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:

 

 

Edited July 6, 20205 yr by Faulkner

34 minutes ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

1 hour ago, wonderwoman1951 said:

thanks for posting this. i knew he had been on atwt, but couldn’t remember when. 

I wasn't watching when he was on so it was a lovely surprise.

is there video of his appearance? looked, but couldn’t find anything on youtube. 

 

https://soaphub.com/general-hospital/news-gh/soap-and-broadway-star-pamela-blair-has-passed-away-at-age-73/

 

Rest Easy Sinead 😢

 

 

 

Oh my.....

She had such a troubled life. I hope she's at peace now.

How sad and unfortunate. Sometime today or tomorrow, I will have to pull out my copy of “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got” and try to give it a listen. May she R.I.P.

10 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

How sad and unfortunate. Sometime today or tomorrow, I will have to pull out my copy of “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got” and try to give it a listen. May she R.I.P.

OMG I just saw this. Just last Friday night I was listening to the opening of S7 of OUTLANDER because she's featured.  Man oh man. 

This would've been her latest work. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qrwJDR6bzs

 

Edited July 27, 20232 yr by Donna L. Bridges

I always loved Sinead's voice.

May she rest in peace.

 

Fûck. She meant so much to me as a teenager. I know she had such a bitter and tragic life from the jump, yet she made something of her life through her incredible voice and songwriting. I’d always hoped she’d find some peace, if not happiness, which I suppose was asking for too much.

 

 

 

A legend.

Two threads:

 

 

So much of Sinead's image in the US will always be associated with her SNL appearance. There was such a visceral anger toward her, personal threats against her (including being followed after the show ended), and nothing but disdain from the show itself (there were several Lorne-patented mocking sketches, Tim Robbins, that free speech hero and the host that week, didn't even acknowledge her, and the next week had Joe Pesci giving a truly disgusting monologue about her). She never tried to backtrack, even when it probably felt like the whole country was against her. And she was completely right.

I didn't grow up with Sinead O'Connor at all - know absolutely none of her songs outside of Nothing Compares 2 U (and really only the chorus of that one) - but when I saw the headline earlier today, my heart sank. There's just this weird "it's not time for this yet" feeling when a celebrity dies at such a young age. It makes you wonder what that person could have brought to the world had they lived a decade or so longer.

 

R.I.P. Inga Swenson. Probably familiar to most for her role on Benson.

https://people.com/inga-swenson-dead-7567265

Edited July 29, 20232 yr by applcin