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In memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7uzxanhGeA

It's one of the first flash videos ever made. It predates endofworld.swf by like 2 years.

Don't know Eric the Actor but I do know who Rob Bironas is. Apparently Terry Bradshaw is his father-in-law. He wasn't on the Fox broadcast on Sunday.

Jan Hooks died.

Tom Magliozzi, one half of the wisecracking Car Talk duo known as "Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers," has died from complications of Alzheimer's disease. He was 77.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/03/tom-magliozzi-dead-npr-car-talk_n_6095892.html


Celebrity enough for me since I have listened to these guys for well over 15 years.

I remember him from Happy Gilmore, and thinking that he looked awful.  Pretty sure the were shooting his bits to specifically avoid showing how physically incapable he was.

Stuart Scott is not a lesser celebrity though.  I've always looks upon him as an a-lister.  In reality, ESPN would suck greatly more than it already does w/o him imo; a trailblazer for sports commentating. 

Yeah, fuck cancer.

Many people here have no idea about sports, so I figured I'd put it here. Either way, he was probably on the short list of ESPN Sportscenter personalities I could name off the top of my head. He, Berman, Kenny Mayne, Scott Van Pelt, and Keith Olberman were pretty much the reason I watched the network.

Daniel von Bargen, 64, died over the weekend after a long illness, sources confirmed Tuesday.

Sam Simon died. I followed him on Twitter- knew he was really sick (and almost assuredly terminal), but he really lived as well and as happily as he could. He joked about his treatments and such. Was really hoping he wold pull through. Fuck cancer in its ass.  :heartbreak:  :sad_panda:

James Best, the actor who portrayed the sheriff {Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane}, died Monday after a brief illness and complications from pneumonia, reports The Charlotte Observer. He was 88.

Only on f13 would the death of Eli Wallach (http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/eli-wallach-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-star-dead-at-98-20140625) be eclipsed by Roscoe Coltrane and Big Chin Guy...

Rest in Peace Tuco...

Yeah last year, and months before this thread started.

Yeah last year, and months before this thread started.

NASA's 'Voice of Apollo,' Jack King, dies at age 84
12:14 p.m. ET
 

Jack King, who counted down NASA's historic launch of Apollo 11, died on Thursday at age 84, The Associated Press reports.

"Twelve, 11, 10, 9, ignition sequence start. Six, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, zero, all engine (sic) running. Liftoff! We have a liftoff, 32 minutes past the hour. Liftoff on Apollo 11," King announced on July 16, 1969.

A public affairs official with NASA, King counted down hundreds of other rocket launches. His wide-ranging career included stops at Houston's Johnson Space Center — where he helped facilitate the first live television coverage of a joint U.S.-Soviet flight, in 1975 — and later Washington, D.C. to act as director of public relations for the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration.

But King's best-remembered media moment remains his fact-based, measured countdown of the Apollo 11 launch — he told AP in 2009, "I wish I had a penny for every time it was used."

Dick Van Patten, the genial, round-faced comic actor who appeared on Broadway as a child, starred on TV in its infancy and then, in middle age, found lasting fame as the patriarch on TV’s “Eight is Enough,” has died.

The combination is 1....2....3.....4.......5.

Doug Winger passed away a few days ago. Cause of many WTF moments.

No links, for obvious reasons.

'Yes' bassist Chris Squire passed away.  :heartbreak:

So, here's some Yes - Roundabout (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tdu4uKSZ3M)

'Yes' bassist Chris Squire passed away.  :heartbreak:

So, here's some Yes - Roundabout (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tdu4uKSZ3M)

Omar Sharif passed away today at age 83.

There's too many cool old dudes dying lately.

Rob Thielke died from his battle with cancer. He was the face of Vern Fonk insurance, and has done some of the wackier, almost always hilarious, commercials in tv history. Those of you not from the Northwest probably have no idea who this dude is, but you should check him out.

Of interest to probably only myself: Type designer and typographer Adrian Frutiger passed away last week (http://www.dezeen.com/2015/09/14/adrian-frutiger-obituary-life-work-font-designer-typography-univers-london-street-signs/).

His typeface Frutiger, originally designed for the signage at the Charles de Gaulle Airport (http://gizmodo.com/rip-adrian-frutiger-youve-seen-his-elegant-typefaces-e-1730617473), was one of two sans serif designs* that inspired the typeface I designed that got me my job at Adobe.

* The other was Syntax by Hans Meier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax_%28typeface%29). Both are notably "humanist" sans serif designs (https://www.fontshop.com/people/fontshop-team/fontlists/sans-humanist) which, among other characteristics, have proportions similar to traditional serif book foots instead of the "grotesk" proportions of sans serif fonts like Helevtica.

How could you NOT like the All Blacks? They are awesome-ness personified.

Scott Weiland, I am not shocked.

http://www.knac.com/article.asp?ArticleID=18086

Not a shock, but a terrible waste regardless.

RIP Robert Loggia.  :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEbN6Vnr1g8

Lemmy died today. It's a bad week for people with Lem in their names.

The <lesser celebrity> thread.

 :mob:

Had to google. Never listened to Motorhead.

It's not so much that Lemmy was a great musician.  It's that he was a heavy metal icon.  He was metal. 

Just read that Natalie Cole died. Didn't realize she was 65.

Lots of famous people dying this week.

Eric Estrada is still alive.

Jimmy Bain, former Rainbow and DIO bassist, dies aged 68

Sunday, January 24th, 2016 11:24am

The Scottish bass player, known for his work with Rainbow and DIO, has reportedly passed away.

According to multiple sources, Jimmy Bain has died aged 68.

