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Post by ZapRowsdower on May 30, 2008 2:10:49 GMT -5
Hedley Lamarr was one of the most entertaining villains I had ever seen. R.I.P., Mr. Korman.
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Post by slayrrr666 on May 30, 2008 10:44:18 GMT -5
Indeed, I loved him in that one. One of my favorites. RIP.
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Jun 16, 2008 15:34:50 GMT -5
Man, I am bummed about this one:
Stan Winston: 1946 - 2008
Stan Winston, an Academy Award-winning special effects and makeup artist known for his work in “Aliens” and “Jurassic Park,” died Sunday, June 15th, after a long struggle with multiple myeloma. He was 62.
Winston won a total of four Oscars in the special effects and makeup categories for his work in “Aliens,” “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” and “Jurassic Park.”
Besides his four wins, Winston was nominated for several other Academy Awards in the same categories for “Batman Returns” and “Artificial Intelligence,” among others.
Other projects he worked on as special makeup effects artists included “Constantine,” “Pearl Harbor” and “Edward Scissorhands.”
Winston also worked on the visual effects in Jon Favreau’s “Iron Man.” He earned his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2001.
Kind of nice that he passed away while a movie he worked on, IRON MAN, is doing such phenominal box office. I always enjoyed his segments on the behind-the-scenes features on the DVDs of the movies he worked on.
R.I.P. to Mr. Winston, a true legend.
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Post by Quorthon on Jun 17, 2008 8:06:10 GMT -5
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Post by slayrrr666 on Jun 17, 2008 10:07:14 GMT -5
RIP to a really great man. Huge fan of his works as well.
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Jun 18, 2008 18:19:49 GMT -5
I was shocked when I heard about that..RIP
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Jun 23, 2008 7:42:18 GMT -5
OMG! I am just gutted by this news...
George Carlin dies of heart failure at 71
By KEITH ST. CLAIR, Associated Press Writer 34 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES - George Carlin, the frenzied performer whose routine "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television" led to a key Supreme Court ruling on obscenity, has died.
Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, went into St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham. He had performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas. He was 71.
"He was a genius and I will miss him dearly," Jack Burns, who was the other half of a comedy duo with Carlin in the early 1960s, told The Associated Press.
Carlin's jokes constantly breached the accepted boundaries of comedy and language, particularly with his routine on the "Seven Words" — all of which are taboo on broadcast TV and radio to this day.
When he uttered all seven at a show in Milwaukee in 1972, he was arrested on charges of disturbing the peace, freed on $150 bail and exonerated when a Wisconsin judge dismissed the case, saying it was indecent but citing free speech and the lack of any disturbance.
When the words were later played on a New York radio station, they resulted in a 1978 Supreme Court ruling upholding the government's authority to sanction stations for broadcasting offensive language during hours when children might be listening.
"So my name is a footnote in American legal history, which I'm perversely kind of proud of," he told The Associated Press earlier this year.
Despite his reputation as unapologetically irreverent, Carlin was a television staple through the decades, serving as host of the "Saturday Night Live" debut in 1975 — noting on his Web site that he was "loaded on cocaine all week long" — and appearing some 130 times on "The Tonight Show."
He produced 23 comedy albums, 14 HBO specials, three books, a couple of TV shows and appeared in several movies, from his own comedy specials to "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" in 1989 — a testament to his range from cerebral satire and cultural commentary to downright silliness (and sometimes hitting all points in one stroke).
"Why do they lock gas station bathrooms?" he once mused. "Are they afraid someone will clean them?"
He won four Grammy Awards, each for best spoken comedy album, and was nominated for five Emmy awards. On Tuesday, it was announced that Carlin was being awarded the 11th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which will be presented Nov. 10 in Washington and broadcast on PBS.
Carlin started his career on the traditional nightclub circuit in a coat and tie, pairing with Burns to spoof TV game shows, news and movies. Perhaps in spite of the outlaw soul, "George was fairly conservative when I met him," said Burns, describing himself as the more left-leaning of the two. It was a degree of separation that would reverse when they came upon Lenny Bruce, the original shock comic, in the early '60s.
"We were working in Chicago, and we went to see Lenny, and we were both blown away," Burns said, recalling the moment as the beginning of the end for their collaboration if not their close friendship. "It was an epiphany for George. The comedy we were doing at the time wasn't exactly groundbreaking, and George knew then that he wanted to go in a different direction."
