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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
wilsie
BetterButter
BetterButter

Olivia Newton-John Has Died At 73

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GHScorpiosRule

GHScorpiosRule

Not to beat this dead horse (and social media ain't helping with constant back and forth between Chachi and Erin's family, spreading the misinformation even more), and not that I give any fucks about him, but why doesn't Chachi clarify/correct that it wasn't him who said "if you drink and do drugs then you're gonna die" but the ones who interviewed him who said it and AV Club attributed it to him? Because now The Wrap attributed it to him along with the heroin overdose and now he's in a Twitter war with her brothers over saying BOTH, and Chachi claiming it's all because he's a 45 supporter. And because of this, now this heroin overdose has been incorporated into her cancer and all mashed up as the reason for her death.????

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On ‎4‎/‎25‎/‎2017 at 9:32 AM, MrSmith said:

I appreciate all the extra context, @Drogo. That said, he still tweeted what he tweeted and, as far as I'm concerned, he deserves the heat he's getting for it. The reason my position is such is that this is why you don't say things like that using a medium or in a situation where you're unable to supply all the context that is required for people to correctly understand your intent - and he should know this. As my Sophomore and Junior year high school English teacher always said: If the message you're trying to deliver is not understood, the failure to communicate rests entirely with you - not with your audience.

I think Baio's biggest mistake was forgetting that as a celebrity that he doesn't have an anonymous internet identity to hide behind.

He was not the only one speculating on the manner of her death and rehashing the gossip/scandal of her adult life by any stretch.

GHScorpiosRule

GHScorpiosRule

This probably won't mean anything to most here, but I do know that there are some who are familiar with Bollywood actors. One whose work I enjoyed, Vinod Khanna, passed away. ?And because it can't be emphasized enough: FUCK CANCER!!!!?????

https://uk.style.yahoo.com/bollywood-star-vinod-khanna-died-065333934.html

Irlandesa

Irlandesa

23 minutes ago, BW Manilowe said:

Emmy-winning character actor Powers Boothe dead at age 68.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/powers-boothe-dead-agents-shield-sin-city-actor-was-68-1003667?utm_source=twitter

So weird considering it doesn't seem so long ago that they killed off his character on Nashville.

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willco

46 minutes ago, BW Manilowe said:

Emmy-winning character actor Powers Boothe dead at age 68.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/powers-boothe-dead-agents-shield-sin-city-actor-was-68-1003667?utm_source=twitter

Wow, I always liked him. I'm old enough to remember what I think was his breakout role as Jim Jones in the People's Temple movie back in '79 or '80 (I Think, it was a long time ago !) He really channeled Jones in that, it was kind of scary. Also just re-watched Frailty when they put it on Netflix recently. Great movie.

68 isn't really that old these days. Did he have cancer or something that we didn't know about ?

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Lady Calypso

2 minutes ago, willco said:

68 isn't really that old these days. Did he have cancer or something that we didn't know about ?

Initial reports say he passed from natural causes, but what those causes are is unclear. He did pass away in his sleep, though, so he went peacefully. 

That really sucks. After losing Bill Paxton earlier this year, another Agents of SHIELD villain alumni, I was just waiting for that next celebrity death to hit me. I had no idea it would be Powers Boothe.

slensam

slensam

7 hours ago, willco said:

Wow, I always liked him. I'm old enough to remember what I think was his breakout role as Jim Jones in the People's Temple movie back in '79 or '80 (I Think, it was a long time ago !) He really channeled Jones in that, it was kind of scary. Also just re-watched Frailty when they put it on Netflix recently. Great movie.

68 isn't really that old these days. Did he have cancer or something that we didn't know about ?

It's like Steve Railsback. All I remember from him is playing a great Charles Manson in "Helter Skelter".

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Blergh

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Charley  Boorman, currently renowned for his epic motorcyle journeys has commented on Mr. Boothe's death on Twitter:

 

 

 

https://twitter.com/charleyboorman

 

It didn't become a huge blockbuster hit (and ,for all its earnest appeals   to preserve rain forests and their original inhabitants,at times was a bit hokey). However; it is definitely worth checking out "Emerald Forest" in which Mr. Boothe played a US hydroelectric dam engineer in Brazil who discovers that his longlost son played by Boorman has embraced the culture that took him as a child. I won't give the entire plot away but their reunion at a waterfall is quite an epic moment.  RIP, Mr. Boothe.

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BW Manilowe

BW Manilowe

13 hours ago, willco said:

Wow, I always liked him. I'm old enough to remember what I think was his breakout role as Jim Jones in the People's Temple movie back in '79 or '80 (I Think, it was a long time ago !) He really channeled Jones in that, it was kind of scary. Also just re-watched Frailty when they put it on Netflix recently. Great movie.

68 isn't really that old these days. Did he have cancer or something that we didn't know about ?

He won his Emmy for playing Jim Jones. It was in what I think is now, if it wasn't then, a category in the TV Movie/Limited Series genre (like maybe where the FX OJ Simpson project was placed in at the most recent Emmys). And he crossed a picket line (either an actors or writers strike) to attend the ceremony &, it turned out, to collect his Emmy.

Angeltoes

Angeltoes

From the way celebrities are responding to the death of Powers Boothe, he was the exact opposite of all the evil people that he portrayed.  It seems like he's in our house every weekend because Tombstone is always playing on one channel or another (and my husband must stop and watch it, no matter that he's seen it six bazillion times).  And we were huge Deadwood fans.  

Rest well, sir, you will be missed.

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TVFan17

TVFan17

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Cannot even believe it.  So talented.... RIP, Chris Cornell...

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/representative-rocker-chris-cornell-died-age-52-47480300

http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/representative-rocker-chris-cornell-has-died-at-age-52/ar-BBBgiXT?li=BBnbfcL

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TVFan17

TVFan17

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I was just listening to one of the amazing cover versions Chris did the other day.  Not only was he a great singer and musician in his own right -- someone with true, real talent (unlike so many singers and artists these days) -- but he had an incredible way of taking other people's songs and doing something totally different with them, making them his own.  He covered Led Zeppelin, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson -- so many.    He was great at it.   In fact, I think he did a live cover version of "I Will Always Love You" right after Whitney died, although it was a little rough because he hadn't rehearsed it.

Another one gone way, way, way too soon.

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