The Obituary Column
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Dave Ball from Soft Cell
https://www.avclub.com/dave-ball-obituary-soft-cell-tainted-love
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Prunella Scales has died.
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Dick Cheney has died.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/04/dick-cheney-vice-president-republican-bush-dies
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Dick Cheney has died.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/04/dick-cheney-vice-president-republican-bush-dies
Is this an appropriate response?
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Dick Cheney has died.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/04/dick-cheney-vice-president-republican-bush-dies
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Mani has died.
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Sad; his contributions to the soundtrack of THE HARDER THEY COME were powerful, and led me to discover other great reggae stars. RIP
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Terrence Stamp:
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/terence-stamp-dead-superman-1236491435/
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Terrence Stamp:
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/terence-stamp-dead-superman-1236491435/
That’s three months old.
He’s still dead.
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When HBO Watchmen had this in the first episode, the massacre came to everyone’s attention.
The oldest living survivor passed away:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/us/tulsa-massacre-viola-ford-fletcher-survivor
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Tom Stoppard has died.
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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Dies: ‘Mortal Kombat, ‘Last Emperor’ & ‘Man In The High Castle’ Actor Was 75
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Rob Reiner and his wife have died, in an apparent homicide. Very sad news.
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Rob Reiner and his wife have died, in an apparent homicide. Very sad news.
Damn…
I remember him mostly because he was hilarious in one Curb your Enthusiasm episode.
RIP
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And of course our classy leader responds to this tragedy with his usual flair:
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And of course our classy leader responds to this tragedy with his usual flair:
Yes, that is very disturbing. Increasingly people take joy in sadistic pleasures. It’s not just Trump, there is a lot of this kind of cruelty.
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Carl Carlton, ‘She’s a Bad Mamma Jama’ and ‘Everlasting Love’ singer dead at 72
This really saddens me. In the last month or so, I’ve been listening to “Everlasting Love” a lot.
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And of course our classy leader responds to this tragedy with his usual flai
I follow Gail Simone on Facebook and she is furious and there is Jack White:
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Buck Rogers Star Gil Gerard Dead At 82
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Chris Rea has died.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r3ne23e4go
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Also James Ransome. Apparently he hung himself at the weekend
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74. That’s no age. But apparently he’s struggled with pancreatic cancer since his thirties.
I was never a particular fan of his music, but I always kind of enjoyed it when it was on the radio or something.
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Rob Reiner and his wife have died, in an apparent homicide. Very sad news.
Obviously, Reiner made many movies that were extremely important to our generation. But looking through his work, I’ve got a weird little favourite: I thought that The Story of Us told an unusual story (for movies) because it’s about failing in a marriage. And it had a great script, and weirdly it paired Michelle Pfeiffer and Bruce Willis, and it was a lot more fun than that topic has any right to be.
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This sucks. Vince Zampella has died in a car accident.
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Also James Ransome. Apparently he hung himself at the weekend
Oh man, Ziggy Sobotka.
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Richard Smallwood, Grammy-nominated gospel singer, dies at 77:
Isiah Whitlock Jr., star of ‘The Wire,’ ‘Veep’ dies at 71:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2025/12/30/isiah-whitlock-jr-death/87965781007/
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Isiah Whitlock Jr., star of ‘The Wire,’ ‘Veep’ dies at 71:
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Veteran Actor T.K. Carter, Known for ‘The Thing’ and ‘Punky Brewster,’ Dies at 69
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Should’ve posted this Friday, but better late than never:
Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir passes
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Scott Adams, Disgraced Dilbert Creator, Dies at 68
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Not gonna lie, I suspected he was lying about the cancer.
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71 is too young.
I remember her from SCTV years ago.
RIPCatherine O’Hara, ‘Schitt’s Creek’ and ‘Home Alone’ Star, Dies at 71 – Variety
Catherine O’Hara, the two-time Emmy-winning actor who starred in “Home Alone” and “Best in Show” and had an impressive late-career renaissance in “Schitt’s Creek,” has died, her manager confirmed to Variety. She was 71.
According to her agency CAA, O’Hara died Friday at her home in Los Angeles following a brief illness.
O’Hara’s Hollywood career spanned five decades, beginning with the Canadian sketch comedy series “Second City Television,” which she created with Eugene Levy, and for which she earned her first Emmy and earned four nominations. O’Hara went on to star in films such as “After Hours,” “Beetlejuice” and the first two “Home Alone” movies, in which she played the mother of Macaulay Culkin’s character, Kevin. O’Hara maintained a close friendship with Culkin and honored him at his Walk of Fame ceremony in 2023.She was a frequent collaborator of Christopher Guest’s, appearing in his mockumentary films “Best in Show,” “For Your Consideration,” “Waiting for Guffman” and “A Mighty Wind.” And she had voice roles in beloved animated features including “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and “Chicken Little.” O’Hara’s recent roles also included the legacy sequel “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” in which she reprised her role as Delia Deetz, and the Apple action film “Argylle.”
