RIP thread

[Meini Again]

Dennis Hof

Hof, the owner of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, featured in HBO’s Cathouse series, was found dead at one of his other brothels, Love Ranch in Crystal, Nevada, on Tuesday morning, hours after supporters cheered him at a campaign rally for his bid for a seat in the state legislature. People, including adult film star Ron Jeremy, former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss, former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, and others were in Hof’s orbit in the hours leading up to his death.

Compare 'Kiss Army's' tribute above... to the quality of those lost.

Same Planet, Different World.

R.I.P. Peter Klaassen and Denis Hof.

[Randy_Mann]

In 1943 Joachim Roenneberg, serving behind enemy lines in his native Norway during the German
occupation, blew up a plant producing heavy water, a hydrogen-rich substance that was key to the
later development of atomic bombs




https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-...-hero-13454696

[ball7]

Eugene Peterson has died. He was not only a pastor but also a well known author.
https://relevantmagazine.com/current...the-age-of-85/

[treehugger]

Todd Bol, whose Little Free Library brought books to the street corner, dies at 62


October 21 at 10:00 PM He had an abundance of books, a weathered garage door in need of repair, and an abiding sadness that persisted months after the death of his mother, a schoolteacher who had tutored neighborhood children at the family dining table in their Twin Cities home.

And so, in what he later described as “a spiritual gesture” to his late mother, June, Todd Bol set to work one day in 2009. Repurposing wood from his garage, he built a dollhouse-size library in the shape of a one-room schoolhouse, decorating the structure with a steeple and a tinny toy bell. He painted the library red, using bright white paint for its wood- shingled roof, and crafted a glass door to secure a few of his parents’ favorite books, including Tom Brokaw’s “The Greatest Generation.”

Then he set the library outside his home in Hudson, Wis., atop a wooden pole with a sign reading “Free Books.” And he waited, and watched.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...=.82aadeff1d32

[Randy_Mann]

Willy Wonka star Diana Sowle passes away aged 88 with family by her side






https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainm...D=ansmsnnews11

[ball7]

Rapper Jon James McMurray has died during the filming of a music video.
https://www.billboard.com/articles/c...es-video-shoot

[Silicone Carne]

American character actor James Karen passed away.
You've seen in The China Syndrome, Poltergeist, Little House on the Prairie, The Return Of The Living Dead, Wall Street, All The President's Men, Any Given Sunday, Upclose and Personal, Jagged Edge, Opening Night, ...



He was 94.

The Hollywood Reporter

[Grouchy]

The legendary songwriter Tony Joe White has passed... he was 75.


https://mailchi.mp/yeproc/tonyjoewhite?e=f036eb41f7

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


Another true original gone.


RIP.

[tsunamiSD]

Originally Posted by Silicone Carne

American character actor James Karen passed away.
You've seen in The China Syndrome, Poltergeist, Little House on the Prairie, The Return Of The Living Dead, Wall Street, All The President's Men, Any Given Sunday, Upclose and Personal, Jagged Edge, Opening Night, ...
He was 94.
The Hollywood Reporter

From Mark Evanier's blog:

I have to write something about a delightful gentleman named James Karen who has just left us at the age of 94. Jimmy was an example, as we all wish we could be, of someone who lived life to the fullest. He was that rare kind of actor who never starred in a long-running series but still somehow managed to always be working. To be that, you have to be either a very, very good actor or a very, very great person to be around. He was both. And he and his splendid wife Alba always seemed to be at every party and every event, even when he'd reached an age where you might not expect a man to be so active. Leonard Maltin has written a piece about him that I can't top so I'll just add this: Jimmy had been everywhere and knew everyone. He had an anecdote — and often not a clean one — from every film or TV show he'd worked on and about every other actor he'd ever shared a stage or scene with. Amazingly, they all seemed to be true, even the ones about Marilyn. I have met seven men who claimed to have slept with Marilyn Monroe. Jimmy was the only one whose story I believed.
I met Jimmy through my longtime friend Jewel Shepard, who shared screen time with him in the "cult classic," Return of the Living Dead. You usually didn't say a lot around him because if you were talking, he wasn't…and he was infinitely more interesting than you could ever be.
One time, Jewel and I went with our pal Frank Ferrante to see Hal Holbrook perform his legendary — and that way-overused adjective is entirely appropriate here — Mark Twain Tonight show. We were delighted to run into Jimmy Karen and Alba, who were there to see their old friend and we got backstage when Hal came into the green room afterwards to greet a select band of admirers.
Frank and I are in the background of this video. You won't see Jewel (except for a half-second in a mirror) because she was smart enough to sense the importance of the moment and capture it on her cellphone, then post it to YouTube. Notice the love and respect between two men who had both been acting all their lives. This will tell you more about James Karen than I can possibly convey and give you some sense of why he was so beloved. Thank you, Jewel…

Note: I highly recommend viewing Leonard Maltin's article, it's really good. and here is a link to Jewel Shepard's video.

[Starkos]

At 16, Osamu Shimomura survived the dropping of the atomic bomb at Nagasaki, went to pharmacy college because he couldn't get into any other college. He significantly altered the future of molecular biology and cancer research with his discovery of green fluorescent protein (GFP) and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/o...mid=tw-nytimes