I am still so, so proud of him for having the sense of humor to redo the chestburster scene for Spaceballs...

http://www.rantlifestyle.com/wp-cont...rt-Himself.jpg

As for Supafly, he was in a world of legal AND health hurt...think he'd just been determined incompetent to stand trial for killing a girlfriend in the 80s or so. DQ'd from trial due to dementia from all the wrestling-related injuries.

All I can say further about that is HULK HOGAN BETTER NOT OUTLIVE MICK FOLEY GODDAMMIT!!!

Aw shit, man. Mannix died. Mike Connors died the 26th. He was 91.

Maggie Roche

The best scene in the movie, esp. the alien with the boater.

"Hello ma baby, hello ma honey hello, ma ragtime gal, Send me a kiss by wire, Baby, my hearts on fire ..."

Michigan J. Chestburster

Lt. Gen. Hal Moore, the commander from 'We Were Soldiers' portrayed my Mel Gibson.

I read that this morning.

Also Al Jarreau.

Wrestler George 'The Animal' Steele (real name William James Myers) has died of kidney failure at age 79.

That was required reading bitd. RIP

At least The Animal wasn't 48, like Eddie Guerrero... :( My sweetie started being a huge pro wrestling fan back when ECW was still a new federation, and ol' George was one of his very favorites.

I really wish Satan would revoke Hulk Hogan's contract, tho. Shatner's too.

That is SO PERFECT! I don't even care if that's really its name or not, that is just awesome.

Gravdigr was being his usual hilariously clever self and riffing on the Michigan J. Frog character that Spaceballs was riffing on.

Man, that Gravdigr guy, he just slays me sometimes.

He's like a Kentucky version of Shawnee123.

DOMFCOTL,ISN

WTF is DOMFCOTL,ISN?

Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.

Thank You.

Well played.:D

I think you just made both our lists.:lol2:

Just don't cross the streams

Which is why I will never again watch Spaceballs without bursting out laughing at Michigan J. Chestburster. That's a ray of light for me; I cried for days back in the 1990s when I realized that "political correctness" meant the end of Mel Brooks being allowed to be funny.

:D

NOBODY NOTICED BILL PAXTON YET???

We spent last night watching Predator 2 and then Aliens, then trying to find Vertical Limit which is a terrible movie but features Paxton as an outstanding villain and a personal fave of mine, Scott Glenn, as his expedition-guiding nemesis.

Oh, and Judge Wapner, and a bit player (Mag the Mighty is the character) from Game of Thrones.

At least now we can tell Bill Paxton and Bill Pullman apart a lot easier... If he's breathing, he's Pullman. :sniff: :(

Thomas Starzl "Father of Transplantation" who pioneered liver transplants, nwhich are now almost routine.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39174779

And some singer from the 90s who had a career while I stubbornly kept my car radio (only one I owned) turned off due to an ongoing squabble between me and a buncha teenagers I kept having to ferry around Seattle. Only band in Seattle in the 90s I liked was Queensryche; never did go for the switch from "sex, drugs, and music are AWESOME" lyrical aesthetic from 80s hair metal to "life is horrible, everyone I love is a monster, and oh yeah let's write another song about a kid who guns down half his homeroom" tone of what I still refer to as Pearl-Garden-In-Chains.

A very old, like Golden Age of Cinema old, fella who I believe was an announcer or commentator or the like. Vaguely remembered his name when I read about it, can't think of it now.

Coroner's report finally came back on George Michael and the verdict is: "shoulda cleaned up your life sooner, bucko." Fatty liver, myocarditis (which nearly killed my mom and my neighbor's mom both), and dilated cardiomyopathy (left ventricle of the heart becomes oversized in muscle thickness, which can lead to poor circulation and other problems as that ventricle is the heart's main engine, driving the rhythm of all 4 chambers). All are known side effects of repeated bouts with both drug addiction and weight gain/loss cycles.

Live hard, die young.

Chuck Berry. RIP.

:cry:

This is a clip from 1958. Look at the audience. They don't even know what they're looking at. Undoubtedly, some are wishing someone would stop what that fella was doing to that poor guitar.

These people didn't know wtf hit them:



Chuck Fucking Berry, man.

:mecry::notworthy:devil:

Mom&Popdigr tell me that I used to walk around as a small child singing "Yesterday" & "Maybelline".

How the fuck could anyone with a soul not be toe tappin' or head bobbin'?

Whiter than white.

Chuck Barris, The Gong Show.

My favorite Gong Show act:



Stay til the end, the panelist to Jamie Farr's left makes the whole clip.

He also wrote “Palisades Park” that Freddy Cannon took to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

And The Dating Game.

And The Newlywed Game.

Three years after he started Chuck Barris Productions he was supplying 22 half hour packages to the networks every week.

I saw Chuck Berry in concert in the early 80s at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. It was so cool, absolutely a bucket list show for me. The opener was The Stray Cats. They were new, they were pretty good. My friend and I had fun mocking the guitarist who was playing like a mofo, but not plugged in. We could see his cable on the floor. That was funny.

Chuck Berry was fantastic! So much energy, so much fucking Rock and Roll. He sang, he duck-walked, it was great. The last song/encore (don't remember) was Johhny B. Goode, it went on forever. Kids came up onto the stage and played air guitar alongside him. They danced and duck-walked all over the stage. Chuck Berry just carefully backed up onto the drum riser, still playing, never missed a lick. It was a joyous party. Fucking Rock and Roll.

RIP Chuck Berry.

And he punched Keith Richards in the face for touching his guitar in the dressing room.:lol:

Bad week for Chucks...

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Guess who died you hockey pucks. The original Donald J.

Mr Warmth, cool at last.


RIP.


I watched him deliver roasts in several videos in a recent youtube expedition. He was gifted. It's worth watching them again (or for the first time for the youngsters out there).

He was a Master Insultician.

RIP J Geils

Man, I used to love "Centerfold". That's a great old song.



:blackr::blackr::blackr:

Aw shit, man, Joanie died! Erin Moran dead at 56.

Well, that's sad.

Cause of death should be interesting, re: "hard partying ways".


ETA: I just read it: “likely succumbed to complications of stage 4 cancer.”

Also: "no illegal narcotics were found at the residence".

Stage 4 cancer. No illegal narcotics. That's a damn shame. :(

:yesnod:

Director Jonathan Demme, dead at 73.

Next up is probably gonna be actress Charlotte Rae, who at 91 has just been diagnosed with bone cancer and who is already a VERY rare survivor of pancreatic cancer.

Her birthday was just a week or so ago.

Michael Parks, character actor, most familiar to my generation as a number of dudes named Earl McGraw in a bunch of Tarantino movies--From Dusk Til Dawn, the Kill Bills...I haven't seen most of his IMDb credits, but he'd been around a LONG time.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662981/?ref_=tt_cl_t11

I remember him:

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He's that guy, who was in that thing.

Chris Cornell- eleven days older than me and a lot more talented. I really liked Soundgarden and Temple of the Dog, but loved Audioslave. Audioslave was crucial for getting me through a kinda terrible job I needed to find my career path. Cranking CC while inputting data made it bearable. I will miss his amazing pipes.