Dead Celebrity Thread

Coin

Oh, no. Fuuuck.

Arkandel

The guy lived a kickass life, had a hell of a career, and possessed the voice of a higher-level being.

Insomnia

My Way Heavy Metal cover as preformed by Sir Christopher Lee.

Royal

Dusty Rhodes. The American Dream is no more.

spasticgoat

Link to news article about Dusty Rhodes.

The Tree of Woe

"He threw a bic pen into a tree in front of me."

I don't feel sad about Christopher Lee's passing. What a life that man had. He got to play Dracula, Saruman, and he could kill you with a goddamn bic pen at range.

Dusty... from what I've heard, Dusty could be a difficult guy, but he calmed down when he got older, it seems, and he made peace with his family -- and a pro wrestler making it to almost 70 especially when they did the shit Dusty Rhodes did - fucking barbed-wire matches - is an achievement.

BetterJudgment

Ornette Coleman.

Bobotron

Blech.

Christopher Lee was an awesome actor.

Silver

Another deadpool point I missed. Dammit.

Sunny

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2012/aug/21/former-tacoma-mall-gorilla-ivan-dies-age-50/

The Tree of Woe

50 is ancient for a gorilla.

Shebakoby

@ZombieGenesis Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Not Saruman!
@The-Tree-of-Woe For some reason, I could not STAND the elephant show song as a child. The "skinamarinky dinky dink" parts bugged the crap out of me.

Sunny

@The-Tree-of-Woe said:

50 is ancient for a gorilla.

I know. But he was still a huge part of my childhood growing up (every time I visited my father, I wanted to go see Ivan), and part of my awareness-learning of the world -- I loved going and visiting him, but eventually I did realize (as did many others) that where he was was a bad, bad place for him. Too small, kinda yuck. I was so, so, so glad when he went off to a good zoo. He had a good run of it.