The Mega Dead Celebrity Thread

[Wes]

Problay the biggest f up drug addict ever. Could careless if she died.Haha kinda funny that her son just died to. haha

 

Such eloquence. haha. Perhaps you can give the eulogy at her funeral. haha

[ginzo]

Problay the biggest f up drug addict ever. Could careless if she died.Haha kinda funny that her son just died to. haha

 

Yeah, two people just died. Hilarious! You should consider social work with your empathy.

[Joe Cool]

^Yeah to bad most of the posts nobody cares she died. Seariously the girl married some 80 year old dude just for his money.

[SharkTums]

^You need to calm down a bit. Consider this your only warning.

[Blazen_AZN]

I figured i should say it here first:

 

*I* am the father of Anna Nicole's baby.

[mr_teisco_delrey]

^You need to calm down a bit. Consider this your only warning.

 

Not to mention trying out a spell checker , and grammar checker.

[RollerC]

Kinda sad that they both died with in a short time period of eachother :/. I wonder whats going to happen to the daughter.

[FlyingScooter]

Kinda sad that they both died with in a short time period of eachother :/. I wonder whats going to happen to the daughter.

 

And that is the sad part of this mess.

[coastermaster07]

Thats sad, He was really funny.

[Joe Cool]

He was so funny. Very sad to here this.

[phazan]

RIP...you were my favorite caracter on Everybody Loves Raymond...

 

EDIT:I just found out this happened like a month ago....oh well...

[pete4winds]

^ More like two months ago (specifically Decebmer 12th, '06).

[crazyrider06]

I love Everybody loves Raymond, I still watch the reruns because they crack me up. The father was the funniest in my opinion

[CoasterFanatic]

 

"This breaking news just in ... Generalísimo Francisco Franco is still dead!"

[Luxo]

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/12/ap/entertainment/main2677685.shtml

 

(AP) In books such as "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle," and "Hocus Pocus," Kurt Vonnegut mixed the bitter and funny with a touch of the profound.

 

Vonnegut, regarded by many critics as a key influence in shaping 20th-century American literature, died Wednesday at 84. He had suffered brain injuries after a recent fall at his Manhattan home, said his wife, photographer Jill Krementz.

 

In a statement, Norman Mailer hailed Vonnegut as "a marvelous writer with a style that remained undeniably and imperturbably his own. ... I would salute him _ our own Mark Twain."

 

"He was sort of like nobody else," said another fellow author, Gore Vidal. "Kurt was never dull."

 

Vonnegut's works _ more than a dozen novels plus short stories, essays and plays _ contained elements of social commentary, science fiction and autobiography.

 

A self-described religious skeptic and freethinking humanist, Vonnegut used protagonists such as Billy Pilgrim ("Slaughterhouse-Five") and Eliot Rosewater ("God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater") as transparent vehicles for his points of view.

 

Vonnegut lectured regularly, exhorting audiences to think for themselves and delighting in barbed commentary against the institutions he felt were dehumanizing people.

 

"He was a man who combined a wicked sense of humor and sort of steady moral compass, who was always sort of looking at the big picture of the things that were most important," said Joel Bleifuss, editor of In These Times, a liberal magazine based in Chicago that featured Vonnegut articles.

 

Like "Catch-22," by Vonnegut's friend Joseph Heller, "Slaughterhouse-Five" was a World War II novel embraced by opponents of the Vietnam War, linking a so-called "good war" to the unpopular conflict of the 1960s and '70s.

 

Some of Vonnegut's books were banned and burned for alleged obscenity. He took on censorship as an active member of the PEN writers' aid group and the American Civil Liberties Union.

 

The American Humanist Association, which promotes individual freedom, rational thought and scientific skepticism, made him its honorary president.

 

Vonnegut said the villains in his books were never individuals, but culture, society and history, which he said were making a mess of the planet.

 

"I like to say that the 51st state is the state of denial," he told The Associated Press in 2005. "It's as though a huge comet were heading for us and nobody wants to talk about it. We're just about to run out of petroleum and there's nothing to replace it."

 

Despite his commercial success, Vonnegut battled depression throughout his life, and in 1984, he attempted suicide with pills and alcohol, joking later about how he botched the job.

 

"I will say anything to be funny, often in the most horrible situations," Vonnegut, whose watery, heavy-lidded eyes and unruly hair made him seem to be in existential pain, once told a gathering of psychiatrists.

