DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

[MisterCairo]

I remember his Canadian daytime talk show when I was home sick from school. He took over from Alan Hamel, best knows as Suzanne Sommers' Canadian husband:

 

[MisterCairo]

And in 1983 on his show Thicke of the Night, here with Elvira:

 

[Frunobulax]

Another bolt from the blue. While playing hockey even.


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

[MisterCairo]

Another bolt from the blue. While playing hockey even.


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

Typically Canadian to the end!

 

[Frunobulax]

Typically Canadian to the end!

Right behind "drowned in maple syrup" and "trampled by a moose."

 

[Zombie_61]

Bernard Fox, arguably best known for his role as Dr. Bombay on the television series Bewitched, has died of heart failure at the age of 89.

 

[Frunobulax]

Bernard Fox, arguably best known for his role as Dr. Bombay on the television series Bewitched, has died of heart failure at the age of 89.

That's another one I would have guessed had already passed. That leaves only Tabitha.


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

[ChazfromCali]

Just read about this. Songwriter Curly Putman (Green Green Grass of Home) died at age 85:


https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...ter-of-green-green-grass-of-home-dies-aged-85

Sheesh, my heart jumped into my throat for a second before I saw it was not Tom. Please not Tom! As far as I know he's healthy as a racehorse. I've always liked Tom Jones ever since I was a little kid saw him in What's Up Pussycat. Used to watch his TV show too. Just a great charismatic, talented singer and performer. I had the good luck to see him perform in Vina Del Mar, Chile in 2007. It was a big deal that he visited in Chile, it was talked about on the TV news shows and daytime talk shows, etc. The show was wild, women of all ages throwing their undies up on-stage and screaming.

 

[Edward]

It's a shame I think that most will remember Peter Vaughn for one role, albeit a great one, after a huge body of work great.

To me, for example, he'll always be Mr. Boffin from Our Mutual Friend.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/obit-peter-vaughan-1.3883282

I remember him as Grouty in Porridge, the (apparently based on Ronnie Kray) boss man of the prisoners without whose permission nothing happened. When his death hit the news here, they mentioned that and Game of Thrones. They also mentioned that Grouty - much to my surprise - only appeared in three episodes of Porridge, which just goes to show how memorable a character he was that so manyt of us remember him as so much more significant a character in it.

Sheesh, my heart jumped into my throat for a second before I saw it was not Tom. Please not Tom! As far as I know he's healthy as a racehorse. I've always liked Tom Jones ever since I was a little kid saw him in What's Up Pussycat. Used to watch his TV show too. Just a great charismatic, talented singer and performer. I had the good luck to see him perform in Vina Del Mar, Chile in 2007. It was a big deal that he visited in Chile, it was talked about on the TV news shows and daytime talk shows, etc. The show was wild, women of all ages throwing their undies up on-stage and screaming.

He's quite a character. I'd love to have the chance to see him live while he's still around. I'dc also love to go for a drink with him and talk about when he and Elvis used to go back to a Vegas hotel suite and stay up all night singing gospel. What a tragedy that noone ever thought to bring a tape recorder!

 

[LizzieMaine]

Bernard Fox, arguably best known for his role as Dr. Bombay on the television series Bewitched, has died of heart failure at the age of 89.

He was probably the last working actor to specialize in what was a common stock comedy character in the Era -- the fatuous upper-class British gentleman with a stiff upper lip and an empty head. The bungling Colonel Crittendon of "Hogan's Heroes" fame was probably his most outstanding achievement in this type of part.

I remember seeing him in Titanic and being astonished that he was still alive -- and that was almost twenty years ago. It was also the only time I'd ever seen him do a straight role -- even though Colonel Archibald Gracie was, arguably, a real-life fatuous upper-class British gentleman.

 

[MisterCairo]

Sheesh, my heart jumped into my throat for a second before I saw it was not Tom. Please not Tom! As far as I know he's healthy as a racehorse. I've always liked Tom Jones ever since I was a little kid saw him in What's Up Pussycat. Used to watch his TV show too. Just a great charismatic, talented singer and performer. I had the good luck to see him perform in Vina Del Mar, Chile in 2007. It was a big deal that he visited in Chile, it was talked about on the TV news shows and daytime talk shows, etc. The show was wild, women of all ages throwing their undies up on-stage and screaming.

Sorry about that, I'd wondered if anyone would see Tom and think it was him!

There was a line in an episode of the British comedy Drop the Dead Donkey. Someone was "full of it", and a character noted "He's more full of bollocks than Tom Jones' y-fronts".

There is no way of directly translating that in words that would pass muster on this forum, so I hope you get it!

 

[MisterCairo]

Bernard Fox, arguably best known for his role as Dr. Bombay on the television series Bewitched, has died of heart failure at the age of 89.

Sad to hear, but frankly I was amazed he was still alive, and "only" 89 at his death! I thought he'd gone years ago.

I guess because he appeared to be mature, i.e., older in the day, I assumed he was for example in his 50s when he did Hogan's Heroes and Bewitched, when in fact he was late 30s/early 40s.

 

[Fading Fast]

Sad to hear, but frankly I was amazed he was still alive, and "only" 89 at his death! I thought he'd gone years ago.

I guess because he appeared to be mature, i.e., older in the day, I assumed he was for example in his 50s when he did Hogan's Heroes and Bewitched, when in fact he was late 30s/early 40s.

I thought like you, as watching "Hogan's Heroes" growing up, I would have put him as Colonel Crittendon at 50 which would have made him deep in his 90s today. 89 is not a bad number to make it to, though.

 

[BobHufford]

Singer Holly Dunn Dies at 59.

http://www.wideopencountry.com/daddys-hands-singer-holly-dunn-dies-at-59/

 

[MisterCairo]

Dr. Henry Heimlich has died aged 96. He'd suffered a heart attack earlier in the week. This just a few months after he'd finally have cause to use, successfully, his own "manoeuvre":

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/henry-heimlich-dies-1.3901864

 

[MisterCairo]

A true beauty, Zsa Zsa Gabor has died, aged 99:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-1.3902595

 

[ChazfromCali]

Far be it for little old me to correct the hallowed BBC, but it's Lamé not, lame gown. I'm not a grammar Nazi, I can barely speak my native language of English. But the BBC? C'mon!

Standards people! Standards.

 

[MisterCairo]

Far be it for little old me to correct the hallowed BBC, but it's Lamé not, lame gown. I'm not a grammar Nazi, I can barely speak my native language of English. But the BBC? C'mon!

Standards people! Standards.

Using the coding protocols for their word processor of choice probably takes too much time to master, probably upwards of minutes.

Pronunciation these days in media is atrocious, too. A Canadian network, CTV, had a promotional spot for a show's mid-season finale, which in North America is pronounced as "fin alley".

He said "fin al".

Ouch...

 

[Frunobulax]

This is how bad 2016 has gotten. Last night, while cooking dinner, I saw MisterCairo's post above. I walked into the living room, looked at my wife, and just said, "Zsa Zsa." She immediately knew what I meant.

 

[ChazfromCali]

2016 has been a particularly bad year for people passing away; actors and celebrities that we grew up with. But especially musicians. It's making a lot of people ponder their mortality, at least on the music forum I'm on.

Leon Russell, Mose Allison, Greg Lake, Keith Emerson, Prince, Leonard Cohen, Al Caiola, Bobby Vee, Phil Chess, Paul Kantner, Signe Andersen, Merle Haggard, Sir George Martin, Glen Frey, David Bowie, Paul Bley, Long John Hunter, Pierre Boulez, Dan Hicks....

Sheesh, I just this year to be over already.