Bain was recruited by Ritchie Blackmore to join Rainbow and played bass on their legendary "Rising" album, as well as live album "On Stage". He was fired from the band in 1977.

The following year, he formed Wild Horses with former Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson, releasing two albums in the early 1980s. Bain then went on to co-write music with his friend Phil Lynott for his two solo albums.

1983 saw Bain join DIO, co-writing many of their hits including "Rainbow in the Dark" and "Holy Diver" during a very successful tenure with the band.

In recent times Jimmy Bain was a member of Last In Line, alongside Vivian Campbell, Vinny Appice and Andrew Freeman. The band performed on Def Leppard's cruise just last week.

If he was dead would anybody notice a difference?

Abe Vigoda died today.

Probably 'Lesser' for you chaps, but kinda big thing that's making me Sad :

Terry Wogan Gone. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35453541)

Another Cancer.  When the fuck we going to sort that one out ?

This is almost the worst fucking thread on this entire site.

Larry Drake passed away today.  He was in L.A. Law and won two Emmys for his role.  I also remember him playing the villain in Darkman with Liam Neeson.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/17/entertainment/larry-drake-actor-dies/index.html

Paul Daniels, who I suspect nobody outside of the UK will have heard of, has died. He will be missed by absolutely nobody, he was a hateful little cunt and a shit magician.

2 things ; 

1 - Do you have Endie on Block ?
2 - Whoa, that's some hate for PD right there.  Clearly, I don't know enough about what's making you angry here ?  What did he do ?

Frank Sinatra Jr. also died last night.

1 - heh, no, I just failed at scrolling up!  :awesome_for_real:

2 - ah all sorts of things. I won't do a grunky.bob and shit the thread up but some cursory web searching should reveal the kind of person he was.

Former Toronto Mayor, Rob Ford passed away. Kind of a celebrity after all the crazy news stories and talk show host one-liners.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/03/22/rob-ford-dead-toronto-mayor_n_9522654.html

I'm astonished that he was only 46. I seriously thought he was in his fifties at least.

I had to look him up.

He kinda is.

Er.

Was.

He's the Hail Hydra senator.

If that is all you know of him, you're missing a lot.

He's a bit of an acquired taste. Sorta like Larry David.

Ah shit. My dad liked him when I was growing up and I didn't think twice about him until grad school. He was at a show in Lafayette, LA and a few of my buddies made the trek to see him. I left with a new appreciation for him.

edit: missing words: FOUND

Prince has his own thread:

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=25238.0

Did Chyna die of prostate cancer?

You would think. Yeesh.

But yeah most likely drugs. She had demons.

Did they live I her proto penis. Because that would explain how she died.

Chyna dead at 46. Weird, as a few weeks ago a group of us introduced some very stunned 20-somethings to her sex tape. Much emotional scarring ensued.

Are you having a stroke? :uhrr:

Did they live I her proto penis.

I like Patton as well.  He and she seem as regular as entertainers can be.  That's very sad.  They have one young kid and I believe were a normal couple. 

I think I shall name my next male cat Cato. So many good childhood memories of Cato.

I think I shall name my next male cat Cato. So many good childhood memories of Cato.

Crap, this thread is starting to make me feel old.

Prince Be of P.M. Dawn died yesterday at 46.  :heartbreak:

They were hip-hop's emo little brother. At least until KRS One threw them off a stage in '93.

I know I'm alone here, but I had fun in both the new Star Trek movies. I was super bummed to read this today. Dude was great as Chekhov, and appeared to be a pretty fine fella.

RIP R2-D2. Beep boop.

Almost deserves its own thread, but Gene Wilder has passed.  83 years old, pretty long life.  Funny man.

Phyllis Schlafly died.  Finally.

I had no idea who that was and googled the name. Was rewarded with quotes like:
"Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature."
"Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions."

 :uhrr:

Phyllis Schlafly died.  Finally.

We need a thread for "Deaths that came way way later than they should have."

Robert Vaughn (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37957088) Napoleon Solo from Man from U.N.C.L.E. has died. 2016 is sucking more.

Sharon Jones.

Fuck 2016 again and again and again.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/florence-henderson-dead_us_5837d277e4b01ba68ac456d9

Florence Henderson died yesterday. Man... I grew up on the Brady Bunch. How many more days we got in this dreadful year?

Is it just me, or is 2016 really collecting an inordinately large amount of celebrities I know for it's goddamn death pool?

I know this probably isn't the ideal place for this mini rant but I really don't want to post in Politics, but the last week has left me flabbergasted at how many people who consider themselves left wing are prepared to defend and justify Castro.

Yeah, he stood up to the US for 50 years, but that doesn't make him a socialist. He took on that mantle solely to align himself with the Soviet Union since he had no other choice. Yes there were improvements in health care and social housing but only in the 1960s and after Batista it wasn't hard to do better! Opposition and resistance were brutally repressed, as were LGBT people with forced labour camps and mass arrests! Abortion wasn't legal until 1979. Communist Party bureaucrats lived in lavish luxury while ordinary people lived in poverty.

Being a freedom fighter doesn't automatically make you a 'man of the people' and the total lack of objectivity on the part of many left wing commentators this week has been very disheartening.

Alice Drummond, Character Actress and Broadway Star, Dies at 88 (Report)

She is widely remembered for playing a librarian frightened by an evil spirit in the beginning of 1984's 'Ghostbusters.'

Alice Drummond, an actress who starred in several CBS soap operas and performed regularly on Broadway in the 1960s and '70s, has died. She was 88.

Character actress June Gable, a friend of Drummond's, said her death was caused by complications from a fall she suffered two months prior, according to The New York Times.

