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

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 12:29 pm

I think that is the first Stevie Wonder song Id call downright horrible.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 12:48 pm

Yeah, that was bad.

Hrothgar · Post by **Hrothgar** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 5:11 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 12:29 pm I think that is the first Stevie Wonder song Id call downright horrible.

Clearly you've never listened to the Secret Life of Plants. A couple of the tracks were decent. Most were awful. I think we had it on 8 track.

Suitably Ironic Moniker · Sun Oct 02, 2022 11:18 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat Sep 24, 2022 12:08 am
Defiant wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 11:48 pm Louise Fletcher has passed away. She played, among many other roles, Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, and Kai Winn on Deep Space Nine, has passed away.

https://deadline.com/2022/09/louise-fle ... 235126266/
I just came to post this.. My wife enjoyed her work. I down right hated her on Deep Space Nine. She was so good at making me hate her lol. RIP. Probably a really nice woman in real life.

I loved her performance in Cocoon.

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Sun Oct 02, 2022 2:23 pm

Alefroth wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 1:33 am Umm...

Wow, Ok, I had no idea. I still think Coolio managed to make a better song out of it. And I still stand by with what I said about 90's Rap being generally better.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Sun Oct 02, 2022 2:47 pm

Rumpy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 02, 2022 2:23 pm
Alefroth wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 1:33 am Umm...

Wow, Ok, I had no idea. I still think Coolio managed to make a better song out of it.

Stevie Wonder will always win that debate. Always.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 12:29 pm I think that is the first Stevie Wonder song Id call downright horrible.

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 12:48 pm Yeah, that was bad.

philistines, the lot of ya.

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Sun Oct 02, 2022 3:01 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Sun Oct 02, 2022 2:47 pm
Rumpy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 02, 2022 2:23 pm
Alefroth wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 1:33 am Umm...

Wow, Ok, I had no idea. I still think Coolio managed to make a better song out of it.
Stevie Wonder will always win that debate. Always.

Disagree. Coolio ended up with a much more interesting song out of it

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Sun Oct 02, 2022 3:14 pm

Always.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue Oct 04, 2022 11:00 am

And Loretta Lynn

More music from my childhood. RIP

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Oct 04, 2022 11:12 am

She was almost another member of my parent's household when I was a kid. They listened to nothing but Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard and all the other classic country singers when I was growing up (even if Wanda Jackson's incomparable voice caused me to have wicked thoughts as a kid). I will always appreciate that style of music, even if I grew away from it as I got older. There's so much heart in most of it.

RIP to a legend.

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Tue Oct 04, 2022 11:37 am

I didn't come to appreciate Loretta Lynn until Van Lear Rose, but boy do I love that album. R.I.P.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Oct 04, 2022 11:56 am

Hard to miss her as much because I haven't really heard anything from her in decades. Last I saw was her and Jack White doing that music really. A legend though. Coal Miners Daughter was one of my wife's favorite movies. I can still hear my wife cracking up at the part where Loretta tells the on air radio shes horny. RIP girl. She always seemed so humble and sweet. And she really never changed from all the stardom. Thats rare.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue Oct 04, 2022 1:10 pm

Another person who every time I heard about her I thought "she's still alive?"
I really loved her music. RIP

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Tue Oct 04, 2022 1:18 pm

Yeah, a true legend of country music lost. Bummer, even though I knew she was getting on up there in years. My first exposure to her was through the Coal Miner's Daughter movie. As a big fan of classic country, I grew up listening to her stuff. I was really excited when Van Lear Rose came out and she had that comeback. Awesome album.

Hrothgar · Post by **Hrothgar** » Tue Oct 04, 2022 1:24 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Oct 04, 2022 11:12 am Wanda Jackson's incomparable voice caused me to have wicked thoughts as a kid.

She's still around . . . and a widow. I heard through the grapevine that you're looking for a wife.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Oct 04, 2022 1:33 pm

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Oct 04, 2022 2:00 pm

Hrothgar wrote: ↑Tue Oct 04, 2022 1:24 pm
hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Oct 04, 2022 11:12 am Wanda Jackson's incomparable voice caused me to have wicked thoughts as a kid.
She's still around . . . and a widow. I heard through the grapevine that you're looking for a wife.

DAMN IT, FATIMA!

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Oct 04, 2022 2:13 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Oct 04, 2022 2:00 pm
Hrothgar wrote: ↑Tue Oct 04, 2022 1:24 pm
hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Oct 04, 2022 11:12 am Wanda Jackson's incomparable voice caused me to have wicked thoughts as a kid.
She's still around . . . and a widow. I heard through the grapevine that you're looking for a wife.
DAMN IT, FATIMA!

It's okay. We know you're third-wheel ride-or-die with 'thud.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Oct 04, 2022 2:14 pm

You kids and your teen lingo like "daddio" and "whoop de doo". I just can't keep up.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Oct 04, 2022 3:10 pm

This is weird. Ive never heard of Wanda Jackson. You'd think being born in 69 and loving rock and roll Id have heard of her at least. Fine looking and sounding woman. Wow. Found me some new music. Well new old music.

Dad shoulda been all over that. I dont remember him mentioning her.

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Tue Oct 04, 2022 4:01 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: It's okay. We know you're third-wheel ride-or-die with 'thud.

LOL — and BAM!!

