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The Briefing Room's annual running thread for deaths in calendar year 2018.
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Marker so I get new posts on my Updated screen....
(And thanks for taking the thread again, @jmyrlefuller)
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Producer Rick Hall, 'Father of Muscle Shoals Music,' Dead at 85 (https://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/rick-hall-father-of-muscle-shoals-music-dead-at-85-w514854)
Fame Studios founder launched career of Aretha Franklin, published and recorded numerous R&B, pop and country songs
By Stephen L. Betts
Legendary record producer and Fame studio owner Rick Hall, the man regarded as the "Father of Muscle Shoals Music," died early Tuesday morning, according to the Alabama Music Hall of Fame. Reportedly in declining health in recent months, Hall was 85.
Hall's Grammy-winning production touched nearly every genre of popular music from country to R&B, and his Fame Studio and publishing company were a breeding ground for future legends in the worlds of songwriting and session work, as well as a recording home to some of the greatest musicians and recording artists of all time, including Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Wilson Pickett and many more. To date, the studio and its publishing company have been responsible for an estimated 350 million record sales, with songs by everyone from the Beatles to George Strait . . .
For me it's the classic soul music that came out of his studio that matters the most . . .
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBozxCs3yFk#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81YMi_gO6oY#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDSKaua0_U#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwPxhWU1koE#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tKKsqI919g#)
RIP Mr. Hall . . .
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There was some fine music that came out of that place.
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Bookmarking...
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One of my personal favourites cut at Fame Studios . . . with Duane Allman (working then as a session regular
at Fame) on slide guitar . . .
Clarence Carter, "The Road of Love"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plWpfwyyspA#)
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Thomas S. Monson, Mormon church president, dead at 90
CBS/AP
January 3, 2018
Thomas S. Monson, the president of the Mormon church -- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- died late Tuesday at the age of 90, the church announced...
A church bishop at the age of 22, the Salt Lake City native became the youngest church apostle ever in 1963 at the age of 36. He served as a counselor for three church presidents before assuming the role of the top leader of the church in February 2008.
Monson's job is expected to go to next longest-tenured member of the church's governing Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Russell M. Nelson, per church protocol...
Full article (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/thomas-s-monson-mormon-church-president-dead-90/)
The expected successor, Russell M. Nelson, is 93 years old.
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Marker
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Thanks for doing this again @jmyrlefuller and thanks for the Clarence Carter too, @EasyAce (*still on)
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K-9 Piper, Wildlife Control at Cherry Capital Airport
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/01/04/traverse-city-airport-dog-piper/1003104001/ (https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/01/04/traverse-city-airport-dog-piper/1003104001/)
"Friends, . It is with the ultimate sadness I must report the passing of my best friend and love of my life. . Piper passed away tonight peacefully in my arms after fighting a year-long battle with prostate cancer. He fought valiantly, and we did everything we could, but sometimes life just has to take its course. . Today, Piper enjoyed a pain-free day, filled with love from family and friends, mostly his fellow airport employees. He played soccer, got some much deserved butt scratches and yes, he chased away one last snowy owl as he sailed into the night. . As I hope was plainly evident, we are grateful. Grateful to have done what we loved for three years and had a whole hell of a lot of fun doing it.
Mostly though, we're grateful for all of your support. It's what's really helped us through the dark days. . As we leave you tonight, know that Piper is in a better place. I only ask for your patience as I take time to tend to my shattered heart. . Lastly, as a final act of true class, the flag you see here flew today at @uscg Air Station Traverse City and was taken down, folded and presented to us and a token of their love. Please join me in thanking the men and women, past and present, of Air Station Traverse City for their awesomeness.
Piper and I are forever in your debt. . With love, . Brian & Piper"
K-9 Piper became world famous in February 2016, keeping the runways clear for air traffic, including Coast Guard business. His webpage is a must-see: http://www.airportk9.org/
(https://i.redd.it/5ozlgb5qz8801.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/5IqnuBB.gif)
(https://i.imgur.com/uSOh2E9.jpg)
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Sad to read this.
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Jerry van Dyke, comic actor, dies at 86
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Jerry_Van_Dyke_%28253701039%29_cropped.jpg)
While Van Dyke, the younger brother of comic leading man Dick Van Dyke, only sporadically received top billing in any of his productions (one of the few notable examples being My Mother the Car the oft-maligned—and, in this man's opinion, unjustly so; I've seen bits and pieces and it wasn't THAT bad of a show—1960s sitcom), he enjoyed a long career as a stand-up comic and as a supporting actor in sitcoms from the 1960s until shortly before his death, including his repeatedly Emmy-nominated (but never award-winning) role of Luther Van Dam in the early-90s sitcom Coach. In his later years, he was typecast as a "fun grandpa," an older version of the roles he had taken most of his life.
Van Dyke had been in an automobile accident in 2016 and had been in declining health since then, although he was still mobile up until near the end of his life.
Obituary from TMZ (http://www.tmz.com/2018/01/06/jerry-van-dyke-dead-at-86/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Van_Dyke)
IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0886733/)
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Astronaut John Young, Who Walked on the Moon and Led 1st Shuttle Mission, Dies at 87
By Robert Z. Pearlman, collectSPACE.com Editor | January 6, 2018 01:07pm ET
https://www.space.com/39307-astronaut-john-young-moonwalker-shuttle-commander-obituary.html (https://www.space.com/39307-astronaut-john-young-moonwalker-shuttle-commander-obituary.html)
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John Young, seen here training for NASA’s Apollo 16 moon landing mission in December 1971, died on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018 at the age of 87. Credit: NASA
John Young, NASA's longest-serving astronaut, who walked on the moon and flew on the first Gemini and space shuttle missions, has died.
The first person to fly six times into space — seven, if you count his launch off of the moon in 1972 — and the only astronaut to command four different types of spacecraft, Young died on Friday (Jan. 5) following complications from pneumonia.. He was 87.
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Astronaut John Young, Who Walked on the Moon and Led 1st Shuttle Mission, Dies at 87
By Robert Z. Pearlman, collectSPACE.com Editor | January 6, 2018 01:07pm ET
https://www.space.com/39307-astronaut-john-young-moonwalker-shuttle-commander-obituary.html (https://www.space.com/39307-astronaut-john-young-moonwalker-shuttle-commander-obituary.html)
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John Young, seen here training for NASA’s Apollo 16 moon landing mission in December 1971, died on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018 at the age of 87. Credit: NASA
John Young, NASA's longest-serving astronaut, who walked on the moon and flew on the first Gemini and space shuttle missions, has died.
The first person to fly six times into space — seven, if you count his launch off of the moon in 1972 — and the only astronaut to command four different types of spacecraft, Young died on Friday (Jan. 5) following complications from pneumonia.. He was 87.
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Safe journey home, Captain.
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8888crybaby Sorry to hear about Jerry VanDyke. He sometimes appeared in his brother's old show playing, of course, Rob Petrie's brother.
MY favorite role of Jerry VanDyke's was as Luther in Coach. He and Craig T. Nelson played off one another very well.
Rest in peace, Mr. VanDyke.
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8888crybaby Sorry to hear about Jerry VanDyke. He sometimes appeared in his brother's old show playing, of course, Rob Petrie's brother.
MY favorite role of Jerry VanDyke's was as Luther in Coach. He and Craig T. Nelson played off one another very well.
Rest in peace, Mr. VanDyke.
Couch was a very funny show and Jerry VanDyke's Luther character was a stand out among many on that show.
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RIP Stacy Petrie . . .
The Dick Van Dyke Show, "I Am My Brother's Keeper" (Part One)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4SdRBL24jk#)
The Dick Van Dyke Show, "The Sleeping Brother" (Part Two)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pef-VltW340#)
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RIP Stacy Petrie . . .
The Dick Van Dyke Show, "I Am My Brother's Keeper" (Part One)
The Dick Van Dyke Show, "The Sleeping Brother" (Part Two)
You bet, Herbert!!
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You bet, Burford!!
Fixed! ;)
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Fixed! ;)
LOL! Correct as always, EA!!
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LOL! Correct as always, EA!!
Danke, Mr. Burford! ;)
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RIP Ray Thomas, flautist/songwriter with the Moody Blues . . .
MOODY BLUES' RAY THOMAS DIES AT 76 (http://ultimateclassicrock.com/moody-blues-ray-thomas-dies/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=newsletter_4572276)
. . . this is still my favourite song written and sung by Ray Thomas . . .
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW1Hg96Lflw#)
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RIP Ray Thomas, flautist/songwriter with the Moody Blues . . .
MOODY BLUES' RAY THOMAS DIES AT 76 (http://ultimateclassicrock.com/moody-blues-ray-thomas-dies/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=newsletter_4572276)
OUCH!
I wish he could have made it to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in April.
He'll be missed.
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Greta Thyssen, Danish actress.
Actress, Model, Cary Grant's Former Love Interest Dies After Battling Pneumonia
By Serena Carter
On Wednesday, sad news emerged about a famous film star from the '50s and ‘60s. Danish actress Greta Thyssen passed away in her Manhattan apartment on Sunday night.
http://www.faithfamilyamerica.com/actress_model_cary_grant_s_former_love_interest_dies_after_battling_pneumonia (http://www.faithfamilyamerica.com/actress_model_cary_grant_s_former_love_interest_dies_after_battling_pneumonia)
(http://highlighthollywood.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/perry-mason-greta.jpg)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/greta-thyssen-dead-marilyn-monroe-double-three-stooges-star-was-90-1073424 (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/greta-thyssen-dead-marilyn-monroe-double-three-stooges-star-was-90-1073424)
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K-9 Piper, Wildlife Control at Cherry Capital Airport
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/01/04/traverse-city-airport-dog-piper/1003104001/ (https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/01/04/traverse-city-airport-dog-piper/1003104001/)
"Friends, . It is with the ultimate sadness I must report the passing of my best friend and love of my life. . Piper passed away tonight peacefully in my arms after fighting a year-long battle with prostate cancer. He fought valiantly, and we did everything we could, but sometimes life just has to take its course. . Today, Piper enjoyed a pain-free day, filled with love from family and friends, mostly his fellow airport employees. He played soccer, got some much deserved butt scratches and yes, he chased away one last snowy owl as he sailed into the night. . As I hope was plainly evident, we are grateful. Grateful to have done what we loved for three years and had a whole hell of a lot of fun doing it.
Mostly though, we're grateful for all of your support. It's what's really helped us through the dark days. . As we leave you tonight, know that Piper is in a better place. I only ask for your patience as I take time to tend to my shattered heart. . Lastly, as a final act of true class, the flag you see here flew today at @uscg Air Station Traverse City and was taken down, folded and presented to us and a token of their love. Please join me in thanking the men and women, past and present, of Air Station Traverse City for their awesomeness.
Piper and I are forever in your debt. . With love, . Brian & Piper"
K-9 Piper became world famous in February 2016, keeping the runways clear for air traffic, including Coast Guard business. His webpage is a must-see: http://www.airportk9.org/
(https://i.redd.it/5ozlgb5qz8801.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/5IqnuBB.gif)
(https://i.imgur.com/uSOh2E9.jpg)
Dang! What a wonderful doggy!
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OUCH!
I wish he could have made it to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in April.
He'll be missed.
I saw the Moody Blues a few years ago. That guy was brilliant on the flute.
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My favorite Moody Blues clip. The boys seem to be into Dr. Leary's concoction a bit if you ask me. :pondering:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EXCIWlm1fs#)
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Glad to know he at least knew of the induction.
Outside of Rush, the Moody Blues omission to this stupid Rolling Stoned lackeyed HOF was its most heinous.
The HOF has been consistently snubbing the entire branch of Prog Rock since its creation.
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I saw the Moody Blues a few years ago. That guy was brilliant on the flute.
I had a girlfriend who was a groupie who slept with one of them. Never asked which, though. (And she offed herself 19 years ago today, so I'll never know!)
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Motorhead ex “Fast†Eddie Clarke dead at 67
News / 3 hours ago / by Scott Munro
http://teamrock.com/news/2018-01-11/motorhead-ex-fast-eddie-clarke-dead-at-67 (http://teamrock.com/news/2018-01-11/motorhead-ex-fast-eddie-clarke-dead-at-67)
Former Motorhead guitarist “Fast†Eddie Clarke dies at the age of 67 after battle with pneumonia
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Motorhead ex “Fast†Eddie Clarke dead at 67
News / 3 hours ago / by Scott Munro
http://teamrock.com/news/2018-01-11/motorhead-ex-fast-eddie-clarke-dead-at-67 (http://teamrock.com/news/2018-01-11/motorhead-ex-fast-eddie-clarke-dead-at-67)
Former Motorhead guitarist “Fast†Eddie Clarke dies at the age of 67 after battle with pneumonia
Ahhhhhh, Motorhead. Also known as how Black Sabbath might have sounded if they played at 78 rpm speed.
RIP Mr. Clarke.
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Motorhead ex “Fast†Eddie Clarke dead at 67
News / 3 hours ago / by Scott Munro
http://teamrock.com/news/2018-01-11/motorhead-ex-fast-eddie-clarke-dead-at-67 (http://teamrock.com/news/2018-01-11/motorhead-ex-fast-eddie-clarke-dead-at-67)
Former Motorhead guitarist “Fast†Eddie Clarke dies at the age of 67 after battle with pneumonia
So all three of the original Motorhead lineup are gone. I can't think of too many bands where all the members are deceased.
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Ahhhhhh, Motorhead. Also known as how Black Sabbath might have sounded if they played at 78 rpm speed.
Then you would have saw God.
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Then you would have saw God.
@dfwgator
Uhhhhh . . . no, I think not.
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@dfwgator
Uhhhhh . . . no, I think not.
LOL... I think you might have missed the Cheech and Chong pun.
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So all three of the original Motorhead lineup are gone. I can't think of too many bands where all the members are deceased.
@dfwgator
Alas, there's the Jimi Hendrix Experience . . . the original 5 Royales (a giant in early R&B) . . . the original Skyliners upon the death
of lead vocalist Jimmy Beaumont last year . . .
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LOL... I think you might have missed the Cheech and Chong pun.
*laughing* I just can't see it applying to those guys. Though I admit I did like the song "Ace of Spades" . . .
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Legendary college football broadcaster Keith Jackson dies at 89
Keith Jackson, the man whose voice was synonymous with college football for generations of fans, died Friday night at age 89, according to his family.
Jackson's broadcast career began at Washington State in 1952 when he called a game between Washington State and Stanford, but it was just the first of many stops for the legendary voice. During his expansive career, Jackson also called the NFL, MLB, NBA, PGA Tour golf, the Olympics, boxing, racing and even some college basketball alongside Dick Vitale. He was the first play-by-play man of Monday Night Football and was the voice of some of the United States' top Olympic moments, including calling Mark Spitz's seven and Eric Heiden's five gold medals..
But it was college football that Jackson was most known for calling as he spent 50 years in the booth covering games across the country. He's credited with giving the Rose Bowl it's "Granddaddy of Them All" nickname as well as christening Michigan Stadium with its "Big House" moniker.
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More at:
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/legendary-college-football-broadcaster-keith-jackson-dies-at-89/ (https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/legendary-college-football-broadcaster-keith-jackson-dies-at-89/)
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Legendary college football broadcaster Keith Jackson dies at 89
Keith Jackson, the man whose voice was synonymous with college football for generations of fans, died Friday night at age 89, according to his family.
Jackson's broadcast career began at Washington State in 1952 when he called a game between Washington State and Stanford, but it was just the first of many stops for the legendary voice. During his expansive career, Jackson also called the NFL, MLB, NBA, PGA Tour golf, the Olympics, boxing, racing and even some college basketball alongside Dick Vitale. He was the first play-by-play man of Monday Night Football and was the voice of some of the United States' top Olympic moments, including calling Mark Spitz's seven and Eric Heiden's five gold medals..
But it was college football that Jackson was most known for calling as he spent 50 years in the booth covering games across the country. He's credited with giving the Rose Bowl it's "Granddaddy of Them All" nickname as well as christening Michigan Stadium with its "Big House" moniker.
...
More at:
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/legendary-college-football-broadcaster-keith-jackson-dies-at-89/ (https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/legendary-college-football-broadcaster-keith-jackson-dies-at-89/)
Keith Jackson also got tapped to introduce . . .
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsu-j6Xsa_8#)
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@EasyAce
One legend introducing 2 others. I never knew. Wow!
Thanks.
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John Tunney, ex-US senator from California, dies at 83
Andrew Dalton
AP via The Mercury News
January 12, 2018
John V. Tunney, whose successful campaign for a California seat in the U.S. Senate became the basis for the 1972 Robert Redford film “The Candidate,†has died. He was 83.
Tunney died of prostate cancer Friday at a home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, his brother, Jay Tunney, told The Associated Press.
Tunney was among the youngest people elected to the U.S. Senate in the past century when he won his seat in 1970 at age 36. He then became one of the youngest in recent history to lose a Senate seat when he was defeated after just one term...
Tunney was born in New York the son of Connecticut socialite Polly Lauder Tunney and boxer Gene Tunney, the 1920s heavyweight champion whose two victories over Jack Dempsey were among the most renowned fights of the 20th century...
More (https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/12/john-tunney-ex-us-senator-from-california-dies-at-83/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_V._Tunney)
Although John Tunney was a Democrat, his father Gene Tunney was a Republican.
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@EasyAce
One legend introducing 2 others. I never knew. Wow!
Thanks.
@Applewood
In the early television years, when you heard voice-overs on the television production logos, Keith Jackson was the voice of . . .
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiOHhGjaYow#)
Four Star was the production company started by Dick Powell, David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Joel McCrea. McCrea backed out of the project to continue his film career,
and Ida Lupino replaced him. June Allyson, Powell's wife, held some stock in the company. It began because Powell had the itch to produce and direct; the company grew
out of a series he created called Four Star Playhouse. The studio's best remembered series beside that are probably The Rogues, Zane Gray Theater, Richard Diamond
Private Detective [Powell played the title character in its original radio version], Law of the Plainsman, Burke's Law, and Honey West [a spy series starring Anne Francis in
the title role]. Powell's death of stomach cancer in 1963 meant the end for Four Star; without him and his guidance, the studio would never be the same. Before long it became
a top syndicator for a good many years but produced no new series; eventually, it was folded into New World Entertainment. When NWE was sold to Fox, Fox became the
owners of the old Four Star program inventory. Four Star also once owned Valiant Records, whose most successful act was the Association, before selling the label to
Warner Brothers in 1966.
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Dolores O'Riordan- Cranberries singer dies aged 46
https://news.sky.com/story/dolores-oriordan-cranberries-singer-dies-aged-46-11209368
No cause of death - breaking
I really liked this group
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Dolores O'Riordan- Cranberries singer dies aged 46
https://news.sky.com/story/dolores-oriordan-cranberries-singer-dies-aged-46-11209368
No cause of death - breaking
I really liked this group
Wow, me too. Terrible.
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Wow, me too. Terrible.
And young. Obits on major news outlets now, still no cause of death. Strange. Sad.
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Hall of Fame umpire Doug Harvey dies at 87 (https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/hall-of-fame-umpire-doug-harvey-passes-away-at-87/)
Players called him God. Don Sutton once tried to sue him and the National League for "depriving him of his livelihood" after Harvey
ejected him for throwing doctored baseballs. (The league's then-milquetoast president Chub Feeney never imposed the mandatory
ten-game suspension.)
I remember Harvey calling balls and strikes for what proved Sandy Koufax's final major league win---on the final day of the regular
1966 season, when Koufax was forced to pitch the nightcap of a doubleheader on short rest (two days') to clinch a pennant
after Don Drysdale fell in the hole in the first game and was lifted after two innings. Koufax prevailed---even though he had to be
stretched in the clubhouse to get a slipped disc put back into place (one of the men who stretched him: former Dodger Don Newcombe,
who was no shrinking violet) midway through---and Harvey would remember the game this way: He threw seven and two thirds
innings with nothing but a fastball. And they knew what was coming. And he still won the game for them, and the pennant. It was
the greatest exhibition of baseball I've ever seen in my life.
In one of Harvey's earliest games, Stan Musial was batting when Harvey called a strike three anticipating the pitch's arrival---but it
brokie wide of the plate. Musial didn't flinch. He simply called for his glove from a bat boy and, without turning, told Harvey, "Young
fellow, I don't know which league you came from, but we use the same plate. It's 17 inches wide." Said Harvey remembering that
incident, "That's when I realised why they called him Stan the Man, and I learned not to anticipate the call. That's my gift to baseball
. . . Before, the umpires were always told, 'Be quick! Be decisive!'"
RIP Mr. Harvey.
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Dolores O'Riordan- Cranberries singer dies aged 46
https://news.sky.com/story/dolores-oriordan-cranberries-singer-dies-aged-46-11209368 (https://news.sky.com/story/dolores-oriordan-cranberries-singer-dies-aged-46-11209368)
No cause of death - breaking
I really liked this group
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yam5uK6e-bQ#)
DREAMS...
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8888crybaby Sorry to hear about Jerry VanDyke. He sometimes appeared in his brother's old show playing, of course, Rob Petrie's brother.
MY favorite role of Jerry VanDyke's was as Luther in Coach. He and Craig T. Nelson played off one another very well.
Rest in peace, Mr. VanDyke.
One of the funniest things ever on the Dick Van Dyke show was when Jerry played his banjo, sang and tapped his feet off rhythm.
Always made me laugh hysterically!
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I'm calling suicide for Delores O'Riordan, she already attempted suicide in 2013. Very sad and tragic, and she was a talented singer.
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I'm calling suicide for Delores O'Riordan, she already attempted suicide in 2013. Very sad and tragic, and she was a talented singer.
You might be right @Weird Tolkienish Figure but I hope you are wrong, you know?
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Any Star Trek fans? We missed this one.
http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/star-trek-the-next-generation-actor-john-paul-steuer-dies-at-33 (http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/star-trek-the-next-generation-actor-john-paul-steuer-dies-at-33)
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I wonder if being a vegan had anything to do with his death.
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I wonder if being a vegan had anything to do with his death.
Or a Klingon
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OUCH!
I wish he could have made it to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in April.
He'll be missed.
Indeed, very sad that he didn't make it to experience the ultimate recognition.
I think he's most famous for his flute solo in "Nights In White Satin".
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjUqfRrWwcM#)
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I'm calling suicide for Delores O'Riordan, she already attempted suicide in 2013. Very sad and tragic, and she was a talented singer.
That was my guess, too.
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And young. Obits on major news outlets now, still no cause of death. Strange. Sad.
She did have a history of heart trouble the past few years, and it's not unheard of to have a sudden heart attack in your mid-40s and die.
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Tyler Hilinski, college football quarterback, commits suicide at 21
Hilinski had just taken over the starting quarterback position for the Washington State Cougars at the end of the 2017 season, a role he was expected to take over full-time in 2018. Hilinski had no known physical or mental health issues at the time of his death.
Story from ESPN.com (http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/22125232/washington-state-qb-tyler-hilinski-found-dead-apparent-suicide-police-say)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Hilinski)
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Good Grief! 21 years old and no past history of depression or mental illness. No signs either, I guess. Or maybe they were missed or not taken seriously.
Just hard to wrap my head around someone knocking himself off at such a young age with his whole life ahead of him and what looked like a promising football career.
May Tyler rest in peace and may God grant comfort and strength to his loved ones.
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She did have a history of heart trouble the past few years, and it's not unheard of to have a sudden heart attack in your mid-40s and die.
She also had canceled shows for back pain, so there's a possibility of opioids or other medications being involved in some manner.
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Comet Discoverer Thomas Bopp (1949–2018)
By: Carolyn Collins Petersen | January 12, 2018
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/people-places-and-events/thomas-bopp-1949-2018/ (http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/people-places-and-events/thomas-bopp-1949-2018/)
An unassuming amateur astronomer forever linked to one of the greatest comets in modern history has passed away.
Thomas Joel Bopp, the co-discoverer of Comet Hale-Bopp, died January 5, 2018, in Phoenix, Arizona, from liver cancer. He was 68 years old.
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(http://wwwcdn.skyandtelescope.com/wp-content/uploads/Thomas-Bopp.jpg)
@Freya @kevindavis
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Comet Discoverer Thomas Bopp (1949–2018)
By: Carolyn Collins Petersen | January 12, 2018
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/people-places-and-events/thomas-bopp-1949-2018/ (http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/people-places-and-events/thomas-bopp-1949-2018/)
An unassuming amateur astronomer forever linked to one of the greatest comets in modern history has passed away.
Thomas Joel Bopp, the co-discoverer of Comet Hale-Bopp, died January 5, 2018, in Phoenix, Arizona, from liver cancer. He was 68 years old.
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(http://wwwcdn.skyandtelescope.com/wp-content/uploads/Thomas-Bopp.jpg)
@Freya @kevindavis
Thanks @Suppressed .
That was some show when it hit Jupiter!
RIP, Mr Bopp.
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@Suppressed , do you think they will put his ashes in space like they did with Tombaugh, Hale or Scottie?
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Thanks @Suppressed .
That was some show when it hit Jupiter!
RIP, Mr Bopp.
@Freya
You're thinking of Shoemaker-Levy 9. Hale-Bopp is still out there...though it won't be back for more than 2000 years. It was the very bright one that passed close in 1997.
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@Freya
You're thinking of Shoemaker-Levy 9. Hale-Bopp is still out there...though it won't be back for more than 2000 years. It was the very bright one that passed close in 1997.
Weren't they both supposed to kill us all? And here, I bought a nice umbrella.... :shrug:
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@Freya
You're thinking of Shoemaker-Levy 9. Hale-Bopp is still out there...though it won't be back for more than 2000 years. It was the very bright one that passed close in 1997.
Oh Hale Bopp was the one with that crazy death cult in California?
I has a blonde moment, so sorry. :blonde:
@Suppressed
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Oh Hale Bopp was the one with that crazy death cult in California?
I has a blonde moment, so sorry. :blonde:
@Suppressed
To be honest, @Freya, I always get them mixed up...and I'm not blond.
Oh, well...
(http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.3008825.1490457628!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/mass-suicide.jpg)
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Stansfield Turner, who led major CIA reforms, dies
Stansfield A. Turner, who served as CIA director under President Jimmy Carter and oversaw reforms at the agency after the Senate uncovered CIA surveillance aimed at American citizens, has died. He was 94...
A Rhodes scholar and 33-year Navy veteran, Turner commanded NATO's forces in southern Europe from 1975 to 1977 before being chosen to direct the Central Intelligence Agency...
More (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/18/stansfield-turner-who-led-major-cia-reforms-dies.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stansfield_Turner)
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Actually from last year but an update:
Tom Petty died of accidental overdose from mix of prescribed pain medications
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tom-petty-died-accidental-overdose-mix-prescribed-meds-article-1.3767037 (http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tom-petty-died-accidental-overdose-mix-prescribed-meds-article-1.3767037)
Petty died on Oct. 2 in California — the same day he had been informed that the hip fracture he’d been living with for many months had become a full-blown break.
“It is our feeling that the pain was simply unbearable and was the cause for his over use of medication,†his wife and daughter said.
Doctors prescribed Petty a variety of medicines to cope with the pain, including fentanyl patches — a powerful drug that can cause respiratory distress and even lead to death when taken in high doses or when combined with other substances, especially alcohol.
“We feel confident that this was, as the coroner found, an unfortunate accident,†the family said.
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Of all the people who have died in the last few years (that were not family) Tom Petty's death shook me the most. I really loved his music and acting.
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Of all the people who have died in the last few years (that were not family) Tom Petty's death shook me the most. I really loved his music and acting.
I liked Tom Petty's music. "Damn the Torpedoes" was one of the first albums, (actually an 8-track - and boy does that make me feel old) I bought when I got my first car which had .... an 8-track player. I wore it out along with Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and an Alman Brothers Band Greatest Hits and Little Feat Waiting For Columbus.
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What I liked about Petty is that he didn't have much of a voice - he sounded like a burnt out tweaker hippie. Yet he could write unbelievable songs that weaved together perfectly with that voice and do them with such amazing diction and inflection that he probably was about the only person that could justifiably sing them.
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Dorothy Malone, Oscar-Winning Actress in ‘Written on the Wind’ and ‘Peyton Place’ Star, Dies at 92
Dorothy Malone, star of the big and small screen with “Written on the Wind,†“Basic Instinct†and “Peyton Place,†died on Friday morning in Dallas of natural causes. She was 92.
Working in the Golden Age of Hollywood, the striking blonde actress won an Oscar for best supporting actress for her performance in Douglas Sirk’s melodrama “Written on the Wind,†which she starred in with Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall and Robert Stack. Among her more notable early roles was the bookshop proprietress in “The Big Sleep†opposite Humphrey Bogart.
After years of smaller roles, the Oscar helped her secure roles in larger projects like “Too Much, Too Soon,†“Man of a Thousand Faces,†and “Warlock.†She would frequently work with Hudson throughout the 1960s, as she played opposite him twice more in “The Tarnished Angels†and “The Last Sunset.â€
After years in the film business, Malone waded into television with a starring role on prime-time soap opera “Peyton Place†from 1964 to 1968. She later revived her Constance MacKenzie character in TV movies based on the series, 1977’s “Murder in Peyton Place†and 1985’s “Peyton Place: The Next Generation.†She also appeared in a number of miniseries, including “Rich Man, Poor Man†and “Condominium,"
More at:
http://variety.com/2018/film/people-news/dorothy-malone-dies-dead-peyton-place-1202670315/ (http://variety.com/2018/film/people-news/dorothy-malone-dies-dead-peyton-place-1202670315/)
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Of all the people who have died in the last few years (that were not family) Tom Petty's death shook me the most. I really loved his music and acting.
Same here. Worst rock death (sadden) (to me) since Lennon.
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What I liked about Petty is that he didn't have much of a voice - he sounded like a burnt out tweaker hippie. Yet he could write unbelievable songs that weaved together perfectly with that voice and do them with such amazing diction and inflection that he probably was about the only person that could justifiably sing them.
Him and Neil Young.
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What I liked about Petty is that he didn't have much of a voice - he sounded like a burnt out tweaker hippie. Yet he could write unbelievable songs that weaved together perfectly with that voice and do them with such amazing diction and inflection that he probably was about the only person that could justifiably sing them.
I would have liked to hear J. Geils Band cover "Don't Do Me Like That," as originally intended.
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Actually from last year but an update:
Tom Petty died of accidental overdose from mix of prescribed pain medications
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tom-petty-died-accidental-overdose-mix-prescribed-meds-article-1.3767037 (http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tom-petty-died-accidental-overdose-mix-prescribed-meds-article-1.3767037)
Opioids are mind altering. IOW they impact judgment. He wasn't "thinking straight" when he took too much.
In their own minds, they are still okay. They feel they will know when to stop or cut back. Then they are dead.
(Elvis, Jimi, Janis didn't commit suicide. They accidentally OD'd like Petty)
In the case of heroin it is "cut"" or diluted to weaker strength as it comes down the illegal supply network of drug dealers, redealers. So the final consumer can easily be way off on the actual strength)
Also years of use and abuse, weaken heart and lungs, and the user can finally reach "too much" when deteriorating organs say enough.
Petty might have supplies legally prescribed by multiple doctors. When asked about his drugs by doctor B, maybe he lied in order to have plenty "for the road."
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Autopsy: drugs found in MLB star Roy Halladay’s system after plane crash
By Zachary T. Sampson
Published: January 19, 2018
Updated: January 19, 2018 at 08:25 PM
When former Major League Baseball pitcher Roy Halladay died in a plane crash in November, he had amphetamines, morphine and the sleep aid zolpidem in his system, according to an autopsy report.
Halladay, 40, died from blunt force trauma with drowning as a contributing factor, according to the Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner’s Office. ...
The presence of those drugs alone does not mean the pilot was impaired, however. That determination has to be made by the federal agency, which has yet to release a final report. ... Full story (http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/Autopsy-drugs-found-in-MLB-star-Roy-Halladay-s-system-after-plane-crash_164667681)
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Autopsy: drugs found in MLB star Roy Halladay’s system after plane crash
By Zachary T. Sampson
Published: January 19, 2018
Updated: January 19, 2018 at 08:25 PM
When former Major League Baseball pitcher Roy Halladay died in a plane crash in November, he had amphetamines, morphine and the sleep aid zolpidem in his system, according to an autopsy report.
Halladay, 40, died from blunt force trauma with drowning as a contributing factor, according to the Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner’s Office. ...
The presence of those drugs alone does not mean the pilot was impaired, however. That determination has to be made by the federal agency, which has yet to release a final report. ... Full story (http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/Autopsy-drugs-found-in-MLB-star-Roy-Halladay-s-system-after-plane-crash_164667681)
Opioids impair cognition. I had a hand surgery following an auto collision in 1994. Dr. prescribed Vicodin, which I had never taken before.
As the surgical meds wore off, the Vicodin kicked in. I felt completely normal BUT my wife said I was whacked.
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Autopsy: drugs found in MLB star Roy Halladay’s system after plane crash
By Zachary T. Sampson
Published: January 19, 2018
Updated: January 19, 2018 at 08:25 PM
When former Major League Baseball pitcher Roy Halladay died in a plane crash in November, he had amphetamines, morphine and the sleep aid zolpidem in his system, according to an autopsy report.
Halladay, 40, died from blunt force trauma with drowning as a contributing factor, according to the Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner’s Office. ...
The presence of those drugs alone does not mean the pilot was impaired, however. That determination has to be made by the federal agency, which has yet to release a final report. ... Full story (http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/Autopsy-drugs-found-in-MLB-star-Roy-Halladay-s-system-after-plane-crash_164667681)
You wonder if insomnia hadn't become at least as recurring an issue for him as was the shoulder that finally forced his retirement from baseball. That was
some pretty powerful stuff in his system.
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Connie Sawyer Dies: Hollywood’s Oldest Working Actress Was 105
John Mejia
by Dino-Ray Ramos
January 22, 2018 2:08pm
Actress Connie Sawyer died peacefully at the age of 105 at her home at in Woodland Hills, CA. With more than 140 TV and film credits to her name, Sawyer was known as Hollywood’s oldest working actress who worked through late 2017.
(https://peopledotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/connie-sawyer-1.jpg)
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Trumpeter Hugh Masekela dies at 78
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Hugh_Masekela_2009.jpg/320px-Hugh_Masekela_2009.jpg)
Masekela was born in apartheid South Africa and much of his career composing and performing music that was strongly influenced by that upbringing. However, in the United States, he was best known for his jazz and easy listening covers of pop tunes in the 1960s, his biggest hit being "Grazing in the Grass."
Obituary from The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jan/23/hugh-masekela-south-african-jazz-trumpeter-dies-aged-78)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Masekela)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKcGCObEb28#)
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Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88
Ursula K. Le Guin, the immensely popular author who brought literary depth and a tough-minded feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy with books like “The Left Hand of Darkness†and the Earthsea series, died on Monday at her home in Portland, Ore. She was 88.
More (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin)
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Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88
More (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin)
Oh wow. Loved her.
Ping @kevindavis @Suppressed
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Oh wow. Loved her.
Ping @kevindavis @Suppressed
Who???
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Who???
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8VRbaVNvSA#)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8VRbaVNvSA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8VRbaVNvSA)
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Connie Sawyer Dies: Hollywood’s Oldest Working Actress Was 105
John Mejia
by Dino-Ray Ramos
January 22, 2018 2:08pm
Actress Connie Sawyer died peacefully at the age of 105 at her home at in Woodland Hills, CA. With more than 140 TV and film credits to her name, Sawyer was known as Hollywood’s oldest working actress who worked through late 2017.
(https://peopledotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/connie-sawyer-1.jpg)
Doing what you love till you die - priceless.
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Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88
Dang. It always hits hard when a biggie leaves us...even I'd you know they're up there in age.
Thanks, @Freya
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Who???
You're joking, right? If not, and you like s ience fiction, you might like her intro to Left Hand of Darkness, which makes some interesting points about it...
http://theliterarylink.com/leguinintro.html (http://theliterarylink.com/leguinintro.html)
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Very interesting obit.
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Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88
More (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin)
To my knowledge, I never read anything by her. However, I did watch "The Lathe of Heaven" (linked above from YouTube) when it aired on PBS in 1980, and thought it was kind of mind-bending. I have no idea how faithful the adaptation was to the book, however.
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To my knowledge, I never read anything by her. However, I did watch "The Lathe of Heaven" (linked above from YouTube) when it aired on PBS in 1980, and thought it was kind of mind-bending. I have no idea how faithful the adaptation was to the book, however.
I read her mother's book: “Ishi in Two Worldsâ€. I had no idea the author was Le Guin's mother.
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Mort Walker, whose ‘Beetle Bailey’ was a comic-page staple for decades, dies at 94
Mort Walker, whose “Beetle Bailey†comic strip followed the exploits of a lazy G.I. and his inept cohorts at the dysfunctional Camp Swampy, and whose dedication to his art form led him to found the first museum devoted to the history of cartooning, died Jan. 27 at his home in Stamford, Conn. He was 94.
Bill Morrison, president of the National Cartoonists Society, confirmed the death. The cause was pneumonia.
In contrast with the work-shirking soldier he immortalized, Mr. Walker was a man of considerable drive and ambition. He drew his daily comic strip for 68 years, longer than any other U.S. artist in the history of the medium.
Debuting in 1950, “Beetle Bailey†was distributed by King Features Syndicate and eventually reached 200 million readers in 1,800 newspapers in more than 50 countries. Beetle and company appeared in comic books, television cartoons, games and toys and were also featured in a musical with the book by Mr. Walker, as well as on a U.S. Postal Service stamp in 2010.
“Beetle Bailey†was among the first cartoons to mark a shift in the funny pages from the serial strips of the previous decade to the graphically simpler gag-a-day model that predominates today.
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More at:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/mort-walker-whose-beetle-bailey-was-a-comic-page-staple-for-decades-dies-at-94/2018/01/27/bcd374ec-039e-11e8-bb03-722769454f82_story.html?utm_term=.ec3286250e80 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/mort-walker-whose-beetle-bailey-was-a-comic-page-staple-for-decades-dies-at-94/2018/01/27/bcd374ec-039e-11e8-bb03-722769454f82_story.html?utm_term=.ec3286250e80)
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I still remember when Beetle Bailey was brought to television cartoons . . .
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqJaywDIgPw#)
He also did this strip . . .
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2f/Bestofhiandlois.jpg)
RIP Mr. Walker.
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IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad dies in Sweden at 91
28 January 2018
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-42851668 (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-42851668)
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IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad dies in Sweden at 91
28 January 2018
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-42851668 (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-42851668)
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/74/0d/b0/740db03c47cb1030a2d228600624675c.jpg)
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... The estate inventory filed to Swedish tax authorities in 2013 confirmed that the couple lived comfortably, but hardly in opulence. They had two cars — a 2008 Skoda and a 1993 Volvo 240. Kamprad's personal wealth was established at 750 million kronor ($113 million), a considerable amount, but far from the multibillion-dollar sums attributed to him on world's-richest lists compiled by Forbes and others.
IKEA officials have said such lists, which compared his wealth to that of Warren Buffet or Bill Gates, erroneously considered IKEA's assets as his own. IKEA is owned by foundation that Kamprad created, whose statutes require profits to be reinvested in the company or donated to charity.
The estate inventory showed that Kamprad donated more than $20 million to philanthropic causes in 2012 alone. ...
IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad dead at 91, company says (http://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/2018/01/28/ikea-founder-ingvar-kamprad-dead-at-91-company-says.html), FOX News.
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IKEA has the best Swedish meatballs
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Where else can you find lingonberry jam?
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Where else can you find lingonberry jam?
Wal-Mart?
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Roland-Wild-Swedish-Lingonberries-Stirred-With-Sugar-14-3-OZ/21930629?wmlspartner=wlpa&adid=22222222227032789236&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=66579285152&wl4=pla-85761538404&wl5=9030049&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=21930629&wl13=&veh=sem (https://www.walmart.com/ip/Roland-Wild-Swedish-Lingonberries-Stirred-With-Sugar-14-3-OZ/21930629?wmlspartner=wlpa&adid=22222222227032789236&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=66579285152&wl4=pla-85761538404&wl5=9030049&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=21930629&wl13=&veh=sem)
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IKEA has the best Swedish meatballs
Good, but not as good as mine. :dx1:
We just bought an IKEA closet system. They make some cool and practical stuff.
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Wal-Mart?
Well, I'll be darned.
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Glee star dead at 35
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/01/30/mark-salling-reportedly-dead-glee-star-was-facing-jail-for-child-porn-possession.html (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/01/30/mark-salling-reportedly-dead-glee-star-was-facing-jail-for-child-porn-possession.html)
Never saw the TV show, apparently a suicide.
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Glee star dead at 35
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/01/30/mark-salling-reportedly-dead-glee-star-was-facing-jail-for-child-porn-possession.html (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/01/30/mark-salling-reportedly-dead-glee-star-was-facing-jail-for-child-porn-possession.html)
Never saw the TV show, apparently a suicide.
According to Twitter he was about to be charged with Kiddie porn possession and a sexual offender.
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According to Twitter he was about to be charged with Kiddie porn possession and a sexual offender.
Maybe twitter is not a good source, in this instance.
Per wiki:
"On September 30, 2017, he pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, subsequently registering as a sex offender and entering a treatment program, among other conditions. He also faced four to seven years in jail.[27] The guilty plea was formalized December 18, 2017.[28]
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Glee star dead at 35
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/01/30/mark-salling-reportedly-dead-glee-star-was-facing-jail-for-child-porn-possession.html (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/01/30/mark-salling-reportedly-dead-glee-star-was-facing-jail-for-child-porn-possession.html)
Never saw the TV show, apparently a suicide.
(https://eatingfromthetrashcan.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/jerryseinfeldshame.jpg?w=640)
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Glee star dead at 35
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/01/30/mark-salling-reportedly-dead-glee-star-was-facing-jail-for-child-porn-possession.html (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/01/30/mark-salling-reportedly-dead-glee-star-was-facing-jail-for-child-porn-possession.html)
Never saw the TV show, apparently a suicide.
That's the second star of that show to die before 40 (Cory Montieth is the other; he died a while back, age 31).
Lea Michele had better be careful.
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Cuba: Fidel Castro's son 'takes own life'
12 minutes ago
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-42913492 (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-42913492)
The 68-year-old son of Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro, Fidel Ãngel Castro DÃaz-Balart, has died in Havana after taking his own life, according to Cuba's state media.
He was found on Thursday morning and is said to have suffered from depression.
Popularly known as "Fidelito", he was the first-born son of the former president, who died in November 2016.
Castro DÃaz-Balart worked as a nuclear physicist having trained in the former Soviet Union.
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(https://i.ndtvimg.com/i/2018-02/fidel-castro-diaz_650x400_41517535606.jpg)
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It's got to be tough being the son of Fidel.
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As with all things leftist, I'm always skeptical when family members of leaders of those countries 'commit suicide' or have accidents. He may not even have had ambitions of power, but that wouldn't stop a rival from making sure, or sending a message to other family members that may.
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A dead Commie Pinko. Good. Let me know where the line starts to piss on his grave.
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That's the second star of that show to die before 40 (Cory Montieth is the other; he died a while back, age 31).
Lea Michele had better be careful.
Yeah, better be careful not to kill herself like the other two morons did.
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A dead Commie Pinko. Good. Let me know where the line starts to piss on his grave.
@Frank Cannon And if the liberals had said something similar about Ronald Reagan, what would your reaction have been?
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@Frank Cannon And if the liberals had said something similar about Ronald Reagan, what would your reaction have been?
You a fan a murderous garbage? I just ask because someone that would equate an American President with diseased Communist filth probably reads Chairman Maos little red book before they go to bed.
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You a fan a murderous garbage? I just ask because someone that would equate an American President with diseased Communist filth probably reads Chairman Maos little red book before they go to bed.
Only grave I am interested on pissing on is W. T. Sherman's.
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As with all things leftist, I'm always skeptical when family members of leaders of those countries 'commit suicide' or have accidents. He may not even have had ambitions of power, but that wouldn't stop a rival from making sure, or sending a message to other family members that may.
Well, I remember when communist leaders in the old Soviet Union died from "a bad cold." Wouldn't trust the official government statement as to the cause and manner of death.
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Only grave I am interested on pissing on is W. T. Sherman's.
Well, since he died in 1891, I would have thought you might have already done that multiple times.
Have you?
Just curious.
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It's got to be tough being the son of Fidel.
Yeah........ both on the inside and the out.
It wouldn't be particularly surprising if his suicide was "assisted."
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Only grave I am interested on pissing on is W. T. Sherman's.
LOL. He's in Missouri if you looking.
BTW do you have "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" playing in your head 24/7?
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LOL. He's in Missouri if you looking.
Yup. Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis. Go get 'em, @catfish1957
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@Frank Cannon And if the liberals had said something similar about Ronald Reagan, what would your reaction have been?
@verga
There probably were leftists saying that very thing or close enough about Mr. Reagan.
Me, when I learn of such deaths as Castro pere and Castro fils, I simply remember an observation by Clarence Darrow: I have never
wished a man dead, but I have read a great many obituaries with a great deal of pleasure.
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An obituary I do not read with a great deal of pleasure . . . RIP Dennis Edwards, the one-time Contours singer who took over the
co-lead spot from David Ruffin in the Temptations, starting with . . .
The Temptations, "Cloud Nine"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BdhhQayeWw#)
Legendary Temptations singer Dennis Edwards, of Florissant, dies at 74 (http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/music/kevin-johnson/legendary-temptations-singer-dennis-edwards-of-florissant-dies-at/article_b4c30cc1-4cb0-5cad-9add-5c639cb61985.html)
Grammy-winning singer Dennis Edwards, an unmistakable voice during legendary act the Temptations’ heyday, died Thursday night (Feb. 1) of complications from meningitis, confirms his wife of eighteen years, Brenda Edwards.
Mr. Edwards, who lived in Florissant, died in a hospital in Chicago, and had been in and out of hospitals since he was diagnosed May 2017. He would have been 75 on Saturday (Feb. 3).
The Temptations, "I Can't Get Next to You"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IHyqZ3dHVg#)
The Temptations, "Ball of Confusion"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93l5LK275Q8#)
The legend is that this next one cut too close to home for Edwards---his own father (who wasn't quite like the protagonist of this song) died on the third of October, and even changing
the month to September in the lyric didn't stop it from affecting him deeply . . .
The Temptations, "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzGiIbekAtc#)
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LOL. He's in Missouri if you looking.
BTW do you have "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" playing in your head 24/7?
:beer:
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LOL. He's in Missouri if you looking.
BTW do you have "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" playing in your head 24/7?
I am guessing there is already enough yellow snow around that grave at this point. And its not where the Huskies go.
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Jon Huntsman Sr., styrofoam tycoon, dies at 80
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Huntsman began his career working at an egg company. Born in poverty in Idaho, he married into a wealthy, well-connected family after attending college. As the story goes, when the company was sustaining losses because of poor packaging, Huntsman contacted Dow Chemical, the maker of Styrofoam, and conceived the modern egg carton. In the 1970s, he founded his own company, the first incarnation of the Huntsman Corporation, which likewise specialized in plastic and foam products (and became somewhat infamous for the McDonald's burger containers that were popular through the 1980s until environmentalists raised a stink); after selling that company, he established another one with the same name in the early 1980s. With a net value of over $9 billion, Huntsman Corporation survives today, and he served as chairman until his death.
As is typical of members of the Mormon faith, Huntsman had a large family. Of his nine children, his son Peter now serves as President of the Huntsman Corporation, and his other son Jon Jr., became a prominent politician, currently serving as the U.S. ambassador to Russia. The elder Huntsman himself briefly ran for governor of Utah in 1988, but dropped out before the primary election.
Obituary from The Salt Lake Tribune (https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/02/02/utah-billionaire-philanthropist-jon-huntsman-dies-at-80/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Huntsman_Sr.)
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@EasyAce
Thanks for the obit on Dennis Edwards. The Temptations were my favorite soul group growing up. Edwards came along during the group's psychedelic period and he was really good. IMO he was even better than David Ruffin and Ruffin was no slouch.
I guess the only original member left is Otis Williams.
Rest in peace, Mr. Edwards.
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@EasyAce
Thanks for the obit on Dennis Edwards. The Temptations were my favorite soul group growing up. Edwards came along during the group's psychedelic period and he was really good. IMO he was even better than David Ruffin and Ruffin was no slouch.
I guess the only original member left is Otis Williams.
Rest in peace, Mr. Edwards.
When Edwards came in that began the Temptations' psychedelic soul period. They canned David Ruffin right before Norman Whitfield handed them "Cloud Nine." And you're right about Otis Williams, sadly enough.
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Removed by Mod.
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Um....I thought the purpose of this thread was to acknowledge the passing of, and pay homage to, important people who have passed on. If you two want to fight between yourselves, there is the Message feature. Or start a new thread, if you want to fight publicly.
This thread should be free of political controversy and personal animosity. Those who engage in these things show great disrespect for the dead.
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Any more insults from you two will result in time off to ponder the error of your ways.
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Jon Huntsman Sr., styrofoam tycoon, dies at 80
Which begs the question, What do they ship styrofoam in?
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Which begs the question, What do they ship styrofoam in?
Plastic containers? ;)
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Which begs the question, What do they ship styrofoam in?
Trucks, silly. Gee whiz.
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Trucks, silly. Gee whiz.
Cardboard boxes inside trucks.
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Any more insults from you two will result in time off to ponder the error of your ways.
Tell you what I'll take a self-imposed extended vacation. Allowing this particular individual to do attacks of this nature says plenty.
Earlier, calling non Trump supporters the same as AlQaeda and ISIS should have said enough. Bye for now.
@mystery-ak
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@catfish1957 I didn't see the offending post so really don't know what transpired but please don't let these Trumpers get to you, they WIN that way and we need the Balance here.
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I don't know what this kerfluffle is about, either, but maybe we should just go back to posting about obits.
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You a fan a murderous garbage? I just ask because someone that would equate an American President with diseased Communist filth probably reads Chairman Maos little red book before they go to bed.
@Frank Cannon Since you didn't specifically deny it I guess your liberal self is fine with it. You see real true conservatives don't wish ill on ANYONE. Thanks for proving once again your liberal bent.
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@Frank Cannon Since you didn't specifically deny it I guess your liberal self is fine with it. You see real true conservatives don't wish ill on ANYONE. Thanks for proving once again your liberal bent.
Well you can feel free to mourn over the loss of Castro, Chavez and Hitler if it makes you feel better about yourself. I just as soon see their bodies strung up Il Duce style and defiled. That also goes for any of their cohorts in these shithole countries which this dead piece of shit is one.
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Jon Huntsman Sr., styrofoam tycoon, dies at 80
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His will states that he be buried in one of these with his wife....
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...it also states that the wife gets the "cool" side.
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I don't know what this kerfluffle is about, either, but maybe we should just go back to posting about obits.
888high58888
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Well you can feel free to mourn over the loss of Castro, Chavez and Hitler if it makes you feel better about yourself. I just as soon see their bodies strung up Il Duce style and defiled. That also goes for any of their cohorts in these shithole countries which this dead piece of shit is one.
They were liberal socialists, that makes them your buddies, but as I said a real conservative doesn't wish ill on anyone. a lesson you liberals never seem to learn.
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They were liberal socialists, that makes them your buddies, but as I said a real conservative doesn't wish ill on anyone. a lesson you liberals never seem to learn.
I've seen a lot of dumb things said here. Hell, I've said some of them myself. But what you've said here is in the top 3 of dumb things said. You could make the smart choice and decide to stick to this thread topic from here on out.
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Cardboard boxes inside trucks.
Shrink wrap!
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I've been gone all day..don't know what happened on this thread but it is strictly for obits and not politics.
@jmyrlefuller goes out of his way to take care of this thread please respect it and him.
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Edwin Jackson, American football player, dies at 26
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Jackson was a member of the Indianapolis Colts, seeing extensive playing time in the 2016 season as a linebacker. He was struck dead by an unlicensed driver, who was suspected to be intoxicated and (by some reports) an illegal alien.
Related thread (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=302543.msg1596147#msg1596147)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Jackson_%28American_football%29)
NFL stats (http://www.nfl.com/player/edwinjackson/2553541/profile)
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Edwin Jackson, American football player, dies at 26
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"Jackson was a member of the Indianapolis Colts, seeing extensive playing time in the 2016 season as a linebacker. He was struck dead by an unlicensed driver, who was suspected to be intoxicated and (by some reports) an illegal alien."
Related thread (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=302543.msg1596147#msg1596147)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Jackson_%28American_football%29)
NFL stats (http://www.nfl.com/player/edwinjackson/2553541/profile)
Been there. Done that. But for the grace of God go I. Not the football part, but being hit by an unlicensed, uninsured, "no hablo ingles" individual.
RIP.
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Michelle Malkin
â€Verified account @michellemalkin
13h13 hours ago
Early this morning, Indiana Colts player Edwin Jackson was struck & killed by a suspected drunk driver who was unlicensed & ran from scene. Inmate booking records show the driver, Alex Cabrera Gonsales, is from Mexico w/an ICE detainer on him.
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Actor John Mahoney dies at 77
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The English-born character actor came to the United States as a young adult after his sister married an American after World War II and sponsored his trip; he eventually became a U.S. citizen by joining the armed forces.
Dissatisfaction with his career in his late 30s led him to pursue acting. After stints on Broadway, he arrived in Hollywood in the late 1980s. He was best-known as Martin Crane, the father of the title character in the hit sitcom Frasier; the role took advantage of the fact that he looked and could act about a decade older than his actual age at the time. He spent most of the rest of his life in Illinois, the state where he had spent most of his early adult life.
Mahoney, who never married but was otherwise secretive in regard to his personal life, died in hospice care.
Death notice from TMZ (http://www.tmz.com/2018/02/05/john-mahoney-dead-dies-frasier/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mahoney)
IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001498/)
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He was a good actor and I always enjoyed his performances. I didn't know he was sick. As for his private life, I didn't think his homosexuality was a secret. :shrug:
I saw him a few other things, but as Martin Crane, he was exquisite.
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What a shock! I was just watching Frasier reruns on Netflix earlier this afternoon. Mahoney's performance as the irascible beer drinking father having to contend with his pompous, sherry drinking sons was just perfect.
I read somewhere that contrary to his character in Frasier, Mahoney was very refined. In fact, David Hyde Pierce consulted with him about fine wine in preparation for his role as Niles.
Rest in peace, John Mahoney.
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Great versatile actor. He could play the loveable and funny retiree like in Frazier to characters so evil you wouldn't lose sleep over pushing them out a helicopter.
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One of my favorite John Mahoney performances outside of Frasier -- Moonstruck:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Mbcn_Xgdw#)
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John Mahoney also did well playing Kid Gleason, the manager of the 1919 Chicago White Sox, in Eight Men Out . . .
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Great versatile actor. He could play the loveable and funny retiree like in Frazier to characters so evil you wouldn't lose sleep over pushing them out a helicopter.
Agree ...
And this is very sad. RIP, John and thanks for the memories.
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Not sure where to put this, but since Dennis Edwards' death was reported here, I thought this might be the place.
Interesting. And if true, tragic.
Temptations singer Dennis Edwards allegedly abused before his death
Chicago police are investigating claims that the wife of Temptations singer Dennis Edwards abused the legendary vocalist in the months before his death.
A protection order request against Brenda Edwards alleging domestic abuse was reportedly filed weeks before Dennis died Feb. 1 at 74 of complications from meningitis.
Brenda allegedly tried to suffocate her husband of nearly two decades by holding his head face down on a bed, according to documents obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
She also reportedly took her husband's hearing aids away from him while he was "bed bound and immobile," according to the protection request, reportedly filed by an investigator with the Healthcare Consortium of Illinois.
...
Read more at:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/temptations-singer-dennis-edwards-allegedly-abused-death-article-1.3803117 (http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/temptations-singer-dennis-edwards-allegedly-abused-death-article-1.3803117)
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RIP, Mr. Mahoney. Loved you in Frasier and Moonstruck.
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Great versatile actor. He could play the loveable and funny retiree like in Frazier to characters so evil you wouldn't lose sleep over pushing them out a helicopter.
Absolutely right.
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Not sure where to put this, but since Dennis Edwards' death was reported here, I thought this might be the place.
Interesting. And if true, tragic.
Temptations singer Dennis Edwards allegedly abused before his death
Chicago police are investigating claims that the wife of Temptations singer Dennis Edwards abused the legendary vocalist in the months before his death.
A protection order request against Brenda Edwards alleging domestic abuse was reportedly filed weeks before Dennis died Feb. 1 at 74 of complications from meningitis.
Brenda allegedly tried to suffocate her husband of nearly two decades by holding his head face down on a bed, according to documents obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
She also reportedly took her husband's hearing aids away from him while he was "bed bound and immobile," according to the protection request, reportedly filed by an investigator with the Healthcare Consortium of Illinois.
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Read more at:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/temptations-singer-dennis-edwards-allegedly-abused-death-article-1.3803117 (http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/temptations-singer-dennis-edwards-allegedly-abused-death-article-1.3803117)
Oh, that's ugly. **nononono*
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Not sure where to put this, but since Dennis Edwards' death was reported here, I thought this might be the place.
Interesting. And if true, tragic.
Temptations singer Dennis Edwards allegedly abused before his death
Chicago police are investigating claims that the wife of Temptations singer Dennis Edwards abused the legendary vocalist in the months before his death.
A protection order request against Brenda Edwards alleging domestic abuse was reportedly filed weeks before Dennis died Feb. 1 at 74 of complications from meningitis.
Brenda allegedly tried to suffocate her husband of nearly two decades by holding his head face down on a bed, according to documents obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
She also reportedly took her husband's hearing aids away from him while he was "bed bound and immobile," according to the protection request, reportedly filed by an investigator with the Healthcare Consortium of Illinois.
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Read more at:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/temptations-singer-dennis-edwards-allegedly-abused-death-article-1.3803117 (http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/temptations-singer-dennis-edwards-allegedly-abused-death-article-1.3803117)
Give her the Chair.
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Actor Mickey Jones known for 'Home Improvement' and 'Justified' dies at 76
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/02/07/actor-mickey-jones-known-for-home-improvement-and-justified-dies-at-76.html (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/02/07/actor-mickey-jones-known-for-home-improvement-and-justified-dies-at-76.html)
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Lyricist-turned-activist John Perry Barlow dies at 70
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Barlow, a songwriting partner with the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir from the 1970s through the early 1990s, is best known as a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which advocated for a free and open Internet, a passion that Barlow carried throughout his last three decades of life. He died in his sleep Tuesday night (while no cause of death was given, he had previously suffered at least one previous heart attack three years prior and was battling numerous illnesses near the end of his life).
Death notice from the EFF (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-internet-pioneer-1947-2018)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow)
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Lyricist-turned-activist John Perry Barlow dies at 70
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Barlow, a songwriting partner with the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir from the 1970s through the early 1990s, is best known as a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which advocated for a free and open Internet, a passion that Barlow carried throughout his last three decades of life. He died in his sleep Tuesday night (while no cause of death was given, he had previously suffered at least one previous heart attack three years prior and was battling numerous illnesses near the end of his life).
Death notice from the EFF (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-internet-pioneer-1947-2018)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow)
I didn't know what he did later in life, but I knew a lot of his work, as Bob Weir's main songwriter.
He also had a ranch, and one of the Kennedy kids was sent west out there to get their head straightened out, several years ago.
I can't remember which one now, but it was a Nightline story, if I remember correctly.
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Actor Reg E. Cathey dies at 59
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Cathey had several supporting roles throughout his career on television series such as Homicide: Life on the Street, The Wire, Oz and House of Cards, the last of which netted him an Emmy Award in 2015. Cathey died of lung cancer February 9.
Obituary from Variety (http://variety.com/2018/film/news/reg-cathey-dead-dies-the-wire-house-of-card-1202694366/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reg_E._Cathey)
IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0146146/)
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Actor Reg E. Cathey dies at 59
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Cathey had several supporting roles throughout his career on television series such as Homicide: Life on the Street, The Wire, Oz and House of Cards, the last of which netted him an Emmy Award in 2015. Cathey died of lung cancer February 9.
Obituary from Variety (http://variety.com/2018/film/news/reg-cathey-dead-dies-the-wire-house-of-card-1202694366/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reg_E._Cathey)
IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0146146/)
I thought he was amazing in "House of Cards" and "Oz"
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Reg was great as Freddy.
"You a m*****f*****, Mr. President!"
Who hasn't wanted to say that in the Oval on a few occasions?
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Jóhann Jóhannsson Dies: ‘The Theory Of Everything’ Composer Was 48
by Greg Evans
February 10, 2018 9:17am
http://deadline.com/2018/02/johann-johannsson-dies-obituary-the-theory-of-everything-composer-1202284591/ (http://deadline.com/2018/02/johann-johannsson-dies-obituary-the-theory-of-everything-composer-1202284591/)
Composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning Icelandic composer, musician and producer, died in Berlin yesterday. He was 48, and a cause of death was not immediately known.
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Genuine Hollywood royalty as sadly passed......
Mark Tenser, President of Crown International Pictures, Dies
http://variety.com/2018/film/obituaries-people-news/mark-tenser-crown-international-pictures-ceo-dead-dies-1202657371/ (http://variety.com/2018/film/obituaries-people-news/mark-tenser-crown-international-pictures-ceo-dead-dies-1202657371/)
Mark Tenser, president and CEO of Crown International Pictures, died on Jan. 1.
Tenser became Crown’s executive VP in 1969 before he was promoted to president in 1973. At the production company, he was known for producing low-budget films that appealed to teen audiences in the 1970s and ’80s. Tenser worked alongside his wife, Marilyn Tenser, for four decades. He was still running the company at the time of his death.
His work creating films like “The Pom Pom Girls†(which was produced for less than $1 million, and earned more than four times that amount), “My Tutor,†“Weekend Pass,†and “Tomboy†helped make Crown a powerhouse of the era.
Other producing credits included “Coach†and “The Hearse.†He also led ad campaigns on pictures such as “Malibu Beach,†“The Van,†and “Van Nuys Blvd.â€
Tenser was born in New York and grew up in New Jersey before attending school at the University of Miami in Florida. He graduated with a degree in business administration, then moved to California, where he started working in sales with his father. He began at Crown as a distribution manager before moving up to be the executive VP.
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Singer Daryle Singletary has died. The '90s country hitmaker was known for songs like "I Let Her Lie" and "Too Much Fun."
News of Singletary's death started to be spread on social media Monday morning with confirmation coming via SiriusXM's The Highway. The Georgia native was just 46 years at the time of his death. An additional source tells the Boot that Singletary had a blood clot and died at his home.
Singletary played concerts as recently as last weekend in Dadeville, Ala. and at Cowboy's Night Club in Lafayette, La. He also appeared at singer Mel Tillis' public memorial on Jan. 31. No news of Singletary's death has come on his official social media pages and his website appears to be down.
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Vic Damone, died, age 89
Story breaking, obit to follow.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/vic-damone-dead-us-singer-pop-big-band-dies-died-age-songs-hits-a8206831.html (http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/vic-damone-dead-us-singer-pop-big-band-dies-died-age-songs-hits-a8206831.html)
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More on Vic Damone here:
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/02/12/legendary-singer-vic-damone-dies-at-age-89.html (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/02/12/legendary-singer-vic-damone-dies-at-age-89.html)
He was a wonderful singer from the era of the big bands. My mother had some of his albums. She might have had a crush on him. LOL
Rest in peace, Mr. Damone.
@Freya Thank you.
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Hearing that Damone died made me immediately think of this one......
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Generational thing, I guess...... :shrug:
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Singer Daryle Singletary has died. The '90s country hitmaker was known for songs like "I Let Her Lie" and "Too Much Fun."
News of Singletary's death started to be spread on social media Monday morning with confirmation coming via SiriusXM's The Highway. The Georgia native was just 46 years at the time of his death. An additional source tells the Boot that Singletary had a blood clot and died at his home.
Singletary played concerts as recently as last weekend in Dadeville, Ala. and at Cowboy's Night Club in Lafayette, La. He also appeared at singer Mel Tillis' public memorial on Jan. 31. No news of Singletary's death has come on his official social media pages and his website appears to be down.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyEBRBDLvR8#)
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Singer Daryle Singletary has died. The '90s country hitmaker was known for songs like "I Let Her Lie" and "Too Much Fun."
News of Singletary's death started to be spread on social media Monday morning with confirmation coming via SiriusXM's The Highway. The Georgia native was just 46 years at the time of his death. An additional source tells the Boot that Singletary had a blood clot and died at his home.
Singletary played concerts as recently as last weekend in Dadeville, Ala. and at Cowboy's Night Club in Lafayette, La. He also appeared at singer Mel Tillis' public memorial on Jan. 31. No news of Singletary's death has come on his official social media pages and his website appears to be down.
"Blood clot" is being reported.
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Marty Allen Has Died, Age 95
LAS VEGAS — Marty Allen, the baby-faced, bug-eyed comedian with wild black hair who was a staple of TV variety shows, game shows and talk shows for decades, died Monday night. He was 95.
Allen died in Las Vegas of complications from pneumonia with his wife and performing partner of the last three decades Karon Kate Blackwell by his side, Allen’s spokeswoman Candi Cazau told The Associated press.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/comedian-marty-allen-dies-in-las-vegas-at-95/2018/02/12/61e3a4e4-1073-11e8-a68c-e9374188170e_story.html?utm_term=.5e45b6c959cd
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkdK5f9f43c#)
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Good Grief! Almost all of the entertainers I grew up watching on Ed Sullivan are gone. I remember Allen and his partner, Steve Rossi, performing on Ed Sullivan frequently. This was back in the day when comedians were actually funny. Allen didnt really have to say or do anything. Just looking at him could make you laugh.
