Topic: The World of Entertainment!

[eastvillagedon]

 

Davy Jones of The Monkees dies at 66,Daydream Believer.

[AJ93]

Poor Davy. So young. He'll never get to go to another prom.

[Hts121]

Not sure where to put this, but since this is the de facto 'someone famous died' thread...... Andrew Breitbart is dead.  43 years old with a wife and four children.  Sad.

[smith]

This makes me real sad.  Lost a good one.

Adam Yauch, founding member of the Beastie Boys, has died
Adam Yauch, a member of the seminal hip-hop trio the Beastie Boys, has died. He was 47 years old.

The Brooklyn-born musician known to fans as MCA was first treated for a cancerous growths in his parotid gland and a lymph node in 2009 and subsequently underwent surgery and radiation therapy, which forced the delay of the Beastie Boys’ most recent album Hot Sauce Committee Part Two. His illness has also kept the group off the road, and Yauch missed the group’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame two weeks ago.

http://music-mix.ew.com/2012/05/04/adam-yauch-beastie-boys-dead/

[Columbo]

This makes me real sad.  Lost a good one.

Agreed.  More evidence that cancer sucks.

[mrnyc]

rip adam 'mca' yauch! bklyn hts finest.

now we are living in a new world without our beastie boys....

[MyTwoSense]

Vial Sasson RIP

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/05/09/us/ap-us-obit-vidal-sassoon.html?_r=1&hp

[eastvillagedon]

Donna Summer dies--
http://todayentertainment.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/17/11745326-donna-summer-dead-at-63?lite

Donna Summer - On The Radio 1979 HD

[MyTwoSense]

Donna Summer dies--
http://todayentertainment.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/17/11745326-donna-summer-dead-at-63?lite
Donna Summer - On The Radio 1979 HD

OMG!  I'm floored.  I cannot believe it.  She and her music played such a big part of my childhood/young adulthood!

[musky]

Sad.
I did not even realize she was ill.
RIP

[eastvillagedon]

Donna Summer dies--
http://todayentertainment.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/17/11745326-donna-summer-dead-at-63?lite
Donna Summer - On The Radio 1979 HD

OMG!  I'm floored.  I cannot believe it.  She and her music played such a big part of my childhood/young adulthood!

I generally hated disco (I remember when I first spotted a "Disco Sucks" button--I think it was about 1980 on a teenager in New York. Although looking back, compared to some of the garbage out today, it was like a golden age of music--lol), but Donna Summer's music--specific songs, anyway--seemed to transcend the genre and she was such an excellent singer. I think "On the Radio" was the theme song for a teen movie called "Foxes" with Jodie Foster. Does anyone remember that?!

[MyTwoSense]

Donna Summer dies--
http://todayentertainment.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/17/11745326-donna-summer-dead-at-63?lite
Donna Summer - On The Radio 1979 HD

OMG!  I'm floored.  I cannot believe it.  She and her music played such a big part of my childhood/young adulthood!

I generally hated disco (I remember when I first spotted a "Disco Sucks" button--I think it was about 1980 on a teenager in New York. Although looking back, compared to some of the garbage out today, it was like a golden age of music--lol), but Donna Summer's music--specific songs, anyway--seemed to transcend the genre and she was such an excellent singer. I think "On the Radio" was the theme song for a teen movie called "Foxes" with Jodie Foster. Does anyone remember that?!

Yes. I have the 30 minute vinyl version of "love to love you baby".  I'm going to blast Donna in the office right now!

[David]

Sad.
I did not even realize she was ill.
RIP

I didn't either and I wish it were that way for all celebrities who are ill. The depression induced by seeing yourself on the cover of tabloids and newspapers everywhere you go, stating "Doctors say [celebrity Y] has 12 days left to live!" is bound to shut that person's immune system down like no other and actually cause an earlier death. Look at Patrick Swayze and what he had to deal with from the press at a horrible time in his life. Bob Marley's old publicist tried to cover up all the details about his illness from The Press, for that very reason. So at least he could get the most out of each day he did live. I always wonder though, since he was Rastafarian and didn't believe in Western medicine, if he could have been cured.

