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

I’m surprised no-one mentioned Lisa Loring, the original Wednesday Addams most of us grew up with. 
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jan/30/lisa-loring-the-original-wednesday-addams-dies-at-age-64 

And the second Borg Queen, Annie Wersching. (Yes, I know she had other roles too!)

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jan/29/annie-wersching-best-known-for-role-in-tv-series-24-dies-at-45


R.I.P. Melinda Dillon, of Close Encounters, A Christmas Story, and many other films...

-s.


Memory from the mid-1980s: A dude known as one of the coolest cats on campus, a future founder of Squirrel Nut Zippers, walking by himself one evening along the main college drag, strumming This Guy’s in Love With You on his guitar.

The great Burt Bacharach:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/burt-bacharach-legendary-composer-of-pop-songs-dies-at-94/ar-AA17ic5I


It's a great song.  Sad loss but a long life.


It should be mentioned that transcending his image as, perhaps,  a purveyor of sacharine too easy listening pop, he did an album with Elvis Costello.


bub said:

It should be mentioned that transcending his image as, perhaps, a purveyor of sacharine too easy listening pop, he did an album with Elvis Costello.

And was Angie Dickinson’s husband for 16 years.


bub said:

It should be mentioned that transcending his image as, perhaps,  a purveyor of sacharine too easy listening pop, he did an album with Elvis Costello.

He also thought Elvis was a great lyricist. Painted from memory was a very good album. Beautiful music he created. 


Tim McCarver - longtime baseball player and broadcaster.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/35673836/world-series-champion-tv-analyst-tim-mccarver-dies-81

NEW YORK -- Tim McCarver, the All-Star catcher and Hall of Fame broadcaster who during 60 years in baseball won two World Series titles with the St. Louis Cardinals and had a long run as one of the most recognized, incisive and talkative television commentators in the country, died Thursday. He was 81.

McCarver's death was announced by the National Baseball Hall of Fame, which said he died Thursday morning in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was with his family.


Richard Belzer, comedian and actor. Age 78.
A lot of people probably don't realize he started as a comedian.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/19/entertainment/richard-belzer-death/index.html

CNN —

Richard Belzer, the comedian and actor best known for playing the acerbic Detective John Munch across a number of NBC crime dramas, including “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” over more than two decades, has died, according to his longtime manager. He was 78.

Belzer “passed away peacefully” early Sunday morning local time at his home in France, according to Eric Gardner, his manager.

Writer Bill Scheft, a longtime friend of the actor, told The Hollywood Reporter that Belzer had “lots of health issues.”


I saw him do stand up in the 70s.   Unfortunately, some idiot in the audience threw something at him and he walked off stage mid set. 


uic


David Lindley, who provided this highlight from a great TV music series.


RIP Tom Sizemore, who suffered a brain aneurysm on February 28 and was taken off life support yesterday. Love him in Heat, Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down, but his role in the lesser-known movie Heart and Souls with Robert Downey Jr, Charles Grodin, Kyra Sedgwick and Alfre Woodard is what we remember him most for in this house.


ridski said:

RIP Tom Sizemore, who suffered a brain aneurysm on February 28 and was taken off life support yesterday. Love him in Heat, Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down, but his role in the lesser-known movie Heart and Souls with Robert Downey Jr, Charles Grodin, Kyra Sedgwick and Alfre Woodard is what we remember him most for in this house.

https://www.slashfilm.com/1217607/tom-sizemores-10-best-roles/

Heart and Souls is included on this list.  Also, I need to watch Bringing Out the Dead.


Gary Rossington, the last original member of Lynyrd Skynryd. “Play it pretty for Oakland.” Or Atlanta. Anywhere.


DaveSchmidt said:

Gary Rossington, the last original member of Lynyrd Skynryd. “Play it pretty for Oakland.” Or Atlanta. Anywhere.

I noticed the Confederate flag which prompted a google search.
I found this article from 2012:

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-xpm-2012-sep-21-la-et-ms-lynyrd-skynrd-denounces-confederate-flag-angering-some-fans-20120920-story.html

Lynyrd Skynyrd wasn’t bothered by Watergate, but now they’re sheepish over their use of the Confederate flag.

The Southern rock band has long been known for its ‘70s-era hits like “Sweet Home Alabama” and defiant embrace of Old Dixie imagery. But the group’s lone surviving original member, Gary Rossington, recently told CNN that the band, recognizing the stars-and-bars flag’s offensive and racist undertones, will cease using it as a stage decoration at concerts supporting its new album “Last of a Dyin’ Breed.”


Someone who has had an impact on all of our daily lives (or most of us).....

Larry Tesler, the inventor of "cut, copy, and paste." 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51567695

Larry Tesler, an icon of early computing, has died at the age of 74.

Mr Tesler started working in Silicon Valley in the early 1960s, at a time when computers were inaccessible to the vast majority of people.

It was thanks to his innovations - which included the "cut", "copy" and "paste" commands - that the personal computer became simple to learn and use.

Xerox, where Mr Tesler spent part of his career, paid tribute to him.

"The inventor of cut/copy & paste, find & replace, and more, was former Xerox researcher Larry Tesler," the company tweeted. "Your workday is easier thanks to his revolutionary ideas."


The Israeli actor Chaim Topol, best known for his portrayal of Tevye the Milkman in Fiddler on the Roof, has died at the age of 87.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/mar/09/chaim-topol-dead-fiddler-on-the-roof-actor-dies-death-aged-87


the18thletter said:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gru4IfbKlfU&feature=shares

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OG Blue Eyed Soul

Wow, some antibiotics messed him up that bad. I’m shocked, I love his music. Sad.


marksierra said:

The Israeli actor Chaim Topol, best known for his portrayal of Tevye the Milkman in Fiddler on the Roof, has died at the age of 87.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/mar/09/chaim-topol-dead-fiddler-on-the-roof-actor-dies-death-aged-87

It's insane to think that Topol wasn't even 40 when he made Fiddler on the Roof.


KarenMarlowe said:

the18thletter said:

OG Blue Eyed Soul

One of my favorite tunes!

I’ve heard that song a million times and never knew the artist’s name. If pressed, I probably would have blurted Earth Wind & Fire.


Lance Reddick, actor. 60 years old.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/wire-john-wick-star-lance-192719468.

Lance Reddick, the actor who brought Baltimore police officer Cedric Daniels to life on “The Wire” before turning into one of Hollywood’s most reliable film stars, has died at the age of 60. The news was first reported by TMZ.

Reddick’s death came as a surprise to many, as he had been actively promoting his role in the upcoming “John Wick: Chapter 4” for the last several weeks. However, he pulled out of attending the film’s premiere in New York City on Wednesday night for unspecified reasons. The cause of his death was not revealed.


Did we lose Willis Reed? (Ny knicks center) ?

Indeed on 3/21/23 RIP


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