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Re: A celebrity has died thread
« Reply #75 on: June 07, 2018, 04:04:27 am »
Fashion designer Kate Spade hanged herself Tuesday.

From the outside she seems like somebody who had everything in the world. But her suicide was apparently not a big shock to people who knew her, as she has struggled with anxiety and depression.

Getting your first Kate Spade handbag was, I gather, a rite of passage for some women. Not me or anybody I know personally... but people like Chelsea Clinton and Ivanka Trump and many others have been sharing stories about their first Kate Spade handbag or to urge people to get medical help if they are feeling suicidal.  TV star David Spade-- her brother-in-law-- also posted some touching comments about her.

These handbags were symbols that you've arrived-- Chelsea Clinton's was a gift from her grandma when she went to college. For others it was their first luxury purchase after landing their first "real" job. Or a graduation present, or a 20th birthday present, that sort of thing. More women talking about how much their first Kate Spade handbag meant to them:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/women-kate-spade-bag-stories-trnd/index.html

https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/06/kate-spade-tributes-on-twitter-remember-her-designer-bags.html

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« Reply #76 on: June 07, 2018, 06:21:48 am »
Yes, working in retail now gave me a different perspective on this.  Many women had an appreciation for the [popular] art of this handbag design.

Very sad to lose someone so young.
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« Reply #77 on: June 07, 2018, 08:56:09 am »
Quote from: MH on June 07, 2018, 06:21:48 am
Yes, working in retail now gave me a different perspective on this.  Many women had an appreciation for the [popular] art of this handbag design.

Very sad to lose someone so young.

I read Ms. Spade was 55 years old... that ain't so young, you geezer you!
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« Reply #78 on: June 07, 2018, 09:29:02 am »
Quote from: waldo on June 07, 2018, 08:56:09 am
I read Ms. Spade was 55 years old... that ain't so young, you geezer you!

Too young to die my friend.  She seems like an American success story from a bygone era.  Sad.
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« Reply #79 on: June 07, 2018, 09:37:19 am »
Quote from: kimmy on June 07, 2018, 04:04:27 am
Fashion designer Kate Spade hanged herself Tuesday.

From the outside she seems like somebody who had everything in the world. But her suicide was apparently not a big shock to people who knew her, as she has struggled with anxiety and depression.

Getting your first Kate Spade handbag was, I gather, a rite of passage for some women. Not me or anybody I know personally... but people like Chelsea Clinton and Ivanka Trump and many others have been sharing stories about their first Kate Spade handbag or to urge people to get medical help if they are feeling suicidal.  TV star David Spade-- her brother-in-law-- also posted some touching comments about her.

These handbags were symbols that you've arrived-- Chelsea Clinton's was a gift from her grandma when she went to college. For others it was their first luxury purchase after landing their first "real" job. Or a graduation present, or a 20th birthday present, that sort of thing. More women talking about how much their first Kate Spade handbag meant to them:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/women-kate-spade-bag-stories-trnd/index.html

https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/06/kate-spade-tributes-on-twitter-remember-her-designer-bags.html

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Ivanka Trump urging people to get help as her father cuts hundreds of millions of dollars in support is disgusting as ****.
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« Reply #80 on: June 07, 2018, 09:48:02 am »
Quote from: cybercoma on June 07, 2018, 09:37:19 am
Ivanka Trump urging people to get help as her father cuts hundreds of millions of dollars in support is disgusting as ****.

Yes... she's an Instagram activist at best. Like her step-mom's alleged stance against cyber-bullying, the concern is just for show.

