Guess who died in 2024

[metirish]

Donald Sutherland ( 1935- 2024 ) exceptional actor

[Frayed Knot]

Donald Sutherland ( 1935- 2024 ) exceptional actor

There are those who will tell you they don't believe in coincidences, that everything has a reason or a pattern behind it.
So if it's Not a coincidence that the actors who played Henry Blake in the movie M*A*S*H and in the TV version, Roger Bowen and McLean Stevenson, died on consecutive days (while both still just in their 60s) then someone needs to watch out for Alan Alda seeing as how Donald Sutherland was the movie version of Hawkeye Pierce.
Or the fact that Sutherland and Alda are both 88 y/o means that both could be considered in the go-at-any-minute grouping.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Well, Elliot Gould has seriously outlived Wayne Rogers.

[Frayed Knot]

Or at least that's what they want you to believe.



William Christopher & Rene Auberjonois (Lt. Father Francis Mulcahy) died three years apart, although Christopher
died one year to the day after Wayne Rogers, so there's another supposed co-inky-dink for you.

[Edgy MD]

Donald Sutherland was, among other things, an Expos super-fan, which is a great thing to be.



None of us should outlive our team.

[Frayed Knot]

Martin Mull - 80

Orlando Cepeda - 86

[Frayed Knot]

Singer, songwriter, novel writer, feature writer, and one-time candidate for Governor of Texas (12.6% of the vote, 4th in a six-person race), Richard 'Kinky' Friedman - 79

[Edgy MD]

Anders died on June 7th in a crash of a vintage plane which he owned and was flying!! off the coast of Washington State.
He was the only one aboard. And the fraternity of living men who have traveled to the moon decreases by one more notch.

It turns out Anders was doing a flyby on a friend's house when he crashed. I noticed that after reading about a family of five crashing on their way back from a children's baseball tournament in Cooperstown.

Commercial aviation is degrading, but private aviation, it seems, is still a really risky way to go.

[Frayed Knot]

Commercial aviation is degrading, but private aviation, it seems, is still a really risky way to go.

Even more so when the pilot is 90 y/o
But astronauts didn't get to be astronauts by being risk-averse.

[Chad ochoseis]

James Inhofe, Oklahoma senator, climate change denier, and overall idiot, 89.

He'll be learning a whole lot more about climate change where he's going.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/0 ... y-00167021

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Shelley Duvall passed away today.

[whippoorwill]

Aw…. Great memories of Faerie Tale Theatre

[G-Fafif]

Dave Loggins, who gave us “Please Come to Boston,” 76.

https://www.tennessean.com/obituaries/pokr0878306

[Frayed Knot]

Second cousin to singer Kenny Loggins though the two did not know each other until they were adults.

[metirish]

Ruth Westheimer, the Sex Guru Known as Dr. Ruth, Dies at 96

NYT

[MFS62]

I'll guess that she died with a smile on her face.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv ... 235947939/

Later

[whippoorwill]

Second cousin to singer Kenny Loggins though the two did not know each other until they were adults.

I often wondered if they were related

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Ruth Westheimer, the Sex Guru Known as Dr. Ruth, Dies at 96

NYT

I was a student worker at NCC when she was a speaker. I got to helper with the projector and such. She was very friendly and gracious!

[cal sharpie]

When I worked at the publishing house she was published by, she appeared one day and I did her a favor. She announced to all about that I would have great sex for the rest of my life.

[Edgy MD]

Damn.

[metirish]

Richard Simmons ,age 76

Wow ,largely out of the spotlight for the last several years

[whippoorwill]

He was a fun character back in the day.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Shannen Doherty, 53

[G-Fafif]

The great Bob Newhart, 94.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Sad.