Bring Out Your Dead! The celebrity death thread....

Another icon gone. RIP ALI...ALI...ALI !!

There was Ali and there was Joe Louis................there was no third

From last week: Jane Fawcett

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/30/obituaries/jane-fawcett-british-decoder-who-helped-doom-the-bismarck-dies-at-95.html?_r=0

Recent tv series The Bletchley Circle was all about what Jane Fawcett etc did. Great series. It's now on Netflix.

Wow.  That Jane Fawcett was something else.  I bet the start making movies about her life.

Dave Swarbrick, from Fairport Convention

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36443117

Sir Peter Schaffer, author of the play "Amadeus".

Sports legend Gordie Howe. 88 years old. RIP Mr. Hockey.

Phyllis Curtin, the American soprano, passed away earlier this week. One of her most famous roles was the lead in "Susannah" - she sang with NYCO and the Met in the 50s and 60s.

Ann Marie Guilbert, known to many as Yetta from "The Nanny" but always Millie Helper in my mind!!

TarheelsInNj said:

Ann Morgan Guilbert, known to many as Yetta from "The Nanny" but always Millie Helper in my mind!!

Mine, too.

This guy was a pretty good Helper in the '60s, too:

Chips Moman, Hit-Making Producer and Songwriter, Dies at 79

DaveSchmidt said:

TarheelsInNj said:

Ann Morgan Guilbert, known to many as Yetta from "The Nanny" but always Millie Helper in my mind!!

Mine, too.

This guy was a pretty good Helper in the '60s, too:

Chips Moman, Hit-Making Producer and Songwriter, Dies at 79

He was a huge reason why The Highwaymen (Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson) were so successful as opposed to other music supergroups.

Stoughton said:

DaveSchmidt said:

TarheelsInNj said:

Ann Morgan Guilbert, known to many as Yetta from "The Nanny" but always Millie Helper in my mind!!

Mine, too.

This guy was a pretty good Helper in the '60s, too:

Chips Moman, Hit-Making Producer and Songwriter, Dies at 79

He was a huge reason why The Highwaymen (Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson) were so successful as opposed to other music supergroups.

Funny you should mention the Highwaymen. I'm halfway through a documentary about them on PBS.org.

wow, I never would have expected this. RIP Anton Yelchin. 

http://news.sky.com/story/1714356/freak-accident-kills-star-treks-anton-yelchin

ridski said:

wow, I never would have expected this. RIP Anton Yelchin. 

http://news.sky.com/story/1714356/freak-accident-kills-star-treks-anton-yelchin

Immediately reminded me of a similar accident that killed Wycliff Jean's father in So Orange many years ago The Fugee's star's father was in his Bently in his driveway on Redmond I believe when he got out and it pinned him against the garage

So sad  RIP Mr Chekov

The Anton Yelchin death was so freakish. Just shocking. 

Just heard about Kurt Mazur, NY Philharmonic conductor at 88.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/19/living/kurt-masur-philharmonic-conductor-dies-feat/index.html?sr=tw121915kurtmasurphilharmonicconductordiesfeat1239pStoryGalLink

ridski said:

wow, I never would have expected this. RIP Anton Yelchin. 

http://news.sky.com/story/1714356/freak-accident-kills-star-treks-anton-yelchin

Wow, so sad. Really enjoyed him in Rudderless.

I first saw him in David Duchovny's House of D. He was ridiculously cute and talented in it. You just wanted to see everything he was in after that.

So weird and senseless. There are some deaths which simply defy reason, and apparently this is one of them.

Seems that his Jeep was being recalled for just this issue. 

Dandy Dan Daniels  one of the originals... WMCA GoodGuys.  Loved him .. Especially you size 9

http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/154870/new-york-radio-personality-dandy-dan-daniel-passes

Bernie Worrell of Parliament-Funkadelic. Age 72. "Everybody's got a little light under the sun." One of my favorite lines from any song ever.

annielou said:

Bernie Worrell of Parliament-Funkadelic. Age 72. "Everybody's got a little light under the sun." One of my favorite lines from any song ever.

I grew up in Plainfield and the musical talent there in the 70's was amazing. Talent shows at my high school sold tickets to the general public and they sold out. Bernie, George Clinton and P Funk rehearsed in town. One day I walked past an open garage door and Bernie was tinkling the keys on an old upright piano. I didn't recognize the music but it was a classical piece and he was playing with his eyes closed.  Years later I'd stand in stadiums and listen him solo on his Moog doing the same thing he did in the garage that day, this time transporting thousands of us to another place. Bernie Worrell was a genius and his music never failed to lift me up.

RIP Bernie   Everything Is On The One

annielou said:

"Everybody's got a little light under the sun." One of my favorite lines from any song ever.

flimbro said:

I grew up in Plainfield and the musical talent there in the 70's was amazing. Talent shows at my high school sold tickets to the general public and they sold out. Bernie, George Clinton and P Funk rehearsed in town. One day I walked past an open garage door and Bernie was tinkling the keys on an old upright piano. I didn't recognize the music but it was a classical piece and he was playing with his eyes closed.  Years later I'd stand in stadiums and listen him solo on his Moog doing the same thing he did in the garage that day, this time transporting thousands of us to another place. Bernie Worrell was a genius and his music never failed to lift me up.

RIP Bernie   Everything Is On The One

Nothing to add, other than appreciation for thoughts and stories like these.

Scotty Moore. aged 84. 

Memorable life. 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-29/elvis-presley-guitarist-scotty-moore-dies-at-84/7553570

Alvin Toffler: Future Shock author.  

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-30/future-shock-author-alvin-toffler-dies-aged-87/7556062

Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Nobel laureate, 87.

So sad.

 http://www.npr.org/2016/07/02/166184644/elie-wiesel-holocaust-survivor-and-nobel-laureate-dies-at-87

Blessed to go on a Sabbath, if you believe in such omens. Truly a man whose work deserves to be remembered. 

He was one of my late mother's research heroes. She volunteered at the Holocaust Museum and Research Centre in Melbourne, as a Living Exhibit/guide and also editor of their newsletter. She'd sent her testimony to Yad Vashem. She'd met Mr Wiesl, and also the Klarsfelds. 

We're a bit stunned at the coincidence of Mr Wiesl's death on her 90th birthday. 

Lois Lane 1 (Noel Neill) is dead! I am sad; she and George are forever 'my' Lois and Superman.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jul/05/noel-neill-first-actor-to-play-lois-lane-in-superman-dies-at-95