Obituaries for 2019

[skeeter]

That was a performance on Solid Gold.  Solid Gold had a lot of bad lip synching.  Maybe this one is better?  From the David Letterman show in 1988:


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Much better! Now can you find one without Paul Shaffer making piano faces?

[Gefn]

I just got a breaking news flash that Ric Ocasek died in New York tonight at the age of 75.

Really bummed. I loved and still love The Cars.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Ric-Ocasek-Cars-Singer-Dead-in-NY-at-75-560430391.html



Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Ric Ocasek, lead singer of the rock band The Cars, died Sunday in New York at age 75.
Police said they received a call around 4 p.m. for an unconscious male at a townhouse on East 19th Street. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Law enforcement sources confirmed the deceased was Ocasek
Ocasek and his band were inducted into the Rock Hall in 2018. The institution described the band as "hook-savvy with the perfect combo of new wave and classic rock."
The band had 13 top-40 singles, and Ocasek went on to a successful producing career after The Cars broke up in the late 1980s.
He was also known for his long-running marriage to the Czech supermodel Paulina Porizkova. She announced their separation in 2018 after 28 years of marriage.
They listed the 19th Street residence for sale earlier this year for more than $15 million.

[Applewood]

Thanks @Gefn   first Eddie Money, now Ric Ocasek.  Scary to realize that these guys are in my age bracket. 

Rest in peace, Ric Ocaskek.

[TomSea]

I'm very sorry to hear that.  Very tragic, I wouldn't have expected that. Prayers for Ric Ocasek.

Yes, I know a number of their songs, they have had a lot of radio play, so, that's two well known rockers dead in 3 days.

[Applewood]

My favorite:


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[jmyrlefuller]

so, that's two well known rockers dead in 3 days.

Which probably means a third is coming.

[mountaineer]

Which probably means a third is coming.

Not this guy. He'll last forever.

[EasyAce]

Still my favourite song by the Cars . . .

The Cars, "Drive"

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RIP Ric Ocasek

[Free Vulcan]

Yikes. The Cars were essential listening cruising the strip back in the day. Didn't realize Ocasek was even that old.

[edpc]

This was the very first album I ever bought with my own money.

[Wingnut]

Well shit.  RIP Ric.  "Drive" was not my fav, but i really liked  " Moving in Stereo" and "Good Times Roll"

[edpc]

If you’re a guy and don’t associate this Fast Times scene with Moving In Stereo, you’re either too young or gay.

[catfish1957]

If you’re a guy and don’t associate this Fast Times scene with Moving In Stereo, you’re either too young or gay.

Phoebe Cates and maybe the most replayed (slow-mo) 10 seconds in cinematic history.

[Applewood]

Heart disease killed Ric Ocasek, lead singer of The Cars, according to medical examiner

Ric Ocasek, lead singer of The Cars, died from cardiac arrest that was brought on by heart disease, authorities said Monday.

The Office of Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York formally listed the rocker's cause of death as "hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease" with a contributing factor of emphysema, a disease regularly associated with smokers.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/heart-disease-killed-ric-ocasek-lead-singer-cars-according-medical-n1055106

[skeeter]

Phoebe Cates and maybe the most replayed (slow-mo) 10 seconds in cinematic history.

Immediately followed by 10 more seconds of every 17 year old boy's absolute worst nightmare. It was an eighties classic, as were the Cars.

[sneakypete]

Heart disease killed Ric Ocasek, lead singer of The Cars, according to medical examiner

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/heart-disease-killed-ric-ocasek-lead-singer-cars-according-medical-n1055106

@Applewood

Call me a pessimist,but I am guessing being 75 had something to do with it,too.

[sneakypete]

Immediately followed by 10 more seconds of every 17 year old boy's absolute worst nightmare. It was an eighties classic, as were the Cars.

@skeeter

What happened? I don't think I watched 3 movies from around 1965 to 1990 something,so I missed it.  Probably haven't seen more than a dozen since then,and all but two were streamed.

Didn't watch tv,either.

Ahhh,for the good old days,when I had an actual life to live!

[skeeter]

@skeeter

What happened? I don't think I watched 3 movies from around 1965 to 1990 something,so I missed it.  Probably haven't seen more than a dozen since then,and all but two were streamed.

Didn't watch tv,either.

Ahhh,for the good old days,when I had an actual life to live!

The Pheobe Cate's scene was imagined by Judge Rheinhold's character, and she walked in on him in the bathroom while he was, well, acting out.

Anyway, back to the obits thread.

[sneakypete]

The Pheobe Cate's scene was imagined by Judge Rheinhold's character, and she walked in on him in the bathroom while he was, well, acting out.

Anyway, back to the obits thread.

@skeeter

I suspect she has been the star of a LOT of similar "brain videos".

