The Rest In Peace & Remembrance Thread #2

I am the same as you guys-was never really a big fan of boyzone-was a BSB girl all the way. But stephen gatelys death is so sad-whenever i've seen him on tv shows etc. he's always seemed like such a decent guy. The fact he was only 33 years old makes it all the more tragic and sad, but it looks like he died in his sleep going by reports so at least he went peacefully. R.I.P Stephen xx
 
^^ They said he died of Natural Causes...

In other news.
'Godfather' singer Al Martino dies in Pa. at 82
SPRINGFIELD, Pa. – The singer who played the Frank Sinatra-type role of Johnny Fontane in "The Godfather" has died at his childhood home in suburban Philadelphia.

Publicist Sandy Friedman says Al Martino died Tuesday afternoon in Springfield, in Delaware County. He was 82.

Starting in 1952, Martino was known for hit songs including "Here in My Heart," "Spanish Eyes," "Can't Help Falling in Love" and "Volare."

Besides acting in the Marlon Brando classic "The Godfather," he sang the 1972 film's title score, "The Love Theme From The Godfather." His Fontane character is a singer and occasional actor.

Martino was born in South Philadelphia as Alfred Cini (SEE'-nee). He was a longtime resident of Beverly Hills, Calif.

His publicist didn't state the cause of his death.
 
Captain Lou Albano, WWE Icon and Cyndi Lauper Video Star, Dies at 76
Oct 14, 2009 03:27 PM ET
by Joyce Eng


Captain Lou Albano, the legendary wrestling icon who bridged World Wrestling Entertainment and rock music after starring in Cyndi Lauper's music videos, has died. He was 76.

Albano was "one of the company's most popular and charismatic legends," read a statement on the WWE website. "WWE extends its deepest condolences to the Albano family."

A cause of death has not been disclosed. Earlier Wednesday, the Miami Herald reported that Albano was at home with his family under hospice care and was not suffering from cancer.

Known for his animated personality, Hawaiian shirts, untamed beard usually bound by rubber bands and his motto, "Often imitated, never duplicated," Albano was a staple in the ring for nearly half a century. The Mount Vernon, N.Y., native made his professional wrestling debut in 1953 after a brief stint in the Army. He then paired with Tony Altimore to become the tag team "The Sicilians," winning the World Wide Wrestling Federation — the WWE precursor — United States Tag Team Championship in 1967.

By the 1970s, Albano became a manager — and a villainous one at that when he made it his goal to end Bruno Sammartino's seven-year reign as WWE champion. His protégé, Ivan Koloff, accomplished the mission in 1971. Albano would go on to guide 15 tag teams to WWE championship glory.

Albano achieved new celebrity status and transformed his bad-guy persona in the 1980s when he starred in Lauper's music videos, including "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," in which he played her father. The two also made WWE appearances together. The "Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection" catapulted wrestling into mainstream pop culture.

Albano and Lauper remained close over the years, and the singer wrote the foreword in his 2008 autobiography, Often Imitated, Never Duplicated.

As his fame grew, Albano left the WWE in 1986 and segued into acting. He guest-starred on 227 and Miami Vice, and appeared in Wiseguys and the wrestling film Body Slam. In 1989, he became the voice of Mario on The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

Albano retired from wrestling in 1995 and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame a year later.
 
Wiseman, who played villain in 1962 'Dr. No,' dies
Oct 21, 7:51 AM (ET)

NEW YORK (AP) - Joseph Wiseman, an actor who played the sinister scientist and title character of Dr. No in the first James Bond feature film, has died. He was 91.

Wiseman, who had been in declining health, died Monday at his home in Manhattan, his daughter, Martha Graham Wiseman, told The New York Times and Los Angeles Times.

A screen and stage actor, Wiseman's film credits include "Detective Story" (1951) and "The Unforgiven" (1960). He also had guest roles on television shows "Law & Order,""The Streets of San Francisco,""The Twilight Zone" and "The Untouchables," according to The New York Times.

