R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Jan 26, 2021 10:09 pm

Australian artist Mike Nash, perhaps best known for his work designing robots for Horizon Zero Dawn and the film Chappie, has died.

https://www.thegamer.com/horizon-zero-d ... gner-dead/

Mike Nash, a skilled concept artist, has sadly passed away at the age of 36. A talented artist, he was perhaps best known for his design and concept work on Guerilla's Horizon Zero Dawn. The cause of death has not been shared publicly at this time.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Jan 27, 2021 8:27 pm

Frau Blucher has died.

Cloris Leachman, Oscar winner and star of 'Mary Tyler Moore Show,' has died at 94

me and my wife always enjoyed her work.

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Wed Jan 27, 2021 8:30 pm

Cue horse whinny.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Jan 27, 2021 9:40 pm

She and Madeline Kahn made every Mel Brooks film they were in infinitely better. RIP to one of the greats.

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Wed Jan 27, 2021 10:37 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Jan 27, 2021 9:40 pm She and Madeline Kahn made every Mel Brooks film they were in infinitely better. RIP to one of the greats.

Agree completely.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Wed Jan 27, 2021 10:54 pm

She made a lot of movies and TV shows and I liked her in everyone I saw. RIP

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Wed Jan 27, 2021 11:01 pm

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Jan 28, 2021 11:38 pm

Cicely Tyson, iconic and influential actress, dies at 96

I remember her from The Help. My wife loved that movie and watched it many times. Actually she was in a lot of stuff my wife liked over the years.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri Jan 29, 2021 8:59 am

One of the greats.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Jan 30, 2021 12:06 pm

Jerry Wiegert has died

He is the designer of the Vector W8 supercar of the 1980s. A car I wanted so bad as a teen hehe.

Wiegert initially became well known in the late 1970s when he began development of The Vector, a high-performance sports car intended to be America's answer to European cars such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Porsche.[3] This concept would be further developed into the Vector W8, which was manufactured and sold between 1989 and 1993.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Sat Jan 30, 2021 3:04 pm

TheMix wrote: ↑Wed Jan 27, 2021 8:30 pm Cue horse whinny.

Hyena · Post by **Hyena** » Mon Feb 01, 2021 3:17 pm

Dustin Diamond, Screech from Saved by the Bell, dead at 44.

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1356 ... gr%5Etweet

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Feb 01, 2021 3:19 pm

I know this is going to sound horrible, but a part of me wonders if this is a stunt on Diamond's part. He has a history of doing some pretty outrageous stuff to get his name in the papers, and this death seems REALLY fast.

But RIP if true. Sad to see anyone that young die from such a horrible thing.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Feb 01, 2021 3:24 pm

He was in the hospital off and on recently. I posted something on it just a couple weeks ago I think. Sad and surprising. Me and my wife loved SBtB. RIP

Octavious · Post by **Octavious** » Mon Feb 01, 2021 3:45 pm

hepcat wrote:I know this is going to sound horrible, but a part of me wonders if this is a stunt on Diamond's part. He has a history of doing some pretty outrageous stuff to get his name in the papers, and this death seems REALLY fast.

But RIP if true. Sad to see anyone that young die from such a horrible thing.

I thought the diagnosis was possibly a stunt. I don't think a death notice is. That would be freaking insane.

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Mon Feb 01, 2021 3:49 pm

Shame, and I also think it's sad that when I read about this I questioned whether or not it was a stunt.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Feb 01, 2021 3:55 pm

Andy Kaufman he ain't.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Mon Feb 01, 2021 5:53 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 3:55 pm Andy Kaufman he ain't.

They do have one thing in common.

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Mon Feb 01, 2021 9:07 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 3:19 pm I know this is going to sound horrible, but a part of me wonders if this is a stunt on Diamond's part. He has a history of doing some pretty outrageous stuff to get his name in the papers, and this death seems REALLY fast.

But RIP if true. Sad to see anyone that young die from such a horrible thing.

It was announced he had been diagonosed with Cancer only 2 weeks ago! It's not something someone would prank about. It's very sad because I think, had he had more time knowing he has Cancer, he would likely have had a chance to try to redeem himself for the terrible things he's done.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Tue Feb 02, 2021 2:36 am

Hal Holbrook dead at 95. Just realized he was in Lincoln. Never really a leading man, but he could moderate the hell out of an acting job.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue Feb 02, 2021 8:48 am

I think he must of been one of the most prolific actors. He did a good job with them too. RIP

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Feb 02, 2021 9:06 am

He was definitely prolific, and definitely great. He will be missed.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Feb 02, 2021 11:23 am

He has been in SO much over the years. Things that stand out to me are The Firm, The Star Chamber, The Fog, and Capricorn One. My wife loved The Firm too and All the President's Men.

