Octopus Overlords

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 10:26 am Just got a call that my uncle passed away around 5:00 this morning. That makes two aunts, two uncles, and two cousins that have all died in the past 6 months. Granted, all the aunts and uncles were in their 90's, but that still doesn't make it easier. I've got another uncle who just went into hospice care this week, so I suspect that we'll likely be adding him to the list soon as well.

If the grim reaper could maybe just give our family a pass for the next couple weeks, that'd be great.

Liz Sheridan, a veteran stage and screen actress who played Jerry Seinfeld's mother, Helen, on "Seinfeld," died Friday morning, her manager and friend Amanda Hendon confirmed to CNN.

hepcat wrote: ↑Fri Apr 29, 2022 10:13 pm Legendary comic book artist Neal Adams has died..

His Batman still ranks as my favorite depictions.

Jaymann wrote: ↑Fri Jan 07, 2022 1:33 pm It was only 40 years from Guess Who's Coming to Dinner to Guess Who Got Elected to the White House.

Judds' daughters Wynonna and Ashley announced her death on Saturday.

“Today we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness,” both sisters tweeted. “We are shattered. We are navigating profound grief and know that as we loved her, she was loved by her public. We are in unknown territory.”
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In 2016, Naomi opened up about her battle with depression, telling ABC's "Good Morning America" in an interview that she had been diagnosed with severe depression and had spent time in psychiatric hospitals. At the time she said she was confronting lingering issues from her childhood as part of her therapy, including being molested by a relative when she was 3.

“If I had one wish in life, I would wish for more time,” Gilley told The Associated Press in March 2001 as he celebrated his 65th birthday. Not that he’d do anything differently, the singer said.

Gilley died Saturday in Branson, Missouri, where he helped run the Mickey Gilley Grand Shanghai Theatre. He had been performing as recently as last month but was in failing health over the past week.

“He passed peacefully with his family and close friends by his side,” according to a statement from Mickey Gilley Associates.

Gilley — cousin of rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis — opened Gilley’s, “the world’s largest honky tonk,” in Pasadena, Texas, in the early 1970s. By mid-decade, he was a successful club owner and had enjoyed his first commercial success with “Room Full of Roses.” He began turning out country hits regularly, including “Window Up Above,” “She’s Pulling Me Back Again” and the honky-tonk anthem “Don’t the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time.”

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Wed May 11, 2022 5:23 pm Trevor Strnad, lead singer for Black Dahlia Murder, passes at 41.

The announcement links to the National Suicide Prevention hotline, so one can only assume.

Norm Macdonald has the last laugh after it’s been announced the comedian secretly filmed one final stand-up special before his death.

Macdonald died last September at the age of 61. But the comedian shot a private one-hour stand-up special, which was filmed in his living room. The special, titled Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special, will premiere on Netflix on May 30.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Macdonald went to the hospital in 2020 and was told the results were not good. And before he was set to go in for a procedure, Macdonald set out to film a special. “He wanted to get this on tape just in case — as he put it — things went south,” said Macdonald’s long-time producing partner Lori jo Hoekstra to THR.

“It was his intention to have a special to share if something happened.”

hepcat wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 11:23 am Ah hell, Mr. Remo Williams himself, Fred Ward, has died. RIP to one of those actors that I saw in dozens of films as a teenager/young man.

hepcat wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 11:30 am I think Henry and June proved he could act.

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 11:59 am I used to get him mixed up with Robert Forster. They look quite similar and are about the same age.

hepcat wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 11:23 am Ah hell, Mr. Remo Williams himself, Fred Ward, has died. RIP to one of those actors that I saw in dozens of films as a teenager/young man.

Vangelis, the Greek composer and musician whose synth-driven work brought huge drama to film soundtracks including Blade Runner and Chariots of Fire, has died aged 79. His representatives said he died in hospital in France where he was being treated.A fascination with outer space found voice in 2016’s Rosetta, dedicated to the space probe of the same name, and Nasa appointed his 1993 piece Mythodea (which he claimed to have written in an hour) as the official music of the Mars Odyssey mission of 2001. His final album, 2021’s Juno to Jupiter, was inspired by the Nasa probe Juno and featured recordings of its launch and the workings of the probe itself in outer space.