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« Reply #105 on: January 28, 2019, 01:02:09 pm »
How is Keith Richards still alive?
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« Reply #106 on: January 28, 2019, 04:48:58 pm »
How is Keith Richards still alive?

He has daily transfusions an undocumented pacemaker and daily CT scans also.  Spends 30 minutes a day outside his pherma-bubble.

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« Reply #107 on: January 28, 2019, 04:59:35 pm »
How is Keith Richards still alive?

Churchill syndrome. A dozen cigars, a few whiskies, a bottle and a half of champagne and a couple of brandies a day for a good life.
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« Reply #109 on: February 22, 2019, 09:45:36 am »
Karl Lagerfeld, fashion icon, also passed away this week.  He was hilariously recognizable, and was a key figure at Chanel for decades. He also had his own label. I was never interested in high fashion, but I do like the Lagerfeld cologne.

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« Reply #110 on: March 12, 2019, 11:51:49 pm »
Luke Perry, actor known as a teen idol on Beverly Hills 90210, and more recently parent of teen idol on Riverdale, died from a stroke last week, just 52 years old.

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« Reply #111 on: May 04, 2019, 10:52:43 pm »
I'm not sure that Rachel Held Evans is exactly a "celebrity", but she was a popular Christian author.    She died today, just 37 years old, after a severe allergic reaction to antibiotics.

I don't spend much time reading religious writers and thinkers, but Evans was one that I did read once in a while. She was an evangelical, but also a progressive, which makes her a pretty rare blend, and an interesting read in a landscape where Christianity (especially evangelical Christianity) is mostly represented by conservative and male voices.

This blog post is typical of how she framed progressive ideas in a Christian context:
https://rachelheldevans.com/blog/me-too-john-piper

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« Reply #112 on: May 04, 2019, 11:13:05 pm »
I'm not sure that Rachel Held Evans is exactly a "celebrity", but she was a popular Christian author.    She died today, just 37 years old, after a severe allergic reaction to antibiotics.

I don't spend much time reading religious writers and thinkers, but Evans was one that I did read once in a while. She was an evangelical, but also a progressive, which makes her a pretty rare blend, and an interesting read in a landscape where Christianity (especially evangelical Christianity) is mostly represented by conservative and male voices.

This blog post is typical of how she framed progressive ideas in a Christian context:
https://rachelheldevans.com/blog/me-too-john-piper

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Sad when anyone dies at 37.  However, calling her a celebrity is a bit of a stretch.
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« Reply #113 on: May 14, 2019, 07:25:04 pm »
Tim Conway gone today. His Carol Burnett Show skits were the funniest things I have seen on TV.
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« Reply #114 on: May 14, 2019, 07:56:33 pm »
Tim Conway gone today. His Carol Burnett Show skits were the funniest things I have seen on TV.

 ???  Well.  It's sad he's gone but... really ?

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« Reply #115 on: May 14, 2019, 08:08:59 pm »
Pinus:
How is Keith Richards still alive?
Churchill syndrome. A dozen cigars, a few whiskies, a bottle and a half of champagne and a couple of brandies a day for a good life.
I heard it was blood transfusions.

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« Reply #116 on: May 14, 2019, 08:49:43 pm »
???  Well.  It's sad he's gone but... really ?

He was definitely up there with the funniest. Much of it was ad lib. He would stick to the script during rehearsals then go rogue during the shooting. Just waiting for him to make Harvey Korman lose it was worth watching on its own.
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« Reply #118 on: May 15, 2019, 06:01:07 am »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIvXHYt5rtc&t=43s

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« Reply #119 on: May 15, 2019, 09:23:03 am »
He was definitely up there with the funniest. Much of it was ad lib. He would stick to the script during rehearsals then go rogue during the shooting. Just waiting for him to make Harvey Korman lose it was worth watching on its own.
Tim Conway was (IMHO) the greatest comedian ever.
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