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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: EC on January 01, 2016, 03:22:14 pm
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Another year, another thread.
May it not be quite so long as last years!
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Another year, another thread.
May it not be quite so long as last years!
:amen:
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2015 thread (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,158147)
2014 thread (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,138392)
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Dale Bumpers, Liberal Stalwart of Arkansas Politics, Dies at 90
Dale L. Bumpers, a liberal governor and four-term Democratic senator from Arkansas who came out of retirement in 1999 to make a passionate closing argument defending President Bill Clinton against removal from office in a Senate trial, died on Friday at his home in Little Rock, Ark. He was 90.
His death was confirmed by his granddaughter Linn Bumpers.
Mr. Bumpers was part of a generation of moderate Southern Democrats, among them President Jimmy Carter, who emerged in the late 1960s and the '70s. He always said his proudest achievement had come early in his career when, as a small-town lawyer in the 1950s, he guided his native Charleston, Ark., to become the first community of the former Confederacy to integrate its public schools.
But he is remembered more for what he did in the twilight of his career.
Three weeks after retiring from the Senate, he returned on Jan. 21, 1999, to speak to his former colleagues on behalf of Mr. Clinton, a fellow former governor of Arkansas. The House had charged the president with perjury and obstruction of justice for lying under oath about his sexual affair with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.
More (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/us/dale-bumpers-liberal-stalwart-of-arkansas-politics-dies-at-90.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Bumpers)
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Gilbert Kaplan, conductor - obituary
Gilbert Kaplan, who has died aged 74, was an American economist, journalist and businessman who came to wider attention through his determination to be an orchestral conductor and in particular his obsession with Gustav Mahler's Symphony No 2 (the Resurrection), a work that he conducted on more than 100 occasions.
Some saw him as a charlatan, a Wall Street millionaire who had "bought" his way on to the podium with his lavish donations to impecunious orchestras. Others felt that he offered a fresh insight into the music, unsullied by a traditional approach to interpretation and the institutionalised training of the conservatoire system.
More (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12077312/Gilbert-Kaplan-conductor-obituary.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Kaplan)
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Bee Gees manager Robert Stigwood dies at 81
LONDON (AP) — Robert Stigwood, the impresario who managed the Bee Gees and produced 1970s blockbusters "Grease" and "Saturday Night Fever," has died. He was 81.
Stigwood's office said he died Monday. The cause of death was not announced.
Born in Adelaide, Australia, in 1934, Stigwood moved to Britain in the 1950s and soon became an astute player in Britain's embryonic rock music industry.
In the 1960s he managed rock super group Cream and its guitarist Eric Clapton before signing brothers Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb, collectively known as the Bee Gees, whose melodic folk-rock achieved late-'60s success before a career slump."
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/bee-gees-manager-robert-stigwood-dies-81
In producing "Saturday Night Fever" Stigwood parlayed the success of that movie by incorporating the music of his own managed Bee Gees. He made a fortune by combining the two.
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David Bowie has died after a battle with cancer, his rep confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.
"David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer.
While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family's privacy during their time of grief," read a statement posted on the artist's official social media accounts.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/david-bowie-dead-legendary-artist-854364
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Oh, I hate to hear that. What a talented man he was.
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David Bowie has died after a battle with cancer, his representative confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.
“David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer. While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family’s privacy during their time of grief,” read a statement posted on the artist’s official social media accounts.
The influential singer-songwriter and producer dabbled in glam rock, art rock, soul, hard rock, dance pop, punk and electronica during his eclectic 40-plus-year career.
Bowie’s artistic breakthrough came with 1972’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, an album that fostered the notion of rock star as space alien. Fusing British mod with Japanese kabuki styles and rock with theater, Bowie created the flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust.
Three years later, Bowie achieved his first major American crossover success with the No. 1 single “Fame” off the top 10 album Young Americans, then followed with the 1976 avant-garde art rock LP Station to Station, which made it to No. 3 on the charts and featured top 10 hit “Golden Years.”
Other memorable songs included 1983’s “Let’s Dance” — his only other No. 1 U.S. hit — “Space Oddity,” “Heroes,” “Changes,” “Under Pressure,” “China Girl,” “Modern Love,” “Rebel, Rebel,” “All the Young Dudes,” “Panic in Detroit,” “Fashion,” “Life on Mars,” “Suffragette City” and a 1977 Christmas medley with Bing Crosby.
With his different-colored eyes (the result of a schoolyard fight) and needlelike frame, Bowie was a natural to segue from music into curious movie roles, and he starred as an alien seeking help for his dying planet in Nicolas Roeg’s surreal The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976). Critics later applauded his three-month Broadway stint as the misshapen lead in 1980’s The Elephant Man.
Bowie also starred in Marlene Dietrich’s last film, Just a Gigolo (1978), portrayed a World War II prisoner of war in Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983), and played Pontius Pilate in Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ (1988). And in another groundbreaking move, Bowie, who always embraced technology, became the first rock star to morph into an Internet Service Provider with the launch in September 1998 of BowieNet.
Born David Jones in London on Jan. 8, 1947, Bowie changed his name in 1966 after The Monkees’ Davy Jones achieved stardom. He played saxophone and started a mime company, and after stints in several bands he signed with Mercury Records, which in 1969 released his album Man of Words, Man of Music, which featured “Space Oddity,” a poignant song about an astronaut, Major Tom, spiraling out of control.
In an attempt to stir interest in Ziggy Stardust, Bowie revealed in a January 1972 magazine interview that he was gay — though that might have been a publicity stunt — dyed his hair orange and began wearing women’s garb. The album became a sensation.
Wrote rock critic Robert Christgau: “This is audacious stuff right down to the stubborn wispiness of its sound, and Bowie’s actorly intonations add humor and shades of meaning to the words, which are often witty and rarely precious, offering an unusually candid and detailed vantage on the rock star’s world.”
Bowie changed gears in 1975. Becoming obsessed with the dance/funk sounds of Philadelphia, his self-proclaimed “plastic soul”-infused Young Americans peaked at No. 9 with the single “Fame,” which he co-wrote with John Lennon and guitarist Carlos Alomar.
After the soulful but colder Station to Station, Bowie again confounded expectations after settling in Germany by recording the atmospheric 1977 album Low, the first of his “Berlin Trilogy” collaborations with keyboardist Brian Eno.
In 1980, Bowie brought out Scary Monsters, which cast a nod to the Major Tom character from “Space Oddity” with the sequel “Ashes to Ashes.” He followed with Tonight in 1984 and Never Let Me Down in 1987 and collaborations with Queen, Mick Jagger, Tina Turner, The Pat Metheny Group and others. He formed the quartet Tin Machine (his brother Tony played drums), but the band didn’t garner much critical acclaim or commercial gain with two albums.
Bowie returned to a solo career with 1993’s Black Tie White Noise, which saw him return to work with his Spider From Mars guitarist Mick Ronson, then recorded 1995’s Outside with Eno and toured with Nine Inch Nails as his opening act. He returned to the studio in 1996 to record the techno-influenced Earthling. Two more albums, 1999’s hours … and 2002’s Heathen, followed.
Bowie also produced albums for, among others, Lou Reed, The Stooges and Moot the Hoople, for which he wrote the song “All the Young Dudes.” He earned a lifetime achievement Grammy Award in 2006.
Yahoo News (https://www.yahoo.com/music/legendary-artist-david-bowie-dies-at-69-071633580.html)
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NBC News (http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/david-bowie-dead-69-n493781?cid=sm_fb)
... David Bowie, the rock and roll visionary whose career spanned six decades, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer. He was 69.
Bowie has released his 25th studio album, "Blackstar," to strong reviews on Friday. ...
Bowie's song "Lazarus" on newly released "Blackstar" — his 47th overall including live albums and compilations — features the lyric: "Look up here, I'm in heaven / I've got scars that can't be seen / I've got drama, can't be stolen / Everybody knows me now." ...
Bowie — who divorced Angela Barrett in 1980 — married the supermodel Iman in 1992, and they had one daughter, Alexandria Jones. He is also survived by his son, Duncan, from his first marriage.
Barrett is currently appearing on "Celebrity Big Brother" in Britain but the TV show's producers announced she would be "informed off camera today at the earliest opportunity."
Independent (UK) (http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/david-bowie-dead-swansong-lazarus-takes-on-poignant-new-meaning-in-lyrics-and-music-video-a6805571.html)David Bowie's unexpected death from cancer at 69 has inspired a flood of tributes from the music world and sparked many to look more closely at his final song, “Lazarus”.
The track's haunting music video was released just last week, showing Bowie hospital-bound, lying on a deathbed with his eyes bandaged, writhing around and singing about being “free just like that bluebird”. So was the “Space Oddity” icon expressing his thoughts on his own imminent death with his swansong 27th album Blackstar?
It seems likely, the opening line of “Look up here, I'm in heaven” taking on poignant new meaning following the sad news confirmed on Monday morning.
Scenes of Bowie frantically writing while clearly heavily tormented are harrowing to watch in the video, which ends with the singer retreating into a wardrobe and closing the door behind him, seemingly bidding farewell as death finally comes for him.
Fans have been sharing the third verse's lyrics “This way or no way, you know I'll be free” in tributes on social media.
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Very talented. One of my favorite songs he did was Fame.
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Very talented. One of my favorite songs he did was Fame.
He was. I got to see him live waaaay back when. Ziggy Stardust was my favorite album of his.
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He was. I got to see him live waaaay back when. Ziggy Stardust was my favorite album of his.
Yes he was a genius as far as making himself.
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I'm old fashioned, I still love the duet Bowie performed in 1977 with Bing Crosby on live television, Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADbJLo4x-tk
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Go on Youtube and check out his parting "gifts" which are some very ghoulish, dark songs.
Probably made under the influence of strong pain meds, according to my wife and me. Here is one, titled "Lazarus:"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-JqH1M4Ya8
A final parting shot of art, about his own death
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Way back when, he was in a band called the "King Bees" - with Davy Jones.
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I'm old fashioned, I still love the duet Bowie performed in 1977 with Bing Crosby on live television, Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADbJLo4x-tk
Me too. That always brings tears to my eyes.
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Me too. That always brings tears to my eyes.
What a classic moment. Thank God it's captured on tape. I want my grandchildren to see it (when my girls finally get on the ball and give me a few of the rug rats).
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David Bowie, RIP (1947-2016) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYRH4apXDo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYRH4apXDo
Ground Control to Major Tom
Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
Ground Control to Major Tom (Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six)
Commencing countdown, engines on (Five, Four, Three)
Check ignition and may God's love be with you (Two, One, Liftoff)
This is Ground Control to Major Tom
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare
"This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do
Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much she knows
Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you "Here am I floating round my tin can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do."
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I'm old fashioned, I still love the duet Bowie performed in 1977 with Bing Crosby on live television, Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADbJLo4x-tk
So sad...I can't believe he's gone. 8888crybaby
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Former NFL player Lawrence Phillips dead after being found unresponsive in prison cell
By Adam Herbets, Eyewitness News
Wednesday, January 13th 2016BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — Former NFL player Lawrence Phillips, who was serving time in a California prison, is dead of suspected suicide.
He was found unresponsive in his cell early Wednesday at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano during a security check. Phillips was taken to an outside hospital, where he was declared dead.
KVSP said the death is suspected to be a suicide.
Phillips was charged with murdering his cellmate, Damion Soward, last year.
Phillips was serving a 31-year, four-month sentence out of San Diego County for inflicting great bodily injury involving domestic violence, corporal injury to spouse, false imprisonment and vehicle theft.
Officials at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation can't reveal whether Phillips was on any sort of suicide watch because that would be a violation of HIPAA.
Dana Simas, a spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, revealed that Phillips was housed in "administrative segregation," which is reserved for inmates who need to be kept away from other prisoners. Simas said this is common for an inmate who is facing allegations of murdering a cellmate.
Simas added that prisoners can be placed in special "suicide-prevention cells," especially if they are going through a mental health crisis. Those cells have special mattresses that cannot be ripped. Inmates in those cells would also be restricted from having personal property and are subject to more rigorous welfare checks. Phillips was not in a suicide-prevention cell.
Kern County District Attorney Lisa Green declined to comment about Phillips' death, because she is restricted by a judge who placed a gag order on the case last November.
Phillips was a star at the University of Nebraska before being drafted into the NFL, where he failed to find success. He played for the Miami Dolphins, St. Louis Rams and San Francisco 49ers.
link (http://wtov9.com/news/local/former-nfl-player-lawrence-phillips-dead-after-being-found-unresponsive-in-prison-cell)
EDIT TO ADD: Suspected suicide (http://www.aol.com/article/2016/01/13/ex-nfl-player-phillips-dead-in-california-prison-of-suspected-su/21296730/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl3%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D686629267)
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So sad...I can't believe he's gone.
I always thought he was extremely weird and creepy...
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It is the continued presence of people like him, coddled and given chance after chance, which keeps me uninterested in most pro sports these days.
Thug ball.
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It is the continued presence of people like him, coddled and given chance after chance, which keeps me uninterested in most pro sports these days.
Thug ball.
That, and using taxpayer dollars for pro teams' stadiums. **nononono*
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That, and using taxpayer dollars for pro teams' stadiums. **nononono*
If a "public" stadium needs to go up, I have no problem with the govt. entity being involved with financing. I want the taxpayers repaid of course.
But I don't want downright criminals to play in the facility, paid millions.
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If a "public" stadium needs to go up, I have no problem with the govt. entity being involved with financing. I want the taxpayers repaid of course.
But I don't want downright criminals to play in the facility, paid millions.
Yes, but "government entities" have no money. They have to take it from the taxpayers in order to give it to someone else.
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Yes, but "government entities" have no money. They have to take it from the taxpayers in order to give it to someone else.
So no more civic buildings? Heard of bonds? Paid by gate receipts?
LA Coliseum and Pasadena Rose Bowl built 1921-23, both with capacities over 100,000, have presumably repaid the original investments many times over.
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[float=right](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Monte_Irvin_number_retirement.jpg/230px-Monte_Irvin_number_retirement.jpg)[/float]Monte Irvin, oldest living Negro Leaguer, dies at 96
Originally interested in playing college football, Irvin began his professional baseball career with the Newark Eagles of the Negro Leagues, where he spent several nonconsecutive seasons (Irvin also served in World War II at the peak of his career). He joined Major League Baseball in 1949, playing for the New York Giants for six years and the Chicago Cubs for one more. Despite his relatively short professional career, frequent injuries and only one All-Star Game appearance, Irvin was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973.
Irvin was living in assisted living in Houston at the time of his death.
Obituary from USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2016/01/12/hall-famer-monte-irvin-dies-96/78694934/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Irvin)
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000614/ (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000614/)
Alan Rickman, star of stage and 'Harry Potter,' dead at 69
British actor Alan Rickman, whose career ranged from Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company to the "Harry Potter" films, has died. He was 69.
Rickman's family said Thursday that the actor had died after a battle with cancer.
His breakout role was as the scheming Vicomte de Valmont in an acclaimed 1985 RSC production of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses."
Film roles included "Truly, Madly, Deeply," ''Love Actually" and the Potter films, in which he played the ambiguous Dark Arts teacher Severus Snape
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/01/14/alan-rickman-star-stage-and-harry-potter-dead-at-6/ (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/01/14/alan-rickman-star-stage-and-harry-potter-dead-at-6/)
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Villain in the first "Die Hard" flick, baddie in "Quigley Down Under". Also wrote a play about Rachell Corrie. A leftie.
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Villain in the first "Die Hard" flick, baddie in "Quigley Down Under". Also wrote a play about Rachell Corrie. A leftie.
Loved him in that Die Hard movie. Played a wonderful villain .
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Céline Dion's husband René Angélil dies
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2016/01/14/celine-dions-husband-rene-angelil-dies/78806790/
René Angélil, the husband of and mentor-manager who helped make Canadian singer Céline Dion a mega star, has died after a years-long battle with throat cancer. He was 73.
The news was confirmed on Dion's website Thursday where a statement announced Angélil died at their home in Las Vegas "after a long and courageous battled against cancer. The family requests that their privacy be respected at the moment; more details will be provided at a later time."
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My BIL is friends with them. He is a professional precision auto driver, and did a tour with them while they filmed car ads around the world. He is also a musician and did a little playing and singing with her along the way. He thinks very highly of the couple, and I am certain he will send his respects.
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So no more civic buildings? Heard of bonds? Paid by gate receipts?
LA Coliseum and Pasadena Rose Bowl built 1921-23, both with capacities over 100,000, have presumably repaid the original investments many times over.
Yes, but those stadiums have lasted almost 100 years now. Today's stadiums don't last 20 without being declared obsolete.
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Yes, but those stadiums have lasted almost 100 years now. Today's stadiums don't last 20 without being declared obsolete.
California has ballot iniatives. Notice the cities for new stadiums are Inglewood, and Carson? Not LA?
Inglewood and Carson are NOT rich towns. To agree they need good deals, for they do NOT have money to give away.
Therefore I believe the stadiums are largely self-financed. Not taxpayer subsidized.
Dodger stadium and Angel stadium, both past 50 years.
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Actor Dan Haggerty Has Died at 74
By JONAH LUSTIG and VANESSA WILKINS
Jan 15, 2016, 11:02 AM ET
ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/actor-dan-haggerty-died-74/story?id=36311897)
Dan Haggerty, who fans know as Grizzly Adams, died early Friday morning at the age of 74, ABC News has confirmed with the actor's manager Terry Bomar.
Haggerty starred as Grizzly Adams in the 1974 film "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams" and the subsequent TV series of the same name, which ran from 1977 to 1978.
The actor, who was originally from Wisconsin, then went on to appear in several films and TV shows, including "Charlie's Angels" in 1981 and "The Love Boat" in 1983.
Some of Haggerty's most recent projects included an appearance in "Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan" and "Dead in 5 Heartbeats," both released in 2013.
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Haggerty and that show inspired alot of people during the big 70's back-to-the-land movement. Strange the effects something like that can have.
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Dan Haggerty, who fans know as Grizzly Adams, died early Friday morning at the age of 74, ABC News has confirmed with the actor's manager Terry Bomar.
Ah, that's too bad... used to love that show when I was a kid...
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Ted Marchibroda, NFL quarterback and coach, dies at 84
Perhaps the most illustrious quarterback to have ever emerged from the long-extinct football team at tiny Saint Bonaventure University, Marchibroda played four seasons in the NFL, for the Pittsburgh Steelers and then-Chicago Cardinals. He made a larger mark in coaching, where he earned accolades for his work as a quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator, helping to develop the Buffalo Bills' Super Bowl era offense. He head-coached for the Baltimore Colts from 1975-79, the Indianapolis Colts from 1992-95, and the Baltimore Ravens from 1996-98, ending his career as the Colts' color commentator in 2006. As a head coach, Marchibroda was a modest success but went winless in the playoffs until reaching the AFC Championship Game in 1995.
Obituary from nfl.com (http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000623588/article/former-nfl-coach-ted-marchibroda-dies-at-age-84)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Marchibroda)
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Noreen Corcoran, the Adopted Niece on TV's 'Bachelor Father,' Dies at 72
America watched her grow up on the series, which aired from 1957-62. From a family of young actors, she was recommended by Ronald Reagan for the role.
Noreen Corcoran, who starred as the teenager adopted by her uncle (John Forsythe) on the 1950s-'60s sitcom Bachelor Father, has died. She was 72.
Corcoran died Friday of cardiopulmonary disease at Valley Presbyterian in Van Nuys, her niece, author Mell Corcoran, told The Hollywood Reporter. The actress' younger brother, Kevin Corcoran, who appeared in the 1957 film Old Yeller and played Moochie on several Disney TV shows, died in October.
More (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/noreen-corcoran-dead-bachelor-father-856390)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noreen_Corcoran)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0179321/)
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I read in one of the stories about Noreen Corcoran that her family (with many child actors) had lived in Santa Monica, but I distinctly recall attending elementary school with some of them in Northridge, Calif. There hardly was a Disney movie that didn't feature a Corcoran.
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Glenn Frey, The Eagles, dead at 67
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Frey
"On January 18, 2016, Frey died of complications from intestinal surgery at a hospital in New York City, New York at the age of 67."
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/glenn-frey-mn0000657041/biography
Huge talent, as writer, performer, etc. Career spans over 40 years, including backup band for Linda Ronstadt, then Eagles, etc.
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RIP, Glenn!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lawk5PbYZuM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lawk5PbYZuM)
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T_S, I was just typing that news up as you posted.
You listen to Frey's work with the Eagles, and then listen to his work as a solo artist, and you'd swear they were different artists. Either way, the guy had talent. A lot of his stuff resonates with me.
One of my favorites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60bzbfHP1Hs
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This is me and my husband's "song".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaO-kgG7eCQ
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This is me and my husband's "song".
:beer:
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I always thought Joe Walsh would be the 1st to go. The Eagles were a hard living and fighting band till their break up. Frey said they specialised in a quiet turbulence.
Hell Froze Over
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And, my all time favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYiaYyfp8Q
Godspeed, Mr. Frey.
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I always thought Joe Walsh would be the 1st to go. The Eagles were a hard living and fighting band till their break up. Frey said they specialised in a quiet turbulence.
Hell Froze Over
Walsh has been sober for over 21 years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/10/07/lifes-been-good-to-eagles-guitarist-joe-walsh-after-he-got-sober/
I will celebrate 22 years sober Feb. 5th, so the people that are in my category I take an interest with.
Some of the performers developed drug/alcohol addictions. It killed some, but some lived to clean/sober up in time.
There is quite a large group with 20 plus years, including Clapton, Elton John,Ringo Starr and many others.
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RIP, Glenn!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lawk5PbYZuM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lawk5PbYZuM)
Aw man. My favorite song of his. Was just listening to Peaceful Easy Feeling a few minutes ago in the car.
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Mic Gillette pasted away January 17th from a heart attack, he was 64.
An original member and leader of the legendary Tower of Power Horn Section, Mic has also established an enviable reputation for his work with youth and school bands. In particular, his affinity for working with middle school and high school students has endeared him to a whole new generation of fans in the 21st century.
I have always been a Tower of Power fan.
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Mic Gillette pasted away January 17th from a heart attack, he was 64.
I have always been a Tower of Power fan.
Always liked their music!
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Mic Gillette pasted away January 17th from a heart attack, he was 64.
I have always been a Tower of Power fan.
That horn section was hot. Tower of Power were on my path toward the appreciation of jazz, and I'm 64. Gulp.
Rest in peace, dude. Maybe there's an opening with Gabriel's crew.
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Veteran comic actor Leslie Nielsen, star of Airplane! and The Naked Gun, has died at the age of 84.
He died in hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was being treated for pneumonia, his agent John S Kelly said.
Canadian-born Nielsen started out as a serious actor but in 1980, his role as a hapless doctor in the disaster spoof film Airplane! made him a comic star.
In all, he appeared in more than 100 films and had a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
"With his friends and his wife by his side, he just fell asleep and passed away," his nephew Doug Nielsen told the AFP news agency.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-11860014
8888crybaby Rest In Peace. Don't Call Me Shirley!!!!
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Commander John J. Adams: We're all part monsters in our subconscious, so we have laws and religion!
RIP
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Veteran comic actor Leslie Nielsen, star of Airplane! and The Naked Gun, has died at the age of 84.
He died in hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was being treated for pneumonia, his agent John S Kelly said.
Canadian-born Nielsen started out as a serious actor but in 1980, his role as a hapless doctor in the disaster spoof film Airplane! made him a comic star.
In all, he appeared in more than 100 films and had a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
"With his friends and his wife by his side, he just fell asleep and passed away," his nephew Doug Nielsen told the AFP news agency.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-11860014
8888crybaby Rest In Peace. Don't Call Me Shirley!!!!
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Stryker, Stryker, Stryker!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqLjBJPi1Jw :chairbang:
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Twice today, I cleared all new posts as read...before I finally clicked on this thread.
Leslie Nielson?
Damn!
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Twice today, I cleared all new posts as read...before I finally clicked on this thread.
Leslie Nielson?
Damn!
Yes, he gave us many laughs!
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Why is Leslie Nielsen STILL dead? (http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-35363394)
He died five years ago.
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Why is Leslie Nielsen STILL dead? (http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-35363394)
He died five years ago.
SOB.....
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Yeah, I recall when he passed away the first time. I was saddened then, too.
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Yeah, I recall when he passed away the first time. I was saddened then, too.
That's funny!
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Why is Leslie Nielsen STILL dead? (http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-35363394)
He died five years ago.
Seems like just yesterday......
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"And don't call me Shirley"
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Twice today, I cleared all new posts as read...before I finally clicked on this thread.
Leslie Nielson?
Damn!
He's been dead for a couple years, hasn't he?
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Godfather actor Abe Vigoda dies at the age of 94 in New York... also starred on TV's Barney Miller for eight years
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3417924/Godfather-actor-Abe-Vigoda-dies-age-94-New-York-starred-TV-s-Barney-Miller-eight-years.html
Abe Vigoda has died at the age of 94 at his nursing home in New York.
TMZ shared the news on Tuesday, just hours after the star's passing, and noted it was not a hoax. It has been falsely claimed many times in the past that the character actor has died.
The icon was best known for his role on the TV classic Barney Miller. He also played Tessio in the first two Godfather films.
lets see if this is correct?
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The internet has been declaring Abe dead every few years for the last 20 years.
I guess one of these times they will be correct. :(
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http://www.tmz.com/2016/01/26/abe-vigoda-dead/
Legendary actor Abe Vigoda -- who starred in "The Godfather" -- died under hospice care at the age of 94 ... TMZ has learned.
Abe's death had been falsely reported countless times, dating all the way back to 1982.
Abe played Tessio in "The Godfather" and also "The Godfather Part II." In fact, he was still doing the voice for Tessio in 'Godfather' video games as late as 2007.
His most famous role on TV was as Detective Phil Fish on the '80s sitcom "Barney Miller" ... which once worked the infamous hoax reports of Abe's death into a storyline.
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The internet has been declaring Abe dead every few years for the last 20 years.
I guess one of these times they will be correct. :(
yep....he was funny as Fish.
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Abe Vigoda, Barney Miller and Godfather star, dies at 94 (https://www.yahoo.com/tv/abe-vigoda-obituary-fish-barney-miller-193247092.html)
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Anyone checked on Generalissimo Franco lately?
Looks like Vigoda was still acting. Good for him.
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Sorry to hear that. He was a great character actor. I can just hear him negotiating with St. Peter: "Can you get me off the hook, for old time's sake?" RIP.
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Anyone checked on Generalissimo Franco lately?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=butZyxI-PRs&list=RDg2Q0cyJSs04&index=2
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Paul Kantner, Jefferson Airplane/Starship guitarist, dies at 74
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Kantner was one of the founding members of Jefferson Airplane when it formed in 1965. When the band began to splinter, he led the effort to reform a spin-off group, which became Jefferson Starship, a band that continued to record well into the 1970s. A counterculture rock purist, Kantner quit his creation in 1980 and accused his fellow bandmates of selling out; taking the Jefferson name with him, the band was left to record as Starship (under which name it made some of its most commercially successful yet critically derided recordings). Kantner was the father of actress China Kantner, the end result of an extended affair with vocalist Grace Slick.
Kantner died of a combination of various health problems stemming from a heart attack in March 2015.
Obituary from the San Francisco Chronicle (http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Jefferson-Airplane-s-Paul-Kantner-dies-at-74-6791483.php)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kantner)
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Paul Kantner, Jefferson Airplane/Starship guitarist, dies at 74
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Kantner was one of the founding members of Jefferson Airplane when it formed in 1965. When the band began to splinter, he led the effort to reform a spin-off group, which became Jefferson Starship, a band that continued to record well into the 1970s. A counterculture rock purist, Kantner quit his creation in 1980 and accused his fellow bandmates of selling out; taking the Jefferson name with him, the band was left to record as Starship (under which name it made some of its most commercially successful yet critically derided recordings). Kantner was the father of actress China Kantner, the end result of an extended affair with vocalist Grace Slick.
Kantner died of a combination of various health problems stemming from a heart attack in March 2015.
Obituary from the San Francisco Chronicle (http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Jefferson-Airplane-s-Paul-Kantner-dies-at-74-6791483.php)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kantner)
All my favorite musicians are leaving us. 8888crybaby
RIP Paul Kantner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAm_C6sGWa0
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=166pW5rEjIc
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Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner dies at 74 (http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Jefferson-Airplane-s-Paul-Kantner-dies-at-74-6791483.php)
Jefferson Airplane, "Watch Her Ride" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNJA55uQA78)
Jefferson Airplane, "Somebody to Love" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-85PC8KOjos)
RIP.
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Thanks. I enjoyed that.
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So many passing now...I would suspect that hard "living" is playing a role in that. 1967, the year that many new American bands began to emerge in the long shadow of The Beatles. It was a good year for Airplane in San Francisco (my sister used to live on Jefferson Street in the Marina District - which was the source of the name Jefferson in Airplane) and The Doors in LA.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rvetP_Kcgk
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So many passing now...I would suspect that hard "living" is playing a role in that. 1967, the year that many new American bands began to emerge in the long shadow of The Beatles. It was a good year for Airplane in San Francisco (my sister used to live on Jefferson Street in the Marina District - which was the source of the name Jefferson in Airplane) and The Doors in LA.
Jefferson Street might have crossed the band's mind, but the actual story may have been the name coming from a nickname once
attached to Jorma Kaukonen---Blind Lemon Jefferson Airplane, a tribute to his passion for acoustic blues.
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So many passing now...I would suspect that hard "living" is playing a role in that. 1967, the year that many new American bands began to emerge in the long shadow of The Beatles. It was a good year for Airplane in San Francisco (my sister used to live on Jefferson Street in the Marina District - which was the source of the name Jefferson in Airplane) and The Doors in LA.
Gonna start losing a lot of them. Makes me feel old.
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Thanks. I enjoyed that.
Here's the Airplane playing Kantner's "Watch Her Ride" . . . on a Perry Como television special!
Watch Her Ride (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_nMixIHf1A)
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That was groovy man!
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RIP, Paul.
Two from one of my all-time favorite albums:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylLdszMHkLo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylLdszMHkLo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6JQj7WiJ3M (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6JQj7WiJ3M)
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Gonna start losing a lot of them. Makes me feel old.
There was a story I read a little while back while researching something else.
Arlo Guthrie and Wavy Gravy the Hippie Clown were having a conversation. A talent agent approached Gravy around 2014 trying to gauge support for a 45th anniversary reunion of the Woodstock celebration. Guthrie responded that 45 was a weird number for an anniversary and asked "why not 50th?" Gravy responded that the agent was afraid "there won't be enough of us left!"
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First Bowie, then Glen Frey, and now Paul Kantner. Sure makes a body feel old. I remember buying "Volunteers" the day it came out, and letting it play for hours on my cheap automatic turntable as I did my junior high homework. I used to sing "The Baby Tree" to my kids when they were small. To this day, the hottest rock star I ever saw was Gracie (yeah, she's gotten older too).
Watch Her Ride is a great song, from the Airplane's greatest record, IMO, Baxter's. Thanks for the vid, E-Ace.
Here's hoping that Kantner, a notorious atheist, now knows there's a merciful God, and is up on A-Deck gazing at the stars.
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Legendary BBC presenter Terry Wogan dead at 77
LONDON – Terry Wogan, one of the best-known voices and faces on British television and radio, has died. He was 77.
His family said in a statement Wogan died Sunday surrounded by family members "after a short but brave battle with cancer."
The Irish-born disc jockey and presenter was a staple of British broadcasting, best known for his long-running radio morning show and his annual hosting duties for Britain's coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest.
His strengths were a deep, buttery voice, dollops of Irish charm and a sly, subversive humor.
Prime Minister David Cameron said "Britain has lost a huge talent — someone millions came to feel was their own special friend."
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/01/31/legendary-bbc-presenter-terry-wogan-dead-at-77/
Probably unknown to most here, but he was a small god of the radio for the UK. Had the breakfast show on Radio 2 for decades, Was the face of the Children in Need appeal (and the Eurovision Song Contest, but no one is perfect), and a chat show host that was top for the heap for a long time.
I'll miss him.
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Did he ever touch on politics?
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No. He'd joke about things in the news is all
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No. He'd joke about things in the news is all
Are you familiar with Paul Harvey? It sounds like Terry Wogan may have a similar presentation. Well, not now, the man's dead...
May he Rest In Peace.
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Bob Elliott, the Deadpan Half of Bob and Ray Comedy Team, Dies at 92
Bob Elliott, who as half of the comedy team Bob and Ray purveyed a distinctively low-key brand of humor on radio and television for more than 40 years, died on Tuesday at his home in Cundy's Harbor, Me. He was 92.
His death was confirmed by his son Chris Elliott, the actor and comedian, who said his father had had throat cancer.
Mr. Elliott and his partner, Ray Goulding -- Bob was the more soft-spoken one, Ray the blustery, deep-voiced one -- were unusual among two-person comedy teams. Rather than one of them always playing it straight and the other handling the jokes, they took turns being the straight man.
More (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/arts/television/bob-elliott-of-bob-and-ray-comedy-fame-dies-at-92.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Elliott_%28comedian%29)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0254387/)
Official Bob and Ray site (http://www.bobandray.com/)
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Bob Elliott, the Deadpan Half of Bob and Ray Comedy Team, Dies at 92
More (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/arts/television/bob-elliott-of-bob-and-ray-comedy-fame-dies-at-92.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Elliott_%28comedian%29)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0254387/)
Official Bob and Ray site (http://www.bobandray.com/)
(removes hat, bows head)
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Bob Elliott, the Deadpan Half of Bob and Ray Comedy Team, Dies at 92
More (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/arts/television/bob-elliott-of-bob-and-ray-comedy-fame-dies-at-92.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Elliott_%28comedian%29)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0254387/)
Official Bob and Ray site (http://www.bobandray.com/)
His son is Chris Elliott? wow did not know that. Chris Elliot i think was a writer on Leno years ago. His skits were funny.
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His son is Chris Elliott? wow did not know that. Chris Elliot i think was a writer on Leno years ago. His skits were funny.
He was the news videographer in Bill Murray's Groundhog Day, which of course was shown many times yesterday on TV.
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Bob and Ray were terrific comics. RIP, Mr Elliott
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(removes hat, bows head)
A genuinely, naturally funny man, as was his partner Ray. They did old school, Theater of the Mind radio, with a twist. RIP.
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I'm old fashioned, I still love the duet Bowie performed in 1977 with Bing Crosby on live television, Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADbJLo4x-tk
I'm a little late in seeing this, but it's absolutely gorgeous!
Thanks for the link, ac.
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I'm a little late in seeing this, but it's absolutely gorgeous!
Thanks for the link, ac.
It's a treasure. You're welcome. I had a quick listen a moment ago. Sigh.
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Bob and Ray were terrific comics. RIP, Mr Elliott
Their best series:
Bob & Ray, Bob & Ray Present the CBS Radio Network, 1959-60 (http://archive.org/details/BobRay--bobRayPresentTheCbsRadioNetwork1959-60)
RIP Wally Ballou, Biff Burns, Tex Blaisdell, Arthur Sturdley, Johnny (Sports-a-Phone) Braddock, Peter Gory, and Smelly Dave . . . all a.k.a. Bob Elliott, reminding you to hang by your thumbs . . .
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Maurice White, founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, dies at 74
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A native of Memphis, Tennessee, White began his career in Chicago as a session drummer, including for The Pharaohs, Young-Holt Unlimited and the Ramsey Lewis Trio, the latter two of which recorded a number of hits during White's tenure with those bands. In 1969, he moved to Los Angeles, recruited Wade Flemons and Don Whitehead, and formed Earth, Wind & Fire. Earth, Wind & Fire was both critically and commercially successful, and White continued to be a member of the band until being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in the late 1980s, at which point he stopped touring but remained active in the studio.
Report from TMZ (http://www.tmz.com/2016/02/04/maurice-white-earth-wind-and-fire-dead/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_White)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=god7hAPv8f0
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Sadness again, another of my favorites passing on. RIP Maurice White. EW&F made incredible happy, sexy and life-affirming music. 8888crybaby
Serpentine Fire!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoI1XPqXQ90
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Sadness again, another of my favorites passing on. RIP Maurice White. EW&F made incredible happy, sexy and life-affirming music. 8888crybaby
Serpentine Fire!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoI1XPqXQ90
Did they do a song called Fire?
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Shinning Star another great song. Enjoyed them
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Another good one....Sing A Song.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xghvsw_sing-a-song-by-earth-wind-fire_music
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Did they do a song called Fire?
I couldn't find one.
Another one of my favorites:
"September"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs069dndIYk&list=PLrrWWJCP6a4igq2k8qy75FUfb1bhm1p7j&index=1
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I couldn't find one.
Another one of my favorites:
"September"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs069dndIYk&list=PLrrWWJCP6a4igq2k8qy75FUfb1bhm1p7j&index=1
I tried to find it. It must be another band. maybe it will come to me at some point.
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Flower, are you thinking of the Ohio Players?
In any event, Earth, Wind and Fire were a wonderful band.
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I couldn't find one.
Another one of my favorites:
"September"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs069dndIYk&list=PLrrWWJCP6a4igq2k8qy75FUfb1bhm1p7j&index=1
One of my very, very favorite songs. I can't hold still when I'm listening to it, and I just have to conduct the screaming trumpets at the end. ^-^
I LOVE that song!!
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Did they do a song called Fire?
Mountaineer is right - it was the Ohio Players.
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Joe Alaskey, impressionist and voice actor for Warner Bros., dies at 63
When Mel Blanc, the legendary "Man of a Thousand Voices" who provided voices for most of Warner Bros.' characters, died in 1989, Alaskey was hired as one of his successors—coincidentally, this was about the same time the studio was about to enter a revival. Alaskey and Jeff Bergman split Blanc's famous roles throughout a large number of programs in the 1990s. Alaskey would later take on other roles after someone's death: when David Doyle, the voice of Grandpa Lou Pickles on the hit cartoon Rugrats, died in 1997, Alaskey took on that role as well and held it to the end of the series' run, and when an ailing Jackie Gleason was in the process of restoring lost episodes of The Honeymooners for release, he hired Alaskey to do the voiceovers to replace damaged audio tracks.
Alaskey died of cancer on Wednesday.
Obituary from the Los Angeles Times (http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-joe-alaskey-20160205-story.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Alaskey)
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One of my very, very favorite songs. I can't hold still when I'm listening to it, and I just have to conduct the screaming trumpets at the end. ^-^
I LOVE that song!!
Saw Earth, Wind and Fire several times in my life. A remarkable group that put on a helluva show.
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Saw Earth, Wind and Fire several times in my life. A remarkable group that put on a helluva show.
I'll bet they did!
The closest I ever got to them was buying their albums. ^-^
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Flower, are you thinking of the Ohio Players?
In any event, Earth, Wind and Fire were a wonderful band.
Yes it is that band. Remembered the name earlier this morning. Still EW&F good band.
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Did suicidal BMX legend Dave Mirra have CTE? Officials suggest extreme sports star, 41, was suffering brain disease from a lifetime of hard crashes before he shot himself
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Dave Mirra was found dead in his truck of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound on Thursday afternoon in Greenville, North Carolina
The 41-year-old BMX legend, who hosted two seasons of Real World/Road Rules Challenge, leaves behind a wife and two daughters
Mirra posted two Instagram photos shortly before he killed himself, one of him and his wife and a photo of himself riding his bike
'My rock! Thank god,' wrote Mirra alongside the photo of his wife
He was discovered in his car less than 1,000 feet from a local high school
At a press conference on Friday, the town's mayor suggested that a 'rugged sports career' had an adverse effect on Mirra's mental health
The condition CTE has been in the news lately as researchers look for a connection between sports injuries and depression
Mirra was one of the most successful X-Games athletes of all time thanks to his BMX talents, winning 24 medals during his career
So young. he was fun to watch. great talent on the bike. sad.
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"Apollo Astronaut Edgar Mitchell Dies at 85, One Day Before 45th Anniversary of His Lunar Landing"
"MIAMI (AP) — Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who became the sixth man on the moon when he and Alan Shepard helped NASA recover from Apollo 13′s “successful failure” and later devoted his life to exploring the mind, physics and unexplained phenomena such as psychics and aliens, has died in Florida. He was 85.
Mitchell died Thursday night at a West Palm Beach hospice after a short illness, his daughter, Kimberly Mitchell, said. Mitchell’s passing coincides with the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 14 mission from Jan. 31-Feb. 9, 1971."
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/02/05/apollo-astronaut-edgar-mitchell-dies-at-85-one-day-before-45th-anniversary-of-his-lunar-landing/
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Sam Spence, composer for NFL Films, dies at 88
You may not recognize the name, but if you have ever watched a classic NFL Films production, you have heard the music of Sam Spence. Spence wrote a large number of orchestral pieces for NFL Films, which became an integral part of the company's style: a slow-motion, tight-on-the-spiral cinematography coupled with Spence's dramatic compositions.
Developing...
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Spence)
"Autumn Thunder" by Sam Spence (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W12J7BYlj-E)
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James 'Red' Moore, Negro League legend passes away at 99
James "Red " Moore, a long-time first baseman in the Negro Leagues, passed away in Atlanta, Georgia on February 6, 2016. He was 99.
Born November 18, 1916 in Atlanta, Moore developed his talents at Booker T. Washington High School. His exploits in the field and at the plate attracted the attention of the Chattanooga Choo Choos of the Negro Southern League in 1935. Word of his play at first base spread through the league and he was picked up by the famed Newark Eagles of the Negro National League in 1936. He joined an infield that earned the nickname of "The Million Dollar Infield," which included Hall of Famers Willie Wells at shortstop and Ray Dandridge at third base.
More (http://www.examiner.com/article/james-red-moore-negro-league-legend-passes-away-at-99)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Moore_%28baseball%29)
Homepage (http://jamesredmoore.com/)
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Vanity Dead at 57, Prince Protege Known for ‘Nasty Girl’
Singer had battled kidney failure and abdominal illness
Vanity, a former protege of Prince’s and a member of Vanity 6, has died at age 57, TMZ reports...
Matthews struggled with drug abuse, which took its toll on her health. At one point she suffered renal failure and, according to a Jet feature on the singer, required peritoneal dialysis five times a day.
Following a 1994 crack cocaine overdose that left her with near-renal failure, Matthews renounced her stage name and became a born-again Christian, at one point saying, “When I came to the Lord Jesus Christ, I threw out about 1,000 tapes of mine — every interview, every tape, every video. Everything.” Following a 1997 kidney transplant, she devoted herself to evangelism, speaking at churches.
http://www.thewrap.com/prince-protege-vanity-dead-at-57/
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Wow, I was just going thru alot of Prince protege and similar music just a couple of nights ago on Youtube, thinking about back in the day. Sad to see her go, but glad she went with Jesus.
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Vanity Dead at 57, Prince Protege Known for ‘Nasty Girl’
Singer had battled kidney failure and abdominal illness
Vanity, a former protege of Prince’s and a member of Vanity 6, has died at age 57, TMZ reports...
Matthews struggled with drug abuse, which took its toll on her health. At one point she suffered renal failure and, according to a Jet feature on the singer, required peritoneal dialysis five times a day.
Following a 1994 crack cocaine overdose that left her with near-renal failure, Matthews renounced her stage name and became a born-again Christian, at one point saying, “When I came to the Lord Jesus Christ, I threw out about 1,000 tapes of mine — every interview, every tape, every video. Everything.” Following a 1997 kidney transplant, she devoted herself to evangelism, speaking at churches.
http://www.thewrap.com/prince-protege-vanity-dead-at-57/
Wow.
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We have just learned that former United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has died at the age of 93.
Ghali served as the 6th U.N. Secretary General from 1992-1996 and grew up in Cairo, Egypt.
From Fox News:
Former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has died, the U.N. Security Council announced Tuesday, according to The Associated Press.
Boutros-Ghali, who was 93, died in a Cairo hospital, Egyptian media reported.
Boutros-Ghali, an Egyptian, served one five-year term as U.N. chief between 1992 and 1996. The Security Council held a one-minute moment of silence Tuesday after his death was announced by Venezuela’s U.N. Ambassador Rafael Ramirez, the current council president, Reuters reports.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi reportedly phone Boutros-Ghali on Thursday to thank him for his work on behalf of Egypt and to wish him a speedy recovery.
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali was a Coptic Christian.
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Or as Rush called him, Boutros Boutros By Golly. :laugh:
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Author Harper Lee dies at 89
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As a novelist, Lee only wrote two novels, her most famous being 1960's To Kill a Mockingbird, later made into a film of the same name. The second novel, Go Set a Watchman, was written in the 1950s but went unreleased until 2015.
Lee was also close friends with Truman Capote, and the character of Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird was based on Capote. Lee assisted Capote in researching In Cold Blood. After that, she went into self-imposed seculsion for the rest of her life, occasionally starting and abandoning a few writing projects over the course of her retirement. She died of various causes due to old age at her home in Alabama.
Death notice (http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/02/harper_lee_dead_at_age_of_89_t.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Lee)
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Harper Lee created one of the greatest heroes in fiction.
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Marine who led WWII charge up Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima dies
The Marine who led the charge to place the first American flag above Iwo Jima has died.
First Lt. John Wells, 94, died Feb. 11 at the Arvada Care Rehabilitation Center in Arvada, Colorado.
Wells received the Navy Cross, Bronze Star and Purple Heart after leading his Marines in a frontal assault up the slopes of Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.
He didn’t make it to the top after taking multiple enemy rounds, but continued to command, leading his men to victory. His platoon raised the first flag atop the mountain, hours before the iconic photo of the second flag raising was captured.
The passing of a true American hero. RIP.
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Marine who led WWII charge up Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima dies
The Marine who led the charge to place the first American flag above Iwo Jima has died.
First Lt. John Wells, 94, died Feb. 11 at the Arvada Care Rehabilitation Center in Arvada, Colorado.
Wells received the Navy Cross, Bronze Star and Purple Heart after leading his Marines in a frontal assault up the slopes of Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.
He didn’t make it to the top after taking multiple enemy rounds, but continued to command, leading his men to victory. His platoon raised the first flag atop the mountain, hours before the iconic photo of the second flag raising was captured.
The passing of a true American hero. RIP.
Yes, indeed. RIP.
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Sonny James, Country Singer Known for 'Young Love,' Dies at 87 (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/arts/music/sonny-james-country-singer-known-for-young-love-dies-at-87.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_James)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU_8D5jBqd0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU_8D5jBqd0
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Sonny James, Country Singer Known for 'Young Love,' Dies at 87 (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/arts/music/sonny-james-country-singer-known-for-young-love-dies-at-87.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_James)
Yeah I remember well he and Tab Hunter battling with their versions of "Young Love". Great song. RIP Sonny.
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Eddie Einhorn, sportscasting and media mogul, dies at 80
Einhorn, at age 22, was the man responsible for introducing college basketball to a national audience. He began with radio broadcasts in 1958, then expanded to television in 1960. Einhorn's TVS network distributed games on its own and produced others for major networks such as NBC. He also dabbled in other sports, including roles as vice chairman of the Chicago White Sox, broadcaster of the World Football League, developer of the short-lived International Wrestling Association in the 1970s, and one of Donald Trump's allies trying to force the United States Football League to move its schedule to the fall in the 1980s. Einhorn later worked for CBS, where he managed the anthology series CBS Sports Spectacular.
Einhorn died February 24 from a stroke.
Obituary from NorthJersey.com (http://www.northjersey.com/news/eddie-einhorn-white-sox-co-owner-dies-north-jersey-native-laid-groundwork-for-march-madness-1.1517956)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Einhorn)
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George Kennedy 'Naked Gun' Star Dead at 91
http://www.tmz.com/2016/02/29/george-kennedy-dies/
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George Kennedy, star of "Cool Hand Luke" and the 'Naked Gun' movies, has died at the age of 91 ... TMZ has learned.
George's grandson Cory Schenkel says Kennedy died Sunday morning at 4:30 AM in Boise, ID. He says his grandfather had been in failing health ever since his wife Joan died a little over a year ago. George had been under hospice care for the past month.
Kennedy won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1968 for "Cool Hand Luke." He also starred in all 3 of the 'Naked Gun' flicks, "Airport 1975," "Earthquake" and many many more.
His last role was in "The Gambler" with Mark Wahlberg in 2014.
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RIP George Kennedy. He was in so many GREAT movies.
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"Hey, Lord... whatever I done, don't strike me blind for another couple of minutes."
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RIP George Kennedy. He was in so many GREAT movies.
Cool guy. Six weeks younger than my mother. Kennedy served in combat during WWII--a real man, good citizen, all around actor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Kennedy
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Cool guy. Six weeks younger than my mother. Kennedy served in combat during WWII--a real man, good citizen, all around actor.
Having seen your post, I had to check. He was about 5 wks younger than my mother, who died in 12/2014. I remember when George seemed to be in every other movie. Always an excellent actor.
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Having seen your post, I had to check. He was about 5 wks younger than my mother, who died in 12/2014. I remember when George seemed to be in every other movie. Always an excellent actor.
My mother celebrated 91 years the first week in Jan. My mother-in-law turns 89 in a couple of months.
Kennedy had a very long and productive entertainment career AFTER serving 16 years in the military. Including WWII combat.
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Announcer Charlie Tuna dies at 71
Born Art Ferguson, Charlie Tuna had his on-air name imposed on him because the previous disc jockey (named Charlie) used it for one day, then left the station; it of course came from the Star-Kist would-be spokesman. Beginning his career at various stations in the Great Plains, Tuna reached Los Angeles in 1967, the city where he would remain the rest of his career.
Working in Los Angeles allowed Tuna the opportunity to work on several national projects. In the 1980s, Tuna was in demand as a game-show announcer. He hosted several, mostly 1970s-oriented national radio programs and was the host of a daily voicetracked service at the time of his sudden death on February 19.
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Tuna)
Obituary from KRTH, his flagship station at the time of his death (http://kearth101.cbslocal.com/2016/02/29/k-earth-remembers-charlie-tuna-1944-2016/)
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Gayle McCormick, lead singer of the band Smith, dies at 67
ST. ANN, Mo. — Gayle McCormick, the lead singer of the group Smith, which recorded the 1969 top-10 song "Baby, It's You," has died in suburban St. Louis. She was 67.
McCormick died Tuesday of cancer. Her death was confirmed Friday by the Alexander-White-Mullen Funeral Home in St. Ann, Missouri.
McCormick grew up in St. Louis County before joining the short-lived group Smith, whose first of two albums, "A Group Called Smith," reached No. 17 on the Billboard chart.
"Baby, It's You," a cover of a song first performed by the Shirelles in 1961, was the group's only top-10 hit, reaching No. 5 on Billboard on Nov. 1, 1969.
I am more familiar with the Shirelles' version. RIP Gayle.
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Joey Feek, 40, of the country duo Joey + Rory, has died of cancer, her husband Rory reports (http://thislifeilive.com/a-dream-come-true/).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcpjSMmWUDw
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Gayle McCormick, lead singer of the band Smith, dies at 67
ST. ANN, Mo. — Gayle McCormick, the lead singer of the group Smith, which recorded the 1969 top-10 song "Baby, It's You," has died in suburban St. Louis. She was 67.
McCormick died Tuesday of cancer. Her death was confirmed Friday by the Alexander-White-Mullen Funeral Home in St. Ann, Missouri.
McCormick grew up in St. Louis County before joining the short-lived group Smith, whose first of two albums, "A Group Called Smith," reached No. 17 on the Billboard chart.
"Baby, It's You," a cover of a song first performed by the Shirelles in 1961, was the group's only top-10 hit, reaching No. 5 on Billboard on Nov. 1, 1969.
I am more familiar with the Shirelles' version. RIP Gayle.
Smith, "Baby It's You" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te3592iafMs)
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Joey Feek, 40, of the country duo Joey + Rory, has died of cancer, her husband Rory reports (http://thislifeilive.com/a-dream-come-true/).
So sad, so young and vibrant. Enjoyed their TV program.
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So sad, so young and vibrant. Enjoyed their TV program.
I never was much of a country music fan, but have watched some of their videos in the past year and have grown to appreciate their old-fashioned style. Hoping to pick up the new hymns CD.
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Pat Conroy, Author of 'The Prince of Tides' and 'The Great Santini,' Dies at 70
Pat Conroy, whose tortured family life and the scenic marshlands of coastal South Carolina served as unending sources of inspiration for his fiction, notably the novels "The Great Santini," "The Lords of Discipline" and "The Prince of Tides," died on Friday. He was 70.
His death was confirmed by Todd Doughty, the vice president, executive director of publicity at Doubleday. He said the cause of death was pancreatic cancer.
More (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/05/books/pat-conroy-who-wove-his-family-strife-into-novels-of-carolina-dies-at-70.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Conroy)
My Heart's Content (http://www.forbes.com/asap/2000/1002/112.html)
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"Barbra Streisand is remembering her late friend, Pat Conroy.
Just one day after the author died at the age of 70 from pancreatic cancer, the Oscar-winning actress took to Instagram to share a photo of the two at the 44th Annual Writers Guild of America Awards in 1992, accompanied by a beautiful message detailing the significant role he played in her life.
"First, I fell in love with Pat Conroy's book, 'The Prince of Tides,' and then I fell in love with him," she remembered. "He was generous and kind, humble and loving…such a joy to work with. I was so honored that he entrusted his beautiful book to me."
"Pat's natural language was poetry…he wrote sentences that are like an incantation," Streisand, 73, continued. "He observed every nuance of human behavior and dug deep down to the truth…presenting it in all its glorious and stubborn complexity."
"I am so sad today," she concluded. "I lost a dear friend, and the world has lost a great writer."
As ET previously reported, Streisand directed and starred in the film adaptation of The Prince of Tides. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture."
http://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/barbra-streisand-pens-beautiful-tribute-to-late-prince-of-tides-author-pat-conroy/ar-BBqnRHq?ocid=spartanntp
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For posterity:
Former First Lady and actress Nancy Davis Reagan dies at 94 (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,197562.0.html)
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We can merge the separate thread on Mrs Reagan into this one after a day or so.
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We can merge the separate thread on Mrs Reagan into this one after a day or so.
If you want; I'm not sure it's necessary. Mrs. Reagan's death I believe is significant enough to warrant its own thread, hence why I simply linked to the thread.
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Email inventor Raymond Tomlinson dies: 5 things to know, such as why the @ symbol
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Associated Press By Associated Press
on March 06, 2016 at 6:37 PM, updated March 06, 2016 at 6:47 PM
Raymond Tomlinson, the inventor of modern email and selector of the "@" symbol, has died. He was 74.
Raytheon Co., his employer, on Sunday confirmed his death; the details were not immediately available.
Email existed in a limited capacity before Tomlinson in that electronic messages could be shared amid multiple people within a limited framework. But until his invention in 1971 of the first network person-to-person email, there was no way to send something to a specific person at a specific address.
Here are five things to know about Tomlinson's invention:
1. The first email was sent on the ARPANET system. The computer network created for the U.S. government is considered a precursor to the Internet. Tomlinson also contributed to its development....
http://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2016/03/email_inventor_raymond_tomlins.html
He was quite young
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George Martin, producer and arranger for the Beatles, dies at 90 (https://www.yahoo.com/music/george-martin-producer-arranger-beatles-dies-90-050701940.html)
He gave the Beatles their head from the outset, helped them shape their more sophisticated ideas, turned
a lot of their ideas into the best accompanying arrangements especially after they came off the road,
and together they made a music catalog to envy.
Paul McCartney
settles it: George Martin was the fifth Beatle (http://mashable.com/2016/03/09/paul-mccartney-george-martin-fifth-beatle/#l.JdL2LrSsqm)
RIP Sir George.
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An excellent tribute to Sir George Martin:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/432547/george-martin-obituary-man-who-enabled-beatles
By Charles C.W. Cooke
For evidence that The Beatles would have been great without George Martin in tow, one need look no further than at the band’s first LP, Please Please Me, which was recorded in a single day with few of the producer’s magic touches added and which sparkles nevertheless. “One, two, three, FOUR,” Paul McCartney screams at the outset, and from that moment they are off. Listening fifty-three years later, one is struck by the energy exploding through the valves. This was a group that was always destined for glory.
But not, perhaps for the stratosphere. That would take collaboration, and, specifically, it would take George Martin. Paul McCartney was born a master craftsman with a perfectionist’s ear, and yet it is unlikely that he would have so effortlessly channeled the baroque without Martin there by his side. John Lennon’s foray into surrealism and magic was likely foreordained—the penchant for escapism that he exhibited in his early years tells us that much—and yet to make his trips down the rabbit hole sparkle and gleam he needed Martin’s technical adventurism and smorgasbord mind. When talking about The Beatles, “serendipity” is an overused word. But there really is none other that will suffice. If the fab four were Michelangelo, Martin was the paint. Presented with some of the finest songwriting in all of human history, he made it his life’s work to weaponize the recording studio in its favor. He was, in the modern parlance, an enabler.
And how. When, in 1966, John Lennon came to him with a half-written idea that revolved around a single chord and some lyrics cribbed from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the straight-laced Martin refused to be intimidated. Instead, he hired a Leslie Speaker, screwed around with some tape loops, and let the freak flag fly. The result, "Tomorrow Never Knows," is a watershed moment in musical history — the forward-looking foundation of so much that we now take for granted. Not bad for a middle-class stiff from Highbury!
In truth, there was little that fazed George Martin — except, that is, for the absence of quality. He remained sanguine through the high-as-a-kite melodia of Rubber Soul; happily navigated the drug-visions-and-circus-acts of Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, and Magical Mystery Tour; and joyfully curated the opera that is Abbey Road. With the White Album, however, he finally baulked — not at the turned-up-to-11 experimentation or the occasional outbreaks of crudity, but at what he perceived to be a shameful lack of self-respect. Whether one agrees with Martin’s view that that record should have been shorn of its weaker moments in favor of a more polished whole by the by; that it was this worry rather than the group’s trailblazing that pushed him over the edge tells us something important: He could tolerate anything but mediocrity.
As Shakespeare left behind a vault of quotable nuggets within a library of fuller works, so Martin and the Beatles peppered the musical landscape with instantly recognizable moments: The crashing chord that opens "A Hard Day’s Night"; the heavenly close-harmonies of "Because"; the nightmarish din that closes "A Day in the Life"; the faux-harpsichord in the middle of "In My Life" — these are cultural fixtures to rival Hamlet’s Soliloquy. Together, John, Paul, George, Ringo, and George did work of the highest order — beautiful, thoughtful, painstakingly constructed work that will never be repeated or matched.
Lightning struck in 1963, and, being a sensible sort, George Martin put a microphone in front of it. Rest in peace, George. Now it’s time to say Goodnight.
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When I was fourteen years old and I heard "One, two, three, FOUR!" on my little turquoise transistor radio, I was enrapt with the beat and the sound, and the "ooh!!" and the whole beautiful picture.
Thank you, Sir George Martin, for helping create not only memories, but a legend.
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Davy Jones of the Monkees Dead at Age 66
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20574693,00.html
Davy Jones, the lead singer of the Beatles-inspired made-for-TV pop group the Monkees, died Wednesday. He was 66.
The performer suffered a heart attack in Indiantown, Fla., where he resided, his publicist Helen Kensick tells the Associated Press.
