Singer Amy Winehouse found dead aged 27I'm surprised at how upset I am over this. I thought she had an amazing voice but I wasn't really a fan; didn't own a single song or album, and I found the woman herself a bit offputting ( Read more... )

Lis Sladen is gone.

I don't cry over celebrity deaths. Within the last 5 years, both my "parents" (grandparents, but they raised me) died, and I didn't cry. Right now I feel like an orphaned nine-year-old.

Tom Baker was My Doctor. Sarah Jane was My Companion. There will never be another.

From stoplookingup, here's a clip of Lis talking about what should have ( Read more... )

Wil Wheaton's written a really lovely blog entry about a Stand By Me reunion, the pleasure of re-connecting with old friends, and the ache of missing absent ones. (Here's more of a source link just in case the LJ one disappears ( Read more... )

RIP Nicholas Courtney

The only way my brain can remotely process this at the moment is to wonder who's going to tell the Doctor the Brigadier is gone.

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RIP Fusker... :(



As sad as I am to hear of the beloved kitty's passing, I am still guiltily finding Hammond's facepalm reaction to Jeremy's cockery hilarious.

Hat tip to shishmish over at topgeartotty for the link.

EDIT: Clip on the official site.

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Death notice in the Belfast Herald

Maybe Jim Sheridan's quote about him looking indestructible rings true, because dammit, he was supposed to live up into his nineties and still be acting.

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...who finds it a little ghoulish that so many people celebrate the date of John Lennon's murder instead of his birthday?

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Actor Leslie Neilsen dead at 84

Here's a longer article from the AP.

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Gary Coleman, former child star of 'Diff'rent Strokes,' dead at 42 from intracranial hemorrhage

The guy had more than his share of troubles (here's a more thorough article from the AP), and was often the butt of tabloid jokes, but I always thought he showed a remarkable amount of class in the face of it all ( Read more... )

Late to the party in wishing Lena Horne a good journey - I particularly like this article on her passing, in which the divine Miss H demonstrates the proper response to an affront by a self-entitled bigoted asshole.

On a less sad note - oh poo, I missed Betty's White stint on SNL. Anyone know where I can watch it?

EDIT: Apparently the Facebook ( Read more... )