The Celebrity Obituary Thread

[LCat]

Ditto, and RIP.

[Christopher]

  Ray Bradbury has died at 91: http://io9.com/5916175/rip-ray-bradbury-author-of-fahrenheit-451-and-the-martian-chronicles

[Lin Sunderland]

R I P Ray.



He has left such a legacy of books, plays and short stories.

Something Wicked This Way Comes is a favourite of mine. 

[Christopher]

Something Wicked This Way Comes is a favourite of mine. 

Mine too--really love that novel. Fahrenheit 451 is another favorite.

[The Schofield Kid]

Richard Dawson passed away on June 2. He is best known for his role of Cpl. Peter Newkirk in the TV series Hogan's Heroes.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0206241/

[Lin Sunderland]

RIP Richard.

Hogan's Heroes was a great series.  I loved watching it.

[LCat]

This is so odd to me: I heard years ago that Richard Dawson had died--I don't remember where I got that info. Now I hear he really has died.

RIP for real, Richard!

LCat

[higashimori]

 "Gone With the Wind" actress Ann Rutherford dies "

 By ROBERT JABLON | Associated Press

 http://movies.yahoo.com/news/gone-wind-actress-ann-rutherford-dies-143957178.html

 

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ann Rutherford, the demure brunette actress who played the sweetheart in the long-running Andy Hardy series and Scarlett O'Hara's youngest sister in "Gone With the Wind," has died. She was 94.

 

 R.I.P. Ann
 

[LCat]

RIP, Ann Rutherford!

LCat

[The Schofield Kid]

Victor Spinetti, Favorite in Beatles Films, Dies at 82

Victor Spinetti, who was an established British film star in 1963 when he agreed to make a movie with a pop group called the Beatles and who became famous ever after as the only person besides the four Beatles to appear in all of their movies — “A Hard Day’s Night,” “Help!” and “Magical Mystery Tour” — died on Tuesday in London. He was 82.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/20/movies/victor-spinetti-dies-at-82-actor-in-all-3-beatles-films.html

[Lin Sunderland]

RIP Victor.

I remember seeing him in "Under Milk Wood" with Richard Burton and l Elizabeth Taylor.  He was a fantastic actor.  He will be sadly missed.
 

[higashimori]

 " LeRoy Neiman Dies at 91; Artist of Bold Life and Bright Canvases "

 By WILLIAM GRIMES

 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/arts/leroy-neiman-prolific-painter-of-sports-dies-at-91.html?_r=1&hp

 

LeRoy Neiman, whose brilliantly colored, impressionistic sketches of sporting events and the international high life made him one of the most popular artists in the United States, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 91.

 

  R.I.P. Mr. Neiman.

[higashimori]

 " Lonesome George, last member of species of Galápagos giant tortoise, dies "

 

Galápagos National Park announces the death of conservation icon believed to have been about 100 years old

 Reuters

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/24/lonesome-george-galapagos-tortoise-dies

 

 

"His life cycle came to an end."

 Rest in peace, Lonesome George....

[KC]

I meant to post this a couple of days ago ... One of America's most influential film critics has died.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/movies/andrew-sarris-film-critic-dies-at-83.html

Andrew Sarris, one of the nation’s most influential film critics and a champion of auteur theory, which holds that a director’s voice is central to great filmmaking, died on Wednesday at St. Luke’s Hospital in Manhattan. He was 83.

R.I.P., Andrew Sarris.

[Lin Sunderland]

R.I.P., Andrew Sarris..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/andrew-sarris-critic-who-promoted-auteur-theory-of-film-dies-at-83/2012/06/20/gJQA7foNrV_story.html

[higashimori]

　" Nora Ephron dies aged 71 "

 

Oscar-nominated director, screenwriter and producer behind films including When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle

 Ben Quinn and Dominic Rushe

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jun/27/nora-ephron-dies

 

 Very sad news...She made many unforgettable movies....

 Rest in peace, Nora....


 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/27/movies/nora-ephron-essayist-screenwriter-and-director-dies-at-71.html?_r=1&hp

[Lin Sunderland]

R.I.P. Nora.

She will be sadly missed.  She worked a lot with Meryl Streep.  I think the last movie together was Julie and Julia.

[KC]

Front page news in the Times (and an excellent obituary). Thanks for posting the link, Higashimori.

Very sad news, indeed. R.I.P., Nora Ephron.

[Lin Sunderland]

Woman's Hour in the UK played part of an interview from 1999 when Jenni Murray spoke to Nora.  It was so nice to hear her voice.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01k2bvd   If anyone is interested to hear the interview. 

[KC]

Two nice features about Ephron in today's Times:

Gail Collins: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/opinion/nora-ephron-the-best-mailgirl-ever.html

Alessandra Stanley: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/fashion/nora-ephrons-hollywood-ending.html

Plus, Clyde Haberman has this on his "City Room" blog: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/remembering-nora-ephron-a-reporter-at-heart/

Haberman quotes Pete Hamill, who worked alongside Haberman and Ephron at the New York Post in the 1960s:

“I remember her typing hard on a story, so deep into it that she could have been alone in the growly crowd,” Mr. Hamill recalled. He added, “She never wrote down to anybody. She didn’t think her task was to make the audience dumber, while reading or sitting in a movie house. She certainly did not add a single sentence to the long dismal history of human lousiness.”