"All of his family, friends and fans mourn Davy's loss," says Joseph Pacheco, Jones's manager and brother-in-law. "We were fortunate to have such an incredible human being in our lives. Sadly, his time on Earth was cut far too short and he will be missed tremendously by all who knew him."
The British-born Jones joined Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Michael Nesmith in the TV show The Monkees about a pop band by the same name which ran from 1966 to 1968.
After the show was canceled, the group continued in various incarnations for years. The Monkees had several hits including "I'm a Believer" and "Last Train to Clarksville."
Early Wednesday morning, Jones "began to complain of not feeling well and having trouble breathing," the Martin County Sheriff's Office says in a statement.
Paramedics transported him to Martin Health System, where he was pronounced dead.
"At this time there do not appear to be any suspicious circumstances surrounding the death," says the sheriff.
Jones's family says in a statement: "He passed next to his passions, his horses, and was one hour away from his wife, Jessica Pacheco-Jones."
Jones is survived by Jessica, three sisters, four daughters and three grandchildren.
Jones's death was first reported by TMZ.
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Wow. Talk about an icon, can remember listening to him on dad's 45's as a little little kid. Always seemed to be helluva nice guy.
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Davy Jones of the Monkees Dead at Age 66
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20574693,00.html
Davy Jones, the lead singer of the Beatles-inspired made-for-TV pop group the Monkees, died Wednesday. He was 66.
The performer suffered a heart attack in Indiantown, Fla., where he resided, his publicist Helen Kensick tells the Associated Press.
"All of his family, friends and fans mourn Davy's loss," says Joseph Pacheco, Jones's manager and brother-in-law. "We were fortunate to have such an incredible human being in our lives. Sadly, his time on Earth was cut far too short and he will be missed tremendously by all who knew him."
The British-born Jones joined Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Michael Nesmith in the TV show The Monkees about a pop band by the same name which ran from 1966 to 1968.
After the show was canceled, the group continued in various incarnations for years. The Monkees had several hits including "I'm a Believer" and "Last Train to Clarksville."
Early Wednesday morning, Jones "began to complain of not feeling well and having trouble breathing," the Martin County Sheriff's Office says in a statement.
Paramedics transported him to Martin Health System, where he was pronounced dead.
"At this time there do not appear to be any suspicious circumstances surrounding the death," says the sheriff.
Jones's family says in a statement: "He passed next to his passions, his horses, and was one hour away from his wife, Jessica Pacheco-Jones."
Jones is survived by Jessica, three sisters, four daughters and three grandchildren.
Jones's death was first reported by TMZ.
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Wow. Talk about an icon, can remember listening to him on dad's 45's as a little little kid. Always seemed to be helluva nice guy.
Davy Jones died a few years ago. 2012?
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Davy Jones died a few years ago. 2012?
Oh I'm going to give my ex-girlfriend hell. She posted the article on her FB page, I didn't look at the date.
Shows you how much I pay attention to the pop world. At least now I know he died I guess!
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Yes, he's been dead for quite a while. He and Francisco Franco.
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Yes, he's been dead for quite a while. He and Francisco Franco.
Yeah, but they weren't in the same band.
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When I was fourteen years old and I heard "One, two, three, FOUR!" on my little turquoise transistor radio, I was enrapt with the beat and the sound, and the "ooh!!" and the whole beautiful picture.
Thank you, Sir George Martin, for helping create not only memories, but a legend.
I had a turquoise transister radio too! I would hang it over my bicycle bars and listen to music while I rode - good times!
RIP Sir George Martin.
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I had a turquoise transister radio too! I would hang it over my bicycle bars and listen to music while I rode - good times!
RIP Sir George Martin.
I still have a little transistor radio, purchased at Radio Shack.
I imagine when it bites the dust, I will have to order a replacement online, at much higher price.
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I still have a little transistor radio, purchased at Radio Shack.
I imagine when it bites the dust, I will have to order a replacement online, at much higher price.
Radio Shack was the place for the latest in technology in the day. I had a Realistic transistor radio encased in red leather.
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Yes, he's been dead for quite a while. He and Francisco Franco.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still valiantly holding on in his fight to remain dead.
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I had a turquoise transister radio too! I would hang it over my bicycle bars and listen to music while I rode - good times!
RIP Sir George Martin.
I hid mine under my pillow so I could listen to the radio (WHOT, Youngstown, OH!), after I was supposed to be sleeping.
I would knock on the wall to alert my sister when a song came on that we both liked, and she'd come over and listen with me.
"I Saw Her Standing There" was one of my very, very favorites!
Good memories! ^-^
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Not to upset Beatle's fans (what the hell, I will), I once saw their early efforts accurately described as sounding like a direct hit on a guitar factory.
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I hid mine under my pillow so I could listen to the radio (WHOT, Youngstown, OH!), after I was supposed to be sleeping.
I would knock on the wall to alert my sister when a song came on that we both liked, and she'd come over and listen with me.
"I Saw Her Standing There" was one of my very, very favorites!
Good memories! ^-^
That reminds me of a game my sister and I used to play when we were kids. We had to share a bedroom, and in fact, we slept in the same bed. We would sneak the radio in and put in under the pillows between us. When a song came on - whose ever turn it was had to scratch the other one's back until the song ended. The next song was the other sister's turn.
That was the time when "Sky Pilot" was playing on the radio - don't know if you remember it, but it was a REALLY long song. We used to pray that Sky Pilot would come on when it was OUR turn to get our back scratched! So funny!
:silly:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOs3uIEyHaY
Does this mean you have to scratch my back?
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I hid mine under my pillow so I could listen to the radio (WHOT, Youngstown, OH!), after I was supposed to be sleeping.
I would knock on the wall to alert my sister when a song came on that we both liked, and she'd come over and listen with me.
"I Saw Her Standing There" was one of my very, very favorites!
Good memories! ^-^
We pulled the covers over our heads and listened to WLS, Chicago, KOMA, Oklahoma City and KAAY in Little Rock, all 50,000 watt clear channel after midnight CST. When KAAY first came on the airwaves they played the Baby Elephant Walk for 24 hours. I didn't listen for 24 hours, but I've never been able to get that song out of my head, or Jimmie Jones Good Timing
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That reminds me of a game my sister and I used to play when we were kids. We had to share a bedroom, and in fact, we slept in the same bed. We would sneak the radio in and put in under the pillows between us. When a song came on - whose ever turn it was had to scratch the other one's back until the song ended. The next song was the other sister's turn.
That was the time when "Sky Pilot" was playing on the radio - don't know if you remember it, but it was a REALLY long song. We used to pray that Sky Pilot would come on when it was OUR turn to get our back scratched! So funny!
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I LOVE that memory! Wish my sister and I would have thought of that game!
I had an older sister and a younger sister and I traded back and forth between their rooms (I can't remember if it was because I was so popular or so unpopular............most likely the latter. ;*) The transistor radio time was when I was in our younger sister's room, and I'd have our older sister come and listen.
(That would have been a great game a decade later when Bohemian Rhapsody was popular. But we were both a bit old for that kind of thing in our twenties!)
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(That would have been a great game a decade later when Bohemian Rhapsody was popular. But we were both a bit old for that kind of thing in our twenties!)
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We pulled the covers over our heads and listened to WLS, Chicago, KOMA, Oklahoma City and KAAY in Little Rock, all 50,000 watt clear channel after midnight CST. When KAAY first came on the airwaves they played the Baby Elephant Walk for 24 hours. I didn't listen for 24 hours, but I've never been able to get that song out of my head, or Jimmie Jones Good Timing
We could get WLS in NE Ohio on a clear night, and WLW from Cincinnati and KDKA, Pittsburgh. I was always proud that the first radio station in the country was one I could listen to.
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I kept a transistor radio under my pillow to listen to Pirates games. ^-^
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I LOVE that memory! Wish my sister and I would have thought of that game!
I had an older sister and a younger sister and I traded back and forth between their rooms (I can't remember if it was because I was so popular or so unpopular............most likely the latter. ;*) The transistor radio time was when I was in our younger sister's room, and I'd have our older sister come and listen.
(That would have been a great game a decade later when Bohemian Rhapsody was popular. But we were both a bit old for that kind of thing in our twenties!)
Yes! Or Stairway to Heaven!
As an aside - they probably shuttled you back and forth between bedrooms because you were the middle child. My sister swears that she (as the middle child) got the short end of the stick for everything!
She has no idea the burden of being the oldest - being the experimental child because your parents don't have a clue what they're doing. ^-^
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I kept a transistor radio under my pillow to listen to Pirates games. ^-^
The Bucs are going all the way............ and Bill Mazeroski did it. :laugh:
(I actually remember that because my big bro was a Pirates fan that year. No conflict because the Indians weren't in the same league).
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Yes! Or Stairway to Heaven!
As an aside - they probably shuttled you back and forth between bedrooms because you were the middle child. My sister swears that she (as the middle child) got the short end of the stick for everything!
She has no idea the burden of being the oldest - being the experimental child because your parents don't have a clue what they're doing. ^-^
I grew up with all the middle child woes. No identity whatsoever....... so I had to make a place for myself by losing my temper and hitting people.
But yes, the poor oldest child suffers much, with greater rules and responsibilities and less experienced parents. Unfortunately, all the practice in the world didn't prepare my parents for me!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NF--bHavJs
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I kept a transistor radio under my pillow to listen to Pirates games. ^-^
Took one to school every World Series the Yankees were in [which meant all but 2 from 1951-1964]. Teacher would let us listen and report updates.
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Took one to school every World Series the Yankees were in [which meant all but 2 from 1951-1964]. Teacher would let us listen and report updates.
I hated the Yankees every one of those years. (Except the first few since I was a toddler! But my Dad and older brothers sure did!).
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Took one to school every World Series the Yankees were in [which meant all but 2 from 1951-1964]. Teacher would let us listen and report updates.
The math works if you include kindergarten or a few grade repeats! :beer:
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The math works if you include kindergarten or a few grade repeats! :beer:
1st grade, 1952. Graduated High School in 1964 [We lost to the Cardinals]. I GREW up with Mickey in Center Field, Yogi, Whitey and the rest of the crew.
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1st grade, 1952. Graduated High School in 1964 [We lost to the Cardinals]. I GREW up with Mickey in Center Field, Yogi, Whitey and the rest of the crew.
Truly a golden age for Yankee baseball! Whitey Ford. Don Larson. Jim Bouton!
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Truly a golden age for Yankee baseball! Whitey Ford. Don Larson. Jim Bouton!
The hoot was Ryne Duren. He wore coke bottle glasses, threw warp nine, and was usually drunk. First warmup was invariably off the backstop. Batter bailed first pitch. Every time.
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The hoot was Ryne Duren. He wore coke bottle glasses, threw warp nine, and was usually drunk. First warmup was invariably off the backstop. Batter bailed first pitch. Every time.
He sounds like The inspiration for Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn of Major League!!!
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He sounds like The inspiration for Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn of Major League!!!
Never thought of it, but you're right. The forgotten reliever was Luis Arroyo. He was Whitey's personal closer.
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The hoot was Ryne Duren. He wore coke bottle glasses, threw warp nine, and was usually drunk. First warmup was invariably off the backstop. Batter bailed first pitch. Every time.
Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Tony Kubek, Joe Pepitone, Elston Howard. Names that will reverberate in my head forever, especially after I got hit in the head with a fastball as a kid....
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Keith Emerson, progressive rock pioneer, dies at 71
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Emerson, a keyboardist, first became famous as a member of The Nice, then became famous for his collaboration with Greg Lake and Carl Palmer. Emerson was as well-known for his virtuosity as he was for his showmanship and outrageous stunts, playing while performing unusual acrobatics and jamming things (often knives given to him by Lemmy Kilmister, also recently deceased) in between the keys of his synthesizer. Emerson, Lake & Palmer never formally broke up, instead bringing in guest musicians through the 1980s when one of the three could not be in the band full-time; in the 1990s, Emerson began more collaborations with Marc Bonilla.
Emerson died March 10. No cause of death was stated.
Story from UltimateClassicRock.com (http://ultimateclassicrock.com/keith-emerson-dies/?trackback=twitter_top_flat_3)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Emerson)
ELP's lone Top 40 U.S. hit, "From the Beginning"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3epPMa5rq0U
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Well, heck:
Gogi Grant, The Queen of “The Wayward Wind,” Has Passed Away
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Gogi Grant, best known for recording the classic American standard “The Wayward Wind,” has passed away according to her son Joshua Beckett. She was 91-years-old.
Gogi Grant was an Americana popular singer who was born in Philadelphia and moved to Los Angeles when she was 12-years-old. Though she would record numerous hit songs during the 1950’s, including her first Top 10 hit “Suddenly There’s A Valley” in 1955, and “When The Tide Is High,” “Who Are We,” and “You’re In Love” in 1956, it was her performance of “The Wayward Wind” written by Stanley Lebowski and Herb Newman that turned the song into an iconic American song....
http://www.savingcountrymusic.com/gogi-grant-queen-of-the-wayward-wind-has-passed-away/
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Well, heck:
Gogi Grant, The Queen of “The Wayward Wind,” Has Passed Away
Our family had "The Wayward Wind" on a 45. Sure seems to be a spate of entertainer deaths recently.
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Depressing to watch my fantasies yielding to the ravages of time and human mortality. 8888crybaby
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Depressing to watch my fantasies yielding to the ravages of time and human mortality. 8888crybaby
Ok, maybe inappropriate for an obituary thread, but still...
Some of the artists of the 60's are revising their hits with new lyrics to accommodate aging baby boomers who can remember doing the "Limbo" as if it were yesterday.
They include:
Bobby Darin ---
Splish, Splash, I Was Havin' A Flash
Herman's Hermits ---
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Walker
Ringo Starr ---
I Get By With A Little Help From Depends
The Bee Gees ---
How Can You Mend A Broken Hip?
Roberta Flack---
The First Time Ever I Forgot Your Face
Johnny Nash ---
I Can't See Clearly Now
Paul Simon ---
Fifty Ways To Lose Your Liver
The Commodores ---
Once, Twice, Three Times To The Bathroom
Procol Harem---
A Whiter Shade Of Hair
Leo Sayer ---
You Make Me Feel Like Napping
The Temptations ---
Papa's Got A Kidney Stone
Abba---
Denture Queen
Tony Orlando ---
Knock 3 Times On The Ceiling If You Hear Me Fall
Helen Reddy ---
I Am Woman; Hear Me Snore
Leslie Gore---
It's My Procedure, and I'll Cry If I Want To
And Last, but NOT least:
Willie Nelson ---
On the Commode Again
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Our family had "The Wayward Wind" on a 45. Sure seems to be a spate of entertainer deaths recently.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD_4IzbsbOM
She was 80 in the PBS special.
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"From the Beginning" - one of my favorite songs. RIP Keith Emerson.
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"From the Beginning" - one of my favorite songs. RIP Keith Emerson.
Likewise, and I hate to make a sad situation even sadder but
"Keith Emerson shot himself in the head in what’s likely now a suicide investigation. The keyboardist and founder of Emerson, Lake & Palmer was found dead by his girlfriend on Thursday night in the couple’s Santa Monica, California house with a single bullet shot to the head.
The piano player had been depressed as a result of a nerve problem that affected his right hand and severely impaired his ability to play the keyboard. Still, he was slated to perform next week in Japan."
http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/keith-emerson-dead-from-gunshot-to-head-in-apparent-suicide/ar-AAgG2LG?ocid=spartandhp
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Likewise, and I hate to make a sad situation even sadder but
"Keith Emerson shot himself in the head in what’s likely now a suicide investigation. The keyboardist and founder of Emerson, Lake & Palmer was found dead by his girlfriend on Thursday night in the couple’s Santa Monica, California house with a single bullet shot to the head.
The piano player had been depressed as a result of a nerve problem that affected his right hand and severely impaired his ability to play the keyboard. Still, he was slated to perform next week in Japan."
http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/keith-emerson-dead-from-gunshot-to-head-in-apparent-suicide/ar-AAgG2LG?ocid=spartandhp
Was there any hint of what type of nerve problem. My uncle had ALS and he said the one regret he had was that he didn't kill himself before he lost the use of his arms.
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Was there any hint of what type of nerve problem. My uncle had ALS and he said the one regret he had was that he didn't kill himself before he lost the use of his arms.
Don't know A-lert. That was the only article I have seen so far on his death.
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Don't know A-lert. That was the only article I have seen so far on his death.
Well it is sad when anyone takes their life. My sister-in-laws husband did it and it affected so many other people. My friend and business partner did it. Never even a hint that anything was amiss. I understand if a person is having unbearable pain or a helpless, hopeless outcome.
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My personal favourite Keith Emerson performance:
The Nice, with the Sinfonia of London (Joseph Eger, conductor), Sibelius: Intermezzo from Karelia Suite (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwl0Et7RdlM)
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British composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies dies aged 81
Celebrated British composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, a former Master of the Queen's Music, has died at the age of 81.
He was known for his modern and avant-garde works, but his most famous piece was a simple, haunting lament for solo piano - Farewell To Stromness.
"He was, right to the end, a pioneer," Stephen Lumsden, Managing Director of music agency Intermusica, said.
The Salford-born musician, who had leukaemia, died at home in Orkney.
More (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35802564)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Maxwell_Davies)
Peter Maxwell Davies: An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise (1985) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnnkL1t7PXY)
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British composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies dies aged 81
More (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35802564)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Maxwell_Davies)
Peter Maxwell Davies: An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise (1985) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnnkL1t7PXY)
http://youtu.be/zpJB-XXE9Xg
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Was there any hint of what type of nerve problem.
"Over the weekend, Emerson's girlfriend Mari Kawaguchi -- who found his body at their shared California residence -- spoke to U.K. publication Daily Mail and shed some light onto why the legendary keyboard player may have taken his own life.
"His right hand and arm had given him problems for years. He had an operation a few years ago to take out a bad muscle but the pain and nerve issues in his right hand were getting worse," she said. "He had concerts coming up in Japan and even though they hired a back-up keyboard player to support him, Keith was worried. He read all the criticism online and was a sensitive soul. Last year he played concerts and people posted mean comments such as, 'I wish he would stop playing.' He was tormented with worry that he wouldn't be good enough. He was planning to retire after Japan. He didn't want to let down his fans. He was a perfectionist and the thought he wouldn't play perfectly made him depressed, nervous and anxious."
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7256311/keith-emerson-death-suicide-health-issues
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Robert Horton, ‘Wagon Train’ Actor, Dies at 91
Robert Horton, known for his role as scout Flint McCullough in the Emmy-nominated series “Wagon Train,” died March 9 in Los Angeles, his niece Joan Evans told the New York Times. He was 91.
After being medically discharged from the Coast Guard in 1943, Horton made his screen acting debut in an uncredited part in the 1945 WWII drama “A Walk in the Sun.”
He landed his breakout role starring as McCullough in the hit western series “Wagon Train” for five seasons, exiting the show following the wrap of season five in 1962. Around the time he left “Wagon Train”– which accumulated seven Primetime Emmy nominations throughout the duration of its eight-season run — the show switched networks, transitioning from NBC to ABC.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/robert-horton-%e2%80%98wagon-train%e2%80%99-actor-dies-at-91/ar-BBqv73S?ocid=spartandhp
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Ward Bond, wagonmaster, Robert Horton scout; I rode with them many nights. I miss the programming from that era.
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Ward Bond, wagonmaster, Robert Horton scout; I rode with them many nights. I miss the programming from that era.
Same here. I go back to The Cisco Kid and Lone Ranger. Love the Western genre.
We have a cool thread in Entertainment...keyword, Tombstone and the Western Genre.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3496172/Frank-Sinatra-Jr-dies-heart-attack-age-72.html
BREAKING NEWS: Frank Sinatra Jr. dies of heart attack at the age of 72
His family said he died unexpectedly while on tour in Florida
The singer was in Daytona Beach for a show, but was admitted to hospital
Just a short time later, he reportedly went into cardiac arrest
Sinatra Jr. followed his famed father into the music industry
He was famously kidnapped and held for ransom in Lake Tahoe in 1963
By Wills Robinson For Dailymail.com
Published: 19:55 EST, 16 March 2016 | Updated: 20:13 EST, 16 March 2016
Frank Sinatra Jr., who carried on his famous father’s legacy with his own music career, has died at the age of 72.
His family said in a statement to that Sinatra died unexpectedly Wednesday of a heart attack while on tour in Daytona Beach, Florida.
The statement said the family mourns the untimely passing of their son, brother, father and uncle. No other details were provided
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3496172/Frank-Sinatra-Jr-dies-heart-attack-age-72.html#ixzz437Qf6FNt
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Frank Sinatra Jr. Dead From A Heart Attack At 72 Years Old
The son of the legendary singer died after he suffered a heart attack while on tour in Daytona Beach, Fla.
Sinatra’s family confirmed his death in a statement to the Associated Press Wednesday.
The statement said that the family “mourns the untimely passing of their son, brother, father and uncle,” but revealed no other details.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/16/frank-sinatra-jr-dead-from-a-heart-attack-at-72-years-old/
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RIP Lee Andrews . . .
Lee Andrews & the Hearts, "Long Lonely Nights" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF9N_uujCcw)
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'Rockford Files' Actor Joe Santos Dead at 84
"Joe Santos, best known for playing The Rockford Files‘ Lt. Dennis Becker, died Friday. He was 84.
According to TMZ, which first reported the death, Santos suffered a heart attack on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was placed on life support, then died Friday morning in a hospital in Santa Monica.
In 1979, Santos was nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of Rockford Files‘ Becker, a role he inhabited for six seasons and several subsequent TV movies."
I always enjoyed the interplay between him and Rockford (Garner) as absurd as it would be in the real world.
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'Rockford Files' Actor Joe Santos Dead at 84
"Joe Santos, best known for playing The Rockford Files‘ Lt. Dennis Becker, died Friday. He was 84.
According to TMZ, which first reported the death, Santos suffered a heart attack on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was placed on life support, then died Friday morning in a hospital in Santa Monica.
In 1979, Santos was nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of Rockford Files‘ Becker, a role he inhabited for six seasons and several subsequent TV movies."
I always enjoyed the interplay between him and Rockford (Garner) as absurd as it would be in the real world.
Rockford Files every Friday night. I can still sing the theme song. One of my favorite of Mike Post's MANY theme songs.
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'Rockford Files' Actor Joe Santos Dead at 84
"Joe Santos, best known for playing The Rockford Files‘ Lt. Dennis Becker, died Friday. He was 84.
According to TMZ, which first reported the death, Santos suffered a heart attack on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was placed on life support, then died Friday morning in a hospital in Santa Monica.
In 1979, Santos was nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of Rockford Files‘ Becker, a role he inhabited for six seasons and several subsequent TV movies."
I always enjoyed the interplay between him and Rockford (Garner) as absurd as it would be in the real world.
I liked that show. He was good in it. RIP
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Loved the show and it seemed like Garner and Santo's had mutual respect for each other and it showed on screen. Besides the theme song I loved the Cold Opening with Rockford's Answering machine message! Those were a hoot!
This is Jim Rockford. At the tone, leave your name and message. I'll get back to you. [Beep]
"Here's the tally, Jimbo. You had Atlanta at even money, tough break. And you got bombed in the Duke-Wake Forest fiasco, and you split the quinella at Hollypark. So you owe the book for $450. Anytime before Friday, huh, buddy?"
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Loved the show and it seemed like Garner and Santo's had mutual respect for each other and it showed on screen. Besides the theme song I loved the Cold Opening with Rockford's Answering machine message! Those were a hoot!
This is Jim Rockford. At the tone, leave your name and message. I'll get back to you. [Beep]
"Here's the tally, Jimbo. You had Atlanta at even money, tough break. And you got bombed in the Duke-Wake Forest fiasco, and you split the quinella at Hollypark. So you owe the book for $450. Anytime before Friday, huh, buddy?"
yes the answering machine was a hoot to hear. I bought the dvd set of the Rockford Files last winter. I enjoy watching it again from time to time.
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yes the answering machine was a hoot to hear. I bought the dvd set of the Rockford Files last winter. I enjoy watching it again from time to time.
I have Rockford Files on my watch list on Netflix - I still enjoy them after all these years. Great show! RIP Joe Santos.
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Such a familiar face. He was in a zillion popular TV series from the 70's and 80's. Barnaby Jones, Baretta, Kung Fu, Lou Grant, Police Story, Blue Thunder, Black Sheep Squadron, Rockford, Hill Street Blues, A-Team, Remington Steele, TJ Hooker, Hardcastle, McGyver, Magnum PI, Miami Vice, Quantum Leap...the list goes on.
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Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford dies of cancer at 46
Reuters
(https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-toronto-mayor-rob-ford-died-fords-office-152002499.html)1 hour 6 minutes ago
TORONTO (Reuters) - Rob Ford, the former mayor of Toronto who gained global notoriety for admitting to smoking crack cocaine while in office, died from cancer on Tuesday, his office said in a statement.
The Toronto city councillor, 46, had been undergoing treatment for an aggressive form of cancer that had recurred despite surgery and several rounds of chemotherapy.
During his tumultuous 2010-2014 tenure as mayor of Canada's most populous city, Ford admitted to smoking crack cocaine, buying illegal drugs and driving after drinking alcohol.
He was diagnosed in September 2014 with pleomorphic liposarcoma, a rare and hard-to-treat cancer found in soft, fatty tissue of the body, after he was admitted to a hospital with abdominal pain.
The man who replaced Ford as mayor, John Tory, offered his condolences, calling Ford "a man who spoke his mind and who ran for office because of the deeply felt convictions that he had."
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Former Mayor of Toronto Rob Ford dead at 46
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Ford, a prominent fiscal conservative in a country known for its progressivism, was elected to the Toronto city council in 2000 and eventually was elected mayor in 2010. His exploits against unions and political correctness, many successful, were nonetheless overshadowed by his hard and fast lifestyle, which included obesity and frequent substance abuse, making him an international laughingstock. Ford was ousted from power in a 2013 coup by the city council and chose not to seek re-election when diagnosed with fat cancer (I'm not making this up), which ultimately killed him after chemotherapy was unsuccessful.
Obituary from The Toronto Star (http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/03/22/rob-ford-former-toronto-mayor-dead-after-battle-with-cancer.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford)
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Former Mayor of Toronto Rob Ford dead at 46
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Ford, a prominent fiscal conservative in a country known for its progressivism, was elected to the Toronto city council in 2000 and eventually was elected mayor in 2010. His exploits against unions and political correctness, many successful, were nonetheless overshadowed by his hard and fast lifestyle, which included obesity and frequent substance abuse, making him an international laughingstock. Ford was ousted from power in a 2013 coup by the city council and chose not to seek re-election when diagnosed with fat cancer (I'm not making this up), which ultimately killed him after chemotherapy was unsuccessful.
Obituary from The Toronto Star (http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/03/22/rob-ford-former-toronto-mayor-dead-after-battle-with-cancer.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford)
His downward spiral was played out on the news and internet for all to see.
May he be a peace from whatever demons haunted him.
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Joe Garagiola, Major League Baseball catcher turned emcee, dies at 90
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Garagiola, seated next to Gerald Ford, watching election returns and realizing that Jimmy Carter was going to win the 1976 election.
Garagiola enjoyed a nine-year career as a journeyman catcher, playing for four teams, all in the National League, from 1946 to 1954. It was his post-baseball career as a broadcaster that earned him his greatest fame. He entered the broadcast booth in 1955 as a commentator, a role he would hold for various stations, teams and networks until his retirement in 2013, a span of 58 years. His gregarious personality made him popular outside of baseball as well, and Garagiola would go on to host numerous game shows (most famously the 1970s version of To Tell the Truth) and serve on panels of numerous other TV shows, including NBC's Today.
No cause of death was stated.
Obituary from Tribune (http://fox61.com/2016/03/23/joe-garagiola-beloved-baseball-announcer-dies-at-90/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Garagiola,_Sr.)
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RIP Joe. i was really young when I saw you play at Wrigley Field. You were a true personality in the entertainment industry. I still have your baseball cards.
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A classic Garagiola exchange; well, he set himself up for a classic Vin Scully punch line, 1986 World Series, Game Seven. Mets batting, men on first and second, the Red Sox
putting the rotation (wheel) play on to foil a bunt, relief pitcher Jesse Orosco at bat:
Garagiola: I'd bet the house, he's gotta bunt!
Then, as the Red Sox put the wheel play on (first and third basemen charging the line, shortstop going to cover third, second baseman going to cover first, runners in motion):
Scully: Swinging! And a ground ball into left center field, in comes Knight, it is 8-5, Mets, and Joe, you just lost your house!
Garagiola's BFF growing up on The Hill, the Italian section of St. Louis was Yogi Berra. Their fathers worked in the same brickyard. Both
kids grew up worshipping the Cardinals. They both eventually tried out for the Cardinals, then run by Branch Rickey. The Cardinals signed
Garagiola with a $500 bonus (which meant the final payment on his parents' house) and didn't even look at Berra after the tryout.
Berra was heartbroken. He also said no when the rival (if that's the word for it) St. Louis Browns offered him a contract without a
bonus. The kid held out for a $500 bonus so he could prove to his skeptical parents there really was money in baseball. (Because of
his age, his father had to sign for him---and it took a lot of persuading including from the family priest to convince the old man to
let the kid play ball in the first place, after the old man had refused to let two of his older sons sign baseball contracts.)
Only later did both Berra and anyone else learn the real reason: Rickey was on his way out of St. Louis with the Brooklyn
Dodgers waiting to hire him, and Yogi looked so good to Rickey that he thought he could keep the kid on ice until he could sign him
for the Dodgers. Berra eventually confirmed that he got a telegram from Rickey inviting him to report to Bear Mountain, in upstate
New York, where the Dodgers had spring training for part of World War II.
The problem was that, in the interim, the Yankees got Berra. "He only wants $500?" Johnny Schulte, the Yankee scout who signed
him, asked the bird dog who'd referred the kid to him. "He's worth ten times that much. He's better than Garagiola, that kid the
Cardinals signed." Schulte had no idea Berra would develop into a Hall of Fame catcher; he merely thought Berra would be more
likely to stick as a regular player in due course than Garagiola was.
RIP Joe. Baseball certainly is a funny game.
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Actor Ken Howard, TV actor and acting union leader, dies
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/03/23/actor-ken-howard-tv-actor-and-acting-union-leader-dies/?intcmp=hpbt4 (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/03/23/actor-ken-howard-tv-actor-and-acting-union-leader-dies/?intcmp=hpbt4)
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I used to love White Shadow. He looked very old for 71..
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Joe Garagiola, Major League Baseball catcher turned emcee, dies at 90
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Joe_Garagiola-Gerald_Ford.jpg)
Garagiola, seated next to Gerald Ford, watching election returns and realizing that Jimmy Carter was going to win the 1976 election.
Garagiola enjoyed a nine-year career as a journeyman catcher, playing for four teams, all in the National League, from 1946 to 1954. It was his post-baseball career as a broadcaster that earned him his greatest fame. He entered the broadcast booth in 1955 as a commentator, a role he would hold for various stations, teams and networks until his retirement in 2013, a span of 58 years. His gregarious personality made him popular outside of baseball as well, and Garagiola would go on to host numerous game shows (most famously the 1970s version of To Tell the Truth) and serve on panels of numerous other TV shows, including NBC's Today.
No cause of death was stated.
Obituary from Tribune (http://fox61.com/2016/03/23/joe-garagiola-beloved-baseball-announcer-dies-at-90/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Garagiola,_Sr.)
Always liked Joe and good to know he wasn't another flaming liberal announcer.
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I always liked Joe! R.I.P.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/garry-shandling-acclaimed-comic-actor-dead-66-article-1.2576782
Garry Shandling, the standup comic whose dry delivery became the trademark for a pair of beloved television comedies, died Thursday. He was 66.
Sources told the gossip site TMZ that Shandling had collapsed suddenly and been rushed to a Los Angeles hospital, where he later died.
Best known for a pair of critically acclaimed television shows, “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show” (1986-1990) and “The Larry Sanders Show” (1992-1998), about a fake late night talk show, Shandling has long been one of the most resected figures in the industry.
Shandling, seen here in 1998, won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for "The Larry Sanders Show."
Shandling won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for "The Larry Sanders Show."
Born in Chicago in 1949 and raised in Tuscon, Ariz., Shandling kicked off his showbiz career in the '70s writing for sitcoms , “Sanford and Son” and “Welcome Back Kotter.”
But a fateful car accident in 1977 led to a different road -- standup comedy.
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Shandling and only 66. I always liked his sense of humor and comedy.
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Shandling and only 66. I always liked his sense of humor and comedy.
My mother and I are both over 66 !!
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Shandling was very funny early on.
Hate to say it, but I'm afraid there are going to be alot of Boomer entertainers that don't make it to 70. Live fast die hard I guess.
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Shandling was very funny early on.
Hate to say it, but I'm afraid there are going to be alot of Boomer entertainers that don't make it to 70. Live fast die hard I guess.
Why would boomer entertainers be any different from others?
There are several of the top music people from the era of the very best music, turning about 70 and still creative and hard working. Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Rod Stewart, Van Morrison to name just a few.
Not to mention this Over 70 guy, Seasick Steve
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAz-XRMXXW8
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Why would boomer entertainers be any different from others?
There are several of the top music people from the era of the very best music, turning about 70 and still creative and hard working. Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Rod Stewart, Van Morrison to name just a few.
Not to mention this Over 70 guy, Seasick Steve
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAz-XRMXXW8
Because entertainers who came on in the 60's and 70's in particular often lived hard, especially with the cocaine. They just didn't know or think about the consequences at the time.
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Because entertainers who came on in the 60's and 70's in particular often lived hard, especially with the cocaine. They just didn't know or think about the consequences at the time.
Musicians had been abusing substances since long before the 60s and 70s. Robert Johnson, Billie Holiday and Art Blakey to name just a few. And from the 50s Elvis, Johnny Cash, Glenn Campbell, too.
More occupational and less generational.
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Musicians had been abusing substances since long before the 60s and 70s. Robert Johnson, Billie Holiday and Art Blakey to name just a few. And from the 50s Elvis, Johnny Cash, Glenn Campbell, too.
More occupational and less generational.
Which is why I qualified to entertainers. But as pop culture exploded from the 60's on, so did the drugs, and things ratcheted from there. The chickens will come home to roost.
Believe me, it won't get better as the X'ers and Millenials age either.
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RIP the man who created The Waltons out of his own Virginia childhood during the Depression:
Earl Hamner Jr., creator of 'The Waltons,' dies at 92 (http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-earl-hamner-jr-dies-20160324-story.html)
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RIP the man who created The Waltons out of his own Virginia childhood during the Depression:
Earl Hamner Jr., creator of 'The Waltons,' dies at 92 (http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-earl-hamner-jr-dies-20160324-story.html)
I always wondered what it drew on, it was very similar to the family stories of that time from the foothills of Alabama and Tennessee, so it seemed like the real deal.
It's hard to even watch the original movie, reminds me so much of grandma and all the brothers and sisters that I just break down.
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RIP the man who created The Waltons out of his own Virginia childhood during the Depression:
Earl Hamner Jr., creator of 'The Waltons,' dies at 92 (http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-earl-hamner-jr-dies-20160324-story.html)
Oh, that's sad! Earl Hamner brought to the screen healthy family life. So many on the left mocked The Waltons as 'unrealistic,' but they clearly had never seen a loving family at work.
RIP, Mr. Hamner.
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0114422/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0114422/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm)
Peter Brown....Lawman, TV series 1958
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/peter-brown-dead-lawman-star-877587 (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/peter-brown-dead-lawman-star-877587)
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Mother Mary Angelica, founder of EWTN Catholic radio and TV, dies at 92
Born Rita Antoinette Rizzo into a childhood of poverty, she began pursuing life as a nun at age 21. A devout Roman Catholic from birth, she founded the Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in 1962. Her 1981 founding of Eternal Word Television Network was one of the first efforts from a Roman Catholic to branch out into the full-scale televangelism of contemporaries such as Pat Robertson (who gave Mother Angelica his support during her early years in television).
Mother Angelica was a staunch conservative in Catholic circles, closely aligned with Pope John Paul II, and often sparred with other Catholic clergy, prompting EWTN to hire additional staff in 2001, who insisted on adherence to the official church dogma in order to maintain the Vatican's blessing. She retired from EWTN in 2001 following a stroke, living a cloistered life from then until her death on Easter Sunday.
Obituary from the Associated Press via the Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3511984/Folksy-nun-Mother-Mary-Angelica-started-Eternal-World-Television-Network-just-200-garage-monastery-died-aged-92.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Angelica)
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An artist friend of mine helped with set design for Mother Angelica in the early or mid-80s and said she was just as sweet as she appeared on TV.
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Patty Duke, Oscar Winner and Sitcom Star, Dies at 69
Well, this is sad. A relative youngster.
http://news.yahoo.com/patty-duke-oscar-winner-sitcom-star-dies-69-164024164.html
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Patty Duke, Oscar Winner and Sitcom Star, Dies at 69
Well, this is sad. A relative youngster.
http://news.yahoo.com/patty-duke-oscar-winner-sitcom-star-dies-69-164024164.html
Yikes. As someone in my upper 60's, I see my peers dropping like flies.
Anna had a rough life. RIP......
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Patty Duke, Oscar Winner and Sitcom Star, Dies at 69
Well, this is sad. A relative youngster.
http://news.yahoo.com/patty-duke-oscar-winner-sitcom-star-dies-69-164024164.html
I remember watching her.
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Anna had a rough life. RIP......
Yes, and a heck of a way to go, too. **nononono*
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Terrible and very painful way to die.....I too grew up watching Patty...she was a very talented actress...RIP Anna
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Yes, and a heck of a way to go, too. **nononono*
Sounds absolutely awful. I can't imagine the pain.
There may not be a lot of others who agree, but I absolutely loved her as Martha Washington in the George Washington mini-series ('90's?) where Barry Bostwick played George.
She made Martha seem like a delightful and devoted wife to a man she deeply admired.
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Terrible and very painful way to die.....I too grew up watching Patty...she was a very talented actress...RIP Anna
I wonder if this is a record of some kind---Patty Duke won an Oscar for playing Helen Keller, then eventually
went on to win an Emmy for playing Anne Sullivan, Keller's teacher. I don't know of any other actor to win
an Oscar for one role in a production and then an Emmy for another role in, essentially, the same production.
She had the guts to overcome her abusive agents and her bipolarity and remake her life and career happily.
RIP Anna Marie.
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Yikes. As someone in my upper 60's, I see my peers dropping like flies.
Anna had a rough life. RIP......
Part of it's simply because it's the baby boomer era and there were simply a lot more BIRTHS in 1946, hence a lot more deaths once their time comes.
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"Anna 'Patty Duke' Pearce passed away this morning March 29, 2016 at 1:20 am," his statement read. "Her cause of death was sepsis from a ruptured intestine. She was a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a friend, a mental health advocate and a cultural icon. She will be missed."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/03/29/oscar-winning-former-child-star-patty-duke-dies-age-69/82382666/
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Part of it's simply because it's the baby boomer era and there were simply a lot more BIRTHS in 1946, hence a lot more deaths once their time comes.
Yes. But in my opinion, someone who was born in 1946 shouldn't be dying yet. 69 isn't very old these days.
It seems, however, that a lot are.
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Yes. But in my opinion, someone who was born in 1946 shouldn't be dying yet. 69 isn't very old these days.
It seems, however, that a lot are.
I don't know how old it is to be to young to die... but I plan on living long enough to see my children get everything they never had growing up so that I can move in with them.
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Saw this posted on another site as a remarkable picture.
(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/12920318_10201524046460748_4581447687692937872_n.jpg?oh=dc83e6099c121dbc3b9fdef7cca9a4cd&oe=577B7B15)
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Saw this posted on another site as a remarkable picture.
(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/12920318_10201524046460748_4581447687692937872_n.jpg?oh=dc83e6099c121dbc3b9fdef7cca9a4cd&oe=577B7B15)
Wow. I've never seen that! Thanks for posting it, Sanguine.
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That is a wonderful photo, Sanguine. Wow.
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Patty started so many heated arguments between me and my sister over who would have control over our one TV. Me wanting to watch Gilligan, Adams Family, the Munsters, F-troop, Flintstones, and the rest of the great kids shows of that era, and my sister wanting to watch Patty Duke or worse, the Flying Nun.
RIP Patty. Oh and sis, I now have the full seasons on DVD of Gilligan, F-Troop, Flintstones, and many of my other favorites if you ever want to come over to watch TV and have a fight for old times sake.
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Patty started so many heated arguments between me and my sister over who would have control over our one TV. Me wanting to watch Gilligan, Adams Family, the Munsters, F-troop, Flintstones, and the rest of the great kids shows of that era, and my sister wanting to watch Patty Duke or worse, the Flying Nun.
RIP Patty. Oh and sis, I now have the full seasons on DVD of Gilligan, F-Troop, Flintstones, and many of my other favorites if you ever want to come over to watch TV and have a fight for old times sake.
I hope your sister won the fight once in a while so that you got to see those adorable "identical cousins, who walked alike and talked alike..... (you could lose your mind!)". It was a really fun show! ^-^
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Ronnie Corbett, best known for The Two Ronnies, dies aged 85
Entertainer Ronnie Corbett, best known for BBC comedy sketch show The Two Ronnies, has died aged 85.
His publicist said: "Ronnie Corbett CBE, one of the nation's best-loved entertainers, passed away this morning, surrounded by his loving family.
"They have asked that their privacy is respected at this very sad time."
Corbett was one of the UK's best-loved comedians and along with Ronnie Barker; their double act was one of the most successful of the 1970s and '80s.
The entertainer had been suffering from ill-health for some time and had been in hospital in 2014 with gall bladder problems.
Following Barker's death in 2005, Corbett continued to be regular fixture on UK TV and is perhaps best-known for his armchair "shaggy dog" sketches.
His most memorable solo projects include the sitcom Sorry! and the game show Small Talk. He most recently starred in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom When the Dog Dies.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35934024
There goes a HUGE chunk of my young adulthood.
For those who don't know of him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvjTpVCQg94
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Saxophonist Leandro "Gato" Barbieri dies at 83
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Gato_Barbieri.JPG/220px-Gato_Barbieri.JPG)
Barbieri, originally from Argentina, began his professional career under Lalo Schifrin, then shifted to "free jazz" in the 1960s before settling in Latin-style jazz for the rest of his career. His best-known composition was the theme to the 1972 film Last Tango in Paris. He mostly stopped recording in the late 1980s because of contract disputes but continued to perform until shortly before his death.
Barbieri died of a combination of pneumonia and complications from surgery to repair a blood clot.
Rolling Stone obituary, with samples of his work (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/gato-barbieri-latin-jazz-great-and-last-tango-in-paris-composer-dead-at-83-20160403)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gato_Barbieri)
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Country Music Legend Merle Haggard dies at 79
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Country music legend, and Oildale native, Merle Haggard has passed away on his birthday. He was 79-years-old.
A life-long friend of Haggard confirmed the news to 23ABC and added that country music icon passed away Wednesday morning at his home just after 9 am, surrounded by family.
Haggard was hospitalized for a second time recently for double pneumonia, and had to cancel his most recent tour with Willie Nelson....
http://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/country-music-legend-merle-haggard-turned-79-years-old-wednesday
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Much has not changed for the better since Merle Wrote.
"We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee;
We don't take our trips on LSD
We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street;
We like livin' right, and bein' free."
"I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee,
A place where even squares can have a ball
We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse,
And white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all"
Haggard told The Boot that he wrote the song after he became disheartened watching Vietnam War protests and incorporated that emotion and viewpoint into song. Haggard says, "When I was in prison, I knew what it was like to have freedom taken away. Freedom is everything. During Vietnam, there were all kinds of protests. Here were these [servicemen] going over there and dying for a cause — we don't even know what it was really all about. And here are these young kids, that were free, bitching about it. There's something wrong with that and with [disparaging] those poor guys." He states that he wrote the song to support the troops
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One of the all time bigs. My favorite of his:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EwK0NsKdDY
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Wish a Buck was still silver,
It was back when the country was strong.
Back before Elvis and that old Vietnam War came along....
I'm going to miss him terribly. One of my heroes.
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Saxophonist Leandro "Gato" Barbieri dies at 83
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uQNkFmgyzI
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Blackjack Mulligan dead at 73 (professional wrestler)
Robert Windham, better known as Blackjack Mulligan, the patriarch of the Windham wrestling family that includes three performers on the current WWE roster, passed away...
Windham, 73, was a major star in pro wrestling during the 70s and 80s. He was only in the business for two years, working under his real name, before he got his big break in the WWWF in 1971, taking the Blackjack Mulligan name, copying the gimmick with the black cowboy hat and black glove of Blackjack Lanza (Jack Lanza), who had become one of the top heels in the business a few years earlier...
Mulligan's son Barry and Kendall Windham, were both wrestlers and Barry was one of the best wrestlers in the world in the late 80s. His son-in-law, Mike Rotunda, was also a star wrestler and Mike's three children, Windham (Bray Wyatt), Taylor (Bo Dallas) and daughter Mika work for WWE...
More (http://www.f4wonline.com/other-wrestling/black-jack-mulligan-dead-73-210641)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackjack_Mulligan)
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Anne Jackson, Stage Star With Her Husband, Eli Wallach, Dies at 90
Anne Jackson, a distinguished star of the stage who was half of one of America's best-known acting couples, sharing much of a long and distinguished career with her husband, Eli Wallach, died on Tuesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 90.
Her death was confirmed by her daughter Katherine Wallach.
If not quite on the same level of stardom as Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne or Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, Ms. Jackson and Mr. Wallach came close. From the early 1950s to 2000, when they starred Off Broadway in Anne Meara's comedy "Down the Garden Paths," they captivated audiences with their onstage synergy, displaying the tense affections and sizzling battles of two old pros who knew both how to love and how to fight.
More (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/theater/anne-jackson-dies.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Jackson)
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Doris Roberts Dead at 90
RIP funny lady.
http://www.tmz.com/2016/04/18/doris-roberts-dead/
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Doris Roberts Dead at 90
RIP funny lady.
http://www.tmz.com/2016/04/18/doris-roberts-dead/
Sad....Loved her in Remington Steele. Everyone loves Raymond too. R.I.P.
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Doris Roberts Dead at 90
RIP funny lady.
http://www.tmz.com/2016/04/18/doris-roberts-dead/
Whoa! I had NO idea she was 90!
You're right. A VERY funny lady.
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Thanks for all the laughs Doris..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fZSoiMKW5M (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fZSoiMKW5M)
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I swear, sometimes, she carried that sitcom.
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Milt Pappas, Cagey All-Star Traded for Hall of Famer, Dies at 76
Milt Pappas, a cagey right-hander who won more than 200 big league games but whose most memorable, if unlucky, legacy is that he was traded for the future Hall of Fame outfielder Frank Robinson in what has been considered one of the most lopsided exchanges in baseball history, died on Tuesday at his home in Beecher, Ill. He was 76.
More (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/sports/baseball/milt-pappas-journeyman-traded-for-hall-of-famer-dies-at-76.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt_Pappas)
Career stats (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/pappami01.shtml)
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Thanks for all the laughs Doris..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fZSoiMKW5M (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fZSoiMKW5M)
The better half was a big Remy Steele fan. Forced to watch it as I was, it was my 1st introduction to Mildred Krebs!
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By Yours Truly
http://throneberryfields.com/2016/04/20/milt-pappas-rip-infamy-tragedy-and-beyond/
When Tigers pitcher Armando Gallaraga* lost his perfect game to Jim Joyce’s blown call at first base in 2010,
he had a sympathiser from baseball’s not too distant past. Milt Pappas’s cell phone blew up, Pappas having
lost a perfect game in the ninth on a ball call.
“I would tell him, ‘I feel for you’,” Pappas—who died Tuesday morning at home at 76—said he’d have told the
then-Tigers pitcher. “There have been only 20 perfect games in the history of baseball. The umpire situation
was the same one I had — they blew it.
“‘At least I had the satisfaction of getting the no-hitter’,” continued Pappas in telling what he’d have said to
Gallaraga. “‘You don’t. I feel for you. You pitched a tremendous game. At least you have the satisfaction of
the umpire saying he was sorry. But that doesn’t help your situation as far as a perfect game’.”
The problem was that Pappas’s loss—pitching for the Cubs, 2 September 1972, against the Padres—wasn’t
a blown call. He spent decades to follow arguing otherwise, but the 3-2 pitch to pinch hitter Larry Stahl with
two out in the top of the ninth was clearly outside enough that plate umpire Bruce Froemming made the right
call. Pappas’s saving grace was that he got the next batter out on a popup behind second base to save at
least a no-hitter.
Pappas to the end thought Froemming should have given him the strike considering what history was at
stake. “Bruce was a young umpire,” said Pappas’s Cub teammate, Hall of Famer Billy Williams. “If we had
had a veteran umpire that day, sometimes they get a little lenient with a guy pitching a perfect game.”
There were other days of infamy in the pitching career of Miltiades Stergios Papastergios. One was the day
he was traded from the Orioles for Frank Robinson, and the other was a clubhouse explosion in Wrigley Field
in which he had role enough after manager Leo Durocher—fuming over a freak check-swing double off Pappas
for a tough loss—demanded a team meeting and turned it into a war.
Two days before the Robinson trade, in late 1965, Pappas was assured by the Orioles that he wouldn’t be
traded. So, on a rainy day, he decided to take his wife to the movies. The film? The Cincinnati Kid. That’d
teach him. The couple returned home to learn Pappas was traded with outfielder Dick Simpson and
veteran relief pitcher Jack Baldschun. The “not a young thirty” (http://www.redreporter.com/2013/11/23/5133726/revisiting-the-frank-robinson-trade) Robinson was so not young he won the
1966 American League Triple Crown and help the Orioles to their first World Series rings, as a franchise
and in Baltimore.
Pappas was one of the heralded-enough Baby Birds rotation of 1960-61–with Steve Barber, Chuck Estrada,
and Jack Fisher**. He’d been a two-time All-Star in Baltimore. As he related decades later, he also told then-
commissioner Ford Frick he fed Roger Maris nothing but hittable fastballs for Maris to hit his 59th homer in
1961, because he didn’t like Frick’s declaring the single-season home run record could only be broken in
154 games. The arbitrary deadline day was the day Maris teed off for 59.
Why would the Orioles want to give up the only Baby Bird who hadn’t been bedeviled by elbow issues
(possibly connected to the tricky slip pitch (http://www.yougoprobaseball.com/Slip-Pitch-Are-Slip-Pitches-an-Alternative-to-Off-speed-Pitches.html) once masted by Yankee legend Eddie Lopat but taught them by
manager/ex-catcher Paul Richards) that sank the others into journeyman status?
For one thing, the Orioles coveted Robinson and the Reds at the time needed more solid pitching to
bolster their then-top two starters, Jim Maloney and Sammy Ellis. Pappas—whose stock in trade was
control and deceptiveness, and who’d pitch serviceably enough for the Reds—seemed like an ideal fit.
But Durocher claimed (in Nice Guys Finish Last) that the Orioles really let Pappas go because of his
reputation as a clubhouse lawyer. ”It was, from everything I heard,” he wrote, “why Cincinnati let him go;
and it was probably why he no longer felt he had a glowing future in Atlanta.”
The Lip wasn’t quite the most reliable witness, of course. But he wasn’t the only Cub who had that view,
apparently. “Milt was always known as a clubhouse lawyer with any team he was with,” said Glenn Beckert,
the second baseman on Durocher’s Cubs, to Peter Golenbock (for Wrigleyville). “He was a hell of a
pitcher . . . but he was always getting into the politics of the business.”
Pappas’s Baltimore teammate Boog Powell told another story. “Actually, I kind of had mixed emotions
about [the trade] it because Milt was a good friend and a heck of a pitcher,” he once told the Baltimore
Sun. “We had seen Frank from the other side. We knew he was an MVP and had some really good years.
We certainly respected him as a hitter. Also at the same time, why mess with something that was working
pretty good?”
When the Orioles acquired Hall of Famer Luis Aparicio from the White Sox two years earlier, he, too, had
a rep as a clubhouse lawyer. Apparently, the Orioles weren’t always allergic to the type. And Little Looie
put up some good seasons for the Orioles including their ’66 Series winner.
Pappas did cook himself with the Reds over the politics of politics, sort of. When presidential aspirant
Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, several teams elected not to play on the day of his funeral as a show
of respect. (Six games were postponed.) The Reds’ players voted to play. Pappas, the team’s player
representative (as he’d also been in Baltimore and would be again with the Braves and the Cubs), was
outraged by the vote, especially when he suspected the team’s upper management pressured the
vote.
Three days after he made his objection to playing on Kennedy’s funeral day and the vote in favour
known, he was dealt to the Braves. (He’d pitch adequately for the most part but surrendered three runs
in two and a third innings of Game Two work in the middle of the Miracle Mets’ 1969 National League
Championship Series sweep.)
When he got to the Cubs, he pitched well but seethed with many teammates under Durocher’s
whiplash managing style. Overusing regulars, underusing his bench, mismanaging his badly built as
it was bullpen (riding favourites into the ground; just ask Phil [The Vulture] Regan, who declined
swiftly after he’d been a big part of their 1969 run for the roses), and thus overworking especially
his younger starters, didn’t sit well with many of those Cubs.
Never mind that Durocher didn’t like what he considered Pappas’s too-evident eagerness not to
pitch into the seventh inning if he could help it. When Durocher called a team meeting in August
1971 that went down in Cub history as one of the worst and most public, Pappas proved one of
the unwitting causes, after an away pitch to Houston’s Doug Rader turned into a freak check swing
double and a tough Cub loss.
The Lip bawled his players up one side and down the other, then urged them to speak their minds
freely, as if he was another player. That’d teach them. Pappas couldn’t resist, according to David
Claerbaut’s Durocher’s Cubs, accusing Durocher of being unable to handle the team, of
going too far with the team meetings, and of failing to use his bench more judiciously.
Oops. Durocher ripped Pappas and his defender Joe Pepitone, the haunted former Yankee (http://throneberryfields.com/2015/05/29/is-there-still-trouble-on-joe-pepitones-line/), a few
new ones. Then, he shockingly (and falsely) accused Ron Santo of lobbying for a Ron Santo Day,
causing the eventual Hall of Fame third baseman—formerly one of Durocher’s stauncher defenders—
to go nuclear. Durocher’s hold on the Cub clubhouse was never that stable, but he probably lost
it for keeps right there.
If there were times when Pappas was on the side of the angels, there were other times when he
was thought a devil’s handmaiden. Aside from fuming for years over the perfect game loss, Pappas
also fumed in later years over the decline in pitching conditioning and endurance.
That sounded strange coming from a pitcher who averaged six innings a start over a seventeen
season career. Leo Durocher may have been guilty as charged about mismanaging the Cubs when
they were clear contenders in 1969-72, but under Durocher’s management Pappas led the National
League in shutouts in 1971.
No baseball loss, however, equaled that of Pappas’s first wife. Described as a recovering alcoholic,
Carole Pappas, his childhood sweetheart, went out one day in 1981 and never returned. She was
found dead five years later, when pond workers discovered her in her car and in the pond, the victim
of an accidental drowning.
The jacket of his eventual memoir, Out at Home, showed Milt and Carole Pappas and their two
young children at an Orioles field ceremony. One can only imagine the depth of his heartbreak. “That’s
a question that may never be answered,” he told the Chicago Tribune. “Why she went that way; why
nobody saw a car fly through the air into the pond.”
In time, Pappas remarried happily and became the father of a third child; his widow, Judi, has been
a special needs teacher. Once the owner of a Baltimore steakhouse which burned to the ground a
year after he opened it, Pappas after baseball settled in Illinois and worked for a liquor distributor
and also as a building supplies salesman.
He looked more cheerful than his periodic curmudgeonly remarks portray him to have been. He never
stopped keeping an eye on his former Orioles and Cubs; he attended Cub Opening Days regularly;
he’d enjoyed interacting with fans no matter what his clubhouse relationships were or weren’t.
When Carlos Zambrano pitched his no-hitter for the Cubs, Pappas was publicly congratulatory. He
had reason to be. Zambrano’s was the first Cub no-hitter since Pappas’s broken perfecto. Against
the Astros, whose outfielder’s freak check double once launched one of Pappas’s more unpleasant
hours. In Houston.
“I’m still the last guy to pitch a no-hitter for the Cubs in Wrigley Field,” Pappas told the Chicago
Tribune. (Jake Arrieta’s no-no against the Dodgers was in Dodger Stadium last August.) “That
says something itself.”
So does something else. In 2001, Pappas received a note from a fan named Juan Rosales, asking
whence his nickname, “Gimpy.” The durable old righthander sent him a reply (https://baseballinteractions.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/milt-gimpy-pappas-and-the-birth-of-a-nickname/): When I was 17, I had
my knee operated on. I was nicknamed Gimpy and it stayed awhile. Thxs for the nice letter. If you
want me to personalise your book by me, I would be happy to do it. Thxs, Milt.
A fan-friendly clubhouse lawyer, or a clubhouse mensch who treats fans like interlopers. Which one
would you prefer?
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* — Armando Gallaraga was destined for a sadder fate, alas, than losing his perfect game. Stricken
not long after by elbow miseries, Gallaraga bounced from there between the majors and the minors
and even overseas before calling it a career this past December. But he may yet have a second baseball
act, happily: the Yankees hired him as a minor league pitching instructor in February.
** — For the curious, here’s what eventually became of the other Baby Birds:
Steve Barber—He would be moved to the Yankees before becoming an original expansion-draft Seattle
Pilot, after the Orioles decided his elbow issues just weren’t going to be resolved enough to make him
useful, with another crop of young pitchers—including Jim Palmer and Dave McNally—either coming
up or in the works.
Barber would go from Seattle to bounce around four other teams as a spare relief pitcher unable to solve
his elbow issues, before he retired to the Las Vegas area. He ran a car conditioning business for a number
of years (“I got a chuckle out of Steve Barber’s new job—he’s got a bunch of cars lined up getting
diathermy and heat treatments”—Jim Bouton, in Ball Four Plus Ball Five) before becoming a bus
driver in Nevada’s Clark County School District, responsible for transporting disabled children. He died
in 2007 of complications from pneumonia.
Barber’s prime moment in the sun, other than winning 20 games for the 1963 Orioles: combining with
Stu Miller (for whom Jack Fisher would be traded in 1963) on a losing no-hitter against the Tigers; 2-1
the final.
Chuck Estrada—Like Barber, Estrada would go from promising to elbow-troubled too swiftly, even if
Barber managed to hang in much longer. Estrada would become a journeyman before retiring in 1967.
He became a pitching coach for the Rangers, the Padres, the Indians, and several minor league teams
before retiring in 1995. His prime moment in the sun, other than tying with Jim Perry of the Twins for
the American League lead in 1960 wins—picking up the win in relief as a Met in Hall of Famer Tom
Seaver’s first major league start.
“The thing that bothered me most about my short career,” Estrada would say to author William J. Ryczek
(for The Amazing Mets 1962-69), “is that fact that I was just learning how to pitch when my arm blew
out. I used to challenge everybody.”
Jack Fisher—He would bounce from the Giants to the hapless 1964-67 Mets, where he pitched well
enough but was done in by lack of run support as often as not. (“Done in” was a polite way to put it
in 1965, when he lost 24 games.) After two terms with the White Sox and the Reds of little note, Fisher
retired and returned to the Baltimore area, where he opened a successful sports bar named for the
nickname Hoyt Wilhelm hung on the husky righthander: Fat Jack’s.