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« Reply #81 on: June 27, 2018, 12:42:25 am »
David Ogden Stiers passed away a few months ago. He was of course best known as Charles Emerson Winchester III on M*A*S*H.  I was not old enough to remember M*A*S*H during its original run, but when I was young our local TV station used to play an episode of M*A*S*H every night after the evening news.    Winchester was brought in to replace Frank Burns. Burns had no redeeming qualities at all.  Winchester, on the other hand, while being a pompous snob and frequent foil to Hawkeye and Honeycutt, was a more rounded character who had many admirable qualities.  While his love of classical music was at first glance part of his snob persona, I thought his determination to cling to high culture in spite of the circumstances was quite noble-- he refused to let the war take away the things that separate humans from animals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGPoXyEEtEU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtaKMHZGv1U

Aside from M*A*S*H,  Stiers also did a ton of voice acting work. This video shows some of the many characters he voiced in animation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qECasv5uLCM

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« Reply #82 on: June 27, 2018, 03:22:29 pm »
Quote from: kimmy on June 27, 2018, 12:42:25 am
David Ogden Stiers passed away a few months ago. He was of course best known as Charles Emerson Winchester III on M*A*S*H.  I was not old enough to remember M*A*S*H during its original run, but when I was young our local TV station used to play an episode of M*A*S*H every night after the evening news.    Winchester was brought in to replace Frank Burns. Burns had no redeeming qualities at all.  Winchester, on the other hand, while being a pompous snob and frequent foil to Hawkeye and Honeycutt, was a more rounded character who had many admirable qualities.  While his love of classical music was at first glance part of his snob persona, I thought his determination to cling to high culture in spite of the circumstances was quite noble-- he refused to let the war take away the things that separate humans from animals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGPoXyEEtEU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtaKMHZGv1U

Aside from M*A*S*H,  Stiers also did a ton of voice acting work. This video shows some of the many characters he voiced in animation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qECasv5uLCM

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He was a more interesting character than Burns. You must be way too young to remember the movie with Donald Sutherland as Hawkeye, Elliot Gould as Trapper, Robert Duval as Burns and Sally Kellerman as Hot Lips.
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« Reply #83 on: August 20, 2018, 06:23:39 am »
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/aretha-franklin-turned-otis-reddings-respect-civil-rights-feminist-anthem.html

A little bit about 'Respect'.  Aretha's impact seems to me to be misunderstood and I am too young to have been there when she was really blazing the trail.  Certainly the handful of songs she has put into our conscious are amazingly performed, and her persona is iconoclastic but I don't feel I know her.
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Re: A celebrity has died thread
« Reply #84 on: August 20, 2018, 09:16:58 am »
Quote from: wilber on June 27, 2018, 03:22:29 pm
He was a more interesting character than Burns. You must be way too young to remember the movie with Donald Sutherland as Hawkeye, Elliot Gould as Trapper, Robert Duval as Burns and Sally Kellerman as Hot Lips.
The thing about movies is you can watch them years later. So even if you were born in the 1990s, you wouldn't necessarily be too young to remember a film from the 1970s.
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« Reply #85 on: August 25, 2018, 10:03:57 pm »
https://twitter.com/Beschizza/status/1033519881268940806

John McCain.  Click on the tweet and watch the embarrassing video.
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« Reply #86 on: August 25, 2018, 10:47:58 pm »
I wonder if Trump's "bone spurs" are bothering him today.
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« Reply #87 on: November 12, 2018, 02:18:39 pm »
Stan Lee passed away today, age 95.  Excelsior, old friend.

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Re: A celebrity has died thread
« Reply #88 on: December 01, 2018, 09:58:56 am »
George Bush, pere, dead

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« Reply #89 on: December 01, 2018, 03:09:05 pm »
I'm not sure that "celebrity" is exactly the right word...

I am too young to remember much about the G.H.W. Bush presidency... most of what I know about him is shaped by the lens of history. I think history remembers him pretty well, especially with his son lowering the bar and Dolt 45 setting the bar so low that they'll need a backhoe excavator to find it.  I think Bush the former's handling of the Iraq invasion of Kuwait set an example for countries to follow.   He said that he did not go to Baghdad or remove Saddam from power because if you went to Baghdad there was no way out. Bush the latter proved Bush the former was correct about that.

I also remember reading the theory that people remember G.H.W being more likeable than he actually was because of Dana Carvey. Dana Carvey's SNL impression of Bush was a kindly old grandfatherly type who people somehow just liked, while the real GHWB wasn't nearly so affable.

I also recall George HW Bush's guest appearance on The Simpsons, and his backing vocals on this song by Ministry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imqvLToWH7k

"What we are looking at is Good and Evil, Right and Wrong."

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