The **Official** RIP Thread

[Mjcpr]

I will try and keep all of my Angel of Death notices confined to this one thread so y'all can get off my back now. :D

Don Ho, RIP

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/14/don.ho.obit.ap/story.vert.ho.ap.jpg

HONOLULU, Hawaii (AP) -- Legendary crooner Don Ho, who entertained tourists for decades wearing raspberry-tinted sunglasses and singing the catchy signature tune "Tiny Bubbles," has died. He was 76.

He died Saturday morning of heart failure, publicist Donna Jung said.
Ho had suffered with heart problems for the past several years and had a pacemaker installed last fall. In 2005, he underwent an experimental stem cell procedure on his ailing heart in Thailand.

Ho entertained Hollywood's biggest stars and thousands of tourists for four decades. For many, no trip to Hawaii was complete without seeing his Waikiki show -- a mix of songs, jokes, double entendres, Hawaii history and audience participation.

Shows usually started and ended with the same song, "Tiny Bubbles." Ho mostly hummed as the audience enthusiastically took over the song's swaying, silly lyrics: "Tiny bubbles/in the wine/make me happy/make me feel fine."

"I hate that song," he often joked to the crowd. He said he saved it for the end because "people my age can't remember if we did it or not."

The son of bar owners, Ho broke into the Waikiki entertainment scene in the early 1960s and, except for short periods, never left. Few artists are more associated with one place.

"Hawaii is my partner," Ho told The Associated Press in 2004.
Donald Tai Loy Ho, who was Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch and German, was born August 13, 1930, in Honolulu and grew up in the then-rural countryside of Kaneohe.

In high school, he was a star football player and worked for a brief time in a pineapple cannery. After graduating in 1949, he attended Springfield College in Massachusetts on an athletic scholarship. He grew homesick, returned to the islands and ended up graduating from the University of Hawaii in 1953 with a degree in sociology.

Inspired by the U.S. military planes flying in and out of Hawaii during World War II, Ho joined the Air Force. As the Korean War wound down, he piloted transport planes between Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu, Hawaii, and Tokyo, Japan.

When he returned home and took over his parents' strug
gling neighborhood bar, Honey's, he put together a band and started performing at his father's request.

"I had no intention of being an entertainer," Ho said. "I just played songs I liked from the radio, and pretty soon that place was jammed. Every weekend, there would be lines down the street."

Honey's became a happening place on Oahu, with other Hawaiian musicians stopping in for jam sessions. Ho began to play at various spots in Hawaii, and soon, he was packing places such as the Coconut Grove in Hollywood, California, and the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Stars such as Lucille Ball, Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra were known to be in the audience for Ho's shows.

Ho also became a television star and hosted the "The Don Ho Show" on ABC from 1976 to 1977. One of Ho's most memorable TV appearances was a 1972 cameo on an episode of "The Brady Bunch."

"I've had too much fun all these years," he said in the 2004 interview. "I feel real guilty about it."

Besides "Tiny Bubbles," his other well-known songs include "I'll Remember You," "With All My Love" and the "Hawaiian Wedding Song."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/14/don.ho.obit.ap/index.html

[olevetonahill]

but was he Nappy headed ?

[Mjcpr]

From the "you'd know him if you saw him file"....

Roscoe Lee Browne, RIP

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/12/obit.browne.ap/story.vert.browne.file.ap.jpg

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Actor Roscoe Lee Browne, whose rich voice and dignified bearing brought him an Emmy Award and a Tony nomination, has died. He was 81.

Browne died early Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after a long battle with cancer, said Alan Nierob, a spokesman for the family.

Browne's career ranged from classic theater to TV cartoons. He also was a poet and a former world-class athlete.

His deep, cultured voice was heard narrating the 1995 hit movie "Babe." On screen, his character often was smart, cynical and well-educated, whether a congressman, a judge or a butler.

Born to a Baptist minister in Woodbury, New Jersey, Browne graduated from historically black Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where he later returned to teach comparative literature and French. He also was a track star, winning the 880-yard run in the 1952 Millrose Games.

Browne was selling wine for an import company when he decided to become a full-time actor in 1956 and had roles that year in the inaugural season of the New York Shakespeare Festival in a production of "Julius Caesar."
In 1961, he starred in an English-language version of Jean Genet's play "The Blacks."

Two years later, he was The Narrator in a Broadway production of "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe," a play by Edward Albee from a novella by Carson McCullers. In a front page article on the advances made by blacks in the theater, the New York Times noted that Browne's understudy was white.

He won an Obie Award in 1965 for his role as a rebellious slave in the off-Broadway "Benito Cereno."

In movies, he was a spy in the 1969 Alfred Hitchcock feature "Topaz" and a camp cook in 1972's "The Cowboys," which starred John Wayne.

"Some critics complained that I spoke too well to be believable" in the cook's role, Browne told The Washington Post in 1972. "When a critic makes that remark, I think, if I had said, 'Yassuh, boss' to John Wayne, then the critic would have taken a shine to me."

On television, he had several memorable guest roles. He was a snobbish black lawyer trapped in an elevator with bigot Archie Bunker in an episode of the 1970s TV comedy "All in the Family" and the butler Saunders in the comedy "Soap." He won an Emmy in 1986 for a guest role as Professor Foster on "The Cosby Show."

