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

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Mon Oct 31, 2022 5:28 pm

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Mon Oct 31, 2022 3:14 pm
Gravity sucks.

It just feels that way.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Tue Nov 01, 2022 10:22 pm

McNutt wrote: ↑Mon Oct 31, 2022 2:02 pm Gary Coleman died from a fall too.

Off a curb, no less.

I kind of sort of met him years ago at E3. He was playing a game at the Simon and Schuster booth, and they were excited to show it to us because it was sort of a wargame (more like an arcade air strike game). Another media outlet observed the exchange and commented, "Coleman was thrown out when the Wargamer guys arrived." It wasn't that cold...at least I didn't think so?

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Tue Nov 01, 2022 10:23 pm

What I remember most about Robert Culp was that he taught me how to drive in high school.

It might possibly have been a different Robert Culp.

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Fri Nov 04, 2022 7:13 am

R.I.P. Ray Guy.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sat Nov 05, 2022 5:58 pm

Aaron Carter, age 34.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Nov 05, 2022 6:19 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Sat Nov 05, 2022 5:58 pm Aaron Carter, age 34.

Whhaaaaaaat? Always knew him as the younger brother. Wonder what happened. 34. Damn. Cut short.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Sun Nov 06, 2022 9:14 pm

He had a long history with drugs. I suspect that’s what happened here.

A nonny mouse · Post by **A nonny mouse** » Wed Nov 09, 2022 9:01 am

I'm surprised with the diversity of music people listen to around here, that noone posted that Jeff Cook of the band Alabama passed away.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/08/entertai ... index.html

I was never a huge fan (nor of Skynyrd) but I can appreciate his talent as a guitarist.

R.I.P.

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Wed Nov 09, 2022 9:12 am

Damn, I was a big fan of the band. So many hits.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Nov 09, 2022 11:08 am

Dan McCafferty, Nazareth Lead Vocalist, Dead At 76

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Wed Nov 09, 2022 11:13 am

Wow, a double whammy today. McCafferty had a very powerful voice. I like to sing in the car, but could never attempt a Nazareth song.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Nov 09, 2022 12:10 pm

I hated Alabama in the 80s. I was a teen and hated country. It wasn't until I was in my 30s in the 2000s that I came to really like them. Their ages have always surprised me. I expect them to be like 50s or something I guess. 73 still seems old for them. I guess they were in the early 40s in the 80s.
RIP Jeff.

As for Dan thats a shame. He was looking old and tired years ago and sounding it. Course he always sounded that way. I loved Nazareth. The 70s are long gone now. Dan pretty smoked his life away and Im still surprised he lived that long.
RIP Dan

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Thu Nov 10, 2022 7:38 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Wed Nov 09, 2022 11:08 am Dan McCafferty, Nazareth Lead Vocalist, Dead At 76

No more messing with that son of a bitch. RIP

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Fri Nov 11, 2022 12:06 pm

Reports just coming in - RIP Kevin Conroy.

Hyena · Post by **Hyena** » Fri Nov 11, 2022 12:36 pm

Watermelons everywhere are breathing a sigh of relief...Gallagher dead at 76. One of the earliest, hardest laughter I ever remember as a child, watching him smash a police car while maniacally screaming, "PULL OVER! PULL OVER!"

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Fri Nov 11, 2022 12:44 pm

Blackhawk wrote:Reports just coming in - RIP Kevin Conroy.

I just saw this too. He was the best Batman.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Fri Nov 11, 2022 12:45 pm

I watched a Gallagher video for the first time since the 80s literally two days ago.

Double-whammy today. Gah!

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Nov 11, 2022 12:47 pm

RIP to both.

I didn't know Conroy was even sick. Dont remember hearing anything. He was really the Batman in animated.

Gallagher Id heard nothing of in at least 20 years or more. I didn't know he was as old and he was though. I just remember him from the 80s. I never found him funny and stopped watching him. I did like seeing a watermelon being smashed wit ha giant wooden mallet. But after 10 or 20 I stopped enjoying that too. Its like the old days of David Letterman dropping stuff off a roof. Got old.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Fri Nov 11, 2022 12:48 pm

hentzau wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 12:44 pm
Blackhawk wrote:Reports just coming in - RIP Kevin Conroy.
I just saw this too. He was the best Batman.

No question. I dug up a list of the times he's played Batman:

Spoiler:

Hrothgar · Post by **Hrothgar** » Fri Nov 11, 2022 2:44 pm

Whoa, Gallagher and Kevin Conroy on the same day? Can someone in the Chicago are do a welfare check on Hepcat?

I remember Gallagher had had multiple heart attacks. Conroy is a complete surprise. Both will be missed.

stimpy · Post by **stimpy** » Fri Nov 11, 2022 2:59 pm

I just heard that someone dressed in Batman pajamas was throwing watermelons off the overpass on I-55.
I'd wager that was him.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Fri Nov 11, 2022 3:00 pm

FWIW, Prime Video has a number of the old Gallagher Showtime specials.

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Fri Nov 11, 2022 3:28 pm

Gallagher had his brother on a Showtime special in some non-speaking role. They looked just alike.
Years later his brother asked if he could do his own tour. Gallagher agreed, as long as he made it clear he wasn't the real Gallagher.

That didn't last long. The brother started doing shows as "Gallagher Too" and the lines got blurred. He relied heavily on the hammer/fruit but too. Eventually Gallagher told him he had to stop because people thought they were seeing the real deal and he felt it was hurting his brand.

