Elie Wiesel, holocaust surviver and author of a significant book: NIGHT.
Michael Cimino, āDeer Hunterā and āHeavenās Gateā Director, Dies at 77
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Neill. Rip Lois Lane.
Former NFL Coach Dennis Green passed away, he was 67.
From Harrisburg, my neck of the woods.
Captain Noah.
6abc.com/family/philadelphia-tv- ... 0/1463028/
Kenny Baker, the actor inside R2-D2, has passed, he was 81.
Fyvush Finkel
Was he really an actor or just playing himself? Either way, he was genuinely entertaining in everything I saw him in.
Former Philadelphia police commissioner John Timoney.
philly.com/philly/news/20160818_Former_Philly_Police_Commissioner_John_Timoney_dies.html
Julian Bond, civil rights leader and former NAACP chief.
nytimes.com/2015/08/17/us/julian-bond-former-naacp-chairman-and-civil-rights-leader-dies-at-75.html?_r=0
John McLaughlin, he was 89. He was the host of the The McLaughlin Group, which was one of the first political "talking heads" panel shows (in an age when people in different parties would feverishly disagree with each other but genuinely seem to like each other).
Epidemiologist Donald Henderson, who was responsible for leading the eradication of smallpox.
Actor Steven Hill
Gene Wilder. When I was a kid, I never really appreciated his performance in The Producers. Now I consider it one of his best. But there's almost nothing I have seen him in where I didn't think he was fantastic.
No, oh man I love Gene Wilder. Blazing Saddles, The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Stir Crazy, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Silver Streak are all classics.
RIP to a master actor and comedian
RIP Willy Wonka one of my fondest memories of my grandparents was sitting watch this Willy Wonka with them.
I was 4.5 years old in the Summer of 1971 when my parents took me and my older sister, wearing our pajamas, to the Bucks County Drive-In to watch Willy Wonka. I don't remember much at the age of 4, but I'll never forget seeing this movie. Wilder was fantastic. RIP
Horrible news. I don't believe there is an afterlife, but if one exists I hope hes cracking jokes wherever it is.
RIP Mr Wilder and thank you.
Darryl Ward, Ice Road Truckers. In a plane crash Aug. 29 in Montana.
