The RIP Famous Person Thread

[BaitongBoy]

^^ 97 years...Wow...She had a good run, as they say...RIP...

[Sumbitch]

^^ 97 years...Wow...She had a good run, as they say...RIP...

Yeah, RIP Marjorie Lord.

So misskit is an American, just like you BB, eh?

[Looper]

MASH's 'Colonel Potter' dies aged 96

Prolific character actor Harry Morgan, who appeared in more than 100 films but was best known for his role as Colonel Sherman Potter in the popular television series MASH, has died at his Los Angeles home aged 96.

A representative for his son, producer Christopher Morgan, confirmed the actor's death.



In 1980 Morgan won an Emmy for his work on the anti-war comedy series MASH playing the upstanding commanding officer of a US Army surgical hospital during the Korean War.

Morgan appeared in MASH from 1975 to 1983.

He also appeared as Officer Bill Gannon on television crime series Dragnet from 1967 to 1970, alongside Jack Webb.

Morgan's ability to play a variety of roles - dramatic and comedic - made him an actor in demand for half a century. He starred in about a dozen US TV series, starting in the 1950s, and appeared in movies with some of Hollywood's biggest stars.

He appeared in The Ox-Bow Incident in 1943 with Henry Fonda, High Noon in 1952 with Gary Cooper, The Glenn Miller Story in 1954 with Jimmy Stewart and Inherit The Wind in 1960 with Spencer Tracy.

But it was his role on MASH, the long-running series on the CBS network, that earned him his most fame.

The series was adapted from the successful 1970 feature film of the same name, presenting an anti-war theme at the same time the United States was extricating itself from the Vietnam War.

Morgan was not one of the original cast members.

The TV series began in 1972 but his first appearance came in a guest-starring role during its third season.

He later signed on as a full-time cast member in 1975 after actor McLean Stevenson, who had played the fictional unit's commanding officer, left the show.

Morgan was born Harry Bratsberg in Detroit in 1915 and worked on stage before making his way to Hollywood.

He was married twice and had four children with his first wife, Eileen, who died in 1985 after the pair had been together 45 years.

One son, Daniel, died in 1989.

He is survived by three other sons, eight grandchildren and his second wife, Barbara Bushman.

MASH's 'Colonel Potter' dies aged 96 - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

[BaitongBoy]

^ He qualifies, eh Dawg?...

Everyone knows him...RIP, colonel...

[misskit]

Wow. Harry Morgan had a good long run, also.

Great actor. Had a unique voice.

[Sumbitch]

I wonder how much family life plays into the longevity question (I have been single my entire adult life so far and, obviously, sibs aren't all that important anymore)...RIP colonel.

[harrybarracuda]

I wonder how he smells now?

Updated 8 Dec 2011, 2:12am

[Latindancer]

^^ Good question. I once saw a study about how people who are more popular are longer-lived. Case in point : Frank Burns, from MASH. Poor bugger died fairly young.

I'm very happy that Morgan had such a long innings.

[Norton]

Benedict Anderson, Man Without a Country
The scholar of nationalism and author of ‘Imagined Communities’ has died at the age of 79.

If Anderson had a homeland, it was Indonesia, which he threw his whole heart and mind into not just studying, but also emotionally inhabiting.

Benedict Anderson, who died yesterday at age 79 in Malang, Indonesia, is internationally famous for his 1983 book Imagined Communities, far and away the most influential study of nationalism. Unlike earlier scholars who took a negative view of the subject, Anderson saw nationalism as an integrative imaginative process that allows us to feel solidarity for strangers. “In an age when it is so common for progressive, cosmopolitan intellectuals (particularly in Europe?) to insist on the near-pathological character of nationalism, its roots in fear and hatred of the Other, and its affinities with racism, it is useful to remind ourselves that nations inspire love, and often profoundly self-sacrificing love,” Anderson wrote in Imagined Communities. “The cultural products of nationalism—poetry, prose fiction, music, plastic arts—show this love very clearly in thousands of different forms and styles.”

