i knew we'd need one of these over here sooner or later...

Singer Dan Fogelberg, 56, Dies of Cancer

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20071217/D8TIV2J80.html



RIP Dan.

RIP Dan.

just like Frank.

Aww, Jeanne Carmen died. She was a classic 50's pin-up girl and my all time favorate golfer! I wish I could find a good picture of her golfing. Anyway, she was 77, and she will be greatly missed.

aww. RIP Jeanne.

RIP Jeanne.

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday outside a large gathering of her supporters where a suicide bomber also killed at least 14, doctors and a spokesman for her party said.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/2...=rss_topstories

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071227/D8TPS3D00.html



just what the world needs. one less person on the side of peace. RIP Benazir.

RIP Benazir.

Since violence and killing is the only thing those nutjobs in the Middle East know, it's no surprise when this kind of thing happens. RIP

yeah, i wasn't surprised. just deeply saddened. i've liked her since i was a kid.

oops. sorry about that. you're right... it was a pretty broad statement.

if you watch the news over here in the US it seems like it sometimes.

Sir Edmund Hillary has passed away...

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080111/D8U3IEKO3.html

he was like the most beloved man in all of New Zealand. i always admired him so much. he was actually trying to get people to clean up the mess on Everest. (lots of junk gets left behind on the mountain. air tanks, etc...) they don't make em like him anymore.

RIP Ed. you will be sorely missed.

, Ed

figure skater Christopher Bowman was found dead of a suspected drug overdose at the age of 40...

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-bowman...=la-home-center

a mere photograph doesn't do him justice.

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i loved him. what a shame. RIP Chris.

RIP Christopher and Sir Edmund.

Sir Ed was pretty old, so that wasn't a big shock, but i'm still in shock over Chris. he was younger than me.

Maila Nurmi, TV's Vampira, Dies at 85

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080115/D8U65SVG0.html

how sad. RIP Vampira.

The actor Brad Renfro died this morning.. he was 25

http://www.tmz.com/2008/01/15/brad-renfro-dies

, Brad
, Vampira

Besides Edmund Hillary, I never heard of any of those people. I'm so out of touch with the world.

But all the same, RIP to all of them.

RIP Brad and Vampira.

I thought Brad was terrific in The Client, and I always thought it was such a shame about all the drug problems he'd had since then.

Holy crap! I wasn't exactly a fan of Renfro or anything but I am shocked by this. Although I probably shouldn't be considering his past history with drugs. RIP

i just heard about Brad Renfro tonight. i don't guess i've seen any of his movies, but his name is real familiar. how sad. he was just 25.

RIP Brad.

I was really shocked by Brand Renfro, and also I didn't realise he was so young!

that's the worst part.

ok, i have 3 all at once. i'll do em in the order i heard em.

Richard Knerr, 82, Craze Creator, Dies

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/business/18knerr.html?hp



he invented the Hula Hoop, & all those other cool Wham-O toys... so even if you don't know who he was, i bet you played with some of his toys when you were a kid. RIP Richard.


Brilliant chess master, world-class eccentric Bobby Fischer dies



i totally remember his big match when i was a kid... cuz i'm old. RIP Bobby.



Ernie Holmes, who won two Super Bowls as an anchor of Pittsburgh's famed "Steel Curtain" defense in the 1970s, died in a car crash. He was 59.

http://sports.myway.com/news/01182008/v6327.html

i don't remember him, but maybe some of you sports fans will. i bet galoot will know him. RIP Ernie.

RIP Richard, Bobby, & Ernie.

man, there sure are a lot of people dying lately.

'Newhart' Actress Suzanne Pleshette Dies

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080120/D8U9K9H80.html

she was WAY more that a Newhart actress. she was in tons of stuff. i always loved her as a kid, cuz of her husky voice & sassy attitude. she rocked.

RIP Suzanne. you can be with Tom now...

She was one of my dad's favorite actresses. She will certainly be missed.

RIP Suzanne.

aww. he has good taste in actresses.

Holy crap, Heath Ledger died;

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22788914/

I know! I heard it on the radio a few minutes ago, I can't believe it!

Same here, I heard it on my way home from work. I was really looking forward to seeing him as the Joker in 'The Dark Knight', I suppose it's a great final role... but it's a shame to see him go when his career was really taking off. So young too, he was only 28.

it made me real sad to hear of Heath's passing. made my stomach hurt. He was an amazing actor. I feel so bad for his little girl, Matilda. She will grow up without a father now.

