The RIP Famous Person Thread

[kmart]

^"Let's have a look at what you could have won".

Used to like Bullseye, and the way Jim would pay cash out to the contestants from his own pocket. RIP.

[harrybarracuda]

^"Let's have a look at what you could have won".

Used to like Bullseye, and the way Jim would pay cash out to the contestants from his own pocket. RIP.

How about this...

According to one anecdote in the book Question Time: A Journey Round Britain’s Quizzes by Mark Mason, during one episode of Bullseye, a contestant in a wheelchair was going to win the star prize.

Just as he was about to throw his final dart, the producer screamed “Stop him!” in the ear of Bowen. “They had just realised that the prize was a leather three-piece suite and thought it would not be appreciated by someone in a wheelchair,” writes Mason.

“We’ll swap it for next week’s star prize,” the producer said. The prizes were switched, the dart thrown and the contestant won.

“Congratulations,” Bowen reportedly said as the screen was lifted. “You’ve won... a skiing holiday.”

[harrybarracuda]

With Hawking and Bowen going on the same day, it's nice to see that they stuck to the rules, non-Darts player goes first.

[Jack meoff]

RIP Jim

[Chittychangchang]

Carn't beat a bit of bully.

RIP Jim

[kmart]

With Hawking and Bowen going on the same day, it's nice to see that they stuck to the rules, non-Darts player goes first.

[harrybarracuda]

Linda Brown, who helped end US school segregation, dies aged 76

Brown was at the centre of a major court battle that helped end widespread racial segregation in the US.



LINDA BROWN, WHO was at the centre of the court battle leading to the desegregation of US public schools, died Monday, the organisation that spearheaded the landmark legal effort has said.

The US Supreme Court ruling on the Brown vs Board of Education case in 1954 was a key moment in the movement to end widespread discriminatory practices against black people in the United States, but discrimination, racism and racial tensions still plague the country more than 60 years later.

“Linda Brown, who was one of the young students at the heart of the landmark Brown vs Board of Education case, passed away today at age 76,” said a statement from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF).

Brown ”is one of that special band of heroic young people who, along with her family, courageously fought to end the ultimate symbol of white supremacy – racial segregation in public schools,” the LDF’s president Sherrilyn Ifill said.

While the NAACP said Brown was 76 at the time of her death, her age was elsewhere reported to have been 75.
The organisation did not provide details on what caused her death.

In the early 1950s, Oliver Brown sought to enroll his daughter in an all-white school near the family’s home in Topeka, Kansas, but was told she had to go to an all-black school that was farther away.

Brown turned to the courts for justice in a case that was part of an anti-segregation push by the NAACP.

The Kansas case was combined with others from Delaware, South Carolina and Virginia as well as the capital, Washington, when they were appealed to the US Supreme Court, becoming the ground-breaking Brown vs Board of Education.
‘An incredible impact’

On 17 May 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that segregation was unconstitutional.

But segregation was far from over despite the court ruling, and integration was bitterly opposed by some whites.

President Dwight D Eisenhower deployed American soldiers when the Arkansas governor blocked African-American students from being integrated into an all-white high school in the state’s capital Little Rock in 1957.

Though segregation was illegal in schools after the Brown vs Board ruling, it nonetheless continued because of opposition from racists as well as due to the prevalence of separate black and white neighbourhoods, which led to de facto segregation in local schools.

Busing students from their home neighbourhoods to schools in other areas was begun to address the situation, but that move was still being contested more than 20 years after Brown vs Board.

Schools were not the only segregated areas in America: there were also separate restaurants, bathrooms and water fountains for blacks and whites in parts of the country – something protesters held sit-ins to oppose as part of the civil rights movement.

Even now, racial tensions continue to plague America – where black people have faced hundreds of years of discrimination and slavery – and African-Americans still make up a disproportionate percentage of the country’s incarcerated and poor.

Brown, who was just a girl when the court case unfolded, became a school teacher later in life, taught piano lessons and worked with the Brown Foundation, an organisation that seeks to promote the legacy of the case, according to its website.
Kansas Governor Jeff Colyer paid tribute to her in a Twitter post.

