Ernie Holmes died. Great player for the Steelers.
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Ernie Holmes died. Great player for the Steelers.
:emo kid:
^Even the colors are appropriate
Heath Ledger died. I beat GDandZip
Edit...what would I have seen him in? I did NOT see the cowboy movie.
Fixed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahoe
Ernie Holmes and Bobby Fisher... sports?
Death comes in threes -- who's next?
Johnny Grant and Heath Ledger.... entertainment?
Death comes in threes -- who's next?
Brad Renfro died.
I am going with 3 people that I think will die in the next week...
Clint Eastwood
Nicky Hilton
Artie Lang
I think you're right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Uncle Mxy
Sports -- I say Canseco makes it a trifecta. Someone's gonna off that clown.
If Britney Spears dies, does that count as three different people?Quote:
Originally Posted by gusman
Here's my three gusman:
Morgan Fairchild
Tom Wopat
Shecky Green
My deadpool trifecta:
Britney Spears
Tom Jones
One current or former SNL cast member to be named later.
Jack Nicholson
Amy Winehouse
Jeff Conaway
Ahhh fuck... Winehouse. I forgot about that crack whore.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Swami
Death comes in threes, Music edition:
Tom Jones
Scott Weiland
Amy Winehouse
I'd do Amy.
i wouldnt
I have the tendency to want to bang weird chicks sometimes.
That doesn't eliminate many women from your "Bang List", you know.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Mailman
Zing!
Christian Brando fills out the Entertainment Three (son of Marlon Brando, so it counts!).Quote:
Originally Posted by DennyMcLain
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LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Christian Brando, the troubled eldest son of the late famed actor Marlon Brando, has died from pneumonia at a Los Angeles hospital, an attorney said Saturday. He was 49.
http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2008/SHOWBIZ/....brando.ap.JPGChristian Brando was the eldest son of Hollywood legend Marlon Brando.
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Brando died Saturday morning at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, said David Seeley, an attorney representing Marlon Brando's estate.
Seeley said Brando was taken to the hospital on January 11. There are no funeral plans yet scheduled, he added.
"This is a sad and difficult time for the family," Seeley said.
Born May 11, 1958, the younger Brando had small roles in a handful of movies, including 1968's "I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!" but he was better known for his brushes with the law.
He spent five years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter in 1990 for killing his sister's boyfriend, Dag Drollet, at the Brando family's estate.
Brando said he accidentally shot Drollet as they struggled for a gun during an argument over whether Drollet, 26, had beaten Brando's pregnant half-sister, Cheyenne.
Cheyenne, who later gave birth to Drollet's son, committed suicide in 1995 after losing custody. She was 25.
Brando's ex-wife, Deborah Brando, sued him for domestic violence in 2005. She claimed that shortly after their 2004 marriage, Brando repeatedly beat her and threatened to kill her in the presence of her teenage daughter.
Brando countersued, alleging that his ex-wife broke into his home and beat him because he wanted to annul their marriage only 10 weeks after exchanging vows.
The lawsuits were settled last year on undisclosed terms.
Brando was charged January 10, 2005, with two counts of spousal abuse and he pleaded guilty. He was placed on three years' probation and ordered to drug and alcohol rehabilitation as well as a spousal-abuse prevention program.
Brando also was the one-time lover of Bonnie Lee Bakley, who was shot to death in 2001. At one time, Bakley claimed Brando had fathered her child but tests showed it belonged to actor Robert Blake, whom she later married.
Blake was tried for her murder and acquitted but later ordered to pay $30 million in a wrongful death lawsuit. During that civil case, Blake's lawyer suggested Brando was the killer.
Brando, who had denied any involvement, invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination on the stand during the trial.
Seeley said Brando was not married at the time of his death and did not leave any children.
That's a bit of a stretch.
bukdow's next.
If no talent assclown Paris Hilton can be a celebrity, so can Christian Brando.Quote:
Originally Posted by e-ray
Or I'm just trying to validate my death comes in threes theory with a cheap addition.
Tenuous, at best.
Another Sports Death:
Ex-USC coach Smith succumbs to leukemia
Associated Press
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Larry Smith, the coach who led USC to the Rose Bowl three times and won 143 games with Tulane, Arizona, USC and Missouri, died Monday after a long bout with chronic lymphatic leukemia. He was 68.
Smith died in a Tucson hospital, the University of Arizona confirmed.
His 24-year head-coaching career began at Tulane, included seven years at Arizona and ended in 2000 at Missouri. Smith was 143-126-7 and his teams were 3-6-1 in bowl games.
Smith coached USC for six years, finishing 44-25-3. He was fired on New Year's Day of 1993, his departure hastened by a 24-7 loss to unranked Fresno State in the Freedom Bowl.
Smith started his tenure at USC in 1987 and took the Trojans the Rose Bowl in each of his first three seasons. The Trojans lost their first two Rose Bowls under Smith, before beating Michigan and his mentor, Bo Schembechler, in Schembechler's final game as the Wolverines' coach, after the 1989 season.
Smith worked under Schembechler for six years at Miami of Ohio and Michigan
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Roy Scheider, Actor in ‘Jaws,’ Dies at 75
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By DAVE KEHR
Published: February 11, 2008
Roy Scheider, a stage actor with a background in the classics who became one of the leading figures in the American film renaissance of the 1970s, died on Sunday afternoon in Little Rock, Ark. He was 75 and lived in Sag Harbor, N.Y.
Mr. Scheider had suffered from multiple myeloma for several years, and died of complications from a staph infection, his wife, Brenda Seimer, said.
