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2016 Deathlist

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Crinklyfox

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6 hours ago, Alf Bentley said:

 

I heard he was carrying a donor card.

So, this Christmas he'll give them his heart and the very next day, they'll give it away. :ph34r:

 

In all seriousness, this Grim Reaper chap is starting to piss me off. George was a year younger than me, too.

I wasn't a massive fan, but Wham were better than most mainstream 80s pop bands, he was a fine singer & songwriter and he seemed like a nice bloke who was prepared to laugh at himself. :(

2016 claims yet another musician.  It's only a matter of time before musicians start dying that I've never heard of.  George Michael was well past my era but he was talented. 

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Steven

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54 minutes ago, Northants Fox 3 said:

http://www.itv.com/news/2016-12-26/royle-family-actress-liz-smith-dies-aged-95

 

Royale Family actress Liz Smith dies aged 95...........................2016 curse strikes yet again

 

Her and Barbara Lott on 2point4 children. Classic comedy.

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Lionator

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On 25/12/2016 at 23:39, Facecloth said:

The amount of massively famous people who everybody will have heard of who've died this year is unbelievable. 

 

The Queen and Bruce Forsyth will be be bricking it over the next few days.

I think it's simply because there are more celebrities from this era. If you think back 10 years and beyond, less celebrities were dying because there were less celebrities in general. Just a theory.

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celebrities were made to last years ago. Bill Wyman will go on forever. The ones today just die quietly after being a celeb for a short time.The ones I grew up with are either already gone or just a few years younger or older than me. George Michael may have just been outside my fave when he started with Wham but I thought he was a better solo artist. He matured as a singer songwriter.

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13 hours ago, Lionator said:

I think it's simply because there are more celebrities from this era. If you think back 10 years and beyond, less celebrities were dying because there were less celebrities in general. Just a theory.

Simpler than that - a lot of celebrities, particularly from the 70s & 80s were baby boomers, and are hitting their seventies and eighties, reaching the sort of age that people croak. It's why it'll just get worse in the coming years.

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Carrie Fisher has gone as well now

 

http://people.com/movies/carrie-fisher-dies/

 

 

On 25/12/2016 at 23:44, HathernFox said:

There's still time for death to have a second go for Carrie Fisher.

 

On 25/12/2016 at 23:58, Costock_Fox said:

That sounds incredibly sinister, if you are boarding a plane with some Ricin you still have time to back out.

 

 

EDIT - HOAX

 

EDIT 2 - Not Hoax

 

Can someone confirm?

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Carrie Fisher, ‘Star Wars’ Actress and Writer Who Rocketed to Fame as Princess Leia, Dies at 60

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December 27, 2016 | 09:56AM PT

Carrie Fisher, the actress, writer and daughter of Hollywood royalty who became internationally famous as Princess Leia of “Star Wars,” has died, Variety has confirmed. She was 60.

Fisher died Tuesday morning after suffering what was described as a massive heart attack on Friday while on a flight from London to Los Angeles. She had been in London filming episodes of the Amazon/Channel 4 comedy “Catastrophe.” Fisher was rushed from Los Angeles International Airport to UCLA Medical Center after the plane landed around noon PT.

Fisher was the daughter of actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher, whose marriage famously broke up when Eddie Fisher had an affair with Elizabeth Taylor. She often remarked that she was born in the spotlight, and her life and career reflected the highs and lows of the entertainment business. Her mother’s career struggles after her 1950s heyday weighed heavily on Fisher.

“I grew up on the back side of show business. So I had no desire to go into it. It had beat up my mother,” Fisher told the New York Times in 2006. “I had a front-and-center view of how that hurt her. I understood that when they were done with you, they were done.”

 

 

Fisher demonstrated her skill as a writer with the best-selling 1987 novel “Postcards From the Edge,” about an actress struggling to rebuild her career after an overdose. Fisher wrote the screenplay for the 1990 film adaptation, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine.

Fisher also penned the autobiographical 2008 book “Wishful Drinking,” based on her one-woman stage show of the same name. She had recently been promoting her newly published memoir of her “Star Wars” years, “The Princess Diarist.”

