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2013 Entertainment Industry Obituaries

LARadioRewind said:
Karen Black had roles in Nashville, Easy Rider, The Great Gatsby and other films but is best known for playing an oilfield roughneck in Five Easy Pieces. She died of cancer August 8 at age 74.
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The linked story interestingly omits mention of Black's role in that timeless cinematic feature of the ages, Airport '75.

Seriously, she and her husband desperately tried raising money for her cancer treatments through the internet. How low her star must have sunk. In a rare moment of gloom, George Burns once quipped that nobody remembers an actor.
 
LARadioRewind said:
Thomas Paul Glaser called himself "Tompall." He sang in a trio with his brothers Chuck and Jim. Tompall & the Glaser Brothers charted 22 country hits and Tompall had eight solo hits, including Put Another Log On The Fire. He died on August 13 after a long illness. He was 79.
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Tompall played a largely uncredited role in the successful Outlaw movement of the '70s. Can't remember where, but I once read an account of Tompall and Outlaw's most acclaimed character, Waylon Jennings, nearly coming to blows over "creative" issues during a recording session. Waylon threatened to kick TP's ass. Waylon always was the diplomat. Heavy is the head that wears the crown...
 
LARadioRewind said:
Television actress Lisa Robin Kelly, most known for her role as Laurie Forman on That '70s Show, died in her sleep at a rehab facility on August 14. She was only 43.

The rehab facilities obviously can't rehab everyone.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertai...isa-robin-kelly-dies-age-43-article-1.1427921
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Doesn't sound so much like a rehab failure as she just got there after doing too much damage to herself, Steve. Cardiac arrest in a 43-year old woman...that's an indicator of a rough life.
 
I lost two friends and co-workers to cancer. Both of them continued to smoke even while they were being treated for cancer. Cigarette smokers are dummies---and when they get cancer and still won't quit smoking, they're even bigger dummies! Opposing viewpoints are welcomed---I want to be fair.

Lee Thompson Young starred on the Disney Channel series The Famous Jett Jackson and co-starred on TNT's Rizzoli & Isles. On August 19 he shot himself in the head in his North Hollywood apartment. He was 29.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertai...-lee-thompson-young-dead-29-article-1.1430993
 
LARadioRewind said:
I lost two friends and co-workers to cancer. Both of them continued to smoke even while they were being treated for cancer. Cigarette smokers are dummies---and when they get cancer and still won't quit smoking, they're even bigger dummies! Opposing viewpoints are welcomed---I want to be fair.
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I wasn't trying to oppose your viewpoint. I just didn't see the point of lecturing a dead person.
 
Fonz, when someone dies from smoking and I call him a dummy, I'm not expecting the person to hear me---I'm just commenting on the stupidity of his habit of setting fire to paper tubes filled with dead leaves and then sucking hot smoke and cancer-causing chemicals into his lungs. Do you get it now?

Ted Post directed hundreds of movies and tv episodes, including Hang 'Em High. Magnum Force, Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, The Twilight Zone and Peyton Place. He died on August 20 at age 95.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Post
 
LARadioRewind said:
Fonz, when someone dies from smoking and I call him a dummy, I'm not expecting the person to hear me---I'm just commenting on the stupidity of his habit of setting fire to paper tubes filled with dead leaves and then sucking hot smoke and cancer-causing chemicals into his lungs. Do you get it now?
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O.K. I get it now. Not exactly related to radio. Maybe you should have posted on another board....................like Off The Air. Come to think of it, many of your posts in this thread aren't related to radio.
 
This thread is for news of deaths in the entertainment industry. When I started it, I put it in the 1950s-60s forum because I thought that most of the deaths would involve people who were popular during those decades. If you have a suggestion for a better forum in which to have next year's obituary thread, let me know. And, speaking of 1960s:

Sid Bernstein, the music promoter who managed the Rascals, promoted Dion and Bobby Darin and Chubby Checker, brought ABBA and the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to the United States, and in 1976 offered the Beatles $100,000,000 to reunite, died August 21 at age 95.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57599580/sid-bernstein-who-brought-beatles-to-shea-stadium-dies/
 
FONZ says: O.K. I get it now. Not exactly related to radio. Maybe you should have posted on another board....................like Off The Air. Come to think of it, many of your posts in this thread aren't related to radio.
LARadioRewind said:
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RICHIE CUNNINGHAM says (sorry, couldn't resist):[/i] This thread is for news of deaths in the entertainment industry. When I started it, I put it in the 1950s-60s forum because I thought that most of the deaths would involve people who were popular during those decades. If you have a suggestion for a better forum in which to have next year's obituary thread, let me know...
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Really LAR, you could post the OBITS thread in the sports section and I'd still follow it daily. I love it! But if you do change boards next year, kindly leave a forwarding address...
 
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