[Applewood]

@Applewood

Call me a pessimist,but I am guessing being 75 had something to do with it,too.

@sneakypete

For many of these rockers, making it into their 70s is something of a rarity

[sneakypete]

@sneakypete

For many of these rockers, making it into their 70s is something of a rarity

@Applewood

Making it THROUGH the 70's was an accomplishment in itself for most of them.

I sure wish Janis had been one of the ones that made it. I can still get chills when I hear her voice on a recording.

[Applewood]

@Applewood

Making it THROUGH the 70's was an accomplishment in itself for most of them.

I sure wish Janis had been one of the ones that made it. I can still get chills when I hear her voice on a recording.

@sneakypete

Yeah.  Janis.  Hendrix too -- amazing guitar player.  But so many of them died young because of irresponsibility and bad choices.  The ones who got clean (or stayed clean), took responsibility -- they survived. 

What is sad is that these young artists today -- many of them haven't learned from the bad choices Janis and Hendrix made.  So many of them are dying young.  There was a local  rapper here named Mac Miller.  Was really making his mark.   Then last year he overdosed -- dead at 26.   Last week, there was a celebration to mark the anniversary of his death.  I guess the event was comforting to his family and friends, but the concept of celebration struck a wrong chord with me.  What was there to celebrate?  A guy who had it all (or it was coming his way) who blew it all by killing himself with drugs.  Is that something to celebrate?  What does this say to his young fans?  That  it's wonderful to make bad choices and end up dead way too young?

I mourn the death of Ric Ocasek -- and that of Eddie Money a few days before -- but I am grateful these guys have passed from natural causes after a full life, not from any irresponsible behavior of theirs at a young age.

[Millee]

Cokie Roberts, veteran journalist, political commentator and author, dead at 75, ABC says citing family

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/cokie-roberts-veteran-journalist-political-commentator-and-author-dead-at-75-abc-says-citing-family

[musiclady]

Cokie Roberts, veteran journalist, political commentator and author, dead at 75, ABC says citing family

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/cokie-roberts-veteran-journalist-political-commentator-and-author-dead-at-75-abc-says-citing-family

Was she sick?  Or is this unexpected?

[Applewood]

@musiclady

A bit more detail here:

Legendary ABC News political journalist Cokie Roberts dies at age 75

Legendary ABC News political journalist Cokie Roberts has died due to complications from breast cancer on Tuesday. She was 75 years old.
…
Born on December 27, 1943, Roberts was the daughter of longtime U.S. Representatives Hale Boggs and Lindy Boggs, who won her husband's seat when he died in a plane crash. Together they represented New Orleans for 46 years. Through them, Cokie got a front-row seat to politics.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/legendary-abc-news-political-journalist-cokie-roberts-dies-at-age-75/ar-AAHqKJC?ocid=spartanntp

[mountaineer]

Was she sick?  Or is this unexpected?

NPR reports:

Veteran journalist Cokie Roberts, who joined an upstart NPR in 1978 and left an indelible imprint on the growing network with her coverage of Washington politics before later going to ABC News, has died. She was 75.

Roberts died Tuesday due to complications from breast cancer, according to a family statement.  ...

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/17/761050916/cokie-roberts-pioneering-female-journalist-who-helped-shape-npr-dies-at-75

[musiclady]

Thanks, @Applewood .

I thought I remembered she had cancer, but wasn’t sure.

[Cyber Liberty]

NPR reports: https://www.npr.org/2019/09/17/761050916/cokie-roberts-pioneering-female-journalist-who-helped-shape-npr-dies-at-75

FTA:

"[W]e called them the Founding Mothers of NPR, or sometimes we called them the Fallopian Club," she [Mara Liasson] said.

My eyes just rolled to the next planet.

[TomSea]

Very sorry to har this, I read her wikipedia bio, she seemed to have gotten breast cancer in 2002:

wikipedia

For some reason, in my mind, I associate Cokie and George Will together, they must have been regulars on ABC's 'The Week":



You can imagine, it's   the leading story at NPR.

She'll certainly be missed.

I'm sure there will be a number of tributes that come out for her.

BTW, Daughter of Senator Boggs - (D) Louisiana.

A lot of history in all of this too.

Per Senator Bogg's wikipedia entry, on the plane he was in that went down:

Speculation, suspicions, and theories
The events surrounding Boggs's death have been the subject of much speculation, suspicion, and numerous conspiracy theories.[citation needed] The theories often center on his membership on the Warren Commission. Boggs dissented from the Warren Commission's majority who supported the single bullet theory. Regarding the single-bullet theory, Boggs commented, "I had strong doubts about it."[21] In the 1979 novel The Matarese Circle, author Robert Ludlum portrayed Boggs as having been killed to stop his investigation of the Kennedy assassination.

