And many more. RIP.
Posted on 12/30/2017 10:04:48 AM PST by Rummyfan
Here's my take on some of those who left us these last twelve months. It's not a comprehensive list: "People die non-stop," as the late Diana Mosley used to say to me with a sigh, and that's very true. My first farewell of 2017 was actually for a lady who took her leave at the end of 2016, collapsing while planning her daughter's funeral:
Like the MGM memorabilia all around her, she stayed old Hollywood. 'Don't I look great?' she'd say. And she did, until the end. She worked hard at it, harder than her daughter did. She worked harder at looking great than at motherhood - at least according to Carrie's account in Postcards From The Edge. But it wasn't quite Mommie Dearest, and Debbie seemed to have a professional respect for it as a good career move, like her own front-yard appearance after her husband's betrayal. She was a brilliant raconteuse - Shirley MacLaine captures that rather well, if more than a little maliciously, in the film of Postcards - and she passed on to her daughter an appreciation of the embellishments and refinements effective storytelling needs. And, while Debbie Reynolds was always going to put herself at the center, as the years went by, she helped bring Carrie back from the edge. Five years ago, she decided to sell her movie memorabilia, because she wanted her and her kids - Todd and Carrie - to enjoy life before they got too old. By then she and her daughter had found a modus vivendi. Last Tuesday and Wednesday they found a modus moriendi, eerie and fantastical and with a final line - 'I want to be with Carrie' - as memorable as any she ever uttered on screen. ....
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
And many more. RIP.
Was that Sharon Tate on the left?
Yes....
Now I’m really glad Manson is in Hell, she was beautiful, and she was pregnant at the time as well.
These are fun to read. Steyn is too smart and too good with words. He’s not quite realistic. One must love him. He’s like the guy who builds a lifesize Taj Mahal out of LEGOs in 1.5 hours.
Steyn used that photo in his in memoriam column for 2017 with the caption being something like ‘one of our losses with the murder victim of another.’
(Hefner with Sharon Tate)
Everyone should read the entire article.
You can’t be “too smart”, Donna. Here’s to Mark Steyn...wish there were more like him.
His article about George Michaels’ passing was hysterically brutal, and I was sad to see GM go.
A more useless piece of man-flesh has never been foisted on society. I doubt even the worms will eat that diseased corpse.
CORRECTION In her auto/bio Debbie says she was forced to sell her fabulous collections b/c her third husband fleeced her out of millions and she needed the money.
Her second husband Harry Karl was a gambler and took everything she had. She'd innocently signed papers he brought to her, never knowing she was signing away her income.......she ended up sleeping in her car.
She opened a casino with the third hubs (which also displayed her collection). But things went terribly wrong. She was awarded a huge amount in the divorce, but the scoundrel wouldn't pay up. So she was forced to sell the memorabilia.
Just an aside: Debbie tells how she caught her then-husband Eddie in bed with Elizabeth.
Debbie was a great impersonator......a crackerjack at imitating voices. Her Zsa Zsa was said to be perfect.
So when Eddie didnt come home, she pretended she was Dean Martin’s secretary wanting to talk to Eddie.
She called the hotel ELizabeth was staying at....sure enough, Eddie took the call.
Man, was he surprised to hear Debbie’s voice....said he’d just dropped in to see la Liz ....at 2 AM.
I enjoyed the book, POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE much better than the movie because Meryl Streep was way too old to be playing that part. Shirley Maclain was outstanding and really the only reason to watch it. But what you get from it is Carrie’s never ending whine that her mother always upstaged her. And at the very end, she did it again. Who now can ever think of Carrie Fisher’s death without thinking that Debbie did it better. I loved Debbie Reynolds and I am glad I got to see her live in Laughlin, NV about four years ago. She did come on the stage and tell everyone how great she looked and then knocked us over with her talent. They just do not make them like that anymore.
Thanks for sharing this, great piece on the Australian cartoonist Bill Leak. I had never heard of him or his problems with jihadis and liberal idiots before.
“I was sad to see GM go.”
Well I was too. I liked him, he had some big problems, but he was handsome and a good singer and he did the song “Faith” and “Whamm” shirts said “Choose Life”, so you know, you could do a lot worse that George Michael.
“And at the very end, she did it again. Who now can ever think of Carrie Fisher’s death without thinking that Debbie did it better.”
LOL, I had forgotten all about this, but boy did she ever. But you know, she did it to be close to her daughter and I get that too. That was just their dynamic and I can only think they had some good laugh about it in heaven!
IMO there are very,very few people in showbiz who deserve an ounce of respect when it comes to things like character,decency,etc.Yes,there are films that I like...roles that I like...performances that I like.Same with music.But DeNiro,great as he was in several films,can go fornicate himself.Ditto Judy Collins and Hendrix.
I would even say he had a great voice. His Sony contract wouldn’t let him come out of the closet, so he was forced to live a lie - publicly - most of his life.
His kids' Kinder Eggs were snagged at the border ("possibility" of a choking hazard), coming back from Canada.
Fitting that he mentions the passing of the candy's creator.
So... it looks like a Kinder egg is a chocolate egg shell, half filled with vanilla chocolate floating two Ferrero Rocher ‘yolks’ and the other half a toy?
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