In 1992, Browne returned to Broadway in "Two Trains Running," one of August Wilson's acclaimed series of plays on the black experience. It won the Tony for best play and brought Browne a Tony nomination for best featured (supporting) actor.

The New York Times said he portrayed "the wry perspective of one who believes that human folly knows few bounds and certainly no racial bounds. The performance is wise and slyly life-affirming."

Browne also wrote poetry and included some of it along with works by masters such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti and William Butler Yeats in "Behind the Broken Words," a poetry anthology stage piece that he and Anthony Zerbe performed annually for three decades.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/12/obit.browne.ap/index.html

[Mjcpr]

but was he Nappy headed ?

No, I think he was probably Samoan. :D

[slickdawg]

but was he Nappy headed ?



No, but he had a cousin named "Nappy Headed"

[soonerbrat]

:(

[OUDoc]

Should I provide my own picture when it's my time, or do you keep your own copies?

[Mjcpr]

Boris Yeltsin, RIP.

[Howzit]

I stole all my best moves from Boris.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/340000/images/_341959_dance150.jpg

[jk the sooner fan]

people are just dying to get in this thread

[Mjcpr]

I predict it will become one of the all-time great threads, if it isn't already.

[Howzit]

This thread deserves it's own folder.

[Howzit]

You could call it the Mjcpr **Official** RIP Thread Folder.

Or something else.

[Mjcpr]

Could I be the mod?

[Howzit]

And dolemite could be the Modador.

Or someone else.

[Howzit]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAQHAHAJHSJSWUIWUW3UI WEASJASJ...wait...whut?

[JohnnyMack]

"Don't waste your time with the embalming fluid" joke in 3......2......1......

[Sooner in Tampa]

All is right in the world again...Pat is handing down death notices.

[Czar Soonerov]

It would only be fitting to close this thread.

RIP (http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92040)

[royalfan5]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/arts/24halberstam.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Two of my favorite authors have died in the past week. David Halberstam was one of the best non-fiction writers of the last half of the 20th Century.

[JohnnyMack]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/01/tv.obit.poston.ap/index.html

Tom Poston checks out.

[Mjcpr]

Dabbs Greer, RIP

He was the Reverend Alden in Little House on the Prairie and the older Paul Edgecomb in The Green Mile.

http://www.tvland.com/shows/littleHouse/images/shows/actpic11.jpg

[Mjcpr]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/01/tv.obit.poston.ap/index.html

Tom Poston checks out.
I was just about the take this one. I'll let it slide this time.

[Mjcpr]

Yolanda King, daughter of MLK, RIP (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/16/obit.king.ap/index.html)

[crawfish]

I think you missed one, slappy.

[Mjcpr]

Jim Shoulders (http://www.kotv.com/news/local/story/?id=129874)

Oklahoma Rodeo Legend Dies

KOTV - 6/20/2007 10:20 AM - Updated 6/20/2007 2:01 PM
World Champion Cowboy Jim Shoulders has died. Shoulders died Wednesday morning at his home in Henryetta. The famous rodeo bull rider was 79 years old.


Shoulders won his first bull riding competition at the age of 14. His PRCA World Championships include five "World All-Around Rodeo Champion Cowboy" awards (1949, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959), seven Bull Rider awards (1951, 1954-1959), and four Bareback Rider awards (1950, 1956, 1957, 1958). He was the first competitor to win three events at the world championships (Bareback, Bull Riding and All Around. His lifetime rodeo earnings exceeded $400,000.

[85Sooner]

RIP Hillary Clinton. ooooops not yet.:)

[mikeelikee]

RIP, Kennedy-McCain-Bush sorry-arse immigration bill, I hope!!

[Mjcpr]

Tom Snyder (http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/30/obit.snyder.ap/index.html)

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Talk show host Tom Snyder, whose smoke-filled interviews were a staple of late night television, has died after a struggle with leukemia. He was 71. http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/30/obit.snyder.ap/art.snyder.ap.jpgTom Snyder is most closely associated with "The Tomorrow Show," which he hosted from 1973 to 1981.

Snyder died Sunday in San Francisco from complications associated with leukemia, said his longtime producer and friend Mike Horowicz.

Known for his improvised, casual style and robust laughter, Snyder conducted a number of memorable interviews as host of NBC's "The Tomorrow Show." Among his guests were John Lennon, Charles Manson and Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols.

He gained more fame when Dan Aykroyd lampooned him in the early days of "Saturday Night Live."

Snyder began his career as a radio reporter in Milwaukee in the 1960s, then moved into local television news. He anchored newscasts in Philadelphia and Los Angeles before moving to late night.

In 1973, Snyder left news to host "The Tomorrow Show," which followed "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson. He hosted the show until 1981, according to "The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable Shows."

His catch phrase for the show was: "Fire up a colortini, sit back, relax, and watch the pictures, now, as they fly through the air." Snyder smoked throughout his show, the cigarette cloud swirling around him during interviews.

In 1980, "Tomorrow" -- which had been 60 minutes -- was expanded to 90 minutes. Gossip columnist Rona Barrett was added to the show, but she and Snyder didn't get along. Their feud made headlines.

In 1995, he returned to late-night television as the host of "The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder" on CBS. The program followed David Letterman's "Late Show" until 1998, when Snyder was replaced by Craig Kilborn.

Snyder announced on his Web site in 2005 that he had chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

"When I was a kid leukemia was a death sentence," he wrote then. "Now, my doctors say it's treatable!"

