DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

[ButteMT61]

James Gandolfini (Tony Soprano) has died at age 51 in Sicily June 19, 2013http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gandolfini-dixon cannon

Crazy. 51? Damn.

 

[MrBern]

Gandolfini 51 dies in Italy

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/arts/television/james-gandolfini-sopranos-star-dies-at-51.html?hp

A cause of death was not immediately announced; a press representative for HBO said that Mr. Gandolfini may have died from a heart attack, though other news reports said he died from a stroke.

 

[Stormy]

Wow! This is really sad. I was hoping to see him return to the small screen.

 

[Touchofevil]

James Gandolfini who played Tony Soprano has died of a heart attack at 51 on vacation in Rome.

Just saw that he had passed. Way too young. So very sad.

 

[Heather]

Dying in Italy: that's so Tony Soprano! I'm so bummed.

 

[HudsonHawk]

Heard of Slim Whitman's passing this morning. Very sad news.

Slim was one of the last of the old "countrypolitan" crooners, as opposed to the hell-raising, booze-addled rednecks you see so much of today. He was a dying breed, and will be missed.

He famously said..."I'd like people to remember me as having a nice voice and a clean suit".

RIP Slim.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Yup. We need more Slim Whitmans and Ray Prices in the Country Music world. The 'hell-raising, booze-addled rednecks' aren't even as good as the ones such as Waylon ad Willie anymore. They're warmed over sissies that look like boyband rejects that put on a cowboy hat and sing about trucks. There's no class anymore.

Slim was one of the last of the old "countrypolitan" crooners, as opposed to the hell-raising, booze-addled rednecks you see so much of today. He was a dying breed, and will be missed.

He famously said..."I'd like people to remember me as having a nice voice and a clean suit".

RIP Slim.

 

[Benny Holiday]

Yup. We need more Slim Whitmans and Ray Prices in the Country Music world. The 'hell-raising, booze-addled rednecks' aren't even as good as the ones such as Waylon ad Willie anymore. They're warmed over sissies that look like boyband rejects that put on a cowboy hat and sing about trucks. There's no class anymore.

Heck Tom you know how to tell it just the way it is.

I'm in shock about James Gandolfini. A great actor . . . what a tragedy. The Sopranos remains a milestone in TV history due in huge measure to the role he played as Tony Soprano.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

My cousin was James Gandolfini's body guard while on location in Arizona. He said that personalitywise Gandolfini couldn't be anymore different compared to Tony Soprano. Nice guy..and very funny.

HD

 

[wdw]

Really sorry to hear this. The Sopranos was of one of my all-time favourite shows, with James a colossus in his role. Being the same age, it's another reminder that we never know what's round the corner.

 

[herringbonekid]

Kim Thompson, co-publisher at Fantagraphics -who published most of the ground breaking alternative comics of recent years- died yesterday aged 56.

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2021226375_thompsonobitxml.html

 

[Touchofevil]

Yup. We need more Slim Whitmans and Ray Prices in the Country Music world. The 'hell-raising, booze-addled rednecks' aren't even as good as the ones such as Waylon ad Willie anymore. They're warmed over sissies that look like boyband rejects that put on a cowboy hat and sing about trucks. There's no class anymore.

They seem to be more pop rock star failures who will grab at and play whatever genre will take them. The do a poor job at playing what the bigwigs in country music nowadays pass off as country and sadly their type seems to be growing in popularity.

 

[shazzabanazza]

farewell to Ray Manzarek of The Doors Gone but not forgotten

 

[Doctor Strange]

SF author Richard Matheson, the guy behind The Incredible Shrinking Man, Somewhere In Time, I Am Legend, and some great Twilight Zone episodes ("Third From The Sun", "Little Girl Lost", "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", "The Invaders", etc.) :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson

 

[vintageTink]

SF author Richard Matheson, the guy behind The Incredible Shrinking Man, Somewhere In Time, I Am Legend, and some great Twilight Zone episodes ("Third From The Sun", "Little Girl Lost", "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", "The Invaders", etc.) :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson

That stinks.

 

[Peacoat]

Bobby "Blue" Bland, the greatest of the blues ballad singers died in Memphis on June 23. He was 83.

 

[Miss Golightly]

Bert Stern, Photographer, has died aged 83:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/a...images-of-marilyn-monroe-dies-at-83.html?_r=0

 

[carouselvic]

Toshi Seeger....wife of Pete Seeger
http://www.lohud.com/article/20130710/NEWS/307100098/Toshi-Seeger-wife-folk-legend-Pete-Seeger-dies

 

[dhermann1]

Say what you want about Pete's politics, he's a national treasure. They were together for a very long time. Sad.

 

[Alice Blue]

Nadezhda Popova, one of the female Russian WWII bomber pilots known as the "Night Witches." Popova flew 852 missions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/world/europe/nadezhda-popova-ww-ii-night-witch-dies-at-91.html

http://www.theworld.org/2013/07/rem...a-a-soviet-combat-pilot-and-wwii-night-witch/