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

free link:

ellen holly’s ny times obit

May light perpetual shine upon her. May angels & heavenly hosts guide her to her new resting place. May she be met there by long missed family & friends, throwing a feast in anticipation of her arrival. And, may she be joined there by beloved pets.

TMZ is reporting that Ryan O'Neal has passed 😔

 

https://www.tmz.com/2023/12/08/ryan-oneal-dead-dies-love-story/

There's been a lot of high-profile deaths recently.....

O'Neal had a very complicated life, but was a matinee idol and sterling talent with a protean, changeling quality people often underrated. His work in both the hysterical What's Up Doc? and the brooding, stylized, pre-Drive, etc. The Driver for Walter Hill is so far from what his typical image was. And he made it all look effortless.

From Lee Grant:

 

Edited December 8, 20231 yr by Vee

As much work he did after - and as many small scandals he created - I will always only see Ryan O’Neal as clean-cut Rodney Harrington, and I almost think that’s for the best.

Just this week, I was talking about how we were long overdue for a "Peyton Place" reboot on streaming.

Complicated is a good word to describe O’Neal and no doubt, his relationships. One of his most complicated relationships were probably with his children. My condolences to them, as they are no doubt wrestling with loss, grief and perhaps a tangle of emotions right now.

I feel like Ryan O'Neal has been a consistent part of my life for the longest time. From first seeing him in Bones as Brennan's criminal father, to gleefully binge-watching every episode of Peyton Place, to reading and hearing about his iconic pop culture relationships both romantic and familial, to listening to TCM's first season of The Plot Thickens about Peter Bogdanovich's career, to being enamored of Tatum O'Neal watching her hilariously damaged Maggie on Rescue Me which prompted me to read interviews about her, which would no doubt include her complicated relationship with her father, the latest being posted on THR just mere months ago, to seeing the cinematic masterpiece Paper Moon earlier this year. He's stayed relevant in my eyes as I, as a mere viewer, jumped around his crazy, exuberant, tortured life on-screen and off. RIP to a truly controversial, but fascinating figure. And yeah, the curious part of me awaits (respectfully and patiently) what Tatum will have to say.

R.I.P. to dub poet, activist and artist Benjamin Zephaniah whose poetry I found to be deeply poignant. I am glad people got to know of him through his role on “Peaky Blinders” though that is only a small part of his talents. And I will never not be tickled by the fact that, when offered the OBE, not only did he refuse it, he told everyone to take their Order of the British Empire and “stick” it.

We lost him too soon.

https://news.yahoo.com/benjamin-zephaniah-news-tributes-pour-053459087.html

 

Jon Lindstrom is giving a lovely tribute to a former Costumer at GH, one Bob Miller. Looking & not yet finding an obit. 

 

The great comic creator and artist Ian Gibson - of 2000AD, Judge Dredd, etc. fame and co-creator most particularly of the unfinished female sci-fi epic The Ballad of Halo Jones with Alan Moore - has passed away in the little time it's taken me today to revisit its gorgeous omnibus edition. What a legacy.

 

 

Edited December 11, 20231 yr by Vee

RIP Bob Miller, a costume designer who worked on several soap operas, including “General Hospital”. He passed away on December 9, 2023, at the age of 67, in Los Angeles, California. Miller was also a member of the Costume Designers Guild and worked on other TV shows such as “The Young and the Restless,” “Days of Our Lives,” and “The Bold and the Beautiful”

The above came from Bing Chat which is AI. 

Shawn Reeves, current GH Costume Designer who said Bob is legendary, was talking with Lynn Herring last week during a fitting & they both were aware that Bob's health was failing. Friday night Lynn called Shawn to tell him that sadly Bob had passed. Between Jon Lindstrom & Shawn's comments to me, I feel that this is bonafide even though I'm still not finding an obit or death notice. 

So, the GH family has lost one more. What a fracking year+! 

(For some reason the system won't let me edit this into my prior post.) 

https://soaphub.com/general-hospital/news-gh/daytime-stars-mourn-late-general-hospital-costumer-bob-miller/

Edited December 12, 20231 yr by Donna L. Bridges
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/11/actress-shirley-anne-field-dies-dead-age-87/

I remember her from her brief stint as Pamela Capwell Conrad on SANTA BARBARA and from a guest appearance she made on "Murder, She Wrote."