The Man from UNCLE was before my time but remember watching some reruns and knew Illya as that Russian spy guy (also think he had some karate chop moves?).

But I didn't know he was also in NCIS. Not a big fan of the series but would have thought I'd read about it somewhere.

RIP.

Sorry I didn't appreciate you in NCIS.

David McCallum, star of hit TV series 'The Man From... | Daily Mail Online

He was quite good on NCIS, had a featured episode or two even. But there was a great scene in one of them where someone says "I wonder what Ducky (his character) looked like when he was younger" ... and Mark Harmon replies "A lot like Ilya Kuriakin actually"

That’s a nice homage!

I didn't connect the dots until I just read about it. He was Ahsoka's Baylan Skoll. RIP

Actor Michael Gambon dies at 82

Dumbledore dies again :(



I still love that the actor had a corner of a racetrack named after him in Top Gear after taking it on 2 wheels and almost rolling the car.

He was even better collaborating with Dr. Dre.

David McCallum - The Edge - YouTube

Diane Feinstein has passed.

RIP.

At a certain point in my life, I started to understand about "work to live and not live to work".

She seems to be the "live to work". Dying on the job after 67 is NOT how I want to go.

Yeah. This last stretch must have been pretty miserable for her. R.I.P.

R.I.P.

I'm going to do everything in my power to retire at the normal age.

+1000

Particularly watching my parents age and now going through this ordeal with my dad's accident, I'm only 22-23 years behind my parents. I plan to enjoy life because by mid-70s, even if I'm in good health, I can see it in my parents - they have limited stamina and ability, and then prone to accidents that can severely impact what's left of life. If I can work and still take 2-3 nice trips a year without too much stress, I may push off retirement. But only if there's a good work/life balance. Otherwise I'll find a way to retire.

We don't know the extent to which it wasn't even her choice. Her assistants/handlers/staffers seemed to be part of keeping her up there after she pretty clearly started suffering from dementia.

With friends like those . . .

Yeah, that occurred to me.

I read that her former judge daughter was helping her (power of attorney) etc. No idea if that was a good relationship but assuming it was, you'd figure she would be looking out for mother's best interest.

But deep down, there's truth to what you said.

Well shit this one as a 2004 Red Sox fan hurts. Tim Wakefield dies of brain cancer. Great of the line of old school knuckle ballers. . I guess his wife is fighting pancreatic cancer at the same time.

Just heartbreaking. By all accounts a great guy.

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Yeah I met him once at this fund raiser he was doing with Mike Timlin and Gabe Kepler and was a real regular nice guy.

Russ Francis (SF and NE TE in the 80s) died in a small plane crash.

He was the 49ers TE in the original Tecmo Bowl. And he had a sweet mustache.

RIP.

Also made it to the final four of the Wrestlemania 2 battle royal.

I didn't think it was possible for Schilling to look even worse leaking private info about Wakefield and his wife, but now knowing Schilling likely knew his death was imminent and was trying to "scoop" the media essentially is just plain gross.

Schilling is the worst human being of the "didn't actually kill or sexually assault anyone that we know of" famous athletes.

He's at the bottom of the tier above O.J.

I saw someone questioning whether Schilling may have faked the bloody sock for attention. Probably ridiculous, but he’s been such trash these last ten years that I suppose these types of things are now just as much of his legacy.

That was definitely talked about even back then.

Back then we thought he was kind of charming, and we liked how he talked directly to the fans through his blog when that was a new thing one could do, so, it didn't really bother anybody that he was probably trying to create a little more drama and theatrics.

I mean, maybe I'm missing something, but, how does an ankle tendon injury even cause blood? It wasn't a laceration. There weren't stiches. I always figured he was playing mind games, creating narratives. That was his thing. When he just mostly kept that to creating baseball lore, it came across differently than his whole schtick he does now.

Never understood that either.

Dick Butkus died. I want to thank him for giving us the distraction we need for tonight's game.

Seriously, though, RIP.

The man was so good at football, his name was Dick Butkus, and we didn't even find it funny.

That one is easy to explain, I don't think you missed it so much as probably forgot the details.

Short version: he had a surgical procedure the day before the game



Schilling's bloody sock the bridge to history | MLB.com

12th year anniversary of Steve Jobs' death. RIP

Thanks for the rise of the smartphones.

On October 1, Dorothy Hoffner broke a skydiving record for being the oldest person to skydive....at 104 years old.


She just died over night.

Dorothy Hoffner, 104, dies days after potential record breaking skydive | AP News

Comic book artist/writer Keith Giffen has died after suffering a stroke.

famous porn actor Herschel Savage passed away at the age of 70.

RIP.

Assuming he wasn't an asshat, I'd presume he lived a life worth living.

