Celebrity RIP Thread

[Ken1951]

R.I.P. George Winston -

 

[anmpr1]

Sad day for real sports. Iron Sheik beams up. Now, I know that some people want to scoff, believing that pro-wrestling is fake. But I'll tell you what is really fake. High End Audio. And baseball.

First, high end audio and its proponents, especially the so-called audio press. Talk about Kayfabe, and suspending disbelief! You'll get more real news out of Pro Wrestling Illustrated than you'll ever get from Stereophile.

Second, baseball. Like Jesse Ventura always said, have you ever noticed how the innings always end, right when it is time to air the commercials?

Anyhow, RIP Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri. Never a jabroni, for sure.

Wrestling world pays tribute to WWE Hall of Famer The Iron Sheik

The Iron Sheik, a staple of WWE and WCW from 1979 to 2010, died Wednesday. Fellow wrestling legends honored the former champion.

www.espn.com

 

[JayGilb]

Pat Robertson has passed.

 

[anmpr1]

Pat Robertson has passed.

Interesting juxtaposition with the Iron Sheik. I know that might seem a bit strained, but hear (read) me out.

When I was younger, going to grad school, I worked graveyard (11-7) at a lunatic asylum (true story). Night classes were usually over by 9... possibly 10PM, at the latest. Because of that, I could go to school, and then go to work. Sleep during the day. During third shift, most patients were asleep, so I spent evening through early morning studying. Also, and a big plus, the IBM Selectric II at the nurse's station was available for use. It was the Mark Levinson of typewriters, for sure.

I found it easy to concentrate in that quiet environment (although the stretch from 2-4 AM was tough on the eyes), because most patients were heavily medicated, sleeping soundly. It takes a particularly strong psychosis to push through Haldol. So for me, it was the books. Unless Jan the Nurse was rotating the night shift with me, but that is another story altogether.

Anyhow, I'd also sign up for weekends (being poor and needing OT $$$). On weekends most hung out in the day room, watching TV. Television is really the biggest (and probably most dangerous) tranquilizer known to man. Two shows we could not let patients watch. First was 700 Club, Robertson's thing. Because when he'd start 'passing the plate' as it were, they'd line up at the free phone calling toll free, asking for personal prayers and such. No one else could use the community telephone.

Next, was Championship Wrestling from Florida, with Gordon Solie. That show typically excited patients, in spite of whatever dosages they were on, and they'd start reenacting the matches. Putting each other into head locks, sleeper holds, and such.

So both Pat and Gordon were banned, for therapeutic purposes. Odd, how things work out.

RIP, both.

 

[BlackTalon]

Oh dear Dog, being forced to watch 700 Club when we were shipped to my grandparents' for part of the summer is something I can't forgive or forget.

 

[computer-audiophile]

"For time is running, take everything life can give you.
You know it's there so take it, even fake it 'til it comes true..."

Her sad biograpy (In German language - to be translated)

„Er sorgte dafür, dass sie nichts bekam“: Die traurige Geschichte von Astrud Gilberto, dem Gesicht des Bossa Nova - mySoundbook

Ohne die Stimme der 22-Jährigen wäre „The Girl From Ipanema“ nicht zu dem Phänomen geworden, das es geworden ist – aber Misshandlungen, Frauenfeindlichkeit und fehlende Entschädigung haben sie zermürbt, schreibt Martin Chilton The Girl from Ipanema“ war einer der wegweisenden Songs der 1960er...

mysoundbook.eu

 

[Boris Badinov]

Interesting juxtaposition with the Iron Sheik. I know that might seem a bit strained, but hear (read) me out.

When I was younger, going to grad school, I worked graveyard (11-7) at a lunatic asylum (true story). Night classes were usually over by 9... possibly 10PM, at the latest. Because of that, I could go to school, and then go to work. Sleep during the day. During third shift, most patients were asleep, so I spent evening through early morning studying. Also, and a big plus, the IBM Selectric II at the nurse's station was available for use. It was the Mark Levinson of typewriters, for sure.

I found it easy to concentrate in that quiet environment (although the stretch from 2-4 AM was tough on the eyes), because most patients were heavily medicated, sleeping soundly. It takes a particularly strong psychosis to push through Haldol. So for me, it was the books. Unless Jan the Nurse was rotating the night shift with me, but that is another story altogether.

Anyhow, I'd also sign up for weekends (being poor and needing OT $$$). On weekends most hung out in the day room, watching TV. Television is really the biggest (and probably most dangerous) tranquilizer known to man. Two shows we could not let patients watch. First was 700 Club, Robertson's thing. Because when he'd start 'passing the plate' as it were, they'd line up at the free phone calling toll free, asking for personal prayers and such. No one else could use the community telephone.

Next, was Championship Wrestling from Florida, with Gordon Solie. That show typically excited patients, in spite of whatever dosages they were on, and they'd start reenacting the matches. Putting each other into head locks, sleeper holds, and such.

So both Pat and Gordon were banned, for therapeutic purposes. Odd, how things work out.

RIP, both.

I have fond memories from school days, watching rasslin' on Saturdays and Cordon Solie, did some work for The Great Malenko a few years after the service-and met the man-Dusty Rhodes!