Alas, Fisher is remembered best for surrendering two historic home runs—the one Ted Williams hit in
what proved his final major league at-bat, in 1960; and, the one Roger Maris hit to tie Babe Ruth at
60 in 1961. Not that he’s complaining.
“People are going to remember you however they want to remember you,” Fisher told the Baltimore Sun
in 2010. “I can live with that.”
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Milt Pappas, Cagey All-Star Traded for Hall of Famer, Dies at 76
More (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/sports/baseball/milt-pappas-journeyman-traded-for-hall-of-famer-dies-at-76.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt_Pappas)
Career stats (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/pappami01.shtml)
I wrote about Pappas's death earlier today and posted it on TBR:
Milt Pappas, RIP: Infamy, tragedy, and beyond (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,202965.0.html).
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Pro wrestler Joan "Chyna" Laurer dies at 46
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Laurer%2C_Joanie_%282007%29.jpg/220px-Laurer%2C_Joanie_%282007%29.jpg)
Laurer was one of the stars to emerge out of what was then the World Wrestling Federation's "Attitude" era, a shift in direction from family-friendly to an adult- and teen-oriented product. From 1997 to 2001, Chyna was one of the federation's biggest stars, to the point where she would often (in a rarity for pro wrestling) fight against men as a member of the heel stable "D-Generation X."
After her heyday, her star faded quickly. Brief stints in Japanese wrestling in 2002 and in TNA in 2011 bookended appearances in low-budget films (including some pornographic ones) and reality TV shows such as "Celebrity Rehab" and "The Surreal Life." She was found dead the morning of April 21 at her home of a suspected drug reaction or overdose.
Obituary (http://wivb.com/2016/04/21/1990s-wwe-wrestling-star-rochester-native-chyna-dies-in-southern-california/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chyna)
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Enjoyed reading that Ace. Nice job Brother.
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https://www.tmz.com/2016/04/21/prince-dead-at-57/
The artist known as Prince has died ... TMZ has learned. He was 57. Prince's body was discovered at his Paisley Park compound in Minnesota early Thursday morning.
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This one's "yuge." IF it's true.
Prince dead at 57
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Prince_by_jimieye.jpg/220px-Prince_by_jimieye.jpg)
Prince Nelson was a musician whose musical styles carried influence from R&B, soul, 1980s synth-pop and rock. He began his career in the 1970s and had his first hit on the Billboard charts in 1978. From then through 1997, he charted over 30 songs in the top 40.
Prince was found dead, according to TMZ, this morning. He had been battling what he described as the flu for at least a week prior. He was in the process of writing his memoirs at the time of his death.
TMZ report:
http://www.tmz.com/2016/04/21/prince-dead-at-57/
Police have confirmed that someone has died at Prince's estate but have not identified who the deceased person is.
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_%28musician%29)
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One of the last musicians who really could do it all. I believe he could play 4-5 instruments as well as write his own music, choreography, and even manage his business- successfully.
What many don't know, Prince was a Conservative Republican - http://hollowverse.com/prince/
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He was weird.
Let the doves cry.
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One of the most talented musicians ever to put grooves on the vinyl. Vanity, now Prince.
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He was weird.
Let the doves cry.
Three kinds of weird, but very musically talented.
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Truly a talented man. R.I.P.
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Isn't that the truth!
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Isn't that the truth!
Yes it is. Saw him on the late night show last year. He was funny. He was asked how many guitars he owned. He said very many. He was then asked if his grandkids could play with them. He said they could do anything they wanted.
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This one's "yuge." IF it's true.
Prince dead at 57
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Prince Nelson was a musician whose musical styles carried influence from R&B, soul, 1980s synth-pop and rock. He began his career in the 1970s and had his first hit on the Billboard charts in 1978. From then through 1997, he charted over 30 songs in the top 40.
Prince was found dead, according to TMZ, this morning. He had been battling what he described as the flu for at least a week prior. He was in the process of writing his memoirs at the time of his death.
TMZ report:
http://www.tmz.com/2016/04/21/prince-dead-at-57/
Police have confirmed that someone has died at Prince's estate but have not identified who the deceased person is.
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_%28musician%29)
He was bad 3ss on the guitar.
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Prince was a musical genius. I only saw him play live once - at the Super Bowl in Miami some years ago between the Bears and Colts. It never stopped raining and during Purple Rain, they projected purple lights upwards. The effect was indeed, purple rain.
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We've lost an extremely talented musician. ..."If you know what I'm singing about up here, C'mon raise your hand,Purple rain Purple rain..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8BMm6Jn6oU&ebc=ANyPxKrMuPLPLcD4o-ISnMvn5rBhe1JA2byJ63109GxXfh1hXu9QXimeFwatghP6kFMGipQZSvZsiVGDal6suseh9OQRIk7HJg
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Prince Kicks Kim Kardashian off the stage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZLP38moqC8&feature=youtu.be
:beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:
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Purple rain, purple tears.
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From Cracked
(videos at link -- http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-rock-stars-you-wont-believe-are-secretly-musical-geniuses/
5 Rock Stars Who Are Secretly Musical Geniuses (RIP Prince)
The Amazing Talent:
I almost didn't include him on this list because I always thought that people just knew that Prince was a guitar legend. But over the years, I've been continually shocked to find out that many people don't.
I can kind of see where they're coming from. Prince's biggest hits have been laced with that synthesizer- and keyboard-based pop sound. And although his solos in songs like "Let's Go Crazy" and "Purple Rain" were insanely good, they weren't the focus of the songs. Because as flamboyant as Prince is, he's one of the few musicians in the world who know how to use subtlety instead of cramming the solo right in the listeners' faces and screaming, "Listen to how bleep good I am!" He uses his talent only as a means of enhancing the song as a whole -- not using the song as a mechanism for showing off his guitar skills. But when he does cut loose ... holy ----:
That's him playing a tribute of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." And for the first half of the video, he plays a basic rhythm piece so subtle that if it wasn't for his blindingly red pimp hat, you'd hardly know he was there. But then the solo comes around, and he just explodes. It's the same in this one:
...So yeah, behind all the sparkling women's clothing and gyrating -----dancing lies one of the greatest guitarists to ever walk the planet....
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Also, a correction to my post above. I just read he could play 27 instruments masterfully, not 5. His entire album "For You" is all him, all the instruments, all the vocals recordings, all the producing......
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Also, a correction to my post above. I just read he could play 27 instruments masterfully, not 5. His entire album "For You" is all him, all the instruments, all the vocals recordings, all the producing......
Amazing!
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One other little tidbit (it is on the internet so I can't confirm if it was true)...
Eric Clapton was once asked by a reporter what it was like to be the best guitarist in the world. He responded, "I don't know, ask Prince"
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One of the last musicians who really could do it all. I believe he could play 4-5 instruments as well as write his own music, choreography, and even manage his business- successfully.
What many don't know, Prince was a Conservative Republican - http://hollowverse.com/prince/
So now Minnesota is down to two remaining Conservative Republicans.
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Report: Prince Suffered Drug Overdose Days Before Death
by Daniel Nussbaum
21 Apr 2016
Breitbart Hollywood (http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/04/21/report-prince-suffered-drug-overdose-days-death/)
Late pop icon Prince reportedly received drug overdose treatment just six days before his untimely death at age 57 on Thursday, reports TMZ.
Prince’s private plane made an emergency landing in Moline, Illinois on Friday and the singer was rushed to a local hospital. At the time, representatives for Prince said the singer had been battling a severe case of the flu.
But according to a report from TMZ, Prince received a “save shot” at the hospital, medication used to treat opiate overdoses. The singer was reportedly advised to stay in the hospital for 24 hours, but left after just three when his request for a private room was rejected.
The following evening, the singer appeared at a dance party near his Minnesota home, where he showed off a new guitar and piano, but did not sing. Cryptically, the singer told fans to “wait a few days before you waste any prayers.”
Prince was found unresponsive Thursday morning in an elevator at his Paisley Park compound in Minnesota. He was later pronounced dead on the scene.
The Carver County Sheriff’s Office is currently investigating the circumstances surrounding the pop star’s death, though no signs of foul play have been reported. An autopsy is scheduled to be performed Friday.
Prince — full name Prince Rogers Nelson — was one of the best-selling artists of all time, with more than 100 million records sold.
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Report: Prince Suffered Drug Overdose Days Before Death
by Daniel Nussbaum
21 Apr 2016
Breitbart Hollywood (http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/04/21/report-prince-suffered-drug-overdose-days-death/)
Late pop icon Prince reportedly received drug overdose treatment just six days before his untimely death at age 57 on Thursday, reports TMZ.
Prince’s private plane made an emergency landing in Moline, Illinois on Friday and the singer was rushed to a local hospital. At the time, representatives for Prince said the singer had been battling a severe case of the flu.
But according to a report from TMZ, Prince received a “save shot” at the hospital, medication used to treat opiate overdoses. The singer was reportedly advised to stay in the hospital for 24 hours, but left after just three when his request for a private room was rejected.
The following evening, the singer appeared at a dance party near his Minnesota home, where he showed off a new guitar and piano, but did not sing. Cryptically, the singer told fans to “wait a few days before you waste any prayers.”
Prince was found unresponsive Thursday morning in an elevator at his Paisley Park compound in Minnesota. He was later pronounced dead on the scene.
The Carver County Sheriff’s Office is currently investigating the circumstances surrounding the pop star’s death, though no signs of foul play have been reported. An autopsy is scheduled to be performed Friday.
Prince — full name Prince Rogers Nelson — was one of the best-selling artists of all time, with more than 100 million records sold.
Interesting but that contradicts what his DJ said this afternoon. He said he went to the hospital for influenza that he was fighting for several weeks but checked himself out. He refused to take the drugs the doctors gave him, part of being a Jehovah's Witness.
I guess we have to wait for the autopsy to find out what is true.
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Yeah, I was under the impression he wasn't a drug user. It's a TMZ report, for what it's worth.
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If it's any indication of the gravity of the situation, Drudge Report has gone purple in mourning.
http://www.drudgereport.com/
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Illicit drugs, will people EVER learn?
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Also, a correction to my post above. I just read he could play 27 instruments masterfully, not 5. His entire album "For You" is all him, all the instruments, all the vocals recordings, all the producing......
I've heard that too, just unheard of talent. Recall reading an article about him 10 years ago or so. In addition to his instrumental ability, we know he mastered every end of the business with smashing success, but what the article brought out is that he really knew music. Theory, form, arrangement, genres, and the entire history and artists of jazz, gospel, soul, R&B, funk and so on to the finest detail. Literally a walking encyclopedia and a student of the art.
It's sad anytime to see the icons of your generation die off, but this guy was a true living treasure of knowledge and experience. Eccentric as hell, but what a huge loss to the music world.
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If it's any indication of the gravity of the situation, Drudge Report has gone purple in mourning.
http://www.drudgereport.com/
Dallas tonight. That's the Omni Hotel lit up. They actually have a rotating light show tribute right now. If it is going on tomorrow, I'm going to try to run up tomorrow night with my big Hasselblad and get a good high resolution photo.
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Believe it or not .. he couldn't read music. :shrug:
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In a few days, we'll merge the separate thread about Prince into this one.
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Blues guitarist legend Lonnie Mack
http://blogs.post-gazette.com/arts-entertainment/pop-noise/46490-rip-blues-guitar-great-lonnie-mack
Blues guitar great Lonnie Mack, who visited Pittsburgh many times in his heyday, has died at age 74, according to Alligator Records.
The guitarist born near Cincinnati first hit the charts in 1963, influenced by T-Bone Walker and Merle Travis. He was noted as an influence on Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, among others.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3554087/Prince-dies-aged-57.html
Prince 'overdosed a week ago on Percocet taken for a chronic hip problem': Star suffered for years 'but refused to get an operation because of his Jehovah's Witness faith'
Prince overdosed on the opiate Percocet six days before he died and had to be given a 'save shot' sources said
Drug is a highly-addictive painkiller that contains acetaminophen and oxycodone and is used to treat acute pain
Friends said he had long-term hip issues but was rumored to refuse surgery because he was a Jehovah's Witness
Pop superstar's autopsy began today, although the results of the investigation could take weeks, officials said
Prince's private plane made an emergency landing in Moline, Illinois, so he could be rushed to hospital last week
The 57-year-old music icon was then seen on Wednesday at a Walgreens pharmacy looking 'frail and nervous'
He died aged 57 at his Paisley Park estate in Minnesota on Thursday after being found unresponsive in an elevator
Legendary singer and songwriter sold more than 100million records in his sparkling 40-year music career
Prince was known for his sexually charged lyrics and was romantically linked to a number of male and female stars
See more of the latest news updates on Prince as he is found dead aged 57 at his Minnesota estate
By Ollie Gillman and Kelly Mclaughlin For Dailymail.com
Published: 10:12 EST, 22 April 2016 | Updated: 13:09 EST, 22 April 2016
Prince overdosed on Percocet he was taking for a chronic hip problem he had been suffering for years after refusing to have an operation because of his strict Jehovah's Witness faith, sources have claimed.
The pop superstar died yesterday aged 57 and is said to have overdosed on the highly addictive painkiller six days earlier, TMZ reported.
Prince had used a cane to help him walk for years after causing irreparable damage to his hips with his lively stage performances.
He had long needed a double hip replacement, but was rumored to have turned down surgery because it would require a blood transfusion - which conflicted with his religious beliefs.
The Purple Rain star took so many Percocet pills that he had to be given a 'save shot' after his private plane made an emergency landing so he could be rushed to hospital last Friday, sources close to the star claimed.
Meanwhile, a source told People that Prince had been battling an 'ongoing illness'.
'The people close to him were very concerned for his health and indicated he'd been undergoing treatments which made his immune system weak,' the source said.
Entertainment Tonight's Kevin Frazier told CBS that Prince did have surgery on his hips but was still struggling with pain, as well as having issues with his ankles.
'The hip and ankle issues were a problem for him for so long, and for a man who loved to move and dance so much, it really bothered him,' Frazier said.
News of the alleged overdose came as an autopsy into Prince's death opened, although its results could take weeks.
Last night pictures emerged of Prince walking out of a Walgreens pharmacy just 15 hours before he was pronounced dead. It is not known whether he was picking up Percocet or any other prescription.
Prince's private plane made an emergency landing in Moline, Illinois, on Friday after he performed in Atlanta so he could be rushed to hospital.
Though his representatives said he was battling the flu, multiple sources told TMZ that doctors gave him a 'save shot', which is usually given in dire circumstances to drug overdose victims.
The sources said doctors advised Prince to stay at the hospital for 24 hours, but when he wasn't given a private room, he and his representatives decided to leave. When he left the hospital, Prince 'was not doing well', the sources added.
He was released three hours later and made an appearance at a party in Minnesota the next day, telling fans to 'wait a few days before you waste any prayers'.
Prince was then found unresponsive in the elevator at his suburban Paisley Park estate in Minnesota at 9.43am EST on Thursday and was pronounced dead less than 30 minutes later.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3554087/Prince-dies-aged-57.html#ixzz46a3huWJu
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That's too bad. I understand that pain and you will do almost anything for it to stop.
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When in the world did he become a JW, because his career ..... yeesh
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When in the world did he become a JW, because his career ..... yeesh
2001.
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2001.
thanks
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This actually does clarify some of the conflicting stories about the OD but also refusing medical treatment due to being JW. It wasn't an illict drug over dose, but prescription pain killers can be just as bad. He probably refused surgery due to getting a blood transfusion, something JWs oppose so he was managing a lot of pain.
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Dang was hoping the drugs wasn't true.
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This actually does clarify some of the conflicting stories about the OD but also refusing medical treatment due to being JW. It wasn't an illict drug over dose, but prescription pain killers can be just as bad. He probably refused surgery due to getting a blood transfusion, something JWs oppose so he was managing a lot of pain.
I'm sure that many habits he 'suffered' under, were verboten to Jehovah's Witnesses.
Gimme a break.
It's Michael Jackson redux. Nobody around the man was able to utter a warning or say "HELL NO!"
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Wait for the autopsy. If you have chronic pain it is NOT a moral failing, to consume prescription pain meds.
Rush Limbo did.
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Wait for the autopsy. If you have chronic pain it is NOT a moral failing, to consume prescription pain meds.
Rush Limbo did.
I know......just sad to see. He was young.
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Chevy's tribute to Prince
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"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Love this one. 2004 RnRHOF
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y&feature=youtu.be
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"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Love this one. 2004 RnRHOF
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y&feature=youtu.be
Beautiful. Watching him play a guitar was a thing of beauty.
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Beautiful. Watching him play a guitar was a thing of beauty.
He rocked it on that one. Loved the ending!
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Beautiful. Watching him play a guitar was a thing of beauty.
That was fantastic.
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That was fantastic.
Wasn't it. I loved the devil may care attitude!
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The Death Of Prince And The Death of Jesus
Despite reveling in sexually explicit material, Prince also wrote more explicitly Christian lyrics than any mainstream musician of that era not named Bono.
By Hans Fiene
April 22, 2016
The Federalist (http://thefederalist.com/2016/04/22/the-death-of-prince-and-the-death-of-jesus/)
In 2004, I went to see Prince at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis during his “Musicology” tour. His set was somewhere around a 60/30/10 split of the hits, deep cuts, and material from his new album, featuring an early, riotous performance of “Let’s Go Crazy,” a haunting acoustic version of “Little Red Corvette” mid-show, and a soaring, 20-minute encore of “Purple Rain” featuring a guitar solo that tore the feels out of your heart with thick, screaming notes forged from electrified steel vibrations and pure catharsis, notes that made you wonder why, if sounds like this were possible, people wasted their time listening to anything else.
I’m nowhere near a concert junkie, but I’ve seen my fair share of high-profile artists on stage, many of whom are known for the quality of their live shows. If I were to rank the best live acts I’ve ever seen, there’s Prince in first place and there’s “it doesn’t matter because no one else is even close to Prince” in second.
If I remember correctly, I paid around 70 bucks for my ticket to that show, but if I’d paid over a thousand, and all Prince had performed was that encore of “Purple Rain,” I wouldn’t have felt an ounce of buyer’s remorse.
Falling in Love with Prince
Although I was always aware of Prince’s music growing up, I didn’t really become a fan until I bought an $8 copy of “Purple Rain” at a used CD store when I was in high school in the late ’90s. Growing up as the son of a conservative Lutheran pastor in a conservative Indiana town surrounded by relatively conservative Hoosier friends, I never found anyone who was terribly eager to devour both discs of “Sign O’ the Times” with me on a road trip or to accept my “try to hit all the high notes in ‘Kiss’ without developing vocal nodules” challenge. Likewise, years later, when I decided to become a conservative Lutheran pastor myself, I didn’t find many more Prince aficionados at the seminary or in my congregations.
This is, of course, something I understand. Prince’s penchant for pumping his music full of funk and jazz influences wasn’t terribly appealing to many red-state rockers who were raised on a diet of Mellencamp and didn’t know exactly what to do with a sequin-clad pretty boy who spent half his albums falsetto-wailing an octave and a third above middle C. For attentive, Christian parents like my mother, who mostly become aware of Prince during Tipper Gore’s PMRC hearings, it made sense they didn’t want to give a fair shake to Prince’s indisputably brilliant “The Beautiful Ones” when the indefensibly filthy “Darling Nikki” was lurking just two tracks away.
But, for whatever reason, I hurdled the roadblocks that prevented so many who shared my background from embracing him. If there’s anything I wish to impart to those who didn’t join me in the purple fan club, it’s this: Even if you can’t stand the genres Prince performed, and even if you were understandably put off by his outlandish and often times obscene persona, it is an indisputable truth that Prince’s level of talent was not of this world.
For whatever reason, when God knit Prince Rogers Nelson together in his mother’s womb, he saw fit to give Prince more musical talent than virtually every other human being on the planet, bestowing on him the third-largest vocal range in pop music history, the ability to play countless instruments fluently, and a deadly command of the hook. In fact, Prince was such a prolific songwriter that he had a literal vault filled with unreleased material. (Before any haters assume all of these tracks must have not been worth releasing, remember that Prince essentially threw away arguably his greatest song before Sinead O’Conner rescued it from the waste bin and gave us one of the best female vocals of the 1990s.)
Most artists would never have been able to upstage either James Brown or Michael Jackson at any point in their careers. Prince managed to best the both of them on the same night.
Likewise, most artists would never have been able to upstage either James Brown or Michael Jackson at any point in their careers. Prince managed to best the both of them on the same night. For anyone still unable to see past aforementioned sequins and soprano screaming, close your eyes and listen to Prince casually rip off one of the best guitar solos you’ll ever hear. Eric Clapton is widely considered to be among the greatest axmen ever, and his solo on the original recording of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” is likewise considered one of his greatest feats, which means Prince’s solo at the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony is the musical equivalent of Rocky Balboa winning the heavyweight title by ripping Apollo Creed’s arms off and punching him to death with his own fists.
However, Prince didn’t always use his God-given talent to the glory of the one who gave it, as his countless songs glorifying lust and promiscuity made abundantly clear. Throughout most of his career, Prince had a regular habit of taking the brilliance his creator gave him and pumping it into throwaway, pornographic songs that, for late-to-the-Prince-party Christian fans like me, was about as disappointing as if poetry lovers discovered that, in between scribing some of the greatest poems in American history, Robert Frost wrote a thousand dirty limericks for Hustler magazine.
Despite reveling in the sexually explicit material so common in pop and rock music from the late seventies through the nineties, Prince also wrote more explicitly Christian lyrics than any mainstream musician of that era not named Bono, composing numerous tracks that praised the God who made him and that confessed the atonement of Jesus Christ, even if they confessed it in ways that wouldn’t exactly have passed doctrinal review in most orthodox Christian churches.
Likewise, while many rock stars of his era were notorious for their illicit exploits with female fans, one old Prince urban legend says that he would occasionally gather groupies together, sit them down on the floor, and read the Bible to them until they got fed up and left. I don’t have any proof of this, but considering Prince’s lifelong habit of challenging people’s preconceived notions of him, it’s not hard to imagine him, with a smirk, reading through 1 Corinthians while a handful of scantily clad women stormed out of his dressing room, irritated that their plan to hook up with a rock star had ended with an unexpected encounter with Jesus.
For Christians who prayed God would let them stop loving the sins Prince would frequently celebrate in his music, it was often frustrating to see Prince thank God for inspiring him to write music that helped inspire the “parental advisory: explicit lyrics” sticker. But the diminutive genius from Minnesota always left us with enough hope that he’d one day put his lust behind him and quit diverting his God-given talent away from nobler subject matter.
Those hopes were realized in 2001 when Prince finally jettisoned the dirtier elements of his repertoire from live shows after becoming a Jehovah’s Witness, but for orthodox Christians, it was a rather pyrrhic victory. We were certainly glad to see Prince finally embracing Ephesians 5:3-5, but hated to see it happen at the cost of him rejecting everything the Bible taught about the Trinity, the nature of Christ, and the salvation that comes to us by grace alone.
The angels in heaven certainly rejoice when a sinner turns away from his lust because he believes that Christ has freed him from that transgression. The angels weep, however, when a sinner stops committing the same sin because he’s submitting again to the yoke of slavery, thinking that he needs to open heaven with his own works because he believes that the blood Christ shed at Calvary was insufficient to win his salvation.
Speaking of the crucifixion, I don’t know if Prince stopped performing it post-conversion, but the song from “Sign o’ the Times” that was most at odds with Prince’s newfound confession of faith wasn’t actually “If I Was Your Girlfriend” but the Good Friday-centered track “The Cross.” As you may have learned if you’ve ever talked with any Jehovah’s Witnesses who have knocked on your door, they are quite insistent that Jesus didn’t die on a cross, but on a “torture stake.” Likewise, Prince’s 1987 confession that eternal life comes through faith in Christ alone was certainly at odds with the Watchtower’s “Jesus started it, you finish it” doctrine of salvation.
But if Prince was considering his countless compositions in his final moments, that’s the song I hope was dearest to his heart. In his last days, I hope Prince retained his rejection of his indecent compositions but returned to the God he confessed in his less outwardly righteous days and trusted that that everything his Father required of him was credited to him through faith in the bleeding hands of Jesus.
As I mourn the death of one of the twentieth century’s greatest talents, I hope he remembered the love of the triune God proclaimed to him in the Scriptures—love manifested for all the sinners of this world, even those who wrote “Darling Nikki,” when the Father’s only begotten Son died for their sins and rose again for their justification. As Prince Rogers Nelson drew his final breath, I hope he took the advice he gave the world nearly 30 years ago when he contemplated the final breath of Jesus Christ and sang, “black day, stormy night / no love, no hope in sight / don’t cry, he is coming / don’t die without knowing the cross.”
Hans Fiene is a Lutheran pastor in Illinois and the creator of Lutheran Satire, a series of comical videos intended to teach the Lutheran faith.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3555292/Prince-s-former-drug-dealer-reveals-extent-addiction.html
By Ryan Parry In Chanhassen, Minnesota and Emma Foster In Coachella Valley, California and Martin Gould In Chanhassen, Minnesota, For Dailymail.com
Published: 10:52 EST, 23 April 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Prince's former drug dealer tells how the legend spent $40,000 at a time on six-month supplies of Dilaudid pills and Fentanyl patches - highly addictive opioid pain killers - for 25 years
Prince's former drug dealer, who asked to be named only as Doctor D, revealed the full extent of the late-star's secret drug addiction
Doctor D revealed the singer would spend up to $40,000 a time on six-month supplies of Dilaudid pills and Fentanyl patches
Prince regularly bought drugs from Doctor D between 1984 and 2008
The dealer said the musician suffered crippling stage fright and could not get on stage and perform without the drugs
Doctor D said: 'He was always a pill man - that's why nobody ever saw him do drugs. He never shot up, or snorted cocaine'
Prince was found dead on Thursday at his home in Minnesota just days after sources claimed he overdosed on the opiate Percocet
Prince's former drug dealer has revealed the full extent of the late-star's secret drug addiction - telling how the superstar was hooked on powerful opiates for over 25 years.
Speaking exclusively to Daily Mail Online, the performer's long-time dealer - who asked to be named only as Doctor D - revealed the singer would spend up to $40,000 a time on six-month supplies of Dilaudid pills and Fentanyl patches - both highly addictive opioid pain killers.
Prince, who was found dead on Thursday at his home in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was secretly cremated in an intimate ceremony at a nondescript funeral home in Minneapolis shortly after an autopsy was completed on Friday, Radar reports.
Prince's sister Tyka Nelson and another family member reportedly spent a few minutes saying goodbye at the First Memorial Waterston Chapel before the musician was cremated.
His death came just days after sources claimed he overdosed on the opiate Percocet.
Doctor D said the musician, who he described as 'majorly addicted', regularly bought drugs from him between 1984 and 2008.
The dealer, often to the stars, said Prince suffered crippling stage fright and could not get on stage and perform without the drugs - but had a phobia of doctors so could not obtain a prescription legally.
Tragically, Doctor D suggests it could have been a physician that unknowingly contributed to Prince's death - by prescribing strong pain killers to the singer for his hip condition without knowing the extent of his secret opiate addiction.
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25 years worth of inspired dope music.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3555292/Prince-s-former-drug-dealer-reveals-extent-addiction.html
By Ryan Parry In Chanhassen, Minnesota and Emma Foster In Coachella Valley, California and Martin Gould In Chanhassen, Minnesota, For Dailymail.com
Published: 10:52 EST, 23 April 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Prince's former drug dealer tells how the legend spent $40,000 at a time on six-month supplies of Dilaudid pills and Fentanyl patches - highly addictive opioid pain killers - for 25 years
Yeah, SURE he was his drug dealer. And I'm Roland the headless Thompson gunner.
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"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Love this one. 2004 RnRHOF
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y&feature=youtu.be
Dude...he did everything short of lighting that guitar on fire. He grabbed the torch Jimi put down.
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Dude...he did everything short of lighting that guitar on fire. He grabbed the torch Jimi put down.
:beer:
I know. It was epic!
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Wouldn't a blood transfusion be highly unlikely during a hip replacement surgery? Perhaps it's just the possibility of one that makes the JWs nervous. :shrug:
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Dang was hoping the drugs wasn't true.
Yeah, me too.
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Singer Billy Paul dies at 81
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A native of Philadelphia born as Paul Williams, Billy Paul was influenced by jazz in childhood and, through experiences with rock-and-roll singers of the late 1950s and early 1960s, crafted a soul sound that came to be associated with the Philly soul that became popular in the early 1970s. Paul's biggest hit was "Me and Mrs. Jones," a song about adultery that reached number one. However, his success as a mainstream artist was derailed when the record industry dumped a protest piece, "Am I Black Enough for You?" as the next single against Paul's better judgment. Despite the commercial setback, Paul continued to release a mix of sultry, sexually implicit soul music and socially conscious protest music through the 1970s; he continued to perform for several years after mostly ceasing recording new music. A 2001 lawsuit Paul levied against his former producers and record company proved to be a landmark in "Hollywood accounting," the misrepresentations that record companies make to stiff performers out of their contractual earnings.
Paul died April 24 of pancreatic cancer.
Death notice from SoulTracks.com (http://www.soultracks.com/story-billy-paul-dies)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Paul)
Paul's signature hit, "Me and Mrs. Jones:"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2v98PGBZH4
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Re: Billy Paul. I remember discussing him in the Juke Box.
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Look who's turning on Prince's legacy
Reaction erupts over stunning social views expressed in 2008 interview
Published: 12 hours ago
Prince, the rock icon whose sudden death at age 57 last week left the music industry reeling, followed his own drumbeat in his lyrics, music and lifestyle.
He also, apparently, took a narrow path in the entertainment industry on the issue of homosexuality.
Because while Bruce Springsteen and others have decided to deprive North Carolina fans of concerts because of the state’s law protecting women and girls from men in public restrooms, Prince insisted the Bible condemned homosexual behavior, and he concurred.
At Digital Music News, Paul Resnikoff concluded Prince “was a gay-bashing homophobe.”
“Prince was a fearless innovator, and known for challenging societal boundaries and gender definitions,” Resnikoff wrote. “But maybe he wasn’t so comfortable with his sexuality, after all.”
Look at the truth of the homosexual issue, in “Outlasting the Gay Revolution” or “A Queer Thing Happened to America: And What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been,” both at the WND Superstore.
He cited a 2008 interview by Claire Hoffman in the New Yorker that reported Prince’s social views.
“When asked about his perspective on social issues – gay marriage, abortion – Prince tapped his Bible and said, ‘God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out. He was, like, ‘Enough,'” the reporter quoted him saying.
The singer, producer, songwriter and showman was found dead at his Paisley Park estate in Chanhassen, Minnesota, last Thursday. TMZ reported the singer was treated for a drug overdose just six days before his death, according to multiple sources. The London Daily Mail said a former drug dealer claimed the superstar was on opiates for much of his last 25 years, spending some $40,000 at a time on six-month supplies of Dilaudid pills and Fentanyl patches.
The 2008 New Yorker story said Prince had “moved to L.A. so that he could understand the hearts and minds of the music moguls.”
“I wanted to be around people, connected to people, for work,” he was quoted saying. “You know, it’s all about religion. That’s what unites people here. They all have the same religion, so I wanted to sit down with them, to understand the way they see things, how they read Scripture.”
The interview noted his decision to become a Jehovah’s Witness.
“I don’t see it really as a conversion,” he said at the time. “More, you know, it’s a realization. It’s like Morpheus and Neo in ‘The Matrix.'”
Regarding politics, he said neither Republicans nor Democrats have it right.
Related column:
On the death of Prince by Greg Laurie
“So here’s how it is: You’ve got the Republicans, and basically they want to live according to this (pointing to Bible). But there’s the problem of interpretation, and you’ve got some churches, some people, basically doing things and saying it comes from here, but it doesn’t. And then on the opposite end of the spectrum you’ve got blue, you’ve got the Democrats, and they’re, like, ‘You can do whatever you want.’ Gay marriage, whatever. But neither of them is right.”
Digital Music noted Prince touched on morality in a 2013 track called “Da Bourgeoise.”
He wrote:
Yesterday I saw you kickin’ it with another girl
You was all wrapped up around her waist
Last time I checked, you said you left the dirty world
Well it appears that wasn’t the case.
Further in the song, Prince sings “a man’s only good for a rainy day” and maybe you’re “just another bearded lady at the cabaret.”
Buzzfeed reported Prince once wrote a song titled “Donald Trump (Black Version),” published on a 1990 album called “Pandemonium” by the R&B group The Time.
Prince Rogers Nelson
Earlier this month, Prince Rogers Nelson, known simply as Prince, said he wasn’t feeling well, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and canceled at least one concert in the city.
Some days later, he took the stage in Atlanta to perform. After that concert, the singer’s plane made an emergency landing to take him to the hospital with what a representative said was the flu.
He was treated for three hours at the Moline, Illinois, area hospital and then released. Prince later told fans he felt fine, but one source said at the time of the hospital treatment the superstar was “not doing well,” the Daily Mail reported.
According to TMZ, though, “Multiple sources in Moline tell us, Prince was rushed to a hospital and doctors gave him a ‘save shot’ … typically administered to counteract the effects of an opiate.
“Our sources further say doctors advised Prince to stay in the hospital for 24 hours. His people demanded a private room, and when they were told that wasn’t possible … Prince and co. decided to bail. The singer was released 3 hours after arriving and flew home.”
On Thursday, a forensics team and medical examiner responded to his home, and members of the Carver County Sheriff’s Department confirmed there had been a death.
The Carver County Sheriff’s Office said Prince was found in an elevator at Paisley Park. They performed CPR but were unable to revive him. He was pronounced dead on the scene at 10:07 a.m. Central Time.
The musician, born in Minneapolis, published 39 studio albums. The 1984 “Purple Rain” was perhaps his best-known, spawning a movie of the same name. His net worth was reportedly over $300 million.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/04/look-whos-turning-on-princes-legacy/#yV5DMiFYkdBVlHye.99
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http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/04/26/princes-sister-says-singer-had-no-will-asks-to-be-appointed-estate-executor.html?intcmp=hpbt4
Prince's sister says the superstar musician had no known will when he died, and filed paperwork Tuesday asking a Minneapolis court appoint a special administrator to oversee his estate.
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The amount of money Prince left behind is unclear. A fortune originally estimated in the hundreds of millions could be much, much less, and future earnings off the pop star's catalogue and brand could dwarf what he died with.
Prince owned a dozen properties in and around his famous Paisley Park complex in suburban Minneapolis: mostly rural pieces of land and some houses for family members. Public records show those properties were worth about $27 million in 2016.
Prince sold over 100 million albums on his lifetime, according to
Warner Music Group. And Pollstar, a concert industry magazine, said that in the years that his tours topped the charts — 10 years over four decades performing — the tours raked in $225 million in ticket sales. Prince's best-earning touring year, when he took in $87.4 million, was 2004, the year he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and two decades after the soundtrack to "Purple Rain" went multi-platinum.
But what remained in Prince's hands is, by any estimate, less than the sum of ticket and album sales. In every record deal, a cut goes to the label, background performers and music publishers, though Prince published and wrote his own songs. Concert ticket revenue is split among the venue, the promoter, staff and the cost of travelling around. And Prince was known to throw expensive parties. Court battles in recent years suggest money wasn't free flowing.
In April 2013, Prince lost a suit filed in New York State's Supreme Court brought by perfume maker Revelations Perfume and Cosmetics Inc. for failing to promote the "3121" perfume line. He was ordered to pay $4.4 million; he never did. Instead, plaintiff lawyers went searching for assets, found about $3 million in various Minnesota bank accounts, and used court orders to freeze them, according to Brian Slipakoff, a New York lawyer who represented the perfume maker. Prince settled for a lower amount shortly after.
His brother-in law said Prince was awake for 6 days then they found him dead in the elevator. No will either. He was cremated.
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http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/04/26/princes-sister-says-singer-had-no-will-asks-to-be-appointed-estate-executor.html?intcmp=hpbt4
His brother-in law said Prince was awake for 6 days then they found him dead in the elevator. No will either. He was cremated.
What happens to the properties. You would think the family members living in a house would get the deed to the house etc, but how many of them could pay their own taxes. I wouldn't be to surprised if the whole extended family was dependent on him at some point.
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What happens to the properties. You would think the family members living in a house would get the deed to the house etc, but how many of them could pay their own taxes. I wouldn't be to surprised if the whole extended family was dependent on him at some point.
I heard on the radio yesterday that the property he died at will be turned into a Prince museum. Now that he is dead they are predicting he will sell more albums after he died than Micheal Jackson has, MJ has sold over a billion dollars worth. Don't know who will get that cash? I read that in that state if no will was left the next of kin gets everything. This is major cash....it may be in courts for a long time?
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He was a Jehovah's Witness.
But I heard one thing; that Prince had NOT SLEPT for 154 hours prior to his death, I mean, anyone who does that is heading to death, that's crazy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/04/26/prince-reportedly-didnt-sleep-for-6-days-before-his-death-could-that-have-been-fatal/
Now, the National Enquirer and it is up at Drudge is saying AIDS took a toll on him.
That latter, I don't know.
I'm sure the guy was very talented, flawed but not overly so. A lot of people are very sad with his passing, so I fully respect that, he meant a lot to folks.
He sounds like he was an alright guy, maybe fell victim to his own demons as they say.
I just had to rant on this, I've followed it some.
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He was a Jehovah's Witness.
But I heard one thing; that Prince had NOT SLEPT for 154 hours prior to his death, I mean, anyone who does that is heading to death, that's crazy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/04/26/prince-reportedly-didnt-sleep-for-6-days-before-his-death-could-that-have-been-fatal/
Now, the National Enquirer and it is up at Drudge is saying AIDS took a toll on him.
That latter, I don't know.
I'm sure the guy was very talented, flawed but not overly so. A lot of people are very sad with his passing, so I fully respect that, he meant a lot to folks.
He sounds like he was an alright guy, maybe fell victim to his own demons as they say.
I just had to rant on this, I've followed it some.
My daughter lives in Minneapolis, and she's talked with us about how deeply loved he was there.
All kinds of buildings and the 35W bridge were lit in purple after he died. She said her neighbor was in mourning.
He really was respected for his talent.
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My daughter lives in Minneapolis, and she's talked with us about how deeply loved he was there.
All kinds of buildings and the 35W bridge were lit in purple after he died. She said her neighbor was in mourning.
He really was respected for his talent.
He was a very good person. He helped out many with careers and when some had difficult times financially.
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Philip Kives dies at 87
If you've ever seen an infomercial on TV—especially the kind selling compilation albums, where you hear short snippets of the songs on the album—you have witnessed the work of Canadian marketing guru Philip Kives, the inventor of the mass-marketed compilation album. Kives's company, K-tel, marketed a number of products (among them the Veg-O-Matic invented by Sam Popeil) but became famous for its extensive compilation albums, which often crammed as many as 20 popular hit singles onto a single album. His commercials, and their trademark style, were so ingrained into North American culture that they were regularly lampooned on the Canadian TV series SCTV.
K-tel's fortunes declined in the mid-1980s as U.S. regulations allowed for a flood of competitors and the company attempted to diversify into some bad assets (real estate and fossil fuels, both of which hit a nadir at the time); the company remains in operation, focusing mainly on its back-catalog of recordings, compiled from all the tapes they bought from the record companies for the original compilations.
Kives was 87. No cause of death was given.
Obituary from the Winnipeg Free Press (http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/music/philip-kives-founder-of-k-tel-dead-at-87-377361531.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Kives)
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Philip Kives dies at 87
If you've ever seen an infomercial on TV—especially the kind selling compilation albums, where you hear short snippets of the songs on the album—you have witnessed the work of Canadian marketing guru Philip Kives, the inventor of the mass-marketed compilation album. Kives's company, K-tel, marketed a number of products (among them the Veg-O-Matic invented by Sam Popeil) but became famous for its extensive compilation albums, which often crammed as many as 20 popular hit singles onto a single album. His commercials, and their trademark style, were so ingrained into North American culture that they were regularly lampooned on the Canadian TV series SCTV.
K-tel's fortunes declined in the mid-1980s as U.S. regulations allowed for a flood of competitors and the company attempted to diversify into some bad assets (real estate and fossil fuels, both of which hit a nadir at the time); the company remains in operation, focusing mainly on its back-catalog of recordings, compiled from all the tapes they bought from the record companies for the original compilations.
Kives was 87. No cause of death was given.
Obituary from the Winnipeg Free Press (http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/music/philip-kives-founder-of-k-tel-dead-at-87-377361531.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Kives)
But wait, there’s more.
Or maybe not!
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3572880/Prince-meet-Californian-drug-treatment-specialist-just-24-hours-collapsed-died-overdose-home.html
According to the Minnesota Star Tribune, Dr Kornfeld runs the Recovery Without Walls facility in Mill Valley California.
Dr Kornfeld's lawyer William Mauzy said the clinician's son Andrew traveled to the star's compound in Paisley Park, Chanhassen in Minnesota on April 21 to greet the star.
According to Mauzy, who is based in Minneapolis, Andrew Kornfeld flew to see the star. 'The plan was to quickly evaluate his health and devise a treatment plan. The doctor was planning on a lifesaving mission.'
However, after arriving on Thursday morning after taking a red-eye flight from California, Dr Kornfeld found the star collapsed in a lift in compound.
It is believed the star may have overdosed on painkillers just hours before medical help arrived.
Andrew Kornfeld found Prince's body in the lift when he was searching for the singer along with two of his staff.
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Just another celeb junkie...
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Just another celeb junkie...
Many people are given legitimate prescriptions, for pain meds. Powerful opioids, highly addictive.
The part of medicine which is efficient, is handing the meds out.
The part of medicine which is deficient, is getting folks off the meds.
His is an unfortunate mistake. I do not blame him. He had initiated his recovery.
One of the great hidden problems in America, is the situation with elderly addicted to pain meds.
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One of the great hidden problems in America, is the situation with elderly addicted to pain meds.
So you are saying that The Artist Formerly Known as Alive was elderly at 57?
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Prince Secretly Donated Thousands to Afghan Orphans, Says Charity
Prince was famous worldwide for his music and extravagant outfits, but he was also a secret philanthropist in war-torn Afghanistan, quietly donating thousands to Scout masters caring for young orphans, a charity told AFP Thursday.
The pop icon, who died suddenly last month at the age of 57, gave tens of thousands of dollars to Physiotherapy and Rehabilitative Support for Afghanistan (PARSA), an NGO supporting vulnerable women and children, according to its executive director.
His donations, facilitated by Seattle philanthropist Betty Tisdale, have funded training for 100 Scout masters now caring for some 2,000 children including orphans, the charity's Marnie Gustavson said.
The musician's secret interest in Afghanistan began after a visit to the country by Tisdale in 2010, Gustavson said.
Then 87, Tisdale, who died last year, was well known for her work with orphans in Vietnam, arranging for 200 to be airlifted out of the country after the fall of Saigon during the Vietnam War in 1975.
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/208546-prince-secretly-donated-thousands-to-afghan-orphans-says-charity
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Famed voice-over icon Peter Thomas dies at 91 (narrator of Forensic Files)
Peter Thomas, who died April 30 at the age of 91, was a narrator with a great distinctive voice.
He was known as the narrator of Forensic Files AKA Mystery Detectives. He also did many commercials, documentaries, and other voice-over work.
A World War II veteran himself, he was also known for his love of veterans.
RIP, Mr. Thomas
Famed voice-over icon Peter Thomas dies at 91 (http://www.naplesnews.com/news/local/famed-voice-over-icon-peter-thomas-dies-at-91-022ad336-4bbf-5cbb-e053-0100007f64ba-377801571.html)
‘Forensic Files’ Narrator Peter Thomas Dies at 91 (https://1428elm.com/2016/05/07/forensic-files-narrator-peter-thomas-dies-at-91/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thomas_%28announcer%29)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0859354/)
If you want to hear his voice, here are some samples on YouTube:
Cool Whip Frosting Commercial - Charity Commercial Spoof (0.33) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WNxzvBO7uM)
The Christmas Story narrated by Peter Thomas (5:26) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU71QQD-AL8)
Forensic Files (0:54) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOH52TKRupk)
Forensic Files (1:41) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AH15iHCmUY)
Hallowed Grounds (5:16) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zocWt2eeGtU)
"Broadcast Pioneers" with Don Blair guest Peter Thomas.wmv (56:00) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N567W1tzVw4)
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Character actor William Schallert dies at 93
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Never particularly famous nor picky about the roles he would take on, Schallert had an extensive body of work in film and television as a supporting and bit player, a career that stretched from 1946 until his retirement in 2014. He had, literally, hundreds of films and television series to his credit. The only significant starring role he had was on The Patty Duke Show (whose titular star died earlier this year), as the lead characters' father. As a union boss, he was more influential; as head of the Screen Actors Guild, Schallert oversaw a strike to draw royalties from home video sales, the resolution of which (one that angered the rank and file) led to his ouster after one term.
Schallert experienced peripheral neuropathy in his later years; no precise cause of death was stated.
Obituary from The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/arts/television/william-schallert-father-on-the-patty-duke-show-dies-at-93.html?_r=1)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Schallert)
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Susannah Mushatt Jones, world's oldest living person and last living American to have been alive in the 19th century, dies at 116
Death report from CBS News (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/worlds-oldest-person-susannah-mushatt-jones-dies-at-116/)
Obituary from the Huntsville Times (http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/05/susannah_mushatt_jones_worlds.html)
Mushatt was born July 6, 1899 in Huntsville, Alabama. Her family worked as sharecroppers and, before slavery was abolished, as slaves on the same plot of land. Determined to break out of that life, but unable to afford attending college, she moved to Brooklyn and worked as a cook and housekeeper. She bore no children of her own, and no mention in the obituaries I have seen have made note of who Mr. Jones, her presumptive husband, was.
She did not give a secret to her longevity, although she noted she was a believer in God, did not smoke or drink, and ate a diet rich in meats and vegetables. Her grandmother also was believed to live to 117, and so extreme longevity ran in the family.
Jones had fallen ill ten days prior and died in her sleep. At the time, she had been living in public housing since the 1980s.
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... Family members said last year that they credited her long life to love of family and generosity to others. Judge said at the time that she believed it helped that her aunt grew up on a rural farm, where she ate fresh fruits and vegetables that she picked herself.
After she moved to New York, Jones worked with a group of her fellow high school graduates to start a scholarship fund for young African-American women to go to college. She also was active in her public housing building's tenant patrol until she was 106. ...
NBC New York (http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/NYC-Worlds-Oldest-Person-Dies-in-Brooklyn-at-Age-116-Susannah-Jones-379298111.html)
Photos and video at link.
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Singer Julius La Rosa, fired on Godfrey show, dies at 86
Steve Karnowski
AP
May 15, 2016
Julius La Rosa, a pop singer known for hits including "Eh, Cumpari," whose firing live on the air by Arthur Godfrey in 1953 overshadowed his successes that followed, has died at age 86.
More (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c7a5533e47f84791bdffa4e1da50ccc2/singer-julius-la-rosa-fired-godfrey-show-dies-86)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_La_Rosa)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0488485/)
Julius La Rosa - Eh, Cumpari (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JtlzAIm5D4)
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Singer Julius La Rosa, fired on Godfrey show, dies at 86
Steve Karnowski
AP
May 15, 2016
More (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c7a5533e47f84791bdffa4e1da50ccc2/singer-julius-la-rosa-fired-godfrey-show-dies-86)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_La_Rosa)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0488485/)
Julius La Rosa - Eh, Cumpari (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JtlzAIm5D4)
Julius La Rosa's firing was just the beginning of the ruination of Arthur Godrey's image and reputation, and Godfrey had
nobody to blame but himself.
What led up to the La Rosa firing: Godfrey might have had a public image as America's folksy and slightly dippy uncle,
but behind the scenes he was a tyrant who treated his cast like infants. Not long before the La Rosa incident, Godfrey
ordered the entire company to ballet lessons; La Rosa wasn't the only member of the company to balk. Numerous
histories of network radio and early television also record Godfrey fuming over the fact that La Rosa often got more
fan mail than he did. "Young and good looking," John Dunning would write in On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-
Time Radio, "La Rosa seemed poised on the brink of a major career, and there were no stars on Arthur Godfrey's
shows."
19 October 1953: La Rosa sings "I'll Take Manhattan" at Godfrey's request for his big closing spot. As La Rosa finishes,
Godfrey purrs, "Thanks ever so much, Julie. That was Julie's swan song with us. He goes out on his own now, as his
own star, soon to be seen in his own programs, and I know you wish him Godspeed the same as I do." As eventual
CBS historian Robert Metz would record it, in CBS: Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye, "Julie was still just a kid. He
didn't know that a swan song was the legendary last utterance of a dying swan. Somebody had to tell him he'd just
been canned---on the air."
It didn't stop there. The moment the show was off the air, Godfrey executed his musical director Archie Bleyer. Bleyer's
crime: He'd formed Cadence Records with La Rosa, and the label's recent offerings included one by Don McNeil, the
longtime host of radio's nationally-syndicated The Breakfast Club, a rival to Godfrey's morning program. The next
morning, the firings of La Rosa and Bleyer were national headlines. Godfrey in his damn fool hubris counterattacked---
his accusations included claiming La Rosa had lost his humility, something anyone who knew La Rosa well would call
bull, especially considering La Rosa's politeness in refusing to criticise Godfrey publicly while thanking him for giving
him his big break---and only looked like an idiot for doing so. (He looked like an even bigger idiot when singer Ruth
Wallis, whose stock in trade was raunchy double-entendre novelty records, recorded "Dear Mr. Godfrey," a satire
on the La Rosa firing which took plenty of shots at Godfrey's "no humility" comment---and the record made the
national top 20.)
Then Godfrey took apart everything he'd built. He rejected Bill Lawrence's return to the show after his Army stint---
Godfrey claimed Lawrence's "bobby soxer fans" drove him nuts, but the real reason was Lawrence's romance with
fellow cast member Janette Davis: Godfrey objected to cast members dating or romancing each other. Which is
why many thought the real reason he dumped Archie Bleyer was because Bleyer was romancing Janet Ertel of the
Chordettes---who also recorded for Cadence, and who were also keys to the Godfrey show. (Bleyer and Ertel married
a year after the great Godfrey purges; the marriage lasted until her death in 1988, and Bleyer died a year later.) There
were rumours, too, that one of the reasons La Rosa got into Godfrey's crosshairs was his romance with Dorothy
McGuire of the singing McGuire Sisters, at a time when McGuire was separated from her husband and contemplating
divorce; Godfrey was said to have pressured McGuire to end the romance.
Godfrey also rid himself of the Mariners, the Hawaiian singer Haleloke, and producer Larry Puck---whose crime,
apparently, was dating yet another Godfrey company member, Marion Marlowe. His shows began folding one after
the other until he finally took himself off television in 1959 during his battle with lung cancer; after surgery to
remove the infected lung, Godfrey remained on radio until 1972, a shadow of what he'd once been.
La Rosa was only wounded temporarily from the Godfrey firing. Ed Sullivan snapped him up for a round of gigs
on his own Sunday night variety show. La Rosa would have the biggiest hit of his career, "Eh, Cumpari," after
he was dumped by Godfrey. The hit records might dry up in short order, but La Rosa had a couple of television
shows of his own later in the 1950s. In the 1960s, he made a second career as both a disc jockey (on New
York WNEW-AM, the city's longtime home of the Great American Songbook long before anyone called those
songs and that music that name) and a kind of saloon singer who graduated to touring high-end nightclubs.
He earned a lot of respect for that second career. He even landed a daytime Emmy nomination for a brief
role on the NBC soap Another World in the 1980s.
He did pretty good for the guy who's still remembered mostly for being fired on the air. It may have been
CBS president Frank Stanton, listening to Godfrey bitch about La Rosa's alleged lack of humility, who
suggested to the mercurial Godfrey, "You hired him on the air, why don't you fire him on the air," a suggestion
Stanton eventually admitted was a big mistake. (La Rosa's Navy buddies tipped Godfrey off to his talent,
and Godfrey put him on, saying after his spot, "When Julie comes back from the Navy he'll come see us"---
a bona fide job offer.)
To the day he died, Julius La Rosa credited Godfrey with his success---but invariably added, "He wasn't a
very nice man." There was even talk of Godfrey doing a reunion project with those he worked with
in the salad days---including La Rosa, who decided enough time was gone that it couldn't hurt. The project
was killed when Godfrey tried to pressure La Rosa into going public with "the real reason" he got canned on
the air: La Rosa supposedly asked out of his contract to go on his own. Knowing that to be a lie, La Rosa
quietly began to remind his old boss about the ballet lessons dispute---and Godfrey exploded. La Rosa
left post haste, and the reunion project died.
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By Yours Truly
Julius La Rosa, who died 12 May, just month after moving from New York's high-end bucolic village of Irvington to
Wisconsin, could have been very embittered over his on-the-air firing by radio and television legend Arthur Godfrey.
Instead, La Rosa took so high a road in the aftermath that it may have precipitated the end of Godfrey's folksy
image and, for all intent and purpose, Godfrey's own career.
La Rosa was a Navy boy whose buddies nudged his talent and name into Godfrey's orbit in the first place. Somehow,
they convinced Godfrey to give the kid a listen. It was enough to convince Godfrey to put La Rosa on the air for
a song. "When Julie comes back from the Navy," Godfrey told his listeners, "he'll come and see us."
It wasn't just a little show-biz shuck, it was a bona fide job offer. When the Brooklyn kid's Navy hitch ended in 1950,
Godfrey proved as good as his word. La Rosa became a feature on all Godfrey's shows, simulcast on radio and
television alike.
La Rosa was a good looking kid with a sincere innocence. He looked to all the world like the big break everybody
hopes to get and the kind of unspoiled soul everybody hopes gets it. That's because nobody yet knew the turmoil
that had begun underwriting the Godfrey shows, including Arthur Godfrey and His Friends, Arthur Godfrey's
Talent Scouts, and Arthur Godfrey Time, the latter the radio program which had made Godfrey's name
in the first place after he'd broken out from a slot in Washington, D.C.
The turmoil's cause was Godfrey himself. The more popular he became on the air, the more of a tyrant he became
behind the scenes.
Godfrey began treating his cast and company, known colloquially as the Little Godfreys, like infants. None---not even
the hugely popular La Rosa---could grant interviews without his permission. Whenever Godfrey took up a passion,
the Little Godfreys were expected to join in no questions asked. And if any of them received even one fan letter more
than Godfrey during a given week, heaven help them.
That may have been the beginning of La Rosa's end, in fact. La Rosa actually had begun receiving more fan mail
than the boss. As John Dunning would put it in On the Air: The History of Old-Time Radio, "there were no
stars on Arthur Godfrey's show."
There was also the little matter of ballet lessons. Godfrey ordered them for his entire company. Including La Rosa.
Like many men of that generation, La Rosa didn't think highly of the idea. Unlike many men of that generation, La
Rosa worked for a boss to whom reason had become something close to a Communist plot. That boss felt likewise
about agents---if they happened to represent even one of his Little Godfreys for non-show bookings he already
didn't like them taking.
La Rosa himself hired an agent as his hitmaking career seemed to take hold. He'd later say he was young and full
of himself about hiring the agent. He'd only done what most music successes might have done. Unfortunately, La
Rosa was still mostly an unspoiled innocent. He could hardly have known what awaited him on 19 October 1953.
Those who were there said the rehearsals for the show were suffocating for their tension. Come air time, Godfrey
held La Rosa for the slot at the show's end which would be heard on radio alone. Earlier in the broadcast, Godfrey
made a show of needling La Rosa's growing popularity. Then, he asked La Rosa to sing "I'll Take Manhattan" for
his big finisher, and La Rosa obliged happily.
As La Rosa finished the song, Godfrey purred, "Thanks ever so much, Julie. That was Julie's swan song with us.
He goes out on his own now, as hisown star, soon to be seen in his own programs, and I know you wish him
Godspeed the same as I do."
"Julie was still just a kid," CBS historian Robert Metz would record in CBS: Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye.
"He didn't know that a swan song was the legendary last utterance of a dying swan. Somebody had to tell him
he'd just been canned---on the air."
La Rosa wasn't the only Little Godfrey to face the boss's guillotine, though the next execution didn't happen
in front of millions of listeners. The moment the show went off the radio air, Godfrey dumped his musical
director Archie Bleyer.
Bleyer had formed Cadence Records and La Rosa was one of his launch artists. The label's offerings also
featured one by Don McNeil, the longtime host of radio's nationally-syndicated morning show The Breakfast
Club. McNeil's show had never quite landed ratings in Godfrey's stratosphere but you couldn't tell that
to Godfrey, who still considered him a rival. And, who was probably waiting for the perfect excuse to let
Bleyer go.
The morning after, the La Rosa and Bleyer firings made national headlines, though La Rosa's---being he was
the bigger or at least far more public fish---took big precedence. For the first time in his career, Godfrey
found himself under fire. And in his damn fool hubris he counterattacked. He accused La Rosa of lacking
humility, something anyone who knew La Rosa well would have called a crock.
It only made Godfrey resemble the village idiot. He looked like an even bigger idiot when La Rosa refused to
take any but the high road, crediting Godfrey with his success and thanking him publicly for his big break.
When Ed Sullivan responded by booking La Rosa to several gigs on his popular Sunday night variety show,
Godfrey blasted Sullivan as "a dope." When La Rosa admitted to one reporter that his firing "bewildered"
him, Godfrey sniped, "Somebody must have told him to say that. He wouldn't know the meaning of a word
that big."
Comedians began working "no humility" jokes into their acts. Bawdy singer Ruth Willis, whose stock in
trade was raunchy double-entendre novelties, cut "Dear Mr. Godfrey," which satirised l'affaire La Rosa
with brutal accuracy, and it shot into the top twenty. They'd been given even more ammunition by what
Godfrey did once he'd rid himself of La Rosa and Bleyer.
One after the other, Godfrey executed Little Godfreys like the King of Hearts bellowing "off with their heads!" He
refused to re-admit Bill Lawrence to the show after Lawrence's Army hitch ended; Godfrey claimed the singer's
"bobby soxer fans" drove him nuts, but the real reason may have been Lawrence's romance with fellow Little
Godfrey Janette Davis. He rid himself of the Mariners, the Hawaiian singer Haleloke, and producer Larry Puck---
whose crime, apparently, was dating yet another Little Godfrey, Marion Marlowe.
In fact, Godfrey was so against romances between his cast members that that may have been the real seeds
of both the La Rosa and Bleyer executions. When Dorothy McGuire of the singing McGuire Sisters separated
from her husband and contemplated divorce, she fell into a romance with La Rosa. Godfrey is said to have
pressured McGuire to end the romance by hammering at the patriotic theme: after she and her husband
separated, the man went into the military and Korean War service.
Bleyer, for his part, had fallen in love with Janet Ertel, one of the Chordettes, who recorded for Cadence
Records. Godfrey dumped the Chordettes not long after he sent Bleyer to the firing squad. The couple
married and stayed that way until Ertel's death in 1988. (La Rosa, for his part, finally married in 1956,
to Rosemary Meyer, a secretary for singer/television star Perry Como.)
