The "(Fill in the Blank) Has Died" Thread

[Disco Stu 15,517]

RIP Michael Apted

 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-apted-dead-coal-miners-daughter-director-seven-up-documentarian-was-79-1292671

 

The question I can't help asking right away: Did he leave a plan for someone to continue the 7 Up documentary series after he was gone?

[Naïve Old Fart 12,923]

Ah. That's a real shame. I like THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, COALMINER'S DAUGHTER, 7 UP, AMAZING GRACE, and BRING ON THE NIGHT, and I love GORKY PARK.

[Disco Stu 15,517]

His fiction film career is spotty and mostly mediocre, a true journeyman director.  The 7 Up series is his great contribution to human culture, one of the most important and fascinating film projects ever.

 

I think the series should continue until the last participant has died, to be truly completed.

[A24 5,129]

Larry King (87)

 

[A24 5,129]

A sad day for Koray ...

 

 

Mira 'Lost' Furlan (65)

[Dr. Rick 1,376]

Not Screech! 

 

https://ew.com/tv/saved-by-the-bell-star-dustin-diamond-dies/

 

[Jurassic Shark 16,376]

Not saved by the bell...

[Naïve Old Fart 12,923]

R.I.P., Hal Holbrook 

[A24 5,129]

13 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

R.I.P., Hal Holbrook 

 

AKA 'Deep Throat'

 

 

[Marian Schedenig 11,617]

I haven't seen Holbrook in much, but he was always a standout when I did.

 

 

[A24 5,129]

 

 

[Bespin Copilot 10,738]

Few days ago I saw this on Twitter: "Christopher Plummer is dead has confirmed his wife Liquid".

[Naïve Old Fart 12,923]

R.I.P.

Yaphet Kotto 

[A24 5,129]

Frak!

 

[Naïve Old Fart 12,923]

Exactly.

Farewell, Mosely.

Farewell, Kananga. Farewell, Parker.

[Xander Harris 9,580]

Look we couldn't fix it out here anyway! We need to reroute all of these ducts and in order to do that, we've got to drydock!

[Naïve Old Fart 12,923]

17hrs. 17hrs., tell 'em.

[Jill Sandwich 11,060]

I don't wanna be the only asshole in heaven...

[Bespin Copilot 10,738]

48 minutes ago, The Big Man said:

I don't wanna be the only asshole in heaven...

 

I'll be there!

[Xander Harris 9,580]

We can't fix it out here anyway

[bruce marshall 1,969]

The progenitor to Denzel and Chadwick.

 

Rip Mr. Big

 

" Me and the phone company will be the only monopolies in America"

[Naïve Old Fart 12,923]

Names is for tombstones, baby. Take this honky out, and waste 'im!

[Naïve Old Fart 12,923]

R.I.P., George Segal 

[Quintus 6,351]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56527688

 

Jessica Walter, RIP. She was so great in Arrested Development.

[Jay 45,887]

Aw, bummer

[Quintus 6,351]

Thinking about it, I could probably say that Lucille Bluth is one of my top three favourite female comedy characters ever. Hadn't really realised it till now.

[Wojo 2,458]

George Segal played Jack Gallo on NBC's Just Shoot Me! 

 

Jessica Walter played his ex-wife Eve Gallo. 

 

They died days apart. 

[A24 5,129]

I remember the face but not the movies.

[Jill Sandwich 11,060]

Play Misty For Me

[Jurassic Shark 16,376]

In your dreams.

[A24 5,129]

Don't you mean 'In Your Dreams'?

[bruce marshall 1,969]

Probably couldn't make MISTY in today's climate.

She didn't play a " strong, powerful, independent woman".

😎

[Jill Sandwich 11,060]

Oh Evelyn was all that and a bag of potato chips. Real strong, powerful, independent nutter.

[bruce marshall 1,969]

8 hours ago, The Big Man said:

Oh Evelyn was all that and a bag of potato chips. Real strong, powerful, [independent] ]nutter.

But......

She NEEDED a man...she was CLINGY.

Outdated stereotypes

 

 

IF she did violence because she was

 treated badly by a MAN, then she embodies female " empowerment".

 

Got it? 😎

[Jay 45,887]

DMX, rapper and actor, dies at 50

[A24 5,129]

 

 

[Naïve Old Fart 12,923]

R.I.P. Helen McCrory. Dead at 52 yeas of age, from cancer.

Just read on the BBC news website.

 

[Demodex 593]

Wasn't she Narcissa Malfoy?

[Jurassic Shark 16,376]

Poor Damian Lewis. Crappy 50 years gift.

[Naïve Old Fart 12,923]

2 minutes ago, Demodex said:

Wasn't she Narcissa Malfoy?

Yes, she was.

 

 

 

I first saw her in two great TV shows of the early 00s: IN A LAND OF PLENTY, and NORTH SQUARE. She was brilliant in both. I wonder what's going to happen to PEAKY BLINDERS, now?

[Jill Sandwich 11,060]

"2nd whore" from Interview With The Vampire

[Dr. Rick 1,376]

Man, that stinks, she was really good in Peaky Binders as well as Aunt Polly.  

[A24 5,129]

She looked like a heavy smoker. Was it lung cancer?

[A24 5,129]

 

R.I.P. Juan Joya Borja (65), the Spanish laughing guy. 

[Edmilson 12,261]

Covid unfortunately took the life of a beloved artist and entertainer here in Brazil: Paulo Gustavo. He was just 42.

 

His most famous character was Dona Hermínia, a middle-class mother of two young adults that was crass, foul-mouthed and complained a lot. The last Dona Hermínia movie here, released in December 2019, was a major hit at the box office, outgrossing blockbusters such as Frozen II, Joker and Captain Marvel.

 

He had a husband and was the adopted father of two children. The entire country mourns him today.

 

Btw, I'm posting this here because the major Covid thread was locked for some reason (politics again?).

[Holko 12,023]

Marcell Jankovics, one of Hungary's greatest animators and animation directors just passed away. Under his belt were numerous shorts, feature adaptations of local literature (including our first feature-length animated movie and a mammoth 2-decade project), and a multi-season series of collected folk tales, keeping them alive successfully.

 

 

[A24 5,129]

R.I.P. Gavin MacLeod (90), captain of The Love Boat.

 

[Jurassic Shark 16,376]

RIP Libuse Safránková, the one Cinderella.

 

https://cnn.iprima.cz/zemrela-popelka-libuse-safrankova-bylo-ji-68-let-27103

[Chen G. 6,070]

RIP Richard Donner:

 

https://deadline.com/2021/07/richard-donner-dead-superman-lethal-weapon-director-1234786372/

[Manakin Skywalker 5,908]

Not gone yet, but it seems J.W. Rinzler is making end of life plans.