R.I.P.

2 Primetime Emmy winner Kirsty Alley passed on December 5th, 2022, because of cancer. Her best known roles were Mollie in Look Who's Talking and Rebecca Howe in Cheers.

Angelo Badalamenti passed away on December 11, 2022.

Angelo Badalamenti explains how he wrote Laura Palmer's Theme [piano]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_rbEthOdf0

UK director, Mike Hodges passed away at the age of 90.

A somewhat esoteric filmmaker:

Ruggero Deodato, Ruggero Deodato, Cannibal Holocaust director, dies at 83

But in case someone is fond of particularly grisly schlock horror movies and wants to pay homage to the director.

Pelé

Born: October 23, 1940 in Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Passed: December 29, 2022 in Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil  (colon cancer)

He  was not only a soccer god, he also was a Brazilian folk-hero who provided high ammounts of his money for wellfare projects in Brazil. Seldom there are upright people like him. Pencho, you last did a poll about Soccer. Maybe that would be yours? Anyone?

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https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0910181/
Barbara Walters 

Born: September 25, 1929
Died: December 30, 2022 (93)
Producer, Writer, Actress

Date of Death of 2022-12-30
https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=2022-12-30

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Walters

Barbara Jill Walters 
September 25, 1929 – December 30, 2022
was an American broadcast journalist and television personality.
Known for her interviewing ability and popularity with viewers, 
Walters appeared as a host of numerous television programs, 
including Today, the ABC Evening News, 20/20, and The View.
Walters was a working journalist from 1951 until her retirement in 2015.
Walters began her career on The Today Show in the early 1960s...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2022

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Former Pope Benedict XVI dies at 95

In case someone has an idea for an unorthodox poll suggestion.

Short:

Vivienne Westwood & Pope Benedict XVI

@Breumaster 

Lisa Marie Presley

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1070086/

Born February 1, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Died January 12, 2023 in Los Angeles, California, USA  (cardiac arrest)

Spouse 
Michael Lockwood (22 January 2006 - 26 May 2021)       (divorced)  (2 children)
Nicolas Cage         (10 August 2002   - 24 May 2004)       (divorced)
Michael Jackson    (26 May 1994        - 18 January 1996) (divorced)
Danny Keough      ( 3 October 1988   - 6 May 1994)        (divorced)  (2 children)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Marie_Presley

Lisa Marie Presley (February 1, 1968 – January 12, 2023)
was an American singer and songwriter. 
She was the only child of singer and actor Elvis Presley
and actress Priscilla Presley, 
as well as the sole heir to her father's estate. 
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https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Lisa+Marie+Presley

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Official website
http://lisamariepresley.com/

This account has been suspended.

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Gina Lollobrigida, Italian star and at some point considered the most beautiful woman in the world died at 95 years old: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/16/gina-lollobrigida-dies-la-lollo-beat-the-devil

David Crosby

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004849/

Born August  14, 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Died January 19, 2023 in Santa Ynez, California, USA  (cancer)

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997
(as a member of Crosby Stills & Nash).
Arrested on marijuana and gun possession 
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Official website

https://davidcrosby.com/

David Crosby
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crosby

he was a founding member of both the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=david+crosby

Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young '
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https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=2023-1-19

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2023

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Cindy Williams

Actress, Producer, Director
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0930286/

Born August 22, 1947 in Van Nuys, California, USA
Died January 25, 2023 in Los Angeles, California, USA  (brief illness)  age 75
best known for playing Shirley Feeney on "Laverne and Shirley."
   With the death of Cindy Williams on January 25, 2023, 

   Michael McKean is the only surviving member of the regular cast.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0930286/mediaviewer/rm4069627904/

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https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=2023-1-25

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2023

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Williams

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laverne_&_Shirley

The series is a spin-off from Happy Days,

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Melinda Dillon, Who Appeared in ‘A Christmas Story,‘ ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind,’ Dies at 83

Burt Bacharach, Peerless Pop Composer, Dies at 94

One of the most accomplished pop music composers of the 20th century, Burt Bacharach, has died at age 94. The musical maestro behind 52 top 40 hits including “Alfie,” “Walk on By,” “Promises, Promises,” “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” “What the World Needs Now is Love” and “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?,” Bacharach had an untouchable run in the 1960s and 1970s with a wide range of pop, R&B and soul artists. According to the Associated Press, Bacharach died on Wednesday (Feb. 8) at his home in Los Angeles of natural causes.

Raquel Welch, actress and Hollywood sex symbol, dead at 82

Raquel Welch, who rose to fame as a sex symbol in the 1960s, has died. She was 82.

Welch's manager told NPR she died Wednesday after a brief illness.

Welch's career started in the 1960s with appearances on TV shows such as The Virginian, McHale's Navy and Bewitched. That paved the way for back-to-back roles in Fantastic Voyage and One Million Years B.C. That latter role catapulted her to sex symbol status.

Over the course of her career, she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy, for her role in the 1974's The Three Musketeers as Constance de Bonacieux, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

She leaves behind her two children, her son Damon Welch and her daughter, Tahnee Welch