| For the thirteenth year running, we present our fondest farewells to the recently departed. If they were on any lists, or if they mattered at all in our world, you'll find them here. | As the names stretches down the page, you can use our patented magic button to see the freshest fatalities (which are at the bottom). You wanna see the stiffs of old? Go nuts. |
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Johnny Grant (01/09) Could there possibly be a more useless title in the universe than "Honorary Mayor of Hollywood"? No, we don't think so either. Carl Karcher (01/11) Okay, so, that's one Old-Timer, extra cheese .... Uh, flies? Edmund Hillary (01/11) Because he was there. Brad Renfro (01/15) One of the stars of Ghost World is now a resident. Bobby Fischer (01/17) Looks like checkmate, you fucking psycho. Georgia Frontiere (01/18) Georgia went down to the Devil. John Stewart (01/19) There's people out there turning you into gold, buddy. Suzanne Pleshette (01/19) Did they really expect us to believe that someone this hot would be married to Bob Newhart? Yeah, right. Heath Ledger (01/22) Well, there's one thing we like about him. Christian Brando (01/26) Thrown to the lions. Suharto (01/27) He knew first-hand what the rest of us learned from Johnny Cash — it's tough being a boy named Suharto. Earl Butz (02/02) All he was looking for in life was a cushy Cabinet post, a repugnant sense of humor, and a warm mouth to put his foot into. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (02/05) He was smarter than the average con man. Roy Scheider (02/10) So long, old chum. David Groh (02/12) Remember him? The husband from Rhoda? No? Buddy Miles (02/26) Just another one of them changes, huh, Buddy? William F. Buckley Jr. (02/27) As the world bids farewell to this emphysema-ridden blow-hard, we'd like to join his son Christopher in saying, "Thank you for smoking." Jeff Healey (03/02) He never saw it coming. Hurricane Smith (03/03) Oh, babe, what would you say, if you weren't dead? Howard Metzenbaum (03/12) The storied Ohio legislator was known on Capitol Hill as "Senator No" and "Headline Howard," while at home, they called him "Butt-Face." Arthur C. Clarke (03/19) 2008: Odyssey over. Richard Widmark (03/24) Hollywood says goodbye to the King of the Weasels. Charlton Heston (04/05) Isn't that our cue to pry the rifle out of his hands? How cold do they have to be? Albert Hofmann (04/29) Now he knows what it's like to be dead. Buzzie Bavasi (05/01) There once was a GM named Buzzie Whose tactics were said to be scuzzy From the day they were drafted All his players got shafted Ol' Buzz wasn't very nice, was he? Irvine Robbins (05/05) I scream, you scream, we all scream — he's dead! Eddy Arnold (05/08) He sang "Make The World Go Away" in 1965, and finally got his wish in 2008. Robert Mondavi (05/16) Popped his cork. Utah Phillips (05/23) The telling takes him home. Dick Martin (05/24) Say goodnight, Dick. Sydney Pollack (05/26) The director of "Absence Of Malice" has now attained it. Harvey Korman (05/29) DEADley! Yves St. Laurent (06/01) Fashionably late. Bo Diddley (06/02) Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley, have you heard? They gonna cover you up with dirt. Mel Ferrer (06/02) Who? Jim McKay (06/07) He's all gone. Tim Russert (06/13) The bright side? Fresh organs for Big Russ. Cyd Charisse (06/17) Her career peaked in 1976, when, after years of B-movie roles and unheralded hoofing, she was cast as President's Girl #4 in Won Ton Ton, The Dog Who Saved Hollywood. Look it up. George Carlin (06/22) Tonight's forecast calls for increasing chest pains followed by perpetual darkness. Jesse Helms (07/04) Senator No Pulse. Michael DeBakey (07/11) He was, like, a doctor, right? Bobby Murcer (07/12) The only good Yankee is a dead Yankee. Tony Snow (07/12) It's like Christmas in July! Les Crane (07/13) You were a fluke of the universe. You had no right to be here, and whether you can hear it or not, the universe is laughing behind your back. Estelle Getty (07/22) It's about time we buried a Golden Girl. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (08/03) A somewhat harsher form of exile than the usual, imposed by a somewhat higher authority. Skip Caray (08/03) Might as well, now. Lou Teicher (08/03) Exodus. Bernie Mac (08/09) Are you seeing this, America? This man's in a box in the ground! Isaac Hayes (08/10) They say this cat Hayes is a dead mother- (Shut your mouth!) No, really, it was on the news (Then we can dig it!) Pervis Jackson (08/18) Despite his repeated assurances to the contrary, it now appears that the bass vocalist for the Spinners will not, in fact, be around. Jerry Reed (09/01) When you're not, you're not. David Foster Wallace (09/12) Finite jest. Richard Wright (09/15) See you on the dark side of the moon. Norman Whitfield (09/16) It was the 16th of September ... Paul Newman (09/26) What we've got here is failure to perpetuate. Neal Hefti (10/11) Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da — DEAD MAN! Levi Stubbs (10/17) He can't help himself. Mr. Blackwell (10/19) Richie is now wearing a boxy, pine number that no self-respecting designer would be caught dead in. Rudy Ray Moore (10/19) Dolemite was his name, and fuckin' up mutha fuckas was his game. Studs Terkel (10/31) He was a promising young writer, once upon a time, but his career reached a low point in the 1980s when he appeared in several beer commercials dressed as a dog. Yma Sumac (11/01) Egayov nob, Amy Camus. Jimmy Carl Black (11/01) He was the Indian of the group. Michael Crichton (11/04) "Andromeda Strain" is actually the medical term for the process by which Mr. Crichton's bowels and colon would work in conjunction to produce a "novel." Preacher Roe (11/09) Amen. Herb Score (11/11) Final. Mitch Mitchell (11/12) Looks like they finally got the old band back together. Pete Newell (11/17) In the final days, he was quite the dribbler himself. William Gibson (11/25) You want a miracle? How about the fact that the guy smoked cigars constantly from the time he was 15, and lived to be 94? |
Say what? You want old school? Shit, yeah, we got old school.
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