Celebrity Death Thread 2010

[Yuri-G]

86? Obviously didn't eat his own food.

I really can't come up with anything better than this.

and the sickest part of all is, I'm now craving Taco Bell. but they're all in the (relative) ghetto around here, right next to Popeye's and Wendy's.

[Kyreth]

should have taken the bus

Apparently, he was crossing the road to the bus stop when he was smooshed.

[MaachaQ]

I never even watched beyond season 2 of Survivor... ^^;

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?ne...976&GT1=28103&

'Survivor: Palau' contestant Jennifer Lyon dies at 37
Jan. 20, 2010, 2:16 PM EST

Zap2it.com

Jennifer Lyon, fourth-place finisher on "Survivor: Palau," has succumbed to breast cancer at the age of 37.

Lyon was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer in 2005 and shortly thereafter had a double mastectomy and started undergoing chemotherapy. Austin Carty, a contestant on "Survivor: Panama," briefly dated Lyon three years ago and told US Magazine Wednesday (Jan. 20) that "Jen was a genuinely selfless, sweet-natured person. She always had a smile. She cared about every person. This has really rocked the "Survivor" community."

"Survivor: Palau" was the season Tom Westman took home the prize. Jenn was Tom's ally going into the Final Four and when the vote was split between Jenn and Ian, there was a fire-building challenge to decide the winner. Ian pulled it out and Jenn finished in 4th place.

Jenn's website is largely dedicated to various charitable foundations, as she has been advocating for breast cancer research since her diagnosis in 2005.

[pahnphoenix]

Well, I know one guy who is happy about this:

Spoiler: show

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...JinKazama2.jpg

i would have liked this better if it was the creepy kazuya smile.

[aduidarnenye]

Robert B Parker died yesterday

http://shelf-life.ew.com/2010/01/20/...spenser-novel/

Robert B. Parker, who died at his desk, was working on a Spenser novel

The sudden death yesterday of crime-genre master Robert B. Parker caught everyone by surprise, including Helen Brann, his agent of 37 years. “It was a complete shock to all of us,” Brann told EW. “His wife, Joan, had breakfast with him [Monday] morning, went out for her walk, came back an hour later, and he was sitting at his writing desk, dead.”

According to Brann, Parker was 30-40 pages into a new novel featuring Spenser, his iconic Boston-based PI, when he suffered what appears to be a fatal heart attack. However, due to his notorious prolific writing habit, there is substantial Parker material still to be published. According to Chris Pepe, his longtime editor at Putnam, there are two books set for release early this year (Split Image, a mystery featuring Jesse Stone, will be out next month, while Blue-Eyed Devil, a Western, hits bookstores later this spring) as well as a couple more in the pipeline. Brann says the author’s tremendous productivity was due to his strict, Updikean writing rate of five pages a day.

“Anybody that has that kind of output, some books are better than others,” she admits. “They weren’t all at the peak of his form, but many were. And at his peak form, he couldn’t be beat. If there’s any justice in the world, he’s got to be up there with the best. With Hammett, Chandler, MacDonald, and all them.”

But it wasn’t just his command of the genre that made him such an important figure. His influence helped birth an entire new generation of novelists. “Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly are just two people who I see must have gotten something from him,” says Pepe. “I honestly just don’t see how there’s a working crime writer today who hasn’t learned something from Robert Parker.”

[kuronosan]

I hope the key to solving his death is in his book.

[pohibaba]

Very sad day indeed. Quote from The Examiner.

American human rights hero, Boston University historian, political activist, early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and leading faculty and critic of BU president John Silber, Dr. Howard Zinn died of a heart attack today in Santa Monica, California.
Dr. Zinn was a human rights defender active in the civil rights, civil liberties and anti-war movements in the United States, and wrote extensively on all three subjects.

Mark Feeney of the Boston Globe Staff wrote, "For Dr. Zinn, activism was a natural extension of the revisionist brand of history he taught. Dr. Zinn's best-known book, A People's History of the United States (1980), had for its heroes not the Founding Fathers -- many of them slaveholders and deeply attached to the status quo, as Dr. Zinn was quick to point out -- but rather the farmers of Shays' Rebellion and the union organizers of the 1930s."
Dr Zinn wrote in his autobiography, 'You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train' (1994):

From the start, my teaching was infused with my own history. I would try to be fair to other points of view, but I wanted more than 'objectivity'; I wanted students to leave my classes not just better informed, but more prepared to relinquish the safety of silence, more prepared to speak up, to act against injustice wherever they saw it. This, of course, was a recipe for trouble."

Dr. Zinn opposed the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq, and wrote several books about it. He asserted that the U.S. will end its war with, and occupation of, Iraq when resistance within the military increases, the same way resistance within the military contributed to ending the U.S. war in Vietnam.
Dr. Zinn compared demand by a growing number of contemporary U.S. military families to end the war in Iraq to "the Confederacy in the Civil War, when the wives of soldiers rioted because their husbands were dying and the plantation owners were profiting from the sale of cotton, refusing to grow grains for civilians to eat."
Dr. Zinn argued that "There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people for a purpose which is unattainable."
Jean-Christophe Agnew, Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, told the Yale Daily News in May 2007 that Zinn’s historical work is "highly influential and widely used".[29] He observed that it is not unusual for prominent professors such as Zinn to weigh in on current events, citing a resolution opposing the war in Iraq that was recently ratified by the American Historical Association.[30] Agnew added, “In these moments of crisis, when the country is split — so historians are split.
Dr. Zinn authored more than 20 books. He died January 27, 2010 of a heart attack at age 87, traveling in Santa Monica, California. He is survived by his daughter Myla Kabat-Zinn.

[Lochnessmonster]

The guy from Johnny Quest?

[pohibaba]

The guy from Johnny Quest?

Yes, that guy died. You win a prize.

[Correction]

celeb death thread is the new +1 spam jollies thread, I guess.

[Hex]

Zelda Rubinstein died yesterday. She was the psychic in the Poltergeist movies and hosted World's Scariest Places also.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8484629.stm

[Tomiko]

Zelda Rubinstein died yesterday. She was the psychic in the Poltergeist movies and hosted World's Scariest Places also.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8484629.stm

Kinda creepy since I just picked up Poltergeist yesterday when I randomly saw it.

[Eticket]

oops

[Correction]

eticket fails at scrolling down.

J.D. Salinger is dead.

[Fievel]

Oh wtf D: how didnt I hear about this

[antihero]

http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/showthread.php?t=86752

[Eticket]

dammit I searched for death and didn't see it. Should have searched celebrity. lol

From my other post

NEW YORK (AP) — J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose The Catcher in the Rye shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91.

Salinger died of natural causes at his home on Wednesday, the author's son said in a statement from Salinger's literary representative. He had lived for decades in self-imposed isolation in the small, remote house in Cornish, N.H.

http://tinyurl.com/y8jk9w8

I need to read Catcher in the Rye again. I didn't really get into it the first time.

[Ksandra]

http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/showthread.php?t=86752

^

[Qalbert]

merged

[aduidarnenye]

I wonder if he had any unpublished manuscripts hanging about.

I'll have to go watch 'Field of Dreams' now.