The Death List

[Cynical Ninja]

I'm not anti semitic (I would be a self hater if I was I've got Jewish blood, quite diluted but its still there) but Sharon was an aggressive war hungry cunt.

He was the kind of man who seemed to have learned nothing from the Holocaust.

[HairOfTheDog]

The Professor has Died



Russell Johnson, who played Professor Roy Hinkley on Gilligan's Island, died of natural causes at his home in Washington today. I don't think I ever saw him in anything else, except maybe a Twilight Zone episode?

Johnson was on the show from 1964 to 1967. Johnson was not in the original opening of the show. He and Mary Ann were referred to as "The rest." But Bob Denver, who played Gilligan, insisted that they be included and that happened later.

The only surviving members of the original cast are Mary Ann, played by Dawn Wells and Ginger, played by Tina Louise.

Johnson was married to his third wife. He passed away in hospice, surrounded by his wife and 2 kids.

Johnson was 89. RIP.

[Midwest Spy]

He was definitely shagging both MaryAnn and Ginger.

[Cynical Ninja]

What's Gilligans Island?

[Duchess]

It's a very old television show, may be considered iconic by some and all the characters names can probably be recited by anyone over a certain age.

[Clang McFly]

IRL they would have murdered Gilligan or exiled him to the other side of the island the first week for messing up their rescue attempts.

[FAHQTOO]

That Rueben Kinkade guy from the Partridge Family died yesterday also.

[Maggot]

That Rueben Kinkade guy from the Partridge Family died yesterday also.

Yes Dave Madden, saw that yesterday.

[Cynical Ninja]

It's a very old television show, may be considered iconic by some and all the characters names can probably be recited by anyone over a certain age.

I just watched a clip on Youtube.

I'm glad it was never televised here.

[Duchess]

Is it too late to add Justin Bieber to the list?

[HairOfTheDog]

Is it too late to add Justin Bieber to the list?

He does appear to be quite the little entitled hard-partying trouble-maker these days.

When someone on my list finally kicks the bucket, I think I'm gonna add David Cassidy.

[crash]

So User, Tiki and Zero all have a point. Now you all need to add another name/update your lists.

The Rev. Graham appears to be stabilized, for now. I think it's just user and Zero tied for the lead.

Well Billy may have hung in there, but Pete Seeger didn't..



AMERICAN troubadour, folk music singer and activist Pete Seeger has died at a hospital in New York. He was 94.

Seeger's grandson, Kitama Cahill-Jackson, says Seeger died on Monday night after being hospitalised for six days.

Seeger gained fame as a member of The Weavers, the quartet formed in 1948 and had hits such as Goodnight Irene.

He continued performing and recording for six decades and was still an activist as recently as October 2011 when he marched in New York City as part of the Occupy Wall Street protests.

He was onstage in January 2009 for a gala Washington concert two days before Barack Obama was inaugurated.

But in the 1950s, his leftist politics got him blacklisted and he was kept off commercial television for more than a decade.

With The Weavers, Seeger helped set the stage for a national folk revival. The group - Seeger, Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert and Fred Hellerman - churned out hit recordings of Goodnight Irene, Tzena, Tzena and On Top of Old Smokey.

Seeger also was credited with popularising We Shall Overcome, which he printed in his publication People's Song, in 1948. He later said his only contribution to the anthem of the civil rights movement was changing the second word from "will" to "shall", which he said "opens up the mouth better".

"Every kid who ever sat around a campfire singing an old song is indebted in some way to Pete Seeger," Arlo Guthrie once said.

His musical career was always braided tightly with his political activism, in which he advocated for causes ranging from civil rights to the cleanup of his beloved Hudson River. Seeger said he left the Communist Party around 1950 and later renounced it. But the association dogged him for years.

He was kept off commercial television for more than a decade after tangling with the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955. Repeatedly pressed by the committee to reveal whether he had sung for Communists, Seeger responded sharply: "I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent this implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, or I might be a vegetarian, make me any less of an American."

He was charged with contempt of Congress, but the sentence was overturned on appeal.

Seeger called the 1950s, years when he was denied broadcast exposure, the high point of his career. He was on the road touring college campuses, spreading the music he, Guthrie, Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter and others had created or preserved.

"The most important job I did was go from college to college to college to college, one after the other, usually small ones," he told The Associated Press in 2006. "... And I showed the kids there's a lot of great music in this country they never played on the radio."

Seeger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 as an early influence.

Ten years later, Bruce Springsteen honoured him with We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, a rollicking reinterpretation of songs sung by Seeger.

While pleased with the album, Seeger said he wished it was "more serious".

A 2009 concert at Madison Square Garden to mark Seeger's 90^th birthday featured Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Eddie Vedder and Emmylou Harris among the performers.

Seeger was a 2014 Grammy Awards nominee in the Best Spoken Word category, which was won by Stephen Colbert.


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[Maggot]

Pete was an Icon a pioneer. He lived a very full life.

[Cynical Ninja]

Pete was an Icon a pioneer. He lived a very full life.

Did you also enjoy his left wing political views which he would often translate into song?

[HairOfTheDog]

Zero mentioned this another thread.

He was very private. I had no idea he was an addict. Anyway, he was probably my favorite current actor. RIP.



Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46, was found dead of an apparent drug overdose —- with a hypodermic needle still stuck in his arm —- inside a Greenwich Village apartment on Sunday, cops said.

A personal assistant found Hoffman in his underwear on a bathroom floor at 35 Bethune St. and called 911 around 11:30 a.m., sources said.

Cops found heroin inside the apartment, where Hoffman — who has repeatedly struggled with substance abuse — had been living recently, sources said.

“He was shooting up in the bathroom,” a law-enforcement source said.

The building is less than three blocks from the three-bedroom, 2-1/2-bath apartment on Jane Street that Hoffman and longtime girlfriend Mimi O’Donnell, a costume designer, bought for $4.4 million in 2008.

The couple have three children together.

http://nypost.com/2014/02/02/philip-seym...apartment/

[Duchess]

Anybody have Shirley Temple?

[Donovan]

Did she die? I didn't even know she was alive still.

[Duchess]

Yes, she did.

Shirley Temple, the child actress who became one of the most popular movie stars of the 1930s, has died at the age of 85.

Publicist Cheryl Kagan told the Associated Press than Temple, known in her private life as Shirley Temple Black, died surrounded by family at her home in Woodside, Calif., near San Francisco.

[FAHQTOO]

My mother is probably in tears hearing about Shirly.

[ZEROSPHERES]

Stage mothers never die. Brook Shields knows that.