His family sided with the brother and it became a big rift in the family with Gallagher estranging himself.

I loved him as a kid. When I got older he sounded like an angry asshole. I'll remember the good times though, sir.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri Nov 11, 2022 3:37 pm

Never really a Gallagher fan, but sorry to hear of his passing.

Conroy though? A goddamn national treasure has died.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Fri Nov 11, 2022 3:53 pm

McNutt wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 3:28 pm

That didn't last long. The brother started doing shows as "Gallagher Too" and the lines got blurred. He relied heavily on the hammer/fruit but too. Eventually Gallagher told him he had to stop because people thought they were seeing the real deal and he felt it was hurting his brand.

Mostly because his brother had some serious personal issues leading to some serious misbehavior at the venues, which people then associated with the Gallagher due to the misleading promotions.

It ended up in court, and Gallagher won.

The biggest thing that held him back was that he never evolved. His comedy style - which was great (subjectively) in the 70s and 80s - wasn't so great in the 90s and 00s.

The watermelon is only funny for so many decades.

naednek · Post by **naednek** » Fri Nov 11, 2022 4:34 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 3:37 pm Never really a Gallagher fan, but sorry to hear of his passing.

Conroy though? A goddamn national treasure has died.

that's because he was competition to Carot Top

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Fri Nov 11, 2022 7:22 pm

hentzau wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 12:44 pm
Blackhawk wrote:Reports just coming in - RIP Kevin Conroy.
I just saw this too. He was the best Batman.

If Adam West were still alive...BAM! POW! WHAM!

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Fri Nov 11, 2022 7:30 pm

The first ever person I met in person that I originally met on the internet (thousands met since) was a mostly disastrous New Years weekend at the now destitute Pheasant Run Resort (Hentzau did the mike drop for the place). Gallagher opened for Dennis Miller -- that show was the best part of that weekend. Fortunately I didn't give up meeting internet people after that first experience.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri Nov 11, 2022 8:29 pm

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 3:53 pm
Mostly because his brother had some serious personal issues leading to some serious misbehavior at the venues, which people then associated with the Gallagher due to the misleading promotions.

Gallagher himself was pretty racist and homophobic in his later years.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Fri Nov 11, 2022 9:45 pm

Interesting - apparently Kevin Conroy was roommates with Robin Williams at Julliard.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Fri Nov 11, 2022 9:45 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 8:29 pm
Blackhawk wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 3:53 pm
Mostly because his brother had some serious personal issues leading to some serious misbehavior at the venues, which people then associated with the Gallagher due to the misleading promotions.

Gallagher himself was pretty racist and homophobic in his later years.

And pretty misogynistic all the way through.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Sat Nov 12, 2022 7:20 am

I got bored of Gallagher sometime before the end of his 2nd show.

It was funny at first. And maybe 2nd.

And like others, I never enjoyed what seemed like a hidden mean-spirit or anger behind some of it.

I don’t think I saw it (but maybe I did?), but the “Pull Over !!” routine described above would have been one that showed that.

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Sat Nov 12, 2022 2:46 pm

Gallagher has a cameo in the Weird Al movie.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sat Nov 12, 2022 7:05 pm

NBC News

An Iranian man who lived for 18 years in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport and inspired the Steven Spielberg film “The Terminal” died Saturday in the airport, officials said.

Merhan Karimi Nasseri died after a heart attack in the airport’s Terminal 2F around midday, according an official with the Paris airport authority. Police and a medical team treated him but were not able to save him, the official said.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Sun Nov 13, 2022 11:32 pm

Keith Levene - founding member of The Clash and Public Image Ltd. 65 years old.

Hrdina · Post by **Hrdina** » Sat Nov 19, 2022 1:31 am

Robert Clary, the last star of the 'Hogan's Heroes,' dies at 96

It took a strong person to go from surviving a holocaust camp to being in Hogan's Heroes.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Nov 19, 2022 1:45 am

Aww I loved that show. It wasn't until many many years later I learned that many actors in it were there in the war for reals in some way. It doesn't seem that long ago I watched them all so young. But I saw it in reruns in the 80s when I was a teenager.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Sat Nov 19, 2022 2:05 am

Hrdina wrote: ↑Sat Nov 19, 2022 1:31 am Robert Clary, the last star of the 'Hogan's Heroes,' dies at 96

It depends on how you define "star" of the show (the article hedges by referring to Clary as the last surviving original star, which is somewhat truthy). However, one principal cast member who joined in the 6th season is still alive: Kenneth Washington.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sun Nov 20, 2022 1:11 pm

Greg Bear

Greg Bear, the author that brought us the Halo Forerunner Saga of books, has passed away at the age of 71. The news was confirmed by his family late last night, who revealed that he suffered a stroke earlier this month.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sun Nov 20, 2022 1:13 pm

Nicki Aycox

Actor Nicki Aycox, who played Meg Masters and the demon that possessed her in The CW's Supernatural, has died at the age of 47.

Aycox's sister-in-law announced the actor's passing on social media, writing, "My beautiful, smart, fierce, incredibly talented, and loving sister-in-law, Nicki Aycox Raab, passed away yesterday with my brother, Matt Raab, by her side. Nicki and Matt had a wonderful life together in California. She was definitely a fighter and everyone who knew her loved her." Aycox died on Nov. 16, over a year after being diagnosed with leukemia.