Fifth Avenue Forum

Posted: **Fri Feb 08, 2019 12:56 pm**

RIP Albert Finney
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/f ... s-crossing

"Saturday Night, Sunday Morning" is an awesome film.

R.I.P.

Posted: **Fri Feb 08, 2019 2:24 pm**

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/movi ... -dead.html

Posted: **Fri Feb 08, 2019 3:53 pm**

He was great in so many things that it's probably silly that I think of him as the Judge in Roger Waters' The Wall: Live in Berlin when I hear his name.

Posted: **Tue Feb 12, 2019 7:05 am**

RIP Gordon Banks

Posted: **Tue Feb 12, 2019 7:38 am**

Posted: **Wed Feb 13, 2019 9:33 pm**

RIP conspiracy theorist and perpetual presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, at age 96. Back when I was in college at Pitt, stacks of some sort of LaRouche newsletter/newspaper regularly appeared in the student union, and in those pre-smartphone days they were a way to kill time while waiting for your next class. I recall a lot of ranting and rambling about how the Rockefellers and Rothschilds were working with the British royal family to run the world. I assume the Queen whacked Mr. LaRouche personally.

Posted: **Wed Feb 13, 2019 9:47 pm**

I assume the Queen whacked Mr. LaRouche personally.

Posted: **Thu Feb 14, 2019 8:49 am**

RIP conspiracy theorist and perpetual presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, at age 96. Back when I was in college at Pitt, stacks of some sort of LaRouche newsletter/newspaper regularly appeared in the student union, and in those pre-smartphone days they were a way to kill time while waiting for your next class. I recall a lot of ranting and rambling about how the Rockefellers and Rothschilds were working with the British royal family to run the world. I assume the Queen whacked Mr. LaRouche personally.

He was an incredibly complex, bizarre man.

Posted: **Thu Feb 14, 2019 8:58 am**

I prefer the term 'crazy', but to each their own.

Posted: **Thu Feb 14, 2019 9:07 am**

I prefer the term 'crazy', but to each their own.

Most definitely crazy. I meant in terms of how all over the place his views were. He had a lot of influence on the crazies/conspiracy folks out there.

Posted: **Sat Feb 16, 2019 10:09 am**

RIP Swiss actor Bruno Ganz. Perhaps most famous to younger audiences for his role as Hitler in Downfall (and the subsequent memes)

Posted: **Sat Feb 16, 2019 6:32 pm**

Sad news today. Pat Caddell was one of the smartest political minds I have ever met. Also, and more importantly, a decent man. He will be missed.

https://t.co/bs7UOmA2IO

Posted: **Sat Feb 16, 2019 6:33 pm**

Sad news today. Pat Caddell was one of the smartest political minds I have ever met. Also, and more importantly, a decent man. He will be missed.
https://t.co/bs7UOmA2IO

He always looked half dead.

Posted: **Sat Feb 16, 2019 7:15 pm**

RIP Swiss actor Bruno Ganz. Perhaps most famous to younger audiences for his role as Hitler in Downfall (and the subsequent memes)

RIP Hitler

Posted: **Sun Feb 17, 2019 7:25 pm**

Some of those Hitler memes were amazing. I think there was a Deflategate one that was primo.

Posted: **Sun Feb 17, 2019 7:52 pm**

A belated RIP to Pedro Morales. He was the first Latino to hold the WWF championship and still holds the record as the longest Intercontinental champion.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/obit ... -dies.html

Posted: **Sun Feb 17, 2019 10:13 pm**

Mike Ilitch, Tigers owner and Little Caesars founder, passed away last week as well.

Posted: **Sun Feb 17, 2019 11:35 pm**

Mike Ilitch, Tigers owner and Little Caesars founder, passed away last week as well.

Mike Ilitch died February 10...OF 2017!!!

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

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2019 8:29 am**

Mike Ilitch, Tigers owner and Little Caesars founder, passed away last week as well.
Mike Ilitch died February 10...OF 2017!!!

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

Oh man, I thought something seemed strange about that.

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2019 8:32 am**

RIP
RIP

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2019 8:39 am**

RIP to artist Sam Bass. Bass' work is most well-known in the racing world, where he designed both Gordon's "Rainbow Warrior" famous paint scheme, as well as several schemes for Earnhardt, Stewart, etc. He also designed the cars/uniforms for Talladega Nights. He was NASCAR's first officially licensed artist. Died at 57 from sepsis/Type 1 diabetes.

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2019 8:42 am**

Sam Bass died in 1878.

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2019 1:54 pm**

RIP George Mendonsa, the (most likely) male subject of the famous photo in Times Square on V-J Day, aged 95.

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2019 1:56 pm**

Mike Ilitch, Tigers owner and Little Caesars founder, passed away last week as well.
Mike Ilitch died February 10...OF 2017!!!

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

Oh man, I thought something seemed strange about that.

Good to see I'm not the only one who does this. I think I have at least three of these on my record.

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:03 pm**

RIP George Mendonsa, the (most likely) male subject of the famous photo in Times Square on V-J Day, aged 95.

he's been confirmed as the sailor in the pic.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ge ... es-n972761

the nurse that he is kissing in the pic also lived a long life. She passed away in 2016 at the age of 92.