RIP thread

[diamelsx]

Bill Sutherland, a former professional hockey player who scored the first goal in the history of the Philadelphia Flyers, died Sunday, April 9, 2017. He was 82.

The Flyers announced the death via a news release on the team's official website.

[ball7]

Guy O'Sullivan, Reality TV-Producer, has died at the age of 49.
At the time of his death, he had been working on a Australian version of the Great British Bake-Off.
http://www.thewrap.com/guy-osullivan...ducer-dead-49/

[tsunamiSD]

Excerpts from a blog by Mark Evanier:

A truly lovely person left us last night around 10 PM. Carolyn Kelly was, as many of you know, the daughter of the great cartoonist Walt Kelly, creator of the newspaper strip, Pogo. She was also a cartoonist in her own right and some years after his death when the strip was revived for a time, she briefly drew her father's greatest creation. I occasionally said that she was his greatest co-creation but she thought that was excessive and asked me to stop saying it.
Though she dabbled in other cartooning and in animation, most of her artistic endeavors were in the area of book design. In 2011, she united those skills with a passionate desire to see her father's work properly preserved and made available. That was when she began working on the award-winning series from Fantagraphics Books that is reprinting that glorious feature.
She not only co-edited and designed the books and painted the covers but with a devotion that transcended mere editorial conscientiousness, supervised and sometimes personally did the necessary restoration work. On many of the older strips, only imperfect source material was available so precision surgery had to be done if these books were going to be done right. Carolyn did her part of it right using one of my computers and my drawing table. She often put long, long hours into just one daily strip to get it the way her dad had originally drawn it.

She was one of the most compassionate people I've ever encountered; the kind who never met a person in need — even total strangers — without wanting to help them in some way. In fact, one of the things we argued over at times was my feeling that she was putting way too many other people, including me, ahead of her own needs.
Carolyn had many, many talents to accompany all that niceness. In addition to cartooning and book design, she would crochet magnificent scarves and hats.
Also, she was a superb cook and it was never a matter of slavishly following someone's recipe, not even her own. She would invent on the fly, adding in some of this and a lot of that along with a pinch of something or other, all selected and measured on sheer instinct. That meant the final product was always surprising and when I said, "Hey, this is great. Can you make it again?" her usual answer was that she wasn't sure what she'd done but would try. The next time, it would not be the same but it would usually be even better.

[johnbear]

American guitarist who was a member of the rock group The J. Geils Band died age 71.
http://www.wcvb.com/article/guitaris...s-home/9263211

[blueballsdc]

Originally Posted by johnbear

American guitarist who was a member of the rock group The J. Geils Band died age 71.
http://www.wcvb.com/article/guitaris...s-home/9263211

Not just a member but the founder of the band. They put on one of the best live shows that I have seen. If I had a choice between The J.Geils Band and almost any other band to see live again, it would be them. It was a party every time that they played. A couple of selections:

Ain't Nothing But a Party (Live):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBXAzVN7PYg

Whammer Jammer (Live):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6T1C2kCMdc

Looks like it is time to call in sick again to work and break out the Whiskey (or Whisky).

[johnbear]

Better known to Late Night and Late Show viewers as Dave's Mom was the mother of late-night talk show host David Letterman and frequent telephone and live guest on his show died age 95.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...ng-dead-795160

[ball7]

General Hospital star Peter Hansen has died at the age of 95.

For decades Peter Hansen has been mostly known for his role as Lee Baldwin.

http://www.thewrap.com/peter-hansen-...pital-dies-95/

[ball7]

Clay Adler, who starred in the MTV reality show “Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County,” died last month at the age of 27.

http://www.thewrap.com/clay-adler-mt...ar-dies-at-27/

[ball7]

Michael Ballhaus, Hollywood Cinematographer, has died.
Ballhaus worked on many of Scorsese's biggest hits like Goodfellas, The Departed and Gangs of New York.
He was 81 years old.

[ballyhoo]

Eddie Murphy's older brother, of "Chappelle's Show", dies from leukemia at age 57.

http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/...-at-57-w476365