[crawfish]

I waited a whole hour for you to post this one:

Ingmar Bergman dies (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20031419/)

Slacker.

[Mjcpr]

Bill Walsh (http://www.kcra.com/sports/13782572/detail.html)

Dang, busy day.

[Turd_Ferguson]

Merv Griffen, thanks for the memory's.

[AllAboutThe'O']

Merv Griffen, thanks for the memory's.
I think Merv Griffin's passing deserves its own separate thread.

[KC//CRIMSON]

The Big Cannoli just bit it.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20607839/

[Howzit]

RIP Kevin DuBrow of Quiet Riot

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/11/26/obit.dubrow/index.html

http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/11/26/obit.dubrow/art.dubrow.gi.jpg




I saw he was 52 and thought, "HOLEE **** WHEN DID HE GET THAT OLD?!?!?"

Then I remembered I'll be 49 in February.

:(

[IB4OU2]

Fifty two isn't old...you pup.

[soonerboomer93]

can believe none of you bastages included this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW2J_UZ8lQU) with the note about DuBrow

[The Ghost of Joe Morrison]

RIP Joe Morrison:(

Joe Morrison, 51, Former Giant
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Published: February 6, 1989
LEAD: Joe Morrison, the head football coach at South Carolina and a star running back and receiver in a 14-year career with the New York Giants, died of a heart attack Sunday night. He was 51 years old.

Joe Morrison, the head football coach at South Carolina and a star running back and receiver in a 14-year career with the New York Giants, died of a heart attack Sunday night. He was 51 years old.

Mr. Morrison collapsed in a shower room after having played racquetball at the university, Dawn Catalano, a spokeswoman for Providence Hospital, said. He died shortly after being admitted to the hospital. Ms. Catalano said that Mr. Morrison had previously been hospitalized for heart problems.

Mr. Morrison's teams had a record of 39-29-2 in his six seasons at South Carolina, including an 8-4 mark in 1988, when he took the Gamecocks to the Liberty Bowl, where they lost to Indiana.

In 1984, Mr. Morrison was named coach of the year by the Walter Camp Foundation. He previously coached at Tennessee-Chattanooga and New Mexico and had a career record of 101-73-7 over 16 seasons. 'Old Dependable'

Mr. Morrison graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1959 and was a third-round draft selection of the Giants. He played for them from 1959 to 1972, and earned the nickname Old Dependable.

He was a versatile player, seeing action at halfback, fullback, tight end, wide receiver and even safety on defense. He was named most valuable player by the National Football League Touchdown Club in 1972. That year, the Giants retired his number, 40.

''He was the ultimate team player,'' Wellington Mara, the Giants' owner, said tonight. ''He would do anything you asked him. Run the ball, catch play on the special teams, anything.''

Mr. Morrison is the Giants' career leader in receptions with 395 covering 4,993 yards and 47 touchdowns. He gained 2,472 yards rushing in his career on 677 carries, scoring 18 rushing touchdowns. His 65 career touchdowns rank him fourth in the history of the Giants with 390 points.

Mr. Morrison is survived by his wife, JeVena.

[Boomer.....]

RIP, Ike Turner.


Musician Ike Turner Dies at 76
Dec. 12, 2007, 4:39 PM EST

The Associated Press

SAN DIEGO -- Ike Turner, whose role as one of rock's critical architects was overshadowed by his ogrelike image as the man who brutally abused former wife and icon Tina Turner, died Wednesday at his home in suburban San Diego. He was 76.

"He did pass away this morning" at his home in San Marcos, in northern San Diego County, said Scott M. Hanover of Thrill Entertainment Group, which managed Turner's musical career.

There was no immediate word on the cause of death, which was first reported by celebrity Web site TMZ.com.

Turner managed to rehabilitate his image somewhat in his later years, touring around the globe with his band the Kings of Rhythm and drawing critical acclaim for his work. He won a Grammy in 2007 in the traditional blues album category for "Risin' With the Blues."

But his image is forever identified as the drug-addicted, wife-abusing husband of Tina Turner. He was hauntingly portrayed by Laurence Fishburne in the movie "What's Love Got To Do With It," based on Tina Turner's autobiography.

[SoonerStormchaser]

http://img.snlarc.jt.org/arc/imp/TiMe-Ike%20Turner.jpg

[Mjcpr]

RIP Sam the Butcher

http://www.dougmacaulay.com/kingspud/photos/amelvinb.jpg

LOS ANGELES, California (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, Missouri, 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 (http://topics.cnn.com/topics/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.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/19/obit.melvin.ap/index.html

[Mjcpr]

Dang, Suzanne Pleshette too. I'd have never guessed in a million years she would have lung cancer. SHE married Tom Poston? That seems weird.

RIP.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Suzanne_Pleshette.jpg

LOS ANGELES — Suzanne Pleshette, the beautiful, husky-voiced film and theater star best known for her role as Bob Newhart's sardonic wife on television's long-running "The Bob Newhart Show," has died, said her attorney Robert Finkelstein. She was 70.

Pleshette, who underwent chemotherapy for lung cancer in 2006, died of respiratory failure Saturday evening at her Los Angeles home, said Finkelstein, who is also a family friend.

"The Bob Newhart Show, a hit throughout its six-year run, starred comedian Newhart as a Chicago psychiatrist surrounded by eccentric patients. Pleshette provided the voice of reason.

