Ah, let's be honest, they come in hundreds and hundreds. Who's next. Two of them were elderly, anyway, I confess to barely knowing who Brittany Murphy was.
BlackDog said
8:47 PM, 12/28/09
Cy Valley wrote:
Ah, let's be honest, they come in hundreds and hundreds. Who's next. Two of them were elderly, anyway, I confess to barely knowing who Brittany Murphy was.
I knew who Brittany was, but I have no clue who the other two were.
Snippy said
8:58 PM, 12/28/09
3 strikes for Snippy
Cy Valley said
9:00 PM, 12/28/09
Connie Hines was the wife on Mr. Ed. Jennifer Jones was a hot babe movie star in the forties.
Cy Valley said
10:41 AM, 12/29/09
Just like this, I never heard of these clowns and now they've lost their drummer, one of the best in the world (so they said).
Snippy, Buckethead, and Krink are probably big fans!!!!
December 29th, 2009
Avenged Sevenfold Drummer The Rev Found Dead
Anne Lu - Celebrity News Service News Writer
Orange County, CA, United States (CNS) - The Rev from metal rock band Avenged Sevenfold has been found dead at his Huntington Beach home on Monday. James Owen Sullivan was the drummer and back-up vocalist for the group. He was 28.
Sullivan was found unresponsive at his home. Authorities said it appears to be natural causes. The Orange Country Coroner's Department is currently investigating.
He is survived by wife Leana MacFadden.
Sullivan formed Avenged Sevenfold with original members M. Shadows, Zacky Vengeance, and Matt Wendt in 1999. They achieved mainstream success with their 2005 album "City of Evil."
A message on the band's website reads: "It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we tell you of the passing today of Jimmy 'The Rev' Sullivan. Jimmy was not only one of the world's best drummers, but more importantly he was our best friend and brother. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Jimmy's family and we hope that you will respect their privacy during this difficult time."
"Jimmy you are forever in our hearts. We love you."
Troll said
10:46 AM, 12/29/09
Cy Valley wrote:
Just like this, I never heard of these clowns and now they've lost their drummer, one of the best in the world (so they said).
Snippy, Buckethead, and Krink are probably big fans!!!!
December 29th, 2009 Avenged Sevenfold Drummer The Rev Found Dead Anne Lu - Celebrity News Service News Writer Orange County, CA, United States (CNS) - The Rev from metal rock band Avenged Sevenfold has been found dead at his Huntington Beach home on Monday. James Owen Sullivan was the drummer and back-up vocalist for the group. He was 28.
Sullivan was found unresponsive at his home. Authorities said it appears to be natural causes. The Orange Country Coroner's Department is currently investigating.
He is survived by wife Leana MacFadden.
Sullivan formed Avenged Sevenfold with original members M. Shadows, Zacky Vengeance, and Matt Wendt in 1999. They achieved mainstream success with their 2005 album "City of Evil."
A message on the band's website reads: "It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we tell you of the passing today of Jimmy 'The Rev' Sullivan. Jimmy was not only one of the world's best drummers, but more importantly he was our best friend and brother. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Jimmy's family and we hope that you will respect their privacy during this difficult time."
"Jimmy you are forever in our hearts. We love you."
Dead
Vic Chesnutt
Field:
Music
Info:
Singer/songwriter who was partially paralyzed from an auto accident at age 18, albums include "West of Rome" and "About to Choke", he had a small role in the movie "Sling Blade"
Date of Birth:
11/12/1964
Date of Death:
12/25/2009
Age at Death:
45
Cause of Death:
Drug overdose
Troll said
10:49 AM, 12/29/09
Dead
George Michael
Field:
Journalism
Info:
Longtime host of the sports highlight TV program "The George Michael Sports Machine"
Date of Birth:
03/24/1939
Date of Death:
12/24/2009
Age at Death:
70
Cause of Death:
Cancer
Dead
Arnold Stang
Field:
Entertainment
Info:
Known for his milquetoast acting personality and roles on TV, radio and in the movies, he appeared in "The Man with the Golden Arm" and other films and was the voice of the cartoon character Top Cat (T.C.) in "Top Cat" and the voice of Herman in the "Katnip" cartoons as well as other cartoon voices
-- Edited by Troll on Tuesday 29th of December 2009 11:53:29 AM
Freddie Krueger said
1:05 PM, 12/29/09
That drummer was 28? What's his widow look like?
Cy Valley said
2:42 PM, 12/29/09
Who knew. Top Cat has been silenced.
-- Edited by Cy Valley on Tuesday 29th of December 2009 02:43:14 PM
Troll said
8:52 PM, 03/24/10
Robert Culp, who starred in `I Spy,' dead at 79
By BOB THOMAS (AP) 1 hour ago
LOS ANGELES Robert Culp, the actor who teamed with Bill Cosby in the racially groundbreaking TV series "I Spy" and was Bob in the critically acclaimed sex comedy "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice," died Wednesday after collapsing outside his Hollywood home, his manager said. Culp was 79.
