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

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Nov 26, 2024 7:50 pm

Suitably Ironic Moniker wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2024 5:49 pm Jim Abrahams, the A in ZAZ that created Airplane! and Naked Gun, among other comedies, died at 80 from natural causes. Airplane! may be my favorite comedy of all time, and certainly the most influential to my sense of humor. Obviously, Naked Gun was a favorite, and I also loved The Kentucky Fried Movie.

ETA how much I love Top Secret. On the rare occasion someone says they know a little [insert language here], I say he's right over there!

All those movies and Hot Shots! That guy was talented. Loved them all and laughed my ass off to them. Thanks man. Rest your funny bone man you deserve it. RIP

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Sat Dec 21, 2024 3:36 pm

Rickey Henderson just got called up.

The baseball great was only 65.

Eel Snave · Post by **Eel Snave** » Sat Dec 21, 2024 3:46 pm

McNutt wrote: Sat Dec 21, 2024 3:36 pm Rickey Henderson just got called up.

The baseball great was only 65.

Noooooooo!

In memoriam:

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Sat Dec 21, 2024 4:50 pm

He also holds the record for the most leadoff home runs (81).

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Dec 21, 2024 5:16 pm

For some reason I thought he played for the Atlanta Braves inj the 80s but I guess he didn't. There was some fast as shit base stealer that did though and I cant recall his name.

Anyways RIP Rickey

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Sat Dec 21, 2024 6:09 pm

Daehawk wrote: Sat Dec 21, 2024 5:16 pm For some reason I thought he played for the Atlanta Braves inj the 80s but I guess he didn't. There was some fast as shit base stealer that did though and I cant recall his name.

Anyways RIP Rickey

Rafael Ramirez stole 93 bases for the Braves in the '80s.

Punisher · Post by **Punisher** » Sat Dec 21, 2024 8:25 pm

Jaymann wrote: Sat Dec 21, 2024 6:09 pm
Daehawk wrote: Sat Dec 21, 2024 5:16 pm For some reason I thought he played for the Atlanta Braves inj the 80s but I guess he didn't. There was some fast as shit base stealer that did though and I cant recall his name.

Anyways RIP Rickey
Rafael Ramirez stole 93 bases for the Braves in the '80s.

Was he ever convicted?

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Tue Dec 24, 2024 12:21 am

R.I.P. Gordon Mah Ung.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Dec 27, 2024 9:25 pm

Greg Gumbel

Greg Gumbel, the sure-handed CBS sportscaster whose 50-year-plus career included hosting the NCAA men’s basketball tournament and The NFL Today and handling play-by-play for a pair of Super Bowls, has died. He was 78.

Gumbel’s death after a “courageous battle with cancer” was announced Friday in a statement from his wife, Marcy, and his daughter, Michelle.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Dec 27, 2024 9:40 pm

Wow 78. Didn't know he was that old. RIP.

I cant say I knew the man at all but from seeing him on the Today show he came across as arrogant or something. Mighta been the best guy in the world for all I know. I recall him and Curic trying to figure out what the internet was lol. Thats still a popular video clip today.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Fri Dec 27, 2024 9:46 pm

Daehawk wrote: Fri Dec 27, 2024 9:40 pm I cant say I knew the man at all but from seeing him on the Today show he came across as arrogant or something.

You're thinking of his brother.

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Fri Dec 27, 2024 10:31 pm

Olivia Hussey has died at 73.

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Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Dec 28, 2024 12:46 am

Smoove_B wrote: Fri Dec 27, 2024 9:46 pm
Daehawk wrote: Fri Dec 27, 2024 9:40 pm I cant say I knew the man at all but from seeing him on the Today show he came across as arrogant or something.
You're thinking of his brother.

Ahh yes so i am..sry Greg

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Dec 28, 2024 12:48 am

McNutt wrote: Fri Dec 27, 2024 10:31 pm Olivia Hussey has died at 73.

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Ok ya ill say it..a beautiful woman. Remember her from the 80s. Also older than Id thought. But i tend to think of everyone from the 80s as the same age they were then.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Sat Dec 28, 2024 5:33 pm

TCM Remembers, 2024

https://youtu.be/GxJqSLcVFUI

Edit: Are Youtube embeds broken now?

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Sat Dec 28, 2024 5:57 pm

Max Peck wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2024 5:33 pm TCM Remembers, 2024

https://youtu.be/GxJqSLcVFUI

Edit: Are Youtube embeds broken now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxJqSLcVFUI

probably just those little urls

edit: Nope!

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Dec 28, 2024 6:03 pm

All the ones in YT videos are gone too. Noticed it earlier. its the big holidays time. if something dont break when people cant get to it it wouldn't be the holidays now would it? Its tradition.

That remembrance video was nice but went way too fast. Even with me pausing I had to rewind a lot. Some I had forgotten died or didn't know had.

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Mon Dec 30, 2024 8:47 am

Early to rise.
Early to bed.
And in between I cooked and cleaned and went out of my head.

Linda Lavin passes away at 87.

She finally stowed it.

