Corey Haim dead...
 

He gone!

I once met him at a q and A and after words asked for an autograph and he said no and walked away. I yelled, "go to hell! I hope you die"... oops

Didn't he write in the blood from his puncture wounds "Michael Jackson did this to me?"

No, he wrote my death doesn't matter

Fitting, considering he was apparently a C-list actor I just had to google just to find out who he was.


Luckily, it's not my job to dictate what's worth a thread. Just what isn't.

Wow. You are such a dude. Can you teach us all how to be as cool as yourself?
It matters so little that you felt the need to start a thread about it.:rolleyes:

Corey's story turned out to be a sad one. He was once a nice, Jewish boy from Toronto. R.I.P. Corey.:(

Rest In Peace, [Insert Name Here]
 

Mission Impossible's Peter Graves passed away at age 83:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...b=TopStoriesV2

"Good morning Mr. Phelps..."

RIP Peter.

That's two. I wonder who number three is?

Dr. Gonzo


Aged 83

The judges wife said please set him free!

Seriously though I have no right to judge... he was a part of a different time than my own.

So....did he have the chicken or the fish?

Stalag 17 got Price...it's Oveur

Roger Murdock: Flight 2-0-9'er, you are cleared for take-off.
Captain Oveur: Roger!
Roger Murdock: Huh?
Tower voice: L.A. departure frequency, 123 point 9'er.
Captain Oveur: Roger!
Roger Murdock: Huh?
Victor Basta: Request vector, over.
Captain Oveur: What?
Tower voice: Flight 2-0-9'er cleared for vector 324.
Roger Murdock: We have clearance, Clarence.
Captain Oveur: Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?
Tower voice: Tower's radio clearance, over!
Captain Oveur: That's Clarence Oveur. Over.
Tower voice: Over.
Captain Oveur: Roger.
Roger Murdock: Huh?
Tower voice: Roger, over!
Roger Murdock: What?
Captain Oveur: Huh?
Victor Basta: Who?

Love "Mission Impossible"! Peter Graves was also the host for A&E's "Biography" on Harrison Ford. R.I.P. Mr. Graves.:(

@Rocket: Great scene from "Airplane!":up:

You just became my favourite Ravener of the day. :hat:

Everybody keeps quoting Airplane! How about Airplane 2?

Captain Oveur: "Tell me Jimmy, do you like it when you hold out your leg and Scraps rubs up and down on it?"

:eek: :rolleyes:

Got to say I was a little rough too!

Unlike his Corey-counter part, I couldn't think of a memorable role he had.

At least Feldman had Stand By Me and, well that's about it.

Indiana Jones never had to fight giant grasshoppers as Peter Graves did in
"Beginning of the End".

"Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?"

:)

Fess Parker, RIP
 

Actor Fess Parker has died.

He was "Davy Crockett" of the 1950's Disney televison program which started a fad of wearing coonskin caps.

He later played "Daniel Boone" in another televison series.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/03/1...ex.html?hpt=T2

I remember him from the 1954 film "Them" where he played a pilot who had
seen flying saucers which "looked like giant ants".

:(

"From the 'coonskin cap on top of ol' Dan to the heel of his rawhide shoe.
The rippin'-est, roarin'-est, fightin'-est man the frontier ever knew..."

R.I.P. FESS!!!:(

Mod Note
 

From this point on, if you have wish to pay your respects to a dead celebrity, please use this combined thread to do so, especially if we're talking about a person who might likely be known only in certain parts of the world.

A better known figure (like the Pope, Michael Jackson, Elvis or some world leader or another) might be worthy of its own thread, but every C-class actor isn't, especially with people dying 'round the world every day.

This of course doesn't mean that their lives would have been any less valuable than somebody else's, but we're still likely better off this way.






Also, best be to mention that the failure to comperehend this message (especially if there are multiple violations) might lead to a bunch of fellow raveners paying their condolences to your user account. Which would be such a waste, if you ask me.

^ Great idea Finn. To be honest, I would care more about a Ravener's passing than most actors', whether C-list or higher. That no doubt has to do with our social standings, as I can empathize/relate better to someone I have only even observed communicate on this site than to a celeb who has been living in high society/fantasyland.

Merlin Olsen
 

Merlin Olsen was a former American football player in the National Football League and an actor. He played his entire 15-year career with the Los Angeles Rams and was elected to the Pro Bowl in 14 of those seasons, a current record shared with Bruce Matthews. He is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame. As an actor he portrayed Jonathan Garvey on Little House on the Prairie. After leaving that series, he starred in his own NBC drama, Father Murphy, playing the title role of a traveling priest.

