Well, the Grammys are tonight, and if all goes to plan, we should witness this very scenario!

Sad to say, Gary Carter, NY Mets catcher, lost his battle with cancer today.

He was one of the greats.

He made a big impact here locally and while even severely sick, found a way to appear at the Kick-off Reception last month, for his golf tournament that benefited Reading Counts.

I knew he was deathly sick and had stopped taking treatment for his Brain Cancer, but I didn't know he had gone into the hospital up the road from me, 2 days ago. He was the greatest type of a person, always willing to lend a hand. He will be greatly missed.

Here's a link to his charity:

As a Cubs fan, it pains me to admit this, but I wanted to be like Carter when I played. He was a true talent and a good person.

damn, Thurman Munson is dead

no one watched that version

True :D

Here's an obit that got overlooked. All the actors from "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" deserve a final bow.

Was just talking about him yesterday morning. Apparently he was supposed to do a show near here in April. Wonder if this means he's not going to make it.:eek:

Nice tits.

Here's the local take on his death.

Monkees singer Davy Jones dead at 66
By Sonja Isger and Jan Tuckwood | Breaking news, Music | February 29, 2012


Davy Jones, lead singer of the Monkees, has died, the Martin County Medical Examiner’s office confirmed this afternoon.

"The district 19 Medical Examiner’s Office has been notified of the death of Mr. Davy Jones. We are currently evaluating whether or not the Medical Examiner’s Office will take jurisdiction," according to a statement read by spokeswoman Rebecca Shortridge.

“It is quite a shock,” said Helen Kensick, Jones’ publicist of 50 years.

Kensick said he died of a heart attack this morning in Indiantown, where Jones keeps horses.

In his last conversation with The Palm Beach Post in mid-February, Davy Jones was upbeat, chatting animatedly about his three 2-year-old racehorses and his wife Jessica Pacheco, a flamenco dancer who performed in Stuart on Feb. 23.

The couple was in the middle of remodeling their beachfront condo in Hollywood.

Davy Jones and Jessica Pacheco, shortly after they were married in 2010.

They had just returned from a cruise onboard the Grand Princess, where Jones performed. It was a great family trip, Pacheco said, because Jones’ daughter, Jessica, and her son, Phoenix, 8, had joined them.

"David bought his grandson a pirate’s hat, and he wore it all over the ship," said Pacheco, who married Jones in August 2009.

They had been traveling so much for the past year, Pacheco said, that coming home to Hollywood "felt like a honeymoon."

Last summer, for their 45th anniversary, the Monkees toured in Great Britain and the United States.

After the UK leg of the tour, Jones told The Post that he had not been feeling great, but he got a stress test and the doctor told him he "had the heart of a 25-year-old."

"You know how it goes with touring – they don’t pay you to sing, they pay you to travel," he said. "The doctor says my heart’s so good, the door’s open to do any kind of exercise I want."

Jones has raced horses for years, and his favorite exercise at home is swimming in the ocean. He had performed shows in New York over Presidents’ Day weekend.

One thing's for sure-his doctor SUCKED!

Guess he's off to Davy Jones locker :D

Apparently his wife is psycho, and liked to beat on him.



Hmmmmm maybe his heart had help.

If my mom was still alive she would be devestated! However she is dead so she is happy she gets to chill with him. :)

Goodbye Davey Jones... your rendition of Day-Dream Believer on the deck of the Flying Dutchman was my favorite part of Pirates of the Caribbean 6.

Lynn D. 'Buck' Compton dies at 90; judge also known for WWII service

As a lawyer, Lynn Compton headed the three-man team that prosecuted Sirhan B. Sirhan for the slaying of Robert F. Kennedy. After he retired from the bench, he and others became known for the exploits depicted in the miniseries 'Band of Brothers.'

By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times

February 29, 2012
As a Los Angeles deputy district attorney, Lynn D. "Buck" Compton was known for heading the three-man team that successfully prosecuted Sirhan B. Sirhan for the 1968 slaying of U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.

