Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread

[EnochRoot]

Mike Pinder, original Moody Blues member, 82.

He’s one of the very first guys who put the Mellotron on the map. Unmistakable sound.

RIP

[Steve of phpBB]

Damn.

[wlu_lax6]

Sonja Christopher...first contestant ever voted off Survivor.

Terry Anderson..journalist held as a hostage in Lebanon for years.

[wlu_lax6]

Zach Norman--Romancing the Stone, Cadillac Men, A-team, Baywatch. One of those folks you would say..oh I recognize him.

Dingaan Thobela...the Rose of Soweto....WBO Lightweight, WBA Lightweight, a WBC super-middleweight world champ

[Giff]

I remember loving Romancing the Stone when I was a kid. Wonder how awful it is.

[Johnny Carwash]

I remember loving Romancing the Stone when I was a kid. Wonder how awful it is.

It was and still is awesome. As was Zack Norman in it. RIP.

[rass]

I remember loving Romancing the Stone when I was a kid. Wonder how awful it is.

Me too, and I bet it’s at least ok. Those two are honest to goodness movie stars, and they made a sequel. And at least one more movie with DeVito.

[sancarlos]

I don’t remember much about the story, but Kathleen Turner was gorgeous in those days.

[DaveInSeattle]

I remember loving Romancing the Stone when I was a kid. Wonder how awful it is.

I watched it a while back with my girls, and I thought it was still great. You can tell that Michael Douglas had a BLAST doing that movie.

[A_B]

watched it a couple of months ago and I thought it held up pretty well. The mudslide scene is one of my earlier in theater moments I remember.

[rass]

Theoden King

[Shirley]

Maybe not the greatest speech (which is fine, because like 10 guys could probably hear it), but what a great scene.

[Baloney]

Theoden King

I remember him from being in The Boys From the Black Stuff as Yosser Hughes and his catch phrase "Gizza job". Reflected how grim life was in Liverpool under Thatcher while I was in College there.

[L-Jam3]

Was in the first two movies that made $1 billion worldwide gross.

[brian]

Jimmy Johnson.

No, not that Jimmy Johnson.

Not the other one either.

The one that played for the 49ers in the 60s.

[sancarlos]

Jimmy Johnson.

No, not that Jimmy Johnson.

Not the other one either.

The one that played for the 49ers in the 60s.

His career was derailed by a blindside crack back block that blew out his knee. Was said to be the best cornerback in the NFL before the injury. Was said to be the reason they made crack back blocks illegal.

[Johnny Carwash]

Joe Collier, Broncos defensive coordinator from the 70's/80's during the "Orange Crush" era. Highly influential including giving Bill Belichick his first NFL job.

When my parents lived in suburban Denver he lived in the neighborhood and was by their accounts a fantastic guy. RIP.

[wlu_lax6]

Art Jimmerson. The boxer from UFC 1

[GoodKarma]

Sean Burroughs...former Padres first round pick. 43. While coaching his kids little league game.

[Steve of phpBB]

God that's terrible.

[wlu_lax6]

Susan Baclinie...Jaws' first victim
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/s ... 2b74&ei=52


also
Susan Buckner--Patti from the original Grease

[DaveInSeattle]

Saxophonist David Sanborn, 6-time Grammy winner, has died at age 78

David Sanborn, whose keening cry on alto saxophone was as bright and steadfast as a lighthouse beacon during a career that spanned nearly 60 years and included collaborations with everyone from David Bowie to Stevie Wonder, died on Sunday in Tarrytown, N.Y. He was 78.

...

The key to Sanborn's success was his sound, which ran sweet-tart with a bracing bite, like the wedge of lime on a salt-rimmed cocktail glass. He'd adapted that tone from his childhood hero, Hank Crawford, a former music director with Ray Charles — but he made it as personal as his speaking voice, and carried it into a dazzling range of settings. Sanborn performed at Woodstock as a member of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, with whom he logged his earliest recording credits. He can be heard amiably wailing on "Tuesday Heartbreak," from Wonder's Talking Book album, and James Taylor's "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)." His sax famously delivers the opening salvo on Bowie's "Young Americans," as well as a running commentary throughout the song.

