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« Reply #50 on: March 20, 2015, 06:55:05 pm »
Twisted Sister drummer A.J. Pero dead at 55

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The drummer for the heavy-metal band Twisted Sister has died. A.J. Pero was 55.

The band says Pero died Friday of an apparent heart attack.

Anthony Jude Pero powered the fast-paced sound of Twisted Sister, one of the most famous 1980s metal groups.

He was well-known for a scene in the video for 1984's "We're Not Gonna Take It" in which he struck a snare drum covered with glitter, sending it spraying into the air.

Dee Snider, the frontman of the group, shared the news of Pero's death on Twitter.


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« Reply #51 on: March 21, 2015, 04:56:56 pm »
Chuck Bednarik, Hall-of-Fame Linebacker, Dies at 89

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Chuck Bednarik, a Pro Football Hall of Famer and one of the last great two-way NFL players, died early Saturday the Philadelphia Eagles said. He was 89.

Bednarik, known as "Concrete Charlie," epitomized the tough-guy linebacker and also was an outstanding center for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1949 to 1962. He is best remembered for a game-saving tackle at the 9-yard line on the final play of the 1960 title game, and it was typical Bednarik. He threw Green Bay running back Jim Taylor to the ground and refused to let him up while the final seconds ticked off as the Eagles held on for a 17-13 win...

The tackle on Taylor actually was the second hit that season that drew headlines. Earlier in 1960, he knocked out New York Giants running back Frank Gifford with a blow so hard that Gifford suffered a concussion and didn't play again until 1962...
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Re: Obituaries for 2015
« Reply #52 on: March 21, 2015, 05:32:38 pm »
At 6' 3" and 233 lbs., he was a big man for the day.
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« Reply #53 on: March 22, 2015, 01:09:35 pm »
According to the initial report, he died at 4:23 a.m. He would've died at 3:23, but he insisted he had another 60 minutes left in him.
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« Reply #54 on: March 22, 2015, 11:17:48 pm »
[float=right][/float]Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first prime minister, dies at 97

Yew served as the first Prime Minister of Singapore upon the city-state's breakaway from Malaysia and remained a member of the Singapore Parliament until his death. Allied with communists early in his political career, Yew was responsible for overseeing the city-state's transformation into a global powerhouse. His tight grip on power and affinity for micromanaging (he once led a ban on chewing gum) was renowned and resented; his death marks the first time the country has not had him in political office.

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« Reply #55 on: March 23, 2015, 07:41:09 pm »
RIP, Jim Berry: For 40 years, 'Berry's World' cartoonist dispensed relatable laughs

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... In so many ways, to read Jim Berry was to meet Jim Berry.

"Berry's World," the syndicated single-panel feature that he drew for 40 years, beginning in 1963, was a remarkably steady stream of thoughtful observational humor that -- like the unfussy art itself -- rarely seemed to strain for the laugh. Each gag, as steady as a top golfer's approach shots, just "landed." Precision meets concision ...

Mr. Berry died last Friday in Boynton Beach, Fla., at age 83 ...
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« Reply #56 on: March 25, 2015, 10:30:12 pm »
'Dr. George' Fischbeck dies at 92; popular weatherman at KABC-TV

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George Fischbeck, a science teacher turned weatherman who joined KABC-TV in 1972 and spent nearly two decades exuberantly delivering the local forecast, has died. He was 92.

Fischbeck, who was known as "Dr. George," died of natural causes early Wednesday morning at the Motion Picture & Television Fund retirement home in Woodland Hills, his daughter, Nancy Fischbeck, said.

A trained meteorologist, George Fischbeck was so enthusiastic about his subject that he sometimes forgot to talk about the next day's weather.

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« Reply #57 on: March 25, 2015, 10:52:55 pm »
Fischbeck was a mainstay on SoCal television for a long time. RIP

He made watching the weather report funny and interesting.

He was a nerd, before nerds were cool. Tweed jacket and horned rim glasses.
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« Reply #58 on: March 28, 2015, 05:12:41 pm »
Rod Hundley, an Outsize Personality on and Off the Court, Dies at 80 (Hot Rod Hundley)

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Rod Hundley, basketball's irrepressible Hot Rod, who parlayed showmanship on the court with flair at the microphone to become a fan favorite for more than half a century, died on Friday at his home near Phoenix. He was 80.

