In Memorium

[Natalka]

Los Angeles became Gotham City Thursday night as the Bat-Signal glowed at City Hall in honor of late Batman actor Adam West.





Hundreds of fans, some in costume, cheered as Mayor Eric Garcetti and Police Chief Charlie Beck switched on the iconic signal and splashed a yellow oval with a bat silhouette high up on the wall of City Hall.

West's wife and children were there - and "Robin" spoke

[Darth Penguin]

Chancellor Kohl dies aged 87

Helmut Kohl, Germany's ex-chancellor and architect of reunification in 1990, has died at 87.
Kohl led Germany for 16 years (from 1982 to 1998). He is credited with bringing East and West Germany together after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Together with his French ally President Francois Mitterrand, he was responsible for the introduction of the euro.
European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has ordered flags at EU institutions to be flown at half-mast.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Kohl's former protegee who later called for his resignation over a political funding scandal, said his death filled her with deep sadness.
"Helmut Kohl's efforts brought about the two greatest achievements in German politics of recent decades - German reunification and European unity," she said.
"Helmut Kohl understood that the two things were inseparable."

[Natalka]

RIP Flounder

Actor Stephen Furst, best known for his performances as the hapless Flounder in Animal House and put-upon rookie doc Eliott Axelrod on St. Elsewhere, died yesterday at his home in Moorpark, California, near Los Angeles, due to complications from diabetes. He was 63.

Guest credits on series like The Jeffersons, Chips and Newhart preceded his second most-memorable role, as Dr. Axelrod on the groundbreaking St. Elsewhere, a performance by turns comic and dramatic as he was forever subjected to the ire of William Daniels’ tyrannical Dr. Mark Craig.



He later played Vir Cotto in the 1994-98 Babylon 5, and was the voice of Booster in TV’s Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, among numerous other roles. He was also a spokesperson for the American Diabetes Association.



http://deadline.com/2017/06/stephen-...ry-1202115443/

[Darth Penguin]

Paddington author Michael Bond dies

Michael Bond's Paddington Bear has become one of the classic characters in children's literature.
A chance encounter with a toy bear in a London shop spawned a long line of books, a BBC TV series, a feature film and a lot of merchandise.
A prolific writer, he also created The Herbs, featuring Parsley the Lion, which became a successful TV series and the tale-telling guinea pig, Olga da Polga.
And for adults there was Monsieur Pamplemousse, the retired detective turned restaurant critic and his bloodhound, Pommes Frites.
Thomas Michael Bond was born on 13 January 1926 in Newbury and raised in nearby Reading. One of his earliest childhood memories was standing by the railway line to watch the Cornish Riviera Express thunder past on its way from Paddington to Penzance.
Bond's father was the mild-mannered manager of the local post office and was the basis for the character of Paddington Bear, the unassuming ursine stowaway.
"My father was a very polite man and he always wore a hat," Bond said. "We'd go on holiday to the Isle of Wight and he used to go in the sea with his trousers rolled up and keep his hat on in case he met someone he knew and would have something to raise. He would have been mortified if he hadn't."
His parents instilled in him a love of books and he later remembered never going to sleep without a bedtime story.

[Shwa Girl]

Paddington author Michael Bond dies

a nice long life
a great children's story character --> Paddington Bear

[gryphon]

RIP George Romero http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...story,amp.html

[gryphon]

Martin Landau dead at 89 http://www.tmz.com/2017/07/16/martin-landau-dead/

[Natalka]

RIP Mr. Landau - grew up watching him in Mission Impossible, loved that show.

[gryphon]

Chester Bennington , lead singer of Linkin Park has committed suicidehttp://www.tmz.com/2017/07/20/linkin-park-singer-chester-bennington-dead-commits-suicide/

[Shwa Girl]

Saskatchewan rock band Streetheart, just lost a member. Kenny Shields has passed away at 69.
One of Streetheart's 'famous' songs is Under My Thumb (written by the Rolling Stones).
Goodbye Kenny

[Natalka]

RIP Kenny - was at many dances where they played!

