So sad to hear about Nikki. She was treated like garbage on Idol. She never really got her chance. 

4 hours ago, DRW50 said:

So sad to hear about Nikki. She was treated like garbage on Idol. She never really got her chance. 

She had a lot of demons it seemed like, but from everything I heard in recent years it seems like she had made a turn for the better....I feel so bad for her family especially her son! 

 

On 10/31/2020 at 11:36 AM, DramatistDreamer said:

He was 90, still this news came as a surprise, which happens when the person is a true icon, as @I Am A Swede said. This can only compound the feeling of loss that has felt like the one constant this year.

 

My feelings exactly. I wasn't aware until yesterday that he and Clint Eastwood were both born in 1930. RIP Mr. Connery. 🙏

 

  

 

Sad news...and another sign of how dangerous things are becoming. 

 

When I saw the Eddie Haskell jokes I remembered that Ken Osmond had also died this year. Eerie.

 

  

Oh that's so sad. I love him on Whose Line Is It Anyway?

A lot of reality stars have passed recently. This is very sad.

 

 

 

  

 

  

Elsa I know best for playing Vinnie Terranova's mother on Wiseguy. I loathed her character, as she berated him at length for working with the mob, then ended up falling in love with a mobster herself, but she was a very good actress. She had a good comedy part on Tracey Takes On that I also enjoyed.

 

RIP.

 

 

That’s such a depressing loss, even though we knew his diagnosis was grave. Again, I don’t know if I watched a single person on TV more frequently throughout my life, even factoring in my soap viewing.

5 minutes ago, Faulkner said:

That’s such a depressing loss, even though we knew his diagnosis was grave.

I couldn't agree with this more. You always just want to believe that they'll beat it, regardless. Valerie Harper's death was similar in that, since she'd made it so far past the initial diagnosis, I was so gutted when she passed away.

Jeopardy! is an institution, and Alex is an institution. My very last memory of my grandmother, the one with whom I watched so many hours of soaps, game shows, westerns, and other "old people TV" growing up, was watching the show in the hospital with her, a month into Ken's run. Since then, I've always thought of her when watching. These people and these shows just become so much a part of us.

Valerie had a pretty full life long after that diagnosis that she would die in like 3-6 months - how much longer did she keep going? Six years? And an even busier career. That was some solace.