In all the stories I read and also what i remember from when it happened and got reported, he and his wife had gotten into an arguement at a party and when they got home, he hit her several times and caused several cuts, bruises and bumps.

If he had alzheimers, it was never reported. But having had a father who was abusive, my tolerance for abusers for any reason is slim to none.

@iMonkey

Thanks.

I had a different abuser in my life, and I know what you mean.

I think everything just disappoints me lately, and things that seem good are often not, so I keep trying to think there's more to it than I know. Cock-eyed optimist, budding pessimist.

:comfort:

:o You're welcome.

OK, back to the actor. Inherit the Wind? Hello! Of course one of the best films ever. :)

Indeed. Just ask Elspode. :rar:

I just posted this on FB...

I'm extremely sad to hear of the passing Christopher Hitchens. He's been suffering from cancer for quite some time, so it's probably a much needed relief for him...dear man, I hope you are now enjoying civilised cocktails and after-dinner cigarettes with Mr. Wodehouse.

I have a lot of admiration for Mr. Hitchens. He was pegged as a conservative, but I don't believe he should have been pegged as anything less than a deep-thinking individual. I was fortunate to meet him twice at Timberlake's, a bar in Dupont Circle where the love of my life, [MB], used to bartend. MB got to know him a bit more than I did, lucky guy.

I remember when I first met Mr. Hitchens. It was only he and I at the bar (and MB behind the bar), and I was incredibly nervous! I was nearly one-on-one with one of the most brilliant minds alive, and I could think of almost nothing to say. Thankfully, we realized that we had a common love of P.G. Wodehouse...so that sustained the conversation for a while.

Mr. Hitchen, the world is a worse place without you. I hope your boy, who you were overheard to instruct that Russians are all alcoholics, will be able to continue your wonderful legacy in any way at all.

My FB post

Very sad this morning to learn of the death of Christopher Hitchens, although we knew it was coming and he had been ill for a long time. His awesome rhetoric and obvious brilliance were absolutely inspiring. This morning I have re-read the account of when he was attacked in Beirut for defacing the sign of a nationalist party there whose symbol is a stylized swastika. Said Hitchens later, if one sees a swastika, it is one's duty to deface it. He has defaced more intellectual swastikas than anyone else.

http://michaeltotten.com/archives/20...topher-hit.php

(to have bartended for the man... to have met the man... that's amazing, bc)

RIP Mr. Hitchens. A great author.

He had a great mind, but as with many great minds his provided cover for lesser minds with lesser agendas.

Kim Jong Il? I did not know he was sick! :eyebrow:
I am not bummed either
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Vaclav Havel also died.

Meanwhile a Russian oil rig capsized killing over 60 people when a wave crashed through portholes and washed away the only lifeboat. A disaster equivalent to Piper Alpha. Death of people who actually do something (or tried to) is the worst.

Vaclav Havel is a sad passing.

Say it isn't so! :sniff:

International Rockstar Legend Jon Bon Jovi dead at 49
December 19, 2011



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Hoax whew!

LINK

Oh god. I had this flash of fear that all I would be hearing about for the next month would be Jon Bon Jovi. The city would shut down. (I'd be sad, too.)

Selene kept that one in the un-negotiated DVD pilfering. I'm not very happy about that. It is my single favorite film of all time.

CBS reporting that Joe Pa has passed.
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...or maybe not.
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A letter from the (Now past) Managing Editor of Onward State:

And now he has ...
RIP JoePa.

Just learned that Ralph McQuarrie died. As a Star Wars fan, I've known of this guy for 30+ years. Pretty much everything you can picture from the original trilogy was invented by him. George Lucas would say to him that he wanted a bad guy with a mask and a cape, and he would draw Darth Vader. The sets, the costumes, the ships. All of it was built to designs that he came up with.

If you go back and look at his art, you can see how his concepts evolved with feedback from Lucas.

Some of the first McQuarrie concept sketches of Vader:
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I have several books of McQuarrie illustrations for Star Wars. Darn. I'll have to try to find them.

Good night to Earl Scruggs.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/28/showbi...ss_mostpopular

They're all bummin' me ... none of them are on my list.

Cheney: 20 months with a bum heart, then no heart at all, and he still makes it back.

That should settle any questions of the dark side of the force being stronger.

Mike Wallace, The Grand Inquisitor, has died.

Shit.

Along with Ferdinand Porsche, Marshall of the Marshall stacks, and Thomas Kinkaid.

