Wilford Brimley got older, and then he died. ETA: Semper Fi, I never knew. Have fun on guard duty Devil Dog.
Lest this pop up and cause controversy, I'll just submit that Robert Trump, the younger brother of US president Donald Trump, passed away on Saturday at age 71. Mod hat on: That is all that will be said on the matter on this forum.
Chadwick Boseman died at age 42 of colon cancer. Wakanda forever. Gonna go cry a lot now. Edit: my apologies, he was 43.
I don't really get affected by celebrity deaths, but his hit me pretty hard. Black Panther is the only Marvel film I really enjoyed.
This is a sad day for America. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an amazing woman with a large list of accomplishments. Several people I know looked up to her and are devastated by her death. Personally, I really admired her mental toughness and the fact that she was a champion of human rights from the start of her career. For anyone not familiar with what she did and stood for, I urge you to look it up. She was an amazing woman, lawyer, and Supreme Court justice. She will truly be missed. May she rest in peace.
Timothy Ray Brown died at 54. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54355673 Now, you may be asking yourself ‘who the hell is Timothy Ray Brown?’ Maybe you’re asking why is he notable. At one point he was called The Berlin Patient. He was the first individual declared cured of HIV. The procedure involved a bone marrow transplant from a donor naturally resistant to the virus. His HIV turnaround gave hope a cure was possible. Ironically, he died of acute myeloid leukemia.
Eddie Van Halen, dead of throat cancer at 65. Only person ever to blow Michael Jackson off his own record, and it only took him 20 seconds of shredding to do it.
Goddammit this is really rough, man. I usually don't pay much attention to celebrity deaths but this is different. I'm tearing up actually. He was such an influence on me, and I wasn't even alive during the 70's or 80's. What a legacy of great rock music...he was the catalyst for a whole new genre. He's probably influenced more rock guitar players than than almost anyone else. Can you imagine hearing "Eruption" as a guitar player on the radio when your closest frame of reference is something like Black Sabbath or the Eagles? Incredible; his tapping and lead playing, and his great feel for rhythm--he was such a good rhythm player. I feel like that's overlooked sometimes. And his tone off of VH1? Even in our contemporary glut of guitar playing I can't think of another tone that I prefer. Eddie personified rock and roll guitar to me. He was absolutely the greatest of all time and right now I'm prepared to fight anyone who disagrees. Such a shock my god. It's sad now to watch him smoking that cigarette.
Swedish actress Maud Hansson Fissoun, best known for her role in Emil i Lönneberga, passed away on October 1. at 82 years of age.
James Randi, AKA the Amazing Randi, passed away at the age of 92. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/obituaries/james-randi-dead.html
Sad, but from a very little that I'd heard his quality of life had gotten pretty poor in recent ears. RIP Mr. Bond.
This stings a little. I loved As Time Goes By. Geoffrey and Judi had amazing chemistry. He had an amazing life and career.
Elsa Raven, best known for her role as the 'Save the Clock Tower' lady in Back to the Future passed away on November 3rd aged 91. https://people.com/celebrity/stars-who-died-2020/
I wonder how far Marty McFly's quarter went to saving clock towers in 1985. And how exactly was the clock tower in jeopardy? Was it like going to fall down? Or were they just trying to get it ticking again? And why the hell did it take them 30 years to do something about it? Was Hill Valley that hard up for cash? I'm not an electrician, but how much damage can a lightning strike do to a largely gear based mechanism? I mean, what are we talking about? A few pieces of metal? I'm so confused.
