In Memoriam: Entertainment Industry Celebrity Deaths

[roamyn]

1 hour ago, legaleagle53 said:

"Mel"?  Mel Gibson is still very much alive, as far as I know.  I think you mean "Mike", as in Mike Ilitch, don't you?

Oops...you're right.  Bad me - typo.

Thanx for the correction.

[Ohwell]

1 hour ago, BW Manilowe said:

Former Miami Dolphins football player Quentin Moses dies in a house fire at age 33.

http://people.com/sports/miami-dolphins-quentin-moses-dies-house-fire/?xid=socialflow_twitter_peoplemag

That is so sad.

[legaleagle53]

2 hours ago, Ohwell said:

That is so sad.

I'll say.  The article also says that a woman and her 10-year-old daughter also perished in the fire.

I hope the cause turns out to have been an accident or faulty wiring or something.

[meowmommy]

8 hours ago, Lola16 said:

Al Jarreau aged 76. Recently gave up touring and entered the hospital due to exhaustion:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2017/02/12/grammy-winning-musician-al-jarreau-dies-76/97823284/

Remember the old TV show Moonlighting with Cybill Sheppard and Bruce Willis? 

I am so sad about this.  I have two of his albums which I've listened to pretty regularly over the past 30 years.

As a baby boomer, I have come to observe that my music playlist has become ever more dominated by musicians who are no longer among us.  :(

[ennui]

On 2/8/2017 at 0:44 PM, Silver Raven said:

London party girl Tara Palmer Tomkinson, a friend of Charles and Camilla's has died of a brain tumor.

Not the tumor.

"According to The Guardian, the English socialite's loved ones say her sudden death at the age of 45 in her London apartment was due to a perforated ulcer and peritonitis, not a brain tumor as previously suspected."

[kili]

CBC announced that Stuart McLean has died at 68.

His stories about Dave and his record store will be sorely missed. The time Dave made a turkey always makes me smile.  A consummate storyteller and humorist.

[King of Birds]

1 hour ago, ennui said:

Not the tumor

I'm very sorry for this. Just continue your day...

[Quof]

Quote

The time Dave made a turkey always makes me smile.  A consummate storyteller and humorist.

#DaveCooksTheTurkey is trending on Twitter.  I must go search for an audio recording of it.

 

eta Found it!  https://soundcloud.com/cbc-radio-one/vinyl-cafe-dave-cooks-the

Edited February 15, 2017 by Quof

[BW Manilowe]

Bruce Lansbury, TV producer & brother of actress Angela Lansbury, dead at age 87.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/bruce-lansbury-dead-tv-producer-angela-lansburys-brother-was-87-976535

[BW Manilowe]

Harold Denton, Three Mile Island hero, dead at 80 due to COPD & Alzheimer's Disease.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/02/15/harold-denton-three-mile-island-hero-dies/97973676/

[BetterButter]

R.I.P. pro-wrestling legend George “The Animal” Steele

[ratgirlagogo]

8 hours ago, BetterButter said:

R.I.P. pro-wrestling legend George “The Animal” Steele

Hail and farewell, sir.  How many wrestlers who came later imitated the whole thing with his doll "Mine."  Like many wrestlers who played dumb he was a smart guy in real life - a high school teacher no less.   Hard to say which profession is more unjustly underrespected - professional wrestlers or high school teachers.  

[legaleagle53]

Twin Peaks actor Warren Frost dies at age 91.

[Bastet]

Although I love Twin Peaks, Frost will always be Mr. Ross to me thanks to Seinfeld.  I loved him in that role.

[BetterButter]

Norma McCorvey, Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, dies at 69

[BetterButter]

R.I.P. Clyde Stubblefield, “The World’s Most Sampled Drummer”

[BW Manilowe]

"Blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel-Rahman, age 78, convicted of conspiracy in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, died in prison of natural causes.

https://www.google.com/amp/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN15X0KU

[BW Manilowe]

Warren Frost, character actor best known for roles in Seinfeld & Twin Peaks, dies at 91 after a long illness.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/warren-frost-character-actor-known-for-‘twin-peaks’-and-‘seinfeld’-dies-at-91/ar-AAn49EV?li=BBnbfcL

Richard Schickel, veteran Time magazine film critic, dead at age 84.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/richard-schickel-time-magazine-film-critic-dies-at-84-977654?utm_source=twitter&utm_source=Direct

Edited February 21, 2017 by BW Manilowe
To fix a spacing issue.

[BW Manilowe]

Vitaly Churkin, Russian ambassador to the UN, dead in NYC at age 64.

https://twitter.com/cnbc/status/833728842502115328

[Snipsa]

6 hours ago, BW Manilowe said:

Vitaly Churkin, Russian ambassador to the UN, dead in NYC at age 64.

https://twitter.com/cnbc/status/833728842502115328

After John Oliver's show on Sunday I have to suspect foulplay... 

 

The amount of high-ranking Russians passing away is staggering!  

 

Condolences to his family

[BW Manilowe]

Fox News/Business Channel host Brenda Buttner dead at age 55 of cancer.

http://people.com/tv/brenda-buttner-dead/?xid=socialflow_twitter_peoplemag

[BW Manilowe]

Leah Adler, mother of Oscar-winning director/producer Steven Spielberg, dead at 97.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/leah-adler-dead-mother-steven-spielberg-was-97-978312

[abstractstuff]

97! Bless her heart. She was cute. Lady Elaine Fairechilde vibes.