Shawnee has already marked his death, but I wanted to give his passing more gravitas.
Maurice Sendak has died.

Best known for Where the Wild Things Are, although he was a prolific author.
But if you are only known for one book, at least let it be the most perfect children's book ever.
Or at least in the top five. My top five. I'm sure he stayed at night worrying about that.

The book is almost poetry in its sparse prose.
It holds such appeal to children everywhere. And lasting appeal to those who never grew up.

Maurice Sendak you made an impact on my life with your talent.
Thank you so much.

Sundae, he did an interview with Colbert. He was brilliant. :)

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-col...e-sendak-pt--1

There's a part 2.

Tom Davis, writer for SNL, sidekick of Al Franken, died yesterday.

also

He's movin' on up to a dee-luxe apartment in the sky ...

For those that didn't get Wolf's reference, Sherman Hemsley, of tv's "The Jeffersons" has died at the age of 74.

Never married, no children.

I was gonna post the same... greatish minds. From South Philly apparently.

I thought he was living in El Paso?

Yes, celebrities live there. More than one. My wife once took me on the tour. :D

I still think the place is a craphole.

He and Franken were the baggage handlers transporting the gorilla in "Trading Places".

Chad Everett had a bit of a write up, and a clip from him... followed by a two sentence notice about Mr Helmsley. I was saddened to hear it described as "was found in his home in El Paso". Found? That's sad.

Good night Marvin Hamlisch, age 68.

I always remember him on Merv Griffin, behind the piano, talking about how he adapted Scott Joplin when he scored "The Sting". It was so perfect for the film, it renewed interest in ragtime. Ragtime FFS! And every kid who played piano that year was forever begged to bang out "The Entertainer".

He was also responsible for "A Chorus Line" which every theater person either has a true fondness for, or at least has heard their friends riffing on "One!..... singular sensation, every little step she takes..."

Only just found out that Crowded House's drummer, Peter Jones died in May this year.
Not big news over here, despite him being English.

He replaced one of my pop heroes, Paul Hester. After the band separated in the mid-nineties he pursued a career in music and television but hanged himself in 2005. Peter Jones replaced him when he band reformed. BIG shoes to fill.

Jones died at the age of 45 of brain cancer.
I saw him live twice and although I cannot judge him as a musician, he was a presence on stage and certainly competent. I don't mean to damn him with faint praise - just that Hestie was such a character in live shows.

RIP Peter Jones. I didn't mark your passing and that bums me out.

And all I want is something I can write about
And all I want is something I can cry about...

Damn Vevo.

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The hell you say...

Phyllis Diller is back with Fang.

Nobody could wear a maribou dress like she could.

What a life. 95 years, and she didn't look an operation over 60.

RIP Count
 

And thank you for helping me learn how.

http://news.moviefone.com/2012/08/24...ust_reloaded=1

Huh.
Sylvia Kristel.

Apparently she smoked a ton, and it caught up with her. Dead of lung and throat cancer at 60. :(

Last night on some news program I heard women who smoke/drink/mess around with too many boys usually die around the age of...sixty.

isn't that weird? Who wants to live to be too old anyway? I'm watching my folks lose their reasoning day by day.

Sam Kinison on amyl nitrate or somesuch:

Paraphrasing:

Yeah. I've decided to be like Alan Arkin's character in "Little Miss Sunshine".

Its hard watching my old man, because I know he knows he's losing it. It would be easier if one switch got thrown. "Okay you're nuts now, have at."

There's the folks who "taper off" and then there's the folks who dive right in.

In today's news: Devo drummer Alan Myers dies of brain cancer

"In the past this information has been suppressed but how it can be told! Every man, woman and mutant on this planet shall know the truth about devolution!"
"Oh dad, we're all DEVO!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRguZr0xCOc

And who can forget General Boy and Boogie Boy in their last appearance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbiY3H0SmOk

Being reported now... Eileen Breenan

Brennan is best known for her role as Doreen Lewis in Private Benjamin
for which she received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

This is a lady who could not catch a break...

After having dinner together one night in 1982, Brennan and Hawn left a restaurant.
Brennan was hit by a passing car and was critically injured.
She took three years off work to recover, and had to overcome a subsequent addiction to painkillers.

If those iconic rock stars DIDn't die, what would they look like?

maybe like this?

http://sachsmedia.com/rockheaven/ass...ers/cobain.jpg

Carl 'the Cuban'. Ruiz
44. Fuck

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/22/us/ch...ath/index.html