Four years after the show ended in 1978, Newhart went on to the equally successful "Newhart" series in which he was the proprietor of a New England inn populated by more eccentrics. When that show ended in 1990, Pleshette reprised her role — from the first show — in one of the most clever final episodes in TV history.

It had Newhart waking up in the bedroom of his "The Bob Newhart Show" home with Pleshette at his side. He went on to tell her of the crazy dream he'd just had of running an inn filled with eccentrics.

"If I'm in Timbuktu, I'll fly home to do that," Pleshette said of her reaction when Newhart told her how he was thinking of ending the show.

Born Jan. 31, 1937, in New York City, Pleshette began her career as a stage actress after attending the city's High School of the Performing Arts and studying at its Neighborhood Playhouse. She was often picked for roles because of her beauty and her throaty voice.

"When I was 4," she told an interviewer in 1994, "I was answering the phone, and (the callers) thought I was my father. So I often got quirky roles because I was never the conventional ingenue."

She met her future husband, Tom Poston, when they appeared together in the 1959 Broadway comedy "The Golden Fleecing," but didn't marry him until more than 40 years later.

Although the two had a brief fling, they went on to marry others. By 2000 both were widowed and they got back together, marrying the following year.

"He was such a wonderful man. He had fun every day of his life," Pleshette said after Poston died in April 2007.

Among her other Broadway roles was replacing Anne Bancroft in "The Miracle Worker," the 1959 drama about Helen Keller, in New York and on the road.

Meanwhile, she had launched her film career with Jerry Lewis in 1958 in "The Geisha Boy." She went on to appear in numerous television shows, including "Have Gun, Will Travel," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Playhouse 90" and "Naked City."

By the early 1960s, Pleshette attracted a teenage following with her youthful roles in such films as "Rome Adventure," "Fate Is the Hunter," "Youngblood Hawke" and "A Distant Trumpet."

She married fellow teen favorite Troy Donahue, her co-star in "Rome Adventure," in 1964 but the union lasted less than a year. She was married to Texas oilman Tim Gallagher from 1968 until his death in 2000.

Pleshette matured in such films as Hitchcock's "The Birds" and the Disney comedies "The Ugly Dachshund," "Blackbeard's Ghost" and "The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin." Over the years, she also had a busy career in TV movies, including playing the title role in 1990's "Leona Helmsley, the Queen of Mean."

More recently, she appeared in several episodes of the TV sitcoms "Will & Grace" and "8 Simple Rules ... For Dating My Teenage Daughter."

In a 1999 interview, Pleshette observed that being an actress was more important than being a star.

"I'm an actress, and that's why I'm still here," she said. "Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,324123,00.html

[Whet]

Chicago Tribune (http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-obit-stewart-link,0,7864725.story?coll=chi_tab01_layout)
John Stewart, former Kingston Trio member, dead at 68

The Associated Press
7:15 AM CST, January 20, 2008
SAN DIEGO

John Stewart, who wrote the Monkees hit "Daydream Believer" and became a well-known figure in the 1960s folk music revival as a member of The Kingston Trio, has died, according to the band's Web site. He was 68.

Stewart suffered a massive stroke or brain aneurysm and died early Saturday at a San Diego hospital, the band announced on its official Web site.

"The world has lost one of its best men, but a man who lived well and made many people happy with his love, his wit and his music," the announcement said.

Stewart joined The Kingston Trio in 1961, three years after the band released its version of an old folk song, "Tom Dooley," that went on to become a hit. Stewart replaced the band's founder Dave Guard, who had left to pursue a new musical direction.

Stewart spent six years leading the group, during which time the band recorded 13 albums, according to its Web site.

After the trio disbanded in 1967, Stewart went on to an acclaimed solo career that included recording more than 40 albums.

Stewart's wife Buffy and children were at his side when he died, the Web site said. Plans had not been announced for memorial services.

[Flagstaffsooner]

Dang, Suzanne Pleshette too. I'd have never guessed in a million years she would have lung cancer. SHE married Tom Poston? That seems weird.

RIP.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Suzanne_Pleshette.jpg

LOS ANGELES — Suzanne Pleshette, the beautiful, husky-voiced film and theater star best known for her role as Bob Newhart's sardonic wife on television's long-running "The Bob Newhart Show," has died, said her attorney Robert Finkelstein. She was 70.

Pleshette, who underwent chemotherapy for lung cancer in 2006, died of respiratory failure Saturday evening at her Los Angeles home, said Finkelstein, who is also a family friend.

"The Bob Newhart Show, a hit throughout its six-year run, starred comedian Newhart as a Chicago psychiatrist surrounded by eccentric patients. Pleshette provided the voice of reason.

Four years after the show ended in 1978, Newhart went on to the equally successful "Newhart" series in which he was the proprietor of a New England inn populated by more eccentrics. When that show ended in 1990, Pleshette reprised her role — from the first show — in one of the most clever final episodes in TV history.

It had Newhart waking up in the bedroom of his "The Bob Newhart Show" home with Pleshette at his side. He went on to tell her of the crazy dream he'd just had of running an inn filled with eccentrics.

"If I'm in Timbuktu, I'll fly home to do that," Pleshette said of her reaction when Newhart told her how he was thinking of ending the show.

Born Jan. 31, 1937, in New York City, Pleshette began her career as a stage actress after attending the city's High School of the Performing Arts and studying at its Neighborhood Playhouse. She was often picked for roles because of her beauty and her throaty voice.

