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King Bushwich the 33rd Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 10, 2005 Posts: 933 From: Ling Cod Beach, CA 90803
| Posted: 2011-02-06 12:47 pm  Permalink
Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore
Apr 4, 1952 - Feb 2011
Yahoo! news: Gary Moore
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King Bushwich the 33rd Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 10, 2005 Posts: 933 From: Ling Cod Beach, CA 90803
| Posted: 2011-02-07 1:41 pm  Permalink
Swedish Actress Lena Nyman
May 23, 1944 – February 4, 2011
Worcester Telegram & Gazette: Lena Nyman
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bamalamalu Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 20, 2006 Posts: 383 | Posted: 2011-02-14 09:34 am  Permalink
Betty Garrett, best known for her TV roles in Laverne & Shirley and All in the Family, has died, according to The Associated Press. She was 91.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/14/AR2011021400002.html?hpid=top
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Betty-Garrett-Dies-1029238.aspx
 
 
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naugatiki Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 02, 2004 Posts: 806 From: Port Angeles, Wa
| Posted: 2011-02-14 3:39 pm  Permalink
Not a good week for B movie people, first Tura now
David F. Friedman
http://online.wsj.com/article/AP6c20af4e401342f38ed3d433c0176d5f.html
 
 
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Big Kahuna Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 11, 2007 Posts: 1908 From: SoMass
| Posted: 2011-02-14 4:18 pm  Permalink
Heaven's Ultra Lounge just got a little cooler.
George Shearing
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/sns-rt-people-us-georgesheatre71d5s0-20110214,0,5099070.story
 
 
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King Bushwich the 33rd Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 10, 2005 Posts: 933 From: Ling Cod Beach, CA 90803
| Posted: 2011-02-15 11:38 am  Permalink
Actor Kenneth Mars
April 14, 1936 - Feb 12, 2011
Chicago Tribune: Kenneth Mars
Played "Springtime for Hitler" writer Franz Liebkind in "The Producers" and Inspector Kemp in "Young Frankenstein"

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tikibars Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 11, 2002 Posts: 2014 From: Aku Hall, Chicago
| Posted: 2011-02-28 4:50 pm  Permalink
Jane Russell!
 
 
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lucas vigor Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 12, 2004 Posts: 3453 From: "I've chopped my way through real jungle
| Posted: 2011-03-01 09:20 am  Permalink
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"yer jus not tuned into the series of tubes yet, let it soak in".
 
 
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VampiressRN Grand Member (5 years)
Joined: Nov 23, 2006 Posts: 5079 From: Sin City Lincoln Hills (NorCal)
| Posted: 2011-03-09 08:26 am  Permalink
The founding and, then, former bassist of Alice in Chains -- Mike Starr -- has been found dead in a home in Salt Lake City, according to a report first filed by TMZ.com. Police were called to the house at 1:42PM on Tuesday and found controlled substances including Xanex and the painkiller Opana, along with the dead body. Starr was 44.
In 1987, Starr was friends with guitarist Jerry Cantrell and agreed to join his new project with vocalist Layne Staley and drummer Sean Kinney, under the name Alice in Chains. The Seattle-based band was signed to Columbia Records two years later, in 1989, and cashed in on the Seattle grunge movement when it broke in the early '90s, following Nirvana's unexpected, massive success. Suddenly, Alice in Chains was branded as an alternative rock band, instead of the heavy metal machine they first imagined themselves as, and the group scored a hit with the song, 'Would?,' which was featured on the soundtrack to the generation-defining film, 'Singles.'
Starr either quit the band, or else he was fired, in 1993. The official reason for his departure was a lifestyle change. On the record, Starr wanted to spend more time with his family, less on the road, and the split was amicable. Years later, Starr publicly said that, in actuality, he was kicked out due to his drug use, which was spiraling out of control.
In 2010, Starr joined the cast of VH1's reality television series 'Celebrity Rehab' for its third season. The show documented his recovery from heroin addiction and Starr returned to the series the following season as a special guest, appearing as something of a mentor for that season's recovering addicts.
Last month, on February 18, Starr was arrested in Utah on suspicion of felony possession of a controlled substance. We'll update this tragic story as it develops.
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King Bushwich the 33rd Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 10, 2005 Posts: 933 From: Ling Cod Beach, CA 90803
| Posted: 2011-03-15 10:21 am  Permalink
Legendary Jazz Drummer Joe Morello
July 17, 1928 - March 12, 2011
Boston.com: Joe Morello
Joe Morello Official Website
Morello gained fame as a member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet during 1956-1967. His mastery of complex time signatures made many of Dave Brubeck's compositions possible. The drum solo on "Take Five" is one of the most famous in modern music history.
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TikiG Grand Member (2 years)
Joined: Jun 17, 2008 Posts: 1519 From: Palmdale, California
| Posted: 2011-03-15 10:07 pm  Permalink
Owsley Stanley aka The Bear
January 19, 1935 - March 13, 2011
Death by automobile accident near his home in Australia.
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VampiressRN Grand Member (5 years)
Joined: Nov 23, 2006 Posts: 5079 From: Sin City Lincoln Hills (NorCal)
| Posted: 2011-03-17 6:00 pm  Permalink
Actor Michael Gough, who starred as Batman's loyal butler Alfred Pennyworth in four films, passed away at age 94, according to E! Online.
Gough, whose career began in 1947 with 'Blanche Fury,' starred as Alfred in 'Batman,' 'Batman Returns,' 'Batman Forever' and 'Batman and Robin' between 1989 and 1997.
The actor, born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, rose to prominence early in his career with starring roles in the U.K. version of 'Doctor Who' and film versions of both 'Phantom of the Opera' and 'Dracula.'
Gough appeared for the last time on the silver screen in Tim Burton's 1999 'Sleepy Hollow,' and provided voice acting for the Burton-produced 'Corpse Bride' in 2005.
He is survived by his wife and two children.
 
