2014 Off Topic Celebrity Dead Pool - Now under New Management

[-Jrabbit]

Very sad.

With more sadness to add...

Jazz cat and hard bop pioneer Horace Silver has died. He was 85.

Horace was a true original and very influential. He started as a sax player and later switched to piano. Listen to the beginning of his classic "Song for My Father" and you'll immediately recognize it as the opening to Steely Dan's "Rikki Don't Lose That Number." An homage from Donald Fagen to one of his heroes.



RIP to two musical legends.

[Uncle Sparky]

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/06/20...lek-dies-at-90

Inventor, Stephanie Kwolek, dies.

WASHINGTON – Stephanie Kwolek, an American chemist who in 1965 invented a super-strong fibre called Kevlar that revolutionized body armour and protected innumerable police officers and soldiers from bullets, has died at age 90.

Kwolek, who worked for the DuPont chemical company for four decades starting in 1946, died in Delaware after a short illness. The company confirmed her death.

"We are all saddened at the passing of DuPont scientist Stephanie Kwolek, a creative and determined chemist and a true pioneer for women in science," DuPont Chief Executive Ellen Kullman said in a statement. "Her synthesis of the first liquid crystal polymer and the invention of DuPont Kevlar highlighted a distinguished career."

The 4-foot-11 Kwolek was working to find a fibre to strengthen radial tires when she came across a thin, milky solution of polymers that showed real promise....

[molly bloom]

Rafael Fruhbeck De Burgos, conductor

Roger Ackling, artist

Daniel Keyes, novelist, best known as author of 'Flowers For Algernon'

Alan Douglas, record producer (notably of Jimi Hendrix)

Dan Jacobson, novelist, writer & critic and professor

Martha Hyer, actor

Kevin Elyot, scriptwriter for television and playwright

Patricia Chisholm, immunologist

Chris Bowler, actor/arts manager

Francis Matthews, actor & voice of 'Captain Scarlet'

Paul Bowden, forensic scientist

Sam Greenlee, poet and writer

David Prentice, artist

Barbara Murray, actor

Sam Kelly, actor

Karlheinz Bohm, actor

Robyn Denny, artist

Martin Christie, neurosurgeon

Ziauddin Mahmood, political activist, barrister, teacher

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Was that all in the same incident?

[Uncle Sparky]

Was that all in the same incident?

This is what comes from mocking Molly - now we have to look them up ourselves.

[molly bloom]

Was that all in the same incident?

Yes. They were all dining at a particularly dull Norte Americano fast 'food' outlet.

I killed them for lack of taste and discernment.



Someone I once worked with commented that I reminded her of John Malkovich. I thought 'How pleasant'. Then she said in which film... it was

'In The Line Of Fire'.

These days, I'm leaning more towards Antony Hopkins.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Felix Dennis, the notorious "Oz" magazine editor, multi-millionaire, sexual Tyrannosaur, poet, and being almost entirely made of cocaine, died yesterday. An utterly magnificent gentleman, the like of which we shall surely never see again.

[Guynemer]

Eli Wallach, dead at 98. Points for a lot of us.

http://www.people.com/article/eli-wallach-dead-veteran-character-actor-was-98

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

A hit for myself, Guynemer, EPW, Uncle Sparky, Tuberski, Ming (unbelievably!), and Slowwhand.

[-Jrabbit]

I think Ming may have already exceeded his previous career total this year...

[Uncle Sparky]

I think Ming may have already exceeded his previous career total this year...

That info should be in post #4, I think...

[Uncle Sparky]

Former Republican Senator Howard Baker dead at 88

...Baker stood out during the Senate’s 1973 Watergate hearings by asking witnesses, “What did the president know and when did he know it?”

... and that was about a Republican President!!! Could you imagine an elected American being that non-partisan today? I think not.

[-Jrabbit]

RIP soul singer Bobby Womack, 70.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bobby-womack-dead-at-70-20140627

[SlowwHand]

R.I.P.

[EPW]

A hit for myself, Guynemer, EPW, Uncle Sparky, Tuberski, Ming (unbelievably!), and Slowwhand.