Obituaries

[snowingagain]

Is that a known, known? TBH I thought he was bonkers at the time but now seems quite competent compared to the present team. Weird. Ditto George Bush, Ronald Reagan.

[tor]

The Clarence Darrow quote on obituaries comes to mind, for some reason...

[Tap]

Pauline Collins who played Shirley Valentine

[HEM]

American molecular biologist James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, dies at the age of 97.

My father was a crystallographer (Manchester University) & knew / worked with colleagues such as Dorothy Hodgkin & Jack Dunitz (mentioned in the Wikipedia article)...

[HEM]

I have vague recollections of Dorothy Hodgkin (Nobel prize in Chemistry for determining the structure of vitamin B12) coming to our house (South of Manchester) for dinner.

With Jack Dunitz (& his daughter Marguerite) we (father, brother + self) hiked up the Grosser Mythen - must have been in the 1970s.
Luckily it was foggy the whole time so I didn't see the steep drop (scared of heights). Jack lived near Zurich (worked at the ETH).

Jack lived to be 98 - I sent him an e-mail a couple of years before he passed away & got a long & lucid response.

[Franklan]

Steven Lee Cropper (October 21, 1941 – December 3, 2025), sometimes known as "The Colonel", was an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer.

He was the guitarist of the Stax Records house band, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, which backed artists such as Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, and Johnnie Taylor.

He was later a member of the Blues Brothers band. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him 36th on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time, while he won two Grammy Awards from his seven nominations.

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[Fraufruit]

RIP

[HEM]

Jürgen Raps - ex chief pilot Lufthansa. Was only 74.
https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/pan ... ahren.html

In English: https://www.aerotelegraph.com/airlines/ ... en/vmryjc1

Involved in the introduction of the A380.

[Franklan]

"Zed's dead, baby, Zed's dead."

Peter Greene, October 8, 1965 – December 12, 2025

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A scene from Pulp Fiction involves Butch and Fabienne escaping on a stolen chopper,
where she asks about the bike, leading to Butch's famous line...

Fabienne: "Whose motorcycle is this?"
Butch: "It's a chopper, baby."
Fabienne: "Whose chopper is this?"
Butch: "Zed's."
Fabienne: "Who's Zed?"
Butch: "Zed's dead, baby, Zed's dead."

[Franklan]

Rob Reiner (March 6, 1947 – c. December 14, 2025) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.

Reiner made his directorial film debut with the mockumentary "This Is Spinal Tap".
He is probably best known for "When Harry Met Sally...".

The sign at Katz's Delicatessen commemorating the film "When Harry Met Sally..."

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[Sannerl]

Rob Reiner (March 6, 1947 – c. December 14, 2025) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.

And his wife Michele.
Suspected homicide.

[john_b]

Some reports even indicated that the shooter was their son. Either way, really tragic news.

[Franklan]

Rob Reiner (March 6, 1947 – c. December 14, 2025) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.

And his wife Michele.
Suspected homicide.

Oh, the horror, yes, the LA police is considering his son Nick as the suspect in a homocide: Spiegel (article in German)

[jaycool]

I loved to watch Rob Reiner back in the 70's, when he played Michael Stivic in "All in the Family" , which was based on the British sitcom "Till Death Us Do Part". To be murdered by the one you created, is just horrible. The murders in themselves are horrible, but if the kid did it, unfathomable.