Unlike others which I thought had died a long time ago he was one I thought was old for the last 40 years or so.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue Feb 02, 2021 11:53 am

Considering he died at 95...........he was olde these last 40 years.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:08 pm

Maybe its better to say he seemed 95 for the last 40 years.

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:33 pm

He always seemed like the kind of man I'd really enjoy being around in real life. My favorite role of his was a smaller role as the voice of wisdom to Bud in Wall Street.

Mandeville · Post by **Mandeville** » Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:36 pm

I saw Hal Holbrook as Willie Loman in "Death of a Salesman". He did an amazing job. I always loved his work. He was a real theatre guy and spent most of his time on the stage. There is someone who lived his best life every day.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:41 pm

His Mark Twain was great.

Hrdina · Post by **Hrdina** » Tue Feb 02, 2021 9:02 pm

I most remember his role in Midway, as the codebreaker Cmdr Rochefort.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Feb 02, 2021 9:14 pm

Forgot he was in that.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Tue Feb 02, 2021 10:24 pm

I liked Deep Throat.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 5:08 pm

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 5:30 pm

Id forgotten about him and who Lynda had married. RIP.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 10:48 am

I somehow missed this earlier but just read that Sean Malone, bassist for Cynic, passed away on Dec 20. That’s two of the three band members dying in the same year (drummer Sean Reinert passed in January 2020). Malone was 50, Reinert was 48.

I hope Paul Masvidal is walking around in a hermetically sealed bubble.

Need to go spin the “Traced In Air” LP this morning.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 1:04 pm

Millie Hughes-Fulford, NASA's first female payload specialist in space, dies at 75

The first American woman to launch into space who was not a professional astronaut but a working scientist, Millie Hughes-Fulford, has died at the age of 75.

Hughes-Fulford's death was confirmed by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) on Thursday (Feb. 4).

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 2:16 pm

Jim Weatherly, Who Wrote 'Midnight Train To Georgia,' Dies At 77

"I'm missing Jim Weatherly already. He was about life and love," tweeted Gladys Knight.

Friends and fans are paying tribute to Weatherly, a singer-songwriter who penned a number of hits, including "Midnight Train to Georgia," "Neither One of Us" and "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me." Weatherly died at his home in Brentwood, Tenn., on Feb. 3 at age 77, historian and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame board member Robert K. Oermann wrote in MusicRow magazine.

Weatherly's friend Charlie Monk told the Tennessean that his family attributes his death to natural causes.

There's an unexpected twist to the journey Weatherly took in writing "Midnight Train to Georgia." It began with a 1970 phone call to a friend, actor Lee Majors, whose then girlfriend, Farah Fawcett, answered the phone. Weatherly told the newsletter for Ole Miss, where he'd been a star quarterback, that he originally called the song "Midnight Plane to Houston," inspired by something Fawcett told him.

"During the course of the conversation, she mentioned she was packing her clothes and she was going to take the midnight plane to Houston to visit her family. 'Midnight plane to Houston' got kind of stuck in my mind in bold letters. When I got off the phone, I wrote 'Midnight Plane to Houston' in about 30 to 45 minutes."

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 9:49 pm

Leon Spinks goes down for the count at 67.

I was really pissed when he beat Ali, but he was actually a pretty cool guy.

Suitably Ironic Moniker · Sat Feb 06, 2021 11:15 pm

So, did anybody else think that Stephen Tobolowsky, Needlenose Ned himself, had died? I watched Groundhog Day with my mom tonight, and we both thought that he had died recently, but this is not the case (thankfully). It's just weird that both of us independently thought the had passed.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 11:43 pm

This thread is getting entirely too long. We need for celebrities to quit dying so fast.
I will of course be expecting my own thread when I go.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 12:16 am

George Shultz: US secretary of state who helped end Cold War dies

100 years old. I thought he was old in the 80s. Daaang. RIP. A name and face I always remembered.

He served three Republican presidents - Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan - in various roles.

Under Mr Reagan, Mr Schultz spent much of the 1980s trying to improve relations with the Soviet Union.