 
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Big Kahuna Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 11, 2007 Posts: 1908 From: SoMass
| Posted: 2011-03-17 10:10 pm  Permalink
Country legend Ferlin Husky at 85.
 
 
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VampiressRN Grand Member (5 years)
Joined: Nov 23, 2006 Posts: 5079 From: Sin City Lincoln Hills (NorCal)
| Posted: 2011-03-18 4:28 pm  Permalink
Maverick's Claims A Surfer...so sad.
Sion Milosky had surfed waves just like this one before. But this time, the colossal wall of water at Mavericks plunged him deep into the ocean and would not let him go.
Milosky, a famed big wave surfer from Hawaii, died late Wednesday after wiping out and being caught in a two-wave hold-down off the coast of California's infamous Mavericks Beach, south of San Francisco. Other surfers watched on in horror as a rogue wave broke on top of 35-year-old Milosky, a fixture in the small, elite world of big-wave surfing.
"He was really deep and he makes the drop, and the end section comes and just explodes behind him as he straightens out," Chris Killen, a filmmaker who taped Milosky's final wave, told the Santa Cruz Sentinel. "I'm looking over just devastated. His head's flopping, and I could tell he was blue from far away."
In the moments after the wave broke, other surfers said they saw Milosky's board popping up out of the water, ominously. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Nathan Fletcher, another big-wave surfer in the water at the time, jumped on a jet ski and sped toward the board in a bid to rescue Milosky. But 20 minutes later, Milosky's body was found floating face down in a nearby jetty.
"He looked perfect," fellow surfer Grant Washburn told the paper. "They'd removed his wetsuit, his eyes were closed, no apparent damage of any kind. Just a perfectly peaceful, healthy person. You felt like you could just jolt him back to life."
Other surfers tried to administer CPR, but Milosky, a husband and the father of two young daughters, was pronounced dead at a local hospital at 7:46 p.m., Lt. Ray Lunny of the San Mateo Sheriff's Office told AOL News today. The coroner said the official cause of death was drowning.
The waves at Mavericks can reach heights of 80 feet and draw big-wave surfers from around the world. Milosky's feats on the giant waves were chronicled in a 2010 video made by filmmaker Daniel Russo and posted by Surfing Magazine.
Thursday, despite the tragedy, surfers were back in Mavericks' massive barrels again. On the beach, the message "WE LOVE YOU DADDY" was scrawled in the sand, and appeared to have been written by Milosky's children, according to Santa Cruz Patch.
Big-wave surfer Ken Collins, who witnessed the accident, said the wave that killed Milosky was at least 50 feet tall.
"This swell was really huge," he told the Santa Cruz Sentinel. "It was one of those swells that was really spread out. It was hard to see what was going on with everyone out there. [Milosky] had this huge smile on his face and just turned around and paddled into this 50- to 60-foot wave. That was the last time I saw him. The wave just sent him straight to heaven."
 
 
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DawnTiki Grand Member (first year)
Joined: Sep 01, 2002 Posts: 1673 From: next stop Hulaville!
| Posted: 2011-03-20 12:50 pm  Permalink
I think this is the right place to post this. I haven't been around in so long, with all the added content and changes on TC I've forgotten how to get around this place.
I did a search and found nothing mentioning it so... here it is.
Gretchen Clarke wife of Waltah Clarke dies at 78; Waltah Clarke's Hawaiian Shops executive
Gretchen Clarke designed clothes and, with her husband, ran Waltah Clarke's Hawaiian Shops, once the largest retailer of aloha wear in the U.S. The company had more than 30 stores on the mainland and Hawaii. The last store was sold in 2001.
http://www.kesq.com/news/26681848/detail.html
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/31/local/la-me-gretchen-clarke-20110131
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thedesertsun/obituary.aspx?n=gretchen-clarke&pid=148075179
My apologies if I have this posted in the wrong thread or if it's a repost.
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