Carrie Fisher?

I thought she was on that road as well, but apparently not

RIP

The year that keeps on taking.

RIP if true

Wasn't in the news headlines so ...

Confirmed.

Famous parents still going strong, they must be heartbroken.

RIP

On Sky News now.  RIP

RIP

What a sad end to the year we are having.

Very sad news - RIP Princess.

Famous people die every year Diva.

This time next year there will be another batch.
Some bigger names than normal this year perhaps.

Philthy Animal and Lemmy started the death party.

RIP Carrie Fisher.

Mr Makybe has just said the same thing.

laughed my socks off in Biology class at 15, at the situation between princess leia and luke skywalker. couldn't stop laughing and the biology teacher told me to stop laughing. It made it worse and Could not stop for about five minutes. The teacher threatened me with the strap. Really liked the three original movies till George started to tinker with the remastering and sequels.
Very good in the BURBS and Harry met Sally.

Lemmy was last year

28th of Dec Facts

1 year tomorrow

Not this year then.

No

It's irrelevant Facts, the calendar year....

You can have a year from any date by the way. In a year from now etc.....

Yep. But best to make it from Jan 1. It keeps things simple.

There is no starting point on our journey around the sun.
Lemmy died close to this spot last time.

Sorry i've complicated it.

never heard of her

I suppose Princess Leia is a hugely iconic character, but there seems to be a huge outpouring of (media) grief,
yet her film career is a few bit-parts in about 4-5 famous films.

Lemmy was always the one. Thought that guy was immortal. Seems to have been a domino effect ever since he left us.

Quick Google shows she's on screen for a dozen minutes in Star Wars

thought somebody would have done a 'Liz Smith RIP' thread by now, maybe nobody liked her.

It's further down MMH

thanks anubis7,  I didn't realise she died yesterday.

there's so may of them now I can't keep up.

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain

“I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?”
― Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

Im afraid Dawkins got this one wrong imo.

Like Nietzsche said; 'to live is to suffer'.
You are born into bondage and have the impending doom of guaranteed death, not to mention the dilemma given to us all of attempting to fathom the whole thing out.

Those who were not born do not have any of this, and nobody alive who is conscious of life complains of the time they spent before birth.


Genius derives from ordinary parents, its not an ever improving lot over generations, so no matter who lives or doesnt live the end result will inevitably be the answering of the unknown and the solving of the problem (and the waste of the vast majority who were pointless).

Never even heard one of her songs? We've become a nation of professional mourners FFS

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
― Franz Kafka

As long as they're not thirty stone and named rod.

“Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."
Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.”
― Terry Pratchett

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

Do not go gentle into that good night

Sad rip...her role in Star Wars dominated her life.

She seems to have had a troubled life with relationships, bipolar and drug habit.

But she will be remembered for one thing Princess Leia.

To be remembered for anything is more than most us achieve.

sixtwosix


Famous parents still going strong, they must be heartbroken.

RIP


Her dad was the great singer Eddie Fisher, mate. He died years ago.

RIP

She was in a few films FFS  ,next door neighbour was a lollipop lady for 37 Years ,rip ,get a grip people

So someone who entertained and brought pleasure to millions, and I wasn't a fan and had never seen any of her films, isn't allowed a tribute thread lasting a few hours at most.What a ****

She, nor her family will see it, kenny. It's more about the posters shirley.

Yes, saddo, but the comments aren't addressed to her family. Just a bit of harmless acknowledgement as I see it, and long may it continue.

A lot of maudlin pap on this very fred tbf.

I thought she was on the road to recovery.


Heart failure and stopped breathing for 10 minutes on plane..chances are youre not gonna see the year out.

I take it Kenny mann has never seen the blues brothers.

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Never even heard one of her songs? We've become a nation of professional mourners FFS



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX0x-I06Fpc&t=01h32m40s

“How could the death of someone you had never met affect you so?”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

Blues Brothers is not my cup of tea.

loser

No real news over Christmas period so if you want an OTT maudlin fest now is the time to go.

Her mother Debbie Reynolds has now died after suffering a stroke.

One day after her daughter? Unbelievable.

They are even coming synchronised now.

US actress Debbie Reynolds has died, a day after the death of her daughter Carrie Fisher, her son announced.

US media say the 84-year-old had a stroke. She was taken to a Los Angeles hospital on Wednesday.

The Hollywood legend is best known for her role in the 1952 musical Singin' in the Rain, opposite Gene Kelly.

Announcing her death, her son Todd Fisher told AP news agency: "She's now with Carrie and we're all heartbroken.''

The stress of his sister's death, he added, had been "too much" for their mother.

Celebrity news site TMZ reports that Reynolds cracked while discussing plans for Carrie's funeral with her son, telling him: "I miss her so much; I want to be with Carrie".




Reynolds was leading lady in a succession of major Hollywood musicals and comedies in the 1950s and 60s.

She rose to stardom with Singin' in the Rain, at the age of only 19.

She received a best-actress Academy Award nomination for the 1964 musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown.

In 2015, she was given a lifetime achievement award by the Screen Actors Guild. The award was presented to her by her daughter.

r.i.p Debbie Reynolds, a very good actress, I remember her

Hard to have our own children die before us, she is at peace now