Michael disaproves of this stupidity

Ernst Beyeler
 

Swiss art collector, Ernst Beyeler, passed away a few weeks ago. He was 88.
At least you didn't announce that you had told him to "Go to Hell! I hope you die!" If a person is going to say that to someone, why would they even want the autograph in the first place?:rolleyes:
Corey Haim was the crippled kid in "Silver Bullet". Now, that's a CLASSIC!:p
Not in the case of riff-raff like Chicago Jones.:p

THAT's not Michael...

THIS is Michael...



My apologies to Gollem...(R.I.P.)

Whilst MJ dishonestly said it didn't matter if you were black or white, Gollum also underwent a colour change. In Tolkien's original stories he was black. Seems like they had more in common than just freakish looks! :dead:

Ahem, gang... I was under impression we already have a Michael Jackson thread in here somewhere.

Yes we already do to bad it always has to turn into a ***** MJ bashing thread

Well, as I've said before, Robert Culp is dead.

Heavy Sigh, seriously though, I can't believe I just committed a faux pas on a message board. A message board for goodness sake.

And once again, Finn had to straighten me out, first on the subject on adventure games, and now on the rules of the raven.

I'm really sorry for putting you through so much trouble, Finn.

Had we had this one slinked down somewhere down the list of topics all the response the action in question would likely have generated was a silent merge. But this edict has been in place, what, less than a week, and people are already ignoring it?

Sometimes I wonder if it's me who expects too much from this board.


But like I said, as long as you (all) take it as a learning experience, there's no need to roll in ashes.




Oh, and rest in peace, Mr. Culp.

But nash your teeth in dispair!

Oh and Winston Churchill died March 2nd, his grandfather will be missed!

Well, it wasn't exactly that I was ignoring it, I just had no idea it existed. I haven't been on the Raven for a long while, and haven't been aware of the change of rules. Once again, I apologize, and I know this doesn't excuse my behavior, but I hope it explains it.

Just so I don't change the topic on this board, let me also take the opportunity to say, Rest In Peace to Peter Graves.

That's not really an excuse if this thread is relatively high on the forum (like it is now and was as well when this little mishap took place) and one should be able to see it quite easily when checking out the Open Discussion section.

Unless, of course, one's eyes are just fixed onto the "New Thread" button... at which point I don't have to point who's got the joke on himself, have I?

I'm ashamed to say that this is exactly what happened. I promise I'll try not to be so rash the next time around.

For those who know comics will be sad to hear of the passing of Dick Giordano. A true legend.

Dick Giordano, Dead at 77
 

D.C. Comics great Dick Giordano (1932 - 2010), who began working at the company in the late '60s as an editor, but whose popularity hit its stride when he inked Neal Adams' run of Batman and the classic Green Lantern/Green Arrow team-up series of the '70s. Giordano also inked the very first Marvel/DC inter-company crossover Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man in 1978 and inked Adams on the even more unconventional one-shot Superman vs. Muhammad Ali.

During the '70s, Giordano worked with Neal Adams at Continuity Studios to nurture many young artists, then returned to DC in 1980 to help bring forth a new wave of creativity for the company. Giordano was highly responsible for bringing the characters from Charlton Comics, where he was formerly editor-in-chief, over to DC Comics, which ultimately led to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons creating the Watchmen mini-series. As an artist, he was also involved in the '80s event Crisis on Infinite Earths and inked John Byrne's pencils when he was hired by DC to reinvent Superman with The Man of Steel. Giordano's monthly editorial column "Meanwhile..." ran in most DC Comics during the the '80s as well.

Giordano semi-retired in 1993 but appeared from time to time, whether it was part of the launch of the short-lived Future Comics with David Michelinie and Bob Layton or drawing issues of The Phantom.

Giordano succumbed to pneumonia on March 27, presumably complications from the leukemia, COPD and emphysema from which he had been suffering.

Come on...that's just needlessly antagonistic, and you know it. And it's off-topic to boot.

And now non-existent.




Also, a warning.

John Forsythe passed away at age 92. John can be best remembered for his roles as the voice of Charlie in Charlie's Angels, Blake Carrington in Dynasty, and Bill Murray's boss Lew Hayward in Scrooged.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/...ex.html?hpt=P1

"I don't mind you shooting at me, Frank, but take it easy on the Bacardi!"

Dennis Hopper is dead at age 74

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni2643363/

Rest in Peace

Always liked Dennis. Indian Runner was one of his more inspired roles, Blue Velvet my favrotie, and any zombie movie was better with him in it!

