Mostly for the Americans but, famous baseball man Tommy Lasorda passed in the overnight thursday night. The report I saw said he had a massive heart attack and never recovered.
Cause of death: Complications of West Nile Virus of all things (spread by mosquitos, for those unfamiliar). Though maybe also how gakked the LA hospital system is at the moment.
Pacific wrote: The curse of B5 continues, I don't think there can be many members of the cast left now can there?
Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Patricia Tallman, Andrea Thompson, Bill Mumy, Jason Carter, Tracy Scoggins & Peter Jurasik are still alive - according to Wikipedia anyway.
That hits a bit close to home for me. I grew up watching the show. I was a geek and a nerd like his character. And, I turn 44 this month, same age as him.
According to USA Today, former boxer Leon Spinx, famous for beating Ali in a split decision fight, has passed away from pancreatic (and other) cancers after a 5 year battle.
Bit of a niche UK one - Victor Ambrus, the artist on Time Team, has died.
Spoiler:
Time team are deeply saddened to have learnt of the passing of our dear friend, Victor Ambrus, on 10th February 2021.
Having talked to the family this evening, Tim was told that this wonderful man had a peaceful end with his family around. They agreed to this announcement.
As one of the founding members of the Time Team family he was loved and respected by the whole team. He was an essential part of the team’s success - who brought the past to life. He was an exceptional and unique artist and a wonderful human being. He will always be in our memory and forever part of the Time Team story.
Our thoughts are with his family at this time.
May he rest in peace.
This may not mean much to many of you, but legendary Christian singer Carman passed away yesterday at the age of 65, due to complications during a surgery for a hernia.
For those who don't know who Carman was, he was probably the greatest Christian singer of all time, and the one who held the record for the largest concert by a Christian artist (71,000 people in a stadium). I was fortunate enough to have him actually do a small event at my church and thus got to see him sing live. Truly a sad loss for Christians everywhere.
Flat out ghoulish, you both should be ashamed of yourselves. Fairly confident that your expectation is to NOT have this level of disrespect along at anyone who influenced you passing, so why would you not extend the same courtesy and respect for others? Proving once again that the ban on politics here is only a ban on politics the herd dislikes.
I wonder how you would have reacted to me saying Rapist In Purgatory when Kobe Bryant died...
Ever noticed how nobody says stupid gak like that when the person they've been told to hate if fighting Cancer? It's always after they are dead. Proof they are cowards. I pity them and their brainwashing.
SlaveToDorkness wrote: Ever noticed how nobody says stupid gak like that when the person they've been told to hate if fighting Cancer? It's always after they are dead. Proof they are cowards. I pity them and their brainwashing.
Nope, was rooting for his cancer. It just had the misfortune of being born in Rush Limbaugh.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Frankly, the man was a living fecal swab who, after decades of celebrating the deaths of people I love, came down with a disease that definitely couldn't have been caused by the idiot's cigar habit because tobacco can't cause lung cancer. I'm not going to say I won't be tap dancing on his grave. I've already got maracas and a big foam middle finger ready to go for his funeral.
Just Tony wrote:Flat out ghoulish, you both should be ashamed of yourselves.
Like he should have been for the comments he made in life?
Fairly confident that your expectation is to NOT have this level of disrespect along at anyone who influenced you passing, so why would you not extend the same courtesy and respect for others?
He's being treated with the same amount of respect and courtesy he showed others in life. In that way, he's getting exactly what he's owed. If he wanted respect and courtesy, he should have acted on that before he shuffled off.
Death doesn't exonerate him, nor should it take away from his actions in life.
Mmm, while I won't say anything along the lines of 'yes I'm glad he's dead', from what I can see over in the UK he appears to have been a dreadfully backwards-thinking racist, sexist, homophobic arsehole. I can't see any sign of him having had any sort of 'good' opinion about anything, and I'm concerned about anyone saying he was in any way influential to them.
His charity work is easily googled, but ultimately it doesn't matter. What I learned here is that I apparently need to sink to the depths of my enemies rather than try to rise above them.
Enjoy your... whatever the hell it is you call this celebration, I'm unsubscribing to the thread and leaving you to it...
Duskweaver wrote: Ah, gravedancing: perhaps the single dumbest way to hand somebody you despise the moral high ground.
Not one to celebrate myself, but...this ain't it. I debated flagging the acknowledgement of his death yesterday, as he's an extremely(and appropriately) divisive figure.
To throw out just one example:
Rush used to read off lists of gay men who had passed away from AIDS, while playing canned applause tracks.
Now, for those of us who are petrol heads, have watched the Grand Tour (and those three in general), this guy's name should bring one thing to mind: the Meyers Manx, aka the OG Dune Buggy. . . ya know, the one based on a Beetle?
