RIP thread

[Banpan]

Originally Posted by ball7

Margot Kidder has passed away. She was 69.
She will always be known as Lois Lane.

This is really sad news - I had a huge crush on her back in the days. May she rest in peace.

[patwynnfan]

Former Aston Villa and Bolton defender Jlloyd Samuel has died in a car crash.

The 37-year-old, most recently player-manager of non-league side Egerton, died on Tuesday.

Samuel made 199 appearances for Villa after signing with the club in 1998, and played 83 times for Bolton between 2007 and 2011.

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association said he had "collided with an oncoming vehicle".

"We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of our former player Jlloyd Samuel at the age of just 37 in a car accident," Championship side Villa said on Twitter .

"Our players will wear black armbands as a mark of respect tonight [in their play-off semi-final] and our thoughts are with his friends and family at this very difficult time."

The Trinidad and Tobago FA continued on Facebook : "We've received some terrible news that former national defender and ex-Aston Villa and Bolton Wanderers player Jlloyd Samuel died in a car crash this morning in England.

"According to reports, Jlloyd was returning home after dropping his kids off to school and collided with an oncoming vehicle.

"The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association and his former national team-mates at this time extends deepest condolences to his family members both in the UK and here in Trinidad and Tobago."

Samuel's former team-mate and Liverpool academy coach Michael Beale said: "Absolutely heartbroken to hear of the passing of my childhood friend and team-mate. A beautiful person."

[patwynnfan]

A second British amateur rugby player has died after complaining of breathing difficulties on returning from a nightclub in Sri Lanka. Thomas Howard, 25, and Thomas Baty, 26, had been touring the country with Durham-based Clems Pirates RFC when they visited the club in Colombo. Mr Howard, from Durham, died after being admitted to hospital on Sunday. Mr Baty, also from Durham, who had been critically ill, has also now died. Durham City Rugby Football Club, which oversees the team, confirmed Mr Howard had died after "suffering breathing problems". The team arrived in Sri Lanka on Wednesday and began the tour with a game against Ceylonese Rugby and Football Club (CR & FC) in Colombo. According to police in Sri Lanka, some British players went to a nightclub after the match and returned to their hotel in the early hours of Sunday. The two players complained of breathing difficulties to the hotel management at about 10:00 on Sunday.

[K_D]

Tom Wolfe

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr.
March 2, 1931 – May 14, 2018

American author and journalist, best known for his association with and influence in stimulating the New Journalism literary movement, in which literary techniques are used extensively... reducing the traditional values of journalistic objectivity.


Non-fiction:

The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965)
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)
The Pump House Gang (1968)
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970)
The New Journalism (1973) (Ed. with EW Johnson)
The Painted Word (1975)
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (1976)
The Right Stuff (1979)
In Our Time (1980)
From Bauhaus to Our House (1981)
The Purple Decades (1982)
Hooking Up (2000)
The Kingdom of Speech (2016)

Novels:

The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)
A Man in Full (1998)
I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004)
Back to Blood (2012)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/o...ies-at-87.html

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tom-wol...-88-1526396720

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wolfe

[ManofKent]

Originally Posted by DaGooseman

TMZ is reporting that actress Margot Kidder has passed away at age 69

http://www.tmz.com/2018/05/14/margot...an-lois-lane/#

It was the paper today too, and they did say that she was 'the best loved' Loius Lane in any film or TV version.

Mind you, that poor woman did have some demons to battle during her life...

[neo2008]

Farewell to my Lois Lane : Margot Kidder who was also quite terrific in films like Some King of Hero and the TV show Boston Common

[dasduffer]

Sad news that Ray Wilson, England World Cup Winner in 1966, has passed away aged 83.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44140722

[dr_deathproof]

Actor Joseph Campanella has died at the age of 93.


A prolific actor, he appeared in over 200 television and film roles from the 50's until 2009.



Campanella was perhaps most well known for his role as Joe Turino in Guiding Light and as Harper Deveraux on the soap opera Days of Our Lives. He also voiced Dr. Curt Connors/The Lizard on the mid-90's Spider-Man cartoon and narrated the Discover science series on the Disney Channel. At one time he provided the voice-over for BMW commercials in the United States, intoning, "BMW... the ultimate driving machine". In the 70's Campanella was the spokesman for Napa Auto Parts.



Some of his other appearances include: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967), Ben, Meteor, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mannix, One Day at a Time, and The Golden Girls. His last role was in 2008's For Heaven's Sake.


Campanella had a brother, Frank, who was also an actor. He died in 2006. Campanella was married to Kathryn Jill Bartholomew, a singer and dancer. They had seven sons together.

[dr_deathproof]

Originally Posted by ManofKent

It was the paper today too, and they did say that she was 'the best loved' Loius Lane in any film or TV version.

Mind you, that poor woman did have some demons to battle during her life...

She was awesome in Black Christmas. I wish she was my babysitter when I was a kid.

[baldie]

The father of two young hit-and-run victims has been found dead in a hotel room in Greece.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ims-found-dead