A really funny guy. Sad to see him go.

I get chills whenever I see this thread has a new reply.

Rest in peace.

Sydney Pollack


RIP...

Really liked his work.

Rest in peace.

Great director and actor...R.I.P.:(

i only found out about this on the weekend :(

bummed me out - i met him in Aug 2006, and he was lively and a lot of fun. He chatted with my son for several minutes.

I cant believe he wasn't going to continue on for another 20 years.

i was glad to have met him ... really saddened by this news.

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That does suck RIP Mr Chapman :(

R.I.P

Harvey Corman

81....not a bad run.

R.I.P. sir....you've made me laugh many times

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RIP Luc Bourdon, a promising rookie defenseman with the Vancouver Canucks, was killed Thursday when his motorcycle struck a tractor-trailer in a crash near his hometown. He was 21.

June 2 (Bloomberg) -- Bo Diddley, the rock 'n' roll originator with the rectangular guitar whose signature beat influenced musicians from Buddy Holly to the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Bruce Springsteen, has died. He was 79.

Diddley died at his home in Archer, Florida, early today, according to his publicist, Susan Clary. The cause was heart failure. In May 2007, he suffered a stroke during a performance in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

He scored only a few hits in more than 40 years of recording, yet Diddley's impact on the development of rock 'n' roll places him in a pantheon with Chuck Berry and Little Richard. The maracas-fueled sound he introduced in 1955 on the song ``Bo Diddley'' evolved into what Rolling Stone magazine called ``the most plagiarized rhythm of the 20th century.''

The beat -- bomp a-bomp a-bomp bomp bomp -- became the driving force on songs such as Holly's ``Not Fade Away'' (1957), which the Stones recorded and the Grateful Dead used in live shows for years; Johnny Otis's ``Willie and the Hand Jive'' (1958); the Strangeloves' ``I Want Candy''(1965); The Who's ``Magic Bus'' (1968); the Stooges' ``1969'' (1969), Springsteen's ``She's the One'' (1975); and U2's ``Desire'' (1988).

The Stones' version of ``Not Fade Away'' in 1964 became their first top-10 hit in the U.K. and first U.S. release. In its early days, the band often opened its shows with the number.

``We did it with a Bo Diddley beat, which at the time was very avant garde for a white band to be playing Bo Diddley's stuff,'' said Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts. ``It was a very popular rhythm for us in clubs.''

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Heard about this earlier today. A real innovator. He'll be missed.

Earlier this week, we learned that two influential STAR TREK personalities had passed.

Joseph Pevney, who directed the beloved Original Series episodes like CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER, AMOK TIME, and THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES left us - he was 96 years old.

Also, Alexander Courage, a composer for The Original Series (including its legendary fanfare/theme music) had slipped away.

Now comes word that one of STAR TREK's unsung heroes is gone.

Robert H. Justman was a producer on The Original Series as well as the inaugural season of THE NEXT GENERATION. He was 81.

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Known for guiding with a firm-but-even hand, Justman demonstrated vast appreciation for the creative process. Producers will often micro-manage budgets with little concern for the impact their scrutiny will have on story lines, characterization, atmosphere, and so forth. Justman worked feverishly to preserve, and even enhance, the intent of writers and creators...inventively laboring to realize their ideas whenever, and however, possible.

Sometimes his contributions were subtle - like conjuring a way to create "alien" skies on planetary sets by using gels & lights instead of significantly more costly (and sometimes cost prohibitive) painted backgrounds. In other instances, his impact was both profound and indelible - like his campaign to cast a moderately known British actor named Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard when THE NEXT GENERATION was ramping up. Many weren't so sure...Justman was.

Justman wrote a great deal about his adventures on (and contributions to) STAR TREK in a book entitled INSIDE STAR TREK: THE REAL STORY, co-authored with Herbert F. Solow...Desilu's Execustive in Charge of Production for The Original Series.

"There seems to be a big 'Star Trek' convention and everyone is going,"..."Everyone is getting beamed up," says Justman's son Jonathan about the recent passing of his father and other STAR TREK alum, in an LA Times article.

Inside Star Trek is a great book, and Justman was a great producer. Likewise Courage as a composer. And Pevney- what a talent.

Three tremendous losses. The three of them gave me endless hours of enjoyment.

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dropping like flies...R.I.P...Another good run...90


LOS ANGELES (AP) — A family spokesman says actor-director-producer Mel Ferrer, who starred in scores of movies and directed his late wife, Audrey Hepburn in numerous others, has died at age 90.

Mike Mena says Ferrer died Monday at his ranch near Santa Barbara, surrounded by family and friends.

Known for his good looks, Ferrer starred in such films as "Lili," "War and Peace" and "The Sun Also Rises.

In 1967, he produced the film classic "Wait Until Dark," a terrifying thriller in which Hepburn played a blind woman terrorized in her apartment by drug dealers.

Rough couple weeks for media personalities...:(

This was unexpected


Tim Russert, the South Buffalo native who became the influential host of NBC's "Meet the Press," died unexpectedly Friday morning.

Russert, 58, collapsed while taping voice-overs for his weekly "Meet the Press" show at NBC's Washington, D.C. studios. No other details were immediately available.

Born Timothy John Russert Jr. in South Buffalo, he graduated from Canisius High School, John Carroll University and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Russert was a member of the bar associations in both New York state and the District of Columbia.

After graduating from Cleveland-Marshall, Russert entered the world of politics, first on the Senate staff of the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan and in 1982, he worked on Mario Cuomo's successful campaign to be elected New York governor.

