01/01 - David Stern, 77, American businessman, commissioner of the National Basketball Association (1984–2014), brain hemorrhage.

01/01 - Don Larsen, 90, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles, San Francisco Giants), esophageal cancer.

 

Stern, Larsen, and now Sam Wyche...2020 comin' in hot...or cold...

It should go without saying that things related to foreign policy are considered political talk, which is not allowed since we closed The Buster.

Elizabeth Wurtzel, 52, Harvard alum, Prozac Nation author...cancer

Neil Peart of Rush, 67, brain cancer. ?  I didn't even know he was sick.

Neil Peart, drummer, lyricist Rush. Among the best of all time.

RIP

 

1 hour ago, ptatc said:

Neil Peart, drummer, lyricist Rush. Among the best of all time.

RIP

Part of the Holy Triumvirate. 

Terry Jones, Monty Python actor/comedian  - 77

30 minutes ago, knightni said:

Terry Jones, Monty Python actor/comedian  - 77

Another of the great pythons gone. Always look on the bright side of life. Laugh in Peace.

Kobe Bryant, far too soon. RIP. One of the all time greats.

Orson Bean, 91, hit by two cars

Lorenzo Brino

Brian Dennehey, 81. Tommy Boy, several others. Did a lot of work at the Goodman Theater.

also it was him who drew "First Blood"??‍♂️

Jerry Stiller, 92. Known for playing Frank Costanza in Seinfeld. 

Serenity now.

Edited May 11, 20205 yr by Yearnin' for Yermin

On 5/12/2020 at 12:13 AM, Yearnin' for Yermin said:

Jerry Stiller, 92. Known for playing Frank Costanza in Seinfeld. 

Serenity now.

If I could just imagine the success that comes with retiring to your daughter's basement. Nice job Jerry. 

Fred Willard, Phyllis George, Mike McCaskey.

2020 has been a bad year in so many ways.

RIP Macho Man

Dick Johnson NBC 5 Chicago weekend anchor. Seemed like a good guy, although I always wondered why they had Dick Johnson as an anchor with Pete Sack on weather during the same broadcast.

On 6/9/2020 at 1:39 PM, Chi Town Sox said:

RIP Macho Man

The wrestler?

He passed in 2011.

RIP actor Ian Holm, age 88.

I loved his work in the Fifth Element, a guilty pleasure movie for my wife and I.

Actress Kelly Preston - John Travolta's wife, 57 -Breast Cancer

How did nobody post that Carl Reiner passed last week at 98? RIP to a legend. 

Edited July 13, 20205 yr by Jack Parkman

2 hours ago, knightni said:

Actress Kelly Preston - John Travolta's wife, 57 -Breast Cancer

I don't remember ever hearing she was diagnosed, not that it had to be made public, but this one is super sad to me. I had such a crush on her after I saw Twins as a kid.

Cancer sucks.