RIPs

[Batman's Superior Cousin]

Tom Sizemore: Saving Private Ryan actor dies at 61 after brain aneurysm https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64721187

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Tom Sizemore: Saving Private Ryan actor dies at 61 after brain aneurysm https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64721187

Tom Sizemore was a charismatic actor, but his battles with addictions are well-documented, which meant he perhaps didn't achieve what he might have done. He was excellent in The Relic, now considered a poor 90s horror movie, and that moment in Saving Private Ryan, where he hurls his helmet at a German soldier, is one of those badass moments from Cinema I'll never forget.

[Barrington Boots]

His performance in Strange Days always comes to mind for me. Great actor although by most accounts a bit of a scumbag IRL. A shame all round.

[GoGilesGo]

absolutely excellent tribute in Vulture. Some wonderful prose, not least this paragraph

"part of his power came from the cognitive dissonance of seeing one of cinema's scariest sleazebags cast as a soft-spoken guardian of civilization. There would be a period where you'd wait for the other shoe to drop, revealing Sizemore's character as a secret monster — and when it became clear that he wasn't one, his character's allies seemed more formidable, because they'd somehow persuaded a wolf to guard the farm."

https://www.vulture.com/article/tom-sizemore-obituary-remembrance.html

[rogue69]

Gary Rossington the last surviving founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd aged 71

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/lynyrd-skynyrd-founding-guitarist-gary-rossington-dies-aged-71/ar-AA18gvbP

[nxylas]

I've been seeing a lot of fake death news stories on Facebook again recently. It used to be Morgan Freeman and Rowan Atkinson, now it's Sylvester Stallone and Justin Bieber.

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Cartoonist Trog drew Flook and had a very original style in caricatures lampooning politicians. A very influential talent, indeed.

https://downthetubes.net/in-memoriam-cartoonist-and-jazz-musician-wally-fawkes-aka-trog/

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Mystic Meg, a Tv personality and astrologer.

 https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-mystic-meg-astrologer-margaret-29411558

[rogue69]

Chaim Topol aged 87,actor, singer and illustrator, best known for the films Fiddler on the Roof, Flash Gordon & For Your Eyes Only.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64898895

[sheridan]

Chaim Topol aged 87,actor, singer and illustrator, best known for the films Fiddler on the Roof, Flash Gordon & For Your Eyes Only.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64898895

Topol's Dr. Hans Zarkov among the best things about the Flash Gordon film (tough competition from Brian Blessed and Max von Sydow).

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Robert Blake, a considerable performer forever mired in the controversy surrounding the murder of his then-wife, Boony Lee Bakely.

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/robert-blake-dead-baretta-actor-murder-trial-1235548839/

[Tjm86]

Mystic Meg, a Tv personality and astrologer.

 https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-mystic-meg-astrologer-margaret-29411558

I wonder if she saw that coming ....

[Rara Avis]

Mystic Meg, a Tv personality and astrologer.

 https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-mystic-meg-astrologer-margaret-29411558

I wonder if she saw that coming ....

Someone had to say it.

[The Legendary Shark]

Mystic Meg, a Tv personality and astrologer.

 https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-mystic-meg-astrologer-margaret-29411558

I wonder if she saw that coming ....

Someone had to say it.

I knew you'd say that.

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

The cartoonist and wit, Bill Tidy, will pen no more.
https://downthetubes.net/in-memoriam-the-worlds-greatest-cartoonist-bill-tidy-mbe/