BREAKING: Sometimes Famous People Die

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Peter Yarrow - Wikipedia

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Apparently Anita Bryant died last month.

[Stephen Maturin]

[Stephen Maturin]

Edgar Welch, the "Pizzagate" idiot who shot up a D.C. pizzeria in 2016, offed by North Carolina cops during a traffic stop.

[JoeP]

Comedian Tony Slattery dies aged 65 after heart attack | Tony Slattery | The Guardian

Slattery, who rose to fame in 1980s, appeared on shows such as Have I Got News for You and Whose Line Is It Anyway?

That's the UK Whose Line Is It Anyway.

[vremya]

I liked him on Who's Line

[JoeP]

David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78 | Movies | The Guardian

[vremya]

That one hurts

My first date with rigorist was to a double feature of Eraserhead and Freaks. Which should tell you a lot

[Pyrrho]

Bob "Mister Baseball" Uecker, 90, greatest baseball player in history.

[Stephen Maturin]

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[JoeP]

Joan Plowright, celebrated star of stage and screen, dies aged 95 | Joan Plowright | The Guardian

Is it just my impression or are a lot of people dying round about now?

[LarsMac]

Originally Posted by JoeP

Joan Plowright, celebrated star of stage and screen, dies aged 95 | Joan Plowright | The Guardian

Is it just my impression or are a lot of people dying round about now?

Nah, a lot of folks die every day. It's just that most of 'em don't get noticed by the newsdogs.

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[Kamilah Hauptmann]

John Sykes - Wikipedia

[LarsMac]

Garth Hudson, master instrumentalist and last surviving member of The Band, dies at 87

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNaGda8pau4

[vremya]

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Hal Sperlich, Champion of the Ford Mustang and the Chrysler Minivan, Dies - Car and Driver

[JoeP]

BBC News - Singer Marianne Faithfull dies at 78

[vremya]

Nooooooo

[viscousmemories]

Delayed reaction: Civil Rights attorney Thomas N. Todd (aka "TNT") died February 18th, 2024.

I do pilates three days a week, and every time my trainer tells me to "switch", like "switch to two springs", I think (and sometimes even say) "they would rather SWITCH, than fight!", from Public Enemy's Fight the Power. So I finally decided to see if I could find the origin of the sample, and this is how I learned about Todd.

"Fight the Power" begins with a vocal sample of civil rights attorney and activist Thomas "TNT" Todd, speechifying in a resonant, agitated voice, "Yet our best trained, best educated, best equipped, best prepared troops refuse to fight. Matter of fact, it's safe to say that they would rather switch than fight". - from Wikipedia

The funniest part is that it was apparently a play on a commercial slogan of the era: "Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch!", and not a common activist slogan as I had always assumed.

[Sock Puppet]

I was actually familiar with the slogan long before the quoted reversal.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Aga Khan.

[JoeP]

It's the Aga Khan. IV.

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Tom Robbins, author of Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, and others.

My first serious girlfriend turned me on to Still Life With Woodpecker and I fell in love with Tom Robbins' writing. I attended two book signings he did in Ann Arbor years apart (decades ago) and still have my signed copies. I haven't read all (or even most) of his books, but I read the three mentioned above and Jitterbug Perfume is my favorite of those.

I knew he was getting up there in age so every few months I google him to see if he's still with us, and today he is not.

[JoeP]

Roberta Flack, soul and R&B icon behind Killing Me Softly, dies aged 88 | Roberta Flack | The Guardian