The surprise for me is, if I'm honest, is that if you'd have asked me if the inventor of the dune buggy was still around, I'd have thought he would pass on in like, the 70s or 80s. . . not just. . . Today.
For anyone unfamiliar with Murray Walker I encourage you to go and find a list of his memorable quotes. Better still, find the original commentary on YouTube.
Easy E wrote: Kotto was also a memorable Bond villain and a pioneering black actor in my mind.....
Yeah, i heard he got death threats from racist extremists for LALD as he played a black man implying he was planning to have sex with a white woman at some time.
Obviously none of the bedhseet brigade had the testicular fortitude to try making good on their threats...
This man wasn't a celebrity. he was never in a tv show or movie, never had a hit song or anything like that.
He was a 51 year old father of 7 children who died rushing into a supermarket where a mass shooting was underway trying to save the lives total strangers.
For anyone unfamiliar with Murray Walker I encourage you to go and find a list of his memorable quotes. Better still, find the original commentary on YouTube.
He was a ... unique ... racing commentator. Just like the guy behind him.
I lost my dog today, for 12 years he kept me company and helped me stave off the woes of the world. Now that he is gone I am alone, I have no family and few if any friends remaining in my life.
Sleep well buddy, I shall be seeing you again one day I hope.
Trondheim wrote: I lost my dog today, for 12 years he kept me company and helped me stave off the woes of the world. Now that he is gone I am alone, I have no family and few if any friends remaining in my life.
Sleep well buddy, I shall be seeing you again one day I hope.
Trondheim wrote: I lost my dog today, for 12 years he kept me company and helped me stave off the woes of the world. Now that he is gone I am alone, I have no family and few if any friends remaining in my life.
Sleep well buddy, I shall be seeing you again one day I hope.
I feel for you, Man. I have a14year old dog and we have some hard decisions in the near future I'm afraid.
Wait a bit and get a puppy! You'll be too busy cleaning up poop and chewed models to be sad!
Azreal13 wrote: Simultaneously gutted there won't be any more Friday Night Dinner and hoping there won't be any more Friday Night Dinner.
Yeah, same. I mean, they could perhaps make that into part of the story, but it wouldn't be the same. And besides, I think it ended at the right point, with the boys having to grow up...
porkuslime wrote: I am very sorry, both for the Queen and the rest of the family.
I don't, however, know how he was viewed by the UK in general..
In my circle at least, he was a bit of a cantankerous old git, but he had character and heart. Shame to hear on Reddit some are making some pretty bad-taste "jokes" about it.
porkuslime wrote: I am very sorry, both for the Queen and the rest of the family.
I don't, however, know how he was viewed by the UK in general..
In my circle at least, he was a bit of a cantankerous old git, but he had character and heart. Shame to hear on Reddit some are making some pretty bad-taste "jokes" about it.
Roughly the same here. I think the BBC has summed it up well with "He outlived nearly everyone who knew him and might explain him".
porkuslime wrote: I am very sorry, both for the Queen and the rest of the family.
I don't, however, know how he was viewed by the UK in general..
In my circle at least, he was a bit of a cantankerous old git, but he had character and heart. Shame to hear on Reddit some are making some pretty bad-taste "jokes" about it.
Roughly the same here. I think the BBC has summed it up well with "He outlived nearly everyone who knew him and might explain him".
Prince Phil was the rogue in the establishment.
He was always in the news for 'gaffes' when speaking to people.
He supposedly did the family bits for the Royal Family, bringing up the Queen's children, etc. This left the Queen to get on with reigning.
porkuslime wrote: I am very sorry, both for the Queen and the rest of the family.
I don't, however, know how he was viewed by the UK in general..
In my circle at least, he was a bit of a cantankerous old git, but he had character and heart. Shame to hear on Reddit some are making some pretty bad-taste "jokes" about it.
I have alot of problems with Royalty and the royal family in general, especially after the Oprah interview. But i feel making jokes about someone who wasnt a total piece of gak isnt cool.
McCrory portrayed Cherie Blair in both The Queen (2006) and The Special Relationship (2010). She also portrayed Françoise in the film Charlotte Gray (2001), Narcissa Malfoy in the final three Harry Potter films, Mama Jeanne in Martin Scorsese's family film Hugo (2011), Clair Dowar in the James Bond film Skyfall (2012), Polly Gray in Peaky Blinders (2013–2020), Emma Banville in Fearless (2017) and Kathryn Villiers in MotherFatherSon (2019).
Kentaro Miura, creator of the utterly brilliant Manga series Berserk (which I highly recommend to anyone), dead at 54 of acute aortic dissection.
