In Memorium

[momof3heathens]

Breaking News:

https://www.tmz.com/2020/01/26/kobe-...-in-calabasas/

News has gotten even sadder. His daughter was one of the passengers who died as well.

[gryphon]

Kirk Douglas RIP
https://www.tmz.com/2020/02/05/kirk-...-dead-dies-103

[walkonby]

Does anyone remember who Orson Bean was? DH and I do ( guess that makes us old-ish )
What a tragic end to his long life ( he was 91 years young! ).

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/08/us/ac...-91/index.html

Bean, 91, was walking off the crosswalk when he was struck by a vehicle and fell, then was struck by a second vehicle, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene in front of the Pacific Resident Theatre, where he and his wife, actress Allison "Alley" Mills, were company members, according to CNN affiliate KABC.


The last time I saw him on tv he was portraying a horrible racist/misogynist/ in The Guest Book ( it IS in fact a hilarious show ) despite this particularly dark episode.
The therapist who was trying an experimental therapy by trying to unlock his memories for his Alzheimer's was horrified when he slowly through remarks and actions revealed who he really was and had been his whole life!
At the end of the episode he goes missing but when she finds him in the closed garage with the truck running she makes the decision to " let " him asphyxiate.

He was known for his comedic roles in so many shows.

R.I.P. Orson.

[Tweets77]

Does anyone remember who Orson Bean was? DH and I do ( guess that makes us old-ish )
What a tragic end to his long life ( he was 91 years young! ).

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/08/us/ac...-91/index.html

Bean, 91, was walking off the crosswalk when he was struck by a vehicle and fell, then was struck by a second vehicle, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene in front of the Pacific Resident Theatre, where he and his wife, actress Allison "Alley" Mills, were company members, according to CNN affiliate KABC.


The last time I saw him on tv he was portraying a horrible racist/misogynist/ in The Guest Book ( it IS in fact a hilarious show ) despite this particularly dark episode.
The therapist who was trying an experimental therapy by trying to unlock his memories for his Alzheimer's was horrified when he slowly through remarks and actions revealed who he really was and had been his whole life!
At the end of the episode he goes missing but when she finds him in the closed garage with the truck running she makes the decision to " let " him asphyxiate.

He was known for his comedic roles in so many shows.

R.I.P. Orson.

Agreed @walkonby .

[walkonby]

sigh....I was truly bummed out the day I heard the news about Christie Blatchford passing from lung cancer. I wanted to come and post it in here but some passings just hit you harder than others.



I was an avid follower of her column in her days at the Sun newspaper, and took particular enjoyment from them, especially the ones that included her reference to her live in partner as The Boy. She may have had a Bancroft, Ontario connection as one of her columns referred to the gals up there as " fat bottomed girls ".
DH and I were reading the paper at our cottage that day and lol at that!
R.I.P. dear Christie!!

[gryphon]

RIP James Lipton from Inside the Actor's Studio

[Shwa Girl]

Kenny Rogers has passed away at age 81. He won Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. He was featured in a Seinfeld episode.
RIP

[Natalka]

RIP Kenny - you left a lifetime of memories for the world!

[walkonby]

another familiar music artist, gone at 81....

Music icon Bill Withers, known for the hits “Lean on Me,” “Ain’t No Sunshine,” “Lovely Day” and many others, has died from heart complications, his family said in a statement Friday.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...3qm-story.html

[Shwa Girl]

another familiar music artist, gone at 81....

Music icon Bill Withers, known for the hits “Lean on Me,” “Ain’t No Sunshine,” “Lovely Day” and many others, has died from heart complications, his family said in a statement Friday.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...3qm-story.html

RIP

[Natalka]

Shirley Douglas, the impassioned Canadian activist and veteran actor who was mother to actor Kiefer Sutherland and daughter of medicare founder Tommy Douglas, has died.

She was 86.

https://globalnews.ca/news/6781615/a...-douglas-dead/

[walkonby]

I did NOT want to ever post this....one of my all time song writer, performers lost his battle with this f**king Covid-19.
John Prine passed last night....despite all the hope and prayers and outpouring of love from around the world.
So missed already.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...e-obit-253684/

[walkonby]

[KelJo]

So sad, he was truly beloved here in NL

[Natalka]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainmen...nehy-1.5534605

Brian Dennehy, the burly actor celebrated for acclaimed turns in the plays Death of a Salesman and Long Day's Journey into Night as well as a prolific career in film and television, has died at the age of 81.