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What was the last celebrity death you were genuinely upset about? (1 Viewer)

Farrah Fawcett's passing made me sad also. Woke up to her gorgeousness on that famous poster for a few years as a kid.

 
Raider Nation said:
Farrah Fawcett's passing made me sad also. Woke up to her gorgeousness on that famous poster for a few years as a kid.
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I remember she died the same day as Michael Jackson. I felt more sadness for her death. She fought so hard to live, and Michael seemed a mess, and reckless with his life. I thought it was sad that he seemed to surround himself with sketchy people, kinda like Anna Nicole Smith did. I think the first celebrity death I ever felt sadness about was John Lennon. I was in high school when he was murdered.

 
[insert 2000 word plagiarized essay on obscure diplomat that died before any of us were born, but just wanted to add it to "generate discussion"]

/Tim

 
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Raider Nation said:
Bert Sugar.
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:goodposting:

If you are fer reals and not shticking, he used to call into the Portland sports talk afternoon guys and entertain the listeners with great stories, wagers, tales of boozing. I loved listening to him. A real treat. I'd love to dig up some of his audio when he called in. Terrific.

 
General Malaise said:
Raider Nation said:
Bert Sugar.
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:goodposting: If you are fer reals and not shticking, he used to call into the Portland sports talk afternoon guys and entertain the listeners with great stories, wagers, tales of boozing. I loved listening to him. A real treat. I'd love to dig up some of his audio when he called in. Terrific.
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It was mostly shtick based on the Walker thread, though I did greatly enjoy his stories. He's one of the guys who fueled my passion for boxing when I was young.

 
culdeus said:
Shrugs said:
Ebert because I enjoyed reading his reviews after each movie I saw, and knowing I wouldn't be able to anymore and my movie-going experience would be forever altered.
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I was actually beat up over Siskel. He was - IMO - far and away the smarter of the two icons. And I loved Ebert too. I have some of his books. But Siskel was the type of mind I could get behind. His criticisms of crap were on point and I miss it. He went nearly 15 years before Ebert and Ebert was ill for a long long LONG LONG long time. Siskel got ill and then just....died. There were no comebacks, no specials, no nothing. He was just gone. There was a long period of my life where I refused to see a movie at the theater unless it got two thumbsup from these guys. I was entertained by Ebert. I trusted Siskel.

I quit going to movies.

 
What's this guy saying here?

Wallace's fiction is often concerned with irony. His essay "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction",[27] originally published in the small-circulation Review of Contemporary Fiction in 1993, proposes that television has an ironic influence on fiction writing, and urges literary authors to eschew TV's shallow rebelliousness: "I want to convince you that irony, poker-faced silence, and fear of ridicule are distinctive of those features of contemporary U.S. culture (of which cutting-edge fiction is a part) that enjoy any significant relation to the television whose weird pretty hand has my generation by the throat. I'm going to argue that irony and ridicule are entertaining and effective, and that at the same time they are agents of a great despair and stasis in U.S. culture, and that for aspiring fictionists they pose terrifically vexing problems."
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I feel like an inbred. I've never heard of this guy before. :bag: :bag:

 
General Malaise said:
culdeus said:
Shrugs said:
Ebert because I enjoyed reading his reviews after each movie I saw, and knowing I wouldn't be able to anymore and my movie-going experience would be forever altered.
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agree
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I was actually beat up over Siskel. He was - IMO - far and away the smarter of the two icons. And I loved Ebert too. I have some of his books. But Siskel was the type of mind I could get behind. His criticisms of crap were on point and I miss it. He went nearly 15 years before Ebert and Ebert was ill for a long long LONG LONG long time. Siskel got ill and then just....died. There were no comebacks, no specials, no nothing. He was just gone. There was a long period of my life where I refused to see a movie at the theater unless it got two thumbsup from these guys. I was entertained by Ebert. I trusted Siskel.

I quit going to movies.
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Exactly my thoughts. I used to crave listening to Siskel dissect movies and send Hollywood a giant FU for producing insipid garbage. Ebert always smacked of effort, ego, and a need to be validated. I didn't really mind Ebert, but I tended to resonate with Siskel much more often.