Mr. Scheider’s rangy figure, gaunt face and emotional openness made him particularly appealing in everyman roles, most famously as the agonized police chief of “Jaws,” Steven Spielberg’s 1975 breakthrough hit, about a New England resort town haunted by the knowledge that a killer shark is preying on the local beaches.
Mr. Scheider conveyed an accelerated metabolism in movies like “Klute” (1971), his first major film role, in which he played a threatening pimp to Jane Fonda’s New York call girl; and in William Friedkin’s “French Connection” (also 1971), as Buddy Russo, the slightly more restrained partner to Gene Hackman’s marauding police detective, Popeye Doyle. That role earned Mr. Scheider the first of two Oscar nominations.
Born in 1932 in Orange, N.J., Mr. Scheider earned his distinctive broken nose in the New Jersey Diamond Gloves Competition. He studied at Rutgers and at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., where he graduated as a history major with the intention of going to law school. He served three years in the United States Air Force, rising to the rank of first lieutenant. When he was discharged, he returned to Franklin and Marshall to star in a production of “Richard III.”
His professional debut was as Mercutio in a 1961 New York Shakespeare Festival production of “Romeo and Juliet.” While continuing to work onstage, he made his movie debut in “The Curse of the Living Corpse” (1964), a low-budget horror film by the prolific schlockmeister Del Tenney. “He had to bend his knees to die into a moat full of quicksand up in Connecticut,” recalled Ms. Seimer, a documentary filmmaker. “He loved to demonstrate that.”
In 1977 Mr. Scheider worked with Mr. Friedkin again in “Sorcerer,” a big-budget remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1953 French thriller, “The Wages of Fear,” about transporting a dangerous load of nitroglycerine in South America.
Offered a leading role in “The Deer Hunter” (1979), Mr. Scheider had to turn it down in order to fulfill his contract with Universal for a sequel to “Jaws.” (The part went to Robert De Niro.)
“Jaws 2” failed to recapture the appeal of the first film, but Mr. Scheider bounced back, accepting the principal role in Bob Fosse’s autobiographical phantasmagoria of 1979, “All That Jazz.” Equipped with Mr. Fosse’s Mephistophelean beard and manic drive, Mr. Scheider’s character, Joe Gideon, gobbled amphetamines in an attempt to stage a new Broadway show while completing the editing of a film (and pursuing a parade of alluring young women) — a monumental act of self-abuse that leads to open-heart surgery. This won Mr. Scheider an Academy Award nomination in the best actor category. (Dustin Hoffman won that year, for “Kramer vs. Kramer.”)
In 1980, Mr. Scheider returned to his first love, the stage, where his performance in a production of Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” opposite Blythe Danner and Raul Julia earned him the Drama League of New York award for distinguished performance. Although he continued to be active in films, notably in Robert Benton’s “Still of the Night” (1982) and John Badham’s action spectacular “Blue Thunder” (1983), he moved from leading men to character roles, including an American spy in Fred Schepisi’s “Russia House” (1990) and a calculating Mafia don in “Romeo Is Bleeding” (1993).
One of the most memorable performances of his late career was as the sinister, wisecracking Dr. Benway in David Cronenberg’s adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s “Naked Lunch” (1991).
Living in Sag Harbor, Mr. Scheider continued to appear in films and lend his voice to documentaries, becoming, Ms. Seimer said, increasingly politically active. With the poet Kathy Engle, he helped to found the Hayground School in Bridgehampton, dedicated to creating an innovative, culturally diverse learning environment for local children. At the time of his death, Mr. Scheider was involved in a project to build a film studio in Florence, Italy, for a series about the history of the Renaissance.
Besides his wife, his survivors include three children, Christian Verrier Scheider and Molly Mae Scheider, with Ms. Seimer, and Maximillia Connelly Lord, from an earlier marriage, to Cynthia Bebout; a brother, Glenn Scheider of Summit, N.J.; and two grandchildren.
Long ass article, but RIP. :(
Aw geez!!! Good ol' AcToRs, at it again.Quote:
Besides his wife, his survivors include three children, Christian Verrier Scheider and Molly Mae Scheider, with Ms. Seimer, and Maximillia Connelly Lord, from an earlier marriage, to Cynthia Bebout; a brother, Glenn Scheider of Summit, N.J.; and two grandchildren.
Monetll's take on these notable deaths. Got him fired i heard. If so, society is worse than I thought.
I watched Montel's show every time Sylvia Browne was on. Fucking hate her.
I had no clue he got fired.
I only watched about a minute of it but the man's got a good point.
Congressman Tom Lantos died.
Tom Lantos was a Hungarian who escaped twice from concentration camps during the era of German belligerence. He had always been a firm supporter of the Jewish community and human rights. He was the guy who introduced a bill every year asking the House to condemn the Turkish genocide of Armenians.
Esophageal cancer. Apparently that's what it takes to put down a guy who escaped the death camps twice. Son of a bitch was tough.
William F. Buckley Jr. He was 82.
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Originally Posted by Tahoe
Bit too into religious conservitism for me, but a great mind and fair man.
I never thought of him as a religious conservative at all. In fact, the religious conservatives gave him fits, as did the neo-cons. He was a classical conservative.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermy
Herb Peterson, the inventor of McDonald's Egg McMuffin, passed away Tuesday at the age of 89. Herb invented the Egg McMuffin in 1972, because he loved eggs benedict.
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Charleton Heston anyone?
http://wtfdetroit.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12068Quote:
Originally Posted by MoTown
Sorry to break the news to you Glenn...
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/0...rss_topstories
Dr Dre's 20 year old son found dead in his bedroom by his mother.
Will Vinny ever be able to enjoy his birthday again?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahoe
Also, T&P.
First Duckworth, now this. Those selfish bastards, trying to ruin my birthday.