Obituaries for 2024

[Smokin Joe]

Juli Lynne Charlot, creator of iconic ’50s poodle skirt, dies at 101


https://www.today.com/video/juli-lynne-charlot-creator-of-iconic-50s-poodle-skirt-dies-at-101-206068805543


very interesting obit if anyone remembers wearing a poodle skirt, or who had a mother who wore one. '

Well, I remember those. Neat success story there, too! RIP, Ms. Charlot.

[AllThatJazzZ]

Juli Lynne Charlot, creator of iconic ’50s poodle skirt, dies at 101


https://www.today.com/video/juli-lynne-charlot-creator-of-iconic-50s-poodle-skirt-dies-at-101-206068805543


very interesting obit if anyone remembers wearing a poodle skirt, or who had a mother who wore one. '

I obviously had little to no self awareness, as I was of this generation and would later in life become a poodle-holic, yet I never owned on. What a smart chick to come up with such an iconic design of the doo-wop generation! And she lived to over 100. Good for her!

[AllThatJazzZ]

I obviously had little to no self awareness, as I was of this generation and would later in life become a poodle-holic, yet I never owned one. What a smart chick to come up with such an iconic design of the doo-wop generation! And she lived to over 100. Good for her!

But if I had owned one, this would have been it.

[Gefn]

Author and illustrator Laurent de Brunhoff, heir of beloved ‘Babar’ series, dies at age 98

Babar author Laurent de Brunhoff, who revived his father’s popular picture-book series about an elephant-king and presided over its rise to a global multimedia franchise, has died at the age of 98.

De Brunhoff, who was from Paris and moved to the US in the 1980s, died on Friday at his home in Key West, Florida, after being in hospice care for two weeks, according to his widow, Phyllis Rose.

Just 12 years old when his father, Jean de Brunhoff, died of tuberculosis, Laurent was an adult when he drew upon his own gifts as a painter and storyteller and released dozens of books about the elephant who reigns over Celesteville, among them Babar at the Circus and Babar’s Yoga for Elephants. He preferred using fewer words than his father did, but his illustrations faithfully mimicked Jean’s gentle, understated style.

“Together, father and son have woven a fictive world so seamless that it is nearly impossible to detect where one stopped and the other started,” author Ann S Haskell wrote in the New York Times in 1981.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/24/laurent-de-brunhoff-author-of-babar-childrens-books-dies-at-98

[Gefn]

Author and illustrator Laurent de Brunhoff, heir of beloved ‘Babar’ series, dies at age 98


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/24/laurent-de-brunhoff-author-of-babar-childrens-books-dies-at-98

anyone else have fond memories reading this book(s) when you were a child? Rest In Peace and thank you for the elephants

[mountaineer]

Jake Sherman
@JakeSherman
BREAKING NEWS: Former Sen. Joe Lieberman has died at 82.
The Stamford, Conn., native died from complications from a fall, his family said.
5:24 PM · Mar 27, 2024

KolHaolam
@KolHaolam
CONNECTICUT: Joseph I. Lieberman, 4-term U.S. senator from Connecticut who was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000, becoming the first Jewish candidate on the national ticket of a major party, died at 82 after a fall last night.
5:36 PM · Mar 27, 2024

Statement from the Lieberman Family:

"Former United States Senator Joseph I. Lieberman died this afternoon, March 27, 2024, in New York City due to complications from a fall. He was 82 years old. His beloved wife, Hadassah, and members of his family were with him as he passed. Senator Lieberman's love of God, his family, and America endured throughout his life of service in the public interest.”

Senator Lieberman's funeral will be held on Friday, March 29, 2024, at Congregation Agudath Sholom in his hometown of Stamford, CT. An additional memorial service will be announced at a later date.”

[Lando Lincoln]

Jake Sherman
@JakeSherman
BREAKING NEWS: Former Sen. Joe Lieberman has died at 82.
The Stamford, Conn., native died from complications from a fall, his family said.
5:24 PM · Mar 27, 2024

Well heck. RIP Senator.

[Wingnut]

Jake Sherman
@JakeSherman
BREAKING NEWS: Former Sen. Joe Lieberman has died at 82.
The Stamford, Conn., native died from complications from a fall, his family said.
5:24 PM · Mar 27, 2024

KolHaolam
@KolHaolam
CONNECTICUT: Joseph I. Lieberman, 4-term U.S. senator from Connecticut who was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000, becoming the first Jewish candidate on the national ticket of a major party, died at 82 after a fall last night.
5:36 PM · Mar 27, 2024

Statement from the Lieberman Family:

He seemed like a man of principle that had to leave the Rat party because of that.  RIP Joe.

[berdie]

He seemed like a man of principle that had to leave the Rat party because of that.  RIP Joe.

That's how he came across to me as well.

