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

[Archinerd]

RIP Chi Chi Rodriguez (88).

[McNutt]

I was never a golf guy, but I liked Chi Chi. He was fun.

[Kraken]

Scared me for a second; I thought you were going to say Mark Mothersbaugh.

My dad was a big golfer so I used to see it on TV. I only remember Chi Chi as the guy with the funny name.

[WYBaugh]

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Have to quote this in my head anytime I hear his name.

[Brian]

Rachael Lillis ‘Pokémon’ Voice Actor For Misty & Jessie From Team Rocket

[Daehawk]

That kid was young

[Isgrimnur]

Fuck cancer.

[Jeff V]

Scared me for a second; I thought you were going to say Mark Mothersbaugh.

My dad was a big golfer so I used to see it on TV. I only remember Chi Chi as the guy with the funny name.

IIRC, he had a pretty funny personality too.

Glad Devo didn't take another hit.

[Isgrimnur]

Two doctors and the 'ketamine queen' charged in overdose death of actor Matthew Perry

Five people – including two California doctors, a reputed drug dealer known as the "ketamine queen" and Matthew Perry's live-in personal assistant – have been charged in connection with the actor's accidental overdose death, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
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According to an 18-count superseding indictment, Jasveen Sangha, a North Hollywood resident who sold ketamine and other drugs, provided Perry's assistant with the ketamine that ultimately led to the actor's death. The assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, injected Perry with the drug on the day he died, according to the indictment. The syringe was provided by Dr. Salvador Plasencia, who had also distributed ketamine to Perry and his assistant in the past, the indictment says.

Sangha, 41, and Plasencia, 42, were both arrested on Thursday in southern California.

They were both charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine. Sangha, a North Hollywood resident who holds dual citizenship in the U.S. and U.K., was also charged with several other drug related offenses.
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Iwamasa, Perry's 59-year-old assistant, pleaded guilty on Aug. 7 to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine causing a death. He admitted to repeatedly injecting Perry with ketamine without medical training, including on the day the actor died, according to prosecutors.

Dr. Mark Chavez, 54, a physician based in San Diego, has agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine, prosecutors said. He admitted to selling ketamine to Plasencia, including some that he had diverted from his former clinic, according to prosecutors.

The fifth defendant, Erik Fleming, 54, was described in court papers as an acquaintance of Perry's who helped him obtain ketamine. He admitted to distributing the ketamine that killed Perry – drugs that he procured from Sangha, according to prosecutors.

[Daehawk]

I used to be all for charging others like this but now days I wonder how right it is to charge others for something someone does of their own free will.

[Isgrimnur]

I used to be all for charging others like this but now days I wonder how right it is to charge others for something someone does of their own free will.

Sounds like you've never had a close relationship with an addict.

[Daehawk]

No but I smoked and I took opiates for 8 years and walked away from both. Was my choice all along.

[Isgrimnur]

Not everyone enjoys your genetic advantages. Show some empathy once in a while.

[LordMortis]

Not everyone enjoys your genetic advantages. Show some empathy once in a while.

Yep. Of course without empathy, I know quit smoking 9 or more years ago now. Put on tons of weight. Took on tons of stress. And here I am still a stress eater who would also eat compulsively without being fanatical about following the prescribed calorie counts from my phone, always hungry, and with all those problems related to not smoking, I still want cigarettes nearly every damned day. Different people. Different lives.

[Blackhawk]

I've got good genes. Other than smoking and properly-dosed prescribed medications (which stopped when they were no longer prescribed), I've never had an addiction to a substance.

Other people I know, however, are easily addicted to something. Even when clean, even a single moment of weakness and they're right back where they started. They've struggled with it for decades, it's destroyed their lives, and destroyed their bodies. Some people are very, very susceptible to addiction, and those people have a great deal of difficulty just 'walking away' from it.

It's not fair to look at my lucky genes and hold other people in contempt for not being the same as me, any more than it is reasonable for someone who has dealt successfully with mental illness to look down on someone who has still has to struggle with it.

[LordMortis]

Greg Kihn

https://variety.com/2024/music/obituari ... 236107843/

Greg Kihn, the rock singer-songwriter who scored with “Jeopardy” and “The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)” and helped definite an era of power pop in the 1980s, died Tuesday at age 75, his family announced in a statement. The cause of death was complications from Alzheimer’s disease.

