Celebrity Deaths

[dr lopez]

It's easy to hate on the Kochs, and with good reason, but they aren't all bad, giving over $1 billion to charity.  Although a lot of those were conservative causes, some were for the common good.
https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2015/06/26/the-koch-brothers-gifts-to-society%3fcontext=amp

dude shut the fuck up

[usagi]

 

[diatoms]

14 hours ago, nightlark said:

generosity isn't giving something you have lots of, generosity is giving something to someone when they need it more than you. fuck'em

readtherules:)

[manmower]

Franco Columbu, former Mister Olympia, lifelong friend of Arnie's and the "other" Terminator in the first film, died aged 78 from a heart attack while swimming off the Sardinian coast.

 

Edited August 30, 2019 by manmower

[Rubin Farr]

Actress Valerie Harper dead at 80.

 

[Zephyr_Nova]

Now that's a proper TV theme song.

[Joyrex]

Terrance Dicks, Doctor Who script writer and author dead at 84: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/sep/03/terrance-dicks-obituary

[dr lopez]

Edited September 3, 2019 by dr lopez

[DavieAddison]

RIP Daniel Johnston

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/11/759904906/daniel-johnston-acclaimed-singer-songwriter-dies-at-58

[Zephyr_Nova]

Legend.  RIP.  

[ignatius]

oh damn. RIP

[soma333]

Came here to say RIP Daniel

[hma]

very sad. rip

[Enthusiast]

I guess I should watch the film about him, never saw it at the time.

[nightlark]

Mardik Martin screenwriter for Raging Bull and Mean Streets died yesterday. RIP

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/mardik-martin-dead-dies-screenwriter-raging-bull-mean-streets-1203333194/

 

... btw that Dan Johnston doc was pretty good. RIP 8[

Edited September 12, 2019 by nightlark

[joshuatxuk]

20 hours ago, Enthusiast said:

I guess I should watch the film about him, never saw it at the time.

same here, read up on him a lot and listened to his better known stuff but never dove deep into his old tapes

he had a perspective on the world and life we should all draw from

 

 

 

[Joyrex]

Eddie Money, singer (two tickets to paradise) died age 70: https://variety.com/2019/music/news/eddie-money-dead-dies-1203334855

[colunga]

damn RIP. he had some hits.

[Rubin Farr]

This one was on MTV all the time back in the day:

 

[Rubin Farr]

Ric Ocasek dead at 75:

https://pitchfork.com/news/the-cars-ric-ocasek-dead-at-75/?fbclid=IwAR3fQAExi3oEAVFIdOsWa_fjNCpu-TDyI0rEXsQ6o61343C4gjE6M3D0d9c

[marf]

dam, rip. the conveyor belt of life seems to be speeding up

[Zephyr_Nova]

Weird, I made the exact same morbid life analogy in the shower the other day, of a conveyor belt accelerating towards death as we get older.  lol

rip only man who could have saved Weezer.

[ignatius]

damn. that sucks.  the 70s seems to be catching a lot of people lately. in case you don't want to read pitchfork

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/15/us/ric-ocasek-the-cars-lead-singer-death/index.html

[Joyrex]

Goddamn, this year is taking a lot of good people - NPR's Cokie Roberts dead at 75: https://www.npr.org/2019/09/17/761050916/cokie-roberts-pioneering-female-journalist-who-helped-shape-npr-dies-at-75

[marf]

I thought a couple days ago, ya know., I haven't seen Cokie Roberts in a while. So Random. This has happened to me many times before people died