R.I.P. In Memoriam........

Farewell, Matt Dilion.

James Arness, dead at 88.


Festus, Doc, and now Dilion. Well, that's all three of 'em. Not counting Kitty.

LOL. Me too.

British actor Roy Skelton, best known for the voice of Zippy from Rainbow and the Daleks in Dr. Who, has passed away.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13693811

He did George too didn't he?

"Oh, just one more thing, ma'am."

Just one last thing.
We lost Columbo today. Peter Falk died, age 83.

Will miss you, inspector.

Composer Fred Steiner passed away a couple of days ago.
He wrote some good music for the original Star Trek series.

I enjoy Steiner's scores for Star Trek and the re-recordings he did of other composers works for that show.

His music for The Twilight Zone TV show is also of top quality.

I watched several Columbo episodes as a kid. A long time since I've seen the show though. Always weird to lose an actor one cared about, even when one personally didn't know them.

Peter

Actually, it wasn't the pilot, but the first episode of the series proper.

He had done some other TV work prior to that, as well as the short AMBLIN'.

Correctamundo! The first episode ( or Pilot ) was Prescription Murder, directed by ( I dunno??? ) but I do know it had a score by Dave Grusin.

Lucian Freud

Grandson of Sigmund and world famous artist has died aged 88

This man, another of the great British eccentrics sure packed a life in, possibly fathering 40 children, countless affairs with women, he was also said to have travelled the London tube wearing a Fez and carrying a pet Falcon, he famously refused to paint people he didn't like and these included Pope John Paul II and Princess Diana, He once refused a request from Sir Andrew Llyod Webber to paint his wife Madeline , claiming he had been threatened by the composer with an offer of "free tickets to his shows"

The tales go on and on, this man led a truly full life.

Amy Winehouse

Aged 27

I've often mentioned my love for her two award winning albums over at the OT thread, man but what a waste of great talent, I even said that she wouldn't be long for this world ( I wasn't the only one by a long shot ) and it gives me no pleasure to be proven right.

Very, very sad.

Very expected, since.......

Jeered at gig (Video: http://www.nooz.gr/world/pe8ane-i-trago … -winehouse)

Last month, the north Londoner pulled out of the European tour after she was jeered at the first gig in Serbia for appearing too drunk to perform.

For 90 minutes, she mumbled through parts of songs and at times left the stage - leaving her band to fill in.

I didn't care for her or her music and it was evident right from the beginning where this would lead, but nevertheless it's a sad event to see a sad soul leave this world alone in this way.

Sorry D but it wasn't "evident right from the begining where this would lead", she was darned healthy when she first burst onto the scene, coherent in interviews, giving great thouroughly professional concerts etc, there was nothing to suggest she would end up down the rocky road she eventually went, it was later when she had dramatic weight loss, continually botching her performances with drunk & drugged performances and multiple spells in rehab that things looked very worrying, followed by her relationships with drug dealing low life hangers on, her last few years have been a media focused car crash and to me it looked like she was in a living hell, from all this onwards it never looked like having any other ending than the sad one we all now hear about.

Yeah, but you're GREEK That's true though and she was already showing signs of being flakey by then. Here in UK quite a lot of people were already familiar with her from her brilliant debut album FRANK.