In her writing and in public, Fisher was revealing about her battles with drugs and mental health issues. Her outspokenness about addiction earned her a lifetime achievement award from Harvard College in 2016 for cultural humanitarianism.

After her parents divorced when she was 2, Fisher was estranged from her father for decades until she became his caretaker prior to his death in 2010.

Fisher got her start in the family business at age 15, when she appeared alongside Reynolds in the 1973 Broadway revival of “Irene.” Two years later she made her film debut in the hit comedy “Shampoo” starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie and Goldie Hawn.

But it was 1977’s “Star Wars,” later re-titled “Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope” that brought Fisher international recognition. Cloaked in white with her hair parted and tucked into two spiral side twists, the now-legendary character Princess Leia first appeared in the film as the fearless leader of the planet Alderaan, agent of the Rebel Alliance and member of the Imperial Senate.

The film earned six Oscars and launched a franchise of epic proportions. Two sequels followed “A New Hope” — “The Empire Strikes Back” in 1980 and “Return of the Jedi” in 1983 — to form what is now known as the original trilogy. Three prequels were released years later between 1999 and 2005, in which Fisher did not participate. Then, when a sequel trilogy was announced starting with 2015’s “The Force Awakens,” the actress re-joined the series.

In November 2016 Fisher revealed that while filming the original “Star Wars” she had a three-month affair with her co-star Harrison Ford, who was then married to Mary Marquardt. “It was so intense,” Fisher said of the secret affair. “It was Han and Leia during the week, and Carrie and Harrison during the weekend.”

Following the original “Star Wars” trilogy, Fisher had a steady career in Hollywood, consistently appearing in films and television, though never in roles with the same global visibility as George Lucas’ creation. Starting in the early 1990s, Fisher became a much sought-after script doctor for films.

Her performance in Nora Ephron’s 1989 romantic comedy “When Harry Met Sally” opposite Bruno Kirby was a stand-out performance, as was her role the same year in “The ‘Burbs,” a black comedy starring Tom Hanks. More recently, her guest shot on NBC’s “30 Rock” earned her an Emmy nomination in 2008. Her guest role as the caustic mother, Mia, on “Catastrophe” also earned good notices.

Her other notable film performances include “The Blues Brothers” (1980), “Garbo Talks” (1984), “Hannah and Her Sisters” (1990), “Soapdish” (1991), “Austin Powers” (1997) and “Scream 3” (2000). Her many TV appearances included guest shots on “Frasier,” “Sex and the City,” “Entourage,” “Smallville,” “Weeds,” “The Big Bang Theory” and “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce.”  Fisher was a semi-regular voice actor on Fox’s “Family Guy,” as the boss of the brewery where patriarch Peter Griffin works.

As a writer, Fisher wrote episodes of “Roseanne” and “Young Indiana Jones.” She co-wrote the 2001 ABC TV movie “These Old Broads,” which starred Reynolds, Taylor, MacLaine and Joan Collins as actresses enjoying a sudden career revival. Fisher’s stage show “Wishful Drinking” became a 2010 HBO special that earned an Emmy nomination for variety, music or comedy special.

Fisher’s personal life was also tumultuous. She began dating musician Paul Simon in 1977 and married him in 1983, but the union lasted less than a year. Fisher had one child, daughter Billie Catherine Lourd in 1992, with CAA managing partner Bryan Lourd. Fisher’s relationship with Lourd ended in 1994 and, although they were never married, Fisher frequently referred to Lourd in interviews as her second husband. She was candid in her writing and elsewhere about the emotional experience of having Lourd leave her for a man.

In addition to her mother and daughter, Fisher’s survivors include a brother, Todd.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can we have new years early aand just bin 2016. Terrible year for celebrity deaths

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4 minutes ago, Costock_Fox said:

Anyone seen Bruce Forsyth recently?

He's ill apparently, which is why he wasn't wheeled out by the BBC for the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas show. He's probably not got long left.

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