Rest in peace, Mr. Allen. Thanks for the laughs.
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Former Little Rascal Lassie Lou Ahern dies at 97
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Ahern appeared in Hal Roach's Our Gang shorts for a brief stretch in the mid-1920s, while the series was still composed of silent films. Other than a few brief returns to the screen, first on film during World War II and then in the 1970s on television, Ahern lived most of the rest of her life in obscurity; she remained on the fringes of the entertainment industry, working as a dance instructor for celebrities and (especially during the 1930s) maintaining a stage act with her sister Peggy. Her longevity (and young age at the peak of her career) made her one of the last surviving stars of the silent film era.
She died February 15 from the flu.
Obituary from the Hollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lassie-lou-ahern-dead-our-gang-actress-was-97-920800)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassie_Lou_Ahern)
IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0013912/)
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Former Little Rascal Lassie Lou Ahern dies at 97
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Ahern appeared in Hal Roach's Our Gang shorts for a brief stretch in the mid-1920s, while the series was still composed of silent films. Other than a few brief returns to the screen, first on film during World War II and then in the 1970s on television, Ahern lived most of the rest of her life in obscurity; she remained on the fringes of the entertainment industry, working as a dance instructor for celebrities and (especially during the 1930s) maintaining a stage act with her sister Peggy. Her longevity (and young age at the peak of her career) made her one of the last surviving stars of the silent film era.
She died February 15 from the flu.
Obituary from the Hollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lassie-lou-ahern-dead-our-gang-actress-was-97-920800)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassie_Lou_Ahern)
IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0013912/)
What an amazing life she had! (Even if she lived it in Hollywood.)
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Billy Graham, renowned TV evangelist, dead at 99
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/billy-graham-preacher-who-rose-to-prominence-dead-at-99/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/billy-graham-preacher-who-rose-to-prominence-dead-at-99/)
Breaking- obituary to follow...
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Methusaleh no longer walks this earth.
Met him a long time ago sitting around a table with him and Josh McDowell. Pretty funny, witty guy.
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Billy was a humble servant of God. Welcome home.
I'm intrigued, @Free Vulcan . I heard Josh at an apologetics conference a few years ago - great speaker.
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Billy Graham, renowned TV evangelist, dead at 99
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/billy-graham-preacher-who-rose-to-prominence-dead-at-99/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/billy-graham-preacher-who-rose-to-prominence-dead-at-99/)
Breaking- obituary to follow...
Unlike other evangelist at least you didn't hear any scandals about him.
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R.I.P Reverend Graham. You've given the comforting word of God's love and grace to millions around the world, bringing them hope when they had none. Now it's time for you to rest in God's loving arms.
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I've been watching The Crown on Netflix -- a dramatization of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. One episode depicted her introduction to Billy Graham. Turned out that they have had a lasting friendship for many years. Rev. Graham reached many - from the lowest to the highest.
Rest in peace, Sir.
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Godspeed, Mr. Graham.
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Billy was a humble servant of God. Welcome home.
I'm intrigued, @Free Vulcan . I heard Josh at an apologetics conference a few years ago - great speaker.
It was at Moody Bible where I attended for a couple of years for some post grad work. They came to speak one night and there was a get together afterward. I ended up sitting at a table with them and some others. They must of been pretty good friends because they were playing off each other and it was hilarious.
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Wow, what a great experience!
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Rest in Peace Reverend Graham! You served us all VERY well!
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Billy Graham, renowned TV evangelist, dead at 99
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/billy-graham-preacher-who-rose-to-prominence-dead-at-99/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/billy-graham-preacher-who-rose-to-prominence-dead-at-99/)
Breaking- obituary to follow...
Attended a BG crusade as a kid at the Oakland Coliseum, it was a packed house.
Wonder if it would be packed today.
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Son Franklin Graham's facebook message:
Franklin Graham
3 mins ·
My father Billy Graham was once asked, “Where is Heaven?†He replied, “Heaven is where Jesus is and I am going to Him soon!†This morning, at the age of 99, he departed this world into eternal life in Heaven, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ—the Savior of the world—whom he proclaimed for nearly 80 years. He will be missed by our family, his colleagues, faithful ministry partners, and, yes, many around the world. But what joy he has to be welcomed by God the Father, and be reunited with my mother in the presence of Jesus who speaks peace to eternal souls.
What about you? When you depart this world do you know with certainty where you will spend eternity? You can know this today. Jesus said, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life†(John 3:16). The one who comforts weary souls has given us this promise, “Let not your hearts be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me … I go to prepare a place for you … I will come again and receive you to myself; that where I am, there you may be also†(John 14:1-4).
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Just an FYI: there also are two threads in the National News/Current Events category about the Rev. Graham. Those eventually will be merged into this obituary thread.
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I had the honor of working at the Billy Graham Association in Minneapolis decades ago, and I could feel the presence of the Lord, even when I walked in the building.
His ministry was amazing. His character impeccable, his knowledge of Scripture deep and wide, his love of Jesus Christ deeper still.
I am SO thankful today that he is finally HOME.
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Billy Graham, renowned TV evangelist, dead at 99
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/billy-graham-preacher-who-rose-to-prominence-dead-at-99/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/billy-graham-preacher-who-rose-to-prominence-dead-at-99/)
Breaking- obituary to follow...
Wow, all I can Say is WOW!. I remember seeing him after the Oklahoma bombing on Television. The man brought me to tears.
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Unlike other evangelist at least you didn't hear any scandals about him.
You apparently haven't been paying attention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Graham#Controversies
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You apparently haven't been paying attention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Graham#Controversies
No truthful scandals. (Wiki is a leftist source).
Billy Graham was a man of impeccable character who lived a Godly life for 99 years.
Millions of people heard the Good News of Jesus Christ through his ministry, and I'm guessing some of them are greeting him in Heaven and thanking him right now.
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I've been watching The Crown on Netflix -- a dramatization of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. One episode depicted her introduction to Billy Graham. Turned out that they have had a lasting friendship for many years. Rev. Graham reached many - from the lowest to the highest.
Rest in peace, Sir.
That is a marvelous scene and one that made me respect both Billy Graham and the Queen even more.
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I read a used-book on Graham's crusades from the 1960s/70s and it was very fascinating.
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That is a marvelous scene and one that made me respect both Billy Graham and the Queen even more.
As I understand it, the Queen received some flak over her friendship with Rev. Graham. As Queen, she was also head of the Church of England and it was considered improper for her in that capacity to associate so closely withan individual of another faith. But the normally stickler-for-tradition Queen apparently ignored the complaints and kept up her friendship with Rev. Graham. I'm sure she benefitted greatly from his counsel.
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As I understand it, the Queen received some flak over her friendship with Rev. Graham. As Queen, she was also head of the Church of England and it was considered improper for her in that capacity to associate so closely withan individual of another faith. But the normally stickler-for-tradition Queen apparently ignored the complaints and kept up her friendship with Rev. Graham. I'm sure she benefitted greatly from his counsel.
I think her desire to be a woman of faith and to always do the right thing probably overrode the traditional ban on that kind of relationship.
And you're right. I'm sure she benefitted enormously from his wise counsel.
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‘God Did the Work, Period’
My Tribute to Billy Graham (1918–2018)
by John Piper
Founder & Teacher, desiringGod.org
I recalled this morning (with more emotion than I expected) that one of the fears of my life as a boy growing up in Greenville, South Carolina, was that Billy Graham would die. I know there was a good deal of immature failure in that fear to trust the God who is quite able to run the world without Billy Graham. But it does give you a glimpse of the role he played as a kind of sun holding the planets in place in the solar system of my religious world in the late 1950s.
Now I am 72 in Minneapolis (remember “Box 123�!), not a teenager in South Carolina. And Billy died today at the age of 99. ...
There are different ways to measure the greatness of a man’s impact. One would be the institutions that were created in the wake of his influence. Another would be the shaping power of his ideas in the culture at large. Another would be the methodological and stylistic impact of his way of doing things on the religious life of America.
Another would be the incalculable eternal difference in being the human instrument in God’s hands, bringing hundreds of thousands of people out of darkness into light, and out of Satan’s authority into God’s family, and out of condemnation into forgiveness, and out of sin into holiness, and out of hell into everlasting joy with God. Not to mention the billions of practical effects for good in the way these people’s lives were changed in this world. ... Entire essay (https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/god-did-the-work-period)
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Another would be the incalculable eternal difference in being the human instrument in God’s hands, bringing hundreds of thousands of people out of darkness into light, and out of Satan’s authority into God’s family, and out of condemnation into forgiveness, and out of sin into holiness, and out of hell into everlasting joy with God. Not to mention the billions of practical effects for good in the way these people’s lives were changed in this world.
Incalculable eternal difference.
I just keep imagining the throngs of people surrounding Billy who are in Heaven because God chose him, he was obedient to the call, and God was Faithful.
A glorious day in Heaven!
(Good article by Piper).
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Thanks @mountaineer Excellent tribute.
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Actress Nanette Fabray, who won Tony and Emmy awards, dies at 97
By Dennis McLellan
Feb 23, 2018 | 2:15 PM
Nanette Fabray, the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical comedy star whose work with Sid Caesar on the classic 1950s TV comedy-variety show "Caesar's Hour" earned her three Emmy Awards and a lifetime of television work, has died. She was 97.
Fabray, whose early hearing problem spurred her to become a high-profile advocate for the hearing impaired, died Thursday of natural causes in Palos Verdes, her son, Jamie MacDougall, said. ...
In his 2003 memoir "Caesar's Hours," Caesar praised Fabray and said, "You can't compare Nanette and Imogene other than that they were both amazingly talented performers.
"Nanette was a different type of performer," wrote Caesar, who died in 2014. "She was what the French call a soubrette: she could sing, dance, act, and look beautiful. She had perfect timing and a sense of comedy and I knew she had scope." ... More at L.A. Times (http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-nanette-fabray-20180223-story.html)
(http://www.latimes.com/resizer/ro5GCP6zl15FbNuo7IdxiXpR6Pk=/1400x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/IDKKQIPVJZHYLOH43VX5QEM4IY.jpg)
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Actress Nanette Fabray, who won Tony and Emmy awards, dies at 97
Nanette Fabray and Sid Caesar, on Your Show of Shows, circa 1954. Genius needs no further introduction:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekr_ytjGZ7w#)
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Emma Chambers, 'Notting Hill' actress, dies at 53
By Nicole Chavez and Duarte Mendonca, CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/25/entertainment/actress-emma-chambers-dies/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/25/entertainment/actress-emma-chambers-dies/index.html)
Updated 3:53 AM ET, Sun February 25, 2018
British actress Emma Chambers, who starred alongside Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts in the 1999 movie "Notting Hill," has died, according to her agent.
She was 53 years old.
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Grant said the actress died of natural causes on Wednesday. She is survived by her husband, fellow actor Ian Dunn.
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DW0ETPJW0AE-e02.jpg:large)
Reports are that it was a heart attack (https://www.msn.com/en-au/entertainment/celebrity/vicar-of-dibley-star-emma-chambers-53-died-of-a-suspected-heart-attack-says-producer-of-bbc-comedy-classic/ar-BBJzCV9 (https://www.msn.com/en-au/entertainment/celebrity/vicar-of-dibley-star-emma-chambers-53-died-of-a-suspected-heart-attack-says-producer-of-bbc-comedy-classic/ar-BBJzCV9)):
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Emma Chambers, star of The Vicar Of Dibley and Notting Hill, died of a suspected heart attack, according to a friend.
She passed away aged 53 on Wednesday but her death from natural causes was only announced yesterday.
And this morning BBC executive Producer Jon Plowman claimed the specific cause of her death was a heart attack.
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Beautiful tribute to someone only known by family and friends...and now the internet.
Terry Ward
December 31, 1946 - January 23, 2018
Terry Wayne Ward, age 71, of DeMotte, IN, escaped this mortal realm on Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018, leaving behind 32 jars of Miracle Whip, 17 boxes of Hamburger Helper and multitudes of other random items that would prove helpful in the event of a zombie apocalypse.
Terry is survived by his overly-patient and accepting wife Kathy, who was the love of his life (a fact she gladly accepted sympathy for during their 48 years of marriage). He is also survived by daughters Rebecca (William) Hines and Jean (Jeff) Lahm; sister, Linda; brother, Phil; grandchildren: Alexander and Hannah Hines (The Mesopotamians), Daphne and Erin Pistello (The Daffer and Peanut), Brendan and Owen Lahm (Phineas and Ferb) and Tessa McMurry (Smiley).
He is preceded in death by his parents Paul and Bernice Ward, daughter Laura Pistello, grandson Vincent Pistello, brother Kenneth Ward, a 1972 Rambler and a hip.
Terry graduated from Thornridge High School in South Holland, IL, where only three of his teachers took an early retirement after having had him as a student. He met the love of his life, Kathy, by telling her he was a lineman – he didn’t specify early on that he was a lineman for the phone company, not the NFL. Still, Kathy and Terry wed in the fall of 1969, perfectly between the Summer of Love and the Winter of Regret.
Terry volunteered his service in the United States Army and was an active combat Veteran in the Viet Nam War.
He retired from AT&T (formerly Ameritech, formerly formerly Indiana Bell) after 39 years of begrudging service, where he accumulated roughly 3,000 rolls of black electrical tape during the course of his career (which he used for everything from open wounds to “Don’t use this button†covers).
He enjoyed many, many things. Among those things were hunting, fishing, golfing, snorkeling, ABBA, hiking Turkey Run, chopping wood, shooting guns, Bed Bath & Beyond, starlight mints, cold beer, free beer, The History Channel, CCR, war movies, discussing who makes the best pizza, The Chicago White Sox, old Buicks, and above all, his family.
He was a renowned distributor of popsicles and ice cream sandwiches to his grandchildren. He also turned on programs such as “Phineas and Ferb†for his grand-youngins, usually when they were actually there.
He despised “uppity foods†like hummus, which his family lovingly called “bean dip†for his benefit, which he loved consequently. He couldn’t give a damn about most material things, and automobiles were never to be purchased new. He never owned a personal cell phone and he had zero working knowledge of the Kardashians.
Terry died knowing that The Blues Brothers was the best movie ever, (young) Clint Eastwood was the baddest-ass man on the planet, and hot sauce can be added to absolutely any food.
Tremendous and heartfelt thanks go to the truly exceptional nurses at Southlake Methodist Hospital Neuro-Intensive Care Unit, who provided much more than nursing care for Terry, but also provided a peaceful and compassionate environment during his transition from this life to the next.
Friends can visit with the family on Saturday, January 27, from Noon until the time of the Funeral Service at 4:00 PM, with Pastor Mark Wilkins officiating, at Geisen Funeral, Cremation & Receptions Centre, 606 E. 113th Ave., Crown Point, IN. Services will conclude at the funeral home.
Memorial donations in Terry’s name can be made to your favorite charity or your favorite watering hole, where you are instructed to tie a few on and tell a few stories of the great Terry Ward.
http://www.geisenfuneralhome.com/obitlink?obit_id=2064544 (http://www.geisenfuneralhome.com/obitlink?obit_id=2064544)
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That's beautiful, @Wingnut! Here's the linked Memorial page, where there is a Guestbook.
http://www.geisenfuneralhome.com/sitemaker/memsol.cgi?user_id=2064544 (http://www.geisenfuneralhome.com/sitemaker/memsol.cgi?user_id=2064544)
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Good grief, @Wingnut, that made me tear up a tiny bit and I didn't know the man from Adam.
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Good grief, @Wingnut, that made me tear up a tiny bit and I didn't know the man from Adam.
IKR? I almost signed the guestbook. Others who didn't know him from Adam signed it already....
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IKR? I almost signed the guestbook. Others who didn't know him from Adam signed it already....
When I looked the other day his book was over 200 pages.
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Sorry for your loss Wingnut.
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When I looked the other day his book was over 200 pages.
289.
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@Wingnut
My condolences.
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@Wingnut
My condolences.
Sadly, didn't know the man. I just want someone to do my Obit in that style! But leave the part about a 72 Rambler out!
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Sadly, didn't know the man. I just want someone to do my Obit in that style! But leave the part about a 72 Rambler out!
The part about the Rambler really had me scratching my head, because they only sold it in the US until 1969. It was available until 1983 in International markets, but, like the VW Beetle, it was expensive to import.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambler_(automobile)
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The part about the Rambler really had me scratching my head, because they only sold it in the US until 1969. It was available until 1983 in International markets, but, like the VW Beetle, it was expensive to import.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambler_(automobile)
AMC continued til 1988, and a lot of old timers continued to refer to them as Rambler, the previous incarnation for a long time.
Or maybe just this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambler_American
Jump to 1969 - A total production for the 1969 model year was 96,029. The last U.S.-made Rambler was assembled in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on 30 June, making the production total of 4,204,925 units. After the 1969 model year, a completely redesigned model, the AMC Hornet, replaced the American.
@Cyber Liberty
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Beep, Beep
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Milt Romney's family car, with dog rack on top.
Great for trips between Massachusetts, La Jolla CA, and Park City UT
(http://momentcar.com/images/nash-rambler-1957-5.jpg)
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Beep, Beep
I LOVE that song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDSk4zwjg5A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDSk4zwjg5A)
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Milt Romney's family car, with dog rack on top.
Great for trips between Massachusetts, La Jolla CA, and Park City UT
(http://momentcar.com/images/nash-rambler-1957-5.jpg)
@truth_seeker
Don't knock it---that '57 Rambler was actually one helluva car in its day! Though I'd rather see it in colours like these:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/1957_Rambler_Custom_Cross-Country_wagon_AnnMD-a.jpg)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/1957_Rambler_Rebel_hardtop_rfd-Cecil%2710.jpg/1200px-1957_Rambler_Rebel_hardtop_rfd-Cecil%2710.jpg)
(http://car-from-uk.com/ebay/carphotos/full/ebay231068.jpg)
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AMC continued til 1988, and a lot of old timers continued to refer to them as Rambler, the previous incarnation for a long time.
Or maybe just this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambler_American
Jump to 1969 - A total production for the 1969 model year was 96,029. The last U.S.-made Rambler was assembled in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on 30 June, making the production total of 4,204,925 units. After the 1969 model year, a completely redesigned model, the AMC Hornet, replaced the American.
@Cyber Liberty
Thanks!
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Come on Ramblers. Lets Ramble! :beer:
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The part about the Rambler really had me scratching my head, because they only sold it in the US until 1969. It was available until 1983 in International markets, but, like the VW Beetle, it was expensive to import.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambler_(automobile)
Artistic license you daffy bastard.
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Artistic license you daffy bastard.
Bless his heart. The one guy who grew up in Michigan in the 50's and 60's who wasn't a car guy. I bet he loved figure skating.
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Bless his heart. The one guy who grew up in Michigan in the 50's and 60's who wasn't a car guy. I bet he loved figure skating.
Ahem! It took a Southern Michigan car guy to spot there wasn't such thing as a '72 Rambler. All American cars went to shit in about '77, and the people building them knew full well. Japan didn't stroll along and eat our lunch in the 70's car market, we blew it, and did it on purpose.
Don't talk to me about figure skating. It's just gymnastics to me. You tit-turd. :beer:
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Come on Ramblers. Lets Ramble! :beer:
Ramblers?
For me a bad flash back where I almost flipped my grandmother's '67 Rambler on a curve while learning to drive.
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I LOVE that song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDSk4zwjg5A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDSk4zwjg5A)
@GtHawk
Then there's this...
(https://i.imgur.com/gkb1CXE.jpg)
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Ramblers?
For me a bad flash back where I almost flipped my grandmother's '67 Rambler on a curve while learning to drive.
Bummer! I flash back to the 66' Rambler Classic station wagon I had where the two bench seat backs both reclined to make one big bed, lot's of fun a the drive in.
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Pixar animator Bud Luckey has died, aged 83
Nick Reilly Feb 26, 2018 8:45 am
http://www.nme.com/news/film/pixar-animator-bud-luckey-died-aged-83-2249032 (http://www.nme.com/news/film/pixar-animator-bud-luckey-died-aged-83-2249032)
(https://ksassets.timeincuk.net/wp/uploads/sites/55/2018/02/budluckey-920x584.jpg)
RIP.
Pixar animator Bud Luckey, the man widely credited with bringing Toy Story’s Woody the Cowboy to life, has died at the age of 83.
In a statement offered to the Hollywood Reporter, Luckey’s family confirmed that he died at a hospice facility on Saturday after a lengthy illness (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bud-luckey-dead-oscar-nominated-animator-who-designed-woody-toy-story-was-83-1088229).
During his time at Pixar, Luckey drafted over 200 possible designs before settling on the final look of Woody The Cowboy ahead of Toy Story’s eventual release in 1995.
He also wrote, directed, narrated, voiced, sung and composed the five-minute film Boundin’, a 2004 Oscar winning short that played in cinemas before The Incredibles. It told the story of a dancing sheep that suffers crippling shyness after he is sheared.
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Here's Boundin':
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WyR4AqRweY#)
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EXCLUSIVE: Bill Cosby's daughter Ensa is buried next to her murdered brother in 'Ennis Garden' at the comic's Massachusetts compound as tarps are hung to hide the mourning family
•Bill Cosby's daughter Ensa was buried at the comedian's family compound outside Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts on Wednesday
•Ensa, 44, died of renal failure on Friday, leaving behind a husband and daughter
•She was buried next to her older brother Ennis who was murdered in a botched robbery in 1997 in Los Angeles
•Only family members were at the outdoor service and Martin McLean, Ensa's husband of four years, left immediately afterwards
•Cosby, 80, Camille, his wife of 54 years, and their remaining children, Erika, 52, Erinn, 51, and Evin, 41, all remained out of sight, on the compound
•How Cosbys children's deaths have been received has been drastically different in light of the multiple sexual assault accusations against Cosby
•President Bill Clinton and vice-president Al Gore both called Cosby to personally offer their condolences and truckloads of flowers arrived to Cosby's house
•But on the day of Ensa's funeral, a single bouquet of flowers was delivered and many in her hometown didn't know she died until days later
By MARTIN GOULD IN SHELBURNE FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS, FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 18:16 EST, 28 February 2018 | UPDATED: 09:15 EST, 1 March 2018
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5446875/Bill-Cosbys-daughter-buried-murdered-brother.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5446875/Bill-Cosbys-daughter-buried-murdered-brother.html)
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/02/28/20/499C834F00000578-5446875-Support_system_She_was_a_vocal_supporter_of_her_father_during_hi-a-32_1519849376247.jpg)
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Bill Burkette of The Vogues vocal group from Turtle Creek dies
Bill Burkette, the original lead singer of Turtle Creek-based vocal group The Vogues, died Thursday, his wife said.
Burkette grew up in Turtle Creek and lived most of his adult life in Murrsyville. He was 75 and had lymphoma, according to his wife of 54 years, Elaine.
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The Vogues, who emerged from Turtle Creek High School, were known for the hit songs "Five O'Clock World," "You're the One" and "Turn Around, Look at Me."
"You're the One" reached No. 4 on Billboard's Top 100.
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Excerpted. More at:
http://triblive.com/aande/music/13368970-74/bill-burkette-of-the-vogues-vocal-group-from-turtle-creek-dies (http://triblive.com/aande/music/13368970-74/bill-burkette-of-the-vogues-vocal-group-from-turtle-creek-dies)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOJ071ExDbk#)
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The two extremes of the Vogues . . .
The Vogues, "Five O'Clock World"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NnnYRqnoX4#)
The Vogues, "My Special Angel"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-jmTY2HTno#)
RIP, Mr. Burkette
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A Picksburgh treasure!
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Top Spanish conductor Jesus Lopez Cobos dies
Top Spanish conductor Jesus Lopez Cobos, who wielded the baton at a clutch of top ensembles including the Spanish National Orchestra and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO), has died of cancer aged 78, his entourage said Friday in Madrid.
More (https://www.afp.com/en/news/721/top-spanish-conductor-jesus-lopez-cobos-dies-doc-11o2z52)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs_L%C3%B3pez_Cobos)
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Actor David Ogden Stiers dies at 75
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/David_Ogden_Stiers_Gary_Burghoff_MASH_1977.jpg/170px-David_Ogden_Stiers_Gary_Burghoff_MASH_1977.jpg)
Stiers, upper left, with Gary Burghoff lower right
While his best-known on-screen role was that of Charles Emerson Winchester III, a haughty Boston surgeon, in the later seasons of the sitcom M*A*S*H, Stiers had a number of other roles to his credit. His voice work for Disney was particularly prolific, voicing supporting characters in Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas, Lilo & Stitch and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. A frequent character actor with a distinctive upper-class accent, he made numerous appearances in television and film throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
Stiers, who came out of the closet in 2009, died of bladder cancer.
Obituary from Variety (http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/david-ogden-stiers-dead-dies-mash-1202716860/)
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Awwww!! I liked Stiers. He had a guest role on "Frasier" where the "boys" thought he might have been their real father. Turned out he was gay.
Rest in peace. Mr. Stiers.
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His painting by Col Potter on M*A*S*H was the best....
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My personal favourite Winchester moment:
M*A*S*H, from "Morale Victory"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijEiwBLCXeo#)
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Sir Roger Bannister: First person to run a mile in under four minutes dies at 88
March 4, 2018
Sir Roger Bannister, the first person to run a mile in under four minutes, has died at the age of 88.
His time of three minutes 59.4 seconds, set at Iffley Road sports ground in Oxford on 6 May 1954, stood as a record for just 46 days but his place in athletics history was assured.
Bannister also won gold over the same distance at the 1954 Commonwealth Games and later became a leading neurologist.
He was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2011.
A statement from his family said: "Sir Roger Bannister, died peacefully in Oxford on 3 March, aged 88, surrounded by his family who were as loved by him, as he was loved by them.
"He banked his treasure in the hearts of his friends." ... More at BBC (http://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/43273249)
(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/onesport/cps/800/cpsprodpb/184EE/production/_100266599_roger_bannister_getty2.jpg)
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His painting by Col Potter on M*A*S*H was the best....
(https://s.yimg.com/lo/api/res/1.2/pGNJ6gYfJdBC3H3w_JFr4Q--~B/YXBwaWQ9eWlzZWFyY2g7Zmk9Zml0O2dlPTAwNjYwMDtncz0wMEEzMDA7aD0zNjA7dz00ODA-/http://www.mash4077tv.com/images/features/painting_125_charles.jpg.cf.jpg)
To be honest, he was good in MASH, however it wasn't as good when the show first started.
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To be honest, he was good in MASH, however it wasn't as good when the show first started.
Alda's directing ruined the show.
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Alda's directing ruined the show.
Yep the latter years got infiltrated with a left wing almost Norman Learish quality.
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Alda's directing ruined the show.
It's no surprise the show wound down when it did. They made their disdain for the military known on almost every episode in a time when Reagan was reinvigorating national pride.
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It's no surprise the show wound down when it did. They made their disdain for the military known on almost every episode in a time when Reagan was reinvigorating national pride.
It got worse at the end. Especially when Reagan was President.
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I doubt Alda is a card carrying member of the CP of The USA but you can bet he believes in many of the tenants the party holds dear, like wealth distribution, free chit for the lazy, etc and swills wine in circles that are filled with party members. But this is about Winchester. RIP ferret faces replacement. You did well in the roll.
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I doubt Alda is a card carrying member of the CP of The USA but you can bet he believes in many of the tenants the party holds dear, like wealth distribution, free chit for the lazy, etc and swills wine in circles that are filled with party members. But this is about Winchester. RIP ferret faces replacement. You did well in the roll.
He did indeed. He will be missed.
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I doubt Alda is a card carrying member of the CP of The USA but you can bet he believes in many of the tenants the party holds dear, like wealth distribution, free chit for the lazy, etc and swills wine in circles that are filled with party members. But this is about Winchester. RIP ferret faces replacement. You did well in the roll.
He was an excellent replacement for ferret face. RIP Winchester.
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Red dirt musician Brandon Jenkins dies following heart operation (http://newsok.com/red-dirt-musician-brandon-jenkins-dies-following-heart-operation/article/5585527)
Tulsa native Brandon Jenkins, one of the standout singer-songwriters on the red dirt music scene, died today (March 2) after complications from a heart operation. He was 48.
As previously reported, Jenkins took to Twitter last month to let fans know he would be undergoing surgery to replace his aorta and aortic valve after he was hospitalized with heart issues. He experienced complications during the Feb. 21 surgery and never recovered.
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Along with Cody Canada, Jason Boland, Mike McClure and Stoney LaRue, Jenkins followed in the footsteps of red dirt pioneers like Bob Childers, Tom Skinner and the Red Dirt Rangers when he got to OSU and help popularize the musical mix of country, folk and rock in Stillwater and beyond.
After living for many years in Austin, Texas, Jenkins moved two years ago to Nashville to tap into the songwriter community in Music City.
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excerpted, more at the link: http://newsok.com/red-dirt-musician-brandon-jenkins-dies-following-heart-operation/article/5585527 (http://newsok.com/red-dirt-musician-brandon-jenkins-dies-following-heart-operation/article/5585527)
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Founder of Tower Records dies at 92 while drinking whiskey and watching the Oscars
Talk about the perfect coda: Tower Records founder Russ Solomon died with a drink in his hand and a smart-aleck remark on his lips.
The swashbuckling, visionary entrepreneur who built a global retailing empire and the most famous company in Sacramento history died Sunday night of an apparent heart attack. He was 92.
Solomon was watching the Academy Awards ceremony Sunday night at his Sacramento-area home when he was stricken, said his son, Michael Solomon, the former chief executive of Tower.
"Ironically, he was giving his opinion of what someone was wearing that he thought was ugly, then asked (his wife) Patti to refill his whiskey," Solomon said. When she returned, he had died.
http://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article203542104.html#emlnl=Breaking_Newsletter (http://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article203542104.html#emlnl=Breaking_Newsletter)
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Nokie Edwards Guitarist For The Ventures
We have been advised this morning that Nokie Edwards passed away today after several months battling an infection after hip surgery this past December. The Ventures family feels this loss very deeply: Nokie has been part of the Ventures’ history for almost 6 decades and helped to shape the early Ventures’ sound and the success of their career.
http://www.northwestmusicscene.net/northwest-legend-nokie-edwards-passes-away-at-82/ (http://www.northwestmusicscene.net/northwest-legend-nokie-edwards-passes-away-at-82/)
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Rest in peace, Mr. Edwards.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owq7hgzna3E#)
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RIP Mr. Edwards . . . here's one you actually played guitar on (he joined the Ventures in 1962, well after their first hits
"Walk, Don't Run" and "Perfidia," and switched to lead guitar when their original bassist took a hike . . . )
The Ventures, "Hawaii Five-O"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y782IWkH_fs#)
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Rest in peace, Mr. Edwards.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owq7hgzna3E#)
I almost hate to say it, but those dopey little steps the two guitarists and the bassist take on that lip synch job make them look like
they're trying to hold it in until they can get to the nearest men's room.
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I almost hate to say it, but those dopey little steps the two guitarists and the bassist take on that lip synch job make them look like
they're trying to hold it in until they can get to the nearest men's room.
They had that wireless stuff back then?
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They had that wireless stuff back then?
Uh, no. ;)
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@EasyAce
Thank you for correcting me. I didn't realize Mr. Edwards was not a member back then. Oops.
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@EasyAce
Thank you for correcting me. I didn't realize Mr. Edwards was not a member back then. Oops.
@Applewood
I only learned of it earlier today. He wasn't the only guy to join a group as a bass player and then become their lead guitarist. A gentleman
named Dick Taylor was the original bassist for what became the Rolling Stones, until he left to finish college, during which time he switched
to guitar and formed a new group in which he was the lead guitarist . . .
The Pretty Things, "Rosalyn"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOImKEcnwf4#)
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Physicist Stephen Hawking dies at 76
Developing...
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central)
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I guess his questions were either answered or faded into oblivion.
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Child star Donna Butterworth dies at 62
Butterworth, who had moved with her family to Hawaii at a very young age, had a very brief career in the mid-1960s, appearing in two major films, the Elvis Presley film Paradise, Hawaiian Style and Jerry Lewis's The Family Jewels. She disappeared from public life in 1967, never married, never had children, and spent the rest of her life in Hawaii.
Obituary from MSN (http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/celebrity/child-star-donna-butterworth-who-starred-opposite-elvis-presley-dies-at-62/ar-BBKdbT3?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=ientp)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Butterworth)
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The world of science nerds and geeks owe Mr. Hawking a great debt of gratitude.
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An amusing article from Daily Caller, "Obama Commemorates ANOTHER Death With Photo Of Himself," by Saagar Enjeti.
After Hawkings' death, Obama did what he always does: tweeted a photo of himself as some sort of expression of just how saddened he is by the latest death. He also did it after the deaths of Ali, Rosa Parks, Arnold Palmer and Nelson Mandela. :silly:
Read the article here (http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/14/obama-commemorates-another-death-with-photo-of-himself/)
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An amusing article from Daily Caller, "Obama Commemorates ANOTHER Death With Photo Of Himself," by Saagar Enjeti.
After Hawkings' death, Obama did what he always does: tweeted a photo of himself as some sort of expression of just how saddened he is by the latest death. He also did it after the deaths of Ali, Rosa Parks, Arnold Palmer and Nelson Mandela. :silly:
Read the article here (http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/14/obama-commemorates-another-death-with-photo-of-himself/)
Narcissists sicken me.
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Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) dies at 88
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Louise_Slaughter%2C_Official_Portrait%2C_113th_congress.jpg/420px-Louise_Slaughter%2C_Official_Portrait%2C_113th_congress.jpg)
Slaughter served in politics from 1982 until her death, from 1987 onward as a member of Congress representing the city of Rochester, New York. At the time of her death, she was the oldest active member of the House of Representatives. During the 2000s (decade), Slaughter's electoral district was custom-gerrymandered to run along the Lake Ontario shoreline and connect the city of Buffalo at one end to her house in the Rochester suburb of Fairport at the other.
Her current district, created by a nonpartisan judicial panel in 2012, follows county lines and has been competitive. Slaughter narrowly fended off her Republican opponent in 2014.
Obituary from the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/rep-louise-slaughter-libral-democrat-who-championed-womens-rights-dies-at-88/2018/03/16/7b7f7c3e-2865-11e8-bc72-077aa4dab9ef_story.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Slaughter)
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Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) dies at 88
Slaughter served in politics from 1982 until her death, from 1987 onward as a member of Congress representing the city of Rochester, New York. At the time of her death, she was the oldest active member of the House of Representatives. During the 2000s (decade), Slaughter's electoral district was custom-gerrymandered to run along the Lake Ontario shoreline and connect the city of Buffalo at one end to her house in the Rochester suburb of Fairport at the other.
Her current district, created by a nonpartisan judicial panel in 2012, follows county lines and has been competitive. Slaughter narrowly fended off her Republican opponent in 2014.
Obituary from the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/rep-louise-slaughter-libral-democrat-who-championed-womens-rights-dies-at-88/2018/03/16/7b7f7c3e-2865-11e8-bc72-077aa4dab9ef_story.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Slaughter)
It is not polite to speak ill of the dead, so I will say nothing.
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It is not polite to speak ill of the dead, so I will say nothing.
Good policy to have. Serves no purpose to bring up politics with its discord and resentments. The congresswoman is in God's hands now. I'd rather He do the judging.
May God grant comfort to her loved ones.
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It is not polite to speak ill of the dead, so I will say nothing.
How about, she sure made the best out of her deal and made him wait a long time to collect.
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Stephen Hawking Wrote a Popular Book About Physics and Spent the Rest of His Life Crusading for Awful Causes (http://freebeacon.com/blog/stephen-hawking-wrote-popular-book-physics-spent-rest-life-crusading-awful-causes/), by Noah Pollak at Free Beacon.
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Stephen Hawking Wrote a Popular Book About Physics and Spent the Rest of His Life Crusading for Awful Causes (http://freebeacon.com/blog/stephen-hawking-wrote-popular-book-physics-spent-rest-life-crusading-awful-causes/), by Noah Pollak at Free Beacon.
Right he is!
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Sadly, geniuses often stumble badly when let out of their academic test tube into the real world of applied science. It's a different kind of thinking that they aren't really wired for.
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Stephen Hawking Wrote a Popular Book About Physics and Spent the Rest of His Life Crusading for Awful Causes (http://freebeacon.com/blog/stephen-hawking-wrote-popular-book-physics-spent-rest-life-crusading-awful-causes/), by Noah Pollak at Free Beacon.
I am not a physicist and am unable to understand the actual merits of Hawking's contributions to the field. But no amount of scientific greatness can excuse his political crusading—far left, viciously anti-Israel, and contemptuous of the culture and values that sustain western societies.
Pretty much sums it all up for me.
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Stephen Hawking Wrote a Popular Book About Physics and Spent the Rest of His Life Crusading for Awful Causes (http://freebeacon.com/blog/stephen-hawking-wrote-popular-book-physics-spent-rest-life-crusading-awful-causes/), by Noah Pollak at Free Beacon.
Not to mention that many of his theories about physics (which he specialized in in large part because he was too intellectually lazy to verify his facts) are now considered to be wrong.
Hawking was a quack who gained sympathy because of his condition. I would not at all be surprised if the words attributed to him during the last few years of his life were never actually his to begin with. By one account he was down to one word a minute by 2005.
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Hawking was a quack who gained sympathy because of his condition.
You have expressed what I always suspected.
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From Hawkings wikipedia write-up:
Hawking estimated that he studied about 1,000 hours during his three years at Oxford. These unimpressive study habits made sitting his finals a challenge, and he decided to answer only theoretical physics questions rather than those requiring factual knowledge.
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Frank Avruch, TV's Bozo the Clown, dies at 83
(https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/2011_0506_FrankAvruchasBozo_lead.jpg)
Avruch, a reporter for what is now WCVB-TV in Boston, held a number of roles during his 40-year career in television, but none were as widely known as his role as Bozo the Clown. Most Bozo the Clown shows were "franchised:" a local host would wear the wig and clown makeup and produce a show for local audiences. However, in 1965, producer Larry Harmon bought the franchise and decided to create a national version of the show, using the Boston version as its basis. Avruch's Bozo aired nationwide until 1967 and in Boston until 1970. (Avruch is not to be confused with the other Bozos from Chicago, whose versions were seen nationwide via WGN in the 1980s and 1990s, nor is he to be confused with the Bozos in charge of Washington, DC.)
Obituary from USA Today (https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/nation-now/2018/03/22/tv-personality-known-playing-bozo-clown-dies-89/448345002/)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRLPW8RlUvE#)
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Ronn Huff, arranger and composer of Christian music, member of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, died March 18. Full obit to be published this Sunday (http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tennessean/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=188518001).
Inducted as a non-performing member of the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame, Ronn Huff’s legacy is well-known to anyone who has directed church choirs in the last 30 years.
While minister of music in a Denver church he arranged and published two highly successful books of hymns, “Celebration, Music for Festival Choir†and “Celebration II.†But his arrangements and recording of Bill and Gloria Gaither songs into a 1973 musical called “Alleluia, A Praise Gathering†brought national prominence and was the first religious recording to receive an RIAA Gold Album certification, selling over a million records and books. A Christmas work called “His Love, Reaching,†a collection of early Praise and Worship songs entitled “Exaltation†and a series collaboration with the Singing Churchmen of Oklahoma are among the successful church music publications he authored.
Huff claims to be an arranger, not a composer, but his work is found on many recordings, both sacred and secular. In the past two years alone his name appears on and arrangements are heard in the recordings of Faith Hill, Charlotte Church, Amy Grant, Celine Dion, Jewel, Martina McBride, Allison Krauss, Sandi Patty, John Michael Talbot, Keith Urban, George Strait, Clint Black, Lonestar, Boston Pops, and The American Boy Choir. Until recently Huff held the position of Pop’s Director for the Nashville Symphony, but a battle with Parkinson’s Disease has limited his activities in recent years.
From the Hall of Fame site (http://hof.doveawards.com/speaker-lineup/ron-huff/).
@musiclady
I remember seeing him conduct an orchestra in the 1960s. We had some music books of his arrangements.
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Toys R Us founder Charles Lazarus dies at 94
By: Theresa Seiger, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Updated: Mar 22, 2018 - 4:42 PM
https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/trending-now/toys-r-us-founder-charles-lazarus-dies-at-94/720154625 (https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/trending-now/toys-r-us-founder-charles-lazarus-dies-at-94/720154625)
Charles Lazarus, who founded what would become Toys R Us in 1948, has died, company officials confirmed Thursday. He was 94.
The news came just days after officials with the toy store chain announced it would be closing its U.S. stores.
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Charles Lazarus, who founded what would become Toys R Us in 1948, has died, company officials confirmed Thursday. He was 94.
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I'd die too if I knew what subsequent management teams had done to my idea and company.
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Charles Lazarus, who founded what would become Toys R Us in 1948, has died, company officials confirmed Thursday. He was 94.
They can bury him in the last store they close next week.
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Toys R Us founder Charles Lazarus dies at 94
By: Theresa Seiger, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Updated: Mar 22, 2018 - 4:42 PM
https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/trending-now/toys-r-us-founder-charles-lazarus-dies-at-94/720154625 (https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/trending-now/toys-r-us-founder-charles-lazarus-dies-at-94/720154625)
Charles Lazarus, who founded what would become Toys R Us in 1948, has died, company officials confirmed Thursday. He was 94.
The news came just days after officials with the toy store chain announced it would be closing its U.S. stores.
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I think he died from a broken heart, seeing what happened to his toy empire. I loved their store in Times Square, best Ferris Wheel ever, (other than the Wonder Wheel in Coney Island)
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Ronn Huff, arranger and composer of Christian music, member of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, died March 18. Full obit to be published this Sunday (http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tennessean/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=188518001).From the Hall of Fame site (http://hof.doveawards.com/speaker-lineup/ron-huff/).
@musiclady
I remember seeing him conduct an orchestra in the 1960s. We had some music books of his arrangements.
I used a lot of music by Huff, dating back years ago.
Thanks for the ping, @mountaineer . I hadn't heard this.
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Former Georgia Governor and U.S. Sen. Zell Miller has died at the age of 86, family says
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/23/former-georgia-governor-and-u-s-sen-zell-miller-has-died-at-age-86-family-says.html (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/23/former-georgia-governor-and-u-s-sen-zell-miller-has-died-at-age-86-family-says.html)
Rest in peace, Mr. Miller.
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I used a lot of music by Huff, dating back years ago.
Thanks for the ping, @mountaineer . I hadn't heard this.
I thought of you when I read this Obit about Mr. Huff. 8888crybaby
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Rest in peace, Mr. Miller.
The last patriotic Democrat.
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They can bury him in the last store they close next week.
They should leave a key in his pocket for at least four days, just in case.
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The last patriotic Democrat.
:patriot:
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Rest in peace, Mr. Miller.
That's sad.
A good man, I think.
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The last patriotic Democrat.
@Cyber Liberty
You beat me to it. He was indeed. May he rest in peace.
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The last patriotic Democrat.
Yep. Sad. RIP Mr. Miller. :patriot:
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Text of Zell Miller's famous speech to the RNC convention:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/text-of-zell-millers-rnc-speech/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/text-of-zell-millers-rnc-speech/)
That speech made me proud to be an American.
Rest in peace, Senator.
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Actress and Stuntwoman Debbie Lee Carrington Has Passed Away
by Brad Miska March 24, 2018
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Several outlets have reports that American actress and stuntwoman Debbie Lee Carrington has passed away. She was 58. This was further substantiated by Return of the Jedi‘s Mike Quinn, who posted his condolences on his Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/MikeQuinnOfficial/posts/420644615067638).
Debbi starred in several genre films from Total Recall to Batman Returns, Scary Movie 3, and Seed of Chucky, which she also provided stunts on as well as Bride of Chucky, Leprechaun in the Hood, New Nightmare, Spawn and Van Helsing. She also appeared in both “Buffy the Vampire Slayer†and “Dexter.â€
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Linda Brown, who kicked off the Warren Court's string of revolutionary rulings, dies in her mid-70s
Linda Brown, who as a child resided in Topeka, Kansas, is best known as the "Brown" in the Supreme Court case now known as Brown v. Board of Education. Prior to her lawsuit, the 1896 Court ruling Plessy v. Ferguson had established a precedent regarding application of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause: segregation was legal, but only if the separate facilities were equal in every way.
In practice, the separate facilities were not equal, and a number of logistics problems in the city of Topeka's segregated elementary school system (a CNN obituary specifically cited the fact that the black school was two miles away while one of the white schools was closer to home) prompted Brown's father and four other families to sue the city school district over the policy. In 1954, the Court, under chief justice Earl Warren, issued a decree declaring that any separate facilities were "inherently unequal" and declared segregation in public accommodations to be unconstitutional.
While in Topeka, the process of integration went fairly smoothly (the middle and high schools of the city were already integrated), the ramifications of the edict were met with far more hostility elsewhere, especially in the southern United States. Over the next 15 years, resistance to the ruling would be widespread in the South, and a number of attempts at resistance and workarounds would ultimately be met with failure, often at the hands of another Warren Court ruling.
Beyond the specific issues brought about by the Brown case, Warren's broad interpretation of equal protection, first imposed in Brown and fleshed out by associate justice William Brennan, would have far-reaching ramifications in later court rulings. It would be used to outlaw anti-miscegenation laws in Loving v. Virginia in 1967, dramatically altered the nature of state legislatures in Reynolds v. Sims by taking away fixed-district representation, allotted the court power to tax by proxy in Griffin v. Prince Edward County and, by way of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and a series of court rulings, imposed the rulings on most private businesses, even if they didn't operate across state lines and were not subject to the Commerce Clause. After Warren's death, Brennan would even extend the clause to illegal aliens in Plyler v. Doe, even though they did not meet the 14th Amendment's requirement that the persons in question be born in the U.S.
Brown herself would go on to college and be married three times. She did not consider herself a major historic figure but did speak openly about her role in the ruling throughout her life; not much else about her personal life beyond that is known.
There is some dispute about exactly when she was born, either in 1942 or 1943, and thus her age at death is uncertain.
Obituary from the Topeka Capital-Journal (http://www.cjonline.com/news/20180326/linda-brown-center-of-brown-v-board-case-dies-at-75)
Brown v. Board of Education on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education)
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Amazing how things have changed in such a short time! And, for the better in some cases.
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Mets hitter Rusty Staub, known after career for work for police and firefighters, dies at 73 (http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/22953337/long-new-york-mets-hitter-rusty-staub-dies-73)
They called him Le Grande Orange in Montreal and Trusty Rusty in New York. And he was one of the nicest guys in the game.
He also created the New York Police and Fire Widows and Children's Fund to aid families of first responders who die on duty. That's also
the group to whom Mets players, coaches, and their then-manager donated their day's pay after they played their first game back from
the 9/11 atrocity in 2001.
RIP Trusty Rusty.
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Mets hitter Rusty Staub, known after career for work for police and firefighters, dies at 73 (http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/22953337/long-new-york-mets-hitter-rusty-staub-dies-73)
They called him Le Grande Orange in Montreal and Trusty Rusty in New York. And he was one of the nicest guys in the game. RIP.
Came up with the Colt 45/ Astros organization.
One of many we let get away back then.
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Came up with the Colt 45/ Astros organization.
One of many we let get away back then.
Dark day in our team's history. Basically traded him for Clendenon, and Clendenon stiffs us.
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Wow, Rusty Staub. I'm officially feeling old.
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Came up with the Colt 45/ Astros organization. One of many we let get away back then.
That’s OK. You made up for it later by swindling my Orioles out of Finley, Harnisch, and Schilling for that bum Glenn Davis.
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Rusty Staub Day at Shea Stadium, 1985 . . .
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8eQ62eAojtw/Wr0-_IW5n4I/AAAAAAAABB4/PtZ-ieKy0ZU_7FKADap4CmvQpPyzrfEzwCLcBGAs/s1600/2018-03-29%2BRustyStaubDay.jpg)
(Staub had no idea his teammates would prank him with those orange wigs.)
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Did I read right that Staub never made it to the Hall of Fame?
If so, that's an abomination, considering some of the inferior primadonnas who have been elected.
Rest in peace, Mr. Staub.
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Did I read right that Staub never made it to the Hall of Fame?
If so, that's an abomination, considering some of the inferior primadonnas who have been elected.
@Applewood
If all you needed was character to make it to Cooperstown, Rusty Staub would have been a first-ballot choice. Unfortunately, you need playing
credentials, too, and Staub just didn't have those. I suspect injuries and two of his home ballparks probably took away whatever shot he had
at the Hall of Fame. He played four of his early prime seasons with the Astrodome as his home park; he went from a park that was killing him
to a park that was great for him in Montreal (Jarry Park); he went from there to another park that killed him (Shea Stadium); he went from
there to another park (Tiger Stadium) that was great for him, for three full seasons and part of a fourth; he went from there mostly to parks
that killed him again as he began aging. (Olympic Stadium briefly, Shea Stadium for his final five seasons.)
Essentially, Rusty Staub played thirteen of his 23 major league seasons in home parks that were terrible for him. If you could reverse that,
and put him into home parks that were good for him for those thirteen seasons, plus keeping him injury free, you might---might---have
an average Hall of Famer on your hands. As it was:
* He meets 38 of the Bill James Hall of Fame batting standards, where the average Hall of Famer meets 50.
* He scores 59 on the James Hall of Fame batting monitor; the average Hall of Famer scores 100.
* He has almost no black ink other than leading his league in doubles once and in games played twice. A lack of black ink won't keep a qualified
player out of the Hall of Fame, but Staub isn't one of those players.
* He hasn't got a lot of gray ink, either---finishing top ten in his league. His gray ink score is 89; the average Hall of Famer scores 144.
* According to Jay Jaffe's measurement of wins above a replacement level player, Staub is the 35th best right fielder in baseball history . . . but
his lifetime 45.8 WAR is 26.9 WAR below the average Hall of Fame right fielder.
* A guy who plays 23 seasons and comes up with those figures isn't close to a Hall of Famer, either.
A good player who was sometimes great. A very good man. Not a Hall of Famer, unfortunately. But he'll be remembered.
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Killjoy. ****slapping
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I always considered him to be just a pretty good player, not a Hall of Famer. If he fielded like Rick Monday, he would be in.
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@EasyAce
Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge of the HOF requirements. I haven't been a baseball fan for years and really haven't kept up with stats and rules.
Well, it looks like Staub was a generous individual off the field. I happen to believe that the good he did in this life will mean a much better reward in the next life than membership in the HOF.
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@Applewood
If all you needed was character to make it to Cooperstown, Rusty Staub would have been a first-ballot choice. Unfortunately, you need playing
credentials, too, and Staub just didn't have those. I suspect injuries and two of his home ballparks probably took away whatever shot he had
at the Hall of Fame. He played four of his early prime seasons with the Astrodome as his home park; he went from a park that was killing him
to a park that was great for him in Montreal (Jarry Park); he went from there to another park that killed him (Shea Stadium); he went from
there to another park (Tiger Stadium) that was great for him, for three full seasons and part of a fourth; he went from there mostly to parks
that killed him again as he began aging. (Olympic Stadium briefly, Shea Stadium for his final five seasons.)
Essentially, Rusty Staub played thirteen of his 23 major league seasons in home parks that were terrible for him. If you could reverse that,
and put him into home parks that were good for him for those thirteen seasons, plus keeping him injury free, you might---might---have
an average Hall of Famer on your hands. As it was:
* He meets 38 of the Bill James Hall of Fame batting standards, where the average Hall of Famer meets 50.
* He scores 59 on the James Hall of Fame batting monitor; the average Hall of Famer scores 100.
* He has almost no black ink other than leading his league in doubles once and in games played twice. A lack of black ink won't keep a qualified
player out of the Hall of Fame, but Staub isn't one of those players.
* He hasn't got a lot of gray ink, either---finishing top ten in his league. His gray ink score is 89; the average Hall of Famer scores 144.
* According to Jay Jaffe's measurement of wins above a replacement level player, Staub is the 35th best right fielder in baseball history . . . but
his lifetime 45.8 WAR is 26.9 WAR below the average Hall of Fame right fielder.
* A guy who plays 23 seasons and comes up with those figures isn't close to a Hall of Famer, either.
A good player who was sometimes great. A very good man. Not a Hall of Famer, unfortunately. But he'll be remembered.
Quite a complex HOF induction system. How does the 'roid factor work into the equation?
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Killjoy. ****slapping
He always has that nasty habit of clouding the issue with solid facts to back up his assertions. I hate that. I really do!
@EasyAce
@Cyber Liberty
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Quite a complex HOF induction system. How does the 'roid factor work into the equation?
Get caught with 'roids, all counters get set to zero?
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Quite a complex HOF induction system. How does the 'roid factor work into the equation?
@catfish1957
The 'roid factor as you call it wasn't a factor in Staub's career---but that doesn't mean baseball was immune to actual or alleged performance-enhancing
substances during his playing days. Greenies, anyone?
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He always has that nasty habit of clouding the issue with solid facts to back up his assertions. I hate that. I really do!
@EasyAce
@Cyber Liberty
@Wingnut
@Cyber Liberty
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@catfish1957
The 'roid factor as you call it wasn't a factor in Staub's career---but that doesn't mean baseball was immune to actual or alleged performance-enhancing
substances during his playing days. Greenies, anyone?
We’ve been running short of greenies. We don’t get them from the trainer, because greenies are against club policy. So we get them from players on other teams who have friends who are doctors, or friends who know where to get greenies. One of our lads is going to have a bunch of greenies mailed to him by some of the guys on the Red Sox. And to think you can spend five years in jail for giving your friend a marijuana cigarette.
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@EasyAce
Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge of the HOF requirements. I haven't been a baseball fan for years and really haven't kept up with stats and rules.
Those aren't "requirements" so much as measurements Hall of Fame voters often use to determine who is or isn't truly a Hall of Famer. Bill James
developed those measurements as a way of looking deeper into a player's game, particularly keeping in mind a way to let someone who didn't get
to see a player play evaluate his actual worth. One classic example: You take one guy who hit .303 lifetime and the other who hit .305 lifetime.
If that's all you look at, you think the guy who hit .305 was just a little more valuable and a little bit better than the guy who hit .303 lifetime.
Now, look a little deeper:
* The lifetime .305 player in my example produced 158 runs per 162 games.
* The lifetime .303 player produced 215 runs per 162 games.
* The lifetime .305 player was an early-in-the-order hitter; the lifetime .303 player was a number three or number four hitter.
* The lifetime .305 player has a .375 lifetime on-base percentage; the lifetime .303 player his a .383 lifetime on-base percentage.
The .305 player is Pete Rose. The .303 hitter is Willie Mays.
Or, how about a couple of lifetime .267 hitters, both of whom played defensive positions that drain you physically and mentally.
* Player One produced 208 runs per 162 games lifetime.
* Player Two produced 185 runs per 162 games lifetime.
* Player One has a .380 lifetime on-base percentage.
* Player Two has a .342 lifetime on-base percentage, even though he had far better teammates during his prime seasons than Player One.
* Both players had the same type of home ballpark in which to hit for most of their careers. (Player Two got to hit in a hitter's paradise of sorts
for his first four seasons.)
Player One in that example is Mike Schmidt. Player Two is Johnny Bench.
The Hall of Fame Monitors and Standards and Jay Jaffe's JAWS are just two ways to do it, but a diligent Hall of Fame voter will do his or her best to look
at the player's entire game, not just the surface.
Well, it looks like Staub was a generous individual off the field. I happen to believe that the good he did in this life will mean a much better reward in the next life than membership in the HOF.
When you get a Hall of Fame caliber person in the same being as a Hall of Fame player, it's often a rare occurrence. Men like Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson,
Walter Johnson, Lou Gehrig, Stan Musial, Jackie Robinson, Yogi Berra, Robin Roberts, Willie Mays, Ernie Banks, Hank Aaron, Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson, Roberto
Clemente, Brooks Robinson (Around here, they don't name candy bars after Brooks, they name their children after him), Billy Williams, Jim Palmer, Monte
Irvin, Mike Schmidt, George Brett, Tony Gwynn, and Gary Carter, among others, are the exceptions.
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Stephen Reinhardt, circuit court judge, 'progressive icon,' dies at 87
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/30/stephen-reinhardt-circuit-court-judge-progressive-icon-dies-at-87.html (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/30/stephen-reinhardt-circuit-court-judge-progressive-icon-dies-at-87.html)
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Steven Bochco, television writer and creator, dies at 74
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Photo: Alan Light
Bochco, who was fortunate enough to secure work at Universal Studios as a writer before he even graduated college, is best known for his police procedural/serial series Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue, as well as the legal drama L.A. Law and medical drama Doogie Howser, M.D.. Along the way, he was also responsible for two of the most notorious busts in television history: the musical police drama Cop Rock and the one-episode flop sitcom Public Morals. Bochco earned acclaim for pushing the limits of what was allowed on television during his time as a screenwriter, at one point exploiting the outrage NYPD Blue caused to pique curiosity in the show.
Bochco had suffered from leukemia for many years.
Obituary from the Hollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steven-bochco-dead-hill-street-blues-la-law-nypd-blue-creator-741199)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Bochco)
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For good or bad, Bocho was integral in shaping modern TV as we know it today.
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We watch NYPD Blue every day. Excellent acting.
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For good or bad, Bocho was integral in shaping modern TV as we know it today.
If he'd given nothing more than Hill Street Blues, Mr. Bochco would have been a television immortal. RIP.
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We watch NYPD Blue every day. Excellent acting.
If I never see Sipowicz's ass again I will be a happy man.
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If I never see Sipowicz's ass again I will be a happy man.
Interesting that's what you remember.... :silly:
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If I never see Sipowicz's ass again I will be a happy man.
That, I admit, is what I like least about the show. Too many bare buttocks.
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Interesting that's what you remember.... :silly:
Kim Delaney's buttocks on the other hand.....
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If he'd given nothing more than Hill Street Blues, Mr. Bochco would have been a television immortal. RIP.
Yep.
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: Anti-apartheid campaigner dies at 81
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43621112 (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43621112)
I will light a tire in her memory.
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Interesting that's what you remember.... :silly:
I've heard you say "He's No Bobby Simone" a few time darling! :)
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: Anti-apartheid campaigner dies at 81
I will light a tire in her memory.
A fine and fitting tribute to what they have done to SA in the interim.
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Interesting that's what you remember.... :silly:
It's the trauma.
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I've heard you say "He's No Bobby Simone" a few time darling! :)
Now, that's the truth!
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: Anti-apartheid campaigner dies at 81
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43621112 (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43621112)
I will light a tire in her memory.
One of but a few Obits I read with pleasure. Sadly, I'm sure her "Soccer Club" will survive her. I, too, will light a tire in her memory.
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It's the trauma.
Why yes...yes it was! Thank you for pointing that out! :silly:
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I will light a tire in her memory.
They should give her a send-off with a blazing tire around her neck. Not that she'll finally feel what it's like, unfortunately ...
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They should give her a send-off with a blazing tire around her neck. Not that she'll finally feel what it's like, unfortunately ...
Now, we don't know that.
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Now, we don't know that.
I would not be surprised if she's off proving "Pope" Frankie wrong, and already feeling the Necklace.
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: Anti-apartheid campaigner dies at 81
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43621112 (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43621112)
I will light a tire in her memory.
I hope she has a Goodyear.
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Rest in peace, Mr. Bochko. Yeah, Cop Rock was lame and I was no fan of Doogie Howser, but most of his other work wad outstanding IMHO. Even if you didn't like the language or the bare butts, most of his shows were well written and acted.
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And since I have nothing good to say about Mrs. Mandela, I'll say nothing.
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I hope she has a Goodyear.
I think she got Dunlapped.
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I think she got Dunlapped.
Everybody must get Firestoned?
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Everybody must get Firestoned?
That might be a Bridgestone too far.
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*****rollingeyes***** *****rollingeyes***** *****rollingeyes***** *****rollingeyes*****
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*****rollingeyes***** *****rollingeyes***** *****rollingeyes***** *****rollingeyes*****
Roll with it Sangy!
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Roll with it Sangy!
She's Michelin all the fun!
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I hope she has a Goodyear.
Maybe she's doing the Continental! Extra points if you recall it.
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Maybe she's doing the Continental! Extra points if you recall it.
Never thought I'd laugh so hard on an Obituaries thread.
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She's Michelin all the fun!
Maybe she's Hankooking.
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Winnie was a Uniroyal by SA standards.
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Here I am waiting for the Nexen shoe to drop.
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Never thought I'd laugh so hard on an Obituaries thread.
Agreed.
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Winnie Mandela, 81, Sociopath, Sang While Torturing 14-Year-Old Boy (https://bluntforcetruth.com/news/winnie-mandela-81-sociopath-sang-torturing-14-year-old-boy/).
... A witness in the assault and kidnap trial of Winnie Mandela testified Thursday she beat him with a rubber whip and sang as he screamed in pain.
‘She was singing when she started the assault on us,’ Barend Thabiso Mono told the Rand Supreme Court, reflecting earlier testimony from another of the four alleged victims, all black males.
Saying he had been lying on the floor ‘screaming,’ Mono, 21, said he heard the wife of black leader Nelson Mandela ‘singing while she was hitting me with a sjambok (rubber whip).’ ...
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Agreed.
After all, It's where the rubber meets the road.
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@mountaineer
Interesting that nothing like that story was even mentioned yesterday among all the positively glowing tributes to Mrs. Mandela.
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@mountaineer
Interesting that nothing like that story was even mentioned yesterday among all the positively glowing tributes to Mrs. Mandela.
I don't know about you, but I am getting a little "tired"
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If he'd given nothing more than Hill Street Blues, Mr. Bochco would have been a television immortal. RIP.
I agree. That was a great show.
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And since I have nothing good to say about Mrs. Mandela, I'll say nothing.
Yep.
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Interesting that nothing like that story was even mentioned yesterday among all the positively glowing tributes to Mrs. Mandela.
Of course not. And no one cared that the ANC was a Marxist organization. **nononono*
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Of course not. And no one cared that the ANC was a Marxist organization. **nononono*
Oh, but if you happened to be light skinned and opposed the ANC, why you were (all together, now) "RASIS!". No one wanted to think about their politics, although that was a successful early venture of identity politics, indeed. But, considering, what did they win? The country went from being an economic powerhouse and nuclear power to its present 'Glory'.
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http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-nws-wwe-johnny-valiant-killed-in-pittsburgh-20180405-story.html
WWE's 'Luscious' Johnny Valiant killed crossing street in Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Former professional wrestling champion "Luscious" Johnny Valiant has died after being struck crossing a street in a Pittsburgh suburb. The Allegheny County medical examiner says in a statement that ..
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He got runned over by a damned old Pick up truck ,,,in the rain.
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@TomSea
Thanks for posting this. It's big news here in western PA. I'm not a fan of professional wrestling, so I don't really know Mr. Sullivan (his real name). The story here locally is that he was crossing in the middle of a heavily traveled and dangerous road (McKnight Road) when he was struck. I'm guessing he wasn't at an intersection with traffic lights and/or "Walk-Don't Walk" signals. Not a good idea to jaywalk on Mc Knight Road. That road is dangerous enough for drivers, let alone pedestrians.
Rest in peace, Mr. Sullivan.
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Belated:
Edwin Hawkins, gospel singer, dies at 74
Hawkins, the leader of a California black gospel choir known as the "Edwin Hawkins Singers," is most famous for his 1969 hit record, "Oh Happy Day" (not to be confused with the Lawrence Welk staple of the same name). An adaptation of an eighteenth-century hymn, it went on to become a top-5 hit in multiple countries.
Hawkins had one other chart hit to his name: "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)," a collaboration with folk singer Melanie Safka.
Hawkins died way back on January 15 (sorry it took me this long to find it) from pancreatic cancer.
Obituary from the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/gospel-star-edwin-hawkins-dead-at-74/2018/01/15/96f313f4-fa39-11e7-9b5d-bbf0da31214d_story.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hawkins)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tSyzTIJ82g#)
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Oh Happy Day still gives me goosebumps every time I hear it. One of the best gospel hymns ever.
Rest in peace, Mr. Hawkins.
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I met Edwin Hawkins at a Choral Associates convention back in the '80's, and heard a small choral group perform "Oh, Happy Day" to perfection. It was like being swept away to heaven.
He had a remarkable gift, and it will be missed.
He has been with His Savior since January! Praise the Lord!
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Oh Happy Day still gives me goosebumps every time I hear it. One of the best gospel hymns ever.
Rest in peace, Mr. Hawkins.
Did you see the movie, Secretariat? When they play it at the end, I cry every single time!
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Did you see the movie, Secretariat? When they play it at the end, I cry every single time!
@musiclady
That's maybe my favourite movie about horse racing ever. The book was even better.
And Penny Chenery, Secretariat's owner, went to heaven last September at 95.
Secretariat, Belmont Stakes, 1973
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCMtaNiMDM#)
To this day I've never seen a more staggering performance than Secretariat's Belmont to win the Crown.
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WWE's 'Luscious' Johnny Valiant killed crossing street in Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Former professional wrestling champion "Luscious" Johnny Valiant has died after being struck crossing a street in a Pittsburgh suburb. The Allegheny County medical examiner says in a statement that
Handsome Jimmy Valiant runs a wrestling camp nearby and still wrestles.
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@musiclady
That's maybe my favourite movie about horse racing ever. The book was even better.
To this day I've never seen a more staggering performance than Secretariat's Belmont to win the Crown.
That's probably because there's never BEEN a more staggering performance. ^-^
I think the whole world was watching that race, with mouths agape, and hearts beating faster.
Stunning moment in time.
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That's probably because there's never BEEN a more staggering performance. ^-^
Maybe the closest for staggering was the Affirmed/Alydar rivalry and the so-close finish in their Belmont Stakes.
