He had lost over 200 pounds and still died like a fat person. He was the modern touchstones of inspiration to lose weight.
Anton Yelchin, 27, dies in freak car accident. Known for playing Chekov in Star Trek reboot and Kyle Reese in Terminator Salvation. edit, Obligatory:
Ahh, man... that sucks. I thought he was great as Chekov. And what a weird way to go. Sounds like he stopped to check his mail and put the car in neutral instead of park, and it rolled into him, pinning and killing him against the brick mailbox. Fucking hell.
I'd also recently seen him in Fright Night and Odd Thomas. I was bummed that Odd Thomas didn't do well enough to do a sequel, I like the series by Dean Koontz.
Fun fact about Yelchin: He was born in Russia, and thus had a genuine Russian accent. However for the role of Chekov, he mimic'd Walter Koenig's horrible Lithuanian-inspired "Russian" accent to maintain continuity with the prior Chekov.
Pat Summitt http://www.si.com/college-basketball/pat-summitt-tennessee-dies-legacy-empowering-women Buddy Ryan http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/16579465/former-nfl-coach-defensive-guru-buddy-ryan-dies-age-82
Pat Summit is tragic. Early onset dementia, horrible disease. From all accounts she was a strong, clever, proud woman. Sad to see Buddy Ryan go, it looks like his twins and him had a good relationship.
One of the pioneers: Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley's guitarist, dies http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/story/32330670/scotty-moore-elvis-presleys-guitarist-dies
Michael Cimino, director of The Deer Hunter, dead at 77. Didi Mau! The amount of talent in that film was insane. The Russian (Vietnamese) Roulette scene is one of the most famous scenes in film history, and widely parodied. This weekend is holding nothing back, also took Elie Wiesel, holocaust survivor, author of "Night", nobel laureate, at 87 Edit: Fuck me, Robin Hardy, director of cult classic The Wicker Man, dead at 86. If anyone was remotely famous in the 70s, go hide.
Im going to have to give the uncut Heavan's Gate another shot. I had it on my dvr for years but at 3.5+ hours I was always daunted at starting it. I do remember being blown away by the production value and cinematography of the first half hour or so I watched.
It's a terrible movie with wonderful eye candy. Cimino thought he was Kubrick and focuses away from the story to do things like shoot the bull whip scene more than 45 times. He bankrupted UA studios and lost his blue-chip director's throne for it.
Chris Amon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Amon Cancer can really go fuck itself. Amon drove in one of the most dangerous F1 eras and managed 11 podiums with no wins (considered by many the unluckiest F1 driver, although he survived a number of bad wrecks, so not that unlucky?) including driving for Cooper, Ferrari and March and won the 1966 24 Heures Du Mans with Bruce McLaren in the Ford GT40 Mk. 2.
Damn thats too bad. My favorite line from The Big Lebowski is in the limo scene: "Nothing's fucked?! The God Damned plane has crashed into the mountain!"