The Dead Celebrity Thread - Page 96

Wilford Brimley was right: The Diabetes ain't no joke.

Wow, shocking news. I had no idea he had a stroke, either. 

I used to listen to him on O&A. The dude had some interesting thoughts regarding women. 

I don't mean to be insensitive but... those names... his step daughter's name is A Million? 

First Greg Giraldo. Now Patrice O'Neal. There must be a "Tough Crowd" curse. Watch out Jim Norton.

Seriously, ONeal was one of the funniest guys out there. A sad loss.

Yesterday, Bill McKinney passed away at the age of 80 due to cancer. While he was in quite a few Eastwood movies, including playing Redlegs Terrell in The Outlaw Josey Wales, we all know him for one of the most terrifying scenes in film history: he was the one who made Ned Beatty squeal like a pig in Deliverance.

By the way, as a random aside, that movie was filmed on the Chatooga River, which is on the border between Georgia and South Carolina. Years ago, my dad and his pals went rafting on that river.

No, they did not run into any ass-raping hillbillies nor inbreds playing banjo.

I've always loved the story of him staying in character the whole time, and legitimately freaking Beatty out (to the point Burt Reynolds wanted to fight him). Method!

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By the way, as a random aside, that movie was filmed on the Chatooga River, which is on the border between Georgia and South Carolina. Years ago, my dad and his pals went rafting on that river.

 

No, they did not run into any ass-raping hillbillies nor inbreds playing banjo.

If I had been on such a journey and had "interacted" with some ass-raping hillbillies I'd have made a pact with my buddies that we never mention it to another living soul.

Just saying.

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Originally Posted by The Perfect Weapon 

 

By the way, as a random aside, that movie was filmed on the Chatooga River, which is on the border between Georgia and South Carolina. Years ago, my dad and his pals went rafting on that river.

 

 

I believe the kayaking events for the 1996 Summer Olympics were held on that river as well.

Howlin' Wolf' guitarist Hubert Sumlin, dead at age 80.

Still the song I'm most likely to start playing when I pick up a guitar.

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Howlin' Wolf' guitarist Hubert Sumlin, dead at age 80.

 

 

Still the song I'm most likely to start playing when I pick up a guitar.

...and the world just got a little less cool.

Darrell K. Sweet, who I'm pretty sure did the cover for damn near every SF and fantasy book I read in the 80s.

Okay that makes me sad.

Colonel Potter leaves the OR for the last time.

Christopher Hitchens, dead of cancer at 62. 

He wrote many things I disagreed with. He proved that you can write for the London Review of Books and still be a troll. He was also a joy to read, nevermore so than when he was writing about other writers he loved. "Arguably" was one of the best books I read this year, and I'm better off having spent time with his works -- if only because he challenged my opinions, made me rethink what I believed. I'll miss him.

Here's his Slate editor's choice of his best pieces for that magazine: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2011/12/christopher_hitchens_his_greatest_slate_hits_.html 

Vanity Fair archive: http://www.vanityfair.com/contributors/christopher-hitchens?page=1&sort=publishdate_dt+desc&

Full Slate archive: http://www.slate.com/authors.christopher_hitchens.2.html

Atlantic archive: http://www.theatlantic.com/christopher-hitchens/

Even when he was trying his hardest to piss me off(and boy howdy he could be an asshole!) guy was smart as hell, and witty too.

I cannot say it much better than Leonard. I am a deeply religious person on a very personal level, yet I loved his intelligence, his wit, and his passion. He was a great mind.

One of my all-time favorite Hitchens (and Stephen Fry!) moments: His arguing against the motion that the Catholic church is a force for good in the world at the Intelligence Squared debates.

He begins at the 8:00 minute mark (approximately)

And then the rest:

One of the few "celebrity" (I fucking hate using that term for him) deaths that I feel is actually leaving the world a little bit poorer.

Intellectual honesty is one the best qualities I value in a man. And the man was honest to a fault. You wanted his opinion? He'd fucking give it to you. And he'd back it up. And when confronted and successfully rebuked he would concede. Remember the whole "Is waterboarding torture" debate? He was the only one of the pro-waterboarding people who actually accepted to get it done to himself. And afterwards had the balls to go on the record and say "I was wrong. It definitely is torture." Despite radically disagreeing with almost half of the things he said there wasn't a man whose mind and philosophy I respected more.