All of the above destroyed Godfrey's formerly folksy image and helped take the magic out of his shows;
ridding himself of Bleyer proved as big a mistake as canning La Rosa, since nobody who succeeded
Bleyer seemed to grasp what made Godfrey tick on the air quite so acutely. One after another, the Godfrey
shows began folding, on radio and television alike, until Godfrey took himself off the air all around during
his 1959 battle with lung cancer. He returned to radio and stayed until 1972, reduced to an on-air
nostalgist.
After the Ed Sullivan gigs, La Rosa had a few more record hits and a couple of brief television shows of
his own. By the 1960s, he made a second career as a New York disc jockey (on WNEW-AM, the longtime
home of the Great American Songbook long before anyone called those songs and that music by that
name), occasional actor, and nightclub singer.
La Rosa never stopped crediting Godfrey for his success, even if he tired of being reminded of the on-air
firing. Finally, La Rosa would say, simply, "He wasn't a very nice man." It was the closest La Rosa would
ever come to denouncing the injustice. He never again achieved the kind of fame he tasted on the Godfrey
shows, but La Rosa earned something a lot more enduring to keep him working for most of the rest of his
life: respect.
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It's been said that the 1956 movie The Great Man is loosely based on the career of Arthur Godfrey.
Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Man)
Watch it on YouTube before it gets yanked (1:32:05). (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Mf5f2uKFc)
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It's been said that the 1956 movie The Great Man is loosely based on the career of Arthur Godfrey.
It is---loosely. As the Wiki article noted, the key distinction is that the film's protagonist's failings are
almost entirely in private, while Godfrey's became only too public following the La Rosa and Bleyer
firings. Also, Godfrey wasn't known as any kind of serious drinker and it's tough to know what if any
kind of womaniser Godfrey might have been.
Godfrey actually came up the hard way. He left home at 14 because he thought it would ease his
family's burden (they were wiped out when the automobile destroyed the elder Godfrey's horse
businesses) and for a time was actually cared for by a prostitute who took pity on him, until he
enlisted in the Navy at 15 by lying about his age. When his first hitch ended, he returned home
to support his family when his father died. His radio life began when he went into a Coast Guard
program.
When he left the Coast Guard he became a radio announcer in Baltimore and then Washington,
surviving a near-fatal automobile accident in the interim. Godfrey caught his first major break when
Fred Allen hired him to be his announcer, when Allen featured in Texaco Star Theater on CBS.
That gig lasted only six weeks---Godfrey and Allen were oil and water, basically---but Godfrey
caught another break when, according to several CBS histories, he somehow persuaded President
Franklin Roosevelt (who was an avid listener to his Washington shows) to commission him to
fly for the Navy during World War II. (One such history has Roosevelt asking, "Can he walk?"---
Godfrey had been rejected over his old accident injuries---Godfrey had been en route a flying lesson
when the accident occurred. When the Navy aide said, "Well, yes, he can, Mr. President, but---,"
Roosevelt interjected, "Give it to him, then. I can't walk and I'm the Commander in Chief!")
Small wonder Godfrey---assigned by CBS to cover Roosevelt's funeral---almost went to pieces
on the air during the procession. (You can hear his voice waver as he described the procession and
intoned, "God bless him, Mr. Truman," referring to successor Harry Truman.) CBS was impressed
enough to give him Arthur Godfrey Time in the mornings on the national network, and his
career took off from there.
Nobody knows just when or why or how Godfrey became the complete opposite of his folksy
public image off the air. But one CBS history quoted him as having once warned his cast, "Remember
that many of you are here over the bodies I have personally slain. I've done it before and I can do it
again."
But among the better sides of him included his refusal to kowtow to southern CBS affiliates
and boot the singing Mariners---a group of Coast Guard veterans who sang barbershop style and
who were made up of two white and two black men.
Godfrey also turned an unlikely project into a best seller. He shared an agent with Edward R. Murrow.
(The agent, J.P. [Jap] Gude, had talked Murrow into narrating the project in the first place.)
When Murrow and Fred Friendly put together the spoken-word-with-radio-clips documentary albums
I Can Hear It Now, they approached Godfrey, because they planned to use the fabled clip of
Godfrey falling apart momentarily describing FDR's funeral procession. They feared Godfrey might
not approve.
So they played the portion with the Godfrey clip first. A Godfrey staffer came by to remind him of
a pressing appointment. Godfrey barked the staffer away, hollering he wanted to hear the entire
albums. Then, without being prodded to do so, Godfrey plugged the hell out of the project
incessantly on his radio and television programs, and I Can Hear It Now became the first
million selling documentary record albums.
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But wait, there’s more.
Or maybe not!
YOU ARE TERRIBLE! I love it!.....lololololol
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YOU ARE TERRIBLE! I love it!.....lololololol
:beer:
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Character actor William Schallert dies at 93
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Not a mention of his most famous role. He was in "The Trouble With Tribbles".
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Not a mention of his most famous role. He was in "The Trouble With Tribbles".
Just saw him last night on an old sitcom.
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Legendary Texas songwriter Guy Clark, 74, dies
Grammy winner and legendary songwriter Guy Clark, 74, has died, his family said Tuesday.
Guy Charles Clark was born on Nov. 6, 1941 in the West Texas town of Monahans, southwest of Odessa. He grew up in his grandmother’s hotel, where an inspiring menagerie of guests wandered through — including a wildcatter named Jack Prigg, the basis of Clark’s song “Desperados Waiting For a Train.”
...
Susanna Clark died from complications of lung cancer in 2012. Because of ongoing health problems, Guy stopped touring and recording soon after. He is survived by his son Travis and daughter-in-law Krista McMurtry Clark; grandchildren Dylan and Ellie Clark; sisters Caroline Clark Dugan and Jan Clark; manager and friend Keith Case; caretaker and sweetheart Joy Brogdon; nieces, nephews and many, many dear friends, colleagues and fans.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
Full story:
http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local-obituaries/legendary-songwriter-guy-clark-74-dies/nrN3j/ (http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local-obituaries/legendary-songwriter-guy-clark-74-dies/nrN3j/)
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Just... damn. One of my favorite songwriters. And so soon after losing Merle Haggard, too.
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Guy Clark
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guy Charles Clark (November 6, 1941 – May 17, 2016)[2] was a Grammy Award winning American Texas country and folk singer, musician, songwriter, recording artist, and performer. He has released more than twenty albums, and his songs have been recorded by other artists including Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Buffett, Lyle Lovett, Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner, and Rodney Crowell. Guy Clark won the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Folk Album: My Favorite Picture Of You.
Clark was born in Monahans, Texas and eventually settled in Nashville, where he helped create the progressive country and outlaw country genres. His songs "L.A. Freeway" and "Desperados Waiting for a Train" that helped launch his career were covered by numerous performers....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Clark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXCCvBzZxmE
Thank you for all the wonderful music, Mr. Clark.
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NOLAND, MARY ANN
Mary Anne Alfriend. Faced with the prospect of voting for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, Mary Anne Noland of Richmond chose, instead, to pass into the eternal love of God on Sunday, May 15, 2016, at the age of 68.
http://www.richmond.com/obituaries/article_c21b60bc-1153-5abd-b3c8-268cfd32eb57.html (http://www.richmond.com/obituaries/article_c21b60bc-1153-5abd-b3c8-268cfd32eb57.html)
Meshuge Mikey
geronl
Victoria33
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NOLAND, MARY ANN
Mary Anne Alfriend. Faced with the prospect of voting for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, Mary Anne Noland of Richmond chose, instead, to pass into the eternal love of God on Sunday, May 15, 2016, at the age of 68.
http://www.richmond.com/obituaries/article_c21b60bc-1153-5abd-b3c8-268cfd32eb57.html (http://www.richmond.com/obituaries/article_c21b60bc-1153-5abd-b3c8-268cfd32eb57.html)
Meshuge Mikey
geronl
Victoria33
"Drama queen." —Trump supporters, presumably
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When I die, don't bury me
In a box in a cemetery
Out in the garden'd be much better
So I could be pushin' up homegrown tomaters.
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And I played the Red River Valley
And he'd sit in the kitchen and cry
Run his fingers through seventy years of livin'
And wonder, "Lord, has every well I've drilled gone dry?"
We was friends, me and this old man
Was like desperados waitin' for a train
Like desperados waitin' for a train
Well, he's a drifter and a driller of oil wells
And an old school man of the world
He taught me how to drive his car when he was too drunk to
And he'd wink and give me money for the girls
And our lives was like some old western movie
Like desperados waitin' for a train
Like desperados waitin' for a train
From the time that I could walk, he'd take me with him
To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe
And there was old men with beer guts and dominoes
Lying 'bout their lives while they played
And I was just a kid, but they all called me "sidekick"
Was like desperados waitin' for a train
Like desperados waitin' for a train
And one day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty
And has brown tobacco stains all down his chin
Well, to me, he's one of the heroes of this country
So why's he all dressed up like them old men
Drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-two
Just like a desperado waitin' for a train
Like a desperado waitin' for a train
And then the day before he died I went to see him
I was grown and he was almost gone
So we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen
And sang another verse to that old song
Come on, Jack, that son-of-a-bitch is comin'
We're desperados waitin' for a train
Was like desperados waitin' for a train
Like desperados waitin' for a train
Like desperados waitin' for a train
The best song about long friendship unto death that I've ever heard. RIP, Guy Clark.
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The best song about long friendship unto death that I've ever heard. RIP, Guy Clark.
My favorite song of his. RIP my friend.
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CBS News Legend Morley Safer Dies One Week After ‘60 Minutes’ Retirement
Morley Safer—who, at 84, announced his retirement last week after more than five decades at CBS News, all but six years of that peerless stretch as a star correspondent for 60 Minutes—has died.
As a combat reporter in Vietnam, ducking sniper’s bullets and enemy mortars while embedded with American soldiers on patrol, “he was as cool as a hog on ice,” retired Brig. Gen. Joe Stringham, a former Green Beret commander, recalled for Morley Safer: A Reporter’s Life, an hour-long special that aired last Sunday.
More (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/13/cbs-celebrates-morley-safer-s-60-minutes-of-fame.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morley_Safer)
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Rest In Peace Morley Safer, household word.
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Wow, announce your retirement and a week later, dead. Morley must have loved what he was doing. RIP
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I retired at the age of 60. I was ready to retire at the age of 5. :laugh:
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Wow, announce your retirement and a week later, dead. Morley must have loved what he was doing. RIP
:amen:
RIP
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http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/original-beastie-boys-member-john-berry-dead-at-52-20160519 (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/original-beastie-boys-member-john-berry-dead-at-52-20160519)
Original Beastie Boys Member John Berry Dead at 52
Young. Loved them.
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Alan Young, voice of Scrooge McDuck and foil to Mister Ed, dies at 96
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Angus "Alan" Young (no relation to the AC/DC guitarist), originally born in northern England before moving to Canada in his youth, emerged as a radio star in Canada shortly after serving in World War II. His show was picked up in the United States, running on radio and then television until 1953. After some film roles and bit TV parts, Young landed his most enduring role, that of Wilbur Post, the foil to the title talking horse on the sitcom Mister Ed, which ran for 143 episodes and continues to be seen in reruns today. Young ran the official Mister Ed Web site until a couple of years before his death.
Following Mister Ed, Young moved into voice work, especially in the 1980s, when he landed the role of Scrooge McDuck, the insanely wealthy but generally good-hearted uncle to the trio of ducklings Huey, Dewey and Louie; Young voiced the character throughout the TV show DuckTales (itself seen in reruns for nearly two decades) and numerous other voice parts, both for Disney and other companies (including parts on The Smurfs). Young was still voice acting as recently as the early 2010s, voicing Scrooge for new Mickey Mouse shorts and voicing roles in the Christian radio drama Adventures in Odyssey.
Obituary from The Hollywood Reporter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/alan-young-dead-mister-ed-816846)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Young)
Alan Young in a 1964 commercial for Savings Bonds, featuring Mister Ed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2ztqWMlYy8
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http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-0521-alan-young-20160520-snap-story.html
Alan Young, the amiable comedic actor who became a TV icon in the early 1960s starring opposite a talking horse named Mister Ed, died Thursday. He was 96.
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Brought to you by the Wagonaire....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEeaal6IoI4
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Brought to you by the Wagonaire....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEeaal6IoI4
That's great, Frank! I want one. Sort of a convertible pick-up truck kind of vehicle. I guess you would have to add seat belts now.
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Brought to you by the Wagonaire....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEeaal6IoI4
Studebaker was too far ahead for the times. The Avanti, GT and Golden Hawk were innovative, stylish and fast.
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Mr. Ed bonks one off . . . wait for it! . . . Sandy Koufax! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVm-HwAkVp8)
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When I was a little kid I loved Mr. Ed. And as with most little girls, I loved horses and I wanted to have one of my own and a talking horse would have even been better. But I couldn’t have a horse, even a non-talking horse, but one year for Christmas I got this – IIRC my older brother bought it for me – The Mr. Ed talking hand puppet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOXsNm-65C8
I pulled the sting on that puppet so many times that it eventually wore out (or perhaps my parents sabotaged it). :whistle:
FWIW - Clint Eastwood Meets Mister Ed (Clint Eastwood's girl friend is played by Donna Douglas, also known as Ellie Mae Clampett.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BcXgim5Ws8
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Giants mourn passing of 3B Jim Ray Hart
San Francisco Giants via Comcast SportsNet Bay Area
May 20, 2016
The San Francisco Giants learned today that longtime Giants third baseman Jim Ray Hart passed away yesterday at the age of 74 in Acampo, California after a long illness ...
Hart spent 11 seasons in a Giants uniform from 1963 to 1973 and during that span he hit .282 with 488 runs scored, 135 doubles, 27 triples, 157 home runs and 526 RBI in 1,001 games ... He played his final two seasons with the New York Yankees ...
More (http://www.csnbayarea.com/giants/giants-mourn-passing-3b-jim-ray-hart)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Ray_Hart)
Career stats (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hartji01.shtml)
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Giants mourn passing of 3B Jim Ray Hart
San Francisco Giants via Comcast SportsNet Bay Area
May 20, 2016
More (http://www.csnbayarea.com/giants/giants-mourn-passing-3b-jim-ray-hart)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Ray_Hart)
Career stats (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hartji01.shtml)
That wipes out the entire left side of the 1960s Giants infield. (Jim Davenport, shortstop, died
earlier this year . . .)
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He was best known as the fiddle player for Fairport Convention, they wrote some original music and updated
a number of original British Folk tune. Here is an example of one of their adaptations of a song over 400 yrs old
"Matty Groves".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK_7AqH1VGQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK_7AqH1VGQ)
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/03/dave-swarbrick-dies-at-75-fiddler-fairport-convention (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/03/dave-swarbrick-dies-at-75-fiddler-fairport-convention)
While reading this story I found out another fav musician had passed away. John Renbourn best known for his
work with a folk/jazz group Pentangle. Another really old song with a great arrangement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU3Xeo0kabc&list=PLkiyBYQ_GvNBNPyqW_xh5WcYWCfuftXPr&index=8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU3Xeo0kabc&list=PLkiyBYQ_GvNBNPyqW_xh5WcYWCfuftXPr&index=8)
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I know who the band is; my condolences.
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That British folk music is a major element behind American folk plus country & western.
(Like Dolly Parton style Appalachian, for example)
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Muhammad Ali dies at 74
By Steve Almasy, CNN
Updated 1:01 AM ET, Sat June 4, 2016
(CNN)Muhammad Ali, the legendary boxer who proclaimed himself "The Greatest" and was among the most famous and beloved athletes on the planet, died Friday in Phoenix, Arizona, a family spokesman said.
Ali, 74, had been at a Phoenix hospital since Thursday with what spokesman Bob Gunnell had described as a respiratory issue.
"After a 32-year battle with Parkinson's disease, Muhammad Ali has passed away at the age of 74. The three-time World Heavyweight Champion boxer died this evening," Gunnell said in a statement. "The Ali family would like to thank everyone for their thoughts, prayers, and support and asks for privacy at this time."
Laila Ali "truly appreciates the outpouring of love for her family, as she spends quality time with her dad," a statement issued by her business manager said.
Muhammad Ali also was hospitalized in January 2015 with a urinary tract infection. He was hospitalized in December 2014 with pneumonia.
Hours before her famed father passed away, Laila Ali posted a throwback photo of Muhammad Ali with her daughter, Sydney, who was born in 2011.
more at: http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/03/us/muhammad-ali/index.html?adkey=bn (http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/03/us/muhammad-ali/index.html?adkey=bn)
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Just damn. Some of my earliest childhood memories are of Ali fighting Joe Frazier.
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Muhammad Ali dies at 74
That was quick... he only went into the hospital yesterday, didn't he?
Well... like him or not, that's another legend gone. **nononono*
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bleep ing Muslim!!! Get 'em out!!!
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Who Whitewashed Muhammad Ali?
Muhammad Ali was a radical. Whether one views that radicalism as virtuous or sinister, there is truth to idea that much of it is being ignored.
David Marcus
By David Marcus
June 6, 2016
With the death of former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, a new fight is emerging in the massive shadow of his life. In segments of both the Right and Left is a sense that his story has been softened, his image whitewashed, and his legacy turned into a cultural fiction. Ali was a radical. Whether one views that radicalism as virtuous or sinister, there is truth to idea that much of it is being ignored.
At Huffington Post, Maxwell Strachan argues that whitewashing Ali was meant to make him more acceptable to white fans and admirers. As the article puts it: “Throughout U.S. history, white Americans have toned down the life stories of radical people of color so that they can celebrate them as they want them to be, not as they were. It is why we first think of ‘I Have a Dream’ when we hear the name Martin Luther King Jr., and not his opposition to the Vietnam War. Narratives are altered. Complex people simplified. Revolutionary ideas watered down, wrapped and packaged with a bow for mainstream America.”
It is not made clear who is responsible for this in Ali’s case. In looking back through Ali’s life and career, it is also not clear why the boxer’s legacy was altered in this way. It is possible that media outlets and Ali’s business partners might have chosen to water down his radicalism for profit. But his radical ideas about race, religion, and the United States themselves also didn’t always paint him in a very good light. ...
Rest of article at The Federalist (http://thefederalist.com/2016/06/06/who-whitewashed-muhammad-ali/)
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Mixed martial artist Kimbo Slice dead at 42
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Bahamas-born Kevin Ferguson, a former college football linebacker who briefly played for the Miami Dolphins, became notorious in the early 2000s when videos of his street brawling went viral. Propelling his reputation and charisma into a professional career, his first few years in mixed martial arts were a relative disappointment, with his career in UFC lasting only a handful of fights.
He began a comeback in the mid-2010s in the Bellator competition, one that was still in progress at the time of his sudden death, and also proved to be a competent professional boxer. No cause for his death or hospitalization was stated.
Obituary from CBS Sports (http://www.cbssports.com/mma/news/street-fighting-legend-turned-mma-fighter-kimbo-slice-dead-at-42)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimbo_Slice)
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Bretagne, last surviving search dog at Ground Zero, dies at 16
Bretagne, a Golden Retriever who at the age of one year old was one of the search dogs looking for survivors after the September 11 attacks, was also used several years later to fulfill a similar role after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.
In failing health in her last months of life, she was euthanized.
Obituary from the New York Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/surviving-9-11-search-dog-bretagne-dies-age-16-article-1.2663692?utm_content=bufferf543c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw)
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Phyllis Curtin, American Soprano Who Championed New Music, Dies at 94
Phyllis Curtin, an American soprano celebrated as a champion of new music, died on Sunday at her home in Great Barrington, Mass. She was 94...
A mainstay of the New York City Opera in the 1950s and ’60s, Ms. Curtin was noted for the purity of her voice, the sensitivity of her musical phrasing and the crystalline perfection of her diction. On the opera stage and in recital, she gave the premieres of dozens of works by 20th-century composers — “more first, and last, performances than any singer in history,” as she was fond of saying, ruefully...
More (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/07/arts/music/phyllis-curtin-american-soprano-who-championed-new-music-dies-at-94.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Curtin)
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Muhammad Ali pallbearers will include Will Smith and Lennox Lewis
Actor Will Smith and former world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis will be among the eight pallbearers at Muhammad Ali’s memorial service Friday in Louisville, Ky.
The legendary boxer died June 3 following a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.
Other pallbearers at the service will include Jerry Ellis — brother of the late Jimmy Ellis, who was Ali’s former sparring partner and former world heavyweight champion — and several relatives and close friends.
Smith received an Oscar nomination for playing the title role in the 2001 movie “Ali.”
More (http://www.latimes.com/sports/boxing/la-sp-muhammad-ali-pallbearers-20160607-snap-htmlstory.html)
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Who Whitewashed Muhammad Ali?
Muhammad Ali was a radical. Whether one views that radicalism as virtuous or sinister, there is truth to idea that much of it is being ignored.
David Marcus
By David Marcus
June 6, 2016
With the death of former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, a new fight is emerging in the massive shadow of his life. In segments of both the Right and Left is a sense that his story has been softened, his image whitewashed, and his legacy turned into a cultural fiction. Ali was a radical. Whether one views that radicalism as virtuous or sinister, there is truth to idea that much of it is being ignored.
At Huffington Post, Maxwell Strachan argues that whitewashing Ali was meant to make him more acceptable to white fans and admirers. As the article puts it: “Throughout U.S. history, white Americans have toned down the life stories of radical people of color so that they can celebrate them as they want them to be, not as they were. It is why we first think of ‘I Have a Dream’ when we hear the name Martin Luther King Jr., and not his opposition to the Vietnam War. Narratives are altered. Complex people simplified. Revolutionary ideas watered down, wrapped and packaged with a bow for mainstream America.”
It is not made clear who is responsible for this in Ali’s case. In looking back through Ali’s life and career, it is also not clear why the boxer’s legacy was altered in this way. It is possible that media outlets and Ali’s business partners might have chosen to water down his radicalism for profit. But his radical ideas about race, religion, and the United States themselves also didn’t always paint him in a very good light. ...
Rest of article at The Federalist (http://thefederalist.com/2016/06/06/who-whitewashed-muhammad-ali/)
This book, which I'm about to read based on the following review, seems to put a lot more clarity into what
the Federalist writer addresses; if only he could have read the review, if not the book:
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The Champ and Mr. X
By James Rosen
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/431649/print
‘Not many people,” Malcolm X told the writer George Plimpton in 1964, “know the quality of the mind he’s got in
there.” The fiery minister for the Nation of Islam (NOI), head of its Harlem mosque and the sect’s most prominent
spokesman, was talking about Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., the strikingly pretty and unrelentingly loquacious 22-year-old
boxer from Louisville who was soon to dethrone Sonny Liston, thuggish and frightful, an 8-to-1 betting favorite, as
heavyweight champion of the world.
For nearly four years, the period that witnessed Clay’s rise from light-heavyweight Olympic gold to heavyweight title,
the public had known him as a benign clown, the Little Richard of sports. He fought in an unorthodox and rococo style,
hands held low as he pranced around opponents; Clay’s chief preoccupation seemed to be to avoid blemish to my
pretty face. Eschewing the Joe Louis model for black athletes, of quiet humility before white audiences, Clay proclaimed
himself The Greatest, spouted amateurish poetry, tagged his opponents with derisive nicknames, and predicted, often
accurately, the round in which he would dispense with them.
The sporting press had never seen anything like it. Yet even they overlooked the practical advantage the clown act
derived from misdirection. Broadening the action beyond the ring lulled Clay’s opponents into complacency about
his lethality inside it; focus on the Louisville Lip’s clowning obscured his speed of hand and foot, his gifts for spatial
relations and evasion, his ability to take a punch. Only under such circumstances could members of the boxing
press express surprise, when Liston and Clay finally met at ring center, that the challenger stood two inches taller
than the champion.
In political terms, however, the act was harmless. Whenever sportswriters pitched him questions about the civil-
rights movement, Clay cannily recoiled from controversy, steering the conversation back to his greatness, his prettiness,
the big red Cadillac he would drive when he became champion; in this he showed the same agility, the same circular
backpedaling, he had displayed on the streets of Louisville and when sparring for real.
As Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith demonstrate in Blood Brothers, Clay’s use of misdirection advanced still
another objective. Not until the last weeks before the Liston fight in February 1964, when Malcolm X — freshly
excommunicated from the Nation of Islam by its vengeful leader, Elijah Muhammad — started showing up at Clay’s
training camp, did the public, prodded by a newly aroused press, awaken to the boxer’s membership for the past
two years in the NOI, the era’s most controversial religious sect.
Clay was dyslexic and a slow reader, but his mind was fiercely instinctual and finely calibrated: He knew rhyming
boasts would boost ticket sales but talk of the Black Muslims would flatten them. So Clay effectively hid his
association with the Nation until he had secured the goal he had harbored since the age of twelve: the heavyweight
championship. Only then did he put his loquacity to work on behalf of his religious fervor — starting, as history
records, with his change of name to Muhammad Ali. “Central to his life, relationships, and career,” the authors
write, “was deception.”
Exhaustively researched and tautly written, Blood Brothers marks a milestone in the biographical literature of
Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, an invaluable addition to our understanding of America in the 1960s. In all it
touches — the far-flung but interconnected worlds of race, religion, politics, sports, cities, organized crime, and
the news media — this sober and detailed book, a dual biography that alternates between protagonists like a
suspense novel, renders profound service. The authors unearth reams of new evidence, shine light on long-
overlooked episodes, and hack away at the barnacles of mythology, thereby giving us the finest portrait yet
of the doomed relationship that transformed Cassius Clay into Muhammad Ali.
History professors at Purdue and Georgia Tech, respectively, Roberts and Smith draw on an impressive array
of sources: NOI telegrams contained in Malcolm X’s papers; FBI documents chronicling the Bureau’s surveillance
of Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm; Louisville police records and declassified State Department files; the private
papers of Ali’s previous biographers, stored in locations as distant as the University of Oregon; the business
correspondence of the Louisville Sponsoring Group, Clay’s original management firm; the archives of the NAACP,
deposited at the Library of Congress; the contemporaneous reporting of mainstream newspapers and magazines,
as well as black outlets, including the Amsterdam News and Muhammad Speaks; obscure TV and radio
broadcasts; congressional-hearing transcripts and court affidavits; and a handful of original interviews.
Flashing their power early on, the authors show in the introduction how the late Alex Haley, ghostwriter of the
bestselling The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) and celebrated author of the 1976 novel Roots, a touchstone
of American culture, misled Malcolm X — and subsequently the readers of the Autobiography — about an important
matter. Tucked away in Haley’s papers at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black
Culture was evidence, in Haley’s own hand, that he withheld from Malcolm the fact that, while the new heavyweight
champion intended to abide by Elijah Muhammad’s edict barring all NOI members from contact with the
excommunicated Malcolm, Ali also told Haley that Malcolm was “still my brother, my friend.” Instead, Haley conveyed
the opposite message, both to Malcolm and to subsequent readers, using a sterner quote from Ali that Haley
represented as having come from his own interview with the champ, but that Haley had in fact lifted from a recent
issue of Ebony. This misapprehension Malcolm took to his grave.
Haley manipulated Malcolm’s broken relationship with Ali in order to present a more sensational historical account.
He selected and excluded events according to whether they fit into his agenda. In some cases, he tampered with the
facts. But the truth was more complex than Haley let on.
This alone — the takedown of a major writer such as Haley — should guarantee Blood Brothers a wide audience,
but there is much more that commends this transfixing book.
Armed with near-total comprehension of the daily whereabouts and activities of their two protagonists for a period
of years, the authors chronicle in greater detail than ever before how Cassius Clay, elder son of a placid Baptist
mother and a volatile Methodist father, gravitated to the self-help separatism of the Black Muslims; and how Malcolm
Little, the career criminal who vaulted from a state penitentiary to the lieutenancy of Elijah Muhammad’s empire,
slowly came to realize the unlimited potential that Clay, as both a boxer and a leader of black youth, held as an
international ambassador for the NOI.
For Clay, the attraction germinated long before he met Malcolm: As early as October 1958, the FBI observed the
16-year-old Golden Gloves contender, on one of his earliest trips out of Louisville, conversing with NOI members
outside their Atlanta mosque. The following year, a high-school teacher rebuked Clay for submitting an essay on
the NOI, an early lesson in the need for him to conceal his affinity for the Black Muslims.
Witnesses to the Malcolm–Clay bond recognized it as unmistakably fraternal. Malcolm played the sage older brother,
solemnly instructing Clay in NOI doctrines that only validated the rants that the Clay brothers, Cassius and Rudy,
had grown up hearing about the evils of the white man from their father, Cassius Clay Sr. And Clay was the exuberant
junior partner, bringing smiles to the face of the tightly wound minister as his daughters bounced on the boxer’s lap.
“In general,” Malcolm told Haley, “I taught [Clay] that 90 percent of success would depend upon how alert and
knowledgeable he became to the true natures and motives of all the people who flocked around him.”
By that measure, both men failed, for the arc of Ali’s whole career — his mismanaged finances, his susceptibility
to those who encouraged him to fight long past when he should have stopped — testified to the champ’s woeful
incapacity for discerning well-intentioned voices. As Ali’s longtime friend and photographer, Howard Bingham, told
authorized biographer Thomas Hauser in Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times (1991): “Ali still lets people take
advantage of him and doesn’t always listen to the right people.”
Paramount among those who advised Ali with jaundiced motives — indeed, controlled him — was Elijah Muhammad
himself. Born to a sharecropper–turned–Baptist preacher in 1897, the seventh of 13 children, Elijah Poole left school
in rural Georgia by the fourth grade. He migrated to Detroit in the 1920s and there came under the tutelage of NOI
founder Wallace D. Fard, an ex-convict and door-to-door salesman whose home-brewed Islamic theology blended
sensible prescriptions for clean living and black pride with sci-fi beliefs about spaceships and evil scientists raising
armies of white devils on remote islands. When Fard disappeared — amid charges he had ordered a human sacrifice —
Elijah Muhammad, as Fard had renamed Poole, assumed leadership of the NOI and proclaimed himself the one true
Messenger of Allah.
NOI membership nearly evaporated during the four years Muhammad spent in prison in the World War II era,
following his conviction on charges of sedition and draft evasion, but by the mid 1950s some 50 NOI temples
were operating in 22 states. Each contributed soldiers to the Fruit of Islam (FOI), the vanguard of security officers
and enforcers who kept congregants in line by administering brutal beatings to renegade members. While the
mainstream press portrayed the NOI as a hate group, citing its separatist rhetoric and vague talk of armed
resistance, the reality was that it functioned more like a criminal syndicate, with revenues from temple dues,
sales of Muhammad Speaks, and other compulsory enterprises keeping Elijah Muhammad in style while
covering up his infidelities and punishing defectors.
Sports were of little interest to the Messenger, simply another manifestation of whites’ exploitation of blacks.
When he learned that Jeremiah X, minister for the Atlanta mosque and chief recruiter in the Deep South, was
cultivating a relationship with Cassius and Rudy Clay, both boxers, Elijah Muhammad reprimanded Jeremiah,
reminding him to make converts, “not fool around with fighters.”
It so happened that the blossoming of the Malcolm X–Cassius Clay friendship, starting in early 1962, coincided
with Clay’s swiftest period of ascent through the heavyweight ranks and with Elijah Muhammad’s rising displeasure
with Malcolm’s penchant for publicity — which grew most acute after Malcolm, then the leader of Temple No. 7 in
Harlem, greeted the assassination of President Kennedy with a statement describing it as “the chickens coming
home to roost.” Elijah also learned that Malcolm had become aware of the Messenger’s extramarital affairs and
the children that those liaisons had produced; Elijah suspended Malcolm from the NOI before he could further
probe those scandals. The sum total of these triangulated dynamics was that Elijah Muhammad discovered the
value in having Cassius Clay around at more or less the same time he recognized the need to banish Malcolm X.
For a time, Malcolm and Clay ignored Muhammad’s edict forbidding their association and continued their daily
rap sessions with reporters as Clay readied for Liston in Miami Beach. For Malcolm, it was a calculated gambit,
an attempt at leveraging Clay’s celebrity to bolster his own standing within the NOI and perhaps to use the fighter
as a human shield against FOI assassins. Here, as the Sixties came sharply into focus, Malcolm X — the shrewd
tactician behind NOI’s expansion in the previous decade — miscalculated. In the authors’ words: “In a moment
of weakness, he exploited his friendship with Clay, manipulating him and withholding the truth about his [own]
future in the Nation. In a desperate attempt to prove his value to Elijah, he offered to deliver Clay to Chicago after
the [Liston] fight, treating Cassius like some prize that could be bartered or traded. But Elijah did not have to buy
Clay’s loyalty. He already owned it.”
Indeed, after capturing the title — at a time when he knew Malcolm X had been marked for death — Ali coldly
turned his back. “Muhammad taught Malcolm X everything he knows,” the champ said in March 1964. “So I
couldn’t go with the child, I go with the daddy.” Ali “understood the choice he had to make,” write Roberts and
Smith: “And as he had so often before, he chose the less dangerous path. . . . Ali was not innocent. He had joined
the chorus of violent ringleaders who raged about punishing Malcolm. . . . Without throwing a punch or raising his
hand, Ali managed to hound the man he had once called his brother.”
“He’s just a boy,” Malcolm said of his ex-friend. “He doesn’t know what he’s doing. He’s being used.” Any chance
at reconciliation ended, of course, with the assassination of Malcolm X — almost certainly on the orders, or in line
with the wishes, of Elijah Muhammad — by a squad of FOI enforcers inside Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom in February
1965.
In time — specifically, in April 1969, when Ali’s conscientious objection to the Vietnam War had resulted in his being
stripped of his title belt and license to box, and when, as the authors note, he “could not raise money or generate
good publicity for the Nation” — he, too, fell prey to Elijah’s sanction and was suspended from the NOI. The nominal
transgression was Ali’s statement to Howard Cosell, on ABC’s Wide World of Sports, that he would return to boxing
if the money was right — a seeming contradiction of Ali’s original stand on religious principle. Unlike Malcolm X,
however, Ali received an unspoken pardon and was permitted to rejoin NOI around the time his boxing career
resumed.
Journalists who covered Ali for extended periods, as well as others who knew him well — or as well as a figure of so
many faces and guises could be known — have attested to the manifest fear of the Black Muslims that guided the
fighter’s actions for years to come. One example: In Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship
(2006), the brilliant and nuanced portrait of the Ali–Cosell relationship by Dave Kindred, the Louisville Courier-Journal
sportswriter whose residency aboard the Ali bandwagon dated back to 1966, the fighter was quoted as whispering
to the reporter in November 1974, shortly after recapturing the heavyweight crown from George Foreman: “I would
have gotten out of [the NOI] a long time ago. But you saw what they did to Malcolm X. I ain’t gonna end up like
Malcolm X.”
This raises the chief problem with Blood Brothers, self-inflicted and wholly unnecessary in a book of such strength
and value: namely, the pejorative claims its authors make vis-à-vis their predecessors on the subject of Malcolm
and Ali, even as Roberts and Smith time and again acknowledge, in their main text and footnotes, their reliance on
earlier writers and works. “Historians and biographers have misread the complicated relationship between them,”
write Roberts and Smith. “Their respective biographers have neglected to show that Ali and Malcolm were much
more important to each other than previously acknowledged.”
Not really. Did Manning Marable, whose 608-page Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (2011) was hailed as the definitive
biography, fail to grasp the centrality of Ali in Malcolm’s life, or the elusiveness of the boxer’s psyche, when he wrote,
“Few men would play such an outsized role in Malcolm’s life as this enigmatic, irrepressible figure”? Nor does Blood
Brothers’ depiction of Ali’s being “exploited” by the NOI, of Elijah Muhammad’s privately disparaging his boxing ability,
of Ali’s fearing the brutality of the NOI after Malcolm’s murder, differ so markedly from the accounts of Dave Kindred,
quoted in Blood Brothers on the point, or of Mark Kram, the late Sports Illustrated writer and author of Ghosts of
Manila: The Fateful Blood Feud between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier (2001):
Clay rushed toward the Muslims like an orphan, while the sect saw no utility in him, no gain, despite Malcolm X’s
interest. . . . The Muslim hierarchy barely knew who Clay was, while the troops in Miami filled his head with dogma
and privately laughed at the idea of Clay beating Liston. . . . [Malcolm X’s] murder would jolt Ali, drive home a
point that he had given no thought; the Muslims played for keeps.
Roberts and Smith are hardly the first authors to overstate their analytic innovation; but Blood Brothers otherwise
stands so tall as a testament to the value of real facts, of research and documentation, that the authors’ deviation
from their own code, presumably for marketing purposes, appears all the more glaring.
Also, their ending feels rushed. While Ali’s regrets about his treatment of Malcolm X, articulated in a book of
“reflections” he co-authored with his daughter in 2003, are duly recorded here, the disposition of the paternity
lawsuits filed against Elijah Muhammad before his death, in February 1975, so central to Elijah’s split with Malcolm
X, goes unreported. Similarly, very little space is devoted to Ali’s conversion, following Elijah’s death, to Sunni
Islam, and none at all to his conversion, three decades later, to Sufi Islam.
And the authors make no attempt to connect Ali’s immersion in the NOI — which persisted to the end of his
boxing career, with Elijah’s son Herbert Muhammad as Ali’s omnipotent manager — to the boxer’s ultimate fate:
fighting too long, taking too many blows to the head, and having his mouth and movement, once his hallmarks,
cruelly stilled by Parkinson’s syndrome. Are we to assume that Ali was receiving sound advice from Herbert
Muhammad when the ex-champ, bloated at 38 and coming off a two-year layoff, signed to fight Larry Holmes?
Was Ali at that point being driven solely by his own boredom and ego, or by financial straits worsened by the
untold sums he had been compelled to fork over to the NOI? Here is the ultimate evidence that Malcolm X
failed to instill in Ali a capacity for judging the motivations of those around him.
Ali’s doctors stress that his condition is one of motor function, not cognition. His brain functions as it always
has; the Louisville Lip simply has no ability to verbalize his thoughts. Thus it is, sadly, as true today as in
February 1964, when Malcolm X marveled at the singularity of his friend, that no one knows the quality of
the mind Muhammad Ali has got in there.
(Emphases added--EA.)
"Volatile father" phrases it politely. Muhammad Ali, the authors of Blood Brothers write in the beginning
of the book, "Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. grew up living in fear---fear of his father's raised fist, the smell of
alcohol on his breath, and his rising angry voice bursting through the front door." That was preceded by
the description of one of several domestic violence calls his mother made to police, this one in 1957,
after the elder Clay got bombed, beat his wife, and cut the 15-year-old Cassius, Jr. when the boy tried
to protect his mother.
I wish I'd been able to tell Malcolm I was sorry, that he was right about so many things. Malcolm was
a great thinker and even greater friend . . . If I could go back and do it over again, I would never have
turned my back on him.---Muhammad Ali, in the early 2000s.
How afraid of what he'd gotten into with the original Nation of Islam was Ali? This exchange he had
with Sugar Ray Robinson, just hours before Ali was to defend his world heavyweight title against
Zora Folley, suggests just how:
"What's wrong, champ?" (Robinson) asked.
"The Army," Ali answered with trepidation. "They're gonna want me soon. But I can't go."
"But you have to go," Robinson argued . . . "What's this can't?"
"Elijah Muhammad told me that I can't go." The Nation's separatist principles would never allow
him to serve alongside whites.
"You won't see a gun," Robinson maintained. Ali would just have to fight some exhibitions like
he and Joe Louis had. "It'll be a snap. If you don't, they'll send you to jail, pick up your [boxing]
license." Ali risked everything if he refused to serve---his title, his career, his income---everything.
"Well, Elijah Muhammad told me," he said, conceding his future to the Messenger's wishes.
"Forget the old man," Robinson urged. "Is Elijah going to go to jail, and all those other Muslims?"
"But I'm afraid, Ray," he admitted with tears in his eyes. "I'm really afraid."
"Afraid of what? Of the Muslims if you don't do what they told you?"
Ali would not answer. Robinson pressed, but the champ remained silent. When Robinson recalled
the story for a writer, he said, "If you ask me, he wasn't afraid of jail. He was scared of being
killed by the Muslims."
The truth, George Plimpton thought, was that Ali was afraid. He did not dare cross
Elijah Muhammad. Once, when Plimpton visited Ali in Chicago, they drove around the South
Side. When the writer asked him to see "the leader's mansion," Ali agreed, but he drove so
fast that Plimpton got only a fleeting look at it. Accelerating past the mansion at fifty miles
per hour, Ali made another pass, insisting Plimpton slouch out of sight. "He didn't want to
be spotted," the writer recalled. "I think he understood what they could do. They were
intimidating. And because he did fear them, he was malleable.
---Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith, from Blood Brothers.
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Korchnoi, a very good Russian chess player Grand Master who defected to Netherlands in the 1970s passed away.
Here, I just saw, Theresa Saldana in "Raging Bull" and the "Commish" (was the wife of the main character) passed away. She's very recognizable as an actress even if I may not have been well acquainted with the name.
http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/06/theresa_saldana_the_commish_ra.html
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41mscMRhpjL.jpg)
The show appears on cable still.
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Sean Rooks, another basketball player passes away, a heart attack per the wikipedia entry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Rooks#Death
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Hockey Hall of Fame legend Gordie Howe dies at 88
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With a top-level professional career spanning from 1946 to 1980, Howe was known as much for his longevity in the sport as he was for his goal-scoring acumen and willingness to fight, so much so that the "Gordie Howe hat trick" (a goal, assist and fight in a single game, a feat he achieved only twice in his extensive career) was named in his honor.
Initially intending to retire after the 1971 season due to a wrist problem, a falling out with the Detroit Red Wings (the team that employed him for his entire NHL career) led Howe to have surgery and return in the World Hockey Association's Houston Aeros, which also employed by this point his two sons. He remained with the WHA until it merged with the NHL, at which point Howe, by this point 51 years old, played one final season with the Hartford Whalers. During his playing career, Howe set many of the league's scoring records, many of which would be surpassed by his protégé Wayne Gretzky. Counting both his NHL and WHA career, Howe played in over 2,400 games.
Howe was immediately inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame upon his first retirement in 1972 and earned the nickname "Mr. Hockey" for his contributions to the sport. He died of complications from a stroke he experienced two years ago.
Death notice from CBS News (http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2016/06/10/gordie-howe-dies-according-to-numerous-reports/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordie_Howe)
Career statistics (http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=2378)
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Rest In Peace Gordie Howe.
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Wow. Gordie Howe was 88??
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'The Voice' Singer Christina Grimmie Shot Dead After Florida Concert
by JILLIAN SEDERHOLM, GEMMA DICASIMIRRO and MOLLY ROECKER
June 11, 2016
Former "The Voice" contestant Christina Grimmie died after being shot as she signed autographs for fans following a concert in Orlando, Florida, on Friday night. The attacker then fatally shot himself.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/voice-singer-christina-grimmie-shot-after-florida-concert-n590161
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http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/11/entertainment/orlando-christina-grimmie-shot/index.html
'Voice' singer Christina Grimmie dies after shooting at Orlando concert
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By Joe Sutton and Azadeh Ansari, CNN
Updated 10:26 AM ET, Sat June 11, 2016
CNN)Hours before what would be her last concert, singer Christina Grimmie jovially invited fans to see her show in a video that she posted to Twitter on Friday afternoon.
Before the day was done, the former star of NBC's "The Voice" would be dead, a man armed with two guns walked up to the 22-year-old singer as she was signing autographs late Friday night and opened fire, Orlando police spokeswoman Wanda Ford said.
The gunman fatally shot himself after Grimmie's brother tackled him, according to authorities.
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That's really quite a tragedy and beggars belief that someone would do such a thing. Horrible and Shocking.
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'The Voice' Singer Christina Grimmie Shot Dead After Florida Concert
by JILLIAN SEDERHOLM, GEMMA DICASIMIRRO and MOLLY ROECKER
June 11, 2016
Former "The Voice" contestant Christina Grimmie died after being shot as she signed autographs for fans following a concert in Orlando, Florida, on Friday night. The attacker then fatally shot himself.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/voice-singer-christina-grimmie-shot-after-florida-concert-n590161
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Sad so, so young with a full life ahead of her?
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They think the man traveled from another city to Orlando. Crackpot. This is beyond belief. Totally senseless.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36507546
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There is no respect for unborn life [or their mothers] in our nation. I can see how that could trigger [or lend to] a violent act of an imbalanced person.
To heal our minds, we must heal our land.
Many prayers for the Grimmie family.
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What an incredibly senseless act, and her brother was right there to witness it. I wasn't familiar with her, never having watched TheVoice, but my niece posted on FB a video of this young lady singing "In Christ Alone" by Keith and Kristin Getty. She said it was one of her favorites, and it's one of mine, too.
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What an incredibly senseless act, and her brother was right there to witness it. I wasn't familiar with her, never having watched TheVoice, but my niece posted on FB a video of this young lady singing "In Christ Alone" by Keith and Kristin Getty. She said it was one of her favorites, and it's one of mine, too.
Hopefully she's with the Lord...but I can't imagine the roller coaster of emotions her brother's having...he needs prayers to get past this event no doubt.
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What an incredibly senseless act, and her brother was right there to witness it. I wasn't familiar with her, never having watched TheVoice, but my niece posted on FB a video of this young lady singing "In Christ Alone" by Keith and Kristin Getty. She said it was one of her favorites, and it's one of mine, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnZyg4K-DTE
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Florida authorities say Christina Grimmie killer showed up at concert to attack her (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/06/12/florida-authorities-say-christina-grimmie-killer-showed-up-to-concert-to-attack-her.html)
Marcus Grimmie statement:
“By now I’m sure many you have heard that Christina has passed away due to gunfire after a show. I really don’t have much to say about anything and am just blown away with the prayers and support.
I PROMISE I will respond to everyone when I can.
Christina was more than my sister. She was a partner in life. A superstar. A goofball. Introverted. And a friend to everyone. Genuinely. But above all…she was my baby sister. She loved the Lord and her family and was always there for me and I honestly don’t know what ill do without her.
But please, if you are reading this far, I would love all and any of you to post pics of you and her and/or memories you have of her down in the comments. I will cherish it forever and always. So please do that for me. Thank you all so so much. The support has been crazy and I do feel a peace. I just don’t have any words. I love you all.”
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Former Gov./Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) dies at 79
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Voinovich served as a state legislator from Ohio from 1967 until 1971, as Lieutenant Governor of the state for most of 1979, mayor of Cleveland from 1980 to 1989, Governor of Ohio from 1991 to 1998, and finally U.S. Senator (where he replaced John Glenn) from 1999 to 2010. Widely perceived as a moderate-to-liberal Republican with a strong debt-hawk streak, Voinovich often broke with party orthodoxy on taxes, the war in Iraq, homosexual rights, and judicial appointments. Voinovich famously stalled John Bolton's nomination to the position of UN Ambassador, a position Voinovich admitted later was a mistake. As mayor, governor and civic leader, he successfully helped stabilize Cleveland's then-ailing reputation.
Voinovich died suddenly from what was believed to be a heart condition.
Obituary from Politico (http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/george-voinovich-dies-at-79-224230)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Voinovich)
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Christina Grimmie may have been murdered because shooter hated her Christian faith (http://www.smobserved.com/story/2016/06/11/news/kevin-james-loibl-shot-and-killed-christina-grimmie-because-she-was-a-christian/1425.html), says Santa Monica Observer.
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What an incredibly senseless act, and her brother was right there to witness it. I wasn't familiar with her, never having watched TheVoice, but my niece posted on FB a video of this young lady singing "In Christ Alone" by Keith and Kristin Getty. She said it was one of her favorites, and it's one of mine, too.
One of the finest hymns written in recent years.
It tells the WHOLE story, and the music is beautiful!
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RIP Janet Waldo (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/janet-waldo-dead-jetsons-actress-902208)---who was the title role of old-time radio's Meet Corliss Archer (CBS's answer to the
NBC hit A Date with Judy) and one of the Radio Row ensemble cast of the syndicated Favourite Story (Ronald Colman hosted)
long before anyone even thought of Judy Jetson . . .
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RIP Janet Waldo (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/janet-waldo-dead-jetsons-actress-902208)---who was the title role of old-time radio's Meet Corliss Archer (CBS's answer to the
NBC hit A Date with Judy) and one of the Radio Row ensemble cast of the syndicated Favourite Story (Ronald Colman hosted)
long before anyone even thought of Judy Jetson . . .
This is what she looked like three years ago—at 93 years old.
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She aged pretty gracefully, didn't she?
Of course, a lot of the women in voice roles have aged very well. Penny Singleton lived to be 95. Janet, of course, was 96, and amazingly June Foray is still with us at a whopping 98 years young.
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Christina Grimmie may have been murdered because shooter hated her Christian faith (http://www.smobserved.com/story/2016/06/11/news/kevin-james-loibl-shot-and-killed-christina-grimmie-because-she-was-a-christian/1425.html), says Santa Monica Observer.
Didn't know this. Of course the warped perverts in the MSM wouldn't be keen on making this detail widely known - counterproductive, from their point of view.
BTW this is the kind of information I used to depend upon FR for, I'm glad I can get it here.
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This is what she looked like three years ago—at 93 years old.
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She aged pretty gracefully, didn't she?
Of course, a lot of the women in voice roles have aged very well. Penny Singleton lived to be 95. Janet, of course, was 96, and amazingly June Foray is still with us at a whopping 98 years young.
Many have. Paula Winslowe (radio collectors probably know her best as Peg Riley on the original radio Life of Riley and Mrs.
Conklin, patient wife of blowhard principal Osgood Conklin on radio's Our Miss Brooks) made it to 85.
Many others, alas, haven't. One of the two greatest actresses of the old-time radio era, Cathy Lewis, died at 51. (Cancer.) The other,
Lurene Tuttle (who was so versatile and so much in demand---she could voice any role of any age---she was often called the first lady
of radio), died at 71. (Also cancer.) Jean Vander Pyl---you know her best as Wilma Flinstone and Rosie the Robot (The Jetsons)
but she was also Margaret Anderson on the radio original of Father Knows Best and played several roles on the Ronald Colman
radio vehicle The Halls of Ivy)---died at 79. (Cancer, again. Vander Pyl developed the habit of signing notes and answers to
fan mail with "Love, Wilma" . . .)
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Ann Morgan Guilbert, Millie on 'Dick Van Dyke Show,' Dies at 87 (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ann-morgan-guilbert-dead-dick-903319)
Not to mention Grandma Yetta on The Nanny . . .
NEW YORK (AP) — Ann Morgan Guilbert, beloved as the next-door neighbor on The Dick Van Dyke Show and seen recently on the CBS comedy Life in Pieces, has died. She was 87.
Guilbert died of cancer on Tuesday in Los Angeles, her daughter Nora Eckstein said.
Recent TV appearances included a starring role on the hospital comedy Getting On and a guest spot on Grey's Anatomy. Guilbert was a regular as feisty Grandma Yetta on the 1990s sitcom The Nanny, and in the early 1960s, played Millie Helper, Laura Petrie's perky pal, on the acclaimed Van Dyke series.
The actress starred in Nicole Holofcener's 2010 Sundance Film Festival selection, Please Give.
Guilbert had extensive theater credits, including the 2005 Broadway play A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, and productions of The Matchmaker, Arsenic and Old Lace, Waiting for Godot, To Kill a Mockingbird and Harvey.
A native of Minneapolis, Guilbert graduated from Stanford University's Department of Speech and Drama, where she met the late producer-actor George Eckstein. They married and had two daughters, actress Hallie Todd (Lizzie McGuire) and Nora Eckstein, a writer, actress and acting teacher.
After her 1966 divorce, Guilbert married actor Guy Raymond, who died in 1997.
She is survived by her two daughters.
Classic Ann Morgan Guilbert . . . .first, as Millie Helper . . .
The Dick Van Dyke Show, "A Man's Teeth Are Not His Own" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcNPYaXbSfs)
. . . and, as Grandma Yetta . . .
The Nanny, Best Yetta Moments (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he5pVcqLvHg)
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Anton Yelchin, actor in 'Star Trek' films, dies in freak car accident at age 27
Actor Anton Yelchin, perhaps best known for his role in the new “Star Trek” films, died early Sunday after his vehicle rolled down his Studio City driveway and trapped the actor against a mailbox, authorities confirmed.
More (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-me-anton-yelchin-20160619-snap-story.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Yelchin)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0947338/)
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Anton Yelchin, actor in 'Star Trek' films, dies in freak car accident at age 27
More (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-me-anton-yelchin-20160619-snap-story.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Yelchin)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0947338/)
Aw man. I loved him as Chekov. The funny straight man. Was just thinking about him the other day hoping to see him more in the upcoming movie.
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Just heard about that Star Trek actor, my condolences. So young.
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Excerpts:
Mexico 'Voice' singer Alejandro Fuentes shot in Chicago
He was in his car on the street outside Tras Bambalinas, a performing arts school he ran for young people in south-west Chicago.
A gunman ordered him out of the car - when he refused, the gunman shot him three times in the head.
The number of murders in Chicago this year is up 72% from 2015.
There was another story about someone broadcast streaming on facebook shot dead; it's really ad there.
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Just heard about that Star Trek actor, my condolences. So young.
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Bluegrass music patriarch Ralph Stanley dies at 89
NASHVILLE, Tenn.
Ralph Stanley, a patriarch of Appalachian music who with his brother Carter helped expand and popularize the genre that became known as bluegrass, died Thursday. He was 89.
Stanley died at his home in Sandy Ridge, Virginia, because of difficulties from skin cancer, publicist Kirt Webster said.
(snip)
Despite health problems, he continued to record and tour into his 80s, often performing with his son Ralph Stanley II on guitar and his grandson Nathan on mandolin.
He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Jimmie Stanley. He had three children, seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Full obituary: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/latest-news/article85668412.html (http://www.charlotteobserver.com/latest-news/article85668412.html)
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Bluegrass music patriarch Ralph Stanley dies at 89
NASHVILLE, Tenn.
Ralph Stanley, a patriarch of Appalachian music who with his brother Carter helped expand and popularize the genre that became known as bluegrass, died Thursday. He was 89.
Stanley died at his home in Sandy Ridge, Virginia, because of difficulties from skin cancer, publicist Kirt Webster said.
(snip)
Despite health problems, he continued to record and tour into his 80s, often performing with his son Ralph Stanley II on guitar and his grandson Nathan on mandolin.
He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Jimmie Stanley. He had three children, seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Full obituary: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/latest-news/article85668412.html (http://www.charlotteobserver.com/latest-news/article85668412.html)
Darn!
I love his music. He left quite a legacy.
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http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/michael-herr-dead-screenwriter-for-full-metal-jacket-apocalypse-now-dies-at-76-w211261
Michael Herr passes way, author of Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now.
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Bluegrass music patriarch Ralph Stanley dies at 89
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I was listening to WSM last night and someone requested Ralph Stanley; now I know why.
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Parliament-Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell dies at 72
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Worrell was famous for making extensive use of the Moog synthesizer, an instrument still in the early stages of mainstream popularity in the 1970s. After Parliament-Funkadelic's implosion in the 1980s, Worrell moved into session work.
Worrell died after a brief battle with lung cancer.
Obituary from the Associated Press (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/keyboardist-bernie-worrell-pioneered-use-of-the-moog/article30621162/?cmpid=rss1)
Wikipedia (http://)
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RIP Jim Hickman---outfielder, Original Met, whose grand salami ended Roger Craig's notorious 18-game losing streak (he
was the first Met to hit a grand slam and to hit for the cycle . . . and in proper order, yet: single, double, triple, bomb);
who also set up Pete Rose's dismemberment of Ray Fosse (yes, it was an excessive and dangerous play, especially since
Fosse wasn't really blocking the plate) in the 1970 All-Star game by getting the hit on which Rose was able to score.
Hickman was the last of the Original Mets---as in, picked in the expansion draft that stocked their original roster in 1962
---to leave when he was traded to the Dodgers with second baseman Ron Hunt for Tommy Davis in 1966.
Jim Hickman, Slugger for Expansion Mets and All-Star with Cubs, Dies at 79 (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/27/sports/baseball/jim-hickman-slugger-for-expansion-mets-and-all-star-with-cubs-dies-at-79.html?_r=0)
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Pat Summitt, winningest coach in women's basketball history, dies at 64
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A competent and well-respected player in her own right (playing in the 1975 Pan-Am Games), Summitt spent her entire career as coach at her alma mater, the University of Tennessee, where she built the Lady Volunteers into college basketball's first female dynasty. In her 38 years as coach, the Volunteers won eight NCAA titles, appeared in the Final Four ten further times, had a winning season every single year she coached (with 36 consecutive seasons of 20 wins or more), and a reputation for being so tough that she twice received (and declined) offers to coach the men's team at Tennessee.
Summitt had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2012, forcing her resignation and eventual death.
Obituary from the Associated Press (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BKW_OBIT_PAT_SUMMITT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-06-28-07-00-25)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Summitt)
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So sad. As an old basketball player myself - who also had a parent who died from early onset Alzheimers - I feel a bit of a connection to Coach Summit and her family. I always admired her. Her players adored and above all, respected her.
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Former NFL coach, defensive guru Buddy Ryan dies at age 82 (http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/16579465/former-nfl-coach-defensive-guru-buddy-ryan-dies-age-82)
Former NFL head coach and influential defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan has died, agent James Solano confirmed Tuesday. He was 82.
Ryan, who coached in the NFL for 35 seasons, was known for building some of football's top defenses behind a relentlessness that focused on creating havoc on the field.
(full story at the link above)
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SOURCE: NEW YORK TIMES
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/movies/bud-spencer-the-good-giant-of-spaghetti-westerns-dies-at-86.html?_r=0 (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/movies/bud-spencer-the-good-giant-of-spaghetti-westerns-dies-at-86.html?_r=0)
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Bud Spencer (right) with Terence Hill in “Trinity Is Still My Name.”
Bud Spencer, a burly comic actor known as the “good giant” for punching out bad guys on the screen in a series of spaghetti westerns, died on Monday in Italy. He was 86.
His son, Giuseppe Pedersoli, confirmed his death to the Italian news agency ANSA, but did not say where he died or specify the cause.
Born in Naples on Oct. 31, 1929, Carlo Pedersoli adopted the screen name Bud Spencer — the first name inspired by a beer and the last to honor his favorite star, Spencer Tracy.
In his youth, Mr. Spencer was an athlete, becoming the first Italian to swim the 100-meter freestyle in under a minute.
His roles exploited his physical strength, especially his big frame and girth. His imposing figure earned him a walk-on part as a Praetorian guard in the 1951 film “Quo Vadis?”
Mr. Spencer abandoned his swimming career after the 1960 Olympics in Rome. Working on a 1967 film, “Dio Perdona Io No” (“God Forgives, I Don’t”), he met Mario Girotti, who would take the screen name Terence Hill and become his frequent movie partner in spaghetti westerns.
A review of “They Call Me Trinity” in 1972 in The New York Times described Mr. Spencer as “a grizzled bear of a man” and said that he and Mr. Hill “couldn’t be more likable.”
Mr. Spencer, who had a law degree, made his name in unmistakably lowbrow films.
After he made a film with the Italian director Ermanno Olmi in 2003, Mr. Spencer confessed that it was perhaps the first time he felt he was an actor. “I always said that I was only a character,” he said.