I think the whole world was watching that race, with mouths agape, and hearts beating faster.
Stunning moment in time.
(http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1973/1101730611_400.jpg) (http://www.coverart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/newsweek19730611-secretariat.jpg)
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I couldn't watch horse racing after what happened to Ruffian.
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I couldn't watch horse racing after what happened to Ruffian.
I had a steak last week that reminded me of that nag.
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I couldn't watch horse racing after what happened to Ruffian.
Ruffian, tragically, was a unique case:
* The actual injury to her happened when she was startled by a bird on the track infield and took a bad step, which would almost have to have been catastrophic
for a horse with a soft-boned lineage, even a horse as strong otherwise as Ruffian was.
* Ruffian was a granddaughter of Native Dancer---who was somewhat infamous for having a soft-boned skeletal structure and also sired a likewise soft-boned
son, Raise a Native. (One Raise a Native son who managed to avoid the line's soft bones was another racing legend: Alydar.)
* Her sire, Reviewer, suffered three breakdowns as a racer and the fourth, at stud, killed him.
* Her dam, Shenanigans, who never raced but was considered a top broodmare, was put down after eventually breaking two legs coming out of anesthetic following
intestinal surgery.
* Ruffian's jockey for the match race, Jacinto Velasquez, tried to pull her up to stop when he heard the crack that proved her injury but Ruffian wouldn't stop. Say
what you will otherwise, that horse had an overendowment of spirit.
* Ruffian actually underwent successful surgery for her leg injury . . . but she re-injured herself violently when she thrashed about coming out of anesthesia, both
undoing the surgical repair and concurrently shattering her own elbow with her own plaster cast.
* Veterinarians normally knew how to handle horses thrashing violently coming out of anesthesia until Ruffian's case, but Ruffian's reaction and death provoked
the creation of a recovery pool into which a horse is placed so they come out of the anesthesia in comfortable warm water.
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[! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCMtaNiMDM#)
To this day I've never seen a more staggering performance than Secretariat's Belmont to win the Crown.
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Nor have I. I still get the same thrill watching that video as I did watching the race on tv so long ago.
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Comedian and children's show host Chuck McCann dies at 83
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chuck-mccann-dead-comic-actor-kids-tv-host-was-83-1024097 (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chuck-mccann-dead-comic-actor-kids-tv-host-was-83-1024097)
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Comedian and children's show host Chuck McCann dies at 83
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chuck-mccann-dead-comic-actor-kids-tv-host-was-83-1024097 (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chuck-mccann-dead-comic-actor-kids-tv-host-was-83-1024097)
I liked his work. The guy in the medicine cabinet really cracked me up.
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I liked his work. The guy in the medicine cabinet really cracked me up.
Noooooo, not the "Hi Guy!" guy. RIP.
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I liked his work. The guy in the medicine cabinet really cracked me up.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byTJ9O70A-4#)
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@Quix put up a thread that radio host Art Bell has died.
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,312059.msg1658085.html#msg1658085 (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,312059.msg1658085.html#msg1658085)
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Milos Forman, Oscar-Winning Director of 'Cuckoo's Nest' and 'Amadeus,' Dies at 86
The Czech native also helmed 'The Firemen's Ball,' 'Hair,' 'The People vs. Larry Flynt' and 'Man on the Moon.'
Milos Forman, the anti-authoritarian director who left his native Czechoslovakia for creative freedom in the U.S. and captured Oscars for the masterpieces One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus, has died. He was 86.
Forman, also known for two biopics about controversial Americans — The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) and Man on the Moon (1999) — died Friday after a short illness, according to his wife, Martina, who broke the news to the Czech news agency CTK.
His manager, Dennis Aspland, confirmed Forman's death to The Hollywood Reporter. The filmmaker died in Danbury Hospital, near his home in Warren, Connecticut.
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Excerpt. Read more at:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/milos-forman-dead-cuckoos-nest-amadeus-director-was-86-861207 (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/milos-forman-dead-cuckoos-nest-amadeus-director-was-86-861207)
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@Quix put up a thread that radio host Art Bell has died.
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,312059.msg1658085.html#msg1658085 (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,312059.msg1658085.html#msg1658085)
Is he dead or did he just go home? (http://i44.tinypic.com/2bo292.jpg)
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R. Lee Ermey passed this morning.
https://twitter.com/search?f=news&q=r%20lee%20ermey
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8888crybaby
Bummer! I loved Ermey.
! No longer available (http://youtube.com/watch?v=XfmVBmDKLZI#)
Rest in peace, Sir.
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He scared the pants off me in "Full Metal Jacket".
RIP to a good Marine. :patriot:
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8888crybaby
Bummer! I loved Ermey.
Rest in peace, Sir.
His Full Metal Jacket (1/2) movie performance is legendary. Wish I had a $ every time I used this meme on forums.
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Is he dead or did he just go home? (http://i44.tinypic.com/2bo292.jpg)
I fully expect to hear an announcement in a few weeks telling us how death really wasn't to Mr. Bell's liking and that he's ending it and returning to private life.
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R. Lee Ermey passed this morning.
https://twitter.com/search?f=news&q=r%20lee%20ermey
Aw crap.
74 ain't that old.
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I also liked his show featuring and demonstrating historical guns and artillery. It was awesome.
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R. Lee Ermey passed this morning.
https://twitter.com/search?f=news&q=r%20lee%20ermey
Semper Fi, Marine! and God Bless. Thanks for the entertainment and, occasionally, inspiration. RIP.
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I also liked his show featuring and demonstrating historical guns and artillery. It was awesome.
He was hell on watermelons!
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRUtZI1O5X0#)
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8888crybaby
Bummer! I loved Ermey.
! No longer available (http://youtube.com/watch?v=XfmVBmDKLZI#)
Rest in peace, Sir.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E3TA7kvzQY#)
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William Nack, Author of Secretariat Book That Spawned the Movie, Dies at 77 (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/william-nack-dead-author-secretariat-book-spawned-movie-was-77-1102851)
William Nack, the esteemed thoroughbred-racing writer from Sports Illustrated whose book about Secretariat paved the way for the popular 2010 film about the legendary Triple Crown winner, has died. He was 77.
Nack died Friday at his Washington home from complications associated with cancer, his family announced.
Nack spent 23 years at SI through 2001, then penned freelance articles for ESPN, GQ and others. He received seven Eclipse Awards for excellence in writing about horse racing, the first in 1978, the last in 2003.
"He stands among the best sportswriters in the history of the genre, and in many ways, among the best writers of any kind," SI senior writer Tim Layden wrote in a tribute piece. "When he stopped typing, he was a giant personality, full of endless good charm, disarmingly well-read and all times, given to entertain."
In 1973, Secretariat was the first horse to break the two-minute mark in winning the Kentucky Derby, then became the first Triple Crown champion since Citation in 1948 when he captured the Belmont Stakes by a jaw-dropping 31 lengths.
Nack's 1975 book, Secretariat: The Making of a Champion, was adapted by screenwriter Mike Rich for the Randall Wallace film at Disney that starred Diane Lane and John Malkovich. The author appeared in the movie as a reporter and served as a consultant as well . . .
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I have and have read Mr. Nack's Secretariat: The Making of a Champion numerous times. It's the best book I have ever read
about horse racing. And I consider Mr. Nack one of the nation's greatest sportswriters ever---right there with Red Smith, Shirley
Povich, Thomas Boswell, Roger Angell (no, Angell isn't baseball's Homer; Homer was ancient Greece's Roger Angell), Jim Murray,
Barry Svrluga, and Jay Jaffe.
RIP, Mr. Nack. Mrs. Chenery has a hug and a kiss waiting for you through the gates.
One more time, for you, Mr. Nack . . .
Secretariat, 1973 Belmont Stakes
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCMtaNiMDM#)
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John Gavin Dead: 'Spartacus' Actor Was 86 – Variety
variety.com/2018/film/news/john-gavin-dead-dies-psycho-spartacus-1202694312/
John Gavin, who reached the pinnacle of his acting career with roles in Douglas Sirk's “Imitation of Life,†Alfred Hitchcock's “Psycho†and the epic “Spartacus,†later serving as president of the Screen Actors Guild in the early '70s and as U.S. ambassador to Mexico under Ronald Reagan, died Friday morning ...
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Harry Anderson, comic actor of Night Court and Dave's World fame, dies at 65
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Harry_Anderson.jpg/220px-Harry_Anderson.jpg)
Anderson first rose to fame in the early 1980s during the "dark era" of Saturday Night Live, as a recurring guest. Originally trained as a magician, Anderson's comic acting skills soon led to a recurring guest role on Cheers, then to his most famous role, that of Judge Harry Stone, the befuddled not-quite-straight man on the long-running sitcom Night Court. Unusually for a sitcom actor, he followed that role up with another successful one, playing real-life columnist Dave Barry for the sitcom Dave's World, which ran four seasons.
Anderson mostly withdrew from the public spotlight after the late 1990s, making occasional guest appearances and spending the last decade of his life in Asheville, North Carolina. He was found dead there April 16 of what his son described only as "natural causes."
Obituary from WLOS/Asheville (http://wlos.com/news/local/harry-anderson-night-court-star-and-asheville-resident-dies-at-age-65)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Anderson)
Death notice from TMZ (http://www.tmz.com/2018/04/16/harry-anderson-dead-night-court-star/)
IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0026789/)
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Loved the early days of Night Court. Funny show, Anderson was great.
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RIP Harry, you will be missed.
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NOTE: My previous report on Barbara Bush has been retracted. I cannot verify. Lone link I have found appears to be a fake news link (breaking-cnn.com, which is not the real CNN).
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Geez. You scooped Drudge with this Bush death @jmyrlefuller .
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@jmyrlefuller
Not finding Barbara Bush story on the "real" CNN site or any other site. So I think you may be right -- fake. Grrrrr !
(Not mad at you -- mad at phony sites)
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@Quix put up a thread that radio host Art Bell has died.
Thanks.
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,312059.msg1658085.html#msg1658085 (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,312059.msg1658085.html#msg1658085)
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What a bummer about Harry Anderson. I liked him on Night Court and Cheers
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What a bummer about Harry Anderson. I liked him on Night Court and Cheers
And, he wasn't that old.
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And, he wasn't that old.
Yes. To old timers like me, 65 is a spring chicken. I'm 65. Kids think I'm ancient. LOL
Rest in peace, Mr. Anderson and thanks for the laughs.
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At one point or another in my life I have drank with, or stood in front of more Judges than I care to remember. But when they spoke of their courtroom experiences they all said they dealt with the same type of characters Judge Stone worked with- a womanizing prosecutor, a cynical chain-smoking bailiff, a couple of idealistic public defenders and a steady stream of bizarre and/or hilarious defendants, plaintiffs, and prosecuting witnesses.
RIP Harry.
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News outlets reporting Barbara Bush has passed.
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News outlets reporting Barbara Bush has passed.
Just heard too. RIP Mrs Bush. :patriot:
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News outlets reporting Barbara Bush has passed.
Yes..sad news
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Glad she went quickly and on her own terms. RIP Mrs Bush.
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Glad she went quickly and on her own terms. RIP Mrs Bush.
Yes, she had a wonderful life!
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I think she deserves her own thread..
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Rest in peace, Gracious Lady. And may God give comfort to your loved ones.
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I think she deserves her own thread..
Break this one off. You have the power. :cool:
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I think she deserves her own thread..
I'm not going to object to that.
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She served this country well as our FLOTUS. She lived a very long and seemingly wonderful life and died with grace and dignity, surrounded by loved ones. Can't really ask for more than that. Prayers for the Bush family as they deal with her passing.
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Rest in peace, Gracious Lady. And may God give comfort to your loved ones.
Amen!
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I'm not going to object to that.
Kudos for beating Drudge with the story.
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The lady had heart, soul, and courage. You could ask her for no more.
RIP Mrs. Bush.
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Bruno Sammartino, professional wrestler, dies at 82
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/BrunoSeasonParade.jpg/239px-BrunoSeasonParade.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Bruno_WWWF_Champion.jpg/220px-Bruno_WWWF_Champion.jpg)
In a profession where many of the greats didn't live to reach 70 years old, Sammartino was an aberration in many ways. One of the greatest professional wrestlers in history, Sammartino, whose acrobatics revolutionized the sport and moved it away from its mat-based origins, held the heavyweight title in what eventually became WWE continuously for an unprecedented (and unreplicated) eight years between 1963 and 1971, then won it back for another four years from 1973 to 1977.
He returned to professional wrestling in the mid-1980s as part of a contract settlement with Vince McMahon when Sammartino learned McMahon's father had cheated him out of a large sum of money during his wrestling days. Dismayed with the direction professional wrestling was going with the increased use of steroids, Sammartino left the sport in 1988, not returning until 2013.
Sammartino was born in Italy and fled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during World War II, calling that city home for the rest of his life.
Obituary from KDKA in Pittsburgh (http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/04/18/wwe-bruno-sammartino-dies-82/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Sammartino)
Career record (http://www.profightdb.com/wrestlers/bruno-sammartino-55.html)
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R. Lee Ermey passed this morning.
https://twitter.com/search?f=news&q=r%20lee%20ermey
Back to Gunny for a second. Read this online and LOL'd
Can't you see Gunny walking up to the pearly gate, and meeting St. Peter for the first time:
"Get a haircut. And loose the sandals."
Or Show me your War Face!
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Back to Gunny for a second. Read this online and LOL'd
Can't you see Gunny walking up to the pearly gate, and meeting St. Peter for the first time:
"Get a haircut. And loose the sandals."
Or Show me your War Face!
Thanks to modern technology and my security clearance...I was able to obtain a picture taken from inside the military barracks in Heaven just this morning.
(http://i.imgur.com/A7n35TX.jpg)
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Bruno Sammartino was a Pittsburgh icon.
... Professional wrestling legend Bruno Sammartino has died at 82, WWE announced Wednesday.
A sickly, malnourished immigrant boy when he first came to America, Sammartino transformed himself into one of the strongest men in the world, winning the respect and love of legions of immigrants who found hope in his message that hard work brings reward. ...
Fans adored him, during and after his reign.
They revered Sammartino as a fierce but honest fighter. They delighted in his astonishing feats of strength, including the time he lifted 640-pound Haystacks Calhoun over his head during an early match. They admired his principled resolve during a 25-year feud with professional wrestling owner Vince McMahon over what Sammartino called rampant drug use and sexual exploitation. And they sold out Madison Square Garden in 2013 when he finally agreed to be inducted into the sport's Hall of Fame.
“Everything I did was made possible by my fans,†Sammartino said moments before his induction ceremony. “I've never kidded myself to think I was a big deal. If I was, it was because of the fans. Any successes I've had, I owe it all to the fans.†...
More at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (http://triblive.com/sports/nationworldsports/4691697-74/wrestling-legend-bruno-sammartino-dies-at-82).
We Pixburgh kids grew up watching Bruno on WIIC's "Studio Wrestling" show. He was one of the good guys.
(http://triblive.com/csp/mediapool/sites/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls?STREAMOID=GDu1lmUa5akqdvWCih60r8$daE2N3K4ZzOUsqbU5sYu9ohoAdpzOUef9Uz9BbzxPWCsjLu883Ygn4B49Lvm9bPe2QeMKQdVeZmXF$9l$4uCZ8QDXhaHEp3rvzXRJFdy0KqPHLoMevcTLo3h8xh70Y6N_U_CryOsw6FTOdKL_jpQ-&CONTENTTYPE=image/jpeg)
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Back to Gunny for a second. Read this online and LOL'd
Can't you see Gunny walking up to the pearly gate, and meeting St. Peter for the first time:
"Get a haircut. And loose the sandals."
Or Show me your War Face!
No, I see him asking him "what do you call your gun? "
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Randy Scruggs, a Grammy-winning musician, songwriter and producer, and the son of banjo innovator Earl Scruggs, died Tuesday night after a short illness. He was 64.
He began making music professionally when he was just 13, and worked with everyone from Waylon Jennings to Lisa Loeb. Over the course of his career, he played on two of country music's landmark albums, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's Will the Circle Be Unbroken and John Hartford's Aereo-
Plain, produced the Dirt Band's subsequent two Circle volumes and co-wrote hits like We Danced Anyway and Angel in Disguise.
Randy Lynn Scruggs was the second of three sons born in Nashville to Earl and Louise Scruggs on Aug. 4, 1953. He grew up surrounded by music; greats like Maybelle Carter and Johnny Cash would stop by the house. Carter's autoharp fascinated six-year-old Randy.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2018/04/18/randy-scruggs-grammy-winning-guitarist-and-producer-dead-64/529111002/ (https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2018/04/18/randy-scruggs-grammy-winning-guitarist-and-producer-dead-64/529111002/)
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:silly:
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TV presenter Dale Winton dies aged 62
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43818226 (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43818226)
TV presenter Dale Winton, who hosted Supermarket Sweep, has died at the age of 62, his agent says
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Have no idea who that is but it came up on my Twitter feed.
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TV presenter Dale Winton dies aged 62
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43818226 (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43818226)
TV presenter Dale Winton, who hosted Supermarket Sweep, has died at the age of 62, his agent says
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Have no idea who that is but it came up on my Twitter feed.
I don't think Winton ever did anything in the U.S. (David Ruprecht was the host of Supermarket Sweep, a quite underrated game show if you ask me, over here in America.) I think the only thing he's known for here is his bit part in the cult British film Trainspotting.
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88devil
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Verne Troyer has died at the age of 49
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/21/entertainment/verne-troyer-obit/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/21/entertainment/verne-troyer-obit/index.html)
His instagram looks like he might have suicided. 888cryingkitty
RIP Mini Me
Ping @Suppressed
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Verne Troyer, dwarf character actor best known as Mini-Me, dies at 49
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Verne_Troyer_2012.jpg/250px-Verne_Troyer_2012.jpg)
Troyer, who was born with achondroplasia (a form of dwarfism), was born to a family with close ties to the Amish; perhaps somewhat ironically, he soon developed dreams of film stardom and, in his late 20s, achieved it as a character actor. His best-known role was as Mini-Me, the miniature clone of Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers film series. He milked his C-list celebrity through frequent appearances on reality TV in the years that followed.
Troyer suffered from alcoholism and depression in his last days and was hospitalized a few weeks before his death after a suicide attempt.
Obituary from the Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5642499/Vern-Troyer-actor-played-Mini-Austin-Powers-films-dies-aged-49.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verne_Troyer)
IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0873942/)
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Verne Troyer has died at the age of 49
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/21/entertainment/verne-troyer-obit/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/21/entertainment/verne-troyer-obit/index.html)
His instagram looks like he might have suicided. 888cryingkitty
RIP Mini Me
Bah. Beat me by a second.
Yeah, it seems like quite a sad case. You have to give the guy credit, though: for all his, er, shortcomings, he was able to live quite a life for himself. He parlayed his quirks into a way to fulfill his dreams and lived to the fullest. He seemed to enjoy it for the most part, at least he did. Who knows what was going through his head at the time?
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Verne Troyer has died at the age of 49
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/21/entertainment/verne-troyer-obit/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/21/entertainment/verne-troyer-obit/index.html)
His instagram looks like he might have suicided. 888cryingkitty
RIP Mini Me
Ping @Suppressed
Some of these Obits really make me sad...like the young ones. 8888crybaby
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Tattoo from Fantasy Island also suicided. I wonder if there is something with their health and depression
Depression isn't a joke. Prayers for his family and all who deal with it.
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I cannot believe it! I followed him on Youtube. Hopefully his pain is now over.
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Tattoo from Fantasy Island also suicided. I wonder if there is something with their health and depression
There is definitely. Most of the ones who have that kind of dwarfism have serious pain issues, because their organs continue to grow and try to fit into a body that's too small, causing constant pain. That was part of the reason Herve Villechaize (Tattoo) killed himself. A lot of them die in their 20s and 30s.
The other kind of dwarfism (where everything grows in proportion, just not as much) doesn't cause those kinds of problems. That's why Jerry Maren, who's somewhere around 98 now, is still alive. (Sometimes I think he has to say to himself, "how the heck am I still here?")
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Nabi Tajima, last known living person born in 1900 or earlier, dies at 117
Tajima, a native of Japan, was born in 1900. Unlike others of her era who claimed that being single from middle age onward was the secret to their longevity, she was married to her husband Tominishi, who likewise lived to see his 90s, until his death in the early 1990s, and bore nine of his children. At the time of her death, 160 descendants spanning five generations had been born from her lineage.
When Jamaican Victoria Brown, the last known subject of Queen Victoria, died in September 2017, Tajima earned the title of World's Oldest Person. She attributed her longevity to getting enough sleep and eating food that tasted good. With her death on April 21, another Japanese woman, Chiyo Miyako, now holds the title.
Obituary from the Associated Press (http://www.bradfordera.com/news/world/world-s-oldest-person-dies-in-japan-at-age-of/article_c72aee13-3961-5f77-abde-808efa519344.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabi_Tajima)
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Former Steelers tight end Bennie Cunningham dies at 63
CLEVELAND -- Bennie Cunningham, a versatile tight end who starred at Clemson and won two Super Bowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers, has died. He was 63.
The university says he died of cancer Monday at the Cleveland Clinic.
Cunningham played 10 seasons and caught more than 200 passes with the Steelers. He was named to their all-time team in 2007 in conjunction with the franchise's 75th anniversary.
...
He retired after the 1985 season and returned to Clemson, where he earned a master's degree in secondary education and served as a guidance counselor in Westminster, South Carolina.
More at:
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/23296282/former-steelers-tight-end-bennie-cunningham-dies-63 (http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/23296282/former-steelers-tight-end-bennie-cunningham-dies-63)
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Bob Dorough, creator of Schoolhouse Rock!, dies at 94
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Bob_Dorough_BDDS.jpg/220px-Bob_Dorough_BDDS.jpg)
Dorough began his career as a jazz musician, having modest success in that field in the 1950s. In 1972, an advertising executive commissioned Dorough to prouce a series of educational songs. Set to animation, Dorough produced "Multiplication Rock," which set the multiplication tables to a series of widely different songs. Dorough sang on many of the tracks, joined by a number of other accomplished names from the field of jazz, including Blossom Dearie, George Newall, Grady Tate and eventually Jack Sheldon and musical newcomer Lynn Ahrens.
"Multiplication Rock" was such a rousing success that it would be followed a year later with "Grammar Rock," which in turn was followed by "America Rock," "Science Rock" and the now-mostly forgotten "Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips." The program became a fixture of Saturday morning television for the rest of the 20th century.
Obituary from the Arkansas Times (https://www.arktimes.com/RockCandy/archives/2018/04/23/bob-dorough-dies-at-94)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dorough)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU4pyiB-kq0#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4dzuuPlHJg#)
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I really liked "Schoolhouse Rock." Bless you Bob Dorough, and Godspeed.
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I really liked "Schoolhouse Rock." Bless you Bob Dorough, and Godspeed.
I have to say, it has stuck in my brain all these years.
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I have to say, it has stuck in my brain all these years.
My fav.
Should be required viewing at new Congress orientaions. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyeJ55o3El0#)
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I really liked "Schoolhouse Rock." Bless you Bob Dorough, and Godspeed.
And then there was the Simpsons parody
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSANTRnEBgg#)
"And I'll make Ted Kennedy pay/If he fights back, I'll say that he's gay"
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My fav.
Should be required viewing at new Congress orientaions.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyeJ55o3El0#)
Great minds...
That is the exact one that popped into my head.
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Interjections!
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIJbkyXlzS0#)
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"Conjunction Junction...What's Your Function?"
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... Night Court star Harry Anderson‘s cause of death has been revealed.
Anderson, who died on April 16 at the age of 65, suffered a cardioembolic cerebrovascular accident — a type of stroke — according to his death certificateobtained by TMZ.
The certificate also mentions influenza and a heart disease as contributing causes that led to his death. ...
MSN (http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/harry-andersons-cause-of-death-revealed-night-court-star-died-of-a-stroke/ar-AAwiCul?li=BBnb2gh)
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Don Bustany, radio producer who created the American Top 40 countdown, dies at 89
"And now, on with the countdown..."
Bustany had been a friend of disc jockey Casey Kasem since childhood, with both growing up in a Lebanese neighborhood in Detroit. In 1970, the two teamed up to create a syndicated radio show that would take Billboard magazine's list of the most popular songs of the week, order them from 40 to 1, and assemble them into a three-hour program with a few insightful or humorous stories along the way. The end result was American Top 40, with Kasem as host and Bustany as head writer. The format would go on to be widely adapted (official versions for other formats included American Country Countdown and Dick Bartley's American Gold for oldies) and ripped off over the next decades; AT40 remains on air, with Ryan Seacrest as host.
In addition to his radio work, Bustany also did camera work for MTM Productions. (Particularly in his later years, he did take to activism and hosted a show on the far-left Pacifica network and was a longtime member of the "American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee," a group long suspected of having Islamic terrorist sympathies.)
Obituary by Lee Chambers (http://www.voy.com/221392/230318.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Bustany)
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New Orleans legend Charles Neville, saxophonist for the Neville Brothers, dies at 79
http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/entertainment_life/keith_spera/article_e00ad582-4984-11e8-9151-e3720b985ad7.html (http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/entertainment_life/keith_spera/article_e00ad582-4984-11e8-9151-e3720b985ad7.html)
Neville Brothers saxophonist Charles Neville died Thursday of pancreatic cancer in Massachusetts, where he had lived for many years. He was 79.
His brother Aaron Neville confirmed his death to WWL-TV.
Charles Neville was the second oldest of the four brothers who, for three decades, formed the core of the Neville Brothers, one of the most important and influential bands to emerge from New Orleans.
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888cryingkitty I couldn't find the thread on this when it was an earlier topic.
Little baby Alfie Evans has finally lost his legal battle and passed away last night.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43933056 (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43933056)
May his family find peace.prayers.
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888cryingkitty I couldn't find the thread on this when it was an earlier topic.
Little baby Alfie Evans has finally lost his legal battle and passed away last night.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43933056 (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43933056)
May his family find peace.prayers.
:amen: Prayers for him and his family. I will reserve my comments on the "Doctors" for a more appropriate forum.
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I will reserve my comments on the "Doctors" for a more appropriate forum.
The phrase "special place in hell" does come to mind, though. **nononono*
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The phrase "special place in hell" does come to mind, though. **nononono*
Word for word.......
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Word for word.......
I second that.
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Poor Alfie and his parents were failed all up and down that line. Doctors, Hospital Administrators, the government bureaucracy and, finally, the Judge that would not let anybody else treat the boy (at no cost to them) all deserve a trip to Rochester. Then there's the picture I saw of the wall of cops who were stationed to block anybody from sneaking the baby to safety.
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Poor Alfie and his parents were failed all up and down that line. Doctors, Hospital Administrators, the government bureaucracy and, finally, the Judge that would not let anybody else treat the boy (at no cost to them) all deserve a trip to Rochester. Then there's the picture I saw of the wall of cops who were stationed to block anybody from sneaking the baby to safety.
There's a case like that happening here a mother from NJ is fighting a Philadelphia hospital about her son and life support. It's in NJ section and heartbreaking
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Poor Alfie and his parents were failed all up and down that line. Doctors, Hospital Administrators, the government bureaucracy and, finally, the Judge that would not let anybody else treat the boy (at no cost to them) all deserve a trip to Rochester. Then there's the picture I saw of the wall of cops who were stationed to block anybody from sneaking the baby to safety.
The way I understand it, they never did diagnose him. For all we know, their tender ministrations may have been what killed him.
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There's a case like that happening here a mother from NJ is fighting a Philadelphia hospital about her son and life support. It's in NJ section and heartbreaking
I saw it. 8888crybaby
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The way I understand it, they never did diagnose him. For all we know, their tender ministrations may have been what killed him.
Running tests would have cost a buck. 9999hair out0000
The NHC system is financially bankrupt, in addition to being morally so.
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These people were so cruel, they wouldn't even let his parents see him. Unless they were let in as he breathed his last, that little boy died virtually alone without his parents to hold him. What the hell?
I just don't understand why it was so important for the powers that be to hold on to Alfie till the very end.
Be vigilant people. There are plenty in this country who would think state ownership of our kids is ok. As it is, we have parents who have already abdicated parental responsibility for their kids to the state. They don't even feed their own children. They want the schools to do it for them. Full state ownership is next. And before ling, all of us will be at the mercy of some bureaucrat.
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Burning man co-founder Larry Harvey dies at. 70.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/28/606801096/burning-man-co-founder-larry-harvey-dies-at-70 (https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/28/606801096/burning-man-co-founder-larry-harvey-dies-at-70)
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Too young. Wonder if he had Hypertension issues?
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Too young. Wonder if he had Hypertension issues?
Is it in bad taste to wonder if he's buried or creamated?
@Cyber Liberty
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Is it in bad taste to wonder if he's buried or creamated?
@Cyber Liberty
Now that is damn funny I don't care who you are!
888high58888
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Now that is damn funny I don't care who you are!
888high58888
Wow. I made @Wingnut smile. Life is good.
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Wow. I made @Wingnut smile. Life is good.
You surprised the Rochester out of me. 888high58888 And If I might add..If @Frank Cannon wasn't out on a bender tonight...he would agree!
Props to you!
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Is it in bad taste to wonder if he's buried or creamated?
@Cyber Liberty
@Freya Top Notch!!!!
Keep up the good work.
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The way I understand it, they never did diagnose him. For all we know, their tender ministrations may have been what killed him.
Imagine if it was a Royal Kid that was sick.
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@Freya Top Notch!!!!
Keep up the good work.
@Freya Frank is going to fill in for me next week while I am "out of Pocket" so to speak. You keep pitching em! 888high58888
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@Freya Frank is going to fill in for me next week while I am "out of Pocket" so to speak. You keep pitching em! 888high58888
Too busy to post?
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Too busy to post?
Kinda. :cool:
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Kinda. :cool:
Doing community service? Or, you've found another site, and you want to let us down easy?
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From being crowned 'The Most Beautiful Girl in the World' to turning her back on Hollywood to care for her sick brother: The tragic story of Twin Peaks star Pamela Gidley who has died aged 52
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5673137/Pamela-Gidley-Twin-Peaks-fame-dies-peacefully-home-age-52.html#ixzz5EBsRsYPD (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5673137/Pamela-Gidley-Twin-Peaks-fame-dies-peacefully-home-age-52.html#ixzz5EBsRsYPD)
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I watched the TV show "Twin Peaks" but never saw the prequel in which she appeared. The article says she also appeared in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, MacGyver, The Pretender, Tour of Duty and Angel Street.
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Populist talk radio host Chuck Harder dies at 74
The talk show host, whose poulist-nationalist approach favored third parties and protectionism, was briefly a national radio star in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He continued broadcasting for another decade after that, with less popularity in an era of network consolidation. Health problems ended his career in the mid-2000s and ultimately caused his death on April 10.
http://www.wnd.com/2018/04/talk-radio-pioneer-chuck-harder-dies/ (http://www.wnd.com/2018/04/talk-radio-pioneer-chuck-harder-dies/)
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Filmmaker Carlos Carvalho Dies In Accident While Shooting ‘Wild At Heart’
Dino-Ray Ramos
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Award-winning filmmaker Carlos Carvalho died after an accident while shooting the ITV series Wild at Heart. He was tragically killed when a giraffe attacked him while he was getting a shot of the animal.
Carvalho had been working on the majority of the series about a British family who have set up a game lodge in South Africa. While shooting a closeup of Gerald the giraffe’s body and feet at the Glen Afric Country Lodge, the animal became “inquisitive†and headbutted him sending him 16 feet in the air and causing massive head injuries.
After the attack, he was airlifted to Johannesburg’s Milpark Hospital. He died on Wednesday night from his injuries. The announcement of his death was made via a statement on the film crew agency CallaCrew’s Facebook page: “It is with a very sad heart that we have to announce the passing of Carlos Carvalho‚ one of our favourite DOP’s. Carlos was filming a feature at Glen Afric and had a fatal run in with a giraffe on set. He was flown to Milpark Hospital but succumbed to his injuries 20:50 last night. Our thoughts and condolences go out to Carlo’s family and friends during this very sad time. He will be sorely missed.â€
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/filmmaker-carlos-carvalho-dies-in-accident-while-shooting-e2-80-98wild-at-heart-e2-80-99/ar-AAwNere?OCID=ansmsnnews11 (https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/filmmaker-carlos-carvalho-dies-in-accident-while-shooting-e2-80-98wild-at-heart-e2-80-99/ar-AAwNere?OCID=ansmsnnews11)
I'm sure he had a good heart, ITV is over in Europe I believe. Unsure.
The giraffe headbutted him. Wild animals are wild animals, love them but one has to be careful.
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Populist talk radio host Chuck Harder dies at 74
The talk show host, whose poulist-nationalist approach favored third parties and protectionism, was briefly a national radio star in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He continued broadcasting for another decade after that, with less popularity in an era of network consolidation. Health problems ended his career in the mid-2000s and ultimately caused his death on April 10.
http://www.wnd.com/2018/04/talk-radio-pioneer-chuck-harder-dies/ (http://www.wnd.com/2018/04/talk-radio-pioneer-chuck-harder-dies/)
I listened to him back in the day. As talk show hosts go, he was pretty good.
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Chuck Harder, that name is certainly familiar.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhobvyIwDLk#)
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Too busy to post?
This week I was @Sanguine
I’ll post an update in members lounge.
I’m still trying to wrap my brain around the guy who got kicked by a giraffe. Strange way to die.
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This week I was @Sanguine
I’ll post an update in members lounge.
I’m still trying to wrap my brain around the guy who got kicked by a giraffe. Strange way to die.
Isn't it though? It can happen when we pass the natural boundary between us and wild things.
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Isn't it though? It can happen when we pass the natural boundary between us and wild things.
@Freya @Sanguine The article said the giraffe headbutted him, throwing him 16 feet in the air. When giraffes fight for dominance, they use their heads literally, and their odd horns to thrash each other. It is likely the hit was worse than getting kicked by a thoroughbred. He may have suffered the head injury from the hit, or from impacting another object. Either way, it pays to remember that such critters are incredibly powerful and basically unpredictable. If the giraffe saw anything it perceived as a threat, he became the target.
On a softer, gentler note, I saw the bunny who lives in my lilac thicket this morning, sitting upright and alert when I came up on him/her. I just stopped and it stretched out on the ground, on its belly, obviously not threatened at all. You never know how wild animals will react, and sometimes, not even the domesticated ones.
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The Cardinals had the class and grace to trade Stephen Piscotty to the Athletics last December so he could play close to his mother, who was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) last May. Sunday night, the lady lost her battle . . .
Gretchen Piscotty, mother of Athletics' Stephen Piscotty, dies at 55 (http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/23433258/gretchen-piscotty-mother-oakland-athletics-stephen-piscotty-dies)
. . . and, no matter his struggles on the mound, Yu Darvish of the Cubs opened his heart and his checkbook to Piscotty and his mother . . .
Yu Darvish donates $10,000 to ALS research in memory of Stephen Piscotty's mom (https://sports.yahoo.com/yu-darvish-donates-10000-als-research-memory-stephen-piscottys-mom-221353656.html)
RIP Mrs. Piscotty . . . and Mr. Darvish, you, sir, have class.
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I love bunnies
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I love bunnies
888high58888
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I love bunnies
@Freya me too, and I can eat a whole one by myself. (running for cover)
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@Freya me too, and I can eat a whole one by myself. (running for cover)
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Oh Really?
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! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvQal0YmszY#)
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Sky news is reporting that serial killer Dennis Nilsen has died.
https://news.sky.com/story/serial-killer-dennis-nilsen-dies-in-prison-11369937
He was the UK's version of Jeffrey Dahmer
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Nilsen
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Chuck Knox, Seahawks Ring of Honor coach, dies at 86
Chuck Knox, the first coach who took the Seattle Seahawks to the playoffs has died at 86. Though the cause of death has not been identified, he had been living with dementia for years.
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Known as "Ground Chuck" for his emphasis on running the football, Knox was the ninth man inducted into the Seahawks Ring of Honor in 2005.
He won three Coach of the Year Awards (1973, 1980, and 1984), also serving as a coach for the Los Angeles Rams (1973-77, and 1992-94) and Buffalo Bills (1978-82).
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https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/seahawks/article/Chuck-Knox-Seahawks-Ring-of-Honor-coach-dies-at-12910910.php (https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/seahawks/article/Chuck-Knox-Seahawks-Ring-of-Honor-coach-dies-at-12910910.php)
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Sky news and Fox News is reporting that actress Margot Kidder has died at 69.
Breaking no story to link to
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MARGOT KIDDER 'SUPERMAN' STAR DEAD AT 69 (http://www.tmz.com/2018/05/14/margot-kidder-dead-dies-bipolar-superman-lois-lane/)
RIP Ms. Kidder.
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Sky news and Fox News is reporting that actress Margot Kidder has died at 69.
Breaking no story to link to
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/superman-actress-margot-kidder-dead-age-69-montana-170231225.html (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/superman-actress-margot-kidder-dead-age-69-montana-170231225.html)
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MARGOT KIDDER 'SUPERMAN' STAR DEAD AT 69 (http://www.tmz.com/2018/05/14/margot-kidder-dead-dies-bipolar-superman-lois-lane/)
RIP Ms. Kidder.
She's had some rough times.....
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She's had some rough times.....
She and Christopher Reeve -- both gone way too soon.
I understand Ms. Kidder was manic-depressive. I worked for an attorney who, after years of misdiagnosis and resulting poor, ineffective treatment, was finally correctly diagnosed Last I heard he was part of an ongoing university study into manic-depression in an effort to develop better treatment. He was doing much better last time I saw him.
Too bad Ms. Kidder was in such bad straits for all those years. I hope she has peace now.
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She and Christopher Reeve -- both gone way too soon.
I understand Ms. Kidder was manic-depressive. I worked for an attorney who, after years of misdiagnosis and resulting poor, ineffective treatment, was finally correctly diagnosed Last I heard he was part of an ongoing university study into manic-depression in an effort to develop better treatment. He was doing much better last time I saw him.
Too bad Ms. Kidder was in such bad straits for all those years. I hope she has peace now.
Me too.....
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She's had some rough times.....
Manic depression, or bipolar is a miserable disease
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Manic depression, or bipolar is a miserable disease
It sure is. Especially if people don't take their meds.
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It sure is. Especially if people don't take their meds.
But... isn't it kind of like a Catch-22? Like a diabetic needing a shot of insulin, they get in a state where they don't or won't take their meds.... cause it's already too late and they're having a reaction. I know.... I used to give a gf her insulin shot at work. Had to try to force her a couple of times because she argued that she didn't need it. She did.
My guy friend in Houston was involved with a woman for several years that was bi-polar and her eventual issue was she wouldn't take her meds. It was up to him to force her and that led to chaos. It didn't last, needless to say. She finally moved back to Louisiana and became her family's problem again.
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But... isn't it kind of like a Catch-22? Like a diabetic needing a shot of insulin, they get in a state where they don't or won't take their meds.... cause it's already too late and they're having a reaction. I know.... I used to give a gf her insulin shot at work. Had to try to force her a couple of times because she argued that she didn't need it. She did.
My guy friend in Houston was involved with a woman for several years that was bi-polar and her eventual issue was she wouldn't take her meds. It was up to him to force her and that led to chaos. It didn't last, needless to say. She finally moved back to Louisiana and became her family's problem again.
Yes. This often occurs with people with schizophrenia, too. Often, the meds are effective...so the person then thinks he doesn't need them.
But even with medication, this condition can be a hell. I feel for her, despite how flaming liberal she was, and concur with others that I hope she's found peace.
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But... isn't it kind of like a Catch-22? Like a diabetic needing a shot of insulin, they get in a state where they don't or won't take their meds.... cause it's already too late and they're having a reaction. I know.... I used to give a gf her insulin shot at work. Had to try to force her a couple of times because she argued that she didn't need it. She did.
My guy friend in Houston was involved with a woman for several years that was bi-polar and her eventual issue was she wouldn't take her meds. It was up to him to force her and that led to chaos. It didn't last, needless to say. She finally moved back to Louisiana and became her family's problem again.
A former pastor of ours had a bipolar daughter who had that issue with her meds. She took them and felt fine and then didn't take them and totally lost it, and ended up in the psych ward at the hospital repeatedly.
Tough disease.....
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But... isn't it kind of like a Catch-22? Like a diabetic needing a shot of insulin, they get in a state where they don't or won't take their meds.... cause it's already too late and they're having a reaction. I know.... I used to give a gf her insulin shot at work. Had to try to force her a couple of times because she argued that she didn't need it. She did.
My guy friend in Houston was involved with a woman for several years that was bi-polar and her eventual issue was she wouldn't take her meds. It was up to him to force her and that led to chaos. It didn't last, needless to say. She finally moved back to Louisiana and became her family's problem again.
It depends on so many factors. Are they more Manic or more depressed. Are they fast or slow cycling, how severe are they. And a lot of it depends on the quality of your doctor and your relationship with them. My wife is Bi-polar Manic. She went undiagnosed for about 5 years. They thought it was Central Nervous system Lyme's disease. When she finally was diagnosed they had her a dosage that was way to strong. She was like a Zombie. She would sleep 12 hours a day, could not initiate a conversation, or do anything beyond the most rudimentary of tasks. Finally I stepped in and met with her Doctor. I wrote a letter to him explaining the problems so he would have a copy in writing. I told my wife that there would be one of three results. 1) a reduction / change in her meds. 2) a second opinion 3) a different doctor. He decreased her dosage and left the practice shortly after that. She went through 2-3 temporary doctors until they found a permanent one for her. There have been some rough patches, but she does have a handle on it. I should add that she works at a Psychiatric hospital and sees what happens when they don't take their meds. She is bound to control this and not let it control her.
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A former pastor of ours had a bipolar daughter who had that issue with her meds. She took them and felt fine and then didn't take them and totally lost it, and ended up in the psych ward at the hospital repeatedly.
Tough disease.....
The problem is that the meds themselves are terrible. The side effects can be as bad as the disease you are trying to cure. They rob you of youur personality. , your soul. They can cause ur liver and/or kidney to. Fail. Tardive dyskinesia is fun too,
Catatonic brings ECT.. it might take years to find the right med cocktail
Like I said I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.
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Bonfire of the Vanities author Tom Wolfe dies at age 87
Breaking.
https://www.thewrap.com/tom-wolfe-bonfire-of-the-vanities-author-dies-at-87/ (https://www.thewrap.com/tom-wolfe-bonfire-of-the-vanities-author-dies-at-87/)
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Bonfire of the Vanities author Tom Wolfe dies at age 87
Breaking.
https://www.thewrap.com/tom-wolfe-bonfire-of-the-vanities-author-dies-at-87/ (https://www.thewrap.com/tom-wolfe-bonfire-of-the-vanities-author-dies-at-87/)
I read "the Electric Kool-aid Acid Test" in my younger days (daze)
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I read "the Electric Kool-aid Acid Test" in my younger days (daze)
Me too. And "The Right Stuff", along with Bonfire
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He had me from boyhood, his years with New York when it was the Sunday magazine offering of the dying New York Herald-Tribune and from his first anthology, The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby. (The original headline on the title article, first published in Esquire: "There Goes (Varoom! Varoom!) That Kandy-Kolored (Thphhhhhh!) Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (Rahghhh!) Around the Bend (Brummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm) . . . . . ."; the article was about George Barris and the 1960s car customisers.) Few were so deft at harpooning the pretenses creeping into culture the way he did in such work as The Pump House Gang, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, The Painted Word, and From Bauhaus to Our House.
RIP Mr. Wolfe. Your books still occupy some of the most reachable space on my shelves.
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He had me from boyhood, his years with New York when it was the Sunday magazine offering of the dying New York Herald-Tribune and from his first anthology, The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby. Few were so deft at harpooning the pretenses creeping into culture the way he did in such work as Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, The Painted Word, and From Bauhaus to Our House.
RIP Mr. Wolfe. Your books still occupy some of the most reachable space on my shelves.
High praise indeed.
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There's something ironic about mourning Tom Wolfe's death, considering his deep-seeded hatred of blogs and social media, on the very Internet he despised.
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There's something ironic about mourning Tom Wolfe's death, considering his deep-seeded hatred of blogs and social media, on the very Internet he despised.
No, he was old school. I know a lot of writers like that. I even know a few who only write on typewriters. I know one writer who I'm related to who doesn't even have a cell phone or a TV, much less a computer
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RIP, Tom Wolfe. Your work lives on.
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No, he was old school. I know a lot of writers like that. I even know a few who only write on typewriters. I know one writer who I'm related to who doesn't even have a cell phone or a TV, much less a computer
I'm worse. Often as not when I sit down to write, I write in longhand with a fountain pen. A lifelong habit even my accommodations to the computer age hasn't broken yet.
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Joseph Campanella dies at 93 after six-decade Hollywood career as prolific character actor
By Dailymail.com Reporter
Published: 00:17 EDT, 17 May 2018 | Updated: 00:17 EDT, 17 May 2018
He had more than 200 titles to his name after an acting career in Hollywood spanning six decades.
Joseph Campanella, 93, passed away on Wednesday at his home in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of LA on Wednesday, Variety reported.
His most famous roles included long-running stints on crime drama Mannix, primetime soaps The Colbys and Dallas and daytime soap The Bold And The Beautiful.
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/05/17/04/4C58066600000578-0-image-a-54_1526527898150.jpg)
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5738921/Joseph-Campanella-dies-93-six-decade-Hollywood-career-prolific-character-actor.html#ixzz5Flu6q3tr (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5738921/Joseph-Campanella-dies-93-six-decade-Hollywood-career-prolific-character-actor.html#ixzz5Flu6q3tr)
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I saw him on a lot of tv shows, I accidentally opened up the 2017 obits thread the other day, the mod was saying, stay on topic. A good idea.
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Campanella was a good actor as was his brother, Frank. Rest in peace.
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Richard Pipes, 94.
RIP
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/05/richard-pipes-rip.php (http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/05/richard-pipes-rip.php)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pipes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pipes)
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Richard Pipes, 94.
RIP
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/05/richard-pipes-rip.php (http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/05/richard-pipes-rip.php)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pipes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pipes)
Richard Pipes was a Reagan aide as well, it appears he is the father of Daniel Pipes who writes on Islam and terrorism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pipes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pipes)
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Richard Pipes, 94.
RIP
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/05/richard-pipes-rip.php (http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/05/richard-pipes-rip.php)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pipes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pipes)
One of the truly great ones is gone. He made his mark for sure.
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Professional football player Billy Cannon dies at 80
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Billy_Cannon_at_LSU.jpg/220px-Billy_Cannon_at_LSU.jpg)
Cannon was a major star at Louisiana State University in the late 1950s, where he was a unanimous All-American and won the Heisman Trophy. He would be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame for his play at that level.
In 1960, the Los Angeles Rams, in violation of league policy prohibiting players from joining teams until after the end of the semester, coerced Cannon into signing a contract after they drafted him first overall in that year's college draft. A court later declared that contract invalid, and the American Football League, which had yet to even begin play, secured Cannon's services, a major boost in credibility for the fledgling league. Cannon would play running back for the AFL throughout its ten-year existence, making that league's all-star game two times and appearing in Super Bowl II for the Oakland Raiders. He finished his career in 1970 after the AFL merged with the NFL and finished his life as a dentist.
Obituary from ESPN (http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/23554448/billy-cannon-dies-80-lsu-tigers-lone-heisman-trophy-winner)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Cannon)
AFL/NFL stats (http://www.nfl.com/player/billycannon/2511022/profile)
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Couple a weeks old, just came across it. If you ever heard a Menards commercial, it was this guy:
'Menards Guy' Ray Szmanda, longtime company spokesman, dies at 91
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https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/menards-guy-ray-szmanda-longtime-company-spokesman-dies-at-91 (https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/menards-guy-ray-szmanda-longtime-company-spokesman-dies-at-91)
Ray Szmanda, known to generations of Wisconsinites as the man who brought Menards commercials to life, has died at age 91.
Szmanda passed away at his home in Antigo on Sunday, May 6, according to an obituary posted to Bradley Funeral Home & Crematory's website.
Szmanda worked in T.V. and radio in the 1950s and operated a broadcast school in Waukesha until the late 1970s, when he joined Menards as a pitchman. After a successful run, Szmanda retired as the spokesman in 1998.
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Bernard Lewis, eminent historian of the Middle East, dies at 101
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bernard-lewis-eminent-historian-of-the-middle-east-dies-at-101/2018/05/19/4f0db6b8-5bad-11e8-8836-a4a123c359ab_story.html (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bernard-lewis-eminent-historian-of-the-middle-east-dies-at-101/2018/05/19/4f0db6b8-5bad-11e8-8836-a4a123c359ab_story.html)
National Review:
Bernard Lewis, ‘the Imam’ |
The importance and magnificence of a Middle East scholar
More than once, after 9/11, I asked Bernard Lewis, “Did you ever think your expertise would be so useful? And so in demand?†“No!†he’d say, sometimes with a laugh.
Bernard Lewis was an historian of the Middle East, and one of the great scholars of our time. His first name, by the way, is pronounced in the British style: BER-nerd, rather than Ber-NARD.
In a long teaching career, he had hundreds or thousands of students, some of whom called him “the Imam†— the ultimate authority. Lewis, by the way, was a great friend of the Arabs. This is poorly understood both by his enemies and by some of his fans. I’ll have more to say about this in due course.
Continued: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/bernard-lewis-the-imam/ (https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/bernard-lewis-the-imam/)
Rest In Peace, Rest In Peace Billy Cannon too, Ray Szmanda and all others....
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Professional football player Billy Cannon dies at 80
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Billy_Cannon_at_LSU.jpg/220px-Billy_Cannon_at_LSU.jpg)
Cannon was a major star at Louisiana State University in the late 1950s, where he was a unanimous All-American and won the Heisman Trophy. He would be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame for his play at that level.
In 1960, the Los Angeles Rams, in violation of league policy prohibiting players from joining teams until after the end of the semester, coerced Cannon into signing a contract after they drafted him first overall in that year's college draft. A court later declared that contract invalid, and the American Football League, which had yet to even begin play, secured Cannon's services, a major boost in credibility for the fledgling league. Cannon would play running back for the AFL throughout its ten-year existence, making that league's all-star game two times and appearing in Super Bowl II for the Oakland Raiders. He finished his career in 1970 after the AFL merged with the NFL and finished his life as a dentist.
Obituary from ESPN (http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/23554448/billy-cannon-dies-80-lsu-tigers-lone-heisman-trophy-winner)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Cannon)
AFL/NFL stats (http://www.nfl.com/player/billycannon/2511022/profile)
Cannon is one of two professional athletes known to have become dentists after their playing days. The other: Jim Lonborg, 1967 Cy Young Award-winning pitcher with the Boston Red Sox, who became a dentist after his playing career ended, too.
Two sports legends became sports legends after giving up dentistry. Golfer Cary Middlecoff (1949, 1956 U.S. Open winner; 1955 Masters winner) was a dentist in the Army during World War II, then entered a PGA tournament in 1945 and won, deciding he had a better future as a professional golfer. His career ended thanks to back and nerve issues in his early 40s, but he made a second career as a respected golf commentator on television after that.
And Casey Stengel was a dental student when he decided baseball was more his future. How right he proved to be . . .
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Patricia Morison, Star of the Original ‘Kiss Me, Kate,’ Dies at 103
Patricia Morison, the glamorous star who originated the role of the shrewish actress diva in the delightful 1948 Cole Porter musical Kiss Me, Kate, has died. She was 103.
Morison, who also appeared on stage opposite Yul Brynner in The King and I in such films as The Song of Bernadette (1943), died Sunday at her home in Los Angeles of natural causes.
With a mane of exuberant, dark hair that reached her hips, Morison often was cast as a villainess or “the other woman†on the big screen.
More (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/patricia-morison-dead-kiss-me-kate-star-was-103-783157)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Morison)
IMDb (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0605685/)
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103, was a good long life.
May she Rest In Peace
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Cannon is one of two professional athletes known to have become dentists after their playing days. The other: Jim Lonborg, 1967 Cy Young Award-winning pitcher with the Boston Red Sox, who became a dentist after his playing career ended, too.
Two sports legends became sports legends after giving up dentistry. Golfer Cary Middlecoff (1949, 1956 U.S. Open winner; 1955 Masters winner) was a dentist in the Army during World War II, then entered a PGA tournament in 1945 and won, deciding he had a better future as a professional golfer. His career ended thanks to back and nerve issues in his early 40s, but he made a second career as a respected golf commentator on television after that.
And Casey Stengel was a dental student when he decided baseball was more his future. How right he proved to be . . .
There's also the case of Jim Ailinger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Ailinger), who quit football after his one season in the NFL in 1924 to avoid damaging his hands and protect his planned move into dentistry. He ended up dying just short of 100 years old, and despite not playing football after that, he had a long career as an official.
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The Simpsons ended their 29th season with a tribute card to Tom Wolfe. Classy. Imho.
Meanwhile on Family Guy, still no mention of the deaths of Carrie Fischer or Adam West.
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Robert Indiana, pop artist, dies at 89
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Indiana's most famous work was a rendering of the word "Love" into a square with the letter "O" tilted diagonally. Too simple to be eligible for copyright, Indiana complained for the rest of his life that his work was one of the most plagiarized pieces of art in history. He was closely associated with Andy Warhol and the pop art movement of the 1960s. His design of the basketball court at MECCA Arena in Milwaukee was the subject of an ESPN documentary.
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Obituary from The New York Times (https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/obituaries/robert-indiana-love-pop-art-dies.html?smid=tw-nytobits&smtyp=cur)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Indiana)
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Clint Walker, star of TV's 'Cheyenne,' dies at age 91
Associated Press
May 22, 2018 | 3:10 PM
| Grass Valley, Calif.
Clint Walker, star of TV's 'Cheyenne,' dies at age 91
Clint Walker appears on the set of "The Dirty Dozen" in Morkyate, Bedfordshire, England, on Aug. 5, 1966. Walker died Monday of congestive heart failure at a hospital in Grass Valley, Calif. He was 91. (AP Photo)
Clint Walker, who played the title character in the early TV western "Cheyenne," has died.
Walker's daughter Valerie Walker tells the Associated Press that her father died Monday of congestive heart failure at a hospital in Grass Valley, Calif., at age 91.
The towering, strapping Walker played Cheyenne Bodie, who traveled the West and handed down justice on the TV series that ran for seven seasons starting in 1955.
Read more at: http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-et-clint-walker-obituary-20180522-story.html (http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-et-clint-walker-obituary-20180522-story.html)
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Wow. I used to watch every show to see him take his shirt off. ^-^
(I didn't know he was still around!)
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Handsome guy, wasn't he?
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Classic story about Clint Walker---Before he did Cheyenne, he was invited to meet with Cecil B. DeMille regarding a role in The Ten Commandments. En route, he stopped to help an older woman change a tire on her car. When he got to the meeting, DeMille told him he was late. Walker explained what he'd done on the way there. "I know all about it," DeMille replied. "That was my secretary."
He's tall in the saddle and has snow on his shoulders six months out of the year.---A television critic.
I'm not going to get that far carrying a gun and a badge. It doesn't pay well. If you make movies, you make some pretty good money---and the bullets aren't real.---Clint Walker, who was a Las Vegas sheriff's deputy doing security at the Sands Hotel when Van Johnson discovered him and suggested he try acting.
RIP, Mr. Walker.
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Faith Whittlesey, 'Keeper of Reagan's Flame,' Dies at 79
Faith Whittlesey, a senior White House staff member under President Ronald Reagan and two-time U.S. ambassador to Switzerland, died Monday at the age of 79 following a long battle with cancer.
Whittlesey, who also served in the Pennsylvania State House, was considered a political trailblazer, overcoming tremendous obstacles facing the women of her time and going on to become an influential figure in the sculpting of the modern conservative agenda.
She once famously quipped: “Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.â€
Read more at: https://www.newsmax.com/john-gizzi/faith-whittlesey-ronald-reagan-pennsylvania-obit/2018/05/22/id/861862/ (https://www.newsmax.com/john-gizzi/faith-whittlesey-ronald-reagan-pennsylvania-obit/2018/05/22/id/861862/)
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Philip Roth, American novelist has died at 85. Breaking.
Obit to follow.
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Bad week for American novelists.
I loved "Goodbye Columbus " RIP.
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Bad week for American novelists.
I loved "Goodbye Columbus " RIP.
It's a good thing The Lounge is chock full of donuts and kittens.....
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Classic story about Clint Walker---Before he did Cheyenne, he was invited to meet with Cecil B. DeMille regarding a role in The Ten Commandments. En route, he stopped to help an older woman change a tire on her car. When he got to the meeting, DeMille told him he was late. Walker explained what he'd done on the way there. "I know all about it," DeMille replied. "That was my secretary."
He's tall in the saddle and has snow on his shoulders six months out of the year.---A television critic.
I'm not going to get that far carrying a gun and a badge. It doesn't pay well. If you make movies, you make some pretty good money---and the bullets aren't real.---Clint Walker, who was a Las Vegas sheriff's deputy doing security at the Sands Hotel when Van Johnson discovered him and suggested he try acting.
RIP, Mr. Walker.
Didn't he either fall off a horse, or crash into a tree while skiing? Impaled him.
Or, is it somebody else?
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Didn't he either fall off a horse, or crash into a tree while skiing? Impaled him.
Or, is it somebody else?
@DCPatriot
No, it was him---a skiing accident, where his ski pole punctured his heart and he survived.
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It's a good thing The Lounge is chock full of donuts and kittens.....
You all know I was an English major..... but I minored in donuts and kitties ....
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Obituary: Philip Roth, the author who scandalised middle America
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30537267 (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30537267)
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You all know I was an English major..... but I minored in donuts and kitties ....
@Freya
I was an English major . . . but I minored in steaks. ;)
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I missed this. Mr. Forthright passed away, age 92.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VauKlN6lBF0#)
His "How to Get Out of Jury Duty" video...
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqK4fSMq7cE#)
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I missed this. Mr. Forthright passed away, age 92.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VauKlN6lBF0#)
His "How to Get Out of Jury Duty" video...
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqK4fSMq7cE#)
His videos are hilarious
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Indiana complained for the rest of his life that his work was one of the most plagiarized pieces of art in history
Well, you didn't give credit to Robert Besley and Benjamin Fox, who created the Clarendon typeface off which you based your art, buddy, so I call it even.
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Well, you didn't give credit to Robert Besley and Benjamin Fox, who created the Clarendon typeface off which you based your art, buddy, so I call it even.
My wife told me that she thought it was a Robert Besley creation.
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Renowned gaming critic YouTuber has succumbed to cancer...
https://mobile.twitter.com/GennaBain/status/999785407087808512 (https://mobile.twitter.com/GennaBain/status/999785407087808512)
Genna Bain @GennaBain
Rest in Peace my Dearest Love
John @Totalbiscuit Bain
July 8, 1984 - May 24, 2018
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Example video
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb50aAFiOpM#)
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Alan Bean, 4th Person to Walk on the Moon, Dies at 86
Alan Bean, who became the fourth man to walk on the moon and turned to painting years later to tell the story of NASA’s Apollo missions as they began receding into history, died on Saturday at Houston Methodist Hospital. He was 86.
His death was announced by his family in a statement released by NASA.
Mr. Bean stepped onto the lunar surface preceded by Pete Conrad, the mission commander of their Apollo 12 flight, in November 1969, four months after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first lunar explorers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/26/obituaries/alan-bean-astronaut-dies.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/26/obituaries/alan-bean-astronaut-dies.html)
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RIP Mr Bean
Sad that pretty soon, every man who ever walked on the Moon will be just a memory and someone to read about in the history books and conspiracy websites about fake moon landings..
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RIP Mr Bean. What an amazing life.
Ping @kevindavis
@Suppressed
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RIP Mr Bean
Sad that pretty soon, every man who ever walked on the Moon will be just a memory and someone to read about in the history books and conspiracy websites about fake moon landings..
Since some schools don't teach history or they teach "revisionist history," I suspect our young people won't know about these heroes at all. Or somehow the heroes will be portrayed as evil. All those moon shots poisoned the environment, ya know. :facepalm:
Rest in peace, Mr. Bean and thank you.
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Since some schools don't teach history or they teach "revisionist history," I suspect our young people won't know about these heroes at all. Or somehow the heroes will be portrayed as evil. All those moon shots poisoned the environment, ya know. :facepalm:
Rest in peace, Mr. Bean and thank you.
Yes, I was once watching an episode of "Hell's Kitchen" with Gordon Ramsay and Buzz Aldrin was the honored guest that night. One of the chef-testants thought he was Buzz Lightyear.
:facepalm2:
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Atari cofounder Ted Dabney passes away at 81
https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/26/atari-cofounder-ted-dabney-passes-away/
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Since some schools don't teach history or they teach "revisionist history," I suspect our young people won't know about these heroes at all. Or somehow the heroes will be portrayed as evil. All those moon shots poisoned the environment, ya know. :facepalm:
Either that or kids today think Alan Shepard was some golfer.
I'd say Alan Beam did rather splendid with his life and his work.
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Either that or kids today think Alan Shepard was some golfer.
I'd say Alan Beam did rather splendid with his life and his work.
Indeed he did. It's a shame that moat young people today won't know or care about it.
When I was a kid, space missions were televised live. If there was one during the school year, classes were suspended and all of us gathered in assembly to watch on tv. At home, we watched on an old console black and white set Dad bought at Sears. We didn't have a color tv set till I was in my teens.
The first moon landing was on July 20, 1969 in the wee hours of the morning. My maternal grandmother, terminally ill with cancer, was living with us. Her pain medication would knock her out, but that evening she refused her medication and suffered in pain just so she would be awake to see the moon landing. I'm so glad Grandma was able to witness such an historic event.
Today's youth regard these space missions as "ho-hum -- no big deal." That just makes me so sad.
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Indeed he did. It's a shame that moat young people today won't know or care about it.
When I was a kid, space missions were televised live. If there was one during the school year, classes were suspended and all of us gathered in assembly to watch on tv. At home, we watched on an old console black and white set Dad bought at Sears. We didn't have a color tv set till I was in my teens.
When I was a kid, I owned a tiny transistor radio, as small as a pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes. I'd keep an earphone attached to it on space mission days, one ear cocked on the mission coverage and the other listening to whatever transpired in class. The only more important reason to do that was, of course, the World Series.
The first moon landing was on July 20, 1969 in the wee hours of the morning. My maternal grandmother, terminally ill with cancer, was living with us. Her pain medication would knock her out, but that evening she refused her medication and suffered in pain just so she would be awake to see the moon landing. I'm so glad Grandma was able to witness such an historic event.
God bless Grandma for that!
I was away at summer camp when Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon. Our camp director was attuned so acutely to the significance that he allowed the entire camp to stay awake to watch on whatever television sets could be rounded up. (I've never forgotten hearing Walter Cronkite holler out, the split second Armstrong hit the surface, "Man on the moon. Man finally on the moon. My golly!")
A couple of weeks later, our camp was transported to Tanglewood, Massachussetts, where I got to hear the man who changed my musical life for the first time ever, opening a Woodstock warmup concert for the Who and Jefferson Airplane. Had I not gotten to see and hear B.B. King that night, I never would have tried to play a guitar seriously.
Come fall, my little transistor radio was in my pocket again, earphone attached accordingly, for days on which I had to be in school during the World Series. Said one member of the Series-winning team that fall, Mets relief pitcher Tug McGraw, "When those astronauts landed on the moon, I knew we had a chance. I figured right there that anything could happen."
Anything did.
The moon landing. B.B. King. The '69 Mets. What a wonderful year 1969 was.
Today's youth regard these space missions as "ho-hum -- no big deal." That just makes me so sad.
In one way, it's our own fault. We had so bloody many of them after the earliest moon landings, it became as routine as coffee at the breakfast table.
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Indeed he did. It's a shame that moat young people today won't know or care about it.
When I was a kid, space missions were televised live. If there was one during the school year, classes were suspended and all of us gathered in assembly to watch on tv. At home, we watched on an old console black and white set Dad bought at Sears. We didn't have a color tv set till I was in my teens.
The first moon landing was on July 20, 1969 in the wee hours of the morning. My maternal grandmother, terminally ill with cancer, was living with us. Her pain medication would knock her out, but that evening she refused her medication and suffered in pain just so she would be awake to see the moon landing. I'm so glad Grandma was able to witness such an historic event.
Today's youth regard these space missions as "ho-hum -- no big deal." That just makes me so sad.
We celebrated my sisters birthday a day early so we could have the whole family over to watch the event. I remember that there wasn't a car on the road for about 2 hours while every house in the neighborhood was glued to televisions.
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The moon landing. B.B. King. The '69 Mets. What a wonderful year 1969 was.
In one way, it's our own fault. We had so bloody many of them after the earliest moon landings, it became as routine as coffee at the breakfast table.
I knew it was heading downhill when the first space mission after leaving the moon was Apollo/Soyuz. A direct move from scientific missions to political statements.
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In one way, it's our own fault. We had so bloody many of them after the earliest moon landings, it became as routine as coffee at the breakfast table.
By the time of Apollo 13, the live coverages had dwindled. When Apollo 13 ran into trouble, of course, it was wall-to-wall coverage. I was watching ABC at the time. Jules Bergman was the network's science editor. He had models of the lunar module and the craft and was demonstrating what went wrong (well, at least as far as they knew at the time; didn't know anything until it was investigated).
And that was about it for coverage -- only when a disaster occurred such as Challenger and Columbia. That's a shame.
PS: Thanks for the stories. BB King was indeed awesome. RIP
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By the time of Apollo 13, the live coverages had dwindled. When Apollo 13 ran into trouble, of course, it was wall-to-wall coverage. I was watching ABC at the time. Jules Bergman was the network's science editor. He had models of the lunar module and the craft and was demonstrating what went wrong (well, at least as far as they knew at the time; didn't know anything until it was investigated).