I am still in shock about it. I probably will be shocked for a while.. I a still shocked about Anna Nicole..

, Heath! You were very loved!

Heard about Heath on a few other forums already, and though I never knew him or anything, still sucks when a young person like that dies. Good thing they finished filming the Batman movie already, but some other movie he was a part of might not be so lucky.

I heard about this on the news this afternoon -- I couldn't believe it! I haven't seen too many of his movies, but I loved the guy in Casanova and I'm Not There.

He will certainly be missed. RIP Heath.

He was doing the new Terry Gilliam movie...

Heath

I'm just sick about this.

Klim, Bobby and I went to the movies tonight, and they had this poster



Its very interesting. but it made me very sad. like my puppy was injured...

Also, i read that his parents were back home in Australia and saw it on the news. Thats how they found out...

Again, Heath

it sucks that his parents had to find out on the news.

i was shocked too. RIP Heath.



when i first heard i chiched over to Headline News, but i had to chich away cuz the people talkin on there were morons.

yea, i found out by a friends myspace bulletin... it said RIP heath ledger... and i am a gossip colomn reader so i went on a read. i was shocked. I was like.. "omg guys, heath ledger died"

we all really liked him and cant wait to see the dark knight

i couldn't check the internet cuz galoot was on the computer. when i checked Headline News on TV they were talking about him. i didn't like the stuff they were saying. it was a bunch of hearsay & conjecture, & it was mostly all negative. he was barely even cold yet & they were all acting like he was a junkie. i read a lot of gossip mags, & i've never read anything like that about him. now all of a sudden he was a junkie?

i'd rather wait until the true facts come out. junkie or not, he's dead & nothing's bringing him back. what good does it do to drag his name through the mud like that? he has a family who loved him. that would have had to be really painful for them.

i think it was accidental.

There were some horrible comments being made about him on the BBC's forums, really mean spirited, saying his death didn't matter and shouldn't have even been on the news.

I run a website for the actor Alan Tudyk who starred with him in A Knight's Tale and I've had so many emails from people saying how sorry they were to hear the news.

i think it's bad karma to speak ill of the dead.

alot of sites that I read are pricks. so are most news stations. and this church... they plan to picket his funeral...

and this all pisses me of. Sorry for the language, but it really does.

This guy, who was an amazing father and a great actor is dead. All people can do now is mock him. and it pisses me off. Why cant people respect the passing of someone?
People are mad because he played a homosexual.. why is that even a big deal? he was portraying someone. and he did an amazing job. He wasnt gay in real life. And it shouldnt be a big deal if he was.

The news just needs to back off and let his family grieve. They lost A father, a son, and a brother.

i agree.

yeah.

how could a junkie do all that work so professionally? i don't buy it.


you know... even if he DID commit suicide on purpose (which i'm sure he didn't) i wouldn't hold it against him... or anyone else who does. i just consider myself blessed that i have never known the kind of pain that could drive someone to do that.

geez, i hadn't heard about most of these.

to all the recently passed.

BigJohn

there's been a lot of dying goin on lately.

yea, it would be nice if the dying cycle would stop for now. its saddening

yeah.

last night on The Soup, Joel made a really nice comment about Heath right at the end of the show. if it made it onto my DVR i'll post it when i get time. he rocks.

this is kinda shaky cuz i didn't use my tripod, but you'll get the jist.

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Well, that was nice! Thanks for posting.

no problem.

i was so glad when somebody finally said something nice.

it's got almost 9,000 views on YouTube since i uploaded it this morning. everybody's all like... YES. not one negative comment. it gives you hope for humanity in a way.

thanks for posting, Biff

The former former indonesain president, Suharto (only one name) died.

he was a dictator.. so I really dont know if he should RIP... just thought I would let yall know...

http://buzzgossip.blogspot.com/2008/01/for...t-has-died.html

i saw that on MyWay. i have no idea who he was. i don't know if he should RIP either.

Christian Brando died.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=4195238&page=1

i had no idea till i read it on Melissa's blog.

RIP Christian.

RIP Christian.

I meant to put the Christian Brando thing here, but it totally forgot..

, Christian

And Biff, I am flattered that you read my blog, thanks!

no problem.

Roy Scheider died. he was great. RIP Roy.

