The Notable Death Thread
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Poor guy dying the day after Ozzy... take about being overshadowed.
Annnnddddd... add Hulk Hogan to the list. What a week! Poor Malcom Jamal Warner was a shoe-in for the most famous death of the week on Monday but is barely clinging to the 3 spot on Thursday. RIP all. There was probably one day in the 80s when I saw all three of them on TV on the same day.
Geeeeeez … what a week this has been. RIP to all.
Jazz musician Chuck Mangione, dead at 84
Henri Szeps, star of ABC's Mother and Son, has died aged 81. RIP.
RIP George Kooymans, Hulk Hogan, Malcom Jamal Warner, and Chuck Mangione.
RIP George Kooymans, Hulk Hogan, Malcom Jamal Warner, and Chuck Mangione.
Oh no, not him too. There's another true icon gone. Fuck's sake, 2025, can you calm down already?
Please don't say that.
The forecast is rain here tonight ... and for the rest of the weekend, and Monday too. Added cold, biting winds and the temperature down to 39 or 40 F.Let me batten down the hatches. And then another set of hatches.
You can blame 2015 for starting that trend. In 2015, we lost both Sir Terry Pratchett and Sir Christopher Lee.
I'm sure other people died too, but those two stick in my mind.
I guess so. Alan Rickman the year after.Please don't say that.
Let me batten down the hatches. And then another set of hatches.
You can blame 2015 for starting that trend. In 2015, we lost both Sir Terry Pratchett and Sir Christopher Lee.
I'm sure other people died too, but those two stick in my mind.
Musical satirist Tom Lehrer has died at 97.
www.theguardian.com
Tom Lehrer, acclaimed musical satirist of cold war era, dies aged 97
A child prodigy in mathematics who graduated Harvard at just 19, his darkly prophetic and cynical show tunes won him a cult following in the 50s and 60s
Musical satirist Tom Lehrer has died at 97.
Tom Lehrer, acclaimed musical satirist of cold war era, dies aged 97
A child prodigy in mathematics who graduated Harvard at just 19, his darkly prophetic and cynical show tunes won him a cult following in the 50s and 60s
Nooo!
Say it ain't so, Yes, I know all of Lehrer's songs (including some obscure ones). I also (tried to) record some of them, and wrote new lyrics to some of them (e.g. to update "So Long, Mum (A Song for World War III)", since I don't think many people now would know who Brinkley and Huntley were).
Coincidentally, yesterday I looked up what an "analytic and algebraic topology of Euclidean parameterization of infinitely differentiable Barimanean manifold" is. (And I know the Russian in that song, too).
RIP Tom, one of the cleverest and funniest men of the 20th century.
At least we have his songs and words to remember him by.
And a master lyricist, right up there with Sondheim, whom he was friends with, and W. S. Gilbert, whom he emulated with such skill. Of all the people we lost this week, he truly deserves to be mourned on this Writing Forum.
And kudos to him for releasing all his work into the public domain, so anybody could record it or play it in public. As he pointed out, he didn't need the money so he could afford to be generous. May we all be so fortunate and generous.
Loni Anderson, of WKRP in Cincinnati, dead at 80.
Terrance Stamp has passed, aged 87
Gerry Spence died recently at age 96. He represented Karen Silkwood, Randy Weaver, and Imelda Marcos, among others. He never lost a criminal jury trial, either as a prosecutor or a defender. An attorney I worked for once remarked that no one could beat Gerry in front of a jury, but at bench trials, judges were generally immune to his rhetoric.
I know a lawyer who's sort of like that. He's a short, skinny guy that looks something like Marty Feldman. But when he defends somebody, the fin comes out of the water and the prosecutor knows that they have to bring their A-game or my friend will rip their case to shreds.
Gerry was a convincing thespian who drew people into the story and its drama. I've seen other attorneys who use that same tactic, but none of them were as skilled as this guy. Watched another thespian type go up against one of my low key, soft spoken (at least in court) attorneys. By comparison to Pete's friendly, respectful demeanor, the thespian looked like he'd seen one too many courtroom dramas. The theatrical approach backfired on him. I could see raised eyebrows among the jurors and some very plain "do you think we're stupid?" expressions on faces.
RIP Terence. One of cinema's gentlemen villains, and master of the brooding silence. (The telly news focused far too much on his role in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, but I enjoyed him more in villainous roles like General Zod in Superman II, and earlier in Billy Budd and Far from the Madding Crowd, and later in Wall Street, The Limey, and Valkyrie).