[merylinkid]

Condolences to the Spielberg family.  

[legaleagle53]

Are you trying to fill some sort of quota for February, 2017?  Slow down just a bit.

[legaleagle53]

47 minutes ago, abstractstuff said:

97! Bless her heart. She was cute. Lady Elaine Fairechilde vibes.

She apparently had quite the sense of humor, too.  From the article:

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Leah was known for her sharp wit. "I told Steve, if I'd known how famous he was going to be, I'd have had my uterus bronzed," she said in a 1994 Los Angeles Times story.

And her first husband, Steven's biological father, is still going strong after just having turned 100.  I have a feeling that Steven himself is going to be around quite a while longer -- it seems to be in the genes on both sides of the family!

Edited February 22, 2017 by legaleagle53

[roamyn]

8 hours ago, legaleagle53 said:

Are you trying to fill some sort of quota for February, 2017?  Slow down just a bit.

97 is s a grand age.  2017 is just a blip on the black heart of 2016, so far.

[Lola16]

February 13 - Tom Cruise's mother has died at age 80:

http://www.etonline.com/news/210343_tom_cruise_mother_dead_at_80/

[BetterButter]

Fox News contributor Alan Colmes dead at 66

[FormerMod-a1]

Brenda Buttner and Alan Colmes- they're dropping like flies over there!

In all seriousness, these are really sad.  Condolences to their families and friends.

[merylinkid]

66 is far too young.   So sad.

[ennui]

6 hours ago, BetterButter said:

Fox News contributor Alan Colmes dead at 66

I was sad when I heard this earlier. I really liked Alan. I didn't always agree with him, but I liked him.

Edited February 23, 2017 by ennui

[Constantinople]

10 hours ago, BetterButter said:

Fox News contributor Alan Colmes dead at 66

God took the wrong half of Hannity & Colmes.

[merylinkid]

Hannity & Colmes haven't been a show for a while.    Hannity has been by himself.   

A person is dead at far tooyoung an age.   I think that is the sad part.

[BW Manilowe]

R&B songwriting legend Leon Ware dead at 77.

http://people.com/music/leon-ware-dead/?xid=socialflow_twitter_peoplemag

[Spartan Girl]

On February 23, 2017 at 8:52 PM, Constantinople said:

God took the wrong half of Hannity & Colmes.

Thanks for saying what I was thinking. 

Edited February 26, 2017 by Spartan Girl

[Lola16]

14 hours ago, merylinkid said:

Hannity & Colmes haven't been a show for a while.    Hannity has been by himself.   

A person is dead at far tooyoung an age.   I think that is the sad part.

Shep Smith said Colmes as doing a Fox radio show. I didn't even know that was a thing. Maybe it's on Sirius.

[rcc]

Has Hannity said anything about Colmes' death?

[merylinkid]

He released a statement the same day.   He was devastated.   Called him a good friend.

[ennui]

2 hours ago, rcc said:

Has Hannity said anything about Colmes' death?

Lengthy tribute on his show. They were close friends. It's possible to love people and disagree with their politics.

[Silje]

Emmy-Winning Actor Bill Paxton Dead at 61 Due to Complications from Surgery

[DearEvette]

8 minutes ago, Silje said:

Emmy-Winning Actor Bill Paxton Dead at 61 Due to Complications from Surgery

Awww... I guess it really is "Game over man, Game over."

I really enjoyed him in Aliens.  Also, in One False Move (great movie, very underrated)

RIP Bill.

[navelgazer]

13 minutes ago, Silje said:

Emmy-Winning Actor Bill Paxton Dead at 61 Due to Complications from Surgery

No!!!!  I really liked him, especially as the "human barometer."  

RIP Bill.  

[amaranta]

Bill Paxton was excellent in A Simple Plan (still one of my favorite movies).

R.I.P.

[BooksRule]

Oh, no!  I've seen just about everything he was in (except 'A simple plan'--I might have to watch that one).  Paxton also directed the cult classic video 'Fish Heads':  

[AimingforYoko]

Dan Slott tweeted, "The only man to face off against a Terminator, an Alien and a Predator."

This is a bit of a shock, R.I.P.

[jah1986]

Very sad, always an entertaining actor and talented. Such a shock.

Edited February 26, 2017 by jah1986
Getting my actors confused

[Constantinople]

I'll be impressed if the people responsible for putting together the In Memoriam part of tonight's Academy Awards show are able to update it in time.

[Lady Calypso]

Wow, that is truly shocking. There have been several celeb deaths this year so far, but this is the first one that feels like it's impacted me in some way because of how active he was in the industry and how much I've seen him in. I remember seeing him first in Titanic (although I didn't realize it until I watched the film again recently that it was him), and have continued watching his work ever since. It does suck because he was part of a new show that I guess will not be moving to a second season, and I had been planning to watch it. 

[cpcathy]

One of the history-type channels repeatedly runs a JFK documentary, Paxton is the narrator, he was in Dallas on the day of the assassination, in the crowd. 

RIP, Mr. Paxton.

Edited February 26, 2017 by cpcathy