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080211/D8UO1NJ00.html



we just watched Jaws last weekend.

RIP Roy.

it's weird that he died in my state... in the town where my kids live.

i knew our children's hospital was really great, but i didn't know about that other one...

Mike Smith of The Dave Clark Five has passed away. it's a pretty sad story.

http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index....=rss_topstories

RIP Mike.

Another who passed away this week was Omaha-born musician Buddy Miles (from congestive heart failure).
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/articl...t_id=1003716707

RIP Mike and Buddy.

RIP Buddy.

there were a couple of other people last week, but i didn't think anyone here would know them, & they weren't musicians or actors, so i skipped over em.

The Family Curse continued already as last week my uncle's mother died (who we all called "Granny", though I'm not technically related to her) and just heard today my Aunt Francie died. So after attending one funeral this past Friday and Saturday, have to attend another Thursday and Friday. The curse has only had two people die each year since 2001, but never this close together this fast. Hopefully there won't end up being a record year for our family.

Sorry to hear about your family's losses, pich.

RIP Granny & Francie.

dang, Pichu!

RIP Granny & Francie.

I just heard that both sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke (90) and director Anthony Minghella (54) have passed away. (I read Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey and 2010 back when I was in middle school; and I love Minghella's film Truly Madly Deeply.)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/ap_on_en_ot/obit_clarke

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/english_pa...t/news/1684431/

RIP Arthur & Anthony.

thanks for posting about em, GR. Arthur's passing isn't so bad, since he was 90, but Anthony was way too young to go.

RIP Arthur & Anthony.

British actor Paul Scofield (86) passed away this week, too. (He was great in A Man For All Seasons and Quiz Show.)

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1013162-ma...s/news/1716532/

RIP Paul.

I didn't find out until recently, but guitar player Jim Jones died a few weeks ago. Actually it was on my dad's birthday. He is probably best remembered as the guitar player for Pere Ubu during their pop period during the 80s and 90s. He was always my favorate Ubu guitar player. I always thought he had a very unique style and he really took the band in a different direction. He will be missed.

aww. RIP Jim Jones.

RIP Jim.

Richard Widmark has passed away.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...ml?hpid=entnews



he acted in tons of stuff, & was a really classy guy. RIP Richard.


also, Herb Peterson, the guy who invented the Egg McMuffin, has passed.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hXGNuzG...2rkXVgD8VLFVAG3



i've never had an Egg McMuffin in my whole life. it would be cool to be known for something so famous though. RIP Egg McMuffin man.

RIP Richard and Herb.

Charleton Heston died.

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080407/D8VSR7GG0.html

i wasn't a fan of his politics for the most part, but i've seen The Ten Commandments like 20+ times... & galoot could watch the Planet Of The Apes movies all day long.

did you know that he marched with Martin Luther King for civil rights? that fact really surprised me.

RIP Charleton. you were a multifaceted guy, that's for sure.



(i'd rather remember him without a gun in his hands)

RIP Chuck.

E Street Band member Danny Federici dies at 58

Apr 18, 4:45 AM (ET)

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080418/D90460O80.html

NEW YORK (AP) - Danny Federici, the longtime keyboard player for Bruce Springsteen whose stylish work helped define the E Street Band's sound on hits from "Hungry Heart" through "The Rising," died Thursday. He was 58.

Federici, who had battled melanoma for three years, died at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. News of his death was posted late Thursday on Springsteen's official Web site.

He last performed with Springsteen and the band last month, appearing during portions of a March 20 show in Indianapolis.

"Danny and I worked together for 40 years - he was the most wonderfully fluid keyboard player and a pure natural musician. I loved him very much ... we grew up together," Springsteen said in a statement posted on his Web site.


Springsteen concerts scheduled for Friday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Saturday in Orlando were postponed.

Federici was born in Flemington, N.J., a long car ride from the Jersey shore haunts where he first met kindred musical spirit Springsteen in the late 1960s. The pair often jammed at the Upstage Club in Asbury Park, N.J., a now-defunct after-hours club that hosted the best musicians in the state.

It was Federici, along with original E Street Band drummer Vini Lopez, who first invited Springsteen to join their band.

By 1969, the self-effacing Federici - often introduced in concert by Springsteen as "Phantom Dan" - was playing with the Boss in a band called Child. Over the years, Federici joined his friend in acclaimed shore bands Steel Mill, Dr. Zoom and the Sonic Boom and the Bruce Springsteen Band.

