Neil Aspinall, the true Fifth Beatle, has died.
In the last few days, mass murderer John List died at 82, pioneering musician/composer Cachao Lopez died at 89, and fast-food tycoon Al Copeland died at 64
Richard Widmark dead at 93.
Of course I didn’t have him. In fact in now seems that those on my list are now bulletproof.
A Robert Walker fan site is listing the death of Walker’s son Michael (Dec 2007). Have not been able to confirm it.
I had Widmark! Ummm…Yaaay ?
How I wish I could feel the bittersweet joy you experience, the confused…
Oh hell. My guys write books about having cancer. I hate you.
Damn that guy had some strong genes, both his sons look like his clones.
Herb Peterson, who invented the Egg McMuffin, has died at the age of 89. Peterson served as vice president of D’Arcy Advertising, the agency which handled the McDonald’s Corporation account, before becoming a Santa Barbara franchisee for the fast-food chain.
Abby Mann, the screenwriter who won an Academy Award for his Judgment at Nuremberg script, has died at the age of 80 (the headline for the linked article erroneously states that he was 83). Mann also penned the teleplay for The Marcus-Nelson Murders, which served as the pilot for the Kojak series.
You and BJMoose.
Dith Pran, who coined the term “killing fields” for the horror that was Khmer Rouge-ruled Cambodia, has died at the age of 65. He was played by fellow Cambodian refugee Haing S. Ngor, who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for the role, in the film The Killing Fields.
Damn. That is depressing. I always admired him. Talk about overcoming the odds and surviving a horror.
I did??
Ahem. I mean:
I did! Drop and give me seven! Watch out, Rachm-Sochm, I’m on your tail!
(Widmark was a last-minute add. I saw his birthday in the paper the end of last December.)
Our celebrities were a resilent lot in March - only two departed, resulting in no changes to the top 35 of our leaderboard.:
1 Rachm Qoch 125 3
2 Captain Lance Murdoch 69 2
3 qwest 60 2
4 amarone 59 2
5 MadTheSwine 52 2
6 kunilou 50 2
7 Squonk 31 1
8= 8675309 30 1
8= Anne Elk 30 1
8= Carm6773 30 1
8= cbawlmer 30 1
8= CowPatty 30 1
8= Freddy the Pig 30 1
8= GIGObuster 30 1
8= Hostile Dialect 30 1
8= imthjckaz 30 1
8= IrreverentTone 30 1
8= KayElCee 30 1
8= Long Time First Time 30 1
8= Lsura 30 1
8= malkavia 30 1
8= NurseCarmen 30 1
8= Sean Factotum 30 1
8= The Vorlon 30 1
8= VunderBob 30 1
8= WVmom 30 1
27 Tuckerfan 25 1
28 5 time champ 20 1
29= Andrew 21 18 1
29= anyrose 18 1
29= Mikeargo 18 1
32 racer72 16 1
33 PsychoNoddy 14 1
34= Dinah Steeler 12 1
34= Only Mostly Dead 12 1
36= appleciders 10 1
36= SpazCat 10 1
38= BJMoose 7 1
38= vivalostwages 7 1
40= everyone else 0 0
Those that left us in March are:
Name Dead Age Points Votes
Richard Widmark 3/26/2008 93 7 2
Arthur C. Clarke 3/18/2008 90 10 2
1.61% of the chosen celebrities have died, representing 2.2% of the votes.
Some recent deaths of note:
Film director Jules Dassin, at 96
Long-serving Soviet official Nikolai Baibakov, at 97
Former Ambassador to India/President of Princeton Robert Goheen, at 88
Sean Levert, who performed with the R&B trio LeVert and whose father Eddie was lead singer for the O’Jays, has died at the age of 39. Sean’s brother, Gerald, had sung with LeVert and as a solo artist before dying in 2006 of an accidental drug overdose.
Oooh, oooh, Charleton Heston!
Tripler
Fark says, ‘Time to pry the gun out. . .’
An elegant and classy man who fought for the rights of the people as he saw them. We shall miss him.
Those are some points I could have done without!