Another Famous Person Died Thread

“http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,323730,00.html”

“Good idea.
We have to many R.I.P. threads.”

“guy sounds like a real nutter”

“How long you been dead Sarge, lol”

“Geniuses are often nuts. He was an impressive individual.”

“Wasn't somebody looking for him?”

“Wasn't he wanted or something?”

“And God said, "Check mate"”

“Yeah Stove, for violating a law under Bush's dad. The libs would love him.”

“I knew it....it was some kid.


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“Hula Hoop inventor dies

ARCADIA, Calif. � Richard Knerr, co-founder of the toy company that popularized the Hula Hoop, Frisbee and other fads that became classics, has died. He was 82.

Knerr, who started Wham-O in 1948 with his childhood friend Arthur �Spud� Melin, died Monday at a hospital after suffering a stroke earlier in the day at his Arcadia home, his wife Dorothy told the Los Angeles Times.

Knerr and Melin got their start in business peddling slingshots. They named their enterprise Wham-O after the sound a slingshot made when it hit its target.

They branched into other sporting goods, including boomerangs and crossbows, then added toys that often bore such playful names as the Superball, Slip �N Slide and Silly String.

When a friend told them in 1958 about a large ring used for exercise in Australia, they devised their own version and called it the Hula Hoop.

Around the same time, they bought the rights to a plastic flying disc invented by Walter �Fred� Morrison, who called it the Pluto Platter. Wham-O bought the rights and renamed it the Frisbee.

The rest is amusement history.



Originally published January 17, 2008”

“so he's going to that great big....uhh.....sock hop in the sky”

“Supposedly when you reach your final reward all is revealed....how's he gonna feel when he sees if he had moved a pawn differently he would have won a major match....?”

“I just remembered in the famous Death Issue of National Lampoon (man if I'd only kept that copy) there is a parody of the Chess with Death Scene in Ingmar Bergman's Seventh Seal. There was a funny article entitled:

"Bobby Fischer Teaches You How to Beat Death." Basically, he'd do all kinds of things to irritate Death during the match so he'd lose his compsure (as he was accused of doing to Boris Spasky).”

“I had this issue....

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“Sounds like Alice will have to get her meat somewhere else.




'Brady Bunch' Actor Allan Melvin Dies

Allan Melvin, center, plays Barney Hefner in a scene from a 1981 episode of the "Archie Bu...
By ANDREW DALTON, AP
Sun Jan 20, 12:21 AM EST
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LOS ANGELES (AP) � Allan Melvin, a character actor best known for playing Sam the Butcher on "The Brady Bunch," has died. He was 84.

Melvin died of cancer Thursday at his home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, said Amalia Melvin, his wife of 64 years.

The jowly, jovial Melvin spent decades playing a series of sidekicks, second bananas and lovable lugs, including Archie Bunker's friend Barney Hefner on "All in the Family," and Sgt. Bilko's right-hand man Cpl. Henshaw on the "Phil Silvers Show."

But his place in pop culture will be fixed as butcher and bowler Sam Franklin, the love interest of Brady family maid Alice Nelson, who was played by Ann B. Davis. Melvin played the role from 1970 to 1973.

Born in Kansas City, Mo., in 1923, Melvin grew up in New York and attended Columbia University.

He was appearing on Broadway in "Stalag 17" when he began his decades-long television career with "The Phil Silvers Show," playing a role his wife said was always his favorite.

"He was proudest of that show," Amalia Melvin said. "I think the camaraderie of all those guys made it such a pleasant way to work. They were so relaxed."

He saw steady employment as a voice actor from the early 1960s to the early 1990s, most famously providing the voice of "Magilla Gorilla" for the Hanna Barbera cartoon of the same name.

His other credits include several guest appearances on "The Andy Griffith Show," "Gomer Pyle: USMC," and "The Dick Van Dyke Show."

In addition to Amalia, Melvin is survived by daughter Jennifer Hanson and grandson Jon Hanson Jr. A daughter, Mya, died in 1970.

Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.”

“Did you read the last paragraph?You weren't supposed to do that!LOL!”

“Sergeant Hacker from Gomer Pyle.... Archie Bunker's pal Barney....”

“I was just giving them props for a well-written story.”

“'Newhart' Actress Suzanne Pleshette Dies

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/arts/21cnd-pleshette.html?hp


treebeards Uncle Murry used to baby sit her.”

“Actor Heath Ledger has been found dead in a Manhattan apartment, New York police tell CNN

no reports found yet”

“gee ... I wonder how he died ...”

“early reports say "pills"

surprise”

“You know, he played the new Joker in the new Batman. I wonder if they finished filming completely.”

“WOW... he was a young guy, wasn't he? I'm not a big TV / Movie person, don't watch much & therefore don't know much about a lot of actors, but I remember Heath vaguely as an actor in a Civil War drama???”

“He was in The Patriot with Mel Gibson, a Revolutionary War movie.