For those not in the know, Berserk has been HUGELY influential on Japanese Fantasy, and directly influential on a lot of media - such as the Dark Souls franchise - that is popular in the West.
Last year I picked up a visual guide to Berserk, as I've been a fan since I was in uni, and thought it'd be a nice thing to have as a curio, and found a lot of info inside on not only the influences that Miura took from pop culture, but also the absolutely staggering amount of historical and even anatomical research he did to create the setting of Berserk, which transitions seamlessly from very classically kitsch Japanese High Fantasy, to nastily gritty historic realism, to Heironimous Bosch-esque hellscapes.
It's a series that I really deeply love, and is masterfully done. No writer I've ever come across has so quickly been able to make me go from "I'm sure this character is about to live happily ever after, everything is gonna work out great" to "Oh, please, just let their death be quick and painless" with such astonising speed.
Berserk will almost certainly remain unfinished, having been ongoing, and in-and-out of hiatus since its original publication in the 1980s, however, with the burgeoning popularity of the Souls series, and it's growing impact in the West, I'm sure Mr. Miura's legacy will continue to burn just a brilliantly as it deserves.
If you haven't already, try to check out Berserk, and, as I'm sure there are other Berserk fans here, take a lil moment for a real master of his craft, and a titan of Manga.
さようなら
RIP Joanne Linville, probably best known to sci-fi fans as the attractive Romulan commander who fell for Spock in the original series Star Trek episode "The Enterprise Incident". She was 93 years old.
Personally, I've always really liked that episode of Trek. One of my favorites from the original series, and Ms. Linville was brilliant in it. Very sad to hear of her passing.
Another bit of trivia: In the fan-made series Star Trek Continues, the role of the female Romulan commander is played by Joanne Linville's daughter, Amy Rydell.
Surprised it wasn't mentioned before: Donald Rumsfeld passed on last week.
Obviously, many of us have strong feelings (both good and bad) about the guy, but it is undeniable that he was an important figure in the early 21st century.
Some of the obituaries to that guy made for pretty rich reading, and re-kindled memories of my student days and protesting in Bristol. Think there were hundreds of thousands there (believe I've read approaching half a million?), it was something pretty special, for all the good it did.
I have pretty strong feelings indeed, in that he was probably one of the few human beings whose actions have made me earnestly wish that Hell is real.
a sad day for geeks of a certain age, and whilst I was firmly on the C64 side in the playground wars of the early-mid 80's Sir Clive was a proper British legend, 10 Print "RIP Sir" 20 Goto 10
Hubert Germain, last compagnon de la Libération of the French Resistance, has died at 101.
My neighbour, who was likewise in the Resistance (although not a compagnon), also died earlier this year, at around the same age (I was never quite sure exactly how old she was).
Andréa Meyer also known under the stage name Nebelhexë (52) was killed in a terrorist attack in Kongsberg( Norway) last week. She is known for having participated in the first Crandle Of Filth record and released several CDs of her own, she leaves behind one daugther
THE legend, the progenitor of basically an entire genre of entertainment, Mort Sahl passed on at the age of 94, on October 26th.
For those who are unfamiliar, he is single-handedly responsible for the stand-up comedian as we know them today. Before Sahl, all "stand up" acts were tightly rehearsed monologues of, essentially, "knock knock jokes". Mort Sahl prepared for his sets by reading the newspaper. He was the first to really base his whole act around the relevance of /today/. Ripping on current news, politics, and current life opened an entirely new door for comics everywhere.
THE legend, the progenitor of basically an entire genre of entertainment, Mort Sahl passed on at the age of 94, on October 26th.
For those who are unfamiliar, he is single-handedly responsible for the stand-up comedian as we know them today. Before Sahl, all "stand up" acts were tightly rehearsed monologues of, essentially, "knock knock jokes". Mort Sahl prepared for his sets by reading the newspaper. He was the first to really base his whole act around the relevance of /today/. Ripping on current news, politics, and current life opened an entirely new door for comics everywhere.
I'd never heard of him, but this is actually fascinating! Thanks for sharing! The more you know, eh?
And 94 is a good long life too, so he got to see a lot of development on the comedy format he pioneered. May he rest in peace knowing he brought laughter to so many, directly and indirectly.
Gavan O'Herlihy has also died.
Known for his roles in "Willow" and as "Chuck", Richie Cunningham's older brother in "Happy Days" - was also in the ST:Voyager opener as a Kazon.
Rewatched that today. She had a fantastic imagination.
Loved the first books of the Interview series, but they started to get ridiculous. Any time a new character was introduced you had a 200 page interlude of their entire lifespan to date...
The guy who designed alot of the toys for both classic He Man and TMNT passed away. :( His work literally bookended my childhood fandoms/toy collections.