Drummond made numerous appearances on TV sitcoms and Broadway shows (The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, You Can't Take It With You) before venturing into film. She starred as Nurse Jackson on the 1967 series Dark Shadows and had regular roles on CBS soap dramas Where the Heart Is and As the World Turns.

In 1970, she garnered a Tony Award nomination for best featured actress in a play for her performance in Murray Schisgal's The Chinese.

Drummond scored one of her most memorable film roles playing a frightened librarian who is later questioned by Bill Murray in the beginning of 1984's Ghostbusters. She is also widely known for playing one Robin Williams' patients in 1990's Awakenings, an Oscar-nominated film based on the true life story of British neurologist Oliver Sacks.

The actress most recently appeared as a senile senior citizen in the 2010 comedy Furry Vengeance, starring Brendan Fraser, Samantha Bee, Ken Jeong and Brooke Shields.

Greg Lake of King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer died two days ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Lake

And Zsa Zsa Gabor kicks it at age 99.  2016 apparently using the corpses of old famous people as a ramp to give itselfs a Dukes of Hazard type entry into 2017.

And Zsa Zsa Gabor kicks it at age 99.  2016 apparently using the corpses of old famous people as a ramp to give itselfs a Dukes of Hazard type entry into 2017.

Ultimate lesser celebrity.

US actress Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the Star Wars films, is in a critical condition after suffering a heart attack during a flight, reports say.

She went into cardiac arrest on the London to LA flight, the LA Times said.

Passengers attempted to revive her with CPR and she was rushed to hospital when the plane landed after midday local time (20:00 GMT), the TMZ website said.

Fisher, 60, had been on tour promoting her latest book The Princess Diarist.

The heart attack happened about 15 minutes before the plane landed in LA, celebrity news website TMZ reported. A medic who was travelling on the plane administered CPR.

A law enforcement official told NBC that her condition was "not good".

United Airlines issued a statement saying that Flight 935 from London to Los Angeles was met on the ground by medical personnel after the crew reported that a passenger was "unresponsive", but did not name the passenger, Reuters reported.

Passengers on the plane have been tweeting about what they saw.

Might be jumping the gun here but...

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38423963

She is still alive and her condition is being reported as stable now so yes, you've jumped the gun just a tad.

She is still alive and her condition is being reported as stable now so yes, you've jumped the gun just a tad.

Status Quo guitarist Rick Parfitt has died from a severe infection.

The 68-year-old's manager has confirmed he passed away in Spain at lunchtime after being taken into hospital on Thursday,

He'd been suffering complications with a pre-existing shoulder injury.

The statement said: "We are truly devastated to have to announce that Status Quo guitarist Rick Parfitt has passed away at lunchtime today.

"He died in hospital in Marbella, Spain as a result of a severe infection, having been admitted to hospital on Thursday evening following complications to a shoulder injury incurred by a previous fall.

"This tragic news comes at a time when Rick was hugely looking forward to launching a solo career with an album and autobiography planned for 2017 following his departure from Status Quo's touring activities on medical advice.

"He will be sorely missed by his family, friends, fellow band members, management, crew and his dedicated legion of fans from throughout the world, gained through 50 years of monumental success with Status Quo.

"Rick is survived by his wife Lyndsay, their twins Tommy and Lily and Rick's adult children Rick Jnr and Harry.

Nearly all of the Red Army's Choir (the Alexandrov Ensemble) went down in a plane this morning.  

EDIT: Also possible that Dr. Liza, who is one of Russia's top humanitarians, was on board although there are conflicting reports on that.

Supposedly George Michael?? Jesus fuck...

2016 can't even take a break on fucking Christmas.

Also, RIP George Michael... public toilets are just a tiny wee bit safer today.

...for a woman hike...

People don't actually die from HIV anymore do they? So long as they take their drugs?

... they have to run constant programs these days to persuade Gay men to condom up, and quit the anonymous sex shit which is just resulting in a whole load of other stds spreading like wildfire. People are morons.

Technically, no-one ever died from HIV, just the infections it let in. Even if its treated, it can create a lowered immune system that can make it easier for flus and colds to affect you.

But yeah, HIV is pretty much non scary anymore, to the extent they have to run constant programs these days to persuade Gay men to condom up, and quit the anonymous sex shit which is just resulting in a whole load of other stds spreading like wildfire. People are morons.

That's inaccurate and unfair.  I'm going to feel bad for someone passing who did a lot publicly and privately for charity, including for HIV sufferers and their families.

The Royle Family actress Liz Smith has died aged 95, a spokeswoman for her family has said.

The actress, who played the ailing Nana in the hit comedy show, died on Christmas Eve.

A statement from the spokeswoman on Monday night said: “The BAFTA award-winning actress Liz Smith has died, on Christmas Eve, at the age of 95, her family has announced

 Her death comes in the same year as her co-star Caroline Aherne, who died from lung cancer.

She won best actress at the British Comedy Awards at the age of 85 for her role as Nana in The Royle Family, and played eccentric baker Letitia Cropley in The Vicar Of Dibley.

George S. Irving - a Broadway veteran who famously lent his voice to classic cartoon The Year Without a Santa Claus - has died.

The Massachusetts-born actor passed away of natural causes in New York City on Boxing Day (December 26), his friend and director David Staller told Deadline.

Staller's statement read: "No human being ever told a story with as much crackle, or filled the room with such delight. He was incapable of speaking a line wrong.

"He had a gift for squeezing the most potent insight out of a role. As a man, he never had a harsh word to say about anyone. His heart was always open and ready to share. He will be missed beyond expression."