And that was about it for coverage -- only when a disaster occurred such as Challenger and Columbia. That's a shame.
PS: Thanks for the stories. BB King was indeed awesome. RIP
The early shuttle missions were covered, as well. My grandfather loudly complained to me about what a waste of money it was, and look at all the pollution, etc. Which got me defending the expenditures in terms of spinoffs and ROI, and that the clouds that were seen was water, not smoke, etc.
Only many years later did I realize he was trolling me.
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I knew it was heading downhill when the first space mission after leaving the moon was Apollo/Soyuz. A direct move from scientific missions to political statements.
Jose Jiminez (Bill Dana) stopped commenting on launches, too. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bill-dana-dead-jose-jimenez-903436 (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bill-dana-dead-jose-jimenez-903436)
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By the time of Apollo 13, the live coverages had dwindled. When Apollo 13 ran into trouble, of course, it was wall-to-wall coverage. I was watching ABC at the time. Jules Bergman was the network's science editor. He had models of the lunar module and the craft and was demonstrating what went wrong (well, at least as far as they knew at the time; didn't know anything until it was investigated).
And that was about it for coverage -- only when a disaster occurred such as Challenger and Columbia. That's a shame.
PS: Thanks for the stories. BB King was indeed awesome. RIP
When the Challenger tragedy happened none of the major networks bothered to carry the launch live. Only an upstart cable news channel was broadcasting it. I lived in Tampa then and I was watching it so I could step outside and see the contrails .....
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Longtime CBS correspondent Bob Fuss dies at age 64
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/longtime-cbs-correspondent-bob-fuss-dies-at-age-64/ar-AAxWCKe (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/longtime-cbs-correspondent-bob-fuss-dies-at-age-64/ar-AAxWCKe)
Robert J. "Bob" Fuss, a veteran radio journalist, died Sunday at his Falls Church, Virginia, home. He was 64. The cause was a rare form of leukemia, his close friend Peter Maer said.
Fuss served as a CBS News congressional correspondent from 1998 until his retirement in 2014. His first major assignment for CBS News was coverage of the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton. Prior to joining CBS News, Fuss covered Congress for Mutual and NBC Radio for seven years. He previously worked as Los Angeles bureau chief for UPI Radio. He began his professional radio career as a freelance reporter for UPI covering the 1974 Patty Hearst case. He originally aspired to be an attorney but he was attracted to broadcasting at Stanford University's campus radio station KZSU.
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Dick Tuck, Democrat prankster died at 94 years old.
Dick Tuck (January 25, 1924 – May 28, 2018) was an American political consultant, campaign strategist, advance man, and political prankster for the Democratic National Committee.[1][2]
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Tuck first met Richard Nixon as a student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1950, Tuck was working for Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas. She was running for a seat in the U.S. Senate against Richard Nixon. In a 1973 Time magazine article, Tuck stated, "There was an absent-minded professor who knew I was in politics and forgot the rest. He asked me to advance a Nixon visit." Tuck agreed and launched his first prank against Nixon. He rented a big auditorium, invited only a small number of people, and gave a long-winded speech to introduce the candidate.[3] When Nixon came on stage, Tuck asked him to speak about the International Monetary Fund. When the speech was over, Nixon asked Tuck his name and told him, "Dick Tuck, you've made your last advance."[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tuck
I was not aware of who he was either but he is in this morning's obits.
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What an unfortunate name.
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Classic Tuck story: At the 1968 Republican National Convention, a large shipment of Nixon buttons arrived. Nixon's people were about to open the shipped packages when one of them saw Tuck standing not too far away---and ordered the packages removed immediately. They weren't taking chances with the guy who once paid off a train engineer to pull away the moment Nixon opened his mouth to make a whistlestop speech; or, who hung a large sign behind a podium when Nixon spoke before a group of Koreans during his 1962 California gubernatorial campaign, a sign emblazoned in Korean . . . and translated to, "What About the Hughes Loan?"
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What an unfortunate name.
I've seen worse.
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Robert Mandan, star of ’70s sitcom ‘Soap,’ dies at 86
Robert Mandan, who starred as the wealthy, womanizing Chester Tate in the ’70s sitcom “Soap,†has died. He was 86.
Mandan’s friend, screenwriter Gary Goldstein, told TheWrap that the actor passed away April 29 after suffering a long illness.
Mandan was best known for his work on “Soap,†which kicked off Billy Crystal’s career as one of television’s first openly gay characters.
More at:
https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Robert-Mandan-Star-of-70s-Sitcom-Soap-12964637.php (https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Robert-Mandan-Star-of-70s-Sitcom-Soap-12964637.php)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mandan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mandan)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0541610/ (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0541610/)
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Robert Mandan, star of ’70s sitcom ‘Soap,’ dies at 86
More at:
https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Robert-Mandan-Star-of-70s-Sitcom-Soap-12964637.php (https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Robert-Mandan-Star-of-70s-Sitcom-Soap-12964637.php)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mandan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mandan)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0541610/ (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0541610/)
To be honest, I thought he died sooner.
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Sci-fi actor William Phipps, Disney's Prince Charming in 'Cinderella,' dead at 96
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-ent-phipps-obit-20180603-story.html (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-ent-phipps-obit-20180603-story.html)
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Sci-fi actor William Phipps, Disney's Prince Charming in 'Cinderella,' dead at 96
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-ent-phipps-obit-20180603-story.html (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-ent-phipps-obit-20180603-story.html)
He looked a lot different in Cinderella.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-04/frank-carlucci-carlyle-chairman-who-led-pentagon-dies-at-87 (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-04/frank-carlucci-carlyle-chairman-who-led-pentagon-dies-at-87)
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Former 49ers WR Dwight Clark Dies at Age 61 After Battle with ALS
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2779479-former-49ers-wr-dwight-clark-dies-at-age-61-after-battle-with-als (http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2779479-former-49ers-wr-dwight-clark-dies-at-age-61-after-battle-with-als)
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He looked a lot different in Cinderella.
Too scary looking to be charming, I'd say......
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He looked a lot different in Cinderella.
Disappointing, because Disney Studios were pretty good at crafting the likenesses in their cartoons. :laugh:
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Dwight Clark RIP.
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Former San Francisco 49ers legend Dwight Clark has passed away at the age of 61, his wife, Kelly Clark, announced on Twitter Monday.
Clark had been battling ALS, a disease he formally announced he’d been diagnosed with last year in March in a letter that was published on DebartoloHoldings.com.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/kelly-clark-announces-dwight-clark-has-passed-away/ar-AAydWHR?OCID=ansmsnnews11 (https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/kelly-clark-announces-dwight-clark-has-passed-away/ar-AAydWHR?OCID=ansmsnnews11)
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Bernard E. Trainor, Marine lieutenant general turned journalist, dies at 89
By Harrison Smith June 4 at 7:32 PM Email the author
Bernard E. Trainor, a Marine Corps lieutenant general who served in two wars and then launched a second career as a journalist, covering the military for the New York Times and in three critically acclaimed books on America’s wars in the Persian Gulf and Iraq, died June 2 at his home in Potomac Falls, Va. He was 89.
The cause was cancer, said his wife, Peggy Trainor.
Gen. Trainor led an infantry platoon in the Korean War, served two tours in Vietnam and was deputy chief of staff for plans, policies and operations at Marine Corps headquarters before retiring from the military in 1985.
Continued: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bernard-e-trainor-marine-lieutenant-general-turned-journalist-dies-at-89/2018/06/04/a295e796-6801-11e8-9e38-24e693b38637_story.html (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bernard-e-trainor-marine-lieutenant-general-turned-journalist-dies-at-89/2018/06/04/a295e796-6801-11e8-9e38-24e693b38637_story.html)
Called "Mick" Trainor generally. Books sound interesting.
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Kate Spade died as the result of suicide
Designer Kate Spade has reportedly died as the the result of suicide. According to law enforcement officials and reported by the Associated Press, she was found dead in her New York apartment on Tuesday.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/kate-spade-died-result-suicide-161306210.html (https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/kate-spade-died-result-suicide-161306210.html)
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s**t
Depression hurts
Rip
I love your handbags I have three
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http://www.tmz.com/2018/06/05/kate-spade-dead-dies/ (http://www.tmz.com/2018/06/05/kate-spade-dead-dies/)
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Iconic fashion designer Kate Spade was found dead of an apparent suicide Tuesday morning in her NYC apartment ... TMZ has learned.
Law enforcement sources confirm a housekeeper found Kate's body at 10:20 AM ET in her Park Avenue home. We're told she hanged herself using a ligature tied to her bedroom door knob. She was pronounced dead on the scene. We're also told she left a note.
Kate got her start in the '80s working for women's magazine "Mademoiselle" in Manhattan, when she moved in with Andy Spade -- David Spade's brother. She and Andy met while attending Arizona State University and working at a clothing store.
Together, they launched Kate Spade Handbags in 1993, and it blossomed into a full-scale clothing and jewelry line. Kate and Andy got married in 1994.
Kate sold her company in 2007 and took some time off to raise her daughter -- but got back in the game in 2016 by launching a new fashion brand called Frances Valentine ... named after her daughter, who's now 13 years old.
Kate was 55.
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Love her bags and shoes...
this is a shock..
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You have a 13 year old kid and you are hanging yourself off an effing doorknob? That is pretty shitty.
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Love her bags and shoes...
this is a shock..
She made some pretty hot stuff. I didn't mind my wife blowing money on it. I wonder if I can cash in on fashionista grief and get some of those heels and bags up on Ebay before the wife gets home?
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She made some pretty hot stuff. I didn't mind my wife blowing money on it. I wonder if I can cash in on fashionista grief and get some of those heels and bags up on Ebay before the wife gets home?
I am bereft. Please mail them to me.
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She made some pretty hot stuff. I didn't mind my wife blowing money on it. I wonder if I can cash in on fashionista grief and get some of those heels and bags up on Ebay before the wife gets home?
LOL...I am going to put my bags back in their dust bags and save them....I only have two and a couple pair of shoes...
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I am bereft. Please mail them to me.
I was here first I get first pick....
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I am bereft. Please mail them to me.
Me too. Kinda like the 1st time I heard the tore down the Booby Trap in Orlando!
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You have a 13 year old kid and you are hanging yourself off an effing doorknob? That is pretty shitty.
Off a doorknob?...how tall was she?
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You have a 13 year old kid and you are hanging yourself off an effing doorknob? That is pretty shitty.
On the doorknob? How short was she?
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Off a doorknob?...how tall was she?
On the doorknob? How short was she?
:silly:
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I am bereft. Please mail them to me.
Well I am selling them for 3X retail now that they are collectors items.......and the fact that they will have to be replaced with whatever's hot at Christian Louboutin right now. That guy knows how to gouge.
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You have a 13 year old kid and you are hanging yourself off an effing doorknob? That is pretty shitty.
I agree, Frank. Poor child.
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Off a doorknob?...how tall was she?
She probably sat or lay down. It would be a particularly unpleasant way to go because you would strangle to death slowly, and most likely die from lack of oxygen.
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She probably sat or lay down. It would be a particularly unpleasant way to go because you would strangle to death slowly, and most likely die from lack of oxygen.
I have a hard time imagining not standing back up as the CO2 poison builds up first.
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I was here first I get first pick....
I'll mud wrestle you for them.
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I find it hard to believe the mother of a 13 yo girl would kill herself.
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I'll mud wrestle you for them.
Cool, post the video!
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Beauty and money... and it's still not enough. Doesn't make sense does it?
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I'll mud wrestle you for them.
@RoosGirl
Baby oil is less likely to stain
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I have a hard time imagining not standing back up as the CO2 poison builds up first.
Depression can be quite awful
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! No longer available (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sh7QWBb2U2A#)
:thumbsup:
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I'll mud wrestle you for them.
Well since this is over my merchandise......can I watch?
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Maybe she went out ala Michael Hutchence or David Carradine.
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@RoosGirl
Baby oil is less likely to stain
Ah..thanks for the baby oil tip....I was going to use vaseline... :tongue2:
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Depression can be quite awful
I wonder if it's as bad as having mom commit suicide when you are 13?
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Well since this is over my merchandise......can I watch?
Letting you watch is how I plan on paying for the stuff.
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I have a hard time imagining not standing back up as the CO2 poison builds up first.
I don't.....
(https://www.thefix.com/sites/default/files/styles/article/public/pills%20and%20booze.jpg)
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Cool, post the video!
Live stream it.
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Maybe she went out ala Michael Hutchence or David Carradine.
You have a beautiful (naughty) mind.
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I have a hard time imagining not standing back up as the CO2 poison builds up first.
Anchor the ligature on one side of the door and flip it to the top. Hang on the opposite side. She probably had some substantial doors.
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I wonder if it's as bad as having mom commit suicide when you are 13?
@Sanguine
Suicide is a tragic and selfish act. However, in the grasp of severe depression people do not think rationally. She needed help and did not get it.
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I wonder if it's as bad as having mom commit suicide when you are 13?
She left a note and her staff found her this morning...I hope her daughter wasn't there..
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I wonder if it's as bad as having mom commit suicide when you are 13?
That is the one element of the story that bugs me. At least make it look like a plausible accident of you are going to pull this shit. Hanging off a doorknob is a pretty big eff you.
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You have a beautiful (naughty) mind.
LOL If i had a naughty mind I would try the method myself. I just have a mind for totally useless details.
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@Sanguine
Suicide is a tragic and selfish act. However, in the grasp of severe depression people do not think rationally. She needed help and did not get it.
You're right, and that's why the education/thinking needs to occur before it gets to that point. She was in pain, but she will cause great, possibly greater pain to her daughter.
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Depression can be quite awful
Absolutely.
But I lack the understanding of someone that has that level of physical control over their own body, that results in suicide.
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Live stream it.
It will be pay for view...consider it a fundraiser
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Anchor the ligature on one side of the door and flip it to the top. Hang on the opposite side. She probably had some substantial doors.
You sound like you've tried it.......or made a murder look like a suicide. Are you Mr Wolf and "Solve Problems"?
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Anchor the ligature on one side of the door and flip it to the top. Hang on the opposite side. She probably had some substantial doors.
Thank you. I can see that.
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It will be pay for view...consider it a fundraiser
This will be one of the items you and Roos will be competing for.....
(https://www.motoviana.com/image/cache/data/category_12/kate-spade-women-kate-spade-bow-heels-in-black-patent-and-cream-kate-spade-bow-hee-3060-500x500_0.jpg)
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You sound like you've tried it.......or made a murder look like a suicide. Are you Mr Wolf and "Solve Problems"?
"Skills"
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This will be one of the items you and Roos will be competing for.....
(https://www.motoviana.com/image/cache/data/category_12/kate-spade-women-kate-spade-bow-heels-in-black-patent-and-cream-kate-spade-bow-hee-3060-500x500_0.jpg)
I don't do bows, she can have those.
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She used a scarf..
Her husband was at the apartment when his wife took her own life according to police.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5808813/Kate-Spade-dead-Park-Avenue-apartment-apparent-suicide.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5808813/Kate-Spade-dead-Park-Avenue-apartment-apparent-suicide.html)
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It will be pay for view...consider it a fundraiser
Take that JRob!
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This will be one of the items you and Roos will be competing for.....
(https://www.motoviana.com/image/cache/data/category_12/kate-spade-women-kate-spade-bow-heels-in-black-patent-and-cream-kate-spade-bow-hee-3060-500x500_0.jpg)
put those on ebay..they hurt my feet already
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Take that JRob!
Fifty bucks will buy a lot of Jello. I have that covered.
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She used a scarf..
Talk about 'going out in style.'
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She used a scarf..
Quote:
Her husband was at the apartment when his wife took her own life according to police.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5808813/Kate-Spade-dead-Park-Avenue-apartment-apparent-suicide.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5808813/Kate-Spade-dead-Park-Avenue-apartment-apparent-suicide.html)
I remember talking to my Father just after his best friend blew his head off with a 12 gauge. I asked him why he did it while sitting on the bed in the Master Bedroom of his home. Dad said: "I think he was sending a message"
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Anyone see Trump in the vicinity?
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Absolutely.
But I lack the understanding of someone that has that level of physical control over their own body, that results in suicide.
@thackney
People close to me suffer from severe depression. It doesn't surprise me in the slightest. I'm not talking the kind of depression resulting from your hockey team losing a game either. For these people the pain of continuing is less then that rope. I'm sure some people do stop just as some people who use a long rope probably change their mind after stepping off.
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Kate Spade, American Designer, Dead at 55
By JONAH ENGEL BROMWICH and VANESSA FRIEDMAN
The American designer Kate Spade was found dead on Tuesday, according to police officials.
The police said that Ms. Spade, 55, was discovered unresponsive at a Park Avenue apartment, where she had hanged herself. She had left a note, but the official did not comment on what it said. She was pronounced dead at the scene at 10:26 a.m.
A housekeeper found Ms. Spade in her bedroom hanging from a red scarf tied to a doorknob, the police said. She was unconscious and the housekeeper called 911. Ms. Spade’s husband was at the scene. A police spokesman did not know the whereabouts of Ms. Spade’s daughter. Born Kate Brosnahan in Kansas City, Mo., in December 1962, Ms. Spade was one of the first of a powerful wave of female American contemporary designers in the 1990s. ... More (https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/fashion/kate-spade-american-designer-dead-at-55/ar-AAyg8xL?li=BBnb7Kz)
(https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAyfUhc.img?h=512&w=799&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1297&y=491)
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She made some pretty hot stuff. I didn't mind my wife blowing money on it. I wonder if I can cash in on fashionista grief and get some of those heels and bags up on Ebay before the wife gets home?
You're all heart, Frank.
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She is the SIL of David Spade and the aunt of actress Rachel Brosnahan.
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You're all heart, Frank.
He's a very caring and giving individual. I mean his selfless act, to help fans of the dearly departed get over their grief, albeit in his own way is the stuff of legends.
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She used a scarf..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5808813/Kate-Spade-dead-Park-Avenue-apartment-apparent-suicide.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5808813/Kate-Spade-dead-Park-Avenue-apartment-apparent-suicide.html)
I didn't see that in the linked article. Where did you see that? It would likely eliminate the over the door method unless it was a few tied together.
Sorry if I am creeping out any by focusing on mechanical details...
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I didn't see that in the linked article. Where did you see that? It would likely eliminate the over the door method unless it was a few tied together.
Sorry if I am creeping out any by focusing on mechanical details...
I know I looked for it to..it is Drudge's headline
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Merged Kate Spade thread into Obituaries
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Merged Kate Spade thread into Obituaries
If this important story is jammed into the Obit section, I'm going to demand all John McCain is dead stories sent here too.
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Depression can be quite awful
Who said it was depression?
Most suicides are related to chronic pain, not depression. If she had a 13-year-old daughter, she had to have known that killing herself would've caused even more problems, which should have stopped her.
Either that, or some unsavory characters were about to catch up with her.
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If this important story is jammed into the Obit section, I'm going to demand all John McCain is dead stories sent here too.
John McCain and Timothy Leary are outside looking in.
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If this important story is jammed into the Obit section, I'm going to demand all John McCain is dead stories sent here too.
You are all heart Frank!
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If this important story is jammed into the Obit section, I'm going to demand all John McCain is dead stories sent here too.
Ugh, agreed. This was a bad move.
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Yeah I had to look for it too... :whistle:
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John McCain and Timothy Leary are outside looking in.
Will he fly his astral plane?
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name change
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name change
You'll break the feed!. Proll a good thing! :amen:
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name change
Obituarie? Tres chic!
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You'll break the feed!. Proll a good thing! :amen:
It got broke when it was move to Obits
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It got broke when it was move to Obits
Dock that Mod a days pay for napping on the job!
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Who said it was depression?
Most suicides are related to chronic pain, not depression. If she had a 13-year-old daughter, she had to have known that killing herself would've caused even more problems, which should have stopped her.
Either that, or some unsavory characters were about to catch up with her.
The New York Daily News story cited an unidentified source as saying she had "problems at home"; the paper also said she left a note for her daughter saying,
"It's not your fault."
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Sci-fi actor William Phipps, Disney's Prince Charming in 'Cinderella,' dead at 96
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-ent-phipps-obit-20180603-story.html (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-ent-phipps-obit-20180603-story.html)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM3PX_GiYHo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM3PX_GiYHo)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM3PX_GiYHo#)
"Welcome to California!"
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Most suicides are related to chronic pain, not depression.
Do you have anything to support that claim?
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Do you have anything to support that claim?
Mostly anecdotes, especially among high-profile or famous people. Three off the top of my head that fit the chronic pain narrative are Dick Trickle, Hunter S. Thompson and Ray Combs. Then there was the case of Don Lapre who fits the "avoid those going after you" narrative (in Lapre's case, the feds, since he was being investigated for fraud).
Depression alone, from the cases I've seen, is generally pretty rare as an impetus for suicide, except in teenagers. Not that it doesn't happen (see: Sylvia Plath, Freddie Prinze Sr.) but that it isn't a leading cause and we shouldn't assume it as such.
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Kate Spade died as the result of suicide
Wife was shocked I never heard of this lady.
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Ugh, agreed. This was a bad move.
Tell me about it. We finally generated a high post thread that didn't involve people fighting with each other and the Mod pours cold water all over it.
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Mostly anecdotes, especially among high-profile or famous people. Three off the top of my head that fit the chronic pain narrative are Dick Trickle, Hunter S. Thompson and Ray Combs. Then there was the case of Don Lapre who fits the "avoid those going after you" narrative (in Lapre's case, the feds, since he was being investigated for fraud).
Depression alone, from the cases I've seen, is generally pretty rare as an impetus for suicide, except in teenagers. Not that it doesn't happen (see: Sylvia Plath, Freddie Prinze Sr.) but that it isn't a leading cause and we shouldn't assume it as such.
Keith Emerson was probably both. His hands were failing because of the multiple Carpal Tunnel surgeries, and fans were starting to tell him he'd lost it, and to stop playing. He had both the pain and probably the depression from losing his gift.
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Keith Emerson was probably both. His hands were failing because of the multiple Carpal Tunnel surgeries, and fans were starting to tell him he'd lost it, and to stop playing. He had both the pain and probably the depression from losing his gift.
Indeed, and both probably intertwine with each other.
In Mrs. Spade's case, however, we don't know much, and we may never know.
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I see Kate Spade as Sylvia Plath. Very talented, intelligent and stupid. No man (or woman) is worth suiciding over. Especially if there are minor children.
I wish I could have spoken to her or counseled her. I would have saved her. I’ve saved other suicides. I know in my heart of hearts I could have saved her.
I’m going to use my kate Spade bag today. In her memory. One of the nicest birthday presents I ever received.
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Mostly anecdotes, especially among high-profile or famous people. Three off the top of my head that fit the chronic pain narrative are Dick Trickle, Hunter S. Thompson and Ray Combs. Then there was the case of Don Lapre who fits the "avoid those going after you" narrative (in Lapre's case, the feds, since he was being investigated for fraud).
Depression alone, from the cases I've seen, is generally pretty rare as an impetus for suicide, except in teenagers. Not that it doesn't happen (see: Sylvia Plath, Freddie Prinze Sr.) but that it isn't a leading cause and we shouldn't assume it as such.
My experience is just the opposite. Depression alone can result in suicide. I've never heard anyone with pain alone that committed suicide without significant depression.
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After listening to morning radio (‘mourning’ radio in this case) and the talk of Kate Spade’s life, her celebrity, her design’s popularity with women of two generations, and as a man completely disinterested in women’s fashion labels, particularly handbags and shoes, I have to admit I’ve never heard of the lady or her designs.
But talk here in NYC of her life and career has been a bittersweet story, though. It’s also brought out personal accounts by Michael Riedel of other celebrity suicides. As one who toils in anonymity, it fascinates me why the rich and famous would end it all.
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Clarence Fountain, founder of The Blind Boys of Alabama, dies at 88
In 1939, Fountain, a student at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind, teamed up with some of his classmates to form a gospel group. Known as the Blind Boys of Alabama, the group specialized in gospel and inspirational music; working almost entirely in black communities for their first decades of existence, the Blind Boys did not get widespread recognition until the 1980s, in part because of Fountain's resistance to doing so, as he felt no need. In this later era, their music, while still underpinned to its gospel roots, diversified into other styles such as funk, country, and soul, earning the group several Grammy awards and television appearances.
Fountain's death from diabetes and old-age complications leaves James Carter as the group's sole surviving original member.
Obituary from KTEP (http://ktep.org/post/clarence-fountain-leader-and-founding-member-blind-boys-alabama-dies-88)
Wikipedia (Blind Boys of Alabama) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_Boys_of_Alabama)
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Jerry Maren, last of the Munchkins and one of the last surviving cast members of The Wizard of Oz, dies at 98
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Jerry_Maren_2010.jpg/160px-Jerry_Maren_2010.jpg)
Maren (also billed under his full last name Marenghi) began his performing career at the age of 13 and received his first big breakthrough at the age of 18, when, as a member of Singer's Midgets, he was cast as a member of The Lollipop Guild, a group of Munchkins in the blockbuster film The Wizard of Oz.
As a "little person" (3'6") in Hollywood, he maintained a steady acting career through at least the 1970s, including as a regular on The Gong Show, tossing confetti, and as McDonaldland characters such as Mayor McCheese and the Hamburglar. As other members of the cast began to die off in the 1980s and 1990s, Maren became increasingly in demand as one of the few actors that appeared in the film that was still alive and active. He made his last public appearance in 2013 and his last social media appearance in early 2016; by August, he was too ill to do any further interviews.
Maren died of old age on May 24 at the age of 98; his death was not reported until June 6. One other person known to have appeared on screen during the film is known to survive; Caren Marsh Doll, who was Judy Garland's stunt double, still lives at the age of 99, and there may be others.
Obituary from CBS News (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jerry-maren-last-surviving-wizard-of-oz-munchkin-dead-at-98/)
IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0546439/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Maren)
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BREAKING: Former Cardinals player, manager Red Schoendienst dies at 95, was oldest living member of Baseball Hall of Fame.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1004530425606344704
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BREAKING: Former Cardinals player, manager Red Schoendienst dies at 95, was oldest living member of Baseball Hall of Fame.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1004530425606344704
Red Schoendienst, Cardinals legend and Baseball Hall of Famer, dead at 95 (https://sports.yahoo.com/red-schoendienst-cardinals-legend-baseball-hall-famer-dies-95-011517670.html)
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Nightclub owner Peter Stringfellow dies aged 77, spokesman says
The nightclub owner Peter Stringfellow has died from cancer aged 77, his spokesman has said.
The British businessman, who had wanted to keep his illness private, died in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Known as the "King of Clubs", Stringfellow opened a string of venues across the world.
He leaves behind four children from three marriages.
https://news.sky.com/story/nightclub-owner-peter-stringfellow-dies-aged-77-spokesman-says-11397085
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Red Schoendienst, Cardinals legend and Baseball Hall of Famer, dead at 95
Aw, as a former St. Louisan, that one brings a tear to my eye.
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Aw, as a former St. Louisan, that one brings a tear to my eye.
1967 was the 1st year I remember seriously following baseball. 1st year Dad took me to Wriggly to see a Cards/Cubs game. 1st year of collecting baseball cards. 1st year sneaking a transistor radio with an ear piece into middle school to listen to the Cubs day games. Even tho I was a Cubs fan I was pulling for the Cards to stomp the BoSox in the 67 World Series. Looking back now Red out classed and out coached Louie the Lip all thu the 60's.
RIP
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Aw, as a former St. Louisan, that one brings a tear to my eye.
@mountaineer
Red Schoendienst had quiet guts. The classic example: playing the entire 1958 season including a World Series (for the Braves) while he was struck with what was diagnosed as tuberculosis after the season. The Yankees, who beat the Braves in that Series (a year after the Braves beat them, also in seven games), all could tell something was seriously wrong with him when he played, even when he ran out a triple and looked like he needed oxygen after stopping at third. He underwent surgery after the Series, was told he'd never play again, but did come back to play a couple of more years as a part-timer and coach.
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1967 was the 1st year I remember seriously following baseball. 1st year Dad took me to Wriggly to see a Cards/Cubs game. 1st year of collecting baseball cards. 1st year sneaking a transistor radio with an ear piece into middle school to listen to the Cubs day games. Even tho I was a Cubs fan I was pulling for the Cards to stomp the BoSox in the 67 World Series. Looking back now Red out classed and out coached Louie the Lip all thu the 60's.
RIP
The least difficult thing in baseball was out-classing Leo Durocher.
The real key to the Cardinals' 1967 World Series win: Red Sox manager Dick Williams going with popular sentiment instead of baseball sense and starting his Cy Young Award winner to be Jim Lonborg in Game Seven on two days rest, a situation for which Lonborg wasn't exactly experienced at the time, whereas the Cardinals' Bob Gibson was going in Game Seven on near-full rest. Williams had two other viable options, Gary Bell and Jose Santiago, both of whom had pitched respectably earlier in the Series. Sure enough, Lonborg's inexperience on two days' rest showed up soon enough and, instead of trusting his bullpen when Lonborg got behind, Williams left Lonborg in to surrender seven runs, six earned, the crowning indignity being Julian Javier's (Julian Javier???) three-run homer in the sixth. Then Williams brought in Santiago starting in the seventh, and Santiago shut the Cardinals out the rest of the way, but the destruction was done.
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Red was much-loved in STL. After him, Whitey Herzog.
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The least difficult thing in baseball was out-classing Leo Durocher.
The real key to the Cardinals' 1967 World Series win: Red Sox manager Dick Williams going with popular sentiment instead of baseball sense and starting his Cy Young Award winner to be Jim Lonborg in Game Seven on two days rest, a situation for which Lonborg wasn't exactly experienced at the time, whereas the Cardinals' Bob Gibson was going in Game Seven on near-full rest. Williams had two other viable options, Gary Bell and Jose Santiago, both of whom had pitched respectably earlier in the Series. Sure enough, Lonborg's inexperience on two days' rest showed up soon enough and, instead of trusting his bullpen when Lonborg got behind, Williams left Lonborg in to surrender seven runs, six earned, the crowning indignity being Julian Javier's (Julian Javier???) three-run homer in the sixth. Then Williams brought in Santiago starting in the seventh, and Santiago shut the Cardinals out the rest of the way, but the destruction was done.
I love that stuff - I remember the '67 Series fairly well. Mayo Smith and Mickey Lolich flipped the outcome in '68. And don't forget the "craziness" of putting Mickey Stanley at shortstop to get Kaline back in the lineup. Baseball, the Beautiful Game.
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I love that stuff - I remember the '67 Series fairly well. Mayo Smith and Mickey Lolich flipped the outcome in '68. And don't forget the "craziness" of putting Mickey Stanley at shortstop to get Kaline back in the lineup. Baseball, the Beautiful Game.
@Lando Lincoln
There are few things equal in this life to the taste of our steaks and the flavour of our baseball, no matter how often either change. Think, too, of . . .
* Casey Stengel staggering the "purists," actual or alleged, when he brought in Bob Kuzava to close out back-to-back World Series against "the percentages," knowing---and this was before anyone ever thought of sabermetrics---that the lefthander Kuzava was actually tougher against righthanded hitters.
* Howard Ehmke, nearing the end of such career as he had, starting a World Series game and setting a new record for strikeouts in a Series game, subsequently broken by Carl Erskine, Sandy Koufax, and Bob Gibson.
* Moe Drabowsky, known better as a flake than a relief pitcher, relieving Dave McNally in Game One, 1966 World Series, and striking out eleven, still a record for relievers in a Series game.
* Gil Hodges, Cleon Jones, the shoe polish, and Donn Clendenon's immediate two-run homer, 1969 World Series, Game Five.
* Davey Johnson, Mets manager, solving a bullpen shortage for a game by inserting Jesse Orosco on the mound, Roger McDowell in right field (Darryl Strawberry was out of the game), and rotating them between the mound and right field each inning until the Mets won the game.
* Billy Martin blowing his nose and prompting an immediate double-steal attempt that backfired on the Yankees---because Martin momentarily forgot that touching his nose was the sign for Yankee runners to try a steal if they weren't thinking of it already. (He usually let men like Mickey Rivers try to steal at will.)
* Vladimir Guerrero swinging at a pitch that bounced up to the plate---and still hitting a double deep to the outfield. (If he isn't the best bad-ball hitter baseball has seen since Yogi Berra, I don't know who is.)
* Everybody knows: Ted Williams's final major league at-bat was a home run at a season's end. Nobody seems to appreciate: David Ross's final major league at-bat was also a home run---in a World Series. Of course, Grandpa Rossy wan't Teddy Ballgame, but you'd be hard pressed to find anyone else ending a career with a blast in a World Series at all, never mind Game Seven. Speaking of which . . .
* The 2016 Cubs.
* Dave Roberts stealing with The Mariano on the mound, starting maybe the most improbable comeback and series overthrow in postseason history---2004 Red Sox.
* George Burns as God to John Denver in Oh, God!---Oh, every now and then I work a small one to keep My hand in. My last miracle was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea. Aaaaah, that was a beauty!
* Luke Appling---all 74 years old of him---opening an old-timer's game in Washington's RFK Stadium by hitting one past the specially drawn-in left field fence (to accommodate the old farts) and into the left field seats, with Warren Spahn (who'd surrendered the bomb) chasing him around the bases playfully, whacking him on the ass with his glove almost all the way. It got Appling more fame than he'd ever known when he did play in the majors, and he was a Hall of Famer in the bargain.
* Reds rookie Chico Ruiz staggering everyone in the yard including Phillies pitcher Art Mahaffey, who then had the best pickoff move in the league, by stealing home with Frank Robinson at the plate (it helped that Mahaffey was startled enough by the attempt that he threw the pitch home a little wild), for the only run of the game that started the Phillie Phold of 1964.
* Darryl Strawberry channeling his inner Roy Hobbs and hitting the Busch Stadium clock on the rim of the upper deck, late 1985.
* Sandy Koufax going mano a mano with Willie Mays.
* Juan Marichal v. Warren Spahn, sixteen innings, 1963.
* Yogi Berra happening upon a pre-All Star Game of American League pitchers discussing how to pitch Stan Musial and saying, "Forget it---you guys are trying to figure out in fifteen minutes what nobody's figured out in fifteen years."
* Tom Seaver knocking Bob Gibson down in retaliation for Gibson decking a Mets batter in a spring training game and hollering, "We can stop right now if you want, but if you want to continue you'd better remember I throw a lot harder than you now, you old fart!" (For the record, Gibson loved it---he recognised a fellow samurai.)
* Pedro Martinez tweeting admiration when Noah Syndergaard opened Game Three, 2015 World Series, by knocking the Royals' plate-crowding Alcides Escobar on his ass. (Tom Verducci, Sports Illustrated writer working as a colour man on the television broadcast: "That's announcing yourself. Game on!" P.S. It was the only game the Mets won in a Series they could have won but handed the Royals thanks to their porous defense.)
* Albert Pujols hitting three homers in one World Series game beginning in the seventh inning.
* The 2011 Cardinals coming back from their final strike twice to win Game Six and go on to win Game Seven.
* Bill Mazeroski, Chris Chambliss, Kirk Gibson, Joe Carter, Aaron Boone, and . . .
* Travis Ishikawa channeling his inner Bobby Thomson. 2014 National League Championship Series.
* Randy Johnson pitching a perfect chair from his walker. OK, that's a joke, son, but he was the oldest man ever to pitch a perfect game---40.
* Bartolo Colon's first major league home run . . .
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVFsq9FQBlc#)
* And, his play to first base . . .
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-27Sb-Vyg#)
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I love that stuff - I remember the '67 Series fairly well. Mayo Smith and Mickey Lolich flipped the outcome in '68. And don't forget the "craziness" of putting Mickey Stanley at shortstop to get Kaline back in the lineup. Baseball, the Beautiful Game.
We have an autographed baseball from the '68 world series Tigers. Mickey Lolich is on it, and Al Kaline. I have a 30th anniversary bat with most of the team's signatures. No Denny McLain on any of them, I understand the other players didn't like him much (And he felt the same about them).
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We have an autographed baseball from the '68 world series Tigers. Mickey Lolich is on it, and Al Kaline. I have a 30th anniversary bat with most of the team's signatures. No Denny McLain on any of them, I understand the other players didn't like him much (And he felt the same about them).
Oh man. Al Kaline is my all time favorite player. All time. No doubt. I listened to every pitch of that Series. Gibson was so fearsome, I thought there was no chance after Game 4. Gibson seemed to strike out everyone to this young fan. Then, Mickey Lolich happened.
@EasyAce - thank you for the tally of amazing moments.
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OMG!
Just breaking - Anthony Bourdain, dead at 61. Suicide
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/08/us/anthony-bourdain-obit/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/08/us/anthony-bourdain-obit/index.html)
This week has really been miserable
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Chef and television personality Anthony Bourdain commits suicide at 61
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Anthony_Bourdain_2014_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Anthony_Bourdain_2014_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Bourdain, who worked as a chef for over two decades before his breakthrough, first came to the national spotlight with his 2000 book Kitchen Confidential. Known for his blunt and straightforward personality, Bourdain transitioned quickly to television; in 2005, he began a seven-year association with the Travel Channel, where his travelogue series No Reservations and The Layover still air. He had produced the similarly themed Parts Unknown for CNN since 2012.
Bourdain committed suicide by hanging the morning of June 8 in France, where he was working on a Parts Unknown episode.
Obituary from Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-anthonybourdain/u-s-celebrity-chef-and-tv-host-anthony-bourdain-dead-at-61-cnn-idUSKCN1J41JA)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Bourdain)
IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1113529/)
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He got paid to travel and eat in exotic places. There's a scenario where you'd expect someone would want to live. Weird.
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The HOF has been consistently snubbing the entire branch of Prog Rock since its creation.
@Cyber Liberty
Probably because it is almost exclusively white when it comes to both the players,and especially the audiences. Non-whites are the only Americans that matter.
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He got paid to travel and eat in exotic places. There's a scenario where you'd expect someone would want to live. Weird.
@edpc
At his age he was just starting on the personal era where a lot of people start getting bad news about their health and futures. Who knows what info will emerge soon about him?
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@edpc
At his age he was just starting on the personal era where a lot of people start getting bad news about their health and futures. Who knows what info will emerge soon about him?
He drank heavily and was a heroine user for many years. I'm sure it added up.
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Looks like it was the week for over the hill pompous Upper East Side Liberals to kill themselves.
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Douglas Duncan, Photojournalist, Marine, dies age 102
To photograph the U.S. assault on Okinawa, a World War II battle so fierce it was remembered as a “typhoon of steel,†David Douglas Duncan lay suspended under the wing of a P-38 fighter plane.
Duncan, a combat photographer with the Marines, was sealed inside a cramped, acrylic-tipped tank designed to transport wounded troops. His camera in one hand, he kept a towel in the other to wipe sweat and condensation from the glass, allowing him to capture the precise moment at which Marine bombers dropped napalm on Japanese pillboxes.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-ln-david-douglas-duncan-20180607-story.html (http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-ln-david-douglas-duncan-20180607-story.html)
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He got paid to travel and eat in exotic places. There's a scenario where you'd expect someone would want to live. Weird.
Heavy drinker, heavy smoker, did lots of drugs. Atheist, so he didn't believe in an afterlife. Twice divorced. I can't help thinking the guy didn't value life all that much.
It is kind of a shame. I enjoyed his TV work.
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He drank heavily and was a heroine user for many years. I'm sure it added up.
@driftdiver
After age 60 it ALL starts to add up,including nights you didn't get enough sleep. If what you say about him being a heavy drinker and smack user for decades,and I have no doubt you are right,only makes it worse because he obviously had emotional problems long before the physical problems came about that are associated with aging.
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@driftdiver
After age 60 it ALL starts to add up,including nights you didn't get enough sleep. If what you say about him being a heavy drinker and smack user for decades,and I have no doubt you are right,only makes it worse because he obviously had emotional problems long before the physical problems came about that are associated with aging.
He openly spoke about it many times. In this article he talks about searching the carpet and smoking the paint chips hoping it was smack. Apparently it was quite common in the NY food industry where he worked when young.
https://www.thefix.com/content/anthony-bourdain-addicted-past91330 (https://www.thefix.com/content/anthony-bourdain-addicted-past91330)
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Douglas Duncan, Photojournalist, Marine, dies age 102
To photograph the U.S. assault on Okinawa, a World War II battle so fierce it was remembered as a “typhoon of steel,†David Douglas Duncan lay suspended under the wing of a P-38 fighter plane.
Duncan, a combat photographer with the Marines, was sealed inside a cramped, acrylic-tipped tank designed to transport wounded troops. His camera in one hand, he kept a towel in the other to wipe sweat and condensation from the glass, allowing him to capture the precise moment at which Marine bombers dropped napalm on Japanese pillboxes.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-ln-david-douglas-duncan-20180607-story.html (http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-ln-david-douglas-duncan-20180607-story.html)
@Slip18
THAT was a life well-lived! Thank you,Mr. Duncan!
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He openly spoke about it many times. In this article he talks about searching the carpet and smoking the paint chips hoping it was smack. Apparently it was quite common in the NY food industry where he worked when young.
https://www.thefix.com/content/anthony-bourdain-addicted-past91330 (https://www.thefix.com/content/anthony-bourdain-addicted-past91330)
Those paint chips had lead in them back then. Crazy.
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He openly spoke about it many times. In this article he talks about searching the carpet and smoking the paint chips hoping it was smack. Apparently it was quite common in the NY food industry where he worked when young.
https://www.thefix.com/content/anthony-bourdain-addicted-past91330 (https://www.thefix.com/content/anthony-bourdain-addicted-past91330)
There are plenty of ex junkies around that are not killing themselves. Kate Spade have a heavy smack habit? There is no correlation between his past habits and this silly shit.
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There are plenty of ex junkies around that are not killing themselves. Kate Spade have a heavy smack habit? There is no correlation between his past habits and this silly shit.
@Frank Cannon
Well if you read the thread we were referring to him running away from problems.
I don't have any sympathy for heroine addicts. Its not like anyone doesn't know what it does to people.
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@Slip18
THAT was a life well-lived! Thank you,Mr. Duncan!
Yes, he lived a very interesting life, IMHO. Mr. Duncan has many fabulous books available, too. He actually has six books on Picasso.
If you dig in deeper than the L.A. Times obituary, he really was something. He picked up a job with Life Magazine while wearing his Marines duds! He did not like working there, so he went on to Harpers Magazine.
He was photographed working in 2006. What an amazing life!
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@Frank Cannon
Well if you read the thread we were referring to him running away from problems.
I don't have any sympathy for heroine addicts. Its not like anyone doesn't know what it does to people.
Running away from problems or having a good time. I know loads of respected business owners and family men who partied their asses off in their youth. Tony was clean for decades. It's a non factor. He was just a weak loser.
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@Frank Cannon
Well if you read the thread we were referring to him running away from problems.
I don't have any sympathy for heroine addicts. Its not like anyone doesn't know what it does to people.
@driftdiver
I do. Not enough to overlook the fact they are flawed people because they ARE flawed people. Very few people become junkies because they WANT to be an addict. They have something wrong in their minds that draws them towards it. Granted,there are probably a small percentage that think being a junkie makes them cool,makes them artistic,etc,etc,etc,but who is going to argue against the fact that THOSE people have personality as well as physical problems?
Which is not to say they shouldn't be held responsible for any crimes they commit.
Or that I would ever trust one with anything. You just can't trust a junkie. ANY junkie.
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He got paid to travel and eat in exotic places. There's a scenario where you'd expect someone would want to live. Weird.
He always came off as angry to me. I didn't watch him because of that.
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We have a decent idea of what he may have eaten.
Although roasted bone marrow or tuna belly may not be his favorite meal, those dishes would be the last he would want to savor before he ever kicks the bucket. "I like roasted bone marrow for my last meal," said Bourdain. "You know a few lengths of veil leg bone roasted with some toasted baguette, a little sea salt, a little parsley, and some caper salad, and smear all that onto a toasted French bead, and that is a delicious meal."
https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/09/25-things-you-didnt-know-about-anthony-bourdain/first-respectable-job-was-a-dishwasher-boy (https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/09/25-things-you-didnt-know-about-anthony-bourdain/first-respectable-job-was-a-dishwasher-boy)
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He always came off as angry to me. I didn't watch him because of that.
Thank you for that. Exactly, the vibe I got.
To a lady friend, he was her 'Elvis'. She DVR'd everything..."Anthony this...Anthony that..."
She's a Commie too. ^-^
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It's not uncommon for the most pampered people to be the ones who off themselves. They never can reach a level of satisfaction and they never reach any level of thankfulness. Many suicides I knew were blessed but refused to see it. Most people I know with Depression are incredibly self-focused. I can never tell if the Depression causes it or comes from it.
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He always came off as angry to me. I didn't watch him because of that.
I never watched his show, but was comforted by the fact someone actually in the world of food found Rachel Ray as annoying as I did.
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BREAKING: Former Cardinals player, manager Red Schoendienst dies at 95, was oldest living member of Baseball Hall of Fame.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1004530425606344704
What's shocking is that now Tommy Lasorda is the oldest living Hall of Famer, who ever would have thought way back then that would have been the case. Guess it just goes to show that eating pasta is good for you after all.
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Heavy drinker, heavy smoker, did lots of drugs. Atheist, so he didn't believe in an afterlife. Twice divorced. I can't help thinking the guy didn't value life all that much.
It is kind of a shame. I enjoyed his TV work.
Said he would poison Trump if he cooked for him.
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Said he would poison Trump if he cooked for him.
He must have mixed up the plates.... :cool:
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He must have mixed up the plates.... :cool:
:beer:
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He must have mixed up the plates.... :cool:
LOL. Top Notch!
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Said he would poison Trump if he cooked for him.
What the hell is wrong with you people? Can't you leave Donald Trump out of anything?!
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What the hell is wrong with you people?
Well my father left when I was young and my mother didn't love me.....plus I didn't get a good quote from Geico because of an incident that I legally can't discuss.
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What the hell is wrong with you people? Can't you leave Donald Trump out of anything?!
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What the hell is wrong with you people? Can't you leave Donald Trump out of anything?!
He obviously couldn't.
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He got paid to travel and eat in exotic places. There's a scenario where you'd expect someone would want to live. Weird.
He wrote of the stress of never being home, always waking up somewhere else, nightmares about being stuck in a hotel, never getting to see his wife and daughter, etc.
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He wrote of the stress of never being home, always waking up somewhere else, nightmares about being stuck in a hotel, never getting to see his wife and daughter, etc.
Yeah, so he killed himself instead of quitting some shit show on CNN........makes a lot of sense.
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He wrote of the stress of never being home, always waking up somewhere else, nightmares about being stuck in a hotel, never getting to see his wife and daughter, etc.
Well, that was his choice.
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He always came off as angry to me. I didn't watch him because of that.
I found him condescending and annoying. He recently did an episode of his show in WV. He chose to visit a poor southern area, because he was hoping for ignorance and bigotry. To his surprise, he found good hearted, friendly folks who were well informed and not prejudiced at all. To his credit, he acknowledged his own prejudice, more or less.
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I found him condescending and annoying. He recently did an episode of his show in WV. He chose to visit a poor southern area, because he was hoping for ignorance and bigotry. To his surprise, he found good hearted, friendly folks who were well informed and not prejudiced at all. To his credit, he acknowledged his own prejudice, more or less.
That I might have watched.
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Said he would poison Trump if he cooked for him.
Completely forgot about that. :smokin:
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He wrote of the stress of never being home, always waking up somewhere else, nightmares about being stuck in a hotel, never getting to see his wife and daughter, etc.
Maybe he will get to see them more now that he's not rushing around so much..
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I found him condescending and annoying. He recently did an episode of his show in WV. He chose to visit a poor southern area, because he was hoping for ignorance and bigotry. To his surprise, he found good hearted, friendly folks who were well informed and not prejudiced at all. To his credit, he acknowledged his own prejudice, more or less.
Watched his show once where he was eating insects I was just about to start dinner, but that segment spoiled my appetite. And I'm normally the kind of person who can eat anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances.
Maybe I should have watched Bourdain more often. Would have been a great weight loss tool.
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Maybe he will get to see them more now that he's not rushing around so much..
LOL. Nice.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-44425293 (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-44425293)
First Bond girl, Eunice Gayson passes away at 90.
(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3z6xIzEVoPM/WGbKcRyyhcI/AAAAAAAAB3k/KlWn79GzRJsOKNMO6krXE17c3z-VTaC3ACLcB/s1600/eunice.jpg)
Maybe the first time, these famous words were uttered:
"Trench, Sylvia Trench. I admire your luck, Mr... ?"
"Bond, James Bond."
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Fleetwood Mac Guitarist Danny Kirwan Dead at 68 (https://variety.com/2018/music/news/fleetwood-mac-guitarist-danny-kirwan-dead-at-68-1202838640/)
Danny Kirwan joined Fleetwood Mac in their early days as a great blues group, for part of their English Rose album (a U.S. hybrid of two British albums, The Pious Bird of Good Omen and Mr. Wonderful; he became founder/leader Peter Green's best guitar teammate when Jeremy Spencer---he of the incessant Elmore James cloning and insipid old-time rock and roll parodies (including his rather disgusting habit of hanging water-filled condoms from his guitar's tuners during live performances of those parodies)---decided he didn't want to play on Green's material. Kirwan was eventually sacked from the group (Green and Spencer were long gone by then, and they were becoming a very different band) over his alcoholism after the Bare Trees album and, after making four albums on his own, all but disappeared, being reported homeless at various times in his life.
RIP . . .
Fleetwood Mac, "Like It This Way" (written and sung by Danny Kirwan with slick call-and-response jamming between himself and Peter Green)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLceldAbYuU#)
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I liked the Mac Fleetwood in the early days...I didn't like Nicks.
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Things that make you go hmm (re: Spade, Bourdain)…
https://truepundit.com/anthony-bourdains-haunting-tweet-weeks-before-his-suicide-about-how-hillary-clintons-goons-harassed-him/
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Things that make you go hmm (re: Spade, Bourdain)…
https://truepundit.com/anthony-bourdains-haunting-tweet-weeks-before-his-suicide-about-how-hillary-clintons-goons-harassed-him/
I saw this, but I'm skeptical.
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I saw this, but I'm skeptical.
Yeah, I'm not generally a big fan of boogiemen.
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Yeah, I'm not generally a big fan of boogiemen.
Even if he's Hillary.
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Even if he's Hillary.
:laugh:
She's the worst, and considering the trail of dead bodies she's left in her wake, I might make an exception for her.
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Journalist killed in hit and run in DC:
USA TODAY foreign affairs reporter Oren Dorell killed in hit-and-run
Sean Rossman, USA TODAY Published 6:31 p.m. ET June 9, 2018 | Updated 8:19 p.m. ET June 9, 2018
(https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/7a7b9c292f9036fa8bd8529d644067a2a51cb851/c=0-490-1126-1992&r=537&c=0-0-534-712/local/-/media/2018/06/09/USATODAY/USATODAY
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(Photo: Courtesy of Ginny Knapp Dorell)
Oren Dorell, a former construction contractor who became a globe-trotting foreign affairs reporter for USA TODAY, died Friday evening in Washington, D.C. He was 53.
Dorell was hit by a suspected impaired driver while riding his motorcycle. The crash is under investigation.
D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department said Dorell was driving east in the 1100 block of H Street NE on a 2018 Kawasaki Ninja just before 8:30 p.m. when he was struck by a Toyota Camry, which fled the scene. The driver, 47-year-old Daryl Grant Alexander, faces charges of second-degree murder, driving under the influence and leaving after colliding, police said.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/06/09/oren-dorell-usa-today-reporter-killed-hit-run-motorcycle/687887002/ (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/06/09/oren-dorell-usa-today-reporter-killed-hit-run-motorcycle/687887002/)
Phillip Smyth
†@PhillipSmyth
This is awful. @OrenDorell was a kind, down-to-earth, and hard working journalist.
https://twitter.com/PhillipSmyth (https://twitter.com/PhillipSmyth)
It really shows, we never know when we may be taken.
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Gena Goldfinger Turgel, Holocaust survivor dubbed the 'Bride of Belsen', dies at 95
A Polish Jew, Turgel survived a bombing and was interred at four concentration camps during the World War II Holocaust, including a stop at the Bergen-Belsen camp, where she was the caretaker who nursed Anne Frank as Frank died of typhus in the camp. At one of her stops, she survived a stint in a gas chamber, becoming one of the few to come out alive. She ended up marrying one of her liberators, British serviceman Norman Turgel, which earned her the 'Bride of Belsen' name.
Turgel spent most of the rest of her life in England educating people about the Holocaust. Her memoir, I Light a Candle, was published in 1987.
Obituary from the Associated Press (https://apnews.com/82690b7384754ec580c026587cadbe52?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gena_Turgel)
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Gena Goldfinger Turgel, Holocaust survivor dubbed the 'Bride of Belsen', dies at 95
A Polish Jew, Turgel survived a bombing and was interred at four concentration camps during the World War II Holocaust, including a stop at the Bergen-Belsen camp, where she was the caretaker who nursed Anne Frank as Frank died of typhus in the camp. At one of her stops, she survived a stint in a gas chamber, becoming one of the few to come out alive. She ended up marrying one of her liberators, British serviceman Norman Turgel, which earned her the 'Bride of Belsen' name.
Turgel spent most of the rest of her life in England educating people about the Holocaust. Her memoir, I Light a Candle, was published in 1987.
Obituary from the Associated Press (https://apnews.com/82690b7384754ec580c026587cadbe52?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gena_Turgel)
What a life she had!
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Eunice Gayson, First ‘Bond’ Girl, Dies at 90 (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/eunice-gayson-first-bond-girl-173004023.html)
RIP Sylvia Trench (in Dr. No, the film that launched the franchise).
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Gena Goldfinger Turgel, Holocaust survivor dubbed the 'Bride of Belsen', dies at 95
A Polish Jew, Turgel survived a bombing and was interred at four concentration camps during the World War II Holocaust, including a stop at the Bergen-Belsen camp, where she was the caretaker who nursed Anne Frank as Frank died of typhus in the camp. At one of her stops, she survived a stint in a gas chamber, becoming one of the few to come out alive. She ended up marrying one of her liberators, British serviceman Norman Turgel, which earned her the 'Bride of Belsen' name.
Turgel spent most of the rest of her life in England educating people about the Holocaust. Her memoir, I Light a Candle, was published in 1987.
Obituary from the Associated Press (https://apnews.com/82690b7384754ec580c026587cadbe52?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gena_Turgel)
@jmyrlefuller
My favorite part of her bio is where it says "she is survived by children,grandchildren,and great-grandchildren".
She beat the bastards!
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@jmyrlefuller
My favorite part of her bio is where it says "she is survived by children,grandchildren,and great-grandchildren".
She beat the bastards!
@sneakypete
I just did some reading about her. Beat them? She buried them.
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D.J. Fontana, pioneering rock-and-roll drummer who drummed for Elvis Presley, dies at 87
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/DJ_Fontana_performing_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-DJ_Fontana_performing_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Fontana, a drummer who originally was trained in jazz stylings, joined Sun Records after a stretch with the Louisiana Hayride radio program in 1954. His backbeat-driven drumming, a contrast from the country-style drumming that most Southern artists used at the time, was a distinguishing styling that caught the attention of Sun recording artist Elvis Presley. Presley would keep Fontana on as a drummer through 1968 (which is when he went to a sleeker big-band sound that would dominate Presley's recordings for the rest of his life).
Fontana does not appear to have had a meaningful career in music after his time with Presley ended.
Obituary from Ultimate Classic Rock (http://ultimateclassicrock.com/dj-fontana-dies/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._J._Fontana)
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@jmyrlefuller
My favorite part of her bio is where it says "she is survived by children,grandchildren,and great-grandchildren".
She beat the bastards!
I can't believe there are pigs out there who would deny the Holocaust happened.
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Matt “Guitar†Murphy Dies: Blues Brothers Guitarist And Noted Sideman Was 88
by Bruce Haring June 15, 2018 5:10pm
https://deadline.com/2018/06/matt-guitar-murphy-dies-blues-brothers-guitarist-and-noted-sideman-was-88-1202411826/ (https://deadline.com/2018/06/matt-guitar-murphy-dies-blues-brothers-guitarist-and-noted-sideman-was-88-1202411826/)
Matt “Guitar†Murphy, best known as one of the stalwarts of the Blues Brothers Band and a renowned sideman with Howlin’ Wolf, Memphis Slim, Muddy Waters, James Cotton and many others, has died. He was 88 and his death was confirmed by his nephew, Floyd Murphy Jr., on Facebook.
Murphy gained his biggest audience as a member of the band in the Blues Brothers movies, appearing as the beleagured husband of cafe owner Aretha Franklin, insisting that he was “the man†when Franklin objected to him re-joining the band.
[...]
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFzRbaOjrS0#)
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Those were fun movies. And such a great assortment of musical talent.
Rest in peace, Mr. Murphy.
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One of my favorite scenes. Godspeed, Mr. Murphy.
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Ed Roebuck, pitcher on the Brooklyn Dodgers 1955 championship team, dies at 86
Ed Roebuck, who pitched for the only Brooklyn Dodgers team to win a World Series championship and the first Dodgers team in Los Angeles, died Thursday. He was 86...
Roebuck made his major league debut for the Dodgers in 1955, when their lineup included Hall of Famers Roy Campanella, Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Duke Snider. Roebuck worked out of the bullpen, pitching in more games than two relievers who would become much better known: Sandy Koufax and Tom Lasorda.
That Brooklyn team won the World Series. Roebuck and the rest of the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles after the 1957 season. He played for the Dodgers through 1963 and in the major leagues through 1966, twice coming back from shoulder injuries long before arthroscopic surgery had been invented...
More (http://www.latimes.com/sports/mlb/la-sp-dodgers-roebuck-obit-20180615-story.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Roebuck)
Career stats (https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/roebued01.shtml)
@EasyAce
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I saw Matt Guitar Murphy play in Sloppy Joes in Key West. I remember it was hotter 'n 10 Hells in that place.
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Those were fun movies. And such a great assortment of musical talent.
Rest in peace, Mr. Murphy.
Plus the location of the movie..
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Ed Roebuck, pitcher on the Brooklyn Dodgers 1955 championship team, dies at 86
More (http://www.latimes.com/sports/mlb/la-sp-dodgers-roebuck-obit-20180615-story.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Roebuck)
Career stats (https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/roebued01.shtml)
@EasyAce
@Machiavelli
Ed Roebuck was also a member of the ill-fated 1964 Phillies; he had his last truly good season on that team, with 12 saves and a 2.30 earned run average. His best gig that year was probably the five-inning stint he pitched out of the pen in a sixteen-inning game the Phillies went on to lose to the Dodgers, 4-3, when Jack Baldschun, the Phillies' other top reliever that year, pitched two and two thirds shutout innings afterward until he loaded the bases on a wild pitch, came out for Morrie Steevens, and Ron Fairly stole home to win it and charge Baldschun with the hard-luck loss. (It was another steal of home, of course---Cincinnati rookie Chico Ruiz, catching Philadelphia pitcher Art Mahaffey, who had the best pickoff move in the league at the time, completely by surprise when he broke for home with Frank Robinson at the plate. The startled Mahaffey threw home high and Ruiz made it safe. It started the infamous losing streak, abetted when a furious Gene Mauch apparently blamed Mahaffey's "cracking under pressure" for the theft---an accusation Mahaffey's teammates reject to this day---and refused to let Mahaffey make his next start.)
Roebuck roomed with Sandy Koufax on the Dodgers, at a time when Koufax wasn't yet Koufax, and when Koufax one day in 1960 thought aloud about leaving baseball, Roebuck replied, "Sandy, if you do, would you leave me your left arm?" Roebuck himself was coming back from arm trouble (it cost him a spot on the Dodgers' 1959 World Series winner) when he was put in the charge of a scout named Ken Meyers, who showed him how to work around his shoulder issues without damaging the shoulder any further. It was Meyers---with Roebuck, catcher Norm Sherry, and outfielder Wally Moon along for the ride---who prompted Koufax in a pizza bar to wind up, throw to a spot Meyers burned in the wall with a cigar, and there was where Meyers spotted the flaw that kept Koufax back: Koufax pulled so far back winding up and kicking to throw that he obstructed half his vision to the plate. Meyers got Koufax to straighten up more in his windup and Sherry translated it as "Sandy, you don't have to throw so hard." The next day, pitching in a B-game in spring training, Koufax wiggled out of a first-inning jam, kept throwing with the straighter windup and easier delivery (Sherry at the mound: "Sandy, I don't know if you realise it, but your ball got to the plate faster when you weren't trying to throw it that hard"), threw a seven-inning no-hitter, and began to become Koufax.
"Goes to show you how hard baseball is," Roebuck said. "Casey Stengel once said, 'Forget that other fella. [Walter Johnson.] Forget Waddell. The Jewish kid is the best of any of them."
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@Machiavelli
Ed Roebuck was also a member of the ill-fated 1964 Phillies; he had his last truly good season on that team, with 12 saves and a 2.30 earned run average. His best gig that year was probably the five-inning stint he pitched out of the pen in a sixteen-inning game the Phillies went on to lose to the Dodgers, 4-3, when Jack Baldschun, the Phillies' other top reliever that year, pitched two and two thirds shutout innings afterward until he loaded the bases on a wild pitch, came out for Morrie Steevens, and Ron Fairly stole home to win it and charge Baldschun with the hard-luck loss. (It was another steal of home, of course---Cincinnati rookie Chico Ruiz, catching Philadelphia pitcher Art Mahaffey, who had the best pickoff move in the league at the time, completely by surprise when he broke for home with Frank Robinson at the plate. The startled Mahaffey threw home high and Ruiz made it safe. It started the infamous losing streak, abetted when a furious Gene Mauch apparently blamed Mahaffey's "cracking under pressure" for the theft---an accusation Mahaffey's teammates reject to this day---and refused to let Mahaffey make his next start.)
Gene Mauch, who believed you didn't win because you didn't try hard enough.
Some scribes said he had the best mind in baseball. BTW, how many pennants did he win?
I remember when he took over the Angels. He said that he expected 110% at all times. Right, Gene.
Roebuck roomed with Sandy Koufax on the Dodgers, at a time when Koufax wasn't yet Koufax, and when Koufax one day in 1960 thought aloud about leaving baseball, Roebuck replied, "Sandy, if you do, would you leave me your left arm?" Roebuck himself was coming back from arm trouble (it cost him a spot on the Dodgers' 1959 World Series winner) when he was put in the charge of a scout named Ken Meyers, who showed him how to work around his shoulder issues without damaging the shoulder any further. It was Meyers---with Roebuck, catcher Norm Sherry, and outfielder Wally Moon along for the ride---who prompted Koufax in a pizza bar to wind up, throw to a spot Meyers burned in the wall with a cigar, and there was where Meyers spotted the flaw that kept Koufax back: Koufax pulled so far back winding up and kicking to throw that he obstructed half his vision to the plate. Meyers got Koufax to straighten up more in his windup and Sherry translated it as "Sandy, you don't have to throw so hard." The next day, pitching in a B-game in spring training, Koufax wiggled out of a first-inning jam, kept throwing with the straighter windup and easier delivery (Sherry at the mound: "Sandy, I don't know if you realise it, but your ball got to the plate faster when you weren't trying to throw it that hard"), threw a seven-inning no-hitter, and began to become Koufax.
"Goes to show you how hard baseball is," Roebuck said. "Casey Stengel once said, 'Forget that other fella. [Walter Johnson.] Forget Waddell. The Jewish kid is the best of any of them."
Some folks have said that the Kenny Myers / Norm Sherry incident was totally apocraphyl - it never happened. I trust you above them, @EasyAce.
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Gene Mauch, who believed you didn't win because you didn't try hard enough.
Some scribes said he had the best mind in baseball. BTW, how many pennants did he win?
I remember when he took over the Angels. He said that he expected 110% at all times. Right, Gene.
Mauch was one of the sharpest tacticians in the game. But he was also short-sighted enough not to be able to see the full game picture in front of him as often as not. When Chico Ruiz stole home and Mauch blamed Mahaffey, he forgot that the Ruiz steal was the only run in the entire game. He also had a bullpen he inexplicably didn't trust despite men like Jack Baldschun and Ed Roebuck in it. That pennant collapse soiled that team and Mauch; they never again competed for a pennant, they made trades politely described as "insane," tried to convert too many players to roles for which they weren't suited, and Mauch tended in those years to treat injuries as personal affronts to himself.
To his credit, Mauch learned a few things from the Phillies experience. And when Donnie Moore got hit for the game-tying homer with the Angels a strike away from the Series, Mauch never once blamed Moore. He said on several occasions that Moore threw the absolute right pitch, a forkball tailing away from the plate, and Dave Henderson was fortunate to get his bat on it enough to drive it, since the previous pitch was the same pitch a fraction closer to the low outside corner and got foul-ticked. I never forgot a photograph of Mauch trying to console Moore after the Angels lost that game in extra innings. The Angels didn't recover from that loss and ended up losing the ALCS, but this time nobody blamed Mauch for anything except maybe lifting Mike Witt in the ninth when Witt still looked like he had something left in the tank.
Some folks have said that the Kenny Myers / Norm Sherry incident was totally apocraphyl - it never happened. I trust you above them, @EasyAce.
