RIP

RIP.

Warren Buffet's (less famous) buddy. RIP

Back to that "work to live" vs "live to work". I think he and Buffet fall into the latter category. Both had more money than they could have spent but both still working hard.

Apparently Henry Kissinger has passed away at the age of 100

Henry Kissinger, American diplomat and Nobel winner, dead at 100 | Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/key...er-2023-11-30/

Nice

One of the more reprehensible people of the 20th century.

Let me go ahead and mute "Kissinger" on Twitter now.

gosh...he was always a good sport being on comedy shows and such. My fav recent one was on Stephen Colbert

Kissinger was vaccinated.

I'm just saying...

Vaccine was Kissingated.

I'm just saying...

Shane McGowan of The Pogues passed away yesterday at the age of 65.

Shane MacGowan: Pogues singer dies aged 65

Rolling Stone magazine pulled no punches with their Kissinger obit.

Henry Kissinger, War Criminal, Dead at 100

RIP Sandra Day O’Connor

This one takes me back... Myles Goodwyn, singer/guitarist/songwriter for April Wine, died today.

Just saw that elsewhere :(

Damn, I wore their 'First Glance' 8 track out replaying Roller again and again back in the day.

R.I.P

in my facebook feed I saw that Paul McCartney was releasing the 50th anniversary of Wings' Band On The Run. A minute later I saw on that same feed that Wings/Moody Blues Guitarist Denny Laine passed away at 79.

Coincidence? I think not.

Norman Lear at 101

I admit to thinking that he had already been dead for a while

He always comes up in the discussion of TV history, but he isn't really mentioned in the larger discussions of American culture. But he probably should be.

He was still apart of the live versions of his old shows that last couple of years. Still seemed sharp till the end.

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Actor Ryan O' Neal passed away at the age of 82

Ryan O'Neal dies at 82: The Paper Moon and Love Story actor who was with Farrah Fawcett for decades looked frail in a wheelchair in final images taken one month before his shock passing | Daily Mail Online

Frank Wycheck fell off a ladder, hit his head and died at 52. He was a fixture of my fantasy football days.

My mom called me about Wycheck. Given the fact that my dad fell, hit his head and has a TBI and I'm 2 months older than Wycheck, she was a bit freaked out.

Son of a bitch. Andre Braugher died at age 61 after a brief illness. Loved him in everything.

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Oh, shit. My mom met and talked with him once*, he sounded really down-to-earth and, well, nice. Damn.


* Well, a couple of times; he was on a biking trip and stayed at a BnB my mom and her husband were at; they chatted a bit and then he greeted them at b'fast the next day.

Agreed. This is really bumming me out.

Loved him in Homicide.

Loved the train episode.

He was so good in everything. Even played a therapist on House and stole every scene.

It's too young. He was amazing in Homicide: Life on the Streets. Hell he was amazing in everything, including that terrible Poseidon movie where he was the captain.

Is it me or all the striking black character actors dying off early? Keith David and Tony Todd best be on guard.

Black actors are still striking?

Only if they had memorable roles as a police officer in at least two different television shows, one of which was a David Simon vehicle.

In all seriousness, while I enjoyed Captain Raymond Holt, I still think Braugher was at his very best as Frank Pembleton in Homicide. And I'm still sad that I'll never get another Lance Reddick cameo on Bosch.

Agreed, he played that role as well as it could possibly be played, very talented actor.

double co-sign... loved the Pembleton character, and all-time favorite for me

And there's no way to stream it or purchase it. Media rights are so stupid.

Eric Montross, dead of cancer at 52. That's two 52 year old sports figures dead in the past week, plus my best friend from HS diagnosed with stage 3 cancer. I guess I've finally gotten to that age where everyone around you is (or will be shortly) showing up in obituaries.

He's 5 years older than me and at the time I watched nearly every college game the man played, so this one obviously makes me very uncomfortable.

Legendary DJ Jim Ladd passed away over the weekend at the age of 75

https://rockcellarmagazine.com/jim-l...s-deep-tracks/

Well dang

Former NFL player Mike Williams died of dental-related sepsis | AP News

K-State professor and hall of fame broadcaster Ian Punnett passes away - News Radio KMAN

I suspect a few FOFCers will remember Ian Punnett as a primary substitute host for Art Bell's Coast to Coast. I mostly recall him from a relatively short stint at news/talk WGST in Atlanta.

In addition to those shows and stints in Chicago and Minneapolis, he eventually completed a divinity degree and became as Episcopalian minister and managed the K-State campus radio station while serving as the faculty advisor.

Comedian Tom Smothers passed away at the age of 86

Tom Smothers dead at age of 86

RIP

Did he die of a gunshot? seems appropriate

Have to be honest, some I have no idea who they were. Others I thought passed in earlier years (e.g. Raquel Welch was 2023?). And some I didn't remember reading about.

It does make me wonder if these famous people left a lasting, good, and non-family legacy with the opportunities and resources they had.

fun fact i just learned. Robert Blake's most famous film was In Cold Blood

Way too many on that list died too soon, and there are several that have been active in tv and film my whole life that is going to be weird going forward without them.

And no Lance Reddick.

RIP Tom Wilkinson. He was an incredible actor. I don't think he ever played a bad role.

RIP Cale Yarborough. This is funny story that is pretty endearing.

@edsbs RIP Cale Yarborough. In ‘83 when CBS decided to mic the on-board driver like they did in Australia, they spent half the race trying to figure out what “that noise” was before figuring out Cale liked to make racecar sounds while driving.pic.twitter.com/kVZWOjvCbi

— stewart_smith_radio (@StewartSmithTwt) December 31, 2023