RIP someone or another

[emelius]

R.I.P. Malory Archer/Lucille Bluth...

Jessica Walter, age 80...

[jpelg]

^Sigh...Jessica Walter was a formative crush after seeing "Play Misty For Me".

Also, George Segal passed on the 23rd, age 87.

[blessingx]

Larry McMurtry, author of The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove, and Brokeback Mountain dies at 84.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56542882

I’m always going to remember him though for All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers, a novel about not fitting in in San Francisco, while wasting time at the cinemas, a book I read when I moved to San Francisco and wasted lots of time in cinemas. 

Edited March 27, 2021 by blessingx

[blessingx]

G. Gordon Liddy, Mastermind Behind Watergate Burglary, Dies at 90

This is the obit he deserves. 

Born George Gordon Battle Liddy in New Jersey in 1930, he is said to have been a frail boy who was inspired by the rousing radio speeches of Adolf Hitler that residents in his German American neighbourhood were listening to at the time.
"If an entire nation could be changed, lifted out of weakness to extraordinary strength, so could one person," he wrote in his autobiography Will, recalling how he roasted and ate a rat at the age of 11 in order to overcome his fear of rodents.

Some of the extreme ideas he, and colleague Howard Hunt, a former CIA officer, came up with - from plotting to kill Nixon critics to kidnapping anti-war protesters - never got the go-ahead, but their plan to bug the Democratic National Committee offices did.

Also https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/us/g-gordon-liddy-dead.html?referringSource=articleShare

[dsavitsk]

Shock G (pronounced with the Umpty) of Digital Underground: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/shock-g-digital-underground-humpty-hump/2021/04/24/a517642e-a50a-11eb-85fc-06664ff4489d_story.html

 

Edited April 25, 2021 by dsavitsk

[n_maher]

RIP Shock - Sorry that you had to stop what you were doing, and can no longer ruin, the image the style that I'm used to. 

[Voltron]

RIP Humpty. 😢

[emelius]

R.I.P. astronaut Michael Collins...

[Craig Sawyers]

RIP Michael Collins. The man who orbited the moon but never walked there.

That just leaves Buzz Aldrin from the first landing.

[Knuckledragger]

RIP El Risitas.  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56925999

He was quite famous in his own country, but rose to international fame as a meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/spanish-laughing-guy-el-risitas-interview-parodies

This is my favorite iteration:

 

[Torpedo]

It's beyond my understanding why, but it's true he was popular in Spain by the time he participated in that show. RIP.

[skullguise]

RIP to Daniel Kaminsky, security guru who basically saved the internet.....and fuck diabetes!

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/technology/daniel-kaminsky-dead.html

[emelius]

R.I.P. 3 time Indy 500 winner Bobby Unser...

he was 87...

[HemiSam]

Exceptional...Godspeed, Bobby.

HS

[HemiSam]

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2021/05/03/bobby-unser-1934-2021-obituary?refer=news&utm_source=edaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2021-05-04

HS

[TMoney]

I got some terribly sad news last night from one of my sisters that a close family friend lost her baby in week 40 of her pregnancy. It would have been her and her husband's second child. I can't even imagine how devastated they must be.

It is very, very sad.

[Icarium]

condolences man 😕 that is rough news

[Grahame]

"Tawny" Kitaen, Star of 1980s Music Videos, Dies at 59

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/08/arts/tawny-kitaen-dead.html

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tawny-kitaen-whitesnake-video-dead-obituary-1167012/amp/

 

[HemiSam]

Oh no!  Whitesnake video queen...  Teenage crush.  

Godspeed, Tawny...

HS

[skullguise]

I used to call one of my cats Tawny Kitten when he was young....wife never understood why, I just explained it today.

RIP Tawny....

[Voltron]

Another week of loss in music and acting. RIP to some greats. 

Trombonist Curtis Fuller. I'm going to have to spin some Curtis this week.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/arts/music/curtis-fuller-dead.amp.html

Pervis Staples of the Staples Singers. Not particularly into the music but a great legacy nonetheless.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/arts/music/pervis-staples-dead.amp.html

Actor Norman Lloyd at 106! I think of him from St. Elsewhere but did not know the depth or the incredible duration of his 70+ year Hollywood career or his amazing list of colleagues and associates. 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/movies/norman-lloyd-dead.amp.html

And don't forget Witchiepoo! HR Pufnstuf actress Billie Hayes. She was scary and creepy in a lovable way when I was a kid.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/arts/television/billie-hayes-witchiepoo-dead.amp.html 

[Craig Sawyers]

RIP the 21 who died of hypothermia while competing in a 100km (60 miles) mountain marathon in China. 172 went missing and after a massive mountain rescue effort the majority were found and got off the hill.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-57216601

 

In the UK, a route like that has to have marshals at intervals, and you are required to carry weatherproofs, a route map and a compass.

[MexicanDragon]

RIP Charles Grodin, of Beethoven (the dog movie) fame, at least to me. Made it to 86.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/movies/charles-grodin-dead.html

[blessingx]

 

[robm321]

RIP Charles Grodin. I mainly remember him as the guy that King Kong stepped on.