Shouldn't we put Gary Coleman here also? Only 42, makes me feel old!

That's 3 celebrity deaths in a row again. A few days ago Art Linkletter, yesterday Gary Coleman, and today Dennis. :(

Eh, Dennis had his fun, he had my fun he had your fun...he had more fun. 5 Marriages! Get off the drugs son!

Poor Gary Coleman...

Let us remember Dennis Hopper for the awe inspiring role that earned him 3 Oscars and countless amounts of praise.....

I'll always remember him as the crazed photographer in Apocalypse Now.

Dennis Hopper was a classic.

Some of my personal favorites for him are Speed, Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet (he was a real bad ass), Rumble Fish, and his little part in True Romance.

Slowly beginning to realize that the good ole' actors are gonna start to die off...
I'm definitely gonna shed tears when Jack Nicholson and Sean Connery finally leave us.

Well, it seems that Betty White is the last surviving Golden Girl.

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni2706265/


Rest in peace Ms. McClanahan

R.I.P. Harvey Pekar
 

After decades of success which ranged from one of the medium's earliest self-publishing triumphs to a mainstream crossover that would defy all expectations for the phrase "comic book movie," one of the comics greatest stories has come to an end as The Cleveland Leader has confirmed that writer Harvey Pekar died this morning at the age of 70.

A lifelong resident of Cleveland, Ohio, Pekar turned the true tales of his life "from off the streets" of that city into one of the most celebrated and notable comics projects in the history of the artform. Starting in 1976 as a collaboration between the writer and underground cartoonist R. Crumb, Pekar's "American Splendor" title chronicled its heroes life as a file clerk at Cleveland's VA hospital and his interests from jazz music to literature. Originally a modest one-man operation published by Pekar and illustrated by a rotating cast of comics talents including Gary Dumm and Spain Rodriguez, "American Splendor" caught national attention in the '80s when Pekar became a frequent guest on NBC's "Late Night With David Letterman" often running opposite the popular "Stupid Pet Tricks" segment before his outspoken criticisms of NBC owner General Electric briefly ended the relationship.

More importantly, "American Splendor" brought Pekar to the attention of his third wife Joyce Brabner who also become one of his most important collaborators. In 1994 when Pekar was diagnosed with lymphoma, Brabner pushed him to turn the story of his treatment into a graphic novel as both a form of creativity and of therapy. The resulting "Our Cancer Year" won the prestigious Harvey Award in 1995 which along with a 1987 win of the National Book Award for "American Splendor" helped carry Pekar's reputation for keenly observed autobiography to new audiences both within and outside the comics community.

The "American Splendor" title continued over the years in a variety of formats and for a variety of publishers including Dark Horse and DC's Vertigo imprint and in 2003 was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film directed by by documentarians Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini and starring Paul Giamatti and Hope Davis as well as Pekar and Brabner in real life segments.

Pekar retired from file clerking around that time, but continued to be a force in comics up through his death. No longer spinning out smaller stories meant for comic books, Pekar's later work took on a broader introspective tone as graphic novels like "The Quitter" with artist Dean Haspiel and multiple non-autobio comics including an adaptation of Stud Terkel's "Working." This past year, the writer found a new generation of young cartoonists to work with at Smith Magazine under the heading "The Pekar Project" where a rotating cast of artists would work with Pekar to delve into his life as a cultural figure as well as his interests in music and art.

Pekar passed away early this morning, being found by Brabner just before 1:00 AM Cleveland time. He is survived by his wife and their daughter Danielle.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=27123

I actually saw American Splendor for the first time two weeks ago. While it was a little hard to get into, by the end of it I really appreciated Pekar as a bizzare and original American artist.

R.I.P

Steinbrenner dies at 80
 

The Yankees say owner George Steinbrenner has died. He was 80.

Spokesman Howard Rubenstein said he died Tuesday morning. He had a heart attack, was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa, Fla., and died at about 6:30 a.m, a person close to the owner told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team had not disclosed those details.

Steinbrenner, who celebrated his birthday July 4, had been in fragile health for several years.

Flags were immediately lowered to half-staff at Steinbrenner Field, the Yankees' spring training complex. The Yankees says many employees there were in tears.

The death comes two days after the team's beloved public-address announcer Bob Sheppard died at 99.


http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/g...tack?GT1=39002

George Steinbrenner Dead At Age 80
 

http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/m...ory?id=5375561



*Edit, wow, me and Webley were on that at like the same time!