http://www.tmz.com/2015/01/02/donna-douglas-dead-beverly-hillbillies-elly-may-clampett/
Donna Douglas -- who famously portrayed Elly May Clampett on the legendary 60s TV series "The Beverly Hillbillies" -- passed away Thursday at her home in Louisiana with friends and family by her side.
Douglas' granddaughter confirmed the death to TMZ.
Donna starred on "The Beverly Hillbillies" for all nine seasons and even returned for the 1981 reunion TV movie.
Douglas also appeared in several other iconic TV series, including "Mister Ed," "The Twilight Zone," "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," "Adam 12," and "Route 66."
She also co-starred with Elvis Presley in "Frankie and Johnny."
Douglas filed two famous lawsuits over the years. In the 1990s, she sued Disney claiming they stole the idea for "Sister Act" from her. In 2011, she sued Mattel for making a Barbie doll with her likeness without her permission. She lost the "Sister Act" case and settled the Barbie case.
Donna was 81.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 January 2015 19:09 (ten years ago)
http://www.relapse.com/media/catalog/product/cache/2/small_image/225x150/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/o/b/obituary_1.jpg
― wwhy shrek is piss (am0n), Friday, 2 January 2015 19:11 (ten years ago)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/mario-cuomo-new-york-governor-dead-82-article-1.2063258
Ever-eloquent Mario Cuomo, a son of Queens who rode his rhetorical gifts to three terms as New York governor and tantalized Democrats by flirting with a run for President, died Thursday. He was 82.
Cuomo passed away at 5:15 p.m. of heart failure, surrounded by family in his Manhattan apartment as his son, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was in Buffalo delivering his second inaugural address of the day.
(I know this was covered at the tail end of the 2014 thread, but I put it here for posterity.)
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 January 2015 19:13 (ten years ago)
http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/2015/01/02/little-jimmy-dickens-opry-star-dies-obit/21210809/
RIP Little Jimmy Dickens
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 3 January 2015 01:40 (ten years ago)
RIP & May The Bird of Paradise Fly You Up A Nose and Into Heaven
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 3 January 2015 01:42 (ten years ago)
http://pitchfork.com/news/53635-swans-announce-new-album-rip-and-may-the-bird-of-paradise-fly-you-up-a-nose-and-into-heaven-featuring-little-jimmy-dickens-michael-gira-announces-solo-tour/
― yusef latifah (unregistered), Saturday, 3 January 2015 01:55 (ten years ago)
Eh, what?
According to Charlie Louvin, Little Jimmy was the classic tough little short guy. Earlier this evening I took a tater and waited. RIP.
― Can We Be Shown Worldbuilders + Mike Harrison? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 January 2015 02:19 (ten years ago)
v strange, a friend was talking on New Years Eve about meeting Dickens backstage
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 January 2015 04:19 (ten years ago)
Time for new screenname
― Dedlock Holiday (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 January 2015 09:38 (ten years ago)
Oh wait, wrong Dickens
Edward Brooke, liberal Republican from Massachusetts who in 1966 became the first African-American popularly elected to the Senate.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/edward-w-brooke-first-african-american-elected-to-the-us-senate-dies-at-95/2015/01/03/cdabb80a-938b-11e4-ba53-a477d66580ed_story.html
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 4 January 2015 14:55 (ten years ago)
ESPN anchor Stuart Scott:
http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/12118296/stuart-scott-espn-anchor-dies-age-49
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 January 2015 15:35 (ten years ago)
RIP Stuart Scott. You were the man.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 4 January 2015 17:16 (ten years ago)
These two clips featured here will shred ya. Just a bit of fair warning.
http://deadspin.com/rich-eisen-hannah-storm-others-react-live-to-stuart-1677360761/
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 January 2015 17:26 (ten years ago)
Meantime, in contrast, I give you the National Review. So successful.
https://twitter.com/NRO/status/551803970621308929
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 January 2015 19:04 (ten years ago)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/world/middleeast/serge-hochar-producer-of-lebanese-wines-dies-at-75.html
― nakhchivan, Monday, 5 January 2015 17:45 (ten years ago)
Bess Myerson
― blurting something tender dignified goods as high art (doo dah), Monday, 5 January 2015 18:50 (ten years ago)
she can beard for Ed Koch once more
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 January 2015 18:51 (ten years ago)
Rene Vautier, who claimed to be the "most censored director in France", died on Sunday aged 86, his family said.