In case, one didn't know this.

Also, thanks to Mountaineer who certainly already provided some of this info.

[Wingnut]

FTA:
My eyes just rolled to the next planet.

Fallopian Club?  I was thinking a better name for the "club" would have been after a feminine hygiene product.

[Bigun]

FTA:
My eyes just rolled to the next planet.

Mara Liasson makes my eyes and my head hurt!

[mountaineer]

Fallopian Club?  I was thinking a better name for the "club" would have been after a feminine hygiene product.

If they're thinking of extending a membership, no thanks.

[Sanguine]

Doesn't "fallopian club" discriminate against trans-"women"?

[TomSea]

Leading story at drudge report.

[Applewood]

Trump: Cokie Roberts 'never treated me nicely' but 'was a professional'

“I never met her. She never treated me nicely. But I would like to wish her family well. She was a professional and I respect professionals. I respect you guys a lot, you people a lot. She was a real professional. Never treated me well, but I certainly respect her as a professional,” Trump told reporters on the flight from Albuquerque, N.M., to Mountain View, Calif., on Tuesday.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/461786-trump-cokie-roberts-never-treated-me-nicely-but-was-a-professional

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What the hell was that?

[sneakypete]

Doesn't "fallopian club" discriminate against trans-"women"?

@Sanguine

Not at all,since per-surgery trannies carry a tiny club/stick with them wherever they go.

[Free Vulcan]

Can't say I cared for Cokie much. She wasn't as screechy as journalists are now, but in her heyday she was as partisan and biased as it got, just slightly more polite.

I detested how she defended the Clinton admin week after week using the flimsiest spin and parsing, while trying to pretend she was a impartial jounalist.

[EasyAce]

Trump: Cokie Roberts 'never treated me nicely' but 'was a professional'

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/461786-trump-cokie-roberts-never-treated-me-nicely-but-was-a-professional

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What the hell was that?

@Applewood
President Tweety talking through all ten sides of his mouth, mayhap?

[TomSea]

Porn star Jessica Jaymes dead at 43
By Julius Young, Jessica Sager | Fox News

Adult film actress Jessica Jaymes died Tuesday, Fox News confirmed.

The LA County Coroner's office told Fox News that Jaymes, whose real name is Jessica Michael Redding, died on Tuesday. The cause of death is not currently known and an autopsy is pending.

Sources told TMZ, who was first to report the news, that a friend went to check on the 43-year-old AVN Hall of Fame star at her San Fernando Valley, Calif. home, after not hearing from her in "a while."


Read more at: https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/porn-star-jessica-jaymes-dead

The article goes on to mention that she had a history of seizures.

  Wikipedia (born in Alaska).

Kim Kardashian lookalike believed leader of Sinaloa cartel's armed wing reportedly found dead
By Greg Norman | Fox News

A woman believed to have led the Sinaloa cartel’s armed wing under former leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman reportedly has been found dead in Mexico.

The body of Claudia Ochoa Felix, who gained notoriety in recent years for looking a lot like reality star Kim Kardashian and for posting provocative photos on the Internet – including one of her holding a gold-encrusted assault rifle – was located inside a home in Culiacan over the weekend, the La Prensa newspaper reported.

Local media reports claim multiple causes of death from drug overdose to asphyxiation. Authorities have only identified the body as Carmen Berenice "N" and have not released an official cause of death.

Read more at: https://www.foxnews.com/world/kim-kardashian-lookalike-sinaloa-cartel-el-chapo

I didn't know she was involved in criminal activity as the article alleges, I had heard of her before and this Kardashian bit, I thought she was only a girlfriend.


   

[TomSea]

Cokie's funeral arrangements:

Politics
Remembering Cokie Roberts: Family Announces Reception, Funeral Mass

Remembering Cokie Roberts

Reception in Memory of Cokie Roberts
Friday September 20
6 p.m.-8 p.m.
National Press Club
Ballroom
529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor
Washington, DC 20045

Funeral Mass for Cokie Roberts, Saturday September 21
10 a.m.
Cathedral of Saint Matthew The Apostle
1725 Rhode Island Ave NW
Washington, DC 20036

In lieu of flowers, those who wish to further honor the memory of Cokie may do so by making a contribution to the Children's Inn at NIH:

The Children's Inn at NIH
7 West Drive
Bethesda, MD 20814
301-496-5672

Nina Totenberg, Linda Wertheimer and Cokie Roberts, photographed around 1979, were among the prominent female voices on NPR in its early years.

I'm impressed by how conservatively they are dressed, imho.

Nina Totenberg, there's another name from the past that is very familiar.

