Charles Bronson about to die...

http://www.wtev.com/entertainment/story.aspx?content_id=BE9DB245-A846-481E-8152-D2E2959A58D0

This is getting ridiculous. Is their a list somewhere of all the celebrities that have passed this year?

http://www3.sympatico.ca/jenoff/obit.htm

::reads Fibber’s link::

Holy crow! I didn’t know Robert Stack died! What about “Unsolved Mysteries?” And who will provide filler stories for “Biography” episodes about old-time Hollywood types? This isn’t right–he had the coolest voice ever! Death sucks.

The Great White drummer (?) got left out. Not so much famous, but died in the famous fire.

How many years do two famous 100 year old people die (Strom Thurman and Bob Hope)?

sigh After Bronson, are any of the Magnificent Seven left?

Only Robert Vaughn.

That was my first thought. We lost James Coburn, Horst Buchholz, and Brad Dexter within the last twelve months.

Robert Vaughn needs to hang in there and keep doing those law firm commercials!

As is Gregory Hines (not sure if you’re referring to him)…

At his age, I don’t doubt Bronson might be ill, but as soon as I read, “A relative tells a British paper” I start to think of Elvis and Bigfoot sightings.

Rumor has it the British press is sometimes less than reliable.

I just noticed that myself. I don’t know who maintains that site, but it seems weird with some of the obscure celebs listed that they’d miss a relatively well-known name like Gregory Hines.

No, it was the guitarist who died. He was a scab (i.e. just hired for that tour, I think) so I don’t remember his name. Still, death is death.

oops!

(bolding mine)

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From the link provided by Fibber McGee:

I don’t know why, but it cracks me up that they are commentating like this on a website which counts dead people.

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_deaths

This is a very inclusive list of people who have recently left us.

An obituary list is about the only place I could imagine seeing Bob Hope, Barry White, Uday Hussein, and Sam Phillips all listed in the same column.

The guitarist of the band Great White was Ty Longley. He was one of the 100 people killed by the fire at the Rhode Island nightclub “the Station”.

I had no idea Lynne Thigpen died. Of course, I didn’t remember her name, so even if I had seen it I wouldn’t have noticed.

She was the ‘Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego’ lady, and had many other small film roles. I loved seeing her in stuff. Shame.

Are you referring to Gary Becker’s law office? I didn’t know that Becker had offices that far south. I see a lot of the commercials here in the Louisville, KY area.

I had to convince a friend of mine that it wasn’t Becker himself doing the commercials. I weep for the future.

Vaughn made one commercial and sold it to lots of different law firms. One in Massachusetts used it when I lived there, and another one uses it in Rhode Island now.

Well, there, or in my Little Black Book . . .