RIP Celebrity Thread - Part 3

[C. Lee]

This is turning into a very bad week for the entertainment industry.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

I was thinking the same thing

 

[squeekness]

Just saw a NBC news article that stated Tom Petty died from an accidental opiate overdose. He'd had a fractured hip and was given fentanyl patches for pain. He also had oxy in his system. This strikes me as somewhat insane. Who prescribes opiates to a recovered heroin addict? This never ends well. It didn't for Seymour Hoffman and it didn't for Petty either.

 

[NotNickFury]

Add Tinky Winky to the list.

http://variety.com/2018/tv/obituaries-people-news/tinky-winky-teletubbies-simon-shelton-dies-1202674248/

‘Teletubbies’ Tinky-Winky Actor Simon Shelton Dies at 52

The British actor took over the role of the purple Teletubby from 1998 to 2001, after original actor Dave Thompson was fired in 1997. Shelton also played the Dark Knight in the children’s game show “Incredible Games.”

 

[Schlosser85]

He could play good or bad guy....but he was best as a bad guy. The authority figure who was an a-hole was a specialty.

He's an officer in The Bridge at Remagen who pushes the main characters to take the bridge ASAP to impress his General.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Add Tinky Winky to the list.

http://variety.com/2018/tv/obituaries-people-news/tinky-winky-teletubbies-simon-shelton-dies-1202674248/

Used to love watching Teletubies with my kids. RIP

 

[Mandon Knight]

Add Tinky Winky to the list.

http://variety.com/2018/tv/obituaries-people-news/tinky-winky-teletubbies-simon-shelton-dies-1202674248/

Sorry, wait, what ? A Teletubby and Batman by the same actor, now that's range.

 

[SomeOldGuy]

Damnit damnit damnit. Ursula LeGuin gone.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/...r-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html?referer=

Long may she fly on the other wind...

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

RIP Ursula LeGuin.

 

[C. Lee]

He's an officer in The Bridge at Remagen who pushes the main characters to take the bridge ASAP to impress his General.

Yeah, I've seen it a bunch....it's a good war movie. He plays a real dick in it. A couple of day ago I watched an episode of THE BIG VALLEY again. The show is a western....the episode is about a group of ex confederates who harass his character because they hear that he won the medal of honor. When things go too far and they are about to lynch him...it's finally explained that he won the medal for saving the lives of dozens on both sides during a battle. That's what I liked about him. He played good and bad.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Add Tinky Winky to the list.

http://variety.com/2018/tv/obituaries-people-news/tinky-winky-teletubbies-simon-shelton-dies-1202674248/

According to http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5301651/Tinky-Winky-actor-dies-aged-52.html...

The actor who played Tinky Winky in BBC children's TV series Teletubbies died aged 52 of hypothermia after collapsing on the streets of Liverpool, a friend confirmed today.

 

[squeekness]

Geez, that sucks.

 

[nite-owl]

The Fall singer Mark E Smith dies aged 60.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42811968

 

[RockSP]

Mort Walker, creator of classic comic strip Beetle Baily and also Hi & Lois (among others) died today at age 94. R.I.P.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/m...s-at-94/ar-BBIjqpt?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp

 

[3rdstone]

Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA, has passed away at 91.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42851668

 

[LL2K2]

Mark Salling, who played Puck on the first three seasons of Fox's "Glee," is dead of an apparent suicide:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/glee-star-mark-salling-dead-apparent-suicide-2-183521198.html

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Mark Salling, who played Puck on the first three seasons of Fox's "Glee," is dead of an apparent suicide:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/glee-star-mark-salling-dead-apparent-suicide-2-183521198.html

Weeks after pleading guilty to child porn.

 

[Schlosser85]

He was set to be sentenced early March.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

I used to like him in Glee but I find it hard to muster much sympathy for him.

 

[Dr Lee]

Sympathy for his family TBH... to go through what they have due to his actions.... and now this.... no family should go through that.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Wonder how long before the tabloids start on about "The curse of Glee..."

 

[Schlosser85]

I can have sympathy for his old Glee "family" (who already lost Cory Monteith, and now this) and his other loved ones, more so than for Salling himself.

The whole situation with Salling was all just.....unfortunate, to say the least.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Wonder how long before the tabloids start on about "The curse of Glee..."

I hate anything that gives the homophobes stupid ammunition.

And all of their ammunition is stupid.

 

[Schlosser85]

I hate anything that gives the homophobes stupid ammunition.

And all of their ammunition is stupid.

That'd be pretty flimsy ammunition. Neither Monteith nor Salling were gay, and with his best-selling book series, Chris Colfer is probably the most successful of them post-Glee and (as far as we can tell) pretty well-adjusted.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

That'd be pretty flimsy ammunition. Neither Monteith nor Salling were gay, and with his best-selling book series, Chris Colfer is probably the most successful of them post-Glee and (as far as we can tell) pretty well-adjusted.

Flimsy ammunition?

Has that ever stopped them before like attacking gays for a single cherry picked bible verse or claiming people force themselves to be gay and the attraction isn't natural?

Like I said all their ammunition is stupid.