[KJP]

Sorry to hear of her passing. I liked some of her pre-1980 stuff, including I Feel Love (THAT was a high-tech sound!), On The Radio and MacArthur Park. I didn't care for Hot Stuff though and her post-1980 tunes. She seemed to lose her "edge" after she got religion. Every time I hear MacArthur Park, it reminds me of waiting in line at the Hudson Haunted House in October 1978. They played a radio over loudspeakers for all the people waiting in line! On The Radio reminds me of skiing with my middle school ski team at Brandywine in January 1980.

So that's two divas dead in 2012 (three if you include Vidal Sasoon).

[musky]

^Not a diva, but still a loss - Chuck Brown died yesterday

[KJP]

To show you what an innovator she was, Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" came out in 1977.....

✿ DONNA SUMMER - I Feel Love (1977) ✿

....When the most cutting-edge music was otherwise emerging from Europe with groups like Kraftwerk. But that was still too "out there" for mainstream America radio stations to play -- yet. We were still 3-5 years away from being ready for European techno like this....

Kraftwerk - Trans europe express

But Donna Summer found a way to introduce and sell this sound to American audiences waaay before it's time.

[mrnyc]

true heros of mine --

chuck brown father of go-go rip!!!

donna but kind of glad shes not suffering anymore lung cancer is the worst.

[KJP]

Oh, and by the way, Donna's The Note in MacArthur Park was pretty amazing....

The Note is at 1:05 and again at 3:25.....

Donna Summer McArthur Park

In case you were wondering what the song is about, read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Park_(song)

[mrnyc]

so donna reportedly thought 9/11 caused her lung cancer not the smoking 

[KJP]

Why would someone with a voice like that even pick up a cigarette? It blows me away when people with a great talent do  the exact kind of actions/behaviors that destroy their talent or their ability to express it.

[mrnyc]

donna ruled the scene back then -
interestng remarks from all the players:


memories of donnas disco nights

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/fashion/memories-of-donna-summer-from-her-disco-days.html?_r=1&hpw

[natininja]

so donna reportedly thought 9/11 caused her lung cancer not the smoking 

I read somewhere that she didn't smoke.

[mrnyc]

^ really? i had heard that she was a heavy smoker. maybe she picked it up later in life? who knows. more:

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/arizonaliving/articles/2012/05/18/20120518donna-summer-blamed-toxic-dust.html

***

we lost another bee gee sunday -- robin gibb rip

[natininja]

I saw it in this CNN article:

"Donna Summer died of lung cancer, but the singer wasn't a smoker, and the cancer wasn't related to smoking, her family's representative said Friday."
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/18/showbiz/donna-summer-dead/index.html?iref=allsearch

I haven't read more than a few lines past any headline about her death, though, so you surely have more info than me.

[mrnyc]

well lets just chalk that up to a greiving family.

besides the article i posted above a quick googlization gets you this:

[mrnyc]

survey says....

richard dawson has escaped stalog 13:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2012/06/richard-dawson-thought-he-had-heartburn-/1

[mrnyc]

rip bob welch

he was in fleetwood mac and had a couple popular solo records.

hits include ebony eyes and the summertime classic sentimental lady:

Sentimental Lady - Bob Welch

http://laist.com/2012/06/08/bob_welch_former_fleetwood_mac_guit.php

[eastvillagedon]

This makes me real sad.  Lost a good one.

Adam Yauch, founding member of the Beastie Boys, has died
Adam Yauch, a member of the seminal hip-hop trio the Beastie Boys, has died. He was 47 years old.

The Brooklyn-born musician known to fans as MCA was first treated for a cancerous growths in his parotid gland and a lymph node in 2009 and subsequently underwent surgery and radiation therapy, which forced the delay of the Beastie Boys’ most recent album Hot Sauce Committee Part Two. His illness has also kept the group off the road, and Yauch missed the group’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame two weeks ago.

http://music-mix.ew.com/2012/05/04/adam-yauch-beastie-boys-dead/

1st St & 1st Ave

[mrnyc]

katie holmes gets back in the swing with material that will be easy for her


7.19.2012, 17:26 PM

Katie Holmes lands role in Broadway play, ‘Dead Accounts’


As she goes through her divorce, Katie Holmes is going back to work on Broadway.

The 33-year-old actress will star in Theresa Rebeck’s play “Dead Accounts,” a contemporary family comedy set in Cincinnati.

