DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

[HoosierDaddy]

 

[belfastboy]

There was a poignant article about him about two weeks ago in our National Post. In an interview Cohen essentially said..."I am not doing well physically and am quite ready to go." I guess he realized his time was getting close.
I am saddened by the loss.

 

[Doctor Strange]

I didn't much care for Leonard Cohen as a performer, but he was a staggeringly brilliant songwriter. I mean "Hallelujah" and "Suzanne" alone, but there are so many others! Here's a personal favorite, movingly performed by Emmylou Harris:

 

[Doctor Strange]

Robert Vaughn!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-vaughn-dead-man-uncle-859991

To my generation, he will always be Napoleon Solo of U.N.C.L.E.!

 

[Benzadmiral]

Robert Vaughn!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-vaughn-dead-man-uncle-859991

To my generation, he will always be Napoleon Solo of U.N.C.L.E.!

RV to me, as Solo and in many other roles, was a role model. To this day, when I read or reread a favorite adventure story, his image (clean-cut, dashing, authoritative) is the first to come to mind.

Beyond that, he was a very intelligent fellow -- a Ph.D., no less.

Mr. Vaughn, when I get to heaven, I will look you up, along with Robert Culp. I'm sure you will have plenty of stories to tell. Tonight, time to re-watch a few U.N.C.L.E. episodes. . . .

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

And then, of course, he starred in the immortal "I was a Teenage Caveman." But he'll always be Napoleon Solo to me. That Ph.D was in Political Science. He was a politics junkie and most of his latter-day roles were as politicians, usually sleazy ones which he played exceptionally well.

 

[Bigger Don]

Robert Vaughn!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-vaughn-dead-man-uncle-859991

To my generation, he will always be Napoleon Solo of U.N.C.L.E.!

Yes...but more recently he had a recurring role, several episodes IIRC, on Law & Order as a politically powerful business magnate; a complex character, to say the least.

 

[LizzieMaine]

To everyone under the age of fifty in Maine, he is known solely and exclusively as the TELL THEM YOU MEAN BUSINESS! guy in the ads for The Law Offices Of Joe Bornstien.

These ads have been so relentless over the last twenty-five years or so that many people who see them actually think that Vaughn *is* Joe Bornstein. Many have been crushed to learn that these ads were a franchise deal, and that Vaughn was actually the spokesman for dozens of law firms all over the US.

 

[Fading Fast]

To everyone under the age of fifty in Maine, he is known solely and exclusively as the TELL THEM YOU MEAN BUSINESS! guy in the ads for The Law Offices Of Joe Bornstien.

These ads have been so relentless over the last twenty-five years or so that many people who see them actually think that Vaughn *is* Joe Bornstein. Many have been crushed to learn that these ads were a franchise deal, and that Vaughn was actually the spokesman for dozens of law firms all over the US.

Just another reason to adhere to the dictum, save your money (assuming he did it for need).

Vaughn should not have been hawking for those hucksters. I'm not against advertising and promotion, but if one does it, they should know what they are promoting and feel good about it (I, for one, would happily promote peanut butter the minute the peanut butter council calls ), but how could Vaughn know and feel good about these dozens of law firms spread over the country?

Darn fine actor though. He fit in nicely between classically handsome and character actor and, of course, there is that voice.

 

[BobHufford]

Leon Russell, 1942 - 2016.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-leonrussell-idUSKBN1380JM

 

[Bamaboots]

Glad I got to see Leon. RIP

 

[Frunobulax]

Glad I got to see Leon. RIP

Wow. Everybody loves Leon! Glad I got to see him a few times myself.


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[Benzadmiral]

Yes...but more recently he had a recurring role, several episodes IIRC, on Law & Order as a politically powerful business magnate; a complex character, to say the least.

I caught one of those -- he even had a scene with his spy-TV contemporary, Steven Hill. I'd always wanted to see those two together.

Vaughn played at least 3 U.S. presidents, either on stage or TV, either in the White House or before. Can anybody name them?

 

[MisterCairo]

I was truly saddened to hear about this. Actor Janet Wright, a Canadian stage and tv personality, has died aged on 71. She is best known in Canada for Corner Gas, and was in Stratford, Ontario on stage last in 2011 in Grapes of Wrath:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/award-winning-corner-gas-janet-wright-dead-71-1.3850685

 

[MisterCairo]

Jazz great Mose Allison has died, aged 89:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/mose-allison-musician-obituary-1.3852832

 

[Zombie_61]

Leonard Cohen dead at 82.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/10/entertainment/leonard-cohen-singer-songwriter-dead/index.html?adkey=bn

A bit of an update for anyone who might be interested. Mr. Cohen's manager Robert B. Kory said in a statement today that Cohen died in his sleep after falling down in the middle of the night at his home in Los Angeles. "The death was sudden, unexpected, and peaceful." He also clarified that Mr. Cohen died on November 7th, not on the 10th when his death was announced.

 

[MisterCairo]

Soul singer Sharon Jones has died:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/sharon-jones-obit-1.3858699

 

[Frunobulax]

Soul singer Sharon Jones has died:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/sharon-jones-obit-1.3858699

Well, dammit. She fought like a tiger through her illness, though. She went through chemo a few times and still kept coming back. I only discovered her a couple of years ago.

RIP brave lady. You were tough as nails, and you could belt it like nobody's business.


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[Worf]

R.I.P. Ms. Jones. Passed over during the "Golden Age" of Soul/RnB she persevered nonetheless. I was honored to see her 2 times, once in a very intimate setting (Club Helsinki, Hudson, NY) and she, as always, was the "real deal". I've seen them all, Aretha, James, Marvin all the Motown and Stax/Volt reviews... she could hold her own with ANY of em. Maybe be not as a song writer but certainly as a performer. She fired every bullet she had then threw the pistol! Sigh... what a crappy year for music.....

Worf

 

[Frunobulax]

"Fired every bullet and threw the pistol."

Nailed it.


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