The Rest In Peace & Remembrance Thread

Australian film, TV actor Michael Pate dies at 88

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — Australian actor Michael Pate, who appeared in more than 50 films and was a regular guest star on American TV shows in the 1950s and 60s, has died of respiratory failure at age 88, health officials said Tuesday.

Pate died late Monday at Gosford Hospital on the central coast of New South Wales after being admitted with pneumonia.

Born in Sydney in 1920, Pate began his career as a writer and broadcaster for Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio, before moving to the United States.

He spent almost 20 years there, guest starring in various Westerns and a number of popular TV shows including "Batman," "Mission: Impossible," "Get Smart" and "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."

ABC quoted an earlier interview with Pate in which he said he had worked with "some marvelous people," including Marlon Brando, David Niven, John Wayne and Randolph Scott.

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Singer-actor Jerry Reed dies at the age of 71
Sep 2, 1:47 PM (ET)
By JOHN GEROME

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Jerry Reed, a singer who appeared in the "Smokey and the Bandit" movies, has died of complications from emphysema at age 71, his longtime booking agent said Tuesday.

Carrie Moore-Reed, who is no relation to the star, said Reed died early Monday morning.

Reed was a gifted guitarist who later became a songwriter, singer and actor.

As a singer in the 1970s and early 1980s, he had a string of hits that included "Amos Moses,""When You're Hot, You're Hot,""East Bound and Down," and "The Bird."

In the mid-1970s, he began acting in movies such as "Smokey and the Bandit" with Burt Reynolds, "Gator""Hot Stuff" and "High-Ballin'."

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Don LaFontaine, voice of movie trailers, dies
Sep 2, 1:50 PM (ET)

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Don LaFontaine, the voice behind thousands of Hollywood movie trailers, has died. He was 68.

LaFontaine's agent Vanessa Gilbert says the voiceover artist died Monday as a result of complications from the treatment of an ongoing illness at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

LaFontaine has been a fixture in Hollywood for decades, working on about 5,000 movie trailers. Much of his fame stems from his trademark movie-trailer catch phrase, "In a world where..."

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Ike Pappas, who broadcast Oswald death, dead at 75
Sep 2, 12:01 PM (ET)

NEW YORK (AP) - Ike Pappas, a longtime CBS newsman who reported the shooting death of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on the radio as it was happening, has died at age 75.

Pappas died Sunday in a hospital in Arlington, Virginia, of complications of heart disease, his family said.

Pappas was among the reporters at the Dallas police station waiting for Oswald to be moved two days after President Kennedy was assassinated. Pappas had just asked him, "You have anything to say in your defense?" when a shot rang out.

"Oswald has been shot!" Pappas said on the air, adding, "Mass confusion here, all the doors have been locked. Holy mackerel!"

Pappas was among more than 200 CBS News employees laid off by the company in 1987.

 

I'm very saddened by the passing of Jerry Reed. He was such a talented singer and songwriter, and always came up with some great tunes. He wasn't too bad in the acting department either.

And Don LaFontaine - I loved his voice. Most of the world may not have known his face or his name, but they sure knew his voice.

 

Fashion designer Mila Schoen dies in Italy
Sep 5, 9:41 AM (ET)

ROME (AP) - Mila Schoen, an Italian designer of elegant, impeccably tailored clothes, died early Friday at her villa in northern Italy at the age of 91.

Her fashion house in Milan said Schoen died in her sleep at her country home near Alessandria.

Schoen began her career in 1958 working in an high-fashion atelier in Milan. Eight years later she opened her own boutique, on Milan's Via Montenapoleone, one of the city's most chic shopping streets.

 

According to wikipedia Kim Jong Il has died after a stroke however I haven't confirmed it with a more accurate report.

 

Novelist David Foster Wallace found dead
Sep 14, 12:07 AM (ET)

CLAREMONT, Calif. (AP) - David Foster Wallace, the author best known for his 1996 novel "Infinite Jest," was found dead in his home, according to police. He was 46.

Wallace's wife found her husband had hanged himself when she returned home about 9:30 p.m. Friday, said Jackie Morales, a records clerk with the Claremont Police Department.

Wallace taught creative writing and English at nearby Pomona College.

"He cared deeply for his students and transformed the lives of many young people," said Dean Gary Kates. "It's a great loss to our teaching faculty."

Wallace's first novel, "The Broom of the System," gained national attention in 1987 for its ambition and offbeat humor. The New York Times said the 24-year-old author "attempts to give us a portrait, through a combination of Joycean word games, literary parody and zany picaresque adventure, of a contemporary America run amok."

 

They're reporting that Paul Newman had died of lung cancer at 83.

 

not a human, but people may know her anyways:

nyac, an otter at the vancouver aquarium from the youtube video of two otters holding hands, passed away at the age of 20 on spetember 23. she survived the exxon valdez oil spill, and died of lymphocytic leukemia that has been associated with petroleum contact in other species.

if you havent seen it, its very cute, the video of her and milo holding hands is here:

http://www.vanaqua.org/home/otters.html

 

Always enjoyed Paul Newman movies. Some of my favorites are Cool Hand Luke, The Sting, Absence of Malice, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but I watched many others.

George Kennedy's character, Dragline, said of Paul's Luke: "He was smiling... That's right. You know, that, that Luke smile of his. He had it on his face right to the very end. Hell, if they didn't know it 'fore, they could tell right then that they weren't a-gonna beat him. That old Luke smile. Oh, Luke. He was some boy. Cool Hand Luke. Hell, he's a natural-born world-shaker." R.I.P. Mr. Newman.

Quotes and reactions from other celebrities

How the Newmans made Westport (CT) their own

Paul Newman's sly sense of humor was on a roll

 

WOW> sad, but they kept his illiness under the radar, so classy and dignified, 83, a long life and "The Sting" so good, when he rubbed his finger on the side of his nose as a signal, and "Butch Cassidy" who hasn't seen this mega times? "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" riveting. And so many more. His wife of 50 Joanne Woodward years must be in such deep mourning, and his family, friends and his buddy Robert Redford, may he RIP

PAUL NEWMAN

 

RIP Paul Newman and the otter.

 

I can't believe Paul Newman's dead. Hollywood has truly lost a great man. :sad: