DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

[Doctor Strange]

Nice piece on the late David Shepard by Leonard Maltin:

http://leonardmaltin.com/adieu-to-david-shepard/

 

[MisterCairo]

Little Caesar's pizza founder and Detroit sports magnate Mike Ilitch has died, aged 87:

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/mike-ilitch-dead-at-87-1.3977563

 

[kaiser]

Sad to hear about Mike, he was a promenent figure in Detroit back in the 1980's when I lived there.

R.I.P. Mike

 

[carouselvic]

Harold Gregory "Hal" Moore, Jr., lieutenant colonel in command of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, at the Battle of Ia Drang, has died aged 94. RIP.

 

[MisterCairo]

Singer and musician Al Jarreau has died, aged 76:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/al-jarreau-obit-jaz-musician-1.3979247

 

[Zombie_61]

World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Fame wrestler George "The Animal" Steele passed away Thursday night at the age of 79. Steele reportedly died from kidney failure and had been in and out of hospice care for nearly a year.

 

[Worf]

Gone are the days.... Bruno Samartino, Ivan Putsky "Da Polish Hammer", Chief Jay Strongbow, Bo Bo Brazil, Baron Ratschke, Argentina Appolo.... Sigh. At 79 George had a good run, between the physical abuse and ravages of being on the road so long.

Worf

 

[belfastboy]

Gone are the days.... Bruno Samartino, Ivan Putsky "Da Polish Hammer", Chief Jay Strongbow, Bo Bo Brazil, Baron Ratschke, Argentina Appolo.... Sigh.

Worf

I loved Bo Bo Brazil, not to mention Gorgeous George

 

[Frunobulax]

Gone are the days.... Bruno Samartino, Ivan Putsky "Da Polish Hammer", Chief Jay Strongbow, Bo Bo Brazil, Baron Ratschke, Argentina Appolo.... Sigh. At 79 George had a good run, between the physical abuse and ravages of being on the road so long.

Worf

Yup. Back when wrasslin' was real, not this fake stuff.

Seriously, at 79, that's a good run. Sammartino is 81, I believe. The younger crew keep exiting the stage too young, due to steroid abuse.


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

[Worf]

Clyde "Funky Drummer" Subblefield. Drummer/percussionist with "The J.B.s" James Brown's backing band. You don't know his name, you can't picture his face but you know THAT BEAT!!!! It's only been sampled a million times... Sad...

Worf

 

[Frunobulax]

Clyde "Funky Drummer" Subblefield. Drummer/percussionist with "The J.B.s" James Brown's backing band. You don't know his name, you can't picture his face but you know THAT BEAT!!!! It's only been sampled a million times... Sad...

Worf

Been a bad week for Funk.

 

[Bushman]

Rest in Peace, Bill Paxton.

I'm very sad to see him gone. I know I hadn't seen him in a lot lately, but he was always one of my favorite childhood actors. Loved him in movies like Twister. Plus, Hudson was always my favorite Colonial Marine from Aliens.

 

[MisterCairo]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/bill-paxton-dead-obit-1.4000063

 

[Trenchfriend]

Not to believe...



Bye, Hudson.

 

[MisterCairo]

Judge Joseph Wapner of The People's Court has died, aged 97:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/joseph-wapner-peoples-court-obit-1.4000442

 

[MisterCairo]

Neil Fingleton, an actor, former basketball player and Britain's tallest man, has died aged only 36 from heart failure.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/obit-fingleton-neil-got-1.4001070

Very sad, but I understand this issue is common among the very tall.

 

[MisterCairo]

Two things I learned today about the novelty song and video "Fish Heads" by Barnes and Barnes, which I saw a zillion times on MuchMusic (Canada's MTV).

One: one half of Barnes and Barnes is Billy "Danger! Will Robinson!" Mumy.

Two: the video was directed by Bill Paxton!

 

[Frunobulax]

Two things I learned today about the novelty song and video "Fish Heads" by Barnes and Barnes, which I saw a zillion times on MuchMusic (Canada's MTV).

One: one half of Barnes and Barnes is Billy "Danger! Will Robinson!" Mumy.

Two: the video was directed by Bill Paxton!

Color me gobsmacked. I had no idea.


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Former major league baseball pitcher Ned Garver has died at the age of 91. A very good pitcher for several very bad teams in a career that spanned 1948 to 1961, Garver accomplished one of the most astounding single-season achievements in the history of the game, when, in 1951 he won 20 games for the St. Louis Browns, a club which went 52-102 on the season. Garver's victories amounted to almost 40 percent of his club's total wins that season, and he put frosting on the cake by batting .305 for the year. To this day he remains the only pitcher in modern Major League history to win 20 games for a club that lost more than 100 games on the season.

In recognition of his accomplishment, Browns owner Bill Veeck raised Garver's salary for 1952 to $25,000, making him the highest paid player on the club. One writer memorably described Garver's 1951 record as ranking on the scale of miraculousness "somewhere between Johnny Vander Meer's consecutive no-hitters and the raising of Lazarus."

 

[MisterCairo]

Musician Tommy Page has died at age 46, an apparent suicide:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/obit-tommy-page-1.4011509