William Goldman, the screenwriter for Butch Cassidy, All the President's Men, and The Princess Bride, has passed away at 87.
He was a very good writer and he wrote several good books, too. Adventures in the Screen Trade, Marathon Man, and the original book version of The Princess Bride are all worth a read.
Adventures in the Screen Trade will make you wonder how anyone ever manages to make a good movie in Hollywood at all.
He was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2017, and now succumbed to the disease. Rest in peace.
Re: Obituary Thread - Those We've Lost Recently
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2018 1:16 pm
by Mr. Big
Shit, that hits me hard
I never got to meet or talk to him, although when I worked on the SpongeBob comic books he was involved in approving every story that got printed, including mine.
Godspeed, Mr. Hillenburg.
Re: Obituary Thread - Those We've Lost Recently
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 12:54 pm
by Madeline
57 is way too young to die, and ALS is a bad way to go.
Re: Obituary Thread - Those We've Lost Recently
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2018 12:02 am
by SlateSlabrock
Re: Obituary Thread - Those We've Lost Recently
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2018 12:38 am
by Octavia
I wonder if Trump is gonna be banned from his funeral as well. 3 in one year would be impressive.
He was the oldest living president in history. Jimmy Carter can surpass it in a few months.
Re: Obituary Thread - Those We've Lost Recently
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2018 5:13 pm
by Mr. Big
Bush Sr. was president when I was born. Kinda surreal that there's a president from my lifetime that's passed on.
This also means that Jimmy Carter outlived two succeeding presidents (Martin Van Buren holds the record for outliving four succeeding presidents).
This also means that Jimmy Carter outlived two succeeding presidents (Martin Van Buren holds the record for outliving four succeeding presidents).
yeah but one of those was William Henry Harrison and that really shouldn't count.
We just covered this era in my APUSH class and what a disaster it was. Harrison dies, his VP is so terrible he gets kicked out of his own party (and later supports the Confederacy). Then Polk is elected and sure, fair enough... then Polk dies of cholera a couple months after leaving office. His successor gets food poisoning at a 4th of July party and dies (giving birth to a conspiracy theory that he was poisoned by Southerners for rejecting the Compromise of 1850), and the next three presidents after him are Doughfaces who land the country in a civil war.
Re: Obituary Thread - Those We've Lost Recently
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2019 2:40 pm
by SlateSlabrock
Re: Obituary Thread - Those We've Lost Recently
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2019 9:17 pm
by Madeline
That’s quite a run.
Re: Obituary Thread - Those We've Lost Recently
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2019 10:03 am
by The Doctor
Actor Albert Finney has died.
Re: Obituary Thread - Those We've Lost Recently
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2019 1:49 am
by Madeline
Actor Bruno Ganz and Ken Nordine, creator of word jazz, have died.
The worst part is that he had to keep touring just to afford his healthcare.
I also recently found out that Scott Walker (the musician) passed away on March 22.
Re: Obituary Thread - Those We've Lost Recently
Posted: Thu May 02, 2019 4:09 pm
by Mr. Big
Found out that Chris Reccardi, writer, artist, and director on cartoons such as "Ren and Stimpy", "Powerpuff Girls", "Dexter's Lab", as well as co-creating "The Modifiers" pilot with his wife Lynne Naylor, has died.
He's probably best known for creating "Peep and the Big Wide World", but he was also a NFB filmmaker and did a ton of funny cartoons there. One of my favorite films:
Among the countless roles she did in her multi-decade career, she also did a number of voices in the original MLP movie and TV show. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russi_Taylor