And after then-Gov. Ronald Reagan appointed him to the 2nd District Court of Appeal in 1970, he was known as one of its most conservative jurists.

But it was long after he retired from the bench in 1990 that Compton became known for something that previously had been mentioned only in passing in newspaper articles about him: his World War II military service.

Compton was a first lieutenant in Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment in the Army's 101st Airborne Division — one of the true-life characters who gained late-in-life renown when they were portrayed in "Band of Brothers," the 2001 HBO miniseries based on historian Stephen E. Ambrose's 1992 bestseller.

Compton, who suffered a heart attack Jan. 11, died Saturday at his daughter Tracy's home in Burlington, Wash., said his family. He was 90.

After parachuting into Normandy during the early hours of D-day in June 1944, Compton was part of the assault group that destroyed the German artillery during the battle at Brecourt Manor. He fought at Carentan, participated in Operation Market Garden in Holland and helped defend Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.

Before the war was over, he had been awarded a Silver Star and a Purple Heart

"Not too many people knew about his military heroics until the miniseries," said Tracy Compton.

As her sister Syndee put it: "His career as a prosecutor and a judge overrode his military career until 'Band of Brothers' came out, and then it just went crazy. Then it became more about him being in the military rather than his being a judge or a prosecutor."

Syndee Compton said her father was surprised by suddenly being in the spotlight.

"I think it probably shocked all of them," she said. "I don't think any of them in their wildest dreams thought at 80 years of age they'd be getting this attention."

In the years after "Band of Brothers," Compton was asked to speak at local schools and at military bases in Germany and South Korea.

He also continued to receive fan mail from around the world.

His family estimated that nearly 400 people showed up in January for a 90th birthday celebration for Compton at the Skagit Regional Airport in Burlington, including children of other "Band of Brothers" veterans.

"All I can say is it's flattering — and kind of embarrassing," the Skagit Valley Herald reported Compton as saying. "We didn't expect anything more than those other guys [in the war]. We're celebrating longevity more than anything."

The crowd included four actors from "Band of Brothers": Michael Cudlitz, James Madio, Richard Speight Jr. and Neal McDonough, who portrayed Compton in the miniseries.

McDonough recalled meeting with Compton in Burlington the day before he flew to London to begin filming "Band of Brothers" and later peppering him with "phone calls at all hours" with more questions about his time during the war.

"When you play a historical figure, you have to do it right and tell the truth," McDonough told The Times this week, recalling that Compton would tell him, "I didn't really do anything; I was just doing my job."

"He'd say that's what soldiers do," said McDonough, who kept in touch with Compton and nicknamed his 6-year-old son Morgan "Little Buck" in his honor. "He did extraordinary things in his life and never took credit for it."

Tracy Compton said her father thought McDonough "did a wonderful job" portraying him and that "he laughed and said Neal was better-looking than he ever was."

Compton was born in Los Angeles on Dec. 31, 1921. He majored in physical education and minored in education at UCLA, where he lettered in both football and baseball. (Jackie Robinson was a teammate in both sports.) Compton started at guard in the 1943 Rose Bowl game against Georgia and was selected all-conference catcher while captain of the baseball team in 1942.

He also participated in the ROTC program and entered active service in February 1943 at age 21.

After the war, he became a Los Angeles police officer and worked his way through Loyola Law School. He was a detective in the Central Burglary Division before joining the district attorney's office in 1951. He was assistant district attorney when Dist. Atty. Evelle J. Younger chose him as his chief deputy in 1966.

In his 2008 memoir "Call of Duty: My Life Before, During, and After the Band of Brothers," Compton said that prosecuting Sirhan, in many ways, "was the peak" of his career in the D.A.'s office.

During the prosecution's final summation, Compton termed the case "highly overcomplicated" by psychiatric expertise. And, according to a 1969 Times account, he told the jury that the psychiatric testimony had been so confusing and conflicting that "I can be frank to admit right now as I stand here that I can't answer the question of what Sirhan's real motive was."

