DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

[dhermann1]

Irving Fein, manager for Jack Benny and George Burns. He christened Lana Turner "The Sweater Girl". At the ripe old age of 101.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/irving-fein-jack-benny-george-burns-361370

 

[ButteMT61]

Ron Palillo - "Horshack" from Welcome Back, Kotter.
Info here.

 

[HadleyH]

Last week, Italian fashion icon and style journalist Anna Piaggi, who wrote for Vogue Italia and inspired German designer Karl Lagerfeld, died in Milan on Thursday aged 81.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/af...ocId=CNG.53886eadb739f196ffa5f19e2a3480c4.661

 

[MikeBravo]

Ron Palillo - "Horshack" from Welcome Back, Kotter.
Info here.

Another Sweathog dead from a heart attack! And only in their sixties

 

[ButteMT61]

Robert Wayne Birch - one of Elton John's bass guitarists.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19280686

 

[Feraud]

Director Tony Scott commits suicide.
http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/tony-scott-director-top-gun-dies-apparent-suicide-52661

 

[MikeBravo]

Madelyn Pugh Davis, 'I Love Lucy' Co-Creator, Dies at 90

The Wrap

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Director Tony Scott commits suicide.
http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/tony-scott-director-top-gun-dies-apparent-suicide-52661

According to some reports he was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.

 

[skyvue]

Actor William Windom, 88.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/arts/television/william-windom-everyman-actor-is-dead-at-88.html

 

[Amy Jeanne]

PHYLLIS DILLER

http://www.tmz.com/2012/08/20/phyllis-diller-dead/

 

[hatophile]

Phyllis Diller -- that's sad, I loved watching her movies as a kid.

 

[AmateisGal]

Awww. I loved Phyllis Diller.

 

[skyvue]

A little trivia tidbit about Ms. Diller: Her very first national television appearance was with Groucho Marx as a contestant on You Bet Your Life.

 

[HadleyH]

William Windom RIP

and so sad.... RIP Phyllis Diller.

 

[Connery]

Phyliss Diller RIP Pure genius!!!!

RIP William Windom

RIP Tony Scott

 

[Atticus Finch]

I always kinda pulled for him...a little...in To Kill A Mockingbird. I'm not sure where he came by his insight, but he played his part well. A bit disheveled, arrogant and downright cavalier, with his leg slung over his chair arm during cross examination. He sure had the small-town, Southern prosecutor down pat.

AF

 

[C.Todd]

“My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual” ~Phyllis Diller

...some of the best advise ever.

 

[skyvue]

Here's video of Phyllis Diller's national TV debut on You Bet Your Life.

[video=youtube_share;YnzT46uTQ0s]http://youtu.be/YnzT46uTQ0s[/video]

 

[LizzieMaine]

I vividly remember Windom in "My World and Welcome To It" -- imagine a time when a TV series based on old James Thurber pieces could get a slot on a national network.

 

[sheeplady]

Here's video of Phyllis Diller's national TV debut on You Bet Your Life.

[video=youtube_share;YnzT46uTQ0s]http://youtu.be/YnzT46uTQ0s[/video]

I love how he tells her she is going to be successful in her career- how successful he could never guess. I never knew she had so many children either.