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Post by jimsteel on Sept 19, 2016 14:34:05 GMT -5
Adult Swim animator and voice actor C. Martin Croker has died. Croker was best known for playing both Zorak and Moltar on Cartoon Network’s talk show spoof Space Ghost Coast To Coast—the series that essentially established the template for what would become Adult Swim. Details haven’t been released, but the tone of DeMarco and MC Chris’ posts suggest that Croker’s death was “sudden.” He was 54
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Post by jimsteel on Sept 19, 2016 14:38:17 GMT -5
American actress Charmian Carr, who played the eldest von Trapp daughter Liesl in the film The Sound of Music, has died aged 73.
Carr died in Los Angeles after complications from a rare form of dementia, her representative said.
In her role in the 1965 film, she famously performed the song Sixteen Going on Seventeen.
After leaving the film industry, Carr ran an interior design firm in California.
Her mother had arranged for her to audition for the role, although she had had no singing or acting lessons.
Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music was a massive hit, at the time surpassing Gone with the Wind as the highest-grossing film of all time.
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Post by jimsteel on Sept 21, 2016 9:25:53 GMT -5
Rapper Shawty Lo dead at 40
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Post by jimsteel on Sept 24, 2016 22:38:42 GMT -5
Bill Nunn, who appeared as Radio Raheem in Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing," died Saturday in Pittsburgh, according to Lee. He was 62.
In addition to "Do the Right Thing," Nunn also appeared Lee's 1988 film "School Daze."
Born in Pittsburgh in 1953, Nunn graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, also the alma mater of Lee, in 1976.
Nunn was also known for his appearances in Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man" trilogy, playing Joseph "Robbie" Robertson.
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Post by jimsteel on Sept 25, 2016 10:46:57 GMT -5
Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez was killed in a boat crash early on Sunday in Florida, the U.S. Coast Guard said. He was 24 years old.
"The Miami Marlins organization is devastated by the loss of Jose Fernandez," the Major League Baseball team said. "Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this very difficult time."
Fernandez was one of three people killed in the boating incident off Miami Beach, the Coast Guard said. The identities of the two other crash victims were not released.
Emergency crews responded to reports of a 33-foot center console boat overturned on a jetty at about 3:30 a.m. local time (0730 GMT) on Sunday near the Government Cut shipping channel and South Pointe Park, where they found the three deceased passengers, the Coast Guard said.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is investigating the incident.
The Marlins canceled its game against the Atlanta Braves on Sunday due to the death of Fernandez, who was the National League rookie of the year in 2013.
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Post by jimsteel on Sept 25, 2016 19:58:16 GMT -5
Golf legend Arnold Palmer passed away at 87
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Post by jimsteel on Sept 26, 2016 18:09:52 GMT -5
Herschell Gordon Lewis, the “Godfather of Gore”, who passed away at the age of 87. No reason for his passing has yet been released but we’ll update as more information comes in. The announcement was broken by Something Weird Video.
Lewis is the man responsible for such films as Blood Feast, Two Thousand Maniacs!, A Taste of Blood, The Gruesome Twosome, Scum of the Earth!, and She-Devils on Wheels, which is only a few of the titles he worked on. Lewis took an extended hiatus from directing after 1972’s The Gore Gore Girls only to return for 2002’s Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat, the sequel to the 1963 film that is widely considered to be the first splatter film.
Herschell Gordon Lewis was one of Bloody-Disgusting’s first interviews, conducted in 2002. You can read it here.
We send our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Lewis. We also want to send our deepest gratitude to a director whose films were the foundation and inspiration for countless filmmakers since.
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Post by jimsteel on Oct 9, 2016 12:46:24 GMT -5
CINCINNATI -- Local boxing great Aaron Pryor, voted the "Greatest Junior Welterweight of the Century" by the Associated Press, died early Sunday. He was 60 years old.
Known by his nickname "The Hawk," Pryor was the World Boxing Association Junior Welterweight Champion from 1980 to 1983 and the International Boxing Federation Junior Welterweight Champion from 1983 to 1985.
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Post by jimsteel on Oct 12, 2016 22:07:44 GMT -5
Tommy Ford -- who played Tommy on the '90s hit show "Martin" -- has died ... TMZ has learned.
Tommy passed away Wednesday in an Atlanta hospital surrounded by family and friends.
As we reported, Ford had been on life support after an aneurysm ruptured in his abdomen. He was initially hospitalized Sunday, and his health had declined since. Family made the decision to turn off support this afternoon.
Ford played Martin Lawrence's best friend for all 5 seasons of the show
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Post by jimsteel on Oct 14, 2016 22:16:33 GMT -5
Coronation actress Jean Alexander - famous for her headscarf and curlers in the role of Hilda Ogden - died yesterday just three days after her 90th birthday.
The actress spent 23 years on the soap as the archetypal working class Northern woman.
The character was hard-edged busybody but furiously house-proud, particularly of the flying duck ornaments which adorned a mural - or ‘muriel’, as Hilda told guests - in her front room.
Jean passed away peacefully in her hospital bed after being admitted to on Tuesday.
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