BREAKING: Sometimes Famous People Die

[JoeP]

BBC News - Zulu leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi dies aged 95 in South Africa


I assume all y'all are familiar with Buthelezi.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

It was cancer for Pee Wee: Paul Reubens, Actor Best Known as Pee-wee Herman, Cause of Death Confirmed

[Stephen Maturin]

Eugene Peltola wasn't famous, but he was married to the Democrat who did the entire U.S. a favor by not only winning Alaska's sole U.S. House of Representatives seat (which had been in GOP hands for decades) but also kept Sarah "Wasilla Gorilla" Palin out of that seat.

[specious_reasons]

Originally Posted by Stephen Maturin

Eugene Peltola wasn't famous, but he was married to the Democrat who did the entire U.S. a favor by not only winning Alaska's sole U.S. House of Representatives seat (which had been in GOP hands for decades) but also kept Sarah "Wasilla Gorilla" Palin out of that seat.

I thought we had another thread for people we haven't heard of, but this is truly a shame. My heart goes out to Mary Peltola and their family.

[Stephen Maturin]

Yep, I definitely should have put that in Mick's "sometimes people you never heard of" thread. The articles I've read today suggest that Gene Peltola was a genuinely good dude. Among other things, he was Alaska's regional director of the BIA until he retired in 2022.

[Stephen Maturin]

RIP actor David McCallum, who inter alia played Illya Kuryakin on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and, many years later, Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard on N.C.I.S.

[LarsMac]

Originally Posted by Stephen Maturin

RIP actor David McCallum, who inter alia played Illya Kuryakin on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and, many years later, Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard on N.C.I.S.

NOOO!!!! Not Ducky!!

[BrotherMan]

I didn't know him as a Man from UNCLE but NCIS would be nothing without his Dr Mallard.

[JoeP]

Nobody seems to remember him in the short-lived The Invisible Man (1975 TV series) - Wikipedia.

[LarsMac]

Originally Posted by JoeP

Nobody seems to remember him in the short-lived The Invisible Man (1975 TV series) - Wikipedia.

that apparently includes Wikipedia.
"The article that you're looking for doesn't exist."

[Ensign Steve]

It's invisible.

[LarsMac]

Originally Posted by JoeP

Nobody seems to remember him in the short-lived The Invisible Man (1975 TV series) - Wikipedia.

I never heard of that, but then, in '75 I was driving a truck. Didn't have much time for TV.

I did like his Ilia Kuryakin, though,..., much better than Vaughn's character.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by LarsMac

that apparently includes Wikipedia.
"The article that you're looking for doesn't exist."

... vBulletin does stupid things with (parentheses in urls

[JoeP]

Michael Gambon, star of Harry Potter and The Singing Detective, dies aged 82 | Michael Gambon | The Guardian

Did y'all see The Singing Detective? Not sure if it was shown much outside the UK. A younger JoeP was quite taken with costar Joanne Whalley.

[Ensign Steve]

Originally Posted by JoeP

Harry Potter and The Singing Detective

I missed that one somehow. Was it released under a different name in the States, like Sorcerer's Stone?

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Sometimes famous trees die.

Boy, 16, arrested after felling of famous Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian’s Wall | UK news | The Guardian

[JoeP]

Dammit.

News Miscellany - Page 147 - Freethought Forum

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

[Miss Shelby]

That dude who was on NCIS which I never really watched but anyways he played Duckie well he died at age 90 I read the other day

[JoeP]

BBC News - Senator Dianne Feinstein dies aged 90

[JoeP]

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[specious_reasons]

Feinstein is a "surprised but not shocked" kind of death. Her health was clearly failing, but it didn't mean she couldn't hang on until the end of her term.

[fragment]

Originally Posted by JoeP

Did y'all see The Singing Detective? Not sure if it was shown much outside the UK. A younger JoeP was quite taken with costar Joanne Whalley.

That was really good. Must watch again.

"I'll have to lift your penis now to grease around it."

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

I missed that one somehow. Was it released under a different name in the States, like Sorcerer's Stone?

Here you go.

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I think DALLE was involved in this.

[LarsMac]

So, sometimes even people you just met, or just heard of, die.

104-year-old Chicago woman dies days after making a skydive that could put her in the record books

Talking about going out with a flair.