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Scotty Moore, who played guitar on some of Elvis's Sun recordings such as Heartbreak Hotel and Jail House Rock has passed away, he was in the original band backing Elvis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQf1fuIlCBo
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/28/arts/music/scotty-moore-hard-driving-guitarist-who-backed-elvis-presley-dies-at-84.html
Former Colts RB Zurlon Tipton dead after accidental shooting
Tipton, 26, was accidentally shot in the stomach when a gun in a bag was taken out of the trunk of his car.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/report-former-colts-rb-dead-after-accidental-shooting/ar-AAhJH8u?ocid=ansmsnsports11
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More on Pat Summitt:
... This is the impact Pat had on the life of a young woman: a letter saved for 34 years. Long, long after playing days are over, taken from a drawer and reread whenever there is trouble. It’s impossible to peruse it without finally understanding Pat, the soul-stretching generosity at the heart of her, and the degree to which she tried to live out her values. It’s dated Nov. 22, 1982:
Shelia, This is your first game. I hope you win for your sake, not mine. Because winning’s nice. It’s a good feeling. Like the whole world is yours. But it passes, this feeling. And what lasts is what you’ve learned. And what you’ve learned about is — life. That’s what sport is all about — life!
The whole thing is played out in an afternoon. The happiness of life, the miseries, the joys, the heartbreaks. There’s no telling what will turn up. There’s no telling how you’ll do. You might be a hero. Or you might be absolutely nothing.
There’s just no telling. Too much depends on chance, on how the ball bounces.
I’m not talking about the game. I’m talking about life. But it’s life that the game is all about. Just as I said, every game is life, and life is a game. A serious one. Dead serious. But here’s what you do with serious things. You do your best. You take what comes.
You take what comes and you run with it.
Winning is fun . . . Sure.
But winning is not the point.
Wanting to win is the point.
Not giving up is the point.
Never letting up is the point.
Never being satisfied with what you’ve done is the point.
The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads, or what the referee says, it doesn’t end when you come off the court.
The secret of the game is in doing your best. To persist and endure, “to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
I’m proud to be your Coach,
Pat Head Summitt
Sally Jenkins, WashPost (https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/widely-beloved-pat-summitt-was-cherished-most-by-those-who-saw-her-complexities/2016/06/28/581a391a-3d2e-11e6-80bc-d06711fd2125_story.html?tid=pm_sports_pop_b)
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RIP Sir Mack Rice, rhythm and blues songwriter (http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/06/28/detroits-sir-mack-rice-mustang-sally-writer-dead-82/86456840/) . . . author
of, among others . . .
Wilson Pickett, "Mustang Sally" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DszPvJBTstM)
The Staple Singers, "Respect Yourself" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InYaB16xEd0)
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SOURCE: NEW YORK TIMES
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/movies/bud-spencer-the-good-giant-of-spaghetti-westerns-dies-at-86.html?_r=0 (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/movies/bud-spencer-the-good-giant-of-spaghetti-westerns-dies-at-86.html?_r=0)
Awww, man... I loved the "Trinity" films as a kid. :-(
You should consider adding this to the Obituary Thread (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,190145.0.html). Never mind. ^-^
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So sad. As an old basketball player myself - who also had a parent who died from early onset Alzheimers - I feel a bit of a connection to Coach Summit and her family. I always admired her. Her players adored and above all, respected her.
One of the greatest coaches ever.
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Beverly Resident and Tylenol Reporter John Rooney Dies of ALS at 56
Beverly resident and respected journalist John Rooney broke Tylenol poisoning news story in 1982.
http://patch.com/illinois/beverly-mtgreenwood/beverly-resident-tylenol-reporter-john-rooney-dies-als-56
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The Wicker Man director Robin Hardy dies
BBC News
July 2, 2016
Film director Robin Hardy has died at the age of 86, a family friend has confirmed.
He was best known for cult British film The Wicker Man, starring Sir Christopher Lee and Edward Woodward.
The 1973 film told the story of police sergeant Howie, played by Woodward, who was sent to search for a missing girl on the fictional island of Summerisle.
More (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36693545)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hardy_(film_director))
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0362736/)
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Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor And Nobel Laureate, Dies At 87
Holocaust survivor, Nobel laureate and author Elie Wiesel has died at the age of 87. Wiesel survived the World War II Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. After liberation, he went to France, then Israel and the United States, where he advocated on behalf of victims of hate and persecution around the world.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/02/166184644/elie-wiesel-holocaust-survivor-and-nobel-laureate-dies-at-87?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social
Die Gedanken Sind Frei
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHuSktaQRuE
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Elie Wiesel...RIP....may you find peace and be reunited with all your family and friends that were killed so many years ago.
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Michael Cimino, ‘Deer Hunter’ and ‘Heaven’s Gate’ Director, Dies at 77 (http://variety.com/2016/film/people-news/michael-cimino-dead-dies-deer-hunter-heavens-gate-1201808052/)
RIP Mr. Cimino. You are hereby forgiven for Hell's Service Entrance. ;)
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Michael Cimino, ‘Deer Hunter’ and ‘Heaven’s Gate’ Director, Dies at 77 (http://variety.com/2016/film/people-news/michael-cimino-dead-dies-deer-hunter-heavens-gate-1201808052/)
RIP Mr. Cimino. You are hereby forgiven for Hell's Service Entrance. ;)
Although Heaven's Gate has recently earned new respect in some quarters, it was originally trashed unmercifully.
From Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide: Writer-director Cimino's now-notorious spectacle is missing just one thing: a story.
From Vincent Canby in The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=940CE4D61638F93AA25752C1A966948260): "Heaven's Gate," ... fails so completely that you might suspect Mr. Cimino sold his soul to the Devil to obtain the success of "The Deer Hunter," and the Devil has just come around to collect... Mr. Cimino's approach to his subject is so predictable that watching the film is like a forced, four-hour walking tour of one's own living room.
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Although Heaven's Gate has recently earned new respect in some quarters, it was originally trashed unmercifully.
From Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide: Writer-director Cimino's now-notorious spectacle is missing just one thing: a story.
From Vincent Canby in The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=940CE4D61638F93AA25752C1A966948260): "Heaven's Gate," ... fails so completely that you might suspect Mr. Cimino sold his soul to the Devil to obtain the success of "The Deer Hunter," and the Devil has just come around to collect... Mr. Cimino's approach to his subject is so predictable that watching the film is like a forced, four-hour walking tour of one's own living room.
I actually sat through Heaven's Gate just to see what all the hoopla was all about.
I thought Maltin had it just about right regarding the original film. But I came to think that if Cimino could
have laid his pride to one side and gotten with a judicious editor, that film could have been saved. I think
now that, cut exactly in half, Heaven's Gate might have been a good film. Might. But no. He had to
see the whole thing, his way, and disaster. For himself, and as it turned out for United Artists. Heaven's
Gate destroyed the studio created by Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and D.W.
Griffith.
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Caroline Aherne: Royle Family writer and actress dies aged 52
Comedy writer and actress Caroline Aherne has died at the age of 52.
Aherne, star and writer of The Royle Family and The Mrs Merton Show, had suffered from cancer, her publicist said.
The actress said two years ago that she had been diagnosed with lung cancer, having previously had bladder and eye cancer.
Aherne was also the narrator of Gogglebox and appeared in The Fast Show.
Her publicist Neil Reading said on Saturday: "Caroline Aherne has sadly passed away, after a brave battle with cancer.
"The Bafta award-winning writer and comedy actor died earlier today at her home in Timperley, Greater Manchester. She was 52.
"The family ask for privacy at this very sad time."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36694598
Since many here won't know of her, she was a wickedly talented comedian and actress, with multiple characters she played to perfection. Caroline Aherne: Her best-loved characters (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36695412)
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http://comicbook.com/2016/07/04/noel-neill-supermans-first-live-action-lois-lane-has-passed-away/
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excerpt
The first live-action Lois Lane, The Adventures of Superman's Noel Neill, has passed away, according to reports. She was 95.
One of Neill's personal friends posted the news to Facebook, and it's working its way into the fan community via a post at Bleeding Cool.
Neill was born in 1920. In her teens, she began modeling and her pin-up was reportedly second only to Betty Grable's in terms of popularity among American servicemen during World War II. She graduated from high school in 1938 -- the same year Superman first appeared in the comics.
She signed with Paramount in the 1940s and appeared in, among other things, the final Charlie Chan movie. She had a recurring role as Betty Rogers in movies like Freddie Steps Out, Sarge Goes to College, and Campus Sleuth. She also had roles in The Adventures of Frank and Jesse James and in The Lone Ranger TV series in 1951.
and her pin-up was reportedly second only to Betty Grable's in terms of popularity among American servicemen during World War II.
everybody claims that!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7soDPQUxpOk&list=PL-CmA9i1zO4cyIJCmz1Co257qfoGZTOgD
1948 SUPERMAN serial 1A.... the first of 15 parts.
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RIP to the first large and small screen Lois Lane . . .
Noel Neill, Actress Who Played First Lois Lane, Dies at 95 (http://variety.com/2016/film/news/noel-neill-dead-dieslois-lane-superman-1201808389/)
As you remember her best:
(http://i.ebayimg.com/19/!B60u6pwBWk~$(KGrHqQOKo4Ey+jC)80gBMyeMRsObw~~-1_35.JPG?set_id=8800005007)
As you probably don't remember her, when she wasn't yet Lois Lane:
(https://www.picsofcelebrities.com/celebrity/noel-neill/pictures/large/noel-neill-2015.jpg)
And, approaching her 90s . . .
(http://www1.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Noel+Neill+Warner+Bros+Premiere+Superman+Returns+zL3CmFzZdN6l.jpg)
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RIP to one of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II . . .
Roscoe Brown, former Tuskegee Airman and NYC educator, has died at 94 (http://pix11.com/2016/07/04/roscoe-brown-former-tuskegee-airman-and-nyc-educator-has-died-at-94/)
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Boy, that sure was some disguise Superman had as Clark Kent. He put those glasses on and it was just impossible to tell he was Superman.
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RIP to the first large and small screen Lois Lane . . .
Noel Neill, Actress Who Played First Lois Lane, Dies at 95 (http://variety.com/2016/film/news/noel-neill-dead-dieslois-lane-superman-1201808389/)
Adventures of Superman main cast:
Superman / Clark Kent - George Reeves (January 5, 1914 - June 16, 1959)
Lois Lane - Season 1 - Phyllis Coates (January 15, 1927 - ), Seasons 2-6 - Noel Neill (November 25, 1920 - July 3, 2016)
Jimmy Olsen - Jack Larson (February 8, 1928 - September 20, 2015)
Perry White - John Hamilton (January 16, 1887 - October 15, 1958)
Inspector Henderson - Robert Shayne (October 4, 1900 - November 29, 1992)
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Caroline Aherne: Royle Family writer and actress dies aged 52
Comedy writer and actress Caroline Aherne has died at the age of 52.
Aherne, star and writer of The Royle Family...
Wow, that's sad news. I loved that show... kind of like All in the Family on the dole.
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Although Noel Neill played Lois Lane in the movie serials with Kirk Alyn (sp?), Phyllis Coates played her for the first season of "Adventures of Superman."
I'm so sorry to hear this. We lost Jimmy Olsen last year, now this!
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Although Noel Neill played Lois Lane in the movie serials with Kirk Alyn (sp?), Phyllis Coates played her for the first season of "Adventures of Superman."
I'm so sorry to hear this. We lost Jimmy Olsen last year, now this!
I meant "live action", not sure why it became TV somewhere between the brain and fingers
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Adventures of Superman main cast:
Superman / Clark Kent - George Reeves (January 5, 1914 - June 16, 1959)
Lois Lane - Season 1 - Phyllis Coates (January 15, 1927 - ), Seasons 2-6 - Noel Neill (November 25, 1920 - July 3, 2016)
Jimmy Olsen - Jack Larson (February 8, 1928 - September 20, 2015)
Perry White - John Hamilton (January 16, 1887 - October 15, 1958)
Inspector Henderson - Robert Shayne (October 4, 1900 - November 29, 1992)
Noel Neill played Lois Lane in a film serial of Superman prior to the television series. (Kirk Allyn played Superman/Clark Kent.)
It was probably that serial that got the television people to cast her in the role when Phyllis Coates outsmarted herself out of the role
of a lifetime. (At a point where nobody knew whether the TV series would be renewed, Coates signed onto another TV show and
couldn't return to Superman when it was renewed.) I probably should have described Neill as "the first large and second
small screen Lois Lane" . . .
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The local station used to play these when I was a kid. I loved them.
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Melvin Durslag, longtime Los Angeles sportswriter and columnist, dies at 95
Melvin Durslag, a sports columnist who covered the Los Angeles scene for decades beginning in 1939, died Sunday at a convalescent home in Santa Monica after a brief illness, according to friend and former colleague Larry Stewart. He was 95.
Durslag was said to string “together words like Nolan Ryan strings together strikeouts,” in the words of former Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda.
More (http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-melvin-durslag-20160718-snap-story.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Durslag)
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Producer/director Garry Marshall dies at 81
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/GarryMarshall-Jan2008.jpg)
Beginning his career writing for comedians such as Jack Paar and Joey Bishop, Marshall (the anglicized form of Masciarelli, the family's original Italian surname) had his first major hit in 1968 when he adapted Neil Simon's The Odd Couple into a television series. He then followed with Happy Days, which in turn spun off Mork & Mindy and Laverne & Shirley (the latter of which was a vehicle for his sister, Penny); all of those shows ended up being major hits and running for many years in reruns.
Marshall turned to film in 1982; among the hits he directed were Pretty Woman (the breakthrough role for Julia Roberts), Nothing in Common (the final film of Jackie Gleason's career), The Princess Diaries and its sequel, and most recently, his line of holiday-themed ensemble comedies: Valentine's Day, New Year's Eve and Mother's Day.
Marshall died of pneumonia and complications from a stroke.
Obituary from Variety (http://variety.com/2016/film/news/garry-marshall-dead-dies-pretty-woman-happy-days-1201817964/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Marshall)
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Former college and pro football coach Denny Green dies at 67
Dennis Green was one of many assistants who served under the coaching tree of Bill Walsh; Green started his own head coaching career at Northwestern unimpressively, averaging only two games a year at the struggling college, but would get a second chance at Stanford a few years later. In 1992, Green was hired as coach of the Minnesota Vikings; he was one of only two NFL head coaches between 1926 and 2000 (the other being Art Shell) to be black.
Green coached the Vikings for ten seasons, with a .500 or better record in all but his last season there; his high point as coach was in 1998, when the Vikings went 15–1 in the regular season. However, despite strong regular season success, Green never made it to the Super Bowl and lost both of his NFC Championship Game appearances.
After two years out of football, Green was hired to coach the Arizona Cardinals, where he was unable to replicate the success he had in Minnesota; all three seasons there had the Cardinals tallying double-digit losses; after one particular loss, Green uttered the memorable outburst "they are who we thought they were!" His last stint in coaching was in the United Football League, where he led the Sacramento Mountain Lions to three middling seasons before quitting and suing the league for unpaid salary; despite winning the lawsuit, Green was believed to have not been paid at the time of his death.
Green died from a heart attack. It was implied that Green may have been in poor health at the time of his death, as his family was by his side at the time of his passing.
Obituary from KMSP (http://www.fox9.com/sports/179029233-story)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Green)
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Producer/director Garry Marshall dies at 81
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/GarryMarshall-Jan2008.jpg)
Beginning his career writing for comedians such as Jack Paar and Joey Bishop, Marshall (the anglicized form of Masciarelli, the family's original Italian surname) had his first major hit in 1968 when he adapted Neil Simon's The Odd Couple into a television series. He then followed with Happy Days, which in turn spun off Mork & Mindy and Laverne & Shirley (the latter of which was a vehicle for his sister, Penny); all of those shows ended up being major hits and running for many years in reruns.
Marshall turned to film in 1982; among the hits he directed were Pretty Woman (the breakthrough role for Julia Roberts), Nothing in Common (the final film of Jackie Gleason's career), The Princess Diaries and its sequel, and most recently, his line of holiday-themed ensemble comedies: Valentine's Day, New Year's Eve and Mother's Day.
Marshall died of pneumonia and complications from a stroke.
Obituary from Variety (http://variety.com/2016/film/news/garry-marshall-dead-dies-pretty-woman-happy-days-1201817964/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Marshall)
In 70's TV land, Marshall was The Man. He had a big hand in shaping American pop culture for an entire generation if not two.
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TV psychic "Miss Cleo" dies at 53
Youree Harris, born in Los Angeles and raised in Seattle, became known in the late 1990s as Miss Cleo, a purportedly Jamaican psychic who worked for the Psychic Readers Network. Although she used a number of aliases in her career as an actress and psychic (a characteristic possibly derived from her early acting years in which she strung together a battery of failed projects), it was Cleo that became the best-known, particularly because of her late-night infomercials. The Cleo character was retired in 2003, although she continued to work as a psychic until shortly before her death (her last known alias was The Seer).
Harris died of colon cancer.
Obituary from Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/07/26/miss-cleo-dead-at-53-report-says.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Cleo)
Video of a Miss Cleo commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=34&v=oxopPDMq7rs
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I wonder if she saw that comin'.
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Tim LaHaye, author of ‘Left Behind’ end times novels, dies
The author of the best-selling “Left Behind” novels about the return of Jesus and the rapture has died.
A publicist for the Rev. Tim LaHaye says the novelist died Monday in San Diego, California, days after suffering a stroke. He was 90 years old.
LaHaye and his partner Jerry B. Jenkins wrote 16 volumes in the “Left Behind” series, which sold more than 80 million copies worldwide, bringing Christian prophecy and the apocalypse into mainstream bookstores.
LaHaye was a Baptist minister who started an Atlanta-area church and several Christian schools, and wrote dozens of non-fiction and advice books. He was active in conservative political groups and instrumental in the creation of the Moral Majority.
No funeral plans were announced. He is survived by his wife Beverly and four children.
http://www.therepublic.com/2016/07/25/us-obit-tim-lahaye/
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'Babylon 5' star Jerry Doyle Dead at 60
Jerry Doyle -- best known for his role on "Babylon 5" -- died Wednesday ...
More (http://www.tmz.com/2016/07/28/jerry-doyle-babylon-5-dead/)
B5 Creator J. Michael Straczynski's Statement On the Death of Jerry Doyle (http://www.epictimes.com/07/28/2016/j-michael-straczynskis-statement-death-jerry-doyle/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Doyle)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236381/)
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'Babylon 5' star Jerry Doyle Dead at 60
More (http://www.tmz.com/2016/07/28/jerry-doyle-babylon-5-dead/)
B5 Creator J. Michael Straczynski's Statement On the Death of Jerry Doyle (http://www.epictimes.com/07/28/2016/j-michael-straczynskis-statement-death-jerry-doyle/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Doyle)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236381/)
Another one of the B5 crew gone. That makes Richard Biggs, Michael O'Hare, Andreas Katsulas, Jeff Conaway, and now Jerry Doyle, all of them died fairly young.
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'Babylon 5' star Jerry Doyle Dead at 60
More (http://www.tmz.com/2016/07/28/jerry-doyle-babylon-5-dead/)
B5 Creator J. Michael Straczynski's Statement On the Death of Jerry Doyle (http://www.epictimes.com/07/28/2016/j-michael-straczynskis-statement-death-jerry-doyle/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Doyle)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236381/)
Well... that really sucks. Another one gone. **nononono*
Interesting bit of Jerry Doyle/Bablyon 5 trivia: While filming the episode "Severed Dreams" (Season 3 Episode 10) Mr. Doyle broke his wrist/forearm during one of the fight scenes. If you watch the episode near the 38 minute mark, you see Zack (Jeff Conaway) helping Garibaldi (Jerry Doyle) ease down into a sitting position against one of the walls after the fighting is done. As he does, a helmet slides out from under Garibaldi's right arm and falls to the floor. Watch closely and note the loose/floppy quality of that arm as the helmet falls: yes, that was the arm he broke, and yes, he insisted on finishing the filming before getting his broken arm set in a cast. Talk about method acting...!
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Jerry Doyle's memorial program playing now:
http://www.talkstreamlive.com/program/jerry_doyle/
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'Babylon 5' star Jerry Doyle Dead at 60
More (http://www.tmz.com/2016/07/28/jerry-doyle-babylon-5-dead/)
B5 Creator J. Michael Straczynski's Statement On the Death of Jerry Doyle (http://www.epictimes.com/07/28/2016/j-michael-straczynskis-statement-death-jerry-doyle/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Doyle)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236381/)
Damn, 60 years old. Thats getting a little close for comfort.
RIP Jerry.
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And best of all Mr. Doyle was a political right winger with a fairly successful radio show. Caught it a couple of times years back.
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'Babylon 5' star Jerry Doyle Dead at 60
More (http://www.tmz.com/2016/07/28/jerry-doyle-babylon-5-dead/)
B5 Creator J. Michael Straczynski's Statement On the Death of Jerry Doyle (http://www.epictimes.com/07/28/2016/j-michael-straczynskis-statement-death-jerry-doyle/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Doyle)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236381/)
Rest In Peace Mr Doyle. Enjoyed your talk show. He was a pilot and a corporate stock broker. Will miss him.
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Gloria DeHaven, Effervescent Star of MGM Musicals, Dies at 91
She wandered into Charlie Chaplin’s 'Modern Times' and later appeared in 'Best Foot Forward,' 'Three Little Words,' 'Two Girls and a Sailor' and 'Out to Sea.'
Singer-actress Gloria DeHaven, the perky star of MGM musicals in the 1940s and a stalwart of show business for more than six decades, has died. She was 91.
DeHaven, who made her screen debut in Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936) as Paulette Goddard's kid sister — her father served as an assistant director on the film — died Saturday while in hospice care in Las Vegas, her daughter, Faith Fincher-Finkelstein, told The Hollywood Reporter. DeHaven suffered a stroke about three months ago, she said.
More (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gloria-dehaven-dead-actress-singer-908539)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_DeHaven)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002038/)
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Ghost singer Marni Nixon, RIP at 86 (she ghost sang for people like Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood,
Audrey Hepburn and others . . . )
Marni Nixon, whose singing gave voice to Hollywood's leading ladies, dies at 86 (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-marni-nixon-20160725-snap-story.html)
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Ghost singer Marni Nixon, RIP at 86 (she ghost sang for people like Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood,
Audrey Hepburn and others . . . )
Marni Nixon, whose singing gave voice to Hollywood's leading ladies, dies at 86 (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-marni-nixon-20160725-snap-story.html)
Oh, how sad! Marni Nixon's voice was amazing! I always got irritated that the very untalented (musically) Audrey Hepburn got credit for Marni's lovely singing, "I Could Have Danced All Night"
It was good that she finally got credit for all the singing she did. I admire her greatly.
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When I was in high school but at the other high school, I vaguely knew the family, the son killed the parents. You really wonder about those kinds of cases. Shocking.
Seriously. All families I'm sure have some friction in them but this really is shocking.
I see this happened with a former Texas A & M Aggie, former NFL and CFL football player, Antonio Armstrong. This happened Friday if no one posted it. Looks like an upstanding individual and the same for his wife.
Former Texas A&M linebacker and wife killed by teenage son in shooting
Antonio and Dawn Armstrong have died after being shot by their 16-year-old son early Friday morning
http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/police-former-texas-a-m-linebacker-and-wife-shot-by-teenage-son/
(https://cdanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Former-NFL-Player-Antonio-Armstrong-and-His-Wife-Killed-by-Son-16.jpg)
Rest In Peace; what a tragedy.
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When I was in high school but at the other high school, I vaguely knew the family, the son killed the parents. You really wonder about those kinds of cases. Shocking.
Seriously. All families I'm sure have some friction in them but this really is shocking.
I see this happened with a former Texas A & M Aggie, former NFL and CFL football player, Antonio Armstrong. This happened Friday if no one posted it. Looks like an upstanding individual and the same for his wife.
(https://cdanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Former-NFL-Player-Antonio-Armstrong-and-His-Wife-Killed-by-Son-16.jpg)
Rest In Peace; what a tragedy.
This is horrible. I bet it was really over nothing. the punk kid.
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I read that Armstrong was a pastor, and that he and his wife were really good people. How sad when a child you've loved and nurtured turns on you and commits such a heinous act.
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Former Miss North Dakota died of heart condition
MINNEAPOLIS -- A former University of North Dakota student who was crowned Miss North Dakota USA in 2003 died of an undetected heart condition, a coroner said Thursday.
Samantha Edwards, 37, who was found dead June 15 at her home in Minneapolis, died of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, a genetic disease that affects the heart muscle, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's office said in a news release. Officials concluded the investigation Thursday, attributing her death to natural causes.
Edwards was born in Minot and grew up in Hatton, where she graduated from high school in 1997 before becoming a student at UND. She later attended the Aveda Institute in Minneapolis, after which she pursued a career in cosmetic artistry for the past 14 years, according to her obituary.
More: http://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/former-miss-north-dakota-died-of-heart-condition/article_b7f7f332-14f3-59d5-8458-37e7dcdde2cf.html
(http://static.lakana.com/media.fox9.com/photo/2016/06/15/Miss%20North%20Dakota%20USA%20Samantha%20Edwards_1466025361110_1449502_ver1.0_640_360.jpg)
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David Huddleston, the Title Lebowski in ‘The Big Lebowski,’ Dies at 85
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/06/movies/david-huddleston-the-title-lebowski-in-the-big-lebowski-dies-at-85.html?_r=0
(http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTk4NDMwOTUxMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMjEzMzYwOA@@._V1._SX640_SY783_.jpg)
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Jazz clarinet great Pete Fountain dies at 86
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Pete_Fountain_1962.JPG/180px-Pete_Fountain_1962.JPG)
A contemporary and friendly rival with Al Hirt, Fountain first rose to fame in the 1950s when he was selected as a charter member of Lawrence Welk's orchestra. A highly respected clarinetist (in an era when Welk's orchestra was still seen as mediocre), Fountain amicably left the Welk show in 1958, disagreeing with Welk over his rendition of the Christmas song "Silver Bells."
From there, Fountain signed with Decca Records, recording a string of commercially successful albums, and established a permanent base in New Orleans, where he fronted his own band and stayed in the national limelight with a series of over 50 appearances on The Tonight Show during Johnny Carson's time as host. A New Orleans legend, he appeared annually in the city's Mardi Gras celebrations as leader of the "Half-Assed Walking Club," in which he and his fellow musicians would get drunk and play music.
No cause of death was stated.
Obituary from WDSU (http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/music-legend-cherished-new-orleanian-pete-fountain-dies/41075340?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=wdsu)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Fountain)
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'McLaughlin Group' host John McLaughlin dead at 89
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/16/mclaughlin-group-host-john-mclaughlin-dead-at-89.html (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/16/mclaughlin-group-host-john-mclaughlin-dead-at-89.html)
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'McLaughlin Group' host John McLaughlin dead at 89
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/16/mclaughlin-group-host-john-mclaughlin-dead-at-89.html (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/16/mclaughlin-group-host-john-mclaughlin-dead-at-89.html)
RIP
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'McLaughlin Group' host John McLaughlin dead at 89
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/16/mclaughlin-group-host-john-mclaughlin-dead-at-89.html (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/16/mclaughlin-group-host-john-mclaughlin-dead-at-89.html)
It couldn't have been Eleanor Clift?
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Character actor Fyvush Finkel dead at 93 (http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/08/15/character-actor-fyvush-finkel-dead-at-93/88759446/)
12:04 p.m. EDT August 15, 2016
NEW YORK — Fyvush Finkel, the plastic-faced character actor whose career in stage and screen started in Yiddish theater and led to memorable roles in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway and on TV in Boston Public and Picket Fences, has died, his son said Monday. He was 93.
Finkel, who was known for his mischievous smile and an ability to prop his ears at an angle for optimum comic effect, died early Sunday in Manhattan, said his son, Ian. He said his father had suffered heart problems for months.
He was a comedian, singer, stage actor, film actor and a familiar TV performer, from Fantasy Island to Blue Bloods to Picket Fences, for which he was nominated for an Emmy twice and won once, in 1994, according to his IMDb page. He celebrated his 80th birthday on the set of Boston Public, playing history teacher Harvey Lipschultz.
Full article here: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/08/15/character-actor-fyvush-finkel-dead-at-93/88759446/ (http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/08/15/character-actor-fyvush-finkel-dead-at-93/88759446/)
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Character actor Fyvush Finkel dead at 93 (http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/08/15/character-actor-fyvush-finkel-dead-at-93/88759446/)
12:04 p.m. EDT August 15, 2016
NEW YORK — Fyvush Finkel, the plastic-faced character actor whose career in stage and screen started in Yiddish theater and led to memorable roles in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway and on TV in Boston Public and Picket Fences, has died, his son said Monday. He was 93.
Finkel, who was known for his mischievous smile and an ability to prop his ears at an angle for optimum comic effect, died early Sunday in Manhattan, said his son, Ian. He said his father had suffered heart problems for months.
He was a comedian, singer, stage actor, film actor and a familiar TV performer, from Fantasy Island to Blue Bloods to Picket Fences, for which he was nominated for an Emmy twice and won once, in 1994, according to his IMDb page. He celebrated his 80th birthday on the set of Boston Public, playing history teacher Harvey Lipschultz.
Full article here: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/08/15/character-actor-fyvush-finkel-dead-at-93/88759446/ (http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/08/15/character-actor-fyvush-finkel-dead-at-93/88759446/)
Loved him in "Picket Fences"
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Loved him in "Picket Fences"
"Douglas Wambaugh, Your Honour, representing the pervert!"
"Douiglas Wambaugh, Your Honour, for the sex fiend!"
He was priceless.
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"Douglas Wambaugh, Your Honour, representing the pervert!"
"Douiglas Wambaugh, Your Honour, for the sex fiend!"
He was priceless.
:beer:Great writing and great characters that knew how to deliver their lines.
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Actor Jack Riley dies at 80
Riley was most famous for his character-acting gigs in the 1960s through the 1980s, the most famous being Elliot Carlin, the most frequently recurring nemesis—er, patient for Dr. Bob Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show; he later had a number of roles in Mel Brooks's middle-era films of the late 1970s and early 1980s. He is better known to younger audiences for his voice-acting roles, where he played the male part of a double-act for Country Crock margarine and the role of Stu Pickles, the father on the long-running cartoon Rugrats.
Obituary from Deadline.com (http://deadline.com/2016/08/jack-riley-dead-bob-newhart-show-rugrats-mel-brooks-movies-1201806165/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Riley_(actor))
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Actor Jack Riley dies at 80
Riley was most famous for his character-acting gigs in the 1960s through the 1980s, the most famous being Elliot Carlin, the most frequently recurring nemesis—er, patient for Dr. Bob Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show; he later had a number of roles in Mel Brooks's middle-era films of the late 1970s and early 1980s. He is better known to younger audiences for his voice-acting roles, where he played the male part of a double-act for Country Crock margarine and the role of Stu Pickles, the father on the long-running cartoon Rugrats.
Obituary from Deadline.com (http://deadline.com/2016/08/jack-riley-dead-bob-newhart-show-rugrats-mel-brooks-movies-1201806165/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Riley_(actor))
Man, his "Elliot" character on The Bob Newhart Show was so annoying... hard to realize that was 40 years ago. **nononono*
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Actor Jack Riley dies at 80
Riley was most famous for his character-acting gigs in the 1960s through the 1980s, the most famous being Elliot Carlin, the most frequently recurring nemesis—er, patient for Dr. Bob Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show; he later had a number of roles in Mel Brooks's middle-era films of the late 1970s and early 1980s. He is better known to younger audiences for his voice-acting roles, where he played the male part of a double-act for Country Crock margarine and the role of Stu Pickles, the father on the long-running cartoon Rugrats.
Obituary from Deadline.com (http://deadline.com/2016/08/jack-riley-dead-bob-newhart-show-rugrats-mel-brooks-movies-1201806165/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Riley_(actor))
I remember him as both Elliot Carlin and Stu Pickles. He was good in both roles. RIP.
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Actor Jack Riley dies at 80
Riley was most famous for his character-acting gigs in the 1960s through the 1980s, the most famous being Elliot Carlin, the most frequently recurring nemesis—er, patient for Dr. Bob Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show; he later had a number of roles in Mel Brooks's middle-era films of the late 1970s and early 1980s. He is better known to younger audiences for his voice-acting roles, where he played the male part of a double-act for Country Crock margarine and the role of Stu Pickles, the father on the long-running cartoon Rugrats.
Obituary from Deadline.com (http://deadline.com/2016/08/jack-riley-dead-bob-newhart-show-rugrats-mel-brooks-movies-1201806165/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Riley_(actor))
The Bob Newhart Show.....one of my favorites. It still comes on the CW on Sunday night at 10:30 pm CST. RIP Mr. Carlin...........
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Lou Pearlman, con artist behind the 1990s boy band boom, dies at 62
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Pearlman's Trans Continental conglomerate was originally in the aircraft business (which he propped up by questionable stock dealings) before, inspired by the success of the New Kids on the Block in the early 1990s, he set his sights on the music industry. Pearlman's first creation, the Backstreet Boys, was a huge success, which Pearlman followed with NSYNC, O-Town and LFO, among several others, as well as Innosense, the girl group best known for introducing Britney Spears to the general public. Most of the bands under Pearlman's tutelage eventually sued him.
His purchase of a talent scout company managed by Ayman el Difrawi would prove to be the beginning of his downfall, as the business model Pearlman embraced was widely accused of being a scam. In his last active years, Pearlman ostensibly relaunched his aircraft business and started recruiting investors—the problem was, the aircraft business this time was a fake paper business, and Pearlman was running a Ponzi scheme. He was convicted of fraud and sentenced to a 25-year jail sentence. He died in jail.
Obituary from Rolling Stone (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lou-pearlman-backstreet-boys-n-sync-svengali-dead-at-62-w435453)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Pearlman)
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Lou Pearlman, con artist behind the 1990s boy band boom, dies at 62
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Lou-pearlman-mugshot.jpg)
Pearlman's Trans Continental conglomerate was originally in the aircraft business (which he propped up by questionable stock dealings) before, inspired by the success of the New Kids on the Block in the early 1990s, he set his sights on the music industry. Pearlman's first creation, the Backstreet Boys, was a huge success, which Pearlman followed with NSYNC, O-Town and LFO, among several others, as well as Innosense, the girl group best known for introducing Britney Spears to the general public. Most of the bands under Pearlman's tutelage eventually sued him.
His purchase of a talent scout company managed by Ayman el Difrawi would prove to be the beginning of his downfall, as the business model Pearlman embraced was widely accused of being a scam. In his last active years, Pearlman ostensibly relaunched his aircraft business and started recruiting investors—the problem was, the aircraft business this time was a fake paper business, and Pearlman was running a Ponzi scheme. He was convicted of fraud and sentenced to a 25-year jail sentence. He died in jail.
Obituary from Rolling Stone (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lou-pearlman-backstreet-boys-n-sync-svengali-dead-at-62-w435453)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Pearlman)
A 2007 Vanity Fair profile of Lou Pearlman, at about the time he fled to try ducking the indictments in the
Ponzi scheme:
Mad About the Boys (http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/11/pearlman200711)
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Steven Hill, Who Starred on 'Law & Order' and 'Mission: Impossible,' Dies at 94
Steven Hill, who originated imposing lead roles on two notable television series, "Mission: Impossible" in the 1960s and "Law & Order" in the 1990s, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 94.
More (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/24/arts/television/steven-hill-trailblazing-tv-star-dies-at-94.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hill)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0384696/)
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Steven Hill, Who Starred on 'Law & Order' and 'Mission: Impossible,' Dies at 94
More (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/24/arts/television/steven-hill-trailblazing-tv-star-dies-at-94.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hill)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0384696/)
I actually found him more believable as a spy in Mission: Impossible, than Peter Graves, who replaced him after the first season. Still, he had a good long career... including 229 episodes on Law and Order.
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Steven Hill, Who Starred on 'Law & Order' and 'Mission: Impossible,' Dies at 94
More (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/24/arts/television/steven-hill-trailblazing-tv-star-dies-at-94.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hill)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0384696/)
did not know he was in MI. Liked L&O for years.
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N.J. jazz giant Rudy Van Gelder, who recorded John Coltrane, Miles Davis, dead at 91 (http://www.nj.com/entertainment/celebrities/index.ssf/2016/08/rudy_van_gelder_jazz_recording_engineer_obituary.html)
Rudy Van Gelder, a renowned recording engineer who captured jazz greats Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, John
Coltrane and many others in his parents' Hackensack living room and later in his eponymous Englewood Cliffs studio,
died Thursday at the age of 91, according to jazz writer Nate Chinen.
The location and cause of death were not announced.
Van Gelder, a lifelong New Jerseyan, recorded quintessential albums of the genre: John Coltrane's "Blue Train" and "A
Love Supreme," Miles Davis' "Workin'" and "Steamin'," Thelonious Monk's "Monk," Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers'
"Moanin'," and Lee Morgan's "The Sidewinder."
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Mr. Fuji, WWE Hall of Famer, Dies at 82
Harry Fujiwara, best known by his ring name Mr. Fuji and who pioneered in WWE as an entertainer and manager, died Sunday morning, WWE announced. He was 82.
“WWE is saddened to learn that WWE Hall of Famer Harry Fujiwara, known to WWE fans as Mr. Fuji, passed away this morning at the age of 82,” WWE said on a statement on its website. “His career will be remembered by different generations for different reasons but Mr. Fuji, whether as a Superstar or manager, is one of the most entertaining performers in the history of WWE.”
More (http://variety.com/2016/biz/news/mr-fuji-dead-wwe-hall-of-fame-1201846287/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Fuji)
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http://variety.com/2016/film/news/gene-wilder-dead-dies-willie-wonka-young-frankenstein-1201846745/
Gene Wilder, ‘Willie Wonka’ Star and Comedic Icon, Dies at 83
Richard Natale
August 29, 2016 | 12:22PM PT
Gene Wilder, who regularly stole the show in such comedic gems as “The Producers,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Young Frankenstein,” “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” and “Stir Crazy,” died Monday at his home in Stamford, Conn. His nephew Jordan Walker-Pearlman said he died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He was 83.
He had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1989.
(https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/gene-wilder-dead.jpg?w=490&h=276&crop=1)
more at link
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Thanks for all the laughs Gene.
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http://variety.com/2016/film/news/gene-wilder-dead-dies-willie-wonka-young-frankenstein-1201846745/
Gene Wilder, ‘Willie Wonka’ Star and Comedic Icon, Dies at 83
Richard Natale
August 29, 2016 | 12:22PM PT
Gene Wilder, who regularly stole the show in such comedic gems as “The Producers,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Young Frankenstein,” “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” and “Stir Crazy,” died Monday at his home in Stamford, Conn. His nephew Jordan Walker-Pearlman said he died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He was 83.
He had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1989.
(https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/gene-wilder-dead.jpg?w=490&h=276&crop=1)
more at link
Well that's a punch to the gut.
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RIP Gene. Say hello to Gilda for us.
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RIP Gene. Say hello to Gilda for us.
Awww, now you've done it. 8888crybaby
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http://variety.com/2016/film/news/gene-wilder-dead-dies-willie-wonka-young-frankenstein-1201846745/
Gene Wilder, ‘Willie Wonka’ Star and Comedic Icon, Dies at 83
Richard Natale
August 29, 2016 | 12:22PM PT
Gene Wilder, who regularly stole the show in such comedic gems as “The Producers,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Young Frankenstein,” “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” and “Stir Crazy,” died Monday at his home in Stamford, Conn. His nephew Jordan Walker-Pearlman said he died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He was 83.
He had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1989.
(https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/gene-wilder-dead.jpg?w=490&h=276&crop=1)
more at link
This is a sad day.
I was just talking to my wife about "Young Frankenstein" on Friday Night.
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http://variety.com/2016/film/news/gene-wilder-dead-dies-willie-wonka-young-frankenstein-1201846745/
Gene Wilder, ‘Willie Wonka’ Star and Comedic Icon, Dies at 83
Richard Natale
August 29, 2016 | 12:22PM PT
Gene Wilder, who regularly stole the show in such comedic gems as “The Producers,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Young Frankenstein,” “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” and “Stir Crazy,” died Monday at his home in Stamford, Conn. His nephew Jordan Walker-Pearlman said he died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He was 83.
He had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1989.
(https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/gene-wilder-dead.jpg?w=490&h=276&crop=1)
more at link
You will be greatly missed. Comedic genius, perfect timing and the facial expressions. I can't think of anyone that did "exasperation" like he did.
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You will be greatly missed. Comedic genius, perfect timing and the facial expressions. I can't think of anyone that did "exasperation" like he did.
He and Richard Pryor were a great comedy duo, right up there with Lemmon and Matthau.
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http://variety.com/2016/film/news/gene-wilder-dead-dies-willie-wonka-young-frankenstein-1201846745/ (http://variety.com/2016/film/news/gene-wilder-dead-dies-willie-wonka-young-frankenstein-1201846745/)
Gene Wilder, ‘Willie Wonka’ Star and Comedic Icon, Dies at 83
Richard Natale
August 29, 2016 | 12:22PM PT
Gene Wilder, who regularly stole the show in such comedic gems as “The Producers,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Young Frankenstein,” “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” and “Stir Crazy,” died Monday at his home in Stamford, Conn. His nephew Jordan Walker-Pearlman said he died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He was 83.
He had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1989.
(https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/gene-wilder-dead.jpg?w=490&h=276&crop=1)
more at link
I am truly saddened. A wonderful actor, a gifted comic, and by all accounts, a rare and kind soul.
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Check out "The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes's Smarter Brother" if you haven't seen it yet. It's not a laugh-a-minute, but it captures Wilder at his finest: cerebral, dynamic and unpredictable.
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http://variety.com/2016/film/news/gene-wilder-dead-dies-willie-wonka-young-frankenstein-1201846745/
Gene Wilder, ‘Willie Wonka’ Star and Comedic Icon, Dies at 83
Richard Natale
August 29, 2016 | 12:22PM PT
Gene Wilder, who regularly stole the show in such comedic gems as “The Producers,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Young Frankenstein,” “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” and “Stir Crazy,” died Monday at his home in Stamford, Conn. His nephew Jordan Walker-Pearlman said he died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He was 83.
He had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1989.
(https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/gene-wilder-dead.jpg?w=490&h=276&crop=1)
more at link
Thanks for all the laughs, Gene, you were the best Willie Wonka, and a riot in Young Frankenstein. It will ever be tough to say the words "It's ALIVE!" without thinking of you.
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Thanks for all the laughs, Gene, you were the best Willie Wonka, and a riot in Young Frankenstein. It will ever be tough to say the words "It's ALIVE!" without thinking of you.
One of my favorite lines from Young Frankenstein.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3dXBoN1lFE
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8888crybaby
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It is with great sadness that WSIG bids a final farewell to our beloved friend Bill Phipps.
Bill left this world Tuesday morning, August 30, 2016, after battling brain cancer for more than two years. Our prayers are with his family and his friends.
We miss you already, Bill.
Bill was a local On air radio personality well known and love din the southern central Virginia area
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Gene was one of the greats.
'It's Fronkensteen'.
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Joe Sutter, 'Father Of The 747,' Dies At 95
Joe Sutter, dubbed "Father of the 747" by the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, has died. He was 95. The cause of death was not revealed.
As the former chief engineer of Boeing's 747 program, Sutter is credited with leading the development of the first widebody aircraft, which ushered in the globe-shrinking age of mass air travel.
More (http://m.aviationweek.com/commercial-aviation/joe-sutter-father-747-dies-95)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Sutter)
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Actor Jon Polito, known for roles in Coen brother films 'The Big Lebowski' and 'Miller's Crossing,' dead at 65
Actor Jon Polito, who was best known for his roles in Coen brother films like "The Big Lebowski," "Miller's Crossing" and "Barton Fink," has died.
He was 65.
More (http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/jon-polito-roles-coen-brother-films-dead-65-article-1.2775628)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Polito)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0689237/)
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Actor Jon Polito, known for roles in Coen brother films 'The Big Lebowski' and 'Miller's Crossing,' dead at 65
More (http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/jon-polito-roles-coen-brother-films-dead-65-article-1.2775628)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Polito)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0689237/)
As with any good character actor, my first response upon seeing his picture was to exclaim "Oh! that guy!"
I see from his IMDB listing that he worked a lot in both movies and television, even doing voice work for animated shows and games. Nowadays, 65 seems to be too young for someone to pass. **nononono*
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As with any good character actor, my first response upon seeing his picture was to exclaim "Oh! that guy!"
I see from his IMDB listing that he worked a lot in both movies and television, even doing voice work for animated shows and games. Nowadays, 65 seems to be too young for someone to pass. **nononono*
Polito always struck me as the poor man's Danny DeVito. They both had that same short pudgy stature and gruff attitude.
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Radio psychologist Dr. Joy Browne dies at 71
Browne was one of the early radio psychologists, launching her show in 1978, just three years after Toni Grant, who also died earlier this year, launched her show. Her show had been heard nationwide since the early 1990s, one of many that launched in that era. In contrast to her contemporary Laura Schlessinger (who was not a real psychologist), Browne took a less confrontational approach to her listeners and avoided controversial topics, opting to listen to her callers' personal problems and answer in as professional of a manner as she could to influence the listener's personal outlook. Browne held degrees from Rice University, Northeastern University and Tufts University.
Browne died suddenly August 27 and was still hosting her radio show at the time of her death.
Obituary from the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/arts/television/dr-joy-browne-on-air-psychologist-dies-at-71.html?_r=0)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Browne)
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Fred Hellerman, Last of the Weavers Folk Group, Dies at 89
Fred Hellerman, a singer, guitarist and songwriter and the last surviving member of the Weavers, the quartet that in the 1950s helped usher in the folk music revival, died on Thursday at his home in Weston, Conn. He was 89...
With songs like “If I Had a Hammer,” “Goodnight Irene” and “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine,” the Weavers brought folk music to a mass audience, paving the way for singers like Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Peter, Paul and Mary, who galvanized a young, politically conscious audience in the 1960s.
Mr. Hellerman’s mellow baritone, rock-steady guitar and songwriting talent made him a pillar of the group, whose other members were Pete Seeger, Lee Hays and Ronnie Gilbert. Mr. Hays died in 1981, Mr. Seeger in 2014 and Ms. Gilbert in 2015...
After Mr. Seeger was labeled a Communist by the influential publication “Red Channels in 1952, and an F.B.I. informant made the same charge against Mr. Hellerman and Ms. Gilbert, it became impossible for the group to perform on radio and television, or at most concert halls...
Full article (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/arts/music/fred-hellerman-last-of-the-weavers-folk-group-dies-at-89.html)
Fred Hellerman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hellerman)
The Weavers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weavers)
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I listened to them as a kid. My parents had several of their albums.
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RIP Wyatt Earp . . .
Hugh O'Brian, Famed Lawman on 'The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp,' Dies at 91 (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hugh-o-brian-dead-life-925736)
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RIP Phyllis Schafly.
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Longtime Conservative Icon Phyllis Schlafly Dies at 92
September 5, 2016 6:10 PM
ST. LOUIS (KMOX (http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2016/09/05/longtime-conservative-icon-phyllis-schlafly-dies-at-92/#.V839WxMATXg.twitter))
— Multiple sources are confirming to KMOX news that Phyllis Schlafly, has died.
Schlafly founded the Eagle Forum in 1972, a pro-family conservative group focusing heavily on social issues — it has about 80,000 members and, as of this week, Schlafly was still president.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington University in 1944 — her masters from Radcliffe College in 1945 — and a J.D. from Washington University in 1978.
Schlafly’s organization has been split this presidential election — Schlafly supported Donald Trump, though many board members disagreed. She maintained her leadership of the organization.
She also fought nephew, Tom Schlafly, over the naming rights to his brewery in St. Louis. Schlafly contended her name juxtaposed with beer and libations would damage the conservative brand’s reputation. A judge disagreed.
Schlafly was 92.
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Conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly, the leader of the 1970s Stop ERA movement, has died.
In a statement posted on its website on Monday afternoon, her Eagle Forum said she died at her home in St. Louis surrounded by family members. She was 92.
Mrs. Schlafly had been activist since the early Cold War era and began as a defense analyst, but she achieved her greatest prominence by leading traditional-religious women in the movement against the Equal Rights Amendment.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/5/phyllis-schlafly-dies-92/
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Longtime Conservative Icon Phyllis Schlafly Dies at 92
September 5, 2016 6:10 PM
ST. LOUIS (KMOX (http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2016/09/05/longtime-conservative-icon-phyllis-schlafly-dies-at-92/#.V839WxMATXg.twitter))
— Multiple sources are confirming to KMOX news that Phyllis Schlafly, has died.
Schlafly founded the Eagle Forum in 1972, a pro-family conservative group focusing heavily on social issues — it has about 80,000 members and, as of this week, Schlafly was still president.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington University in 1944 — her masters from Radcliffe College in 1945 — and a J.D. from Washington University in 1978.
Schlafly’s organization has been split this presidential election — Schlafly supported Donald Trump, though many board members disagreed. She maintained her leadership of the organization.
She also fought nephew, Tom Schlafly, over the naming rights to his brewery in St. Louis. Schlafly contended her name juxtaposed with beer and libations would damage the conservative brand’s reputation. A judge disagreed.
Schlafly was 92.
RIP, Phyllis. I read her book A Choice, Not an Echo about Barry Goldwater, when I was 14 years old.
She lived a good long life......
(Edited to add: it was much more than a book about Barry Goldwater, but rather more about political corruption).
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92 is a good long life. May she rest in peace.
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RIP, Phyllis. I read her book A Choice, Not an Echo about Barry Goldwater, when I was 14 years old.
She lived a good long life......
(Edited to add: it was much more than a book about Barry Goldwater, but rather more about political corruption).
She did some great things with her life but unfortunately her support for Trump in this election is all that will be remembered.
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Rest in peace.
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Sympathies to the family. I didn't know she was ailing.
What, her Trump endorsement wasn't a huge honking hint?
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I won't say what I think about any of that until at least after the funeral. I hear you though.
Just to be clear, I don't mean to speak ill of her—the left-wingers and the alphabet soup lobbyists are certainly doing that enough. She challenged the feminist view of how a woman was supposed to think, and for that she deserves a tremendous amount of respect.
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Variety (http://variety.com/2016/film/news/hugh-obrian-dead-the-life-and-legend-of-wyatt-earp-1201852383/)reports:
Hugh O’Brian, Star of TV’s ‘The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp,’ Dies at 91
Carmel Dagan
Staff Writer
September 5, 2016 | 11:18AM PT
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Hugh O’Brian, who starred in the long-running series “The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp,” died Monday. He was 91.
The actor died peacefully in his Beverly Hills home, according to a statement from Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership.
ABC Western “The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp,” in which the exceedingly handsome, muscular O’Brian starred as the title character, ran for 221 episodes from 1955-61. At the time he was one of television’s great male sex symbols.
In 1957 he was nominated for an Emmy for best continuing performance by an actor in a dramatic series for his work on “The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.”
So popular and so much a part of popular culture was O’Brian that he showed up as Earp, uncredited, in the 1959 Bob Hope Western comedy “Alias Jesse James,” as well as in the 1960 TV movie “The Secret World of Eddie Hodges”; when the actor guested on “Make Room for Daddy” in 1956, the episode was entitled “Wyatt Earp Visits the Williamses.”
The actor had appeared in many feature Westerns by the time ABC cast him in its series as Wyatt Earp, a lawman who was one of the legends of the Old West.
Later he appeared in features including the 1963 comedy “Come Fly With Me”; in 1965, he starred in the feature “Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians” along with Shirley Eaton and Fabian and had an uncredited role in Otto Preminger’s World War II drama “In Harm’s Way,” starring John Wayne, Patricia Neal and Kirk Douglas.
In 1972-73 he starred with Doug McClure, Anthony Franciosa and Burgess Meredith in the NBC series “Search.”
O’Brian had a small role in John Wayne’s last film, Don Siegel’s “The Shootist” (1976), as the last character ever killed by Wayne on screen — O’Brian, a good friend of Wayne’s, considered it a great honor.
The actor reprised the role of Wyatt Earp for two episodes of the CBS series “Guns of Paradise” in 1989, and in the TV movies “The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw” (1991), starring Kenny Rogers, and CBS’ “Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone” (1994).
O’Brian did plenty of work outside the Western genre, appearing in the Arnold Schwarzenegger-Danny DeVito comedy “Twins” (1988) as one of several men who donated DNA that produced the “twins” and guesting on “Charlie’s Angels,” “Fantasy Island,” “Murder, She Wrote” and “L.A. Law.” He appeared in an Animal Planet adaptation of Jack London’s “Call of the Wild” in 2000.
Hugh Charles Krampe was born in Rochester, New York. Hugh lettered in a variety of sports.
He spent a semester at the University of Cincinnati but during World War II he dropped out to enlist in the Marine Corps — where his father had been an officer. At 17 he became the youngest Marine drill instructor, according to the TCM website. ...
O’Brian dedicated a great deal of his life to a charitable effort he created himself in 1958, the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Foundation, a nonprofit youth leadership development program for high schoolers. The organization sponsors 10,000 high school sophomores annually through leadership programs in all 50 states and 20 countries.
The concept for the program was inspired by the nine days O’Brian spent visiting with humanitarian Dr. Albert Schweitzer in Africa in 1958. ...
More at link.
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Sympathies to the family. I didn't know she was ailing.
Maybe she wasn't ailing, maybe at 92 she was just plum wore out.
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Conservative Icon.......................................
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True.
My grandmother is 99. She's amazing. So I guess I figure 92 is still pretty young. She seemed to be in great physical shape.
My mom was only 68. Her mother (my grandmother) who passed away in January was 92
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Rest in peace, Hugh O'Brian. I remember the Wyatt Earp series well from childhood. Good actor. The Shootist is my favorite John Wayne movie.
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Sad news. I got a chance to meet him in High School. His youth leadership development program was top notch (HOBY alumni 1991)
Hugh O’Brian, who rose to fame on television as the quick-drawing Wyatt Earp in the 1950s — but who later devoted extensive time to a foundation he created that trains young people to be leaders — died on Monday at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 91.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/06/arts/television/hugh-obrian-dies-dashing-tv-star-of-wyatt-earp-was-91.html?ribbon-ad-idx=5&rref=obituaries
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She did some great things with her life but unfortunately her support for Trump in this election is all that will be remembered.
I'll forget it and remember the good stuff.....
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Rest in peace, Hugh O'Brian. I remember the Wyatt Earp series well from childhood. Good actor. The Shootist is my favorite John Wayne movie.
I can still sing the Wyatt Earp theme song. Good show.
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I just ate the last meal my mom ever cooked.
It was horrible.
Mom was not a cook.
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True.
My grandmother is 99. She's amazing. So I guess I figure 92 is still pretty young. She seemed to be in great physical shape.
We are all different, my mom is 85 and she is wore out from pain all day every day. She says she's not looking for the end but is ready whenever God is.
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Are you a voice teacher, piano, something else....what? If I asked you before, forgive me. I don't remember.
That, and more...... adjunct prof/ music appreciation / music education / piano, voice...... stuff like that. I've taught pre-K through 12, high school choirs, church choirs, private piano and voice.
Jack of all trades, you might say. ^-^
But my strong suit is remembering old songs. I can name that tune in 3 notes......
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LOL! I come from a whole family of bad cooks. There are a couple of so-so cooks in there. They think they are marvelous, but it is really just the contrast that makes them seem good. You go to family gatherings for the company, not the food.
My grandmother was a terrible cook too. For cooking you had to go to my great grandmother. My sister and my niece are good cooks though. I've been told that I'm an OK cook.
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Wow. That is very cool.
I enjoy my life! ^-^
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Sixty-eight is young these days. But you said it was unexpected. I guess God has his own timing. My husband died at 54. 8888crybaby I am now just older than he was. 8888crybaby It makes me think about it more. I know he is in good hands though. His grandmother lived to be 102 and his mother was I think 90 or 92. His dad 75. He has a brother in his 70s. My husband took very good care of himself, better than they did, yet he's the one who died young. My mother was 74 and she abused her body her whole adult life. You never know.
My mom was a teen mother who was only 16 years older than me so my family is all over me to break my habit of not seeing doctors like my mom.
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I always like music people. Yet I'm not musical at all. Go figure. It's a personality thing I guess.
Music reaches the whole of your being. You don't have to be "musical" to be enriched by it.
That's why I teach it. Sort of like a music missionary..... :0006:
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I just ate the last meal my mom ever cooked.
It was horrible.
Mom was not a cook.
Belated condolences on your mother's passing.
I have the opposite situation. Mom and her mother were wonderful cooks. Two Italians. Plus because Mom married an Austrian, she could cook German too. Actually, Mom wasn't afraid to try any cuisine and she was usually successful.
I on the other hand am a terrible cook. I make a good salad though. :)
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Yeah. We have a lot in common. We are also not big doctor seeking people in my family. Of course my sister and my husband paid a price for that. But I don't know. When my time is up then it is up. I'm not going to waste time fretting over it. Last time I went to the doctor other than eye doctor was 30 years ago. I feel fine. If I'm not fine then I'll know soon enough.
Anyone over 50 who doesn't get a colonoscopy every ten years is crazy. Colon cancer is so easily preventable. Hell, there's even a "virtual" colonoscopy now, so you don't have to drink the nasty prep the night before. But even the real colonoscopy is so easy and gives you a great deal of peace of mind.
Like a mammogram for women.
And, if you have colon cancer in the family, every 5 years.
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I guess we are all headed there. Nevertheless, she was one of the conservative giants of the 20th Century. She is both mourned and missed.
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(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Hugh_O%27Brian_Wyatt_Earp_1960.JPG)
WYATT EARP THEME SONG:
CHORUS:
Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp,
Brave courageous and bold.
Long live his fame and long life his glory
and long may his story be told.
Full Version:
I'll tell you a story a real true life story
A tale of the Western frontier.
The West, it was lawless,
but one man was flawless
and his is the story you'll hear.
[Chorus:]
Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp,
Brave courageous and bold.
Long live his fame and long life his glory
and long may his story be told.
When he came to Kansas, to settle in Kansas,
He dreamed of a peaceable life,
Some goods and some chattel,
A few head of cattle,
A home and a sweet, loving wife.
(Chorus)
Now he wasn't partial to being a marshall,
but fate went and dealt him his hand,
While outlaws were looting, and killing and shooting,
he knew that he must take a stand.
(Chorus)
Well he cleaned up the country
The old wild west country
He made law and order prevail.
And none can deny it
The legend of Wyatt
Forever will live on the trail.
(Chorus)
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Another childhood hero has passed. :(
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hugh O'Brian, who shot to fame as Sheriff Wyatt Earp in what was hailed as television's first adult Western, has died. He was 91.
A representative from HOBY, a philanthropic organization O'Brian founded, says he died at home Monday morning in Beverly Hills.
Until "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" debuted in September 1955, most TV Westerns - "The Lone Ranger," ''Hopalong Cassidy," the singing cowboys' series - were aimed at adolescent boys.
"Wyatt Earp," on the other hand, was based on a real-life Western hero, and some of its stories were authentic. (The real Earp, who lived from 1848 to 1929, is most famous for his participation in the 1881 "Shootout at the O.K. Corral" in Tombstone, Arizona.)
Critics quickly praised it, and it made O'Brian a star.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBIT_HUGH_OBRIAN?SITE=MYPSP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-09-05-16-51-46
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O'Brien served in the Marine Corps, serving as a Drill Instructors at age 17. He was a Republican.