Manager Hillard Elkins said the actor was on a walk when he fell. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead just before noon. The actor's son was told he died of a heart attack, Elkins said, though police were unsure if the fall was medically related.
Los Angeles police Lt. Robert Binder said no foul play was suspected. Binder said a jogger found Culp, who apparently fell and struck his head.
"I Spy" greatly advanced the careers of Culp and Cosby and forged a lifelong friendship. Cosby said Wednesday Culp was like an older brother to him.
"The first born in every family is always dreaming of the older brother or sister he or she doesn't have, to protect, to be the buffer, provide the wisdom, shoulder the blows and make things right," he said. "Bob was the answer to my dreams.
"No matter how many mistakes I made on 'I Spy,' he was always there to teach and protect me," Cosby said.
Candace Culp, the actor's ex-wife, said she was devastated.
"He was a wonderful, creative man who contributed so much to his business, as an actor, as a writer, as a director," she said.
Robert Culp lately had been working on writing screenplays, Elkins said.
"I Spy," which aired from 1965 to 1968, was a television milestone in more ways than one. Its combination of humor and adventure broke new ground, and it was the first integrated television show to feature a black actor in a starring role.
Culp played Kelly Robinson, a spy whose cover was that of an ace tennis player. (In real life, Culp actually was a top-notch tennis player who showed his skills in numerous celebrity tournaments.). Cosby was fellow spy Alexander Scott, whose cover was that of Culp's trainer. The pair traveled the world in the service of the U.S. government.
Culp followed "I Spy" with his most prestigious film role, in "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice." The work of first-time director Paul Mazursky, who also co-wrote the screenplay, lampooned the lifestyles of the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Bob and Carol (Culp and Natalie Wood) introduced wife-swapping to their best friends, Ted and Alice (Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon).
Culp also had starring roles in such films as "The Castaway Cowboy," "Golden Girl," "Turk 182!" and "Big Bad Mama II."
His teaming with Cosby, however, was likely his best remembered role.
Cosby won Emmys for actor in a leading role all three years that "I Spy" aired, and Culp, who was nominated for the same award each year, said he was never jealous.
"I was the proudest man around," he said in a 1977 interview.
Both he and Cosby were involved in civil rights causes, and when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968 the pair traveled to Memphis, Tenn., to join the striking garbage workers King had been organizing.
Culp and Cosby also costarred in the 1972 movie "Hickey and Boggs," which Culp also directed. This time they were hard-luck private detectives who encountered multiple deaths. Audiences who had enjoyed the lightheartedness of "I Spy" were disappointed, and the movie flopped at the box office.
"His proudest moments were when he was writing and directing 'I Spy' and 'Hickey and Boggs,'" Cosby said. "Bob was meticulous and committed."
After years of talking up the idea, they finally re-teamed in 1994 for a two-hour CBS movie, "I Spy Returns."
In his first movie role Culp played one of John Kennedy's crew in "PT 109."
His first starring TV series, "Trackdown" (1957-1959) was a Western based partly on files of the Texas Rangers. In the 1980s, he starred as an FBI agent in the fantasy "The Greatest American Hero."
He remained active in movies and TV. Among his notable later performances was as a U.S. president in 1993's "The Pelican Brief." More recently, he had a recurring role as Patricia Heaton's father in the sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond" and appeared in such shows as "Robot Chicken," "Chicago Hope" and an episode of "Cosby."
Robert Martin Culp, born in 1930 in Oakland, led a peripatetic existence as a college student, attending College of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., Washington University in St. Louis and San Francisco State College before landing at the University of Washington drama school.
Then at age 21, a semester removed from his degree, he moved to New York, where he began landing roles in off-Broadway plays. One of them was in "He Who Gets Slapped."
"I saw it in college in Seattle, and I said, `My God, that's my part, that's my part,'" he once told an interviewer. After he won the role in a Greenwich Village production "the floodgates opened," he said.
Good reviews and an Obie award led to offers from Hollywood.
Culp was married five times, to Nancy Ashe, Elayne Wilner, France Nuyen, Sheila Sullivan and Candace Culp. He had four children with Ashe and one with Candace Culp.
___
Associated Press writers John Antczak, Robert Jablon and John Rogers contributed to this report.
(This version corrects character descriptions in film role.)
I knew who Brittany was, but I have no clue who the other two were.
Vic Chesnutt
Cause of Death:
Drug overdose
George Michael
Cause of Death:
Cancer
Dead
Arnold Stang
Cause of Death:
Pneumonia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUD_aeVi_bY
-- Edited by Troll on Tuesday 29th of December 2009 11:53:29 AM
Who knew. Top Cat has been silenced.
