Celebrity Deaths

[UnscreenedCaller]

Art Bell's career.

Too soon?

I love you guys

[CornyCrow]

I read that 'some' are still investigating the cause of death.  If a person is old, I don't think such things are investigated often. 

I was foolish, years back, in that I liked her because she seemed so matter of fact in her delivery, not as ditsy as some psychics.  I think she had some ability, but a wise man told me that once you start a business being a psychic, you are obliged to produce and the 'gift' does not like to always work on queue - so you are put in a position where you sometimes must ad lib. 

I remember when she said those Pennsylvania miners were alive on C2C years ago.  Noory just pretended nothing was amiss when, during the same show, we found out that they were dead.  I wonder how Art would have handled it?

Years back she tried to start a religion and was on her website, I think, dressed in some Egyptian garb.  She brought her kid/s into the religion.  I always suspected that  she was trying to start a money making empire in the religion to leave to her kids.   

[PB the Deplorable]

...  I always suspected that  she was trying to start a money making empire in the religion to leave to her kids.

Or at least a tax free empire

[jazmunda]

Nelson Mandela

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/nelson-mandela-dies-aged-95/story-e6frg6so-1226776675718

Sad news.

For some reason I have a recollection that he died a long time ago.

[Pam J.]

Nelson Mandela

For some reason I have a recollection that he died a long time ago.

It's weird; <a href="http://mandelaeffect.com/about"> a lot of us have the same recollection.

[jazmunda]

It's weird; <a href="http://mandelaeffect.com/about"> a lot of us have the same recollection.

She didn't mention the creator of the alternate recollections theory Art Bell.

[Morgus]

Nelson Mandela

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/nelson-mandela-dies-aged-95/story-e6frg6so-1226776675718

Sad news.

For some reason I have a recollection that he died a long time ago.

Yep, Art Bell used to comment a lot on past shows about how many people had memories of Mandela dying years ago. It was one of the main items to go with the idea of parallel timelines or memories from previous timelines prior to time travel changing the past.
Or perhaps its how many people see future events in visions or dreams, they may have "remembered" seeing this event without recalling it was set in the "future" back then?

[Juan]

Or maybe a lot of people are idiots who don't pay attention.

[Little Hater]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/nelson-mandela-becomes-first-politician-to-be-miss,34755/

[ziznak]

lloyd pye.... fucking shit... now we'll never know about the starchild!

[Unquenchable Angst]

'Lawrence of Arabia' star Peter O'Toole dead at 81

Sunday, December 15th 2013, 1:43 pm

by gregory katz associated press
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Peter O'Toole, the charismatic actor who achieved instant stardom as Lawrence of Arabia and was nominated eight times for an Academy Award, has died, his agent said Sunday. He was 81.

O'Toole died Saturday after a long illness, Steve Kenis said in a brief statement.

The family was overwhelmed "by the outpouring of real love and affection being expressed towards him, and to us, during this unhappy time. ... In due course there will be a memorial filled with song and good cheer, as he would have wished," O'Toole's daughter Kate said in the statement.

O'Toole got his first Oscar nomination for 1962's "Lawrence of Arabia," his last for "Venus" in 2006. With that he set the record for most nominations without ever winning, though he had accepted an honorary Oscar in 2003.

A reformed â€" but unrepentant â€" hell-raiser, O'Toole long suffered from ill health. Always thin, he had grown wraithlike in later years, his famously handsome face eroded by years of hard drinking.

But nothing diminished his flamboyant manner and candor.

"If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it," he once said. "If you give up drinking, don't go moaning about it; go back on the bottle. Do. As. Thou. Wilt."

O'Toole began his acting career as one of the most exciting young talents on the British stage. His 1955 "Hamlet," at the Bristol Old Vic, was critically acclaimed.

International stardom came in David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia." With only a few minor movie roles behind him, O'Toole was unknown to most moviegoers when they first saw him as T.E. Lawrence, the mythic British World War I soldier and scholar who led an Arab rebellion against the Turks.

His sensitive portrayal of Lawrence's complex character garnered O'Toole his first Oscar nomination.

O'Toole was tall, fair and strikingly handsome, and the image of his bright blue eyes peering out of an Arab headdress in Lean's spectacularly photographed desert epic was unforgettable.

Playwright Noel Coward once said that if O'Toole had been any prettier, they would have had to call the movie "Florence of Arabia."

In 1964's "Becket," O'Toole played King Henry II to Richard Burton's Thomas Becket, and won another Oscar nomination. Burton shared O'Toole's fondness for drinking, and their offset carousing made headlines.

