Death announcements for persons of note

Morkonan · Post by **Morkonan** » Wed, 8. Feb 17, 21:05

A wonderful tribute.

I've been playing all his scores for BSG on a loop since I made the post, above. That's a lot of scores! It probably never actually looped, but that's OK, it's great stuff.

felter · Post by **felter** » Wed, 8. Feb 17, 21:06

Tara Palmer-Tomkinson has been fond dead in her flat. Most wont know her, but she was an IT girl back in the 90's, a name that most in the UK will know of if they were around at that time.

R.I.P. Tara

Also Alan Simpson has died, another one that most wont know, but he was one of the writers of Steptoe and son back in the day.

R.I.P. Alan

mrbadger · Post by **mrbadger** » Thu, 9. Feb 17, 22:58

The Tara thing in the U.K. press at the moment is a tad silly. Yes it's sad she died so young, but there's no mystery, she was a pretty heavy drug addict, drug addicts die younger, that's a known fact, she was just a famous/socialite one.

Were she poor there'd be no attempt to find other ways to explain her death other than to say it was health deterioration caused by years of heavy drugs and drink abuse.

BugMeister · Post by **BugMeister** » Sun, 19. Feb 17, 09:10

mrbadger wrote:The Tara thing in the U.K. press at the moment is a tad silly. Yes it's sad she died so young, but there's no mystery, she was a pretty heavy drug addict, drug addicts die younger, that's a known fact, she was just a famous/socialite one.

Were she poor there'd be no attempt to find other ways to explain her death other than to say it was health deterioration caused by years of heavy drugs and drink abuse.

- yeah, and ain't that a shame..
- or are drug users not real people..(??)

Grim Lock · Post by **Grim Lock** » Sun, 19. Feb 17, 09:15

Dick Bruna creator of Nijntje (Miffy to to most of you probably) has died a couple of days ago at age 89. Sad news.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/ ... ed-aged-89

felter · Post by **felter** » Sun, 26. Feb 17, 17:03

Bill Paxton 61 has died from complications after heart surgery.

R.I.P. Bill

Alee Enn · Post by **Alee Enn** » Sun, 26. Feb 17, 17:27

Game over man, game over.
R.I.P. Bill.

matthewfarmery · Post by **matthewfarmery** » Sun, 26. Feb 17, 17:47

RIP

he was a good actor, and that line was awesome

Game over man, game over.

mrbadger · Post by **mrbadger** » Sun, 26. Feb 17, 18:35

Alien Theory on Youtube recently did a video on him, I guess there'll be another soon, they did a good one following John Hurts death.

berth · Post by **berth** » Sun, 26. Feb 17, 23:32

Alien Tech Inc. wrote:Game over man, game over.
R.I.P. Bill.

Why don't you put her in charge?!

RIP Hudson.

BugMeister · Post by **BugMeister** » Mon, 27. Feb 17, 00:14

- it's a bug-hunt..

- very watchable actor, had the "everyman" quality in spades
- sad loss..

muppetts · Post by **muppetts** » Mon, 27. Feb 17, 06:45

He was cool and Hudson one of my fav film characters

Golden_Gonads · Post by **Golden_Gonads** » Mon, 27. Feb 17, 13:09

Britain's tallest man, actor Neil Fingleton (Played Mag the Mighty in Game of Thrones) also died yesterday - Age 36.

Jericho · Post by **Jericho** » Mon, 27. Feb 17, 13:39

felter wrote:Bill Paxton 61 has died from complications after heart surgery.

R.I.P. Bill

Yeah, couldn't believe this when I heard it yesterday.

On the other hand, I've seen him die in 97% of the films he's been in, so I guess I am just waiting for him to pop up again.

Going to have to watch True Lies again "A pair of titties that'll make you sit up and beg for buttermilk".

Dreez · Post by **Dreez** » Mon, 27. Feb 17, 17:24

Such a great and versatile actor, and apparently a great man personally.

Truly a loss. His quotes from Aliens are the best.

Was hoping for better news when i checked iMDB

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Bishop149 · Post by **Bishop149** » Mon, 27. Feb 17, 17:47

Pretty much everyone on here has jumped to "Hudson from Aliens" as the role they remember him for best (me too) but I've yet to see this one in the headline of any article reflecting upon him.

They usually seem to go with "Apollo 13 / Titanic actor . . . " the latter being especially bizarre as I had to look it up to see what role he played . . . . an incredibly minor one. It could be a reflection of the sci-fi cult nature of this forum but I have seen him referred to a "True Lies actor . . . " arguably an even more niche cult film. Have the media just forgotten Aliens?

Edit: Ha! after I wrote this I went back and looked. . . . TWO of the outlets I previously saw have changed their headlines to add Aliens. So yeah it looks like they did forget.

berth · Post by **berth** » Mon, 27. Feb 17, 22:45

He appeared in quite a few James Cameron movies, including the original Terminator, wherein he supplies one of that movie's most used quotes.

mrbadger · Post by **mrbadger** » Tue, 28. Feb 17, 10:18

And here it is, the Alien Theory Bill Paxton tribute Video, as good as I suspected it would be video linky

I had no idea he was such a wide ranging actor, or that he was in so many of my favorite films.

Jericho · Post by **Jericho** » Tue, 28. Feb 17, 12:44

berth wrote:He appeared in quite a few James Cameron movies, including the original Terminator, wherein he supplies one of that movie's most used quotes.

He's been killed by a Terminator, an Alien, and a Predator.
Not many actors can say that. (Lance Henrikson I guess. Did the queen alien 'kill' Bishop? Or was it the crash?)

Appeared in 4 films with Michael Bhein
Appeared in 3 films with Schwarzenegger

The less said about Thunderbirds the better

zazie · Post by **zazie** » Tue, 28. Feb 17, 16:20

I am a bit late but I would like you taking notice of the death of Tzvetan Todorov on February 7, 2017. He was born in Bulgaria (March 1, 1939), in the middle of the 60's he emigrated to France where he published and lived for the rest of his life as a professor for litterature, philosophy and semiotics.

With one of his books he had and has an enormous impact on the litterature of the 20th century, litterature meaning novels, movies, even computer games! It was his 1970-study about "The Fantastic" (this one: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/boo ... son_id=934) that opened a very new perspective on several litterary sub-genres. The study was instantly and widely accepted.

Quote from wikipedia: "Todorov defines the fantastic as being any event that happens in our world that seems to be supernatural. Upon the occurrence of the event, we must decide if the event was an illusion or whether it is real and has actually taken place."

The magic is in the words "we must decide". If the author make things clear - the supernatural is a dream, e.g. - we cannot speak about "The Fantastic". But we must reconsider a story when there is NO solution of the riddle: did it really happen or not ?
"We" stay in uncertainity, "we" cannot find easy answers, "we" as 'readers' have to decide by ourselves.

That was a new approach and led not only to a new interpretation of fantastic litterature but also to new writing-techniques in SciFi-stories and Computer Games. We can say that the "immersion" of actual games partially has its roots in Todorov's work. As long as we play "We" accept the reality of the game as real - and not as an illusion.

So thank you Tzvetan Todorov for having given us the basics for creating new realities - without escaping the reality at all.

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Death announcements for persons of note