[Daehawk]

Greg Kihn

https://variety.com/2024/music/obituari ... 236107843/

Greg Kihn, the rock singer-songwriter who scored with “Jeopardy” and “The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)” and helped definite an era of power pop in the 1980s, died Tuesday at age 75, his family announced in a statement. The cause of death was complications from Alzheimer’s disease.

Another point of 80s nostalgia gone.

[McNutt]

RIP - Jack Russell

The lead singer of Great White died today. He announced last month that he had Lewy Body Demensia.

I'm going to play Rock Me in his honor tonight.

[hepcat]

This piece of trivia surprised me and made me respect Kihn more.

Kihn was grateful to Yankovic for giving his No. 2 hit even more of an afterlife than it otherwise would have had. “I loved his version of ‘I Lost on Jeopardy’,” he said. “It was a brilliant parody. Al is a super talented musician. He invited me to appear in his video and I had a ball. God bless that man! I still get mailbox money from Weird Al!”

[Jeff V]

Greg Kihn

https://variety.com/2024/music/obituari ... 236107843/

Greg Kihn, the rock singer-songwriter who scored with “Jeopardy” and “The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)” and helped definite an era of power pop in the 1980s, died Tuesday at age 75, his family announced in a statement. The cause of death was complications from Alzheimer’s disease.

The mid-day DJ I listen to came here a few years ago from San Francisco, where she knew Kihn.

I could have sworn he died years ago though.

[Daehawk]

RIP - Jack Russell

The lead singer of Great White died today. He announced last month that he had Lewy Body Demensia.

I'm going to play Rock Me in his honor tonight.

That sucks. Died a month after he announced he had it. Ill always remember them for Once Bitten, Twice Shy in the late late 80s or early 90s. I heard it the other day in fact. I also remember their horrific bar fire show that happened. Damn.

RIP

[disarm]

I used to be all for charging others like this but now days I wonder how right it is to charge others for something someone does of their own free will.

These people illegally provided an addict with controlled substances and several admitted to being the ones who actually injected the medication for him despite a total lack of medical training and it being highly illegal. They are 100% culpable contributors to his death.

[Daehawk]

if thats so then yes

All this shit makes it harder for people who need pain medicine to get pain medicine

[Isgrimnur]

Prep your cards for Victoria Jackson:

Saturday Night Live alumna and breast cancer survivor Victoria Jackson revealed in a candid social media post that she has an inoperable tumor in her windpipe.

“They cannot operate and cut out the marble in my chest that is laying on my windpipe, and eventually would suffocate me to death,” Jackson said, before revealing her course of treatment.

“They’re giving me a magic pill. It’s going to be delivered to my front door within the next 12 hours,” she added. “It’s based on Ribociclib, and it will shrink the marble, hopefully.”

As for her prognosis, “I looked up the pill on Google and it says people who take this have 32.6 months to live — something like that.”
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She revealed her breast cancer diagnosis back in 2016.

[Max Peck]

Wally Amos, Famous Amos Cookies Creator, Dead at 88

Wallace “Wally” Amos, the founder of Famous Amos cookies, has died at the age of 88. The company founder’s children Shawn and Sarah announced Tuesday that the cookie creator died at his Honolulu home on Aug. 13 due to complications with dementia, according to the New York Times.

Throughout his life, Amos had talked about how he promoted his cookie in a similar way that he’d promote artists when he was an agent at William Morris Agency, where he was the first Black talent agent in the industry, according to the History Channel. In his 2002 book, The Cookie Never Crumbles, Amos wrote that he would include a photo of the cookie and provide little plastic bags with the cookies stapled so you could “taste the cookies.”

Amos even got R&B legend Marin Gaye to invest in his sweets company early on.

“Marvin Gaye had returned my call and wanted me to get back to him,” Amos wrote in the book, per LAist. “I called him from that waiting room, got him on the line, and started right in describing what it was I was up to with The Cookie and Famous Amos, and my store and all. He stopped me in mid-pitch and said, ‘Wally, Wally…hey, wait a minute, man. If you’re doin’ it, that’s Ok, I’ll invest in it.'”

