Massive icons like Aretha Franklin or Donna Summer will certainly continue to get their own threads when they pass, but I figured it might be worth having a place to honor lesser-known celebrities who have left us, especially because we can’t see status updates (which is where a lot of those announcements were made on here previously).
 

But the great actor Ian Holm has died at 88:

 

 

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5 minutes ago, victoria foxton said:

 

   

His death made me think of James Gandolfini’s death.

 

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The History Channel is showing Texas Rising on Memorial Day:

 

Texas Rising (2015) (imdb.com)

 

 

 

Such a powerful (and disturbing and compassionate in a way that only Jonathan Demme could do) scene with Ray, Jeff Daniels, and Melanie Griffith in “Something Wild.” 
 

 

Ray Liotta in arguably the best ER guest performance ever (or one of the best, he won an Emmy for it, it was shot in real time):
 

 

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this preliminary obit in the ny times mentions his role on ‘another world,’ as do several of the comments. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/26/movies/ray-liotta-dead.html

Oh my god. 
 

 

 

Oh my god. 

 

Legends all day. Ugh.

16 minutes ago, I Am A Swede said:

Oh my god. 

 

 

14 minutes ago, Vee said:

Legends all day. Ugh.

It’s too much. I can’t even wrap my head around the Andy Fletcher news.

Jennifer Lopez paid tribute to Ray Liotta:

 

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8 minutes ago, Faulkner said:

It’s too much. I can’t even wrap my head around the Andy Fletcher news.

I know how you feel. Depeche Mode was a big part of the soundtrack to my teenage years. Just as much as Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Prince and George Michael/Wham.....

I had a particular fondness for Depeche Mode's mid-90s comeback album, Ultra, which straddled the grudge wave but did its own gritty, electronica-infused thing. I knew a lot of their other stuff from the radio but I'd never heard anything like that before, where a group had managed to take an emerging trend and turn some of its stylings to their own ends, but leave the rest to make something new. What an incredible talent Fletcher was.

 

44 minutes ago, I Am A Swede said:

I know how you feel. Depeche Mode was a big part of the soundtrack to my teenage years. Just as much as Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Prince and George Michael/Wham.....

Same. Violator was my introduction to them. “Enjoy the Silence” has been my signature karaoke song for 20 years. I had such a crush on Dave Gahan.

 

32 minutes ago, Vee said:

 

I had a particular fondness for Depeche Mode's mid-90s comeback album, Ultra, which straddled the grudge wave but did its own gritty, electronica-infused thing.

 

I’ll have to revisit that. I didn’t keep up with them really after Gahan started spiraling in the ‘90s. (Actually stunning that he survived that era.)

A very personal tribute from Alison Moyet:

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