DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

[MisterCairo]

Technically you are right, but go back in time and tell that to the billions of people who celebrated the beginning of the 21st century during the infamous Y2K.

I tell them all the time, and they look at ME like I have two heads.

Apparently, I'm being "technical" or "pedantic", rather than "correct".

 

[Frunobulax]

I tell them all the time, and they look at ME like I have two heads.

Apparently, I'm being "technical" or "pedantic", rather than "correct".

 

[MisterCairo]

His retirement having just been announced recently - http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/morley-safer-dead-1.3589419 - Canadian journalist Morley Safer, best known from his decades-long work with 60 minutes, has died, aged 84:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/morley-safer-dead-1.3589419

A truly class act.

 

[MisterCairo]

One of the founding members of the Beastie Boys, John Berry, has died, aged 52:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/john-berry-beastie-boys-1.3590881

 

[Kirk H.]

Alan Young, who gamely played straight man to a talking horse for five years in classic sitcom “Mr. Ed,” died Thursday at the Motion Picture and Television Home in Woodland Hills, Calif. He was 96.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Young had a very successful career in radio in the mid-1940s after coming to the US from Canada -- his "Alan Young Show" was one of the surprise hits of the 1944-45 season, and featured several supporting cast members who would later become better identified with the Fred Allen program. It was also on the Alan Young Show that Jim Backus introduced his "goofy millionaire" characterization that would become well-known in 1960s TV.

Young was a great enthusiast and booster for radio comedy, and made many appearances at "old time radio" conventions in the 1980s and 1990s.

 

[Stearmen]

On a related note, Mr. Ed, who's real name was Bamboo Harvester died in 1970. there are two versions of how and where he died. A second, Mr. Ed, who was used in the opening still shot used in the press kit, died in 1979 in Oklahoma.

 

[LuvMyMan]

On a related note, Mr. Ed, who's real name was Bamboo Harvester died in 1970. there are two versions of how and where he died. A second, Mr. Ed, who was used in the opening still shot used in the press kit, died in 1979 in Oklahoma.

Many people grew up watching the Mr. Ed show.

 

[BlueTrain]

I don't know if this fellow has been mentioned before or not but a search with his name didn't turn up anything.

A local radio personality, Mr. Ed Walker, passed away last October at the age of 83. He only retired when he was diagnosed with cancer but continued to record his program up until a week before he died. He originally partnered with Willard Scott to produced the Joyboys radio program decades ago. For all the time I've been listening to him, some 40 years, he played either old music or old radio shows. In fact, his Saturday night program on WAMU radio in Washington, DC, was entitled "The Big Broadcast." Mostly he played radio programs like Fibber Magee and Molly, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, and my favorite, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, "The man with the action-packed expense account." Mr. Walker was blind.

Another person I would mention, but probably no one here has probably ever heard of him, was Slavko Avsenik, who popularized Oberkrainer-style Slovenian folk music in Europe. He was 85. In the states, it's called Cleveland style.

 

[MisterCairo]

I just read on the CBC website that Beth Howlands, best known as Vera from the tv show Alice, died on December 31, 2015, aged 74. She did not want any fuss hence the delay in notification.

 

[Zombie_61]

Burt Kwouk, arguably best known for playing Cato Fong in the Pink Panther movies starring Peter Sellers, died on May 24 at the age of 85.

 

[MisterCairo]

Burt Kwouk, arguably best known for playing Cato Fong in the Pink Panther movies starring Peter Sellers, died on May 24 at the age of 85.

Oh my goodness. This is sad. He was always a great character actor. I grew up seeing the PP films, and just saw the Bond fil You Only Live Twice just this weekend, in which he had a small role.

He was also on Last of the Summer Wine, one of the longest running English comedies.

Thanks for the laughs...

 

[Stearmen]

Tom Selleck, January 29, 1945- oops, he's still alive! For you that don't know, there has been a rumor this week that Tom died, good news, he is still with us!

 

[Bushman]

I can't stand fake celeb death stories. They're so disrespectful.

 

[Frunobulax]

I can't stand fake celeb death stories. They're so disrespectful.

Well, I thoroughly enjoyed the one several years ago about Bob Hope. In 1998, a prepared obituary by the Associated Press was inadvertently released, prompting Hope's death to be announced in the U.S. House of Representatives. When informed of this, Mr. Hope reportedly laughed his you-know-what off!

 

[Stearmen]

Muhammad Ali. 1942-2016 I had the privilege of meeting him, the kindest, nicest man you ever meant!

 

[Trenchfriend]

Radio tells it, this minute.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Muhammad Ali. 1942-2016 I had the privilege of meeting him, the kindest, nicest man you ever meant!

Yep he was a magnificent sportsman, both in & out of the ring...& what a boxer !!! he really did put nobility & art into his sport.

 

[LizzieMaine]

One of the few celebrities I have always truly and genuinely admired. A great athlete, but more important, a great human being. The world is a lesser place for his passing.

 

[Smithy]

A man who fought so skilfully and amazingly not just in the ring, but also for what he believed in. As Lizzie said, also a great human being.

The Greatest indeed. RIP.