of Brazil)! I think it's safe to say that if there had been no Pele, there'd have been no Beckham!

RIP, Dom Edson!

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Cobalt Stargazer

Cobalt Stargazer

13 hours ago, BetterButter said:

Neal Jimenez, ‘River’s Edge’ Screenwriter and Director of ‘The Waterdance,’ Dead at 62

Well, damn, there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. River's Edge was the first thing I ever saw Keanu Reeves in. Didn't know Jimenez had been paralyzed. Sixty-two just seems so young to me now.

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MissAlmond

MissAlmond

Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood has died, age 81.

https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-features/remembering-dame-vivienne-westwood-industry-memories-1235458202/

https://www.vogue.com/article/vivienne-westwood-obituary

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/vivienne-westwood-obituary/index.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/fashion/vivienne-westwood-dead.html

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/style/vivienne-westwood-dead-british-fashion-designer-punk-icon-dies-1235288777/

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2022/dec/30/vivienne-westwood-best-looks-in-pictures

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Bastet

Bastet

4 minutes ago, MissAlmond said:

Sorry for the repeat. Either my feed or Primetimer has dropped the earlier posting.

It's here; how weird that a post has disappeared from your feed (unless you have the poster on Ignore).

Anyway, I'm far from a fashionista (I basically go to Macy's and select things I like, with the occasional trek to an outlet mall), but she's one of the few whose names I knew and could, if given enough time, come up with that name if shown a picture.  I couldn't recognize a design as being hers to save my life, but I do remember several times liking a gown and reading it was hers.

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CherryMalotte

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On 12/24/2022 at 9:02 AM, MissAlmond said:

Actor Ronan Vibet who appeared in Saving Mr. Banks and The Borgias has died, age 58.

I was just checking this thread out and was taken aback by reading this.  He was one of my fave character actors and there's so many films/series that he was in.  Very sweet man IRL, I got to chat with him online a few times and he was just wonderful, and really loved his acting craft and spoke so kindly of his fellow actors/actresses and others in the industry.  A loss for sure.

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I don't know why my reaction to a 93-year-old's death was "Holy shit!" but when I tuned in for Jeopardy! and found a special report on Barbara Walters, that's indeed what came out of my mouth.  We can mock The View and some of those celebrity interviews she did until the cows come home, but those were drops in the bucket of her career (and, as conceived, The View was a terrific and much-needed concept); the woman was a pioneer and earned her status as a broadcasting legend.

I'm enjoying hearing this parade of women in journalism call into ABC News and share their memories and admiration of the trails she blazed.  As noted in the posted obituary, when part of the ABC News headquarters was named for her upon her retirement, Walters accepted the honor by saying, "People ask me very often, 'what is your legacy?' and it's not the interviews with presidents, or heads of state, nor celebrities. If I have a legacy, and I've said this before and I mean it so sincerely, I hope that I played a small role in paving the way for so many of you fabulous women."

Ah, another reason to respect Walter Cronkite:  Connie Chung just shared that, unlike a lot of the male anchors who subjected Barbara Walters to appalling, blatant disrespect, Cronkite respected her fiercely, even/especially when she scooped him to get the first joint interview with Sadat and Begin.

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Vermicious Knid

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She was on an episode of Finding Your Roots. Here she is talking about her father. As with pretty much all Easter European Jewish families there was only so far they could go back.  I thought I remembered hearing she had dementia which is why she hadn't been on television or giving any interviews for the last few years. 

Yehi zichra baruch 

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roamyn

roamyn

I didn't realize she had dementia.  Which must be horribly sad for someone of her intelligence and knowledge.

How terrible that must be for her daughter to watch her fierce, independent and intelligent mother go through that.

Thank you for being firm and at times acerbic.  For standing up for women and trailblazing in your field.

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katie9918

katie9918

Barbara Walters retired at a great time, right around the time legacy/mainstream ”news” truly sold out, but some time before it became embarrassingly obvious that they had all sold out.

 

Godspeed to her and thanks to her for all the doors she opened for women willing to work hard rather than play victim, despite leaving the putrid legacy of The View.

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Annber03

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11 hours ago, Bastet said:

Ah, another reason to respect Walter Cronkite:  Connie Chung just shared that, unlike a lot of the male anchors who subjected Barbara Walters to appalling, blatant disrespect, Cronkite respected her fiercely, even/especially when she scooped him to get the first joint interview with Sadat and Begin.

Good for him :). I remember hearing about how some men in the news industry reacted when she first came on the scene and it was insane how these supposed professionals acted like total babies about a woman joining what they believed to be "their" territory. It was so pathetic and sad. 

Thank goodness she didn't let that deter her. I remember watching her on "20/20" when I was a kid (yeah, I watched "20/20" as a kid, 'cause I was weird that way :p), and her long list of achievements, as well as her career in general, is an admirable one indeed. I'm glad she did get to live long enough to see the influence she had in regards to getting more women into journalism in general, too. 

Rest in peace, Barbara. 

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Calvada

Calvada

There was a clip I saw on someone's twitter feed about when Barbara Walters retired from the View; Oprah was on talking about how Barbara influenced so many women who went into news and then she started calling out names as they all filed in - Diane Sawyer, Jane Pauley, Robin Roberts, Elizabeth Vargas, Katie Couric, Connie Chung, and many others.  Over 20!  It was a great illustration of what a trailblazer Barbara Walters was.  

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roamyn

roamyn

49 minutes ago, Annber03 said:

Good for him :). I remember hearing about how some men in the news industry reacted when she first came on the scene and it was insane how these supposed professionals acted like total babies about a woman joining what they believed to be "their" territory. It was so pathetic and sad.

Her first co-host at NBC, Frank (something) was like that, as was her first co-host of ABC, Harry Reasoner.  The latter was really ticked off to be sharing a desk with a *gasp* woman.  And that said woman made more $ than him!

There was a reason America trusted Walter Cronkite.  The last honest & honorable newsman in the US.

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SunnyBeBe

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I knew that Ms. Walters was related to Paul McCartney, but I had thought her niece was married to him….turns out it is Barbara’s second cousin.  And Barbara was the matchmaker.  
 

https://nypost.com/2022/12/31/paul-mccartney-mourns-amazing-barbara-walters-they-shared-surprising-connection/?_gl=1*8izuut*_ga*MTQ5OTA2NzgyMi4xNjEwMDczNjA5*_ga_0DZ7LHF5PZ*MTY3MjU0NzM3NC40My4wLjE2NzI1NDczNzQuMC4wLjA.&_ga=2.224567194.1031463568.1672547376-1499067822.1610073609

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Irlandesa

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14 hours ago, roamyn said:

There was a reason America trusted Walter Cronkite.  The last honest & honorable newsman in the US.

Cronkite existed in a different time when there was less competition in news and I think they got more trust because of it.  

It's why I've found the ad hoc tributes to Barbara on my social media feeds to be interesting.  People sharing their favorite memories of Walters as a newswoman focus on her time in more traditional news settings earlier in her career.  Even though The View has been a long running success, and is quite an achievement, I don't see that time period of her career getting the same amount of praise. 

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