The RIP Thread

[amtronic]

I felt proud to share a first name with Robin Williams. It made up for every damn time I heard Robin Hood / Robin and Batman / Robin Red Breast throughout my life. That he had probably heard it too and that was something we shared. What breaks my heart is that they performed an autopsy on him. They cut him up. And I am sure of one thing, they did not find his funny bone. Because he had given that to us long ago.






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[elmerfudd]

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[Elston Gunn]

Don Pardo, the TV and radio announcer whose exuberant baritone heralded the opening of Saturday Night Live for all but one of its 38 seasons, has died, NBC confirmed to Mashable on Monday night. He was 96.

[Elston Gunn]

Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE ( 29 August 1923 – 24 August 2014) was an English actor, film director, film producer, and entrepreneur. He was the President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

As a film director and producer, he won two Academy Awards for Gandhi in 1983. He also won four BAFTA Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. As an actor, he is perhaps best known for his roles in Brighton Rock, The Great Escape, 10 Rillington Place, Miracle on 34th Street, and Jurassic Park.

[The Godfather]

I liked Joan Rivers.

[Elston Gunn]

[zippitydodah]

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If I was Bogart, I'd have a massive hardon while having a massive coronary at the same time! WOW!

[zippitydodah]

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That's the Joan I remember laughing with so often! DAMN she'll be missed.

[Elston Gunn]

You've probably never heard of him, but you have heard him. Sax player for the Rolling Stones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59K2kF6o9Tk

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Saxophonist Bobby Keys, a lifelong rock 'n' roller who toured with Buddy Holly, played on recordings by John Lennon and laid down one of the all-time blowout solos on the Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar," has died. He was 70.

Keys' career dated to the 1950s, when as a teenager he played with fellow Lubbock native Buddy Holly and The Crickets. He met the Stones in the mid-'60s while they were on the same bill at a state fair in San Antonio, Texas, and was distraught that the British rockers had recorded a cover of Holly's "Not Fade Away."

"I said, 'Hey, that was Buddy's song,'" Keys recalled in Richards' memoir "Life," published in 2010. "Who are these pasty-faced, funny-talking, skinny-legged guys to come over here and cash in on Buddy's song?"

But once Keys listened more closely, he decided the Stones were playing "actual rock and roll," an opinion the Stones more than shared about Keys. He first recorded with them in the late 1960s and toured and recorded with them off and on over the following decades, his work featured on three of the group's most acclaimed albums: "Let It Bleed," ''Sticky Fingers" and "Exile on Main Street."

Definitely didn't know him by name, but man that sucks.