...Many of his films were banned or condemned by the establishment and one even landed him in prison. He was sentenced to a year in jail for making "Africa 50", which he shot when was just 20, and which is seen as the first French anti-colonial film. It denounced the crimes of the French army and the lack of education afforded to the natives of French colonies. It was banned for 40 years.
http://artdaily.com/news/75510/French-anti-colonial-firebrand-film-maker-Rene-Vautier-dies-aged-86-in-Brittany
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 January 2015 20:20 (ten years ago)
Rod Taylor
http://www.people.com/people/mobile/article/0,,20890158,00.html
Jack Cardiff's Dark of The Sun RULES.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 9 January 2015 02:23 (ten years ago)
Another one for the 'I Thought They Died Years Ago'.Appearing in the The Time Machine AND Zabriskie Point is kinda cool.
― The World's Strangest Man 2014 (Tom D.), Friday, 9 January 2015 10:24 (ten years ago)
musicologist Bob Gilmore
http://www.bobgilmore.co.uk/
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 9 January 2015 13:04 (ten years ago)
RIP Andraé Crouch
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 9 January 2015 14:18 (ten years ago)
Comic actor and calypso singer Lance Percival:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30746784
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 9 January 2015 19:24 (ten years ago)
Francesco Rosi:
http://www.dw.de/italian-director-francesco-rosi-dies-at-92/a-18183765
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Saturday, 10 January 2015 22:25 (ten years ago)
RIP:(
― Zings of Oblivion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 January 2015 22:47 (ten years ago)
Taylor Negron according to Twitter.
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 11 January 2015 02:52 (ten years ago)
No!
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Sunday, 11 January 2015 03:07 (ten years ago)
http://deadline.com/2015/01/taylor-negron-dead-57-after-long-battle-with-cancer-1201346798/
:-(
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Sunday, 11 January 2015 03:08 (ten years ago)
RIP. Did not notice mention of The Aristocrats in that obit.
― Zings of Oblivion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 January 2015 03:17 (ten years ago)
I think I'd heard something about him being sick, but I'd totally forgotten it. R.I.P.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 11 January 2015 04:24 (ten years ago)
Anita Ekberg?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 January 2015 18:00 (ten years ago)
Yes:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/anita-ekberg-of-la-dolce-vita-fame-dies-1.2897039
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o15UTomYsc
― clemenza, Sunday, 11 January 2015 18:24 (ten years ago)
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/drummer-vocalist-popsy-dixon-holmes-brothers-dies-28125004
Soulful falsetto vocalist
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 11 January 2015 19:49 (ten years ago)
Very sad.
This is beautiful and amazing and heartbreaking:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPNhnIwT920
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 11 January 2015 20:26 (ten years ago)
http://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2015/01/brian-clemens-dead-83/
Probably best known for The Avengers, also lots of other British TV and some film work including the Golden Voyage Of Sinbad.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 12 January 2015 08:20 (ten years ago)
Oh sad - definitely one of the major figures of British genre film/tv. I'm particularly fond of Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde, perhaps the most polymorphously perverse of all Hammer movies.
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 12 January 2015 08:37 (ten years ago)
Yeah, shame, RIP Brian.
― The World's Strangest Man 2014 (Tom D.), Monday, 12 January 2015 10:14 (ten years ago)
Tim Drummond:http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tim-drummond-bassist-neil-young-bob-dylan-dead-20150112
Hear him walk a little bit:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP1wtIfs8lg
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 12 January 2015 18:39 (ten years ago)
Oh no, that is terrible news. RIP.
― Zings of Oblivion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 January 2015 18:46 (ten years ago)
Samuel Goldwyn Jr., key arthouse distributor of the 1980s
http://thedissolve.com/news/4434-samuel-goldwyn-jr-1926-2015/
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 18:52 (ten years ago)
Dozy!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-30811311
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 12:26 (ten years ago)
RIP Dozy. I always mean to investigate DDDBMT, I like them, but I never do.
― Peas Be Upon Ham (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 12:29 (ten years ago)
Now, they are Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich
You want awesome?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51lxwZXeNSI
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 14:10 (ten years ago)
Novelist Robert Stone
― Brad C., Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:08 (ten years ago)
RIP Kim Fowley
http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/6443507/kim-fowley-legendary-record-producer-dead-at-75
― Basically / I Don't Wanna Be / An mp3 / 3-2-0 kb / ps (Craigo Boingo), Friday, 16 January 2015 01:00 (ten years ago)
o
― Mark G, Friday, 16 January 2015 07:36 (ten years ago)
Shocker, RIP Kim!!!!!!!