He is likely best known, however, for his villainous role in "Dr. No," the first in a long string of James Bond movies. The 1962 film introduced Sean Connery as James Bond and also starred Ursula Andress.

Wiseman was born in Montreal on May 15, 1918. He moved to the United States with his family when he was a boy.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Wiseman started acting when he was a teenager, getting his start in summer stock.

In 1938, he was given a small part in his first Broadway play, Robert E. Sherwood's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois."

Wiseman's other Broadway credits include "Joan of Lorraine" (1946), "Antony and Cleopatra" (1947), "Detective Story" (1949); and most recently in the stage adaptation of Abby Mann's film "Judgment at Nuremberg" (2001).

"Stage acting was what he wanted to be remembered for," Wiseman's daughter told the Los Angeles newspaper.
 
Former LA Times journalist Jack Nelson dies at 80

WASHINGTON – Jack Nelson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who covered the civil rights movement and the Watergate scandal for the Los Angeles Times and was the paper's Washington bureau chief for 20 years, died Wednesday. He was 80.

Nelson, who had pancreatic cancer, died at his home in the Washington suburb of Bethesda, Md., said Richard Cooper a family friend and longtime Times associate.

Nelson spent more than 35 years with the Los Angeles Times, stepping down as its chief Washington correspondent in 2001. He joined the Times in 1965 and in 1970 began working in its Washington bureau. He was bureau chief from 1975 to the end of 1995.

As a reporter with The Atlanta Constitution in 1960, he won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for exposing malpractice and other problems at the 12,000-patient state mental hospital in Milledgeville, Ga.

Nelson covered presidential administrations from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton. During the Watergate scandal, he scored an exclusive interview with a security guard for the Nixon re-election campaign who had been involved in the break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee.
 
'To Kill A Mockingbird' Actress Dies In NC.

HIGHLANDS, N.C. – The actress who portrayed the false accuser in the movie "To Kill a Mockingbird" has died of brain cancer in North Carolina.

The husband of Collin Wilcox-Patton confirmed Thursday that the 74-year-old actress died Oct. 14 in Highlands in the southwest part of the state. Scott Paxton said no funeral was held.

Her part in "To Kill a Mockingbird," based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer-winning novel, was brief and memorable. She played Mayella Ewell, the young white woman who accuses a black man of rape.

She angrily breaks down as the defense attorney suggests she lied to avoid abuse from her racist father. The black defendant is convicted anyway and later killed.

Wilcox-Patton is also survived by her three children and three grandchildren.
 
Pie-splattered comedian Soupy Sales dies at 83
Oct 23, 7:13 AM (ET)
By DAVID N. GOODMAN

DETROIT (AP) - Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83.

Sales died Thursday night at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx, New York, said his former manager and longtime friend, Dave Usher. Sales had many health problems and entered the hospice last week, Usher said.

At the peak of his fame in the 1950s and '60s, Sales was one of the best-known faces in the nation, Usher said.

The comic's pie-throwing schtick became his trademark, and celebrities lined up to take one on the chin alongside Sales. During the early 1960s, stars such as Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Shirley MacLaine received their just desserts side-by-side with the comedian on his television show.

"I'll probably be remembered for the pies, and that's all right," Sales said in a 1985 interview.

Sales was born Milton Supman on Jan. 8, 1926, in Franklinton, N.C., where his was the only Jewish family in town. His parents, owners of a dry-goods store, sold sheets to the Ku Klux Klan. The family later moved to Huntington, W.Va.

Full story at apnews/iwon.com.
 
Maine girl with ‘mermaid syndrome’ dies at 10
‘Tough little thing’ gained following on Internet, TV

PORTLAND, Maine - Shiloh Pepin, a girl who was born with fused legs, a rare condition often called "mermaid syndrome," and gained a wide following on the Internet and U.S. television, has died. She was 10.

Doctors had predicted she would at most only survive for days after her birth. The girl died at Maine Medical Center on Friday afternoon, hospital spokesman John Lamb said. She had been hospitalized in critical condition for nearly a week. Being born with "mermaid syndrome," also known as sirenomelia, meant that the Kennebunkport girl had only one partially working kidney, no lower colon or genital organs and legs fused from the waist down.