For a scholar of nationalism, it is surprisingly difficult to say what nation Benedict Anderson belonged to. Anderson was a peripatetic child of the British Empire. Born in 1936 in Kunming, China, where his Anglo-Irish father worked for Chinese Maritime Customs, an imperial consortium that collected taxes, the Andersons had to flee to California in 1941 when the Japanese Empire began to expand into the country. The family returned to Ireland in 1945, but occupied an ambiguous position in their ancestral land. One strand of the family had been Irish nationalists of long-standing, but as Anglo-Irish they existed as a privileged minority, enjoying prestige but often excluded from the nation’s core Catholic identity.

If the Andersons weren’t quite Irish, they weren’t completely English either. The family’s experience in China gave them appreciation for the underside of Empire. As Perry Anderson, Benedict’s younger brother and himself a distinguished historian, once noted, their father’s experience fighting corruption in the colonial management of China left a lasting mark on the children. In 1956, as an undergraduate at Cambridge, Benedict Anderson was radicalized by the protests over the Suez crisis, where he found himself taking sides with anti-imperialist students—many of them born, like him, in the formerly colonized world—against British nationalists who supported the Anglo-French attempt to seize the Suez Canal. Out of his Cambridge experience, Anderson started on the path to becoming a Marxist and an anti-colonialist scholar.

After Cambridge, Anderson attended Cornell for graduate school and immersed himself in the study of Indonesia. While Anderson spent much of his life in the United States, it wasn’t quite accurate to say that he became an American. In truth, if Anderson had a homeland, it was Indonesia, which he threw his whole heart and mind into not just studying, but also emotionally inhabiting.

Anderson’s linguistic fluency was almost superhuman. Perry Anderson could read all the major European languages but once ruefully declared his big brother was the true polyglot of the family: Benedict could read Dutch, German, Spanish, Russian, and French and was fully conversant in Indonesian, Javanese, Tagalog, and Thai; he claimed he often thought in Indonesian. (The ability to acquire languages ran in the family—Melanie Anderson, an anthropologist and the younger sister of Perry and Benedict, is fluent in Albanian, Greek, Serbo-Croatian).

An Indonesian friend of mine once marveled that Benedict Anderson was so at ease in Javanese that he could tell jokes in the language. The friend also favorably compared Anderson with another great expert on Indonesia, the anthropologist Clifford Geertz. “I always profit from reading Geertz but he simply deepens my understanding of Indonesia,” my friend said. “Anderson makes me see things about Indonesia that I never noticed. He knows Indonesia as well as any Indonesian.”

Between 1965 and 1966, Indonesia was engulfed in counter-revolutionary violence that led to the American-supported anti-Communist dictator Suharto taking power in 1967. Between 600,000 and one million Indonesians, most of them supporters of the nation’s largest communist party, were killed by the resulting purge. The Central Intelligence Agency, which actively participated in helping the Indonesian military choose targets, called it in a 1968 declassified study “one of the worst mass murders of the twentieth century.”

The violence of Suharto’s coup was a key turning point in Anderson’s life. It “felt like discovering that a loved one is a murderer,” he wrote. He threw himself into the cause of chronicling the true history of the coup and to countering the propaganda of the Suharto regime. While at Cornell in 1966, Anderson and his colleagues anonymously authored “The Cornell Paper,” a report which became a key document in debunking the official account of the coup, and which was circulated widely in Indonesian dissident circles. Anderson was also one of the only two foreign witnesses at the 1971 show trial of Sudisman, the general secretary of the Indonesian communist party, who was sentenced to death. Anderson would later translate and publish Sudisman’s testimony, another key text in Indonesian history.

In 1972, Anderson was expelled from Indonesia, becoming an exile from the nation he made his own. He would return to Indonesia only in 1998, after the overthrow of the Suharto regime. After a brief private visit to friends, Anderson had an emotionally charged public event sponsored by the leading Indonesian paper Tempo.

In a brilliant article in the magazine Lingua Franca, the journalist Scott Sherman described Anderson’s return to Indonesia:

At a luxury hotel in downtown Jakarta, the sixty-two-year-old Anderson, wearing a light shirt and slacks to combat the stifling heat, faced a tense, expectant audience of three hundred generals, senior journalists, elderly professors, former students, and curiosity seekers. In fluent Indonesian, he lashed the political opposition for its timidity and historical amnesia—especially with regard to the massacres of 1965-1966.

During his return to Indonesia, Anderson was reunited with a young Chinese communist who had been on trial with Sudisman. Anderson had thought this young man had been killed with Sudisman. His miraculous survival was one sign that the Suharto regime hadn’t destroyed everything.

