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Yeah, just heard about Swayze.
I kind've knew it was going to be some time this year, he was looking pretty much like he was wasting away... Aside from just a couple, I pretty much liked everything he did. Another 80's icon gone in the '09. R.I.P |
Sad news, but he fought pretty damn hard. He's been looking pretty rough for awhile now, but held in there.
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RIP indeed, Patrick.
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RIP The Swayze
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Henry Gibson, 73, Cancer.
He played the evil doctor in The Burbs who tries to inject Tom Hanks at the end as the roll out of the ambulance. He also played a doctor in Innerspace, who with a female colleague, were made miniture. They are the two in the battle inside the car near the end. Rest in Peace. |
He was hilarious on Boston Legal.
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He was also wonderful on the groundbreaking comedy show of the 70s, Laugh-In. A really versitile actor. Bye Henry...
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I wish Death would take a day off. :(
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i remember him best as the head nazi in the blues brothers ..
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RIP Dalton/Bohdi/Jed
You taught me how to fight with Zen, Surf and be very proud to be an American.. http://www.movieprop.com/tvandmovie/reviews/reddawn.jpg |
Their dropping on a daily basis now.
only a few here will know who this is BOSTON — Mary Travers, one-third of the popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary who were perhaps best known for their hit “Puff (The Magic Dragon),” died in a Connecticut hospital after battling leukemia for several years. She was 72. |
Well, I remember that song...found it kind've depressing. But hey, if music moves you any which way I can't say it's bad.
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No more PP&M reunions.... sad news.
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Robert Ginty, 60. Director of The Exterminator.
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i just heard that Jim Carroll died as well .. also 60 :(
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Loved that movie.
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Vyacheslav Ivankov, 69, Russian Mafiya boss in the United States. Shot a month ago in Moscow. Died of gunshot wounds.
Stephen Gately, 33, member of pop band Boyzone. Died suddenly in Majorca. |
Al Martino, 82, played Johnny Fontaine on The Godfather and had the first ever number one in the charts in 1952.
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Wrestling figure Captain Lou Albano, perhaps best known for his association with pop singer Cyndi Lauper, died Wednesday, according to World Wrestling Entertainment.
Captain Lou Albano reached a new level of fame in the '80s with his association with Cyndi Lauper. Captain Lou Albano reached a new level of fame in the '80s with his association with Cyndi Lauper. Albano, 76, was "one of the company's most popular and charismatic legends," the company said in a statement. The cause of death was not immediately disclosed. "Albano began his storied career with Vincent J. McMahon in the 1960s as one half of 'The Sicilians' tag team with his partner Tony Altimore," the WWE said. "He will be greatly missed by the WWE and his fans." Albano, who was with the WWE from 1983 to 1996, was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 1996. He started as a tag team wrestler in the 1950s but became a successful manager of champion wrestlers in the 1970s, according to a biography on the WWE Web site. Albano was recognizable by his penchant for unbuttoned Hawaiian shirts and a trademark beard, which was usually bound by a rubber band. His persona earned him the distinction of "one of the most hated men" in wrestling for 15 years, the WWE biography said. Albano's image evolved in the 1980s, when he teamed with Lauper on several music videos, such as "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," and wrestling appearances. As his celebrity status grew, Albano landed acting jobs, including a role on several episodes of the "Miami Vice" TV series, the biography said. Albano became a cartoon in 1989, when he was the voice of Mario "Jumpman" Mario for 17 episodes of "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!" according to the Internet Movie Database. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/.../26/albano.jpg |
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Joseph Wiseman, 91, played Dr No in the James Bond series, had been ill for quite some time.
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Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, died tonight at 83.
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...SoupySales.jpg A longtime friend said Sales died at a hospice in New York, which he entered last week as he battled a variety of health issues. http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n...emon/soupy.jpg Sales began his TV career in Detroit, where he drew a large audience on WXYZ-TV. He moved to Los Angeles in 1961.The comic's pie-throwing schtick became his trademark, and celebrities like Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Shirley MacLaine queued up to take one on the chin. |
R I P Soupy.....another show I watched as a kid. :(
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No no no no!!
Soupy was an amazing talent who brought absurdist humor to kids across the globe. One of my all time favorite performers. My heart goes out to his two sons who performed with David Bowie as Tin Machine. :mad::mad::mad::(:( |
Oh, man, yeah, very sorry to hear about Soupy Sales. He was on TV all the time in the 70's and was very funny. Here's one for Soupy!
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Just heard about this. Oct. 17- Vic Mizzy- RIP.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituari...,1713293.story http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/390672.jpg Vic Mizzy wrote two of the most memorable TV theme songs ever composed: The Addams Family and Green Acres. He also had a long career composing popular songs and movie scores, which included The Ghost and Mr. Chicken and The Night Walker. A few years ago when Mr. Mizzy, at the age of 70 something, released his first album, I had the great pleasure to spend over an hour interviewing him for NeverEndingWonder Radio. He was hilarious and gracious. A great loss. |
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Legendary actor Dennis Hopper has been diagnosed with prostate cancer - just weeks after he was hospitalised for "severe flu-like symptoms". The Easy Rider star was admitted to a medical facility in New York at the end of September after complaining of stomach cramps while on promotional duties for his latest TV show, Crash. Hopper's spokesperson brushed off reports the actor was seriously ill, insisting the star was back on his feet and "feeling much better" the day after he was hospitalised. However, Hopper's manager Sam Maydew has confirmed his client is battling prostate cancer, and has cancelled all upcoming travel commitments in order to fully fight the disease. Maydew says, "We're hoping for the best." |
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RIP The Amazing Ballantine.
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1...Ballantine.jpg Actor Carl Ballantine, whose career spanned vaudeville, television, Vegas and Broadway, died Tuesday at his Hollywood home of natural causes. He was 92. Born Meyer Kessler, he started performing magic tricks as a kid, learning them at age 9 from his barber. By 13, he was a successful enough performer to support his family. One night a magic trick went haywire and he threw out some funny lines to cover it. Thus the Amazing Ballantine was born. Ballantine caught the tail end of vaudeville, playing the Palace in New York City and the Hippodrome in Baltimore, among other major venues. Ballantine was the first magician to play Las Vegas, appearing on a bill with Harry James, Betty Grable and Sammy Davis Jr. He made his biggest impact as a comically inept magician, billed variously as "The Amazing Ballantine," "The Great Ballantine" and "Ballantine: The World's Greatest Magician." Steve Martin presented Ballantine with the Lifetime Achievement Fellowship from the Magic Castle in Hollywood in 2007. "Carl Ballantine influenced not only myself but a generation of magicians and comedians," Martin said Wednesday in a statement to the Los Angeles Times. "His was also the most copied act by a host of amateurs and professionals." Ballantine appeared on the television shows of Gary Moore, Steve Allen, Milton Berle, Dinah Shore, Andy Williams, Dean Martin and Ed Sullivan. He had numerous other television credits, the best known being "McHale's Navy," on which he played Lester Gruber. He also appeared in feature films including "The Shakiest Gun in the West," "The World’s Greatest Lover," "Mr. Saturday Night" and "Speedway." The latter film starred Elvis Presley, who offered Ballantine a Cadillac. His wife, comedian Ceil Cabot, wouldn’t allow him to accept it. However, she did approve of him going to Broadway in the 1971 revival of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" with Phil Silvers. Ballantine is survived by his sister, Esther Robinson; and daughters Saratoga, an actress, and Molly, an advertising sales executive. |
The Amazing Ballantine is no more. Very sad.
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Another "blast from the past" ....92....good run there.
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