Another failed Celebrity Rehab person.

Jani Lane, lead singer of Warrant, 47.

Where the down boys go

His birth name was John Kennedy Oswald.

 

How f***ed up was that?

His birth name was John Kennedy Oswald.

 

How f***ed up was that?

I see that he was born a little over two months after Kennedy was assassinated.

His birth name was John Kennedy Oswald.

 

How f***ed up was that?

But then we all know Oswald by himself didn't kill JFK...

Pete Pihos, the only Indiana Hoosier football player to twice be selected to the All-American team, and the only one to be elected the Hall of Fame, died at 87 after battling Alzheimer's.

 

http://blogs.heraldtimesonline.com/iusp/?p=15085

 

Sidenote: Without looking it up, I'm assuming he's not the only one in the Hall of Fame...Taliaferro was the first black player in the NFL and is probably in the Hall of Fame, right?

Jerry Leiber died. He was 78. Leiber, with his songwriting partner Mike Stoller, wrote "Yakety Yak", Jailhouse Rock", "On Broadway", "Hound Dog", "Charlie Brown", "Kansas City", "Poison Ivy" and countless other early rock and roll classics.

This thread really should be renamed (Insert Person Who Has A Meager Claim To Fame (Plus About 10 Actual Celebrities A Year)) is Dead.

This thread really should be renamed (Insert Person Who Has A Meager Claim To Fame (Plus About 10 Actual Celebrities A Year)) is Dead.

or (Notable Person) is Dead

Also... am I the only person who clicks on this thread almost excited to see who died? Then I find out most of the time I have no idea who it is so I need not bother tweeting or posting something about it?

 

How f***ed up is that?

Also... am I the only person who clicks on this thread almost excited to see who died? Then I find out most of the time I have no idea who it is so I need not bother tweeting or posting something about it?

 

How f***ed up is that?

 

Nope, I'm right there with you. Morbid, ain't it?

This thread really should be renamed (Insert Person Who Has A Meager Claim To Fame (Plus About 10 Actual Celebrities A Year)) is Dead.

 

see this

Songwriter Nick Ashford of Ashford and Simpson died yesterday.

 

see this

 

Oh, aren't you so original?

Oh, aren't you so original?

Jimmy Kimmel's Uncle Frank passed yesterday.

 

 

Also, Joey Vento of Geno's Cheesesteaks in Philly passed as well.

Songwriter Nick Ashford of Ashford and Simpson died yesterday.

 

And now he's solid....solid as a rock.

 

Sorry.

Also, Joey Vento of Geno's Cheesesteaks in Philly passed as well.

Also... am I the only person who clicks on this thread almost excited to see who died? Then I find out most of the time I have no idea who it is so I need not bother tweeting or posting something about it?

 

How f***ed up is that?

When I see it's near the top I definitely get that feeling too.

This happened over a month ago, but I only just stumbled on it. Tom Aldredge passed away. He was one of my favorite character actors. He was in a ton of stuff, most notably recently as Carmela's father on the Sopranos and Nucky's father on Boardwalk Empire.

Honeyboy Edwards

 

http://chicagoist.com/2011/08/29/one_for_t...id_honeyboy.php

This happened over a month ago, but I only just stumbled on it. Tom Aldredge passed away. He was one of my favorite character actors. He was in a ton of stuff, most notably recently as Carmela's father on the Sopranos and Nucky's father on Boardwalk Empire.

 

Darn. I liked him too.

Honeyboy Edwards

 

http://chicagoist.com/2011/08/29/one_for_t...id_honeyboy.php

"Mr. Edwards moved to the South Side of Chicago in 1856"

 

I assume they meant 1956, or he'd be at least 155 years old and this would be a HUGE story.

Actor Cliff Robertson

 

Known more recently for his role as Uncle Ben in the Tobey Maguire Spider-man movie.

Andy Whitfield, who played Spartacus in the first series on Starz.