Notable Passings and other milestones

[dudalb]

One good Milestone;
Mel Brooks is a 100 year old, and is currently producing and writing the sequel to Spaceballs...and he will return as Yogurt.

 

[arthwollipot]

Kjell Nilsson

Kjell Nilsson (actor) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[shemp]

Louise Lasser, 87. Star of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and appeared in several Woody Allen films, was also married to him 1966-1970.

 

[PitPat]

Louise Lasser, 87. Star of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and appeared in several Woody Allen films, was also married to him 1966-1970.

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She was also a first season host of SNL. Apparently it was a trainwreck, she went off script and refused to take any direction during the show.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Singer Bonnie Tyler - known for a series of hits in the 1970s and 80s, including Total Eclipse of the Heart - has died at the age of 75

A statement on her website says she died "unexpectedly" last night in a Portuguese hospital "as a result of the illness that she was being treated for"

In May, the singer was placed into an induced coma after emergency intestinal surgery in Portugal. Last month, her spokesperson said she was out of the coma but remained "very unwell and in intensive care"

 

[Vixen]

Singer Bonnie Tyler - known for a series of hits in the 1970s and 80s, including Total Eclipse of the Heart - has died at the age of 75

A statement on her website says she died "unexpectedly" last night in a Portuguese hospital "as a result of the illness that she was being treated for"

In May, the singer was placed into an induced coma after emergency intestinal surgery in Portugal. Last month, her spokesperson said she was out of the coma but remained "very unwell and in intensive care"

Bonnie Tyler came from Skewen in Neath, a town I have passed through quite a few times. She retained her Welsh accent and her roots, living in nearby Mumbles , which to residents of Swansea had an upmarket reputation.

Her affection for Wales, where she and Robert had a large Victorian home on the Gower Coast at Mumbles, was deep-rooted.

She was born Gaynor Hopkins in June 1951, and brought up, one of six children, in a four-bedroom council house with an outside lavatory.

What the family lacked materially, they made up for in love: she adored her parents – father Glyn, a Dunkirk veteran, miner then baker, and her Mum Elsie, who had a wonderful singing voice – and was close to all her siblings. As children, she and two of her sisters once shared a double bed. DM

Always loved 'Lost in France'.

 

[Worm]

Always been a fan of Bonnie Tyler. She's got a great voice for rock, and the album 'Faster Than The Speed of Night' is one I have come back to time and again - stacked full of just great music, including a duet with Frankie Miller, a much-overlooked Scottish singer.

 

[Pixel42]

Former Tory minister Ann Widdecombe dies at 78

Ann Widdecombe became a dominant pro-Brexit voice later in her career.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Vixen]

Former Tory minister Ann Widdecombe dies at 78

Ann Widdecombe became a dominant pro-Brexit voice later in her career.

www.bbc.co.uk

Possibly most famous for her Strictly Come Dancing sequences with Anton du Beke.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Former Tory minister Ann Widdecombe dies at 78

Ann Widdecombe became a dominant pro-Brexit voice later in her career.

www.bbc.co.uk

Oh dear
How sad
What a shame

 

[Pixel42]

Man, 26, arrested on suspicion of murder after Ann Widdecombe found dead at home

Devon and Cornwall Police say a white British male is in custody after the 78-year-old was found at her home on Thursday with serious injuries.

www.bbc.co.uk

Blimey.

 

[Vixen]

Oh no, that's horrible.

 

[Armitage72]

Randolph Mantooth, from the 1970s TV series "Emergency". It's been along time, but I remember enjoying the show when I was a child.

Randolph Mantooth, who played medic in NBC’s ‘Emergency!’, dies at 80

Mantooth played firefighter and paramedic John Gage in the NBC show that aired from 1972 to 1977.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Dermot Murnaghan, journalist and broadcaster

Tributes paid to TV presenter Dermot Murnaghan

The former BBC, ITV and Sky News journalist has died after revealing he had stage four prostate cancer.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Pixel42]

US senator and Trump ally Lindsey Graham dies after 'brief and sudden illness'

A spokesman for the 71-year-old South Carolina senator says initial findings suggest Graham's cause of death was related to his heart.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[TragicMonkey]

US senator and Trump ally Lindsey Graham dies after 'brief and sudden illness'

A spokesman for the 71-year-old South Carolina senator says initial findings suggest Graham's cause of death was related to his heart.

www.bbc.co.uk

In response to this tragic event many in SC are praying for God to return Bonnie Tyler.

 

[Jim_MDP]

Nm

 

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[Orphia Nay]

Actor Sam Neill.

Actor Sam Neill dies aged 78

New Zealand actor Sam Neill, who starred in My Brilliant Career and Jurassic Park, has died aged 78.

www.abc.net.au

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Actor Sam Neill.

Actor Sam Neill dies aged 78

New Zealand actor Sam Neill, who starred in My Brilliant Career and Jurassic Park, has died aged 78.

www.abc.net.au

Sad start to the week.