Those folks are wrong. It actually did happen. In fact, it happened a few days after Koufax, trying to figure out once and for all why he couldn't always pitch equal to his ability, accepted a challenge from Wally Moon, who claimed he could predict Koufax's pitches almost exactly. Koufax went out to a practise mound and threw twelve pitches or so. Moon called ten of them correctly. They figured out Koufax held his glove at a different spot against his upper body when maneuvering inside the glove to throw a fastball or a curve ball, and got him to fix that hitch fast. Then came the pizzeria experiment with Ken Meyers. Jane Leavy, Koufax's best biographer, told the story, which wasn't exactly a secret for all those years. Koufax went forward out of spring training in 1961 to smash the National League's single-season strikeout record (Christy Mathewson held it for decades until then), and that proved only the new beginning . . .
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Umpire Dutch Rennert Has Died, But His Strikeout Call Is Probably Still Echoing (https://deadspin.com/umpire-dutch-rennert-has-died-but-his-strikeout-call-i-1826949722)
He was 88. And you almost didn't even have to be in the ballpark to know it was Rennert behind the plate. His strike call could be heard on the parkways behind the ballparks. Though it was more fun to be in the park when he worked the plate; he was hands down the most theatrical ump this side of Ron Luciano. He'd holler "strike!" then turn and drop to a knee like he was a cop about to shoot a perp and thrust his arm out pointing a finger while hollering the number of the strike. Here's one example, from the 1989 World Series . . .
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XjQHqmcmNY#)
RIP.
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Umpire Dutch Rennert Has Died, But His Strikeout Call Is Probably Still Echoing (https://deadspin.com/umpire-dutch-rennert-has-died-but-his-strikeout-call-i-1826949722)
He was 88. And you almost didn't even have to be in the ballpark to know it was Rennert behind the plate. His strike call could be heard on the parkways behind the ballparks. Though it was more fun to be in the park when he worked the plate; he was hands down the most theatrical ump this side of Ron Luciano. He'd holler "strike!" then turn and drop to a knee like he was a cop about to shoot a perp and thrust his arm out pointing a finger while hollering the number of the strike. Here's one example, from the 1989 World Series
RIP.
Heh heh, he had nothing on "Enrico Pallazzo".....
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Umpire Dutch Rennert Has Died, But His Strikeout Call Is Probably Still Echoing (https://deadspin.com/umpire-dutch-rennert-has-died-but-his-strikeout-call-i-1826949722)
He was 88. And you almost didn't even have to be in the ballpark to know it was Rennert behind the plate. His strike call could be heard on the parkways behind the ballparks. Though it was more fun to be in the park when he worked the plate; he was hands down the most theatrical ump this side of Ron Luciano. He'd holler "strike!" then turn and drop to a knee like he was a cop about to shoot a perp and thrust his arm out pointing a finger while hollering the number of the strike. Here's one example, from the 1989 World Series . . .
RIP.
I remember that guy. Loved that guy. If you're gonna do it, do it with style.
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Umpire Dutch Rennert Has
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XjQHqmcmNY#]! No longer available (https://deadspin.com/umpire-dutch-rennert-has-died-but-his-strikeout-call-i-1826949722)
RIP.
Was he in the same class as Ron "the umpire strikes back" Luciano?
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Was he in the same class as Ron "the umpire strikes back" Luciano?
I don't know if he was quite as witty as Luciano, but he was just as colourful on the field.
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Ed Roebuck, pitcher on the Brooklyn Dodgers 1955 championship team, dies at 86
@EasyAce
And I saw him pitch at the Coliseum and Dodger Stadium
(for a time, my idol was a scrappy 2nd baseman named Charlie Neal
"n 1959 Neal had 177 hits with 19 home runs and 17 stolen bases, led the league in sacrifice hits and triples, won a Gold Glove at second base, played in the All-Star Game and earned a championship ring, hitting .370 in the six-game World Series victory over the Chicago White Sox.
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And I saw him pitch at the Coliseum and Dodger Stadium
(for a time, my idol was a scrappy 2nd baseman named Charlie Neal
"n 1959 Neal had 177 hits with 19 home runs and 17 stolen bases, led the league in sacrifice hits and triples, won a Gold Glove at second base, played in the All-Star Game and earned a championship ring, hitting .370 in the six-game World Series victory over the Chicago White Sox.
@truth_seeker
Have I got a Charlie Neal story for you . . .
It happened when Neal was an Original Met, in 1962, in a game against the Cubs at the Polo Grounds. (This was the same game during which Lou Brock shocked the house, including his teammates, by becoming only the third man ever to hit a home run to the dead straightaway bleachers in that park, on the right side of the clubhouse/office building that bisected the bleachers . . . 465 feet from the plate; the previous two were Luke Easter in a Negro Leagues game and Joe Adcock for the Braves.)
Neal was on deck when Marvelous Marv Throneberry hit one to the rear of the park, gunned it for all he was worth, and looked like he pulled into third standing up with a triple. Then Ernie Banks at first base called for the ball, the big meanie. ;) He got the ball, stepped on first, and the first base ump called Throneberry out. Mets manager Casey Stengel barreled out of the dugout intent on knocking the ump into the middle of the next week when first base coach Cookie Lavagetto stopped him, saying, "Forget it, Case---he didn't touch second, either."
Throneberry returned to the dugout exasperated and Neal stepped up to the plate. He ripped one off the facade of the left field upper deck for a home run. Neal wasn't three steps up the first base line when Stengel hopped out of the dugout and halted him. Then, Stengel pointed to first base and stomped his foot. Then Neal ran to first and, as he rounded it, he glanced back. Stengel pointed to second and stomped his foot. The ritual repeated until Neal crossed the plate safe and sound.
The Polo Grounds audience went nutshit with delight.
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Professional wrestler and former NFL player Big Van Vader dies at 55
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Big_Van_Vader_%281996%29.jpg/220px-Big_Van_Vader_%281996%29.jpg)
Vader, real name Leon Allen White, was an offensive lineman for the Los Angeles Rams, appearing in Super Bowl XIV during his only season. He was forced to retire after a knee injury. Six years after that, the 6-foot-4 White entered professional wrestling. His U.S. heyday was in the 1990s as a member of WCW, a transitional period in pro wrestling's history. After that, he became a huge name in Japanese professional wrestling, both figuratively in fan following and in size: he was billed at times as being as heavy as 456 pounds.
White had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2016, stemming from his obesity and years of alcohol abuse, and was given the accurate diagnosis of having two years left to live. He suffered from numerous maladies in his last years of life, including a 33-day coma from an infected surgical wound and a bout with pneumonia.
Obituary from ProWrestlingSheet.com (http://www.prowrestlingsheet.com/big-van-vader-dead/#.WypwVpOn_Mw)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Van_Vader)
Wrestling stats (http://www.profightdb.com/wrestlers/vader-201.html)
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Professional wrestler and former NFL player Big Van Vader dies at 55
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Vader, real name Leon Allen White, was an offensive lineman for the Los Angeles Rams, appearing in Super Bowl XIV during his only season. He was forced to retire after a knee injury. Six years after that, the 6-foot-4 White entered professional wrestling. His U.S. heyday was in the 1990s as a member of WCW, a transitional period in pro wrestling's history. After that, he became a huge name in Japanese professional wrestling, both figuratively in fan following and in size: he was billed at times as being as heavy as 456 pounds.
White had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2016, stemming from his obesity and years of alcohol abuse, and was given the accurate diagnosis of having two years left to live. He suffered from numerous maladies in his last years of life, including a 33-day coma from an infected surgical wound and a bout with pneumonia.
When you are old,fat,and have a serious problem,it always leads to other serious problems. By the time most people seem to realize this,it is too late for them to change their lives. The die has already been cast.
BTW,"knowing" something on an intellectual level is NOT the same thing as understand it even applies to YOU.
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Surprised he made it as long as he did. Most guys of his lifestyle and habits are gone by 50.
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Koko, the gorilla who mastered sign language, dead at 46
7:56 AM EDT. CBS/AP
My phone isn't letting me copy and paste, so just headline for now.
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Koko, the gorilla who mastered sign language, dead at 46
7:56 AM EDT. CBS/AP
My phone isn't letting me copy and paste, so just headline for now.
Got ya covered.
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Born at the San Francisco Zoo in 1971, Koko (full name Hanabiko) was raised throughout her life by her handler, Francine Patterson. She was one of two gorillas Patterson trained in the use of sign language; the other, Michael, died in 2000. Of the two, Koko would prove to be the more fluent of the two, and Patterson claimed a level of cognition that could process up to 2,000 hand signals and express complex levels of thinking.
A few scientists expressed skepticism that Koko was showing advanced intelligence, instead accusing Patterson of trickery; these scientists managed to get several papers published in 1978. Nonetheless, the general public recognized Koko's signings and Patterson's interpretations as legitimate. Other apes, such as Kanzi the bonobo, have been able to communicate with humans, with Kanzi having learned some sign language from Koko.
Koko died in her sleep at age 46 in Woodside, California. No cause of death was stated.
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koko_(gorilla))
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Got ya covered.
:beer:
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Got ya covered.
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Born at the San Francisco Zoo in 1971, Koko (full name Hanabiko) was raised throughout her life by her handler, Francine Patterson. She was one of two gorillas Patterson trained in the use of sign language; the other, Michael, died in 2000. Of the two, Koko would prove to be the more fluent of the two, and Patterson claimed a level of cognition that could process up to 2,000 hand signals and express complex levels of thinking.
A few scientists expressed skepticism that Koko was showing advanced intelligence, instead accusing Patterson of trickery; these scientists managed to get several papers published in 1978. Nonetheless, the general public recognized Koko's signings and Patterson's interpretations as legitimate. Other apes, such as Kanzi the bonobo, have been able to communicate with humans, with Kanzi having learned some sign language from Koko.
Koko died in her sleep at age 46 in Woodside, California. No cause of death was stated.
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koko_(gorilla))
This makes me sad........
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Charles Krauthammer, conservative commentator and Pulitzer Prize winner, dead at 68
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/21/charles-krauthammer-conservative-commentator-and-pulitzer-prize-winner-dead-at-68.html (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/21/charles-krauthammer-conservative-commentator-and-pulitzer-prize-winner-dead-at-68.html)
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Charles Krauthammer, conservative commentator and Pulitzer Prize winner, dead at 68
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/21/charles-krauthammer-conservative-commentator-and-pulitzer-prize-winner-dead-at-68.html (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/21/charles-krauthammer-conservative-commentator-and-pulitzer-prize-winner-dead-at-68.html)
It happened faster than I thought it would when I read his farewell column.
RIP to a man who invariably civilised the day's or the week's events with his writings.
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I didn't agree with everything Krauthammer said, but I respected the heck out of him as a man. What courage.
I knew he was near the end, but this is still hard.
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It happened faster than I thought it would when I read his farewell column.
RIP to a man who invariably civilised the day's or the week's events with his writings.
If he was suffering, it's good that God ended his suffering sooner rather than later.
Rest in peace, Dr. Krsuthammer.
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It happened faster than I thought it would when I read his farewell column.
RIP to a man who invariably civilised the day's or the week's events with his writings.
He may well be the last of the civilized political commentators.
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He may well be the last of the civilized political commentators.
@musiclady
Well, we still have George F. Will. Even if he is now 77.
But think of the ones gone and too much missed, on all sides of the ideological divide . . . James Burnham, Eric Sevareid, Murray Kempton, William Safire, William F. Buckley, Jr. Not to mention the retired Russell Baker. (Not to mention the departed who enhanced baseball with their civility and wit: Jim Murray, Red Smith, Shirley Povich, Bill Heinz, Alison Gordon . . . though we do still have Thomas Boswell and Roger Angell . . .) Their genuine wit and civility has been supplanted for the most part by the kind of creatures to whom civility is weakness, real wit is an illegal alien, and whose bugle call is the Bronx razz.
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@musiclady
Well, we still have George F. Will. Even if he is now 77.
But think of the ones gone and too much missed, on all sides of the ideological divide . . . James Burnham, Eric Sevareid, Murray Kempton, William Safire, William F. Buckley, Jr. Not to mention the retired Russell Baker. (Not to mention the departed who enhanced baseball with their civility and wit: Jim Murray, Red Smith, Shirley Povich, Bill Heinz, Alison Gordon . . . though we do still have Thomas Boswell and Roger Angell . . .) Their genuine wit and civility has been supplanted for the most part by the kind of creatures to whom civility is weakness, real wit is an illegal alien, and whose bugle call is the Bronx razz.
Quotable quote there, Easy! Spot on.
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"I hope that when it comes my time to die, that I have lived a life of honor to receive the respect that Charles Krauthammer has, that those who disagree do so with dignity, and that only a total jackass speaks ill of me. (There'll always be jackasses.)" (my Twitter remarks on the subject of Krauthammer's passing)
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Quotable quote there, Easy! Spot on.
You can say that again, @musiclady
@EasyAce
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You can say that again, @musiclady
@EasyAce
@Suppressed
@musiclady
How do you feel about making a grown man blush?
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I didn't agree with everything Krauthammer said, but I respected the heck out of him as a man. What courage.
I knew he was near the end, but this is still hard.
Neither did I, but he was a giant in the field of roundtable punditry: calm, classy and articulate. He right up there with Buckley in terms of influence, IMO.
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Vinnie Paul, Legendary Drummer for Pantera & Damageplan, Dead at 54
6/22/2018 by Melinda Newman
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/8462386/vinnie-paul-dead-pantera-damageplan-hellyeah (https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/8462386/vinnie-paul-dead-pantera-damageplan-hellyeah)
(https://www.billboard.com/files/styles/article_main_image/public/media/vinnie-paul-press-billboard-1548.jpg)
Confirmed to Billboard, but no further details available.
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Vinnie Paul, Legendary Drummer for Pantera & Damageplan, Dead at 54
As the R & R' ers approach old age, I think studies will it is show that that lifestyle takes a good 10-15 years off life expectancy.
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As the R & R' ers approach old age, I think studies will it is show that that lifestyle takes a good 10-15 years off life expectancy.
Yes, but the Rolling Stones skew the averages.
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Yes, but the Rolling Stones skew the averages.
And Aerosmith...can’t forget the Toxic Twins
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And Aerosmith...can’t forget the Toxic Twins
In spite of Steve Tyler's best efforts.
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As the R & R' ers approach old age, I think studies will it is show that that lifestyle takes a good 10-15 years off life expectancy.
@catfish1957
Ever heard of a little band called "The Rolling Stones"?
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Yes, but the Rolling Stones skew the averages.
@Sanguine
Keef will never die unless he starts eating health food,stops smoking and doing drugs,and starts exercising.
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@Sanguine
Keef will never die unless he starts eating health food,stops smoking and doing drugs,and starts exercising.
And, we know that ain't gonna happen.
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Willie Nelson, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Streisand, Bill Medley, Dick Dale, Tony Bennett still kicking.
BB King, Chuck Berry into their 80s.
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@Sanguine
Keef will never die unless he starts eating health food,stops smoking and doing drugs,and starts exercising.
There's a lame joke that says Keith Richard died three years ago, but no one has told him yet.
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Willie Nelson, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Streisand, Bill Medley, Dick Dale, Tony Bennett still kicking.
BB King, Chuck Berry into their 80s.
@truth_seeker
Tony Bennett is operating on a MUCH higher level than that. His voice seems to be as strong and smooth as even,which should be impossible for a man his age who spent most of his life singing in smoky nightclubs.
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There's a lame joke that says Keith Richard died three years ago, but no one has told him yet.
@Applewood
Remember a few years ago when the Stones were preparing for a world tour in "de islands,man",and Keef tried to climb a coconut tree while drunk to get a coconut,and fell out of the tree?
BTW,I think I read something a few weeks ago about them planning another world tour.
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@Applewood
Remember a few years ago when the Stones were preparing for a world tour in "de islands,man",and Keef tried to climb a coconut tree while drunk to get a coconut,and fell out of the tree?
BTW,I think I read something a few weeks ago about them planning another world tour.
I remember that coconut story. And I won't be surprised if the band tours again. I saw them a few years ago in Pittsburgh. I don't know if there was some trickery involved, but the Stones looked and sounded really good.
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Willie Nelson, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Streisand, Bill Medley, Dick Dale, Tony Bennett still kicking.
BB King, Chuck Berry into their 80s.
@truth_seeker
I saw what may have been B.B. King's last performance, right here in Las Vegas. God bless him but he should have retired well before he did. I talked about it when writing a tribute to him for a local weekly magazine's year-end special section honouring prominent Las Vegas people who passed in 2015:
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More than One Kind Favor
B.B. King gave me a surprise in the summer of 1969 that I still can’t forget. My only regret is that I never got to thank him directly.
I was at summer camp, when the camp announced a trip to Tanglewood, Massachussetts, for a concert at which The Who and Jefferson Airplane would co-headline (it was a kind of Woodstock warmup for those two bands), and B.B. King would open. I’d never heard of him until then; I was fourteen years old, muddled up as a kid could be. We spread blankets and the concert began. At the time, King opened with “Don’t Answer the Door,†a key track on His Best—The Electric B.B. King, as I discovered in due course. I still have few words to describe the way it hit me. Five notes from him and I didn’t want to know anything from either The Who or the Airplane.
I couldn’t wait to get home to the cheap electric guitar my maternal grandmother bought me for my twelfth birthday and start trying to play seriously. Not to mention taking the allowance my mother was kind enough to save for me all summer and buy as many blues records as I could. The haul included three King albums: the aforesaid His Best … , plus Completely Well (at the time his newest release) and Singin’ the Blues (his very early album release). I also bought choice releases by Muddy Waters, Albert King, Robert Johnson, Howlin’ Wolf, the Butterfield Blues Band, Sonny Boy Williamson II* and others. Each told stories I was unaware could be told in music until then. Each said things nobody else had said to this damaged teenage boy. Above them all was B.B. King. His Lucille really was a second human voice. Singing, crying, laughing, whispering, shouting. Saying in a few notes what guitarists since have tried and failed to say with thrice the notes in half the space. Whenever I pick up my guitar, I like to think that I’m thanking King for the gift he gave me all those summers ago.
The musical diversions I made in the years to follow were enough. Invariably, the blues called me back, in due course to stay. King had most to do with that. I rarely lost track of any of King’s coming releases. They bore otherworldly brilliance and human ordinariness alike. None of the ordinariness dimmed the depth of the man at his best, which was more than we had the right to expect.
Not even the final time I saw him live, at the 2014 Big Blues Bender in Las Vegas. I had to fight tears watching my blues father in what seemed like his final days. He could barely get through one verse of a song. His beloved Lucille fell out of tune, her man seemed barely aware of it. He rambled rather than told stories; and I could bear only an hour of it, if that long. Only later was it confirmed what I suspected quietly enough, that Alzheimer’s disease had compounded the diabetes which had long afflicted him. He was human and not without his human frailties, but inflicting that upon B.B. King was an Eighth Amendment violation.
Then I harked to his final studio recording, One Kind Favour. Facing his mortality at last, he opened with “See That My Grave Is Kept Clean,†but he refused to brood and chose to celebrate his life—and life itself. No bluesman of my experience ever allowed less self-pity for his hardships or less self- congratulation for his triumphs and happinesses. I suspect that his attitude, in hand with his outsize talent, is why he became the King of the Blues. (Justice demands the title be retired in his honor.) He may not have intended One Kind Favor as his coda. But to play that and all his recordings, is to say how fortunate we were, to have had him as long as we had him.
So thank you again, Daddy B. For more than one kind favor.
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* For the record, I've never forgotten the precise titles I bought in that hall by those performers: Sail On, Live Wire/Blues Power, King of the Delta Blues Singers, Evil, East-West, Bummer Road, plus Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (John Mayall), Live at Cafe au Go Go (John Lee Hooker), Hate to See You Go (Little Walter), and T-Bone Blues (T-Bone Walker).
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I saw what may have been B.B. King's last performance, right here in Las Vegas. God bless him but he should have retired well before he did. I talked about it when writing a tribute to him for a local
We went to see BB King in the early 90s, during his last tour before retirement (he was about 65 then)
Glad we did. Leon Russell opened for him (he was past his prime, that night).
Anyway, glad to have seen them both. Yes, many people continue for too long.
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@truth_seeker
I saw what may have been B.B. King's last performance, right here in Las Vegas.
@EasyAce @truth_seeker
You are a fortunate man. B.B. King was and remains something special.
God bless him but he should have retired well before he did. I talked about it when writing a tribute to him for a local weekly magazine's year-end special section honouring prominent Las Vegas people who passed in 2015:
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Not even the final time I saw him live, at the 2014 Big Blues Bender in Las Vegas. I had to fight tears watching my blues father in what seemed like his final days. He could barely get through one verse of a song. His beloved Lucille fell out of tune, her man seemed barely aware of it. He rambled rather than told stories; and I could bear only an hour of it, if that long. Only later was it confirmed what I suspected quietly enough, that Alzheimer’s disease had compounded the diabetes which had long afflicted him. He was human and not without his human frailties, but inflicting that upon B.B. King was an Eighth Amendment violation.
The way *I* see it,the man was a worker,not a prima donna,and he was going to get up there and work for as long as he was able to get up there. Celebrate it because it is somthing that gets rarer with every day that passes.
I am just glad that Robert Cray is out there,even though for some reason I will never understand he never seems to get the credit he deserves.
As for da blues deysefs,it's amazing how such simple music can be so damn hard to play right,ain't it?
There is the blues,and then there is everything else.
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Glad we did. Leon Russell opened for him (he was past his prime, that night).
@truth_seeker
I've seen Leon Russel a couple of times,and anytime you get a chance to see him it's time well spent.
The thing that seriously pisses me off about Leon Russell is somebody named Donny Hathaway seems to be getting the credit for writing and recording Leon Russell's songs the last few years,and nobody is correcting the people repeating that garbage.
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@truth_seeker
I've seen Leon Russel a couple of times,and anytime you get a chance to see him it's time well spent.
The thing that seriously pisses me off about Leon Russell is somebody named Donny Hathaway seems to be getting the credit for writing and recording Leon Russell's songs the last few years,and nobody is correcting the people repeating that garbage.
We saw Leon as "The Leon and Mary Russell Showing the mid-late 70s at Universal Amphitheater.
What a show. They both played pianos, dressed all in white, and it rocked !!
Leon was part of the "Wrecking Crew" with Glenn Campbell, etc.
Leon Russell and JJ Cale, both Tulsa and had their own recording studios for a time. @sneakypete @EasyAce
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The thing that seriously pisses me off about Leon Russell is somebody named Donny Hathaway seems to be getting the credit for writing and recording Leon Russell's songs the last few years,and nobody is correcting the people repeating that garbage.
@sneakypete
The only connection between Leon Russell and Donny Hathaway that I know of is that Hathaway did a version of Russell's "A Song for You" on his second album, a set of mostly covers called simply Donny Hathaway. (Some time ago I found that and Hathaway's other albums in a small box issues by Rhino; he was easily one of the best soul performers of the 1970s with marked jazz influences---indeed, he once arranged for Woody Herman as well as for the Impressions, for whose leader Curtis Mayfield he also once served as house keyboardman at Mayfield's label, Curtom.) Hathaway was a potent songwriter in his own right; he hardly needed to seek credit elsewhere---"The Ghetto," from his first album and from a rousing version on his live album, Donny Hathaway Live, was probably his best composition. You wonder if Hathaway covering "A Song for You" on his second album caused some people to believe he'd written the song, since his version is quite different than Russell's original. After recording what proved his last studio album on his own, Extensions of a Man, the depression that plagues Hathaway much of his life came full blown; he was rarely able to work again other than playing small clubs and, after one of several hospital stays fighting the condition, recording one more duet with Roberta Flack ("The Closer I Get to You") and tentatively starting a new album with her, when he was found dead on the sidewalk outside his hotel in 1979. (Police and forensics investigators found a) no sign of any struggle on his body; and, b) the window to his room in the hotel was removed almost professionally, leading to the disclosure that Hathaway was a suicide, which puzzled those who knew him and devastated Flack, since Hathaway's career looked like it might begin reviving in earnest.)
Donny Hathaway, "The Ghetto"
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Donny Hathaway, "A Song for You"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE1nh7KREcA#)
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@sneakypete
The only connection between Leon Russell and Donny Hathaway that I know of is that Hathaway did a version of Russell's "A Song for You" on his second album, a set of mostly covers called simply Donny Hathaway
Donny Hathaway, "The Ghetto"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_jLcorCNZU#)
Donny Hathaway, "A Song for You"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE1nh7KREcA#)
@EasyAce
Yeah,I read all of that on the web too,and it doesn't change the fact that I have heard contestants on teebee singing/talent shows say "I am going to do "A song for you" by Donnie Hathaway",and nobody on the panel or anywhere else correcting them. There is one other Leon Russel song I have heard contestants identify as being written by Hathaway too,but I forget which one right now.
AND....,the version they all do is virtually identical to Leon Russell.
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Koko, the gorilla who mastered sign language, dead at 46
7:56 AM EDT. CBS/AP
My phone isn't letting me copy and paste, so just headline for now.
RIP, little kitten lover . You taught me what inter species love really is
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@EasyAce
Yeah,I read all of that on the web too,and it doesn't change the fact that I have heard contestants on teebee singing/talent shows say "I am going to do "A song for you" by Donnie Hathaway",and nobody on the panel or anywhere else correcting them. There is one other Leon Russel song I have heard contestants identify as being written by Hathaway too,but I forget which one right now.
AND....,the version they all do is virtually identical to Leon Russell.
@sneakypete
If you think television talent contestants have made a job of confusing the issue (they could have heard "A Song for You" first in a Donny Hathaway version without bothering to check the actual songwriting credit), think of how many bar blues bands do "Stormy Monday" and announce it as by the Allman Brothers Band instead of by its author, T-Bone Walker. Or, who do "Crossroads" and announce it as by Eric Clapton or Cream and not its actual author, Robert Johnson. (Of course, the Allman Brothers Band never recorded a version of "Stormy Monday" in the studio, just for the live Fillmore East set---and they only recorded a live version once during the 1971 shows that went into making the album, as I discovered when I bought the box set of all those shows. But when they did play it at one of the shows, they first said it was a Bobby Bland number---Bland having had a big R&B chart hit with his version--before Duane Allman said, "Actually, it's an old T-Bone Walker tune.") And don't get me started on how many bar bands introduce "Soul Man" as "something by the Blues Brothers" and not by Sam & Dave, who had the original hit written for them by Isaac Hayes and David Porter. Or, who introduce "Dreams" as a Molly (Nurse) Hatchet (perfect name for that band, too, considering what noisy butchers they were in live performances) number, and not the Allman Brothers Band who came up with it in the first place.
Though one such band I saw actually had the class to announce their version of "Crossroads" this way: "Eric Clapton made it famous with Cream. Robert Johnson wrote it."
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@sneakypete
If you think television talent contestants have made a job of confusing the issue (they could have heard "A Song for You" first in a Donny Hathaway version without bothering to check the actual songwriting credit), think of how many bar blues bands do "Stormy Monday" and announce it as by the Allman Brothers Band instead of by its author, T-Bone Walker. Or, who do "Crossroads" and announce it as by Eric Clapton or Cream and not its actual author, Robert Johnson. (Of course, the Allman Brothers Band never recorded a version of "Stormy Monday" in the studio, just for the live Fillmore East set---and they only recorded a live version once during the 1971 shows that went into making the album, as I discovered when I bought the box set of all those shows. But when they did play it at one of the shows, they first said it was a Bobby Bland number---Bland having had a big R&B chart hit with his version--before Duane Allman said, "Actually, it's an old T-Bone Walker tune.") And don't get me started on how many bar bands introduce "Soul Man" as "something by the Blues Brothers" and not by Sam & Dave, who had the original hit written for them by Isaac Hayes and David Porter. Or, who introduce "Dreams" as a Molly (Nurse) Hatchet (perfect name for that band, too, considering what noisy butchers they were in live performances) number, and not the Allman Brothers Band who came up with it in the first place.
Though one such band I saw actually had the class to announce their version of "Crossroads" this way: "Eric Clapton made it famous with Cream. Robert Johnson wrote it."
@EasyAce
I remember hearing the Robert Johnson version of it decades ago,but no details. I seriously doubt Johnson had the same arrangement.
And The Allman Brothers Band with both Greg and Duane didn't take a back seat to anybody,and had nothing to apologize for. Other than a few times when Duane tried to sing,that is.
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@EasyAce
I remember hearing the Robert Johnson version of it decades ago,but no details. I seriously doubt Johnson had the same arrangement.
Of course, he didn't, but they still should credit the man. (They could take the example from Clapton himself, who made sure Robert Johnson got the songwriting credits when Cream did versions of "From Four Until Late" and "Crossroads," and who made sure Skip James got a fat royalty check for "I'm So Glad" when Cream first visited the U.S.) Sometimes I like to play Johnson's "When You've Got a Good Friend" with my blues group, and we damn well don't give the credit to Johnny Winter.
And The Allman Brothers Band with both Greg and Duane didn't take a back seat to anybody,and had nothing to apologize for. Other than a few times when Duane tried to sing,that is.
Nobody---certainly not me---said they had anything to apologise for except Duane trying to sing. He had something in common with Mike Bloomfield there: as singers, they were great guitarists.
I have the same problem---I can't sing worth a damn, but my band wrestles with me over it because I think our bassist and our keyboard player are excellent singers and I want them to divide the singing between them, even (especially) on the songs I write for the band, but they don't like to sing other than one or two songs. I can carry a tune for a guide vocal on demos I make of my songs but that's about it, folks. And I know it. I'd rather just be the guitar player and songwriter, but for some perverse reason they think that because I play a guitar it's my duty to sing even if I can't sing worth a damn. I even tried subversively to force the issue by writing a lot of instrumental music for us (we do blues on the jazzier side with a lot of freewheeling jamming), but they loved the instrumentals without taking the hint. ;)
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Richard Harrison, 'The Old Man' on 'Pawn Stars,' has died
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LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — LAS VEGAS (KSNV) - Richard Benjamin Harrison, known affectionately as "The Old Man" on long-running reality series "Pawn Stars," has died.
The Gold & Silver Pawn Shop announced Harrison's passing Monday morning, with a Facebook post saying he was surrounded by his family over the weekend.
http://abc3340.com/news/entertainment/richard-harrison-the-old-man-on-pawn-stars-has-died (http://abc3340.com/news/entertainment/richard-harrison-the-old-man-on-pawn-stars-has-died)
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http://www.tmz.com/2018/06/27/joe-jackson-dead-dies/ (http://www.tmz.com/2018/06/27/joe-jackson-dead-dies/)
Joe Jackson -- the patriarch of the Jackson family -- has died ... TMZ has learned.
Family sources tell TMZ, Joe passed away at 3:30 AM Wednesday in L.A.
We broke the story ... Joe was hospitalized in June with terminal cancer. His family had been flocking to his bedside since. His wife, Katherine, had been at his bedside as were some of Joe's children and grandchildren.
:nometalk:
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Thanks @Millee . I had read a day or 2 ago that Jackson was in the hospital. The story about him is that he was a mean, abusive, chiseling SOB. But now he's in God's hands and it will be up to Him to judge, not me or anyone else. May he rest in peace and may his wife and family have peace, too.
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http://www.tmz.com/2018/06/27/joe-jackson-dead-dies/ (http://www.tmz.com/2018/06/27/joe-jackson-dead-dies/)
Joe Jackson -- the patriarch of the Jackson family -- has died ... TMZ has learned.
At least the only Joe Jackson that matters, still lives....
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Thanks @Millee . I had read a day or 2 ago that Jackson was in the hospital. The story about him is that he was a mean, abusive, chiseling SOB.
The story is that he was the kind of disciplinarian father who crossed the line into child abuse (it's one thing not to take any crap from your children, but it's something else again to deploy excessive physical abuse), though it wasn't put in those terms in the years when he began raising a family. He also went several bridges too far with his children when he discovered they had musical talent and imposed (often brutally) a strict and continuous practise and rehearsal routine upon them, essentially stealing their youth. His children might have become superstars, but the price may have been beyond exorbitant, particularly when it came to Michael Jackson, who spent so much time once he became a powerhouse on his own seeking and trying to live the childhood stolen from him, and running into so many issues on his own when he did so.
But now he's in God's hands and it will be up to Him to judge, not me or anyone else. May he rest in peace and may his wife and family have peace, too.
Indeed.
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Thanks @EasyAce That just about sums up the things I read and heard about Jackson. I also understand that he was abusive to Kathleen, fooled around with other women, fathered at least one illegitimate child, and one story said he acquired a venereal disease which of course, he gave to his wife. Kathleen technically stayed married to him, but I'm not sure if they were still living together.
Personally, if he were my husband, he would have been dead long ago and not from natural causes.
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Harlan Ellison, Sci-Fi Writer Who Contributed to ‘Star Trek,’ ‘Babylon 5,’ Dies at 84
Speculative-fiction writer Harlan Ellison, who penned short stories, novellas and criticism, contributed to TV series including “The Outer Limits,†“Star Trek†and “Babylon 5†and won a notable copyright infringement suit against ABC and Paramount and a settlement in a similar suit over “The Terminator,†has died. He was 84.
More here: https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/harlan-ellison-dead-dies-star-trek-1202861048/ (https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/harlan-ellison-dead-dies-star-trek-1202861048/)
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Harlan Ellison, Sci-Fi Writer Who Contributed to ‘Star Trek,’ ‘Babylon 5,’ Dies at 84
Speculative-fiction writer Harlan Ellison, who penned short stories, novellas and criticism, contributed to TV series including “The Outer Limits,†“Star Trek†and “Babylon 5†and won a notable copyright infringement suit against ABC and Paramount and a settlement in a similar suit over “The Terminator,†has died. He was 84.
More here: https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/harlan-ellison-dead-dies-star-trek-1202861048/ (https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/harlan-ellison-dead-dies-star-trek-1202861048/)
shoot.
Of course it was coming, but . . .
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shoot.
Of course it was coming, but . . .
Yeah... the big names are getting fewer and fewer, and what we're left with seems so pale in comparison. **nononono*
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Gudrun Burwitz Himmler, daughter of Heinrich, worked for German intelligence during cold war, Holocaust denier, helped some Nazis escape justice at the least, after the war has died at 88 years old. She died in May but we may be just getting the news now:
German spy agency acknowledges employing Himmler's daughter
The German spy agency BND confirmed that it had employed Gudrun Burwitz
She died last month at the age of 88 having never renounced her evil father
Heinrich Himmler was commander of the SS and a key architect of the Holocaust
By Tim Stickings For Mailonline and Reuters
Published: 06:31 EDT, 29 June 2018 | Updated: 14:18 EDT, 29 June 2018
Heinrich Himmler's daughter has died at the age of 88, as Germany's top intelligence service admitted it had employed the Nazi sympathiser during the Cold War.
The BND confirmed today that Gudrun Burwitz had worked for the then-West German spy agency in the 1960s, although she never renounced her father or the Nazi regime.
She remained active in far-right extremism in later life, helping war criminals who worked for her evil father escape justice, and speaking at neo-Nazi rallies, before she died last month in Munich.
Read more at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5900491/German-spy-agency-acknowledges-employing-Himmlers-daughter.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5900491/German-spy-agency-acknowledges-employing-Himmlers-daughter.html)
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Gudrun Burwitz Himmler, daughter of Heinrich, worked for German intelligence during cold war, Holocaust denier, helped some Nazis escape justice at the least, after the war has died at 88 years old. She died in May but we may be just getting the news now:
She certainly lived longer than the Goebbels' children.
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She certainly lived longer than the Goebbels' children.
She probably had an allergy to chocolate.
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Gudrun Burwitz Himmler, daughter of Heinrich, worked for German intelligence during cold war, Holocaust denier, helped some Nazis escape justice at the least, after the war has died at 88 years old. She died in May but we may be just getting the news now:
May she burn in hell..
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May she burn in hell..
Justice may be spotty in this life, but we are assured that, for the unrepentant, it is certain in the next.
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https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/177935/doo-wop-singer-eugene-pitt-passes (https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/177935/doo-wop-singer-eugene-pitt-passes)
Doo-wop and soul singer EUGENE PITT has passed. PITT was the lead singer for Eugene Pitt & The Jive Five, who created doo-wop classics such as "My True Story", "Never, Never", and "What Time Is It?" The group enjoyed a renaissance of sorts in the '80s. when they created and sang the a cappella jingle for the NICKELODEON cable channel..
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ79AqEtHXo#)
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May she burn in hell..
May she have seen the light and become one of the saved.
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Bay City Rollers guitarist Alan Longmuir dies at 70
He passed away "peacefully surrounded by family" after reportedly falling ill while on holiday and returning to Edinburgh for treatment.
The band's frontman, Les McKeown, tweeted a picture of him with the message: "RIP Alan Longmuir. The original Bay City Roller."
https://news.sky.com/story/bay-city-rollers-guitarist-alan-longmuir-dies-at-70-11423911
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Bay City Rollers guitarist Alan Longmuir dies at 70
He passed away "peacefully surrounded by family" after reportedly falling ill while on holiday and returning to Edinburgh for treatment.
The band's frontman, Les McKeown, tweeted a picture of him with the message: "RIP Alan Longmuir. The original Bay City Roller."
https://news.sky.com/story/bay-city-rollers-guitarist-alan-longmuir-dies-at-70-11423911
Co-founder, 2nd from the left....
Did you know, he got sick in Mexico per some of what you posted, for all we know, he's another person who has had something slipped into their drink or something. Sad. I read a book on the Rollers. I'll bet if he hadn't gone to Mexico, he'd still be around.... RIP
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I believe Ron Ilitch of the family that owns the Detroit Tigers and Redwings and Little Caesar's Pizza passed on some time ago... but he died from fentanyl and a mix of other drugs. What's somebody like him using these drugs for??
https://www.wxyz.com/news/fentanyl-and-dangerous-mix-of-drugs-linked-to-ron-ilitch-s-death (https://www.wxyz.com/news/fentanyl-and-dangerous-mix-of-drugs-linked-to-ron-ilitch-s-death)
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One of the dogs who portrayed "Duke" in Bush's Beans commercials has died.
One of the dogs that portrayed "Duke" in commercials for Bush's Baked Beans has died. Sam lived in Apopka, Florida, with his owner, Susan, their neighbor David Odom says. Odom's post about Sam's death went viral on Facebook, and now Bush's Baked Beans is responding.
"We continue to be overwhelmed by fan interest and their love of Duke. The relationship between Jay and his beloved dog Duke is the embodiment of the BUSH'S brand, and has been a part of our family story for more than 20 years," Bush's Baked Beans wrote on Facebook on Tuesday. "During that time, we've worked closely with several dogs who portrayed Duke in our commercials, including Sam." ...
CBS News (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/duke-dog-actor-from-bushs-baked-beans-commercials-is-dead/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=53825548)
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Rest in peace, Sam. I always enjoyed those commercials.
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Black Keys Musician Richard Swift Dies at 41
8:42 AM PDT 7/3/2018 by Hilary Lewis
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/richard-swift-dead-black-keys-musician-dies-at-41-1124694 (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/richard-swift-dead-black-keys-musician-dies-at-41-1124694)
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Black Keys Musician Richard Swift Dies at 41
8:42 AM PDT 7/3/2018 by Hilary Lewis
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/richard-swift-dead-black-keys-musician-dies-at-41-1124694 (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/richard-swift-dead-black-keys-musician-dies-at-41-1124694)
So sad. Too young. Black Keys are a great band.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k8es2BNloE&list=PLGBVp7G8Q0aEyfd8vSnZsZO8yWXvGPLsw&index=5#)
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Photographer Alan Diaz who shot the famous photo of Elian Gonzalez’s kidnapping dies at 71
July 4, 2018 by Alberto de la Cruz
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https://babalublog.com/2018/07/04/photographer-alan-diaz-who-shot-the-famous-photo-of-elian-gonzalezs-kidnapping-dies-at-71/
See more about him at link.
AP photographer I believe it says.
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A tremendous image that summed up the whole Liberal (Clinton) lie of "For the children..."
God Bless his soul. That he died on Independence Day is something....
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See more about him at link.
AP photographer I believe it says.
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Ed Schultz, left-wing populist talk host, dies at 64
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Originally a staunch conservative who began his career in sports radio, Schultz claimed that frustrations with the American health care system were a major factor in his decision to shift left. He was one of the first left-leaning talk hosts to get widespread national clearance, with his show often getting cleared on stations that also cleared Air America. He also hosted a television show on NBC for a time, before moving his show to Russian-backed RT.
No cause of death was stated.
Obit from Inforum.com (http://www.inforum.com/news/4468792-ed-schultz-local-and-national-broadcast-personality-has-died)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Schultz)
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Ed Schultz on Heavy Facts
Schultz latest employer, was RT Russia Tody
https://heavy.com/news/2018/07/ed-schultz-dead/
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Doomsday cult leader behind deadly sarin subway attacks was put to death yesterday. According to the BBC , Shoko Asara head of the Aum Shinrikyo cult was hanged.
This guy scared the blank out of me.
http://theweek.com/speedreads/783283/cult-leader-6-followers-executed-23-years-after-sarin-attack-tokyo-subway (http://theweek.com/speedreads/783283/cult-leader-6-followers-executed-23-years-after-sarin-attack-tokyo-subway)
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Doomsday cult leader behind deadly sarin subway attacks was put to death yesterday.
He founded the cult in 1984, and declared himself Christ in 1992.
Did it take him eight years to figure it out?
There are several splinter groups of the cult still in existence, and the Japanese government considers them "dangerous religions," NBC News reports.
Still cooking up poisonous substances? :thud:
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Legendary French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann dies aged 92 ("Shoah")
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxvEWCJdoS4#)
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Steve Ditko, co-creator of Spider-Man, dies at 90
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In the early 1960s, Ditko teamed up with Stan Lee, a veteran at Marvel Comics, to overhaul the company's output. Although his time at Marvel only lasted a few years, he was responsible for two of Marvel's most iconic characters, the ever-popular Spider-Man and Doctor Strange.
Ditko and Lee were opposites in many ways. While the magnanimous Lee has remained with Marvel for decades and has regularly appeared in public as the company's public face, Ditko left in 1965 in a fight with Lee, bouncing around smaller comics for the next few years. He spent the last 50 years of his life in isolation, refusing to grant interviews.
Ditko was found dead in his apartment on June 29.
Obituary from the Hollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/steve-ditko-dead-spider-man-creator-was-90-1125489)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ditko)
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Ex-coach: Former NBA player Tyler Honeycutt dies in suicide
A former coach and family friend says onetime Sacramento Kings and UCLA basketball player Tyler Honeycutt was found dead after a standoff with Los Angeles police.
More (https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/Ex-coach-Former-NBA-player-Tyler-Honeycutt-dies-13056861.php)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Honeycutt)
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Oh poor man
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Steve Ditko, co-creator of Spider-Man, dies at 90
Oh... one of the greats. His art style was unlike anyone else's.
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Tab Hunter has passed away.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/tab-hunter-actor-and-50s-hollywood-golden-boy-dies-at-86/ar-AAzMWOF?OCID=ansmsnnews11 (https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/tab-hunter-actor-and-50s-hollywood-golden-boy-dies-at-86/ar-AAzMWOF?OCID=ansmsnnews11)
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Actor and singer Tab Hunter dies at 86
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Hunter arrived in Hollywood at the age of 19, where he was discovered by Henry Willson, an expert at marketing "pretty boy" teen idols like Hunter. By 1955, he secured a contract with Warner Bros. and became one of the most popular leading men of the early rock-and-roll era. Hunter's successful record deal with a company owned by rival studio Paramount led to the establishment of Warner Bros. Records, a company that (as Warner Music Group) still exists, even though Hunter abandoned his music career in 1959.
By the early 1960s, Hunter had abandoned Hollywood and established himself on the stage. He made a deliberately camp comeback in the 1980s, appearing as a visibly uncomfortable substitute teacher in the notorious Grease 2 and in the John Waters film Polyester. His appearance in Polyester was the first public hint at Hunter's up-until-then closeted homosexuality (Waters only employs genuine eccentrics). Hunter, who purposely hid his sexual preferences during the peak of his career and maintained a public facade of heterosexuality to maintain his all-American boy marketability, came out as gay in the mid-2000s. He maintained his Roman Catholic faith throughout his lifetime.
Hunter died on July 8, three days short of his 87th birthday, from a blood clot.
Obituary from The Hollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tab-hunter-dead-damn-yankees-star-was-86-1057871)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_Hunter)
Hunter's number-one hit, "Young Love:"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5LRe4xecZQ#)
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Bob Ray, beloved 5-term Iowa governor, dies at 89
Robert Dolph Ray, a popular Iowa governor who served five consecutive terms from 1969 to 1983, died Sunday morning. He was 89.
Ray died of natural causes at the Wesley Acres care facility in Des Moines, where he had lived in recent years, his family said.
The genteel Des Moines native came to embody the image many Iowans hold of themselves.
A Republican, he was quiet, humble and thoughtful, yet confident in his deeply held beliefs with the courage to act, especially in the service of others.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2018/07/08/bob-ray-obituary-iowa-governor-robert-ray-dies/998099001/ (https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2018/07/08/bob-ray-obituary-iowa-governor-robert-ray-dies/998099001/)
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Ray was the quintessential Rockefeller Republican, who was Governor during some very good economic times in the state. Nicest guy you'd want to meet, but I doubt he could make it in the times we live in today.
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Helen Miller, who served in the U.S. Army during World War II, dies at 96 (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,323717.msg1736994.html)
(H/T @Freya )
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"he was quiet, humble and thoughtful, yet confident in his deeply held beliefs with the courage to act, especially in the service of others."
Which is the antithesis of 99.9% of the politicians today.
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Actor and singer Tab Hunter dies at 86
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Hunter arrived in Hollywood at the age of 19, where he was discovered by Henry Willson, an expert at marketing "pretty boy" teen idols like Hunter. By 1955, he secured a contract with Warner Bros. and became one of the most popular leading men of the early rock-and-roll era. Hunter's successful record deal with a company owned by rival studio Paramount led to the establishment of Warner Bros. Records, a company that (as Warner Music Group) still exists, even though Hunter abandoned his music career in 1959.
By the early 1960s, Hunter had abandoned Hollywood and established himself on the stage. He made a deliberately camp comeback in the 1980s, appearing as a visibly uncomfortable substitute teacher in the notorious Grease 2 and in the John Waters film Polyester. His appearance in Polyester was the first public hint at Hunter's up-until-then closeted homosexuality (Waters only employs genuine eccentrics). Hunter, who purposely hid his sexual preferences during the peak of his career and maintained a public facade of heterosexuality to maintain his all-American boy marketability, came out as gay in the mid-2000s. He maintained his Roman Catholic faith throughout his lifetime.
Hunter died on July 8, three days short of his 87th birthday, from a blood clot.
Obituary from The Hollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tab-hunter-dead-damn-yankees-star-was-86-1057871)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_Hunter)
Hunter's number-one hit, "Young Love:"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5LRe4xecZQ#)
Who could forget Hunter as the guileless Joe Hardy trying to fend off the devil's handmaiden (Gwen Verdon) in Damn Yankees?
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kjQmgm0r4g#)
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Roger Perry, Actor on 'Star Trek,' 'The Munsters' and 'The Facts of Life,' Dies at 85
Discovered by Lucille Ball, he also appeared in 'The Thing With Two Heads' and was married to actresses Jo Anne Worley and Joyce Bulifant.
Roger Perry, the veteran character actor who guest-starred on a memorable episode of the original Star Trek and portrayed Eastland headmaster Charles Parker on The Facts of Life, has died. He was 85.
Perry died Thursday night at his home in Indian Wells, California, after a battle with prostate cancer, his daughter, Dana Perry McNerney, told The Hollywood Reporter.
More (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/roger-perry-dead-star-trek-munsters-facts-life-actor-was-85-1127047)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Perry)
IMDb (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0675273/)
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LOL. Screen legend from "San Fransisco International Airport" and "Lust in the Dust" Tab Hunter is dead?
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Nancy Sinatra, former wife of Frank Sinatra, dead at 101
Nancy Sinatra, the first wife of singer Frank Sinatra, died Friday at the age of 101, her daughter said.
"My mother passed away peacefully tonight," her daughter, also named Nancy Sinatra, tweeted Friday night.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/14/entertainment/nancy-sinatra-dead-at-101/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/14/entertainment/nancy-sinatra-dead-at-101/index.html)
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Oh man, I thought it was Nancy (these boots were made for walking) who died.
Sorry to hear that about Frank’s widow
Off topic, do girls get called Junior too if they are named after their moms?
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Oh man, I thought it was Nancy (these boots were made for walking) who died.
Sorry to hear that about Frank’s widow
Off topic, do girls get called Junior too if they are named after their moms?
Depends on the family. I've read where Sinatra's daughter was referred to as Nancy, Jr. within the family.
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Ray Emery, NHL goaltender, dies at 35
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Emery had brief but controversial success in the National Hockey League when he rose to become the starter for the Ottawa Senators in 2005. He became one of the few goalies to earn a reputation as a fighter and was reviled for his sometimes-dirty style of play. He was dismissed from the Senators after he was repeatedly arrested for road rage in the 2007-08 season. After his time in Ottawa ended in 2008, he was largely a journeyman, only once (in Chicago from 2011 to 2013) achieving any comparable success of the kind he experienced in Ottawa. His last professional season in 2015-16 was in Germany.
Emery is believed to have drowned while swimming with friends in Hamilton, Ontario.
Obituary from The Sporting News (http://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nhl/news/former-goalie-ray-emery-dies-drowning-blackhawks-flyers-ducks-senators-nhl-news/1gawjmss3j68o1hinzol4hsgpv)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Emery)
Career statistics (http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=50255)
@TomSea hockey ping
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Ray Emery, NHL goaltender, dies at 35
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Emery)
Career statistics (http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=50255)
@TomSea hockey ping
RIP Ray, condolences and sympathies to your family, loved ones and friends. Thanks for the memories while playing for the Philadelphia Flyers.
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Masa Saito passes away after long battle with Parkinson's disease (pro wrestler Mr. Saito)
Masanori Saito, a former Olympian as an amateur wrestler and Hall of Famer as a pro, passed away on Saturday after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.
Saito was 76.
Saito had the most successful long-term career of any Japanese native on the American scene, being a championship-level wrestler in multiple territories from 1968 to 1990. While Giant Baba in the 60s, Great Muta, and now Shinsuke Nakamura were as big or bigger stars, Saito spent the majority of his career in the United States as opposed to a brief version, and was always a headliner as a former Olympian who was a top tier in-ring worker, even with limited English speaking ability.
During most of his career he played the stereotypical salt-throwing Japanese heel, a role mostly played by Hawaiians rather than Japanese wrestlers in the 60s.
More (https://www.f4wonline.com/japan/masa-saito-passes-away-after-long-battle-parkinsons-disease-261771)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masa_Saito)
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Former Steelers, Texas Tech DT Gabe Rivera, who was paralyzed in car accident, dies at 57
Former Texas Tech football star and Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle Gabriel Rivera died Monday at the age of 57.
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Rivera, who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2012, had been in critical condition in recent days due to a perforated bowel, according to the television station.
A San Antonio native who earned the nickname "Señor Sack," Rivera was one of the most dominant defensive linemen in the country during his time at Texas Tech, earning All-America and Southwest Conference defensive player of the year honors in 1982. He was picked No. 21 overall in the 1983 NFL draft by the Steelers.
But then, after recording two sacks in six games as a rookie in Pittsburgh, Rivera was paralyzed in a car crash on his way home from practice. According to KENS-TV, he was legally intoxicated at the time and crossed into an adjacent lane, colliding with another car.
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Excerpt. More at:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/steelers/2018/07/17/gabe-rivera-steelers-texas-tech-football-paralyzed-wreck-dies-nfl/791825002/ (https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/steelers/2018/07/17/gabe-rivera-steelers-texas-tech-football-paralyzed-wreck-dies-nfl/791825002/)
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Former Steelers, Texas Tech DT Gabe Rivera, who was paralyzed in car accident, dies at 57
Excerpt. More at:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/steelers/2018/07/17/gabe-rivera-steelers-texas-tech-football-paralyzed-wreck-dies-nfl/791825002/ (https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/steelers/2018/07/17/gabe-rivera-steelers-texas-tech-football-paralyzed-wreck-dies-nfl/791825002/)
You wonder what might have been if the Steelers had taken not Rivera in his draft but a certain quarterback---a kid native to Pittsburgh named Dan Marino.
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You wonder what might have been if the Steelers had taken not Rivera in his draft but a certain quarterback---a kid native to Pittsburgh named Dan Marino.
Geez, its not those guys already didn't have enough SB rings. Interesting is the fact that Marino is considered the greatest QB not to win a SB.
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You wonder what might have been if the Steelers had taken not Rivera in his draft but a certain quarterback---a kid native to Pittsburgh named Dan Marino.
I had forgotten about that till I read the obit. But at the time Gabe was considered one of the best in his position and he would have been a valuable addition to the team. Just too bad he was so foolish (driving drunk, not wearing a seatbelt) that it cost him what could have been a magnificent career and the Steelers an extraordinary investment.
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Former Steelers, Texas Tech DT Gabe Rivera, who was paralyzed in car accident, dies at 57
Excerpt. More at:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/steelers/2018/07/17/gabe-rivera-steelers-texas-tech-football-paralyzed-wreck-dies-nfl/791825002/ (https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/steelers/2018/07/17/gabe-rivera-steelers-texas-tech-football-paralyzed-wreck-dies-nfl/791825002/)
Whoa, Mandela Effect moment... I swear I remember hearing a report several months ago, about him dying of pneumonia. My wife remembers it that way too...
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John Stormer, ‘None Dare Call It Treason’ Author, Dies at 90
By Neil Genzlinger
July 17, 2018
John A. Stormer, whose self-published 1964 book, “None Dare Call It Treason,†became a right-wing favorite despite being attacked as inaccurate in promulgating the notion that American government and institutions were full of Communist sympathizers, died on July 10 in Troy, Mo. He was 90.
The McCoy-Blossom Funeral Home posted news of his death on its website, saying he had fallen ill a year ago.
Mr. Stormer’s book, published by his own Liberty Bell Press, tapped into a vein of conservative alarm that was still very much present in the early 1960s, even though the Red-baiting era of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy had faded in the 1950s.
Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/obituaries/john-stormer-none-dare-call-it-treason-author-dies-at-90.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/obituaries/john-stormer-none-dare-call-it-treason-author-dies-at-90.html)
Did anyone ever read this book? I had seen it around. Maybe its online to read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Stormer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Stormer)
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Did anyone ever read this book? I had seen it around. Maybe its online to read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Stormer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Stormer)
I've read it. And the fact is that what is said in it has been conclusively proven to be true for the most part.
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Did anyone ever read this book? I had seen it around. Maybe its online to read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Stormer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Stormer)
@TomSea
I wish the funeral was closer. I'd like to attend it to show respect and honor for this man.
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Adrian Joseph Cronauer, real-life "Good Morning, Vietnam" DJ, is dead at 79
Adrian Joseph Cronauer, best known for co-writing the original story for the film "Good Morning Vietnam" about his time as an Air Force DJ in Vietnam, died on Wednesday at the age of 79, according to the obituary posted by a Virginia funeral home. Robin Williams starred as Cronauer in the 1987 film, which earned the actor an Academy Award nomination.
Cronauer's obituary states that he served as a confidential advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense from 2001 through 2009, representing "the POW/MIA Office at meetings within the Office of the Secretary of Defense and at various outside functions including liaison with the leadership of veterans service organizations as well as family and activist groups. ... For his efforts, he holds the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service."
Cronauer was a former U.S. Air Force sergeant and sat on the Board of Directors of the National D-Day Memorial.
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Excerpted. Read more here:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/adrian-joseph-cronauer-real-life-good-morning-vietnam-dj-is-dead-at-79/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/adrian-joseph-cronauer-real-life-good-morning-vietnam-dj-is-dead-at-79/)
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I met Adrian Cronauer in Washington, the year I worked there (at the Heritage Foundation, 1990-91), when I attended a talk he gave at the Cato Institute. Among other things, Cronauer debunked a lot of the manner in which he was portrayed in Good Morning Vietnam, including that he wasn't set up and forced to leave Vietnam before his Air Force hitch expired, and that he never befriended a Viet Cong terrorist. Though he also admitted, "Robin Williams is funny. I'm not." He did get to meet Robin Williams before the film premiered. When Williams shook his hand and said, "I'm glad to meet you," Cronauer replied, "I'm glad to meet me, too." Who says he wasn't funny? But he did agree that Good Morning, Vietnam went a long way otherwise to show American grunts and airmen and otherwise in 'Nam weren't just the baby killing rapists into which their images were distorted in due course.
Regardless of what he felt like politically, he recognized the fact nobody seemed to recognize during Vietnam, which was that there's a difference between the people who are making the policy and the people who are carrying out that policy, the military.---Adrian Cronauer (who was a lifelong Republican), interviewed after Robin Williams's suicide.
RIP.
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Elmarie Wendel, ‘3rd Rock From the Sun’ Actress, Dies at 89
By Erin Nyren
Variety
July 22, 2018
Elmarie Wendel, who played the Solomon family’s landlord Mrs. Dubcek on “3rd Rock From the Sun,†has died. She was 89.
Wendel’s daughter confirmed her death on Instagram Saturday. ...
In addition to her role on “3rd Rock,†Wendel had credits on “Seinfeld,†“Love & War,†“Murphy Brown,†“Murder, She Wrote,†and “Empty Nest.†She also had a voice role in 2012’s Dr. Seuss adaptation “The Lorax†as Aunt Grizelda. Her most recent recurring role was on “George Lopez†from 2003-2007 as Gina.
Wendel was born Nov. 23, 1928 on a farm in Howard County, Iowa and performed with her musical parents and sisters in and around the Midwest. She eventually made the transition to Broadway and off Broadway production in New York City before going to Los Angeles as part of a traveling production of “Annie.†...
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Full story at Variety (https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/elmarie-wendel-dead-dies-3rd-rock-from-the-sun-star-1202880534/)
I remember her from NYPD Blue and Seinfeld.
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Tony J. Sparano, NFL coach, dies suddenly at 56
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Sparano had been an NFL assistant coach since 1999, joining the league with the expansion Cleveland Browns. He followed an unconventional path to the NFL, coaching primarily at Division II New Haven University and I-AA Boston University (whose program has since been shut down) before reaching the NFL. He had one prominent stint as an NFL head coach, that of the Miami Dolphins between 2008 and 2011; while his overall tenure was slightly below average, he did lead the Dolphins to a division title in 2008, the year Tom Brady was injured. Sparano frequently used the "wildcat" offense, in which the running back received a direct snap and could be asked to pass the ball.
At the time of his death, Sparano was an offensive line coach for the Minnesota Vikings. He had complained of chest pains two days before his death but had been sent home without treatment.
He is not to be confused with his son, Tony M. Sparano, who is also an NFL assistant coach.
Obituary from CBS Sports (https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tony-sparano-vikings-offensive-line-coach-and-former-dolphins-head-coach-dies-at-56/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Sparano)
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Sergio Marchionne, Fiat Chrysler CEO.
Apparently from complications following shoulder surgery for a sarcoma.
http://www.oann.com/former-fiat-chrysler-ceo-marchionne-dies/ (http://www.oann.com/former-fiat-chrysler-ceo-marchionne-dies/)
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Gen. Ronald Griffith, Gulf War commander and Army vice chief of staff, dies at 82
The ground offensive effectively ended the Gulf War in 100 hours. Gen. Griffith said he had initially ... He went on to serve ... https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/gen-ronald-griffith-gulf-war-commander-and-army-vice-chief-of-staff-dies-at-82/2018/07/24/ad3f0f1c-8f55-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/gen-ronald-griffith-gulf-war-commander-and-army-vice-chief-of-staff-dies-at-82/2018/07/24/ad3f0f1c-8f55-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html)
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Patrick Williams, Emmy-Winning TV Composer, Dies at 79
Patrick Williams, who was best-known for his Emmy-winning television music but who was also a renowned and Grammy-winning big-band jazz leader and arranger, died Wednesday morning of complications from cancer at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 79.
Williams was among the most versatile composers of his generation, earning an Oscar nomination (for adapting opera in “Breaking Away,†1979), four Emmys (for dramatic music including “Lou Grant,†1980) and two Grammys (for arrangements including his classic jazz album “Threshold,†1974) during more than 50 years of music-making in New York and Los Angeles.
In the middle of his most prolific period, scoring music for TV including “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,†“The Bob Newhart Show†and “The Streets of San Francisco,†he was also nominated for the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in music for his groundbreaking “An American Concerto†(1976) for jazz quartet and symphony orchestra.
More (https://variety.com/2018/tv/obituaries-people-news/patrick-williams-dead-dies-mary-tyler-moore-show-1202886296/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Williams_(composer))
IMDb (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002305/)
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WW2 Spitfire pilot Mary Ellis dies [at 101]
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-44962253 (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-44962253)
More awful news. RIP Mary Ellis. A legend of the Air Transport Auxiliary. Over 1000 aircraft; 76 different types and over 400 Spitfires alone. I hope you’re enjoying a well-earned sherry up there with Joy Lofthouse again. Blue skies Ma’am #LestWeForget pic.twitter.com/1v0yCbniJG
— Mike Ling MBE (Red 3) (@MikeLingPilot) July 25, 2018
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In memoriam: Willie Brown, football star and assistant football, baseball coach
Willie Brown, a player and assistant coach on Trojan national championship football and baseball teams, died Thursday in Carson of cancer. He was 76.
A three-year letterman (1961-63) and two-time All-Conference first teamer (1962-63) in football at USC, he was a member of USC’s 1962 national championship team and captained the 1963 squad. USC’s original I-formation tailback, Brown played the position during his first two seasons, including when head coach John McKay introduced the I-formation to the Trojan offense in 1961.
More (http://news.usc.edu/146970/in-memoriam-willie-brown-ex-usc-football-and-baseball-star-and-assistant-coach/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Brown_(coach))
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Team GB snowboarder Ellie Soutter dies on 18th birthday
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The teenager, who died on her birthday on Wednesday, was considered a rising star in the sport, having won bronze at the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival in Turkey last year.
She was just 16 at the time, and it was the only medal Team GB took home from the event.
Read more at: https://www.msn.com/en-nz/sport/more-sports/team-gb-snowboarder-ellie-soutter-dies-on-18th-birthday/ar-BBL6BHj?li=BBqdhxG (https://www.msn.com/en-nz/sport/more-sports/team-gb-snowboarder-ellie-soutter-dies-on-18th-birthday/ar-BBL6BHj?li=BBqdhxG)
Rest In Peace but there was some other death like this, so young.... and a lack of cause of death... suicide? It's sad to say, I'm sorry for however this talented young woman died.
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and a lack of cause of death... suicide?
Considering the statement included information about the Suicide Prevention Hotline, I think that's a correct guess.
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Considering the statement included information about the Suicide Prevention Hotline, I think that's a correct guess.
@Suppressed
It looks that way,no matter how inconceivable it may be to us. One story has her father saying contributions can be made to a suicide hot line.
"Crazy" can just happen to anyone at any time.
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Bill Loud, the Father of TV’s ‘An American Family,’ Dies at 97
Bill Loud was not the first person to play the role of a father on television. What made him a pioneer was that he was not acting — and that he was often not acting responsibly.
In 1973, when PBS broadcast “An American Family,†Mr. Loud, who died on Thursday in Los Angeles at 97, was the tan and philandering head of an affluent real-life household whose domestic dramas in Santa Barbara, Calif., were captured on camera for 300 hours and edited into 12 hourlong episodes now regarded as the genesis of reality television.
“An American Family†shocked American families. Aired with the imprimatur of public broadcasting, it was portrayed as sociological exploration, not exploitation, and although many people found it irresistible, it was also hard to watch.
More (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/27/obituaries/bill-loud-dead-american-family.html)
An American Family (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Family)
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Professional golfer Bruce Lietzke dies at 67
Lietzke was a member of the PGA Tour from 1977 to 1994, winning thirteen tournaments and finishing the 1991 US Open in second place. He netted an additional seven victories on the Champions Tour, including his only major win, the 2003 US Senior Open. A natural pro who seldom practiced so that he could spend more time with his family, Lietzke was known for being largely a part-time golfer, capable of finishing in the top 75 in earnings each year on the tour despite seldom playing more than 20 tournaments in a year.
Lietzke, who had previously been in relatively good health, died of complications from treatment to fight glioblastoma.
Obituary from Golf Digest (https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/golf/bruce-lietzke-67-succumbs-to-brain-cancer/ar-BBLb11l)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lietzke)
PGA Tour profile (https://www.pgatour.com/players/player.01690.bruce-lietzke.html)
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Former pitcher, Yanks coach Tony Cloninger dies at 77; once hit two grand slams in game (http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/24221679/former-pitcher-yankees-coach-tony-cloninger-dies-77)
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He was a 24-game winner for the 1965 Braves, but he's best remembered for hitting that pair of grand salamis during a 1966 Braves blowout of the Giants in San Francisco.
Cloninger's salamis were the first time any National League player hit a pair in one game, and he was the first pitcher ever, in either league, to turn that trick. His nine runs batted in on the day broke the record for pitchers set by Vic Raschi (seven) of the Yankees. That record still stands. Cloninger also busted a single-game RBI record---it had been five before his San Francisco mayhem, and he himself was one of the pitchers who'd done that, too.
RIP.
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WWE Hall of Famer, legendary heel Nikolai Volkoff dies at age 70
Nikolai Volkoff, real name Josip Nikolai Peruzovic, passed away Sunday morning at age 70, WWE has confirmed.