 

[robwpdx]

Interesting juxtaposition with the Iron Sheik. I know that might seem a bit strained, but hear (read) me out.

When I was younger, going to grad school, I worked graveyard (11-7) at a lunatic asylum (true story). Night classes were usually over by 9... possibly 10PM, at the latest. Because of that, I could go to school, and then go to work. Sleep during the day. During third shift, most patients were asleep, so I spent evening through early morning studying. Also, and a big plus, the IBM Selectric II at the nurse's station was available for use. It was the Mark Levinson of typewriters, for sure.

I found it easy to concentrate in that quiet environment (although the stretch from 2-4 AM was tough on the eyes), because most patients were heavily medicated, sleeping soundly. It takes a particularly strong psychosis to push through Haldol. So for me, it was the books. Unless Jan the Nurse was rotating the night shift with me, but that is another story altogether.

Anyhow, I'd also sign up for weekends (being poor and needing OT $$$). On weekends most hung out in the day room, watching TV. Television is really the biggest (and probably most dangerous) tranquilizer known to man. Two shows we could not let patients watch. First was 700 Club, Robertson's thing. Because when he'd start 'passing the plate' as it were, they'd line up at the free phone calling toll free, asking for personal prayers and such. No one else could use the community telephone.

Next, was Championship Wrestling from Florida, with Gordon Solie. That show typically excited patients, in spite of whatever dosages they were on, and they'd start reenacting the matches. Putting each other into head locks, sleeper holds, and such.

So both Pat and Gordon were banned, for therapeutic purposes. Odd, how things work out.

RIP, both.

Ken Kesey was also a psych ward night attendant, resulting in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

I did some consulting work overseas. Pat Robertson had a corrupt deal to protect Charles Taylor.

Taylor is fictionally portrayed in the later chapter of the film Lord of War. The main character in the film, Uri, played by Nicholas Cage, is modeled after Viktor Bout who was traded for basketball athlete Brittney Griner. Taylor traded guns smuggled by Bout for diamonds mined in Sierra Leone. Then he traded the diamonds to Al Qaeda so they could launder all their bank accounts before 9/11. Charles Taylor was the bane of my existence and literally the devil.

 

[TheWalkman]

I have fond memories from school days, watching rasslin' on Saturdays and Cordon Solie, did some work for The Great Malenko a few years after the service-and met the man-Dusty Rhodes!

And don’t forget watching, Ernest, “Be - H E A L E D!” Angley on late TV after shuffling back to the dorms from a fun Saturday night of hopping fraternity parties.

Even though Ernest sold the most most potent snake-oil of all the Televangelists, he sure could make you smile a 3 in the morning.

 

[Valis]

Ted Kaczynski, ‘Unabomber’ Who Attacked Modern Life, Dies at 81

Alone in a shack in the Montana wilderness, he fashioned homemade bombs and launched a violent one-man campaign to destroy industrial society.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Boris Badinov]

Ted Kaczynski, ‘Unabomber’ Who Attacked Modern Life, Dies at 81

Alone in a shack in the Montana wilderness, he fashioned homemade bombs and launched a violent one-man campaign to destroy industrial society.

www.nytimes.com

 

[oceansize]

Nice obit for Tony McPhee (of The Groundhogs) who died last week.

 

[MudFlap]

Ted Kaczynski, ‘Unabomber’ Who Attacked Modern Life, Dies at 81

Alone in a shack in the Montana wilderness, he fashioned homemade bombs and launched a violent one-man campaign to destroy industrial society.

www.nytimes.com

Evidently, invitations have been mailed out to attend Ted Kaczynski's funeral.

It's just that everyone seems afraid to open them.

 

[ripvw]

Actor Treat Williams dies in motorcycle accident at age 71...

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/13/1181866023/actor-treat-williams-dies-in-motorcycle-crash

 

[oceansize]

Oscar and Emmy winning actor and politician Glenda Jackson aged 87.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2...scar-winner-and-former-labour-mp-dies-aged-87

 

[thegeton]

Oscar and Emmy winning actor and politician Glenda Jackson aged 87.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2...scar-winner-and-former-labour-mp-dies-aged-87

A great article and another sad loss for humanity. We were lucky to have Glenda.

 

[JSmith]

Nobel Prize winner John Goodenough, who helped pioneer the batteries which power our devices, dies aged 100

The world's oldest Nobel Prize winner, who helped develop lithium-ion batteries, is remembered as a scientific leader.

www.abc.net.au

John Goodenough, who became the oldest Nobel Prize winner in 2019 for his work developing the lithium-ion battery which allows for rechargeable power in devices ranging from mobile phones to electric cars, has died aged 100.

RIP John and thank you.


JSmith

 

[rgpit]

One of my very favorite actors has passed. Can't think of a film much funnier than the original "The Inlaws". RIP Alan Arkin.

 

[Doodski]

One of my very favorite actors has passed. Can't think of a film much funnier than the original "The Inlaws". RIP Alan Arkin.

He is a fantastic actor. I will miss him.

 

[ripvw]

Pianist Andre Watts has passed at age 77

Pianist André Watts dies at age 77 of prostate cancer

Pianist André Watts, whose televised debut with the New York Philharmonic as a 16-year-old in 1963 launched an international career of more than a half-century, has died.

apnews.com