Christopher is gone and we're left with Peter?

...just another proof that God doesn't exist.

RIP Hitch. You will be missed, but not fogotten. The war on religion will be waged and won in your absence, your example serving only to fuel the attack

Hitch will be missed, but the idea that anyone is going to win a war on religion is pretty far-fetched.  

We all knew it was coming, but it still hit me HARD. This sucks. 

Joe Simon.

Come on, I thought we were all nerds here.

He's punchin' Hitler in Heaven now.

Losing that much intelligence in one day hurts the world. 

"The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics."

Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011.

SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI.

Now here's a guy who changed the world through the power of words:

Vaclav Havel.

Damn...loved that guy.

So long, little fella.

Kim Jong-il 1941-2011

Kim Jong Il, according to North Korean TV.

http://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-says-leader-kim-jong-il-died-030534452.html

EDIT: Damn, beaten by 7 seconds.

America...fuck yeah...

Perhaps he died ... of ronriness?

How the fuck can you heartless bastards joke about his death?!

I still love you great leader!

His passing was... Inebbidible.

Re: Hitchens - A real loss, and I say that as someone who's always had some huge, HUGE problems with this phenomenon of militant atheism over the last few years. The guy may have been a shitstirrer, but he was above all a great mind who valued discourse and reason over anything else. Just a shame some of his followers can't follow suit.

One more time.

It's the end of the rine for Kim Jong-il.

There.

I guess he said Herro to the Grim Reaper.

I don't care what anyone says, this shit isn't going to get old.

Someone get Arec Bawwdwin on eulogy detail.

Easy Reader.

Grorious Reader.

Amazing- perhaps he died of broken balls? Anybody seen Hans Blix lately?

(Team America is totally going in the DVD player tonight)

If only more celebrities could sacrifice themselves to the "Rule of 3", we could really make some changes 'round here...

Pity Hitchens missed the good news though.

Reading a Hitchens piece about that piece of shit in the vein of the one he did, for example, about Reagan would have been so awesome. 

Since this is a major world political event, and he was not a celebrity, I believe the death of Lil Kim should get it's own thread*

With that said, good riddance, perhaps his son isn't as deranged as has been reported

*hat tip to Bill maher for the joke

I wouldn't count on that, children of dictators are only slightly less unstable than former child stars.

Seriously Johnathan Taylor Thomas if he had his way would force you all to watch Tom and Huck non-stop for the rest of your lives or suffer genital mutilation.

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I wouldn't count on that, children of dictators are only slightly less unstable than former child stars.

 

Seriously Johnathan Taylor Thomas if he had his way would force you all to watch Tom and Huck non-stop for the rest of your lives or suffer genital mutilation.

Except he would have Brad Renfro digitally removed from the film, and it would just be called Tom.

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Originally Posted by Cooper 

Kim Jong Il, according to North Korean TV.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-says-leader-kim-jong-il-died-030534452.html

 

Au revoir.  Enjoy hell.

Poor Kim Jong Il. No one took him seriousry.

The Reaper's not wasting any time: Bob Anderson, fight choreographer for the original SW trilogy, Lord of the Rings, Highlander, The Princess Bride, et al, has passed away. He was 89.

http://www.impactonline.co/news/589-bob-anderson-the-swordmaster-rip

That sucks. Another great checks out.

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The Reaper's not wasting any time: Bob Anderson, fight choreographer for the original SW trilogy, Lord of the Rings, Highlander, The Princess Bride, et al, has passed away. He was 89.

 

http://www.impactonline.co/news/589-bob-anderson-the-swordmaster-rip

Excellent article about him here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jan/02/star-wars-swordsman-bob-anderson-dies

Anderson donned Darth Vader's black helmet and fought light saber battles in two of the three original Star Wars films, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

The villainous character was played by David Prowse and voiced by James Earl Jones, and Anderson's role was not initially publicised.

But Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, said in a 1983 interview that "Bob Anderson was the man who actually did Vader's fighting."

"It was always supposed to be a secret, but I finally told (director) George (Lucas) I didn't think it was fair any more," Hamill told Starlog magazine. "Bob worked so bloody hard that he deserves some recognition. It's ridiculous to preserve the myth that it's all done by one man."