O’Hara experienced a career renaissance in her 60s, starting with her role as riches-to-rags housewife Moira Rose in the CBC sitcom “Schitt’s Creek,” in which she starred opposite Eugene and Dan Levy and Annie Murphy. She won her second Emmy for “Schitt’s Creek,” which propelled her into other major TV roles in HBO’s “The Last of Us” and Apple TV’s “The Studio.” In the latter, O’Hara played a storied Hollywood executive who was shoved aside by her studio. The second season of the Seth Rogen showbiz satire recently began filming.
In an interview with Variety about “The Studio” in 2025, O’Hara reflected on how Hollywood has changed over the course of her career. “It must be a much more nervous business now, than in the past,” she said. “The internet and streaming must have opened up a world of good and horrific possibilities for people.” And despite “The Studio’s” scathing takedown of Hollywood executive culture, O’Hara said, “Most people are trying to do and want to do good work. And most people want to be entertained.”
O’Hara was born in Toronto, but she became a beloved figure in Los Angeles. She was named the honorary mayor of Brentwood in 2021.
She is survived by her husband, production designer Bo Welch, and sons Matthew and Luke, along with siblings Michael O’Hara, Mary Margaret O’Hara, Maureen Jolley, Marcus O‘Hara, Tom O’Hara and Patricia Wallice.
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Catherine O’Hara and James Vander Beek, both dead from colorectal cancer this month.
This should be a wake-up call to all of us. If you’ve never had a colonoscopy, or haven’t had one in 10 years, please schedule one TODAY! Vander Beek was only 48 years old!!
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Catherine O’Hara and James Vander Beek, both dead from colorectal cancer this month.
This should be a wake-up call to all of us. If you’ve never had a colonoscopy, or haven’t had one in 10 years, please schedule one TODAY! Vander Beek was only 48 years old!!
Due to my ulcerative colitis, I’m at a high risk for colon cancer. As such, I have to have a colonoscopy every two years. And every two years I have one.
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Bud Cort, ‘Harold and Maude’ Star, Dies at 77
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“Harold and Maude” is one of my all-time favorite movies. Cort and Gordon were perfect in that movie.
RIP
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“Harold and Maude” is one of my all-time favorite movies. Cort and Gordon were perfect in that movie.
Yeah, I saw this one in a theater in 1971 when I was 12, loved it without really understanding it, and made sure to watch it again whenever it showed up on television. I remember Ruth Gordon was amazing in it, but Bud Cort embodied the role of Harold seamlessly (and got a couple of acting award nominations for it).
RIP, Bud.
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James Van Der Beek Dies: ‘Dawson’s Creek’ Star Was 48
Ah fuck.
I never saw Dawson’s Creek, but I thought he was great in Don’t Trust the Bitch in Appartment 23.
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Robert Duvall
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Sad news indeed. Duvall will be best remembered for playing Tom Hagen in The Godfather 1 and 2, and for the lines “Charlie don’t surf!” and ” I love the smell of napalm in the morning” from Apocalypse Now, but his best roles IMO were in the films The Great Santini and Tender Mercies. Rest in Peace, Lt. Col. Meachum.
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Jesse Jackson has died.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/17/jesse-jackson-civil-rights-icon-dies
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I remember him from Charmed, Grey’s Anatomy, and Euphoria:
https://abcnews.com/GMA/Culture/greys-anatomy-star-eric-dane-dies-53-after/story?id=124500080
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Robert was always in the shadow of his brothers David and Keith, but his role in Revenge of the Nerds made him a hero to a lot of “uncool” kids. Rest In Peace, Lewis!
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So, Neil Sedaka has died and all the American news channels are acknowledging his contribution to American pop music. But where is the love for one of my favorite horror/science fiction writers, Dan Simmons?? His book “The Terror” was adapted as a thrilling TV mini-series a few years back, and his novel “Hyperion” is considered one of the best science fiction books ever written.
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https://deadline.com/2026/03/jennifer-runyon-dead-ghostbusters-a-very-brady-christmas-1236747120/
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So, Neil Sedaka has died and all the American news channels are acknowledging his contribution to American pop music. But where is the love for one of my favorite horror/science fiction writers, Dan Simmons?? His book “The Terror” was adapted as a thrilling TV mini-series a few years back, and his novel “Hyperion” is considered one of the best science fiction books ever written.
Oh man, sorry to hear about this, I loved the Hyperion novels. And the Terror TV show was incredible, even if I never read the novel.