[Natalka]

‘Home Alone’, ‘Sopranos’ actor John Heard dead at 72

In addition to Home Alone, Heard will be remembered for frequent film work throughout the 1980s and ’90s, including such films as Cutter’s Way, Cat People, After Hours, Big, Beaches, Awakenings and The Pelican Brief, among others. He launched his career on Broadway in the mid-1970s.


On the small screen, Heard received a 1999 Emmy nomination in for his guest-starring appearance as New Jersey police detective Vin Makazian, who fed information to mob boss Tony Soprano on The Sopranos.


More recently, Heard had been a frequent guest star on an array of TV series, including such shows as CSI: Miami, Prison Break, Elementary, MacGyver, Modern Family and APB, while also appearing in the Internet-breaking Sharknado back in 2013. As Deadline notes, he was most recently seen in an episode of The Outsiders that aired in April.

http://globalnews.ca/news/3617174/ho...edium=Facebook

[Natalka]

June Foray, Voice of ‘Bullwinkle Show’s’ Natasha and Rocky, Dies at 99



June Foray, the voice of “The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show’s” Rocky the Flying Squirrel and his nemesis Natasha Fatale of Boris and Natasha fame in the early 1960s and a key figure in the animation industry, died Thursday.

Foray was also the voice behind Looney Tunes’ Witch Hazel, Nell from “Dudley Do-Right,” Granny in the “Tweety and Sylvester” cartoons and Cindy Lou Who in Chuck Jones’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” among hundreds of others.

Foray got her start in the animation business when someone from the Walt Disney studio called her to ask if she could do the voice of a cat. “Well, I could do anything,” recalled Foray in an interview with Variety. “So he hired me as Lucifer the cat in ‘Cinderella,’ and then I started to work for Disney.” Much of her work for Disney was uncredited, including work as a mermaid and squaw in “Peter Pan.” But she starred as the voice of Hazel the Witch in the 1952 Donald Duck short “Trick or Treat,” using a voice that would later morph into “Looney Tunes” character Witch Hazel. She would often say that she voiced a long litany of cartoon witches, many of them named Hazel.

About the same time, the 1950s, Foray worked on a series of cartoons by such animation pioneers as Tex Avery and Walter Lantz. For Warner Bros., she became Granny in the “Tweety and Sylvester” cartoons and Alice Crumden in the cartoon parody of “The Honeymooners,” “The Honey-Mousers.” At Warner Bros. she met Chuck Jones, for whom she worked on several “Looney Tunes” cartoons, starting with “Broom-Stick Bunny” in 1956. She would later star as Cindy Lou Who in Jones’ cartoon adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”
She also voiced Mother Magoo in the “Mister Magoo” series.

But her greatest fame came with Jay Ward’s satirical “Rocky and His Friends,” which would later become “The Bullwinkle Show,” eventually known collectively as “The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show,” which ran from 1959 through 1964. Foray did most of the female voices for the show, including the voice of Russian villain Natasha Fatale, as well as that of Rocket J. Squirrel. She also voiced characters for other Jay Ward cartoons, such as “Dudley Do-Right” (Nell Fenwick), “George of the Jungle” (Jane) and “Tom Slick” (Marigold).

http://variety.com/2017/tv/people-ne...le-1202508180/


Foray won a Grammy in 1968 for her work on the holiday classic 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

[walkonby]

ty for posting @Natalka I had no idea she did so many voices. I used to watch Rocky and Bukllwinkle....lol. What a long life she had!

[Darth Penguin]

Sam Sheppard, actor and playwright dies aged 73

US actor and playwright Sam Shepard has died at the age of 73.
Shepard wrote more than 40 plays and won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for Buried Child in 1979.
He went on to be nominated for the best supporting actor Oscar for 1983's The Right Stuff and starred in films like Black Hawk Down as well as co-writing 1984's Paris, Texas.
He died at home in Kentucky on Thursday, his family have confirmed.
Shepard's death came after he experienced complications from motor neurone disease, also known as ALS.