stvn1974

Robin Williams and now Lauren Bacall has died. Since celebs always die in threes it is time for my Keith Richards prediction.

Sweet Baby James

Bacall was the third. James Garner just died. He was the first.

Deadman31

and I could give three flying shits about your comment.

johnnysd

Always feels strange when someone mourns someone I honestly don't think I have ever heard of.

randyba

John Belushi because I loved his movies and it seemed like he was just getting started.

Michael Jackson died on my wedding anniversary. We were hiking in Yosemite that day. When we driving out of the valley I scanned the radio to try and tune in a station. One came on and was playing M. J. songs and after the third one I looked at my wife and said he must have passed away.

John Lennon passed away on my moms birthday and I have memories of her crying about it.

dom56

Sean O'Hara

You don't know The Clash?

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Cellar Door

Definitely River Phoenix for me. He was the same age as me and I grew up watching him in Stand By Me, The Mosquito Coast, The Last Crusade, A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, Dogfight, and more. It really hit me hard when he died.

johnnysd

I recognize those 2 songs certainly, but never knew a member by name or face.

RichC2

I'd actually like to see that, do you just throw them? Ass hanging out of the side of a helicopter?

bootsy

Most of the deaths that stunned/affected me were sports related or music related. Len Bias and Hank Gathers. And music people like Michael Jackson, Aaliyah, 2Pac, Biggie. Those are instances where I remember where I was when I heard the news about their deaths. Heath Ledger, Paul Walker, Princess Di instantly come to mind also.

RichC2

I can't explain why exactly as I wasn't a big fan, but Aaliyah's death bothered me a good bit.

bootsy

Probably because she was so young and although she was a big star she started to branch out into acting and her life/career seemed to be going very well. Add to this the senseless, careless way she died and that's probably why it bothered you.

JesseCuster

In retrospect the most terrible death of my lifetime was John Lennon. I was 9 and barely knew who the Beatles were but seeing a great many adults in a daze and funk for days afterward was disconcerting.

Robin Williams has probably been the worst of those who went too soon. And it was a suicide.

I shed some tears when Peter O'Toole passed. It helped that he had a long, remarkable life.

Phil Hoffman and Phil Hartman were shocks.

Ash Ketchum

Aaliyah was very beautiful and talented but she came off as sweet, down-to-earth, unpretentious, and not full of herself. I really only knew her from ROMEO MUST DIE and a few interview segments on TV & radio, but I was totally smitten with her. I lost it when I heard the news and called up my nephew who was a fan of hers and he said he cried himself to sleep. And to learn how she died because the producers wanted to save money by chartering a smaller plane and then over-packing it with equipment and staff and allowing a freaked-out inexperienced pilot to take off... To this day it pains me that no one on the shoot was brave enough or smart enough to step forth and say, "This is unsafe and I'm not letting it happen" and then take it upon himself (or herself) to order Aaliyah off the plane and save her life.

Nine days after Aaliyah's death, Thuy Trang (Trini, the Yellow Ranger on "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers") died in a head-on auto collision because she wasn't wearing a seat belt. I lost it when I learned of this one also because it came after watching a week of MMPR tapes that she was in.

And then eight days after Thuy Trang's death, 9/11 happened.

A very bad season.

mostaccioli

eli wallach was not too long ago. what is the official time cutoff?

Deadman31

I'm not over Clara Peller's death so I said flying shit,
not helicopter propelled poop.

Draven

Considering how stupid the rule of threes in, it doesn't actually matter.

Norm de Plume

"It's like rain on your wedding day."

dhmac

This one loomed larger for me year later too, when I got older and more into his music.

And more recently, I found out that the Beatles were in serious plans to have a reunion show (or maybe multiple shows) when he was murdered, so we also lost being able to see new Beatles concert(s) probably featuring post-1966 songs that they never performed live in concert.

DJariya

I liked most of Candy's work, but I honestly didn't feel shocked or sad when he unfortunately passed away. The guy was morbidly obese and did nothing to change his lifestyle. I recall he weighed close to 400 pounds when he died. He was a ticking time bomb and I wasn't surprised when he passed due to a massive heart attack.

Being fat probably got him cast in alot of jobs, but in the end it sent him to his grave early.

EddieMoney

Probably Humphrey Bogart. Caught me by surprise.

Brack

Roger Ebert, no one else comes close.

mostaccioli

ed nelson a familiar face of t.v. and movies just died. he was the piolt who attempts to go in the airplane from mid air transfer in "airport 1975".
so does this end the 3s' or start a new one?

rexinnih

Robin William's death was the one that took me by surprise that I can remember.