A Balkan Leader (think Zoran Djindjic) with cancer targeted by the Kosova Mafia – how could I resist!?!
Apparently actor Chris Penn has died. I guess he was a longshot…anyone pick him?
That was unexpected!
They didn’t say what he died of. He was awfully young. Was it drugs? A bad heart? what?
Does anyone know if he used drugs? When Jerry Garcia died, it was generally accepted that his “chemical enhancements” were probably a contributing factor. As one of my then-coworkers put it, “you could probably add another 30 years onto his age.”
Garcia was a diabetic, had something like a 90% blockage of his coronary artery, as I recall. The stress on his body from trying to kick heroin probably contributed to his heart attack, but drugs or not, that guy wasn’t going to keep going long with the health problems he had.
Fayard Nicholas, who with his brother Harold formed the athletically creative Nicholas Brothers dance team of stage and screen fame, has died at the age of 91. Harold, who was born seven years after Fayard, had passed away in 2000. Fred Astaire believed that the greatest movie musical number he had ever seen was the brothers’ “Jumpin’ Jive” sequence in the 1943 film Stormy Weather.
Former German President Johannes Rau is dead at 75.
Television news anchor and “60 Minutes” founderArthur Bloom has died.
Retired porno actress Anna Malle (aka Anna Hotop-Stout) was killed in a car accident this week. She was 38.
Anna Hotop Stout. :dubious:
I believe she was born Anna Hotop (admittedly an unusual surname - according to Wikipedia, she’s of Irish, German, Cherokee heritage) and she later married someone named Stout (I believe she was married to adult film actor Hank Armstrong, who like many adult film actors probably used a stagename, but I don’t know if Stout was his real name).
Playwright Wendy Wasserstein has died at the age of 55.
I think I remember seeing Wsserstein on some lists.
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Mehitabel
Santos_L_Halper
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and of course
Rachm Qoch.
Why does that not surprise me?
Rachm Qoch - he’s like the Cecil Adams of death
I just heard on the radio the Coretta Scott King died, but haven’t found a link yet.
Just read on AP that Coretta Scott King has died at the age of 78.