Celebrities we really miss

[SnoopDog]

- John Belushi - He was responsible for one of the coolest and funniest movie-line delivery in the history of film.

''Elwood : Shit.
Jake : What?
Elwood : Rollers...
Jake : No.
Elwood : Yeah.
Jake : Shit. ''


- Johnny Cash - His latest songs were the best

- Princess Diana - I don't give a shit about royals but the world lost a good human being that day.

- Marlon Brando - The horror, the horror

Snoopy

 

[English Lady]

Roald Dahl - what an author.

Douglas Adams -ditto

Thora Hird (edie in last of the summer wine) -a lovely christian lady who just brought something special to everything she acted in.



Those are the ones that leap to mind.

 

[Somme]

Happy is the country which requires no heroes....

 

[SensualCealy]

Mr Hooper -sesame street-first dealing with death
Mr Dressup- Ernie Coombs- reminds me of my dad
Stevie Ray Vaughn- He was the best!
John Denver- First song I knew all the words to.
Sonny Bono- growing up with Sonny and Cher
And Princess Diana- a true princess!

There are many actors and actresses that you wish were still here to fill our evenings with their works, too many to remember, but will always pop in here and there when we grab and oldie to watch.
Cealy

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Of course my number 1 is Katherine Hepburn....then Peggy Lee.

In the Art world.....the illustrator Antonio Lopez and surrealist Salvador Dali' and illustrator George Stavirinos.

but really......I too miss Gilda and Madeline, but lets not forget...John Candy.

 

[RebeccaLeah]

Shel Silverstein.

 

[minsue]

Of course my number 1 is Katherine Hepburn....then Peggy Lee.

In the Art world.....the illustrator Antonio Lopez and surrealist Salvador Dali' and illustrator George Stavirinos.

but really......I too miss Gilda and Madeline, but lets not forget...John Candy.

John Candy was one of the first to come to mind, sweets.

Personally, I still get teary over the loss of Ladmo (which will mean nothing to anyone who didn't grow up in AZ from the 50's to the 80's). Just trust me. The world lost a wonderful man when Ladmo (in the top hat) died.

 

[minsue]

Shel Silverstein.

I didn't know!

Crap. What a way to start the day, eh?

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Christa McAuliffe ~ School Teacher/Astronaut

I doubt she compares on a celebrity level with most mentioned here, but in 1986 I was a little girl with huge dreams. She was going to "outer space"! I wanted to be her in the worst way. Still do.



~lucky

 

[The Mutt]

Two that I really miss right now are Bill Hicks and Frank Zappa. I would have loved to hear them skewer the current Bush Regime.

 

[steve w]

Bill Hicks
Douglas Adams
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Nina Simone
David Niven
Audrey Hepburn
Johnny Cash

 

[eric shawn listo]

Johnny Cash, American original
Jimmy Stewart, wonderful actor--he died the same day as my dear old dad.
someone said Dan Blocker--dear god yes!

 

[oggbashan]

A very incomplete list:-

Comedians:
Tony Hancock
Tommy Cooper
Frankie Howerd

Actors:
James Cagney

Heros:
Douglas Bader (a very difficult man to talk to but an inspiration to the disabled - a practitoner of 'tough love')
Winston Churchill
Mother Teresa
Martin Luther King

Inventors:
Barnes Wallis
Tommy Flowers (Who? The man who built the Colossus computer that broke the German Enigma with his own money and was never repaid)


Og

 

[SnoopDog]

I just got reminded of him by another thread:

Freddy Mercury.

Queens ROCKS !!!!!!!!!!

Snoopy, waiting for the hammer to fall

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Jack Buck, who was the radio voice of The St. Louis Cardinals baseball games for years. Baseball around here just isn't the same without him. Some of my fondest memories growing up were of listening to Cardinals games with my grandparents. Jack was a veteran of baseball and a veteran of WW2 and a just all around wonderful man. He was a winner.

 

[The Mutt]

Jack Buck, who was the radio voice of The St. Louis Cardinals baseball games for years. Baseball around here just isn't the same without him. Some of my fondest memories growing up were of listening to Cardinals games with my grandparents. Jack was a veteran of baseball and a veteran of WW2 and a just all around wonderful man. He was a winner.

Ah, Miss Scarlet. You bring back memories. Whenever I hear a sports announcer all I can think of is, "He's good, but he's no Jack Buck."