Hundley was an electrifying presence at West Virginia University, played for the Lakers and stamped his persona on broadcasting, mostly for the New Orleans Jazz.

"Nobody did the things I did on the court and nobody has done them since," Hundley said of his collegiate exploits in "Hot Rod Hundley: You Gotta Love It Baby!" (2012), written with Tom McEachin. "I'd shoot behind my back, sit on the other team's bench and really work the crowd. I was a Globetrotter in college basketball."
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« Reply #59 on: March 28, 2015, 05:16:28 pm »
"It aint what you don't know that kills you.  It's what you know that aint so!" ...Theodore Sturgeon

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« Reply #60 on: April 01, 2015, 03:07:26 am »
[float=right][/float]Gary Dahl, inventor of the Pet Rock, dies at 78

It was a craze to rival the Hula-Hoop, and even less explicable. For a mere $3.95, a consumer could buy … a rock - a plain, ordinary, egg-shaped rock of the kind one could dig up in almost any backyard.


The wonder of it was, for a few frenzied months in 1975, more than 1 million consumers did, becoming the proud if slightly abashed owners of Pet Rocks, the fad that Newsweek later called "one of the most ridiculously successful marketing schemes ever."

Gary Dahl, the man behind that scheme - described variously as a marketing genius and a genial mountebank - died on March 23 at 78.

A modern incarnation of "Stone Soup" as stirred by P.T. Barnum, Pet Rocks made Dahl a millionaire practically overnight.

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« Reply #61 on: April 01, 2015, 04:46:16 pm »
[float=right][/float]Gary Dahl, inventor of the Pet Rock, dies at 78

It was a craze to rival the Hula-Hoop, and even less explicable. For a mere $3.95, a consumer could buy … a rock - a plain, ordinary, egg-shaped rock of the kind one could dig up in almost any backyard.


The wonder of it was, for a few frenzied months in 1975, more than 1 million consumers did, becoming the proud if slightly abashed owners of Pet Rocks, the fad that Newsweek later called "one of the most ridiculously successful marketing schemes ever."

Gary Dahl, the man behind that scheme - described variously as a marketing genius and a genial mountebank - died on March 23 at 78.

A modern incarnation of "Stone Soup" as stirred by P.T. Barnum, Pet Rocks made Dahl a millionaire practically overnight.

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« Reply #62 on: April 01, 2015, 04:51:00 pm »
Cynthia Lennon dead at 75

Cynthia Lennon, the one-time wife of John Lennon and mother of Julian Lennon, has died. She was 75.

Julian Lennon's rep told CBS News she died Wednesday at her home in Mallorca, Spain, following a "short but brave battle with cancer." Her son was at her bedside throughout.

Born Cynthia Powell in Blackpool, Lancashire, in England, Cynthia Lennon became interested in art at an early age. She met John Lennon when she was an 18-year-old student at the Liverpool College of Art -- prior to the Beatles' rise to fame.

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« Reply #63 on: April 02, 2015, 05:34:54 pm »
Robert Schuller, Crystal Cathedral megachurch founder, dies

Apr 2, 12:56 PM (ET)

By AMY TAXIN and GILLIAN FLACCUS

 ARTESIA, Calif. (AP) — The Rev. Robert H. Schuller, the Southern California televangelist and author who beamed his upbeat messages on faith and redemption to millions from his landmark Crystal Cathedral only to see his empire crumble in his waning years, has died. He was 88.

Schuller died early Thursday at a care facility in Artesia, daughter Carol Schuller Milner said. He was diagnosed with terminal esophageal cancer in 2013.

Once a well-known televangelist, Schuller faded from view in recent years after watching his church collapse amid a disastrous leadership transition and sharp declines in viewership and donations that ultimately forced the ministry to file for bankruptcy.

The soaring, glass-paned Crystal Cathedral — the touchstone of Schuller's career — was sold to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange in 2011, and Schuller lost a legal battle the following year to collect more than $5 million from his former ministry for claims of copyright infringement and breach of contract.
 
Schuller, who preached in a flowing purple robe and outsized aviator glasses, led an evangelical Protestant ministry that was a product of modern technology. He and his late wife, Arvella, started a ministry in 1955 with $500 when he began preaching from the roof of a concession stand at a drive-in movie theater southeast of Los Angeles.

The church's motto — "Come as you are in the family car" — tapped into the burgeoning Southern California auto culture and the suburban boom of post-World War II America.