R.I.P. original Lost In Space star Mark Goddard

Lost In Space copilot Mark Goddard

Crazy. I just started rewatching the original Lost in Space on Amazon Prime. Loved the show as a kid and my kids have enjoyed it.

RIP

HOrror icon Piper Laurie has passed

https://www.theguardian.com/film/gal...fe-in-pictures

Suzanne Somers Dead: Three’s a Company, She’s the Sheriff Star Was 76 – The Hollywood Reporter

And Suzanne Somers

RIP Suzanne

RIP Paulie

MSN

I had no idea he was only 36 when the original came out.

Richard Roundtree who was best known as the star of "Shaft", died at 81.

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Shut yo mouth

Just watched the new Shaft. I’m glad he had a nice role in that. My wife didn’t know who Shaft was and did not recognize the theme song.

Just talkin' 'bout dyin'.

Richard Moll Dead: ‘Night Court’ Star Was 80 – The Hollywood Reporter

Richard Moll, Bull from Night Court gone at 80 :(

Fuck. Matthew Perry dead at 54. This made me audibility sob.

Drowned in his jacuzzi. Had to be drugs or alcohol and he passed out or something like that. Damn.

I had no idea he was Keith Morrison's stepson.

Yeah I'm a bit stunned over it.

When my daughter was tiny, one of the most exciting days of the week was when "Friends" came on. When the theme song started she would look at me in excitement, grab my hand, and we would dance. This is like a part of her childhood dying.
She just texted me that she can't stop crying. She said "I learned all my sarcasm from you and Chandler Bing."

Yeah I haven't heard anything from my older daughter but she became a superfan about 8ish years ago.

Yeah, this one hurts. Rest in peace, and thanks for the laughs.

I hate to be "that guy"

but somehow "drowned in Jacuzzi" takes all sadness out of the death for me.

While on some level the death of a 54yo should usually be seen as more "tragic" than the death of an 80yo, in this case the death of the 80yo lands a little harder with me, in that it makes me think "damn, Richard Moll was 80yo." It really bangs home the passage of time. I know Richard Moll as a much younger man. Yet another cast member of a show from my youth is gone. Perry's death, while (like much of his battles with addiction) is sad, but it's a rarer occurrence, someone from our cohort dying. That, and there's the unnatural aspect of it -- jaccuzi, well that's a freak occurrence. Moll is another case of "shit, that generation (I grew up watching) is disappearing."

Or, most of us can beat the jacuzzi - none of us are going to beat time.

I'm gonna bet the jacuzzi had a little help.

I dunno, initial "sources" say no drugs found at the scene.

I could completely believe that, given his history, his heart just said fuck this shit I'm out.

I've seen some speculation from medical professionals that with his history of drug and alcohol abuse there's a decent chance he suffered from low blood pressure, which would have been made worse by getting into a hot jacuzzi. It could have led to a heart attack or just simply passing out and drowning.

I think we're saying the same thing. Meaning, almost nobody drowns in a jacuzzi without some sort of contributing factor. He could have slipped and hit his head, I suppose, but it's more likely his history - whether his past use or more recent - is really what put him in position to drown. It's not like he went swimming and got pulled under a rip current.

It's important to note that while Perry abused drugs much like many (most?) actors of the time, what really got him was an opiate addiction commenced legally after a watercraft accident. This death is merely another to be correctly foisted upon the Sackler family and everyone in industry, government, and the medical profession that ignored the warnings about those drugs for too long.

I'm guessing better than even odds.

If truly caused by drug abuse, stupid way to go.

Whitney drowned in a bathtub "with a little help." It is entirely possible that this was medical. It actually is a pretty common occurrence that a Jacuzzi causes someone to pass out or have a heart attack.

Not sure this qualifies as famous person, but felt this thread was more appropriate than the Random Thoughts.

Nottingham Panthers ice hockey player Adam Johnson dies after ˜freak injury” | Ice hockey | The Guardian

Kinda surprised cut injuries don’t happen more often TBH, but this is horrific

Can you imagine the blood on the ice from that? Ugh.

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Saw the video, it was A LOT of blood

OMFG :(

so sorry for him

Decades of heavy cocaine and alcohol use will turn your heart into a time bomb. Even after you've gotten sober. My guess is his heart gave out in the jacuzzi.

I can’t be the only one who didn’t know that Matthew Perry’s stepfather was Keith Morrison, the creepy guy from dateline

I heard an interview of Keith Morrison a while back on a podcast, that is how I knew.

That hockey thing really bothers me. It was so sad watching that. It reminded me of how steve irwin died. Just....an accident that hit exactly right and he even realized what was happening to himself as he died.

Yeah, I posted that earlier. Had no idea.

I always called him Guy Smiley (mainly the long-faced reporter, but worked better before he got OLD and his hair went total white).

I always think this about Maggie Vespa.

Wow.

