Global RIP thread

[The_Munchmaster]

He was 67.

[Flashermac]

I thought he must be around that. Not old by today's standards. Average lifespan these days is around 77 for men in western countries.

[cavanami]

Easy rider...great movie for its day!

 

Karen Black, Oscar-Nominated Star of ’70s Classics, Dies at 74

 

http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/karen-black-oscar-nominated-star-70s-classics-dies-221752845.html

 

Karen Black, the Oscar-nominated star of groundbreaking films of the '60s and '70s like "Easy Rider," "Five Easy Pieces" and "Nashville," died on Thursday at the age of 74. Her husband, Stephen Eckleberry, confirmed on Facebook that she succumbed to cancer after a two-year battle.

Black trained at the Actor's Studio in New York under the legendary acting teacher Lee Strassberg before making her film debut in 1966 with Francis Ford Coppola's early film "You're a Big Boy Now." She shot to stardom three years later in the counterculture classic "Easy Rider" alongside Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper as one of the women who join the bikers on a drug trip in a New Orleans cemetery ("Mickey" singer Toni Basil was the other)...

[Mekong]

Easy Rider was 1969

[Plainsdrifter]

Sad ending though

[huumlaar]

If Lee Strassberg had 1% of all the income earned by those he taught he'd be pretty well off, I liked Karen Black

[Flashermac]

A big name in the States once upon a time ...

 

'Bossa Nova' singer Eydie Gorme dies aged 84

 

 

Singer Eydie Gorme, who had a hit in 1963 with Blame It On The Bossa Nova, has died in Las Vegas at the age of 84, her publicist has said.

 

Gorme was a popular nightclub and TV singer, both with her husband Steve Lawrence and as a solo act.

 

In 1953, she joined what became the Tonight Show on the NBC television network. She and Lawrence also recorded Spanish-language songs which became hits in Latin America.

 

Gorme died after a brief illness.

 

Lawrence was at her bedside, along with their son, when she died on Saturday afternoon, her publicist Howard Bragman said.

 

Gorme, who was born to Spanish-speaking Jewish parents in New York in 1928, grew up speaking both English and Spanish.

 

She met Lawrence in 1953 on the set of a New York local TV programme hosted by Steve Allen which became the Tonight Show the next year. The couple married in 1957.

 

Gorme's biggest solo hit was Blame It On The Bossa Nova. She also scored another success on her own in 1964 with the Spanish-language song, Amor, recorded with the Mexican band Trio Los Panchos/

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23653821

 

 

[Flashermac]

Much too young ...

 

 

Sir David Frost, broadcaster and writer, dies at 74

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23920336

[Mekong]

Great Broadcaster

 

What a lot of people forget about Frostie is how he started out at Cambridge Footlights the university comedy club which also gave us Monty Python.

 

He started out on TV in satire and had a very dry sense of humour and the British Sarcasm that I find amusing it was only later in his career when he got into serious broadcasting. Of all the interviews he ever did there are two that stand out in my mind, Margret Thatcher, Falklands War and the sinking of the Belgrano, she was squirming in her seat which was nice to see. The other being his "Nixon Interviews" he came the closest of anyone to get Nixon to implicate himself and his involvement in Watergate.

 

[dean]

Tommy Morrison, heavyweight champion after beating George Foreman and the opponent in Rocky V, died after a long battle with AIDS. He spent many of his fighting years living in KC, and was quite the party goer around town. Rather than look at his boxing career as successful, most people associated with him have said he could have been a boxing great with more determination and less partying. After being told he had the HIV virus, he denied it and tried , ultimately not successfully, other treatments. He was 44 years old. RIP