RIP: To remember those lost to us, whether close or at large

[Anselm]

The wonderful actor Paul Sorvino, at age 83.

Three movie mobsters gone in recent months:  Sorvino, James Caan, and Ray Liotta.  RIP all.

...and Tony Sirico (Paulie Walnuts)

[mamselle]

Bill Russell, basketballer:

   https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/34323568/boston-celtics-great-bill-russell-11-nba-champion-dies-88

And:

   https://youtu.be/k9lKCjP265Y
   

RIP

M.

[mamselle]

Also, Communications Officer Lt Nyota Uhura (Nichelle Nichols, 89) has left the bridge of the Enterprise:

   https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/31/entertainment/nichelle-nichols-star-trek-dies/index.html

Fly free...

M.

   

[Larimar]

Also, Communications Officer Lt Nyota Uhura (Nichelle Nichols, 89) has left the bridge of the Enterprise:

   https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/31/entertainment/nichelle-nichols-star-trek-dies/index.html

Fly free...

M.

   

I'm a Trek fan and sad about this too.

[mamselle]

Historian David McCollough:

   https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/08/books/david-mccullough-dead.html

RIP.

M.

[Langue_doc]

Olivia Newton-John

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/08/arts/olivia-newton-john-dead.html?

[mamselle]

So sorry to see that.

She had class. And sass.

M.

[hmaria1609]

Historian David McCollough:

   https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/08/books/david-mccullough-dead.html

RIP.

M.

Tonight's PBS "News Hour" featured a 2011 interview with him:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/remembering-the-life-and-work-of-pulitzer-prize-winning-historian-david-mccullough
Besides the books, he's the narrator in Ken Burns's "The Civil War" documentary.
I read and own The Greater Journey (2011) about Americans abroad in Paris during the 19th century.
He was at the National Book Festival at the Washington Convention Center one year.

[Larimar]

Historian David McCollough:

   https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/08/books/david-mccullough-dead.html

RIP.

M.

Tonight's PBS "News Hour" featured a 2011 interview with him:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/remembering-the-life-and-work-of-pulitzer-prize-winning-historian-david-mccullough
Besides the books, he's the narrator in Ken Burns's "The Civil War" documentary.
I read and own The Greater Journey (2011) about Americans abroad in Paris during the 19th century.
He was at the National Book Festival at the Washington Convention Center one year.

I heard he's also the narrator in the movie Seabiscuit.

[mamselle]

Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the U.S.S.R.:

   https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/30/gorbachev-death-putin-world-react-last-soviet-00054293

M.

[jimbogumbo]

Barbara Ehrenreich: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/barbara-ehrenreich-nickel-dimed-author-activist-dies-81-rcna46150

[Parasaurolophus]

Barbara Ehrenreich: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/barbara-ehrenreich-nickel-dimed-author-activist-dies-81-rcna46150

Nickel and Dimed was, and remains, a very important book. I wish more people today had read it (it's quite gripping, too).

[kaysixteen]

Ehrenreich wrote this 20 years ago and made great points and recs.  Things, however, are worse now than they were then, esp for job seekers over 40.

[Thursday's_Child]

Barbara Ehrenreich: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/barbara-ehrenreich-nickel-dimed-author-activist-dies-81-rcna46150

Nickel and Dimed was, and remains, a very important book. I wish more people today had read it (it's quite gripping, too).

Agreed!  I didn't stumble on it until a few years ago & it was amazingly good at really getting you to clearly see things you sort-of knew, but didn't really think about much.

[mamselle]

All those killed in the recent Saskatchewan stabbings including the perpetrators:

   https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/second-suspect-deadly-canada-stabbing-spree-apprehended-officials-say-rcna46410

And all others who have died in senseless mass attacks of rage by whatever means, including the children of Uvalde, now returning to school.

M.