"When I was 4," she told an interviewer in 1994, "I was answering the phone, and (the callers) thought I was my father. So I often got quirky roles because I was never the conventional ingenue."

She met her future husband, Tom Poston, when they appeared together in the 1959 Broadway comedy "The Golden Fleecing," but didn't marry him until more than 40 years later.

Although the two had a brief fling, they went on to marry others. By 2000 both were widowed and they got back together, marrying the following year.

"He was such a wonderful man. He had fun every day of his life," Pleshette said after Poston died in April 2007.

Among her other Broadway roles was replacing Anne Bancroft in "The Miracle Worker," the 1959 drama about Helen Keller, in New York and on the road.

Meanwhile, she had launched her film career with Jerry Lewis in 1958 in "The Geisha Boy." She went on to appear in numerous television shows, including "Have Gun, Will Travel," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Playhouse 90" and "Naked City."

By the early 1960s, Pleshette attracted a teenage following with her youthful roles in such films as "Rome Adventure," "Fate Is the Hunter," "Youngblood Hawke" and "A Distant Trumpet."

She married fellow teen favorite Troy Donahue, her co-star in "Rome Adventure," in 1964 but the union lasted less than a year. She was married to Texas oilman Tim Gallagher from 1968 until his death in 2000.

Pleshette matured in such films as Hitchcock's "The Birds" and the Disney comedies "The Ugly Dachshund," "Blackbeard's Ghost" and "The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin." Over the years, she also had a busy career in TV movies, including playing the title role in 1990's "Leona Helmsley, the Queen of Mean."

More recently, she appeared in several episodes of the TV sitcoms "Will & Grace" and "8 Simple Rules ... For Dating My Teenage Daughter."

In a 1999 interview, Pleshette observed that being an actress was more important than being a star.

"I'm an actress, and that's why I'm still here," she said. "Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,324123,00.htmlThat bums me out. As a child on my first trip to Flagstaff she saved my live. We were on the set of a movie being shot NE of Flagstaff and a dust devil hit the set. A large reflector thingie started falling and she grabed me and held me to her busom in her low cut costume.
God speed Suzanne, I love you.

[SicEmBaylor]

No mention of Brad Renfro?

[Mixer!]

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/7a/9c/fba3228348a09855987af010.L.jpg

His big hit (about 2:00 minutes in) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q1cq3DbHgw)

[Mjcpr]

Is that them, Flag?

http://www.nndb.com/people/969/000023900/pleshette.jpg

[Mjcpr]

Larry Smith, former Missouri coach.........remember him?

Coach Smith dies in Tucson following a lengthy illness

TUCSON, Ariz. -- Larry Smith, who led USC to Rose Bowl appearances in his first three seasons coaching the Trojans and the coach who boosted Arizona to Pac-10 prominence, died Monday following a lengthy illness, two newspapers reported. He was 68.

Smith had been diagnosed with leukemia, the Tucson Citizen and the Arizona Daily Star reported on their Web sites. He died at a Tucson hospital.

Smith went 48-28-3 in seven seasons (1980-86) as Arizona's head coach before leaving for USC. He led USC to Rose Bowl appearances in his first three seasons. Smith was fired following the 1992 season.

He also coached at Missouri.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3219274

[OU4LIFE]

Death to Bobby Fisher: Check Mate

[JohnnyMack]

Death to Bobby Fisher: Check Mate

Hi, I'm last week, have we met?

[Howzit]

Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

[Whet]

what jaux said...

www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-margaret-truman-obit_webjan30,0,4810974.story (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-margaret-truman-obit_webjan30,0,4810974.story)

[OU4LIFE]

Hi, I'm last week, have we met?

no.

check.

mate.

[KC//CRIMSON]

Tulsa Icon Passes Away

http://www.kjrh.com/media/news/f/2/d/f2dac579-d2b2-468a-88e2-0a13937d47f1/Story.jpg

Gary Shore, former Chief Meteorologist for Channel 2, passed away Monday afternoon in Sioux City, Iowa.

Shore was born in 1953 in the Bronx, and grew up there in New York.

He received his undergraduate degree in Meteorology at New York University, and his Master's Degree at Penn State.

In 1978 at the age of 25, Gary became the Chief Meteorologist at Channel 2, then known as KTEW.

He served Green Country in that capacity for 18 years.

During that time, Gary influenced a lot of lives, including many people who still work at the station.

One viewer wrote Tuesday that "Gary's reporting during severe weather was to inform you what was happening, not to frighten you. If he told you to take cover, he was pretty sure that you really did need to."

"I remember when Gary coined the word 'snizzle,'" said Vice President and General Manager Mike Vrabac. "There just wasn't a way to describe the stuff that's not quite snow but not quite drizzle."

In a recent online posting, Gary wrote that he missed Tulsa.

"(I) have been looking for a way to come back there, either in the media or with a private company such as one of the energy businesses, but I don't have anything nailed down yet. I would be delighted if you would post this on your site to let all my fans in Tulsa know that I am thinking of them, and hoping that a door of opportunity would once again open there for me."

Unfortunately, that opportunity didn't present itself.



A Channel 2 Staffer's memories


Gary Shore undoubtedly saved a lot of lives over the course of his career.

KJRH Morning Executive Producer Loren Cosby says he worked closely with Gary during one of Tulsa's worst disasters.

