Aww... #RIP Carl Weathers, who starred as Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky films and appeared in Predator, The Mandalorian, Happy Gilmore, Action Jackson and dozens of other films and TV shows, died Tuesday, his family announced. He was 76. https://deadline.com/2024/02/carl-weathers-dead-1235812684/
#RIP Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90 https://apnews.com/article/6d3800130ef4e67d761f96b328f7c263
Aww. #RIP Roger Corman, the Oscar-winning “King of the Bs” who helped turn out such low-budget classics as “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Attack of the Crab Monsters” and gave many of Hollywood’s most famous actors and directors early breaks, has died. He was 98.
Aww, damn. #RIP Award-winning journalist Charles Osgood, who anchored "CBS Sunday Morning" for 22 years and was host of the long-running radio program "The Osgood File," died Tuesday at home in New Jersey. He was 91.
Aww! #RIP Glynis Johns, Tony Award-winning stage and screen star who played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in the classic movie “Mary Poppins” and introduced the world to the bittersweet standard-to-be “Send in the Clowns” by Stephen Sondheim, has died. She was 👉🏼100.👈🏼 https://apnews.com/article/3380091d508785048c5dfc8e485f4de0
#RIP David McCallum, who starred as Illya Kuryakin alongside Robert Vaughn’s Napoleon Solo in the 1960s hit spy drama “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” and had a supporting role as pathologist Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard on the top-rated series “NCIS” decades later, died Monday of natural causes in New York City. He was 90.
😥 #RIP “Norman Jewison, the acclaimed and versatile Canadian-born director whose Hollywood films ranged from Doris Day comedies and “Moonstruck” to social dramas such as the Oscar-winning “In the Heat of the Night,” has died at age 97.
Jewison, a three-time Oscar nominee who in 1999 received an Academy Award for lifetime achievement, died “peacefully” Saturday, according to publicist Jeff Sanderson. Additional details were not immediately available.” https://apnews.com/article/abd93f2b671b416aabdd83829822e14a
He left his heart in San Francisco. Today, Tony Bennett left us at age 96, breaking ours. His first hit was in 1951 and topped the charts again more than 60 years later. He won 20 Grammy awards and performed for every POTUS, from DDE to Barack Obama. Bennett was devoted to civil rights. He campaigned for JFK & joined Dr. King in the march from Selma to Montgomery, AL. Gift article: https://wapo.st/3DsMs9e
😢#RIP “Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 87.
Gossett’s nephew told The Associated Press that the actor died Thursday night in Santa Monica, California. No cause of death was revealed.”
#RIP George Brown, founding member & drummer of group Kool & the Gang, died on Thurs at 74.
“Mr. Brown, known as Funky, was a key contributor to several of the band’s biggest hits, including “Ladies Night,” “Jungle Boogie” and the party anthem “Celebration.”
We lost a titan of programming languages, programming methodology, software engineering, and hardware design. Niklaus Wirth passed away on the first of January, 2024. He designed several programming languages, including Pascal, and pioneered several classic topics in software engineering. #RIP
#RIP Faith Ringgold, Who Wove Black Life Into Quilts and Children’s Books, Dies at 93
A champion of Black artists, she explored themes of race, gender, class, family and community through a vast array of media and later the written word.