Last night the world lost one of it’s few bright souls. Not many ever could or can shine like Carlin did. He tuly changed the world everyday. Amazing wit, intelligence, and a social conscience. he died of heart failure on Sunday. He was 71. He will be missed, however he will endure.

This guys portraits show what some hollywood stars would have looked like had they not died too early. Stars like Marilyn Monroe, Bruce Lee and Adolf Hitler are shown in all their wrinkled glory. Wait a minute. Hitler? I don’t remember him being a Hollywood star. Anyway, check it out. This is how Marilyn would have looked had she survived to tramp it up for another 40 years or so. I don’t know about you, but I had to look away. Her eyes say she wants my wiener, but I’m scared as hell.

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It’s a sad day….We’ve lost one of the most brilliant minds not only in science fiction, but outside of Science Fiction as well, Arthur C Clarke.

He was one of my heroes. To many he will forever be the writer that worked with Stanley Kubrick in creating the science fiction Masterpiece 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. In fact, he was much more then that.

He was a true master, writing masterpieces like RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA or CHILDHOOD’S END as well as 4 books in the 2001 saga. He was also responsible for the advent of the telecommunications satellite Arthur moved to Sri Lanka in the 1950s where he spent the rest of his life.

What he left was an enduring legacy of wonder and exploration, not only of the physical universe, but our place in it. Whatever waits for us in the great beyond, you can be sure that Arthur is enriching and enboldening it.

Who knows, now that he is one with the cosmos, he may just make like the monolith and remain ever watchful as we go about our very small business.

Roy Scheider, a one-time boxer(in case you didn’t know why his nose looked a bit odd) and star of films like The French Connection, Jaws, Blue Thunder and 2010 to name a few, died at the age of 75.

Scheider died Sunday at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock. There is conflicting information regarding the cause of death, but he had been sick in recent years.

He was alot like Jimmy Stewart in the sense that he was an everyman and no matter what role he played he was instantly likable. He is going to be missed for sure.

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Perhaps best known for abusing his one time wife Tina Turner, Ike Turner has died at 76 on Wednesday at his home in suburban San Diego.

His career was overshadowed by the abuse, but he managed to clean up his image a bit in later years, touring around the globe with his band the Kings of Rhythm.

No comment from Tina Turner yet, but I find it ironic that he was overshadowed in life by the very woman that he supposedly beat.

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This time into the great unknown. According to TMZ, his granddaughter is saying that the daredevil has died.

He has been fighting a health battle for years and suffered from diabetes as well as a disease that left scarring on his lungs. In 1999 he almost died from Hepatitis, undergoing a liver transplant. It’s thought that he got the disease from a blood transfusion. That, following one of his famous wipe outs.

He was a fixture of the 70’s and 80’s in his red white and blue jumpsuits. There truly has never been another thrill-seeker like him and no other daredevil has been willing to push the boundaries, risking life and limb, the way he did.

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