# Who have been the greatest losses to the arts (not deceased)?

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**Created:** [September 22, 2020, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-been-the-greatest-losses-to-the-arts-not-deceased/921262 "2020-09-22T21:38:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-been-the-greatest-losses-to-the-arts-not-deceased/921262/61 "2020-09-26T10:09:42Z")

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> [@Alessan](#):
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> Jack Nicholson - three-time Oscar winner, cultural icon and one of the most respected actors alive - simply dropped off the map 10 years ago. I have no idea why.

Wow, I hadn’t realized that. Hopefully _How Do You Know_ won’t be his final film.

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**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-been-the-greatest-losses-to-the-arts-not-deceased/921262/62 "2020-09-26T10:18:24Z")

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Bipolar disorder.

Mental illness blows… )-:

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**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-been-the-greatest-losses-to-the-arts-not-deceased/921262/63 "2020-09-26T14:00:32Z")

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Similarly, lost to one branch for another, **[Stacia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacia)**. Not perhaps the greatest loss, but an interesting story.

For those who don’t know, Stacia (according to one legend, anyway) climbed out of the audience and onto the stage at a Hawkwind gig and… did her thing. Eleven feet seventeen tall (I may be exaggerating) - performance art, dance, whatever, she was immediately part of the band (hey, it was the Seventies - stuff like that happened. It’s a great shame that you can’t imagine that happening now.)

Now working as simply an artist, apparently. Here she is:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/HdTFeW8FCto/hqdefault.jpg "Lemmy Kilmister & Hawkwind Silver Machine 1972 Live") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdTFeW8FCto)

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