"In 1984 I was a teenager working my first real job running the board at AM 740 KRMG Radio," Cosby said.

"At the time, Gary Shore and the Channel 2 weather team provided live forecasts for KRMG. It was just after 10 p.m. Friday night when Gary called the newsroom at KRMG.

"He informed me that days of heavy rain upstream were forcing the Corps of Engineers to release huge amounts of water from the Keystone Dam. He told me to expect flooding along the Arkansas River from Sand Springs to Broken Arrow.

"He said Riverside Drive and maybe even Brookside would flood over the next 36 hours. I recall he was the first on-air to make the announcement because someone at the Corps gave him the first word.

"He and I did a special report on KRMG radio while Channel 2's newscast was still on the air. Just before we went on, I was more than nervous and Gary reminded me that it was one of those times we really got paid to remain calm.

"It was my first such time in the hot seat, but not his by a long shot. It's a lesson I never forgot.

"Over the next several days we were all live around the clock. Gary was there with us that entire weekend alternating between radio and television. I don't think he slept.

"He was a calming, knowledgeable influence whom Green Country residents knew they could trust in times of trouble."

Shore is survived by his wife, Ellen, and two children.

Services are pending.

IMHO The best weatherman Oklahoma has ever had.

Red Rock Tornado coverage with Gary Shore http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvMMcmtNUf8

[12]

I have a ghoulish facination with the departed. If anyone is interested in a Hollywood dude who certainly knows the turf, visit http://www.findadeath.com.

Not a lot of gross stuff. It is mostly about how the famous bought the farm.

Heck, as much as I enjoy reading your uncle's obit in the Oklahoman, this stuff is gold!

[Boomer.....]

Boyd Coddington, Hot Rod King, Dead At Age 63

World-renowned tuner and hot rod king Boyd Coddington died at 6:20 am this morning. The cause of death is still unknown. Coddington, founder of Boyds Wheels and designer of prize-winning custom cars, had recently been hospitalized twice for an undisclosed medical condition. Although he was though to be in recovery, rumors of his untimely death began circulating today throughout the forums. A spokesperson for Boyd Coddington's corporation has confirmed to Jalopnik that those rumors are true. The company will be releasing a statement later today.


Died 2-27-08.

[OU4LIFE]

I remember when 63 used to sound kinda old.

[SoonerProphet]

http://froogle.google.com/base_image?size=2&q=music/image/0/0qUrbjgdklwI.jpg

Buddy Miles, RIP.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-miles28feb28,1,2356173.story

[12]

Didn't Dean become almost friends with Buddy Miles? Seems like he saw him a few times and ended up drinking with the dude.

[Mjcpr]

I thought it was Buddy Ebsen.

Or Buddy from the Lee jeans commercials.

[colleyvillesooner]

buddy guy

[12]

Ah. Thanks. I knew it was some old blues dude. How much cooler would it have been if it was Buddy Epsen, though?

[BudSooner]

RIP Boyd Coddington, master craftsman, innovator...you will be missed.

http://www.boydcoddington.com/store/Default.aspx

[Newbomb Turk]

RIP Boyd. I liked watching American Hot Rod.

[Sooner_Bob]

Dang . . .


Coddington, a longtime diabetic, died Wednesday at Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in Whittier of complications stemming from a recent surgery, said publicist Brad Fanshaw.

[jk the sooner fan]

RIP South Oval...

[C&CDean]

Go **** yourself jk.

[colleyvillesooner]

:pop: x 100

[Mjcpr]

Go **** yourself jk.

Do NOT get my RIP thread locked with you fight starting. This thread is gold, gold Jerry!

:D

[Harry Beanbag]

:confused:

[Mongo]

RIP jk

[jk the sooner fan]

Go **** yourself jk.

you first

[C&CDean]

No, you first, elephant vagina boy.

[SoonerBorn68]

Does this qualify as orchestrated?

[Mjcpr]

http://www.myvideo.de/movie/F2317693

[jk the sooner fan]

No, you first, elephant vagina boy.

i'm pretty sure thats a male elephant

is this where you tell me that you really like me?

[C&CDean]

Does this qualify as orchestrated?
Nah, this qualifies as one whiney, bitchy, insecure, passive/agressive (heh, I learned a new one), miserable, spiteful, cheerleading sumbitch being stupid.

[urban cougar]

huh?

[jk the sooner fan]

Nah, this qualifies as one whiney, bitchy, insecure, passive/agressive (heh, I learned a new one), miserable, spiteful, cheerleading sumbitch being stupid.

i'm all of those? really?

god you REALLY do like me

[C&CDean]

i'm pretty sure thats a male elephant

is this where you tell me that you really like me?
No Jon, this is where I tell you it's just the innerwebs. DOH.

[becks]

who did a wide stance?

[sanantoniosooner]

go **** yourself jk

[jk the sooner fan]

go **** yourself jk

i think there's a waiting list

take a number

[Mongo]

jk, you should go **** yourself

[SoonerBorn68]

Nah, this qualifies as one whiney, bitchy, insecure, passive/agressive (heh, I learned a new one), miserable, spiteful, cheerleading sumbitch being stupid.

You're hurting my feelings with your personal attacks. :(

[jk the sooner fan]

sorry, i'm too busy ****ing matt damon

you'll all have to wait

[BlondeSoonerGirl]

Don't worry, Pat. I'll clean it up when it's over.