I also learned yesterday that Anderson Cooper's mother was Gloria Vanderbilt.

My favorite "wow" of this genre was learning a few years back that Bartlett Giamatti was Paul Giamatti's father.

Just out of curiosity I suppose ... you do know who George Clooney's mother is, right?

I knew the Clooney name and Rosemary Clooney, but was amused to learn his father was a well-known TV anchor (who I never heard of until I learned that), and that Miguel Ferrer was his cousin.

This will make you appreciate/like Keith Morrison. Bill Hader loves him and used to play him on SNL and they surprised him by letting them hang with Keith. Pretty wholesome:

Bob Knight has passed.

I hope there aren't folding chairs in heaven.

Knight:

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want them to bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass.

I have a lot of mixed feelings on Coach Knight. He did a lot of good things, but pulled a lot of shit too. Rest in peace.

Would you throw a chair,
If I saw you in Heaven
Give an angry glare,
If I saw you in Heaven...

I feel like Bobby Knight was the coach that I "knew" completely in the moment. Before him, I feel like coaches were portrayed as either complete saints or complete assholes. The saints were guys who never did anything negative to his players or anyone else. Those coaches would eventually be considered kind of soft so their fans had to tell the stories that the coach could be an asshole when he needed to. The reverse was true on the other side. At some point there had to be a story of the complete asshole coach using his influence for good in big but anonymous way to make him appear to be less of an asshole. For me, Knight was the first coach that I would see and hear about both of those sides in the moment. He seemed to always be his authentic self flaws and all.

Sadly way too many assholes justify abusive and obnoxious behavior by fraudulently claiming they are only following Knight's example. Love him and hate him, there was and will only be one Robert Montgomery Knight. RIP.

fwiw, Jay Bilas has a pretty good column about Knight on espn dot com today

Yeah, I just read that. It was good.

This is where I'm at as well. I think by most objective measures, one of the top four of five college coaches of all time. But just as undoubtedly an ass hat.

Police have just arrested the player whose skate cut Adam Johnson’s neck for manslaughter.

I did watch the video, wish I hadn’t, not going to watch it again, but I don’t recall anything that looked like it was anything other than a tragic accident.

That's crazy, seems like maybe there was a lot of public pressure driven by emotion? Which is a terrible way to make a charging decision.

I feel bad for him.

Edit: I haven't played much ice hockey, certainly nothing close to the speed and collisions at that level, but there seems to be a minority opinion among hockey people there that he swung his leg up on purpose - not to kill the guy - but to obstruct his movement. Which I guess could fall into some kind of reckless intent/however the charge is defined. And apparently this was a "move" he's used before. So who knows.

Didn't look natural at all from what I remember. Not surprised he's been charged.

One thing I thought odd is that they had him skate off the ice instead of using a stretcher or just giving first aid right there on the ice.

Man arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in Adam Johnson's hockey death | AP News

Lots of ex-players on Twitter saying the same thing FWIW. I haven’t had the stomach to watch it, but also in the UK the bar for a manslaughter investigation is pretty low and I was reading a Twitter thread on it earlier that also said they basically have to do it procedurally to keep investigating.

So all in all, not at all surprised in this either.

DOLA - and now trying to find said tweet, I’ve seen the gif like 3 times. Yeah, that just looks ugly and unnatural, but equally I can’t believe any hockey player is that reckless.

If anything they should arrest the skate. Clearly it houses the soul of some mass murderer.

The Malarchuk incident has been burned in my memory for 30 years or whatever now, so I have not had the stomach to watch this new one. I find it crazy to think it could have been anything other than a freak accident. Then I saw a video last night of another time the arrested individual kind of kicked out with his skate and it was super intentional. So now I'm less certain, and even more sickened.

As far as the video, you really can't see what's happening. THe camera is far away, it pans and then you see a clump of bodies fall like they always do when people crash into each other. You start to see blood on the ice and then as he moves a blood trail forms. The disturbing part for me really is when he and the ref skate off the ice, both are applying pressure to it and they are showing closeup of him there. Just seeing his last moments alive really were sad. It reminded me of Steve Irwin. WHere they described the video...they saw him reach toward the ray and pulled its stinger out of his chest. Those were Steve's last moments alive.

We don't notice it as a dramatic thing every time, but I guess it's also true that skates end up high by a guy's face fairly often. It happened last night in the NHL.

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Longtime NASCAR announcer, broadcaster Ken Squier dies at 88 - ESPN

A darned good broadcaster.

Rest in peace.

Not famous, but famous adjacent. Dana Carvey's 32-year-old son died of an OD last night. I listen to his podcast with David Spade regularly, and he always talks so glowingly of his sons. Just heartbreaking.

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Roslayn Carter passed away at 96. If you have money in the Jimmy Carter pool, you need to have a day pretty soon. I would guess he follows her in the next couple of weeks.