Rest In Peace Deaths Of Note

Sergeant Foley

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Clarence Williams the III died Friday of Colon Cancer at the age of 81. He was known for bringing some amazing intensity and dramatic presence to his roles and despite having a somewhat smaller filmography, starred in a wide variety of roles.

His first iconic role was as Lincoln Hayes on the crime drama show The Mod Squad about three young social outcasts and petty criminals becoming undercover police and ran from 1968 to 1973. He also starred in Purple Rain, Sugar Hill, and quite famously as the eccentric druglord in the Dave Chapelle comedy Half Baked.

He was famous to horror fans for his intense role in Tales of the Hood as Mr. Simms, an eccentric Mortuary Owner and films main storyteller. He was an intimidatingly violent gunrunner and armed robber in Reindeer Games, a fanatically loyal army officer in The Generals Daughter and personally I remember him most for portraying Mob Enforcer Bub Hewlett in the 1997 crime mob drama Hoodlum about the Gang War in 1930's Harlem and the rise of famous Black mobster Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson. Ironically... Clarence Williams III would portray Bumpy Johnson himself in 2007's American Gangster.


Clarence Williams III was also a comedic actor, veteran of stage and theater and a skilled musician.

And because you all want it...


He also served in the United States Army and was in the 1999 movie 'The General's Daughter'.
 

WolfBear

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Tekla Juniewicz, Poland's oldest living person and the second-oldest verified living person in the world, has just died at age 116:


An obituary thread for her on another forum:


I think that she was the oldest verified person ever born in Austria-Hungary.
 

Sergeant Foley

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Tawny Kitaen, music video vixen, passed away last Friday morning at the age of 59. She had over forty acting credits to her name but was most well known for appearing in numerous 80's music videos with her most famous performance being where she showed off her acrobatics (such as cartwheels on luxury cars) in a Whitesnake video titled "Here I Go Again." This success and exposure later translated into an acting career where she appeared in films like Bachelor Party and television shows like Seinfeld as well as appearing on the reality series Surreal Life for one season.

She's survived by two daughters, from a marriage to baseball player Chuck Finley.


Her last tweet was praising someone for the creation of fan art of her:


Didn't she do a guest staring role in 'TJ Hooker'?
 

Husky_Khan

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Sotnik

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Apparently she's going to be launched into space.


Or her ashes rather... so yeah... she's being launched into space.

BoingBoing said:
The ashes of inspiring actor and activist Nichelle Nichols (aka Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek: The Original Series) who died just a few weeks ago will join some of her Enterprise crewmates' remains in outer space. Nichols's ashes will fly aboard United Launch Alliance's Vulcan (!) rocket into orbit as part of the aptly-named "Enterprise Flight" payload organized by Celestis, a company that orchestrates memorial spaceflights. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, Majel Barrett Roddenberry (Nurse Chapel, among other roles), and James Doohan (Scotty) already made the trip.

Both Roddenberrys and Scotty are already up there, so good company.
 

Sergeant Foley

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Apparently she's going to be launched into space.


Or her ashes rather... so yeah... she's being launched into space.



Both Roddenberrys and Scotty are already up there, so good company.
Explains why the family had her cremated recently.

Yet I wonder if William Shatner will have something similar happening to him when he goes?
 

Bear Ribs

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Weirdly enough, reports indicate he died of illness, suicide, and accident all at the same time.

Lukoil, Russia's second biggest oil and gas company, made headlines in March when it called "for the soonest termination of the armed conflict" in Ukraine.
"We express our sincere empathy for all victims, who are affected by this tragedy," the company's board of directors said in a statement to shareholders, staff and customers at the time. "We strongly support a lasting ceasefire and a settlement of problems through serious negotiations and diplomacy."
 

Urabrask Revealed

Let them go.
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Weirdly enough, reports indicate he died of illness, suicide, and accident all at the same time.

Lukoil, Russia's second biggest oil and gas company, made headlines in March when it called "for the soonest termination of the armed conflict" in Ukraine.
"We express our sincere empathy for all victims, who are affected by this tragedy," the company's board of directors said in a statement to shareholders, staff and customers at the time. "We strongly support a lasting ceasefire and a settlement of problems through serious negotiations and diplomacy."
Would it be in bad taste to post the "I can't believe he comitted suicide?!" video?
 

Sergeant Foley

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Weirdly enough, reports indicate he died of illness, suicide, and accident all at the same time.

Lukoil, Russia's second biggest oil and gas company, made headlines in March when it called "for the soonest termination of the armed conflict" in Ukraine.
"We express our sincere empathy for all victims, who are affected by this tragedy," the company's board of directors said in a statement to shareholders, staff and customers at the time. "We strongly support a lasting ceasefire and a settlement of problems through serious negotiations and diplomacy."
Suspicious 🤔
 

Husky_Khan

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Supernatural and Horror Writer Peter Straub Passed Away Age of 79

He might be best known for his collaborations with Stephen King with The Talisman and Black House.

 

WolfBear

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Hmm, hmm... :unsure:

Twinkle Twinkle Kenneth Starr, how I wonder where you are! :(

May he RIP. :(



I thought that he would live to age 113+. :(
 

Zyobot

Just a time-traveling robot stranded on Earth.
Twinkle Twinkle Kenneth Starr, how I wonder where you are! :(

May he RIP. :(



I thought that he would live to age 113+. :(

If it's any consolation, my dad and I held out hope my grandfather (who lived to be 96) would make it to just plain 100, whereas this guy left us as a full-fledged supercentenarian! 😮

But yeah, sad to see him go, no matter how much nitpicking over age the demographers and we "young folk" like to preoccupy ourselves with. RIP, Mikizo Ueda. :(
 

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