General Celebrity deaths

34 minutes ago, algroth said:

Robert Forster

And on the same day that El Camino was released.

Edited October 12, 2019 by Raithe

Rep. Elijah Cummings has passed at the age of 68 from 'complications due to longstanding health challenges and had been having health issues in recent weeks.

E R Braithwaite, author of "To Sir, With Love" dies at 104

D. C. Fontana writer and story editor for a number of television shows over the years, but maybe best remembered for her work for Star Trek over the Original, Animated and Next Generation shows.  I just finished watching THE FANTASTIC JOURNEY series she was story editor for.

Odo gone too

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/benson-star-trek-actor-rene-auberjonois-has-died-at-79/2019/12/08/db319e26-1a05-11ea-977a-15a6710ed6da_story.html

 

Also Caroll Spinney

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/08/786115746/caroll-spinney-who-played-big-bird-and-oscar-on-sesame-street-dies-at-85

I remember Rene best from Benson. I thought he was the funniest thing ever in that show, at the time, the way he straight-man bounced off Robert Guillaume. His DS9 chr. was one of the things I liked about that show.

 

 

Wow, I should really stay away from this thread when I'm not in the brightest of moods.

22 hours ago, Malcador said:

Odo gone too

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/benson-star-trek-actor-rene-auberjonois-has-died-at-79/2019/12/08/db319e26-1a05-11ea-977a-15a6710ed6da_story.html

whenever we hear o' somebody dying from metastatic lung cancer, we cannot help but recall the old yul brynner commercial

am having multiple recollections o' rené on benson with a cigarette in his hand.

maybe smoking were not a cause o' rené's cancer. dunno. nevertheless reminds us just how many has died from the habit.

even so, most memorable rené moment for us were from mash

so it goes

Edited December 9, 2019 by Gromnir

 

Anna Karina (79)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/movies/anna-karina-dead.html

 

Maria "Remilia" Creveling, one of the first female pro players in esports, died yesterday. She was 24.

Vaughan Oliver, legendary graphic designer behind the album covers for a ton of artists including The Pixies, David Sylvian, Red House Painters, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, The Breeders, This Mortal Coil and so on.

 

Edited December 29, 2019 by algroth

Was not familiar with the person, but was with the art. A very iconic style that helped color the tone of an era.

Monty Python star, Neil Innes dies, aged 75

Syd Mead, 86

Easily the greatest Sci-fi artist of all time, and probably forever more. Now the vision of the future is so diluted, over-shared, crowded. Never again will their be such a stark authoritative vision of the future brushed into the zeitgeist.

http://sydmead.com/

A very impressive resume to his name. R.I.P.

Neil Peart

1 hour ago, algroth said:

Neil Peart

Great, means they'll be playing a lot of Rush on the radio here.

Wasn't a huge Rush person, outside of those few earlyish hits, but another one of those "my childhood past is dying" reminders. RIP  :(

"Neil! Play the Drum Solo of Life!"

 

Christopher Tolkien, who managed to posthumously compile, edit and publish much of his father's Middle-Earth work, passed at the ripe age of 95.

Of the JRR-Christopher books, I only ever read Hurin, which was pretty messed up but decent. Never was the biggest Tolkien prose fan, but nevertheless RIP.