Some children who have survived sirenomelia have had surgery to separate their legs, but Shiloh did not because blood vessels crossing from side to side in her circulatory system would have been severed. She had received two kidney transplants, the last one in 2007. Her story was featured recently on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and other national television programs.

Earlier this month, her mother, Leslie Pepin, said her daughter came down with a cold that quickly turned to pneumonia. Shiloh was rushed to Maine Medical Center on Oct. 10 and was placed on antibiotics and a ventilator. For a while, Leslie Pepin said, things were looking up. "She's a tough little thing," she said of her daughter earlier this week.

Shiloh was a fifth-grader at Kennebunkport Consolidated School. "She was such a shining personality in that building," said Maureen King, chairwoman of the board of the regional school district. Counselors will be available next week to talk to students.

Through the television shows, news articles, Facebook and other Web sites, Shiloh inspired many. "I live in Iowa. I have cerebral palsy. I love your video," 12-year-old Lydia Dawley wrote to Shiloh on Facebook. "You have a great personality I wish you lived close so we could be friends and hang out. You opened my eyes because you are so brave."

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I had just watched a story on her the other day, how sad :(
 
Nicolas Cage's father, August Coppola, dead at 75
LOS ANGELES – Nicolas Cage's father, literature professor August Coppola, has died. He was 75.

Coppola is the brother of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, and he taught literature and served as dean of creative arts at San Francisco State University.

Cage spokeswoman Annett Wolf said he died Tuesday after a heart attack.

Besides Cage, Coppola is survived by sons Christopher and Marc and five grandchildren.

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Summer theater producer John Kenley dies at 103
CLEVELAND – John Kenley, a theater producer who ran a legendary summer stock circuit in Ohio beginning in the 1950s that attracted numerous Broadway and Hollywood stars, has died, a family friend said Thursday. He was 103.

Kenley died Oct. 23 at the Cleveland Clinic from complications of pneumonia, said Anita Dloniak, a friend and press agent.

Kenley produced hundreds of plays and musicals. His Kenley Players, a summer stock circuit that began in Dayton, Ohio, in 1957, featured such stars as Arthur Godfrey, Ethel Merman, Mae West, Burt Reynolds, Billy Crystal, William Shatner and Robert Goulet.

He later opened other Ohio-based theaters in Warren, Columbus and Akron before moving into the Playhouse Square Center in downtown Cleveland in 1984.

Kenley began acting in New York City in the 1920s and once served as an aide to famed producer Lee Shubert. He became a summer theater producer in 1940 in Deer Lake, Pa., and worked in other eastern cities, including Washington D.C.

In a 1950 interview with The Washington Post, Kenley described the summer theater he ran in Lakewood Park., Pa., where theatergoers, many of them coal miners and their families, saw stars such as Gloria Swanson and Lizabeth Scott.

"I only charge $1.50 top, which makes some of the other summer managers livid," he said. "I'd rather have full houses every night than be stuck with a batch of empty seats."

By the 1970s and 1980s, he was featuring TV stars such as Pam Dawber from "Mork and Mindy," who played Eliza Doollittle in "My Fair Lady" for Kenley one summer in Ohio. But the older movie stars were also still active.

In a Chicago Tribune interview in 1977, he recalled finding Debra Paget, a 1950s star appearing in a production for him, rehearsing all alone when he went back to the theater late one night to pick up something. "These stars work hard," he said. "They're an amazing ilk. ... There was a reason why they were stars in the first place."
 
'Palimony' figure Michelle Triola Marvin dies
By ROBERT JABLON
Associated Press Writer
October 31, 2009 - 12:28 a.m

LOS ANGELES — Michelle Triola Marvin whose landmark lawsuit against her
former lover, "Dirty Dozen" actor Lee Marvin, placed the word "palimony"
into the family law lexicon and changed the legal rights of unmarried
cohabiting partners, died Friday at age 76.