More: https://www.npr.org/2019/09/17/761050916/cokie-roberts-pioneering-female-journalist-who-helped-shape-npr-dies-at-75

[Ghost Bear]

‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Actor Aron Eisenberg Dies at 50

“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” actor Aron Eisenberg, who played Nog in the 1990s series, died Saturday. He was 50.

His character Nog, who appeared for all seven seasons, was a member of the alien race Ferengi, and joined Starfleet after a recommendation from Captain Sisko. Eisenberg returned for a guest spot on “Star Trek: Voyager” and appeared in the “Star Trek” fan film “Renegades.”

His widow Malissa Longo wrote on Facebook, “He was so driven to put the best he had into whatever work was put before him. He lived his life with such vigor and passion.”

Eisenberg, who was born with one kidney, had received two kidney transplants. The kidney trouble had stunted his growth, and he stood at 5 feet tall.

Excerpted, rest at link: https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/aron-eisenberg-dead-dies-star-trek-1203344423/

[Gefn]

Cokie's funeral arrangements:

I'm impressed by how conservatively they are dressed, imho.

Nina Totenberg, there's another name from the past that is very familiar.

More: https://www.npr.org/2019/09/17/761050916/cokie-roberts-pioneering-female-journalist-who-helped-shape-npr-dies-at-75

I saw Cokie Roberts at her sister Barbara Sigmund’s funeral years ago. Barbara Sigmund was a great mayor of Princeton. She seemed very nice.

[jmyrlefuller]

Barron Hilton
Hilton Hotels chairman and Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers founding owner dies at 91



In 1966, after his older brother, Conrad Hilton Jr., proved to be a wild-partying alcoholic, Conrad Hilton Sr. named Barron Hilton his successor to the chain of hotels he founded. Barron had already proved himself a successful businessman outside the hotel chain, and in 1960, he was chosen as the founding owner of the American Football League's Los Angeles franchise, the Chargers. After a single year in Los Angeles, the Chargers moved to San Diego to avoid competition. The San Diego Chargers won the 1963 AFL championship, the only major professional sports title of any franchise from that city to date, before the Hilton Hotels chain insisted he give up the Chargers in order to take over the hotel chain.

Upon taking over Hilton Hotels, he maintained and built upon his father's success with the company, establishing the Las Vegas Hilton in 1969 and buying the Hotel Pennsylvania from its owners the Penn Central Railroad at a discount price.

He is the grandfather of socialites Nicky Rothschild and Paris Hilton.

Obituary from The New York Times

Wikipedia

[TomSea]

Robert Hunter who helped write songs for the Grateful Dead has passed away at 78 years old. Rest in Peace.


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Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter died but his songs will forever fill the air
Alex Biese, Asbury Park Press Published 6:19 p.m. ET Sept. 24, 2019

He's gone.

Robert Hunter, the longtime Grateful Dead lyricist, died Monday, Sept. 23 at the age of 78. He died at his home, though no cause of death has been announced.

Hunter's career creating landscapes of language for the iconic California jam band began with the grand journey of the soul "Dark Star" in 1967. His tenure with the Dead continued on through the likes of the elegiac "Days Between," one of the final collaborative masterpieces for Hunter and Dead guitarist and singer Jerry Garcia, introduced in 1993 just two years before Garcia's death.

Read more at: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2019/09/24/grateful-dead-lyricist-robert-hunter-died-but-his-songs-fill-the-air-forever/2433832001/

[mountaineer]

 The New York Times
Joseph Wilson, Who Challenged Iraq War Narrative, Dies at 69
Neil Genzlinger
1 hr ago

Joseph C. Wilson, the long-serving American diplomat who undermined President George W. Bush’s claim in 2003 that Iraq had been attempting to to build nuclear weapons, leading to the unmasking of his wife, Valerie Plame, as a C.I.A. agent, died on Friday at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 69.

Ms. Plame said the cause was organ failure.   ... More at MSN

[TomSea]

She is running for office in NM, I thought US Senator.

[Cyber Liberty]

She is running for office in NM, I thought US Senator.

Congress.  The seat she's running for is being vacated by a fellow who is running for the US Senate.  Her NM roots go back to when she moved to Santa Fe after Scooter Libby was convicted for "outing" somebody who was never in danger of being outed.

Now Joe can drink mint tea to his heart's content.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/09/politics/valerie-plame-running-for-congress/index.html

[PeteS in CA]

Since he is dead, here's what I have to say that is nice:






And that's about it.

[Cyber Liberty]

Since he is dead, here's what I have to say that is nice:






And that's about it.

I'll bake this in memorium.

[Applewood]

Since he is dead, here's what I have to say that is nice:






And that's about it.

A good man went to prison because of him and his wife.  But I will leave Mr. Wilson's judgment up to the Lord.