I never cared much for their music but when I was a teenager in the 90's, I developed a mad crush on Peter Tork from watching reruns of the old Monkees tv show on Nickelodeon. Has it really been over 20 years? Le sigh.
RIP.
Mark Hollis from Talk Talk.
Katherine Helmond Whose the Boss, Soap.
@Insomnia said in Dead Celebrities 2019:
Katherine Helmond Whose the Boss, Soap.
Brazil. Time Bandits.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
@Thenomain Damnit, Mona. 
Keith Flint - NewsThump obit is the best obit.
I was never a fan but the dude was the epitome of cool when I was a teenager. Luke Perry
@ZombieGenesis I wasn't hard core into 90210, or even Riverdale, but I loved him in the original permutation of Buffy and he was still one of the teen idols of my generation and I am not feeling alright about it, especially considering he died at age 52.
"If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?"
-- Hamilton: An American Musical
@Cupcake said in Dead Celebrities 2019:
I loved him in the original permutation of Buffy
Yes. Absolutely.
@ZombieGenesis said in Dead Celebrities 2019:
I was never a fan but the dude was the epitome of cool when I was a teenager. Luke Perry
Oh man he was so good on Riverdale.
I always enjoyed him as an actor even when the material was lulz. His work on Oz was gr8.
Yeah, I guess I should clarify. It's not that I was never a fan of his, I was just never a fan of 90210. I did dig him in the original Buffy. Now I think I'll go watch Riverdale. So sad.
@Wretched But who'll smack the bits up now.
@Jaded He was 73? When did that happen?
@Insomnia
Well he died apparently in February but no one confirmed it until this month. But yeah I looked at the age and I was surprised. 73? Could that be true. Yes. Yes it is.
Not a celebrity, but someone who was a very important part of our collective history as a nation:
Since there's a handy obituary to link to now: Vonda N. McIntyre, early science fiction writer and founder of the Clarion West writing workshop, passed away last Monday.
This obituary doesn't begin to capture her, though.
It doesn't talk about how she helped to found a ebook publishing collective for authors, the Book View Café, and how that was one of her proudest achievements.
It doesn't talk much about how she would take aspiring writers under her wing and introduce them around her network; quite a few ended up at tea with Ursula K. LeGuin, or hanging out with Greg Bear, or having dinner with George R.R. Martin, or on speakerphone with Harlan Ellison because Vonda introduced them.
It doesn't talk about her sense of humor and pranks; one of her favorites was convincing a lot of people on a pre-Internet discussion panel that they'd all missed a great (non-existent) science fiction miniseries on TV because it had just been poorly advertised and scheduled badly.
It doesn't talk about her other crafts, like how she would crochet little fractal 'sea creatures' and give friends the ones she thought suited them.
No obituary ever really truly gives a full picture of the person it memorializes. This one at least gives a partial idea of what she was like.
Not a celebrity, but Notre Dame is on fire and has been for several hours.
@ZombieGenesis said in Dead Celebrities 2019:
I was never a fan but the dude was the epitome of cool when I was a teenager. Luke Perry
Oh man he was so good on Riverdale.
I always enjoyed him as an actor even when the material was lulz. His work on Oz was gr8.