Born in Croatia, Volkoff first worked for the New York territory -- then known as the World Wide Wrestling Federation -- under the direction of Vince McMahon Sr. beginning in 1968 under the moniker of Bepo Mongol. He departed the promotion in 1971 and returned in 1974 to feud with some of the territory's biggest stars such as Bruno Sammartino and Bob Backlund.
https://www.cbssports.com/wwe/news/wwe-hall-of-famer-legendary-heel-nikolai-volkoff-dies-at-age-70/ (https://www.cbssports.com/wwe/news/wwe-hall-of-famer-legendary-heel-nikolai-volkoff-dies-at-age-70/)
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Nikolai Volkoff RIP, he ran for public office a few years ago in the Baltimore area which his wikipedia bio confirms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Volkoff#Personal_life
That was always a barrel of laughs, he and the Iron Shiek, who is still living. Whenever I saw them, they were a team managed by Classy Freddie Blassie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Sheik
The Iron Shiek actually had some real athletic prowess about him and videos that show it over at youtube, swinging those big clubs which they actually do in Iran, India and other countries.
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Ron Dellums, Forceful Liberal in Congress for 27 Years, Dies at 82
Ron Dellums, the son of a longshoreman who became one of America’s best-known black congressmen, a California Democrat with a left-wing agenda that put civil rights and programs for people ahead of weapons systems and warfare, died early Monday at his home in Washington. He was 82.
His death was confirmed by Dan Lindheim, who was an aide to Mr. Dellums on Capitol Hill and was city manager of Oakland when Mr. Dellums was a one-term mayor there a decade ago. Mr. Dellums had cancer, he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/obituaries/ron-dellums-forceful-liberal-in-congress-for-27-years-dies-at-82.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/obituaries/ron-dellums-forceful-liberal-in-congress-for-27-years-dies-at-82.html)
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a California Democrat with a left-wing agenda that put civil rights and programs for people ahead of weapons systems and warfare
Leave it to the NYT to make that fool sound so noble. *****rollingeyes*****
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Sheriff: Radio host Art Bell died of prescription overdose
LAS VEGAS — Authorities in Nevada say Art Bell, a syndicated radio host best known for nightly shows in the 1990s about paranormal themes and conspiracy theories, died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.
Nye County Sheriff Sharon Wehrly posted a brief Facebook announcement on Wednesday saying an autopsy determined the 72-year-old Bell died of "multiple drug intoxication from his own lawfully prescribed prescriptions."
More details at: https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/sheriff-radio-host-art-bell-died-of-prescription-overdose/ar-BBLnuQ4?ocid=spartanntp (https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/sheriff-radio-host-art-bell-died-of-prescription-overdose/ar-BBLnuQ4?ocid=spartanntp)
Rest In Peace Art Bell, I know he passed on a few months ago, a great entertainer.
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Ron Dellums, Forceful Liberal in Congress for 27 Years, Dies at 82
Good riddance! One less communist oxygen thief.
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Rest In Peace Art Bell, I know he passed on a few months ago, a great entertainer.
LAS VEGAS — Authorities in Nevada say Art Bell, a syndicated radio host best known for nightly shows in the 1990s about paranormal themes and conspiracy theories, died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs
@TomSea
(Insert dramatic drum roll here) Or WAS it an accident and not someone trying to shut him up? (Insert sound of rim shot)
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@TomSea
(Insert dramatic drum roll here) Or WAS it an accident and not someone trying to shut him up? (Insert sound of rim shot)
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Andrea Rich
https://www.cato.org/blog/rip-andrea-rich (https://www.cato.org/blog/rip-andrea-rich)
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Andrea Rich
https://www.cato.org/blog/rip-andrea-rich (https://www.cato.org/blog/rip-andrea-rich)
A bit along the same lines, George HW Bush's assistant as VP, Mary Lewis has passed away.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bs-md-ob-mary-lewis-20180801-story.html (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bs-md-ob-mary-lewis-20180801-story.html)
She also wrote political novels.
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Andrea Rich
https://www.cato.org/blog/rip-andrea-rich (https://www.cato.org/blog/rip-andrea-rich)
I was a regular customer of Laissez-Faire Books for a couple of decades, and Ms. Rich's writings in their monthly catalogs and elsewhere never failed to delight. She was an absolute champion of freedom, and we have lost something special in the world for her departure. Had it not been for her and her commitment to the literature of freedom, I would never have found such books as Frank Chodorov's Fugitive Essays, Friedrich Hayek's The Constitution of Liberty, John T. Flynn's The Roosevelt Myth, and Bastiat's The Law.
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I was a regular customer of Laissez-Faire Books for a couple of decades, and Ms. Rich's writings in their monthly catalogs and elsewhere never failed to delight. She was an absolute champion of freedom, and we have lost something special in the world for her departure. Had it not been for her and her commitment to the literature of freedom, I would never have found such books as Frank Chodorov's Fugitive Essays, Friedrich Hayek's The Constitution of Liberty, John T. Flynn's The Roosevelt Myth, and Bastiat's The Law.
I knew of Laissez-Faire Books but don't recall ever taking the time to go there. I think it must have helped a good number of people, especially students, who would otherwise have known only the leftist pablum.
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Andrea Rich
https://www.cato.org/blog/rip-andrea-rich (https://www.cato.org/blog/rip-andrea-rich)
I am saddened to report that my dear friend Andrea Millen Rich died this morning at her home in Philadelphia at the age of 79 after a 19-year battle with lung cancer.
WOW! Nobody can ever say SHE was a quitter,can they? That was one tough cookie!
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I knew of Laissez-Faire Books but don't recall ever taking the time to go there. I think it must have helped a good number of people, especially students, who would otherwise have known only the leftist pablum.
Ms. Rich ended Laissez Faire in 2005 and sold them to the International Society for Individual Liberty. In 2011 ISIL sold Laissez-Faire Books to Agora Financial. They maintain a Website (https://lfb.org/)with libertarian-leaning articles but don't sell books, at least for the time being.
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Chuckle Brothers star Barry dies at 73
3 hours ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45074955 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45074955)
Barry Chuckle, one half of the comedy duo the Chuckle Brothers, has died aged 73 after a short period of ill health.
The entertainer, whose real name was Barry Elliott, starred in ChuckleVision with his brother Paul on the BBC between 1987 and 2009.
Paul said: "I've not just lost my brother, I've lost my theatrical partner of many, many years and my very best friend."
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Charlotte Rae, 'The Facts of Life' and 'Diff'rent Strokes' star, dead at 92
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/08/05/charlotte-rae-facts-life-and-diffrent-strokes-star-dead-at-92.html (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/08/05/charlotte-rae-facts-life-and-diffrent-strokes-star-dead-at-92.html)
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Charlotte Rae, 'The Facts of Life' and 'Diff'rent Strokes' star, dead at 92
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/08/05/charlotte-rae-facts-life-and-diffrent-strokes-star-dead-at-92.html (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/08/05/charlotte-rae-facts-life-and-diffrent-strokes-star-dead-at-92.html)
Pretty good run, surviving pancreatic cancer for 8 years!
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Paul Laxalt, Former Nevada Governor, Dies at 96
Paul Laxalt, the son of Basque immigrants who rose to political power as a Nevada governor, U.S. senator and close ally to Ronald Reagan, has died. He was 96.
Laxalt died Monday at a health care facility in Virginia, according to the public relations firm The Ferraro Group.
More (https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2018-08-06/paul-laxalt-former-nevada-governor-dies-at-96)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Laxalt)
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Paul Laxalt, Former Nevada Governor, Dies at 96
More (https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2018-08-06/paul-laxalt-former-nevada-governor-dies-at-96)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Laxalt)
Whoa............ now that's a name from the past!
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Stan Mikita, NHL Hall of Famer, dies at 78
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Stan_Mikita.jpg/180px-Stan_Mikita.jpg)
Considered one of the greatest players to ever play professional hockey, Mikita, who emigrated from Czechoslovakia in his childhood to escape communism, played 21 seasons with the National Hockey League, all of them with the Chicago Blackhawks. He led the league in scoring in four of those seasons, was league MVP twice, and appeared in the all-star game eight times; to the present day, he ranks in the top 20 in points and assists in league history. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility in 1983.
Mikita, who had icy relations with Blackhawks owner Bill Wirtz after his playing career, eventually reconciled with the Blackhawks in 2008. He was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia in 2015 and died from complications of the disease August 7.
Obituary from the Chicago Tribune (http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/hockey/blackhawks/ct-spt-blackhawks-stan-mikita-20180807-story.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Mikita)
Career stats (http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=3711)
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Jarrod Lyle, Australian professional golfer, succumbs at age 36 to his third bout with acute myeloid leukemia.
Golf Channel: (https://www.golfchannel.com/article/golf-central-blog/lyle-dies-age-36-after-third-battle-cancer/)Jarrod Lyle died on Wednesday night at home in Torquay, Australia, following his third bout with acute myeloid leukemia. He was 36.
Lyle, who played three full seasons on the PGA Tour, was placed in “palliative care†last week because “his body is no longer able to fight [leukemia],†and his wife, Briony, released a statement that said Lyle was with his family and friends when he passed away.
“Lusi, Jemma and I are filled with grief and now must confront our lives without the greatest husband and father we could ever have wished for,†Briony Lyle said in the statement. “At the same time, we have been blessed and overwhelmed with the messages and actions of support from around the world and feel comforted that Jarrod was able to happily impact so many people throughout his life.†...
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Aretha Franklin 'gravely ill' at 76: Queen of Soul surrounded by family in Detroit as they ask for prayers
Aretha Franklin is 'gravely ill' according to reports.
The Queen of Soul, 76, is surrounded by her family in Detroit, according to Showbiz 411.
They have asked for prayers and privacy for the the singing legend, who has battled health problems for the past number of years.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6053735/Aretha-Franklin-gravely-ill-76-Queen-Soul-surrounded-family-Detroit.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6053735/Aretha-Franklin-gravely-ill-76-Queen-Soul-surrounded-family-Detroit.html)
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Not to jump the gun, but she's a beloved legend. Guess we'll know soon if the rumors are true.
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Miss Franklin was supposed to perform at the New Orleans Jazz Fest this past spring. A friend of mine goes every year and was disappointed when Miss Franklin canceled. At the time it was said she was not in good health. Sorry to hear this may be the end. Her performances were always amazing. May God take her gently.
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Miss Franklin was supposed to perform at the New Orleans Jazz Fest this past spring. A friend of mine goes every year and was disappointed when Miss Franklin canceled. At the time it was said she was not in good health. Sorry to hear this may be the end. Her performances were always amazing. May God take her gently.
http://www.showbiz411.com/2018/08/12/exclusive-aretha-franklin-queen-of-soul-gravely-ill-in-detroit-winner-of-18-grammy-awards (http://www.showbiz411.com/2018/08/12/exclusive-aretha-franklin-queen-of-soul-gravely-ill-in-detroit-winner-of-18-grammy-awards)
Originally diagnosed with cancer in 2010, Aretha, who turned 76 in March, bravely battled back and refused to be knocked out by illness. Her last performance as on November 2, 2017 for the Elton John AIDS Foundation in New York. Her final public performance was at Philadelphia’s Mann Center in August 2017. It was a miraculous show as Aretha was already then fighting exhaustion and dehydration.
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I like Aretha. One of the all-time classic ladies.
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I like Aretha. One of the all-time classic ladies.
I do love her music.
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I guess we're kind of jumping the gun if Aretha is still with us, but there's no doubt her great talent will be missed when that sad day comes.
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Jim 'The Anvil' Neidhart dies (professional wrestler)
Monday morning, news broke that former WWF tag team champion Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart has died. He was 63 years old. WWE.com confirmed the news.
"It is with a sad heart, that I share with you the passing of a long time friend and colleague, Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart. Your thoughts and prayers for the family are appreciated!" posted Cauliflower Alley Club president Brian Blair -- who often competed in the Killer Bees tag team against Neidhart and Bret "Hitman" Hart as the Hart Foundation.
More (http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/2018/08/13/22782945.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Neidhart)
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Aaron Cox, brother-in-law of Mike Trout and former Angels prospect, dies at 24
TOM SCHAD | USA TODAY
Updated 3 hours ago
Aaron Cox, the brother-in-law of Los Angeles Angels star Mike Trout and a former minor-leaguer in the organization, died Wednesday morning, the team and his family announced. He was 24.
In a statement on behalf of their families that was released Wednesday, Mike and Jessica Trout called Cox "a phenomenal human being" who had "a deep love for his family, and a passionate dedication and commitment to his friends."
"As our families grieve together, we will also celebrate the memories, the laughter, and the love we each shared with Aaron in the short time we had him," the Trout and Cox families said in the statement. "We will rely on the love and strength of God first and foremost during this difficult and challenging time, as well as our dear family and friends. We thank you for your thoughts and prayers, and our Lord and Savior for His precious gift of Aaron Joseph."
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/angels/2018/08/15/aaron-cox-dies-angels-mike-trout/998043002/ (https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/angels/2018/08/15/aaron-cox-dies-angels-mike-trout/998043002/)
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Aaron Cox, brother-in-law of Mike Trout and former Angels prospect, dies at 24
TOM SCHAD | USA TODAY
Updated 3 hours ago
Aaron Cox, the brother-in-law of Los Angeles Angels star Mike Trout and a former minor-leaguer in the organization, died Wednesday morning, the team and his family announced. He was 24.
In a statement on behalf of their families that was released Wednesday, Mike and Jessica Trout called Cox "a phenomenal human being" who had "a deep love for his family, and a passionate dedication and commitment to his friends."
"As our families grieve together, we will also celebrate the memories, the laughter, and the love we each shared with Aaron in the short time we had him," the Trout and Cox families said in the statement. "We will rely on the love and strength of God first and foremost during this difficult and challenging time, as well as our dear family and friends. We thank you for your thoughts and prayers, and our Lord and Savior for His precious gift of Aaron Joseph."
[...]
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/angels/2018/08/15/aaron-cox-dies-angels-mike-trout/998043002/ (https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/angels/2018/08/15/aaron-cox-dies-angels-mike-trout/998043002/)
Looks like either accidental or (more likely) purposeful drug overdose/suicide.
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The Associated Press
â€Verified account @AP
BREAKING: Publicist for Aretha Franklin says the Queen of Soul died Thursday at her home in Detroit.
9:57 AM - 16 Aug 2018
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The Associated Press
â€Verified account @AP
BREAKING: Publicist for Aretha Franklin says the Queen of Soul died Thursday at her home in Detroit.
9:57 AM - 16 Aug 2018
May she rest in peace.
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RIP Aretha Franklin
888cryingkitty 888cryingkitty 888cryingkitty
RESPECT
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May she rest in peace.
@Sanguine
One of the truly greats.
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Aretha Franklin, the iconic singer who changed the face of rock and roll, soul and R&B with such classics as “Think†and her signature song “Respect,†died Thursday at her home in Detroit, said her representative, Gwendolyn Quinn.
The cause was advanced pancreatic cancer....
https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/aretha-franklin-died-icon-soul-artist-rock-hall-of-famer-music/
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@Sanguine
One of the truly greats.
Yes, she was.
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... The daughter of a Baptist minister, Franklin incorporated black church music, blues and jazz to forge “a contemporary synthesis that spoke to the younger generation in the new language of soul,†according to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, which in 1987 made her the first female inductee.
Through four decades, Franklin was a regular on Billboard magazine’s hit lists. She had 17 top 10 songs and 22 top 40 albums. Twenty songs and 10 albums reached No. 1 on Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop lists.
She won 18 Grammy Awards, plus two honorary ones for her lifetime of work. In 2008, Rolling Stone named her the greatest singer of all time based on a survey of 179 producers, musicians and others. Time magazine in 2010 named her one of the 25 most powerful women of the past century. ...
More at Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-16/aretha-franklin-queen-of-soul-who-spelled-respect-dies-at-76)
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Rest in peace, Miss Franklin. You were one of the greats. Now your voice will join the choir of angels.
My favorite -- from the Blues Brothers (1980):
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! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k5acPIi0f8#)
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The Associated Press
â€Verified account @AP
BREAKING: Publicist for Aretha Franklin says the Queen of Soul died Thursday at her home in Detroit.
9:57 AM - 16 Aug 2018
Much "respect" for that lady.
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August 16th, not a good day for "Royalty"
"The Sultan of Swat"
"The King of Rock and Roll"
and now, "The Queen of Soul"
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I like Aretha. One of the all-time classic ladies.
I have enough MP3s of her music that I can listen for 8 hrs straight and never hear the same one twice.
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I am playing a bunch of her music for my students. Most of them are 9th graders and have never heard of her. So far they seem to be enjoying.
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So on August 16th we've lost....
1948 - The Sultan of Swat
1977 - The King of Rock & Roll
2018 - The Queen of Soul
So if you have a nickname that connotes Royalty, be very nervous every August 16th.
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So on August 16th we've lost....
1948 - The Sultan of Swat
1977 - The King of Rock & Roll
2018 - The Queen of Soul
What about Prince?
So if you have a nickname that connotes Royalty, be very nervous every August 16th.
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August 16th, not a good day for "Royalty"
"The Sultan of Swat"
"The King of Rock and Roll"
and now, "The Queen of Soul"
How do you remember these things?
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How do you remember these things?
https://www.onthisday.com/deaths/august/16 (https://www.onthisday.com/deaths/august/16)
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April 21 death for him. August 16 may be an increased chance, but it doesn't mean everyone will die then, just like troubled musicians aren't doomed to die at 27.
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May she rest in peace.
Amen!
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RIP Lady Soul . . .
Aretha Franklin, Aretha Now!
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBEzcnG9Khs#)
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https://www.onthisday.com/deaths/august/16 (https://www.onthisday.com/deaths/august/16)
Thank you.
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G-d is building up one heck of a choir.
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G-d is building up one heck of a choir.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFAVGedctWA&ytbChannel=Augusto%20Buso#)
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I have enough MP3s of her music that I can listen for 8 hrs straight and never hear the same one twice.
:beer: Aretha has always been one of my absolute favorites!! We lost one of the greatest. Her music will live on! RIP Aretha
One of my many favorites; A Natural Woman
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEWuAcMWDLY#)
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Aretha; you will always be a 'Rose' 8888crybaby
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtMUQbnT_Lo#)
Her rendition of 'Bridge Over Troubled Waters' ... she will be missed The Queen of Soul indeed!!
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DBl5gAs6WI#)
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In 2008, Rolling Stone named her the greatest singer of all time
I would argue with that,but she was pretty damn great and ONE of the best singers of all time.
We used to have singers like Ray Charles,Sam Cooke, Etta James and Aretha Franklin. Now we have "artists" like Beyonce and backup dancers.
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I would argue with that,but she was pretty damn great and ONE of the best singers of all time.
We used to have singers like Ray Charles,Sam Cooke, Etta James and Aretha Franklin. Now we have "artists" like Beyonce and backup dancers.
Hey man, where da White folk? :tongue2: Just kiddin, it's true we have very few actual singers today, at least that we hear of. As you say now we have 'artists' whose voices are totally manipulated electronicaly unlike singers of the past that could reach the back rows without amplification.
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Kofi Annan dies at 80
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Annan was the 7th General Secretary of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006, taking the role after Boutros Boutros-Ghali was blocked from a second term over the U.S. objection to his policies. He accepted the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the UN.
Educated in the United States, in 2006, he approved of one of his deputies using his official position to attack private U.S. citizen Rush Limbaugh for his criticism of the UN and claiming he and Fox News had too much influence.
Obituary from Al-Jazeera (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/08/chief-kofi-annan-dies-180818093156348.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kofi_Annan)
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Hey man, where da White folk? :tongue2: Just kiddin, it's true we have very few actual singers today, at least that we hear of. As you say now we have 'artists' whose voices are totally manipulated electronicaly unlike singers of the past that could reach the back rows without amplification.
@GtHawk
I don't think anyone is ever going to call him one of the "Great singers",but Johnny Cash had a voice like that.
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@GtHawk
I don't think anyone is ever going to call him one of the "Great singers",but Johnny Cash had a voice like that.
You might not call him the greatest singer of them all in general terms, but you might consider he's in the running for the title of the greatest singer ever in country music. And maybe its greatest songwriter.
As far as soul singers go, I'd have to rank Aretha Franklin in the top three based on her Atlantic catalog of 1966-77 alone. (The other two? A no-brainer---Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye, and they'd both be in the running for soul's greatest songwriter, too . . . )
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You might not call him the greatest singer of them all in general terms, but you might consider he's in the running for the title of the greatest singer ever in country music.
I disagree.
And maybe its greatest songwriter.
He's sure in the running for that one,but that is a title that would have to include 100's of people for each slot,and any list that doesn't include Hank Williams in the top ten 10 is a bogus list unless you segregated it by theme. In ANY Top Ten Make You Want to Slash Your Wrists music list,Hank is number 1.
As far as soul singers go, I'd have to rank Aretha Franklin in the top three based on her Atlantic catalog of 1966-77 alone. (The other two? A no-brainer---Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye, and they'd both be in the running for soul's greatest songwriter, too . . . )
That would be another crowded Top Ten list,and once again it would have to be segregated by type. ANY list that didn't include people like the incredible Etta James,B.B King,Albert King,King Curtis,Sam Cooke,James Brown,etc,etc,etc would be bogus.
Not to mention people like Solomon Burke and Sly Stone.
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Northern California pro wrestling voice Walt Harris passes away
Walt Harris, the voice of the most popular period of pro wrestling in Northern California and best known nationally as the host of the syndicated Roller Derby shows, passed away last night at the age of 97...
Harris was the sole announcer for National All Star Wrestling and Big Time Wrestling in the 1960s that aired on KTVU, Ch. 2 in San Francisco, and KCRA, Ch. 3, in Sacramento, and were syndicated at times in cities like Honolulu, Phoenix, and other West Coast markets. He had already been the Roller Derby announcer on that station for a few years and Roller Derby was all the rage in the Bay Area before Roy Shire started his career as a promoter, drawing sellouts of the biggest matches at the Cow Palace and making Charlie O'Connell perhaps the most popular athlete in the area...
More (https://www.f4wonline.com/other-wrestling/northern-california-pro-wrestling-voice-walt-harris-passes-away-264111)
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That would be another crowded Top Ten list,and once again it would have to be segregated by type. ANY list that didn't include people like the incredible Etta James,B.B King,Albert King,King Curtis,Sam Cooke,James Brown,etc,etc,etc would be bogus.
I'd be pondering B.B. King, Albert King, and Etta James on lists of the greatest blues singers, and that would be a crowded list when you consider the like of Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf (This is where the soul of man begins---Sam Phillips, who first recorded Wolf for what became Sun), Sonny Boy Williamson II, Lightnin' Hopkins, and a ducal group of others. Not to mention the two Kings, Johnson, Hopkins, T-Bone Walker, Lonnie Johnson, Waters, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Elmore James, Robert Lockwood, Magic Sam, Guitar Slim (Eddie Jones), Fenton Robinson, Mike Bloomfield, Peter Green, Albert Collins, Luther Allison, Johnny Winter, Alan Wilson (Canned Heat), Eric Clapton, and Duane Allman on a list of the greatest blues guitarists . . .
Not to mention people like Solomon Burke and Sly Stone.
Sly Stone was a far better songwriter, musician, and bandleader (before the dope ate the talent) than a singer. And Sam Cooke, James Brown, and Solomon Burke would be in quite a crowd of soul singers---a crowd including Redding, Gaye, Franklin, Ray Charles (who was also one hell of a blues singer), Donny Hathaway, Smokey Robinson (who'd be on anyone's list of the top soul songwriters, too), Gladys Knight, Wilson Pickett, Clarence Carter, Levi Stubbs (the lead singer of the Four Tops), the Temptations, Curtis Mayfield (he, too, would also be on the top soul songwriting lists), Jerry Butler, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Junior (lead singer of the Dells), Teddy Pendergrass, Sam & Dave, Isaac Hayes (another one who'd also go on the great songwriters' list), Roberta Flack, Al Green, Ann Peebles, the O'Jays, and a fellow who may be half forgotten but who, when he was on (and not being tortured by the mental illness that plagued him most of his life), could give any of those a run for their money . . .
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHcbXTkrf0w#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfxPV9O4HCw#)
We'd probably need scrolls to list all the great ones . . .
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I'd be pondering B.B. King, Albert King, and Etta James on lists of the greatest blues singers, and that would be a crowded list when you consider the like of Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf (This is where the soul of man begins---Sam Phillips, who first recorded Wolf for what became Sun), Sonny Boy Williamson II, Lightnin' Hopkins, and a ducal group of others. Not to mention the two Kings, Johnson, Hopkins, T-Bone Walker, Lonnie Johnson, Waters, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Elmore James, Robert Lockwood, Magic Sam, Guitar Slim (Eddie Jones), Fenton Robinson, Mike Bloomfield, Peter Green, Albert Collins, Luther Allison, Johnny Winter, Alan Wilson (Canned Heat), Eric Clapton, and Duane Allman on a list of the greatest blues guitarists . . .
Sly Stone was a far better songwriter, musician, and bandleader (before the dope ate the talent) than a singer. And Sam Cooke, James Brown, and Solomon Burke would be in quite a crowd of soul singers---a crowd including Redding, Gaye, Franklin, Ray Charles (who was also one hell of a blues singer), Donny Hathaway, Smokey Robinson (who'd be on anyone's list of the top soul songwriters, too), Gladys Knight, Wilson Pickett, Clarence Carter, Levi Stubbs (the lead singer of the Four Tops), the Temptations, Curtis Mayfield (he, too, would also be on the top soul songwriting lists), Jerry Butler, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Junior (lead singer of the Dells), Teddy Pendergrass, Sam & Dave, Isaac Hayes (another one who'd also go on the great songwriters' list), Roberta Flack, Al Green, Ann Peebles, the O'Jays, and a fellow who may be half forgotten but who, when he was on (and not being tortured by the mental illness that plagued him most of his life), could give any of those a run for their money . . .
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHcbXTkrf0w#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfxPV9O4HCw#)
We'd probably need scrolls to list all the great ones . . .
Yes, need to add Bonnie Riatt and Percy Sledge and the Righteous Brothers. And, the Boxtops singer.
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Yes, need to add Bonnie Riatt and Percy Sledge and the Righteous Brothers. And, the Boxtops singer.
I think you're thinking of Alex Chilton, who usually sang the Box Tops' more R&B material . . .
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Q0GpB_qf0#)
Among the blue-eyed soul people, you have . . .
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IOOEKMfekM#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=falI0baGhBQ#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WXhbixla0c#)
(Try to imagine how things might have gone if Mitch and the boys had had the Rascals' songwriting talent . . .)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnfzzj9zW_U#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTdnOd0ulp0#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__cuhDU0yWw#)
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Great music, @EasyAce. Well, except for the Hall & Oates.
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Reminder: this thread is about those who have passed on, not others in the same field of endeavor.
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Reminder: this thread is about those who have passed on, not others in the same field of endeavor.
@ModernConservative
Sadly,pretty much everybody mentioned has passed on.
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Kofi Annan dies at 80
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Annan was the 7th General Secretary of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006, taking the role after Boutros Boutros-Ghali was blocked from a second term over the U.S. objection to his policies. He accepted the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the UN.
Educated in the United States, in 2006, he approved of one of his deputies using his official position to attack private U.S. citizen Rush Limbaugh for his criticism of the UN and claiming he and Fox News had too much influence.
Obituary from Al-Jazeera (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/08/chief-kofi-annan-dies-180818093156348.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kofi_Annan)
I was always told if I had nothing nice to say to say nothing.
That is a nice tie he is wearing.
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Kofi Annan dies at 80
Good riddance to bad trash. It's a damn shame he didn't die decades earlier and done a public service.
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Stefan Karl Stefansson, Icelandic character actor, dies at 43
Stefansson was best known in the United States for his portrayal of Robbie Rotten, the villain in the long-running children's series LazyTown. He also earned a certain degree of notoriety as the title character in the stage version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! from 2008 to 2015. After being diagnosed with bile duct cancer in 2016, one of his songs from LazyTown, "We Are Number One," briefly became an Internet meme as fans came to his support. He died after discontinuing treatment for the cancer earlier in the year.
Obituary from CNN (https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/22/europe/robbie-rotten-death-intl/index.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefán_Karl_Stefánsson)
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RIP Dean Stone, who---as a Washington Senators pitcher---got the win in the 1954 All-Star Game despite not retiring a batter. So how did he get the win? Easy---he came in in the bottom of the eighth, with the American League down 9-8, to face Hall of Famer Duke Snider with fellow Hall of Famer Red Schoendienst on third and two outs. Stone threw Schoendienst out at the plate for the third out when Schoendienst thought he could steal home. In the bottom, the American League hung a three-spot on the National League and the Tigers' Virgil Trucks worked a scoreless ninth to save it.
Former Senators pitcher Dean Stone, unlikely winner in 1954 All-Star Game, dies at age 87 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2018/08/22/former-senators-pitcher-dean-stone-unlikely-winner-in-1954-all-star-game-dies-at-age-87/?utm_term=.cbe67cce840e)
@Machiavelli
@DCPatriot
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@EasyAce
I have been blessed to have seen those names below, that I've put in bold type, live.
I'd be pondering B.B. King, Albert King, and Etta James on lists of the greatest blues singers, and that would be a crowded list when you consider the like of Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf (This is where the soul of man begins---Sam Phillips, who first recorded Wolf for what became Sun), Sonny Boy Williamson II, Lightnin' Hopkins, and a ducal group of others. Not to mention the two Kings, Johnson, Hopkins, T-Bone Walker, Lonnie Johnson, Waters, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Elmore James, Robert Lockwood, Magic Sam, Guitar Slim (Eddie Jones), Fenton Robinson, Mike Bloomfield, Peter Green, Albert Collins, Luther Allison, Johnny Winter, Alan Wilson (Canned Heat), Eric Clapton, and Duane Allman on a list of the greatest blues guitarists . . .
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Lynyrd Skynyrd's Ed King dead at 68
https://www.thewrap.com/ed-king-guitarist-for-lynyrd-skynyrd-dies-at-68-sweet-home-alabama (https://www.thewrap.com/ed-king-guitarist-for-lynyrd-skynyrd-dies-at-68-sweet-home-alabama)
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I just saw this.
Wow. All those musicians died on the plane crash. He got to make it. RIP.
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I just followed a link that had 148 or so celebs that died in the last year,and the thing that hit me the hardest were the suicides. That is one HELL of a burden to leave on the shoulders of your family,and no matter what you say,you KNOW most of them will live the rest of their lives with the haunting feeling that "I could have done something to have prevented it."
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One of the men who made the Motown Sound (and one of the earliest of the Funk Brothers) . . .
Eddie Willis, Guitarist for Motown’s Funk Brothers, Dead at 82 (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eddie-willis-guitarist-for-motowns-funk-brothers-dead-at-82-713708/)
RIP Chank. You had guts to go with your soul.
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Leonard L. Boswell, eight-term Iowa congressman, dies at 84
Leonard L. Boswell, an Iowa farmer and Army officer turned politician who served 16 years in Congress, died Aug. 17 at a Des Moines hospital. He was 84.
The cause was cancer, said Grant Woodard, a family spokesman and former chief of staff.
Mr. Boswell, a Democrat, focused throughout his political career on agriculture, securing services for veterans and their families and helping college students with financial aid. He served in the Iowa state Senate before he was elected to the U.S. House in 1996. He was from tiny Davis City, in southern Iowa, and represented a district that stretched almost all the way across the state.
He was known for his courtly demeanor and gained national attention in 1996 when he and his first opponent, Michael Mahaffey, kept an agreement not to launch personal attacks during the campaign. Mr. Boswell won by one percentage point, in the year in which Bill Clinton was reelected as president.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/leonard-l-boswell-eight-term-iowa-congressman-dies-at-84/2018/08/18/e72e9406-a2fe-11e8-8e87-c869fe70a721_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.529a34e65251 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/leonard-l-boswell-eight-term-iowa-congressman-dies-at-84/2018/08/18/e72e9406-a2fe-11e8-8e87-c869fe70a721_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.529a34e65251)
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I just saw this.
Wow. All those musicians died on the plane crash. He got to make it. RIP.
@Freya
He left Lynyrd Skynyrd well enough before that plane crash. (He left after their third album, I think.) Good on him. I would have been tired of the fighting and rowdying and B.S. too.
Did you know or do you remember: Ed King actually co-wrote this psychedelic hit and played the lead guitar, but was muscled out of the co-songwriting credit for some perverse reason . . .
Strawberry Alarm Clock, "Incense and Peppermints"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7p4BcFNJc#)
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Bob Burns died three years ago. It was a miracle he lived as long as he did.
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@EasyAce
He wrote incense and peppermints?
Trippy!
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@Freya
He left Lynyrd Skynyrd well enough before that plane crash. (He left after their third album, I think.) Good on him. I would have been tired of the fighting and rowdying and B.S. too.
Did you know or do you remember: Ed King actually co-wrote this psychedelic hit and played the lead guitar, but was muscled out of the co-songwriting credit for some perverse reason . . .
Strawberry Alarm Clock, "Incense and Peppermints"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7p4BcFNJc#)
Wasn't it Gaines that replaced him, prior to the crash?
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Wasn't it Gaines that replaced him, prior to the crash?
I think so. King was from SoCA and admitted to never feeling like he fit in with those good ol boys.
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Fox News is reporting that Robin Leach has died at 76. I hope they have champagne wishes and caviar dreams in heaven
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robin-leach-dead-lifestyles-rich-famous-host-dies-1137244 (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robin-leach-dead-lifestyles-rich-famous-host-dies-1137244)
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Btw, Robin Leach was an interesting person. He was related to Cary Grant and married to the actress Joan Severence who was hot in her day.
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@EasyAce
He wrote incense and peppermints?
Trippy!
He didn't write the lyric, but he did write most of the music. He also played that classic round of fuzz guitar on the record.
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Performer, Bowie Mentor, Lindsay Kemp has passed away.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45308468 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45308468)
I can see a bit of what Bowie did in the pictures from the link.
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Senator McCain has died.
See other threads
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Btw, Robin Leach was an interesting person. He was related to Cary Grant and married to the actress Joan Severence who was hot in her day.
She still is.
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She still is.
I haven’t seen a picture of her in a few years. Good for him! They had a long marriage, rare in Hollywood.
@Suppressed
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I haven’t seen a picture of her in a few years. Good for him! They had a long marriage, rare in Hollywood.
@Suppressed
@Freya
Well, they never officially married, and there are those rumors he was gay, so maybe that's the key? Doesn't matter to me, if they were happy, and my thoughts go out to her.
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dang it, Neil Simon just died. Obit coming.
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8888crybaby
I loved The Odd Couple -- movie and tv series. One of my favorite comedies.
Rest in peace, Mr. Simon.
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dang it, Neil Simon just died. Obit coming.
Neil Simon Dead - Famed Playwright Passes Away at 91
American playwright Neil Simon has passed away at the age of 91.
According to TMZ, he died on Sunday (August 26) at 1 AM and had been on life support after suffering from a “failing kidney and also Alzheimer’s and dementia.â€
Neil was well known for so many plays and won Tony Awards for The Odd Couple, Biloxi Blues, and Lost in Yonkers. He also wrote other famous hits including Barefoot in the Park, Promises, Promises, and more. He wrote more than 30 plays in total, and was also nominated for four different Oscars for his screenplays over the years.
Our thoughts are with Neil‘s loved ones during this time.
http://www.justjared.com/2018/08/26/neil-simon-dead-famed-playwright-passes-away-at-91/ (http://www.justjared.com/2018/08/26/neil-simon-dead-famed-playwright-passes-away-at-91/)
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8888crybaby
I loved The Odd Couple -- movie and tv series. One of my favorite comedies.
Rest in peace, Mr. Simon.
I know. Oscar and Felix
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dang it, Neil Simon just died. Obit coming.
Did he ever write anything other than Biloxi Blues that appealed to heterosexual men?
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Did he ever write anything other than Biloxi Blues that appealed to heterosexual men?
I'm still a fan of Neil Simon's work, mostly, and I'm as heterosexual as the day is long. Particularly The Odd Couple (said to have been based on Simon's observation of Mel Brooks after Brooks' early divorce), The Sunshine Boys, Chapter Two (revisiting Simon's pain after his first wife died and his second wife, Marsha Mason's understanding of his grieving), The Goodbye Girl, Brighton Beach Memoirs (based on Simon's own Depression boyhood in New York), Biloxi Blues (his military training), Lost in Yonkers, and Laughter on the 23rd Floor (his comic revisiting of his years on the writing staff of Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca's Your Show of Shows).
Simon was originally the protege of a radio comedy legend---Goodman Ace (he wrote and acted in the classic semi-serial comedy Easy Aces, plus he branched a bit to create the legendary historic drama You Are There, though he didn't get the credit for it for years to follow), who ran a short-lived CBS workshop for comedy writing in which Simon and his older brother, Daniel, were two of his students, before they went into television writing and, in due course for Neil Simon, the stage and film. Ace helped the pair get radio writing gigs and early television work---including a show that sounded like it had a shot until some jerk at CBS monkeyed around with it, featuring another Ace protege, Robert Q. Lewis, prior to the fabled CBS talent raids that brought them about half of NBC's comedy lineup including Jack Benny in 1947-48. Ace would remember that early Lewis show this way: I give them a good, tight, fifteen-minute comedy show and what do they do? They expand it to half an hour and bring in an orchestra and an audience. Who the hell said a comedy show had to be half an hour, Marconi? Ida Cantor? (Not long afterward, Ace revived his own Easy Aces into a half-hour remake, mr. ace and JANE, which could be taken as his bid to satirise and mock the half-hour format.)
By the way, Neil Simon was also one of the writers for The Phil Silvers Show, a.k.a. You'll Never Get Rich and Sgt. Bilko. He also earned two Emmy nominations when he wrote for Your Show of Shows. His older brother, Danny (he died in 2005 and would have been 100 this year) has television credits including those plus The Colgate Comedy Hour, The Danny Thomas Show (a.k.a. Make Room for Daddy), The Carol Burnett Show, and The Facts of Life.
The Simon brothers had a harsh childhood---their parents' marriage was probably best described as tumultuous; like the two young brothers in Lost in Yonkers, the boys were often shuttled around among other relatives when their father hit the road for long periods or when the tumult at home became too much, and kid brother Neil found refuge in the movies, where he once admitted he was often tossed out of theaters for laughing too loud at films of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Laurel & Hardy. Simon had always alluded to his own life in his post-television work, but when he did it more directly---in the so-called Eugene trilogy (Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, Broadway Bound) and in Lost in Yonkers, critics began taking him more seriously enough that he finally won the Pulitzer Prize (for Lost in Yonkers). And if there was any single continuous theme in his work, it was the loss and the need for a kind of traditional domestic stability; a Simon play rarely if ever strove for social messaging, focusing instead on ordinary people, and he once admitted the main source of his comedy: blocking out of some of the really ugly, painful things in my childhood and covering it up with a humorous attitude ... do something to laugh until I was able to forget what was hurting. I wish I'd been that smart when I was younger.
RIP Mr. Simon.
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'ER' actress Vanessa Marquez killed by police after she pulled a BB gun on officers
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/1157394002
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'ER' actress Vanessa Marquez killed by police after she pulled a BB gun on officers
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/1157394002
Very sad story of
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Stan Brock, who found fame on Wild Kingdom and brought basic medical care to the isolated, dies at 82
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Staninmuseum.jpg/300px-Staninmuseum.jpg)
Brock, born in England, rose to fame in the 1960s as a co-host, along with Marlin Perkins, of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. This was followed by occasional film appearances.
In 1985, he left Hollywood and established the Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps, which offers clinics in rural areas of the world, much of that in the United States. He was inspired by his childhood life in the Amazon River watershed, where medical care was weeks away. He was a vocal critic of the bureaucracy of the U.S. medical system and the barriers that state lines posed to providing medical care, especially in times of crisis.
Brock lived a meager life, residing at the RAM headquarters and living off a small portion of his Social Security check, the rest of which was donated back to RAM. RAM currently holds approximately one clinic a week somewhere in America, plus several a year around the world.
Brock died August 29 of unknown causes.
Obituary from the Knoxville News (https://www.knoxnews.com/story/money/business/2018/08/29/stan-brock-dies-remote-area-medical-dies-obit/1022202002/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Brock_(philanthropist))
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Stan Brock, who found fame on Wild Kingdom and brought basic medical care to the isolated, dies at 82
Brock died August 29 of unknown causes.
We know why he died. He was 92 years old. Damn few people are lucky enough to live that long and still be able to function. I am glad he was one of them.
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We know why he died.
‘Twas a boa constrictor got him.
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We know why he died. He was 92 years old. Damn few people are lucky enough to live that long and still be able to function. I am glad he was one of them.
With some of those wild life stunts, he was lucky he didn't meet the same demise as Steve Irwin.
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I have seen this before, guess what? 2 years ago, Gene Wilder died, so somehow, some computer programs must have a problem with the dates... the BBC right now, has the death of Gene Wilder (Rest In Peace) among their current stories.
Look to their stories at the right: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-45392566 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-45392566)
He did pass away though, on about this date, 2 years ago.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37248049 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37248049)
Nonetheless, RIP.
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RIP, VS Naipaul: A Great Conservative Writer https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/09/rip_vs_naipaul_a_great_conservative_writer.html (https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/09/rip_vs_naipaul_a_great_conservative_writer.html)
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(https://kitaabonline.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/naipaul.jpg)
Naipaul from Trinidad and Tobago originally. I will have to read up on him more.
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(https://kitaabonline.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/naipaul.jpg)
Naipaul from Trinidad and Tobago originally. I will have to read up on him more.
He is sort of like people that lived under communism in Eastern Europe, now free.
In both cases, they truly appreciate what the free, open West has to offer.
Too bad much of the free, open West is throwing it away, on post-modernism, socialism, political correctness etc.
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Burt Reynolds, Movie Star Who Played It for Grins, Dies at 82
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/burt-reynolds-dead-deliverance-boogie-nights-star-was-82-831093 (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/burt-reynolds-dead-deliverance-boogie-nights-star-was-82-831093)
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Burt Reynolds, Movie Star Who Played It for Grins, Dies at 82
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/burt-reynolds-dead-deliverance-boogie-nights-star-was-82-831093 (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/burt-reynolds-dead-deliverance-boogie-nights-star-was-82-831093)
:(
Well, it's look there will be a Cannonball Run in Heaven.
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Richard DeVos is dead
http://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Amway-founder-philanthropist-Richard-DeVos-dies-at-age-92-492606711.html (http://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Amway-founder-philanthropist-Richard-DeVos-dies-at-age-92-492606711.html)
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Thanks Burt for all the laughs and this
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Richard DeVos is dead
http://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Amway-founder-philanthropist-Richard-DeVos-dies-at-age-92-492606711.html (http://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Amway-founder-philanthropist-Richard-DeVos-dies-at-age-92-492606711.html)
Richard DeVos Rest In Peace, I've had so many friends in Amway, I did get some of their products but never joined. I had some of their inspirational speech cassettes. I think all of that is good, or usually good.
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If anyone is interested in a good family movie starring Burt and Russell Crowe...look up Mystery Alaska...great little movie..
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1e/MysteryPoster.jpg/220px-MysteryPoster.jpg)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avis_OWEZlI
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Attn Mods: please move this to where ever it belongs if need be.
Hollywood Reporter
11:47 AM PDT 9/6/2018 by Mike Barnes
[excerpt]
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/burt-reynolds-dead-deliverance-boogie-nights-star-was-82-831093 (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/burt-reynolds-dead-deliverance-boogie-nights-star-was-82-831093)
The ex-jock from Florida starred in 'Deliverance' and 'Boogie Nights' but preferred making such populist, fun fare as 'Smokey and the Bandit,' 'The Cannonball Run' and 'Starting Over.'
Burt Reynolds, the charismatic star of such films as Deliverance, The Longest Yard and Smokey and the Bandit who set out to have as much fun as possible on and off the screen — and wildly succeeded — has died. He was 82.
Reynolds, who received an Oscar nomination when he portrayed porn director Jack Horner in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights (1997) and was the No. 1 box-office attraction for a five-year stretch starting in the late 1970s, died Thursday morning at Jupiter Medical Center in Florida, his manager, Erik Kritzer, told The Hollywood Reporter.
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Rest in Peace, Burt Reynolds. Deliverance was a great film, but I guess my favorites will always be the Smokey and the Bandit films.
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Along with the Snowman, Jerry Reed, East bound and down.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnRwQjTYfGI#)
I really like Deliverance, I watched a few pieces at youtube where a lot of the locals object to that movie on how it depicts them. Great movie but I take that into account when I watch it.
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Bert Reynolds Dies At 82
Any relation to Burt Reynolds?
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Along with the Snowman, Jerry Reed, East bound and down.
And don't forget Fred.
(https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/ywfktdJS7vBEy_YvVVZ_tg--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9NDgwO2g9Mjcw/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/blogs/movietalk/8caae08e-0555-46c3-907f-0e5278ec0594_smokeybanditgif2.gif)
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Thanks @TomSea
Jerry Reed, Jackie Gleason, and now Burt Reynolds are all gone. Those were fun movies, but I'm sure they wouldn't be made today. Someone would be offended -- not PC enough. I guess too many people lost their sense of humor.
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RIP Burt
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And don't forget Fred.
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I do remember in the 70's that it was big to either wear a Caterpillar hat or a Cowboy hat.
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(http://images.moviepostershop.com/without-a-paddle-movie-poster-2004-1020220626.jpg)
It was only a smaller part toward the end, but I liked him in Without a Paddle as the purported DB Cooper.
Dyn-o-mite!
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Smokey & the Bandit always takes me back to childhood. The rural culture still had primetime exposure, though it often appeared in caricature form. At some point that morphed into derision.
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Anyone remember him in “The Twilight Zoneâ€
So young and talented.
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I guess after the way FSU played Monday night, Burt said, "Ok, that's enough!"
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Anyone remember him in “The Twilight Zoneâ€
So young and talented.
He did a lot of 1950s tv -- Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock, Perry Mason, also a couple of seasons of Gunsmoke.
I love watching old shows from the 50s-60s because you see a number of famous stars back when they were young, starting out and mostly unknown.
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I guess after the way FSU played Monday night, Burt said, "Ok, that's enough!"
That game would have killed any FSU fan.
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If anyone is interested in a good family movie starring Burt and Russell Crowe...look up Mystery Alaska...great little movie..
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1e/MysteryPoster.jpg/220px-MysteryPoster.jpg)
Thanks Mystery, but want to point out family does not mean family friendly. You didn't say family friendly but I took it to mean so (my bad). One sections (fellow gets shot in foot) had about 15 F words in span of 30 seconds. Lots of Hanky Panky going on with other people's wives (one character is portrayed as a womanizer). No nudity so far but sexual acts with bras and no panties.
Burt has a role of the brooding hard butt father that is tough on his son, it is a role that serves him well.
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! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USax223l7wM#)
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Fun fact: Burt Reynolds was one of three partners in the Tampa Bay Bandits of the USFL. He was also the only one to survive to see the league collapse: Stephen Arky committed suicide in 1985 and John Bassett died of cancer in 1986.
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Rest in Peace, Burt Reynolds. Deliverance was a great film, but I guess my favorites will always be the Smokey and the Bandit films.
Going WAY back, but I liked him as Quint on Gunsmoke.
RIP, Burt.
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Thanks Mystery, but want to point out family does not mean family friendly. You didn't say family friendly but I took it to mean so (my bad). One sections (fellow gets shot in foot) had about 15 F words in span of 30 seconds. Lots of Hanky Panky going on with other people's wives (one character is portrayed as a womanizer). No nudity so far but sexual acts with bras and no panties.
Burt has a role of the brooding hard butt father that is tough on his son, it is a role that serves him well.
Sorry I haven't seen it in years..I should have re-watched before I recommended it...
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Burt sold more Trans Am's and CB radio's than any PMD or Cobra advert ever!
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Fun fact: Burt Reynolds was one of three partners in the Tampa Bay Bandits of the USFL. He was also the only one to survive to see the league collapse: Stephen Arky committed suicide in 1985 and John Bassett died of cancer in 1986.
Reynolds also played RB at FSU.
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Thanks Burt for all the laughs and this
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My mom still has the magazine that this pic ran in originally. My husband was walking by as I was scrolling by this pic and says "What are you doing looking at dirty pictures?" I said, "That's not dirt. It's hair."
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Fun fact: Burt Reynolds was one of three partners in the Tampa Bay Bandits of the USFL. He was also the only one to survive to see the league collapse: Stephen Arky committed suicide in 1985 and John Bassett died of cancer in 1986.
Steve Spurrier was the head coach and another former Gator QB, John Reaves was the starting QB.
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Burt sold more Trans Am's and CB radio's than any PMD or Cobra advert ever!
High school buddy had a '78 Bandit edition TA with the 400 blg block. That thing was a beast.
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Of all the Burt Reynold movies, Sharky's Machine sticks out.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv3RsHiWSUo#)
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Of all the Burt Reynold movies, Sharky's Machine sticks out.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv3RsHiWSUo#)
Loved Deliverance.
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Of all the Burt Reynold movies, Sharky's Machine sticks out.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv3RsHiWSUo#)
That was one of the better of his movies that no one seemed to like. He was also in a decent TV police procedural in 1970 that no one ever talks about. Dan August.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhNoppJbQIE#)
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For years Burt claimed to have been born in Waycross, Georgia.
He was actually born in Lansing, Michigan but I won't hold that against him. :shrug:
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Mac Miller Dead at 26
https://townhall.com/culture/cortneyobrien/2018/09/07/mac-miller-dead-at-26-n2516919
Yes, that Mac Miller. The Rapper. That Mac Miller.
RIP
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For years Burt claimed to have been born in Waycross, Georgia.
He was actually born in Lansing, Michigan but I won't hold that against him. :shrug:
Don't worry...I'm from Marshall, MI, and I'll hold it against him for you.
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Mac Miller Dead at 26
https://townhall.com/culture/cortneyobrien/2018/09/07/mac-miller-dead-at-26-n2516919
Yes, that Mac Miller. The Rapper. That Mac Miller.
RIP
Never heard of him, but I'm not a rap fan.
It is alleged he had substance abuse problems and that he died from an apparent overdose.
May he find peace and may his loved ones be comforted.
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Of all the Burt Reynold movies, Sharky's Machine sticks out.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv3RsHiWSUo#)
This is why Sharky's Machine stuck out for me....
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I couldn't find much on ESPN's Reel Classics which Burt Reynolds hosted...not everything is negative about ESPN, it's really those who pop off are whom we hear about, I'm not defending them, I just won't totally shut them down.
Reel Classics had a sports movie classic about every Sunday night, Hoosiers of course, but more or less, all kinds of movies.
Here is a nice tribute.
Burt Reynolds will always be 'Buddy' at Florida State
David Whitley
A couple of old Florida State tailbacks had their monthly phone call recenty. Naturally, the conversation turned to football.
“He was excited about Willie Taggart,†Lee Corso said. “He thought he was going to do a good job, and he was going to try to get up there for a game or two this season. But his back was bothering him so much, he couldn’t get around.â€
When Corso hung up the phone that day, he never thought it would be the last time he’d speak to Buddy Reynolds.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/audience/david-whitley/os-ae-burt-reynolds-corso-david-whitley-0907-story.html (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/audience/david-whitley/os-ae-burt-reynolds-corso-david-whitley-0907-story.html)
I always liked 'the Longest Yard', probably more movies than I can think of. Eddie Albert was in that too. A lot of '70s/'80s movie classics, not too easy to find on tv acctually.
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Bill Daily dies at 91
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Daily's three most regular roles were as Roger Healey on I Dream of Jeannie, pilot Howard Borden on The Bob Newhart Show and a recurring panelist on the game show Match Game. His attempts at starring in a sitcom of his own were unsuccessful.
Obituary from Variety (https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/bill-daily-dead-dies-major-healey-i-dream-of-jeannie-1202933026/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Daily)
IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0197349/)
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Daily was fun as Howard on the Bob Newhart Show. I guess Newhart and Peter Bonerz (Jerry) are the only ones left from that show?
Too bad that Daily never made it as star of his own show, but he was good as a "second banana."
Rest in peace, Mr. Daily and thanks for the laughs.
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Bill Daily dies at 91
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Daily's three most regular roles were as Roger Healey on I Dream of Jeannie, pilot Howard Borden on The Bob Newhart Show and a recurring panelist on the game show Match Game. His attempts at starring in a sitcom of his own were unsuccessful.
Obituary from Variety (https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/bill-daily-dead-dies-major-healey-i-dream-of-jeannie-1202933026/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Daily)
IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0197349/)
He lived to be 91,had 3 long-term marriages,one that ended with the death of his wife,2 children,and despite being in show biz,in all those years there was not even ONE whiff of scandal about him or anyone with anything bad to say about him.
Life just doesn't get any better than that,and rarely gets that good.
Good on you,Bill!
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Bill Daily dies at 91
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Daily's three most regular roles were as Roger Healey on I Dream of Jeannie, pilot Howard Borden on The Bob Newhart Show and a recurring panelist on the game show Match Game. His attempts at starring in a sitcom of his own were unsuccessful.
Obituary from Variety (https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/bill-daily-dead-dies-major-healey-i-dream-of-jeannie-1202933026/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Daily)
IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0197349/)
RIP. His timing, cadence and expressions were hilarious.
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I always liked 'the Longest Yard', probably more movies than I can think of. Eddie Albert was in that too.
Don't forget Bernadette Peters. Love the Big Hair.
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Daily was fun as Howard on the Bob Newhart Show. I guess Newhart and Peter Bonerz (Jerry) are the only ones left from that show?
Too bad that Daily never made it as star of his own show, but he was good as a "second banana."
Rest in peace, Mr. Daily and thanks for the laughs.
Sometimes the 'second banana' is the best thing about a show, and Daily was incredibly good at that.
The first Newhart show was filled with hilarious and memorable characters, and Howard was certainly one of them.
RIP, Bill. You did make us laugh.
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Sometimes the 'second banana' is the best thing about a show, and Daily was incredibly good at that.
The first Newhart show was filled with hilarious and memorable characters, and Howard was certainly one of them.
RIP, Bill. You did make us laugh.
@musiclady
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttoKCGLJhE0#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg_t4bEErUM#)
RIP Howard
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Fascinating interview, @EasyAce . THANKS!
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Bill Daily, actor from “I Dream of Jeannie†and “The Bob Newhart Show†dead at 91
https://usat.ly/2wYYQeS
RIP Major Healy and Howard Borden
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Dave Dave, whose father set him on fire in 1983, dies at 42
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Dave Dave, a respected Las Vegas artist who was badly scarred as a boy when his father tried to burn him to death in Southern California, has died. He was 42.
Dave, who was born David Rothenberg, died on July 15 at Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas, Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg said Wednesday.
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Dave was 6 years old when his father, Charles Rothenberg, gave him a sleeping pill, doused his bed with kerosene and lit it in a Buena Park motel room near Disneyland during a bitter custody fight. The father fled.
The boy underwent numerous skin grafts and was left disfigured but refused to define himself as a victim....
https://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/Dave-Dave-father-set-on-fire-michael-jackson-dies-13159696.php#photo-16021692 (https://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/Dave-Dave-father-set-on-fire-michael-jackson-dies-13159696.php#photo-16021692)
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Dave Dave, whose father set him on fire in 1983, dies at 42
Charles Rothenberg spent less than seven years of a 13-year sentence in prison for attempted murder.
And in MY NSHO,that sentence was a crime almost as serious as setting his son on fire. He should have been executed immediately after the sentence.
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And in MY NSHO,that sentence was a crime almost as serious as setting his son on fire. He should have been executed immediately after the sentence.
...by being set on fire, like a Vietnamese monk.
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...by being set on fire, like a Vietnamese monk.
@Cyber Liberty
Poetic Justice works for me.
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Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE-RGR) mourns the loss of William B. Ruger, Jr., former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Ruger. Mr. Ruger, who was the second CEO of the Company and the son of the Company's founder, passed away this past weekend.
Some of the finest affordable firearms ever made.
RIP Bill
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A few words from Bill's Father on Freedom.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE9XtYIV3XU#)
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ctpost/obituary.aspx?n=william-b-ruger&pid=190257378&fhid=4829 (https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ctpost/obituary.aspx?n=william-b-ruger&pid=190257378&fhid=4829)
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Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE-RGR) mourns the loss of William B. Ruger, Jr., former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Ruger. Mr. Ruger, who was the second CEO of the Company and the son of the Company's founder, passed away this past weekend.
Some of the finest affordable firearms ever made.
RIP Bill
Yep. I have 2 of these.
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RIP Lee Stange, a starter/reliever on the 1967 "Impossible Dream" Red Sox . . .
Former Red Sox pitcher Stange dies (https://sports.yahoo.com/former-red-sox-pitcher-stange-dies-172209113--mlb.html)
@Machiavelli
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RIP Lee Stange, a starter/reliever on the 1967 "Impossible Dream" Red Sox . . .
Former Red Sox pitcher Stange dies (https://sports.yahoo.com/former-red-sox-pitcher-stange-dies-172209113--mlb.html)
@Machiavelli
@EasyAce I remember him.
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Rocker Charles Hodgkins of Charles and Dave passed away. I think I remember their song "Cockney Girls".
https://startsat60.com/health/big-issues/cancer/chas-and-dave-chas-hodges-cause-of-death (https://startsat60.com/health/big-issues/cancer/chas-and-dave-chas-hodges-cause-of-death)
"London Girl"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP-4O7XlKgU#)
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Anita Madden, Kentucky Derby partier, 85
http://amp.kentucky.com/news/local/article219155985.html (http://amp.kentucky.com/news/local/article219155985.html)
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Marty Balin, co-founder of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship, dies at 76
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Balin, a tenor vocalist and rhythm guitarist who helped form Jefferson Airplane in 1965, was a member of the San Francisco-based rock group until 1970, when increasing disillusionment with the decline of the 1960s ethos (such as the death of Janis Joplin and the disastrous Altamont Free Concert, where Balin was trampled by Hells Angels) and increasing cocaine usage by people around him prompted him to walk away.
He was convinced to return to a reformed version of the group, Jefferson Starship, in 1974, for which he wrote and performed several hits, including the top-5 hit "Miracles." He left the group again in 1978 and embarked on a briefly successful solo career.
Balin occasionally reunited with his Jefferson Airplane/Starship bandmates for periods over the years until 2016, when a botched open-heart surgery left him without a thumb and part of his tongue. He died September 27.
Obituary from Rolling Stone (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jefferson-airplane-guitarist-marty-balin-dead-76-730912/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Balin)
Balin's biggest solo hit, "Hearts:"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIF74lH4KPM#)
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I still think this is the most beautiful song Marty Balin ever wrote and sang . . .
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1FnOH26tZQ#)
RIP
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... when a botched open-heart surgery left him without a thumb and part of his tongue. ...
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Balin)
I was wondering, "HTH does that happen?" but according to the Wikipedia link it wasn't the surgery itself that was the cause, but rather neglect and inadequate care (allegedly) in the hospital after the surgery, that was the cause.
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Gotta post the official video for hearts...so wonderfully cheesy:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOvcNV4bU38#)
BTW, how did he pronounce his last name. I've heard it BAIL-in, and BALL-in.
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Anthonius Gunawan Agung, 21 years old
(https://i.imgur.com/wr8Q3d7.jpg)
He died Friday in the Indonesian earthquake. He was the only air traffic controller left in the Palu tower after his colleagues ran when a 7.5 magnitude earthquake started.
He waited until he had gotten Batik Air Flight 6321 off the runway before fleeing. Sadly, fearing the tower was about to collapse, he jumped from the tower and later succumbed to his injuries.
Rest In Peace.
Imgur: https://imgur.com/gallery/1HebmC4 (https://imgur.com/gallery/1HebmC4)
ABC (Australia) News:
Indonesian earthquake: Air traffic controller dies ensuring flight gets off the ground
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-29/earthquake-hero-dies-after-getting-flight-off-the-ground/10321204 (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-29/earthquake-hero-dies-after-getting-flight-off-the-ground/10321204)
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Anthonius Gunawan Agung, 21 years old
(https://i.imgur.com/wr8Q3d7.jpg)
He died Friday in the Indonesian earthquake. He was the only air traffic controller left in the Palu tower after his colleagues ran when a 7.5 magnitude earthquake started.
He waited until he had gotten Batik Air Flight 6321 off the runway before fleeing. Sadly, fearing the tower was about to collapse, he jumped from the tower and later succumbed to his injuries.
Rest In Peace.
Imgur: https://imgur.com/gallery/1HebmC4 (https://imgur.com/gallery/1HebmC4)
ABC (Australia) News:
Indonesian earthquake: Air traffic controller dies ensuring flight gets off the ground
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-29/earthquake-hero-dies-after-getting-flight-off-the-ground/10321204 (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-29/earthquake-hero-dies-after-getting-flight-off-the-ground/10321204)
Brave man.
RIP
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Otis Rush, Seminal Chicago Blues Guitarist, Dead at 84 (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/otis-rush-chicago-blues-guitarist-dead-731136/)
Otis Rush, "I Can't Quit You, Baby"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-ek5CIJp78#)
Otis Rush, "Hold That Train"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgyqGWKUMa0#)
One of the first I sought out after I got the blues bite from B.B. King in summer 1969. And I never got tired of hearing him, either.
RIP, Mr. Rush.
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Charles Aznavour, French singer-songwriter whose compositions were adapted into American hits, dies at 94
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Aznavour, a Frenchman of Armenian descent, was one of France's most iconic pop singers and drew comparisons to Frank Sinatra for his devoted and widespread following in the country. He recorded an estimated 91 studio albums and over 1,000 songs over the course of his lifetime, spanning several languages, mostly French.
Aznavour's English-language recordings, while modestly popular in the UK, never broke through to mainstream success in the United States; his only chart entry there, "She," missed the Hot 100 entirely and peaked only at 44 on the Easy Listening charts. Covers of some of Aznavour's songs were more successful, however: "Hier encore" would be translated into English and adapted into "Yesterday When I Was Young," which became a major hit for Roy Clark.
Obituary from The Independent (https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/charles-aznavour-dead-aged-92-frank-sinatra-france-death-age-a8563236.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Aznavour)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQIAcztYjbc#)
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Anthonius Gunawan Agung, 21 years old
(https://i.imgur.com/wr8Q3d7.jpg)
He died Friday in the Indonesian earthquake. He was the only air traffic controller left in the Palu tower after his colleagues ran when a 7.5 magnitude earthquake started.
He waited until he had gotten Batik Air Flight 6321 off the runway before fleeing. Sadly, fearing the tower was about to collapse, he jumped from the tower and later succumbed to his injuries.
Rest In Peace.
Imgur: https://imgur.com/gallery/1HebmC4 (https://imgur.com/gallery/1HebmC4)
ABC (Australia) News:
Indonesian earthquake: Air traffic controller dies ensuring flight gets off the ground
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-29/earthquake-hero-dies-after-getting-flight-off-the-ground/10321204 (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-29/earthquake-hero-dies-after-getting-flight-off-the-ground/10321204)
"Hero" is a word bandied about excessively nowadays, imho,. That man is indeed a hero. Pity he did not survive.
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Peggy Sue, made famous by Buddy Holly, dies at 78
Peggy Sue Gerron was the girlfriend and later wife of J. I. Allison, a member of The Crickets. During a rough patch in their relationship, Holly adapted a song he was writing to add Gerron's name. The song became a hit, prompting a sequel "Peggy Sue Got Married," which in turn inspired a film of the same name. The couple would eventually divorce years after Holly's death.
In real life, she went on to become a plumber, dental assistant and amateur radio enthusiast. She died October 1.
Obituary from the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (http://www.lubbockonline.com/news/20181001/peggy-sue-gerron-inspiration-for-buddy-holly-song-dies-in-lubbock)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DAJbEcyyYA#)
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"Hero" is a word bandied about excessively nowadays, imho,. That man is indeed a hero. Pity he did not survive.
God bless the memory of this brave young man.
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Peggy Sue:
(http://www.lubbockonline.com/storyimage/TX/20181001/NEWS/181009883/AR/0/AR-181009883.jpg?Q=75&maxW=960&maxH=960)
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Geoff Emerick, longtime sound engineer for Paul McCartney, dies at 72
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Emerick began his career at age 15 for EMI Records. By age 19, after working as an assistant, he was assigned engineering duties for The Beatles, then the biggest band in the world, under the tutelage of producer George Martin. He helped produce the sound on Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road, although he quit the White Album in frustration with the erratic project.
When the personal battles between the Beatles band members led to its breakup in 1970, Emerick found himself more closely associated with Paul McCartney, and the other Beatles, who always saw Emerick as more of a "Paul guy," chose other engineers for their projects. In addition to working extensively with McCartney, he also engineered recordings for Elvis Costello, Badfinger, Jeff Beck, Cheap Trick, Supertramp, and many others.
Emerick died of a heart attack during a phone conversation with his manager William Zambelata at approximately 5 a.m. Eastern Time.
Obituary from CNN (https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/03/uk/beatles-engineer-dies-intl/index.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Emerick)
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Juan Romero, busboy who aided wounded Robert Kennedy, dies
By JOHN ROGERS and RUSSELL CONTRERAS Associated Press
October 04, 2018 06:27 PM
LOS ANGELES
When Robert F. Kennedy decided to duck through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after declaring victory in the 1968 Democratic presidential primary, Juan Romero reveled at his good fortune.
It meant the 18-year-old busboy might get to shake hands with his hero — the man he'd assured himself would be the next president of the United States — for the second time in two days.
Romero had just grasped Kennedy's hand when gunshots rang out, one of them striking the senator in the head.
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Romero died Monday in a Modesto, California, hospital following a heart attack, Rigo Chacon, a longtime family friend and former TV newsman, told The Associated Press on Thursday. He was 68.