“And just like that, he was in for the $10,000 I needed,” he added. “My shortfall set me back only a week, and thanks to Marvin, my plans were back on track.”

Born Wallace Amos Jr. in Tallahassee, Florida, on July 1, 1936, he lived his teen years in New York City’s Harlem borough. Amos got his G.E.D. while in the Air Force before he joined Willam Morris Agency. There, he signed talent such as Simon and Garfunkel, and worked with the Supremes, Diana Ross, Sam Cooke, and Dionne Warwick.

“I’d go to meetings with record company or movie people and bring along some cookies, and pretty soon everybody was asking for them,” Amos told The New York Times in 1975. That year, he launched his company and its first store on the east side of Sunset Boulevard in L.A.

[Daehawk]

Prep your cards for Victoria Jackson:

Saturday Night Live alumna and breast cancer survivor Victoria Jackson revealed in a candid social media post that she has an inoperable tumor in her windpipe.

“They cannot operate and cut out the marble in my chest that is laying on my windpipe, and eventually would suffocate me to death,” Jackson said, before revealing her course of treatment.

“They’re giving me a magic pill. It’s going to be delivered to my front door within the next 12 hours,” she added. “It’s based on Ribociclib, and it will shrink the marble, hopefully.”

As for her prognosis, “I looked up the pill on Google and it says people who take this have 32.6 months to live — something like that.”
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She revealed her breast cancer diagnosis back in 2016.

Always found her the ditsy cute one.

[TheMix]

I mean... duh? Seriously, if you didn't, I'd be worried. It's obviously the persona that she worked to develop. And did a great job. But don't confuse the persona with the person. That would be a disservice.

[Smoove_B]

That would be a disservice.

Yeah. I'm not going to say much for fear of swerving into R&P, but...it sucks she has cancer. I'll leave it at that.

[TheMix]

Not sure how R&P got invoked. Apparently there is stuff I'm not aware of.

But to your second point I probably should have led with "F#$% cancer".

Edit: Ah. A quick internet search cleared that up. Bummer. Though my original point still stands (discounting any political commentary).

[Kraken]

That would be a disservice.

Yeah. I'm not going to say much for fear of swerving into R&P, but...it sucks she has cancer. I'll leave it at that.

Diplomatically put. I'll say that I enjoyed her work back in the day, and stop there.

[A nonny mouse]

Phil Donahue has passed.
I was never a talk show person, but he definitely had a good run. R.I.P.

[Daehawk]

He was the decent part of talk shows. People like SPringer and such were all flash.

[Jeff V]

There's been a lot of good ones, Donohue set the standard. That Oprah considered him so highly as to regard her career as impossible without him says a lot.

Springer was just trash...I'm pretty sure all of the MAGAts adored him though. I met him once at NBC Tower, the only other person with a slimier handshake was Rod Blagojevich.

[Unagi]

I just have to say that I think it's asinine to bring up Springer and Donahue in the same context.


Wrestling, Journalism, __?__

I'm trying to think if there are other professions with two distinct versions of itself.... one "legit" and the other entirely superficial.

[Unagi]

maybe something like 'restaurants' fits the bill.

as in McDonald's vs that amazing little place with a half-dozen 4-tops that you go to on your anniversary

nah, that's not the same.


But - I did think of another. Something like Preachers - where there are some who legit are trying to help a person/community - and then there are those that only do it for the wrong reasons.

[Blackhawk]

I just have to say that I think it's asinine to bring up Springer and Donahue in the same context.


Wrestling, Journalism, __?__

I'm trying to think if there are other professions with two distinct versions of itself.... one "legit" and the other entirely superficial.

Chiropractors?

[Unagi]

I just have to say that I think it's asinine to bring up Springer and Donahue in the same context.


Wrestling, Journalism, __?__

I'm trying to think if there are other professions with two distinct versions of itself.... one "legit" and the other entirely superficial.

Chiropractors?

That's a good one too. I imagine that should be opened up to the general 'medical community' in general, where ever they take on two forms.

[Blackhawk]

Artists vs AI artists
Writers vs AI writers
Directors vs The Guy Who Made Borderlands

[Unagi]

Oh Oh!!

Actors vs Mark Wahlberg !!!

[Daehawk]

Dont you besmearch Wahlberg

Its like attacking Die Hard and Bruce Willis on Christmas