Celebrity Death Thread

[Drew]

I refer to the 84 Tigers as the wire-to-wire champions.

[-Deborah-]

This one shocked me, I didn't realize she was sick. Enjoyed her last fall in Dirty Sexy Money...



Veteran actress Jill Clayburgh, last seen on TV's Dirty Sexy Money, died Friday at 66. She'd been battling chronic lymphocytic leukemia for almost two years.

Clayburgh was nominated for the lead actress Oscar two years in a row in the late 1970s for An Unmarried Woman and Starting Over.

One of her final performances can be seen in the upcoming film Love and Other Drugs, due out on Nov. 24.

[DanO]

I remember her from the movie Silver Streak. I was in high school then but I had the hots for her.

RIP Jill.

GO LIONS "10" !!!!!!!!!!

[Chuck Cunningham]

^ Good movie Dano. 1st one w. Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor I believe.

[DanO]

That's the one. I found "Hilly" very sexy in that movie. Of course I was a freshman and it was my first exposure to sex/sexual inuendo on TV/movies. Wilder and Pryor were great in that movie but I thought Hilly could do much better than Wilder.

GO LIONS "10" !!!!!!!!!!

[WingsFan]

RIP to Sparky and Jill Clayburgh? Didn't know she was ill, for some reason I used to get her confused with Diane Keaton. Still to young.

[Drew]

Aw man, I loved Jill Clayburgh. I thought about her just the other day.

RIP Jill.

[YT]

Aw man, I loved Jill Clayburgh. I thought about her just the other day.

Were you masturbating at the time?

[Drew]

...and you know this.

[Chuck Cunningham]

66 is too young for sure. She was a beautiful lady, for sure!!

[YT]

Just guessing Drew.

[FVD]

Italian Film Legend Dino De Laurentiis Dies at 91

By Dylan Stableford
Published: November 11, 2010 @ 5:42 am


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Legendary film producer Dino De Laurentiis has died in Los Angeles, according to several Italian media reports. He was 91.

He produced more than 500 films, and won two Oscars -- one in 1956 for Federico Fellini's "La Strada," another in 1957 for "Nights of Cabiria."

See slideshow: Dino De Laurentiis' Greatest Hits.

"Cinema has lost one of its greats," Walter Veltroni, former mayor of Rome and founder the Rome Film Festival, said in a statement to Agence France-Press on Thursday.

Born in Italy, he founded the Dino De Laurentiis Studios in 1947 after serving in the Italian army during World War II. There, De Laurentiis lured some of Hollywood's top actors to Italy to star in his films, such as Audrey Hepburn and Henry Fonda for ?War and Peace" (1956).

De Laurentiis moved to the U.S. in the 1970s and produced several American films, including "Serpico" (1973), "Three Days of the Condor" (1975), "King Kong" (1976), David Lynch?s ?Blue Velvet? (1986) and "Hannibal" (2001).

De Laurentiis is also credited with launching Arnold Schwarzenegger's acting career in "Conan the Barbarian."

He's collected several awards for his decades of film work, including the Irving G.Thalberg Memorial Award at the 2001 Academy Awards and a lifetime achievement award at the 2003 Venice Film Festival.

He is survived by six children from two marriages. His granddaughter, Giada De Laurentiis, is a chef on the Food Network.

[DanO]

RIP Dino.

GO LIONS "10" !!!!!!!!!!

[Topweasel]

Wow 91. RIP.

[LionsFanInJapan]

Ah man, he did 'Dune'. I always liked that movie.

RIP