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Obituaries for 2024
Polly Ticks:
--- Quote ---Jaws star Susan Backlinie dies aged 77: Actress played the first shark victim in Steven Spielberg's iconic movie
Actress and stuntwoman Susan Backlinie, perhaps best known as the first shark attack victim in 'Jaws,' has died.
Backlinie, 77, suffered a fatal heart attack at her home in Ventura, California.
In addition to her career on the silver screen, Backlinie was a nationally ranked swimmer and professional diver.
Before she was brought onto 'Jaws' at 28 years old, she had worked as an animal trainer and performed as a mermaid.
She played Chrissie Watkins in Steven Spielberg's iconic 1975 film and spent three days rehearsing the opening scene in which she is thrashed around by a great white before vanishing beneath the waves.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13409863/Susan-Backlinie-Jaws-actress-dead-aged-77.html?ito=pull-notification&ci=UtjhMGYO56&xi=20b9e8fc-f9aa-4efa-a306-d0ad717ca908&ai=13409863
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Wingnut:
Blockbuster complained that the early Jaws VHS where being returned damaged from the repeated pauses of the tape during her time on film.
mountaineer:
Former Allegheny County coroner, world-renowned pathologist Cyril Wecht dies at 93
By Sierra Rehm, WPXI.com
May 13, 2024 at 11:34 am EDT
--- Quote ---PITTSBURGH — A world-renowned forensic pathologist who served Allegheny County for two decades has died.
A spokesperson for the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts confirmed Cyril Wecht died on Monday. He was 93.
Wecht held various roles in Allegheny County, including in the coroner’s office, the district attorney’s office, a pathologist at the VA and the County Commissioner.
During his time as the Allegheny County coroner, Wecht performed about 21,000 autopises and reviewed or been consulted on 42,000 additional postmortem exams, according to a biography on Duquesne University. Some of the high-profile cases he was involved in include O.J. Simpson, Kurt Cobain, the Menendez Brothers, Scott Peterson, Chandra Levy, Elvis Presley and Jeffrey Epstein. He likewise investigated the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
He detailed his career and personal life, including his professional pitfalls and public corruption trial, in a memoir titled “The Life and Deaths of Cyril Wecht: Memoirs of America’s Most Controversial Forensic Pathologist.” ...
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berdie:
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That is one of the spookiest most gruesome scenes of any movie I've ever watched. She really did a great job of scary the heck out of me. Nothing else that scary...except when the little boy is out in the water and the sheriff hones in on the shark.
PeteS in CA:
David Sanborn, Grammy award-winning saxophonist, dead at 78
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/13/entertainment/david-sanborn-death/index.html
--- Quote ---David Sanborn, an influential saxophonist, who found success across the genres of pop, R&B, jazz and more, died Sunday.
He was 78.
“It is with sad and heavy hearts that we convey to you the loss of internationally renowned, 6 time Grammy Award-winning, saxophonist, David Sanborn,” reads a statement on his social media accounts. “Mr. Sanborn passed Sunday afternoon, May 12th, after an extended battle with prostate cancer with complications.”
Sanborn’s publicist confirmed the accuracy of the post when reached by CNN.
He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2018, but continued performing until recently.
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