Famous person is dead. R.I.P. [R]

Beat me!

 

Boston Celtics legend John Havlicek has died at the age of 79.


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I hated and respected the Celtics of that era.

 

NPR is reporting that film director John Singleton has died at 51. Damn

https://news.yahoo.com/john-singleton-maker-boyz-n-hood-dies-51-203018523.html

NEW YORK (AP) — Director John Singleton, who made one of Hollywood's most memorable debuts with the Oscar-nominated "Boyz N the Hood" and continued over the following decades to probe the lives of black communities in his native Los Angeles and beyond, has died. He was 51.

Singleton's family said Monday that he died after being taken off life support, about two weeks after the director suffered a major stroke.

Singleton was in his early 20s, just out of the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, when he wrote, directed and produced "Boyz N the Hood." Based on Singleton's upbringing and shot in his old neighborhood, the low-budget production starred Cuba Gooding Jr. and Ice Cube and centered on three friends in South Central Los Angeles, where college aspirations competed with the pressures of gang life. "Boyz N the Hood" was a critical and commercial hit, given a 20-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival and praised as a groundbreaking extension of rap to the big screen, a realistic and compassionate take on race, class, peer pressure and family. Singleton would later call it a "rap album on film."​

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PS , it was a memory that I shared....

 

"Chewbacca Actor Peter Mayhew From ‘Star Wars’ Dies at 74" (Variety.com - Thursday, 5/2/19)

 

He's such a great athlete. RIP Jimmy Banks.

 

Yeah my cousin played with him with the Milwaukee Wave and said he was very quick. Too bad we didn’t get to see him playing in MLS....

 

Jim Fowler, Host of 'Wild Kingdom', Dies at 89 - Hollywood Reporter
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/n...utual-omahas-wild-kingdom-host-was-89-1209218

 

"While Jim wrestles the adolescent Hippo Ill secure the helicopter" (Read in Marlin Perkins voice)

 

Talk about effective corporate branding. The only instance where a corporate name in front of a show or event doesn't sound obnoxious.

 

I just saw this. His work occupies a very large fraction of my shelving.

Feeling like suicide is the best option sucks.

 

It helped that it was something as boring as "Mutual of Omaha" and not "Mountain Dew XTreme" or something like that.

 

or Red Bull New York.

 

Chrysler Theater.

20 Mule Team Borax might as well have been in front of "Death Valley Days."

 

This was great stuff. RIP

 

And one of the greatest theme music ever, IMO. Short, but gorgeous. I share it a lot.
Starts around 00:55

 

Hollywood legend Doris Day dies at age 97

 

A good way to spend your mid-day:

 

I remember their jingle better:
"Mutual of Omaha is people, you can count on when the going's tough"