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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Jan 9, 2007 9:22:16 GMT -5
ZOINKS! This is weird considering Joseph Barbera just passed away a couple of weeks ago.
Cartoonist who created Scooby-Doo dies
Iwao Takamoto, the animator who designed the cartoon canine Scooby-Doo, died at 81.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Iwao Takamoto, the animator who created the beloved Scooby-Doo and directed the cartoon classic "Charlotte's Web," has died. He was 81.
Takamoto died Monday of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Warner Bros. spokesman Gary Miereanu said.
In a career that spanned more than six decades, Takamoto assisted in the designs of some of the biggest animated features and television shows for Disney and the Hanna-Barbera animation team. They included Cinderella, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp,101 Dalmatians, The Jetsons and The Flintstones.
But it was his creation of Scooby-Doo, the cowardly dog with an adventurous heart, that captivated audiences and endured for generations.
Takamoto said he created Scooby-Doo after talking with a Great Dane breeder and named him after Frank Sinatra's final phrase in Strangers in the Night.
The breeder "showed me some pictures and talked about the important points of a Great Dane, like a straight back, straight legs, small chin and such," Takamoto said in a recent talk at Cartoon Network Studios.
"I decided to go the opposite and gave him a hump back, bowed legs, big chin and such. Even his color is wrong."
Takamoto also created other famous cartoon dogs such as Astro from The Jetsons and Muttley, the mixed-breed that appeared in several Hanna-Barbera animations. He also directed the 1973 feature Charlotte's Web.
Takamoto was survived by his wife, Barbara, son Michael and stepdaughter Leslie.
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Post by Phoenix on Jan 9, 2007 11:40:13 GMT -5
Sad.  I met him once several years ago at an art convention. Nice guy! RIP. |
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Post by frankenjohn on Jan 9, 2007 16:24:25 GMT -5
R.I.P.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Jan 10, 2007 11:11:55 GMT -5
RIP to a great loss.
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Jan 10, 2007 15:38:28 GMT -5
Damn, Grandpa Munster last year and now Lily.
RIP to Miss De Carlo.
Actress Yvonne De Carlo, perhaps best known for her work on The Munsters, died Monday at 84.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Yvonne De Carlo, the beautiful star who played Moses' wife in The Ten Commandments but achieved her greatest popularity on TV's slapstick comedy The Munsters, has died. She was 84.
De Carlo died of natural causes Monday at the Motion Picture & Television facility in suburban Los Angeles, longtime friend and television producer Kevin Burns said Wednesday.
De Carlo, whose shapely figure helped launch her career in B-movie desert adventures and Westerns, rose to more important roles in the 1950s. Later, she had a key role in a landmark Broadway musical, Stephen Sondheim's Follies.
But for TV viewers, she will always be known as Lily Munster in the 1964-1966 horror-movie spoof The Munsters. The series (the name allegedly derived from fun-monsters ) offered a gallery of Universal Pictures grotesques, including Dracula and Frankenstein's monster, in a cobwebbed gothic setting.
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Post by frankenjohn on Jan 10, 2007 16:35:11 GMT -5
R.I.P.
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Jan 10, 2007 21:49:07 GMT -5
RIP to both these people.
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Post by ZapRowsdower on Jan 11, 2007 13:28:18 GMT -5
Damn... R.I.P. to both.
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Feb 9, 2007 14:22:14 GMT -5
No put this up?
Anna Nicole Smith Dead at 39
Reality TV star, actress and former model Anna Nicole Smith has died after collapsing in Hollywood, Florida. The 39-year-old was found unconscious in her hotel room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino yesterday afternoon. According to hotel officials, Smith was "unresponsive" and emergency crews performed Cpr at the scene and a breathing apparatus was inserted in her throat. Paramedics were seen pumping her chest as she was taken from the hotel and transported to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood. She died at 2:49 pm ET. Local streets were closed off to rush Smith to the hospital, three miles away. Her five-month-old daughter, Dannielynn, was not with her mother, sources say. The baby is being cared for by a family friend in The Bahamas, where Smith has been living since last summer. Anna Nicole was fighting eviction and paternity lawsuits at the time of her death. Ex-boyfriends Larry Birkhead and G. Ben Thompson had both filed lawsuits against the actress/model. Photojournalist Birkhead filed a paternity suit last year claiming he was the biological father of Smith's baby daughter Dannielynn, while developer Thompson has been fighting to evict her from the home he helped secure for her in the Bahamas last summer. On Wednesday, a California judge demanded Smith submit her baby daughter for a DNA test by February 21 - in an effort to end the battle over who the biological father of the baby is. At the time of her death, Smith was also fighting the estate of her late husband, oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, for a share of his estate. Marshall died in 1995. In 2002, she was awarded $88 million from the estate of her late husband, but was denied claim that she was also owed interest on that money. Smith's life has been rocked with the bizarre and the tragic with moments of happiness and success. Born Vicky Lynn Hogan in Houston, Texas, she started her career as a waitress in a fried chicken restaurant but tasted success as a Playboy model, actress and star of her own self-titled, bizarre reality TV show. Smith was named Playboy Playmate of the Month in May 1992 and Playboy Playmate of the Year in 1993. She shocked the world when she married J. Howard Marshall II in 1994 when she was 26 and the oil tycoon was almost 90. Last September was a joyful and terrible month for the actress - she gave birth to baby daughter Dannielynn just three days before her 20-year-old son Daniel died from a lethal overdose of methadone and anti-depressants in his mother's hospital room in the Bahamas. Best known as a socialite, public figure and diet product spokesmodel, Smith also appeared in a handful of movies, including The Hudsucker Proxy, The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult and her final movie Illegal Aliens, which was released last year.
All right, she might not be the most talented or moral person but you do have to feel kinda bad. I mean, I think it's highly unlikely she did hard drugs with a 5-month-old baby (she's not Courtney Love) and that it was probably, like Marylin Monroe, all just an accident. So RIP to her.
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Post by frankenjohn on Feb 9, 2007 22:45:42 GMT -5
Yeah, my mom thought of Monroe too. I said it was a probable suicide due to all the crap that she was going to but it might have been an overdose or other drug-related incident. Oh well. R.I.P.
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Post by ZapRowsdower on Feb 10, 2007 0:10:00 GMT -5
Sorry, but I gotta go with drugs. That woman was sedated for a good chunk of her life. No disrespect intended, may she rest in peace, but I honestly doubt her blood was clean.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Feb 10, 2007 11:16:26 GMT -5
At least I have Skyscraper, To The Limit and Exposed to remember her by rather than all the stuff from the past six years. RIP.
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Feb 11, 2007 9:48:52 GMT -5
I really feel sorry for her baby.
Hopefully in death Anna will find the peace that seemed to elude her in life.
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Mar 12, 2007 17:16:42 GMT -5
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Post by frankenjohn on Mar 12, 2007 21:04:24 GMT -5
That Richard Jeni suicide is so weird. Why would he kill himself? Oh well. R.I.P.
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I met him once several years ago at an art convention. Nice guy! RIP.
