Celeb (and Celeb SO's) Obit Thread

[Grouchy]

I remember her in Preminger's Angel Face and So Long at the Fair. Good actress. Classic beauty.

[Spinal]

Black Narcissus is what immediately comes to mind. She also made a great Ophelia.

[Spinal]

Ack! Howard Zinn.

[bac0n]

Makes me tempted to pick up my graphic novel version of The Peoples' History of American Empire, but every time I do so, I wind up feeling like shit within a few frames.

Still, his voice will be missed.

[number8]

Zelda Rubinstein

[Grouchy]

Adam from "Bonanza" died.

It's funny learning that he hated the character and the show, and considered Adam "a grown man who has to get permission from his Pa for everything".

By the way, I watched Bonanza as a kid (my mom introduced it to me) and Adam was my favorite. When the broadcast got to the point where he left the series, I lost interest completely.

[Mara]

Zelda Rubinstein

A real character. Sad to hear.

[shaun]

J.D. Salinger

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...012803177.html

[Mara]

Wow. Talk about a giant.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/book...ex.html?hpt=T1

[Grouchy]

I bet now they'll start publishing every torn, shit-stained page they can dig up from his drawers.

[Mara]

I have to admit, I'm reeling a little from this one. Not that he didn't live a long life, but he was such an... institution?

[ledfloyd]

I bet now they'll start publishing every torn, shit-stained page they can dig up from his drawers.

from his daughter's memoir inre: his manuscripts "A red mark meant, if I die before I finish my work, publish this 'as is,' blue meant publish but edit first, and so on."

it was a rather critical memoir though and she claimed he drank his urine among other things, so who knows how true that is or if he hasn't changed his mind and burned everything since then. it will be interesting to find out what he's done the last 45 years though. and new material perhaps?

it's strange, literary deaths always hit me the hardest.

[Mara]

it's strange, literary deaths always hit me the hardest.

Amen to that.

[Kurosawa Fan]

:cry:

Salinger passing is indeed a sad bit of news. R.I.P.

I bet now they'll start publishing every torn, shit-stained page they can dig up from his drawers.

Someone told me he gave his daughter permission to publish quite a bit of his work, telling her which were finished and which weren't.

[Glass Co.]

Amen to that.

I also concur. English major-itis I like to call it.

It was a definite pipe dream but I was honestly hoping to meet the man one day. Didn't know he was that old. :sad:

[Grouchy]

Someone told me he gave his daughter permission to publish quite a bit of his work, telling her which were finished and which weren't.

And then he sipped a cold glass of urine.

I also didn't know he was on his 90s.

[Ezee E]

If he didn't mean for some of his work to be released, and they were, would you still read it?

[Mara]

If he didn't mean for some of his work to be released, and they were, would you still read it?

Honoring the wishes of the dead isn't something I've ever particularly understood.

[NickGlass]

Well, cheers to my moniker namesake. Remember what Franny said about Wally (and, broadly, humanity)--well, it most certainly does not apply to you, Mr. Salinger.

"You've met him about twenty times, for God's sake. Wally Campbell. Jesus. If you've met him once, you've met him--"

"Oh. I remember. . . . Listen, don't hate me because I can't remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else." Franny made her voice stop. It sounded to her cavilling and bitchy, and she felt a wave of self-hatred that, quite literally, made her forehead begin to perspire again. But her voice picked up again, in spite of herself. "I don't mean there's anything horrible about him or anything like that. It's just that for four solid years I've kept seeing Wally Campbells wherever I go. I know when they're going to be charming, I know when they're going to start telling you some really nasty gossip about some girl that lives in your dorm, I know when they're going to ask me what I did over the summer, I know when they're going to pull up a chair and straddle it backward and start bragging in a terribly, terribly quiet voice--or name-dropping in a terribly quiet, casual voice. There's an unwritten law that people in a certain social or financial bracket can name-drop as much as they like just as long as they say something terribly disparaging about the person as soon as they've dropped his name--that he's a bastard or a nymphomaniac or takes dope all the time, or something horrible." She broke off again. She was quiet for a moment, turning the ashtray in her fingers and being careful not to look up and see Lane's expression. "I'm sorry," she said. "It isn't just Wally Campbell. I'm just picking on him because you mentioned him. And because he just looks like somebody that spent the summer in Italy or someplace."

"He was in France last summer, for your information," Lane stated."

[Glass Co.]

If he didn't mean for some of his work to be released, and they were, would you still read it?

This goes for every single work by Franz Kafka.

[Watashi]

He was the John Swartzwelder of the literary world.

R.I.P.

[number8]

Ah, Onion. Awesome as always.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news...nies_mourn_j_d

[Mara]

Ah, Onion. Awesome as always.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news...nies_mourn_j_d

Brilliant.

[Morris Schæffer]

RIP Jaws Producer David Brown

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/43870

[Skitch]

Ian Carmichael