Russert joined NBC News in 1984 and the following year supervised the Peacock network's live broadcasts of the "NBC Today" show from Rome. Russert during those shows was able to convince Pope John Paul II to make an appearance on the show.

In December 1991, he was named host of "Meet the Press."

Russert wrote two books "Big Russ and Me" in 2004 that detailed the role his father, Tim Russert Sr., played in his life and "Wisdom of Our Fathers" in 2006.

In addition, Russert received 48 honorary doctorates and this year Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.


R.I.P.

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i saw this on the news in the gym and kept thinking it had to be a relative of his - wow it just goes to show you never know when its going to be your time

The coverage of the election won't be the same without him.
He was working an incredible amount of hours.
Meet the Press is one of the few intelligent new shows and he will be greatly missed.:(

You meant NEWS shows, not new shows, right? Cuz Meet the Press has been on TV since 1947.

yeah that's what I meant I should Preview Post more often.

I was pretty surprised to hear about Russert. That's a bummer. He was one of the few political pundits that I didn't mind. R.I.P.


This comment reminded me of something I saw on the news earlier this week. A drunk driver drove his car right through someone's garage, then into their house and ended up killing a teenager that was sleeping in his bed. Poor fella went to sleep in his bed and got hit by a drunk driver. Now if that doesn't illustrate the point that when your number's up, it's up, then I don't know what does.

well, that - and bungalos suck..

that's why i sleep in a little metal cage - extra protection from random car collisions

Special effects and makeup guru Stan Winston passed away on Sunday, June 15th in Los Angeles, California. Winston was best known for his work for the "Terminator," "Jurassic Park" and "Predator" series, and Edward Scissorhands. The 4-time Oscar winner most recently worked on Iron Man and was special effects supervisor on the upcoming Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.

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June 16, 2008


Stan Winston, one of the great names in special effects, has died at age 62.

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The Oscar-winning visual effects artist died at his home Sunday evening surrounded by family after a seven-year struggle with multiple myeloma, according to a representative from Stan Winston Studio.

Winston won visual effects Oscars for 1986's "Aliens", 1992's "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and 1993's "Jurassic Park,” for which he created animatronic dinosaurs that complimented the film’s digitally-animated creatures.

For decades, Winston’s robotic/animatronic creatures were the best in the industry and his prosthetic makeup was among the best available. “Iron Man” visual effects supervisor John Nelson - “Stan was the man when it came to making those kind of prosthetic effects, he was the guy. If you look at the litany of other good people in the business, they tend to be people who worked for Stan.”

Stan Winston Studios did the practical Iron Man suit for this year’s Marvel/Paramount blockbuster but Winston himself was not actively involved with the shoot.

Steven Spielberg, who worked with Winston on several films, said in a statement “Stan was a fearless and courageous artist/inventor and for many projects, I rode his cutting edge from teddy bears to aliens to dinosaurs. My world would not have been the same without Stan. What I will miss most is his easy laugh every time he said to me, ‘Nothing is impossible.’”

“It was a perfect compliment to the stuff thwat we were doing,” said Dennis Muren, who supervised the digital effects on “Jurassic Park.”

“His creatures would work with the actors and when you put the two together the audience was confused, and sometimes we were too, about who had done what.”

But Stan had always said it shouldn’t be all one or all the other, it should be a combination of the two.”

Eric Roth, executive director of the Visual Effects Society said “It’s a big loss. Our industry has lost one of its giants, someone who has had a tremendous impact on helping tell stories with the use of effects.”

Producer Gale Anne Hurd, who worked with Winston on the “Terminator” franchise and on “The Relic,” exprssed shock at the news, as Winston had refused to discuss his illness outside his intimate circle.

Hurt recalled that she and helmer James Cameron first approached makeup artist Dick Smith to do the prosthetic effects on “The Terminator.” Smith declined but recommended Winston, saying “One day you’ll thank me.”

Hurd said of Winston. “He never looked at anything as a problem, it was always an opportunity. I never saw him defeatist, regardless of what may have happened. And he had an incredible childlike passion for films and for makeup effects and animatronics. Having him on set, regardless of whether you were going into your 19th hour or your first, he always gave 100 % and inspired everyone around him.”

The conference room at Winston’s Van Nuys studio was long one of the most effective sales tools any effects company could hope for, with life-sized creatures including the queen alien from “Aliens,” the lunging out of the walls toward the conference table on all sides.

Winston is survived by his wife, Karen; a son, daughter, brother and four grandchildren.

R.I.P Stan you where amazing.

R.I.P. Stan.

He made Pumpkinhead too? I didn't know that.

Rest in peace to a very talented man.

When I logged into my Yahoo mail today I saw the headline and it didn't register right away and then I did a double check and said, "No this can't be that didn't say Stan Winston did it?" Low and behold it did and for the rest of the day I was saddened. The man was a genius and such an inspiration to anyone who wanted to become someone in the film industry and he will be truly missed.

Here is to you, sir.

May you Rest In Peace.

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This truely is sad.

You will be missed, sir.

Oh no- truly shocking. I can't think of anyone besides Lenny Bruce who had as much influence on comedy in the modern age. An original thinker. Sad, sad news.

He was funny till' the end too... he will be missed.

A sad day for comedy.R.I.P Mr. Carlin.

wow....a bit of a shocker .....very sad.
R.I.P. ....I salute you the only way I know

"Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, CockSucker, MotherFucker, and Tits"

:(

All the above like what newb said.
A sad day indeed.

I made this for anyone who would like to use it...

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Unbelievable. This is actually making my eyes water a little bit...

Comedic genius.

It's so very sad.

I have been up ALL NIGHT watching two of Carlin's HBO specials and now clips of him on Bill Maher.