“Linda Brown’s life reminds us that sometimes the most unlikely people can have an incredible impact and that by serving our community we can truly change the world,” Colyer wrote.

And the American Civil Liberties Union rights group hailed the impact of the court case.

“The Brown decision made America a beacon of hope to the rest of the world; it taught us that we could, through the rule of law, end a kind of oppression and race-based caste system,” the group said on Twitter.

https://www.thejournal.ie/linda-brow...25634-Mar2018/

[bobo746]

Delores Taylor (1932 – 2018), co-star of "Billy Jack" films


LOS ANGELES (AP) — Delores Taylor, who co-starred with her husband Tom Laughlin in his productions of the "Billy Jack" series of films, has died in Southern California, her daughter said Monday. She was 85.
Teresa Laughlin told The Associated Press that Taylor died March 23 of natural causes at the Motion Picture and Television Fund Home near Los Angeles. She said her mother had suffered from dementia.
Taylor was born in 1932 in Winner, South Dakota. She grew up near the Rosebud Indian Reservation, an experience which she drew from when creating the namesake character of the "Billy Jack" films in the 1970s.
Taylor starred in three of the four "Billy Jack" films in which she played a teacher whose progressive school is defended by Billy Jack — a half-white, half-Native American Vietnam veteran who had come to hate war. The films became counterculture favorites.
Billy Jack was first seen in the 1968 biker movie "Born Losers," but became widely known after "Billy Jack," the second of four films Laughlin made about him (only three made it to theaters).
"Billy Jack" was released in 1971 after a long struggle by Laughlin to gain control of the low-budget, self-financed movie, a model for guerrilla filmmaking. The film became a surprise hit and the theme song, "One Tin Soldier," was a hit single for the rock group Coven.
Taylor was nominated for a Golden Globe for New Star of the Year in 1972.
Her daughter said Taylor was a "reluctant" celebrity and preferred her roles of wife, mother and grandmother.
"She loved performing but didn't enjoy the Hollywood trappings," Teresa Laughlin said.
Taylor is survived by two sisters, three children and five grandchildren. Tom Laughlin died in 2013.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH0eHzTKEMY

[bobo746]

Loved those Billy Jack movies when i was a kid.

[Loy Toy]

Yep the Billy Jack movies were very popular in OZ during the 70's.

[Ukan Kizmiaz]

a little bit famous in camdodia an Oz

Cambodian singer Kak Channthy rose from poverty to perform in front of audiences worldwide.
Dubbed Cambodia's Amy Winehouse, she was the voice and face of a revival of the legendary 1960s rock scene that swept the country pre-genocide.
Her band, the Cambodian Space Project, became one of the few Cambodian rock bands to make it overseas.
Her death on Tuesday, in a car crash​ at the age of 38, has moved her fans around the globe.
"She was a Cambodian hero and now, so sadly, a legend of her people and her time," the band's co-founder and ex-husband Julien Poulson told the BBC.
"Her music, her voice, her life and her story have touched so many people from many different walks of life and from all around the word."

[Ukan Kizmiaz]

[SKkin]

Loved those Billy Jack movies when i was a kid.

Billy Jack vs. Chuck Norris ... who wins?

[reddog]

Billy Jack vs. Chuck Norris ... who wins?

If you are talking about acting,it would be a draw,wooden would describe both.

[Latindancer]

Chuck has already won....he is still alive, albeit with a hip replacement. Billy carked it.

[toslti]

Steven Bocho dead at age 74 after fighting cancer.

[Davis Knowlton]

^Made some good TV series in his day! RIP

[harrybarracuda]

Soon-Tek Oh, who voiced the aging warrior Fa Zhou in two Mulan films, aided Roger Moore in The Man With the Golden Gun and fought Chuck Norris to an explosive finale in Missing in Action 2: The Beginning, has died. He was 85.