That direction would make Carlin as much a social commentator and philosopher as comedian, a position he would relish through the years.
"The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things — bad language and whatever — it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition," Carlin told the AP in a 2004 interview. "There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. ... It's reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have."
Carlin was born on May 12, 1937, and grew up in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan, raised by a single mother. After dropping out of high school in the ninth grade, he joined the Air Force in 1954. He received three court-martials and numerous disciplinary punishments, according to his official Web site.
While in the Air Force he started working as an off-base disc jockey at a radio station in Shreveport, La., and after receiving a general discharge in 1957, took an announcing job at WEZE in Boston.
"Fired after three months for driving mobile news van to New York to buy pot," his Web site says.
From there he went on to a job on the night shift as a deejay at a radio station in Fort Worth, Texas. Carlin also worked variety of temporary jobs including a carnival organist and a marketing director for a peanut brittle.
In 1960, he left with Burns, a Texas radio buddy, for Hollywood to pursue a nightclub career as comedy team Burns & Carlin. He left with $300, but his first break came just months later when the duo appeared on Jack Paar's "Tonight Show."
Carlin said he hoped to emulate his childhood hero, Danny Kaye, the kindly, rubber-faced comedian who ruled over the decade Carlin grew up in — the 1950s — with a clever but gentle humor reflective of the times.
It didn't work for him, and the pair broke up by 1962.
"I was doing superficial comedy entertaining people who didn't really care: Businessmen, people in nightclubs, conservative people. And I had been doing that for the better part of 10 years when it finally dawned on me that I was in the wrong place doing the wrong things for the wrong people," Carlin reflected recently as he prepared for his 14th HBO special, "It's Bad For Ya."
Eventually Carlin lost the buttoned-up look, favoring the beard, ponytail and all-black attire for which he came to be known.
But even with his decidedly adult-comedy bent, Carlin never lost his childlike sense of mischief, even voicing kid-friendly projects like episodes of the TV show "Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends" and the spacey Volkswagen bus Fillmore in the 2006 Pixar hit "Cars."
Carlin's first wife, Brenda, died in 1997. He is survived by wife Sally Wade; daughter Kelly Carlin McCall; son-in-law Bob McCall; brother Patrick Carlin; and sister-in-law Marlene Carlin.
On a personal note: I am so glad that I got to see him live back in the 90's. The words "comedy genius" are thrown around a lot, but in his case it was true. The man never stopped doing stand-up, even at his advancing age, and he was always brilliant. He was as funny as ever during his last HBO Special, "It's Bad For Ya".
One of the last of the truly great comedians has been taken from us. We on earth are a little sadder, but up in Heaven, things just got a whole lot funnier.
Goodbye, funny man. R.I.P.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Jun 23, 2008 10:18:17 GMT -5
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Post by ZapRowsdower on Jun 23, 2008 12:08:42 GMT -5
Yeah, that guy was great. Definitely one of the funniest comedians we've seen in recent years. Rest in peace.
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Jun 25, 2008 22:26:59 GMT -5
I just found out about Winston today! (Oh, vacation time ignorance.)
Heard about George Carlin and Tim Russert. All sad. All RIP.
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Post by frankenjohn on Jun 27, 2008 7:42:25 GMT -5
R.I.P to all. Each is very surprising
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Aug 9, 2008 9:16:35 GMT -5
Bernie Mac just kicked it. What?
CHICAGO (AP) -- A publicist says Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actor and comedian Bernie Mac has died at age 50.
Publicist Danica Smith says Bernie Mac died early Saturday at a hospital in the Chicago area of complications due to pneumonia.
The comedian suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body's organs, but he had said the condition went into remission in 2005. He recently had been hospitalized and treated for pneumonia.
Mac had starring roles in "Ocean's Eleven," "Bad Santa," "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" and "Transformers."
The comedian drew critical and popular acclaim with his Fox television series "The Bernie Mac Show," which aired more than 100 episodes from 2001 to 2006.
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Aug 9, 2008 10:03:25 GMT -5
Yeah, I was just about to post this. What a shock. Only 50!
Goodbye, funnyman. R.I.P.
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Post by frankenjohn on Aug 9, 2008 10:11:25 GMT -5
Yeah, it's a shame. Was never a big fan but he went so young. R.I.P.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Aug 9, 2008 10:11:43 GMT -5
Is this official? I've heard conflicting rumors about it.
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