Animated Views Celebrity Obituary Thread

[Ben]

Good for you liking Xanadu. Really. I’m glad it pleases someone. But it’s no SITR!

[Daniel]

I also like Xanadu, but I don't view it with rose-tinted glasses and have called it bad in the past.

[Dacey]

[Ben]

Please…stop the music!!

[Daniel]

Too funny. Like how Roger breaks in and out of character.

[Daniel]

Britain's longest reigning monarch Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has passed. End of an era.

[Randall]

We knew it was coming, but it's still so weird. She's been monarch (and MY queen, too, as a citizen of Canada) obviously for my whole life. She did a great job, always the epitome of grace and proper-ness.

I actually performed for her in 1986, when my high school band was selected to play at a dedication ceremony here in town. It was October, and unusually cold for that time of year (well below freezing), but of course it was an honour.

[Daniel]

Cool story!

So going by my math, she reigned for 45% of Canada's History.

[Daniel]

A British icon with his own touching goodbye to The Queen:

Thank you Ma’am, for everything.

The same words he said at the end of their time together in that video for her Platinum Jubilee celebration. Too sweet.

[Daniel]

Country music legend Loretta Lynn has died at the age of 90. Sad news. Love Coal Miner's Daughter, the film and the song. So many timeless classics. Definitely a loss.

[Daniel]

Dame Angela Lansbury has passed away at age 96, 5 days short of her 97th birthday. A witch, a tea pot, a sleuth, tales as old as time.

[Ben]

Very, very sad here. A great age, and obviously not unexpected, but one of those flames that one doesn’t feel will ever be extinguished. She was a lot more than a lot of outlets are mentioning, too: why is no-one remembering Mrs Lovett!?

RIP Miss Price, among many, many other memorable roles. You always lit up the stage or screen, no matter how big or small.

[Daniel]

Among her hundreds of roles were turns in holidays classics, such as The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow, The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story, Mrs. Santa Claus and Buttons. Many of which are Christmas staples for me.

[Ben]

Ironic, too, that we just have a new Mrs Harris Goes To Paris in cinemas here, which of course she already also played (as Mrs 'Arris, naturally) twenty years ago! Although not really a Christmas title, it still has that same kind of warmth, as so many of her later roles do.

[Daniel]

If you think about it, this has been a sad year for the Disney Renaissance. First Gilbert Gottfried, then Pat Carroll and now Angela Lansbury. What's eerie is they are separated by two months! (April/July/October)