[C&CDean]

You're hurting my feelings with your personal attacks. :(
Good. Go **** up a rope.

[SoonerBorn68]

i'm all of those? really?

god you REALLY do like me

Hey, he was talking about me. You're the elephant vagina.

Wanna trade?

[Harry Beanbag]

Is it too late to tell jk to go **** himself?

[Mjcpr]

http://www.myvideo.de/movie/F2317693

Y'all go watch this, fuh real.

[jk the sooner fan]

no way, i'm pretty sure even an elephant vagina would be a warm place to be

you're in cold hell

[Mongo]

I think Mjcpr should go **** himself too

[sooneron]

Is jk done ****ing himself yet?

[jk the sooner fan]

i dont know, its alot of fun, i might be at it all day

[Harry Beanbag]

Is jk done ****ing himself yet?


I doubt it. He's got a lot of ****ing to do.

[sooneron]

Good. Go **** up a rope.
I'm still not sure if I get this one.

[supabuff]

how many posts do you have to have to post a thread

[C&CDean]

i dont know, its alot of fun, i might be at it all day
I'd bet not.

[sooneron]

i dont know, its alot of fun, i might be at it all day
Be sure to light some candles and put on some Barry White.:texan:

[Harry Beanbag]

I think Mjcpr should go **** himself too


I'd rather take care of that myself.

[sooneron]

how many posts do you have to have to post a thread
ooooooh boy!

[jk the sooner fan]

I'd bet not.

you've never done me, so you wouldnt know

[Harry Beanbag]

I'm still not sure if I get this one.


I think it's supposed to be ****, not ****, or ****, or ****. I could be wrong though. YWIA.

[TopDaugIn2000]

Go **** yourself jk.

[sooneron]

I'd rather take care of that myself.
1tc fits into this somehow, right?

[Harry Beanbag]

1tc fits into this somehow, right?


He's always welcome. You can watch if you want. :texan:

[sooneron]

I got a camera, it's HD.

[C&CDean]

There will be no further ****ing of jk today people. Time to move on...or back to your hole....depending on your individual case.

OK, back to dead people. Who died?

[Harry Beanbag]

jk apparently.

[sanantoniosooner]

jk ****ed himself.

[Harry Beanbag]

I got a camera, it's HD.


Man, I don't know about HD. That'll show all our imperfections, what few there are.

[Mongo]

I didnt know one could die by go and ****ing themselves, that is the way I want to go out

[OCUDad]

OK, back to dead people. Who died?King Ludwig I of Bavaria.

[C&CDean]

RIP King Ludwig I. We hardly knew ye.

[TopDaugIn2000]

I bet JK's cornhole is sore.....

[C&CDean]

I'm pretty sure I said no more ****ing jk. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I said that.

[Mjcpr]

What the.......jk got baned? :confused:

[sooneron]

Is is wrong of me to be getting vivid imagery from TD2K's avvy?

[supabuff]

wonder who the next celeb to bite the ax will be . britnay is my guess

[Mjcpr]

wonder who the next celeb to bite the ax will be . britnay is my guess

No, he doesn't even post that much anymore.

[sooneron]

wonder who the next celeb to bite the ax will be . britnay is my guess
NOT ON MY WATCH, BUSTER!!!!

http://obeserecovery.com/images/AbeVigoda86in2-07.jpg

[StoopTroup]

Heh.


I predict it will become one of the all-time great threads, if it isn't already.
:pop:

[Sooner_Bob]

What the heck did jk do?

People argue all the time on here without much grief and then all of the sudden a line gets crossed and a banning occurs?

It's just the innerweb!!!


Oh and we need a politics forum . . .

RIP whoever died last.

[colleyvillesooner]

Somebody needs to go **** themselves.

[Harry Beanbag]

Somebody needs to go **** themselves.

I think jk is busy, so it'll have to be somebody else. :)

[Sooner_Bob]

Hasn't someone died lately?

[Mixer!]

Noted European playwrights, mostly.

[olevetonahill]

Hasn't someone died lately?

Richard Widmark

[Turd_Ferguson]

A good friend of mine fell to his death this past weekend while doing a job that he loved. Thanks for the friendship and memory's Chuck.

RIP:(

[Mjcpr]

RIP, Jim McKay

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/mckayjim/mckayjimIMAGE/mckayjim.jpg

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=3430672

[OUDoc]

You got to the story before I could, oh angel of death.

[12]

Gotta figure Don Rickles isn't getting his teeth cleaned any time soon.

[Boomer.....]

'Golden Girls' actress Estelle Getty dies at 84

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Actress Estelle Getty has died at the age of 84.

Her son, Carl Gettleman, says the co-star of the TV show "The Golden Girls" died early Tuesday at home in Los Angeles.

Gettleman says she suffered from advanced dementia.

The diminutive actress spent 40 years struggling for success before landing the role of a lifetime in 1985, playing the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on "The Golden Girls."


SSC is going to be pretty torn up about this.

[SoonerStormchaser]

Nope...only when Bea goes will I go into mourning!

[StoopTroup]

I would have liked to be Estelle's Driver.

I'd make a great White Morgan Freeman IMO.

And yeah I know she didn't do Driving Miss Daisy...but I still would have drove her around.

