The Celebrity Obituary Thread

[The Schofield Kid]

You may not recognize the name and he only ever made one film.

Meinhardt Raabe has passed away.

[KC]

Yes, I heard about that one on the radio today. Here's the link to the New York Times obit:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/10/movies/10raabe.html

R.I.P.

[Doug]

Dixie Carter passed away at age 70.  She was one of the stars of the sitcom Designing Women.

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/tv-news.en.ap.org/tv-news.en.ap.org-20100411-us_obit_dixie_carter

[Jed Cooper]

Wow.  So sad.  RIP Dixie Carter.

Dixie Carter passed away at age 70.  She was one of the stars of the sitcom Designing Women.

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/tv-news.en.ap.org/tv-news.en.ap.org-20100411-us_obit_dixie_carter

[higashimori]

 Furio Scarpelli

 " Italian screenwriter dies at 90 "

   

The Oscar-nominated screenwriter Furio Scarpelli, who co-wrote some of the best post-war Italian comedies and the spaghetti western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, starring Clint Eastwood died yesterday.


He was 90. Scarpelli received two Oscar nominations for best screenwriting in the 1960s. He received another nomination for Il Postino ("The Postman") in 1996.

    AP

   http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/italian-screenwriter-dies-at-90-1957307.html

   R.I.P

[KC]

Lynn Redgrave, R.I.P.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/arts/04redgrave.html

Lynn Redgrave, who as an actress upheld the tradition of her theatrically royal family on stage and on screen and as a playwright wrote about her family with probing affection and equally probing anguish, died on Sunday at her home in Kent, Conn. She was 67.

Her brother Corin died just last month, and of course her niece, Vanessa Redgrave's daughter Natasha Richardson, was killed in a skiing accident about a year ago.

[Lin Sunderland]

RIP Lynn.   Very sad news.

[LCat]

Eternal rest for Lynn Redgrave...(I just realized her name has grave in it and it seems a little eerie...)

[Lin Sunderland]

Sad news beaking this morning.  Lena Horne has died at the age of 92.   She broke down barriers when she sang with a white band.  I loved her voice and one of my favourites was Stormy Weather. As a jazz fan she was high on my lists of greats.




RIP Lena.


Link.
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=10600537

[LCat]

I loved Lena Horne...

[KC]

Here's a link to the New York Times obit (by Aljean Harmetz) of Lena Horne. It's a good read.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/arts/music/10horne.html

Nice Bogart story ... this happened back in 1941:

Since blacks were not allowed to live in Hollywood, “Felix Young, a white man, signed for the house as if he was going to rent it,” Ms. Horne said. “When the neighbors found out, Humphrey Bogart, who lived right across the street from me, raised hell with them for passing around a petition to get rid of me.” Bogart, she said, “sent word over to the house that if anybody bothered me, please let him know.”

R.I.P.

[D'Ambrosia]

Man,  she was great!  RIP Lena... 

[LCat]

Erica Blasberg, a 25-year-old beautiful LPGA player, died Sunday in Las Vegas. Her death is being investigated...

[KC]

Here is a link for the Erica Blasberg story:

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/golf/lpga/2010-05-10-obit-erica-blasberg_N.htm

[KC]

Frank Frazetta, the legendary fantasy artist, has died at the age of 82. Here's a link to the New York Times obituary:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/arts/artsspecial/11frazetta.html

Frank Frazetta, an illustrator of comic books, movie posters and paperback book covers whose visions of musclebound men fighting with swords and axes to defend scantily dressed women helped define fantasy heroes like Conan, Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, died on Monday in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 82.

Frazetta has only one connection with Eastwood, as far as I know, but it's such a powerful one that I was tempted to post this in the Eastwood News forum.



Aside from that ... our own Conan owes him a debt of gratitude ...



The above picture is from a blog post on the Comics Beat website that's worth reading ... the first comment on the post is by Frazetta's granddaughter.

R.I.P.

[Lin Sunderland]

RIP Frank Frazetta.

The Gauntlet poster he drew is IMO one of the best posters for this movie.

[Richard Earl]

One of my childhood heros passed on this morning.
Keep on rocking Ronnie James Dio!  

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jA6HT4q0zJZ0g1f80auXnU5vacJQD9FO6D100

[LCat]

One of my childhood heros passed on this morning.
Keep on rocking Ronnie James Dio!  

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jA6HT4q0zJZ0g1f80auXnU5vacJQD9FO6D100

Doesn't it seem like they'll live forever, our idols? Sorry for your loss.

LCat

[Tang Lung]

He-Man was in essence a Conan wannabe first time around but then they introduced the sci fi elements in He-Man........RIP Frazetta

5th anniversary Riddlers death , Frank Gorshin......

[higashimori]

 

   R.I.P.