Celebrity death that bummed you out the most... - Page 16

Elspode · 06-15-2006, 11:52 PM

No worries...I haven't been doing a very good job of that myself, lately.

disenchanted · 06-16-2006, 02:15 AM

Page 16, and yet nobody's mentioned Jim Henson.

wolf · 06-21-2006, 12:42 AM

We're all still in such deep distress that we can't talk about it.

lookout123 · 06-21-2006, 03:56 AM

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Page 16, and yet nobody's mentioned Jim Henson.

my neighbor's dead? guess i won't have to return the weedwacker.

lookout123 · 06-23-2006, 11:05 PM

Aaron Spelling has left the building. Like it or not, the man has impacted every TV owner's life.

wolf · 06-24-2006, 12:44 AM

I am woman enough to admit that I liked The Mod Squad.

But I was very disappointed when I caught one of their scripts being reused for an episode of Charlie's Angels.

(I don't remember much of the plot, but it had something to do with this little kid, and him running away. In one of the shows he runs to these White Swan Boats on a lake, and in the other it was the White Horse or Unicorn on the Merry-Go-Round at an extremely similar park. Other than that, word for word sameness. That is the day that I become disillusioned by television. Well, it was either that or the day that I found out that the guy playing Longstreet wasn't really blind.)

lookout123 · 06-24-2006, 01:38 AM

when the not-quite-ex was on 5 months of strict bedrest trying to hold in little lookout we were sooooo incredibly broke. i literally lived on peanut butter sandwiches. we always found money to pay the cable bill because she was stuck there 24/7. anyway, we got hooked on 90210 reruns. cheesy yes, but good memories.

Beestie · 06-24-2006, 02:18 AM

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Originally Posted by lookout123

we got hooked on 90210 reruns. cheesy yes, but good memories.

Same here. I kept the last episode on VHS. I personally did not care for the show but watching the reruns brings back some good times. Funny how fast time goes. That was seven years ago and I have no idea where 7 years went. My son turns 7 in December and I can not remember big chunks of those 7 years.

I remember going to Six Flags when I was a kid. I would wait for over an hour for the "Big" roller coaster. Then it would be over. And I could scarcely remember it. I didn't like that then and I don't like it now.

Spexxvet · 06-24-2006, 08:53 AM

Good times......gooooood times.

Elspode · 06-24-2006, 09:33 AM

Spelling made a lot of crap, but he made very, very *popular* crap, which made him a very, very rich man.

I don't think you can even put out that much crap without a lot of very hard work and keen insights. He was a sharp cookie, indeed, and a bonafide TV legend.

xoxoxoBruce · 06-24-2006, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Elspode

Spelling made a lot of crap, ~snip

Tori?

Elspode · 06-24-2006, 01:33 PM

I wasn't going to reference her directly, but...yes, Tori, too.

Beestie · 06-24-2006, 02:44 PM

Spelling also made Gilligan's Island which was about the only bright spot for an eight/ nine-year old me (1968-9) during a particularly "challenging" period of growing up.

richlevy · 06-25-2006, 08:26 AM

Ok, this is an odd fit for this category, but I like to stir things up sometimes.

From Reuters

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Marshall, legal adversary of Nicole Smith, dies
Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:01 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - E. Pierce Marshall, who battled Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith in the courts over his father's vast oil fortune, died unexpectedly this week, his family said on Friday.
The 67-year-old died after a "brief and extremely aggressive infection," the family said in a statement from Dallas.
The death in 1995 of his father, J. Howard Marshall, triggered a long-running legal battle with Smith, who married the oil tycoon a year earlier after meeting him while working as a topless dancer. She was 26 when they married; he was 89.
Marshall was one of the wealthiest men in Texas, worth more than an estimated $1.6 billion. Smith claimed that her husband promised her half of his estate. The son said that more than $6 million in gifts she received was all his father left her.

(snip)

No matter where you stand on whether she deserves the money, you have to admire the guys tenacity. You also have to wonder how being rebuffed by the Supreme Court affected him?

xoxoxoBruce · 06-25-2006, 02:14 PM

Tenacity? Yes, all the J.R. Ewing clones have that selfish, vindictive, tenacity.

06-15-2006, 11:52 PM	#226
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	No worries...I haven't been doing a very good job of that myself, lately. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

06-21-2006, 12:42 AM	#228
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	We're all still in such deep distress that we can't talk about it. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

06-23-2006, 11:05 PM	#230
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	Aaron Spelling has left the building. Like it or not, the man has impacted every TV owner's life. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

06-24-2006, 12:44 AM	#231
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I am woman enough to admit that I liked The Mod Squad. But I was very disappointed when I caught one of their scripts being reused for an episode of Charlie's Angels. (I don't remember much of the plot, but it had something to do with this little kid, and him running away. In one of the shows he runs to these White Swan Boats on a lake, and in the other it was the White Horse or Unicorn on the Merry-Go-Round at an extremely similar park. Other than that, word for word sameness. That is the day that I become disillusioned by television. Well, it was either that or the day that I found out that the guy playing Longstreet wasn't really blind.) __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

06-24-2006, 01:38 AM	#232
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	when the not-quite-ex was on 5 months of strict bedrest trying to hold in little lookout we were sooooo incredibly broke. i literally lived on peanut butter sandwiches. we always found money to pay the cable bill because she was stuck there 24/7. anyway, we got hooked on 90210 reruns. cheesy yes, but good memories. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

06-16-2006, 02:15 AM	#227
disenchanted Resident President Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 81	Page 16, and yet nobody's mentioned Jim Henson.

06-24-2006, 08:53 AM	#234
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	Good times......gooooood times. __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

06-24-2006, 09:33 AM	#235
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Spelling made a lot of crap, but he made very, very popular crap, which made him a very, very rich man. I don't think you can even put out that much crap without a lot of very hard work and keen insights. He was a sharp cookie, indeed, and a bonafide TV legend. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

06-24-2006, 01:33 PM	#237
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	I wasn't going to reference her directly, but...yes, Tori, too. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

06-24-2006, 02:44 PM	#238
Beestie -◊\|≡·∙■·∙≡\|◊- Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Parts unknown. Posts: 4,081	Spelling also made Gilligan's Island which was about the only bright spot for an eight/ nine-year old me (1968-9) during a particularly "challenging" period of growing up. __________________ ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦

06-25-2006, 02:14 PM	#240
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Tenacity? Yes, all the J.R. Ewing clones have that selfish, vindictive, tenacity. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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