 

Vonnegut was born on Nov. 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, and studied chemistry at Cornell University before joining the Army. His mother killed herself just before he left for Germany during World War II, where he was quickly taken prisoner during the Battle of the Bulge. He was being held in Dresden when Allied bombs firebombed the German city.

 

"The firebombing of Dresden explains absolutely nothing about why I write what I write and am what I am," Vonnegut wrote in "Fates Worse Than Death," his 1991 autobiography of sorts.

 

But he spent 23 years struggling to write about the ordeal, which he survived by huddling with other POW's inside an underground meat locker labeled slaughterhouse-five.

 

The novel that emerged, in which Pvt. Pilgrim is transported from Dresden by time-traveling aliens, was published at the height of the Vietnam War, and solidified his reputation as an iconoclast.

 

After World War II, he reported for Chicago's City News Bureau, then did public relations for General Eletric, a job he loathed. He wrote his first novel, "Player Piano," in 1951, followed by "The Sirens of Titan," "Canary in a Cat House" and "Mother Night," making ends meet by selling Saabs on Cape Cod.

 

Critics ignored him at first, then denigrated his deliberately bizarre stories and disjointed plots as haphazardly written science fiction. But his novels became cult classics, especially "Cat's Cradle" in 1963, in which scientists create "ice-nine," a crystal that turns water solid and destroys the Earth.

 

He retired from novel writing in his later years, but continued to publish short articles. He had a best-seller in 2005 with "A Man Without a Country," a collection of his nonfiction, including jabs at the Bush administration ("upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography") and the uncertain future of the planet.

 

He called the book's success "a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life."

 

Vonnegut, who had homes in Manhattan and the Hamptons in New York, adopted his sister's three young children after she died. He also had three children of his own with his first wife, Jane Marie Cox, and later adopted a daughter, Lily, with his second wife, Krementz.

 

Vonnegut once said that of all the ways to die, he'd prefer to go out in an airplane crash on the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro. He often joked about the difficulties of old age.

 

"When Hemingway killed himself he put a period at the end of his life; old age is more like a semicolon," Vonnegut told the AP.

 

"My father, like Hemingway, was a gun nut and was very unhappy late in life. But he was proud of not committing suicide. And I'll do the same, so as not to set a bad example for my children."

 

Bummer, he was one of my very favorite authors.

[cfc]

Yes--I loved Player Piano and Breakfast of Champions.

[Calvin]

Yes--I loved Player Piano and Breakfast of Champions.

 

Breakfast of Champions was hilarious.

 

Argh, worst celebrity death of the year. Unless John Lennon is reincarnated and shot again.

[TheLastGunslinger]

I love Vonnegut's books. My junior year of high school my English teacher introduced me to his work via Slaughterhouse-Five. I took the book home and read it in one sitting.

[FlyingScooter]

Yes--I loved Player Piano and Breakfast of Champions.

 

Breakfast of Champions was hilarious.

 

Argh, worst celebrity death of the year. Unless John Lennon is reincarnated and shot again.

 

lmao! that is just wrong...

LOL

[Guest]

Originally posted at WWE.com

Chris Benoit, family found dead

Written: June 25, 2007

 

World Wrestling Entertainment is deeply saddened to report that today Chris Benoit and his family were found dead in their home. There are no further details at this time, other than the Benoit family residence is currently being investigated by local authorities.

 

Tonight’s Raw on USA Network will serve as a tribute to Chris Benoit and his family. WWE extends its sincerest thoughts and prayers to the Benoit family’s relatives and loved ones in this time of tragedy.

http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/benoitdead

[OzCatter]

BTW, everyone was wondering when it first came out earlier today to believe it or not because of the McMahon tasteless death angle

 

But it's sad but true.

 

RAW IS BENOIT

[spaceace12]

http://www.11alive.com/news/article_news.aspx?storyid=99172

 

Still isn't comfirmed. I am not a wrestling fan, but this one sounds real, unlike the mcman(sp) one.

[OzCatter]

When the news reported it, it was confirmed real.

 

Raw canceled and is a tribute.

[DerekRx]

I haven't really followed WWE in the last couple of years, but I really enjoyed watching Benoit. He wasn't always the standout, but he was always a good technical wrestler and gave it his all.

 

RIP Wolverine

[Robgraves]

i knew nancy from a few indie shows we worked together... and Chris was one of my idols....

 

im floored by this.

 

RIB Benoit.