Irving's long stage career dates back to the early 1940s, when he starred in the original Broadway production of the now-classic Oklahoma!.

He would later win a Tony Award for Irene, a reinvention of the Joseph McCarthy play also starring Debbie Reynolds and her now-late daughter Carrie Fisher.

Vera Rubin, pioneering astronomer, dies at 88

    26 December 2016
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Astronomer Vera Rubin, whose pioneering work on galaxy rotation rates led to the theory of dark matter, has died at the age of 88, her son says.

Allan Rubin said she died on Sunday of natural causes, AP reported. She was living in Princeton, New Jersey.

Her studies earned her numerous honours, including being the second female astronomer to be elected to the US National Academy of Sciences.

But many questioned why she was never awarded a Nobel Prize.

In 1974, Rubin discovered that the stars at the edges of galaxies moved faster than expected.

Gravity calculations using only visible matter in galaxies showed that the outer stars should have been moving more slowly.

To reconcile her observations with the law of gravity, scientists proposed there was matter we cannot see and called it dark matter.

Sandra Giles, Actress in 'Daddy-O' and 'It Happened at the World's Fair,' Dies at 84

2:16 PM PST 12/30/2016 by Mike Barnes

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Sandra Giles with Dick Contino in the 1958 film 'Daddy-O.'
The blond bombshell, who was discovered at Canter's delicatessen, had a flair for publicity and dated tennis player Bobby Riggs.

Sandra Giles, an actress and Hollywood pinup queen who appeared in such films as Daddy-O and Elvis Presley's It Happened at the World's Fair, has died. She was 84.

Giles died in Los Angeles on Christmas Day after a battle with bullous pemphigoid, an autoimmune skin disease, her daughter, singer Sandra Piller, told The Hollywood Reporter.

In her big-screen debut, Giles bested singer-accordionist Dick Contino in a drag race and danced to some rock 'n' roll in Daddy-O (1958), which was scored by John Williams in his feature debut. The starlet also appeared in The Matchmaker, A Lust to Kill and Lost, Lonely and Vicious that year.

She later could be seen in Black Spurs (1965); with Raquel Welch in Flareup (1969); and in Black Gunn (1972), starring Jim Brown.

"She had that wonderful appeal for all the guys, but she didn't intimidate the women," the late producer A.C. Lyles once said. "She had the same innocence as Marilyn [Monroe]. She didn't look like she would go after someone's husband. And she had this great gift for publicity, hardly without even trying. It just seemed to come to her."

A native of Hooker, Okla., Lelia Bernice Giles came to California to be with her divorced mother. While working at Canter's delicatessen in Los Angeles, she was noticed by a press agent, jump-starting her career.

In 1958, Giles upstaged the Hollywood premiere of the Clark Gable-Doris Day film Teacher's Pet when she emerged in the rain from a pink, furry convertible Cadillac. That led to her being photographed in a bubble bath for a Life magazine spread that was headlined, "The Blond From Hooker — How to Become a Movie Star."

Later, Giles participated in a publicity stunt in which a nude painting of her was unveiled at the reopening of the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas in 1966. And in the 1970s, she dated tennis player Bobby Riggs, right around the time of his Battle of the Sexes duel with Billie Jean King.

Giles also was on television in Bachelor Father, Peter Gunn, Rawhide, Burke's Law, Quincy M.E., Colombo, Land of the Giants, Adam-12 and The Odd Couple (in an episode with Riggs).

On the stage, she appeared with Tony Randall and Mickey Rooney in a production of The Odd Couple at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas and co-starred with Don Knotts in Last of the Red Hot Lovers.

Another incredible actor leaves us in 2016. William Christopher, the actor best known as Father Mulcahy on the classic sitcom M.A.S.H., died today following a battle with lung cancer. He was 84, and died in his Pasadena home according to his son, John, who made the news public.

A Chicagoland native, born in Evanston, Illinois in 1932, Christopher appeared on The Andy Griffith Show, The Patty Duke Show, and The Men from Shiloh, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C, That Girl and Hogan’s Heroes.

In 1972, he landed his most well-known role, replacing the actor who portrayed Father Mulcahy in the M.A.S.H. pilot. He would remain a series regular throughout the show’s 11 season run, and was beloved by many in the role. He even played Father Mulcahy in the short-lived M.A.S.H.spinoff AfterMASH.

Christopher also held guest roles on shows such as The Love Boat, Good Times, Murder, She Wrote, and Mad About You. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends.

Dick Gautier, Hymie the Robot on 'Get Smart,' Dies at 85

9:32 AM PST 1/14/2017 by Mike Barnes

Dick Gautier, who starred on Broadway in the original production of Bye, Bye Birdie and then famously played Hymie the Robot on the sitcom Get Smart, has died. He was 85.

Gautier died Friday night at an assisted living facility in Arcadia, Calif., after a long illness, his daughter Denise told The Hollywood Reporter.

Gautier, who started his career as a stand-up comic, received a Tony nomination for playing Conrad Birdie, the character based on Elvis Presley, in the memorable, original 1960 production of Bye, Bye Birdie, starring Dick Van Dyke.

The handsome actor appeared as Hymie on just six episodes of Get Smart over four seasons, yet he was one of the spy spoof's most popular characters.

Hymie, who was incredibly strong and had a supercomputer for a brain and wires and components in a compartment in his chest, originally was built for the evil organization KAOS but came over to CONTROL (the good guys) because Max (Don Adams) was the first one to treat him like a real person.

"When I met with the powers that be, I told them that when I was a kid in Canada I saw a man in a storefront window acting like a manikin to drum up business," he said in 2013. "If you could make him smile, you’d get $10. So, I tried, but not by acting crazy — I merely imitated his movements. I didn’t win the $10, but I got the part of Hymie, which was a little better."