― Peas Be Upon Ham (Tom D.), Friday, 16 January 2015 10:09 (ten years ago)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/17/arts/music/ervin-drake-composer-of-pop-songs-dies-at-95.html?action=click&contentCollection=Music®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=article
Ervin Drake’s “Now That I Have Everything” debuted the same day he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983, a fitting coda for a career that was punctuated by hit versions of his songs, like Frank Sinatra’s “It Was a Very Good Year,” Billie Holiday’s “Good Morning Heartache” and the inspirational “I Believe,” sung by Frankie Laine.
Mr. Drake, who wrote lyrics and music, produced television programs and was president of the American Guild of Authors and Composers, died on Thursday at 95 at his home in Great Neck, N.Y. The cause was complications of bladder cancer, said his stepson, Jed Berman.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 17 January 2015 20:19 (ten years ago)
Takao Saitô, Kurosawa's cinematographer on Ran, Sanjuro and many others
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/takao-saito-cinematographer-18-kurosawa-761859
Faten Hamama, actress who was "Lady of Arabic Cinema"
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-faten-hamama-1931-2015
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 18 January 2015 15:17 (ten years ago)
Big loss to the Herald, and Scottish journalism. I will miss his elegant, clever opinion pieces. Younger than I thought, too.
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Friday, 11 December 2015 08:38 (nine years ago)
Honduran footballer Arnold Peralta
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-35068362
― ailsa, Friday, 11 December 2015 09:43 (nine years ago)
basketball great Dolph Schayes
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/hall-famer-dolph-schayes-dead-87-article-1.2461463
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 12 December 2015 13:12 (nine years ago)
Marjorie Lord, sit-mom on The Danny Thomas Show
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-1212-marjorie-lord-20151212-story.html
http://toptiding.com/LWQpcOoNVS_s.jpg
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 December 2015 01:39 (nine years ago)
was that the first fat-comedian-married-to-hottie sitcom?
― aaaaablnnn (abanana), Monday, 14 December 2015 08:58 (nine years ago)
Benedict Anderson died yesterday in Indonesia http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/12/13/world/asia/ap-as-indonesia-obit-benedict-anderson.html?_r=0
― ogmor, Monday, 14 December 2015 10:54 (nine years ago)
RIP guitarist and very funny guy Adam Roth, of bile duct cancer, one month after being diagnosed.
― Die Angst des Elfmans beim Torschluss (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 December 2015 20:32 (nine years ago)
Jimmy Hill: Former Match of the Day presenter dies aged 87
― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 December 2015 14:00 (nine years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRvDQvT5MuM
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 December 2015 15:31 (nine years ago)
Facebook has apparently decided to kill off Peter O'Toole for a second time.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 19 December 2015 19:30 (nine years ago)
Kurt Masur
― Die Angst des Elfmans beim Torschluss (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 December 2015 19:59 (nine years ago)
Lord Janner: saved by the knell.http://gu.com/p/4f8p4?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
― Madchen, Saturday, 19 December 2015 20:08 (nine years ago)
Nigel Buxton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb-GbYxGLik&feature=youtu.be
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Monday, 21 December 2015 13:02 (nine years ago)
aw
― Über, Über mensch (wins), Monday, 21 December 2015 13:15 (nine years ago)
Nick Combe, the original drummer in Gallon Drunk.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Monday, 21 December 2015 19:01 (nine years ago)
Don Howe
― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 18:51 (nine years ago)
Brooke McCarter, one of the teen vamps from The Lost Boys.
― Bitch I'm in the 2112 (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 20:00 (nine years ago)
George Clayton Johnson, author of Twilight Zone scripts, Star Trek's debut episode "The Man Trap" and co-novelist of Logan's Run
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/george-clayton-johnson-dead-twilight-850954
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 26 December 2015 23:41 (nine years ago)
Wow, what a résumé.
