In Remembrance...2008

[Mark]

Majel Barret, the widow of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and a major player in the Star Trek franchise, died today of leukemia. She was 78.

Barret played nurse Christine Chapel in the original series, and Luxwanna Troi and the voice of the ship's computer in The Next Generation.

Particularly sad to hear this.

 

[Mark]

Mark Felt, Watergate `Deep Throat,' dies at 95

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Olga Lepeshinskaya, the Bolshoi Ballet's prima ballerina for three decades, died yesterday. She was 92.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Robert Mulligan, who directed To Kill a Mockingbird (and was nominated for an Oscar for it), died last Saturday. He was 83.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Adrian Mitchell, a poet whose passionate works about nuclear war, Vietnam, and racism were often sung at left-wing rallies, died last Saturday. He was 76.

Mitchell was also a succesful playwright, novelist, and children's author.

 

[Mark]

Nobel-winning playwright Harold Pinter dies at 78

 

[Aeolius]

Singer, actress Eartha Kitt dies at 81

 

[Truth Seeker]

Purrr-Fect
Goodnight M(r)s Kitt.​

 

[GrayLinnorm]

John Costelloe, who played Johnny Cakes on The Sopranos, was found dead December 18 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 47.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Jazz pianist-singer Page Cavanaugh dies at 86

Jazz pianist and singer Page Cavanaugh, whose popular trio in the 1940s and 1950s played in motion pictures and on Frank Sinatra's radio show, has died at 86.

In Remembrance.