By 1961, the church had a brick-and-mortar home and Schuller began broadcasting the "Hour of Power" in 1970.

In 1980, he built the glass-and-steel Crystal Cathedral to house his booming TV ministry, which was broadcast live each week from the 2,800-seat sanctuary. At its peak in the 1990s, the program had 20 million viewers in about 180 countries.

Schuller's message — that "Possibility Thinking" and love of God overcome hardships — was a uniquely American blend of Bible and psychology.

Unlike other televangelists, Schuller's message lacked fire-and-brimstone condemnations or conservative political baggage. Fundamentalists attacked him for statements they believed denied the need for personal repentance of sin.

Schuller had admirers that ranged from fellow evangelist Billy Graham to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. His friendship with President Bill Clinton raised some eyebrows among the conservative Republicans.

In the start of a carefully choreographed leadership transition, Schuller's only son, 51-year-old Robert A. Schuller, was installed as senior pastor in 2006.

The younger Schuller left amid a bitter family feud in 2008. His father had removed him from the "Hour of Power" broadcasts, and he quit as senior pastor a few weeks later.

The tumult worsened a pre-existing decline in viewership and donations, and in 2010, Crystal Cathedral ministries filed for bankruptcy, citing debt of more than $43 million.

Bankruptcy filings indicated the ministry was paying significant tax-exempt housing allowances to Schuller family members and insiders. The allowances were legal but raised concerns among vendors and other creditors who had gone unpaid for months.

Robert Harold Schuller was born in Alton, Iowa, in 1926, and ordained in 1950. He was pastor of Ivanhoe Reformed Church in Chicago from 1950 to 1955 before moving to California.

Besides his son, Schuller and his wife had four daughters: Sheila, Jeanne, Carol and Gretchen. Wife Arvella Schuller died Feb. 11, 2014, after a brief illness.

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« Reply #64 on: April 02, 2015, 07:34:05 pm »
Eddie LeBaron, 85, starred at UOP and in NFL

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Eddie LeBaron, the College Football Hall of Fame quarterback at the University of the Pacific who went on to a lengthy pro career, died Wednesday in Stockton, the university announced. He was 85.

University officials said Mr. LeBaron, who also worked as a lawyer in Sacramento for nine years before retiring in 1997, died of natural causes ...

Drafted by the Washington Redskins, Mr. LeBaron played seven years in the nation’s capital and four with the Dallas Cowboys. He also played one season with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League ...
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« Reply #65 on: April 04, 2015, 02:52:57 pm »
[float=right][/float]“Elegant Elmer” Lach, oldest living former NHL player, dies at 97

Lach retired as the league's all-time leader in points with 623, a far cry from the current record of 2,857 by Wayne Gretzky but was accomplished in an era of 50-game seasons in a super-competitive six-team league.

He won Stanley Cups 1944, 1946 and 1953 as well as the Hart Trophy in 1944-45. He was enshrined in the Hall of Fame in 1966.

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« Reply #66 on: April 04, 2015, 09:06:33 pm »
Sarah Brady, no fan of the U.S. Constitution

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Sarah Brady, who with her husband, James Brady, pushed for stricter gun control laws, including the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, died Friday, her family said.

Brady, 73, died of pneumonia, the family said.

"Sarah courageously stepped up after Jim was shot to prevent others from enduring what our family has gone through, and her work has saved countless lives," their statement said.

James Brady, President Ronald Reagan's press secretary, was shot in the head by John Hinckley Jr. during his attempt to assassinate Reagan in 1981. Brady spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair, advocating against gun violence.

He died in August.

Sarah Brady was also involved in gun violence prevention for the past 30 years. She was the chairwoman of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence from 2000 until she died.

The National Rifle Association said its thoughts and prayers were with the Brady family.

"Although we disagreed on public policy, Sarah Brady was an honorable American who we always respected," the gun rights organization said.  ...
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« Reply #67 on: April 04, 2015, 09:08:16 pm »
Robert Burns Jr., a founding member and former drummer of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, dead at 64
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Robert Burns Jr., a founding member and former drummer of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, has died in a car crash in Georgia, state officials said on Saturday. He was 64 years old.

Burns was not wearing his seatbelt when his car went off a road late Friday, striking a mailbox and a tree near Cartersville, northwest of Atlanta, the Georgia State Patrol said.

He was the only occupant in the car and nobody else was hurt. The crash remains under investigation, authorities said.