Eventually, Max picked Hymie to be his best man for his wedding with Agent 99 (Barbara Feldon), and Gautier returned as the robot for a 1989 Get Smart TV movie.

In 1975, Gautier starred as Robin Hood on the short-lived ABC series When Things Were Rotten, co-created by Mel Brooks, who, of course, had launched Get Smart as well.

Gautier was a veteran stand-up performer and working at The Blue Angel nightclub in New York as an opener for headliner and singer Margaret Whiting when he was spotted by Bye, Bye Birdie director Gower Champion and Charles Strouse, who did the music for the production.

"They asked me to read for this thing," he recalled in a 2014 interview with Kliph Nesteroff. "I was a little put off because I didn't like rock and roll. Not at that point. I said, 'I don't think it's for me. I like Jerome Kern and George Gershwin.'

"They said, 'Will you at least come in and audition?' I went in and they said, 'Would you sing an Elvis song?' I said, 'I don't know any Elvis songs.' So they just played some blues and I ad-libbed and I guess they liked it. Couple months later they called."

Gautier told his agent, "'It's not for me. I feel very inhibited and very intimidated by this whole Elvis thing because it's not me.' He said, 'It's a satire.' Then I went, 'Ohhhhh.' When he said that, then I got it. Suddenly it was OK. I got the part, got a Tony nomination, and my career was in a whole different place. I didn't work nightclubs anymore."

Jesse Pearson played Conrad in the 1963 movie version.

Gautier was born on Oct. 30, 1931, in Culver City, and his father, a French-Canadian, worked as a grip at MGM. He spent some time growing up in Montreal and sang and did a comedy act with a band that wound up on a local TV show in Los Angeles.

Gautier served in the U.S. Navy, where he booked acts, including a young Johnny Mathis. When he got out of the service in San Francisco, he hung out at the hungry i nightclub and decided to try stand-up. He and the legendary Mort Sahl were among the first comics to be booked at the club, which would go on to become a renowned breeding ground for stand-ups.

The charming Gautier played clubs all over the country and for a time toured with the folk act The Kingston Trio. When he was looking for material for an act in Las Vegas, he paid Jay Leno and David Letterman $100 an hour to write jokes for him, he said in the chat with Nesteroff.

Gautier appeared in a guest stint on The Patty Duke Show and was in the Joshua Logan-directed Ensign Pulver (1964), and he had regular roles on the short-lived series Mr. Terrific and Here We Go Again, starring Larry Hagman. He also played an amorous sportscaster on an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

He co-wrote the 1968 pot movie Maryjane (1968) with Hollywood Squares host Peter Marshall and the 1972 film Wild in the Sky (1972), starring Georg Stanford Brown.

Gautier also appeared in such films as Divorce American Style (1967) — playing Van Dyke's attorney — Fun With Dick and Jane (1977) and Billy Jack Goes to Washington (1977) and on TV shows including Charlie's Angels; The Love Boat; Murder, She Wrote; Silk Stalkings; and Nip/Tuck.

He also was a guest on many game shows, including Tattletales, on which he appeared with his then-wife, actress Barbara Stuart.

Starting in the mid-1980s, Gautier worked often as a voice actor, heard on such shows as Galtar and the Golden Lance, G.I. Joe, The Transformers, The New Yogi Bear Show and The Addams Family.

An accomplished artist, Gautier also wrote and illustrated several books about drawing and how to become a cartoonist.

"Cartooning has been my hobby, my therapy, a delicious pastime and on occasion my salvation — it got me through some tight financial spots when I was a struggling actor," he wrote in the introduction to his 1989 book, The Creative Cartoonist.

In addition to Denise, survivors include his former wife Tess; daughter Chris and son Rand; grandchildren Darby, Brandon, Megan and Elisa; and great-grandchildren Reya, Bella, Odette, Jade and Avery.

Cos it's only fake in so far as the outcome is predetermined. The athletic and damage to the body part is very very real.

Yeah seriously. It's body gymnastics put to a male oriented soap opera. But the acrobatics are pretty damn real.

They are, as a group, also serious steroid abusers.  Not to mention that many of them seem to develop other serious drug problems.  It's amazing their hearts hold out as long as they do sometimes.

He was one of my favorite "Hey It's that guy!" actors. Consistently good in everything I saw him in.

Mike Connors, ‘Mannix’ Star, Dies at 91

Mike Connors, best known for playing detective Joe Mannix on 1960s and ’70s show “Mannix,” died Thursday in Tarzana, Calif. He was 91.

He had been diagnosed a week ago with leukemia, according to his son-in-law Mike Condon.

“Mannix” ran for eight seasons from 1968 to 1975 and was the last series from Desilu Productions. Connors won a Golden Globe for his performance as a tough, athletic investigator, who in quintessential detective show style, insisted on doing things his own way and often got beat up in the process. He drove an impressive series of muscle cars including a Dodge Dart and Chevrolet Camaro.

Desilu president Lucille Ball convinced CBS not to cancel the show despite initial poor ratings, and it caught on after being retooled into a somewhat more conventional detective series. Mannix’s secretary, played by Gail Fisher, was one of few African-American actresses on TV at the time. “Here’s Lucy” produced a crossover episode in 1971 with Connors and Ball, called “Lucy and Mannix Are Held Hostage.”

As recently as 2007, he made a guest appearance on “Two and a Half Men.” His other TV appearances included “Murder, She Wrote,” “Love Boat,” and “Walker, Texas Ranger.”

Barbara Hale, best known for her role as Della Street on the legal drama Perry Mason, passed away Thursday at the age of 94.