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Mon Dec 30, 2024 10:18 am

I have really fond memories of watching Alice reruns with my grandmother. Alice, All in the Family, Sanford and Son, and The jeffersons were always on rotation when I stayed over at her house. I remember absolutely loving Flo and Vera, and being somewhat afraid of Mel.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Dec 30, 2024 12:28 pm

Spoiler:

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Dec 30, 2024 12:43 pm

AP News

[Lavin] was working as recently as this month promoting a new Netflix series in which she appears, “No Good Deed,” and filming a forthcoming Hulu series, “Mid-Century Modern,”

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Mon Dec 30, 2024 1:25 pm

I forgot that Linda Lavin lived in my town for several years. She bought a building here and turned it into the Red Barn Studio Theater, a place for local performers to stage plays. She did a tremendous amount for the local theater scene here.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Dec 30, 2024 5:32 pm

YellowKing wrote: Mon Dec 30, 2024 10:18 am I have really fond memories of watching Alice reruns with my grandmother. Alice, All in the Family, Sanford and Son, and The jeffersons were always on rotation when I stayed over at her house. I remember absolutely loving Flo and Vera, and being somewhat afraid of Mel.

Same here with all three of those shows plus Good Times and Chico & the Man.

I LOVED Alice as a kid. Small crush on Linda. She was fantastic and when i think of Alice's Diner I think of the show Alice. Flo with kiss my grits and Mel yelling from the kitchen. Then there was Vera..she was so nervous and timid she made me nervous. And Linda there as the sane normal one raising her son. All the woman power stuff passed me by as a child. I just enjoyed the show for being a fun off beat comedy show. I think Alice fit in with two other shows I watched...Soap and Barney Miller. Strange that I watched those shows as a child but I loved them.

Hell I even watched Maude! ( Even though I was a kid , Adrienne Barbeau had 2 very pointed arguments I enjoyed

)

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Dec 30, 2024 6:26 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2024 12:22 pm Liam Payne 'Jumped from the Balcony of His Room' Before His Death at 31, Authorities Say

Liam Payne’s manager, two hotel workers charged in One Direction singer’s death

The National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office of Argentina announced in a Spanish-language statement that Judge Laura Graciela Bruniard on Friday prosecuted five people for alleged involvement in the pop singer’s death. Payne’s representative (identified as “R.L.N.”) and the manager and the head of reception of the Buenos Aires hotel where the British singer fell to his death were charged with manslaughter.

Another hotel employee and a waiter whom Payne met in a restaurant were charged with allegedly supplying the singer with narcotics.
...
The prosecutor’s office detailed an alleged incident where Payne was carried up to his third-floor room by a group of three people prior to his death. The hotel manager (identified as “G.A.M.”) and the hotel’s head of reception (“E.R.G.”), who allegedly led the group, should have kept Payne “in a safe area without sources of danger, in company and until he could be provided with medical care,” the prosecutor’s office said.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Mon Dec 30, 2024 8:08 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: Mon Dec 30, 2024 12:28 pm

Spoiler:
https://bsky.app/profile/willmckinley.b ... iqqxxq7s2z

Except maybe the mothers on What's Happening (but it wasn't about her) and The Partridge Family (who seemed to be okay with money for the most part)...

but well before those was the real winner: Julia...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062575/

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 8:11 pm

In the last week a friend I've known since late 80s passed from cancer surgery and I was just informed a coworker friend of 25 year died from an aggressive infection related to cancer treatment this morning.. Happy fucking new year.

Fuck Cancer

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Sat Jan 04, 2025 9:43 pm

Wow, Aubrey Plaza’s husband, Jeff Baena, committed suicide Friday. That’s rough.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sat Jan 04, 2025 10:02 pm

So you're saying I've got a chance.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Sat Jan 04, 2025 10:03 pm

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Jan 04, 2025 10:16 pm

Oh no. I like her. She was just on the Drew Barrymore show the other day talking about him and being married. Dang.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sun Jan 05, 2025 12:01 am

hepcat wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 10:03 pm

Too soon?

The joke came up here a day or two ago and was the first thing that popped into my head. Kids, suicide isn't funny and I'm sorry for Aubrey and their families.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Sun Jan 05, 2025 1:06 am

I thought perhaps someone had taken over your account as that wasn’t your normal Kraken like response.

I wonder if he suffered from mental illness of some type, or if something happened in his life that pushed him over the edge.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sun Jan 05, 2025 2:37 am

hepcat wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 1:06 am I thought perhaps someone had taken over your account as that wasn’t your normal Kraken like response.

One needn't post the first thing that pops into one's head. That job is already taken. I submit that it *was* kinda funny, though. I would've snorted beer out my nose if you'd posted it.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Sun Jan 05, 2025 9:20 am

No harm intended. I was just surprised. God knows I’ve posted enough stuff that might have felt inappropriate at the time.

gbasden · Post by **gbasden** » Mon Jan 06, 2025 3:16 pm

hepcat wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 9:20 am God knows I’ve posted enough stuff that might have felt inappropriate at the time.

Not you! You are the master of posting decorum and etiquette!

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:31 pm

I even wear a monocle.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Mon Jan 06, 2025 5:05 pm

But where?

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Jan 06, 2025 5:16 pm

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Jan 06, 2025 5:20 pm

hepcat confirmed as a Shirime.

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Mon Jan 06, 2025 8:45 pm

For a sec, I thought I read that as Shriner.