The Stiffs
For the 32nd year running, our fondest farewells to the recently departed. If they were on anybody’s list, or mattered at all, they’re here. Looking for everybody? Try the Directory.
Jerry Orbach
In television criminal justice, the people are represented by two-dimensional yet totally unsympathetic characters like Lennie Briscoe.
Johnny Oates
This pretty much puts the kibosh on that "Maneater" reunion tour.
Prince Bernhard
He was often referred to as the most charismatic member of the Dutch royal family, which is kind of like being known as the smartest Oakland Raiders fan.
Robert Merrill
We thought it was the fat LADY who was suposed to sing.
Pierre Salinger
If there's anything worse than a French politician guy, it's a fake French politician guy.
Christopher Reeve
Stiller than a bowl of fruit ....
More stationary than a granite statue ....
Able to sit in tall buildings without making a single sound ....
Rodney Dangerfield
Those wishing to pay their lack of respect may do so by not sending donations to The American Heart Association.
Gordon Cooper
He made two separate trips in space, logging a total of 222 hours orbiting the planet, and they never once let him drive.
Richard Avedon
He singlehandedly revolutionized fashion photography, then elevated portrait shooting to a fine art, and may very well have boned Jack and Jackie Kennedy.
Skeeter Davis
Eradicated as part of the effort to control the West Nile virus.
Russ Meyer
Now stationed six feet beneath the Valley Of The Ultra-Vixens.
Marvin Mitchelson
What do you want to bet he's already getting a long-awaited, eternal ass-kicking from Lee Marvin?
Izora Armstead
She was one half of the duo The Weather Girls, perpetrators of 1983's international dance mega-hit "It's Raining Men."
Hallelujah.
Laura Branigan
We couldn't think of anything for her, but then some guy named Neil wrote in, saying "She was one hot, gravel-throated, sweaty, dyke rocker," so, we're going to go with that.
Elmer Bernstein
Apparently, he dabbled in movie music, but he'll forever be remembered for creating that kick-ass glue.
Red Adair
The world's most celebrated oil-well firefighter has been extinguished.
Rick James
"Give It To Me Baby" is such a catchy little groove, it almost makes you forget that he did time for tying up one woman and burning her with a crack pipe, and for beating another woman while she was kept bound for 12 hours. Nice hair, too.
Thelma Bugbee
She was better known as "Auntie Thelma," but what fun is that?
Ray Charles
God bless Brother Ray, and the music he made, but he's busted.
The booze and the brown made his liver shut down, and he's busted.
Archibald Cox
Quite an interesting choice for a man going into politics, but Archie decided to keep the name he'd used throughout his porno career.
Elvin Jones
Maybe now he'll stop fucking banging on everything in sight! Sheesh.
Tony Randall
He fathered his first child at the age of 77, and then did it again when he was 79.
Felix ...?
Barney Kessel
This jazz and studio guitar great played on hundreds of recordings — including Phil Spector's "River Deep-Mountain High" and "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," Julie London's "Cry Me A River," and many of the Coasters' hits — and was known for beig one of the weirdest dudes in the business.
Hubert Selby
Let's see you write your way out of this one, you little freak.
Alistair Cooke
Following a somber, yet tasteful cremation ceremony, Sir Alistair's remains are to be placed in a very elegant urn, and then featured as the host of Mantelpiece Theater.
Jan Berry
Okay, so, now there's, like, 2.000000001 girls for every boy.
Edmund Sylvers
The lead singer on "Boogie Fever" has finally succumbed to the disease.
Mercedes McCambridge
She provided the voice of the possessed Regan in The Exorcist, and is now sucking cocks in hell.
Preston Love
This is one of those cases where a picture is worth at least a thousand words.
Ann Miller
The star of On The Town and The Thrill Of Brazil
is lying under ground, and she's keeping very still.
Spalding Gray
Cambodia, feh! He couldn't even get out of the East River.
Brother Boniface Schnitzbauer
Yes, the same Brother Boniface who gave us the cookbook classic, "Baking with Brother Boniface."
