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  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,826
    edited December 2016

    Another actress. Tricia Lynn McCauley was found dead today.  46 years old.  Looks like this one was murder though... Ugh this year just needs to be over

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  • boisselazonboisselazon Posts: 458

    Well, I'm so sorry to say that the serie is not yet finished. sadly. Today Carrie Fisher, as everybody already knows. But also today, mostly for french people, amateurs of comedy with the great, the giant Louis de Funes, we also loose Claude Gensac, who plaid 10 times the girl/wife of the nervous De Funes, in the Gendarmes of Saint Tropez movies for example.
     

  • DirewrathDirewrath Posts: 225
    timmins.william said:

    jakiblue: I thought about it a lot with David Bowie passing (which still just cuts me). I have some friends who were up in arms about everyone adulating 'a rapist.' (There was an incident of statutory rape in the 70s that is highly argued over and whatnot).

    Now, it's a weird case and I'm not going to make a big deal about that, but it occurred to me that it didn't matter.

    I didn't know the man personally. I'm not friends with his family, and likely will never meet any of them. His life doesn't have any direct connection to mine.

     

    BUT

     

    But his face, his music, his movies are sewn through my life. The Man who Fell to Earth. Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence. Labyrinth (those PANTS rawr). Heck, Zoolander.

    Not to mention the music I heard as a kid in the late 70s, as a teen in the 80s, his evolving style. He was a weird, magical, numinous figure in popular culture. Never afraid to transform, and inspiring others to do the same.

     

    David Bowie as a human doesn't connect to my life at all, it's the shadows of him that rear large, that have BECOME part of me, part of my personal story.

     

    And looking over the long line of others, this year? Many have that same strange power.

     

     

     

    Wow! This sums it up for me. :) 

     

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,981

    This came out four days ago so it's likely missing George Michael and Carrie Fisher - but it covers many of the famous people we lost this year. 

     

     

  • ValandarValandar Posts: 1,417
    Llynara said:

    My heart just hurts. I was seven when the first Star Wars movie came out. I saw it in a packed theater on opening weekend. What an experience. No one had ever seen anything like it, everyone cheered the good guys and booed the bad ones. 

    I remember watching that huge screen, thrilled to see a strong female character who was brave enough to stand up to Darth Vader and risk death for what she believed in. There were so few strong females in tv and movies back then. She was one of them. I remember wanting to be brave like that, fighting for what I believed in.

    Maybe she was "just an actress" but she played MY hero. It's so hard to let her go.

    I saw it the second weekend. It wasn't that packed here in Memphis until around week 4 or so, and it was the first movie I ever saw in the theaters.

    Some time around the late 80's / early 90's, something happened: People stopped cheering during movies. No matter how awesome, people just didn't cheer around her. Until... Avengers. The metronomic mangling of Loki provoked one of the loudest cheers I have heard in decade.

    And then... came Episode Seven. Every time one of the original cast showed up on screen, the theater exploded. And as time passes, and the actors age, we'll see less and less of that, until the last member of the "core five" (Ford, Fisher, Hamill, Peter Mayhew, Kenny Baker, and Anthony Daniels) has passed. And then... something more precious than even The Force will be gone. And I am not looking forward to that day.

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,282

    And as if Carrie Fisher wasn't enough for 2016, now her mother, Debbie Reynolds, has also passed away and gone to join her daughter.

    http://www.aol.com/article/entertainment/2016/12/28/debbie-reynolds-dead-at-84/21643624/

  • RCDescheneRCDeschene Posts: 2,816

    Something more related to the holiday season...

    http://www.syracuse.com/celebrity-news/index.ssf/2016/12/george_s_irving_dead_actor_heat_miser.html

  • LlynaraLlynara Posts: 4,772
    edited December 2016

    @Valendar - great memories and interesting insights into the movie cheering. I haven't heard it in years, but I haven't seen a new movie in the theater in ages either. I'll be sad to see the rest of the cast go too. They hold a special place in my heart as part of one of my favorite movies. 

    And as if Carrie Fisher wasn't enough for 2016, now her mother, Debbie Reynolds, has also passed away and gone to join her daughter.

    Charlie Judge said:

    http://www.aol.com/article/entertainment/2016/12/28/debbie-reynolds-dead-at-84/21643624/

    How sad! At least they are together but that must be very hard on their loved ones.

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  • LlynaraLlynara Posts: 4,772
    RCDeschene said:

    Something more related to the holiday season...

    http://www.syracuse.com/celebrity-news/index.ssf/2016/12/george_s_irving_dead_actor_heat_miser.html

    Three more days! If we can just get through them without losing anyone else, it'll be a miracle.

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,296
    RCDeschene said:

    Something more related to the holiday season...

    http://www.syracuse.com/celebrity-news/index.ssf/2016/12/george_s_irving_dead_actor_heat_miser.html

    Wow... I actually saw that production of Irene while it was still in previews and had never realized that Carrie was in the cast as well.  So strange for three of the principles to die within a day of each other.    

  • sapatsapat Posts: 1,735

    And now Carrie Fisher's mother Debbie Reynolds has died.

  • ALLIEKATBLUEALLIEKATBLUE Posts: 2,983

    Now Debbie Reynolds

  • Barefoot Upto My SoulBarefoot Upto My Soul Posts: 823
    Every day I wake up and have a cup of coffee, bring in the newspaper (okay you know I fibbing, nobody reads the newspaper anymore) and turn to the obituaries. If my name is not in it... it's a good day. I hope you will all, my online friends and aquaintances, stick around with me for another and better year.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,123
    edited January 2017

    I just noticed another iconic person claimed by 2016.  I was watching the leading credits for the 2006 movie "Superman Returns" and noticed that Noel Neill and Jack Larson were listed.  They were the Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen from the 1950s Superman TV show.  I knew that Jack Larson had died in 2015 but didn't know about Noel Neill.  A quick Google reveals that she died this last July.

    Had she been mentioned in any of the Network TV or newspaper end-of-year tributes during the last few weeks?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Neill

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