They just don't make very many like that, anymore. (my father enlisted in the Marine Corps, earned a Purple Heart for a serious injury on Okinawa)
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Another childhood hero has passed. :(
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBIT_HUGH_OBRIAN?SITE=MYPSP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-09-05-16-51-46
They still run "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" on Cozi TV, anyone remember "Search"? Is it wrong that the channels I prefer all play programs from the 50's, 60's? But then in those programs men were MEN, and women were WOMEN and never a transgender word was heard, the values were strong, the morals were clear and queer meant something odd (okay so too many of us it still does) families consisted of one dad that lived in the home, one mom and reasonably normal children. A time when comedians could make you laugh without being filthy except in an adult venue.
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They still run "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" on Cozi TV, anyone remember "Search"? Is it wrong that the channels I prefer all play programs from the 50's, 60's? But then in those programs men were MEN, and women were WOMEN and never a transgender word was heard, the values were strong, the morals were clear and queer meant something odd (okay so too many of us it still does) families consisted of one dad that lived in the home, one mom and reasonably normal children. A time when comedians could make you laugh without being filthy except in an adult venue.
A GREAT post ... well worth repeating! :patriot:
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September 05, 2016, 07:17 pm
Phyllis Schlafly dead at 92
By The Hill staff
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Longtime conservative activist and Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly died Monday. She was 92.
“Today, Phyllis Schlafly passed away in the presence of her family at her home in St. Louis, Missouri,” the Eagle Forum posted in a statement on its website.
The group called its founder, who it said spent 70 years in public service, “an indomitable pro-family grassroots advocate and organizer.”
“Her focus from her earliest days until her final ones was protecting the family, which she understood as the building block of life. ... From military superiority and defense to immigration and trade; from unborn life to the nuclear family and parenthood, Phyllis Schlafly was a courageous and articulate voice for common sense and traditional values.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...fly-dead-at-92
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They still run "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" on Cozi TV, anyone remember "Search"? Is it wrong that the channels I prefer all play programs from the 50's, 60's? But then in those programs men were MEN, and women were WOMEN and never a transgender word was heard, the values were strong, the morals were clear and queer meant something odd (okay so too many of us it still does) families consisted of one dad that lived in the home, one mom and reasonably normal children. A time when comedians could make you laugh without being filthy except in an adult venue.
I'm with you. I can't even tell you what the current TV station lineup is these days. Haven't seen any of them.
I did try at one point to watch Modern Family its first season because everyone I knew was into it. I made it through maybe the first 3 minutes and turned it off. As far as I could tell, what made the show "cutting edge" was the gay "couple." But having gay guys on a comedy show doesn't make it funny anymore than a comedian in a comedy club spewing a stream of profanities makes him funny. I'm not a prude, but is it too much to ask for a comedy show to have some genuinely funny lines and antics without the "hook" of controversy?
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I'm with you. I can't even tell you what the current TV station lineup is these days. Haven't seen any of them.
I did try at one point to watch Modern Family its first season because everyone I knew was into it. I made it through maybe the first 3 minutes and turned it off. As far as I could tell, what made the show "cutting edge" was the gay "couple." But having gay guys on a comedy show doesn't make it funny anymore than a comedian in a comedy club spewing a stream of profanities makes him funny. I'm not a prude, but is it too much to ask for a comedy show to have some genuinely funny lines and antics without the "hook" of controversy?
Last thing I saw that actually had me laughing was Jeff Dunham's ventriloquist act. Too much 'comedy' relies on 'edgy' nervousness for a laugh, and that doesn't work with me. At my age, I have heard most dirty jokes, in one variation or another, so it mostly just comes off as gratuitous profanity.
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Twitter Users Mock Phyllis Schlafly, Celebrate Her Death
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WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 19: Phyllis Schlafly, president of the Eagle Forum, listens to applause during the Family Research Council WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 19: Phyllis Schlafly, president of the Eagle Forum, listens to applause during the Family Research Council's 2007 Washington briefing October 19, 2007 in Washington, DC. The legislative action arm of the Family Research Council held the yearly event at which 2008 U.S. presidential hopefuls spoke, including Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and others. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images) ∧
Phyllis Schlafly died Monday at the age of 92, and Twitter users couldn’t even wait for her body to grow cold before celebrating her death in enthusiastic fashion.
Author and journalist Mark Harris summed up Schlafly’s life by saying she made the world worse off, and then jetted off to the movies.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/05/twitter-users-mock-phyllis-schlafly-celebrate-her-death/#ixzz4JTlEzOCU
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Another childhood hero has passed. :(
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBIT_HUGH_OBRIAN?SITE=MYPSP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-09-05-16-51-46
Never missed an episode! Even made my dad take me to the Houston Fat Stock Show and Rodeo to see him in person once! He was one of my heroes for sure!
RIP Wyatt!
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I watched an interview of Gene Wilder on youtube the other day. He said the reason he hasn't acted in 20+ years was all of the profanity, filth, etc. He said he hated Hollywood. Was kind of refreshing to hear. Of course I do seem to remember a scene with him in bed with a sheep....hmmmm......LOLOLOLOL.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbMa7BpPsNc
I actually saw that movie in a theater...(Woody Allen's Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex...) Woolite..I had forgotten about that, but that was pretty edgy, then. too much so to be anything but parody. Nowadays...?
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Nowadays...?
It's one of the 375 gender choices on Facebook.
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Interview with Hugh O'Brian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2KpB7D3FKc
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The United States produced giants in the 20th Century...more per capita than other countries...who knows? Phyllis Schlafly was one of them, an awesome giant worthy of silent respect wherever she went, as in, "Look, that's Phyllis Schlafly," spoken in whispering admiration.
It's fitting that her detractors would mount a campaign of criticism on twitter. Such people would have to climb to the top of the highest mountain they could find to measure up to peers everyone knows to be twits. At that altitude they would need the Palomar Telescope pointed straight up to find the bottom of Phyllis Schlafly's shoes.
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Nice post, hiram. Please check out the thread I posted in the editorials forum re: letter to my daughter about Phyllis Schlafly.
I started at Washington U. School of Law the year Mrs. Schlafly graduated. As you might expect of an ultra-liberal institution, she was reviled, as was her one compatriot on the faculty, a constitutional law professor named Jules Girard (I never had him for class; I got stuck with the lefties who, thankfully, didn't seem to push any particular agenda). I did see her in the building a few times after she graduated, as I understand she stopped in to see Prof. Girard.
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Bobby Chacon, former two-division boxing champion from Sylmar, dies at 64
Bobby Chacon, a San Fernando Valley boxer who won world titles in two weight classes, died Wednesday at age 64.
Chacon, who had long suffered from the effects of brain damage, fell and struck his head in a Hemet care facility early Wednesday morning and succumbed to his injuries, said Ricky Farris, president of the West Coast Boxing Hall of Fame.
“One of the most exciting fighters in the history of the West Coast, an amazing blood-and-guts brawler who took on the best fighters in three divisions,” Farris said of Chacon, who will be inducted into the West Coast Boxing Hall of Fame on Sept. 25.
Chacon was born Nov. 28, 1951, in Sylmar and trained in Pacoima. A San Fernando High graduate and onetime liberal-arts student at Cal State Northridge, Chacon was nicknamed “Schoolboy” by veteran boxing publicist Bill Caplan.
More (http://www.latimes.com/sports/boxing/la-sp-sn-boxing-bobby-chacon-obituary-dead-20160907-snap-story.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Chacon)
BoxRec (http://boxrec.com/boxer/9523)
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Lady Chablis, transgender actress from 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil', dies at 59
The Lady Chablis, the transgender performer who became an unlikely celebrity for her role in the 1994 best-seller "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," died Thursday in Savannah. She was 59.
Chablis' sister, Cynthia Ponder, confirmed she died at Candler Hospital. A close friend, Cale Hall, said Chablis died from pneumonia and had been in the hospital for the past month.
A modern, nonfiction take on Southern Gothic storytelling, author John Berendt's "Midnight" thrust Savannah into the pop-culture spotlight. And the sassy, blunt-spoken Chablis rode the book's popularity to a level of fame that was rare for transgender performers at the time.
More (http://www.nbc26.com/news/national/lady-chablis-transgender-actress-dies-at-59)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_Chablis)
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Had the memorial for my mom today. She was a great conservative who passed far too young.
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Had the memorial for my mom today. She was a great conservative who passed far too young.
So very sorry for your loss. I can't imagine how painful this must be for you. I wish I had some eloquent words to sooth the pain but I can only offer my empathy. Prayers sent.
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Had the memorial for my mom today. She was a great conservative who passed far too young.
(http://i.imgur.com/wehlxO5.png)
She must have been a wonderful woman, or you would not have turned out quite so well, friend. I am sorry for your loss and continue to remember you in my prayers.
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Lord Littlebrook dies at 87
Lord Littlebrook, easily one of the most famous midget wrestlers in history, has died after a long battle with a variety of health ailments. He was 87 years old.
Born Eric Tovey on January 3, 1929 in England, he came of age as the Second World War was on, and ran away from home at age 14 to join the circus. While on a tour of the United States, the circus closed down. On a friend's suggestion, he took up wrestling. After a few months of training, he made his debut against Irish Jackie -- and lost.
He was Lord Littlebrook right from the start. It was a promoter's idea, stemming, Littlebrook guesses, from the American perception that all Englishmen are nobles.
More (http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/2016/09/09/22665535.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Littlebrook)
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Had the memorial for my mom today. She was a great conservative who passed far too young.
(http://i.imgur.com/wehlxO5.png)
She looks like one heck of a great lady. My deepest sympathies.
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Had the memorial for my mom today. She was a great conservative who passed far too young.
I'm sorry for your loss, @Cripplecreek . Losing your Mom is tough........ even when you're a "grown-up."
I'll be praying for you and your family. May God comfort you..
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Woman in iconic WWII Times Square kiss photograph dies at 92 (https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-iconic-wwii-times-square-kiss-photograph-dies-190306875.html?ref=gs)
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NEW YORK (AP) — The woman kissed by an ecstatic sailor in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II
has died.
Greta Zimmer Friedman’s son says his mother died Thursday at a Richmond, Virginia, hospital of what he called
complications from old age. She was 92.
Friedman was a 21-year-old dental assistant in a nurse’s uniform on Aug. 14, 1945. She went to Times Square amid
reports that the war had ended. That’s when she was kissed by George Mendonsa celebrating Japan’s surrender.
Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captured the moment. It became one of the most famous photographs
of the 20th century.
Joshua Friedman says his mother recalled it all happening in an instant.
She will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, next to her late husband, Dr. Misha Friedman.
RIP Ms. Friedman.
(The kiss apparently happened because George Mendonsa---on a date with the woman who became his wife---
saw Ms. Friedman in Times Square and was overcome by his feelings about having seen what the military
nurses had done for the men in uniform while he was deployed in the Pacific. Since she wore a nurses'
uniform he had no idea she was really a dental assistant, apparently!)
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Oh, wow! The most famous woman ever made famous just because she was kissed!
RIP, Greta!
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Oh, wow! The most famous woman ever made famous just because she was kissed!
RIP, Greta!
Far as I can tell, George Mendonsa---arguably the most famous man ever made famous just
because he kissed someone---is still alive, well, and married to the gal he was with when the
kiss just happened spontaneously.
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Far as I can tell, George Mendonsa---arguably the most famous man ever made famous just
because he kissed someone---is still alive, well, and married to the gal he was with when the
kiss just happened spontaneously.
Didn't know that! You are a veritable font of information, EasyAce! :beer:
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'Crazy Eddie,' electronics chain kingpin with 'insaaane' prices, dead at 68
He was known as Crazy Eddie.
Eddie Antar, the electronics kingpin who once presided over a retail empire spanning four states, died Saturday, according to a family member. Antar's company was known for its frenetic television advertising of a seemingly crazed pitchman—before it all collapsed like a house of cards in a multi-million-dollar securities fraud.
He was 68. Funeral services are scheduled today in New Jersey.
Antar, who first went into business with his father out of a storefront on Kings Highway in Brooklyn, turned Crazy Eddie into the largest electronics chain in the New York metropolitan area.
More (http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2016/09/crazy_eddie_antar_whose_insaaanne_retail_chain_col.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Eddie)
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Had the memorial for my mom today. She was a great conservative who passed far too young.
Our condolences.
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Had the memorial for my mom today. She was a great conservative who passed far too young.
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@Cripplecreek
Please accept my deepest condolences. Even if you live to be 100, losing your parents is painful beyond description. My heart hurts for you.
Lovely lady, BTW.
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@Cripplecreek
Please accept my deepest condolences. Even if you live to be 100, losing your parents is painful beyond description. My heart hurts for you.
Lovely lady, BTW.
It gets easier with time but it still bugs me that her house is dark when I look out my kitchen window at night or head for the door in the morning to head over there for coffee.
It effects the dogs as well. Neener used to spend her nights over there and hang out with Bowser and I during the day. She spent 3 days waiting by the gate. Its been almost two weeks and they still search the house every time we go over there.
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RIP the man whose novel became Field of Dreams---W.P. Kinsella, who also wrote another splendid baseball novel,
The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Canadian novelist W.P. Kinsella, who blended magical realism and baseball in the book that became the smash hit film "Field of Dreams," has died. He was 81.
His literary agent Carolyn Swayze said in a statement that Kinsella's death on Friday in Hope, British Columbia was doctor-assisted. Details about his health were not disclosed. Assisted deaths became legal in Canada in June.
In the 1982 novel "Shoeless Joe," a farmer hears a voice telling him to build a baseball diamond in his corn fields. When he does, Shoeless Joe Jackson and other baseball players of yesteryear come to play. It became the blueprint for the 1989 Oscar-nominated movie, which starred Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones and Ray Liotta.
Key turns of phrases in Kinsella's book -- "If you build it, they will come" and "Go the distance" -- have taken their place in literature's lexicon and among Hollywood's most memorable movie lines.
Kinsella, a bona fide baseball junkie, loved the movie and said he had tears in his eyes when he first saw it.
In 2011 the Canadian baseball Hall of Fame awarded him the Jack Graney Award for a significant contribution to the game of baseball in Canada.
"I wrote it 30 years ago, and the fact that people are still discovering it makes me proud. It looks like it will stand the test of time," Kinsella said at the time.
Scott Crawford, director of operations at the Canadian hall, said he was saddened to learn of the author's death.
"His work has touched the lives of thousands of baseball fans across Canada and around the world," Crawford said in a statement. "His most famous book was the classic `Shoeless Joe,' which inspired one of my favorite movies, `Field of Dreams'."
Much of Kinsella's work touched on baseball. He published almost 30 books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry and won the Order of Canada, one of the country's highest honors.
William Patrick Kinsella was born in Edmonton, Alberta. His father John had played minor league baseball, and the young Kinsella fell for the game playing with friends on sandlots in Edmonton.
He began writing as a child, winning a YMCA contest at age 14.
Kinsella took writing courses at the University of Victoria in 1970, receiving his bachelor of arts in creative writing in 1974. In 1978 he earned a master of fine arts in English through the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.
He had been an English professor at the University of Calgary.
Vancouver Writer's Festival founder Alma Lee said Kinsella was a private man with a passion for baseball.
"He was a dedicated story-teller, performer, curmudgeon, an irascible and difficult man," Swayze said in a statement. "His fiction has made people laugh, cry, and think for decades and will do so for decades to come."
Kinsella was married three times. He is survived by two daughters, who the literary agency says cared for him in his final years, and several grandchildren.
Kinsella has asked there be no memorial service.
"If you build it, he will come . . . " (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ay5GqJwHF8)
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Edward Albee died last night. He's famous for writing the play "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf"
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RIP Liesl von Trapp from The Sound of Music (the movie) . . .
Charmian Carr, Liesl From 'The Sound of Music,' Dies at 73
Charmian Carr, known for her role as Liesl Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, died Saturday. She was 73.
Carr’s family announced she died in Woodland Hills, Calif., of complications from a rare form of dementia.
Carr was born on Dec. 27, 1942, in Chicago. She was 21 when she sang the popular “I Am Sixteen Going
on Seventeen” as the oldest Von Trapp sister in the Academy Award-winning Sound of Music (1965) starring
Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.
Carr only starred in one other film, appearing opposite Anthony Perkins in Evening Primrose (1966).
After Carr left the movie business, she started a design company called Charmian Carr Design, which attracted
Michael Jackson as a client.
Carr co-authored two books: Forever Liesl (2000), which chronicled her experience filming Sound of Music, and
Letters to Liesl (2001), which was inspired by the thousands of fan letters she received over the years.
Carr is survived by her siblings Sharon, Darleen, Michael, and Brian; daughters Jennifer and Emily; niece Julie;
and grandchildren Emma, Derek, William, and Tucker.
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RIP Liesl von Trapp from The Sound of Music (the movie) . . .
Wow. She is the first member of the Von Trapp family to leave us.
FAR too young.............
RIP, Liesl.
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Musician Buckwheat Zydeco dies at 68
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Stanley Dural, a Louisiana Creole, was the son of an accomplished accordion player, but himself was more of a fan of the newly emerging "rhythm and blues." His first band, the Hitchhikers, played funk music. A chance encounter with Clifton Chenier in 1976 gave Dural his first exposure to zydeco music, to which he was shocked to discover its popularity in Louisiana. He quickly learned the accordion and, after a few years, set up his own band, "Buckwheat Zydeco."
Adapting a number of classic R&B hits to a zydeco beat, Buckwheat Zydeco was treated as a major rock star in the 1980s, recording on major record labels and collaborating with some of the most prominent rock stars of his day. He continued to perform up until the end of his life; he died in his hometown of Lafayette from a combination of lung and throat cancer early in the morning September 24.
Obituary from CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/25/entertainment/stanley-dural-buckwheat-zydeco-dead/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckwheat_Zydeco)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h21BSaGfuNM
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Howard E. Butt Jr., oldest son of Texas H-E-B family, dies at 89
Howard E. Butt Jr., the brother of H-E-B Chairman and CEO Charles Butt and the oldest son of the grocery chain’s namesake founder Howard E. Butt Sr., died Sunday at his home in San Antonio due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 89.
“We are deeply saddened by the loss of my brother, Howard,” Charles Butt said in a statement. “His decades of inspired leadership, philanthropy and humanitarian efforts will forever be missed by our family and those he impacted across the U.S.”
Howard Butt Jr. is best known to the public as the evangelistic member of Butt family and as the folksy, comforting voice of one-minute radio spots titled, “The High Calling of Our Daily Work.”
He operated the H.E. Butt Foundation, established in 1933 as one of the state’s earliest and largest philanthropic foundations. He also ran Laity Lodge, an ecumenical Christian retreat center in the Hill Country.
Born in Kerrville, Texas, on Sept. 8, 1927, Butt grew up in the grocery business founded by his grandmother, Florence, in 1905. He attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas, graduated in 1947 with a degree in business, and soon afterward married his longtime sweetheart, Barbara Dan Gerber.
Howard Butt Jr. was one of five family members who owns the family fortune, an estate estimated at $11 billion in value by Forbes magazine, similar in size with New York’s Rockefeller family....
He was drawn, however, to the Christian youth movement in the 1940s while attending Baylor University and combined his business career with a second calling as a lay minister preaching at revivals and speaking nationally. The burden was excessive, he has previously said, and differences with his parents over his career path plunged Howard Butt Jr. into a decade-long depression.
“I had been living my whole life with Dad wanting me to be part of the company,” he said in a 1996 interview. Howard Butt Jr. was candid about his depression and eventually sought help, which he said “was very suspect in the whole Texas culture and even more so in the Baptist culture. There were family members that didn’t even know.”
Howard Butt Jr. wrote about his bout with depression in a 1996 book titled, “Renewing America’s Soul: A Spiritual Psychology for Home, Work and Nation.”....
http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/local/article/Howard-E-Butt-Jr-dies-at-89-9217122.php
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Has anyone covered Jose Fernandez yet? He pitched for the Florida Marlins.
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Has anyone covered Jose Fernandez yet? He pitched for the Florida Marlins.
Pitcher José Fernández dies at 24
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Fernández was born in Cuba and was imprisoned three times for attempting to leave the country before successfully fleeing to Mexico, then the United States in 2007. He signed his first professional contract in 2011 and quickly rose through the minor leagues, making it to the major leagues after only 1½ seasons in the minors. During his four-season MLB career, all of it with the Florida Marlins, Fernández appeared in two all-star games and was named Rookie of the Year (as well as being nominated for the Cy Young Award, which he did not win) his first season in the league. His 2016 season was a successful comeback season after two seasons struggling with injuries and various surgeries, again making the All-Star Game.
Fernández was killed after being struck by a boat Sunday morning.
News report from ESPN.com (http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/17632541/miami-marlins-ace-jose-fernandez-dies-boating-accident)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Fernández_(pitcher))
Career statistics (http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=605228)
Related:
“The death of this player is a loss for us all (http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/dan-le-batard/article104096841.html)” by Dan Le Batard
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Golfing legend Arnold Palmer dies at 87
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One of golf's biggest superstars of the 1950s and 1960s, Palmer was professional golf's first millionaire. Palmer won seven major golf tournaments between 1958 and 1965, including the British Open twice (1961 and 1962), at a time when few Americans played that tournament. He continued to have a string of success through 1971 and his career was buoyed by boyish good looks and a marketable persona that earned him a cadre of followers nicknamed "Arnie's Army" and allowed for a rivalry with up-and-comers Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player. He moved to the Senior Tour in 1980, giving that circuit instant credibility, and played competitive golf until the mid-2000s (decade).
An avid businessman, Palmer is also known for his iced tea-lemonade concoction, which has been distributed via Arizona Beverage Company for over a decade.
Palmer, a lifelong resident of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, died after years of declining health Sunday.
More to come...
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Arnold Palmer was a giant of a man in every possible way! May he rest in peace!
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Arnold Palmer was a beloved figure here in Western Pennsylvania. Every tournament he played received extensive local tv news coverage. There is a small airport in Latrobe, PA named for him. Although he was retired, he was still featured in commercials for mostly local businesses in the area. Palmer will be greatly missed.
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Arnold Palmer was a beloved figure here in Western Pennsylvania. Every tournament he played received extensive local tv news coverage. There is a small airport in Latrobe, PA named for him. Although he was retired, he was still featured in commercials for mostly local businesses in the area. Palmer will be greatly missed.
In eastern Ohio where I grew up as well.
RIP, Arnie. You are a hero, and you will be missed!
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Yes, as a western Pennsylvania native myself, I know how beloved Arnie was in our area. So accessible and down to earth.
KDKA's Facebook post described him as "the only king ever elected by the people." :beer:
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Arnold Palmer dies at 87, made golf popular for masses
Arnold Palmer brought a country club sport to the masses with a hard-charging style, charisma and a commoner's touch. At ease with both presidents and the golfing public, and on a first-name basis with both, "The King" died Sunday in Pittsburgh. He was 87.
Alastair Johnston, CEO of Arnold Palmer Enterprises, confirmed that Palmer died Sunday afternoon of complications from heart problems. Johnston said Palmer was admitted to the UPMC Hospital on Thursday for some cardiovascular work and weakened over the last few days.
"Today marks the passing of an era," said Johnston, Palmer's longtime agent at IMG. "Arnold Palmer's influence, profile and achievements spread far beyond the game of golf. He was an iconic American who treated people with respect and warmth, and built a unique legacy through his ability to engage with fans."
Source URL: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/arnold-palmer-dies-87-made-golf-popular-masses
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He also revolutionized refreshments....
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In an era when so many octogenarians -- from Joe Paterno to Bill Cosby -- are being cut to size, there remain a few who will always be golden. Palmer was bigger than life, but lived as though he was just an average guy who got lucky, and that is why everyone loved him. Long live "The King."
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In an era when so many octogenarians -- from Joe Paterno to Bill Cosby -- are being cut to size, there remain a few who will always be golden. Palmer was bigger than life, but lived as though he was just an average guy who got lucky, and that is why everyone loved him. Long live "The King."
I think it also helped that he didn't get involved in rapes or covering them up.
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In an era when so many octogenarians -- from Joe Paterno to Bill Cosby -- are being cut to size, there remain a few who will always be golden. Palmer was bigger than life, but lived as though he was just an average guy who got lucky, and that is why everyone loved him. Long live "The King."
:amen: Rest in peace Arnold!
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RIP Arnie.
OTOH...
I hope they also retire those awful Pharma commercials that he is in.
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Xarelto.
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Country Music Hall of Famer Jean Shepard dead at 82 (http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/09/25/country-music-hall-famer-jean-shepard-dead-82/76568704/)
Trailblazer Jean Shepard, a Country Music Hall of Fame member, a member of the Grand Ole Opry for more than 60 years and one of traditional country music’s greatest, feistiest advocates, died Sunday at the age of 82.
“She’s one of those people who opened doors,” Opry announcer and WSM DJ Eddie Stubbs said in late 2015. “There were some she had to push open and some others she had to kick her way through.”
Shepard was a pioneer for women in country music. Her 1956 LP, “Songs of a Love Affair,” featuring songs about a marriage broken up by adultery, was one of the genre's first concept albums, and other gutsy, forthright recordings such as “Act Like a Married Man” helped to pave the way for artists like Loretta Lynn.
Ollie Imogene Shepard was born Nov. 21, 1933 in Pauls Valley, Okla. The daughter of sharecroppers, Shepard — and her nine siblings — grew up singing in the church and was drawn to the music of Jimmie Rodgers and Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. She grew up in a home without electricity or running water. Every year, her parents saved their pennies to afford a new battery for their AM radio. Shortly before her eleventh birthday, the Shepard family moved to Visalia, Calif., about 100 miles north of Bakersfield.
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In November of 1955, Shepard got the best birthday present a young country singer could ask for when, at 22, she was invited to join the Grand Ole Opry. She was one of three women who were Opry members at that time: the other two were Wells and Minnie Pearl. During the 1950s, she also became a cast member of the program “Ozark Jubilee,” where she met Hawkshaw Hawkins, the man who would become her husband. The two singers toured together and, in November 1960, they married on the stage of a Wichita, Kansas auditorium. In 1961, Shepard gave birth to son Don Robin.
Hawkins died in the March 5, 1963 plane crash that also claimed the lives of Patsy Cline and Cowboy Copas, leaving Shepard a widow, eight months pregnant and raising a toddler. Just weeks after the death of her husband, she gave birth to Harold Franklin Hawkins II. Her fellow Opry members rallied around her, and WSM president Jack DeWitt told her that her job would be waiting when she was ready to return.
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Throughout her career, Shepard was an outspoken opponent of pop-country music.
“Today’s country is not country, and I’m very adamant about that,” she told The Tennessean in 2015. “I’ll tell anybody who’ll listen, and some of those who don’t want to listen, I’ll tell them anyway. ... Country music today isn't genuine.”
Shepard was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2011. At the press conference announcing that year's inductees, Hall of Famer Brenda Lee said that this induction was “way too long in coming. She busted down the doors.”
On Nov. 21, 2015, the Grand Ole Opry celebrated Shepard’s 60th anniversary as a member; she was the only female member to have reached the six-decade mark. At the time of her death, Shepard was the longest-running member of the Opry, and had appeared on the show into her 80s. She was also a published author, having released her engaging memoir, “Down Through the Years,” in 2014.
Shepard leaves behind Benny Birchfield, her devoted husband of nearly 50 years, three sons and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
More at the link: http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/09/25/country-music-hall-famer-jean-shepard-dead-82/76568704/ (http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/09/25/country-music-hall-famer-jean-shepard-dead-82/76568704/)
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He also revolutionized refreshments....
Make no mistake: a true “Arnold Palmer” is dominated by iced tea, Palmer said. It’s iced tea with lemonade, not lemonade with iced tea.
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/arnold-palmer-iced-tea-lemonade-drink_us_57e8b4fae4b08d73b8321068)
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Country Music Hall of Famer Jean Shepard dead at 82 (http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/09/25/country-music-hall-famer-jean-shepard-dead-82/76568704/)
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Sounds like quite a lady.
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And where would we be without Obama's pronouncement on Arnold's passing. **nononono*
“With his homemade swing and homespun charm, Arnold Palmer had swagger before we had a name for it,” the president said in a statement released by the White House. “From a humble start working at the local club in his beloved Latrobe, Pennsylvania, to superstardom as the face of golf around the globe, Arnold was the American Dream come to life.”
"Along the way he racked up win after win – but it wasn’t his success that made him King. Arnold’s freewheeling, fearless approach to the game inspired a generation of golfers and, for the first time on TV, enthralled an audience across the world. Sure, we liked that he won seven majors, but we loved that he went for it when he probably should have laid up,” Obama, himself an avid golfer, continued. “That spirit extended beyond the links where he gave freely of himself and poured everything he had into everything he did: from building hospitals to personally responding to countless letters from his fans. And he did it all with a grin that hinted maybe he had one more shot up his sleeve."
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And where would we be without Obama's pronouncement on Arnold's passing. **nononono*
His Universal Eminence of Holiness and Grace has spoken. Only now can Arnold be properly laid to rest.
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His Universal Eminence of Holiness and Grace has spoken. Only now can Arnold be properly laid to rest.
I'm sure it pained O to have to honor some white guy, particularly when he had to call him King (King is supposed to be Obama's title). Thank goodness O had someone to prepare remarks for him. I'll bet Obama has no idea who Mr. Palmer was.
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I'm sure it pained O to have to honor some white guy, particularly when he had to call him King (King is supposed to be Obama's title). Thank goodness O had someone to prepare remarks for him. I'll bet Obama has no idea who Mr. Palmer was.
Of course he does! Palmer was king of 0bama's avocation - golfing!
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I'm sure it pained O to have to honor some white guy, particularly when he had to call him King (King is supposed to be Obama's title). Thank goodness O had someone to prepare remarks for him. I'll bet Obama has no idea who Mr. Palmer was.
Obama: "Who's Arnold Palmer?"
Speechwriter: "Just imagine if Tiger Woods died. Then come up with your thoughts, and we'll scratch Woods's name out and replace it with Palmer's."
Obama: "Good enough."
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Obama: "Who's Arnold Palmer?"
Speechwriter: "Just imagine if Tiger Woods died. Then come up with your thoughts, and we'll scratch Woods's name out and replace it with Palmer's."
Obama: "Good enough."
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Obama: "Who's Arnold Palmer?"
Speechwriter: "Just imagine if Tiger Woods died. Then come up with your thoughts, and we'll scratch Woods's name out and replace it with Palmer's."
Obama: "Good enough."
I don't know if I should laugh or cry at that one. :)
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Stanley Dural Jr., Founder of Buckwheat Zydeco, Dies at 68 (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/arts/music/stanley-dural-jr-founder-of-buckwheat-zydeco-dies-at-68.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckwheat_Zydeco)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRRW3aine6Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRRW3aine6Y
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Just breaking-
Former Israeli PM and president Shimon Peres died at age 93 following a stroke two weeks ago. ( BBC- breaking)
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Just breaking-
Former Israeli PM and president Shimon Peres died at age 93 following a stroke two weeks ago. ( BBC- breaking)
I had no idea he was still alive!
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I had no idea he was still alive!
LOL.
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I'm getting news alert beeps on my iPhone .....from several news sources.
Here's Wikipedia. Keep in mind it's tomorrow in Israel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shimon_Peres&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37492153
Obit for Shimon Peres
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I think he was a first cousin to Lauren Bacall, if my memory is correct.
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I think he was a first cousin to Lauren Bacall, if my memory is correct.
According to Wikipedia, Bacall was related to Peres on her father's side. Doesn't say how close of a relative.
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Agnes Nixon, "queen of the modern soap opera," dies at 93
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Nixon, born in Chicago and raised in Nashville, was one of two prominent proteges to study under the tutelage of Irna Phillips, the recognized creator of the soap opera format. (The other was Philip Bell, who went on to create The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.) She wrote for a number of Phillips's soap operas during the 1950s and 1960s before ABC offered her the chance to create her own series. She created One Life to Live in 1968, then followed it in 1970 with the show she always considered her personal favorite: All My Children, which used characters based on her own personal life. Although she sold both shows to ABC in the 1980s (never being comfortable with the business side of television), she continued to write for both until they were canceled in 2011.
Nixon died of undisclosed natural causes in a senior living facility in Pennsylvania.
Obituary from the Los Angeles Times (http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-agnes-nixon-snap-story.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Nixon)
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As if Obama's phony statement on Arnold Palmer's passing wasn't annoying enough, there's the death of Shimon Peres. Keith Koffler observes (http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2016/09/28/obama-statement-shimon-peres/) that B. Hussein referred to Peres multiple times as his friend.
... Like, what kind of friends? As in, Hey Shimon, I’m calling because you’ll never guess what happened to me today!”
They weren’t friends. I doubt if Peres, whose personality was seared in the struggle for the birth and preservation of Israel, had much respect for this man who rose to power through charm and little else. A man who offered up a moral equivalence between the Israelis and the Palestinians, pressuring the Jews into concessions and treating with disrespect Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu because he personally disliked him.
That is, he didn’t consider Netanyahu a “friend.”
Obama will go down in history as the man who may have sealed the destruction of Israel by allowing Iran to gain nuclear weapons and, most likely, setting off a nuclear arms race among Arab states in the Middle East. ...
More (http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2016/09/28/obama-statement-shimon-peres/)
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Agnes Nixon, "queen of the modern dope opera," dies at 93
Fixed! ;)
RIP Ms. Nixon.
(Her mentor Irna Phillips created the first known soap opera, Chicago radio's Painted Dreams, in 1930 . . . )
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Leading British conductor Sir Neville Marriner dies at 92
The British conductor and violinist, Sir Neville Marriner, has died at the age of 92, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields says.
Sir Neville started his musical career with the London Symphony Orchestra.
He later established the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, one of the world's leading chamber orchestras.
More (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37535272)
Conductor Sir Neville Marriner dies aged 92 (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/02/conductor-sir-neville-marriner-dies-academy-st-martin-in-the-fields-amadeus)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Marriner)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0550165/)
Sir Neville Marriner conducts Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ck730p3EdI)
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Rod Temperton, member of Heatwave and songwriter for Michael Jackson, dies at 66
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Temperton began his career as the keyboardist for Heatwave, a funk band that had several hits in the disco era including "Boogie Nights," "The Groove Line" and the ballad "Always and Forever." After his departure, Temperton shifted his efforts to songwriting, with his most successful collaboration being with Michael Jackson. Jackson recorded eight of Temperton's songs during his career, three of which became major hits: "Off the Wall," "Rock with You" and "Thriller."
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Temperton)
"The Groove Line" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJDPz4guxOQ)
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Rod Temperton, member of Heatwave and songwriter for Michael Jackson, dies at 66
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Temperton began his career as the keyboardist for Heatwave, a funk band that had several hits in the disco era including "Boogie Nights," "The Groove Line" and the ballad "Always and Forever." After his departure, Temperton shifted his efforts to songwriting, with his most successful collaboration being with Michael Jackson. Jackson recorded eight of Temperton's songs during his career, three of which became major hits: "Off the Wall," "Rock with You" and "Thriller."
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Temperton)
"The Groove Line" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJDPz4guxOQ)
Sounds like the guy should be vilified for doing some major cultural appropriation.
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Sounds like the guy should be vilified for doing some major cultural appropriation.
Come on. Groove Line and Off The Wall were great songs. They had a good beat and you could dance to them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3MFbhwfEXU
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Sounds like the guy should be vilified for doing some major cultural appropriation.
Makes you wonder what'll become of the reputation of Lieber & Stoller, two nice Jewish boys
writing all those rhythm and blues hits for all those great black R&B people.
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Come on. Groove Line and Off The Wall were great songs. They had a good beat and you could dance to them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3MFbhwfEXU
Yeah but a white boy layin' down a groove for Michael Jackson - that calls for a BLM cultural appropriation riot protest. Especially because that's when Jackson was actually black. :smokin:
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Makes you wonder what'll become of the reputation of Lieber & Stoller, two nice Jewish boys
writing all those rhythm and blues hits for all those great black R&B people.
Or the Muscle Shoals Swampers rhythm section...
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Brock Yates 1933–2016 (Car and Driver, Cannonball Run)
Brock Yates, Car and Driver’s Assassin, lost his long battle with Alzheimer’s on October 5, 2016. We take solace in the words he crafted for this publication, his screenplays, and his books, a legacy that long ago became permanent and prominent chapters of the American legend...
Yates joined Car and Driver in 1964, as managing editor—although he claimed no experience in either managing or editing...
Yates created the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash in 1971, a coast-to-coast public road race...
More (http://blog.caranddriver.com/brock-yates-1933-2016/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brock_Yates)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0946717/)
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Or the Muscle Shoals Swampers rhythm section...
Not to mention Booker T. & the MGs and the Funk Brothers (had a few white players) . . .
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Yeah but a white boy layin' down a groove for Michael Jackson - that calls for a BLM cultural appropriation riot protest. Especially because that's when Jackson was actually black. :smokin:
Now, come on. Jackson himself was actually transracial—he came out as white a few years later.
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King Bhumibol of Thailand dies at 88
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(Photo credit: Kremlin press office)
Bhumibol Adulyadej had served as the king of Thailand since 1946; his 70 years as monarch was the longest active reign in the world at the time of his death. While his actual powers varied greatly because of Thailand's notorious instability and periods of military dictatorships, King Bhumibol was nonetheless revered by his people throughout his tenure.
His son will ascend to the throne.
Obituary from the BBC (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37643326)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhumibol_Adulyadej)
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Former Jets DE Dennis Byrd killed in Oklahoma highway crash
Dennis Byrd, a former New York Jets defensive end whose career was cut short in 1992 due to a broken neck, was killed in a head-on vehicle collision Saturday near his home in Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol confirmed to ESPN.
Byrd, 50, was pronounced dead at the scene due to massive injuries.
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/17803790/former-new-york-jets-de-dennis-byrd-killed-oklahoma-car-crash
(http://prod.images.jets.clubs.nflcdn.com/image-web/NFL/CDA/data/deployed/prod/JETS/assets/images/imported/NYJ/photos/clubimages/2016/10-October/tempByrdDennis-091990-Chris-Shwenk-1--nfl_mezz_1280_1024.jpg?width=960&height=720)
Rest In Peace, even got a broken neck playing in the NFL.
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Dario Fo, playwright, dies age 90: 13th Oct, 2016
The dramatist, director, actor, painter and political provocateur Dario Fo has died aged 90. When Fo was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1997, the Swedish committee praised his achievement in reviving the traditions of the giullari – the jester-cum-minstrels of the middle ages who improvised their comedy, jibing at the establishment of the times. His greatest achievement as an actor-author was Mistero Buffo (1969), a reworking of medieval mystery plays, which he performed with masterly skill as a one-man show, making exhilarating use of an onomatopoeic language called grammelot and a mixture of dialects. Other actors have since done their best to emulate him, with varying degrees of success, and his texts will continue to inspire lively theatrical invention.
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/oct/13/dario-fo-obituary
Only found out because the missus is watching his funeral. **nononono*
He wrote much, including two of the best comedy plays every written, in my opinion - "Can't Pay, Won't Pay" and "The Accidental Death of an Anarchist."
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George Hamilton IV, 50-year Opry star, dies at age 77
George Hamilton IV, the 50-year "Grand Ole Opry" star known as the "International Ambassador of Country Music," died Wednesday at a Nashville hospital. Mr. Hamilton was 77 and had suffered a heart attack on Saturday.
In a business populated by brash and outlandish stars, Mr. Hamilton traded on subtlety, gentility and decency. In the liner notes of his 1968 RCA album, "The Gentle Country Sound of George Hamilton IV," he wrote of a "quiet, beautiful musical revolution in the world of country music."
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For Mr. Hamilton, his 1959 entry into country music was a natural transition. He grew up in North Carolina, listening to "Opry" stars Hank Williams, Hank Snow, Jimmy Dickens and Eddy Arnold. He joined the "Opry" himself in February 1960, and Chet Atkins signed him to RCA Victor as a country artist. He notched his first Top 10 country hit in 1960, with "Before This Day Ends," and repeated that success with "Three Steps to the Phone (Millions of Miles)" and "If You Don't Know I Ain't Gonna Tell You." But his biggest hit came in 1963, with "Abilene," a loping tribute to a Kansas town and a four-week No. 1 country single.
Excerpted, more at the link: http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2014/09/17/george-hamilton-iv-year-opry-star-dies-age/15808327/ (http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2014/09/17/george-hamilton-iv-year-opry-star-dies-age/15808327/)
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Loved Abilene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn1KOf1heOQ). It's part of my vinyl collection, and I've played it a jillion times over the years. Of course, we Texans insist it's about our Abilene. :laugh:
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Singer Bobby Vee dies at 73
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Bobby Velline got his break in 1959, after the acts that were going to play at a gig in Moorhead, Minnesota—Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper—died in a plane crash, and he and his band got the call to replace them on short notice. He parlayed this position of infamy into a string of top-40 hits in the 1960s, among the biggest hits being "Take Good Care of My Baby," his lone number-one hit. He stopped producing hits in the late 1960s, but he continued to tour for many years afterward, eventually forming a band with his sons, The Vees.
Vee had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2011.
Obituary from the St. Cloud Times (http://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/2016/10/24/pop-music-icon-bobby-vee-dead-73/92671518/?hootPostID=b78a7c020ae622e38be0cbd7e64b91e2)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Vee)
Bobby Vee's music video for "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBxo8V6R0tc
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His last top 20 hit, in 1967 . . .
Bobby Vee & the Strangers, "Come Back When You Grow Up" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHQQ3mvxbA0)
RIP.
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Rest in peace, Bobby Vee. Saw him in concert back in the 1960s. Very good show.
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Wow. Alzheimer's at 68. That's young!
Loved some of Bobby Vee's hits when I was a teenager.
Sad to see him go so young.
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Wow. Alzheimer's at 68. That's young!
Loved some of Bobby Vee's hits when I was a teenager.
Sad to see him go so young.
Actually, Alzheimers can strike at a young age (40s). At that age, it's called early onset Alzheimers. One of my relatives developed the disease at 55. Sad part was she was active and otherwise physically healthy. Eventually, she couldn't even feed herself. Put a sandwich in front of her, and she didn't know what to do with it. Because she was otherwise healthy, she lived 28 years. But it was no life. Tragic.
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Singer Bobby Vee dies at 73
8888crybaby
I loved him. His music holds precious memories for me, and I just loved his little baby face.
I'd like to post the link below ("Run to Him) in a YouTube window, but I don't know how to format it. Can someone teach me how?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUqMNIsYI4w
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8888crybaby
I loved him. His music holds precious memories for me, and I just loved his little baby face.
I'd like to post the link below ("Run to Him) in a YouTube window, but I don't know how to format it. Can someone teach me how?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUqMNIsYI4w
Just take out the "s" in"https".
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUqMNIsYI4w
OHMYGOSH! Who knew it was so easy?! Thanks, @Sanguine!
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Actually, Alzheimers can strike at a young age (40s). At that age, it's called early onset Alzheimers. One of my relatives developed the disease at 55. Sad part was she was active and otherwise physically healthy. Eventually, she couldn't even feed herself. Put a sandwich in front of her, and she didn't know what to do with it. Because she was otherwise healthy, she lived 28 years. But it was no life. Tragic.
Horrible disease. And you're right. It's no life.....
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Author Sheri S. Tepper, 87, died October 22, 2016.
Author Sheri S. Tepper, 87, died October 22, 2016. Tepper was a prolific author of SF, best known for her feminist and ecological themes, with major titles including The Gate to Women’s Country (1988) and Grass (1989).
She was born Shirley Stewart Douglas on July 16, 1929 near Littleton CO. She married for the first time at 20 and had two children, but divorced in her late twenties, and spent ten years as a single mother working various jobs, including a clerical position with international relief agency CARE. In the late ’60s she married Gene Tepper. From 1962-86 she worked at Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood in Colorado, eventually rising to executive director. She left that position to become a full-time writer, and for many years ran a guest ranch in Santa Fe NM.
Excerpted, more (including a list of her works) at the source: http://www.locusmag.com/News/2016/10/sheri-s-tepper-1929-2016/ (http://www.locusmag.com/News/2016/10/sheri-s-tepper-1929-2016/)
I never read any of her stuff, but I remember seeing it on the shelves at the bookstores, especially in the '80s and '90s.
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Actually, Alzheimers can strike at a young age (40s). At that age, it's called early onset Alzheimers. One of my relatives developed the disease at 55. Sad part was she was active and otherwise physically healthy. Eventually, she couldn't even feed herself. Put a sandwich in front of her, and she didn't know what to do with it. Because she was otherwise healthy, she lived 28 years. But it was no life. Tragic.
All too often that's the case. Alzheimer's patients are frequently feeble of mind, yet sound of body. A sad combination.
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Pete Burns, frontman for Dead or Alive, dies at 57
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English singer Pete Burns formed the group Dead or Alive in 1980 and achieved international "one-hit wonder" status with "You Spin Me Round" in 1985. Burns would soon become known as much for his eccentric gender-bending as his music. He was an admitted pansexual and frequently indulged in plastic surgery in middle age.
He suffered from numerous health problems in his 50s and died of a sudden heart attack at 57.
Obituary from People (http://people.com/music/pete-burns-dead-heart-attack-age-57/?xid=socialflow_facebook_peoplemag)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Burns)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGNiXGX2nLU
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Wow. Alzheimer's at 68. That's young!
It took my father at 69. My sympathies to Bobby's family.
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Tom Hayden hit room temperature in Colorado.
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Tom Hayden hit room temperature in Colorado.
I consider that something akin to taking out the garbage. No tears for that one.
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Another indicator that my life is passing ever so quickly. 8(
Bobby Vee's storied music career involved a who's who of rock 'n' roll heroes, including Buddy Holly, Bob Dylan and the Beatles. Even after his own teen-idol fame and Billboard chart success, though, he famously remained a humble, hardworking Midwesterner who settled into a quiet life in St. Joseph, Minn., with his wife of more than 50 years, Karen.
Vee, 73, died early Monday of complications from Alzheimer's disease. He had been in hospice care at a facility in Rogers, according to family.
http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-music-legend-bobby-vee-dies-after-alzheimer-s-battle/398202731/#1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuJbHYvR7EQ
@mrclose Mod1 has merged your thread with obits thread
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Horrible disease. And you're right. It's no life.....
My brother has often said, "there are worse things than dying".
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Tom Hayden hit room temperature in Colorado.
Yeah, that's a shame. :pondering:
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Jack Chick, a controversial California-based evangelist who used comic books to spread the gospel, died Sunday at the age of 92, according to a note on his Facebook page.
“Brothers and Sisters in Christ: Brother Jack Chick passed away Sunday evening, October 23, peacefully in his sleep. He was 92,” the note said.
“He will be interred in a small private ceremony. Condolences can be sent to Chick Publications, and they will be taken to his widow. God bless you all.”
Chick is best known for his empire of comic-book-style Christian tracts, which often featured in-your-face confrontations against beliefs and philosophies that did not agree with evangelical Protestantism, especially Catholicism and Judaism, leading some to consider him a religious bigot.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/10/jack-chick-christian-tract-evangelist-dies/#wDO9XLr2RoGHp6Ee.99
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This is so funny. It gave me something to laugh at in the midst of my sadness that Bobby Vee is gone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xynupjtlUBU
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Bob Hoover, one of history’s greatest pilots, dead at 94
One of the greatest pilots in the history of aviation died this morning, according to reports.
Bob Hoover, a World War II fighter pilot, a former Air Force test pilot, and the chase plane pilot for Chuck Yeager when he broke the sound barrier for the first time, was 94.
More (http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2016/10/bob-hoover-one-of-nations-greatest-pilots-dead-at-94/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hoover)
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This is so funny. It gave me something to laugh at in the midst of my sadness that Bobby Vee is gone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xynupjtlUBU
Very insightful! LOL
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Brazil's 1970 World Cup-winning captain Carlos Alberto dead at 72
http://www.espnfc.us/brazil/story/2981018/brazils-1970-world-cup-winning-captain-carlos-alberto-dead-at-72 (http://www.espnfc.us/brazil/story/2981018/brazils-1970-world-cup-winning-captain-carlos-alberto-dead-at-72)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5HbmeNKino
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Rest in Peace: John Zacherle a.k.a. Zacherley, The Cool Ghoul
What we have here is the end of an era. One of the few remaining famed original horror movie hosts, John Zacherle, known affectionately to fans as Zacherley, The Cool Ghoul, has passed on at the age of 98! That's quite a run and we're all a lot creepier as a result of his illustrious career!
Zacherley was an American television host, radio personality and voice actor known for his long career as a television horror host broadcasting horror movies in Philadelphia and New York City in the 1950s and 1960s. Best known for his character "Roland/Zacherley," he also did voice work for movies, and recorded the top ten novelty rock and roll song "Dinner With Drac" in 1958. He also edited two collections of horror stories, Zacherley's Vulture Stew and Zacherley's Midnight Snacks.
More (https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/197076/rest-peace-john-zacherle-aka-zacherley-cool-ghoul/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zacherle)
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Horror host Zacherley dies at 98
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John Zacherle had a career in radio that spanned four decades, but is best known for his relatively short eight-year stint as a horror host in New York City and Philadelphia from 1957 to 1965, helping to popularize the television format. The comic horror host would be Zacherle's best known character, and he would appear in character throughout the rest of his life. Although he was forced into retirement at 78 after a format change at the radio station he was working at in 1996, he continued to make many public appearances in character, and his fame outside New York and Philadelphia grew in part because his longevity allowed him to be seen.
Even before his national touring, Zacherley was known nationwide for his one-hit wonder novelty hit "Dinner with Drac," a record released with the help of his close friend, Dick Clark.
Zacherley had no wife or chlidren, but was uncle to three, including Bonnie Zacherle, the creator of the My Little Pony franchise, and for that may be indirectly responsible for perhaps one of the scariest aspects of modern culture: bronies.
Obituary from the Hollywood Reporter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/john-zacherle-dead-host-horror-movies-was-98-942035)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zacherle)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPaJnU91Dig
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Tammy Grimes, the Original 'Unsinkable Molly Brown,' Dies at 82
Tammy Grimes, the throaty actress and singer who conquered Broadway at the age of 26, winning a Tony Award for her performance in "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," and went on to a distinguished stage career, died on Sunday in Englewood, N.J. She was 82...
Ms. Grimes made films, including "Play It as It Lays," "The Last Unicorn" and "Slaves of New York," and appeared in dozens of television movies and series (including her own short-lived sitcom, "The Tammy Grimes Show," in 1966). But the starring role in the film version of "Molly Brown" (1964) went to Debbie Reynolds, who had a more traditional Hollywood look and sound...
More (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/theater/tammy-grimes-died.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Grimes)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0342245/)
TCMDB (http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/77022|144433/Tammy-Grimes/)
IBDB (https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/tammy-grimes-43182)
IOBDB (http://www.lortel.org/Archives/CreditableEntity/12261)
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'Tuck Everlasting' Author Natalie Babbitt Dies at 84
Natalie Babbitt, author of the beloved children's novel Tuck Everlasting, has died after battling cancer. She was 84.
Babbitt, who also was an illustrator, had been diagnosed with lung cancer recently and died at her home in Hamden, Conn., on Monday, said her husband, Samuel Fisher Babbitt.
More (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/natalie-babbitt-dead-tuck-everlasting-author-was-84-942758)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Babbitt)
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Horror host Zacherley dies at 98
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John Zacherle had a career in radio that spanned four decades, but is best known for his relatively short eight-year stint as a horror host in New York City and Philadelphia from 1957 to 1965, helping to popularize the television format. The comic horror host would be Zacherle's best known character, and he would appear in character throughout the rest of his life. Although he was forced into retirement at 78 after a format change at the radio station he was working at in 1996, he continued to make many public appearances in character, and his fame outside New York and Philadelphia grew in part because his longevity allowed him to be seen.
Even before his national touring, Zacherley was known nationwide for his one-hit wonder novelty hit "Dinner with Drac," a record released with the help of his close friend, Dick Clark.
Zacherley had no wife or chlidren, but was uncle to three, including Bonnie Zacherle, the creator of the My Little Pony franchise, and for that may be indirectly responsible for perhaps one of the scariest aspects of modern culture: bronies.
Obituary from the Hollywood Reporter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/john-zacherle-dead-host-horror-movies-was-98-942035)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zacherle)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPaJnU91Dig
He died on Halloween? That's cool.
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He died on Halloween? That's cool.
@Frank Cannon
He died on the 27th.
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Kay Starr, ferociously expressive singer who had pop hit with 'Wheel of Fortune,' dies at 94
Kay Starr, a ferociously expressive singer whose ability to infuse swing, pop and country songs with her own indelible, bluesy stamp made her one of the most admired recording artists of her generation, died Nov. 3 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 94...
With Capitol Records and RCA, she became a jukebox queen in the late 1940s and 1950s with such hits as "Wheel of Fortune," "Bonaparte's Retreat," "Side by Side" and "The Rock and Roll Waltz." They cumulatively sold millions of records...
More (https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/kay-starr-ferociously-expressive-singer-who-had-pop-hit-with-wheel-of-fortune-dies-at-94/2016/11/03/e456531a-a21d-11e6-a44d-cc2898cfab06_story.html)
Kay Starr, Hillbilly Singer With Crossover Appeal, Dies at 94 (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/arts/music/kay-starr-hillbilly-singer-with-crossover-appeal-dies-at-94.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Starr)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeIce5NsWKk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeIce5NsWKk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJcJIK5olDo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJcJIK5olDo
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My Mother in Law (whom I actually loved), two days ago, of cancer. She wasn't famous, would not want to be mentioned by name, but was beloved by 13 brothers, two sisters (most have passed before her), two surviving children, a platoon of grandchildren, and an army of great-grandchildren. She will be missed. She was twenty years older than Mrs. Joe.
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Condolences, Joe.
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Condolences, Joe.
Thanks, from all of us: Three surviving kids, five kids in law, fifteen grandchildren, thirty one great grandchildren, and nine great-great grandchildren. Hers was a life well lived, that touched many.
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@Smokin Joe Condolences to you and your family.
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MIAMI – Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general and the epicenter of several political storms during the Clinton administration, has died. She was 78.
Reno died early Monday from complications of Parkinson's disease, her goddaughter Gabrielle D'Alemberte said. D'Alemberte said Reno spent her final days at home in Miami surrounded by family and friends.
Reno, a former Miami prosecutor who famously told reporters "I don't do spin," served nearly eight years as attorney general under President Bill Clinton, the longest stint in a century.
One of the administration's most recognizable and polarizing figures, Reno faced criticism early in her tenure for the deadly raid on the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, where sect leader David Koresh and some 80 followers perished.
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MIAMI – Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general and the epicenter of several political storms during the Clinton administration, has died. She was 78.
Reno died early Monday from complications of Parkinson's disease, her goddaughter Gabrielle D'Alemberte said. D'Alemberte said Reno spent her final days at home in Miami surrounded by family and friends.
Reno, a former Miami prosecutor who famously told reporters "I don't do spin," served nearly eight years as attorney general under President Bill Clinton, the longest stint in a century.
One of the administration's most recognizable and polarizing figures, Reno faced criticism early in her tenure for the deadly raid on the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, where sect leader David Koresh and some 80 followers perished.
They left out the family (minister's kid) in Miami/Dade she persucuted until they left the country, even after allegations of sexual misconduct at the daycare were proven wrong.
May Almighty God reward her as she so richly deserves.
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They left out the family (minister's kid) in Miami/Dade she persucuted until they left the country, even after allegations of sexual misconduct at the daycare were proven wrong.
May Almighty God reward her as she so richly deserves.
@Smokin Joe :beer: :amen: 888high58888
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They left out the family (minister's kid) in Miami/Dade she persucuted until they left the country, even after allegations of sexual misconduct at the daycare were proven wrong.
May Almighty God reward her as she so richly deserves.
I'll second that. Reno's passing is a reminder that even though a person might get away with murder in this life there will come a day of reckoning, nonetheless.
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By Stephanie Hanes November 7 at 4:32 AM
Janet Reno, the strong-minded Florida prosecutor tapped by Bill Clinton to become the country’s first female U.S. attorney general, and who shaped the U.S. government’s responses to the largest legal crises of the 1990s, died Nov. 7 at her home in Miami. She was 78.
The cause was complications from Parkinson’s disease, her goddaughter, Gabrielle D’Alemberte, told the Associated Press.
Ms. Reno brought a fierce independence to her job. From the FBI siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Texas to the investigation into Clinton’s sexual relationship with intern Monica Lewinsky, she was adamant that her prosecutors and agents work outside of the influence of politics, media or popular opinion.
Her supporters believed she brought a heightened level of integrity and professionalism to the attorney general’s office. They admired her insistence upon legal exactitude from her employees, and praised her caution in prosecutions.
Read more at WaPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/janet-reno-former-us-attorney-general-dies-at-78/2016/11/07/50fe8810-a4cc-11e6-8042-f4d111c862d1_story.html
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May the old child-killer/kidnapper rot in Hell.
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No comment.
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"she brought a heightened level of integrity and professionalism to the attorney general’s office."
Read more at WaPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/janet-reno-former-us-attorney-general-dies-at-78/2016/11/07/50fe8810-a4cc-11e6-8042-f4d111c862d1_story.html
Epic literary use of irony. Wonder if they kept a straight face while writing.
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Epic literary use of irony. Wonder if they kept a straight face while writing.
It's WaPo, so who knows. Half of them actually believe the claptrap they write.
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Maybe you guys can help me. I seem to remember a story about Ms. Reno that said she and her mother invented something that made buildings more hurricane-proof. Now I can't find the story, so maybe I was dreaming (or having a nightmare?) Anyway, do any of you recall that story and if so, can you provide a link?
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My Mother in Law (whom I actually loved), two days ago, of cancer. She wasn't famous, would not want to be mentioned by name, but was beloved by 13 brothers, two sisters (most have passed before her), two surviving children, a platoon of grandchildren, and an army of great-grandchildren. She will be missed. She was twenty years older than Mrs. Joe.
I'm sorry Joe. May God bless you and give you and your family strength.
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I'm sorry Joe. May God bless give you and your family strength.
Thanks!
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Condolences, Joe.
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Condolences, Joe.
Thanks, Easy Ace!
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Songwriter Leonard Cohen dies at 82
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Born into a Jewish family in an English-speaking part of Montreal, and maintaining his faith throughout his life, Cohen began his career as a prose and poetry writer, before deciding that music would be more lucrative. It would be in music where he made his biggest impact: among his early band members was Charlie Daniels. Cohen often embedded Biblical themes in much of his music; among some of his best-known compositions were "Suzanne" and perhaps his best-known piece in modern times, "Hallelujah." His musical career spanned 50 years, from the mid-1960s until his death.
Obituary from Rolling Stone (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/leonard-cohen-dead-at-82-w449792)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen)
Discography (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen_discography)
Cohen performing "Hallelujah:"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrLk4vdY28Q
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Songwriter Leonard Cohen dies at 82
Oh, No.
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His most beautiful song...
Leonard Cohen,"Dance Me to the End of Love" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpJQMQ35k1A)
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Oh, No.
I'm truly sorry to hear this news. Hallelujah is a tremendous song. One of the best versions I ever heard was recorded by the distractingly masculine-looking but angelically voiced K.D. Lang:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYiMJ2bC65A (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYiMJ2bC65A)
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I'll always remember him from Pump Up the Volume.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEQldSi-heE
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K.D. Lang
If Carly Simon could actually sing she would sound like k.d. lang.
