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Re: Death announcements for persons of note

Posted: Mon, 12. Nov 18, 20:44
by pjknibbs
Godspeed, Stan--you were one of a kind. :(

Re: Death announcements for persons of note

Posted: Mon, 12. Nov 18, 20:52
by X2-Illuminatus
Sad to hear. :( But oh boy, what a life!

Re: Death announcements for persons of note

Posted: Mon, 12. Nov 18, 21:02
by Hank001
CNN on passing of Stan Lee:

Stan Lee Dies at Age 95

Re: Death announcements for persons of note

Posted: Mon, 12. Nov 18, 21:11
by Observe
If Stan Lee is reborn in his next life as one of his superhero's, which one do you think it would be?

Re: Death announcements for persons of note

Posted: Mon, 12. Nov 18, 21:16
by 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...

Re: Death announcements for persons of note

Posted: Mon, 12. Nov 18, 21:23
by 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

Re: Death announcements for persons of note

Posted: Mon, 12. Nov 18, 21:49
by 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.

Re: Death announcements for persons of note

Posted: Mon, 12. Nov 18, 22:58
by 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.

Re: Death announcements for persons of note

Posted: Tue, 13. Nov 18, 05:11
by 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

Re: Death announcements for persons of note

Posted: Tue, 13. Nov 18, 09:50
by Golden_Gonads
Hank001 wrote:
Mon, 12. Nov 18, 20:06
Goodbye Stan.
You're comics were staples of my youth and movies staples of my present age. I'll miss your cameos. :cry:
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.

Re: Death announcements for persons of note

Posted: Tue, 13. Nov 18, 13:17
by 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.

Re: Death announcements for persons of note

Posted: Tue, 13. Nov 18, 17:54
by 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.

Re: Death announcements for persons of note

Posted: Tue, 13. Nov 18, 18:38
by 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. :roll:

Re: Death announcements for persons of note

Posted: Tue, 13. Nov 18, 23:53
by 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!

Re: Death announcements for persons of note

Posted: Tue, 13. Nov 18, 23:59
by Terre
RAF Bomber Command veteran Harry Irons has died aged of 94.

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

Re: Death announcements for persons of note

Posted: Fri, 16. Nov 18, 17:48
by 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

Re: Death announcements for persons of note

Posted: Sat, 17. Nov 18, 15:05
by 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

Re: Death announcements for persons of note

Posted: Sat, 17. Nov 18, 19:55
by 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!

Re: Death announcements for persons of note

Posted: Sun, 18. Nov 18, 23:34
by Morkonan
pjknibbs wrote:
Fri, 16. Nov 18, 17:48
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!

Re: Death announcements for persons of note

Posted: Mon, 19. Nov 18, 09:02
by 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."