Federici became a stalwart in the E Street Band as Springsteen rocketed from the boardwalk to international stardom. Springsteen split from the E Streeters in the late '80s, but they reunited for a hugely successful tour in 1999.

"Bruce has been supportive throughout my life," Federici said in a recent interview with Backstreets magazine. "I've had my ups and downs, and I've certainly given him a run for his money, and he's always been there for me."

Federici played accordion on the wistful "4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" from Springsteen's second album, and his organ solo was a highlight of Springsteen's first top 10 hit, "Hungry Heart." His organ coda on the 9/11-inspired Springsteen song "You're Missing" provided one of the more heart-wrenching moments on "The Rising" in 2002.

In a band with larger-than-life characters such as saxophonist Clarence Clemons and bandana-wrapped guitarist "Little" Steven Van Zandt, Federici was content to play in his familiar position to the side of the stage. But his playing was as vital to Springsteen's live show as any instrument in the band.

Federici released a pair of solo albums that veered from the E Street sound and into soft jazz. Bandmates Nils Lofgren on guitar and Garry Tallent on bass joined Federici on his 1997 debut, "Flemington." In 2005, Federici released its follow-up, "Out of a Dream."

Federici had taken a leave of absence during the band's tour in November 2007 to pursue treatment for melanoma, and was temporarily replaced by veteran musician Charles Giordano.

At the time, Springsteen described Federici as "one of the pillars of our sound and has played beside me as a great friend for more than 40 years. We all eagerly await his healthy and speedy return."

Besides his work with Springsteen, Federici played on albums by an impressive roster of other artists: Van Zandt, Joan Armatrading, Graham Parker, Gary U.S. Bonds and Garland Jeffreys.

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On the Net:

Bruce Springsteen: http://www.brucespringsteen.net







58 is too damn young. RIP Danny.

I heard about this on NPR this morning... He will certainly be missed.

RIP Danny.

what's weird is that yesterday morning when i was checking my TMBG alerts, there was a story about accordion players that mentioned him... then i went to my news page & found out that he had passed away. i was all like WTF?

check your moles, everybody! it's totally cureable if you catch it early.

Eddie Arnold has passed away at the age of 89. you probably don't know him, but I do. he was a country singer, & i grew up on his stuff.

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/peop...d050808.article



RIP Eddie. i loved your songs.

RIP Eddie.

I was really sad about Danny Federici. Considering how many people were in the E Street Band and how long they've been together I'm a little surprised that it took this long for one of them to die. Bruce had a really nice tribute to him on the website.

it made me really sad too.

TV's 'Laugh-in' comic Dick Martin dies at 86

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080525/D90SI0480.html

this one made me really sad, cuz i remember that show. (geezer that i am)



RIP Dick. you were a funny, funny guy.

RIP Dick.

Robert Knox, an 18-year-old actor set to appear in the next Harry Potter film, was fatally stabbed outside a London pub on Saturday.

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b139200_ha...=rss_topstories

18 is way too young. RIP Robert.

RIP Robert.

Director and actor Sydney Pollack dies at 73

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080527/D90TS0RG1.html



RIP Sydney.

He will be missed... RIP Sydney.

Sad day in hockey today, especially for the Canucks fans. 21-year old rookie Luc Bourdon died in a motorcycle accident today after only playing 27 games for Vancouver this year, the rest of the season down in Manitoba (their farm team). Story here on it. RIP Luc.

oh man, that sucks.

RIP Luc.
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Harvey Korman died.



http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080530/D90VRNEO0.html

i don't know how many of you will know who he was... but if you've ever seen a Mel Brooks movie, you've surely laughed at him. he was hilarious! when i was a kid, i was hooked on the Carol Burnett Show. he was on there. i've loved him forever.

RIP Harvey.

I heard about Harvey this morning on NPR. (Loved him in Blazing Saddles -- "That's HEDLEY Lamarr!")

And that's a terrible shame about Luc; 21 is too young.

RIP Harvey and Luc.

Designer Yves Saint Laurent dies at 71

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080602/D911PT5G0.html



RIP Yves.

Bo Diddley dead at 79

http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=317054>1=7702



I'm deeply saddened by this. Bo Diddley was just about the coolest guy in the history of music. He was way cooler than Elvis any day.

that's so sad!!!

RIP Bo. you rocked.