Death announcements for persons of note

[pjknibbs]

Godspeed, Stan--you were one of a kind.

[X2-Illuminatus]

Sad to hear. But oh boy, what a life!

[Hank001]

CNN on passing of Stan Lee:

Stan Lee Dies at Age 95

[Observe]

If Stan Lee is reborn in his next life as one of his superhero's, which one do you think it would be?

[Hank001]

Observe asks;
If Stan Lee is reborn in his next life ... would be?

He was on record as saying Spiderman was his favorite character. I'd like to thing he's up there practicing his web slinging and wall crawling...

[Alee Enn]

Before Stan Lee overshadows everything else ....

RIP Douglas Rain, the voice of HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey
https://variety.com/2018/film/news/doug ... e-comments

[Hank001]

Sorry to hear about Douglas Rain.

I looked him up on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Rain

Quite a filography. Was the compter voices in Woody Allen's "Sleeper" too.

[Morkonan]

Godspeed, Stan. "Excelsior," always. As a boy, there was a tired wire rack full of dreams that I selected from every weekend. I am ever so thankful that I found yours.

And, Douglas Rain, your voice will never fail, never grow old, and never tire. Thank you for being the perfect HAL and reminding us of the power of the human voice. And, thanks for lending me your voice so I could replace all my system trigger sounds... Nothing says "Science Fiction Fan" like a "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" critical error message.

[felter]

Just read about Stan Lee's passing. The Marvel films will never be the same without him making his cameo appearances in them.

R.I.P. Stan

[Golden_Gonads]

Goodbye Stan.
You're comics were staples of my youth and movies staples of my present age. I'll miss your cameos.

He was half a dozen cameo's ahead a while back as he knew he could swing off into the sunset at any time, so you'll see him a few more times.

[muppetts]

Sad about Stan but also what a great life, he lived his work to the end, despite the nasty crap with the attempted con on his money.

[Rapier]

I'm not an angler, but John Wilson was such an engaging presenter that I was a regular watcher of his show Go Fishing.

Gone (fishing), but not forgotten.

[Hank001]

Rest in peace John.

That's a shame. As an angler I used to like his show until our PBS station dropped it. Heard he was in Thailand. When I was there in the service I flyfished there and locals thought I was whipping the water.

[Chips]

Can't be sad about Stan Lee passing - he's made it to 95 years old, left his mark on the world in a positive way, and had a right old time. Quality - that's what you call a life!

[Terre]

RAF Bomber Command veteran Harry Irons has died aged of 94.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-46201076

[pjknibbs]

William Goldman, writer of "The Princess Bride" (both novel and movie) amongst other things, has died:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46238747

[Praefectus classis]

Richard Baker, voice of the first news bulletin broadcast on BBC television has died age 93.
I remember him along with Robert Dougall when I was a kid in the 60's.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41023864

[pjknibbs]

I remember Richard Baker presenting the news in my youth--sad to hear he's gone, although I loved the bit in the obituary where it said he would read the news to other residents at his retirement home!

[Morkonan]

William Goldman, writer of "The Princess Bride" (both novel and movie) amongst other things, has died:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46238747

This is one of the most notable deaths that will likely go unnoticed by many people. William Goldman wrote a buttload of AAAA scripts that people loved.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001279/

Look at that list of work! Holy crap... There isn't likely going to be someone on this forum that hasn't seen one of the movies that Goldman either wrote or co-wrote the script for. And, his script-fix work often went uncredited, too. But, he's "just" a script-writer and nobody but the studios and producers and directors and anyone who's serious about making the movie pays attention to that...

Godspeed, Mr. Goldman. Thanks for all the wonderful tales!

[pjknibbs]

Just realised he wrote "A Bridge Too Far", which means he's responsible for one of the best lines ever:

"Examine him sir. Please. Or I'll blow your f***ing head off."