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He left quite a legacy.
My favorite version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzB8xC_CwH8
Like angels.
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His most beautiful song...
Leonard Cohen,"Dance Me to the End of Love" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpJQMQ35k1A)
I like Madeleine Peyroux's version of that incredibly beautiful song.
Do you know it, Easy? She's got a Billie Holliday-esque quality....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqpOFQvMM1A
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He left quite a legacy.
My favorite version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzB8xC_CwH8
Like angels.
Tremendous! Thank you!
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He left quite a legacy.
My favorite version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzB8xC_CwH8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzB8xC_CwH8)
Like angels.
Si, come angeli; e grazie .... :seeya:
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I like Madeleine Peyroux's version of that incredibly beautiful song.
Do you know it, Easy? She's got a Billie Holliday-esque quality....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqpOFQvMM1A (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqpOFQvMM1A)
My God, she is Billie Holliday! What a voice!
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My God, she is Billie Holliday! What a voice!
The whole album, Careless Love is fantastic.
She plays the guitar and sings the blues with the best of them, IMO.
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I like Madeleine Peyroux's version of that incredibly beautiful song.
Do you know it, Easy? She's got a Billie Holliday-esque quality....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqpOFQvMM1A
Oh yes!!
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What a composer.
R.I.P
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Oh yes!!
@EasyAce @andy58-in-nh
Not exactly on topic, but here's a favorite of mine...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w5i2WPTd2w (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w5i2WPTd2w)
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Robert Vaughn, Suave Star of TV's 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,' Dies at 83
Robert Vaughn, the urbane actor who starred as the American spy Napoleon Solo on the slick 1960s NBC series The Man From U.N.C.L.E., died Friday. He was 83.
Vaughn, who received an Oscar nomination for playing Paul Newman’s hard-drinking buddy Chet in the 1959 drama The Young Philadelphians, died of acute leukemia in a hospital on the East Coast, his manager Matthew Sullivan told The Hollywood Reporter. He had been undergoing treatment for his illness in New York and Connecticut.
Vaughn's memorable performances also included turns as one of the seven gunmen in The Magnificent Seven (1960), as a steely senator in Bullitt (1968) — those two opposite Steve McQueen — as an addled studio chief in Blake Edwards’ S.O.B. (1981) and as a corporate villain in Superman III (1983).
More (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-vaughn-dead-man-uncle-859991)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Vaughn)
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Just saw Vaughn in an episode of Law & Order SVU. He played an elderly author with dementia who was allegedly being abused by his much younger wife. I was a teenager when Man From U.N.C.L.E was popular and I did not miss an episode. My parents couldn't understand whyI was so obsessed with the show. It was a lot of fun.
He was a Democrat, but I won't hold that against him.
Restt in Peace.
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Vaughn was a devout Communist. The election results probably assisted in his demise.
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Vaughn was a devout Communist. The election results probably assisted in his demise.
That's why I prefer to know little to nothing about entertainers. I want them to entertain me, and the less I know about them the more I like them.
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That's why I prefer to know little to nothing about entertainers. I want them to entertain me, and the less I know about them the more I like them.
True dat. I don't even care if they're on "my side". Just let me pretend for a while.
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That's why I prefer to know little to nothing about entertainers. I want them to entertain me, and the less I know about them the more I like them.
Most people feel the same, but these dumbasses continue to do it. Just look at the Box Office poison that Clooney turned into.
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Most people feel the same, but these dumbasses continue to do it. Just look at the Box Office poison that Clooney turned into.
I call that "Taking themselves WAYYY too seriously." It ruins them for half the audience, no matter which side they choose. They need to learn how to STFU.
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That's why I prefer to know little to nothing about entertainers. I want them to entertain me, and the less I know about them the more I like them.
Ditto.
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That's why I prefer to know little to nothing about entertainers. I want them to entertain me, and the less I know about them the more I like them.
That explains why now pretty much the only tv shows I watch are KDramas, I don't have to know what these actors opinions are.
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Vaughn was a devout Communist. The election results probably assisted in his demise.
How do you know he was a Communist?
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@EasyAce @andy58-in-nh
Not exactly on topic, but here's a favorite of mine...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w5i2WPTd2w (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w5i2WPTd2w)
Nice. Shades of Summertime and St. James Infirmary Blues.
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Leon Russell, musician known for dynamic performances, dies at 74
Leon Russell, who emerged in the '70s as one of rock'n'roll's most dynamic performers and songwriters after playing anonymously on dozens of pop hits as a much-in-demand studio pianist in the 1960s, died on Sunday at the age of 74, according to his website...
Russell recorded more than 35 albums and also excelled as a songwriter for other performers. His "A Song for You" was recorded by Joe Cocker, the Carpenters, the Temptations, Neil Diamond, Lou Rawls, Dusty Springfield, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and his good friend Willie Nelson. The Carpenters, Reddy, Shirley Bassey, Robert Goulet and George Benson all covered Russell's "This Masquerade," with Benson's version winning the 1976 Grammy as record of the year...
More (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-leonrussell-idUSKBN1380JM)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Russell)
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Leon Russell, musician known for dynamic performances, dies at 74
More (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-leonrussell-idUSKBN1380JM)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Russell)
Oh, wow.
I saw Leon Russell several times in concert and love his "Hank's Back" album. RIP.
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Having gone to college in Tulsa, I always had a soft spot for Leon Russell.
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SOURCE: THE DAILY BEAST
URL: http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/11/14/gwen-ifill-dead-at-61.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl (http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/11/14/gwen-ifill-dead-at-61.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl)
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Long-time journalist and newscaster Gwen Ifill passed away at the age of 61, PBS confirmed on Monday. Ifill was best known as being the moderator and managing editor of PBS talk show Washington Week, as well as the co-anchor of PBS NewsHour. She moderated two vice-presidential debates, between John Edwards and Dick Cheney in 2004; and between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden in 2008.
Ifill also moderated a Democratic debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders just last year. She released her only book, The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, in 2009.
“I am very sad to tell you that our dear friend and beloved colleague Gwen Ifill passed away today in hospice care in Washington,” WETA President and CEO Sharon Percy Rockefeller wrote in a staff-wide email. “I spent an hour with her this morning and she was resting comfortably, surrounded by loving family and friends... Earlier today, I conveyed to Gwen the devoted love and affection of all of us at WETA/NewsHour. Let us hold Gwen and her family even closer now in our hearts and prayers.”
The Daily Beast has learned that Ifill was extraordinarily private about her health and was reluctant to publicly share the details of her battle with cancer. She first learned of her diagnosis less than a year ago and was surrounded by family when she passed away.
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Cancer is a cruel reminder that God made us frail.
RIP
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I'm glad Clarence Thomas lived longer than her.
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Newscaster Gwen Ifill dies at 61
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Gwen is best known as an anchor of the PBS NewsHour and Washington Week, positions she has held since 1999. She moderated the 2004 and 2008 Vice Presidential debates.
From the Daily Beast (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/14/gwen-ifill-dead-at-61.html?via=desktop&source=twitter)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Ifill)
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Newscaster Gwen Ifill dies at 61
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Gwen is best known as an anchor of the PBS NewsHour and Washington Week, positions she has held since 1999. She moderated the 2004 and 2008 Vice Presidential debates.
From the Daily Beast (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/14/gwen-ifill-dead-at-61.html?via=desktop&source=twitter)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Ifill)
Prayers up for her. Cancer can be a rough way to go.
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Oh, wow.
I saw Leon Russell several times in concert and love his "Hank's Back" album. RIP.
I saw him twice. First about 1976 at Universal Amphitheater, in LA. Then about 1993 at The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, Calif.
At Universal the act was "The Leon and Mary Russell Show" with his then wife, Mary McCreary. It was outstanding.
At the Coach House, he opened for headliner B.B. King.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4sMSSm0x2A&list=RDtn-br0h4rZk&index=7
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Newscaster Gwen Ifill dies at 61
Didn't know she was sick, but I feel bad for anyone who dies of cancer. Such an awful disease.
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Didn't know she was sick, but I feel bad for anyone who dies of cancer. Such an awful disease.
Yes, it is. She was a relative youngster.
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Prayers up for her. Cancer can be a rough way to go.
Pretty much always is..... **nononono*
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Singer-Songwriter Holly Dunn Dies at 59
Singer-songwriter Holly Dunn, best known for her 1986 tribute “Daddy’s Hands,” died Tuesday (Nov. 15) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, of ovarian cancer. She was 59.
“Daddy’s Hands,” which Dunn wrote and recorded on MTM Records, led to her winning the Country Music Association’s Horizon award in 1987. She was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 1989.
More (http://www.cmt.com/news/1773601/singer-songwriter-holly-dunn-dies-at-59/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Dunn)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q_E6pUwySg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q_E6pUwySg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OephYpEifO0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OephYpEifO0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bFLU2mhoAA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bFLU2mhoAA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFFXQt7HwPA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFFXQt7HwPA
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Prayers up for her, too. "Daddy's Hands" is a great song..
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Mose Allison, a Fount of Jazz and Blues, Dies at 89 (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/arts/music/mose-allison-a-font-of-jazz-and-blues-dies-at-89.html?_r=1)
Mose Allison, "I Don't Worry About a Thing" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CiQUy964Pw)
Mose Allison, Back Country Suite (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU6Qsli9KnI)
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Wow! while I know Mose had been around awhile, I had no idea he was that old.
Time flies.
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I'm truly sorry to hear this news. Hallelujah is a tremendous song. One of the best versions I ever heard was recorded by the distractingly masculine-looking but angelically voiced K.D. Lang:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYiMJ2bC65A (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYiMJ2bC65A)
Just ran across this version sung by a public elementary school choir.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCLI7ewjvBo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCLI7ewjvBo)
Wow. These kids can sing!
@EasyAce
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Melvin Laird, Nixon defense secretary at the height of the Vietnam War, dies at 94
Melvin R. Laird, a former congressman who served as President Richard M. Nixon’s defense secretary at the height of the Vietnam War and designed policies that eventually led to the American withdrawal from combat operations, died Nov. 16 at a hospital in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 94.
The cause was complications from congestive heart failure, said a son, David Laird.
A shrewd and influential Wisconsin Republican, Mr. Laird became his party’s leading expert on military affairs during his 16 years in the House of Representatives.
More (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/melvin-laird-nixon-defense-secretary-at-the-height-of-the-vietnam-war-dies-at-94/2016/11/16/7956cdca-ac44-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Laird)
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Didn't realize Melvin Laird was still around. Rest in peace.
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Didn't realize Melvin Laird was still around. Rest in peace.
I was thinking the exact same thing. He was defense secretary a lot of years ago, and he wasn't young then!
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'Drift Away' songwriter Mentor Williams has died
Mentor Williams, a longtime Taos resident and nationally known singer-songwriter, died at 6:15 a.m. Wednesday (Nov. 16), according to a family source.
Williams was best known for writing "Drift Away", a middle-of-the-road playlist classic performed by Dobie Gray in 1973. He is the brother of songwriter-actor Paul Williams, according to an online biography.
More (http://www.taosnews.com/entertainment/drift-away-songwriter-mentor-williams-has-died/article_0ffd783e-ac07-11e6-bbaa-73da1a87ad92.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentor_Williams)
"Drift Away" performed by Dobie Gray (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr_eVcCAUXo)
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'Drift Away' songwriter Mentor Williams has died
More (http://www.taosnews.com/entertainment/drift-away-songwriter-mentor-williams-has-died/article_0ffd783e-ac07-11e6-bbaa-73da1a87ad92.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentor_Williams)
"Drift Away" performed by Dobie Gray (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr_eVcCAUXo)
Well, heck, I didn't realize that Dobie Gray had died. 5 years ago. Loved his voice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3kG8eNU3Eg
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'Drift Away' songwriter Mentor Williams has died
More (http://www.taosnews.com/entertainment/drift-away-songwriter-mentor-williams-has-died/article_0ffd783e-ac07-11e6-bbaa-73da1a87ad92.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentor_Williams)
"Drift Away" performed by Dobie Gray (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr_eVcCAUXo)
He was Lynn Anderson's longtime boyfriend (Lynn passed away just last year) IIRC.
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Dr. Denton Cooley, pioneer of heart transplants, dies at 96
Dr. Denton Cooley, a Houston native and a pioneer of heart transplants, died Friday. He was 96.
Born in 1920, Cooley graduated with highest honors from the University of Texas Austin and earned his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1944.
Cooley performed the first transplant of a human heart in the United States in 1968. The following year, he became the first surgeon to implant an artificial heart in a human.
More (http://www.click2houston.com/news/dr-denton-cooley-pioneer-of-heart-transplants-dies-at-96)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denton_Cooley)
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Dr. Denton Cooley, pioneer of heart transplants, dies at 96
More (http://www.click2houston.com/news/dr-denton-cooley-pioneer-of-heart-transplants-dies-at-96)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denton_Cooley)
Prayers up for a pioneer in the field.
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Soul singer Sharon Jones dies at 60
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A former corrections officer by trade, Jones was discovered in 1996 by Gabriel Roth, who backed her career for the next 20 years. Roth's various independent record labels used a decidedly retro style and recording technique for which Jones and her soul stylings were particularly well-suited; backed by The Dap-Kings, her music, while she never cut a hit single per se, managed to see significant appearance in popular culture, including an appearance in the 2013 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Jones had battled cancer since 2013.
Obituary from Variety (http://variety.com/2016/music/news/sharon-jones-dead-dies-dap-kings-1201922559/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Jones_(singer))
Jones performs "100 Days, 100 Nights:"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ouI5KcyHfE
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Soul singer Sharon Jones dies at 60
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Sharon_Jones_%26_The_Dap-Kings_%40_Pori_Jazz_2.jpg/220px-Sharon_Jones_%26_The_Dap-Kings_%40_Pori_Jazz_2.jpg)
A former corrections officer by trade, Jones was discovered in 1996 by Gabriel Roth, who backed her career for the next 20 years. Roth's various independent record labels used a decidedly retro style and recording technique for which Jones and her soul stylings were particularly well-suited; backed by The Dap-Kings, her music, while she never cut a hit single per se, managed to see significant appearance in popular culture, including an appearance in the 2013 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Jones had battled cancer since 2013.
Obituary from Variety (http://variety.com/2016/music/news/sharon-jones-dead-dies-dap-kings-1201922559/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Jones_(singer))
Jones performs "100 Days, 100 Nights:"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ouI5KcyHfE
Sad, to go so young from such a devastating disease. She could belt it out.
Prayers up!
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Soul singer Sharon Jones dies at 60
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ouI5KcyHfE
This is the reason I avoid the FM dial on my radio. You wouldn't stand a snowball's chance in Hell hearing this on an FM station.
And don't even get me started on that overdubbed/auto-tuned garbage that's labeled as 'soul' music these days.
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This is the reason I avoid the FM dial on my radio. You wouldn't stand a snowball's chance in Hell hearing this on an FM station.
And don't even get me started on that overdubbed/auto-tuned garbage that's labeled as 'soul' music these days.
I just found out the CD player in my last-century suburban still works. Off to the pawn shop tomorrow to dig out tunes...
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This is the reason I avoid the FM dial on my radio. You wouldn't stand a snowball's chance in Hell hearing this on an FM station.
And don't even get me started on that overdubbed/auto-tuned garbage that's labeled as 'soul' music these days.
Do yourself a favor and look for a FM station in your area with an “adult album alternative” format.
The one I listen to where I live is WXPN out of the University of Philadelphia. I don’t like everything they play but their playlist is certainly eclectic and is never boring. The worst part is that being a listener supported public station, is putting up with the quarterly pledge drives. The plus is not too many commercials.
That is where I first heard Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings and a lot of other really great "new" artists who write, record and play “real music” or “throwback” or “roots” style music like Leon Bridges, Lake Street Dive, Amos Lee, The Tedeschi Trucks Band, J.D. McPherson, Pokey LaFarge, Mumford & Sons, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Old Crow Medicine Show ….. along with some classic rock, alternative, alternative country, 80’s new wave, blues, soul, funk, punk, jazz, they even throw a complete curve ball and play Tony Bennett or Frank Sinatra and also give airplay to some very good local artists.
http://www.xpn.org/playlists/xpn-playlist
A sampling from today:
01:53 pm Linda Ronstadt - Willing
01:47 pm Margo Price - Hands of Time
01:41 pm New Order - Age Of Consent
01:35 pm Pulp - Common People
01:31 pm Dawes - Roll With The Punches
01:28 pm Warren Zevon - Hasten Down The Wind
01:22 pm Smokey Robinson - Crusin'
01:18 pm Mayer Hawthorne - Someone Like You
01:13 pm Bon Iver - Calgary
01:10 pm Maggie Rogers - Alaska
01:06 pm Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right
01:02 pm New York Dolls - Personality Crisis
12:59 pm Patti Smith - Ask The Angels
12:56 pm Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings - Natural Born Lover
12:50 pm Prefab Sprout - Appetite
12:46 pm The xx - On Hold
12:42 pm New Radicals - Someday We'll Know
12:36 pm Tears For Fears - Sowing The Seeds Of Love
12:32 pm Rag 'N' Bone Man - Human
12:28 pm Solange - Cranes In The Sky
12:25 pm Frank Ocean - Pink + White
12:17 pm The Beatles - Hey Jude
12:13 pm Mondo Cozmo - Shine
12:05 pm Bob Seger - Bo Diddley
12:02 pm Kiss - Detroit Rock City
11:58 am Wilco - Heavy Metal Drummer
11:54 am John Prine - Hello In There
11:51 am Brent Cobb - Solving Problems
11:44 am James Brown - Get Up Get Into It And Get Involved
11:38 am Elton John - Bennie and the Jets
11:35 am A Tribe Called Quest - Solid Wall Of Sound
11:29 am Donald Fagen - The Goodbye Look
11:27 am Mose Allison - Seventh Son
11:22 am The Clash - Look Here
11:20 am Chuck Berry - Maybellene
11:17 am The National - Fake Empire
11:13 am Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Let Me Get There (feat. Kurt Vile)
11:07 am Bash & Pop - On The Rocks
11:04 am Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Listen To Her Heart
10:59 am The Allman Brothers - Southbound
10:55 am Childish Gambino - Redbone
10:51 am The Killers - Mr. Brightside
10:47 am Milky Chance - Cocoon
10:43 am Beth Orton - Stars Seem To Weep
10:38 am Sampha - Timmy's Prayer
10:34 am Led Zeppelin - Going To California
10:30 am Dawg Yawp - Lost At Sea
10:26 am Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings - Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
10:22 am Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings - I Learned The Hard Way
10:18 am Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings - 100 Days 100 Nights
10:08 am Marvin Gaye - Right On
10:04 am Eric Burdon & War - Spill The Wine
10:00 am The Doobie Brothers - There's A Light
09:59 am Auld String Theory - Waiting for Hannah
09:56 am Gwen Hughes - I Take Your Hand
09:50 am David Mauk - October & November
09:43 am Tom Waits - Time
09:41 am Leon Redbone - Please Don't Talk About Me when I am Gone
09:34 am Leon Redbone - Champagne Charlie
09:30 am The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc - Nodaret
09:28 am Tom Caufield - Evening Smile
09:21 am David Crosby - By the Light of Common Day
09:15 am Murray McLauchlan - Home from the Forest
09:12 am Gordon Lightfoot - Oh, Linda
09:06 am Tonny Bennett - You Don't Know What Love Is
09:04 am The Alonzo Spirit Band - You Oughta Know
08:58 am Brett Dennen - Strawberry Road
08:52 am Lang Lang featuring Madeleine Peyroux - Moon River
08:45 am Charlotte Day Wilson - Where Do You Go
08:37 am Stanley Cowell - November Mood
08:33 am Leyla McCalla - Minias Azaka
08:28 am The Furious Seasons - Glad It's Mine
08:25 am 2 Cellos - Candle in the Wind
08:21 am Sean Carey - Supermoon
08:13 am Four Wishes - Il Ballerino & Morning Bells
08:06 am Wynton Marsalis - My Romance & Everything Happens to Me
08:02 am Bruce Cockburn - Ribbon of Darkness
07:56 am Super XX Man - September/November
07:52 am Gary Schocker - November Song
07:49 am Dennis Caraher - To Tune A Guitar
07:41 am Blackmore's Night - Long, Long Time
07:39 am Kenny White - Lights Over Broadway ***
07:30 am Ray Benson - In the Blink of an Eye
07:27 am John McKone - Too Late
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXPN
*** check this guy out - Kenny White
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pTqBDPICrU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxMngH0A8sA
When I was living in Baltimore I listed to WRNR which had a very similar eclectic format but was not a listener supported “public” station.
RIP Sharon – thanks for the great music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw3FERP5djE
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Florence Henderson, 'The Brady Bunch' actress, dies at 82
LOS ANGELES – Florence Henderson, the wholesome actress who went from Broadway star to television icon when she became Carol Brady, the ever-cheerful matriarch of "The Brady Bunch," has died, her manager and her publicist said. She was 82.
Henderson died Thursday night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, after being hospitalized the day before, said her publicist, David Brokaw. Henderson had suffered heart failure, her manager Kayla Pressman said in a statement.
Family and friends had surrounded Henderson's hospital bedside, Pressman said.
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R.I.P.
Mrs. Brady. She seemed like a very nice lady in every thing I ever saw her in.
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Although she's known primarily for "The Brady Bunch," her show biz resume was impressive:
... Before the series, Ms. Henderson had built an impressive reputation with stage work. She starred in “Fanny” on Broadway in the mid-1950s, when she was in her early 20s; “The King and I” at the Los Angeles Music Center; “South Pacific” at Lincoln Center; national tours of “Oklahoma!” and “The Sound of Music”; and “The Girl Who Came to Supper” (1963), Noël Coward’s last original Broadway musical.
Theater roles had led her to television in its early days, mostly as a singer. On “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1955, she and John Raitt sang a duet, “People Will Say We’re in Love,” as part of a two-hour television tribute to Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
In the 1950s and ’60s she appeared on music-driven series like “The Bell Telephone Hour,” “Oldsmobile Music Theater” and “The Dean Martin Show.” She also appeared on a 1958 audience participation series, “Sing Along,” and game shows like “The Match Game” and “Password.”
She was a frequent guest on “The Tonight Show” during both Jack Paar’s and Johnny Carson’s eras as host. And in 1962, after Paar left and before Carson arrived, she became the first woman to be the show’s guest host. ...
She lived at the Three Arts Club, an Upper West Side women’s hotel, and studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts for a year before being cast in “Wish You Were Here,” a musical comedy about a summer camp for grown-ups, in 1952. The show was a hit, but Ms. Henderson left early when she was cast as the female lead, Laurey, in the national tour of “Oklahoma!” The movie role went to Shirley Jones, but her theater and television careers took off from there. And Ms. Jones turned up as a sitcom mom with five children on “The Partridge Family” at the same time the Bradys were on the air. ...
More at NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/arts/television/florence-henderson-brady-bunch-dies.html).
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Although she's known primarily for "The Brady Bunch," her show biz resume was impressive:More at NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/arts/television/florence-henderson-brady-bunch-dies.html).
I've always been fascinated with the careers of the typecast, and few were more typecast than Henderson.
The most fascinating for me was that she did God Bless America at the Indianapolis 500 for over a decade. It wasn't as well-known of a tradition as Jim Nabors was, but it was just one of those "did you know" kind of moments.
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The most fascinating for me was that she did God Bless America at the Indianapolis 500 for over a decade. It wasn't as well-known of a tradition as Jim Nabors was, but it was just one of those "did you know" kind of moments.
I just saw that on Facebook. She was a proud Hoosier.
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Florence Henderson, 'The Brady Bunch' actress, dies at 82
LOS ANGELES – Florence Henderson, the wholesome actress who went from Broadway star to television icon when she became Carol Brady, the ever-cheerful matriarch of "The Brady Bunch," has died, her manager and her publicist said. She was 82.
Henderson died Thursday night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, after being hospitalized the day before, said her publicist, David Brokaw. Henderson had suffered heart failure, her manager Kayla Pressman said in a statement.
Family and friends had surrounded Henderson's hospital bedside, Pressman said.
This was great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1EgCAid5O0
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Cuban dictator Fidel Castro (finally, officially) dies at 90
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A son of a wealthy Spaniard farmer and himself a university student (albeit a poor one), Castro fit the mold of what today would be considered a spoiled millennial-style brat. In 1959, he led a coup of the reigning regime in Cuba, establishing a Marxist state and ruling as prime minister, then chair of the state party, then President, from then until approximately 2008.
Castro's Cuba, buoyed by a strong sugar trade and propped up by the Soviet Union, was relatively viable through the 1970s before the Soviet Union's influence began to wane. By the 1990s, Cuba had effectively collapsed; despite this, his dependent masses still cheered him on, as most of his opponents had already fled for Miami. Castro aligned himself with Hugo Chavez, the socialist dictator of Venezuela, in 2000, one that continued until Chavez's death.
Castro's most consistent policy was a foreign policy that vehemently opposed the United States. Castro resigned from office in 2008 and passed on his duties to his younger brother Raul, who (coupled with the rise of Barack Obama to power in the U.S.) softened some of the hostilities between the U.S. and Cuba.
Obituary from the AP (http://wivb.com/2016/11/26/former-cuban-leader-fidel-castro-dies/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro)
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Cuban dictator Fidel Castro (finally, officially) dies at 90
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Fidel_Castro_-_MATS_Terminal_Washington_1959.jpg/250px-Fidel_Castro_-_MATS_Terminal_Washington_1959.jpg)
A son of a wealthy Spaniard farmer and himself a university student (albeit a poor one), Castro fit the mold of what today would be considered a spoiled millennial-style brat. In 1959, he led a coup of the reigning regime in Cuba, establishing a Marxist state and ruling as prime minister, then chair of the state party, then President, from then until approximately 2008.
Castro's Cuba, buoyed by a strong sugar trade and propped up by the Soviet Union, was relatively viable through the 1970s before the Soviet Union's influence began to wane. By the 1990s, Cuba had effectively collapsed; despite this, his dependent masses still cheered him on, as most of his opponents had already fled for Miami. Castro aligned himself with Hugo Chavez, the socialist dictator of Venezuela, in 2000, one that continued until Chavez's death.
Castro's most consistent policy was a foreign policy that vehemently opposed the United States. Castro resigned from office in 2008 and passed on his duties to his younger brother Raul, who (coupled with the rise of Barack Obama to power in the U.S.) softened some of the hostilities between the U.S. and Cuba.
Obituary from the AP (http://wivb.com/2016/11/26/former-cuban-leader-fidel-castro-dies/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro)
May God have mercy on his soul and forgive me for saying "Good riddance".
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May God have mercy on his soul and forgive me for saying "Good riddance".
Well said, @verga!
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Cuban dictator Fidel Castro (finally, officially) dies at 90
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Fidel_Castro_-_MATS_Terminal_Washington_1959.jpg/250px-Fidel_Castro_-_MATS_Terminal_Washington_1959.jpg)
A son of a wealthy Spaniard farmer and himself a university student (albeit a poor one), Castro fit the mold of what today would be considered a spoiled millennial-style brat. In 1959, he led a coup of the reigning regime in Cuba, establishing a Marxist state and ruling as prime minister, then chair of the state party, then President, from then until approximately 2008.
Castro's Cuba, buoyed by a strong sugar trade and propped up by the Soviet Union, was relatively viable through the 1970s before the Soviet Union's influence began to wane. By the 1990s, Cuba had effectively collapsed; despite this, his dependent masses still cheered him on, as most of his opponents had already fled for Miami. Castro aligned himself with Hugo Chavez, the socialist dictator of Venezuela, in 2000, one that continued until Chavez's death.
Castro's most consistent policy was a foreign policy that vehemently opposed the United States. Castro resigned from office in 2008 and passed on his duties to his younger brother Raul, who (coupled with the rise of Barack Obama to power in the U.S.) softened some of the hostilities between the U.S. and Cuba.
Obituary from the AP (http://wivb.com/2016/11/26/former-cuban-leader-fidel-castro-dies/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro)
A nice Obit, about what I'd expect from AP. I disagree about something: While he was consistently anti-American he was also consistently anti-Cubans he didn't like, and while he didn't get away with killing many Americans, he got away with wholesale slaughter of Cubans who disagreed with him.
I'm in no position to judge him, but I'll bet @Luis Gonzalez would agree with me he's gone to a warm place.
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Actor Ron Glass died. Best known for "Barney Miller" and "Firefly"
He was 71.
http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/ron-glass-dead-barney-miller-firefly-dies-1201927179/
R.I.P Sgt. Harris.
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Actor Ron Glass died. Best known for "Barney Miller" and "Firefly"
He was 71.
R.I.P Sgt. Harris.
Too young. I liked that character.
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Actor Ron Glass died. Best known for "Barney Miller" and "Firefly"
He was 71.
http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/ron-glass-dead-barney-miller-firefly-dies-1201927179/
R.I.P Sgt. Harris.
I really liked his character...and so young.
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I really liked his character...and so young.
I loved Barney Miller too. My favorite cop show besides law and order
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A nice Obit, about what I'd expect from AP. I disagree about something: While he was consistently anti-American he was also consistently anti-Cubans he didn't like, and while he didn't get away with killing many Americans, he got away with wholesale slaughter of Cubans who disagreed with him.
I'm in no position to judge him, but I'll bet @Luis Gonzalez would agree with me he's gone to a warm place.
May he rest in pieces.
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May he roast in pieces.
Fixed!
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May he rest in pieces.
Has there been an announcement if Obozo or Slow Joe is going tot he funeral?
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Fritz Weaver, Tony-Winning Character Actor, Dies at 90
Fritz Weaver, a Tony Award-winning character actor who played a German Jewish doctor slain by the Nazis in the 1978 mini-series “Holocaust” and an Air Force colonel who becomes increasingly unstable as the nation faces a nuclear crisis in the 1964 movie “Fail Safe,” died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 90...
Mr. Weaver won a Tony in 1970 for his role in Robert Marasco’s drama “Child’s Play,” about the malevolent environment at an exclusive Roman Catholic school for boys...
From the 1950s on, Mr. Weaver was a familiar presence on television shows like “Studio One,” “Playhouse 90,” “Mission: Impossible” and “Murder, She Wrote.”
He appeared in two episodes of “The Twilight Zone” — “The Obsolete Man” and “Third From the Sun,” in which he played a scientist who plots to take his family aboard a rocket to escape their planet before a nuclear war...
Full article (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/27/movies/fritz-weaver-tony-winning-character-actor-dies-at-90.html)
Fritz Weaver Dies; Patrician Star Of Stage And Screen Was 90 (http://deadline.com/2016/11/fritz-weaver-obituary-1201860382/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Weaver)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915851/)
IBDB (https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/fritz-weaver-64289)
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Didn't realize Mr. Weaver was a native of Pittsburgh. A fine actor. He co-starred with Burgess Meredith in "The Obsolete Man" episode of the Twilight Zone, one of my favorites.
Rest in peace.
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Didn't realize Mr. Weaver was a native of Pittsburgh. A fine actor. He co-starred with Burgess Meredith in "The Obsolete Man" episode of the Twilight Zone, one of my favorites.
Rest in peace.
The Obsolete Man (https://vimeo.com/15365268)
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Third From The Sun (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4linug)
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The creator of the Big Mac has died.
Uniontown McDonald’s Franchisee Who Created Big Mac Dies
November 30, 2016 10:25 AM
KDKA (http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2016/11/30/uniontown-mcdonalds-franchisee-who-created-big-mac-dies/)
PITTSBURGH (AP) – The Pittsburgh-area McDonald’s franchisee who created the Big Mac nearly 50 years ago has died. Michael “Jim” Delligatti was 98.
McDonald’s spokeswoman Kerry Ford confirmed that Delligatti died at home surrounded by his family on Monday night.
Delligatti’s franchise was based in Uniontown when he invented the chain’s signature burger with two all-beef patties, “special sauce,” lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions on a sesame seed bun.
Delligatti told The Associated Press in 2006 that Oak Brook, Illinois-based McDonald’s resisted the idea at first because its simple lineup of hamburgers, cheeseburgers, fries and shakes was selling well.
But Delligatti wanted to offer a bigger burger and it went over so well it spread to the rest of Delligatti’s 47 stores, then went national in 1968.
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TV Great Grant Tinker Dies, Former CEO Of NBC Was 90
Grant Tinker, former chairman and CEO of NBC, died on Tuesday, Nov. 29. He was 90.
In 1969, Tinker and his then-wife, actress Mary Tyler Moore, launched MTM Enterprises. The company became an indie powerhouse, producing such popular series as the ground-breaking The Mary Tyler Moore Show, starring Moore, Rhoda, The Bob Newhart Show, WKRP in Cincinnati, Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere.
In 1981, Tinker left to become chairman and CEO of then-last-place network NBC. There, guided by his famous motto “First be best, then be first,” Tinker, with Brandon Tartikoff as his entertainment president, spearheaded a ratings turnaround as NBC rose from last to first place on the strength of a slew of hit and acclaimed new series, including The Cosby Show, Family Ties, The Golden Girls, Cheers, Night Court, and Hill Street Blues. Tinker left NBC in 1986, following its acquisition by General Electric.
More (http://deadline.com/2016/11/grant-tinker-dead-nbc-ceo-mary-tyler-moore-husband-1201861846/)
Grant Tinker, TV Executive Who Banked on Quality Shows, Dies at 90 (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/grant-tinker-dead-tv-executive-878704)
Grant Tinker, Revered Former NBC and MTM Chief, Dies at 90 (http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/grant-tinker-nbc-mtm-mary-tyler-moore-dead-90-1201930088/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Tinker)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0863987/)
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The creator of the Big Mac has died.
I wish him a peaceful rest.
But I'm not exactly sure inventing something else that proves you can hit a jackpot with
crap is something to brag about.
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TV Great Grant Tinker Dies, Former CEO Of NBC Was 90
More (http://deadline.com/2016/11/grant-tinker-dead-nbc-ceo-mary-tyler-moore-husband-1201861846/)
Grant Tinker, TV Executive Who Banked on Quality Shows, Dies at 90 (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/grant-tinker-dead-tv-executive-878704)
Grant Tinker, Revered Former NBC and MTM Chief, Dies at 90 (http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/grant-tinker-nbc-mtm-mary-tyler-moore-dead-90-1201930088/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Tinker)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0863987/)
If he'd helped deliver nothing else beside The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the first Bob Newhart Show, Tinker's
place in television history would be secure. RIP.
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If he'd helped deliver nothing else beside The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the first Bob Newhart Show, Tinker's
place in television history would be secure. RIP.
Indeed!
Hard to surpass those two shows. They made Tinker a legend.
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Indeed!
Hard to surpass those two shows. They made Tinker a legend.
Hard to surpass those two . . . so, naturally, he up and almost did it with Hill Street Blues
and St. Elsewhere.
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Hard to surpass those two . . . so, naturally, he up and almost did it with Hill Street Blues
and St. Elsewhere.
I think he also came up with the MTM logo with the meowing kitten
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Hard to surpass those two . . . so, naturally, he up and almost did it with Hill Street Blues
and St. Elsewhere.
I know he wasn't a writer on St Elsewhere...but that series finale was absolute crap.
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I think he also came up with the MTM logo with the meowing kitten
He did. And they used some clever variations on it, too . . .
MTM--"That's All, Folks!" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qa-wLRUqOA)
MTM--The White Shadow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9BK2zMkp1c)
MTM---Newhart (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty9kpJgN4Bo)
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Grant Tinker, the man who cleaned up the huge mess Fred Silverman (who still lives and is about ten years younger) made at NBC.
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Hard to surpass those two . . . so, naturally, he up and almost did it with Hill Street Blues
and St. Elsewhere.
Both with AWESOME theme songs!
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The Chinese creator of General Tso's Chicken, chef Peng, has died at the age of 98.
http://qz.com/851591/the-chinese-creator-of-general-tsos-chicken-chef-peng-has-died-at-the-age-of-98/
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RIP to television's Green Hornet---whom I liked not just because of his style, but because
he was the only crimefighter I knew in my boyhood (I didn't discover the classic earlier
radio show for decades to come) who didn't run around in his underwear to fight crime . . .
Green Hornet star Van Williams dies at 82 (http://comicbook.com/popculturenow/2016/12/05/green-hornet-star-van-williams-dies-at-age-82/)
Actor Van Williams, star of The Green Hornet television series of the 1960s, died last week at the age of 82.
Actor and Williams' friend Pat Priest confirmed Williams' death to Variety after receiving an email about his death from Williams' wife, Vicki Flaxman.
“Sad news. Van passed away last Monday night,” Flaxman wrote. “He really fought hard, but he had more health issues than he could manage. I am heartbroken.”
Producer Kevin Burns also revealed the news on Facebook after receiving the same email.
Williams was discovered while working as a driving instructor in Hawaii in 1957. Producer Mike Todd, husband of Elizabeth Taylor at the time, convinced Williams to give acting a shot, and so Williams moved to Hollywood. He broke in with the role of Ken Medison on Bourbon Street Beat on ABC. He reprised the role for Surfside 6.
Williams is best known to superhero fans for playing Britt Reid, aka the Green Hornet, on the 1966 television series. He was joined by Bruce Lee as the Green Hornet's sidekick and martial artist Kato. The Green Hornet was produced by 20th Century Fox and crossed over with Fox's other hit superhero series, Batman.
Williams career led him to roles on other classic television shows, including The Beverly Hillbillies, The Dick Van Dyke Show, and Westwind.
After his acting career seemed to have run its course, Williams became a reserve deputy sheriff and firefighter in the Los Angeles area.
“We had many fun dinners around our dining room table,” Priest told Variety. “We laughed a lot and he was my mentor in helping me with memorabilia shows. He was very special. We saw him last year and we have wonderful memories.”
According to Priest, Williams was in poor health before his death. He had singed his lungs as a firefighter and had suffered from bronchial problems and back pain ever since.
“Through it all he remained strong and rarely spoke of what he went through. He was a great guy and a class act all the way,” Burns said in his Facebook post.
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/66/6d/45/666d45bf261586fb4e266794eaabc411.jpg)
The Green Hornet---more style and class than your average crimefighting fiction hero.
And he had a classier ride . . .
(http://cdn.drivingline.com/media/5328/green-hornet-tv-show-black-beauty-imperial-petersen-vault-45.jpg)
RIP Van Williams.
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Wow. Interesting. It also mentions the actress Pat Priest who was one of the women who was Marilyn Munster.
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Wow. Interesting. It also mentions the actress Pat Priest who was one of the women who was Marilyn Munster.
Apparently, Pat Priest was a lifelong friend of Williams and his wife.
Reasons why the Green Hornet was better than Batman:
* He was born in old-time radio, not the comics.
* He dressed for success, not in his underwear.
* He had a more useful sidekick.
* And a classier ride.
* He didn't have to wear a phony utility belt with comic-opera weapons---all he needed was a gas gun
and an expandable telescoping laser sting.
* He invented the drone. (The Black Beauty scanner was the great-grandpa of today's remote control drones.)
* He fought real criminals, not clowns with theme crimes, bad makeup, worse puns, and wastes of some of
Hollywood's most legendary talent. (If there was justice, Vincent Price would have sued for defamation of
character for being paid to play Egghead.)
* And while we're at it, he didn't flinch when infiltrating the criminals' operations; Batman would have run home to mommy at the
very idea of it.
* Britt Reid at least worked for a living---he turned his father's inheritance into an even more successful newspaper.
* And he didn't live in an oversize mansion spending most of his time in two rooms.
* He also didn't have to figure out how to change clothes sliding down a fire pole to a cave.
* He dated better-looking women than Bruce Wayne.
* And probably got more second, third, fourth, and fifth dates.
* He had the D.A. on his side. The best Batman could do was a police commissioner who probably had no business in the job.
* The Black Beauty's front-and-rear rockets could get the job done faster than the Batbeam.
* The Batmobile looked better as the concept car from which it was built:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/75/LincolnFutura.jpg/280px-LincolnFutura.jpg)
* The Black Beauty looked better than the Imperial Crown Sedan from which it was built.
* The Green Hornet didn't have to bust every speed limit in town to get the job done; hell, he had enough trouble
with the cops thinking he was a murderer because of the nature of his operation.
* And he didn't have to have cameras at weird angles to show him climbing walls he couldn't climb in the first place.
* Do you really think Batman would have had the cojones to kidnap a foreign head of state to save his and his
fiancee's life?
* Kato was a more useful domestic servant than Alfred ever was.
* The Green Hornet was the grand nephew of the Lone Ranger. (Quick---name one of Batman's legendary relatives. I
couldn't, either.
* And the Green Hornet otherwise kept his carping, harpie, harridan relatives out of the house. (If he had
an Aunt Harriet worming her way into living in his pad, he'd have turned the Hornet Sting on her without regret, and
no jury on earth would have ruled it unjustifiable.)
So there! ;)
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After his acting career seemed to have run its course, Williams became a reserve deputy sheriff and firefighter in the Los Angeles area.
Now, that's real class. Nowadays, they turn to drugs and whine when their acting run is over.
RIP, Mr. Williams, and thanks.
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Now, that's real class. Nowadays, they turn to drugs and whine when their acting run is over.
RIP, Mr. Williams, and thanks.
You'd have to figure a guy discovered by accident while working as a driving instructor and
catching a break almost the same way when he gave acting a try wasn't going to let it get
to his head. Van Williams always impressed me as the down to earth sort who never got
full of himself.
Williams did once say he thought The Green Hornet should have lasted more than one
season---he told the interviewer, if I remember right, that if they'd made the show an hour
and focused more on character development, his own, the supporting players (Bruce Lee
as Kato---the old radio series portrayed him as both a valet and a chemist whose knowledge
of the science was invaluable in their operation---Wende Wagner as Miss Case [she went
from secretary to reporter in the old radio series], Lloyd Gough as Mike Axford, Walter Shenson
as D.A. Frank Scanlan), and even the criminals he battled, the show might have survived.
The show got good ratings in its only television season but looking back on the episodes
now you'd be hard pressed to say Williams was wrong.
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You'd have to figure a guy discovered by accident while working as a driving instructor and
catching a break almost the same way when he gave acting a try wasn't going to let it get
to his head. Van Williams always impressed me as the down to earth sort who never got
full of himself.
Williams did once say he thought The Green Hornet should have lasted more than one
season---he told the interviewer, if I remember right, that if they'd made the show an hour
and focused more on character development, his own, the supporting players (Bruce Lee
as Kato---the old radio series portrayed him as both a valet and a chemist whose knowledge
of the science was invaluable in their operation---Wende Wagner as Miss Case [she went
from secretary to reporter in the old radio series], Lloyd Gough as Mike Axford, Walter Shenson
as D.A. Frank Scanlan), and even the criminals he battled, the show might have survived.
The show got good ratings in its only television season but looking back on the episodes
now you'd be hard pressed to say Williams was wrong.
Likely, Williams saw it as a neat opportunity, but wasn't banking on it as a career. After all, he had done other things for a living. You may well be right about the show. Nowadays would have had a different result (especially when you consider the multiple seasons of killing zombies out there).
I really hated what the recent (2011) movie did to the character, but I hear a reboot is in the works.
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The Chinese creator of General Tso's Chicken, chef Peng, has died at the age of 98.
For some reason, I have a hankerin' for Chinese ...
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For some reason, I have a hankerin' for Chinese ...
Moo Goo Gia Pan sounds good.
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Italian diver Enzo Maiorca dies at 86
Maiorca was a famous free diver who set records for diving hundreds of feet. You probably know him better as the guy in the Apple iPhone commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La4HRfL5tV4
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzo_Maiorca)
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RIP the harpie who tried to devalue the Cleveland Indians in order to move the team to
Florida (this was pre-Marlins) . . .
Margaret Whitton, Major League Movie Actress, Dies at 67 (https://www.yahoo.com/movies/margaret-whitton-major-league-movie-actress-dies-at-67-213515638.html)
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RIP the harpie who tried to devalue the Cleveland Indians in order to move the team to
Florida (this was pre-Marlins) . . .
Margaret Whitton, Major League Movie Actress, Dies at 67 (https://www.yahoo.com/movies/margaret-whitton-major-league-movie-actress-dies-at-67-213515638.html)
Good movie. 67 is young by today's standards. I didn't realize she was in so many movies.
R.I.P.
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RIP to television's Green Hornet---whom I liked not just because of his style, but because he was the only crimefighter I knew in my boyhood (I didn't discover the classic earlier radio show for decades to come) who didn't run around in his underwear to fight crime . . .
More on this:
Van Williams, TV’s Green Hornet, Dies at 82
Van Williams, who played crime fighters on television during the 1960s, most notably the Green Hornet on a short-lived ABC show that later attained a cult following and that introduced American audiences to the martial arts master Bruce Lee, died last week in a care facility near his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 82.
The cause was renal failure, said his wife, Vicki Williams. She said that Mr. Williams probably died on the night of Nov. 28, but that he was not officially declared dead until the next day.
A tall, athletic Texan, Mr. Williams looked the part of a superhero and grew up an actual cowboy — although, curiously, he was not cast in many westerns. He played the same character, a detective named Kenny Madison, on two ABC series: “Bourbon Street Beat,” with Richard Long and Andrew Duggan, in the 1959-60 season, and then “Surfside 6,” with Lee Patterson and Troy Donahue, until 1962.
More (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/arts/television/van-williams-tvs-green-hornet-dies-at-82.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Williams)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0931868/)
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Rashaan Salaam, Heisman trophy winner and NFL/XFL running back, dies at 42
Salaam was a running phenom for the Colorado Buffaloes in college football and played three years for the team before forgoing his last year of college to enter the NFL. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears, and as a rookie, he reached 1,000 yards in his first season, the youngest player to do so in league history at age 21. Like many running backs, Salaam's career peaked very early and he battled injuries for the next two years, eventually finding himself out of football in 1998, playing a bit role on the expansion Cleveland New Browns in '99 and playing for the Memphis Maniax of the XFL in 2001.
Salaam was found dead in a park in Boulder, Colorado, with no evidence of foul play.
Obituary from CNN (http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/06/us/heisman-winner-nfl-rashaan-salaam-dies/index.html?sr=twCNN120616heisman-winner-nfl-rashaan-salaam-dies1045PMVODtopPhoto&linkId=32037217)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashaan_Salaam)
NFL stats (http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/SalaRa00.htm?redir)
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Rashaan Salaam, Heisman trophy winner and NFL/XFL running back, dies at 42
Salaam was found dead in a park in Boulder, Colorado, with no evidence of foul play.
ESPN reports probable suicide. (http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/18221607/former-heisman-trophy-winning-running-back-rashaan-salaam-died)
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Story breaking. I just had a headline alert .
Hasn't been a good week for former astronauts.
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From CNN:
Former astronaut and US Sen. John Glenn, 95, was hospitalized "more than a week ago," according to Ohio State University spokesman Hank Wilson.
"Sen. Glenn is at The James Cancer Hospital at The Ohio State University (and) was admitted there more than a week ago," Wilson wrote in an email. "I do not know his condition or illness or prognosis. I caution that even though Sen. Glenn is at The James that does not necessarily mean he has cancer."
Glenn had heart valve replacement surgery in 2014.
excerpted, more at the link: http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/07/health/john-glenn-hospitalized/ (http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/07/health/john-glenn-hospitalized/)
Very sparse, and strange that he was admitted a week ago but the news is breaking just now. :shrug:
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@kevindavis
Of interest for the folks interested in space news.
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I think he is the last of the Mercury 7 Astronauts.
Hated him as an Politician, liked him as an Astronaut..
Space Ping!
@Oceander
@Sanguine
@Cripplecreek
@Freya
@EC
@Joe Wooten
@r9etb
@Just_Victor
@montanajoe
@Ghost Bear
@Free Vulcan
@Idaho_Cowboy
@geronl
@Scutter
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I think he is the last of the Mercury 7 Astronauts.
Hated him as an Politician, liked him as an Astronaut..
Is it wrong for me to hope he hangs on long enough to not be eulogized by Obama?
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Is it wrong for me to hope he hangs on long enough to not be eulogized by Obama?
Nope..
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"Godspeed John Glenn"
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I think he is the last of the Mercury 7 Astronauts.
Checking Wikipedia, you are correct; all of the others have passed. Most recently, Scott Carpenter in 2013.
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I think he is the last of the Mercury 7 Astronauts.
Hated him as an Politician, liked him as an Astronaut..
:thumbsup:
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Rock musician Greg Lake dies at 69
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Emerson_Lake_and_Palmer_five.jpg)
Lake was originally a guitarist before being recruited to the group King Crimson, where he became a bassist and helped the band become briefly but phenomenally successful in 1969. He then met Keith Emerson, who died earlier this year, and formed the supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer (and its later incarnation Emerson, Lake & Powell). In his later career, he performed with Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
As a solo artist, Lake's most prominent work was the 1975 Christmas song "I Believe in Father Christmas."
Lake died from what his manager described as "a long and stubborn battle with cancer."
Obituary from the BBC (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38251936)
Greg Lake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Lake)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPm6CheT6rs
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Rock musician Greg Lake dies at 69
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Emerson_Lake_and_Palmer_five.jpg)
Lake was originally a guitarist before being recruited to the group King Crimson, where he became a bassist and helped the band become briefly but phenomenally successful in 1969. He then met Keith Emerson, who died earlier this year, and formed the supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer (and its later incarnation Emerson, Lake & Powell). In his later career, he performed with Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
As a solo artist, Lake's most prominent work was the 1975 Christmas song "I Believe in Father Christmas."
Lake died from what his manager described as "a long and stubborn battle with cancer."
Obituary from the BBC (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38251936)
Greg Lake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Lake)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPm6CheT6rs
Ohno! I hope he and Keith are together again....
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Emerson AND Lake died this year?
OMG!
stunned. and sad. 888cryingkitty
(I actually have Trans Siberian Orchestra on right now-it was another coincidence)
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Emerson AND Lake died this year?
OMG!
stunned. and sad. 888cryingkitty
(I actually have Trans Siberian Orchestra on right now-it was another coincidence)
Keith Emerson killed himself in March. His gift was gone and he couldn't take it anymore when fans started telling him "thanks but stop hurting yourself". Very sad, actually.
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Keith Emerson killed himself in March. His gift was gone and he couldn't take it anymore when fans started telling him "thanks but stop hurting yourself". Very sad, actually.
Oh I forgot how he died. Now I am really going to cry. Wasn’t a fan of ELP, (they were slightly a bit before my time) but how dang sad.
Seems like we lost a lot of musicians this year.
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Oh I forgot how he died. Now I am really going to cry. Wasn’t a fan of ELP, (they were slightly a bit before my time) but how dang sad.
Seems like we lost a lot of musicians this year.
I am a big fan of ELP, and I knew about Emerson's battle with Carpal Tunnel. When I found out he'd been recording lately I got hold of some of the new recordings. Not the old Keith Emerson. Playing had become an exercise in massive pain.
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I’m afraid my taste in music until the end of the 70s was pretty much pop stuff. You know, David Cassidy, Bobby Sherman, Barry Manilow, the stuff my mom would buy. I got a lot of Sinatra and classical, and Beatles for some reason (pre Sgt. Pepper of course).
I’m afraid I didn’t get into the real cool bands until 11th grade or so. ELP had broken up by then. And being a Jersey girl, you know everyone loved Bruce. (So did I until he went too political. I still love his early stuff though)
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My three favourite recordings by Greg Lake:
King Crimson, "In the Wake of Poseidon" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1JjOpXsJ7A)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer, "Take a Pebble" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrYbfQRlfwQ)
(I only wish ELP had stayed in and developed the direction of that number . . . )
Greg Lake, "C'est la Vie" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWC1lV0O_3k)
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John Glenn, American hero, aviation icon and former U.S. senator, dies at 95
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/12/john-glenn/john-glenn.html
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John Glenn has died at age 95
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(http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/us/2016/12/08/astronaut-and-former-us-senator-john-glenn-dies-at-95/_jcr_content/par/featured-media/media-0.img.jpg/876/493/1480707988688.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)
John Glenn, the all-American astronaut and senator who rocketed into history on flights 36 years apart as the first American to orbit the Earth and the oldest person in space, died Thursday, Dec. 8 at age 95.
Glenn, who was known for his small-town decency and calm heroics, was the last of the original Mercury 7 astronauts who launched the US space program. He later served for nine years as a Democratic senator from Ohio.
In the early 1960s, the Mercury 7 were American superstars, constantly written about and unabashedly idolized.
In "The Right Stuff," a 1983 film about them based on Tom Wolfe's best-selling book, Glenn was portrayed by Ed Harris.
Glenn, a Marine pilot who flew 149 missions in World War II and Korea, was America's third man in space (after Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom) but the first to orbit the Earth.
On February 20, 1962 he piloted the "Friendship 7" spacecraft on a three-orbit mission some 100-162 miles from Earth that lasted four hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds.
Afterwards, acclaimed a national hero, he received a ticker-tape parade and addressed a joint session of Congress.
More than three decades later, at 77 and about to retire as a senator, Glenn lifted off on the space shuttle Discovery on October 29, 1998, becoming the oldest person ever to fly in space.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/12/08/astronaut-and-former-us-senator-john-glenn-dies-at-95.html
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John Glenn, American hero, aviation icon and former U.S. senator, dies at 95
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/12/john-glenn/john-glenn.html
Rats. As an astronaut, he was one of my Heroes. As a politician, not so much.
But I will most recall him for the Mercury mission. RIP.
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RIP...
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My three favourite recordings by Greg Lake:
King Crimson, "In the Wake of Poseidon" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1JjOpXsJ7A)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer, "Take a Pebble" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrYbfQRlfwQ)
(I only wish ELP had stayed in and developed the direction of that number . . . )
Greg Lake, "C'est la Vie" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWC1lV0O_3k)
There's a live version of Take a Pebble where Lake does some improve lyrics in the middle of the quiet section. Sweet!
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There's a live version of Take a Pebble where Lake does some improve lyrics in the middle of the quiet section. Sweet!
I'll have to look for that.
My reference was to both the main song and the jazzy interludes; I thought (and still do) that that
would have been a far better direction for Emerson, Lake & Palmer than that bombastic crap that
became most of their ouevre. (Their best move otherwise: engaging Pete Sinfield to write
lyrics for most of Brain Salad Surgery, since whatever else Emerson, Lake & Palmer were, lyricists
they weren't for the most part, except for a couple of Lake's offerings including "C'est la Vie,"
"Lucky Man," and "Still . . . You Turn Me On.")
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Rats. As an astronaut, he was one of my Heroes. As a politician, not so much.
But I will most recall him for the Mercury mission. RIP.
RIP Ol' Magnet Ass!
(It was his nickname as a Marine pilot, based on his ability to draw enemy fire to himself and
his flight division and away from others before waxing their tails.)
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Well, it had to come someday...but it's sad nonetheless.
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R.I.P John Glenn.
May he be among the stars and moon that he loved so much again.
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@mystery-ak or mods- can we change the headline to state he has passed?
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Godspeed
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My little brother who was born just after his 1962 flight was named after him. All of us in the Glenn family were forever answering the question "Are you related to John Glenn?" Even all these decades later. That's the impact he had on us as a Nation. Hero's like him don't fade with turning the pages of time.
Godspeed John Glenn
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Well, it had to come someday...but it's sad nonetheless.
They aren't youngsters. Jim McDivitt who was part of the Gemini and Apollo programs is 87.
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This old bag was just a youngster when space travel was in its infancy. Schools used to have special assemblies to watch liftoff and returns. Mr. Glenn and the other astronauts of his generation were real heroes. Today, it seems no one really cares, particularly younger generations. Sad.
Ok, so John Glenn was a Democrat. Today it really doesn't matter. I prefer to remember him as a great American hero.
Rest in peace, John Glenn.
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Sad news..
Space Ping!
@Oceander
@Sanguine
@Cripplecreek
@Freya
@EC
@Joe Wooten
@r9etb
@Just_Victor
@montanajoe
@Ghost Bear
@Free Vulcan
@Idaho_Cowboy
@geronl
@Scutter
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He had a good run.
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This old bag was just a youngster when space travel was in its infancy. Schools used to have special assemblies to watch liftoff and returns.
My elementary schools didn't have assemblies, but our teachers would flip on the television sets
in the classrooms so we could see the buildup to each launch and to each splashdown, plus
any special stuff like the Gemini docking mission and the like. I got to know Frank McGee of NBC
very well because his anchorage seemed to be the favourite among my elementary teachers.
NBC, Friendship 7 Part One (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukFe83R-2r4)
NBC, Friendship 7 Part Two (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIg4bcWXonI)
NBC, Friendship 7 Part Three (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg9QX2-W6fA)
NBC, Friendship 7 Part Four (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQjKAPTBERM)
NBC, Friendship 7 Part Five (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0RwiDK7yJA)
NBC, Friendship 7 Part Six (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDikrP7AfWg)
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He had a good run.
They were very accomplished men before they went to space.
Glenn was a Colonel who served in both WWII and Korea. Grissom was a Lt Colonel who also served in WWII and Korea. Jim McDivitt was a bit younger but flew 145 combat missions over North Korea and retired a Brigadier General. All were highly educated men.
I remember reading about Chuck Yeager speaking of the astronauts vs test pilots like himself. He said he wasn't suited to the space program because he wasn't educated or disciplined enough for it.
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What? No Jose Jiminez?
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What? No Jose Jiminez?
That was Alan Shepard's schtick . . .
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John Glenn, American hero, aviation icon and former U.S. senator, dies at 95
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/12/john-glenn/john-glenn.html
John Glenn - American aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator - dead at 95
Last and oldest of the original Mercury 7 astronauts. First American to orbit the earth (Alan Shepard, who made a suborbital flight, was the first American in space). In his second space flight, Glenn, at age 77, became the oldest person to go into space.
NYT article (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/us/john-glenn-dies.html)
Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn)
The Mercury Seven astronauts:
- LT (later CDR) Malcolm Scott Carpenter (1925–2013), USN
- Capt (later Col) Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper, Jr. (1927–2004), USAF
- Maj (later Col) John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (1921–2016), USMC
- Capt (later Lt Col) Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (1926–1967), USAF
- LCDR (later CAPT) Walter Marty "Wally" Schirra, Jr. (1923–2007), USN
- LCDR (later RADM) Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. (1923–1998), USN
- Maj Donald Kent "Deke" Slayton (1924–1993), USAF
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Ljubo Sirc (1920-2016)
An Intellectual Entrepreneur Who Debunked Communism
Link only...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alejandrochafuen/2016/12/09/ljubo-sirc-1920-2016-an-intellectual-entrepreneur-who-debunked-communism/#eb190af4a618
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Ljubo Sirc (1920-2016)
Debunking communism is God's work, as far as I'm concerned. RIP
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Debunking communism is God's work, as far as I'm concerned. RIP
:amen:
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I remember back in the summer of 62 we were down in Yellowstone. My best friend and I were looking at the mud pots and my mother came up yelling that John Glenn was in the parking lot. Got down there just in time to see him leave which was still a big thrill, getting a glimpse of him in person was one of the best childhood memories for a space nut like me.
RIP...
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As a musician who can play a dozen or so instruments, I can honestly say that ELP though maybe not the most aesthetically pleasing or listenable band, cumulatively were the most talented technically in rock history.
Just the technique used in Brain Salad Surgery is mind boggling.