O'Toole played Henry again in 1968 in "The Lion in Winter," opposite Katharine Hepburn, for his third Oscar nomination.

Four more nominations followed: in 1968 for "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," in 1971 for "The Ruling Class," in 1980 for "The Stunt Man," and in 1982 for "My Favorite Year." It was almost a quarter-century before he received his eighth and last, for "Venus."

Seamus Peter O'Toole was born Aug. 2, 1932, the son of Irish bookie Patrick "Spats" O'Toole and his wife Constance. There is some question about whether Peter was born in Connemara, Ireland, or in Leeds, northern England, where he grew up.

After a teenage foray into journalism at the Yorkshire Evening Post and national military service with the navy, young O'Toole auditioned for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and won a scholarship.

He went from there to the Bristol Old Vic and soon was on his way to stardom, helped along by an early success in 1959 at London's Royal Court Theatre in "The Long and The Short and The Tall."

The image of the renegade hell-raiser stayed with O'Toole for decades, although he gave up drinking in 1975 following serious health problems and major surgery.

He did not, however, give up smoking unfiltered Gauloises cigarettes in an ebony holder. That and his penchant for green socks, voluminous overcoats and trailing scarves lent him a rakish air and suited his fondness for drama in the old-fashioned "bravura" manner.

A month before his 80th birthday in 2012, O'Toole announced his retirement from a career that he said had fulfilled him emotionally and financially, bringing "me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits."

"However, it's my belief that one should decide for oneself when it is time to end one's stay," he said. "So I bid the profession a dry-eyed and profoundly grateful farewell."

In retirement, O'Toole said he would focus on the third volume of his memoirs.

Good parts were sometimes few and far between, but "I take whatever good part comes along," O'Toole told The Independent on Sunday newspaper in 1990.

"And if there isn't a good part, then I do anything, just to pay the rent. Money is always a pressure. And waiting for the right part â€" you could wait forever. So I turn up and do the best I can."

The 1980 "Macbeth" in which he starred was a critical disaster of heroic proportions. But it played to sellout audiences, largely because the savaging by the critics brought out the curiosity seekers.

"The thought of it makes my nose bleed," he said years later.

In 1989, however, O'Toole had a big stage success with "Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell," a comedy about his old drinking buddy, the legendary layabout and ladies' man who wrote The Spectator magazine's weekly "Low Life" column when he was sober enough to do so.

The honorary Oscar came 20 years after his seventh nomination for "My Favorite Year." By then it seemed a safe bet that O'Toole's prospects for another nomination were slim. He was still working regularly, but in smaller roles unlikely to earn awards attention.

O'Toole graciously accepted the honorary award, quipping, "Always a bridesmaid, never a bride, my foot," as he clutched his Oscar statuette.

He had nearly turned down the award, sending a letter asking that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hold off on the honorary Oscar until he turned 80.

Hoping another Oscar-worthy role would come his way, O'Toole wrote: "I am still in the game and might win the bugger outright."

The last chance came in, for "Venus," in which he played a lecherous old actor consigned to roles as feeble-minded royals or aged men on their death beds. By failing again to win, he broke the tie for futility which had been shared with his old drinking buddy, Richard Burton.

O'Toole divorced Welsh actress Sian Phillips in 1979 after 19 years of marriage. The couple had two daughters, Kate and Pat.

A brief relationship with American model Karen Somerville led to the birth of his son Lorcan in 1983, and a change of lifestyle for O'Toole.

After a long custody battle, a U.S. judge ruled Somerville should have her son during school vacations, and O'Toole would have custody during the school year.

"The pirate ship has berthed," he declared, happily taking on the responsibilities of fatherhood. He learned to coach schoolboy cricket and, when he was in a play, the curtain time was moved back to allow him part of the evenings at home with his son.

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AP writer Raphael Satter contributed to this report.
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[UnscreenedCaller]

“I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.” -Peter O'Toole

RIP 'Awrence

[Morgus]

lloyd pye.... fucking shit... now we'll never know about the starchild!

Perhaps the starchild research will continue.
This week William Henry on his internet podcast "Revelations" has a guest from the startchild group talking about continuing efforts to raise over a million dollars to get a full DNA test on the skull, carrying on Lloyd Pye's work...

[BobGrau]

Perhaps the starchild research will continue.
This week William Henry on his internet podcast "Revelations" has a guest from the startchild group talking about continuing efforts to raise over a million dollars to get a full DNA test on the skull, carrying on Lloyd Pye's work...