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Oct 04, 2022 4:17 pm

Okay...NOW I get it.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Tue Oct 04, 2022 3:10 pm This is weird. Ive never heard of Wanda Jackson. You'd think being born in 69 and loving rock and roll Id have heard of her at least. Fine looking and sounding woman. Wow. Found me some new music. Well new old music.

Dad shoulda been all over that. I dont remember him mentioning her.

Her voice is the template that most women in rock should at the very least listen to for inspiration. That growling voice. Oh baby.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue Oct 04, 2022 5:36 pm

Sounds a lot like Skeeter Davis.

RM2 · Post by **RM2** » Tue Oct 04, 2022 8:00 pm

Did not see the Loretta Lynn news till seeing it here. She was 90 I read but even though that is a good long lived life, this is very sad to me. A real talent that I did not appreciate when the songs were new, being a hippie punk rocker kid. I did however come to love her talent. As for Wanda, she is the bomb.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Oct 06, 2022 10:05 pm

Oh man, Judy Tenuta has died. I used to love her comedy.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Oct 06, 2022 10:07 pm

AP News

Judy Tenuta, a brash standup who cheekily styled herself as the “Goddess of Love” and toured with George Carlin as she built her career in the 1980s golden age of comedy, died Thursday. She was 72.

Tenuta died Thursday afternoon at home in Los Angeles, with her family around her, publicist Roger Neal told The Associated Press. The cause of death was ovarian cancer.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Oct 06, 2022 10:15 pm

I remember her. She was a off the wall nut. Came across and funny flaky to me. Did not realize she was 72. RIP I hated that damn accordion.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Oct 06, 2022 10:15 pm

I love that there are at least three different birth years listed for her on various sites. She would never tell anyone her real age.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Oct 06, 2022 10:17 pm

Tenuta had claimed her birthdate as Nov. 7, 1965, but she was born in 1949, Neal said. “She was old school so she would never tell her real age, but now that she’s gone we can tell her real age,” he added.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Oct 06, 2022 10:52 pm

I haven't thought of her since the 80s I think. She had some really good material. RIP

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Fri Oct 07, 2022 1:43 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Oct 06, 2022 10:15 pm I hated that damn accordion.

Accordians are only tolerable at Scottish funerals.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri Oct 07, 2022 9:21 am

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Thu Oct 06, 2022 10:17 pm
Tenuta had claimed her birthdate as Nov. 7, 1965, but she was born in 1949, Neal said. “She was old school so she would never tell her real age, but now that she’s gone we can tell her real age,” he added.

On IMDB, they had her birth year as 1956 until this morning.

I loved that she was probably just screwing with people.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Fri Oct 07, 2022 9:31 am

Kraken wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 1:43 am
Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Oct 06, 2022 10:15 pm I hated that damn accordion.
Accordians are only tolerable at Scottish funerals.

I’m generally of the same mind, but I will say that Weird Al has managed to find a place for it.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Fri Oct 07, 2022 9:42 am

Was watching some Youtube videos of her from the 80s and it uh...has not aged well. I didn't really remember her stuff as being racist and homophobic, but I guess that was par for the course during a long stretch of time back then. She was still funny and in seeing her act, I was reminded of how much Rosanne Barr seemed to "borrow" from her. Anyway, I hadn't thought of Judy in a long time and she probably deserved more credit. RIP.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri Oct 07, 2022 5:16 pm

Yeah, I often find that comedy I remember as being hilarious 30 or so years ago isn't really all that funny when I watch it now. Still, Tenuta, Emo Phillips (her husband for a while), Sam Kinison and Bobcat Goldthwait were some of my favorites back in the day.

I remember almost laughing until I puked watching Goldthwait debuting on Letterman all those years ago.

"I lost my job recently. I mean...I know where it's at, but when I go there, they won't let me in."

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Sun Oct 09, 2022 9:22 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Thu Oct 06, 2022 10:07 pm AP News

Judy Tenuta, a brash standup who cheekily styled herself as the “Goddess of Love” and toured with George Carlin as she built her career in the 1980s golden age of comedy, died Thursday. She was 72.

Tenuta died Thursday afternoon at home in Los Angeles, with her family around her, publicist Roger Neal told The Associated Press. The cause of death was ovarian cancer.

Oh shit, sad to hear this. She is from my old 'hood, I saw her perform in Berwyn when she was nailing Emo Philips. Prior to her set, I had a conversation with her at the bar.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Sun Oct 09, 2022 9:28 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 5:16 pm Yeah, I often find that comedy I remember as being hilarious 30 or so years ago isn't really all that funny when I watch it now. Still, Tenuta, Emo Phillips (her husband for a while), Sam Kinison and Bobcat Goldthwait were some of my favorites back in the day.

I remember almost laughing until I puked watching Goldthwait debuting on Letterman all those years ago.

"I lost my job recently. I mean...I know where it's at, but when I go there, they won't let me in."

Sam Kinison is one of my all-time favorites. Man was he ever funny.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sun Oct 09, 2022 10:59 pm

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 06, 2022 10:52 pm I haven't thought of her since the 80s I think. She had some really good material. RIP

“How many of you have ever started dating because you were too lazy to commit suicide?”

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Tue Oct 11, 2022 3:47 pm

Awww Angela Lansbury passes away at 96 - she had a good run.

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Tue Oct 11, 2022 3:58 pm

Weirdly, I thought she was one of those who'd passed away long ago. Didn't realize she was still alive.