Born in 1922 in Northern Illinois, Hale moved to Hollywood in 1943 and started appearing on film in uncredited roles.

Not long after she arrived in the City of Angels, Hale signed a contract with RKO Pictures. In the 1940s, she appeared in the films Lady Luck, West of Pecos and Higher and Higher, the latter with Frank Sinatra.

Despite a strong movie career that continued into the 1950s with roles in Lorna Doone and The Jackpot,Hale landed the role of legal secretary Della Street on the drama Perry Mason in 1957.

The series ran for nine seasons, with Hale appearing in all 271 episodes.

After Perry Mason wrapped in 1966, Hale continued to make guest appearances on television in series like Ironside, Adam-12 and The Doris Day Show.

However, Hale remained forever dedicated to her most famous role. Throughout the 1980s and '90s, she appeared in 30 Perry Mason TV movies.

The Washington Post reported the death Friday afternoon. Hale's husband, Bill Williams, died in 1992. She's survived by her three children, Jodi, William and Juanita.

Her son, William Katt, is best known as the star of The Greatest American Hero. Katt paid tribute to his mother on Facebook, writing, "Lost my beautiful wonderful mom Barbara Hale yesterday afternoon…. We’ve all been so lucky to have her for so long. She was gracious and kind and silly and always fun to be with. A wonderful actress and smart business woman she was most of all a treasure as a friend and mother!"

Fuck man... and I'd say he skirts the lesser celebrity/popular celeb category. Always remember him from Weird Science... "Do you realize it is snowing in my room god damn it!!"

He was the only actor to ever be killed by the Alien, Predator and Terminator.

J. Geils dead at 71 (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/guitarist-j-geils-dead-at-71-w476279)

I always enjoyed his band's songs. RIP

Emma Morano, who at 117 was the world’s oldest living person, has died at her home in northern Italy.

Dr Carlo Bava said Morano’s carer had called him to say she had died on Saturday afternoon while sitting in an armchair at her home in Verbania, a town on Lake Maggiore in northern Italy.

Bava said he had last seen on Morano on Friday. “She thanked me and held my hand as usual,” he said.

Morano, was born on 29 November 1899 and was believed to have been the last surviving person in the world born in the 1800s.

Ms Morano also credited her longevity to her decision, in 1938, to kick out her husband - a year after her baby boy died at just six months old.
The marriage had never been healthy, she said. She had been in love with a boy who was killed during World War One, and had no interest in marrying someone else.
But, she told La Stampa newspaper in an interview when she was a spritely 112 that she was left with little choice.
"He told me: 'If you're lucky you marry me, or I'll kill you'. I was 26 years old. I got married."
Eventually, it became too much. Though they separated in 1938, they remained married until he died in 1978. Ms Morano, who worked until she was 75, chose never to marry again.
"I didn't want to be dominated by anyone," she told the New York Times.

One of the strangest, saddest sagas in NFL history came to an end on Wednesday morning, as the Massachusetts Department of Corrections says Aaron Hernandez killed himself in his prison cell.

The news comes just days after Hernandez was acquitted of a double murder. Hernandez was still serving a life sentence after being found guilty in the 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd.

Hernandez was 27.

In a statement, the Massachusetts Department of Corrections outlined the event:

“On April 19, 2017, Aaron Hernandez was discovered hanged in his cell by corrections officers at the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Massachusetts at approximately 3:05 a.m., lifesaving techniques were attempted on Mr. Hernandez and he was transported to UMASS Leominster where he was pronounced dead at 4:07 a.m. by a physician at the hospital.

“Mr. Hernandez was in a single cell in a general population housing unit. Mr. Hernandez hanged himself utilizing a bed sheet that he attached to his cell window. Mr. Hernandez also attempted to block his door from the inside by jamming the door with various items. The Massachusetts State Police are on scene and the investigation continues. Mr. Hernandez’s next of kin have been notified.”

56 but nutty as hell and an alcoholic if you believe her mother in laws reasons for kicking her out.

Well shit.

This means that Eddie Vedder is the last of the 'grunge' singers left.

Never was a fan, but no denying he was a strong influence and a huge mark on the mid-to-late 1990s when I was in college. You are right, this one stings even if I didn't care for the guy.

In happier news my local news app just notified me Roger Ailes is dead. So there's that.

er.. I mean what a.. .no fuck it. Yay.

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/334011-ex-fox-news-head-roger-ailes-dead-report

Seems Cornell hung himself after his last show. Jesus how do you get this far in your career and not defeat those demons?

constant drugs

John Noakes is dead.  If you're not Brritish and of a certain age that is deeply in the "who?" territory but many of us grew up watching him performing ridiculous feats or struggling to persuade Shep (or elephants) to behave.  I'd certainly say I am more emotionally touched by him dying than by Wilder, Moore, George Michael and David Bowie put together.

If Bowie weren't on that list Id be inclined to look up this Noakes fellow. But since you included him Im writing the notion off as absurd.

Oh man :(  I remember being gutted when Shep died and finding out years later how much it had affected Noakes too. I read an interview with him once where it came out that he was really angry about the whole Blue Peter time and how he felt he was treated then. Very sad.

I remember when he made the announcement also and, frankly, it was clearly obvious how much it had affected him - Guy could barely get the words out. 

Still, not a bad innings.

I don't want to be morose, but David Prowse (https://twitter.com/isDARTHVADER) selling autographed photographs and cards.


As some of you are Starwars fan that might be a worth a considersation. Before, you know, it's too late...    :heartbreak:

RIP Adam West. Doing the Batussi in the afterlife.

