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Bollywood music composer and singer Aadesh Shrivastava who was battling a relapsed cancer (multiple myeloma) passed away from the illness at a private hospital on Saturday. According to The Times of India, Shrivastava, 51, died at the Kokilaben Ambani Hospital in Mumbai after his condition worsened over the course of the past week. SC http://www.inquisitr.com/2394235/bollywood-music-composer-aadesh-shrivastava-dies-of-cancer-a-day-after-his-birthday/#QDDQcOI3RLe7kpIk.99

FORMER TORONTO MAYOR IS DEAD!!! Former Toronto Mayor Andrew Blaner Dies at 94. Dammitall to hell! SC http://www.wtov9.com/shared/news/features/top-stories/stories/wtov_toronto-remembers-former-mayor-10120.shtml?wap=0

This is from a guy in my DP who is a writer and reviewer for horror magazines. I've posted a couple from him earlier this year. "Ok..I do not have a news article on this because it was literally announced within the last hour. But I have heard it directly from his family members whom i am friends with on Facebook, Warren Murphy has passed away at the age of 81. Murphy was the co-creator and long time writer of the Remo Williams, The Destroyer series. The series comprises over 150 books as well as comic magazines from marvel comics, a TV Pilot and the 1985 Big screen film Remo Williams the Adventure Begins. One of the highlights of my writing career was interviewing Murphy a few years back in what he told me was the longest interview he had ever done. Since then I kept in contact with him and his sons Brian and Devin over Facebook. in fact i have a signed advance copy of one of the last Destroyer books that he wrote. RIP" I am posting this as fact, simply look for a link tomorrow. SC

He's gone all gooey on the inside. SC

Just found about Rico :-( I loved The Specials, this sucks. I also played trombone through high school and a bit beyond, so not many out there to admire. RIP Rico SC Here's a great song and solo close up of Rico at 2:10

Yes, okay hebephilia if we want to get technical... Weren't most of Rolf's victims adolescents too? I don't see why we shouldn't be picky technical. There is a big difference between being sexually attracted to teenagers who are legally minors, and being sexually attracted to prepubescent children. We have words at our disposal that distinguish between the two, and it is a great pity that the word 'paedophilia' is so carelessly bandied about. Why should our rich language be rendered increasingly imprecise? I don't mind going on the record here. I've always tended toward 'younger' women, my wife was 7 years my lesser (at 35) for instance. However let's not get carried away. I'm not talking about fahkin 12-yr olds here, but certainly 16-17 would have been my fancy, as I was 18 once too you know. Guess that made me a felonious peadophile in some eyes. Oh well. (As if). SirC

Leon Gorman, a grandson of L.L. Bean who led a modernization and expansion of the outdoors retailer after the founder’s death, died Thursday. He was 80. Gorman, who died in his Yarmouth home surrounded by family after battling cancer, led the Maine-based company as CEO or chairman for 46 years before retiring as chairman of the board in 2013. He retained the title of chairman emeritus. SC http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/leon-gorman-longtime-ll-bean-leader-dies-at-80/2015/09/03/38e20bec-5245-11e5-b225-90edbd49f362_story.html

Director Paul Quinn died on September 2 in his New York home after battling cancer, Variety reports. He was 55. Quinn’s most recent work was on “Good Ol’ Boy,” which will compete at the 2015 Woodstock Film Festival. His 1998 feature film “This is my Father,” which he worked on with brothers Aidan and Declan, showcased at the Sundance and Toronto film festivals. He also directed the 2002 feature “Never Get Outta the Boat.” In addition to film, Quinn also directed the NBC TV series “Scrubs,” and acted in “Leaving Las Vegas,” “Avalon” and “Bob Roberts.” SC http://m.themalaymailonline.com/showbiz/article/this-is-my-father-director-paul-quinn-dies-at-55

I think the idea of this thread is ok. Would have been slightly better (to me) to ask if you could save 1 person from your personal DL and forfeit the points, who would it be? IOW who gives you the greatest guilt for including their name? Please don't start a thread, I just put $0.02 out there. If BB King could have been immortalized I'd have seen it was done. SC

I'm horrified but it's like driving by a dead body, I have to keep looking! SC

Interestingly that date coincides with the beginning of the exploitation of his children, daughter Bindi in particular. Odd. SC

rip (lower case)He only needs to be buried 3 feet under.

Official I guess now that NYTimes has posted. Though I don't think it is a qualifying source in DDP but that's their foible. SC http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/us/ruth-newman-a-survivor-of-the-1906-san-francisco-earthquake-dies-at-113.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

Still breathing...... Until now. RIP Should post in Survivor thread IMHO. SC http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/us/ruth-newman-a-survivor-of-the-1906-san-francisco-earthquake-dies-at-113.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

Ack! Fucks sake we will have to change Twunt status to 1,000,000 posts :-( SC

Col. Sam Inukoba, a leader of the All Progressive Congress in Bayelsa State (Sudan) and former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party has died a month shy of 66, of 'food poisoning'. After his recent party switch he probably had a few enemies. SC http://bolateethole.blogspot.com/2015/09/former-pdp-chairman-dies-of-food.html?m=1

Johnny Marks - 20 years ago (wrote a bunch of Christmas classics like Rudolph the Red Nosed-Riendeer and Have a Holly Jolly Christmas). Chief Justice (of the U.S. Supreme Court) William Rehnquist - 10 years. SC

A grizzly diagnosis

The photo says he is standing ate Pte Aux Barques lighthouse area, just purely FYI that is 'the tip of the thumb' of Michigan and very easy to spot on a map, or from space for that matter. And now you know... SC

Timely, as we just had a discussion that conclud d no one dies of Parkinson's. I'm no doctor but I call bullshit to this obit. No one ever shook to death. They were weakened which allowed other processes to ravage the body. Someone in the medical community prove me wrong. Aside, RIP I was like 6 when we saw The Love Bug so Dean was an important actor in my youth. SC

This one? Jesus Christ we are deleting video on a video thread? Apparently some of you are both hyper-sensitive to such videos and FORCED to click and watch it. Ridiculous. I thought we were adults here. SC

I remember it happening, but can't remember the specific details. Was it Albert Dryden, the planning officer and the BBC reporter? That's not live.

Aye, and fairly chipper they were, also revealed they always invite Mike Nesmith to join them but he's otherwise engaged writing a book (and sitting on his Tippex fortune!) Maybe Michelle Phiiips should throw her lot in with the surviving Monkees in some kind of sixties extravaganza show. From what I understand (as the son of a major Monkees obsessive), while Nesmith really does not enjoy playing with The Monkees per se, he feels he has an obligation to their fanbase to play and doesn't feel it'd be right to rob them of the chance to relive their childhoods. I don't know if that's charming or arrogant really. Not knowing the veracity of that comment, but presuming it, could be that he came from money and the others didn't and over time it simply wasn't his primary source of income (did his mother/parents die yet?) and I can understand some dissociation on his part vs the others. SC

You bloody tease! I thought you found me a winner. *wags finger at Y-Dub*

The Sun King -- Louis XIV -- 300th anniversary of the end of his 72-year reign. SC