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article219490920.html#storylink=cpy (https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article219490920.html#storylink=cpy)
They say he blamed himself for not doing more, he wanted to do more at least.:
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Rest In Peace
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Once upon a time, when Dave Anderson worked at the Brooklyn Eagle, he covered a Dodgers-Braves game in which Braves errors figured big in the outcome. Anderson's intended lead: "The Milwaukee Braves died with their boots." The lead in the paper after some bat-brained copy editor got hold of it: "The Milwaukee Braves died with their boots on." That'd teach them---a couple of decades later, there was Anderson with the New York Times, becoming the second sportswriter (after his colleague, the great Red Smith) to win the Pulitzer Prize for commentary (Jim Murray of the Los Angeles Times became the third in due course), having the last laugh. RIP to one of the last of the great old-time sportswriters . . .
Dave Anderson, Award-Winning Times Sportswriter, Dies at 89 (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/obituaries/dave-anderson-award-winning-times-sportswriter-dies-at-89.html)
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Will Vinton, Oscar-Winning Claymation Animator, Dies at 70
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/will-vinton-oscar-winning-claymation-animator-dies-at-70/ar-BBNXMZo?OCID=ansmsnnews11 (https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/will-vinton-oscar-winning-claymation-animator-dies-at-70/ar-BBNXMZo?OCID=ansmsnnews11)
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The Claymation Christmas Special is absolutely awesome.
And as I have turned 69, I realize how young 70 is. Too young to die.
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Karl Mildenberger, Former EBU Champ & Ali Foe, Passes Away
Former EBU heavyweight champ and world title contender Karl Mildenberger has passed away at the age of 80, reports media in Germany.
Mildenberger turned pro in 1958 and first challenged for the EBU title in 1962 but lost to Dick Richardson. In 1964 he beat Santo Amonti to win the title and defended it three times before challenging the champion of the world, Muhammad Ali.
More (https://www.boxingscene.com/karl-mildenberger-former-ebu-champ-ali-foe-passes-away--132489)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Mildenberger)
BoxRec (http://boxrec.com/en/boxer/9381)
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Montserrat Caballe, opera singer, dies at 85
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Montserrat_Caballé_1971b.jpg/264px-Montserrat_Caballé_1971b.jpg)
Obituary from the Associated Press (https://www.apnews.com/ed01bc72a0a14276abf884022ec63ace?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montserrat_Caballé)
Caballe's collaboration with Freddie Mercury, "Barcelona"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Eg-mWdDLc#)
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The Claymation Christmas Special is absolutely awesome.
And as I have turned 69, I realize how young 70 is. Too young to die.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd6uqVNEu-peflL0eT4lOwVrRnshaod98 (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd6uqVNEu-peflL0eT4lOwVrRnshaod98)
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Scott Wilson, who played Hershel on The Walking Dead, dies at 76
https://comicbook.com/2018/10/07/the-walking-dead-scott-wilson-dead-age-hershel/
@CatherineofAragon
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Scott Wilson, who played Hershel on The Walking Dead, dies at 76
https://comicbook.com/2018/10/07/the-walking-dead-scott-wilson-dead-age-hershel/
@CatherineofAragon
@Suppressed, thank you for pinging me. This is so sad. I loved his character, Herschel Greene. Wilson was still close with the cast of the show.
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTgJ9JWk90-KepMS3SjuxCV-rlQ93Cxau7nLM0dZ7lSQHIpDQDy)
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Alex Spanos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Spanos), businessman who owned the Seattle Supersonics and San Diego-turned-Los Angeles Chargers, dies at 95
http://www.latimes.com/sports/chargers/la-sp-alex-spanos-obit-20181009-story.html (http://www.latimes.com/sports/chargers/la-sp-alex-spanos-obit-20181009-story.html)
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George Taliaferro, first black player selected in the NFL Draft, dies at 91
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/George_Taliaferro_-_1952_Bowman_Large.jpg/220px-George_Taliaferro_-_1952_Bowman_Large.jpg)
Although several black players had signed with the National Football League as free agents in the late 1940s in the wake of the league's desegregation, Taliaferro, a College Football Hall of Famer and All-American from Indiana University, was the first to have been selected in the NFL Draft, being chosen with the 129th pick in the 1949 Draft. Taliaferro played seven years in professional football, including three appearances in the Pro Bowl, despite appearing for some of the league's worst and least solvent teams at the time (two of the teams, the New York Yanks and one-year wonders Dallas Texans, folded while Taliaferro was on their rosters). He spent most of his post-football career as a university professor, social worker and volunteer.
Obituary from the Indianapolis Star (https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2018/10/08/first-african-american-drafted-nfl-george-taliaferro-dies-91-iu-hoosiers/1574059002/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Taliaferro)
NFL stats (http://www.nfl.com/players/profile?id=2526998)
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Jim Taylor dies; was first of Vince Lombardi-era Packers inducted into Hall of Fame
Hall of Fame fullback Jim Taylor, who rushed for more than 1,000 yards over five straight seasons with the Green Bay Packers, died Saturday morning at the age of 83, the team announced.
Taylor rushed for 8,207 yards and scored 91 touchdowns in his nine seasons with the Packers from 1958-66, and he was the first of the Vince Lombardi-era players to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, in 1976.
More (http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/24973592/jim-taylor-first-vince-lombardi-era-green-bay-packers-inducted-hall-fame-dies)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Taylor_(American_football))
Career stats (https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/T/TaylJi00.htm)
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Don Leo Jonathan dead at 87 (all-time great professional wrestler)
Don Leo Delaun Heaton, better known to the pro wrestling world as "The Mormon Giant" Don Leo Jonathan, has died. He was 87 years old.
At the end of August, Heaton was admitted to a hospital in British Columbia, and never left.
Throughout his lengthy career, Don Leo Jonathan was one of the top wrestlers in the world, period. At 6-foot-6, at usually 280-320 pounds, he was both hulking, but also fast and agile, able to do a nip-up.
Contrasting his size was his voice, which was squeaky and high-pitched, yet measured and thoughtful, menacing when it needed to be, motivating when he wanted to rally the fans to his size.
More (http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/2018/10/13/22786171.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Leo_Jonathan)
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Rest in peace Don Leo Johnathan:
Verne Gagne vs. Don Leo Jonathan (04/15/1955)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ETKUs32598#)
http://alquebec.ss38.ca/html/lutteurs/jonathan.html (http://alquebec.ss38.ca/html/lutteurs/jonathan.html)
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Bill Coors at 102.
RIP
https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/companies/bill-coors-influential-beer-industry-leader-dies-at-102/ar-BBOmhQ1 (https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/companies/bill-coors-influential-beer-industry-leader-dies-at-102/ar-BBOmhQ1)
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Of course they did:
NYT Uses Obituary to Smear ‘Ultraconservative’ Coors Leader as 'Racist, Sexist and Homophobic’
By Clay Waters
October 15, 2018 3:21 PM EDT
Monday’s New York Times obituary by Robert McFadden for American beer pioneer William Coors (of the brewing company that carries his name) violated the usual tasteful norms for an obit, starting with the headline and the text box: “William Coors, Ultraconservative Leader Of Brewery Based in Colorado, Dies at 102.†The text box: “A chairman’s speeches were often labeled racist, sexist and homophobic.â€
McFadden led off with hostility: William K. Coors, who led one of America’s biggest beer makers for decades, but whose ultraconservative speeches and anti-union policies incurred boycotts and the wrath of organized labor, civil rights groups and minorities, died on Saturday at his home in Golden, Colo. He was 102. ...
Along with his younger brother, Joseph, a Coors executive who supported Ronald Reagan’s rise to the presidency, William Coors, although not as overtly political, championed bootstrap success and free enterprise, and was widely admired by conservatives.
But he alienated unionists, blacks, Hispanics, women and gays with views and policies that critics called racist, sexist and homophobic, and members of those groups joined informal boycotts of Coors beer in increasing numbers in the 1970s. ...
More at Newsbusters (https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2018/10/15/nyt-uses-obituary-smear-ultraconservative-coors-leader-racist-sexist)
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Of course they did:More at Newsbusters (https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2018/10/15/nyt-uses-obituary-smear-ultraconservative-coors-leader-racist-sexist)
Never have an ancestor named Adolph.
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Summer 1971. Had gone to great lengths to buy about 15 cases of Coors in Panguitch Utah, for our continuing journey.
Two nights later, camped at North Rim of the Grand Canyon, when we shared a campfire with guys from Massachuseetts.
We learned they too, would stock up on Coors while "out West," as they did not yet have Coors back home.
BTW fantastic trip, Zion, Bryce, North Rim GC, Oak Creek Canyon, Sedona AZ.
BTW2, Coors never a great beer.
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When I went to college in Oklahoma, Coors could be purchased there but not in my home state of Missouri. It was back when Paul Newman famously had it flown to his home in Connecticut. So it was quite the exotic thing to get some Coors and take it home to dad.
Now that I actually know what beer is supposed to taste like, I wouldn't be caught dead buying Coors.
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I just got a news flash on my iPhone that Paul Allen , co-founder of Microsoft died at 65. No details. 🚨
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I just got a news flash on my iPhone that Paul Allen , co-founder of Microsoft died at 65. No details. 🚨
That seems to be true. Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
RIP
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Paul Allen, multibillionaire who founded Microsoft with Bill Gates, dies at 65
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Paull_Allen.JPG)
Allen was an early partner of Bill Gates when they co-founded Microsoft in 1975. Illness forced Allen to scale back on his work in 1982 but refused to sell his shares in the company to Gates. As a result, when Gates took Microsoft to massive heights in the late 1980s and into the 1990s, Allen became extremely rich. Allen reinvested much of his money into Vulcan, an investment firm, which had a broad variety of holdings. Among Allen's interests included professional sports (the Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers), filmmaking, various donations to the sciences, and other stereotypically rich interests such as yachting and fine art.
Allen died October 15 from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He left no next of kin.
Obituary from KING-TV in Seattle (https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/paul-allen-microsoft-co-founder-and-seahawks-owner-dies-at-65/281-604572895)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen)
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Dennis Hof, Nevada's most famous pimp, dies at 73
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(Hof, at left in pink, with Heidi Fleiss and Ron Jeremy)
In 1992, Hof took advantage of the state of Nevada's loose laws on prostitution and took over operations of his first brothel, the Moonlite BunnyRanch, where he had been a longtime john. Hof's empire expanded to seven brothels across Nevada, many of which were located in the suburbs of the state capital of Carson City.
Maitnaining an unusually high profile for such a discreet business, Hof was a gregarious and sometimes eccentric man, appearing as himself in the HBO reality series Cathouse, which documented his business. Toward the end of his life, Hof, who had variously been registered as a Republican and a Libertarian, entered politics. At the time of his death he was the GOP nominee for a seat in the Nevada State Assembly.
Hof died without warning in his sleep.
Obituary from the Reno Gazette-Journal (https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2018/10/16/dennis-hof-pimp-and-legislative-candidate-nevada-dead/1661304002/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hof)
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Hof was being investigated for Sex Trafficking. :shrug:
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Hof was being investigated for Sex Trafficking. :shrug:
Yeah, being in that business usually draws suspicion of that, whether he did so or not.
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Yeah, being in that business usually draws suspicion of that, whether he did so or not.
If he's in "that business" he did it. Not possible that he didn't.
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If he's in "that business" he did it. Not possible that he didn't.
The question is "Is it legal in his county in Nevada?" I spoke with a friend recently who worked for Hos, and he said it's likely Hos had some workers who weren't properly licensed in Nye, which would be why he was being investigated.
He's also a Republican who was running for State Representative, so there's that.
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The question is "Is it legal in his county in Nevada?" I spoke with a friend recently who worked for Hos, and he said it's likely Hos had some workers who weren't properly licensed in Nye, which would be why he was being investigated.
He's also a Republican who was running for State Representative, so there's that.
Well, this is not the place to get into this debate, but among the workers, no matter where they "work" are a number of women who have been victims of trafficking, kidnapping and abuse. The average little girl doesn't grow up and say, "I want to sell my body and be disgraced and be owned by a pimp, just for money." There has been abuse. There has been molestation. There has been something to make these women grow up to consider that they are worth no more than this and of no real value to men.
Licensed or not, some of Hof's "workers" are or have been sex slaves.
He was guilty, and for all we know, may be being punished already for his vile sins.
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Well, this is not the place to get into this debate, but among the workers, no matter where they "work" are a number of women who have been victims of trafficking, kidnapping and abuse. The average little girl doesn't grow up and say, "I want to sell my body and be disgraced and be owned by a pimp, just for money." There has been abuse. There has been molestation. There has been something to make these women grow up to consider that they are worth no more than this and of no real value to men.
Licensed or not, some of Hof's "workers" are or have been sex slaves.
He was guilty, and for all we know, may be being punished already for his vile sins.
That's the distinction between "Is it legal?" and "Is it moral?" No doubt in my mere human mind it's immoral as Hell (literally.) I was just addressing the first part. My friend, who is a socialist lefty, worked for a bordello as a chauffeur and was registered as a "sex worker," even though he certainly was not a prostitute.
(He is an old friend of 40 years, and we knew from the start we were onn different paths.)
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'Dirty' Dick Slater passes away at 67 (professional wrestler)
According to the NWA's Twitter account, "Dirty" Dick Slater has passed away at age 67. No cause of death was given.
Born Richard Van Slater, Slater was best known for his runs in WCW and Georgia Championship Wrestling with plenty of stops in between.
More (https://www.f4wonline.com/other-wrestling/dirty-dick-slater-passes-away-67-268196)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Slater)
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R.I.P. Danny Leiner, Director of ‘Harold & Kumar’ and ‘Dude, Where’s My Car?
Sad news, folks. We’re seeing reports on Facebook that Danny Leiner, the director of the beloved comedies Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and Dude, Where’s My Car? has passed away following a long illness.
Leiner got his start with the well-received short films My Birthday Cake and Time Expired, which led him to make his feature debut with the 1996 comedy Layin‘ Low starring Jeremy Piven and Edie Falco. Four years later, he was tapped to direct the Ashton Kutcher-Seann William Scott comedy Dude, Where’s My Car?, where he also worked with a young Jennifer Garner. The film grossed $73 million worldwide on a $13 million budget, proving to be a modest hit for 20th Century Fox, though a much-rumored sequel failed to materialize.
More (http://collider.com/danny-leiner-dead-harold-kumar-director/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Leiner)
IMDb (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0500444/)
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Leiner was 57 -- way too young. May he rest in peace.
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Dick Modzelewski, Key Lineman in a Vaunted Giants Defense, Dies at 87
Dick Modzelewski, the Giants’ tackle who played on the line that transformed defensive players into glamorous pro football figures during the team’s glory years of the late 1950s and early ’60s, died on Friday at his home in Eastlake, Ohio. He was 87.
His death was confirmed by his daughter Laurie Hardesty.
Modzelewski, the winner of the 1952 Outland Trophy as college football’s best interior lineman, playing for the University of Maryland, was obtained by the Giants in a trade before the 1956 season. Soon, chants of “Dee-fense†rang out at Yankee Stadium as Modzelewski at left tackle, Jim Katcavage at left end, Andy Robustelli at right end — all in their first season as Giants — and Rosey Grier at right tackle formed the first N.F.L. defensive line to be celebrated as a unit.
The Giants routed the Chicago Bears, 47-7, to win the 1956 N.F.L. championship and captured five more Eastern Conference titles in the next seven years with that defensive line virtually intact.
More (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/20/obituaries/dick-modzelewski-dead.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Modzelewski)
Career stats (https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/ModzDi00.htm)
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Charles Wang, Chinese-American billionaire, dies at 74
Wang was born in China in 1944 and fled to the United States with his family eight years later to escape Communism. He earned a college degree in mathematics and physics but proved himself an even better salesman, serving as a co-founder of Computer Associates. Despite the risky move of using a credit card to finance the company, CA became a major success.
In 2000, after leaving the company he founded, Wang purchased the New York Islanders hockey team, a move that Wang later admitted was a huge mistake. Despite this, he fought extensively to keep the team on Long Island throughout his ownership but was unable to secure a new arena to replace the woefully outdated Nassau Coliseum. He sold the team in 2016.
Obituary from Newsday (https://www.newsday.com/long-island/computer-associates-charles-wang-1.22209693)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wang)
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Joachim Ronneberg: Norwegian who thwarted Nazi nuclear plan dies
Joachim Ronneberg, the Norwegian resistance fighter who sabotaged Nazi Germany's nuclear weapons ambitions during World War Two, has died aged 99.
In 1943, he led a top-secret raid on a heavily-guarded plant in Norway's southern region of Telemark.
The operation was immortalised in the 1965 Hollywood film Heroes of Telemark, starring Kirk Douglas.
More at:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45938874# (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45938874#)
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Interesting story. This man was a real hero. Rest in peace.
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Joachim Ronneberg: Norwegian who thwarted Nazi nuclear plan dies
WOW, I hadn't realized he was still alive!
Yes, a true hero. RIP.
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WOW, I hadn't realized he was still alive!
Yes, a true hero. RIP.
RIP.
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James Karen, Actor in 'Poltergeist' and So Much More, Dies at 94
James Karen, the instantly recognizable character actor who moved the cemetery’s headstones — but not the bodies — as the developer Mr. Teague in the modern horror classic Poltergeist, has died. He was 94.
The incredibly prolific Karen, who also was noteworthy in such films as The China Syndrome (1979) and The Return of the Living Dead (1985) and on the finale of NBC’s Little House on the Prairie — he’s the dastardly reason the town of Walnut Grove was blown up — died Tuesday at his Los Angeles home, his wife, Alba, said.
More (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/james-karen-dead-poltergeist-china-syndrome-actor-was-94-722368)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Karen)
IMDb (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0439170/)
Another one of those, "you may not recognize his name but you'll know him when you see his picture" folks.
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James Karen, Actor in 'Poltergeist' and So Much More, Dies at 94
More (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/james-karen-dead-poltergeist-china-syndrome-actor-was-94-722368)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Karen)
IMDb (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0439170/)
Another one of those, "you may not recognize his name but you'll know him when you see his picture" folks.
@Machiavelli
I can hear his voice, too. RIP
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Dorcas Reilly, inventor of green bean casserole, dies at 92
In 1955, Reilly, then 29 years old, was working in the home economics department at the Campbell Soup Company and was tasked with developing recipes for Campbell's products. She noted that the company's cream of mushroom soup was becoming a popular binder in casseroles and decided to add green beans for a base, since most households had frozen or canned green beans in their pantry or freezer. Adding various other ingredients (including fried onions, which today are almost exclusively used for the dish), her casserole initially didn't test well within the company, but through persistence and tweaking, it ultimately became a staple of Thanksgiving dinner.
Reilly left Campbell's in 1961 to focus on being a stay-at-home mom. With her children grown, she returned to Campbell's 20 years later for another seven-year run with the company.
Reilly died October 15 from complications of Alzheimer's disease.
Obituary from CNN (https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/24/us/dorcas-reilly-green-bean-casserole-trnd/index.html)
Wikipedia (green bean casserole article) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_bean_casserole)
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Wow! My mom made that green bean casserole every Thanksgiving. Now my brother and SIL continue the tradition.
Rest in peace, Mrs. Reilly and thank you.
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Wow! My mom made that green bean casserole every Thanksgiving. Now my brother and SIL continue the trafition.
Rest in peace, Mrs. Reilly and thank you.
Loved it growing up, my wife's family didn't make it, so now we don't. Might ask the wife to do it this year in honor of Mrs. Reilly
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Loved it growing up, my wife's family didn't make it, so now we don't. Might ask the wife to do it this year in honor of Mrs. Reilly
It’s a Thanksgiving staple at our house. One year, I tried to change it up and offered a more “modern†version of green bean casserole. Wow. The push-back from the family was ridiculous. So back to the original.
And it always reminds me of going to my grandparents for the holidays. Grandma made the best food.
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Pretty amazing how directly and deeply Mrs. Reilly affected so many people. We will have our traditional green bean casserole at Thanksgiving and Christmas too.
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Pretty amazing how directly and deeply Mrs. Reilly affected so many people. We will have our traditional green bean casserole at Thanksgiving and Christmas too.
I think she should be immortalized as the purveyor of the low brow cuisine trend that onion strings taste good on about anything. :cool:
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I think she should be immortalized as the purveyor of the low brow cuisine trend that onion strings taste good on about anything. :cool:
Hey, nothing low brow about it if it tastes good.
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Hey, nothing low brow about it if it tastes good.
I agree. But tell that to some of these millennials who think they are professional home chefs. :cool:
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Hey, nothing low brow about it if it tastes good.
Amen to that! I absolutely love it, and have since I was a kid.
RIP Mrs. Reilly. You've made a lot of people happy.
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Wow! My mom made that green bean casserole every Thanksgiving. Now my brother and SIL continue the trafition.
Rest in peace, Mrs. Reilly and thank you.
We do it every year.
The only change is fresh green beans, over canned or frozen.
Everything else on the recipe remains the same.
We may have thrown in fresh mushrooms a time or two.
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Swamp Rock Icon Tony Joe White Dead at 75
Singer-songwriter Tony Joe White, a prolific tunesmith whose swamp-soaked 1968 pop hit “Polk Salad Annie,†reflected his Louisiana upbringing, died yesterday, Wednesday, October 24th, of natural causes at his home in Leipers Fork, Tennessee, just outside Nashville. He was 75.
White, who had a Top Ten record with “Polk Salad Annie,†also saw it popularized by Elvis Presley. He was also perhaps best known as the writer of the deeply atmospheric and soulful “Rainy Night in Georgia,†a Number Four pop hit for Brook Benton in 1970 and covered by a number of other acts including Hank Williams Jr., B.J. Thomas, Shelby Lynne, and as a duet by Conway Twitty and Sam Moore.
Excerpt. More at:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/tony-joe-white-dead-obituary-747393/ (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/tony-joe-white-dead-obituary-747393/)
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Wah Wah Watson, Guitarist for Marvin Gaye and Michael Jackson, Dead at 67
Former Funk Brother Melvin Ragin’s idiosyncratic riffs anchored many Motown classics (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/wah-wah-watson-guitarist-dead-746962/)
His two most iconic recordings . . .
The Temptations, "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUiF55ohVO8#)
Marvin Gaye, "Let's Get It On"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYjGkF3pUz0#)
RIP to an exemplary Funk Brother . . .
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Swamp Rock Icon Tony Joe White Dead at 75
Excerpt. More at:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/tony-joe-white-dead-obituary-747393/ (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/tony-joe-white-dead-obituary-747393/)
He was good.
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Swamp Rock Icon Tony Joe White Dead at 75
Excerpt. More at:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/tony-joe-white-dead-obituary-747393/ (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/tony-joe-white-dead-obituary-747393/)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCPYbys5yRY#)
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Swamp Rock Icon Tony Joe White Dead at 75
Excerpt. More at:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/tony-joe-white-dead-obituary-747393/ (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/tony-joe-white-dead-obituary-747393/)
In the 90's or early 2000's I went to see Joe Cocker. Tony Joe opened for him. I was surprised...he was great! RIP
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Swamp Rock Icon Tony Joe White Dead at 75
Excerpt. More at:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/tony-joe-white-dead-obituary-747393/ (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/tony-joe-white-dead-obituary-747393/)
He was a Louisiana guy who played Texas a lot in his early days.
Just 2 weeks ago, I heard an interview with him on satellite radio.
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Lindon Crow, veteran of NFL's 'greatest game ever,' dies at 85
Lindon Crow, the former NFL defensive back who had three interceptions in the 1958 sudden-death NFL championship dubbed "the greatest game ever played," has died. He was 85.
He died Thursday in Exeter, California, due to complications from a series of strokes, the University of Southern California said Friday.
Crow led the NFL in interceptions with 11 in 1956 and had 41 picks in his pro career. He played defensive back for the Cardinals from 1955 to '57, New York Giants from 1958 to '60, and Los Angeles Rams from 1961 to '64.
More (http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/25093338/lindon-crow-veteran-nfl-greatest-game-ever-dies-85)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindon_Crow)
Career stats (https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CrowLi20.htm)
(https://i.postimg.cc/QtJSR5qc/29231536a-Toht5-Fh.jpg)
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John Taylor Gatto
https://fee.org/articles/john-taylor-gatto-1935-1918-remembering-americas-most-courageous-teacher/?utm_source=zapier&utm&fbclid=IwAR25nyF977O_plwVUJMaiNCrSsljMCrxo2sRNJKoqPgc-83MvAg4PE5hLYE (https://fee.org/articles/john-taylor-gatto-1935-1918-remembering-americas-most-courageous-teacher/?utm_source=zapier&utm&fbclid=IwAR25nyF977O_plwVUJMaiNCrSsljMCrxo2sRNJKoqPgc-83MvAg4PE5hLYE)
Homeschoolers should know of him.
https://www.johntaylorgatto.com (https://www.johntaylorgatto.com)
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James J. Bulger, Jr., Boston mafioso, dies at 89
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/James_Bulger_1994.jpg/196px-James_Bulger_1994.jpg)
Born in the projects of Boston to a disabled Canadian father and Irish mother, Bulger earned a reputation as a criminal in his childhood. After a troubled stint in the Air Force, he began developing connections with Boston's organized crime scene, eventually rising to the top of the Winter Hill Gang, a mixture of Irish and Sicilian mafia forces that controlled South Boston.
Bulger is believed to have been involved in dozens of murders, many of which were overlooked because of Bulger's relationship with John Connolly, a handler for the FBI, whom Bulger manipulated to help bring down the rival Patriarca crime family and people whom he viewed as threats to his power, essentially turning the FBI into an enforcement arm for his own mob.
In 1994, the Drug Enforcement Agency bypassed the FBI and began investigating Bulger themselves, at which point Bulger fled town. The FBI would eventually place Bulger on their Ten Most Wanted list.
Bulger was found after 16 years as a fugitive from justice in 2011 and convicted of racketeering shortly thereafter. He was killed in prison shortly after arriving in a transfer to West Virginia where at least two other homicides had occurred in the previous two months.
Obituary from Nexstar Broadcasting Group (https://www.wivb.com/news/national/sources-mobster-whitey-bulger-killed-in-federal-prison-in-west-virginia/1562235005?fbclid=IwAR3xAH5mT0WTFIfNDAstSAC0dmAZh0hQKv3htPWQ6yeS689aKvcAPBIUXrQ)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_Bulger)
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Mueller and Comey may be breathing a sigh of relief at that news.
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Mueller and Comey may be breathing a sigh of relief at that news.
I'm thinking that too. Especially Mueller.
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James J. Bulger, Jr., Boston mafioso, dies at 89
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/James_Bulger_1994.jpg/196px-James_Bulger_1994.jpg)
Born in the projects of Boston to a disabled Canadian father and Irish mother, Bulger earned a reputation as a criminal in his childhood. After a troubled stint in the Air Force, he began developing connections with Boston's organized crime scene, eventually rising to the top of the Winter Hill Gang, a mixture of Irish and Sicilian mafia forces that controlled South Boston.
Bulger is believed to have been involved in dozens of murders, many of which were overlooked because of Bulger's relationship with John Connolly, a handler for the FBI, whom Bulger manipulated to help bring down the rival Patriarca crime family and people whom he viewed as threats to his power, essentially turning the FBI into an enforcement arm for his own mob.
In 1994, the Drug Enforcement Agency bypassed the FBI and began investigating Bulger themselves, at which point Bulger fled town. The FBI would eventually place Bulger on their Ten Most Wanted list.
Bulger was found after 16 years as a fugitive from justice in 2011 and convicted of racketeering shortly thereafter. He was killed in prison shortly after arriving in a transfer to West Virginia where at least two other homicides had occurred in the previous two months.
Obituary from Nexstar Broadcasting Group (https://www.wivb.com/news/national/sources-mobster-whitey-bulger-killed-in-federal-prison-in-west-virginia/1562235005?fbclid=IwAR3xAH5mT0WTFIfNDAstSAC0dmAZh0hQKv3htPWQ6yeS689aKvcAPBIUXrQ)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_Bulger)
@jmyrlefuller
So,he was whacked? Normally,I would say "good for the whackers,they saved the taxpayers some money!",but this guy was likely to drop any day anyhow.
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Mueller and Comey may be breathing a sigh of relief at that news.
@Sanguine
Why? What am I missing?
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@Sanguine
Why? What am I missing?
No, Robert Mueller And James Comey Aren't Heroes | HuffPost
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/conflicts-of-... (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/conflicts-of-...) Proxy Highlight
Jun 6, 2017 ... I wanted to believe Director Mueller when he expressed some regret in our ... to the four men framed for murders committed by (the FBI operated) Bulger gang. ... What's not well understood is that Comey and Mueller's joint ...
How do Hannity's attempts to link Mueller to 'Whitey' Bulger hold up?
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/04/13/hanni... (https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/04/13/hanni...) Proxy Highlight
Apr 13, 2018 ... Here is what we know about Robert Mueller's record on the matter during his time in Boston.
Alan Dershowitz: Boston Remembers Mueller Protected Whitey ...
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/alan-dershowitz-m... (https://www.newsmax.com/politics/alan-dershowitz-m...) Proxy Highlight
Apr 8, 2018 ... Alan Dershowitz Rips Special Counsel Mueller as 'a Partisan and ... director's role in protecting "notorious mass murderer" Whitey Bulger as an ...
Robert Mueller, Andrew Weissmann, the FBI and the Mob - Sara A ...
https://saraacarter.com/robert-mueller-andrew-weis... (https://saraacarter.com/robert-mueller-andrew-weis...) Proxy Highlight
Mar 21, 2018 ... But rarely are Weissmann and Mueller's past cases discussed in the ... Bulger, who Connolly aided in escaping FBI custody in the 90s, was a ...
Probing Mueller: What Were His Roles in Boston Mafia Murders ...
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/ite... (https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/ite...) Proxy Highlight
Apr 18, 2018 ... Was Robert Mueller, the special counsel, complicit in one of the worst ... Mr. Bulger was a notorious crime boss in Boston, the head of the ...
Mark Penn: No One Is Allowed To Question Mueller, Comey or ...
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/05/05... (https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/05/05...) Proxy Highlight
May 5, 2018 ... But in the Bulger case, there were four innocent people in jail due to ... it seems that no one could really question either Mueller or Comey or ...
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller's History of Cover-Ups - Global ...
https://www.globalresearch.ca/former-fbi-director-... (https://www.globalresearch.ca/former-fbi-director-...) Proxy Highlight
Aug 1, 2018 ... “Mueller was also in that position while Whitey Bulger was helping the FBI ... “ Robert Mueller (and James Comey as deputy attorney general) ...
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Wow, live and learn. I didn't know there was a federal prison for men in W.Va., just the one for women, Alderson, where Squeaky Fromme and Martha Stewart were sent.
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@Cyber Liberty, from the Daily Mail article:
Sources tell DailyMail.com Bulger was about to dish on FBI informant program
...The sources said he hadn't even been processed at the West Virginia facility when he was killed. But someone who knew he was being transferred put the word out - the killer had to know he was coming.
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@Sanguine
Thanks! Now I vaguely remember hearing about some of it.
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Freddie Hart...of Easy Loving fame.
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Freddie Hart...of Easy Loving fame.
During my high school days, there was a local record shop that habitually included free demo singles when you bought a record there. One of the ones I got was a demo single of Freddie Hart. The intended plug side was "Hang On to Her." It was a quiet but earnest plea of a song, he didn't overstate the lyric when he sang it, and the rhythm section sounded almost as much like a Memphis soul rhythm section as a Nashville countrypolitan one. The song went nowhere so far as I know and it was a shame. I really loved that record.
RIP Mr. Hart.
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Willie McCovey died today, at 80.
A SF Giants institution. No articles to be found yet.
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Willie McCovey died today, at 80.
A SF Giants institution. No articles to be found yet.
Coming in now. Here's one:
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/willie-mccovey-dies-at-80-giants-announce-passing-of-hall-of-fame-first-baseman/ (https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/willie-mccovey-dies-at-80-giants-announce-passing-of-hall-of-fame-first-baseman/)
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Coming in now. Here's one:
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/willie-mccovey-dies-at-80-giants-announce-passing-of-hall-of-fame-first-baseman/ (https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/willie-mccovey-dies-at-80-giants-announce-passing-of-hall-of-fame-first-baseman/)
Thanks.
Well we still have Willie Mays.
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Willie McCovey died today, at 80.
A SF Giants institution. No articles to be found yet.
@EasyAce
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Thanks.
Well we still have Willie Mays.
Indeed. But Willie is getting on in years too. So many of the truly greats are leaving us. Before long we will be left with primadonnas like Barry Bonds. Ugh!
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The Dodgers had a saying about McCovey: "He hits (Don) Drysdale like he owns him."
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Well we still have Willie Mays.
Mays is 87.
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McCovey is one of seven to win Rookie of the Year, a league Most Valuable Player award, and an All-Star Game MVP.
The others: Willie Mays, Frank Robinson, Fred Lynn, Cal Ripken, Jr., Ichiro Suzuki, and Mike Trout. Four (McCovey, Mays, Robinson, Ripken) are Hall of Famers; two more (Ichiro and Trout) will be, and one (Lynn) might have been if not for the injuries that dogged him much of his career.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0EuxsF5y-A#)
RIP Stretch
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Indeed. But Willie is getting on in years too. So many of the truly greats are leaving us. Before long we will be left with primadonnas like Barry Bonds. Ugh!
@Applewood
We still have, from oldest to youngest, Whitey Ford, Willie Mays, Henry Aaron, Luis Aparicio, Al Kaline, Frank Robinson, Bob Gibson, Sandy Koufax, Bill Mazeroski, Orlando Cepeda, Brooks Robinson, Juan Marichal, Gaylord Perry, Billy Williams, Lou Brock, Phil Niekro, Carl Yastrzemski, Tony Perez, Ferguson Jenkins, Joe Morgan, Steve Carlton, Tom Seaver, Rod Carew, Jim Palmer, Don Sutton, Rollie Fingers, Carlton Fisk, Nolan Ryan, Mike Schmidt, Dave Winfield, George Brett . . . among others, speaking of Hall of Famers . . .
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Thanks @EasyAce You just made me feel a lot better.
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Willie McCovey died today, at 80.
A SF Giants institution. No articles to be found yet.
I was fortunate enough to see him play.
I had heard a story that he took an aluminum bat out to practice one day.
He hit the ball so hard that the players left the field, in fear of their lives.
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I was fortunate enough to see him play.
I had heard a story that he took an aluminum bat out to practice one day.
He hit the ball so hard that the players left the field, in fear of their lives.
Same here. He was an Astros killer. A fond early baseball memory of mine was my childhood Astros hero Larry Dierker facing the Giants back in the late '60's. If I remember correctly McCovey got a few hits off him, but he did strike Mays out twice.
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Thanks @EasyAce You just made me feel a lot better.
Willie McCovey, RIP: Sweet swing, sweet man (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,338695.0.html)
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Willie McCovey, RIP: Sweet swing, sweet man (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,338695.0.html)
Another great article @EasyAce
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Wasn't his nickname "Stretch"? Saw him at a Giants-Pirates doubleheader at Forbes Field way back when.
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Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman, minor league football player turned legendary sportswriter, dies at 86
Zimmerman, who played as an offensive lineman at Stanford University before transferring to the Ivy League Columbia University, briefly played professional football in 1963 for the Westchester (County) Crusaders of the Atlantic Coast Football League, a prominent minor league of the 1960s that provided players to the NFL. He began his career as a sportswriter writing for various newspapers in New York City, most extensively for the New York Post, where he covered the NFL and the Olympic Games. He signed with Sports Illustrated in 1979, where he wrote until his incapacitation by a series of strokes in 2008.
Zimmerman was among a class of writers (another including Hunter S. Thompson) steeped in New Journalism, which replaced the staid, stick-to-the-facts approach to writing with a narrative style strongly influenced by fiction (in Zimmerman's case, George Orwell was one of his biggest influences). Near the end of his career, he maintained an anachronistic style by typing out his stories on typewriter and sending it to the Sports Illustrated headquarters by fax. He would thoroughly analyze anything football-related, from players to sportscasters to teams, and frequently cited obscure and difficult-to-find statistics by using his VCR to record and review game film. He is credited with creating the power rankings, an early and persistent form of "clickbait" that subjectively ranks teams from best to worst.
Obituary from Pro Football Talk (https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/11/01/paul-zimmerman-legendary-football-writer-dies-at-86/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Zimmerman_(sportswriter))
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Wasn't his nickname "Stretch"? Saw him at a Giants-Pirates doubleheader at Forbes Field way back when.
Yes it was. In fact, it's on his Hall of Fame plaque, as player nicknames usually are . . .
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Fr. Robert Taft, feisty ecumenist and liturgical historian, dies at 86
John Burger
Aleteia
November 2, 2018
Jesuit who became a Byzantine priest worked to help disparate parts of the Church understand one another
Fr. Robert Francis Taft, preeminent historian of the Eastern Christian liturgy and an outspoken voice in relations between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, died at his home in Weston, Massachusetts, November 1, at the age of 86.
Fr. Taft, who taught at a pontifical institute in Rome for several decades, is best known for his six-volume History of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. Born into a family that had ties to a U.S. president and a senator from Ohio, he grew up in New England and entered the Jesuits in 1949. But he early on developed an interest in matters concerning the Eastern Catholic and Orthodox Churches and spent his entire priesthood in the Byzantine Rite.
More (https://aleteia.org/2018/11/02/fr-robert-taft-feisty-ecumenist-and-liturgical-historian-dies-at-86/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Taft)
Member of the Taft family (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft_family)
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Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, Long-Serving Times Book Critic, Dies at 84
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, a nationally influential literary critic for The New York Times for three decades, who wrote some 4,000 reviews and essays, mostly for the daily column Books of The Times, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 84.
His death, at the Milstein Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia, was caused by complications of a stroke, his daughter, Rachel Lehmann-Haupt, said.
In one of journalism’s most challenging jobs, Mr. Lehmann-Haupt was The Times’s senior daily book critic from 1969 to 1995, tackling two or three books a week and rendering judgments that could affect, for better or ill, literary careers as well as book sales. He was a critic until 2000.
Readers and colleagues called him a judicious, authoritative voice on fiction and a seemingly boundless array of history, biography, current events and other topics, with forays into Persian archaeology and fly fishing.
More (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/obituaries/christopher-lehmann-haupt-dead.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lehmann-Haupt)
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Composer Francis Lai dies at 86
The French composer, with hundreds of songs to his credit, is particularly noted for his scoring of films and television shows. His best-known work in the United States was the theme to the 1970 film Love Story.
Obituary from MSN (https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/francis-lai-oscar-winning-love-story-composer-dies-at-86/ar-BBPtLEs?ocid=spartanntp)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Lai)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUrxm4z9I-c#)
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Composer Francis Lai dies at 86
The French composer, with hundreds of songs to his credit, is particularly noted for his scoring of films and television shows. His best-known work in the United States was the theme to the 1970 film Love Story.
Obituary from MSN (https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/francis-lai-oscar-winning-love-story-composer-dies-at-86/ar-BBPtLEs?ocid=spartanntp)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Lai)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUrxm4z9I-c#)
Before Love Story, it was A Man and a Woman (Un Homme et une Femme). You couldn't go anywhere in 1966 without hearing its theme, especially, at least six times a day . . .
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ain88a_-Xsk#)
. . . including by jazz legend Charlie Byrd . . .
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oucKn9oDmLI#)
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Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, Long-Serving Times Book Critic, Dies at 84
More (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/obituaries/christopher-lehmann-haupt-dead.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lehmann-Haupt)
I had to read him in college for several courses. RIP.
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Before Love Story, it was A Man and a Woman (Un Homme et une Femme). You couldn't go anywhere in 1966 without hearing its theme, especially, at least six times a day . . .
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ain88a_-Xsk#)
. . . including by jazz legend Charlie Byrd . . .
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oucKn9oDmLI#)
I always wondered who did that song or what it was called! I heard it several times as background music on TV back in the 1990s but never could figure it out. The first song I ever recognized as being in 5/4 time (though it seems to shift now that I hear the whole thing).
Now I know.
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Douglas Rain, Stratford Festival actor and voice of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey, dies at 90
Douglas Rain passed away Sunday morning at the age of 90.
The actor, one of the pioneers of the Stratford Festival, is best known for his role in Stanley Kubrick’s iconic 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Rain was the voice of the sentient computer HAL.
More (https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/douglas-rain-stratford-festival-actor-and-voice-of-hal-in-2001-a-space-odyssey-dies-at-90-1.4172564)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Rain)
IMDb (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0706937/)
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Douglas Rain, Stratford Festival actor and voice of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey, dies at 90
More (https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/douglas-rain-stratford-festival-actor-and-voice-of-hal-in-2001-a-space-odyssey-dies-at-90-1.4172564)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Rain)
IMDb (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0706937/)
@Machiavelli
I can close my eyes and still hear his voice perfectly.
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HAL gave me the willies.
Rest in peace, Mr. Rain.
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@Machiavelli
I can close my eyes and still hear his voice perfectly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mme2Aya_6Bc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mme2Aya_6Bc)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mme2Aya_6Bc#)
Still creepy after all these years @sneakypete
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I remember thinking I was so funny when I set Apple Macintosh error sound to "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
Such great voice acting.
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I remember thinking I was so funny when I set Apple Macintosh error sound to "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
Such great voice acting.
I did that too on my old Macintosh! I miss doing that with the new computers.
RIP
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IMHO best lines from 20th century movies
“Rosebudâ€
“Play it Samâ€
“I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t do thatâ€
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IMHO best lines from 20th century movies
“Rosebudâ€
“Play it Samâ€
“I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t do thatâ€
Correction (ain't I a stinker?): If she can stand it, I can---play it!
Some other favourite lines from that century's movies:
He carries 92 credit cards, the minute anything happens to him America lights up!
I sleep in the nude. Au buffo! Winter or summer with the windows open. And because I may have to go to the potty or to the fridge in the middle of the night, and because I do not like to wear jammies which I don't own, anyway, unless you'd like to give yourself a cheap thrill or your daughter an advanced education, you'll keep your door closed. Them's my rules and regulations, how do ya like those apples?
Don't torture yourself, darling---that's my job.
Close your mouths, we are not codfish!
Heeeeeeeeeeere's Johnny!
You don't need a nickname, you need a curve ball.
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbour?
Be proud of those wings, they're the only one you're gonna leave here with, Mayo-nnaise!
Well, I'm glad he cleared that up, because that crowd was about to buy Amway products!
All right, I'm cooler than you are, why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle!
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IMHO best lines from 20th century movies
“Rosebudâ€
“Play it Samâ€
“I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t do thatâ€
I liked "Round up the usual suspects!" (Casablanca)
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21st Century: Tremors 6, Cold Day In Hell
Burt Gummer's about to finish off the monster. The DARPA Spooks try to stop him so they can turn it into a bio weapon.
"You, bunch of malevolent ineptiods." He tells them just before he hits the detonator.
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R.I.P Stan Lee. Passed away at age 95 after a long illness.
Just breaking on the news.
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R.I.P Stan Lee. Passed away at age 95 after a long illness.
Just breaking on the news.
Excelsior!
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R.I.P Stan Lee. Passed away at age 95 after a long illness.
Just breaking on the news.
Stan Lee, last of the Silver Age comic book authors, dies at 95
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Having begun his career in 1939, Stanley Lieber entered a field that had previously been dominated by what is now DC Comics. By the early 1960s, Lee's employer, then known as Atlas Comics, decided to take aim at DC's dominance of the field. With the help of Steve Ditko (who died earlier this year) and DC defector Jack Kirby, Atlas became Marvel Comics, creating a legion of more human, realistic superheroes, set in real cities (whereas DC based their characters in vaguely fictionalized representations like Gotham and Metropolis, Marvel bluntly set much of their comics in New York City). From this boom came Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Ant-Man, Doctor Strange, the X-Men, and several others that formed the basis of the Avengers, Marvel's answer to DC's Justice League. Marvel's willingness to confront communists and portray them as enemies when DC ignored them was a major factor in the rapid rise in Marvel's fortunes in the 1960s.
Lee eventually transitioned into the comic book industry’s most well-known and passionate public ambassador, appearing in cameo appearances in most of Marvel's many film and television adaptations. The characters Lee co-created and developed are believed to have earned enough money to have made him a billionaire, although he attests to have never made that much money and was embroiled in legal action for much of his later life.
Lee died of a pneumonia-related ‘‘medical emergency’’ in Los Angeles the morning of November 12.
Obituary from CNN (https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/12/entertainment/stan-lee-obit/index.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lee)
IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0498278/)
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From what I read Mr. Lee's last several months or longer weren't too good for him. Lawsuits. allegations that managers and partners cheated him out of money, even accused his own daughter of abuse. I don't know if the accusations were valid or if he had developed some kind of dementia and/or paranoia. All in all, not a good way to go out.
May Mr. Lee find peace in the afterlife.
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RIP MR Lee. Thanks for all the cameos on The Simpsons, Hells Kitchen, and all the other TV shows you were on in the last decade of your life. You made me laugh in those cameos.
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Can't say Stan didn't live a full life, that's for sure. Had to be a kick to see his many creations come to life on the big screen and be involved in all that.
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I liked "Round up the usual suspects!" (Casablanca)
Casablanca is my favorite movie. Great performances and some excellent lines. This is my other favorite scene:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME#)
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Casablanca is my favorite movie. Great performances and some excellent lines. This is my other favorite scene:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME#)
Mine too.
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Stan Lee, Marvel Comics' Real-Life Superhero, Dies at 95
Stan Lee, Marvel Comics' Real-Life Superhero, Dies at 95
X-Men, the Mighty Thor, Iron Man, the Fantastic Four, the Incredible Hulk, Daredevil and Ant-Man, among countless other characters, died early Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, a family representative told The Hollywood Reporter.
Kirk Schenck, an attorney for Lee's daughter, J.C. Lee, also confirmed his death.
Lee's final few years were tumultuous. After Joan, his wife of 69 years, died in July 2017, he sued executives at POW! Entertainment — a company he founded in 2001 to develop film, TV and video game properties — for $1 billion alleging fraud, then abruptly dropped the suit weeks later. He also sued his ex-business manager and filed for a restraining order against a man who had been handling his affairs. (Lee's estate is estimated to be worth as much as $70 million.) And in June 2018, it was revealed that the Los Angeles Police Department had been investigating reports of elder abuse against him.
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Casablanca is my favorite movie. Great performances and some excellent lines. This is my other favorite scene:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME#)
Yes! 888high58888
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R.I.P Stan Lee. Passed away at age 95 after a long illness.
Just breaking on the news.
I have few heroes, really, in a specific sense, but Stan Lee was one, not because he braved enemy fire or dragged people from burning buildings, but because he dared to let kids and ordinary people dream of being heroes, and that so often leads to heroes in real life.
That he stood against Communism when so many were silent in the entertainment industry (and Marvel Comics were, indeed, entertainment) just adds to his status, imho.
Besides, it was fun watching for him in cameos in the movies, too.
RIP, Mr. Lee, and thanks.
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Let's not forget that Hillary was part of the fleecing of him...
https://www.reddit.com/r/HillaryForPrison/comments/5b1v1w/flashback_hillarys_scandal_with_stan_lee/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/HillaryForPrison/comments/5b1v1w/flashback_hillarys_scandal_with_stan_lee/)
Lie down with dogs . . .
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_YpjwTWcAElbt5.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/mjGvWyJ.png)
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Christian composer Kurt Kaiser, writer of 'Pass It On,' dies at 83
By CARL HOOVER
Waco composer and pianist Kurt Kaiser, writer of familiar Christian songs as “Pass It On†and “Oh How He Loves You and Me,†died Monday at his Waco home after a long illness. He was 83.
Kaiser had a six-decade-long career in composing, playing, arranging and producing Christian music. His songs, found in dozens of contemporary hymnals and songbooks, are sung by millions of Christians around the world. ...
Kaiser’s compositions number more than 300 copyrighted songs, many of which are regular fare in Sunday worship services, such as “The Lord Whom We Love,†“Pass It On,†“Oh How He Loves You And Me†and his popular arrangement of Doris Akers’ “Sweet, Sweet Spirit.†His writing and recording, with 16 solo albums to his credit, earned him a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers as well as election to the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. ... More at Waco Tribune (https://www.wacotrib.com/entertainment/christian-composer-kurt-kaiser-writer-of-pass-it-on-dies/article_9884aa60-3d43-5010-b24e-c18aa4fd042e.html?fbclid=IwAR3BBxAqe9FpJNWg9eM-tU9IoNzgE_WB4J5MxF1zhB53ql5gYqToqM3kDus)
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I just played Pass It On in church a couple weeks ago.
I may sound like an old-school scrooge saying this, but there's just no comparison between the songs written in the 20th century and those from the 21st. It's as if Chris Tomlin showed up on the scene and everything went to crap. Now we have nonsense like "Reckless Love" by Cory Asbury... reckless theology, reckless songwriting, an all-around wreck.
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I just played Pass It On in church a couple weeks ago.
I may sound like an old-school scrooge saying this, but there's just no comparison between the songs written in the 20th century and those from the 21st. It's as if Chris Tomlin showed up on the scene and everything went to crap. Now we have nonsense like "Reckless Love" by Cory Asbury... reckless theology, reckless songwriting, an all-around wreck.
I couldn’t agree with you more. You might get a kick out of this video.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=HB7gPIIQT7Y
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I just played Pass It On in church a couple weeks ago.
I may sound like an old-school scrooge saying this, but there's just no comparison between the songs written in the 20th century and those from the 21st. It's as if Chris Tomlin showed up on the scene and everything went to crap. Now we have nonsense like "Reckless Love" by Cory Asbury... reckless theology, reckless songwriting, an all-around wreck.
@jmyrlefuller
Not to mention THOSE DAMN KIDS WALKING THROUGH MY YARD,right?
Why,I oughta.........!
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I just played Pass It On in church a couple weeks ago.
I may sound like an old-school scrooge saying this, but there's just no comparison between the songs written in the 20th century and those from the 21st. It's as if Chris Tomlin showed up on the scene and everything went to crap. Now we have nonsense like "Reckless Love" by Cory Asbury... reckless theology, reckless songwriting, an all-around wreck.
@jmyrlefuller
That ain't church music,THIS is church music!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt8wiGInALs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt8wiGInALs)
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I just played Pass It On in church a couple weeks ago.
I may sound like an old-school scrooge saying this, but there's just no comparison between the songs written in the 20th century and those from the 21st. It's as if Chris Tomlin showed up on the scene and everything went to crap. Now we have nonsense like "Reckless Love" by Cory Asbury... reckless theology, reckless songwriting, an all-around wreck.
I'm with you, j. I was a kid when the Kaiser and Carmichael "contemporary" songs came along in the 1960s and grew up - spiritually and chronologically - with Second Chapter of Acts, Keith Green, Rich Mullins, etc. I will gladly sing Christian music from the 17th century and from the 1980s - but still cannot warm up to the current Tomlin-style 7-Eleven music one hears in so many church services today.
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This is gospel music!
The Soul Stirrers, "Nearer My God to Thee"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXt-I2bIdZE#)
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Founder of Feed My Starving Children, Richard Proudfit, dies
on November 14, 2018
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A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, Proudfit went to Honduras in 1982 on a medical relief mission and witnessed that country's starvation. In 1987, he founded Feed My Starving Children, a Christian-based nonprofit that has sent more than 2 billion meals to children and families in 70 countries since its inception.
https://www.bing.com/amp/s/www.sfgate.com/news/amp/Founder-of-Feed-My-Starving-Children-Richard-13391673.php (https://www.bing.com/amp/s/www.sfgate.com/news/amp/Founder-of-Feed-My-Starving-Children-Richard-13391673.php)
Of all places, it was hunger in Honduras in '82, that spurred him on to start charity.
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R.I.P. Roy Clark. He was 85
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Country music star Roy Clark dead at 85.
Breaking
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@txradioguy
We both posted at the same time!
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R.I.P. Roy Clark. He was 85
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NOOOOOOOO!
Well hopefully he and Glenn Campbell and Jerry Reed are having a heck of a jam session right now.
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@txradioguy
We both posted at the same time!
@Freya
Great minds think alike!
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! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEY4LxORCeo#)
Rest in peace, Mr. Clark.
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! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xssnp7R51A#)
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James Greene, 'Parks and Recreation' Actor and Broadway Veteran, Dies at 91
5:26 PM PST 11/14/2018 by Mike Barnes
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Courtesy of Els Collins
James Greene
He appeared opposite Olivia de Havilland, Jessica Tandy and Jason Robards on the stage and played the elevator operator on 'The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.'
James Greene, the character actor and Broadway veteran who had in a recurring role as the tactless Councilman Milton on Parks and Recreation, has died. He was 91.
[...]
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/james-greene-dead-parks-recreation-actor-broadway-veteran-was-91-1161409 (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/james-greene-dead-parks-recreation-actor-broadway-veteran-was-91-1161409)
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R.I.P. Roy Clark. He was 85
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R.I.P. I loved his music. One ofthe top 5 banjo players in the world. I got to see him live about 30 years ago. It was an amazing performance.
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Thank God and Greyhound he's gone—OK, that might be in poor taste, but in all earnestness, Roy was always a joy to see on TV as an all-around performer.
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Country music star Roy Clark dead at 85.
Breaking
Rats!
RIP Mr. Clark, and thanks for all the entertainment over the years.
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He was great in Hee Haw! Good wholesome cornball TV. I hope Roy is Pick'in and Grin'in on his new stage. ! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4BbV9iVj3A#)
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He was great in Hee Haw! Good wholesome cornball TV. I hope Roy is Pick'in and Grin'in on his new stage. ! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4BbV9iVj3A#)
Yep!
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William Goldman Dies; Oscar Winning Writer Of ‘Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid’ Was 87
I have been informed by friends of the family that William Goldman died last night. He was 87. Goldman, who twice won screenwriting Oscars for All The President’s Men and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, passed away last night in his Manhattan home, surrounded by family and friends. His health had been failing for some time, and over the summer his condition deteriorated.
We will be following this and building out the story today, but I wanted to let Deadline readers know straight away. From his scripting work to his books like Adventures in the Screen Trade, Goldman is one of the greats, a true legend.
Goldman began as a novelist and transitioned to writing scripts with Masquerade in 1965. While his greatest hits were the indelible pairing of Robert Redford with Paul Newman in the George Roy Hill-directed Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Redford and Dustin Hoffman in the Alan Pakula-directed toppling of President Richard Nixon drama All The President’s Men, he wrote the scripts for many other great movies. The list includes the Hoffman-starrer Marathon Man, as well as The Princess Bride, Flowers For Algernon, The Stepford Wives, The Great Waldo Pepper, A Bridge Too Far, Chaplin and Misery. He also did a lot of behind the scenes script doctoring without taking a screen credit, as on films that included A Few Good Men and Indecent Proposal.
More (https://deadline.com/2018/11/william-goldman-dies-oscar-writer-butch-cassidy-and-the-sundance-kid-all-the-presidents-men-1202503283/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Goldman)
IMDb (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001279/)
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@Machiavelli I was just going to post this.
What a talent. Thanks for the :2popcorn:
RIP
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Butch Cassidy was one of my favorite movies as a young pup. Two of the most handsome men in Hollywood in one pic. What more could a raging hormonal girl want? LOL
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyR7XB0VBPM#)
Rest in peace, Mr. Goldman.
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Butch Cassidy was one of my favorite movies as a young pup. Two of the most handsome men in Hollywood in one pic. What more could a raging hormonal girl want? LOL
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyR7XB0VBPM#)
Rest in peace, Mr. Goldman.
888high58888
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@Machiavelli I was just going to post this.
What a talent. Thanks for the :2popcorn:
RIP
William Goldman on Saving Private Ryan (http://achtenblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/saving-private-ryan-goldman-essay.html)
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Aldyr Schlee, designer of Brazil's famous yellow jersey, dies
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Brazilian players observed a minute of silence to Aldyr Schlee before a friendly against Uruguay in London
The man who designed the Brazilian football team's famous yellow shirt has died.
Aldyr Garcia Schlee, a designer, journalist and writer, was 83 and had been diagnosed with skin cancer.
He was only 18 when he submitted his design to a national competition launched after Brazil's traumatic home defeat in the 1950 World Cup.
Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-46243922 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-46243922)
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Singer Devin Lima dies at 41
Lima (whose real first name was Harold) was a member of LFO, a three-man boy band that was one of many that proliferated in the late 1990s under con-artist Lou Pearlman. After releasing a few hits, with their biggest U.S. hit "Summer Girls" having perhaps some of the most incongruous lyrics ever written (making you wonder whether or not the lyrics were just nonsense filler they just rolled with), they broke up not long after.
Lima's death is actually the second cancer-related death for the trio, following Rich Cronin's death in 2010. Lima and the sole surviving member of the group, Brad Fischetti, had recently reformed LFO as a duo shortly before Lima was diagnosed with cancer in 2017.
Obituary from Entertainment Weekly (https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/lfo-singer-devin-lima-dies-at-41-after-yearlong-cancer-battle/ar-BBPX8aB?ocid=spartandhp)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LFO_(American_band))
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHuGG_FsC20#)
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By Pam Kragen
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/sd-me-ray-chavez-20181121-story.html?fbclid=IwAR28Msv-k1lnT6puri_jqOheD0Edt9YEUYldnRdbIl5n97d6QxXCcFilmZw (https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/sd-me-ray-chavez-20181121-story.html?fbclid=IwAR28Msv-k1lnT6puri_jqOheD0Edt9YEUYldnRdbIl5n97d6QxXCcFilmZw)
Ray Chavez, the nation’s oldest surviving veteran of the attack on Pearl Harbor, died Wednesday at the age of 106.
Kathleen Chavez, who had been her father’s live-in caregiver for more than 20 years, said he passed away peacefully in his sleep between 3 and 6 a.m. Wednesday. His health had declined in recent months and he was on hospice care when he passed.
Memorial services are pending. Kathleen said her father wished to be buried at Miramar National Cemetery.
Chavez surged into national prominence three years ago when fellow Pearl Harbor veterans recognized him as the oldest survivor of the 1941 Japanese attack that ushered the U.S. into World War II.
At its peak, the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association had 58,000 members. Today, there are fewer than 200, according to Stu Hedley, 97, who heads the association’s now-10-member San Diego chapter.
“Ray Chavez was a very active member for years and I admired the man,†said Hedley, 97, a retired Navy chief petty officer who served on the USS West Virginia at the time of the attack.
Because of his senior position among Pearl Harbor vets, Chavez was a frequent guest at commemorative events around the country, including a visit to the White House last Memorial Day weekend.
The soft-spoken Chavez often said he was overwhelmed by the media attention but he was proud to represent his country . . .
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RIP Chief Chavez. I applaud your courage and your dignity.
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106-Year-Old Pearl Harbor Veteran Dies in San Diego
"To get as much education as you can and also to be kind to all people, especially the elderly and the less fortunate," Ray Chavez said in 2017 when asked about the best life advice he had ever received
By Monica Garske, Rafael Avitabile and Alex Presha
Published Nov 21, 2018 at 10:40 AM | Updated at 8:02 PM PST on Nov 21, 2018
Ray Chavez, the oldest veteran survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor, has died, his loved ones confirmed.
Chavez died overnight, peacefully in his sleep, his cousin told NBC 7. He was 106. ...
Chavez served missions on a minesweeper and attack transport ship 77 years ago and responded to Pearl Harbor on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. ... More at NBC San Diego (https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Ray-Chavez-Oldest-Veteran-Pearl-Harbor-Survivor-Dies-San-Diego-501024281.html?fbclid=IwAR12qUEYX4VtBVHevehvGf6g9Fx8YAbV39Lr41YD5NzG7vzj-hpNQ0pHknE)
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106-Year-Old Pearl Harbor Veteran Dies in San Diego
"To get as much education as you can and also to be kind to all people, especially the elderly and the less fortunate," Ray Chavez said in 2017 when asked about the best life advice he had ever received
By Monica Garske, Rafael Avitabile and Alex Presha
Published Nov 21, 2018 at 10:40 AM | Updated at 8:02 PM PST on Nov 21, 2018
Ray Chavez, the oldest veteran survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor, has died, his loved ones confirmed.
Chavez died overnight, peacefully in his sleep, his cousin told NBC 7. He was 106. ...
Chavez served missions on a minesweeper and attack transport ship 77 years ago and responded to Pearl Harbor on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. ... More at NBC San Diego (https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Ray-Chavez-Oldest-Veteran-Pearl-Harbor-Survivor-Dies-San-Diego-501024281.html?fbclid=IwAR12qUEYX4VtBVHevehvGf6g9Fx8YAbV39Lr41YD5NzG7vzj-hpNQ0pHknE)
Fair seas and following winds Ray Chavez! You have earned them!
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He was great in Hee Haw! Good wholesome cornball TV. I hope Roy is Pick'in and Grin'in on his new stage. ! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4BbV9iVj3A#)
I can see Roy and Buck Pick'in and Grin'in with Jesus.. I enjoyed that show when I was a kid. I think it was mainly for the Hee Haw Honeys. Cathy seemed to cheerful for me.
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106-Year-Old Pearl Harbor Veteran Dies in San Diego
"To get as much education as you can and also to be kind to all people, especially the elderly and the less fortunate," Ray Chavez said in 2017 when asked about the best life advice he had ever received
By Monica Garske, Rafael Avitabile and Alex Presha
Published Nov 21, 2018 at 10:40 AM | Updated at 8:02 PM PST on Nov 21, 2018
Ray Chavez, the oldest veteran survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor, has died, his loved ones confirmed.
Chavez died overnight, peacefully in his sleep, his cousin told NBC 7. He was 106. ...
Chavez served missions on a minesweeper and attack transport ship 77 years ago and responded to Pearl Harbor on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. ... More at NBC San Diego (https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Ray-Chavez-Oldest-Veteran-Pearl-Harbor-Survivor-Dies-San-Diego-501024281.html?fbclid=IwAR12qUEYX4VtBVHevehvGf6g9Fx8YAbV39Lr41YD5NzG7vzj-hpNQ0pHknE)
I think we are going a lot of WWII vets die off soon.. Sadly..
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I think we are going a lot of WWII vets die off soon.. Sadly..
This country is rapidly changing without them.
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Cecylia Roszak, world's oldest nun, dies at 110
Obituary from USA Today (https://2amp.usatoday.com/amp/085263002)
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I think we are going a lot of WWII vets die off soon.. Sadly..
@kevindavis
I don't. Most are already dead. So are the Korean War vets. Move VN vets are in their 70's now,so we are next to disappear.
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Nicolas Roeg, Director of David Bowie's 'The Man Who Fell to Earth,' Dies at 90
The London native, who started out as a cinematographer, also guided Mick Jagger in 'Performance' and helmed 'Walkabout,' 'Don't Look Now' and 'Bad Timing.'
Nicolas Roeg, the British cinematographer turned director who employed his visual flair on such films as David Bowie’s The Man Who Fell to Earth and the horror masterpiece Don’t Look Now, has died. He was 90.
Roeg, who also called the shots for two other rock stars, Mick Jagger in Performance (1970) and Art Garfunkel in Bad Timing/A Sensual Obsession (1980), died Friday night, his son, Nicolas Roeg Jr., told the BBC.
Roeg, known for the lighting composition, color imagery, manipulation of time and erotic sensibility in his films, spent two decades as a camera operator and cinematographer before graduating to director.
More (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/nicolas-roeg-dead-david-bowie-856071)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Roeg)
IMDb (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001676/)
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Olivia Hooker: Tulsa race riot survivor dies aged 103
When Olivia Hooker was six years old, she was forced to hide under a table as a white mob destroyed the neighbourhood around her.
Later, she would recount how she struggled to stay silent as the torch-carrying men took an axe to the family piano. Outside, as many as 1,000 homes and businesses - including her father's clothes store - were being reduced to rubble.
The 1921 Tulsa race riot, as it would become known, would also leave as many as 300 black people dead.
But the horrifying incident in Oklahoma would be far from the only distinguishing moment of Ms Hooker's remarkable life.
More at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46332474 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46332474)
wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Hooker)
I do believe, she was mentioned in another article posted in forums in the past year.
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Ricky Jay, American magician and actor, dies
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46333968 (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46333968)
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As for what kept her going, Ms Hooker had a simple answer: "It's not about you, or me. It's about what we can give to this world."
Olivia Hooker was a remarkable woman who, it appears, chose achievement over victimhood.
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Willie Naulls, Knicks All-Star and Celtics Champion, Dies at 84
Willie Naulls, a four-time All-Star forward with the Knicks, a member of three consecutive N.B.A. championship teams with the Boston Celtics and one of pro basketball’s early black stars, died on Thursday at his home in Laguna Niguel, Calif. He was 84.
The cause was respiratory failure resulting from Churg-Strauss syndrome, a rare condition that can restrict blood flow to vital organs and tissues, his wife, Dr. Anne Van de Water Naulls, said.
A fine outside shooter and a rugged rebounder at 6 feet 6 inches and 225 pounds or so, Naulls was an All-American at U.C.L.A. in 1956, his senior season, playing for the future Hall of Fame coach John Wooden. He was a second-round draft pick of the St. Louis Hawks.
More (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/25/obituaries/willie-naulls-dies.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Naulls)
Career Stats (https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/n/naullwi01.html)
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Stephen Hillenburg, man who foisted SpongeBob SquarePants upon the world, dies at 57
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A former aspiring marine biologist, Hillenburg found his way into animation during a boom in the genre in the 1990s, working under Joe Murray to create the surrealist Nickelodeon cartoon Rocko's Modern Life.
In the late 1990s, Nickelodeon eventually found out about Hillenburg's unpublished comic book The Intertidal Zone, from his days as a marine biologist, and suggested he create a marine-themed cartoon for the network. The end result, SpongeBob SquarePants, became Nickelodeon's biggest hit and its longest-running series, still producing new episodes 19 years after its debut, the second-longest continuously running American animated series of all time behind only The Simpsons if my math is right.
