Re: Celebrity Death List MMXI / The Death Thread 2011

[skully]

Jesus, how drunk are you, you rambling twat?

[Bradman]

Actually good call. Not really being fair to Mandy. She was more fun than Julia.

[Allan D]

That looks more like a death wish list....

And yes, the Michael Gough I was going for was the 94 year old, so you can sleep ok AD, no one is trying to cheat in this important little competition we have .

I somehow guessed that, Vik, and I was only pulling your leg, something it might not be wise to do with Zsa Zsa Gabor.

[skully]

Pull? Pull? AD, if you pay enough money, they will hand the leg to you.

[skully]

Collapsed lung and ongoing ill-health requiring hospitalisation for the legendary Nelson Mandela. taips could be first of the mark this year.

[skully]

I'm a little surprised that Zoggy went away from his tried and untrusted American Football death theme.

Chiefs Booster karks it at 98

"The names and faces at Arrowhead Stadium change on a regular basis, but for almost 45 years, bandleader Tony DiPardo — the Chiefs’ most-visible booster — was a constant.

Through good seasons and bad, the boisterous showman did his best to charge up the crowds by blowing on his horn. DiPardo died Thursday at age 98, his family said."

[JGK]

Looks like he might be OK for now:

"What I can convey is that he is receiving the best treatment from the best available health professionals in this country, and that should reassure all of us that there is no need of us to panic," Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe told a news conference on Friday.

"There is no need for us fear for Madiba's health," he said of Mandela. "He is in good hands."

[taipan]

Collapsed lung and ongoing ill-health requiring hospitalisation for the legendary Nelson Mandela. taips could be first of the mark this year.

He's being released from hospital this afternoon

[skully]

Good news for the SAffie superman.

[taipan]

Already at home

[skully]

[Allan D]

CDL works its restorative magic yet again. Shame no one had this guy on the list, though, who has been rushed to the hospital after an (allegedly) 36-hour booze, drug and hooker binge. Well, might as well go out with a bang rather than a whimper...

Charlie Sheen Rushed to Hospital

[Bradman]

He's like Keith Richards, but a bit younger.

[Henry]

Keith Richards could go on a 72 hour booze and drug binge, wake up feeling fine the morning after, dust himself down, and play some of the best rock riffs of all time no problem.

Sheen is just soft.

[skully]

Aye, they just don't make celebrities like they used to. I bet even his old man Martin just shakes his head in how p!ssweak young Carlos is.

Still, when you are paid $1.8M per episode of TAAHM, you've gotta spend it on sumpent, I suppose.

[LeFromage]

Composer John Barry is no more:
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni7323329/

[Allan D]

Great man, known for many other films apart from the 'Bond' series including perhaps the greatest British 'Western' of all - the incredible 'Zulu' :

[taipan]

Great man, known for many other films apart from the 'Bond' series including perhaps the greatest British 'Western' of all - the incredible 'Zulu' :

Which Richard Burton was that then?

[Allan D]

The Richard Burton who, along with Stanley Baker, produced the film and provides the narration (reading the official despatch, included at the end of this clip but occurring at the beginning of the film, from Lord Chelmsford, C-in-C of British forces in Cape Colony, to the War Office in London describing the massacre at Isandhlwana, later the subject of the film Zulu Dawn).

Both Burton and Baker were proud Welshmen and wanted to commemorate on film an action in which 11 VCs were awarded with 7 being won by the regiment that would be renamed the South Wales Borderers (now part of the Royal Regiment of Wales) two years later. However, magnificent though the film is, it was slightly off historically in that regard (as it was in portraying the character of Henry Hook, played by James Booth in the film, who far from being the drunken ne'er-do-well who discovers valour in the heat of battle was actually a teetotal Methodist lay preacher who gave up a thriving grocery business in Bristol to experience the excitement of Army life) as the 24th Foot tended to recruit mainly from the West Country with Welsmen being very much in a minority in the regiment although 3 welsmen did win VCs at the engagement (and a fourth would have done so had provision existed, which it did not until WWI, for the posthumous award of the VC. So it is high;y unlikely that "Men of Harlech was sung at Rorke's Drift to maintain morale!

Still, it does show what might have happened at the Little Big Horn 3 years earlier had the 7th Cavalry had:
a) proper leadership
b) proper training and discipline
c) a defensible position
d) the Lee-Enfield rifle.

Unfortunately it possessed none of these advantages with the inevitable result although the absence of a) and c) also caused the disaster for the British at Isandlhwana a few days before Rorke's Drift.

[JGK]

Sounds like Charlie Sheen will be lucky to get through the year.

[skully]

Aye.

TAAHM shut down as Sheen goes into Rehab

"With production on his hit series Two and A Half Men forced to temporarily shut down while the actor receives treatment, up to $250 million in revenue is at jeopardy, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

If the show, now in its eight series, is forced to permanently close shop producer Warner Bros faces a loss stretching well into nine figures in syndication revenue and millions more in lost advertising revenue for CBS.

Sheen voluntarily entered an unnamed rehab facility last week, forcing producers of Men, the most-watched comedy on US TV, to place the series on a production hiatus."

.....

"Earlier this month CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler said: “We have a high level of concern. How could we not?...But you can’t look at it simplistically. Charlie is professional. He comes to work. He does his job extremely well. It’s very complicated.”

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Professional what?

[Bradman]

Aye, they just don't make celebrities like they used to. I bet even his old man Martin just shakes his head in how p!ssweak young Carlos is.

Still, when you are paid $1.8M per episode of TAAHM, you've gotta spend it on sumpent, I suppose.

Well Charlie has got a pretty high bar to hurdle. His father once had a heart attack on screen, one of his co-stars in the same movie was juiced up to the eyeballs and in serious need of professional help and the other co-star made hard living Keith Richards look like Mother Theresa only fatter; and the Director was photographed with a gun in one hand and a bottle of some sort of hooch in the other.

The new generation might be soft but at least Charlie's trying.

[WideWally]

Vale Darrel Baldock.

A legendary Australian Rules footballer. He also played 2 first class cricket matches for Tasmania & was a state member of parliament for 15 years.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/club-legend-baldock-passes-away/story-e6frf9jf-1225998992948

[skully]

Baldrick?

[Zat]

Doc Baldock gone? That's sad news. A true gentleman. The skipper in the Saints only premiership doesn't survive to see them add to the tally.

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