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Ah, hell. First KH, and now BW.

  
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
09:39 / 05.07.03
Katharine Hepburn died the other day. And now:
RIP, Barry White.

Damn.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
11:15 / 05.07.03
The body dies but the Soul lives on. Rest in peace, Barry.
 
 
spidermonkey
14:18 / 05.07.03
And at only 58! Does that count as dying young? He wasn't even on Bizarre's Celebrity Death Pool!
We'll miss you Barry.
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
15:17 / 05.07.03
The body dies but the Soul lives on. Rest in peace, Barry.

Ironically enough, for a man with a pedigree in music named after the He God concept, Barry was a committed atheist (if there can be such a thing) and was fairly outspoken when it came to refuting the idea of an afterlife.

So, just wormfood, after all.
 
 
that
15:20 / 05.07.03
No - the Soul lives on. You know?
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
15:34 / 05.07.03
Yes, yes, I was being facetious, or pedantic, or one of those arseholey behaviour modes anyway.
 
 
that
16:03 / 05.07.03
I thought you probably were. I was just being annoying, or something. Pointlessly.
 
 
that
16:04 / 05.07.03
...And quite disrespectfully, I suppose. Apologies.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
16:07 / 05.07.03
And I was being plagiaristical. I cribbed that from another board.

It's true, though.
 
 
netbanshee
16:11 / 05.07.03
Just listening to him while on a road trip back home last week... was wondering how he was fairing. Guess not that well. But even in death, he'll still be smooth...

Anyone else been getting the impression that it's the send-off season for the influential and the elderly. Keep your guard up Bob Hope.
 
 
gravitybitch
17:58 / 05.07.03
Buddy Hackett is dead too - we have our threesome. Bob Hope will have to wait a while...
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
18:47 / 05.07.03
Yeah, but Hume Cronyn went just a few weeks before. I think maybe this "threes" thing is bunk.
 
 
gingerbop
18:48 / 05.07.03
Aah, that would be why there was lots of barry white on last night.
Rest in peace.
 
 
netbanshee
19:24 / 05.07.03
We shouldn't forget the bushman from "The Gods must be Crazy." He just passed as well... He went to go forage for some wood and never made it back.

Hasn't taken long for some unique signifiers of celebrity to pass on leaving us their legacy. I still say Bob Hope's days are numbered...
 
 
Tryphena Absent
08:47 / 07.07.03
Did I miss everything this weekend? First I had no idea that BB had a bomb scare and now I find out Barry White's DEAD. All very peculiar.
 
 
No star here laces
09:29 / 07.07.03
What a shame. I hope he died 'on the job'...

Barry White is one of those musicians whose genuine talent was obscured by his cultural celebrity - no doubt he'll be mourned by some crappy kitsch-fest. Ah well.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
09:50 / 07.07.03
Hey, Barry White liked the kitsch, didn't you see his choice of suits? Let the festivities take over!
 
 
Whisky Priestess
12:27 / 07.07.03
Who are
a) Buddy Hackett
b) Hume Cronyn?

I don't think they were famous enough - our three is not yet complete! Wake up, Bob Hope, time to die ....
 
 
Persephone
14:02 / 07.07.03
How about Buddy Ebsen, you jackals!!

*wild sobbing*
 
 
grant
15:24 / 07.07.03
Buddy Ebsen died?

I just watched "Breakfast at Tiffany's." He was great in that.

Buddy Hackett:

Mainly known for his distinctively goofy voice.

Hume Cronyn:

Mainly known for being an actor for a long, long time. Married to Jessica Tandy.
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
15:42 / 07.07.03
I wondered why Woolworths was playing old Baz on Saturday... goddamn.

On the plus side, and only tenuously related if you can stretch to the subject being people who've been on celebrity death pool lists for around the last fifteen years... but last night I saw a picture of Flyboy looking rather like a healthy Shane MacGowan. It was terrifying...
 
 
spidermonkey
15:42 / 07.07.03
That's Jessica Tandy who's also been an actor for a long, long time!
Feeling rather bad now as I thought Hume died a long time ago!
 
 
spidermonkey
15:44 / 07.07.03
Ooops! Nope I was wrong it was Jessica Tandy who died a long time ago!
 
 
Saveloy
15:44 / 07.07.03
grant>

That has to be the greatest pairing of images since records began. The whole of human life is in there! The human condition, everything, it's all there. No one need ever write another novel, paint another picture or write another symphony. F**king fantastic! I reckon you should start a thread with those two pics, see if anyone can better it...
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
18:24 / 07.07.03
Now Buddy Ebsen. Is someone hunting ailing b-list celebrities?

  
 
Cherry Bomb
08:51 / 08.07.03
Jed Clampett is dead???!??
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
11:23 / 08.07.03
Yes! He is dead, dead, DEAD!
 
  
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