Hillenburg died less than two years after a diagnosis of amyotropic lateral sclerosis.
Obituary from Variety (https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/spongebob-squarepants-creator-dead-dies-stephen-hillenburg-1203037362/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hillenburg)
IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0384864/)
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Dang! RIP Spongebob.
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Dang! RIP Spongebob.
Spongie lives on, my love.
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Spongie lives on, my love.
I watch him on Saturday mornings. I love cartoons. @Cyber Liberty
Just 57 is so young, you know
P.S. I like Patrick Star. And krabby patties.
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I watch him on Saturday mornings. I love cartoons. @Cyber Liberty
Just 57 is so young, you know
P.S. I like Patrick Star. And krabby patties.
The early episodes especially, made me laugh hard like I hadn't since Bugs Bunny. Hilarious, lowbrow, numbskull humor.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/george-hw-bush-41st-president-of-the-united-states-dies-at-94/ar-BBQkkGP (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/george-hw-bush-41st-president-of-the-united-states-dies-at-94/ar-BBQkkGP)
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Gutted twice in one week. They say it goes in threes,
Anyway, Rip Mr. President thank you so much for being president and serving our country, :patriot:
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Adjusting my comment significantly, so I won't get banned My guess Mods will take of Pete the bleep for the rest of us.
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Please try to show some class, even if it's an effort. Exceedingly disrespectful and/or vulgar comments will be removed.
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RIP Bush Sr. He will now join his beloved Barbara.
Known best perhaps for his adventurous skydiving and the slogan "read my lips, no new taxes", which sunk his chances at a second term. NAFTA over the years turned out to be a disaster...his presidency seems to represent the last of those who brought dignity and respect to the presidency.
RIP Mr. Bush.
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RIP Bush Sr. He will now join his beloved Barbara.
Known best perhaps for his adventurous skydiving and the slogan "read my lips, no new taxes", which sunk his chances at a second term. NAFTA over the years turned out to be a disaster...his presidency seems to represent the last of those who brought dignity and respect to the presidency.
RIP Mr. Bush.
He was also a trolling pioneer, calling Hussein SAD-dam, instead of SAH-dahm. His way of saying it roughly translated to shoe shine boy in Arabic, in the days before Twitter and ‘Rocket Man.’
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He was also a trolling pioneer, calling Hussein SAD-dam, instead of SAH-dahm. His way of saying it roughly translated to shoe shine boy in Arabic, in the days before Twitter and ‘Rocket Man.’
I did not know that. That is hilarious.
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Gutted twice in one week. They say it goes in threes,
Anyway, Rip Mr. President thank you so much for being president and serving our country, :patriot:
Amen! And for loving our country. :patriot:
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He was also a trolling pioneer, calling Hussein SAD-dam, instead of SAH-dahm. His way of saying it roughly translated to shoe shine boy in Arabic, in the days before Twitter and ‘Rocket Man.’
He was witty and highly intelligent, and just plain classy.
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He was witty and highly intelligent, and just plain classy.
I was around him quite a bit years ago and will say this about the man without reservation. He always treated everyone around him with respect and did what he believed the right thing to be without fail. IMHO that is all anyone can ask of any man.
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I was around him quite a bit years ago and will say this about the man without reservation. He always treated everyone around him with respect and did what he believed the right thing to be without fail. IMHO that is all anyone can ask of any man.
I had that impression, Bigun. Thanks for confirming. I may not have agreed with everything he did in office, but still had respect for him as a man.
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Amen! And for loving our country. :patriot:
And his family and his doggies.
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I was around him quite a bit years ago and will say this about the man without reservation. He always treated everyone around him with respect and did what he believed the right thing to be without fail. IMHO that is all anyone can ask of any man.
One of my husband's good friends (from HS) has been the the Secret Service for decades, including protecting the President.
He has photos in his home of GHW and Barbara, and said that, without a doubt, they were the classiest, most caring people he ever protected.
Truth from the inside is helpful with all the propaganda from the outside.
Thanks for posting that, @Bigun
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I didn't agree with everything he did, but he was a decent man that loved his country and respected the office he held.
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I love this quote from him and something I wish ALL politicians would remember and try to incorporate in their day to day lives:
“Because you run against each other, that doesn’t mean you’re enemies. Politics doesn't have to be uncivil and nasty.â€
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I love this quote from him and something I wish ALL politicians would remember and try to incorporate in their day to day lives:
“Because you run against each other, that doesn’t mean you’re enemies. Politics doesn't have to be uncivil and nasty.â€
Politicians, political commentators, and political junkies on message boards alike, for that matter.
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Ken Berry, Star of 'F Troop' and 'Mama's Family,' Dies at 85
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ken-berry-dead-f-troop-mamas-family-star-was-85-999739 (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ken-berry-dead-f-troop-mamas-family-star-was-85-999739)
The song-and dance-man, who received a career boost from Leonard Nimoy, also toplined the 'Andy Griffith Show' spinoff 'Mayberry R.F.D.'
Ken Berry, the rubber-legged actor who delighted TV viewers as the blundering Capt. Wilton Parmenter on F Troop and as the accident-prone Vinton Harper on Mama's Family, has died. He was 85.
Berry, an agile song-and-dance man who was encouraged in show business by his U.S. Army sergeant, future Star Trek legend Leonard Nimoy, died Saturday at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, his ex-wife, actress Jackie Joseph-Lawrence, told The Hollywood Reporter.
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I loved him on F troop and Mama’s Family was one of my favorite sitcoms from the 80s.
RIP.
I didn’t know he adopted. Hurray!
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I loved him on F troop and Mama’s Family was one of my favorite sitcoms from the 80s.
RIP.
I didn’t know he adopted. Hurray!
And Mayberry. He was a staple of '70's and '80's TV. 2 years from now no one will remember he died due to who died at the same time.
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And Mayberry. He was a staple of '70's and '80's TV. 2 years from now no one will remember he died due to who died at the same time.
It’s weird @catfish1957 the obit doesn’t say how he died.
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It’s weird @catfish1957 the obit doesn’t say how he died.
Not really. Seems we are seeing more and more of where families are keeping cause of death a private matter.
With all the TMZ type turds out there, I don't blame them.
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Melody Patterson passed away in 2015, of course, the romantic interest of Ken Berry's character:
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The great Larry Storch is still with us:
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/221215635491-0-1/s-l1000.jpg)
wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Storch)
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It’s weird @catfish1957 the obit doesn’t say how he died.
At that age, it could be any number of things―or they just may not know.
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F Troop - first episode (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5u9ppg)
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F Troop - first episode (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5u9ppg)
Thanks.
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'Dynamite Kid' Tom Billington dead at 60 (professional wrestler)
The death of "The Dynamite Kid" Tom Billington came on Tuesday, his 60th birthday, his health battles post-wrestling front and centre for years, proof that there was a huge price paid to be one of the most innovative, influential professional wrestlers in history.
How influential was he? Even the curmudgeonly Bad News Allen Coage once gave Dynamite Kid props: "Pound for pound, Dynamite Kid was probably the best wrestler ever because you've still got these young guys today trying to emulate him in the ring. He was one of my favorites to work with. In our matches, the people just really wanted to kill me and just come in there and help him out."
The late Owen Hart, in one of his interviews with SLAM! Wrestling, said that growing up, he placed Dynamite Kid "on a pedestal ... I'd go 'Wow, that guy's awesome.' ... Dynamite, just because he was the original, was the best."
But the flipside of his legacy is equally lasting. As Dave Meltzer wrote in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter in 1994, that Billington was "a pioneer of insane bumps whose career was cut short by a crippling back injury no doubt related to his risk-taking, admitted blowing all his money on drugs, booze and women, claiming when he was in the WWF he drank himself silly, needed drugs (cocaine, Valium, speed and steroids) to survive the pace, get the sleep and keep his physique."
More (http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/2018/12/05/22789093.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite_Kid)
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'Dynamite Kid' Tom Billington dead at 60 (professional wrestler)
[admitted blowing all his money on drugs, booze and women,
@Machiavelli
Could have been worse. He could have wasted it.
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F Troop - first episode (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5u9ppg)
Thanks @Machiavelli
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Dynamite Kid, Tom Billington, one half of the British Bulldogs has passed on.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/7903580/dynamite-kid-dead-tommy-billington-british-bulldog/ (https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/7903580/dynamite-kid-dead-tommy-billington-british-bulldog/)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_British_Bulldogs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_British_Bulldogs)
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Buzzcocks singer Pete Shelley dies aged 63
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Pete Shelley, lead singer of punk band Buzzcocks, has died at the age of 63, his brother has said.
Shelley formed the group in 1976 and they achieved commercial success with hits including Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've).
His brother, Gary John McNeish, posted on Facebook: "This is the hardest thing I have ever had to do, is tell you my brother Pete Shelley had a heart attack this morning and passed away."
https://news.sky.com/story/buzzcocks-singer-pete-shelley-dies-aged-63-11573555
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Love the Buzzcocks. RIP.
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Larry 'The Axe' Hennig passes away at 82 (professional wrestler)
Larry Hennig, the father of Curt Hennig and one of the biggest stars in the history of the AWA, passed away earlier today at the age of 82.
Hennig attended Robbindale High School in Minneapolis, the alma mater of Verne Gagne. He was the state heavyweight wrestling champion in high school, and Gagne recruited him into pro wrestling when Hennig had turned down college football and wrestling offers because he already had his first child and had to work to earn money to support a wife and family.
He wrestled in the Midwest most of his career, and eventually was brought into the AWA in 1960 as Gagne's protege. He briefly held the AWA tag team titles with Duke Hoffman, but in 1963, he became a heel, "Pretty Boy" Larry Hennig, forming a tag team with "Handsome" Harley Race, which helped carry the territory for several years, working against all the top area babyfaces. Hennig & Race, taunted as The Dolly Sisters, had one of the biggest feuds in AWA history with Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher, which was really the feud that made Bruiser & Crusher tag team legends...
His grandson, Joe Hennig, works in WWE as Curtis Axel, with Axel being a tribute to his grandfather. Larry would regularly attend WWE shows in the Twin Cities...
More (https://www.f4wonline.com/news/larry-axe-hennig-passes-away-82-271796)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Hennig)
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MLB Players:
Four arrested in connection with deaths of Luis Valbuena and Jose Castillo
A horrifying turn in an already horrifying case: four people have been arrested in connection with the deaths of Luis Valbuena and Jose Castillo. They died after their car hit a large rock in the road, which caused them to be ejected from the vehicle. Authorities say that the rock was not in the road on accident. From the Los Angeles Times:
Authorities said the players may have been the intended victims of criminals in Venezuela who throw rocks onto roadways to disable cars or cause crashes and then rob the vehicles’ occupants. Four suspects found with Valbuena’s and Castillo’s personal belongings were arrested by police, state governor Julio León Heredia wrote on Twitter.
If this report is true, and the accident was caused by people trying to commit a robbery, this could be charged as felony murder. Or would be in the United States. Whether Venezuela’s legal system would handle it the same is unclear, but most countries do consider deaths caused in furtherance of a felony — especially when the means employed to carry out the felony are likely to cause serious injury or death — to be the most serious of crimes. It could be charged as a capital offense in the United States, subject to the death penalty where applicable. Venezuela does not have the death penalty, but it would nonetheless be among the more serious crimes that could be prosecuted.
Read more at: https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2018/12/07/four-arrested-in-connection-with-deaths-of-luis-valbuena-and-jose-castillo/ (https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2018/12/07/four-arrested-in-connection-with-deaths-of-luis-valbuena-and-jose-castillo/)
wikipedia, Luis Valbuena (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Valbuena)
wikipedia, José Castillo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Castillo_(infielder))
More reading: https://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/celebrities/article222780110.html (https://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/celebrities/article222780110.html)
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Free agent Luis Valbuena, former MLB player Jose Castillo died in car accident in Venezuela
by Matt Snyder @MattSnyderCBS
The Major League Baseball family lost two members to a car crash Friday morning. The league announced that free agent infielder Luis Valbuena and former player Jose Castillo died in a car accident:
The two Venezuelans were playing winter ball in their native country and took part in a game Thursday night. On their way home, it looks like they might have been targeted in a robbery. According to BeisbolPlay (via the Los Angeles Times), authorities believe the players and two other passengers -- who survived -- could have been targets of a criminal act. It seems like some groups in Venezuela throw rocks onto roads in order to disable vehicles and then rob those in the car.
The publication further reports that four suspects were arrested by police and had some of Valbuena and Castillo's personal belongings.
Read more at: https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/free-agent-luis-valbuena-former-mlb-player-jose-castillo-died-in-car-accident-in-venezuela/ (https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/free-agent-luis-valbuena-former-mlb-player-jose-castillo-died-in-car-accident-in-venezuela/)
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MLB Players:
wikipedia, Luis Valbuena (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Valbuena)
wikipedia, José Castillo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Castillo_(infielder))
More reading: https://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/celebrities/article222780110.html (https://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/celebrities/article222780110.html)
@EasyAce Have you seen this?
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@EasyAce Have you seen this?
Yes I have.
I hope whoever did this gets maximum justice.
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Melvin Dummar dead: Supposedly rescued Howard Hughes in Nevada desert
Melvin Dummar won fleeting fame and a lifelong curse for supposedly rescuing Howard Hughes from the cold Central Nevada desert in December 1967, but he never saw a dime of the billionaire’s fortune, despite a disputed will that named him as a beneficiary.
Instead, Dummar worked hard at whatever jobs he could find, right up until the end.
Dummar died Saturday in Nye County, according to his brother, Ray. He was 74.
Melvin Dummar found himself hounded by the media and mocked by Johnny Carson on the “Tonight Show,†after the so-called “Mormon Will†surfaced following Hughes’ death in 1976.
The mysterious document might have made Dummar a millionaire 100 times over had it not been dismissed as a fake by a Nevada court in 1978.
The story was later dramatized in the Academy Award-winning 1980 movie “Melvin and Howard,†but all the drama and scrutiny nearly ruined Dummar’s life.
More (https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/melvin-dummar-dead-supposedly-rescued-howard-hughes-in-nevada-desert-1548181/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Dummar)
SCTV - Melvin and Howards (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8PoWuN9I_I)
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Oscar-nominated actress Sondra Locke dies at 74
Actress and director Sondra Locke, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her first film role in 1968's "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" and went on to co-star in six films with Clint Eastwood, has died.
Locked died Nov. 3 at her Los Angeles home of cardiac arrest stemming from breast and bone cancer, according to a death certificate obtained by The Associated Press. She was 74. Authorities were promptly notified at the time, but her death was not publicized until RadarOnline first reported it Thursday. It is not clear why it took nearly six weeks to come to light.
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Oscar-nominated-actress-Sondra-Locke-dead-at-74-13465237.php (https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Oscar-nominated-actress-Sondra-Locke-dead-at-74-13465237.php)
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Nancy Wilson, Grammy Winning Jazz Singer and TV Personality, Dies at 81 (https://variety.com/2018/music/news/jazz-singer-nancy-wilson-dies-1203089722/)
Nancy Wilson, one of the most revered jazz singers of the 20th century, has died at age 81, her manager told the Associated Press.
The singer passed away at her home in Pioneertown, a small California community north of Palm Springs, after a long illness, according to manager Devra Hall.
Wilson’s three Grammy awards spanned a more than 40-year period, with her first coming in 1965 in the Best Rhythm & Blues category for her Capitol single “How Glad I Am.†Her last was in 2007, awarded for Best Jazz Vocal Album for “Turned to Blue,†her final release. (She had seven nominations in all.) Wilson’s recording career actually dates back to 1959, when she released “Like in Love,†an album arranged by the legendary Billy May . . .
RIP to an artist and a lady.
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-KSencYaMU#)
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okWw2wfd0gg#)
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9COBdAWng0#)
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Oscar-nominated actress Sondra Locke dies at 74
Actress and director Sondra Locke, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her first film role in 1968's "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" and went on to co-star in six films with Clint Eastwood, has died.
Locked died Nov. 3 at her Los Angeles home of cardiac arrest stemming from breast and bone cancer, according to a death certificate obtained by The Associated Press. She was 74. Authorities were promptly notified at the time, but her death was not publicized until RadarOnline first reported it Thursday. It is not clear why it took nearly six weeks to come to light.
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Oscar-nominated-actress-Sondra-Locke-dead-at-74-13465237.php (https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Oscar-nominated-actress-Sondra-Locke-dead-at-74-13465237.php)
A bad way to go.
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A bad way to go.
The cardiac arrest was a blessing, but I agree regarding breast and bone cancer. A woman I worked with many years ago had breast cancer which ended up in her bones. Excruciating.
Rest in peace, Miss Locke.
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@EasyAce
Thanks for the notice re: Nancy Wilson. I remember when she made the rounds of tv variety shows back in the 60s. She was a frequent guest of the long-defunct Mike Douglas Show, a daytime talk and entertainment show when I was growing up. Great voice.
May she rest in peace.
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@EasyAce
Thanks for the notice re: Nancy Wilson. I remember when she made the rounds of tv variety shows back in the 60s. She was a frequent guest of the long-defunct Mike Douglas Show, a daytime talk and entertainment show when I was growing up. Great voice.
May she rest in peace.
@Applewood
If you're my age, you remember hearing this hit of hers almost as frequently as you heard the Beatles in 1964 . . .
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHVZ51o6ZNE#)
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@EasyAce
I sure do remember. I just didn't remember the title. Once I heard it just now though -- yeah!
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A bad way to go.
Sondra Locke, a memorable actress, in 'The Outlaw Josey Wales',
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sondra_Locke (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sondra_Locke)
I also remember her in a Kung Fu episode:
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaSrpgxmv48#)
Part of the plot was she was possessed by demons or something like that but by the end of the episode, which this is, she was freed from that.
Here too, it must have been early in the episode:
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY2dJfB8Zh0#)
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Bill Fralic, played for Pitt Panthers and the Atlanta Falcons, I saw one story saying something like he was a real life Hulk or something:
Bill Fralic, All-Pro Falcons lineman and Pitt legend, dies at 56
Bill Fralic, a four-time Pro Bowl selection and College Football Hall of Fame member, died Thursday at age 56 after a battle with cancer.
The University of Pittsburgh, where Fralic starred from 1981-84 before becoming the second overall pick in the 1985 NFL Draft, announced his passing Friday morning.
http://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/bill-fralic-dies-obit-atlantal-falcons-pittsburgh-college-football-hall-of-fame-hof/16jvcxnx94htw1a80f5olcbsu7 (http://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/bill-fralic-dies-obit-atlantal-falcons-pittsburgh-college-football-hall-of-fame-hof/16jvcxnx94htw1a80f5olcbsu7)
More: https://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/12/14/pitt-mourns-death-of-college-football-hall-of-famer-bill-fralic/ (https://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/12/14/pitt-mourns-death-of-college-football-hall-of-famer-bill-fralic/)
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Sondra Locke, a memorable actress, in 'The Outlaw Josey Wales',
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sondra_Locke (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sondra_Locke)
I also remember her in a Kung Fu episode:
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaSrpgxmv48#)
Part of the plot was she was possessed by demons or something like that but by the end of the episode, which this is, she was freed from that.
Here too, it must have been early in the episode:
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY2dJfB8Zh0#)
i wonder how Clint feels, considering their less than amicable separation.
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Wilfred DeFour, 100-year-old Tuskegee Airman, dies (https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/08/us/tuskegee-airman-wilfred-defour-obit/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3_-DhNSbw8qt9bbbOtCwTQz6XxuABvnFoDgh9cpLq2m61r3S2TrQ9rpJA)
(CNN)Wilfred DeFour, who served with the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II, was found dead Saturday in New York. He was 100.
New York police said officers responded to a 911 call to a residence in Harlem and found a man identified as DeFour unconscious and unresponsive. There were no obvious signs of trauma, police said, and the medical examiner will determine the cause of death.
DeFour attended a ceremony last month for the renaming of a Harlem post office in honor of the Tuskegee Airmen, CNN affiliate WABC reported . . .
RIP to a hero and a groundbreaker.
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I met Bill Fralic once. Seemed like a very nice guy. Apparently, he was. From the Sporting News:
Fralic was in the news just last week after paying the hotel costs for his alma mater, Penn Hills High School, to travel to the Pennsylvania state championship game in Hershey a day ahead of time instead of having to make the round trip on game day.
Rest in peace, Mr. Fralic.
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Remembering Lyudmila Alexeyeva, the Matriarch of Russia’s Human Rights Movement
To honor her, we should do our part to make the world a better place
Published in The Moscow Times
Associate Director, Europe and Central Asia Division Tanya Lokshina
To us, she was always “Grandma Lyuda,†which is also what the matriarch of Russia’s human rights movement, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, ironically called herself for the past few decades. It seemed like Grandma Lyuda had been around forever, and it seemed that she’d always be here. There was no reason to think otherwise, especially as her mind and wit remained scarily sharp into her late eighties and beyond.
Today, as we lay her to rest at 91, it’s impossible to believe that she is really gone, that there will be no more phone calls and no more heated discussions at the table, laden with delicious food, in her apartment on the Arbat, an old Moscow neighborhood.
Alexeyeva was born in 1927, which meant, as she would say many times, that she was 25 years old when Stalin died. She knew all there was to know about totalitarianism – from Stalin’s great terror to the less bloody but still repressive decades that followed until the openness of the late eighties, which culminated in the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Read more at: https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/12/11/remembering-lyudmila-alexeyeva-matriarch-russias-human-rights-movement# (https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/12/11/remembering-lyudmila-alexeyeva-matriarch-russias-human-rights-movement#)
When she passed away, an article was posted. This is an additional eulogy for her. She was so powerful and renown, she was honored by the upper-rungs of the government there for whatever reason they have, for show or whatever, she was shown respect.
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Yankees Vice Chair Joan Steinbrenner, Wife of George Steinbrenner, Dies at 83
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2810951-yankees-vice-chair-joan-steinbrenner-wife-of-george-steinbrenner-dies-at-83
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Les Kinsolving, Episcopal clergyman turned conservative shock jock and columnist, dies at 90
Obituary from The Baltimore Sun (https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bs-md-ob-lester-kinsolving-20181211-story.html)
Joseph Farah's tribute to Kinsolving on WorldNetDaily (https://www.wnd.com/2018/12/remembering-les-kinsolving/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Kinsolving)
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Sondra Locke, a memorable actress, in 'The Outlaw Josey Wales',
I thought she played her part well in the "The Gauntlet" too.
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Colin Kroll, Internet entrepreneur, dies at 35
Kroll's most famous contribution to the world was Vine, a mobile app that created looping videos only six seconds long. He sold Vine to Twitter, who promptly killed off the service, then blocked him from reviving it as V2.
Kroll then founded HQ Trivia, where he was serving as CEO at the time of his death from a suspected drug overdose.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/16/hq-trivia-and-vine-co-founder-colin-kroll-found-dead-of-suspected-overdose/
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Yankees Vice Chair Joan Steinbrenner, Wife of George Steinbrenner, Dies at 83
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2810951-yankees-vice-chair-joan-steinbrenner-wife-of-george-steinbrenner-dies-at-83
Yankees fans will be sad.
@EasyAce did u see this?
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I thought she played her part well in the "The Gauntlet" too.
Didn’t she date Clint Eastwood? She was in several movies with him. Wonder how old she was.
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Didn’t she date Clint Eastwood? She was in several movies with him. Wonder how old she was.
Yes @Freya Sandra Locke dated Clint Eastwood for quite a while.
She was 74.
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Yes @Freya Sandra Locke dated Clint Eastwood for quite a while.
She was 74.
@Right_in_Virginia I read from the bottom up. Never did that on a thread before.
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Penny Marshall from “Laverne and Shirley†and “The Odd Couple†fame has died at 75. Breaking.
Obit to follow.
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R.I.P. Penny Marshall. She passed away due to complications from diabetes. She was 75.
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Penny Marshall, actress and director, dies at 75
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Marshall was born and raised in an Italian family in the Bronx (her family name was originally Masciarelli), the younger sister of Garry Marshall, who later became a prominent producer and director. Her early life was not particularly prominent, attending college for math in New Mexico, eventually getting involved in a brief shotgun wedding, and getting a few gigs as a character actress (at one point playing a frump in a before-and-after shot for shampoo that featured Farrah Fawcett as the "after").
Her brother helped secure the struggling actress work in Hollywood in the 1970s, during which time she got a part as a secretary on one of Garry's shows, The Odd Couple. From there came a few bit parts and her first starring role, the short-lived Friends and Lovers. By 1976, Garry had created a new show for his sister, a buddy comedy set in the same fictional universe as his hit sitcom Happy Days and based on physical comedy. The show, Laverne & Shirley, became a massive hit and a rerun staple for decades, running eight seasons, with Penny playing Laverne.
She was able to parlay her fame into a career following Garry's path as a director. She became one of Hollywood's most successful female directors in the process, directing Big and A League of Their Own, two major hit films of the late 1980s and 1990s.
After a few bit parts in the 1990s, including as a spokeswoman for Kmart, she began experiencing several health problems; she was diagnosed with cancer in 2009, which in turn caused a chain reaction and resulted in diabetes, the complications of which are said to have caused her death.
Aside from her college beau, she was married to Rob Reiner through most of the 1970s and dated Art Garfunkel after that.
Death notice from TMZ (https://www.tmz.com/2018/12/18/penny-marshall-dead-dies-75/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Marshall)
IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001508/)
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RIP Penny Marshall. I still think this is your masterpiece as a director . . .
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVyRBCk_V1s#)
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Penny Marshall, actress and director, dies at 75
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Penny_Marshall_1976.png/220px-Penny_Marshall_1976.png)
Marshall was born and raised in an Italian family in the Bronx (her family name was originally Masciarelli), the younger sister of Garry Marshall, who later became a prominent producer and director. Her early life was not particularly prominent, attending college for math in New Mexico, eventually getting involved in a brief shotgun wedding, and getting a few gigs as a character actress (at one point playing a frump in a before-and-after shot for shampoo that featured Farrah Fawcett as the "after").
Her brother helped secure the struggling actress work in Hollywood in the 1970s, during which time she got a part as a secretary on one of Garry's shows, The Odd Couple. From there came a few bit parts and her first starring role, the short-lived Friends and Lovers. By 1976, Garry had created a new show for his sister, a buddy comedy set in the same fictional universe as his hit sitcom Happy Days and based on physical comedy. The show, Laverne & Shirley, became a massive hit and a rerun staple for decades, running eight seasons, with Penny playing Laverne.
She was able to parlay her fame into a career following Garry's path as a director. She became one of Hollywood's most successful female directors in the process, directing Big and A League of Their Own, two major hit films of the late 1980s and 1990s.
After a few bit parts in the 1990s, including as a spokeswoman for Kmart, she began experiencing several health problems; she was diagnosed with cancer in 2009, which in turn caused a chain reaction and resulted in diabetes, the complications of which are said to have caused her death.
Aside from her college beau, she was married to Rob Reiner through most of the 1970s and dated Art Garfunkel after that.
Death notice from TMZ (https://www.tmz.com/2018/12/18/penny-marshall-dead-dies-75/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Marshall)
IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001508/)
That was right.. She was married to meathead.
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RIP Penny Marshall. I still think this is your masterpiece as a director . . .
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVyRBCk_V1s#)
She also directed "Get Shorty". Drop dead funny movie, no pun intended.
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RIP Penny Marshall. I still think this is your masterpiece as a director . . .
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVyRBCk_V1s#)
Hilarious scene. It was just on TV last week, and it always amuses.
"There's no crying in baseball!" is another classic from that movie. I use it all the time in variations.
Penny also directed Awakenings, which is, for me, one of the most poignant movies ever made. Since Oliver Sacks (Robin Williams' part's actual name) was primarily a music therapist, the dancing scene is the best of the best.
RIP Penny!
Edited to add a link to the scene where dancing stills Parkinsonian symptoms........ as it has been documented to do, and was in Oliver Sack's book, Musicophilia
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtL5tGpGIN8#)
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Hilarious scene. It was just on TV last week, and it always amuses.
"There's no crying in baseball!" is another classic from that movie. I use it all the time in variations.
@musiclady
She made a great film that still played a little loose with a few facts about the AAGPBL---including that yes, the Racine Belles did win the league's first World Series . . . but the Rockford Peaches weren't their victims. The Belles beat the Kenosha Comets in that first Series. In the real life of the league, the Peaches did prove the Biblical axiom about the last becoming the first: they finished dead last in the original four-team league but became the Yankees of the league soon enough---they won the most league championships of any of the AAGPBL franchises, four. (1945, 1948-50.)
I unearthed those and more when writing in 2013 after the death of Pepper Paire-Davis, including that the Peaches really were the most theatrical players in the league . . . but if Madonna's All-the-Way-Mae Mordabito had caught that fly ball sliding and with her cap in the real league, the batter would have been ruled safe: the league had a rule against catching a ball with anything other than your glove or your hand. The Tom Hanks character, Jimmy Dugan, was an apparent stand-in for actual Hall of Fame outfielder Jimmie Foxx who did manage an AAGPBL team---the Fort Wayne Daisies in 1952. Foxx managed the Daisies to the first round of the league's playoff, where the real Peaches knocked their skirts off in three games.
In case you forgot or didn't know before: The AAGPBL began returning to the public eye when Paire-Davis herself---the film's Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis) was modeled partly on her and partly on another player, Dorothy Kaminshek---was the co-author of the league theme song you heard the girls warbling a few times in the film. The Racine Belles' motto (you saw it on the back of their team bus), "Dirt in the Skirt," became the title of Paire-Davis's 2009 memoir. And, just like obnoxious little Stillwell remembered his mother believing, Paire-Davis did say playing baseball was the happiest time of her life.
The likely reason to focus on the Peaches for the film was probably that they were one of two teams to stay the league's entire twelve-year course; the other was the South Bend Blue Sox. The league's last championship team was the Kalamazoo Lassies, who moved to Kalamazoo from Muskegon; they won that title in 1954.
One Peach did become a bona-fide Hall of Famer---pitcher Olive Little, into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. In the league's first season she was a 20-game winner and threw a no-hitter while she was at it; she finished her life in the league having thrown four no-hitters (she was, in that regard, the league's Sandy Koufax a decade and a half before Koufax became Koufax) and rolled a lifetime 2.23 earned run average. The bad news: Olive Little died a year before the real AAGPBL was inducted as a league into Cooperstown.
Paire-Davis was one of the league's five top RBI women. (The others: Lib Mahon, Eleanor Callow, Inez Voyce, and Dorothy Schroeder.) Joanne Weaver won the league's batting title in its final three seasons including a .429 batting average in 1954. Her sister, Betty Foss, won the two previous batting titles before she started her string. The sad news is that both sisters eventually died of Lou Gehrig's disease. The league also had two 30-game winners, Helen Nicol (31-8 for the 1943 Comets) and Connie Wisniewski (who did it twice for the Milwaukee Chicks, going 32-11 in 1945 and 33-9 in 1946; her ERA over those two seasons: 0.86).
The league even had its own version of Ozzie Smith---outfielder Faye Dancer had the habit of cartwheeling and backflipping out to her position when she played for the Minneapolis Millerettes (who stayed there one season before moving to Fort Wayne to become the Daisies) and the Peoria Redwings (who formed in 1946 and stayed in the league until 1952). Dancer also happened to be a childhood friend of Paire-Davis.
The league was almost forgotten until June Peppas (who joined the league in 1948) launched an insiders' newsletter in 1980, which led to the forming of the AAGPBL Players Association. That group held its first reunion in Chicago two years later. (They probably picked Chicago because real-life Cubs owner Phil Wrigley created the league in the first place.) Five years after that reunion came the documentary A League of Their Own, written by one of the sons of the league's 1945 batting champion, Helen Gahagan. (Her other son, Casey Candaele, became a major league baseball player for a few years in the late 80s-early 90s, largely with the Houston Astros.)
The league's one wounding flaw: they wouldn't admit black players even after major league baseball's colour line was broken in 1947.
But if you happen to visit Rockford, Illinois, you can find the Peaches' home field still---in 2010, Beyer Stadium was restored, including the original Peaches ticket booth.
Lassies pitcher/outfielder Doris Sams may have called Penny Marshall's film "30 percent truth and 70 percent Hollywood," but the surviving AAGPBL players appreciated Marshall making the film at all. Marshall, in fact, was a frequent presence at the league's subsequent reunions and never stopped supporting their continuing efforts to keep the league's memory alive.
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That's the 1952 South Bend Blue Sox hoisting the league's championship trophy; pitcher Jean Faut is actually holding it. She led the league that year with an 0.93 ERA. Here's one of the only known colour photos of an AAGPBL player, in this case Faut herself:
(https://www.aagpbl.org/images/articles/thumbnails/44.jpg?888737EE9BBAF2B6B7F52E3850CC6CA4)
Jean Faut accomplished something no pitcher in any league, either gender, has done otherwise---she pitched two no-hitters and they were both perfect games: she beat the Peaches with the first one in 1951, then beat the Lassies with the second in 1953. She was inducted into the National Women's Baseball Hall of Fame in 2012. And she's still alive at 93.
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News last night had a retrospective of all the people who died this year.
Is it me or did we loose quite a lot of distinguished and inspiring people this year?
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(Her other son, Casey Candaele, became a major league baseball player for a few years in the late 80s-early 90s, largely with the Houston Astros.)
@EasyAce
Milo Hamilton would mention that from time to time on his broadcast, during Casey's years with Astros.
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@EasyAce ..... THANK you for that history!! I may make some others nauseous with this comment, but I think you might understand. It's about the Doris Murphy conversation on the bus. I don't remember the exact dialogue, but she basically said that as a female ball player, she always felt that there was something wrong with her, but in coming to the AAGPBL, she realized there were a lot of others like her, and that there was nothing wrong with them.
As a kid who wanted more than anything to play professional baseball (and who didn't even know there was such a thing until this movie), I felt the same way..... and I was even told that when I "grew up" I'd have to give up baseball (there weren't even school teams in the 50's and 60's). I often felt like there was something wrong with me. But there wasn't.
That scene brings tears to my eyes every time I watch it.
Thank you SO much for all that information. I'm going to copy and paste it and keep it! :beer:
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@EasyAce ..... THANK you for that history!! I may make some others nauseous with this comment, but I think you might understand. It's about the Doris Murphy conversation on the bus. I don't remember the exact dialogue, but she basically said that as a female ball player, she always felt that there was something wrong with her, but in coming to the AAGPBL, she realized there were a lot of others like her, and that there was nothing wrong with them.
@musiclady
The AAGPBL was killed by two things, basically:
1) After World War II, the gradual advent of baseball on television began doing to non-major league/minor league baseball what it was also doing to network radio and even the movies, removing incentive to go to the AAGPBL ballparks.
2) After Phil Wrigley backed away from the AAGPBL, the league's successor administrators proved lacking in Wrigley's ability to keep things like their finances organised. The administrators of the individual teams proved unable to sustain the teams either financially or administratively---they were even clumsier when they took over individually what was originally a central league item: the players signed contracts with the league itself, not individual teams, in its first several seasons. When the teams individually took that over the results were disaster, and teams began folding rapidly enough.
The AAGPBL began with four teams in 1943: the Peaches, the Belles, the Blue Sox, and the Kenosha Comets. In 1944, the league expanded to bring in the Milwaukee Chicks and the Minneapolis Millerettes. (They were named in tribute to the city's AAA minor-league team, the Millers.) Both those teams moved beginning in 1945, the Chicks to Grand Rapids (keeping the Chicks name) and the Millerettes to Fort Wayne (becoming the Daisies). The league expanded again for 1946, bringing in the Muskegon Lassies and the Peoria Redwings. (The Lassies would move to Kalamazoo in 1950.) In 1948, it added two more teams, the Chicago Colleens and the Springfield Sallies, but both those teams folded after one season.
For 1951, the Belles moved from Racine to Battle Creek, and the league remained an eight-team league. But the Redwings and the Comets folded after the 1951 season. The Belles moved to Muskegon for 1953 (three years after the Lassies moved out) and folded themselves after that season. The last season featured only five teams. The Peaches and the Blue Sox were the only teams to stay the entire life of the league and do so without moving; the final five were the Peaches, the Blue Sox, the Chicks, the Daisies, and the Lassies; the Lassies were the last league champions.
And you're welcome! :beer:
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News last night had a retrospective of all the people who died this year.
Is it me or did we loose quite a lot of distinguished and inspiring people this year?
Maybe I'm just playing a hunch, but last year seemed like it was a whole lot worse in regard to prominent deaths than this one. Perhaps there were fewer truly shocking deaths this year—a lot of them this year were old (I mean, the Bushes were over 90 years old, for example) and had known health problems for a long time.
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Maybe I'm just playing a hunch, but last year seemed like it was a whole lot worse in regard to prominent deaths than this one. Perhaps there were fewer truly shocking deaths this year—a lot of them this year were old (I mean, the Bushes were over 90 years old, for example) and had known health problems for a long time.
Although... going through the thread, there seem to indeed be a lot more *big name* deaths this year in terms of the influence they had on society.
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Or maybe we had more people dying in their 90s. We lost a president, a senator, and we had two suicides.
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Donald Moffat, the character actor who nailed Falstaff’s paradoxes at the New York Shakespeare Festival, a grizzled Larry Slade in Eugene O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh†on Broadway and a sinister president in the film “Clear and Present Danger,†died on Thursday in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. He was 87.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/obituaries/donald-moffat-dead.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/obituaries/donald-moffat-dead.html)
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Oh, I really didn't like him in Clear and Present Danger! He played his part too well!
RIP, Mr. Moffat
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Oh, I really didn't like him in Clear and Present Danger! He played his part too well!
RIP, Mr. Moffat
@musiclady
He also played the execrable baseball commissioner Ford Frick in 61*, Billy Crystal's cable television film about the Roger Maris/Mickey Mantle home run chase of 1961.
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Last surviving fighter, Simcha Rotem, dies at 94
The last surviving fighter of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 has died at the age of 94.
Simcha Rotem, also known as Kazik, was one of the Jewish partisans who rose up against the Nazis when they began mass deportations from the Polish capital.
Thousands died in the uprising but Rotem helped scores of fighters escape through the drainage system.
Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46662860 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46662860)
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Amazing story. Would have been just a kid at the time.
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RIP to a hero.
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@TomSea
Good man,and he will be missed even by those of us who never knew him. He will be missed because he had the stones to stand up to tyranny even though he knew it was unlikely he would win or even survive. He did it because it needed to be done. A truly unselfish act.
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Thank you @TomSea .
Bless you
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Audrey Geisel, widow of Dr. Seuss, dies at age 97
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December 21, 2018
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Audrey Geisel, the widow of beloved children’s book author Dr. Seuss and an avid promoter of his legacy, died this week at her California home at age 97, a representative confirmed on Friday.
Geisel married the writer, whose real name was Theodor Geisel, in 1968. After his death in 1991, she founded Dr. Seuss Enterprises to license the characters he created and protect their use outside of his books.
Audrey Geisel served as an executive producer on film adaptations of Dr. Seuss books including the current hit, “The Grinch,†which has earned more than $380 million at global box offices since its release in theaters last month. ...
https://www.oann.com/audrey-geisel-widow-of-dr-seuss-dies-at-age-97/ (https://www.oann.com/audrey-geisel-widow-of-dr-seuss-dies-at-age-97/)
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Audrey Geisel served as an executive producer on film adaptations of Dr. Seuss books including the current hit, “The Grinch,†which has earned more than $380 million at global box offices since its release in theaters last month. ...
Considering how close she was to the end of her life when the most recent Grinch film was released, I have to wonder how much influence she still had, because it doesn't look like all that much.
The 2000 film, while not perfect (it's hard to stretch a children's book that was fully encompassed in a 25-minute animated special to a full film), did manage to keep true to Seuss's spirit and message. I haven't seen the 2018 version but... ugh... I have seen the relentless merchandising and advertising for it, which I know would run totally counter to the moral of that story.
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Richard Overton, oldest living U.S. veteran, dies at 112
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Overton, born 1906, served in World War II. He spent most of his civilian life in Austin, Texas, attributing his long life to chain-smoking cigars, drinking whiskey and divine intervention.
Obituary from Fox News (http://www.fox4news.com/news/nations-oldest-living-veteran-richard-overton-dies-in-austin-at-age-112)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Arvin_Overton)
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Rest in peace, Overton.
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Just heard this reported on the local news. Very sad to hear it, although of course it had to happen some time.
KXAN has a nice obituary report here (https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/oldest-world-war-ii-veteran-austin-s-richard-overton-dies-at-112/1677201046).
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Enjoy Heaven Corporal Overton.
Was at Pearl just after the attack, and at Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima.
You've served your time in hell.
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Enjoy Heaven Corporal Overton.
Was at Pearl just after the attack, and at Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima.
You've served your time in hell.
@To-Whose-Benefit?
Well,since he claims to have earned the right to wear a Combat Infantryman's Badge and he was never an infantryman or in combat,I am wondering how much of the rest of it is real and how much is memorex.
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Just heard this reported on the local news. Very sad to hear it, although of course it had to happen some time.
KXAN has a nice obituary report here (https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/oldest-world-war-ii-veteran-austin-s-richard-overton-dies-at-112/1677201046).
Got that from the above obit.
It'd be a shame if it wasn't true.
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Got that from the above obit.
It'd be a shame if it wasn't true.
@To-Whose-Benefit?
Can't all be true. That story says he worked for Graves Registration,as a gate guard,and as a driver for his platoon leader,and retired as a Corporal.
The other story had his rank at discharge as a Specialist 5,which is a technical field,like hospital orderly,mechanic,etc,etc,etc.
In neither case did he get awarded a Combat Infantryman's Badge. That is reserved only for the infantry,and even then IF the regulations are being followed,means you MUST have been under fire by an enemy and returned fire at that enemy and have witnesses willing to put it in writing. I personally knew a guy in VN that ran recon for 6 months and left without receiving a CIB. Was he fired at? You bet he was fired at. The NVA LOVED what is called "probing fire",which means if they suspect you are in a certain area they hose it down with automatic weapons fire to try to get you to fire back so they can concentrate their fire in a small area to kill all 6 of you.
If you are running recon,the main idea is to never give your position away if you can avoid it because you just don't have the man power or the ammo to fight a sustained gun battle when there are only a few of you,and hundreds of armed enemy close by.
So that poor guy went back home with no CIB or other combat awards,and from all you could tell looking at his uniform,he was a cook at a base camp.
And anybody that thinks it's easy to hold your fire when bullets are flying all around you is sadly mistaken. Once you do,you are pretty much guaranteed that you will either be killed right away,or spend the rest of the day fighting running gun battles while being seriously outnumbered and outgunned. If you aren't lucky enough to have helicopter gun ships and other attack aircraft on call that are close enough you can call them in to provide cover fire for you,you are in for a VERY bad day.
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Amos Oz, Israeli author, dead at 79[/color
https://www.jta.org/2018/12/28/culture/amos-oz-was-a-saintly-intellectual-who-took-on-israels-national-reality (https://www.jta.org/2018/12/28/culture/amos-oz-was-a-saintly-intellectual-who-took-on-israels-national-reality)
He was probably one of the biggest names in Israeli fiction
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Amos Oz, Israeli author, dead at 79[/color
https://www.jta.org/2018/12/28/culture/amos-oz-was-a-saintly-intellectual-who-took-on-israels-national-reality (https://www.jta.org/2018/12/28/culture/amos-oz-was-a-saintly-intellectual-who-took-on-israels-national-reality)
He was probably one of the biggest names in Israeli fiction
Just so.
RIP Mr. Oz.
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Bre Payton, staff writer for The Federalist, has died from a sudden onset of the flu.
Morgan Murtaugh Verified account @morganmurtaugh
34m34 minutes ago
Thank you everyone for your prayers. It is with a heavy heart that I type this. Unfortunately Bre has passed. Please send prayers to her family. Rest in paradise you beautiful soul.
Morgan Murtaugh Verified account @morganmurtaugh
24 hours ago I found my friend unconscious and called 911. She’s been in a coma since and really needs a miracle right now. Please, if you’re religious at all, send prayers this way. We really need them.
10:18 AM - 28 Dec 2018
More background:Around 8:30 this morning, December 27th, Bre's friend went into her room and found her unresponsive and barely breathing. She immediately called 911 and Bre was taken to the hospital where she was admitted to the ICU, sedated & intubated, and doctors began working up a diagnosis. After a CT scan and hours of testing, they have determined she has the H1N1 flu and possibly meningitis. The doctors are concerned that her neurological signs are not great at this point and have informed us the next 24-48 hours are going to be critical for her.
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Bre Payton is staff writer for The Federalist. She has written on subjects ranging from Kanye West to Supreme Court rulings, to 2016 and breaking news. She has appeared on Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, BBC World News, among others, and her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Daily Signal, and WORLD Magazine, to name a few. She previously worked as a reporter for Watchdog.org and received her degree in Political Journalism from Patrick Henry College.
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@mountaineer she looks very young
RIP
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@mountaineer she looks very young
RIP
She was only 26.
Terrible.
RIP.
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Report: Actor Frank Adonis, known for 'Goodfellas,' has died (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/report-actor-frank-adonis-known-goodfellas-died-112642817.html)
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Frank Adonis, an actor best known for his roles in Martin Scorsese films including Goodfellas, Raging Bull and Casino, has died. He was 83.
His wife, Denise, told TMZ and Fox News that he died Wednesday in Las Vegas after several years of illness, mostly from kidney problems. She said he'd been on dialysis and was on a ventilator for nine days but they waited until after Christmas to take him off it.
Adonis, who was born in Brooklyn, also appeared in numerous other movies including Wall Street, True Romance and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. He had some 40 credits to his name, and his most recent role was in 2017 in Proximity to Power.
He's survived by his wife and their two children, and another daughter from an earlier marriage.
RIP.
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Bre Payton, staff writer for The Federalist, has died from a sudden onset of the flu.
More background:
(https://thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-27-at-1.46.30-PM.png)
Bre Payton is staff writer for The Federalist. She has written on subjects ranging from Kanye West to Supreme Court rulings, to 2016 and breaking news. She has appeared on Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, BBC World News, among others, and her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Daily Signal, and WORLD Magazine, to name a few. She previously worked as a reporter for Watchdog.org and received her degree in Political Journalism from Patrick Henry College.
@mountaineer
Seems crazy to me that in this day and age someone as young and fit as her could die from the flu. I could understand it if she had been on a camping trip out in the mountains and been stranded,but in her house or apartment?
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Seems crazy to me that in this day and age someone as young and fit as her could die from the flu. I could understand it if she had been on a camping trip out in the mountains and been stranded,but in her house or apartment?
Yeah, I agree, but don't have any more information. I just hope I haven't been wrong in refusing to get a flu shot.
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@mountaineer
Seems crazy to me that in this day and age someone as young and fit as her could die from the flu. I could understand it if she had been on a camping trip out in the mountains and been stranded,but in her house or apartment?
She also had meningitis.
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Yeah, I agree, but don't have any more information. I just hope I haven't been wrong in refusing to get a flu shot.
@mountaineer
I have too many health issues and am too old to deal with having the flu on top of them. Chances are the next time I get the flu will be the last time because I will die. Just had a pulmonary surgeon drain almost 1 and 3/4 liter of fluid out of just my right lung last week,and I am guessing I still have that much in my left lung. I was literally drowning while walking around.
Because of this I make sure I get a flu shot every year.
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@mountaineer
Seems crazy to me that in this day and age someone as young and fit as her could die from the flu. I could understand it if she had been on a camping trip out in the mountains and been stranded,but in her house or apartment?
Well, the flu can be fatal for the very old, the very young and those with chronic illnesses. But I also believe that the strains of flu we are seeing now are much more dangerous. A good friend of mine nearly died from the flu last year. He's in his late 50s -- younger than me -- and in generally good health otherwise. He did all the right things when he first contracted the flu -- rest, fluids and meds to bring down the fever. But he grew worse all of a sudden. Even so, he didn't want to go to the hospital. Some friends of his had to carry him to their car kicking and screaming and drive him to the Emergency Room. Doctor told his buddies that if they hadn't dragged him in, my friend would have died. Was in ICU for about a week.
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I thought I heard that this year's iteration of the flu shot is essential worthless. Is that true?
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I thought I heard that this year's iteration of the flu shot is essential worthless. Is that true?
Most of the time, the effectiveness isn't all that great -- mauybe around 50% at best. Last year, the vaccine was almost worthless. Don't know yet about this year. I don't believe the flu season has peeked around here yet.
However, now that I'm an old bag, I get a super strong version of the vaccine. Flu-Bloc is the brand most often mentioned, but there are others. It worked very well for me last year. Hope for a repeat performance this year.
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Bre Payton, Beloved Staff Writer At The Federalist, Has Passed Away
December 28, 2018 By The Federalist Staff
Bre Payton, our beloved staff writer for The Federalist, passed away on Friday in San Diego, California following a sudden illness.
Bre was born in California on June 8, 1992, to George and Cindy Payton.
She received her high school diploma from the Western Christian High School Private Satellite Program. She graduated from Patrick Henry College in 2015 with a degree in journalism.
Bre joined The Federalist in April of 2015. In the space of just a few years, she became a rising star on cable news, regularly featured as political commentator on Fox News Channel, Fox Business Channel, and OANN.
Bre brightened the lives of everyone around her. She was joyful, hard-working, and compassionate, and she leaves behind friends and colleagues for whom she brought nothing but sweetness and light.
Though we are heartbroken and devastated by Bre’s death, we are comforted in the knowledge that she was a woman who lived a life marked by deep Christian faith, trusting in her Savior, Jesus Christ – in the God who promises the way our story ends is that “He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more.â€
Bre is survived by her parents, George and Cindy; siblings James, Jack, Christina, and Cheekie; and boyfriend Ryan Colby. Her family would appreciate privacy and your prayers as they grieve this loss.
Details about funeral arrangements will be shared once they are known.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/28/bre-payton-beloved-staff-writer-passed-away/#.XCaPddIWn5o.twitter (http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/28/bre-payton-beloved-staff-writer-passed-away/#.XCaPddIWn5o.twitter)
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I’ve noticed several books have come out or coming out on the great flu epidemic of 1918.
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I’ve noticed several books have come out or coming out on the great flu epidemic of 1918.
Lost a great-great uncle to it during WWI. He was a pilot stationed in France, one of the first groups to come down with it.
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Richard Overton, the country's oldest World War II veteran, passed away at 112 years old Thursday.
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." - George S. Patton
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Bre Payton, 26 year old writer for the Federalist caught the flu, she died suddenly. I am not saying she died of the flu, that may be part of it..
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/423151-consevative-writer-bre-payton-dies-suddenly-at-26?amp (https://thehill.com/homenews/media/423151-consevative-writer-bre-payton-dies-suddenly-at-26?amp)
More: https://www.bing.com/amp/s/heavy.com/news/2018/12/bre-payton/amp/ (https://www.bing.com/amp/s/heavy.com/news/2018/12/bre-payton/amp/)
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https://www.npr.org/2018/12/28/680643715/oldest-american-world-war-ii-veteran-dies-at-112 (https://www.npr.org/2018/12/28/680643715/oldest-american-world-war-ii-veteran-dies-at-112)
Richard Overton had been the oldest living veteran of American wars. He died Thursday.
Darren Abate/AP
The United States has lost its oldest World War II veteran. Richard Overton, who fought overseas in a segregated unit, died Thursday at age 112.
He was hospitalized recently after a bout with pneumonia and took his last antibiotic on Dec. 21 — "a true soldier in fighting this infection battle with all that he has," his cousin, Volma Overton, said on
Richard Overton was born in 1906, near Austin, Texas. He enlisted in the Army in 1940, before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He joined the 1887th Aviation Engineer Battalion, a unit made up of black soldiers, and served in Pearl Harbor, Okinawa and Iwo Jima.
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Lila Rose, twitter:
I remember only meeting Bre briefly at a press conference, but I admired her smart, thoughtful & bold pro-life reporting. From everything I know of her, she was a beautiful soul who will be sorely missed. Prayers for all her loved ones and family.
2:40 PM - 28 Dec 2018
https://twitter.com/LilaGraceRose/status/1078782778383073280 (https://twitter.com/LilaGraceRose/status/1078782778383073280)
Then, links to the Federalist article: http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/28/bre-payton-beloved-staff-writer-passed-away/ (http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/28/bre-payton-beloved-staff-writer-passed-away/)
Rest in peace, I'm unsure how someone like this, so young, could be questioned on the Neil Cavuto show on Fox Business but she was on there. I mean, it seems like they say she was writing for the Federalist while still in college. Perhaps a bit of freelancing, quite a few end up doing that.
It sounds like Bre was headed towards OANN, One American News Network.
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Frank Adonis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Adonis) has passed away, actor in 'Good Fellas', 'Raging Bull' and 'Casino'.
On the left in this picture:
(http://media.baselineresearch.com/images/224342/224342_full.jpg)
https://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/celebrity/goodfellas-casino-actor-frank-adonis-dies-in-las-vegas-1560416/ (https://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/celebrity/goodfellas-casino-actor-frank-adonis-dies-in-las-vegas-1560416/)
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Songwriter who wrote or co-wrote 'Killing Me Softly With His Song', 'Happy Days Theme' AND 'The Theme of Luverne and Shirley', Norman Gimbel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Gimbel) has passed away.
Norman Gimbel who wrote Laverne & Shirley theme song dies age 91 just days after star Penny Marshall
By Paul Chavez For Dailymail.com
Published: 22:19 EST, 28 December 2018 | Updated: 22:19 EST, 28 December 2018
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6537241/Norman-Gimbel-wrote-Laverne-Shirley-theme-song-dies-age-91-just-days-star-Penny-Marshall.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6537241/Norman-Gimbel-wrote-Laverne-Shirley-theme-song-dies-age-91-just-days-star-Penny-Marshall.html)
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46706705 (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46706705)
Co-wrote 'Farewell To Yokohama' as well.
https://archive.org/details/78_farewell-to-yokohama_lindy-doherty-sid-feller-norman-gimbel-larry-coleman_gbia0070793a/Farewell+to+Yokohama+-+Lindy+Doherty+-+Sid+Feller.flac (https://archive.org/details/78_farewell-to-yokohama_lindy-doherty-sid-feller-norman-gimbel-larry-coleman_gbia0070793a/Farewell+to+Yokohama+-+Lindy+Doherty+-+Sid+Feller.flac)
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw_nxOJV2w8#)
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw380nL67nE#)
Sung by Roberta Flack
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJzF8_df1R8#)
The video says at the end, Luverne and Shirley ran from '76-'83, quite a long run, I haven't seen many of them.
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Bre Payton, 26 year old writer for the Federalist caught the flu, she died suddenly. I am not saying she died of the flu, that may be part of it..
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/423151-consevative-writer-bre-payton-dies-suddenly-at-26?amp (https://thehill.com/homenews/media/423151-consevative-writer-bre-payton-dies-suddenly-at-26?amp)
More: https://www.bing.com/amp/s/heavy.com/news/2018/12/bre-payton/amp/ (https://www.bing.com/amp/s/heavy.com/news/2018/12/bre-payton/amp/)
I put two and two together this am. I get a daily newsletter from The Federalist. She wrote some dynamite stuff on TV, especially the Bachelor franchise. What a talent. 888cryingkitty
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RIP Norman Gimbel, whose lyrics also included . . .
The Pussycat Dolls, "Sway"
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knlcaEDkPl0#)
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RIP Norman Gimbel, whose lyrics also included . . .
The Pussycat Dolls, "Sway"
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knlcaEDkPl0#)
Didn’t Dean Martin cover Sway also ? @EasyAce
Or someone big from the 50s?
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Didn’t Dean Martin cover Sway also ? @EasyAce
Or someone big from the 50s?
Yes, Dean had the first hit with it.
Bobby Rydell also had a hit with it twice: once in 1960, and again in the mid-1970s as a disco number.
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KKTjKyGw2M#)
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Didn’t Dean Martin cover Sway also ? @EasyAce
Yes he did---but I think the Pussycat Dolls' version is the best one. (I first heard it near the end of the Richard Gere film Shall We Dance and loved it immediately.)
Another '50s star who had a hit with it was . . .
Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra, "Sway"
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP1U39uzarY#)
Here's the original version, by the performer for whom its original writer Luis Demetrio wrote it:
Pablo Beltran, "Sway"
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrKxKCjrfA8#)
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RIP Norman Gimbel, whose lyrics also included . . .
The Pussycat Dolls, "Sway"
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knlcaEDkPl0#)
Great video!!
Impressive work. Died at Montecito, California, very near Santa Barbara.
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Yes he did---but I think the Pussycat Dolls' version is the best one. (I first heard it near the end of the Richard Gere film Shall We Dance and loved it immediately.)
Another '50s star who had a hit with it was . . .
Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra, "Sway"
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP1U39uzarY#)
Here's the original version, by the performer for whom its original writer Luis Demetrio wrote it:
Pablo Beltran, "Sway"
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrKxKCjrfA8#)
That scene in "Shall We Dance" with Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez is just great (the one shown in the video).
My husband and I actually like that movie a lot and watch it now and again just for fun.
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I have a version of Data from Star Trek singing it as well on my phone. He actually can sing! (Yes, folks I’m a Trekkie )
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Amos Oz Dies At 79; Hailed As 'Glory' Of Israel's Writers
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/28/680665640/amos-oz-dies-at-79-hailed-as-glory-of-israels-writers (https://www.npr.org/2018/12/28/680665640/amos-oz-dies-at-79-hailed-as-glory-of-israels-writers)
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Didn’t Dean Martin cover Sway also ? @EasyAce
Or someone big from the 50s?
Yes, Dean Martin, born in Steubbenville and many other artists covered it.
A cover this time, though, seems okay I suppose. Myself, I don't really care, black, white, Italian and so on, I'd probably give reference to the singer who made it famous.
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Yep. Brilliant writer. Have a few of his books
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https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/dame-june-whitfield-absolutely-fabulous-and-terry-and-june-actress-dies-93-1203096694/
June Whitfield, ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ and ‘Terry and June’ Actress, Dies at 93
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLMpP2pohp8#)
She is well known over in the United Kingdom, she may have some official title as well, the kind royalty give out to citizens of that great country, Dame? Or something, I'm not too familiar with that.
Oh, she was on Benny Hill too, I guess, I saw her on there regularly, I just didn't know her name.
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June Whitfield with Benny Hill, 1961.
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eGTssBD_3U#)
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Nancy Roman, mother of Hubble, dead at 93
https://www.space.com/42856-nancy-roman-mother-of-hubble-dead.html (https://www.space.com/42856-nancy-roman-mother-of-hubble-dead.html)
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Soccer = Football:
One of the methods he used to save children was to take them to the Swiss border, then kick a football over the frontier and get them to chase it.
"I spotted a football pitch that was on the border. It was made up of fences two-and-a-half metres high. I saw that there was nobody," he said.
"I made the children play, I told some of them to lift up the fences and I passed the ball."
From: Georges Loinger: French hero who saved Jews in WW2 dies (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46714673)
The article seems to say, he himself was born into a Jewish family, just saying, remarkable story. When people play football, they kick it countless times over the net, sort of like hitting a foul ball in baseball.
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Ray Sawyer, co-lead singer of Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, dies at 81
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/62/131hook32973.jpg)
Sawyer is at front of their titular "cover of the Rolling Stone"
As a struggling musician, Sawyer initially decided to seek a more practical career in the late 1960s, but lost an eye in a car accident while pursuing work as a logger. As he put it, he "went back to the beans and music" and, with his eyepatch making him resemble a pirate, came up with his new gimmick: the band would now be known as Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show (Hook after the Peter Pan pirate, the doctor/medicine schtick from the various drugs the band reputedly took). Although the band still struggled (albums like Bankrupt and Belly Up! were regular in the era), the band secured the services of famed songwriter Shel Silverstein, who gave the group several hits such as "The Cover of the Rolling Stone."
In the late 1970s, the band, increasingly under the influence of the other co-lead singer Dennis Locorriere, broke through to consistent fame by moving toward a disco-influenced soft rock styling. Sawyer eventually left the band around 1980. Although Locorriere still owns the rights to the Dr. Hook name, he allowed Sawyer a license to continue touring under the name.
He eventually stopped performing in 2015, in part because of illness and in part because Locorriere decided there should only be one group using the Dr. Hook name.
Obituary from the New York Post (https://pagesix.com/2018/12/31/dr-hook-singer-ray-sawyer-dead-at-81/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Sawyer)
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUjcjUF-urU#)
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@jmyrlefuller your avatar needs more cowbell
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Dr. Hook is from Union City New Jersey, or do the locals say "Joizy" or something like that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Hook_%26_the_Medicine_Show (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Hook_%26_the_Medicine_Show)
But as further reading shows of the above article, 3 of the members of the original band including Ray Sawyer who just passed, were from the South, Sawyer from Alabama per the article. Sawyer apparently was the leader and wore the eye patch.
I think the excerpt misses the song "Sharing the night together", another hit. Looks like the other co-lead singer, LoCorriere sings it.
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_n_NgGWpR4#)
I'd probably pick that one as a favorite but, "Cover of the Rolling Stone" is one of those songs that has been played on the radio, millions of times.
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Ray Sawyer, co-lead singer of Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, dies at 81
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/62/131hook32973.jpg)
Sawyer is at front of their titular "cover of the Rolling Stone"
And the operator says
"Forty cents more, for the next three minutes"
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RIP Ray Sawyer . . .
Me, I always thought this was Dr. Hook's prettiest love song . . .
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZUkJuSGsx4#)
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Dr. Hook is from Union City New Jersey, or do the locals say "Joizy" or something like that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Hook_%26_the_Medicine_Show (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Hook_%26_the_Medicine_Show)
But as further reading shows of the above article, 3 of the members of the original band including Ray Sawyer who just passed, were from the South, Sawyer from Alabama per the article. Sawyer apparently was the leader and wore the eye patch.
I think the excerpt misses the song "Sharing the night together", another hit. Looks like the other co-lead singer, LoCorriere sings it.
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_n_NgGWpR4#)
I'd probably pick that one as a favorite but, "Cover of the Rolling Stone" is one of those songs that has been played on the radio, millions of times.
My personal favorite of theirs was "Better Love Next Time," another Locorriere lead, which had Sawyer on bongos.
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3poFyK54xbc#)
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Ray Sawyer, co-lead singer of Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, dies at 81
@jmyrlefuller
There is a local expression that covers Ray Sawyer pretty well.
"That boy ain't right!" I may be wrong,but I suspect he was smoking some of that whacky tabacky they used to sell in Ca back then/
Damn good musician and singer,though.
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@jmyrlefuller
There is a local expression that covers Ray Sawyer pretty well.
"That boy ain't right!" I may be wrong,but I suspect he was smoking some of that whacky tabacky they used to sell in Ca back then/
Damn good musician and singer,though.
Takes more than some MJ to explain that guy.
How you doing, @sneakypete?
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Takes more than some MJ to explain that guy.
How you doing, @sneakypete?
@Sanguine
Much better. Lung cancer has been ruled out. Just got back home from the hospital a couple of hours ago.
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@Sanguine
Much better. Lung cancer has been ruled out. Just got back home from the hospital a couple of hours ago.
Great news! Thanks.
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@Sanguine
Much better. Lung cancer has been ruled out. Just got back home from the hospital a couple of hours ago.
Well, that's good news.
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@Sanguine
Much better. Lung cancer has been ruled out. Just got back home from the hospital a couple of hours ago.
That's great, Pete!
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@Sanguine
Much better. Lung cancer has been ruled out. Just got back home from the hospital a couple of hours ago.
Good.
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@Sanguine
Much better. Lung cancer has been ruled out. Just got back home from the hospital a couple of hours ago.
Excellent news!
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Daryl Dragon, Captain of Captain & Tennille, dead at 76 (https://www.apnews.com/0117cd4218ca4df0808e9352c79f2506)
Renal failure.
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeiwueFywXs#)
He had his demons and his successes.
RIP Captain.
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Daryl Dragon, Captain of Captain & Tennille, dead at 76 (https://www.apnews.com/0117cd4218ca4df0808e9352c79f2506)
Renal failure.
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeiwueFywXs#)
He had his demons and his successes.
RIP Captain.
Check the 2019 thread. :patriot:
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,346038.html (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,346038.html)
@EasyAce
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Don Lusk
Animator for Disney, Hanna-Barbera and Bill Melendez dies at 105
Lusk joined the Disney studio in 1933, drawing various animations for the studio's Golden Age films (animating Cleo the fish for Pinnochio, the Arabian Fish Dance for Fantasia, the mice in Cinderella and numerous other roles before leaving the studio in 1960, the result of the industry-wide decline of film animation and a resulting migration to cheaper television animation.
Lusk then found work at the Bill Melendez studio in 1969, working on three of the four theatrical Peanuts films and ten specials, the most enduring of which was A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. He then moved to Hanna-Barbera and worked on that studio's 1980s productions, including The Smurfs, before retiring in 1993 as Saturday-morning cartoons themselves fell into decline and edgier cable cartoons became the focus of the industry.
Lusk died December 30, age 105.
Obituary from the Hollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/don-lusk-dead-pinocchio-fantasia-charlie-brown-animator-was-105-1172027)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lusk)
Samples of Don Lusk's Disney animation work (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlnc2X8wNlk#)
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Please post new Obituaries on the thread for 2019:
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,346038.0.html (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,346038.0.html)
Thanks.....
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Please post new Obituaries on the thread for 2019:
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,346038.0.html (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,346038.0.html)
Thanks.....
The last one I just posted actually happened in 2018. Hence why I put it here.
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The last one I just posted actually happened in 2018. Hence why I put it here.
I saw that after I posted.... :shrug: