Gone but not forgotten, RIP celebrity thread

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I tried searching for something like this, but there wasn't.  I just learned that Eartha Kitt passed away on Christmas.     It's sad news. She was 81.  She was an awesome actress, singer and dancer.  She's perhaps known for playing Catwoman on the third season of the 1960's Batman TV show.  It's weird I happened to have been watching Disney's The Emperor's New School, where she plays the character Yzma, when I heard the tragic news.

2008 has had a few surprising losing, Heath Ledger, Charlton Heston, George Carlin, Bernie Mac and others. 

I think instead of making separate threads of "RIP LEDGER" or "RIP BERNIE", I thought I'd make a thread to use whenever a celebrity passes.  Gives people a chance to post up to date news and talk about how a previous passing of a celebrity affected them.

I remember feeling really shocked when Tupac and Biggie were shot.  I look forward to the new Biggie biopic coming in Jan.

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She was really fucking old....

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Subtle.

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So this is just the Death Pool thread without the game?

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I was watching The Jerk the other day and I saw Richard Pryor in it and was totally like .

Oh, and I was also saddened by the loss of a Steve Martin that was funny.

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I could cry over Heath Ledgers' death :'(

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So this is just the Death Pool thread without the game?

I guess you could make it a game...

Just don't kill anybody you jerk

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RIP, Maddie Blaustein. 

She was a voice actress, a singer, a comedian, and I'm sure she had many other talents in her career as well.  It's very sad though, because she was only 48.

However, even though Maddie's death was very unexpected, I'm sure she would want her fans to be happy for all the happiness she brought to us throughout her career.

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RIP Pat Hingle

He was probably known to many as Commissioner Gordon from the Batman movies 89-97.   He passed away 4 days ago due to leukemia.  In Hingle's appearance as Commissioner Gordon (Batman & Robin), he worked with Uma Thurman (who portrayed Poison Ivy), whose first husband, Gary Oldman, succeeded him in the role in Batman Begins (2005). Hingle also worked with Christian Bale in Shaft, who would go on to portray Batman/Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins and Dark knight.  Weird Coincidences.

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RIP Ron Asheton

Some of you rock fans, I just learned The Stooges' guitarist, Ron Asheton, died at age 60. 

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/thatsreallyweek/32661/jan-5-12-no-fun/

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If they hadn't died before their time would the be as famous?

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RIP Tony Hart

Children's TV presenter who hosted art programmes in the '60s, '70s and '80s, he also created Morph a claymation character.

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RIP Ricardo Montalbán.

He's on fantasy island now.

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Wait? Tony Hart is dead now? But Morph ruled!

Oh, and one more KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN for old time sake. .

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 at least he made it to the REAL fantasy island

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RIP Ricardo Montalbán.

He's on fantasy island now.

I can't believe it.  KHAAAAAANNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He had the most awesome voice, you know he got laid every time he talked to a woman.

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Interesting coincidence. I was watching the MST3K episode with the terrible German version of Hamlet and it turns out that the dub for Claudius was done by Ricardo Montalbán.

Edit: SP

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Today marks one year ago, Heath Ledger passed away.  It was awesome that he won the Golden Globe.  He's a shoe in for the Oscar.

LEDGER FOR OSCAR

I was shocked to just learn that 2008 marked the passing of two other celebrities.   Roy Scheider and Stan Winston.  Scheider was awesome in JAWS and The French Connection.  Stan Winston did visual effects for Aliens, Predator, Terminator, Jurassic Park and others.  That's a huge chuck of my childhood of watching cool movies. 

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Rob Schneider noo

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You might want to check your info. Rob Schneider isn't dead.

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Perhaps he did check his info and is upset that he is alive

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Tweek that is very evil of you put also perhaps true.

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I think Heath Ledger deserved an Oscar, but I don't care about it so I'm fine, except he's still dead

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Perhaps he did check his info and is upset that he is alive

You might want to check your info. Rob Schneider isn't dead.

okay I said "Roy Scheider" not "Rob Schneider"  they have similar names, but they are completely different actors.

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Reg Evans, the Station Master in Mad Max, amongst other roles, has been reported dead in the Kinglake bushfires. He was 80. Further information can be found online at The Age Newspaper, and likely in other news services. Communities affected by the bushfires can be supported via the Victorian Bushfire Fund, see the Red Cross Page for further details.

Aww, bummer. I just watched the 1st Mad Max on the same freaking date a few days ago. He was the Station Master of the outback town terrorised by the Biker Gang, showed them where the dead dudes coffin was. 

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Actoress Natasha Richardson past away today after a skiing accident.
She was married to Liam Neeson.

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Aww not Liamos wife! Poor guy, she was only 45.

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Poor Liam.
I feel a connection to him 'cause he once played my ancestor Rob Roy MacGregor in the movie Rob Roy. Shite movie, but still...

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Shame, for her age she was quire fit,, might have a necrowank .

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Aww that is so sad

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I was skiing a few weeks ago, just to think just by falling you can seem fine and then your brain is dead :|

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I haven't heard much about the circumstances of the injury, but I'm going to take a guess and say a helmet wasn't being worn.  I always wear one when I ski because it's so easy to do big damage to your dome in a ski wreck.  RIP, Natasha.

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I've never heard of this person until they died. Just like Heath Ledger

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It's ok, youre not the only one 

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I think the only thing I've seen her in with the remake of the parent trap

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Jade Goody die this morning!  I thougt she was doing to survey longer.

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What does your picture mean?

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@ Books 

Jade's gone to the East Angular in the sky where escape goats eat all of the asparagus.

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   What does your picture mean?

Juliet, it's an attempt to point out that in this message...

   Jade Goody die this morning!  I thougt she was doing to survey longer.

you wrote "survey" instead of "survive". Whether it was a callous, mean-spirited, or even malicious attempt remains to be seen.

Who was Jade Goody, anyway?

BTW you also wrote "die" instead of "died", "thougt" instead of "thought" and "doing" instead of "going" but presumably they are harder mistakes to find a suitable picture for.