In Memoriam

[Magik]

RIP Denise Nickerson (Violet from Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory's)

[MajorHoy]

RIP Denise Nickerson (Violet from Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory's)

NOTE: She was in the 1971 version of the movie (with Gene Wilder), not the 2005 remake Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (with Johnny Depp).

Denise Nickerson, Violet in ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,’ Dies at 62
By Anna Tingley - July 10, 2019 11:21PM PT

Denise Nickerson, best known for her role as Violet Beauregarde in the 1971 version of “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,” died Wednesday night. She had been taken off life support earlier in the day after suffering a stroke in 2018. She was 62.
Her family made the announcement on Facebook. “She’s gone,” the message read.
Nickerson suffered a severe stroke in June 2018 after which she entered the ICU for treatment. Despite entering a rehab facility later in the year, her son Josh Nickerson took to Facebook earlier Wednesday to announce her debilitating state which led to their decision to cease life support. “They just took off all the equipment. None of it was helping, but making her only more uncomfortable,” he wrote. “We’re telling her it’s okay to let go.”
Nickerson’s son and his wife Jasmine also created a GoFundMe page where the couple is posting updates on Nickerson’s health, where they reported that she had suffered from seizures shortly after being admitted into the hospital and later entered a “coma-like” state...

You can read the rest here: https://variety.com/2019/film/news/d...ry-1203264515/

[numberthirty]

- https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/us/bo...rnd/index.html

Pernell 'Sweet Pea' Whitaker, legendary boxer, dies after he's hit by a vehicle

[PaulBullion]

A few weeks after Dr. John, another New Orleans legend has drifted off to the eternal bayou.

Art Neville, founding member of the Meters and the Neville Brothers family band has passed away at the age of 81.

[Deathstroke]

The first flight director for NASA, Christopher Columbus Kraft, Jr., has passed away at the age of 95.

[Scott Taylor]

Rutger Hauer dead at 75.

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/r...ar-1203278050/

Like tears in rain ...

[Surf]

Rutger Hauer dead at 75.

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/r...ar-1203278050/

Like tears in rain ...

Aww man. I have been catching up with Deadwood (still have to see the HBO movie) and I was lookin' at Powers Boothe and thinkin', dude has been around in movies all of my life, way back I used to get Hauer and Boothe crossed. Freakin' kids today have no real idea of what a really dope 'B'-movie is. RIP.

Me and my brother rented Blind Fury from the video store and we ate that **** up. The scene in Batman Begins where he has that glass and looks at 'Bruce' and says "You look like him, your Dad." Such a passing line but I love that scene, that's what I always remember him from. Yea, yea Blade Runner, sometimes it's the little roles, that's too bad. In Jackie Brown Sam Jackson looked at the TV and said "Is that Rutger Hauer?" Briget Fonda goes, "no that's Helmut Berger." Lol, I love that line. That's to bad. RIP.

[Kirby101]

Rutger Hauer dead at 75.

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/r...ar-1203278050/

Like tears in rain ...

This is just...sad.

[Iron Maiden]

Wow. I really think he had been under used for a while. My favorite Rutger Hauer films are Blade Runner (naturally), LadyHawke and the Hitcher.

[Deathstroke]

I'm partial to The Blood of Heroes.

[Scott Taylor]

Ladyhawke is a favorite of mine.

[Moon Ronin]

I'm partial to The Blood of Heroes.

I've always had a strange draw to that movie... putting a dog skull on a stick.

[Deathstroke]

I've always had a strange draw to that movie... putting a dog skull on a stick.

Yeah, when I first saw it I had no expectations of the movie but I just loved it.

[TheRay]

Voice acting legend Russi Taylor dead at 75 - https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/2019/...-taylor-death/.
As a Simpsons fan, she provided us all with a lot over the years.

[skyvolt2000]

Voice acting legend Russi Taylor dead at 75 - https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/2019/...-taylor-death/.
As a Simpsons fan, she provided us all with a lot over the years.

Huey, Dewe, Louie & Webby are reunited with Uncle Scrooge. Wow.