Bring Out Your Dead! The celebrity death thread....

ml1 said:

nohero said:

Ken Starr.

(That's it, that's the post)

If I can't say anything nice...

Monica Lewinsky was much more gracious than most would have been.

https://www.newsweek.com/monica-lewinskys-response-death-clinton-prosecutor-ken-starr-praised-1742695

"As i'm sure many can understand, my thoughts about ken starr bring up complicated feelings ... but of more importance, is that i imagine it's a painful loss for those who love him," Lewinsky said in a tweet.


When the first boxed volume of the complete Stax singles was overwhelming my ears in 1991 — so many recognizable hits but also so much music I had never heard before — Mable John’s voice stood out among the latter.


joanne said:

Actor Henry Silva aged 95y. 
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-18/oceans-eleven-actor-henry-silva-dies-95/101451832

From playing Apache savage to Russian spy to Italian gangster… perpetual bad guy roles. Typecasting at its best. 


joanne said:

Dame Hilary Mantel, she who wrote Wolf Hall:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63007307

That was an incredible trilogy. So sad -- I know she must have had many other amazing books yet to write.


RIP, Nurse Ratched.
One the most memorable and hateable characters in move history.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-09-23/louise-fletcher-dead-obit

Actor Louise Fletcher, who gave an Oscar-winning performance as the villainous Nurse Ratched in 1975’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and won hearts when she signed to her deaf parents during her Academy Awards speech, died Friday.

Fletcher, who had battled breast cancer twice by the time she was 80, died at her home in France, according to agent David Shaul, who confirmed the news to Deadline. No cause of death was given, but Shaul said Fletcher died in her sleep surrounded by family. She was 88.

While the role as the icy, unlovable nurse in Milos Forman’s acclaimed adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel made Fletcher famous, she struggled to find meaty roles and discovered that, as someone who rose to fame in her 40s, she was often overlooked in favor of younger actors. But she thrived in small fare, such as religious leader Kai Winn Adami on “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and the foul-mouthed matriarch Peg on “Shameless.”


Wait. She was in Shameless?


My cousin use'ta refer to his mother as "The Big Nurse."  In he book, the nurse was never named. Just, "The Big Nurse."


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Loretta Lynn.

Country music legend (Coal Miner's Daughter)

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/04/847558281/loretta-lynn-obituary

Loretta Lynn, the country music icon who brought unparalleled candor about the domestic realities of working-class women to country songwriting — and taught those who came after her to speak their minds, too – died today at her home in Tennessee. She was 90 years old.


The Love Goddess and Aphrodite of the Accordion. We pigs laughed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/arts/judy-tenuta-dead.html


DaveSchmidt said:

The Love Goddess and Aphrodite of the Accordion. We pigs laughed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/arts/judy-tenuta-dead.html

She was so damn funny.  Truly unique.


Judy Tenuta was one of a kind, including her brief cameo in this video that pretty well captures what America was talking about at one point in the mid-90s.


Judy Tenuta's episode of Dr Katz, also with Garry Shandling, is one of favorites.


Angela Lansbury, a titan of film, stage, and television.

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/actress-angela-lansbury-dead-age-96-family-says-2022-10-11/

Oct 11 (Reuters) - Angela Lansbury, the British-born actress whose career spanned eight decades and produced indelible portraits of a wide range of characters from villainesses to sleuths and light comic roles in movies, on stage and on television, died at age 96, her family said on Tuesday.


Many will remember him as Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, but I feel like I've known him most of my life, he just kept showing up in everything I loved watching, from a tiny part in Flash Gordon, to a larger part in Krull, to some brilliant sketch comedy in A Kick Up The Eighties (also featuring Tracey Ullman, Miriam Margolyes and Rik Mayall) and Alfresco (also featuring Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Ben Elton, and Emma Thompson), 3 appearances in The Young Ones, he was in everything. 

His Falstaff in Branagh's Henry V was heartbreaking, his Russian gangster in the Brosnan Bond movies was a lot of fun, and his own show Cracker is utterly brilliant. If you get a chance, go through his IMDB page and track down some of his movies, because I loved this guy in everything, even if it was terrible.

RIP Robbie Coltrane.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63261204


Liked him since high school.


ridski said:

Many will remember him as Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, but I feel like I've known him most of my life, he just kept showing up in everything I loved watching, from a tiny part in Flash Gordon, to a larger part in Krull, to some brilliant sketch comedy in A Kick Up The Eighties (also featuring Tracey Ullman, Miriam Margolyes and Rik Mayall) and Alfresco (also featuring Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Ben Elton, and Emma Thompson), 3 appearances in The Young Ones, he was in everything. 

His Falstaff in Branagh's Henry V was heartbreaking, his Russian gangster in the Brosnan Bond movies was a lot of fun, and his own show Cracker is utterly brilliant. If you get a chance, go through his IMDB page and track down some of his movies, because I loved this guy in everything, even if it was terrible.

RIP Robbie Coltrane.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63261204

He even made a guest appearance in the (sub-par) U.S. version of 'Cracker'. And a couple of times in 'Blackadder'. It's a shame most people will only know him from H.P.


This is a sad story, but what an amazing family.

Lucy Simon (82) - singer and Tony Award-winning Broadway composer

Joanna Simon (85) - Opera singer and Emmy Award-winning broadcaster

Both died of cancer this week, one day apart.  They are sisters of Carly Simon and daughters of the founder of Simon & Schuster, Richard Simon.

https://deadline.com/2022/10/lucy-simon-dead-broadway-composer-secret-garden-carly-simon-1235151781/

In a very sad development, Carly Simon lost both of her sisters this week, with Broadway composer Lucy Simon dying of breast cancer Thursday and former opera singer Joanna Simon passing from thyroid cancer on Wednesday.

Both deaths were confirmed by a source close to pop superstar Carly. Lucy Simon was 82, Joanna Simon was 85.

Born into wealth and a rarified atmosphere of celebrity and literati to Simon & Schuster publisher Richard Simon and wife Andrea, the Simon sisters – their brother Peter was the youngest sibling – would all find their ways to success in professional music careers.


I can’t imagine losing a sibling, let alone both in the same week.  

Any other words just seem trite…


was catching up on news just now and read that the founder of Red Bull, Dietrich Mateschitz, has also died

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-23/red-bull-founder-dietrich-mateschitz-dies-aged-78/101566664


Jerry Lee Lewis, age 87.


Several notable deaths in the last few days, but not worth adding here (well covered in general news).

However I’ve just heard Leslie Phillips has died! A wonderful actor with a fine sense of cheeky comic timing as well as for drama without being overly melodramatic. You’ll remember him best for recent voice acting in the Harry Potter films. 
(My dad looked a little like him, without the mo, as a younger man)

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/nov/08/leslie-phillips-appreciation

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63557414 


Gallagher dead at 76 from organ failure. Watermelons can now rest easy and not worry about the sledgehammer. What a character!


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