Rusty Staub owned a table in Rao’s he was always there when he played in NY.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: Anti-apartheid campaigner dies at 81

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43621112

Co-creator of NYPD Blue, Steven Bochco, has died.

Ron Dunbar American songwriter died aged 77

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dunbar

Eric Bristow: Five-time darts world champion dies aged 60

http://www.bbc.com/sport/darts/43663426

Mitzi Shore, 87, American comedy club owner (The Comedy Store) died aged 87

Ch4 Airing one of her last episodes now.
Sad.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest director Miloš Forman dies aged 86.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...r-the-cuckoos-nest-director-dies-aged-86

R. Lee Ermey.

Godspeed.

FMJ is one of the best movies made along with Se7en and Mississippi Burning. Saving Silverman cracked me. This year is not a good year for Actors.

He was also really good in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie that came out approx. 2003, and had a memorable cameo in a good Tales from the Crypt episode.

Harry Anderson, the amiable actor who presided over the NBC comedy “Night Court” for nine seasons, has died at his home in Asheville, N.C., according to a local media report. He was 65

That’s Sad

There's a fake report out that Barbara Bush has passed, but not quite yet....

She's gone now. RIP

BREAKING NEWS: Former First Lady Barbara Bush has passed away at 92, according to a Bush family spokesperson. Details to come.

She looked like J Edgar Hoover and she was instrumental with a political family whose politics I didn't like but I liked HER.

R.I.P. Mrs. Bush

(about half the field had picked her for their lists)

Well on the subject of Hoover. Herbert Hoover, and Richard Nixon are the former presidents to outlive their wives. Not sure how long Herbert lasted after his wife's passing, but Richard only lasted like 8-10 months after Pat's death. I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see George Sr to pass sometime this year.

RIP

I did not pick her - I never thought she would die before GHW Bush. I enjoyed the tributes on TV last night and will miss her straightforward expressions of her opinions. You never had to wonder about what she thought about something.

The Don is slipping.

Bruno Sammartino, an Italian immigrant who would become one of the world’s strongest men and one of wrestling’s most popular figures, has died at the age of 82. Sammartino died in his adoptive hometown of Pittsburgh following an illness, surrounded by family.

Born in Pizzoferrato, Italy, in 1935, Sammartino spent much of his early childhood hiding from Nazi invasion until his mother could get him and his family out of Europe and into the United States. Sammartino set a world record in 1959 by bench-pressing 565 pounds. As WWE noted in its obituary, that put him on the world’s radar, and Vincent J. McMahon Sr. invited him to join what was then known as the World Wide Wrestling Federation.

I so remember growing up in Pittsburgh and watching studio wrestling and all the legendary greats. Bruno was my favorite of course.

Sammartino was billed as "The Italian Superman" back then.

R.I.P. Bruno, and thanks for the many hours of entertainment

Bruno was a huge figure in Pittsburgh. Sports in the 1960s was dominated by dynasties, and he fit right in with them.

I used to see Bruno Sammartino wrestle at the old Madison Square Garden. His signature move the back breaker.

A man of rare dignity in a sleazy industry.

I also remember crusher Lisowski, Johnny Valentine, The Mongol, Apollo, Baba the Giant, and Fritz Von Erich. More than a couple of decades later I got to meet Fritz Von Erich when I became the City Administrator of a small Texas city that we lived near. We arranged a wrestling match to raise funds for a local library.

If you want to get really depressed look up the history of the Von Erich family.

Dale Winton is dead. It's been a bad few months for British gameshow hosts..

Surprised if he's on any lists.

I presume Waldo Von Erich was part of that family if so I was at the old Madison square garden when a fan stabbed him while walking into the ring. People thought that shit was real back then.