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Celebrity Deaths

Started by noodlehead.crucified.c2c, June 25, 2009, 05:28:29 PM

MV/Liberace!

Hmm.  I'm surprised there was so little said about this one:

Dick Lugar, 87, American politician, U.S. Senator (1977â€"2013), mayor of Indianapolis (1968â€"1976), complications from CIDP.

Dr. MD MD

All death. All famous. All the time.

MV/Liberace!

Tales Soares, 26, Brazilian model.  Collapsed and died on a catwalk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieHlunT_s0g


MV/Liberace!

Kelly Jobanputra, 39, British radio presenter (BBC), hit by train.

MV/Liberace!

Phil McCormack, 58, American singer (Molly Hatchet).

edit:  not the original singer.  that guy died in 2005.

Dr. MD MD

It’s been a busy week for the grim reaper.

MV/Liberace!

Larry "Flash" Jenkins, 63, American actor (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fletch, The White Shadow), heart attack.


Dr. MD MD

Well, you’re dead now so shut up!


MV/Liberace!

Robert L. Butler, 92, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Marion, Illinois (1963â€"2018).

Mayor from 1963 to 2018?  For fuck's sake.  Marion, IL isn't far from Cape Girardeau, MO where I live.  That's probably the only reason this one stood out to me initially.

Dr. MD MD

I wonder how many of Peter Mayhew’s eulogies will just be people doing Wookie growls? ???

MV/Liberace!

Geoffrey Servante, 99, British veteran of the Spanish Civil War.

Lunger

Quote from: Liberace! on May 03, 2019, 12:35:01 AM
Boom.

If I had to wear those gay-ass clothes I'd drop dead too

WOTR

Quote from: Liberace! on May 03, 2019, 12:37:00 AM
Kelly Jobanputra, 39, British radio presenter (BBC), hit by train.
BBC... Train. Has to be a conspiracy theory somewhere in sight.

WOTR

May as well add Jean Vanier to the list. Founded L'Arche. He had an honest human side that saw the value in the mentally handicapped. He was a good speaker, and (I believe) an honestly good person who made an impact.

paladin1991

Quote from: WOTR on May 09, 2019, 09:38:52 PM
May as well add Jean Vanier to the list. Founded L'Arche. He had an honest human side that saw the value in the mentally handicapped. He was a good speaker, and (I believe) an honestly good person who made an impact.
Did he know Anthony?

Rix Gins

Jim Fowler has died at the age of 89.  He was the guy who co-starred with Marlin Perkins on the tv show Wild Kingdom.  He also brought animals to the Tonight Show when Johnny Carson was hosting it.

https://youtu.be/9cFLFKyu5iY

WOTR

Quote from: paladin1991 on May 09, 2019, 09:46:03 PM
Did he know Anthony?
Mentally handicapped ≠ mentally unstable.  :)

albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on May 09, 2019, 09:57:41 PM
Jim Fowler has died at the age of 89.  He was the guy who co-starred with Marlin Perkins on the tv show Wild Kingdom.  He also brought animals to the Tonight Show when Johnny Carson was hosting it.
https://youtu.be/9cFLFKyu5iY
RIP. I hope Mutual Of Omaha will be paying family a lot. Love the "don't drink that out of Ed's. That bear will hibernate for a year!" Johnny was so good.

paladin1991

Quote from: WOTR on May 09, 2019, 10:00:46 PM
Mentally handicapped ≠ mentally unstable.  :)
You sound like the dude at the VA.  Maybe he's right.  I am not unstable.  I'll just keep saying this, just under my breath, maybe everyone else will believe it if I believe it.


SredniVashtar

Shitty 'comedian' Freddie Starr (no relation to Ken). It won't mean much to most of you, and frankly if doesn't mean much to me either, but he was one of a long line of dismal end-of-the-pier entertainers who appealed mainly to very old people from the North. Yorkie must be inconsolable.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/09/freddie-starr-found-dead-at-home-in-spain-aged-76-reports


Uncle Duke

Quote from: Rix Gins on May 09, 2019, 09:57:41 PM
Jim Fowler has died at the age of 89.  He was the guy who co-starred with Marlin Perkins on the tv show Wild Kingdom.  He also brought animals to the Tonight Show when Johnny Carson was hosting it.

https://youtu.be/9cFLFKyu5iY

"And there it is, the giant anaconda.  With its mighty coils, this 15 ft serpent can literally squeeze the life out of a full grown man in minutes.  Get him Jim....."

WOTR

Quote from: SredniVashtar on May 10, 2019, 02:40:13 AM
Shitty 'comedian' Freddie Starr (no relation to Ken). It won't mean much to most of you, and frankly if doesn't mean much to me either, but he was one of a long line of dismal end-of-the-pier entertainers who appealed mainly to very old people from the North. Yorkie must be inconsolable.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/09/freddie-starr-found-dead-at-home-in-spain-aged-76-reports

Dead Comedians... I have to go back a month- but it seems somewhat appropriate for Bellgab.

Veteran U.K. comedian Ian Cognito died after falling ill on stage... “We thought it was part of the act,” Ostojak explained. “We came out feeling really sick, we just sat there for five minutes watching him, laughing at him.”

The comedian gave me one last laugh when I imagined the mood in the room as it went from everybody laughing hysterically at a dead guy slumped over on stage for five minutes to the realization he was dead, 911 being called, CPR performed and finally the man being wheeled out the door on his way to the morgue.

Nothing that anybody can do to change the past. They will all look back on that night and realize they not only sat idly by as a man died in front of them- but that they laughed while he expired.*

Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/5160771/ian-cognito-dies-onstage/

*No, I'm not saying it was wrong of them to do so- that is what makes it all the better.  8)


SredniVashtar

Brian Walden, political pundit and interviewer. Famous for asking questions so long that you'd forgotten what he was talking about by the time he finished.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/12/brian-walden-former-labour-mp-and-tv-presenter-dies-aged-86

His show also had a theme tune so majestically badass that yon expected to see him dressed in leather rather than a shirt and tie.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2dpq4sExgs

Uncle Duke

Quote from: SredniVashtar on May 12, 2019, 09:23:30 AM
Brian Walden, political pundit and interviewer. Famous for asking questions so long that you'd forgotten what he was talking about by the time he finished.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/12/brian-walden-former-labour-mp-and-tv-presenter-dies-aged-86

His show also had a theme tune so majestically badass that yon expected to see him dressed in leather rather than a shirt and tie.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2dpq4sExgs

That's "Nantucket Sleighride" by Mountain.  This 18 minute live version was what I played during my radio show when I had to use the facilities or get something to eat.

https://youtu.be/Oa7pDgF8rrY

SredniVashtar

Quote from: Uncle Duke on May 12, 2019, 09:29:40 AM
That's "Nantucket Sleighride" by Mountain.  This 18 minute live version was what I played during my radio show when I had to use the facilities or get something to eat.

https://youtu.be/Oa7pDgF8rrY

Thanks, I never knew that. I always thought it was commissioned for the show. Another illusion shattered.

Yorkshire pud

Quote from: SredniVashtar on May 10, 2019, 02:40:13 AM
Shitty 'comedian' Freddie Starr (no relation to Ken). It won't mean much to most of you, and frankly if doesn't mean much to me either, but he was one of a long line of dismal end-of-the-pier entertainers who appealed mainly to very old people from the North. Yorkie must be inconsolable.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/09/freddie-starr-found-dead-at-home-in-spain-aged-76-reports

Not my cup of tea, though I once worked with a bloke who knew him quite well. Starr used to have a limo business too (How my mate knew him).

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