Latest Celebrity 'Obit' posts

[LostLassie]

Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane in 'Superman,' dies at age 69

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life...yed-lois-lane-superman-dies-age-69/608034002/

 

[LostLassie]

Tom Wolfe, prolific journalist and author of "The Bonfire of the Vanities," dead at 88


https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/to...behind-the-bonfire-of-vanities-is-dead-at-88/

 

[ExpatAkronite]

Tom Wolfe, prolific journalist and author of "The Bonfire of the Vanities," dead at 88


https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/to...behind-the-bonfire-of-vanities-is-dead-at-88/

Helluva career. Anyone that can go from dropping acid with Kesey to writing The Right Stuff lived some pretty damn good stories. Cheers!

 

[ScriptOhio]

'Cheyenne,' 'Small Soldiers' actor Clint Walker dies at 91

Clint Walker, who played the title character in the early TV western "Cheyenne," has died.

Walker's daughter Valerie Walker tells The Associated Press that her father died Monday of congestive heart failure at a hospital in Grass Valley, California at age 91.

Entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...l-soldiers-actor-clint-walker-dies-at-91.html



R.I.P.

 

[Jagdaddy]

RIP to novelist Phillip Roth: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/obituaries/philip-roth-dead.html

 

[LostLassie]

Three writers in a row.

Richard Goodwin, White House speechwriter and husband of Doris Kearns Goodwin, dead at 86

Richard N. Goodwin, an aide, a speechwriter and a liberal force for the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson who helped craft such historic addresses as Robert Kennedy's "ripples of hope" and LBJ's speeches on civil rights and the Great Society, died Sunday evening at age 86.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/wh...h-writer-husband-doris-kearns-goodwin-n875961

 

[Oh8ch]

Cheyenne was one of my favs.

The wind that blows, that comes and goes, has been your only home.
But will the wild wind one day cease and you'll no longer roam?


That series ended 55 years ago.

Damn I'm old.

 

[Oh8ch]

Trivia question -

When was Clint Walker first pronounced dead?

 

[Steve19]

Anonymous. Recently discovered at Pompeii. Was running when he got nailed by a boulder thrown from the volcano. True story by the way (https://us.cnn.com/2018/05/31/world/gallery/week-in-photos-0601/index.html)

 

[Jaxbuck]

Anonymous. Recently discovered at Pompeii. Was running when he got nailed by a boulder thrown from the volcano. True story by the way (https://us.cnn.com/2018/05/31/world/gallery/week-in-photos-0601/index.html)

my old man went the same way

it was terrible

 

[gmen6981]

Poor bastard thought he made it then WHAM! volcanoes really suck.

 

[LostLassie]

Poor bastard thought he made it then WHAM! volcanoes really suck.

Years ago, I spent a bright, sunny day in Pompeii. Especially remember the streets that had deep ruts worn into them, presumably by the wheels of passing chariots.

Always been struck by the plaster casts. Amazing insight on the part of the early explorers that they recognized what the void around the skeletons represented and invented a method to preserve them.

This article has video of the new skeleton find:

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2018/05/29/pompeii-eruption-victim-skeleton/

It also includes these additional revelations about the poor fella:

Officials said the man suffered an infection of the tibia, which may have caused walking difficulties, impeding his escape.

Oh, and this cheerful detail..

Archaeologists have not found the victim’s head.

That would also impede one's escape.

PS By coincidence, FXX is airing the movie Pompeii right now.

 

[Jaxbuck]

It also includes these additional revelations about the poor fella:

The more I read about this unlucky bastard the more I'm convinced he has to be an ancestor of mine.

 

[LostLassie]

The more I read about this unlucky bastard the more I'm convinced he has to be an ancestor of mine.

Well, maybe, if one of his kids was vacationing out of town that day.

Oh, and ran across this in a Q&A--might explain the missing head:

The intense heat—perhaps as much as 750 degrees—carbonized much of the organic material in the area. Many of the victims have been found with the tops of their heads missing—their brains having boiled and exploded.

 

[Jagdaddy]

Years ago, I spent a bright, sunny day in Pompeii. Especially remember the streets that had deep ruts worn into them, presumably by the wheels of passing chariots.

Always been struck by the plaster casts. Amazing insight on the part of the early explorers that they recognized what the void around the skeletons represented and invented a method to preserve them.

This article has video of the new skeleton find:

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2018/05/29/pompeii-eruption-victim-skeleton/

It also includes these additional revelations about the poor fella:



Oh, and this cheerful detail..



That would also impede one's escape.

PS By coincidence, FXX is airing the movie Pompeii right now.

Also, it appears that his name was Wilius Coyotius.