March 23, 2006

• This is cool, actually. I like that part of it is sorted by cast in various tv shows. I was suprised to see that only 6 people on SNL have died--sure feels like a lot more than that!
• How can one trust a web site that claims that Abe Vigoda is alive?
• all of those chicks on 'the golden girls' are still alive. does anyone else find this vaguely creepy?
• only 6 people on SNL have died Life isnt always fair.
• I remember that they had a category on the old MTV game show "Remote Control" which was called "Dead or Alive?" They would name a celebrity, and the contestant would have to guess whether that celebrity was dead or alive. It was great fun, and I always enjoyed the thought of some celebrity watching people guess that he or she had died.
• I'd forgotten about that. Later they changed it to "Dead or Canadian?"
• Kind of like Graham Norton's "Gay or Eurotrash?"
• Wow. Don Knotts is dead. Who knew?
• Given that land is at such a premium in Hollywood cemetaries, I'm surprised Don Knotts can afford to die these days.
• So, did they bury Don in Knott's Landing?
• The SNL listing is incomplete. There are many cast members not listed, and it does not include the recent death of Charles Rocket, nor the death of Danitra Vance in 1994. Nor was Andy Kaufman a cast member of the show, per se; he was a guest performer.
• Umm . . . pass. *snork* Get it?! Hah! Oh man, that's obtuse! Heh . . heh . . . ehhhhh.
• Well. To think Mickey Spillane is still around. His work seemed outdated even in the fifties. /bee mused
• The actors/actresses section made me feel simultaneously young and old.
• Tina Louise is 72 years old. I didn't need to learn that.
• website that tells you which famous people of a certain age are still breathing I thought this meant that they had listings sorted by age. That would be cool but I don't see any such thing.
• I took it more as that fun phrase "of a certain age" which generally is a nice way of saying O-old.
• I think (= really, I don't know, but I'm gonna say it anyway) that the phrase traditionally referred to menopausal women...
• Since I could not find myself listed either dead or alive, I must be a zombie. Fuckin' A!
• Rob?
• Just sat through Turner Classic Movies's annual "Who Kicked Off This Year" montage. Anybody got a spare bowl of Zoloft lying around?
• I took mine this morning as usual (they don't half dry my mouth out), and have only three weeks' supply left. So no, I don't have any spare. Sorry.
• R.I.P. William H. Shaeffer, composer of the theme music for "The Flintstones" and other TV shows.
• RIP Mr. G.: Robert Goulet leaves us in autumn after all.
• Begin the thawing of Jim Nabors. Rest easy, Goulet.
• His manager told him to drop dead. "Vera said that?"
• I'm sorry -- he was a legend and all, but I can't think of anything but that episode. Not sure I've seen him in anything else, actually. But still -- a truly great episode. "Freemasons run the country!" "GAH!"
• It's sad. Not because he's a celebrity, but because it must be so scary to know you could live if you get a transplant, then die before it happens. (I know, he was in a coma. But scary for his family.)
• More sad news from the lung department.
• Mr. G.'s photo gallery. [WARNING: features Wayne & Shuster. 's set.]
• Oh, its a long, long while from May to December But the days grow short when you reach September When the Autumn weather turns the leaves to flame One hasn't got time for the waiting game. Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few September, November. And these few precious days Ill spend with you. These precious days Ill spend with you. Missed November by THAT much.
• I remember sitting on the porch listening to the folks playing his records. There goes one more bit of my childhood. RIP Mr. G.
• RIP Maila Nurmi, aka Vampira. Who's scarier NOW, Elvira?
• P.S. The comments on the blog are very touching. Bring tissues.
• I saw in a bio piece on her that she actually rubbed meat tenderizer on her sides before tightening up her corset to get that absolutely impossible hourglass shape. RIP.
• that she actually rubbed meat tenderizer on her sides before tightening up her corset
• yeah I had some wine with dinner, it's been a long day...
• There's a lot of crossover in general between the disgusting and the erotic. Being human is a messy affair.
• that's what I love about it TUM :)
• Brad Renfro found dead yesterday.
• RIP, Creature
• No Renfro in Oscar Montage
• Strange montage this year. I don't remember executives and agents being included before.
• Memoirs of a Famous Composer -- Nobody Ever Heard Of RIP Earle Hagen, composer of some of the most iconic TV themes
• Alexander Courage, composer of the "Star Trek" theme, dies
• R.I.P. to my favorite B-movie tough girl Beverly Garland.
• :(