I didn't realize he was that old so it initially was a shock. Not that 82 is old.

[Smokin Joe]

anyone else have fond memories reading this book(s) when you were a child? Rest In Peace and thank you for the elephants

@Gefn Yes! I read a bunch of them along with AA Milne's books, back before I started reading Sherlock Holmes, the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and others, in the era before I started devouring Science Fiction...

[catfish1957]

Well heck. RIP Senator.

RIP Mr. Lieberman.

Find it ironic he died today, as and simutaneously  some of his Jewish legislation brethren are throwing Israel under the bus.

[Smokin Joe]

He seemed like a man of principle that had to leave the Rat party because of that.  RIP Joe.

Yeah, well, he did push for 'smart guns' among other schemes to infringe the RKBA. But, anyway, R.I.P.

[mystery-ak]

RIP Mr. Lieberman.

Find it ironic he died today, as and simutaneously  some of his Jewish legislation brethren are throwing Israel under the bus.

He was just on Fox News the other day talking about this Admin and the Israel situation..

adding

Lieberman was in the news just a few days ago after he criticized Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for demanding early elections in Israel. He called Schumer’s gambit “outrageous” and a “mistake” in the midst of Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/27/joe-lieberman-dies-at-82-former-democrat-vp-candidate-turned-independent-jewish-hero/

[libertybele]

RIP Joe Lieberman. He was indeed correct about Chuckie.

[mountaineer]

He seemed like a man of principle that had to leave the Rat party because of that.  RIP Joe.

He was a better man than his running mate.

[Wingnut]

He was a better man than his running mate.

Didn't he talk Election denier ALGore out of filing a gazillion lawsuits to try overturn the 00 election?

[Gefn]

@Gefn Yes! I read a bunch of them along with AA Milne's books, back before I started reading Sherlock Holmes, the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and others, in the era before I started devouring Science Fiction...

Oh yes! Big Science Fiction reader from about 5th grade on.

@Smokin Joe

[Polly Ticks]

Oh yes! Big Science Fiction reader from about 5th grade on.

@Smokin Joe

Yes!  You are my people!

 

[DCPatriot]

He was a better man than his running mate.

I still have my "SORE-LOSERMAN" tee-shirt I bought at the Supreme Court on the morning the decision came down.

These aren't the tee-shirts "...Bonnie buys when she goes shopping"  (obscure Pulp Fiction reference)

[Gefn]

Louis Gossett Jr., Star of ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ and ‘Roots,’ Dies at 87

Louis Gossett Jr., the tough guy with a sensitive side who won an Oscar for his portrayal of a steely sergeant in An Officer and a Gentleman and an Emmy for his performance as a compassionate slave in the landmark miniseries Roots, has died. He was 87.

Gossett’s nephew told the Associated Press that the actor died Thursday night in Santa Monica. The cause of death is unknown, but Gossett announced in 2010 that he had prostate cancer.

With his sleek, bald pate and athlete’s physique, Gossett was intimidating in a wide array of no-nonsense roles, most notably in Taylor Hackford’s Officer and a Gentleman (1982), where as Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley he rides Richard Gere’s character mercilessly (but for his own good) at an officer candidate school and gets into a memorable martial arts fight.

He was the second Black man to win an acting Oscar, following Sidney Poitier in 1964.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/louis-gossett-jr-dead-officer-and-a-gentleman-roots-948372-1235862761/

[Timber Rattler]

Another 1980s icon of my youth gone.

[mountaineer]

A fine actor.

[Lando Lincoln]

Louis Gossett Jr. in An Officer and a Gentleman. Can you imagine the outrage today?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6lGs-tXWpR4&pp=ygUsc3RlZXJzIGFuZCBxdWVlcnMgYW4gb2ZmaWNlciBhbmQgYSBnZW50bGVtYW4%3D

[Timber Rattler]

This scene too...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjBlwCa4ffk

ISHMAEL REED: How were you able to take over the script for “An Officer and a Gentleman?”

Lou Gossett: Me and my agent who grew up with me back in New York– named Ed Bondy–, got the role of Sergeant Emil Foley for me, even though the role was for a white man. I’d played judges, a chief of police, an anthropologist. I had to do it 100 percent right because I had to whip my Marines into shape and bring them back up from scratch. I was in good shape from going into military life at Marine Corps Recruitment. They sent me twenty miles away.

ISHMAEL REED: In the original script Gere beats up the Drill Sergeant.

Lou Gossett: The Marines changed it. They said that an enlisted man would never beat up a Drill Sergeant. We’ll tear the place up unless you change it. They said, “If you don’t do this well, Mr. Gossett, we’re going to have to kill you.” The director was happy about that. The three of us should have received Oscars. Gere, the director and I.

[Smokin Joe]

R.I.P. Enemy Mine, you did well on screen.