Holmes, who made her Broadway debut in 2008 in Arthur Miller’s drama “All My Sons,” will play Lorna, a single woman with a history of bad relationships who’s living with her aging parents.

She collides with her brother, a banker with his own issues, who returns to Ohio from New York City.

More below:
http://m.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/katie-holmes-lands-role-broadway-play-dead-accounts-article-1.1118001

[mrnyc]

sylvia the queen of harlem soul food died.
she was a nice lady!


Sylvia Woods, Soul-Food Restaurateur, Is Dead at 86
By MARGALIT FOX
Published: July 19, 2012 56 Comments


Sylvia Woods, whose eponymous Harlem soul-food restaurant was frequented by local and national politicians, international celebrities, tourists, epicures and ordinary neighborhood residents, died on Thursday at her home in Westchester County, N.Y. She was 86.

Her family announced the death, citing no cause. Its statement said Ms. Woods had been ill with Alzheimer’s disease for the last few years.

Her death came a few hours before she was to receive an award from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg at a reception at Gracie Mansion commemorating the 50th anniversary of Sylvia’s Restaurant. There was a moment of silence before the award presentation; a family friend accepted it on her behalf.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/dining/sylvia-woods-soul-food-restaurateur-is-dead-at-86.html

[mrnyc]

george jefferson is back with wheezy now:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/24/showbiz/sherman-hemsley-obit/index.html

[Loretto]

RIP

Sherman Hemsley performs "Eyes in the Dark" on Soul Train (1992)

[KJP]

Post major mistakes by celebrities, like this one......



Randy Travis arrested naked, charged with DWI
By DIANA HEIDGERD, Associated Press – 1 hour ago 

DALLAS (AP) — Country singer Randy Travis was charged with driving while intoxicated and threatening law officers after he crashed his Pontiac Trans Am and was found naked and combative at the scene, Texas officials said.

The accident was reported Tuesday night, and Travis walked out of jail Wednesday morning wearing scrubs, no shoes and a University of Texas baseball cap. It was the second Texas arrest this year for Travis, who was cited in February for public intoxication.

A Pontiac Trans Am registered to the 53-year-old singer had veered off a roadway near Tioga, a town about 60 miles north of Dallas where the entertainer lives, and struck several barricades in a construction zone, said Tom Vinger, spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety.

READ MORE AT:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j0ux9zzpOftBfeDg0Jklzp-h5kVg?docId=43be1c2109b24494a17ac7e65c4fb3eb

[KJP]

WTF?!?! As a fan of action movies, this really bums me out.......

Tony Scott, director of Hollywood hits 'Top Gun' and 'Beverly Hills Cop II,' dies after jumping off bridge
Published: Monday, August 20, 2012, 7:11 AM     Updated: Monday, August 20, 2012, 7:24 AM
  By Associated Press entertainment staff

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tony Scott, director of such Hollywood hits as "Top Gun," ''Days of Thunder" and "Beverly Hills Cop II," died Sunday after jumping from a Los Angeles County bridge, authorities said.

The 68-year-old Scott's death was being investigated as a suicide, Los Angeles County Coroner's Lt. Joe Bale said.

...Several people called 911 around 12:35 p.m. to report that someone had jumped from the Vincent Thomas Bridge spanning San Pedro and Terminal Island in Los Angeles Harbor, according to Los Angeles police Lt. Tim Nordquist.

READ MORE AT:
http://www.cleveland.com/movies/index.ssf/2012/08/tony_scott_top_gun_director_di.html#incart_river_default

[eastvillagedon]

Native Ohioan Phyllis Diller Dies

PHYLLIS DILLER | 1917-2012
Laughs Were on Her, by Design
By RICHARD SEVERO and PETER KEEPNEWS
Published: August 20, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/arts/television/phyllis-diller-sassy-comedian-dies-at-95.html?pagewanted=all

Phyllis Diller, whose sassy, screeching, rapid-fire stand-up comedy helped open the door for two generations of funny women, died on Monday at her home in the  Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. She was 95.

Her agent, Fred Wostbrock, confirmed her death.

Ms. Diller, who became famous for telling jokes that mocked her odd looks, her aversion to housekeeping and a husband she called Fang, was far from the first woman to do stand-up comedy. But she was one of the most influential. There were precious few women before her, if any, who could dispense one-liners with such machine-gun precision or overpower an audience with such an outrageous personality.