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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

wilsie
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BetterButter
BetterButter

Olivia Newton-John Has Died At 73

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merylinkid

merylinkid

Damn damn damn.   This is so sad.    

 

God she must have been young when Kotter was on.   That was a great show and she added so much to it.   

 

I also loved her in Tremor the Series.   The hippie Earth Mother trying to live and let live with El Blanco while keeping Burt Gummer from setting off World War III.   

 

Far too young, far too soon.

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AntiBeeSpray

AntiBeeSpray

Damn damn damn.   This is so sad.    

 

God she must have been young when Kotter was on.   That was a great show and she added so much to it.   

 

I also loved her in Tremor the Series.   The hippie Earth Mother trying to live and let live with El Blanco while keeping Burt Gummer from setting off World War III.   

 

Far too young, far too soon.

 

So agreed :(. I recognized the name. So sad.

 

RIP Mrs. Strassman.

Kromm

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Damn damn damn.   This is so sad.    

 

God she must have been young when Kotter was on.   That was a great show and she added so much to it.   

26 or 27, around there, I think.  I recall reading some article or book (maybe it was about Travolta) that said that while she maybe seemed to play older as Kotter's wife, she was in actuality only a few years older than the actors playing the Sweathogs.  Then again, even with Kaplan the age difference between the Kotters and the Sweathogs was less than you'd expect (Kaplan was only 30, and even Travolta, the youngest of the cast, already in his 20s).

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merylinkid

Which makes sense.   Kotter was clearly just out of college at his first teaching job.   Which makes him 22/23.   The Sweathogs were not Freshman, so 15/16 when the show started (boy were those some OLD looking 15/16 year olds) which makes the age difference about 6 or 7 years.   

 

Julie was young but trying to be the mature married woman.   Who made horrible tuna casserole.    She wasn't much better as a potter on Tremors let me tell you.

AntiBeeSpray

AntiBeeSpray

As I was heading to log into my MSN email... I found out that one of the hosts from Car Talk (NPR), Tom Magliozzi has died at the age of 77 from complications due to Alzheimer's disease. So sad :(. I loved that show. Those two had me laughing my butt off.

 

RIP Tom, you'll be missed.

 

link to an obituary about it

 

Source: msn.com

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AntiBeeSpray

AntiBeeSpray

I loved Car Talk!  It is best that he had complications that took him out.  Alzheimer's is not something that you want to prolong, that is for sure.  For the care takers as much as the person.  

 

Yea, had a neighbor who had it some years back that really suffered due to it. It's not something I'd wish on anyone, that's for sure.

Mountainair

Mountainair

I saw the news about Tom this afternoon as a I am "friends" with Car Talk on Facebook. I had no idea he suffered from Alzheimer's. Admittedly I haven't listened to the show in a while, were they still taping new episodes?

Back before I Had baby number two I used to work in a four story building and on my lunch breaks I would download Car Talk pod casts and listen to Tom and Ray while I ran the stairs. I lost all the first baby's weight and then some and hardly even noticed I was excercising because I was laughing so much!

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AntiBeeSpray

AntiBeeSpray

They stopped producing new Car Talk episodes in 2012. The world is poorer for losing Tom's laugh, beloved by goats everywhere (according to one episode, during which I nearly drove off the road from laughing so hard).

 

Same here. I'd double over in laughter at times. And the credits were priceless XD.

giovannif7

giovannif7

R.I.P. to Richard Schaal, prolific HITG! actor (and Valerie Harper's ex-husband) who passed away Tuesday at 86. I remember him best from the various roles he played on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Rhoda and Phyllis, but he appeared on dozens of TV shows (and several films) from the mid-60s thru the 80s.

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merylinkid

merylinkid

Dalziel and Pascoe used to be part of the A & E Tuesday night detective line up.   You know back when they were Arts & Entertainment, not "what schlock can we put on this week?"   I liked it a lot.   Not as much as Morse and Silent witness, but more than A TOuch of Frost and the one with the psychologist (which clearly I cared so much about I don't even remember the name).

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Wings

Wings

It's getting to the point that I don't want to look into this forum, scared of who is next.  Ugh. 

 

 

Thing is.  We are all going to transition, die, croak, pass, whatever word works for you.  I never feel sad when someone dies, even if we see it is "before their time."  Is it really?   Not sure what determines our leaving.   I know it is complicated.   I secretly applaud when someone exits because, deep inside, I think that is a fabulous experience.  Those left behind, who love them, suffer.  That is where the sadness comes from me.   

ABay

ABay

Re: Warren Clarke. I don't remember the first time I saw him...maybe Jewel in the Crown, but he seemed to show up in all sorts of British things I enjoyed. Sleepers with Nigel Havers was one. It hasn't aged well--I tracked it down a couple of years ago. And Top Secret is, imo, under-rated. I had mixed feelings about him being cast as Andy Dalziel because he didn't really fit my mental image of him from the books. Andy is God, after all. But he did well enough. It's a bit of blow losing Reginald Hill 2 years ago and now Clarke. Now there's really no more Dalziel.

random chance

random chance

It's getting to the point that I don't want to look into this forum, scared of who is next.  Ugh.

 

Well it is the celebrities-who-died forum, it's not like you're going to be surprised with happy news in here.  ;) 

 

Now that I have seen exactly what Alzheimers does to a person, I'm not as sad as I used to be about people who got struck down some other way, let alone people who make it to 77 without that affliction. 

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Inquisitionist

Inquisitionist

"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. <awkward pause while she laughs>  Aren't you?"

 

From the NY Times obituary:

“There is no piece of casting in the 20th century that I know of that is more courageous than putting me in that part,” Mr. Hoffman said in an interview in The New Yorker in 2000.

 

Indeed.  RIP, Mr. Nichols.

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praeceptrix

praeceptrix

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We just lost Dagliesh. Now we lost his creator. PD James passed. Man she was old. But still sad.

You gave me a scare! Both Roy Marsden and Martin Shaw, the two actors who have portrayed Adam Dalgliesh, are alive and well. I think you must mean Warren Clarke, who portrayed Andy Dalziel.

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Reminder:

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

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