But, he told the jury, if they "don't buy" the psychiatric testimony, "like I don't buy it, and like [deputy district attorneys] John Howard and Dave Fitts don't buy it — then there's nothing left but plain old cold-blooded first-degree murder."

Compton also dealt with a number of high-profile cases during his years on the 2nd District Court of Appeal, including a seminal 1983 case in California regarding life support in which two doctors were accused of murder for causing the death of a man in a coma.

The patient's condition was terminal and he would never have regained consciousness. With the wife's consent, the doctors removed the patient's hydration and nutrition system.

"These were," Compton noted in his book, "the days before living wills."

He and two other judges found the doctors not guilty of criminal conduct.

Compton's wife, Donna, died in 1994. Besides his two daughters, he is survived by four grandchildren.




Lynn Compton and Neal McDonough


"A celebration of Compton's 90th birthday was held in January 2012 with nearly 200 in attendance including Band of Brothers actors Michael Cudlitz, James Madio, Neal McDonough, and Richard Speight Jr."

Ralph McQuarrie: Legendary Star Wars conceptual artist...

Damn. He was good too. Always loved his concept stuff.

Rock Guitarist Ronnie Montrose Dead at 64
 

The musician died Saturday after a long battle with cancer.

Rock guitarist Ronnie Montrose, who formed the band that bore his name and performed with some of rock's heavy hitters, has died, his booking agent said Sunday.
Montrose died Saturday at his home in Millbrae, agent Jim Douglas said. He was 64.




Rest of story here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMzQhXSuITU

Canada's Nick Zoricic dies after skicross crash

Veteran newsman Mike Wallace dead at 93
By Ashley Hayes, CNN
updated 1:54 PM EDT, Sun April 8, 2012

RIP Dick Clark :(

Just heard this on the news. Unfortunately, TMZ is the only that put this up online so far.

By Associated Press | Breaking news, Deaths, Music, TV | April 18, 2012

Thank you for the heads up.

happy new year

So this is 10 days late.
 

Jack Tramiel, Father Of Commodore 64 And An Auschwitz Survivor, Dies At 83
by Krishnadev Calamur



Jack Tramiel, the founder of Commodore International, whose iconic Commodore 64 was one of the best-selling computers of all time, has died. He was 83.

Forbes reports that Tramiel was born in Poland in 1928 to a Jewish family and sent to Auschwitz during World War II. He and father were then sent to the Ahlem labor camp near Hanover. He was rescued in 1945 and came to the U.S. two years later. It was then that he started Commodore as a typewriter business.

"Staying in the forefront of technology, his typewriters morphed into calculators, and later computers," Forbes said.

In 1982, Commodore International launched the Commodore 64, which by some accounts is the best-selling personal computer of all time. After he was forced to leave the company, he rebuilt Atari Corp. in 1984, transforming it from a maker of game consoles into a PC manufacturer, the Wall Street Journal reported.

"Jack Tramiel was an immense influence in the consumer electronics and computing industries," Martin Goldberg, a writer working on a book about the Atari brand and the early days of video games and computing with Atari Museum founder Curt Vendel, told Forbes. "A name once uttered in the same vein as Steve Jobs is [mentioned] today; his journey from concentration camp survivor to captain of industry is the stuff of legends."

Apparently shot himself.

Just read what happened to him 5 min ago. :(

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Beastie Boys legend Adam Yauch -- otherwise known as MCA -- has passed away at the age of 47. Yauch revealed that he had cancer in a salivary gland in his neck in July 2009.

Yauch was one of the founding members of hip-hop trio The Beastie Boys, along with his friends Michael Diamond (Mike D) and Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock). In 1986, The Beastie Boys released their first full-length album, "Licensed to Ill," which became the first hip hop album to top the Billboard 200.

I am in shock. This sucks.

The Boys fucking rock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE&ob=av2e

This really does suck. One of the pioneers of hip hop. A true musical legend.

^^^
somewhat of an obituary on the BB official site

They were awesome live. I saw them twice including the New Yorkers against violence show that they mentioned in that obit.

He will be missed