In Memorium

[Darth Penguin]

Sid Caesar dies aged 91

Sid Caesar, the prodigiously talented pioneer of TV comedy who paired with Imogene Coca in sketches that became classics and who inspired a generation of famous writers, died early Wednesday. He was 91.
Mr. Caesar died at his home in the Los Angeles area after a brief illness, family spokesman Eddy Friedfeld said.

In his two most important shows, Your Show of Shows (1950 to 54) and Caesar’s Hour (1954 to 57), Mr. Caesar displayed remarkable skill in pantomime, satire, mimicry, dialect and sketch comedy. And he gathered a stable of young writers who went on to fame in their own right – including Neil Simon and Woody Allen.
“The one great star that television created and who created television was Sid Caesar,” said critic Joel Siegel on the TV documentary Hail Sid Caesar! The Golden Age Of Comedy, which first aired in 2001.
While best known for his TV shows, which have been revived on DVD in recent years, he also had success on Broadway and occasional film appearances, notably in It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

[Natalka]

RIP Mr. Caesar - he was hilarious!

[Shwa Girl]

Ralph Waite. From the Waltons. He played the role of the Dad. Recently appeared in

• Days of our Lives (2009–2014) Father Matt (recurring)
• Grey's Anatomy (2009) "Tainted Obligation" as Irving Waller

He was 85.
R.I.P. "Daddy Walton"

[Natalka]

RIP - Good night, Pa...

[Shwa Girl]

RIP - Good night, Pa...

[Patty Smyth]

Jim Henson's son 48 heart attack - John Paul Henson

the voice of many muppets including Sweetums

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ck-age-48.html

[Shwa Girl]

Jim Henson's son 48 heart attack - John Paul Henson

the voice of many muppets including Sweetums

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ck-age-48.html

So sad.First the Dad died early. Then the son dies.
RIP to both.

[Darth Penguin]

Devo guitarist Bob Casale dies aged 61

One of the original members of the US new wave band Devo has died, the group announced on Tuesday.
Guitarist Bob Casale passed away of heart failure, aged 61, according to his older brother and founding Devo member Gerald Casale.
The group was best known for its 1980 hit Whip It, featured on the Freedom of Choice album, which went platinum.
Another member of the Ohio-based group, drummer Alan Myers, passed away in 2013 from brain cancer.

[Shwa Girl]

Devo guitarist Bob Casale dies aged 61

Thanks.
Saw this on ABC News.
R.I.P. Devo band member.

[gryphon]

RIP Nelson Frazier, Jr., he was only 43....

[Darth Penguin]

Maria von Trapp (aka Louisa) dies aged 99

Maria von Trapp, the last surviving member and second-eldest daughter of the musical family whose escape from Nazi-occupied Austria was the basis for The Sound of Music, has died. She was 99.
Von Trapp died at her home in Vermont on Tuesday, according to her brother Johannes von Trapp.
"She was a lovely woman who was one of the few truly good people," he said. "There wasn't a mean or miserable bone in her body. I think everyone who knew her would agree with that."

Maria von Trapp was the last surviving member of the seven original Trapp Family Singers made famous in The Sound of Music. Their story was turned into a Broadway musical in 1959 and a 1965 film, which won the Oscar for best picture. Trapp was portrayed as Louisa in the film and musical.
She was the third child and second-oldest daughter of Austrian Naval Capt. Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp. Their seven children were the basis for the singing family in the musical and film.
The Sound of Music was based loosely on a 1949 book by von Trapp's second wife, also Maria von Trapp, who died in 1987. It tells the story of an Austrian woman who married a widower with seven children and teaches them music.

[Natalka]

RIP Maria

[Darth Penguin]

Alice Herz-Sommer, oldest known Holocaust survivor, dies aged 110

Alice Herz-Sommer, believed to be the oldest Holocaust survivor, died at age 110 on Sunday, a family member said. The accomplished pianist's death came just a week before her extraordinary story of surviving two years in a Nazi prison camp through devotion to music and her son is up for an Oscar.
Herz-Sommer died in a hospital after being admitted Friday with health problems, daughter-in-law Genevieve Sommer said.

"We all came to believe that she would just never die," said Frederic Bohbot, producer of the documentary The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life. "There was no question in my mind, `would she ever see the Oscars."'
The film, directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Malcolm Clarke, has been nominated for best short documentary at the Academy Awards next Sunday.
Herz-Sommer, her husband and her son were sent from Prague in 1943 to a concentration camp in the Czech city of Terezin — Theresienstadt in German — where inmates were allowed to stage concerts in which she frequently starred.

[Patty Smyth]

Harold Ramis - aka Ghostbusters dead at 69

http://wgntv.com/2014/02/24/chicago-...is-dies-at-69/

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