Director Mike Nichols, 83.

 

One word: plastics

One word: genius

 

fixed: ("plastics" was from Buck Henry's screenplay)

 

 

R.I.P. Motown singer Jimmy Ruffin

Edited November 20, 201411 yr by BigEdWalsh

Viktor Tikhonov, 84, responsible for possibly the worst coaching decision in the history of team sports.

Cricket player Phillip Hughes, age 25. Hit in the head playing a few days ago in Australia. Terrible.

Again, not a major celeb but another Real World cast member is dead: http://www.tmz.com/2014/11/27/ryan-knight-...ies-real-world/

Bobby Keys (70) saxophonist for The Rolling Stones has died. Besides his work with the Stones he has appeared on records by Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Who, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, lots of great classic rock stuff.

Edited December 2, 201411 yr by BigEdWalsh

Cricket player Phillip Hughes, age 25. Hit in the head playing a few days ago in Australia. Terrible.

His death was really scary as he actually didn't get hit in the head. He got hit at the top of his neck near the base of the skull. however it hit at just the right angle and pressure that it split his vertabral artery which stopped the blood supply to his brain.

We are taught a way to test the intergrity of the vertebral artery before doing cervical manipulations and I cannot see how he got hit just rightr to have this happen. This is truly the definition of an awful situation with just horrible luck.

 

RIP.

His death was really scary as he actually didn't get hit in the head. He got hit at the top of his neck near the base of the skull. however it hit at just the right angle and pressure that it split his vertabral artery which stopped the blood supply to his brain.

We are taught a way to test the intergrity of the vertebral artery before doing cervical manipulations and I cannot see how he got hit just rightr to have this happen. This is truly the definition of an awful situation with just horrible luck.

 

RIP.

 

I was going to change that since I read more about it. Sounds a lot like what killed Mike Coolbaugh.

I was going to change that since I read more about it. Sounds a lot like what killed Mike Coolbaugh.

Is that what happened to him? All of the deaths that I know of were caused by getting hit in the head. This one was just so weird because of it hitting such a small space where the artery is located. I've never heard of it or seen anything written about it, other than things like whiplash injuries where the headrest is already up against it.

Hockey legend Jean Beliveau, 83.

Another musician connected to the Rolling Stones, keyboardist Ian Mclagan 69 years old

 

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/03/showbiz/musi....html?hpt=hp_t2

Joe Cocker

Local "celebrity" Car Dealer Al Piemonte, 83

Local "celebrity" Car Dealer Al Piemonte, 83

 

dem cars

 

Voice Actress Christine Cavanaugh, 51 - Leukemia

Edward Herrmann, Actor, 71 - Brain Cancer

Voice Actress Christine Cavanaugh, 51 - Leukemia

 

Best known to me as the voice behind Chucky Finster of Rugrats

Mario Cuomo, 82, politician and former minor leaguer

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/p...id=cuomo-001mar

Donna Douglas, played Elly May from The Beverly Hillbillies has passed away at the age of 81.

Donna Douglas, played Elly May from The Beverly Hillbillies has passed away at the age of 81.

I came across her passing this afternoon and became instantly sad. I grew up watching reruns of the BHB and loved the show.

 

RIP Donna Douglas, thanks for the fond memories of watching the show in my youth.

Little Jimmy Dickens, 94, Nashville legend.

RIP Stuart Scott, 49

RIP Stuart Scott

 

Yeah, I just saw that. Cancer is brutal.

Damn, I really like Stuart Scott and have enjoyed watching him for years.

 

RIP Stuart.