― Die Angst des Elfmans beim Torschluss (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 December 2015 00:02 (nine years ago)
Stevie Wright of The Easybeats
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2015/12/28/australian-rock-legend-stevie-wright-dies.html
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 27 December 2015 20:30 (nine years ago)
Helped shape a decade:
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/haskell-wexler-dead-93-cinematographer-1201668018/
― clemenza, Sunday, 27 December 2015 20:30 (nine years ago)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/us/gen-h-norman-schwarzkopf-us-commander-in-gulf-war-dies-at-78.html?_r=0
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 28 December 2015 03:27 (nine years ago)
GODDAMMIT FACEBOOK, QUIT CIRCULATING 3 YEAR OLD STORIES!
I usually don't get taken by these, but...
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 28 December 2015 03:29 (nine years ago)
Ellsworth Kelly
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/28/arts/ellsworth-kelly-artist-who-mixed-european-abstraction-into-everyday-life-dies-at-92.html
― nickn, Monday, 28 December 2015 04:37 (nine years ago)
Carson Van Osten, bass player for the (Todd Rundgren) Nazz, and later an artist for Disney
http://www.noise11.com/news/r-i-p-carson-van-osten-of-nazz-1945-2015-20151227
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 28 December 2015 05:10 (nine years ago)
Meadowlark Lemon!
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/28/entertainment/meadowlark-lemon-obit-globetrotters-feat/
I'm not 100% sure, but I think I did see them at Maple Leaf Gardens when I was kid.
― clemenza, Monday, 28 December 2015 19:31 (nine years ago)
I gasped when I read that, coming back on the train to London. RIP big guy.
― voodoo rage (suzy), Monday, 28 December 2015 20:10 (nine years ago)
Lemmy.
― Vernon Locke, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 01:20 (nine years ago)
Oh, damn. His recent interview with Marc Maron was hilarious. RIP.
― Bitch I'm in the 2112 (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 01:35 (nine years ago)
aw, fuck.
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 01:36 (nine years ago)
Well, that seems unlikely. RIP.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 01:47 (nine years ago)
There's no question that the news is true, but allow me to not believe it for a while longer. R.I.P. Lemmy
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 02:32 (nine years ago)
https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/10710773_1106121706072795_6645400775584024850_n.jpg?oh=5c0f1489cd175d37201045b21bd96b00&oe=5717672D
― nomar, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 02:38 (nine years ago)
RIP stormin norman
― the late great, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 02:47 (nine years ago)
RIP Lemmy - Killed by Death, just like he predicted.
― StanM, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 04:39 (nine years ago)
it's like when Ronnie James Dio died. I knew he was sick but it never crossed my mind to picture what it would be like without him
and now bummertown usa ;_;
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 05:12 (nine years ago)
Let me get this straight, Lemmy is dead?
― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 10:06 (nine years ago)
Meadowlark Lemmy
― Mark G, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 13:25 (nine years ago)
I don't wanna live forever ;_;
― kevin smith what a bro (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 14:01 (nine years ago)
Czech goalie Pavel Srnicek, 47:
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/dec/29/pavel-srnicek-newcastle-united-sheffield-wednesday-west-ham-dies-aged-47-cardiac-arrest
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 15:38 (nine years ago)
The Specials' John Bradbury
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/29/john-bradbury-of-the-specials-dies-ages-62
― Alba, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 19:47 (nine years ago)
Guru Josh
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/9092/Muzieknieuws/article/detail/2570076/2015/12/29/Danceproducer-Guru-Josh-Infinity-overleden.dhtml
― Alba, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 19:49 (nine years ago)
Hearing Guru Josh as well, but can't find a link
xpost, ah there we go
― ailsa, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 19:51 (nine years ago)
And there's your English-language report:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/29/guru-josh-rave-star-dies-aged-51
― Alba, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 20:21 (nine years ago)
Aidan Higgins.http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/acclaimed-irish-writer-aidan-higgins-dies-aged-88-1.2478631
― gradually louden lots (Øystein), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 20:50 (nine years ago)
http://tvline.com/2015/12/31/wayne-rogers-dead-age-82-mash/
R.I.P. Trapper John
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 1 January 2016 03:13 (nine years ago)
No way. He always had that youthful glow. RIP
― Instant Karmagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 January 2016 03:32 (nine years ago)
natalie cole
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 1 January 2016 16:57 (nine years ago)
rip
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/singer-natalie-cole-dead-65-article-1.2482580
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 January 2016 17:01 (nine years ago)
Ring out the old: Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016
― Green Dolphin Street Hassle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 January 2016 17:22 (nine years ago)