oudeis on 30/12/2009 at 16:24
I don't know if if it's just me but it really seems like this year had an especially high number of notable passings. Clicking through the (
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/02/26/obituaries/OBITNOTABLE_SLIDE_index.html) NY Times obituary list is almost like bidding farewell to my own childhood: there are so many names that I can remember from the tv, radio, newspapers and from listening to my parents that it feels like parts of my past have been removed forever. It's a weird feeling, the more so because I customarily don't get personally upset at most celebrity or newsmaker deaths. A more comprehensive list is available at (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2009) the source of all knowledge.
Enchantermon on 30/12/2009 at 16:46
No kidding. I had forgotten about how many had died until I took a look. Not even sure that I knew that Ricardo Montalbán had passed.
june gloom on 30/12/2009 at 18:22
It's something I've been noticing for a while. Kinda freaky year; maybe it's something to do with being the end of a decade?
Gingerbread Man on 30/12/2009 at 18:54
Got much more to do with the fact that we had a gigantic explosion of celebrity from about 1970 on, so there are suddenly hundreds of actors, singers, writers, politicians, scientists, and artists that we'll recognise when we see their dead names. Because they were all in their 20s and 30s forty years ago.
Also the real number of famous people shot right up about 30 or 40 years ago anyway. Now that we know the names of every insufferably shit sitcom "actor" we can say "oh them" when they die.
TBE on 30/12/2009 at 19:24
Reminds me of how horribly I will do if I ever have to play, "Dead or Alive?"
(
http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/) Find out if they are dead or alive in an expeditious fashion.
henke on 30/12/2009 at 21:26
I recognized maybe a 5th or a 6th of those. :erg:
Aja on 30/12/2009 at 22:16
Yeah me too.
SubJeff on 31/12/2009 at 01:07
Yeah, by the time I got to John Hughes I knew I'd know hardly any of them. A revolutionary choreographer, me?, come on.
frozenman on 3/1/2010 at 01:33
Add my mother, who passed on 12/24/09. :(
I was going to post a whole thread about it but it got lost hundreds of words in in a failed attempt to preview.
june gloom on 3/1/2010 at 02:58
Whoa, sorry to hear it dude.