While I wasn't a fan of Brokeback Mtn, I enjoyed most of his other films and thought he was a promising young actor. Wonder if this was intentional or just stupidity. Sad.”

“Some just believe that it's better to burn out than to fade away...”

“My wife just mentioned that this reminds her of River Phoenix.”

“He had a daughter that was 2.”

“Very sad...
AOL's page said that they found a number of sleeping pills near him.

They also said that he had split up with his daughter's mom in 2007...”

“He was great in Brokeback, and was found like Marilyn Monroe. Also reminds me of the Blondie song- Die Young, Stay Pretty.”

“Didn't he and his wife (now x) just have a kid?

If he killed himself what an a$$hole!

More info:

He was nominated for an Oscar for his performance as a gay cowboy in “Brokeback Mountain,” where he met Michelle Williams, who played his wife in the film. The two had a daughter, now 2-year-old Matilda, and lived together in Brooklyn until they split up last year.

He once said he was ready to die because he could live on in his child.

“Having a child changes every aspect of your life — for the better, of course. The sacrifices are large, but what you get in return is even bigger than the sacrifices you make.

I feel, in a sense, ready to die because you are living on in your child,” Ledger told In Touch Weekly in November.
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“I can only imagine what it will be like when he meets the other "cowboy" actors...I am guessing the Duke, Whitmark et al will send him to hang out with Rock Hudson....”

“The "Duke" was a cross-dresser.

He's probably makin' shack with Rock Hudson already.

"Whitmark"??
You mean Richard Skidmark?”

“LOL...AW Marky mark...did I hit a nerve..another gutsy MALE who was independent...Marky mark...its like 8 am shouldn't you be tuning into the Soaps to see what there is to cry about?”

“wow, you guys are just as bad as "the media"...immediately jumping to suicide...one of the talking heads last night said there should be a support mechanism in holywood to help depressed actors...He wasn't even depressed!!!...it's looking more and more like it was an accident but it makes better news to say he hilled himself”

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“He wasn't even depressed!!!

Not according to his best friends. How is understanding reality "true colors"? Would you prefer if people sugar-coated reality and pretended like it didn't exist? A "healthy" 28 year old actor died. Of course the chances are EXCELLENT that it was drug related. Why does that offend you? Maybe you misunderstood what I was saying.
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“I heard that they found him, then called one of the olsen twins, then a private detective...then THE COPS?

Sorry but does that even look a TAD suspicious?

Sarge I am thinking he may have reached the last stage of dying....acceptance, I heard since Brokeback he always made sure his S%%t was packed.”

“reality?...the reality is that he was found dead and there were pills near by...it's too early to say that the pills caused the death and if so that it was intentional...how many of us on here if we were found dead in our own homes would have pills "near by"...i know i would

you're absolutely right, it could and most likely is drug related but why does it have to be recreational drug use or intentional over use?...his sleeping patterns were disrupted due to filming of batman and he had pneumonia...he could have had a drug interaction

by all accounts he was a "good guy"...didn't do recreational drugs, didn't party, kept his nose clean and was a happy fun loving guy...it's waaaay too early to jump to conclusions...you know toxicology and autopsies take a while...i think we should give him the benefit of the doubt”

“That's wrong dude.”

“you're absolutely right, it could and most likely is drug related but why does it have to be recreational drug use or intentional over use?

What are you talking about? Who said anything about that?”

“i'll play one of your card

what part?...be specific...what is wrong and prove to me that it is wrong”

“What are you talking about? Who said anything about that?�
Sarge
8:59:25 AM
1/23/08


oh come on...you're saying that your earlier two posts...:

gee ... I wonder how he died ...�
Sarge
4:59:29 PM
1/22/08

early reports say "pills"

surprise�
Sarge
5:00:36 PM
1/22/08

...are inocent...oh i see, by these you meant that it was "accidental"...i see your point now...what was i thinking
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“Dude, you have issues.

You said (and I quoted you the first time) "you're absolutely right, it could and most likely is drug related but why does it have to be recreational drug use or intentional over use?"

I never said anything about "recreational drug use" or "intentional over use". All I said was what you've agreed to and what everybody was thinking, ... some kind of drugs.

And following up on your edit - I never said, nor did I even consider, whether or not it was intentional or not.
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“you know what you were implying but like most of your weasely posts you said it in just a way that you could back out of it if called on it

if i'm wrong, then i'm wrong and i apologize but i doubt i'm wrong
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“Again, you have issues. You guys getting this? LOL”

“LOL, and he calls for back up”

“early reports say "pills"

surprise

Yeah, that was a consipracy so that if challenged, I could back out of it.

... either that, or 100% of the news articles I read said "pills" were found near him.

Dude, get a life man. Seriously.

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what part?...be specific...what is wrong and prove to me that it is wrong�thriftyhiker

Um, I was replying to XL. LOL
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“last word”