Harry Stamps is only a lesser celebrity because of his obituary. But you should read it. (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/world/middleeast/turkish-guards-washington-attack.html)

Harry Stamps is only a lesser celebrity because of his obituary. But you should read it. (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/world/middleeast/turkish-guards-washington-attack.html)

Link doesn't go to an obituary. :uhrr:

Michael Bond, Paddington Bear creator, dies at 91 (http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/28/europe/michael-bond-paddington-bear/index.html?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist)


London (CNN)The author Michael Bond, creator of the hugely popular children's character Paddington Bear, has died at the age of 91.
Bond died at home on Tuesday following a short illness, his publisher HarperCollins announced Wednesday in a statement on Facebook, calling him a "giant of children's literature."
Bond was born in Berkshire, England in 1926 and began writing in 1945, after serving in World War II.

He was working as a cameraman for the BBC when he came up with the idea of a small toy bear that he named after Paddington Station in London, near where he was living at the time.
Bond's first book, "A Bear Called Paddington," was published in 1958, and follows the adventures of a small orphaned bear as he travels from Peru to the British capital.

He is found at Paddington Station wearing a tag saying "Please look after this bear. Thank you," and is taken in by the Brown family.

Bond has said that Paddington was inspired in part by his memories of Jewish children who were evacuated to London during World War II.

Horror icon, George A. Romero has died.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jul/16/george-a-romero-night-of-the-living-dead-director-dies-aged-77 (https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jul/16/george-a-romero-night-of-the-living-dead-director-dies-aged-77)

One of my favorite directors; I'm glad I got to meet him two years ago at a convention.  He hadn't made much of note lately, but his impact upon film, and just culture in general, is immeasurable.

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

Chris Cornell, 52.

What the fuck man. This one hurts. Beautiful voice and great music and way, way, way too soon. I have a bad feeling it's going to be heroin or a general overdose.

Jay Thomas, ‘Cheers’ Actor Who Often Played Jewish Characters, Dies At 69
August 25, 2017 By JTA

(JTA) — Jay Thomas, a well-known actor who said he was often mistakenly thought to be Jewish because he successfully portrayed Jewish characters, has died at 69.

Thomas, an actor and radio personality whose work on the television series “Murphy Brown” won him two Emmy Awards in the early 1990s, died of cancer on Thursday at his home in Santa Barbara, California, the New York Times reported. He also played in “Cheers,” portraying Jewish characters in both series.

Thomas, who grew up in New Orleans, found amusement in the way people confused him with his television characters.

“I always seem to play the role of a Jewish person,” he said in an interview with The Times in 2000. “On ‘Love and War’ I played Jack Stein, a left-wing Jewish man. On ‘Murphy Brown’ I was Jerry Gold, a right-wing Jewish man. And I won an Emmy for that part. The trouble is, I’m not Jewish. But everyone I met in L.A. thought I was a Jewish man from Brooklyn.”

He is survived by his wife, Sally Michelson, whom he married in 1987, and their two children, Samuel and Jacob. In recent years he reunited with a son he had fathered in his 20s who was given up for adoption, the country singer J. T. Harding.

RIP Richard Anderson (aka Oscar Goldman). Too bad we did not have the technology to rebuild him.

Walter Becker dead at 67. (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/walter-becker-steely-dan-co-founder-dead-at-67-w500956)

The quiet half of one of my favorite bands ever just died.  This makes me very sad.

Jerry Pournelle passed away on September 8th (https://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/passings/).

So now the ConCrud has a body count.

And crap. I know a lot of you probably didn't like his politics, but I enjoyed many of his books back in the day.

Also, damn, he was 84?

I could have sworn he was already dead.

Bobby 'the brain' Heenan died. I dunno how many of you grew up on the men's wrestling entertainment, but I was a pretty big fan in the 1980s in the WCW and WWF days.

http://www.thewrap.com/wwe-hall-of-famer-bobby-the-brain-heenan-dead-at-73-report/

Early on the morning of Sept. 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov helped prevent the outbreak of nuclear war.

A 44-year-old lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces, he was a few hours into his shift as the duty officer at Serpukhov-15, the secret command center outside Moscow where the Soviet military monitored its early-warning satellites over the United States, when alarms went off.

Computers warned that five Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles had been launched from an American base.

“For 15 seconds, we were in a state of shock,” he later recalled. “We needed to understand, ‘What’s next?’ ”

The alarm sounded during one of the tensest periods in the Cold War. Three weeks earlier, the Soviets had shot down a Korean Air Lines commercial flight after it crossed into Soviet airspace, killing all 269 people on board, including a congressman from Georgia. President Ronald Reagan had rejected calls for freezing the arms race, declaring the Soviet Union an “evil empire.” The Soviet leader, Yuri V. Andropov, was obsessed by fears of an American attack.

Colonel Petrov was at a pivotal point in the decision-making chain. His superiors at the warning-system headquarters reported to the general staff of the Soviet military, which would consult with Mr. Andropov on launching a retaliatory attack.

After five nerve-racking minutes — electronic maps and screens were flashing as he held a phone in one hand and an intercom in the other, trying to absorb streams of incoming information — Colonel Petrov decided that the launch reports were probably a false alarm.

As he later explained, it was a gut decision, at best a “50-50” guess, based on his distrust of the early-warning system and the relative paucity of missiles that were launched.

He is not a lesser celebrity.

He is from the waist down. 

Too soon?

I would like to post-humously thank him for all the boobies.

So long, and thanks for all the tits.

I would like to post-humously thank him for all the boobies.

When it comes time to choose his afterlife, he had better switch his choice to the other door.