[Sooner Born Sooner Bred]

Estelle Getty, the matriarch of the Golden Girls, has died.

http://l.yimg.com/img.tv.yahoo.com/tv/us/img/site/42/86/0000004286_20060919221138.jpg

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-getty23-2008jul23,0,6843248.story

I didn't quite get the humor of The Golden Girls as a 10 year old when it debuted in 1984, but the reruns crack me up to this day. The character of Sophia is a big reason why. I love her Sicily stories and how she could put slutty Blanche in her place with her witty one liners.

[Sooner Born Sooner Bred]

I didn't see this. I started my own thread. But Sophia really does deserve her own.

[Sooner_Havok]

http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116110

[olevetonahill]

http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116110

Glad you aint a Mod
youd Be a Thread Nazi :P

[Crimson_Balls]

rest in peace Elvis. You will always be the king

[olevetonahill]

SSC is always sad when an OLD broad Dies
Just sayin

[stoops the eternal pimp]

I still watch the GG reruns on lifetime...yeah I said it.....Sophia's one liners, Rose and her stupidity, blanch and her slutty self..Dorothy and her hotness

Anyhoo , her crowning moment was in Stop or my Mom will Shoot

[Okla-homey]

I still watch the GG reruns on lifetime...yeah I said it.....Sophia's one liners, Rose and her stupidity, blanch and her slutty self..Dorothy and her hotness

Anyhoo , her crowning moment was in Stop or my Mom will Shoot

Go easy on Blanche skippy. ;) Rue McClanahan is an Okie. From Ardmore. Like me!

[StoopTroup]

I liked her.

She was funny.

[Sooner_Havok]

Glad you aint a Mod
youd Be a Thread Nazi :P

:D

[StoopTroup]

I think I died.

[Sooner_Havok]

I think I died.

You too? You ate the fajita nachos with the big gristle ball didn't you?

[StoopTroup]

Nope...

The nachos were chicken.

I had Spagetti and meatballs when the Wife came Home.

I think I should have eaten the Nachos way earlier in the afternoon.

[Sooner_Havok]

Nope...

The nachos were chicken.

I had Spagetti and meatballs when the Wife came Home.

I think I should have eaten the Nachos way earlier in the afternoon.

Now she thinks her food tastes like carp cause you ain't eating much of it...Good jorb, you are dead :P

[olevetonahill]

Nope...

The nachos were chicken.

I had Spagetti and meatballs when the Wife came Home.

I think I should have eaten the Nachos way earlier in the afternoon.

You ate My Nacho ?:eek:

[StoopTroup]

Now she thinks her food tastes like carp cause you ain't eating much of it...Good jorb, you are dead :P

Naw man...I shoveled that stuff like I hadn't eaten all day. :D

I should have paced myself. :(

[Turd_Ferguson]

You ate My Nacho ?:eek:Thats nacho cheese.....thats my cheese!

[SteelClip49]

BEST SHOW EVAR

[MamaMia]

Ron Rivera, Potter Devoted to Clean Water, Dies at 60 :(

Mr. Rivera pioneered ceramic water filters that cut in half the incidence of diarrhea,...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/health/14rivera.html?ref=obituaries&pagewanted=print

[Viking Kitten]

Pink Floyd member Richard Wright dies at age 65

LONDON (AP) — A Pink Floyd spokesman says founding member Richard Wright has died. He was 65.

Wright died Monday after a battle with cancer at his home in Britain. His family did not want to give more details about his death. The spokesman is Doug Wright, who is not related to the artist.

Richard Wright met Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and Nick Mason at college and joined their early band Sigma 6.

Sigma 6 eventually became Pink Floyd and Wright wrote and sang some of the band's key songs. He wrote "The Great Gig In The Sky" and "Us And Them" from Pink Floyd's 1973 "The Dark Side Of The Moon."

He left the group in the early 1980s to form his own band but rejoined Pink Floyd for their 1987 album "A Momentary Lapse of Reason."

[KC//CRIMSON]

Pink Floyd member Richard Wright dies at age 65

LONDON (AP) — A Pink Floyd spokesman says founding member Richard Wright has died. He was 65.

Wright died Monday after a battle with cancer at his home in Britain. His family did not want to give more details about his death. The spokesman is Doug Wright, who is not related to the artist.

Richard Wright met Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and Nick Mason at college and joined their early band Sigma 6.

Sigma 6 eventually became Pink Floyd and Wright wrote and sang some of the band's key songs. He wrote "The Great Gig In The Sky" and "Us And Them" from Pink Floyd's 1973 "The Dark Side Of The Moon."

He left the group in the early 1980s to form his own band but rejoined Pink Floyd for their 1987 album "A Momentary Lapse of Reason."


:(

[BigRedJed]

Man, that sucks.

[Sooner Born Sooner Bred]

RIP Paul Newman. He always just exuded class. :(

Legendary actor Paul Newman dies at age 83 (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us:u/1-0&fp=48de3985045b5034&ei=-kLeSOvgEKGuyQSRrbWaAQ&url=http%3A//ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hEOiFzC0uwlunNsBMhhe8Lk2zoswD93F42900&cid=0&usg=AFQjCNFZub2oxJgiIg1GtcxMtXN0gCZIiQ)

[12]

Well, shirt!

Another of my favorites gone.

"The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films."

[KC//CRIMSON]

http://www.toybender.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/khan.jpg

http://thesuperficial.com/2009/01/ricardo_montalban_dies_at_88_1.php

[King Crimson]

not only Mr. Roarke, but Nurse Chapel too.