Burns was one of the founding members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, best known for hits including "Free Bird" and "Sweet Home Alabama."

He remained in the group from its inception in the mid-1960s in Jacksonville, Florida until 1974, performing on the band's debut album, "Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd." The album launched the band to fame and helped define the sound of southern rock, which exploded in popularity during the decade.

Burns left Lynyrd Skynyrd after growing tired of life on the road and was replaced by drummer Artimus Pyle, the band's biography said.

In 1977, the band's singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and vocalist Cassie Gaines were killed when their plane crashed in Mississippi. Pyle survived.

In recent years, Burns had performed in Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute bands, local media reported.

Lynyrd Skynyrd was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.
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« Reply #68 on: April 05, 2015, 10:56:54 pm »
Lon Simmons, Giants' Hall of Fame broadcaster, dies at 91

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The Giants sent a press release Sunday afternoon that said, "The Giants family and Bay Area sports community lost a true gentleman (Sunday) morning when Hall of Fame broadcaster Lon Simmons peacefully passed away."
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« Reply #69 on: April 07, 2015, 10:29:25 pm »
[float=right][/float]James Best, who played Rosco P. Coltrane on The Dukes of Hazzard, dies at 88

James Best, whose prolific career included 83 movies and 600 TV shows but is best remembered for his role as Rosco P. Coltrane, the bumbling sheriff of Hazzard, died Monday night in Hickory.

Best was 88. He died in hospice after a brief illness of complications from pneumonia, said Steve Latshaw, a longtime friend and Hollywood colleague.

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« Reply #70 on: April 07, 2015, 10:31:25 pm »
[float=right][/float]Stan Freberg, acclaimed satirist, dies at 88

Stan Freberg, whose freewheeling comic career in advertising garnered him worldwide acclaim and whose satirical entertainments abounded on TV, the radio and on records, has died. He was 88.

Freberg died of natural causes at a Santa Monica hospital, his son and daughter, Donavan and Donna Freberg, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.

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« Reply #71 on: April 08, 2015, 03:59:19 pm »
Geoffrey Lewis, longtime Clint Eastwood collaborator, dies at 79

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Character Actor Geoffrey Lewis, known for his long working relationship with Clint Eastwood and for a slew of roles in television and film, died April 7 at his home in Woodland Hills, California. He was 79.

Frequently appearing in Westerns during his early career, he is perhaps most well-known as a frequent fixture of Clint Eastwood’s films. His appearances include "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," "Any Which Way You Can," "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot," and "High Plains Drifter." He also had a supporting role on the short-lived "Alice" spinoff "Flo," from 1980-1981, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe. In addition, he appeared in roles ranging from films such as "Night of the Comet" and "Maverick" to television shows like "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" and "Hawaii Five-0."

Born in 1935 in San Diego, Lewis spent his childhood in Rhode Island before moving back to California with his family at age 10. Lewis was a longtime member of the Church of Scientology, for which he credited his career success. He is survived by his wife Paula, his daughter, actress Juliette Lewis and nine other children.

His daughter is Juliette Lewis.


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« Reply #72 on: April 08, 2015, 05:10:30 pm »
Geoffrey Lewis, longtime Clint Eastwood collaborator, dies at 79

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His daughter is Juliette Lewis.

Geoffrey Lewis, Western Star and Juliette Lewis' Dad, Dies at 79

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« Reply #73 on: April 09, 2015, 10:31:45 pm »
Richard Dysart, the Patriarchal Senior Partner of 'L.A. Law,' Dies at 86

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Richard Dysart, the Emmy-winning actor who portrayed the cranky senior partner Leland McKenzie in the slick, long-running NBC drama L.A. Law, has died. He was 86.

Dysart, who also played Coach in the original 1972 Broadway production of Jason Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning That Championship Season, died Sunday at home in Santa Monica after a long illness, his wife, artist Kathryn Jacobi, told The Hollywood Reporter ...

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« Reply #74 on: April 14, 2015, 08:54:04 pm »
Percy Sledge, singer of When A Man Loves A Woman, dies at 73

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The news was also confirmed to ABC News by his agent of 35 years, Steve Green, who said that the singer died after a long battle with cancer.

The Take Time To Know Her hitmaker was born in Leighton, Alabama on November 25, 1941

Sledge's first recording took him from hospital orderly to a long touring career averaging 100 performances a year and an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.