Anderson’s most famous work, Imagined Communities, emerged from the the crucible of Indonesian history. How do diverse nations like Indonesia, made up of many languages and ethnicities, hold together? Why do they sometimes fall apart? What keeps people in large nations from killing each other and why does national cohesion sometime fail? These weren’t abstract questions for Anderson, but were instead born out of lived immersion in Indonesian history.

While Imagined Communities is Anderson’s best-known work, everything he wrote is worth reading—there are few more thoughtful studies of transnational terrorism than his Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination (2005). As well-versed in novels and poetry as he was in scholarship, Anderson was an eloquent advocate for global culture, calling attention to the literatures of Indonesia and the Philippines. A world traveler, it is fitting that Benedict Anderson died in Indonesia, a country he could truly call home.

https://newrepublic.com/article/1257...ithout-country

[Norton]

I had the privilege of knowing him. An extraordinary human being.
RIP.

[harrybarracuda]

Last Indian king of the British Raj who went from fast car-loving playboy to penniless pauper dies aged 94 after telling the world: 'I don't regret a thing'



The last Indian king of the British Raj who went from being a fast car-loving playboy to a penniless pauper has died at the age of 94.

Brajraj Mahapatra once lived a life of luxury as the Raja of Tigiria in eastern India.

But by the end of his life he was relying on the kindness of villagers to bring him rice and lentils as he battled poverty - and insisted 'I don't regret a thing'.

When he came to the throne in 1943 he was living in a palace with 30 servants and became known for his lavish lifestyle and had a fleet of 25 vintage cars.

But Indian independence had a dramatic effect on his way of life and he lost his state's tax revenues.

Instead he was given a privy purse of £130 pounds a year which did not support his glamorous outgoings.

And in 1960 he sold his palace to the government for the equivalent of £900 - insisting that it should be turned into a school.

In 1975, the late prime minister Indira Gandhi withdrew the last remaining royal privileges and he lost his annual income.

The former Raja, who was born in 1921, left his hometown to live with his brother, although in 1987 he returned to Tigiria.

He built a hut and started living in the small abode on his own. In 2013 it was reported that his wife was living just a kilometre away, but that the two have not met for decades.

It was a far cry from his once hedonistic lifestyle. The Daily Telegraph reports how he revealed his decadent way of life in an interview with the Indian Express in 2013.

He is quoted as saying: 'I would often visit Calcutta with my friend, the former king of Puri, and stay at the Majestic and Great Eastern Hotel there.

'I would drink to my heart’s content and have a good time. I liked Black Label, White Label and smoked 999 and State Express 555 brand of cigarettes. If a new car model came to the market, I had to buy it. I owned 25 cars and jeeps, including a Roadmaster, Chevrolet and a Packard. We had 30 servants.'

He was also said to be keen on big game hunting and claimed that he had shot 13 tigers and 28 leopards.

The Telegraph reports that his heavily forested kingdom was the smallest princely state in India.

Rulers built and maintained schools and were said to be lenient when it came to law and order.


Despite living in poverty, he revealed two years ago that he was not pining for his former life.

He told the Indian Express : 'Then I was the king. Now I am a pauper. But I have no regrets whatsoever.

'Do you think I would have been living so long if I were unhappy?'


Braraj Mahapatra died on November 30 and is survived by two daughters and three sons while another daughter predeceased him.

He was the fast-living Indian king who loved luxury cars, big game hunting and had a penchant for expensive cigarettes and alcohol.

But while his lavish lifestyle became the stuff of legend in his Kingdom of Tigiria, eastern India, he was also know for his generosity - dispersing the fee he received for writing in magazines to the poor in his communities.

Born in October 1921, Brajraj Khyatriya Birabara Champati Singh Mahapatra - to give him his full name - went on to take a diploma from Rajkumar College in Raipur in 1940. He married a princess of Sonepur, with whom he had six children but the pair later separated.

Mahapatra came to the throne in 1943 and was famous for his love of cars which included jeeps and Chevrolets.

There were more than 500 semi-autonomous princely states across colonial India. They were each permitted to keep hereditary rulers on the condition that they accepted the supremacy of the British monarchy.

His ancestors had claimed Tigiria in 1246AD and it went on to become the smallest princely state in India at just 45 square miles.

