Dead Celebrity (Part 1)

Well, it very accurately returns the results it thinks you want, as well as results accurately based on product placement. As long as you operate with those assumptions, it’s great!

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So there was confusion over at TMZ, too. Someone posted an obit over on Reddit today, linking there, citing his age as 59, and the headline on TMZ was updated between then and now. :person_shrugging:

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Everybody loves a virtuoso, but there’s something to be said for consistency and workmanship.

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The sadness of this aside, this is a horribly-written piece. Choppy sentences, and stuff like this:

After getting a master’s degree several years later, Jones was drafted during the Korean War as well as Schmidt.

That’s no way to memorialize some like Jones.

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(Just in case anyone else was confused like I was, that’s a different Tom Jones than the “It’s Not Unusual” Welshman.)

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Nevermind

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Different Tom Jones… he’s still alive… the guy who did the lyrics to The Fantasticks died:

I was confused by that, too, no worries!

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And another article on Sinead:

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Who knew that there were so many guys called Tom Jones?

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This is the latest version. Just came out about a month ago:

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Now that would be Sir Thomas Jones Woodward, OBE.

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I should have known. Seems like all British entertainers eventually get knighted. I mean, even Baldrick’s got one.

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Seems like he was a real sweetheart… :sob: RIP, Alex!

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The UK’s best-loved talk show host.

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Yorkshire will be in mourning. As will I.

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28, damn, that’s so young :frowning:

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He had a real gift for asking the right question then getting out of the way.

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The end of an era, I suspect.

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