Why is everyone dying

[Moogie]

Christopher Reeve's wife, Dana. Aged 44.

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[Moogie]

Richard Carleton, from 60 Minutes.

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[Gutter Monkey]

Originally Posted by Moogie

Richard Carleton, from 60 Minutes.

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That's awful. Why couldn't it have been Mike Munro?

[unfrufru]

my sister's theory is that they poisoned his esky hehe.


(that was a reference to when the iraq war started and he went over and made his crew eat the army rations but he brought an esky full of caviar and champagne with him and even booked a seat on the plane for it. there was a massive uproar at the time)

[unfrufru]

most people wouldn't know who he was but he's one of those actors that you always went either "i know him from somewhere" or half way through a film go "oh yeah that guy" that's why i included the photo so u know who i'm talking about

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/

Paul Gleason, who played the go-to bad guy in "Trading Places" and the angry high school principal in "The Breakfast Club," has died. He was 67.

Gleason died at a local hospital Saturday of mesothelioma, a rare form of lung cancer linked to asbestos, said his wife, Susan Gleason.

"Whenever you were with Paul, there was never a dull moment," his wife said. "He was awesome."

A native of Miami, Gleason was an avid athlete. Before becoming an actor, he played Triple-A minor league baseball for a handful of clubs in the late 1950s.

Gleason honed his acting skills with his mentor Lee Strasberg, whom he studied with at the Actors Studio beginning in the mid-1960s, family members said.

Through his career, Gleason appeared in over 60 movies that included "Die Hard," "Johnny Be Good," and "National Lampoon's Van Wilder." Most recently, Gleason made a handful of television appearances in hit shows such as "Friends" and "Seinfeld."

Gleason's passions went beyond acting. He had recently published a book of poetry.

"He was an athlete, an actor and a poet," said his daughter, Shannon Gleason-Grossman. "He gave me and my sister a love that is beyond description that will be with us and keep us strong for the rest of our lives."

Actor Jimmy Hawkins, a friend of Gleason's since the 1960s, said he remembered Gleason for a sharp sense of humor.

"He just always had great stories to tell," Hawkins said.

Gleason was survived by his wife, two daughters and a granddaughter. Funeral plans were pending.
Source: yahoonews.com

[Leishpod]

awwww no not the angry principal!)

stupid death *shakes fist at it*

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Media Puzzle. Got put down today after shattering its leg during a race at Ascot.

Won the 2002 Melbourne Cup ridden by Damian Oliver (remember it was a big deal as his brother was killed in a race the week before)

[katrant]

I hate hearing about things like that happening to animals....

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Aaron Spelling, Age 83.

the guy that gave us the love boat, melrose and 90210. and tori spelling so it wasn't all good.

[katrant]

I had no idea he was so old....

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Moose, the feisty Jack Russell terrier who played Eddie for 10 years on TV's Frasier, has died, his trainer Mathilde Halberg tells PEOPLE.

"He was 16-and-a-half years old, and he just had an incredible charisma and was a such a free spirit," said Halberg. Moose, considered the Lassie of the '90s, died Thursday night of old age at Halberg's Los Angeles-area home.

Moose retired from showbiz when he was 10, and, although he also played a starring role in the 2000 Frankie Muniz-Kevin Bacon feature My Dog Skip (as the older Skip), he was best known for stealing scenes from Kelsey Grammer on the long-running Emmy-winning NBC sitcom.

"He was always trying to put Frasier in uncomfortable circumstances," said his trainer, who had rescued him in the early 1990s.

"I saved him from the pound. His owners called me as a last resort," Halberg recalled. "He was extremely mischievous, always escaping, chewing up things and running off. When he killed a neighbor's cat and chased some horses, that was it."

Not that anyone who owns a Jack Russell would find such behavior surprising. "But then," remembered his trainer, "he began his career, and he will never be forgotten."

[Mythor]

Awwww!

115 in people years though? Wow, well done Moose!

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i'm a bit sad about this, he did a lot of comedy shows in the late 80's & 90's (money or the gun, mcfeast, cameos on stuff). mainly i'm upset cause i thought he was already dead.

ABC journalist John Hinde dies

One of Australia's first foreign correspondents, TV presenter and movie critic John Hinde, has died in Sydney aged 92.

On Wednesday, ABC Radio's AM program paid tribute to Hinde, who filed a report for its first bulletin.

Mr Hinde began his career at the ABC in the news department and was a correspondent in the Pacific during World War II.

He was later known as a film critic, presenting films on ABC TV and a weekly film review on Radio National.

"He died last night in a Sydney nursing home," an ABC spokeswoman said.

ABC TV film reviewer David Stratton said Hinde possessed innate good humour and wit, and was a pleasure to talk to.

"He would always focus very often on small details, on whimsical little things that appealed to him, and convey them so beautifully to the listener or the viewer in his television introductions," Mr Stratton told ABC Radio.

In his first report for AM, on September 4, 1967, Mr Hinde covered a plan by artist Salvador Dali to cross the Pyrenees on an elephant.

"So I don't know what the fuss is about over flying an elephant to him from India," Hinde said in the report.

"Dali could easily fillet one, reconstitute it at the end of the flight, and cross the Pyrenees in style, as Hannibal once crossed the Alps.

"And he can travel at leisure too, because time's no object to him.

"And if he needs vinegar to break up the rocks in the way Hannibal did, well, Dali of all people has plenty of that, wherever he goes."

[Puppy]

Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd, 60

[sooty]

i know a million zillion cajillion people are gonna say this, but he will shine on.