Oh died Wednesday in Los Angeles after a battle with Alzheimer's, actor Chil Kong reported. He and Oh were co-founders of the Lodestone Theatre Ensemble in Los Angeles.
"I will never be able to repay him for what he did for me, how he shaped me as an artist, as a community leader and as a parent," Kong wrote. "All I can do is promise to stay true to my artistic self, just as Mr. Oh strived to do all his life."
A native of South Korea, Oh was in the original Broadway cast of the 1976 Stephen Sondheim musical Pacific Overtures, and on the small screen, he appeared eight times on Hawaii Five-O, five times on M*A*S*H and four times on Magnum, P.I., all as different characters.
Oh did voice work on Disney's Mulan (1998), then returned for the 2004 sequel.
In The Man With the Golden Gun (1974), Oh's Lieutenant Hip arrives after the assassin Scaramanga (Christopher Lee) kills a scientist in front of the Bottoms Up Club in Hong Kong. Oh arrests James Bond (Moore) but later reveals himself to be his ally.
"My agent asked me if I would like to be in a James Bond picture. I was a bit audacious when I was younger, so I said, 'I don't do a laundry man, gardener or house boy,'" he says on the film's DVD documentary.
Oh played Colonel Yin, the sadistic commander of the POW camp who at the hands — and feet — of Norris' James Braddock in the first Missing in Action sequel, released in 1985. Braddock then detonates explosive charges around the compound in a memorable final scene.
Oh's résumé also included the features Beverly Hills Ninja (1997) and Yellow (1998), written and directed by Chris Chan Lee, and television's I Spy, Dan August, Ironside, Kung Fu, Charlie's Angels, Hill Street Blues, Magnum, P.I. and the 1981 miniseries East of Eden.
Oh had graduated with a degree in political science from Yonsei University in Seoul. After emigrating to the U.S., he was a scholarship student at New York's famed Neighborhood Playhouse and attended UCLA.
In 1965, Oh co-founded the L.A.-based East West Players, one of the first Asian-American theater groups in the U.S. Then, after the L.A. riots of 1992, he launched the Society of Heritage Performers, hoping to elevate Asian-American voices while counteracting stereotypes in the media.
That Korean-American group evolved in 1999 into the Lodestone Theatre Ensemble. (It disbanded a decade later.)

"He awakened within me a life-changing cultural and community awareness," actor Tim Lounibos said. "Mr. Oh constantly coached and mentored me (sometimes severely) … and taught me life lessons through his personal experiences and stories."
A memorial service is set for April 14 in L.A.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-85-1100765

[harrybarracuda]

Milos Forman dead: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest director dies aged 86

MILOS FORMAN who directed films One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus, has died at the age of 86. The screenwriter passed away at his home in Warren, Connecticut.

By JESS SHELDON
PUBLISHED: 09:06, Sat, Apr 14, 2018 | UPDATED: 09:42, Sat, Apr 14, 2018



The Czech film director passed away at his Connecticut home yesterday after a short illness.
The 86-year-old leaves behind his wife Martina Zborilova-Forman and his four children.
The death was confirmed by his spouse, who broke the news to Czech news agency CTK.
She said: His departure was calm and he was surrounded the whole time by his family and his closest friends.”
https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/945984/Milos-Forman-dead-Amadeus-Man-on-the-Moon-dies-cause-of-death-news-latest-update-pictures

[david44]

thanks Harry I couldn't locate this great thread in the search.
Forman also made the great Fireman's ball with a clip with one of our members perhaps ?

The Firemen's Ball (1968) ~ Trailer - Video Dailymotion

[Loy Toy]

Milos Forman dead: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest director dies aged 86

One of my top 5 movies ever.

Thank you Milos.

[tomcat]

Thank you Milos

...I don't think he can hear you...

[Davis Knowlton]

R. Lee Ermey died today. Played the Drill Instructor in "Full Metal Jacket", as well as in "Mississippi Burning" and others. Was great as the DI. RIP.

[yortyiam]

Farewell. (Sir). "Lock & Load" was really good. Great humour + shooting whatever up!

[VocalNeal]

Semper Fi. Carry On.