https://deadline.com/2022/01/richard-leakey-dead-conservationist-frequent-tv-guest-filmmaker-was-77-1234903607/

https://deadline.com/2022/04/nehemiah-persoff-dead-obituary-actor-yentl-gunsmoke-was-102-1234995573/

 

if you don't know him from Yentl you'll probably know him from the American Tail films (among other things...dang that song from Yentl is poignant now)

 

Edited April 6, 20223 yr by iHeart

1 hour ago, iHeart said:

https://deadline.com/2022/04/nehemiah-persoff-dead-obituary-actor-yentl-gunsmoke-was-102-1234995573/

 

if you don't know him from Yentl you'll probably know him from the American Tail films (among other things...dang that song from Yentl is poignant now)

 

You might not recognize the name Nehemiah Persoff but he's the one referenced in the Internet ad for "This Gilligan's Island star is 102 years old."

 

well that's just it, he wasn't on that show, all the stars are dead except for Ginger

https://deadline.com/2022/04/mimi-reinhardt-oskar-schindler-secretary-helped-save-hundreds-jews-holocaust-1234997798/

But I just saw him on the masked singer a week ago https://tvline.com/2022/04/12/gilbert-gottfried-dead-comedian-voice-actor-dies-67/  

 

This is the best episode of the Bergeron era of Hollywood Squares 

 

Edited April 12, 20223 yr by iHeart

Aww man not Gilbert Gottfreid... his take on The Aristocrats is hands down the filthiest version of the joke I've heard. He telegraphed his punchlines so you could see them coming from a mile away, yet his commitment to the delivery (if you could stand it long enough) was what made the joke funnier than it should have been.

 

Carrie Fischer... thank you for visiting us from the past... when the producers looked on the dais they said 'we don't have enough washed-up drug-addicted alcoholic has-beens on the stage... get me Carrie Fischer.... you KNOW she's available'. R2-D2 has had more work since Star Wars HAHAHAHA RIP funny guy

One of the funniest humans ever. His work on Comedy Central roasts (in particular, Bob Saget and Rosanne roasts) is among the hardest I've ever laughed in my life. 

you know what's sad, after Saget passed I was starting to wonder if there were targets on the back of the people that took part in Bob Saget's Roast (considering Cloris Leachman last Winter, Norm last Fall, Bob 3 months ago.....and well, let's just say something was screaming in my gut that Gottfried was going to go next)

 

and for those wondering, Gilbert wasn't participating in the Masked Singer he was wishing the Hydra luck

Spoiler

and it was there I realized....that Hydra was definitely Penn and Teller since they did Hollywood Squares together....and to be honest I was ready for some Muppets to be revealed

whoa, this is what killed him?  recurrent ventricular tachycardia due to myotonic dystrophy type II

Edited April 12, 20223 yr by iHeart

Gilbert Gottfried Dead At 67 'After A Long Illness'

Gottfried's family said they wanted everyone to "keep laughing as loud as possible" in the comedian's honor.

oh and here's the bit that got him in trouble at the emmys....that's a pretty damn good Jerry Seinfeld impression

man i wonder what Robin would have said

Edited April 15, 20223 yr by iHeart

 

oh man first Mother Costanza now Mother Seinfeld

https://deadline.com/2022/04/liz-sheridan-dead-seinfeld-mother-alf-broadway-1235003021/

https://tvline.com/2022/04/21/robert-morse-dead-mad-men-bert-cooper-dies-tony-winner-obituary/

 

how did Mad Men resist performing this song during it's run

especially since he did perform a number in Mad Men 

 

https://deadline.com/2022/04/cynthia-plaster-caster-cynthia-albritton-made-casts-rock-stars-private-parts-1235007777/

 

no you read that right

 

3 hours ago, iHeart said:

 

If memory serves, he was a compulsive chain smoker and fought lung cancer for a long time. There is a lesson here.

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/diversions/free-press-crossword-author-adrian-powell-dead-at-74-576423882.html

On 2022-04-22 at 10:34 AM, Tracker said:

If memory serves, he was a compulsive chain smoker and fought lung cancer for a long time. There is a lesson here.

That lesson is different time different Era.  They all smoked then. Now they all do coke and so would I if you gave me 50 million over 7 years or less 

Edited April 24, 20223 yr by Goalie

https://deadline.com/2022/04/orrin-hatch-dead-mitt-romney-traffic-murphy-brown-republican-1235008796/

17 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/diversions/free-press-crossword-author-adrian-powell-dead-at-74-576423882.html

Sooooo...he would found, not in" across", but "down"?

Edited April 24, 20223 yr by Tracker

 

4 hours ago, iHeart said:

 

A great voice and a very nice person passes into history. May she be at peace.

https://people.com/country/naomi-judd-dead-at-76/?utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&utm_content=manual&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=626d9acf2d7767000158f8f1

 

2022 is starting to scare me

Edited April 30, 20223 yr by iHeart

Been a tough week. First Shane Yellowbird and now Naomi Judd.... 

 

 

All journeys have a beginning and an end. When we accept this, we free ourselves from the yoke of fear as we do go on forever.