Instead of someone making a thread everytime one famous person dies we should have one thread for all famous people who die. This includes actors, politicians, royalty, and basically anyone who's in the public eye.
No one lives forever. It's sad but it happens. Famous people just get a lot more attention than others. So mourn, reminisce, and discuss anything having to do with celebrities and their deaths.
Also, is there any truth to the celebrity death curse theory? Do famous peole really die in threes? Is it a curse? Is it a coincidence? Or is it something more?
Two things: 1) Be resepctful. Don't make fun or laugh at the person who died or how they died. Be serious. 2) Under no circumstances are you to wish death upon anyone. We don't care how much you dislike Uwe Boll or Paris Hilton. You only get to talk about them if they have actually died or are close to death (i.e. sick, hospital).
Just recently Peter Boyle, best known as Frank from Everybody Loves Raymond and The Monster from Young Frankenstein, passed away at the age of 71. He had been suffering from multiple myeloma and heart disease. He passed away on Tuesday, December 13, 2006.
I was devastated when I heard that Peter Boyle died earlier today. Peter Boyle made that show the success that it is, it's sad to have heard about his loss.
I'm just glad we have the episode of Raymond to keep watching forever.
he was great not just in Everybody Loves Raymond, but in EVERYTHING he participated in, like the time he guest starred on Mind of Mencia, he was great.
Joe Barbera, half of the Hanna-Barbera animation team that produced such beloved cartoon characters as Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear and the Flintstones, died Monday, a Warner Bros. spokesman said. He was 95.
According to The Associated Press, Barbera died of natural causes at his home with his wife Sheila at his side.
With his longtime partner, Bill Hanna, Barbera first found success creating the highly successful Tom and Jerry cartoons. The antics of the battling cat and mouse went on to win seven Academy Awards, more than any other series with the same characters.
The partners, who teamed up while working at MGM in the 1930s, then went on to a whole new realm of success in the 1960s with a witty series of animated TV comedies, including "The Flintstones," "The Jetsons," "Yogi Bear," "Scooby-Doo" and "Huckleberry Hound and Friends."
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Flintstones, Jetsons, Yogi, Tom and Jerry, Scooby-Doo. That guy knew how to make good shows that everyone could enjoy. They don't make cartoon shows like that anymore.
I know it's a wee bit late, but Tony Jay passed away earlier this year from surgery complications from a cancerous tumor.. :\ He's done everything from the Elder God from Legacy of Kain to Disney movies to Rugrats to naration for documentaries. He's been one of my favourite VAs since I was a kid and he had one of those voices that was imediately recognizable.
ART, you beat me to everyone....but not this old friend. We all owe this man so much.
Momofuku Ando, the man who invented instant ramen and founded Nissin Foods, died Friday of heart failure at 96 years of age. As any hungry cosmonaut or broke college student knows, his creation truly is a miracle food:
Ando was inspired to develop the instant noodle after coming upon a long line of people on a cold night shortly after World War II waiting to buy freshly made ramen at a black market food stall, according to Nissin. The experience convinced him that "Peace will come to the world when the people have enough to eat."
LOS ANGELES - Iwao Takamoto, the animator who created the beloved Scooby-Doo and directed the cartoon classic "Charlotte's Web," has died. He was 81.
Takamoto died Monday of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Warner Bros. spokesman Gary Miereanu said.
In a career that spanned more than six decades, Takamoto assisted in the designs of some of the biggest animated features and television shows for Disney and the Hanna-Barbera animation team. They included "Cinderella," "Peter Pan," "Lady and the Tramp," "101 Dalmatians," "The Jetsons" and "The Flintstones."
But it was his creation of Scooby-Doo, the cowardly dog with an adventurous heart, that captivated audiences and endured for generations.
Takamoto said he created Scooby-Doo after talking with a Great Dane breeder and named him after Frank Sinatra's final phrase in "Strangers in the Night." The breeder "showed me some pictures and talked about the important points of a Great Dane, like a straight back, straight legs, small chin and such," Takamoto said in a recent talk at Cartoon Network Studios. "I decided to go the opposite and gave him a hump back, bowed legs, big chin and such. Even his color is wrong."
