Bring Out Your Dead! The celebrity death thread....
Mary Higgins Clark, the writer.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51339084
joanne said:
I had no idea Nicholas Parsons died a couple of days ago.
live admired him for decades, and learnt a lot about humour and presentation skills from listening to/watching him
A fine chap.
If you could get past the “Huh? Huh? Huh?” shtick — which, granted, was a lot to get past — there were Burns and Carlin, Burns and Schreiber, and The Muppet Show.
Jack Burns, a Comic Force on Camera and Off, Is Dead at 86 (NYT)
Some personal favorites:
Paths of Glory
Ace in the Hole
Spartacus
The Devil’s Disciple
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Seven Days in May
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
annielou said:
Kirk Douglas was one of my few heroes. RIP
When I first saw the news on TV, I thought Michael Douglas had died. I'd completely forgotten Kirk was still alive.
Son of a founder of the ACLU. Tonight Show guest more than 200 times.
Actor-comedian Orson Bean, 91, hit and killed by car in LA (A.P.)
He was always very witty on game and talk shows and was the title character in the "Mr. Bevis" episode of the "The Twilight Zone."DaveSchmidt said:
Son of a founder of the ACLU. Tonight Show guest more than 200 times.
Actor-comedian Orson Bean, 91, hit and killed by car in LA (A.P.)
He was also Andrew Breitbart's father-in-law and the husband of Alley Mills, who played Kevin Arnold's mother on "The Wonder Years."
Wild, Wild. Baa, Baa. Eveready.
Robert Conrad, Star of TV's 'The Wild Wild West,' Dies at 84 (Hollywood Reporter)
I remember watching The Wild Wild West and Star Trek back to back with my dad (Friday nights?).
Mirella Freni, an Italian soprano, died Sunday. She was 84. I remember her as Liu and Mimi at the Met back in the 60s. A beautiful voice and stage presence.
Beautiful Paula Kelly, actor, dancer, choreographer for stage and TV. Soloist with Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey.
Joseph Shambalala - Ladysmith Black Mambazo - what a great guy!
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/11/africa/joseph-shabalala-ladysmith-black-mambazo-dies/index.html
George Coyne,87,Vatican astronomer and Galileo defender.
Frederick Koch,86 , A Koch brother who enjoyed art and collecting houses.
Kellye Nakahara Wallett, an enduring member of the M*A*S*H TV ensemble.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kellye-nakahara-wallett-dead-actress-mash-dies-at-72-1279682
Nurse Kellye carries a secret crush on the show's major character, the womanizing surgeon Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, played by Alan Alda. In a memorable scene, Kellye reveals her feelings, scolding Hawkeye for having his "eyes ... on every nurse" except her.
"For your information," she tells him, "I happen to have a fantastic sense of humor, a bubbly personality and I am warm and sensitive like you wouldn't believe. I also sing and play the guitar and I'm learning to tap dance. And on top of all that, I happen to be cute as hell."
How Nurse Kellye Charmed Her Way Onto the M*A*S*H Cast (MeTV)
If M*A*S*H had an Orr, it was her.
Was torn between which of those two greats to add a photo of, then was reminded that Clyde Stubblefield died three years ago. So the pic goes to the “Movin’ On Up” singer/composer.
Oh man. You're right. Somethings up with my notifications! To make matters worse I think I posted it back then!
LOL
Larry Tesler, a very clever and creative man.
I couldn’t manage without cut, copy, paste for even a day; I can barely remember modern office life without the ease of these clever bits of code.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51567695
She was a lovely person and suffered from Alzheimer’s. She and her husband wrote a book about how they coped with Alzheimer’s.
They asked Katherine Johnson for the moon, and she gave it to them.
Wielding little more than a pencil, a slide rule and one of the finest mathematical minds in the country, Mrs. Johnson, who died at 101 on Monday at a retirement home in Newport News, Va., calculated the precise trajectories that would let Apollo 11 land on the moon in 1969 and, after Neil Armstrong’s history-making moonwalk, let it return to Earth.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/science/katherine-johnson-dead.html
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I had no idea Nicholas Parsons died a couple of days ago.
live admired him for decades, and learnt a lot about humour and presentation skills from listening to/watching him
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51278023
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-11808907