Celebrity Death Thread 2023

Channel98

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Another alternative to accidental drowning is not drowning.

I second Steve Riley. L.A. Guns formed in 1983 in Los Angeles. Riley was a member from 1987 to 1992 and from 1994 until his death. Their hits include It's Over Now, Rip & Tear, The Ballad Of Jayne, Some Lie 4 Love and this one which reached #16 on the mainstream rock chart in August 1991:

 

Jon

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"accidental drowning" most likely means he was fucked up.
Nothing on him at the time (we'll see about what was in his system after the autopsy) but if you have a history of drug use and alcoholism (as he did) it's not a great idea to be in a jacuzzi alone, or at all for that matter.

Sucks to hear about, he was my favorite regular character on the show, and the one I most identified with. I have the Friends complete series on iTunes, think I'll give that a watch today.
 

scotchandcigar

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Sucks to hear about, he was my favorite regular character on the show, and the one I most identified with.
In recent years, he came totally clean about how fucked-up he was. Wrote a book, did interviews, was incredibly honest. Too bad it ended like this.
 
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HecticArt

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Too bad it ended like this.
Indeed.
Everyone is expecting that he had a relapse. I hope that it turns out that it wasn't.
It sounded like he had a good last day playing pickleball and whatnot.
His Jacuzzi had a hell of a view.
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I wrote this obituary for a radio publication:

Dusty Street died October 21. She was 77. Her father was Emerson Street. As a child, she and her family lived on Emerson Street in Palo Alto. "It drove the postman out of his mind," she told The Marin Times. Street began in radio in 1967 at San Francisco progressive rock station KMPX and moved to crosstown KSAN in December 1969. Following a brief stint at KTIM in San Rafael, she hosted evenings at alternative rock KROQ from 1979 to 1980. She briefly worked at KWST and KLOS and returned to KROQ in 1981. She moved to KMET in 1986 and left on February 6, 1987, prior to the station's switch from progressive rock to new age as "94.7 The Wave" KTWV. Street returned to KROQ in March 1987 for afternoons but was fired in October 1989. She told the Los Angeles Times, "I had too strong a personality. DJs no longer have any voice. They might as well hire people with no ears. By the end of the year, I seriously doubt KROQ will be the station it used to be." She was correct. KROQ added songs by Tom Petty, Metallica, Soundgarden, Guns N’ Roses, Faith No More, the Rolling Stones and other rock artists and the ratings went down.

Street worked at classic rock KLSX from 1990 to 1994, then spent a year in middays at KEDG in Las Vegas and a year in weekends at KXPT in Las Vegas. Since 2003, she had hosted programs on XM Satellite Radio's (now SiriusXM) Classic Vinyl and Deep Tracks channels, broadcasting from a fifth-floor studio at the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland. Street was inducted into the Bay Area Radio Museum Hall of Fame in 2015.
 
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Second. I remember Bobby Knight mostly for throwing a chair during a game against Purdue in 1985 and getting ejected – and for telling a group of reporters, "I forgot more about this fuckin' game than all you people combined are ever gonna know." Los Angeles sportscaster Jim Healy (KLAC, KMPC, KABC-Channel 7) played that clip many times on his radio shows – with a certain word bleeped, of course.

 
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John Stamos starred as basketball coach Marvyn Korn in the 2021-23 Disney+ series Big Shot. He gets fired from the University of Wisconsin after throwing a chair at a referee and winds up coaching a high-school girls team in California.

Gee, I wonder who inspired that first episode! :D

 
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