She underwent surgery for lung cancer last year and died at the Malibu
home of actor Dick Van Dyke, her partner of 30 years, said family
spokesman Bob Palmer.

Michelle Marvin's birth name was Triola and she met Lee Marvin while
working as an extra in his 1964 movie "Ship of Fools." They lived together
for six years and she took his last name but never married. The
relationship ended in 1970.

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From TV Guide online:
Jon & Kate Plus 8 Caregiver Dies at 72
Nov 1, 2009 12:05 PM ET

Janet Weidenheimer, who was known as Nana Janet when taking care of the children on Jon & Kate Plus 8, has died. She was 72.

Weidenheimer, who appeared several times in early seasons of the show, most notably while riding a horse at the sextuplets' third birthday party, was a friend of the Gosselin family and regularly volunteered to help Kate take care of the children.

She passed away on Oct. 28, according to Entertainment Tonight. Details about her death have not been released, but funeral services were scheduled to take place in Pennsylvania Saturday.
 
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French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss dies

PARIS – Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100.

The French intellectual was regarded as having reshaped the field of anthropology, introducing structuralism — concepts about common patterns of behavior and thought, especially myths, in a wide range of human societies. Defined as the search for the underlying patterns of thought in all forms of human activity, structuralism compared the formal relationships among elements in any given system.

During his six-decade career, Levi-Strauss authored literary and anthropological classics including "Tristes Tropiques" (1955), "The Savage Mind" (1963) and "The Raw and the Cooked" (1964).
 
Founder of San Diego Comic-Con dies at 76
Nov 4, 2:29 PM (ET)

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Sheldon Dorf, who founded the world famous Comic-Con
International comic book convention, has died. He was 76.

A longtime friend, Greg Koudoulian, says the Ocean Beach resident died at
a San Diego hospital on Tuesday from kidney failure. He had diabetes and
had been hospitalized for about a year.

Dorf, a freelance artist and comic strip letterer, founded Comic-Con in
San Diego in 1970 after moving from Detroit.

Today, the convention draws 125,000 fans a year and is a major gathering
for comic book fans, artists, writers and movie stars.

Koudoulian says Dorf was friends with comic greats such as Marvel artist
Jack Kirby and "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz. He says Dorf was also
instrumental in helping budding artists find audiences.
 
Indie rock drummer Jerry Fuchs dies in elevator accident
Nov. 9, 2009, 11:16 AM EST
WENN

Drummer Jerry Fuchs has been killed in a freak accident in which he plunged to his death in an elevator shaft.

The 34-year-old musician was attending a fundraiser in Brooklyn, New York to benefit The Uniform Project, which raises money for children living in India's slum neighbourhoods.

He was travelling in a freight elevator with an unnamed male guest when it stopped a few feet above the fifth floor.

Fuchs and the other man opened the door and attempted to jump out, but while the other man landed safely, the star's clothing got caught and he fell five stories.

The rocker, who played for the indie rock bands !!!, Juan MacLean and, most recently, Maserati, was found by his friends and later died at New York's Bellevue hospital.

His friend, Alex Frankel, tells the New York Post, "We found him in the elevator shaft. He was no longer able to speak."

Fuchs' mother, Joy, paid tribute to her son, adding: "He touched lives. His gift for music touched many lives."

Fuchs is the second !!! drummer to meet a tragic death; Mikel Gius was killed while riding his bicycle in 2005.
 
Edward Woodward Dead At 79

Veteran British actor Edward Woodward has died at the age of 79.
Woodward, best known for his roles in cult horror film The Wicker Man and hit TV series Callan and The Equalizer, passed away in hospital after battling illnesses including pneumonia.

In a statement, his agent Janet Glass says: "Universally loved and admired through his unforgettable roles in classic productions such as Breaker Morant, The Wicker Man, Callan, The Equalizer and many more, he was equally fine and courageous in real life, never losing his brave spirit and wonderful humour throughout his illness.

"He was further sustained by the love of his wife, Michele, children, Tim, Peter, Sarah and Emily, his grandchildren and numerous friends. His passing will leave a huge gap in many lives."
 
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