-- Edited by Cy Valley on Tuesday 29th of December 2009 02:43:14 PM
By BOB THOMAS (AP) 1 hour ago
LOS ANGELES Robert Culp, the actor who teamed with Bill Cosby in the racially groundbreaking TV series "I Spy" and was Bob in the critically acclaimed sex comedy "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice," died Wednesday after collapsing outside his Hollywood home, his manager said. Culp was 79.
Manager Hillard Elkins said the actor was on a walk when he fell. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead just before noon. The actor's son was told he died of a heart attack, Elkins said, though police were unsure if the fall was medically related.
Los Angeles police Lt. Robert Binder said no foul play was suspected. Binder said a jogger found Culp, who apparently fell and struck his head.
"I Spy" greatly advanced the careers of Culp and Cosby and forged a lifelong friendship. Cosby said Wednesday Culp was like an older brother to him.
"The first born in every family is always dreaming of the older brother or sister he or she doesn't have, to protect, to be the buffer, provide the wisdom, shoulder the blows and make things right," he said. "Bob was the answer to my dreams.
"No matter how many mistakes I made on 'I Spy,' he was always there to teach and protect me," Cosby said.
Candace Culp, the actor's ex-wife, said she was devastated.
"He was a wonderful, creative man who contributed so much to his business, as an actor, as a writer, as a director," she said.
Robert Culp lately had been working on writing screenplays, Elkins said.
"I Spy," which aired from 1965 to 1968, was a television milestone in more ways than one. Its combination of humor and adventure broke new ground, and it was the first integrated television show to feature a black actor in a starring role.
Culp played Kelly Robinson, a spy whose cover was that of an ace tennis player. (In real life, Culp actually was a top-notch tennis player who showed his skills in numerous celebrity tournaments.). Cosby was fellow spy Alexander Scott, whose cover was that of Culp's trainer. The pair traveled the world in the service of the U.S. government.
Culp followed "I Spy" with his most prestigious film role, in "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice." The work of first-time director Paul Mazursky, who also co-wrote the screenplay, lampooned the lifestyles of the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Bob and Carol (Culp and Natalie Wood) introduced wife-swapping to their best friends, Ted and Alice (Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon).
Culp also had starring roles in such films as "The Castaway Cowboy," "Golden Girl," "Turk 182!" and "Big Bad Mama II."
His teaming with Cosby, however, was likely his best remembered role.
Cosby won Emmys for actor in a leading role all three years that "I Spy" aired, and Culp, who was nominated for the same award each year, said he was never jealous.
"I was the proudest man around," he said in a 1977 interview.
Both he and Cosby were involved in civil rights causes, and when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968 the pair traveled to Memphis, Tenn., to join the striking garbage workers King had been organizing.
Culp and Cosby also costarred in the 1972 movie "Hickey and Boggs," which Culp also directed. This time they were hard-luck private detectives who encountered multiple deaths. Audiences who had enjoyed the lightheartedness of "I Spy" were disappointed, and the movie flopped at the box office.
"His proudest moments were when he was writing and directing 'I Spy' and 'Hickey and Boggs,'" Cosby said. "Bob was meticulous and committed."
After years of talking up the idea, they finally re-teamed in 1994 for a two-hour CBS movie, "I Spy Returns."
In his first movie role Culp played one of John Kennedy's crew in "PT 109."
His first starring TV series, "Trackdown" (1957-1959) was a Western based partly on files of the Texas Rangers. In the 1980s, he starred as an FBI agent in the fantasy "The Greatest American Hero."
He remained active in movies and TV. Among his notable later performances was as a U.S. president in 1993's "The Pelican Brief." More recently, he had a recurring role as Patricia Heaton's father in the sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond" and appeared in such shows as "Robot Chicken," "Chicago Hope" and an episode of "Cosby."
Robert Martin Culp, born in 1930 in Oakland, led a peripatetic existence as a college student, attending College of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., Washington University in St. Louis and San Francisco State College before landing at the University of Washington drama school.
Then at age 21, a semester removed from his degree, he moved to New York, where he began landing roles in off-Broadway plays. One of them was in "He Who Gets Slapped."
"I saw it in college in Seattle, and I said, `My God, that's my part, that's my part,'" he once told an interviewer. After he won the role in a Greenwich Village production "the floodgates opened," he said.
Good reviews and an Obie award led to offers from Hollywood.
Culp was married five times, to Nancy Ashe, Elayne Wilner, France Nuyen, Sheila Sullivan and Candace Culp. He had four children with Ashe and one with Candace Culp.
___
Associated Press writers John Antczak, Robert Jablon and John Rogers contributed to this report.
(This version corrects character descriptions in film role.)
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