Author Topic: Death Thread (formerly "Anne Rice died.") (Read 7164 times)

jonhammstein · « **Reply #30 on:** Sep 30, 2022, 02:05:10 PM »

No, I totally remember that was a movie. There's a scene where Martin Lawrence mistakes Tim Robbins for a serial killer, and he screams, "Please don't kill me, freaky Jason!" at him and it's fucking hilarious. Or it was, I haven't actually seen it in forever. Couldn't tell you anything else about the movie, though.

Rama · « **Reply #31 on:** Oct 01, 2022, 10:16:39 AM »

I read a lot of Anne Rice's books. I've read Interview, Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned, Tale of the Body Thief, Menoch the devil, Black Wood Farm (well I started it, didn't finish it.) Prince Lestat, and Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (Which I gave up on about 1/3 of the way through).

I love Interview. It's one of my favorite books, but everything after that is of lesser quality. It was like Harper Lee wrote To Kill A Mockingbird and then after that decided to focus on novelizations of the Fast and the Furious movies.

B E C K · « **Reply #32 on:** Oct 01, 2022, 09:37:49 PM »

So stick with the first book and don't bother with the rest? Got it.

Rama · « **Reply #33 on:** Oct 03, 2022, 09:34:40 AM »

I think that's probably the safest approach to the subject. Yes.

B E C K · « **Reply #34 on:** Oct 03, 2022, 03:14:36 PM »

Cool, that makes it easy for me. Time to update the list.

B E C K · « **Reply #35 on:** Oct 03, 2022, 03:21:32 PM »

I just put a hold on it and realized something: I've always called it 'Interview with A Vampire" but it's "Interview with THE Vampire." I asked Merla how she remembers it and she's the same. Also, she's never seen the movie. All these years I thought she had.

Rama · « **Reply #36 on:** Oct 03, 2022, 05:18:57 PM »

Mandela effect. You are just from the other universe.

And it's a good movie. One the best book to movie adaptations out there.

B E C K · « **Reply #37 on:** Oct 09, 2022, 10:29:47 AM »

I mentioned re-watching Interview in the movie thread so Merla saw a tiny bit of it. She wasn't really interested tho', mainly because she, like me, also doesn't watch a whole lot of movies anymore.

As for the topic of deaths, uh... my computer's battery, I guess. Although I guess that's more "on life support" at this point.

B E C K · « **Reply #38 on:** Oct 15, 2022, 10:27:09 AM »

Merla told me Angela Lansbury and Robbie Coltrane died. Thanks, Google. You wanna tell me about the mook wearing twenty-plus contact lenses on one eye as "news" but couldn't be arsed to tell me Mrs. Potts and Hagrid carked it. Meh.

Rama · « **Reply #39 on:** Oct 16, 2022, 04:49:42 PM »

Loretta Lynn too

B E C K · « **Reply #40 on:** Oct 18, 2022, 09:29:19 PM »

Gonna be honest: I saw something about her dying but completely forgot who she was. Yes, I be a heathen.

Rama · « **Reply #41 on:** Oct 19, 2022, 11:22:38 AM »

She was the coal miner's daughter!

Honestly outside of that and knowing she was a country singer I don't know anything about her.

B E C K · « **Reply #42 on:** Oct 19, 2022, 04:25:18 PM »

Yeah, it took me a while after I saw her death in the news to go "oh, yeah, the country singer lady."

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #43 on:** Oct 19, 2022, 05:07:39 PM »

Loretta Lynn was certainly a titan of country music, but the modern music field in general owes her a lot for proving that women were just as valid artists as men and breaking down a lot of barriers by virtue of that. And I always appreciated the fact that, even though she was rich and owned a mansion, she cut her own grass until she had her stroke several years ago.

B E C K · « **Reply #44 on:** Oct 19, 2022, 10:25:56 PM »

Funny thing is I knew how significant she was. But my mind overwrote her in my memory or something. This is what I get for not mentally defragging.

B E C K · « **Reply #45 on:** Dec 10, 2022, 09:01:39 AM »

Something something Kirstie Alley something Fleetwood Mac. Something something dead people.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #46 on:** Dec 31, 2022, 12:18:57 PM »

Barbara Walters is dead.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #47 on:** Dec 31, 2022, 01:45:25 PM »

One of the popes is dead...the older one, I'd imagine.

B E C K · « **Reply #48 on:** Dec 31, 2022, 06:14:04 PM »

I was telling Merla this morning we're gonna get at least one high-profile death to take us out of 2022 with a bang. Between Wawa and Former Pope, I gotta give this one to Wawa.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #49 on:** Mar 18, 2023, 10:46:17 PM »

Lance Reddick is dead.

Rest in peace, you fucking legend.

B E C K · « **Reply #50 on:** Mar 25, 2023, 07:55:33 PM »

When I heard about this, I was all "oh no lance henrikson" and then I realized I was thinking of the wrong one. I don't know if I've seen this man in anything besides two minutes of that awful RE series. He was apparently in Lost tho'. I don't remember him in it.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #51 on:** Mar 27, 2023, 01:39:27 PM »

He did a fair amount of voice stuff, too. The dude had a very singular set of pipes.

B E C K · « **Reply #52 on:** Apr 12, 2023, 07:08:07 PM »

Who died? Did anyone die? Surely, someone died. But I can't think of who.

B E C K · « **Reply #53 on:** Apr 30, 2023, 04:09:10 PM »

Oh, yeah, Jerry Springer died the other day. Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! He's revealing who the daddy is in that smut-pen in the sky.

B E C K · « **Reply #54 on:** May 25, 2023, 09:03:20 PM »

Tina Turner. And I find it weird that Wikipedia is all "Swiss singer" Tina Turner. I'm trying to figure out why I find it weird. I think it's because if you're known and famous for being from somewhere, it's odd that your page you have only because you're famous notes so prominently something you were not famous for. I get she became a Swiss citizen but I dunno. If I move to Wales tomorrow and then become famous for peanut juggling, am I really a Welsh peanut-juggler? Of if I become famous tomorrow for peanut-juggling and then move to Wales thirty years later when I'm not really known for peanut-juggling as much, am I still a famous Welsh peanut-juggler? Meh. Semantics.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #55 on:** May 26, 2023, 03:11:00 PM »

I can't read/hear the word Swiss and not think of this ad:

I can't remember when it used to air, but it was constant. It's just burnt into my psyche.

B E C K · « **Reply #56 on:** May 26, 2023, 09:47:42 PM »

Was it a Canadian ad or do I just not remember it? Also, I find Toblerone's a pain to eat. I have no idea why people like them.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #57 on:** Jul 28, 2023, 02:57:45 PM »

Sinéad O'Connor is dead.

B E C K · « **Reply #58 on:** Jul 28, 2023, 09:46:32 PM »

And you posted a video of her. How appropriate.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #59 on:** Jul 28, 2023, 09:56:44 PM »

Yup, clipped it from her SNL appearance where she tore up the picture of the Pope.