In Memoriam

[MINAM]

Val Kilmer RIP. He seemed to beat throat cancer. Liked him in Batman forever.

 

[SHARPIE]

Val Kilmer RIP. He seemed to beat throat cancer. Liked him in Batman forever.

A beautiful man. I don’t think I ever had a bigger crush on anyone.

Val Kilmer: Top Gun, Batman and The Doors actor dies aged 65

He starred in some of the biggest movies of the 1980s and 90s, also including The Doors and Heat.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[my little pony]

oh wow I feel old and rickety. I was obsessed with Real Genius. He was so pretty.

 

[Tesla]

oh wow I feel old and rickety. I was obsessed with Real Genius. He was so pretty.

Real Genius is awesome.

 

[Badams]

Val Kilmer will always be Jim Morrison to me. RIP.

 

[DFJ]

Val Kilmer will always be Jim Morrison to me. RIP.

Me too. He was amazing. I saw Jim Morrison in concert and you would be hard pressed to tell the difference. This is a sad one.

 

[vgerdes]

Val Kilmer RIP. He seemed to beat throat cancer. Liked him in Batman forever.

I think he died from pneumonia, not cancer. So many iconic roles. I really liked him in The Saint as well as Real Genius and Top Gun. And let's not forget Top Secret!

 

[ilovepaydays]

Top Gun: Maverick - Maverick & Iceman Scene

 

[emason]

Tombstone will always be defined for me by Val Kilmer’s Doc Holliday.

 

[once_upon]

Jay North (Dennis the Menace) dies. Of colorectal cancer

 

[attyfan]

Jay North (Dennis the Menace) dies. Of colorectal cancer

Jay North, TV's mischievous Dennis the Menace, dies at 73

Jay North, who starred as the towheaded mischief maker on TV’s “Dennis the Menace” for four seasons starting in 1959, has died. He was 73.

apnews.com

 

[Jot the Dot Dot]

Alice Tan Ridley , was a singing subway performer, before wowing them at America's Got Talent. And, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree: Her daughter is Gabourey Sidibe! She just passed away at 72. Here is her debut performance: America's Got Talent

 

[Buzz]

R.I.P.

Indian-Origin Catholic Priest Arul Carasala Shot Dead In Kansas, 1 Charged

Authorities have not released a possible motive for the shooting or said whether the suspect and the priest knew each other.

www.ndtv.com

 

[VALuvsMKwan]

Jean Marsh, who co-created "Upstairs Downstairs" with Eileen Atkins and had a tremendously long and varied career, has died at age 90.

Jean Marsh - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Vagabond]

Jean Marsh, who co-created "Upstairs Downstairs" with Eileen Atkins and had a tremendously long and varied career, has died at age 90.

Jean Marsh - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

She always said that her epitaph would be "Rose goes."

 

[Cachoo]

Literary giant: RIP

Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel-Winning Peruvian Novelist, Dies at 89

Mr. Vargas Llosa, who ran for Peru’s presidency in 1990 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, transformed episodes from his personal life into books that reverberated far beyond the borders of his native country.

www.nytimes.com

 

[vgerdes]

Jean Marsh, who co-created "Upstairs Downstairs" with Eileen Atkins and had a tremendously long and varied career, has died at age 90.

Jean Marsh - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Two of the stars of "Willow" have passed within two weeks of each other? Bummer. (Jean Marsh played the evil queen Bavmorda, for those who don't remember.) I loved that movie so much. Didn't much care for the sequel series, but the original movie was pure fun (and damn, Val Kilmer was hot with long dark hair, lol).

 

[Buzz]

R.I.P.

Karenna Groff and family killed in New York plane crash

MIT graduate Karenna Groff, who was named Woman of the Year by the NCAA in 2022, was among the victims.

www.bbc.com

 

[Cachoo]

R.I.P.

Karenna Groff and family killed in New York plane crash

MIT graduate Karenna Groff, who was named Woman of the Year by the NCAA in 2022, was among the victims.

www.bbc.com

How sad and how horrible for their surviving sister who is still in high school. She lost everyone.

 

[Seerek]

One of the last surviving game show hosts from the classic era (following Peter Marshall and Chuck Woolery, both of whom passed in 2024), Wink Martindale at the age of 91
(I had been a frequent viewer of his YouTube channel featuring lots of rare episodes/pilots)

Wink Martindale Dies: Game Show Host Of ‘Tic-Tac-Dough’, ‘Gambit’ And ‘High Rollers’ Was 91

Wink Martindale, one of TV’s most beloved game show hosts whose name became virtually synonymous with the profession, died today in Rancho Mirage, CA. He was 91. His death was announced by a spokesperson for Martindale’s family. No cause was given, but the statement said the host of such classic...

deadline.com

 

[Buzz]

Not sure if this was mentioned at the time. Hope she rest in peace.

Paralyzed Columbine survivor's death ruled a homicide 26 years after school massacre

Anne Marie Hochhalter, 43, died of sepsis last month, and a coroner has determined that the two gunshot wounds she suffered were a “significant contributing factor” in her death.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Vagabond]

 

[Badams]

Pope Francis dies aged 88, Vatican says

Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday at the age of 88, the Vatican has said.

www.bbc.com

 

[PRlady]

Not a Catholic but I thought he was a good Pope. RIP.

 

[Badams]

I realize he was sick and hospitalized very recently for a long time, but I'm sort of surprised by this one. He seemed to be doing better. And he made an appearance for Easter.

 

[Allskate]

I realize he was sick and hospitalized very recently for a long time, but I'm sort of surprised by this one. He seemed to be doing better. And he made an appearance for Easter.

He was still quite weak. Maybe the Easter appearances and dealing with and meeting J.D. Vance was too much for him? Not a joke. Pope Francis was very unhappy with Vance, what he has said, and what the Trump administration has been doing to immigrants.

 

[once_upon]

When I saw the short clip on the news story last night, I honestly thought he was brought out for one more appearance before he dies.

He was certainly trying to change the world for good. The Roman Church has much to do to, I felt he was trying to do change from within.

 

[allezfred]

Not a Catholic but I thought he was a good Pope. RIP.

He was about as progressive as a Pope could be. RIP.

 

[BittyBug]

RIP Papa Francesco. Truly a modern day St Francis, in addition to being humble and focused on the poor and less fortunate, he was an environmentalist. Would that the world would heed his encyclical Laudato Sí.

 

[Simone411]

I'm not Catholic, but all my aunts and uncles were including their children, my first cousins. My dad was Catholic but left the church and became Baptist when he married my mom.

I've kept up with all the Popes because of the fact that the majority of my family is Catholic. I liked Pope Francis because of him focusing on the poor and less fortunate. I liked him because he was more of a modern-day thinker.

For some reason, I woke up early this morning and saw on the news where Pope Francis had passed away. He was pretty cool in my books because he welcomed all people including gay people that believed in God which is the way it should be. It's sort of like the belief that my dad had because it didn't matter to him if people were gay. That didn't define the person as a human being. My dad felt no different about his step-granddaughter when she told him she was gay. She was still his granddaughter, and he knew how wonderful and caring she was as a person. That's why Pope Francis was my favorite Pope.

I found this from Vatican News.

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-04/pope-francis-dies-on-easter-monday-aged-88.html