He is 2 years younger than me :gulp:

Another and much bigger Canadian Icon has died. http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/gord-downie-obit-1.4359906

RIP Gord Downie

F it, created a separate thread as hes a national treasure and the whole country will be in mourning.

Roy Halladay, a former MLB pitcher with Toronto and Philadelphia, died yesterday as a result of a plane crash.  He was only 40.  As a Jay's fan, he was one of my favourite players and the greatest pitcher in franchise history.  I was disappointed he didn't win a World Series after being traded to the Phillies even though he pitched pretty well for them, even throwing only the second no hitter in MLB post season history.  He and his wife did a lot of charity work off the field and he just seemed like a nice guy that everyone respected.

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/baseball/mlb/roy-halladay-killed-plane-crash-1.4391632

RIP Higgins and Howard Johnson.

John Hillerman dead at 84.

Charles Manson finally kicked the bucket. Good riddance.

Dolores O'Riordan, of The Cranberries, is dead at age 46.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. One of my first bands as teenager. Listen the crrap out of Zombie.

Pioneering snow-sports filmmaker Warren Miller dead at 93. (https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/snow-sports/pioneering-inspiring-snow-sports-filmmaker-warren-a-miller-has-died-at-his-home-on-orcas-island-at-the-age-of-93/)

Keyboard Cat has died aged 9 (https://www.pedestrian.tv/pets/keyboard-cat-bento-death/).

:facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:

Keyboard Cat is an Internet meme. It consists of a video from 1984 of a female cat called "Fatso" wearing a blue shirt and "playing" an upbeat rhythm on an electronic keyboard. The video was posted to YouTube under the title "charlie schmidt's cool cats" in June 2007. Schmidt later changed the title to "Charlie Schmidt's Keyboard Cat (THE ORIGINAL)".[1]

Fatso (who died in 1987)[2][3]

Steven Bochco, a producer whose boundary-pushing series like "Hill Street Blues" and "NYPD Blue" helped define the modern TV drama, died Sunday after a battle with leukemia. He was 74.

Art Bell dead at 72.  Sweet travels to the Land of Nod you goofy weirdo.

His show was always entertaining for overnight road trips through the 90s. Goofy, crazy, paranoid, but fun.

Statement from R. Lee Ermey's long time manager, Bill Rogin:

It is with deep sadness that I regret to inform you all that R. Lee Ermey ("The Gunny") passed away this morning from complications of pneumonia. He will be greatly missed by all of us. It is a terrible loss that nobody was prepared for. He has meant so much to so many people. And, it is extremely difficult to truly quantify all of the great things this man has selflessly done for, and on behalf of, our many men and women in uniform. He has also contributed many iconic and indelible characters on film that will live on forever. Gunnery Sergeant Hartman of Full Metal Jacket fame was a hard and principled man. The real R. Lee Ermey was a family man, and a kind and gentle soul. He was generous to everyone around him. And, he especially cared deeply for others in need.

There is a quote made famous in Full Metal Jacket. It's actually the Riflemen's Creed. "This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine."

There are many Gunny's, but this one was OURS. And, we will honor his memory with hope and kindness. Please support your men and women in uniform. That's what he wanted most of all.

Semper Fi, Gunny. Godspeed.

http://www.wspa.com/news/night-court-actor-harry-anderson-dies-in-asheville/1126241637

Damn ugly week.

(https://prabook.com/web/show-photo.jpg?id=1523854)

And it seems to just go straight downhill once you get to the age where you health is questionable at best. Gotta say if I found out I had some sort of terminal illness I would be sorely tempted to end it early rather than let my family watch me suffer while I bankrupt them due to our wonderful for profit health care system.

Anthony Bourdain was found dead of apparent suicide this morning.

Suicide is catching lately, and I am not happy with this development.

Bourdain was absolutely a major celebrity.  No Reservations was nominated for like 12 Emmy awards or some shit and won 2.

On that note, I'm getting pretty tired of celebrities who easily have access to the best help in the world and don't seek it. Particularly celebrities I like. Bourdain goes in the same bucket as Hoffman and Ledger :(

Koko, the signing gorilla passed away at 46:

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/21/622160278/koko-the-gorilla-dies-redrew-the-lines-of-animal-human-communication

She was a lesser celebrity here in the San Francisco Bay Area and was in the news periodically growing up.

I doubt anyone but Sky and I will care, but Vinnie Paul, co-founder of Pantera dead at 54.  (https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/8462386/vinnie-paul-dead-pantera-damageplan-hellyeah)

I read a lot of his work when I was younger and I thought he had a few great works and a lot of try hard new wave garbage.  It seemed like he coasted a lot on his Star Trek work, but as I saw him at conventions and read his opinion pieces I came to recognize that he was more a giant of science fiction by force of personality rather than by sheer literary merit.

He also wrote a lot of forgettable stories using tropes and situations that were in common use, the sued anybody who used said tropes and situations ever again for plagiarism. He was science fiction's premier copywrite troll, I'll give him that.

Sad to see this in the "lesser celebrity" thread.  The guy was an icon in the 70's.   :heartbreak:

I think people just end up putting things here because it is easier than creating a new thread.

This.  I thought about giving it it's own thread, but figured there wasn't any point creating more clutter.

Welp, Paul Allen died.

I can barely carry on a conversation with my folks anymore, the alternative facts that seem to spew forth from their mouths makes it feel like I am talking to someone from an alternate universe.  Then I think there but for the grace of god go I, it is my destiny to eventually travel the same senile road and this makes me very very depressed.

No more Stan Lee cameos.

No more Stan Lee cameos.

Damn.  Hope he and the wife are having a good reunion argument.