Takamoto also created other famous cartoon dogs such as Astro from "The Jetsons" and Muttley, the mixed-breed that appeared in several Hanna-Barbera animations. He also directed the 1973 feature "Charlotte's Web."
Takamoto was survived by his wife, Barbara, son Michael and stepdaughter Leslie. Funeral arrangements were pending.
Yvonne De Carlo, the beautiful star who played Moses' wife in "The Ten Commandments" but achieved her greatest popularity on TV's "The Munsters," has died. She was 84.
De Carlo died of natural causes Monday at the Motion Picture & Television facility in suburban Los Angeles, longtime friend and television producer Kevin Burns said Wednesday.
De Carlo, whose shapely figure helped launch her career in B-movie desert adventures and Westerns, rose to more important roles in the 1950s. Later, she had a key role in a landmark Broadway musical, Stephen Sondheim's "Follies."
But for TV viewers, she will always be known as Lily Munster in the 1964-1966 slapstick horror-movie spoof "The Munsters." The series (the name allegedly derived from "fun-monsters") offered a gallery of Universal Pictures grotesques, including Dracula and Frankenstein's monster, in a cobwebbed gothic setting.
Lily, vampire-like in a black gown, presided over the faux scary household and was a rock for her gentle but often bumbling husband, Herman, played by 6-foot-5-inch character actor Fred Gwynne (decked out as the Frankenstein monster).
Shelly Winters - The Poseidon Adventure, Jan. 14 Wendy Wasserstein - Playwright, Jan. 30 Betty Friedan - Author, Feb. 4 Don Knotts - The Andy Griffith Show, Feb. 24 Aaron Spelling - Beverly Hills 90210, June 23 Syd Barret - Singer, July 7 Mickey Spllane - Author, July 17 Bruno Kirby - City Slickers, Aug. 14 Steve Irwin - The Crocodille Hunter, Sept. 4 William Styron - Author, Nov. 1 Ed Bradley - 60 Minutes, Nov. 9 Jack Palance - City Slickers, Nov 10 Ruth Brown - Singer, Nov 17 Robert Altman - M*A*S*H, Nov. 20 Peter Boyle - Everybody Loves Raymond, Dec. 12 Ahmet Ertegun - Atlantic Records, Dec. 14
Just a partial list taken from Entertainment Weekly.
Richard Jeni, a standup comedian who played to sold-out crowds, was a regular on the "Tonight Show" and appeared in movies, died of a gunshot wound in an apparent suicide, police said today.
Police found the 45-year-old comedian alive but gravely injured in a West Hollywood home when they responded to a call Saturday morning from Jeni's girlfriend, Los Angeles Police Officer Norma Eisenman said.
Eisenman said the caller told police: "My boyfriend shot himself in the face."
Jeni died at a nearby hospital.
Eisenman said suicide had not been officially confirmed and the investigation was continuing.
Jeni regularly toured the country with a standup act and had starred in several HBO comedy specials, most recently "A Big Steaming Pile of Me" during the 2005-06 season.
Another HBO special, "Platypus Man," won a Cable ACE award for best standup comedy special, and formed the basis for his UPN sitcom of the same name, which ran for one season.
Jeni's movie credits included "The Mask," in which he played Jim Carrey's best friend, "The Aristocrats," "National Lampoon's Dad's Week Off," and "An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn."
He had guest appearances in the TV shows "Everybody Hates Chris," "Married: With Children," and updated versions of the game shows "Hollywood Squares" and "Match Game."
The Brooklyn-born comic first received national attention in 1990 with the Showtime special "Richard Jeni: Boy From New York City." Two years later, his "Crazy From the Heat" special attracted the highest ratings in Showtime's history.
Jeni became a frequent guest on "The Tonight Show" during Johnny Carson's reign and continued to appear after Jay Leno took over as host.
He also wrote comic material for the 2005 Academy Awards, which was hosted by his friend Chris Rock.
