Bring Out Your Dead! The celebrity death thread....
Again, my childhood and teen years slipping away… he was so funny even standing still.
Another unforgettable actor: went to school with Don Adams, served in the Navy on the same submarine as Tony Curtis. How’s that for lifelong friends??
94 years old, the composer of James Bond’s iconic theme Monty Norman, has died
William Hart of the Delfonics.
Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time) is one of my goosebump songs. Those off-the-beat cymbal crashes get me every time.
DaveSchmidt said:
William Hart of the Delfonics.
Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time) is one of my goosebump songs. Those off-the-beat cymbal crashes get me every time.
La La (Means I Love you) not too shabby either. Two gems from the American R&B songbook. Been listening to a lot of R&B lately, new and old.
I hadn’t realised the Judge Dredd connection….the Other Half, who knows all these pertinent details, is asleep now but will be devastated when I tell him in the morning.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-62255222
jonesey said:
Can I really be the first to say, 'Alan Grant'?
jonesey said:
Can I really be the first to say, 'Alan Grant'?
My immediate thought was that Sam Neill had passed away.
Newark native Taurean Blacque. Of his portrayal of detective Neal Washington on Hill Street Blues, he told TV Guide: “I think the original concept was that hip, jive Black man, you know. But I wanted to turn it around a little, give him some depth, not get into that stereotype.” Besides, he had already played that concept on two episodes of The Bob Newhart Show.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/22/arts/television/taurean-blacque-dead.html
I really liked Taurean Blacque on Hill Street Blues. A friend worked for him in a production company that never really managed to get off the ground, but apparently he was a really nice guy to work for.
Also just heard about David Warner, of The Omen and Tron fame. I probably first saw him in a little-known Amicus horror anthology called From Beyond The Grave, as a man driven to murder by a demon who lives in a mirror he bought from an antique shop. His stand out performance is IMO Star Trek VI, but he was also great in Time After Time.
Veteran British actor David Warner, has died at the age of 80, from a cancer-related illness.
ridski said:
I really liked Taurean Blacque on Hill Street Blues. A friend worked for him in a production company that never really managed to get off the ground, but apparently he was a really nice guy to work for.
Also just heard about David Warner, of The Omen and Tron fame. I probably first saw him in a little-known Amicus horror anthology called From Beyond The Grave, as a man driven to murder by a demon who lives in a mirror he bought from an antique shop. His stand out performance is IMO Star Trek VI, but he was also great in Time After Time.
I love Time After Time and he was such a great villain in it.
RIP Mr. Warner
Paul Sorvino, tremendous actor and renaissance man who lived in Bergen County. So many great roles, often as tough guys, but incredibly moved and moving when his daughter Mira won the Oscar.
chalmers said:
Paul Sorvino, tremendous actor and renaissance man who lived in Bergen County. So many great roles, often as tough guys, but incredibly moved and moving when his daughter Mira won the Oscar.
This has been a bad year for actors that played mobsters.
Now they are saying that Tony Dow’s death was announced in error. His wife told his publicist he had died, but he had not,although he is apparently close to death in hospice care.
cody said:
Now they are saying that Tony Dow’s death was announced in error. His wife told his publicist he had died, but he had not,although he is apparently close to death in hospice care.
A sad story.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tony-dow-alive-wife-management-201747113.html
“Tony Dow is still alive,” reports Pennacchio. “I had a conversation with his wife, Lauren. She is understandably distraught and grief-stricken about what’s been going on with Tony’s health battle these past months. He’s been in hospice care at their home, and based on some health issues overnight, Lauren inferred that Tony had passed away to some people close to her and the word quickly spread. Lauren admits she’s been ‘a little fuzzy’ these days – understandable.
“She told me she now feels ‘foolish’ about what has transpired since his death has been reported around the world,” Pennacchio continues. “She also told me, through her pain, ‘it is of my own doing.’ I told her we know it’s been a very stressful time and people understand overwhelming grief. Lauren says she ‘loves and adores’ her husband of 42 years with all of her heart. While she did say he passed, she now understands the miscommunication and is sorry for causing a commotion in this challenging time.”
yahooyahoo said:
cody said:
Now they are saying that Tony Dow’s death was announced in error. His wife told his publicist he had died, but he had not,although he is apparently close to death in hospice care.
A sad story.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tony-dow-alive-wife-management-201747113.html
“Tony Dow is still alive,” reports Pennacchio. “I had a conversation with his wife, Lauren. She is understandably distraught and grief-stricken about what’s been going on with Tony’s health battle these past months. He’s been in hospice care at their home, and based on some health issues overnight, Lauren inferred that Tony had passed away to some people close to her and the word quickly spread. Lauren admits she’s been ‘a little fuzzy’ these days – understandable.
“She told me she now feels ‘foolish’ about what has transpired since his death has been reported around the world,” Pennacchio continues. “She also told me, through her pain, ‘it is of my own doing.’ I told her we know it’s been a very stressful time and people understand overwhelming grief. Lauren says she ‘loves and adores’ her husband of 42 years with all of her heart. While she did say he passed, she now understands the miscommunication and is sorry for causing a commotion in this challenging time.”
Although I would like to post the Monty Python meme "I'm not dead yet," I will refrain. Hospice at home is incredibly difficult for the caregiver but an amazing chance to die at home, with respect. We placed my sister in hospice at home and it was the best decision. She hated hospitals. She also hated having other people care for her, but it was as dignified end as she could have had.
KarenMarlowe said:
Although I would like to post the Monty Python meme "I'm not dead yet," I will refrain. Hospice at home is incredibly difficult for the caregiver but an amazing chance to die at home, with respect. We placed my sister in hospice at home and it was the best decision. She hated hospitals. She also hated having other people care for her, but it was as dignified end as she could have had.
Yeah - my mom was in hospice before she died, at home. Her caregiver was a saint. Who tragically just died herself at a very young age.
Tony Dow’s death confirmed today. Yes, Tuesday announcement was an error; today’s is not.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jul/27/tony-dow-dead-leave-it-to-beaver
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Dow
Archie Roach, beloved songwriter, musician and storyteller, and Elder:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-30/archie-roach-aboriginal-musician-songwriter-and-artist-dead-at-6/101285620
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-30/archie-roach-pioneering-indigenous-musician-dies/101285706
DaveSchmidt said:
He wasn’t lying.
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