I think he remember him going off the deep end a bit with anti-muslim sentiment in some later novels?
Either way, Hyperion was great, and I need to reread those books some day.
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Tatjana Wood has died.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/arts/tatjana-wood-dead.html
I had no idea of any of these details. All I knew was that her colours on Moore’s Swamp Thing run were amazing.
Kind of shitty that they removed all her work for those recent Absolute editions in favour of a far inferior job.
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Chuck Norris, Walloping Star of ‘Walker, Texas Ranger,’ Dies at 86 – Hollywood Reporter
The martial arts master also was a big-screen action hero in ‘Lone Wolf McQuade,’ ‘Missing in Action,’ ‘The Delta Force’ and more.
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Chuck Norris stared into Death’s eyes…and Death blinked.
Rest in Peace to the subject of an entire genre of great jokes.
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Nicholas Brendon (Xander from Buffy) has died.
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Sam Keith died on the 15th
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/sam-kieth-creator-of-the-maxx-and-sandman-has-died-aged-63/
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Sam Keith died on the 15th
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/sam-kieth-creator-of-the-maxx-and-sandman-has-died-aged-63/
That’s sad news, especially given that he was relatively young (translation: he’s younger than me).
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Sam Keith died on the 15th
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/sam-kieth-creator-of-the-maxx-and-sandman-has-died-aged-63/
He had a unique style that truly set him apart. I always liked it.
RIP
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Valerie Perrine:
“According to The Hollywood Reporter, in 1969… Perrine was romantically involved with celebrity hairstylist Jay Sebring and was invited to — but did not attend — the infamous 1969 dinner party at the home of Sharon Tate where Sebring, Tate, and several others were killed by the Manson Family in the now-infamous Tate-LaBianca murders.”
Wow. RIP
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Nicholas Brendon (Xander from Buffy) has died.
This actually makes me quite sad. I always like Xander.
Seems like Brendon wasn’t in great shape in the last years.
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The actor who played the principal in BTTF and one of the instructors in Top Gun
https://abcnews.com/Entertainment/wireStory/actor-james-tolkan-top-gun-back-future-fame-131510749
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John Nolan, Actor in Batman Films and ‘Person of Interest,’ Dies at 87 – Hollywood Reporter
The uncle of Jonathan and Christopher Nolan also was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.
John Nolan, the British theater veteran who appeared in a pair of Batman movies and on the CBS drama Person of Interest for nephews Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan, died Saturday, the Stratford-Upon-Avon Herald reported. He was 87.
The London native spent two years with the Royal Shakespeare Company before exiting to star in the title role of the heroic young man in the acclaimed 1970 BBC miniseries Daniel Deronda, based on the 1876 George Eliot novel.
Nolan portrayed Wayne Enterprises board member Douglas Fredericks in Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012), both starring Christian Bale. He also appeared in Following (1998) and Dunkirk (2017), written and directed by Christopher Nolan.
He boarded the Jonathan Nolan-created Person of Interest during its second season in 2013 as the mysterious John Greer, a former MI6 agent now running Decima Technologies and the Samaritan AI, and worked on 28 episodes through the fifth and final season. (Jonathan also co-wrote The Dark Knight Rises.)
John Francis Nolan, the younger brother of Christopher and Jonathan’s late father, Brendan Nolan, was born on May 22, 1938. He toured Ireland in a “Fit Up” traveling company, studied acting at the Drama Centre in London and was cast as Romeo opposite Francesca Annis as Juliet at the Richmond Theatre in London.
He joined the Royal Court Company before his stint with the RSC, which included turns as Clitus in Julius Caesar and roles in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Indians and The Relapse, directed by Trevor Nunn. Later, he was a member of Nunn’s innovative National Theatre ensemble company.
In the wake of Daniel Deronda, Nolan starred as the scientist Geoff Hardcastle on the first two seasons (1970-71) of the BBC environmental drama Doomwatch and as Nick Faunt in 1973 on the romantic Depression-era ITV miniseries Shabby Tiger.
He co-wrote and played the title role in a Dostoyevsky trilogy for the Bristol New Vic company in 1980-81 and starred as Thoreau in The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail and as Doc in Tennessee Williams’ Small Craft Warnings.
His onscreen résumé included the films Bequest to the Nation (1973), Terror (1978) and The World Is Full of Married Men (1979) and the TV series The Prisoner, The Sweeney, General Hospital, Target, Return of the Saint, Enemy at the Door and Silent Witness.
He was heard on international airlines as the voice of The Discovery Channel’s in-flight entertainment.
In addition to his nephews, survivors include his wife, actress Kim Hartman (Grange Hill, Allo Allo), whom he married in 1975; their children, Miranda and Tom; and his grandchildren, Dylan and Kara.
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