In 1947 Mahapatra merged his kingdom into the new republic amid intense pressure from the new government.

He revealed in 2013 that he had signed the documents under the instructions of one of India's founding fathers, Vallabhbhai Patel.

Indian independence had a dramatic effect on his way of life and he lost his state's tax revenue.

He was given a privy purse of £130 pounds a year which did not support his glamorous outgoings.

In 1960 he sold his palace to the government for the equivalent of £900 - insisting that it should be turned into a school.

Fifteen years later prime minister Indira Gandhi withdrew the last remaining royal privileges and he lost his annual income.

He returned to Tigiria and built a hut and started living in the small abode on his own. Mahapatra died on November 30.

Last Indian king of the British Raj dies aged 94 | Daily Mail Online

[Cujo]

Very famous

[harrybarracuda]

Very famous

Do you like sex and travel?

[rebbu]

Very famous

Do you like sex and travel?

[Cujo]

Very famous

Do you like sex and travel?

I can't imagine what you're getting at.

[harrybarracuda]

Very famous

Do you like sex and travel?

I can't imagine what you're getting at.

FUCK OFF

[Black Heart]

An update on Scot Weiland.

Scott Weiland died from 'toxic drug mix'


Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland died from a toxic mix of drugs including cocaine, alcohol and ecstasy, a US medical examiner has said.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office also noted a history of heart disease, asthma and substance abuse.

Weiland, who was 48, was found dead on his tour bus outside a hotel in Bloomington, Minneapolis, on 3 December.

The medical examiner determined his death was an accident.
Bloomington police said at the time they recovered a small amount of cocaine on the tour bus.

Scott Weiland died from 'toxic drug mix' - BBC News

[harrybarracuda]

An update on Scot Weiland.

Scott Weiland died from 'toxic drug mix'


Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland died from a toxic mix of drugs including cocaine, alcohol and ecstasy, a US medical examiner has said.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office also noted a history of heart disease, asthma and substance abuse.

Weiland, who was 48, was found dead on his tour bus outside a hotel in Bloomington, Minneapolis, on 3 December.

The medical examiner determined his death was an accident.
Bloomington police said at the time they recovered a small amount of cocaine on the tour bus.

Scott Weiland died from 'toxic drug mix' - BBC News

Gosh, who ever would have thought it?

[Dragonfly94]

Interesting about the old wog, I actually one one of these things for once.

[harrybarracuda]

Interesting about the old wog, I actually one one of these things for once.

And what's that in English?

[Sumbitch]

An update on Scot Weiland.

Scot's death finally gave me the impetus to download the Stone Temple Pilot's discography. Damn glad I did now and it's nice to know I'm also listening to every song in memoriam to Scot.

[harrybarracuda]

Jumpers for goalposts..... I'm sure his memory will live on (in Viz, and probably the International Chin Museum).

20 DEC 2015 - 2:00AM
Jimmy Hill, credited with transforming English football, dies aged 87

Hill was chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) when it succeeded in 1961 in scrapping players' maximum salaries, which at the time were capped at 20 pounds a week, to stave off a threatened strike. The move paved the way for the huge sums top professionals earn today

He also championed the idea of awarding teams three points for a win instead of two to encourage more attacking play, which the English Football Association embraced in 1981.

In a statement on Saturday, his family said Hill had died after suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

During his playing career Hill represented London clubs Brentford and Fulham. He went on to become manager of Coventry City, taking them from the third tier of English football to the top flight, and was chairman of Coventry and Fulham.

A distinctive figure with a sharp chin and dark beard, he later moved into broadcasting and became a household name in Britain as the host of BBC TV's football highlights show "Match of the Day", where he was credited with bringing in expert pundits to analyse matches in depth.

Tributes poured in from ex-players and clubs across England.

"Very sad news about Jimmy Hill," former England striker Alan Shearer wrote on Twitter. "Footballers and football have so much to thank him for. A man who loved the game."

(Reporting by Michael Holden; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)

Jimmy Hill, credited with transforming English football, dies aged 87 | SBS News

[Dragonfly94]

Smug annoying bugger, but nobody deserves Alzheimers.

[taxexile]

his demise was caught live on tv.

[snakeeyes]

Jimmy Hill had a bigger chin than Christ the Redeemer .
I think Jimmy posed for this statue ,