A million dollars for a dna test? Shit, i'm not THAT interested.

[Morgus]

A million dollars for a dna test? Shit, i'm not THAT interested.

The guy said its so expensive because the skull DNA is so old.
If it was only a few decades old, it would cost less than $1000.

[onan]

A million dollars for a dna test? Shit, i'm not THAT interested.

The reason (I believe) for the cost is just bullshit to stall. That skull is human. During my clinicals I had a patient that was born with a defect. It was a very rare condition. The child was born with no mandible and the ears actually stretched underneath the (what should have been) jaw line and the lobes were attached to each other. I can't remember the clinical diagnoses. (I have tried to find a picture, I had found one several years ago, but sadly can't now). That infant's Xray looked quite similar to the "star child". Yes the skull looks slightly alien, but it isn't.

[Yorkshire pud]

The guy said its so expensive because the skull DNA is so old.
If it was only a few decades old, it would cost less than $1000.

So because it's old, it will cost a 1000 times more to do a DNA test? Next week a long lost relative in Nigeria will be promising a windfall as long as they have $1000 deposited in an offshore account... Still, one born every minute.

[Unquenchable Angst]

'billy jack' film maker dead of pneumonia

[valdez]

'Lawrence of Arabia' star Peter O'Toole dead at 81...

“I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.” -Peter O'Toole

      "I shall be at Aqaba. That, is written."

[FallenSeraph]

Doomsday Minister Harold Camping Dead at 92

Harold Camping, the California preacher who used his evangelical radio ministry and thousands of billboards to broadcast the end of the world and then gave up public prophecy when his date-specific doomsdays did not come to pass, has died at age 92.

http://deathbeeper.com/7306441.html

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Hell yeah I subscribe to Celebrity Death Beeper.

[valdez]

Doomsday Minister Harold Camping Dead at 92

Harold Camping, the California preacher who used his evangelical radio ministry and thousands of billboards to broadcast the end of the world and then gave up public prophecy when his date-specific doomsdays did not come to pass, has died at age 92

     Whether you believe in many lives (I'm watching Cloud Atlas right now) or one, we've all got our personal "doomsday" coming.  I hope the afterlife is good to him.

[Camazotz Automat]

'billy jack' film maker dead of pneumonia

This death did bother me. Hate to see Tom Laughlin go.


Billy Jack in action

[FallenSeraph]

It's trippy to start at pg 1 and re-live the whole Michael Jackson thing.

That's how bored I am right now.

[aldousburbank]

It's trippy to start at pg 1 and re-live the whole Michael Jackson thing.

That's how bored I am right now.

I got nuthin. Can I bring some popcorn over?

[b_dubb]

Mandela's name does not belong in a thread dedicated to Celebrity.  the man was far, far more than a mere celebrity

[Little Hater]

Feel free to start a thread dedicated to the deaths of gods. As wonderful as Mandela was, he was just a man.

[b_dubb]

Feel free to start a thread dedicated to the deaths of gods. As wonderful as Mandela was, he was just a man.

never said he was a god Littke Wanker.  just making an observation

[Agent : Orange]

The reason (I believe) for the cost is just bullshit to stall. That skull is human. During my clinicals I had a patient that was born with a defect. It was a very rare condition. The child was born with no mandible and the ears actually stretched underneath the (what should have been) jaw line and the lobes were attached to each other. I can't remember the clinical diagnoses. (I have tried to find a picture, I had found one several years ago, but sadly can't now). That infant's Xray looked quite similar to the "star child". Yes the skull looks slightly alien, but it isn't.

Oh man... how long did it survive?

[onan]

Oh man... how long did it survive?

He was on life support about 3 minutes being born. Mother was visiting from Columbia (not an illegal). She was, as anyone would suspect, a wreck. Couldn't face the truth for several days. Then realized there was no hope. I think the infant lived for 4 days before life support was stopped.

[b_dubb]

He was on life support about 3 minutes being born. Mother was visiting from Columbia (not an illegal). She was, as anyone would suspect, a wreck. Couldn't face the truth for several days. Then realized there was no hope. I think the infant lived for 4 days before life support was stopped.

stories like this make it very difficult ... nigh ... impossible for me to believe that there is a 'caring and involved god' in the Universe.  to me this sort of story just blows the idea that there is a god that gives a shit about us right out of the water.  i'd love to hear some apologetics christian dogma peddlers try to rationalize this.  actually they wouldn't really even deal with it. they'd redirect. 

on a lighter note ... how about that all those celebrities who die and shit?  pretty cray cray right?