Saw him multiple times during the 80's...was always a great show.

[mister d]

You guys like to put ones I don't know so here's one for the Boston-area swampers:



If he counted as a celebrity, he was easily the one I saw most living there.

[degenerasian]

Darren Dutchyshen was the face of TSN Sportscentre forever. Was the Canadian Scott Van Pelt.

[L-Jam3]

The Mirage, whose opening in 1989 reignited Vegas into its 90s boom, to close in July to be converted to a new Hard Rock in 2027.

[DaveInSeattle]

Dabney Coleman, actor who portrayed comic scoundrels, dies at 92

Dabney Coleman, a Texas-born character actor who created an acclaimed gallery of comically macho throwbacks in films including “9 to 5” and “Tootsie” and TV shows such as “The Slap Maxwell Story” and “Buffalo Bill,” died May 16 at his home in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 92.

[wlu_lax6]

Bruce Nordstrom
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/compani ... 0aca&ei=50

[wlu_lax6]

Ivan Boesky

[DaveInSeattle]

Bruce Nordstrom
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/compani ... 0aca&ei=50

Met him once...the GF's daughter dated a Nordstrom kid for most of High School and college, so one year we got the invite to the Nordstrom family Christmas party. He was a nice grandfatherly guy.

That was the same party where I met Steve Ballmer (he lived down the street). Ballmer was wearing an epically ugly Christmas sweater.

[Giff]

I’ll go look at a $90 t-shirt in his honor tomorrow.

[mister d]

Ivan Boesky

I was going to post a fake name hoping you'd google the same way I had to, but then I read his wiki and it was kind of interesting so fuck me.

[brian]

Ivan Boesky

I was going to post a fake name hoping you'd google the same way I had to, but then I read his wiki and it was kind of interesting so fuck me.

You didn’t know who Ivan Boesky was? I guess he’s not a household name like he was in the 80s but he was an OG Wall Street swindler.

[The Sybian]

Ivan Boesky

I was going to post a fake name hoping you'd google the same way I had to, but then I read his wiki and it was kind of interesting so fuck me.

You didn’t know who Ivan Boesky was? I guess he’s not a household name like he was in the 80s but he was an OG Wall Street swindler.

He was only the real-life Gordon Gekko... (I need to see Wall Street at some point).

[mister d]

Yeah. Was 8 when he was sentenced and never saw Wall Street.

[L-Jam3]

Wall Street is the Citizen Kane of movies that people completely miss the point of. Finance bros live to idolize Gordon Gekko, when in reality Oliver Stone was critiquing guys like him and was demonizing him, also pointing out that he really wasn't that good of an investor. The "Greed is Good" speech was to show that Gekko was really a monster.

[wlu_lax6]

Guess he won't be meeting Virginia
or
Maybe it was the wind that swept him off his feet
https://www.msn.com/en-ph/music/news/ch ... ngNewsSerp

[Steve of phpBB]

Okay, people who are 58 shouldn't die from falling in the shower.

I hope drugs were involved. Or at least others in the shower.

[Giff]

Okay, people who are 58 shouldn't die from falling in the shower.

I hope drugs were involved. Or at least others in the shower.

I don't think the brain cares how old you are if you hit your head hard enough. Isn't that how Bob Saget died?

[L-Jam3]

And Natasha Richardson.

[Shirley]

Guess he won't be meeting Virginia
or
Maybe it was the wind that swept him off his feet
https://www.msn.com/en-ph/music/news/ch ... ngNewsSerp

I very nearly blasted this dude for writing "Hey Soul Sister," but apparently that was after he left the band. In that case, I'm sorry he died.