 
Gary Carter and Kirby were two of my favorites growing up. But Carter's was expected and Kirby's image had been tarnished so much by his private life antics that it drew all of the sting of his death. Other than that, as others have said, I was surprised at some deaths but never actually emotionally saddened.

Oddly enough the one story of a death involving a celebrity which got to me was the Josh Hamilton deal. I love baseball more than about anything, and it genuinely tore me up knowing a father died trying to catch a ball from his kid's favorite player. Obviously felt really bad for the guy's kid and family, but really felt for Hamilton, too. Must tear him up inside playing the "what if" game on that one and knowing that his random toss caused a death to some extent.

 
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Besides Galdofini, Phil Hartman and John Candy are probably the two I most think about. Those guys delivered so much entertainment in whatever they did, and I miss them when watching their old films/skits/sitcoms.

 
Zow said:
Gary Carter and Kirby were two of my favorites growing up. But Carter's was expected and Kirby's image had been tarnished so much by his private life antics that it drew all of the sting of his death. Other than that, as others have said, I was surprised at some deaths but never actually emotionally saddened.

Oddly enough the one story of a death involving a celebrity which got to me was the Josh Hamilton deal. I love baseball more than about anything, and it genuinely tore me up knowing a father died trying to catch a ball from his kid's favorite player. Obviously felt really bad for the guy's kid and family, but really felt for Hamilton, too. Must tear him up inside playing the "what if" game on that one and knowing that his random toss caused a death to some extent.
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Hamilton killed him on purpose.

 
General Malaise said:
Raider Nation said:
Bert Sugar.
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:goodposting:

If you are fer reals and not shticking, he used to call into the Portland sports talk afternoon guys and entertain the listeners with great stories, wagers, tales of boozing. I loved listening to him. A real treat. I'd love to dig up some of his audio when he called in. Terrific.
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I didn't know he was a New York ad man. thought he was just a boxing writer.

Bob McCown: Have you watched Mad Men?

Bert Sugar: Oh, yes.

BM: And…?

BS: It’s understated. We were worst.

BM: Worse?

BS: One agency I was in, the drinking was so bad they put a bar on the 14th floor called The Meeting. So if somebody called - your wife, a client - you were in the meeting.

 
When musicians that were a big part of my youth pass, it always feels like a smack in the face.

A couple of losses that have not been mentioned that hurt: Peter Steel and Ronnie James Dio.

A few that were alreayd mentioned that I remember well: Cobain, Cash, Jani Lane and Layne Staley.

 
I wouldnt say I get upset, just a little shocked mostly.

I was kinda bummed when Roy Orbison died.

CC

Danny Dederici

Warren Zevon.

I expected all these guys to go so wasn't that big a deal.

 
DaVinci said:
Warren Zevon. His farewell show on Letterman had me choked up.

Enjoy every sandwich.
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In the fall of 2002 John Entwistle died, then Warren announced his terminal cancer, then Joe Strummer died. Three of my absolute favorite musical heroes in a few months time. Ian Dury had died a couple of years before. When Joe died, the triple whammy just caught up with me and I cried like a baby in my office because my youth was officially gone. Somehow Elvis Costello has survived the fact that he is one my heroes too!

 
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valhallan said:
Owen Hart
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This is my answer. Also Chris Benoit, but for different reasons.
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If we're staying on the wrestling theme, Andre the Giant for me. My favorite wrestler when I was little. He performed at a local arena when I was 9 or 10, and he walked right by me... thisclose. He was bigger than life, in more ways than one. A handsome devil, too.
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Macho Man caught me off guard in wrestling. Owen Hart was tragic and unique but he never made it that big. Macho Man was a huge part of my childhood. When everyone wanted to be Hogan, I always donned the sunglasses and the swagger of the irrepressible machoness.

 
valhallan said:
Owen Hart
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Me and a few friends were watching that ppv. Horrific. Still can't even imagine how hard that was for JR and King. To announce the death and continue calling the action after what they witnessed....just horrific.

 
I was watching the orioles game the night Mike Flanagan took his life. I found out through social media and Jim Palmer, who was calling the game and a good friend and colleague of Mike's, hadn't heard yet.

The following inning was silent for the most part, and when Jim (or Gary Thorne) tried talking, you could hear they were crying. Choked me up.

 
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