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Longtime WV public servant Ken Hechler dies at 102
Paul J. Nyden , Staff Writer
December 10, 2016Ken Hechler, a longtime West Virginia public servant who also advised President Harry S. Truman, questioned Nazi leaders after World War II and was the oldest living former member of Congress in the nation, died Saturday, according to friends. He was 102 years old. ...
Hechler’s political career lasted more than six decades, stretching from the White House to Congress to the West Virginia secretary of state’s office.
He was also a soldier, author, teacher and activist. He shook Theodore Roosevelt’s hand as a boy and wrote a book about his grandfather’s service in the Union Army during the Civil War. ...
Born on Sept. 20, 1914, in Roslyn, a town on Long Island in New York, Hechler was the son of Charles Henry, an estate superintendent, and Catherine Elizabeth Hauhart Hechler. His grandfather, George Hechler, was a German immigrant.
Hechler received a bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College in 1935, where he helped organize campus support for President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, much to the chagrin of his staunchly Republican parents. He earned a master’s degree in 1936 and Ph.D. in political science in 1940, both from Columbia University.
He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1942, shortly after the United States entered World War II. Originally trained as an infantryman and then as a tank commander, Hechler was eventually assigned as an Army combat historian in Europe and rose to the rank of colonel.
After the war, Hechler was one of five people assigned to interview Herman Goering and other leaders of Nazi Germany before they were put on trial for war crimes in Nuremberg. One of Hechler’s last books, “Goering and His Gang,” was a collection of interview transcripts from that time. ...
He was a professor at Marshall (College, now University) for only one term — the 1957 spring semester — and ran for Congress the following year. He defeated the sitting Republican congressman, Will Neal, and served nine terms in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1959 and 1977.
Hechler attributed his initial victory — despite having been in West Virginia fewer than two years — to his association with Truman and the popularity of his book “The Bridge at Remagen,” his account of a significant Allied victory in Germany in World War II. (Hechler was at the battle, and the book was made into a 1969 film starring George Segal and Robert Vaughn.)
He said in the 1985 interview he was most active in Congress on three issues: “coal mine safety, coal mine health in terms of setting a level above which the dust in coal mines would not be allowed to go, and black lung compensation.” ...
Hechler returned to Marshall to teach for a few years, then ran for secretary of state and was elected in 1984. He held that post for 16 years, until he gave it up to run for a different U.S. House seat in 2000, after Rep. Bob Wise vacated it.
Hechler lost in the Democratic primary; Republican Shelley Moore Capito was eventually elected to the seat. Hechler was 86 years old then, and never again held public office — although he ran for secretary of state in 2004 and U.S. Senate in 2010.
He spent his last years as a political activist. ...
In addition to “The Bridge at Remagen” and “Goering and His Gang,” Hechler’s books included “West Virginia Memories of President Kennedy” (1965), “Working with Truman: A Personal Memoir of the White House Years” (1982) and “Soldier of the Union” (2011), a collection of letters written by his grandfather, George Hechler, and great-uncle, John Hechler, during their time as soldiers in the Civil War.
Charleston Gazette-Mail (http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news-politics/20161210/longtime-wv-public-servant-ken-hechler-dies-at-102#sthash.wfBdNMj3.dpuf) - EXCERPTED
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Alan Thicke, the actor died tonight at the age of 69.
http://www.tmz.com/2016/12/13/alan-thicke-dead/
Another 80s sitcom actor gone..,R.I.P. Mr. Seaver.
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Alan Thicke, the actor died tonight at the age of 69.
http://www.tmz.com/2016/12/13/alan-thicke-dead/
Another 80s sitcom actor gone..,R.I.P. Mr. Seaver.
RIP, heart attack while playing ice hockey with his son. That does sound like it demands a lot.
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RIP, heart attack while playing ice hockey with his son. That does sound like it demands a lot.
He just had a reality TV show with the wife. I had seen an ad for it I think in September.
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Here's a bit of a mystery death that just happened,
Trevor Tice, Yoga Mogul for Core-Power Yoga:
By Crimesider Staff CBS/AP December 13, 2016, 6:45 PM
Investigators probe suspicious death of yoga studio chain founder
SAN DIEGO -- A man found dead under suspicious circumstances at his San Diego home has been identified as Trevor Tice, the founder of a nationwide yoga studio chain, reports CBS affiliate KFMB.
A friend went to his home Monday to check on the 48-year-old Tice when he didn’t return calls or texts, Lt. Mike Holden of the San Diego police told CBS News. Officers responded and evidence there prompted them to call in homicide detectives to investigate, Holden told KFMB.
Investigators are treating the death as suspicious until a cause is determined, Holden told CBS News. An autopsy was expected to be completed within 24 hours. He said investigators won’t say whether Tice was murdered, because they don’t yet know.
Tice reportedly founded CorePower Yoga, a Denver-based chain of fitness studios, in 2002. The company has 160 locations across the country and several in San Diego.
Continued: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trevor-tice-investigators-probe-suspicious-death-of-core-power-yoga-studio-chain-founder/
I don't get the success of some people, this is impressive. I'm aware of a man who made millions in, of all things, car bumpers... build a better car bumper...
In 2001, Tice sold his IT company, TechPartners International for $60 million before starting up his yoga business.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4031216/Yoga-mogul-mysteriously-dead-suspicious-circumstances-3million-California-mansion.html#ixzz4SmEndmEt
So, afterwards, he went on to start a yoga business and had 160 studios nationwide which struck me, yoga is everywhere. One of the articles read that he got into yoga after a rock climbing accident and he couldn't run anymore which was his previous passion.
So, we will have to see what this is about, Rest In Peace.
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Bernard Fox, of 'Bewitched' and 'Hogan's Heroes,' dies at 89
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bernard Fox, the mustachioed actor known to TV viewers as Dr. Bombay on Bewitched and Col. Crittendon on Hogan's Heroes, has died. He was 89.
Harlan Boll, a spokesman for Fox's family, said he died Wednesday of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital.
The Welsh-born actor's extensive, wide-ranging film and TV credits included The Mummy, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, The Dyke Van Dyke Show, McHale's Navy and Columbo.
He appeared in both 1997's Titanic, playing Col. Archibald Gracie, and in a 1958 movie about the ship tragedy, A Night to Remember. He had an uncredited role in the latter, playing a sailor who delivers the line, "Iceberg's dead ahead, sir!" according to his family.
Excerpt. Read more at:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2016/12/15/bernard-fox-dr-bombay-on-bewitched-dies-at-89/95462844/
And here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Fox_%28actor%29?wprov=sfla1
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Dr Bombay was my favorite character on Bewitched. I am surprised he was still alive.
(http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g112/trevor22a/Main/bomb1.jpg)
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Dr Bombay was my favorite character on Bewitched. I am surprised he was still alive.
(http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g112/trevor22a/Main/bomb1.jpg)
He was one of my favorites on Hogan's Heros. As a matter of fact I saw him the other night in that character in reruns.
Sad...........
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Malcolm Meriweather at least 2 times on this show. He rode one of those old English 3-speeds on the show.
(http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/748/bf4.jpg)
And I'm rather sure, he was in the movie "Battle of Britain".
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I enjoyed one of his two appearances on Columbo. Fox played an officer of a cruise ship. Columbo and his wife had won a cruise and they were supposed to be on vacation. But a lounge singer performing on the ship is murdered and Columbo goes to work to solve the crime.
A running joke had Columbo referring to the ship as a boat and Fox's character corrects him. At the end of the episode, Columbo refers to a tender taking the passengers to shore as a ship, and Fox's character tells him it's a boat. A befuddled Colombo throws his hands up in the air and says, aw, the hell with it.
Coincidentally, the murderer was played by Robert Vaughn., who passed away last month.
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Colorful NBA Sideline Reporter Craig Sager, 65, Dies
December 15, 2016 3:41 PM
Craig Sager, the longtime NBA sideline reporter famous for his flashy suits and probing questions, has died after a batter with cancer, Turner Sports announced Thursday. He was 65.
“Craig Sager was a beloved member of the Turner family for more than three decades and he has been a true inspiration to all of us,” Turner President David Levy said in a statement. “There will never be another Craig Sager. His incredible talent, tireless work ethic and commitment to his craft took him all over the world covering sports.”
Levy’s statement did not say when or where Sager died.
Sager, who worked basketball games for TNT for nearly a quarter-century, revealed in March 2016 that his leukemia was no longer in remission. He said doctors told him the typical prognosis was three to six months to live, but “I am receiving the best treatment in the world and I remain fully confident I will win this battle.”
Sager first announced in April 2014 that he had been diagnosed with leukemia, and he missed the playoffs and much of the following season as he underwent two bone marrow transplants. ... KDKA (http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2016/12/15/colorful-nba-sideline-reporter-craig-sager-65-dies/)
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That name, Craig Sager sure is familiar. RIP.
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I enjoyed one of his two appearances on Columbo. Fox played an officer of a cruise ship. Columbo and his wife had won a cruise and they were supposed to be on vacation. But a lounge singer performing on the ship is murdered and Columbo goes to work to solve the crime.
A running joke had Columbo referring to the ship as a boat and Fox's character corrects him. At the end of the episode, Columbo refers to a tender taking the passengers to shore as a ship, and Fox's character tells him it's a boat. A befuddled Colombo throws his hands up in the air and says, aw, the hell with it.
Coincidentally, the murderer was played by Robert Vaughn., who passed away last month.
Yes, I saw that one Columbo not too long ago. Hallmark Movies Channel airs Columbo M-F except for these 2 months before Christmas. Oh well.
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Yes, I saw that one Columbo not too long ago. Hallmark Movies Channel airs Columbo M-F except for these 2 months before Christmas. Oh well.
One of our local TV stations has a tie-in to MeTV and Colombo airs on that station at 8 pm on Sundays. I understand that soon the station will also be carrying Colombo episodes from when ABC revived the show. In addition, I subscribe to Netflix, and Colombo is one of my favorites.
Yes, Hallmark, ION and a few others are airing a bunch of sappy Christmas movies from now till the holiday, and I'm sure one or more channels will air It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story and/or Elf.
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Composer and conductor Karel Husa dies at 95
Influential and internationally acclaimed composer and conductor Karel Jaroslav Husa, who taught at Cornell for 38 years and conducted major orchestras as well as campus ensembles, died Dec. 14 at his home in Apex, North Carolina. He was 95...
Husa was born in Prague on Aug. 7, 1921...
Husa became an American citizen in 1959...
Husa won the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 1969 for his String Quartet No. 3, and the 1993 Grawemeyer Award for his Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, and many other composition prizes over his career.
His best known work is the four-movement “Music for Prague 1968,” written after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia and featuring such symbols of resistance and hope as a 15th century Hussite war song and the sound of bells...
Full article (http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/12/composer-and-conductor-karel-husa-dies-95)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Husa)
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Lawrence Colburn Dies; Helped End Vietnam's My Lai Massacre
By chevel johnson, associated press
Dec 15, 2016, 9:57 PM ET
Lawrence Manley Colburn, a helicopter gunner in the Vietnam War who helped end the slaughter of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese villagers by U.S. troops at My Lai, has died. He was 67.
Lisa Colburn, speaking with The Associated Press on Thursday evening, said her husband of 31 years was diagnosed with cancer in late September and died Tuesday.
"It was very quick," she said by phone from her Canton, Georgia, home near Atlanta. "He was a very peaceful man who had a great desire for there to be a peaceful world."
She also called him "a compassionate person who was a hero in many people's eyes."
Colburn was the last surviving member of a U.S. Army crew that ended the My Lai massacre of March 16, 1968. According to accounts, pilot Hugh Thompson landed the helicopter between unarmed villagers and American troops and ordered Colburn and crew chief Glenn Andreotta to cover him....
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/lawrence-colburn-dies-helped-end-vietnams-lai-massacre-44226366
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Henry Heimlich, inventor of the anti-choking Heimlich maneuver that saved at least 50,000 people in America alone, dies aged 96
The creator of the lifesaving Heimlich maneuver has died at the age of 96.
Dr Henry Heimlich, who became famous in the 1970s for creating the technique to save choking victims, passed away at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati on Saturday.
Heimlich had suffered a massive heart attack on Monday and died from complications.
Heimlich was director of surgery at Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati in 1974 when he devised the treatment for choking victims that would make his name famous.
The first aid procedure relies on abdominal thrusts to clear a person's airway of foreign objects and prevent suffocation.
More (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4044104/Henry-Heimlich-creator-Heimlich-maneuver-dead-96.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Heimlich)
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The husband of a friend of mine was one of countless lives saved by Dr. Heimlich's famous maneuver. Rest in peace, Doctor.
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Breaking-
Zsa Zsa Gabor dead at 99
http://www.tmz.com/2016/12/18/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/
Not a full obit.
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Breaking-
Zsa Zsa Gabor dead at 99
http://www.tmz.com/2016/12/18/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/
Not a full obit.
Struck down in the prime of her life. Why do the good die so young?
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Terrible to say, but I thought Zsa Zsa died years ago.
She was a colorful lady. I still remember the time she slapped a police officer. Say what you will about her. She was unique. She was her own woman.
Rest in peace, Zsa, Zsa.
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Trump used her for a wife model. Dahling.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor certainly believed in marriage. Obviously, she also believed practise makes perfect.
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How tragic, Jean Shepard died a few months back. Now her granddaughter was brutally stabbed and her ex-boyfriend or husband was shot, the grandfather injured, one has to read it for onself. The ex-boyfriend started these tragic events? That's what it sounds like to me.
http://www.syracuse.com/celebrity-news/index.ssf/2016/12/jean_shepard_granddaughter_killed_husband_stabbed.html <--- Better reporting.
Too much news.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4048976/Country-star-Jean-Shepard-s-granddaughter-18-murdered-husband-stabbed-weekend-slaughter-left-two-dead.html <--- More photos.
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Director Gordon Hunt, RIP (1929 - 2016)
Director Gordon Hunt has died at the age of 87.
Gordon Edwynn Hunt (April 26, 1929 -- December 17, 2016) was an American director, actor, producer and writer.
He directed such animated productions as The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, Super Friends, The Pirates of Dark Water, Droopy, Master Detective, Pound Puppies, The Richie Rich Show, The Smurfs and many more...
He is the father of [Emmy, Oscar, Golden Globe, and SAG Award winner] Helen Hunt from his marriage to photographer Jane Elizabeth Novis; they later divorced. Since 1995, he has been married to [actress, voice actress and singer] B.J. Ward [of "Stand-Up Opera" fame]...
From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Hunt_%28director%29)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0402460/) page
Tribute (http://www.newsfromme.com/2016/12/19/gordon-hunt-r-p/)
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Marion Pritchard, a Dutch social work student who was credited with saving dozens of Jews during the Holocaust, spiriting some to safe houses, hiding others under floorboards, and, in one case, executing a Nazi before he could arrest a family of four, died Dec. 11 in Washington. She was 96.
The cause was cerebral arteriosclerosis, according to her family.
Pritchard was recognized in 1981 by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, as one of the "righteous among the nations" - those gentiles who, seeking no reward, risked their lives to rescue Jews from the Nazi dragnet that claimed 6 million lives during World War II.
She was said to have fed, clothed, hidden or otherwise aided as many as 150 people, many of them children. She insisted that she could not have done her work without the assistance, overt or implied, of neighbors, friends and other members of the resistance. She observed, her son Arnold Pritchard recalled, that only rarely if ever during the Holocaust could one person single-handedly save the life of another.
Pritchard - then van Binsbergen - was 19 when Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940. She credited her father, a Dutch judge who abhorred the Nazi ideology, and her mother, an Englishwoman who raised her daughter in the Anglican faith, with instilling in her a sense of justice and moral resolve.
The "crucial moment" for her came in 1942, she said, when she was riding her bicycle to her university in Amsterdam and witnessed the liquidation of a home for Jewish children. Deportation of Jews from the Netherlands began that year and would continue into 1944. Of 107,000 Jews taken away, all but 5,200 would perish. Less than 25 percent of Dutch Jewry survived the Holocaust, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
"It was a beautiful spring morning, and it was a street I had known since I had been born, and all of a sudden you see little kids picked up by their pigtails or by a leg and thrown over the side of a truck," Pritchard said in an interview published in the volume "Voices From the Holocaust" by Harry James Cargas. "You stop but you can't believe it."
She watched two women attempt to stop the soldiers, only to be put in the truck with the children. At that moment, she said, she committed herself to fighting Nazi persecution in whatever way possible.
Along with about 10 friends, she helped obtain false identity documents and hiding places to help Jews evade arrest. Despite severe food shortages, they scrounged up extra ration cards and provisions. She put her social work training to use by finding host families to take in Jewish children and prepare the families for the perils they faced.
At times, she performed what was known as the "mission of disgrace," falsely declaring herself to be the unwed mother of a baby to conceal the child's Jewish identity. A toddler spent several months with her before she found a safer home outside Amsterdam.
For nearly three years, Pritchard cared for a Jewish man, Fred Polak, and his two young sons and infant daughter, taking up residence in the country home of an acquaintance where they were hidden. In case of a Nazi roundup, they perfected a routine by which the father and his children could slip beneath the floorboards within 17 seconds. They gave the baby sleeping pills to prevent her from crying.
One day, three Germans and a Dutch policeman came to search the house and left, having failed to detect the hideaway. Shortly thereafter, the Dutchman, who nonetheless suspected that something was awry, returned and discovered the hideout. Before he could make an arrest, Pritchard grabbed a small revolver that she had kept for such an emergency and fatally shot him.
"I would do it again, under the same circumstances," she told an interviewer years later, "but it still bothers me."
She credited a local undertaker with helping dispose of the corpse by burying it with another body in a coffin. "I just hope that the family would have approved," she said.
Marion Philippina van Binsbergen was born in Amsterdam on Nov. 7, 1920. She grew up mainly in the Netherlands but traveled frequently to England, where she attended boarding school.
When the war broke out, she was studying social work at the University of Amsterdam. She was arrested in 1941 and imprisoned for seven months after being caught at a meeting where students were transcribing Allied radio broadcasts for dissemination. Until then, "I always thought I had my mother's ability to ignore fear," she remarked, according to the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.
She said it was perhaps easier for her than for others to face the dangers of rescue work, her son recalled, because she was not married at the time and did not have children of her own: She was risking no life but her own.
Among the most famous Jews who sought refuge in the Netherlands were the German-born diarist Anne Frank and her sister Margot. Pritchard told the Los Angeles Times that she met them by chance at a birthday party before they went into hiding and were ultimately discovered, deported and murdered.
After the war, Pritchard became a United Nations social worker in displaced-persons camps. Through those assignments, she met her husband, Anton Pritchard, a former U.S. Army officer. In 1947, they were married in one of the camps.
The Pritchards settled in Waccabuc, N.Y., and later in Vershire, Vt. Pritchard continued her social service work in the United States, helping refugee families. She graduated from what is now the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis and ran a psychoanalysis practice for several decades. In 2006, she moved to Washington.
Her husband died in 1991. Survivors include three sons, Arnold Pritchard of New Haven, Conn., Brian Pritchard of Los Angeles and Ivor Pritchard of Washington; eight grandchildren; and a great-grandson.
Pritchard's wartime story was chronicled in books including "Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust" by Eva Fogelman and the documentary "The Courage to Care" (1985).
"Most of us were brought up to tell [the] truth, to obey the secular law and the Ten Commandments," she said in a 1996 lecture. "By 1945, I had stolen, cheated, deceived, and even killed."
She attributed her morals to her parents, who she said had treated her with "respect and consideration from the time" she was born. "As a result," she observed, "I grew up treating other people the same way."
Erica Polak, a Dutch psychologist, was the infant girl who survived the war in the countryside shelter with her father and brothers, thanks to Pritchard's efforts.
"My whole family is so grateful to her," she wrote in an email after her rescuer died, "no words will ever be enough to describe that deep gratitude we feel.”
http://jewishworldreview.com/1216/pritchard_obit.php3
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Michèle Morgan, lustrous French actress of ‘Port of Shadows,’ dies at 96
Michèle Morgan, a French movie actress who starred in the moody masterpiece “Port of Shadows” and who, during a brief Hollywood sojourn, helped introduce Frank Sinatra to film audiences in his first big role, died Dec. 20. She was 96.
French President François Hollande announced the death, calling her “an elegance, a grace, a legend that left a mark on many generations. . . . The greatest directors called upon her, and she was part of masterpieces that still live in everyone’s memories.” No other details were provided.
In a career spanning seven decades, Ms. Morgan was best known as the ethereal femme fatale in “Port of Shadows” (1938), a film at the core of the poetic realism movement in French cinema. As visually sumptuous as they were bleak, the movies often involved working-class characters and social outcasts whose destinies are beyond their control — in essence, a precursor to the cynical and sinister world of American film noir.
More (https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/michele-morgan-lustrous-french-actress-of-port-of-shadows-dies-at-96/2016/12/20/b5e66d78-c6f1-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mich%C3%A8le_Morgan)
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006807/)
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Marion Pritchard, a Dutch social work student who was credited with saving dozens of Jews during the Holocaust, spiriting some to safe houses, hiding others under floorboards, and, in one case, executing a Nazi before he could arrest a family of four, died Dec. 11 in Washington. She was 96.
The cause was cerebral arteriosclerosis, according to her family.
....
http://jewishworldreview.com/1216/pritchard_obit.php3
They don't make them like that any more.
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They don't make them like that any more.
No they don't. What an inspiration.
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Raconteur Gordie Tapp dies at 94
Canadian country musician, comic and storyteller Gordon R. Tapp was an early personality for the Canadian Broadcasting Company in the 1950s. He is best known as a cast member and writer for the long-running variety show Hee Haw and, at the peak of his fame, was once dubbed "the world's funniest storyteller" in a meeting with U.S. President Gerald Ford.
A more-or-less lifelong resident of southern Ontario, Tapp was still performing until shortly before his death from old age.
Obituary from the CBC (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/gordie-tapp-obituary-1.3903148?cmp=rss)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordie_Tapp)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJZY__j0Tyk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJZY__j0Tyk)
So long, Mr. Tapp, and thanks for the laughs....
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Jock Moffat, WWII hero who crippled the Bismarck, dies at 97 (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,238868.0.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Moffat_(Royal_Navy_officer))
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http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38423963?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central
Pray for her.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38423963?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central
Pray for her.
Wow. Does not sound good.
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And, she's only 60?
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And, she's only 60?
She was a heavy drug user for many many years. Not saying that's what caused this...
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And, she's only 60?
Her mom's still kicking at 84.
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She was a heavy drug user for many many years. Not saying that's what caused this...
Probably didn't help.
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Other sites are reporting that Ms. Fisher had a heart attack. While a heart attack can result in a cardiac arrest, the two terms are not interchangeable.
I pray she comes through this ok. Only about 5% to 7% of cardiac arrest patients survive, and of those who do survive, there is often brain damage, anywhere from mild to severe.
(Pretending I'm an expert since I'm one of the survivors)
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And, she's only 60?
Had mine at 56.
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Definitely will pray about this.
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She was a heavy drug user for many many years. Not saying that's what caused this...
Read an interview with her in which she said that she barely remembers filming Star Wars. She said it was just a haze of alcohol, drugs, and sex.
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Had mine at 56.
52... A month later a kidney stone and then two years later kidney cancer...
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Women don't do well with heart attacks.
My mother was only 69.
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Had mine at 56.
I'm still working on mine.
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I'm still working on mine.
Well you obviously aren't working hard enough.
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Had mine at 56.
Wow. Glad it turned out right.
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My great-grandmother passed from one at the age of 60. I was five at the time and was devastated to lose her. She smoked, but didn't drink or do drugs. Was a little overweight, but not by much. Worked hard out in the fields as she was a farmer's wife.
My great grandmother passed away 20 years ago at 96, her daughter (my grandmother) passed away at 94 in January, and my mother on September 2nd at 69.
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My great grandmother passed away 20 years ago at 96, her daughter (my grandmother) passed away at 94 in January, and my mother on September 2nd at 69.
I knew you had suffered a loss this past year but I wasn't aware of the details. My condolences.
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I knew you had suffered a loss this past year but I wasn't aware of the details. My condolences.
Sounds very similar to the way my mother went.
I walked over to her house about 10 pm before I went to bed as I usually did. I was sitting on the couch talking to her as she was filling her coffee maker for the next morning when she collapsed. I was pretty aware that I was just going through the motions as I did CPR waiting for the paramedics. The paramedics spent another 10 or so minutes with her before taking her to the hospital.
They pronounced her deceased at the hospital but the doc said she effectively passed at home. I guess that's the way to go, unsuspecting like a light switch.
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Women don't do well with heart attacks.
My mother was only 69.
So sorry for your loss. I was told that women usually don't have the same symptoms as men, or they are more likely to ignore the symptoms or think the symptoms are for something else . My arrest came following a severe bout of nausea and vomiting. Went to the emergency room, was told I must have a bad case of stomach flu, but was admitted because I was so severely dehydrated. Lying in the hospital bed, I dozed off. When I woke up, I was surrounded by 15 medical staffers, one of whom was pounding on my chest and another holding two paddles. That's when I was told I had actually arrested twice and the paddles were used a toral of 7 times. I had none of the well known symptoms -- crushing pain in the chest, for example -- and the digestive upset was dismissed as the flu even by medical professionals.
Anyway, that's why women often don't survive. So easy to miss the symptoms.
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So sorry for your loss. I was told that women usually don't have the same symptoms as men, or they are more likely to ignore the symptoms or think the symptoms are for something else . My arrest came following a severe bout of nausea and vomiting. Went to the emergency room, was told I must have a bad case of stomach flu, but was admitted because I was so severely dehydrated. Lying in the hospital bed, I dozed off. When I woke up, I was surrounded by 15 medical staffers, one of whom was pounding on my chest and another holding two paddles. That's when I was told I had actually arrested twice and the paddles were used a toral of 7 times. I had none of the well known symptoms -- crushing pain in the chest, for example -- and the digestive upset was dismissed as the flu even by medical professionals.
Anyway, that's why women often don't survive. So easy to miss the symptoms.
Wow!
I had this strange pain in my left arm pit area that didn't lessen no matter how I positioned myself. It was the second time it had happened. When my left arm deep inside started aching the light bulb went off in my head and I took myself to the emergency room and told them I think I'm having a heart attack... For about 8 hours all my tests came back negative. Nitro tablets didn't help with the pain. Then the last blood test looking for dying heart muscle enzyme came up positive and I was still in pain... They immediately put me in an ambulance for another hospital that specializes in cardiac care. They told me I was going to the other hospital for "some tests"... They rolled me straight into the surgical room at about midnight...
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I was just on the phone with a friend and he speculated that Ms. Fisher's health might have been ruined by all her ECT treatments.
@Cripplecreek I'm sorry for your losses.
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I was just on the phone with a friend and he speculated that Ms. Fisher's health might have been ruined by all her ECT treatments.
@Cripplecreek I'm sorry for your losses.
Apparently she's going to make it. Her brother says she's in stable condition.
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Apparently she's going to make it. Her brother says she's in stable condition.
The Force is with her?
I'm glad she's going to make it.
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That's good to hear. :)
Yes it is. I hope she stars in more star wars movies.
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Yes it is. I hope she stars in more star wars movies.
She's in critical condition and in the ICU. Her brother is denying earlier reports of her being stable.
http://variety.com/2016/biz/news/carrie-fisher-heart-attack-star-wars-1201947925/
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Too soon to know whether Miss Fisher will survive. Confinement in a coronary ICU for at least a few days is routine following a cardiac event. She will probably be on monitors and nurses will constantly be checking her vitals. She might be stable now, but it's going to be touch and go. She might also be on a ventilator, which is routine following a cardiac arrest.
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Status Quo's Guitarist Rick Parfitt passes away.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38427459
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wI3tbBk1PA
I believe they never achieved great success in the US but much in the UK and Europe.
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Status Quo's Guitarist Rick Parfitt passes away.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38427459
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wI3tbBk1PA
I believe they never achieved great success in the US but much in the UK and Europe.
They were an opening act when I saw them in the mid 70's.
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They were an opening act when I saw them in the mid 70's.
Who were they opening for?
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Some time ago, I watched them do some "oldies" types of songs on youtube clips. It was pretty good.
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Who were they opening for?
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Some time ago, I watched them do some "oldies" types of songs on youtube clips. It was pretty good.
Peter Frampton & Gary Wright at the Oakland Coliseum. In hindsite they pioneers of the 80s style hair band.
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They were an opening act when I saw them in the mid 70's.
They had only one big hit in the United States, several years before they switched to almost generic boogie rock
(strangely enough, it was released on a Chess subsidiary label, at the time company scion Marshall Chess was
trying to find his way at the company and came up with such hilarious missteps as psychedelicising Muddy
Waters with two terrible albums, Electric Mud and After the Rain):
Status Quo, "Pictures of Matchstick Men" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki5lZLQaoxA)
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They had only one big hit in the United States, several years before they switched to almost generic boogie rock
(strangely enough, it was released on a Chess subsidiary label, at the time company scion Marshall Chess was
trying to find his way at the company and came up with such hilarious missteps as psychedelicising Muddy
Waters with two terrible albums, Electric Mud and After the Rain):
Status Quo, "Pictures of Matchstick Men" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki5lZLQaoxA)
I'm sorry, but I can't picture a psychedelic Muddy Waters. My brain's wiring just won't permit it.
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They had only one big hit in the United States, several years before they switched to almost generic boogie rock
(strangely enough, it was released on a Chess subsidiary label, at the time company scion Marshall Chess was
trying to find his way at the company and came up with such hilarious missteps as psychedelicising Muddy
Waters with two terrible albums, Electric Mud and After the Rain):
Status Quo, "Pictures of Matchstick Men" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki5lZLQaoxA)
Oh, that song! I knew the song, never knew who did it.
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I'm sorry, but I can't picture a psychedelic Muddy Waters. My brain's wiring just won't permit it.
I don't think anyone else could have, either, when those albums came out. Between the two
Electric Mud was really the worst, forcing him into a psych thing that didn't really suit
him no matter how much the more psychedelicised blues rockers of that period (circa 1968)
admired him. He was far better suited to working with younger musicians willing to work on
his turf---the Fathers and Sons (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1pEnapsr1k) album (which included three younger players who learned
directly from him in Chicago before striking on their own in the original Butterfield Blues Band:
Paul Butterfield, Mike Bloomfield, and Sam Lay) was a perfect example.
The Electric Mud experiment was with the best of intentions, Chess scion Marshall Chess
trying a bid to get Muddy Waters (and Howlin' Wolf, via This is Howlin' Wolf's New Album. He
Doesn't Like It. He Didn't Like His Electric Guitar At First, Either.) modernised for the rock
crowds whose heroes admired Muddy.
The younger Chess had also started the Cadet Concept label on which he planned to put more
experimental musicians in soul, blues, and rock. The Status Quo was one such group when
he went to England looking for talent and landed the U.S. rights to distribute "Pictures of Matchstick
Men." The best known of the Cadet Concept finds was a kind of psychedelic soul group called
Rotary Connection, a racially integrated band (as the Butterfield Blues Band was) who yielded
up the gifted but ill-fated singer Minnie Riperton.
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Joey Boots from Howard Stern show dies at 49
Joey Boots, who helped introduce America to the expression "Baba Booey" on The Howard Stern Show, has died at 49.
The radio personality, whose real surname is Bassolino, was found unresponsive in his Bronx apartment Friday, report TMZ and CNN.
The NYPD later confirmed his death to the Hollywood Reporter.
Bassolino, who was part of the rogue's gallery known as the Wack Pack, grabbed attention by shouting "Baba Booey" on Stern's show and during live TV reports. He even managed to successfully defend his right to do so in a New York court.
His friends learned of his death after they began Friday's taping of his podcast, The Joey Boots Show.
Fellow Wack Packer Erik "High Pitch" Bleaman told CNN that he had gone to check on his friend when he failed to show for taping. He entered Bassolino's apartment with the help of a building manager.
Bleaman then called into the show and asked them to stop recording so he could deliver the bad news, but they kept rolling tape, which was obtained by TMZ.
"Me and the building manager opened Joey's door," he told them. "And Joey was slumped over his chair. He was ice cold."
The team then ended the show and called 911. Emergency responders pronounced Bassolino, who had openly discussed his diabetes, dead at the scene.
A medical examiner will determine his cause of death.
Stern promised via Twitter that the show would honor "the one and only Joey B" with a tribute show in the new year.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2016/12/24/joey-boots-bassolino-from-howard-stern-show-dies-at-49/95829684/
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Per Status Quo; I guess they played even in December. Maybe he was pushing himself too much?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcAfjEcDuFE
From September, 2016:
Status Quo's Rick Parfitt 'may have played last show'
Status Quo guitarist Rick Parfitt may have played his last show with the band, it has been revealed today. Following Parfitt's near-fatal heart attack while touring Turkey in June, "Rick may well have performed his last show with Quo," according to the band's manager Simon Porter.
More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/status-quos-rick-parfitt-may-have-played-last-show/
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Joey Boots from Howard Stern show dies at 49
Joey Boots, who helped introduce America to the expression "Baba Booey" on The Howard Stern Show, has died at 49.
The radio personality, whose real surname is Bassolino, was found unresponsive in his Bronx apartment Friday, report TMZ and CNN.
The NYPD later confirmed his death to the Hollywood Reporter.
Bassolino, who was part of the rogue's gallery known as the Wack Pack, grabbed attention by shouting "Baba Booey" on Stern's show and during live TV reports. He even managed to successfully defend his right to do so in a New York court.
His friends learned of his death after they began Friday's taping of his podcast, The Joey Boots Show.
Fellow Wack Packer Erik "High Pitch" Bleaman told CNN that he had gone to check on his friend when he failed to show for taping. He entered Bassolino's apartment with the help of a building manager.
Bleaman then called into the show and asked them to stop recording so he could deliver the bad news, but they kept rolling tape, which was obtained by TMZ.
"Me and the building manager opened Joey's door," he told them. "And Joey was slumped over his chair. He was ice cold."
The team then ended the show and called 911. Emergency responders pronounced Bassolino, who had openly discussed his diabetes, dead at the scene.
A medical examiner will determine his cause of death.
Stern promised via Twitter that the show would honor "the one and only Joey B" with a tribute show in the new year.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2016/12/24/joey-boots-bassolino-from-howard-stern-show-dies-at-49/95829684/
Rest In Peace, I heard of this, never listened to Stern much; but this is a bad time of year for this to happen.
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Rest In Peace, I heard of this, never listened to Stern much; but this is a bad time of year for this to happen.
I don't know where I'm stealing this from, but "I'm staying up until Midnight 12/31 just to watch 2016 DIE."
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Ex-Wham! singer George Michael dies
George MichaelImage copyright PA
Singer George Michael has died aged 53, his publicist has said.
The star, who launched his career with Wham! in the 1980s and later continued his success as a solo performer, is said to have "passed away peacefully at home".
Thames Valley Police said South Central Ambulance Service attended a property in Goring in Oxfordshire at 13:42 GMT.
Police say there were no suspicious circumstances.
Michael, who was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou in north London, sold more than 100m albums throughout a career spanning almost four decades.
He first found fame with his schoolfriend Andrew Ridgeley in duo Wham! before going on to release solo albums, including the multi-million selling Faith and Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1.
Earlier this month it was announced that producer and songwriter Naughty Boy was working with Michael on a new album.
In a statement, the star's publicist said: "It is with great sadness that we can confirm our beloved son, brother and friend George passed away peacefully at home over the Christmas period.
"The family would ask that their privacy be respected at this difficult and emotional time. There will be no further comment at this stage."
In 2011, Michael postponed a series of concerts after being taken to hospital for treatment for pneumonia.
After treatment in a Vienna hospital, he made a tearful appearance outside his London home and said it had been "touch and go" whether he lived.
Doctors were said to have performed a tracheotomy to keep his airways open and he was unconscious for some of his spell in hospital.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38432862
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this year hasn’t been a good year for musicians.
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Total shock, Rest In Peace George Michael.
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By Alex Matthews For Mailonline (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Alex+Matthews+For+Mailonline)
George Michael has died at his home in Oxfordshire.
The musician's publicist said that he had 'passed away peacefully' at his property in Goring at 1.42pm today.
Michael, 53, had previously battled drug addiction and came close to death after suffering from a bout of pneumonia in 2011.
However, the circumstances around his death are currently unexplained and police are not treating the death as suspicious.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4065534/George-Michael-dies.html#ixzz4Ttn0dOuo (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4065534/George-Michael-dies.html#ixzz4Ttn0dOuo)
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This is also in the obits section .....
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Wow.
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By Alex Matthews For Mailonline (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Alex+Matthews+For+Mailonline)
George Michael has died at his home in Oxfordshire.
The musician's publicist said that he had 'passed away peacefully' at his property in Goring at 1.42pm today.
Michael, 53, had previously battled drug addiction and came close to death after suffering from a bout of pneumonia in 2011.
However, the circumstances around his death are currently unexplained and police are not treating the death as suspicious.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4065534/George-Michael-dies.html#ixzz4Ttn0dOuo (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4065534/George-Michael-dies.html#ixzz4Ttn0dOuo)
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Dang. Eighties icons are dropping off now.
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Dang. Eighties icons are dropping off now.
I'm still here.....lol
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I'm going to guess that this will turn out to be suicide or drug overdose. Which is sometimes the same thing.
From all reports I have heard and read about him in the last few years, his life was in pretty bad shape.
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I'll always love these . . .
Wham!, "Careless Whisper" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dODb9vQnvMk)
Wham!, "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnVI0zwIXRw)
Even if he might have liked to walk back this lyric line: "Wake me up before you go-go/Cause I'm not planning on going solo."
RIP
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I'm so ready for 2016 to be over.
Why can't this year take a Beiber or a couple of Kardashians?
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I'm still here.....lol
I think I still have a FILA tennis shirt in my closet somewhere.
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He will be buried next to his career...
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I'm so ready for 2016 to be over.
Me too.
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I'm so ready for 2016 to be over.
Same.
And someone else can start the Obit thread for 2017 - it got depressing as hell seeing it pop up in my new replies every single day.
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Freedom! Freedom! There is only one ultimate freedom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diYAc7gB-0A
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He didn't live a healthy lifestyle. I wonder whether they'll reveal the cause of death.
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Topics merged.
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More re George Michael:
... A police statement said: “Thames Valley Police were called to a property in Goring-on-Thames shortly before 2 p.m. Christmas Day. Sadly, a 53-year-old man was confirmed deceased at the scene. At this stage the death is being treated as unexplained but not suspicious.”
Mr. Michael’s manager, Michael Lippman, told The Hollywood Reporter that Mr. Michael had died of heart failure “in bed, lying peacefully.” ...
New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/25/arts/music/george-michael-dead.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news)
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Last night at TOS, they were having a big laugh about Michaels' death...it was joke material to them. It's true, he led a high risk lifestyle, but celebrating his death is vile.
I liked his solo stuff, especially "Freedom 90. "
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I'm part of a "Jesus music" page at Facebook, and this was posted there:
In memory of George Michael, I always thought this was an interesting commentary on God and faith. In some ways it seems critical of God, and definitely of those who consider themselves God's children; but it also seems sympathetic to God in a way.
"Maybe we should all be praying for time..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihfmwtMbcJE
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Last night at TOS, they were having a big laugh about Michaels' death...it was joke material to them. It's true, he led a high risk lifestyle, but celebrating his death is vile.
I liked his solo stuff, especially "Freedom 90. "
Their behavior doesn't surprise me. Since they've gone all ape-**** over Trump, the members have become a nasty lot. Many of them hold themselves out as pious Christians Don't know of any legitimate church that preaches such behavior, especially when someone dies.
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More re George Michael:New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/25/arts/music/george-michael-dead.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news)
I think we all would like to go peacefully in our beds when it's our time, IMHO.
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Last night at TOS, they were having a big laugh about Michaels' death...it was joke material to them. It's true, he led a high risk lifestyle, but celebrating his death is vile.
I liked his solo stuff, especially "Freedom 90. "
You don't laugh about someone's death, that's just not cool. I guess their mothers didn't teach them right.
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I think we all would like to go peacefully in our beds when it's our time, IMHO.
'When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming hysterically like the passengers in his car."
(OK, maybe I was brought up a little "off".) :shrug:
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'When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming hysterically like the passengers in his car."
(OK, maybe I was brought up a little "off".) :shrug:
Some of us suspected that. :whistle:
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You don't laugh about someone's death, that's just not cool. I guess their mothers didn't teach them right.
At TOS, it's okay to celebrate the death of anyone who isn't one of them, especially if the deceased was homosexual.
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At TOS, it's okay to celebrate the death of anyone who isn't one of them, especially if the deceased was homosexual.
About the only homosexual I can recall TOS members shouting down all celebration of their death was Freddie Mercury.
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Their behavior doesn't surprise me. Since they've gone all ape-**** over Trump, the members have become a nasty lot. Many of them hold themselves out as pious Christians Don't know of any legitimate church that preaches such behavior, especially when someone dies.
@Applewood
Totally agree. Even going back pre-Trump, TOSers liked to dance on graves.
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You don't laugh about someone's death, that's just not cool. I guess their mothers didn't teach them right.
@Freya
Yep. My mom taught me that kind of thing eventually comes home to roost.
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I'm so ready for 2016 to be over.
Why can't this year take a Beiber or a couple of Kardashians?
They're too vain to let themselves be put at risk.
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http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,239005.0/topicseen.html (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,239005.0/topicseen.html)
Vesna Vulović, at 66, who held the Guiness record for surviving a fall with out a parachute: over 33,000 ft., in 1972 when the airplane she was a stewardess on broke (blew) up in mid air.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAT_Flight_367 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAT_Flight_367)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87)
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Ed Reinecke, who resigned as California's lieutenant governor after a perjury conviction, dies at 92
Ed Reinecke, the California lieutenant governor who resigned after being convicted of perjury in a Watergate-era scandal, died Saturday in Laguna Hills.
He was 92 and died of natural causes, said his son, Mark Reinecke...
Reinecke was a protege of then-Gov. Ronald Reagan...
The conviction was eventually overturned because of a technicality: the Senate Judiciary Committee had not officially published a rule permitting a one-man quorum, and the special Watergate prosecutor had not established that more than one senator attended the hearing...
After Reinecke’s downfall, Reagan remained loyal to his former lieutenant, soliciting funds to help him pay his legal bills...
Read the whole thing. (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-reinecke-obit-20161225-story.html)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Reinecke)
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Vera Rubin, pioneering "dark matter" astronomer, dead at 88
PRINCETON, N.J. — Vera Rubin, a pioneering astronomer who helped find powerful evidence of “dark matter” in the universe, has died. She was 88.
Allan Rubin says his mother died Sunday night of natural causes. A Philadelphia native, Vera Rubin had been living in the Princeton, New Jersey, area, he said.
Rubin found that galaxies don’t quite rotate the way they were predicted, and that lent support to the theory that some other force was at work, namely dark matter.
Dark matter, which hasn’t been directly observed, is believed to make up 27 percent of universe — as opposed to 5 percent of the universe being normal matter. Scientists better understand what dark matter isn’t rather than what it is.
Rubin never received the Nobel Prize for her work, but her name was long floated for the prestigious award.
Emily Levesque, an astronomer at the University of Washington in Seattle, is among those scientists who believe Rubin deserved the honor.
“The existence of dark matter has utterly revolutionized our concept of the universe and our entire field; the ongoing effort to understand the role of dark matter has basically spawned entire subfields within astrophysics and particle physics at this point,” Levesque told Astronomy Magazine in June. “Alfred Nobel’s will describes the physics prize as recognizing ‘the most important discovery’ within the field of physics. If dark matter doesn’t fit that description, I don’t know what does.”
In addition to her breakthrough discoveries, Rubin was considered a champion for women in astronomy, putting constant pressure on powerful factions in the field to recognize women’s contributions.
Invited to the highly regarded Palomar Observatory outside San Diego early in her career, Rubin did not accept the building’s lack of a women’s restroom at face value.
“She went to her room, she cut up paper into a skirt image, and she stuck it on the little person image on the door of the bathroom,” former colleague Neta Bahcall of Princeton University told Astronomy Magazine. “She said, ‘There you go; now you have a ladies’ room.’ That’s the type of person Vera is.”
In recent years, Rubin was reportedly unhappy that stubborn gender inequities continued to pervade her field. In 2000, she told Astronomy writer Ann Finkbeiner she was “getting fed up... What’s wrong with this story is that nothing’s changing, or it’s changing so slowly,” the magazine reported.
On Monday, scientists and admirers across the internet mourned Rubin’s passing:
Rubin’s scientific achievements earned her numerous honors, including becoming the second female astronomer to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
She also received the National Medal of Science from President Bill Clinton in 1993 “for her pioneering research programs in observational cosmology.”
Rubin’s interest in astronomy began as a young girl and grew with the involvement of her father, Philip Cooper, an electrical engineer who helped her build a telescope and took her to meetings of amateur astronomers.
She was the only astronomy major to graduate from Vassar College in 1948. When she sought to enroll as a graduate student at Princeton, she learned women were not allowed in the university’s graduate astronomy program, so she instead earned her master’s degree from Cornell University.
Rubin earned her doctorate from Georgetown University, where she later worked as a faculty member for several years before working at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, a nonprofit scientific research center.
During her career, Rubin examined more than 200 galaxies.
ping @kevindavis and space
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@Applewood
Totally agree. Even going back pre-Trump, TOSers liked to dance on graves.
@CatherineofAragon
Actually, you're right. I remember when Senator Wellstone was killed some years back. The comments at TOS made my hair stand on end. Ok, the guy was uber-liberal, maybe a socialist. But now that he has passed, all of that really doesn't matter anymore. Remember that he had a wife and family who loved him very much and are grieving his passing. So forget about the differences, offer condolences and pray for his soul and the comfort of his loved ones . If you really can't do any of that, say and do nothing at all.
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BREAKING FROM BBC-
WATERSHIP DOWN AUTHOR RICHARD ADAMS DIED AGED 96, STORY TO FOLLOW.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38446309
RIP
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@CatherineofAragon
Actually, you're right. I remember when Senator Wellstone was killed some years back. The comments at TOS made my hair stand on end. Ok, the guy was uber-liberal, maybe a socialist. But now that he has passed, all of that really doesn't matter anymore. Remember that he had a wife and family who loved him very much and are grieving his passing. So forget about the differences, offer condolences and pray for his soul and the comfort of his loved ones . If you really can't do any of that, say and do nothing at all.
The Dems had a hand in that dancing because they tried to use Wellstone's funeral service as a political rally for his successor. They even demanded Jesse Ventura and Schwarzenegger to stand in support of their candidate. They refused, to their credit.
Obama did the same thing in Tucson at the funeral of the Federal Judge that was killed in the same attack that Gabby Giffords got shot (even distributed T-shirts at the venue). It hurt the Dems both times, but they never learn, all they know is regardless of the party affiliation of the deceased, he/she is a newly minted Dem voter.
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Carrie Fisher has died.
Multiple reports.
@mystery-ak and mods, should headline be changed?
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http://people.com/movies/carrie-fisher-dies/
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Just damn...
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Carrie Fisher has died.
Multiple reports.
@mystery-ak and mods, should headline be changed?
@Freya
Title changed.
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@Freya
Title changed.
Thanks @Machiavelli
Rest In Peace Carrie.
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@CatherineofAragon
Actually, you're right. I remember when Senator Wellstone was killed some years back. The comments at TOS made my hair stand on end. Ok, the guy was uber-liberal, maybe a socialist. But now that he has passed, all of that really doesn't matter anymore. Remember that he had a wife and family who loved him very much and are grieving his passing. So forget about the differences, offer condolences and pray for his soul and the comfort of his loved ones . If you really can't do any of that, say and do nothing at all.
@Applewood
A friend of mine over there, a longtime Freeper, can often be seen scolding them (deservedly) for their hilarity on obituary threads. As I recall, they were pretty nasty when David Bowie died.
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Carrie Fisher dies, age 60
Details on her thread here. (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,238957.0/topicseen.html)
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Carrie Fisher has died.
Multiple reports.
@mystery-ak and mods, should headline be changed?
Women don't survive heart attacks the way men do.
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This miserable year is almost over, but it's trying to take as many people with it as it can.
2016 can (blank) off.
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This miserable year is almost over, but it's trying to take as many people with it as it can.
2016 can (blank) off.
Yes. I noted earlier in the obits section Richard Adams, the author of "Watership Down" died this morning too.
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She's in critical condition and in the ICU. Her brother is denying earlier reports of her being stable.
http://variety.com/2016/biz/news/carrie-fisher-heart-attack-star-wars-1201947925/
I wonder what the point was in telling everyone she was stable when clearly she wasn't.
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I think we all would like to go peacefully in our beds when it's our time, IMHO.
Nah, I want to go out with my boots on in a blaze of glory. :whistle:
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I wonder what the point was in telling everyone she was stable when clearly she wasn't.
She may have been stable at the time of the announcement. A massive heart attack can have lingering effects with other organs being damaged. They may have had her stabilized but the weaker heart muscle and damage to other organs may have caused her to take a turn for the worse as it simply couldn't keep up with the body's demands.
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She may have been stable at the time of the announcement. A massive heart attack can have lingering effects with other organs being damaged. They may have had her stabilized but the weaker heart muscle and damage to other organs may have caused her to take a turn for the worse as it simply couldn't keep up with the body's demands.
I would have thought they'd check all of those organs' functionality prior to declaring her stable. But then I'm not a medical professional.
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Thanks @Machiavelli
Rest In Peace Carrie.
@Freya
As an EMT, I didn't think she would survive. For one thing, she was on an extremely long flight and likely she didn't walk on the plane. Sitting that long on a plane causes blood to collect in the legs/feet and can cause blood clots, especially if the heart is already compromised. These clots can move to the heart and stop it.
For those of you who fly or have flown overseas to Europe in the past, you likely noted your feet had swelled by the time you touched down overseas or flying back from there. Her flight was longer than flying from central US or the east coast to or back from Europe. I don't recall the country she left but did note it was a longer flight to California than the east coast or central US. Blood clots was my first thought when I heard her heart stopped.
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Yes. I noted earlier in the obits section Richard Adams, the author of "Watership Down" died this morning too.
@Freya
I saw that post.
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@Freya
As an EMT, I didn't think she would survive. For one thing, she was on an extremely long flight and likely she didn't walk on the plane. Sitting that long on a plane causes blood to collect in the legs/feet and can cause blood clots, especially if the heart is already compromised. These clots can move to the heart and stop it.
For those of you who fly or have flown overseas to Europe in the past, you likely noted your feet had swelled by the time you touched down overseas or flying back from there. Her flight was longer than flying from central US or the east coast to or back from Europe. I don't recall the country she left but did note it was a longer flight to California than the east coast or central US. Blood clots was my first thought when I heard her heart stopped.
@Victoria33
About three years ago I was diagnosed with a DVT (blood clot in the leg). I had none of the risk factors, and they never found out what caused it---the closest they could come was a folic acid deficiency. At the final visit when the doctor let me go, he said that if I take an overseas flight I'll have to treat myself with a blood thinner---injection into the stomach---before the flight, as a precaution.
It's extremely important to move around during a flight, and to stay well hydrated.
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Carrie Fisher dies, age 60
Details on her thread here. (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,238957.0/topicseen.html)
60 is WAY too young....... **nononono*
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Just damn...
Yeah........ **nononono*
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Rats! I was so hoping Miss Fisher would have made it. Unfortunately, the odds were against her. Survival rate for cardiac arrest is very low.
May she rest in peace.
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@Victoria33
About three years ago I was diagnosed with a DVT (blood clot in the leg). I had none of the risk factors, and they never found out what caused it---the closest they could come was a folic acid deficiency. At the final visit when the doctor let me go, he said that if I take an overseas flight I'll have to treat myself with a blood thinner---injection into the stomach---before the flight, as a precaution. It's extremely important to move around during a flight, and to stay well hydrated.
I made many trips overseas and did get up and walk on the plane but every time my feet were swollen when I got off the plane. By the next day the feet were okay. At my advanced age now, I would not fly overseas.
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Rats! I was so hoping Miss Fisher would have made it. Unfortunately, the odds were against her. Survival rate for cardiac arrest is very low.
May she rest in peace.
It took too long to get her resuscitated. It was probably 20 minutes between the heart attack and she was in the hospital. So sorry, Carrie...I know our politics didn't match up, but nobody deserves to die that young.
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I made many trips overseas and did get up and walk on the plane but every time my feet were swollen when I got off the plane. By the next day the feet were okay. At my advanced age now, I would not fly overseas.
Same here. Even on shorter domestic flights, I always take an aisle seat so I can get up and move around. I'm going to Florida next month -- about a 2-1/2 hour flight. I'll be up and moving at least twice.
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It took too long to get her resuscitated. It was probably 20 minutes between the heart attack and she was in the hospital. So sorry, Carrie...I know our politics didn't match up, but nobody deserves to die that young.
I thought someone on the plane tried CPR. You are correct that CPR has to start right away. The longer the patient is unconscious, the less likely he or she will survive. And the longer it takes to get the heart started, the more likely there will be organ damage from lack of oxygen, especially the brain. With a damaged heart and the other organs dying from lack of oxygen, the prognosis is not good. Many patients, even with prompt CPR, don't make it.
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There was an EMT on the flight. From what I read, it took 10 minutes to get her heart beating after he started rescue efforts.
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Merging Carrie Fisher thread from Sports/Entertainment into the Obituaries thread.
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I thought someone on the plane tried CPR. You are correct that CPR has to start right away. The longer the patient is unconscious, the less likely he or she will survive. And the longer it takes to get the heart started, the more likely there will be organ damage from lack of oxygen, especially the brain. With a damaged heart and the other organs dying from lack of oxygen, the prognosis is not good. Many patients, even with prompt CPR, don't make it.
The heart has to be beating, and I think that's what took too long. It's very sad.... **nononono*
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There was an EMT on the flight. From what I read, it took 10 minutes to get her heart beating after he started rescue efforts.
In 10 minutes, her brain may have been severely damaged, as may have been other organs. If revived in 20 minutes, a patient may survive, but damage to the organs will start sooner and the damage could be serious and permanent.
I don't know how long my heart stopped, but I do have some residual effects. My memory and concentration are shot and my sense of balance is off. For many patients, the brain damage is severe -- persistent vegetative state. If that was the alternative for Miss Fisher,, perhaps it's a blessing she did not survive.
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I made many trips overseas and did get up and walk on the plane but every time my feet were swollen when I got off the plane. By the next day the feet were okay. At my advanced age now, I would not fly overseas.
@Victoria33
That's wise, IMO. According to what I've read, the average person's risk for a clot goes up three times when flying, and if there are other factors---genetic predisposition, obesity, sedentary lifestyle, oral contraceptives/hormone therapy, smoking---the risk increases many more times.
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Richard Adams, author of 'Watership Down' dead at 96
Richard Fox who was "Dr Bombay" on 'Bewitched' apparently died on December 14
A guy who was on "Everybody hates Chris" just died
...
blah blah blah
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If it gives you any idea of what kind of year it's been, last year's obituary thread has less than 300 posts (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,158147.0.html). We're over three times that this year.
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May it not be quite so long as last years!
Well, that didn't work out so well, did it? :-/
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Well, that didn't work out so well, did it? :-/
We gab a lot more about it now....
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Well, that didn't work out so well, did it? :-/
**nononono*
Unfortunately not.
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George S. Irving Dies: Tony-Winning Character Actor Was 94 (http://deadline.com/2016/12/george-s-irving-dies-tony-winner-was-94-1201875975/)
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George S. Irving Dies: Tony-Winning Character Actor Was 94 (http://deadline.com/2016/12/george-s-irving-dies-tony-winner-was-94-1201875975/)
Wow. One of those actors who did so much work over so any decades. .....RIP.
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Debbie Reynolds just suffered a medical emergency, which we're told is a possible stroke ... and EMTs just raced to the scene, TMZ has learned.
Debbie was at her son Todd Fisher's home in Beverly Hills and just after 1 PM someone from the house called 911.
More at the link: http://www.tmz.com/2016/12/28/debbie-reynolds-hospitalized-stroke/ (http://www.tmz.com/2016/12/28/debbie-reynolds-hospitalized-stroke/)
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**nononono* Awful.
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Merging Carrie Fisher thread from Sports/Entertainment into the Obituaries thread.
No self respecting obit thread is complete w/o an obligatory "best" photo of the decedent......
OOO La La.....
(http://www.eonline.com/resize/500/500/eol_images/Entire_Site/201595/rs_300x300-151005121331-600.Carrie-Fisher-Princess-Leia-Gold-Bikini.jl.100515.jpg)
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Debbie Reynolds just suffered a medical emergency, which we're told is a possible stroke ... and EMTs just raced to the scene, TMZ has learned.
Debbie was at her son Todd Fisher's home in Beverly Hills and just after 1 PM someone from the house called 911.
More at the link: http://www.tmz.com/2016/12/28/debbie-reynolds-hospitalized-stroke/ (http://www.tmz.com/2016/12/28/debbie-reynolds-hospitalized-stroke/)
Not surprising after losing her child
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Prayers up for Debbie. Loved her in Singing in the Rain and a movie she made with Tony Randall which I can't think of the name..
Ping @CatherineofAragon
@Victoria33
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No self respecting obit thread is complete w/o an obligatory "best" photo of the decedent......
OOO La La.....
(http://www.eonline.com/resize/500/500/eol_images/Entire_Site/201595/rs_300x300-151005121331-600.Carrie-Fisher-Princess-Leia-Gold-Bikini.jl.100515.jpg)
Forget Solo and the Wookie...
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Forget Solo and the Wookie...
That's what the giant slug said, and look where it got him....
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That's what the giant slug said, and look where it got him....
Slurm?
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Slurm?
Strangled by her chains and thrown into the maw of a desert ant dragon. There are better ways to go...
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Update from TMZ at 2:53 PM Pacific Time (5:53 PM Eastern): "We've learned Debbie's condition when she was taken to the hospital was listed as 'fair to serious.'"
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It is the Hollywood curse of 3. It almost never fails.
George
Carrie
Debbie?
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Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher's mother, has been rushed to the hospital with a possible stroke. She was at her son's home planning the funeral.
This is just unreal...
http://www.king5.com/entertainment/report-debbie-reynolds-rushed-to-hospital/379879544 (http://www.king5.com/entertainment/report-debbie-reynolds-rushed-to-hospital/379879544)
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Tmz story linked above has an update. Condition "Fair to Serious"
Sounds bad. Prayers up.
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Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher's mother, has been rushed to the hospital with a possible stroke. She was at her son's home planning the funeral.
This is just unreal...
http://www.king5.com/entertainment/report-debbie-reynolds-rushed-to-hospital/379879544 (http://www.king5.com/entertainment/report-debbie-reynolds-rushed-to-hospital/379879544)
Prayers for Debbie.
Losing a daughter is a horrible thing. I'm sure that she's overwhelmed by grief.
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Prayers for Debbie.
Losing a daughter is a horrible thing. I'm sure that she's overwhelmed by grief.
Prayers up for the whole family!
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Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher's mother, has been rushed to the hospital with a possible stroke. She was at her son's home planning the funeral.
This is just unreal...
http://www.king5.com/entertainment/report-debbie-reynolds-rushed-to-hospital/379879544 (http://www.king5.com/entertainment/report-debbie-reynolds-rushed-to-hospital/379879544)
Briefing Room thread here: http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,240284.msg1177102.html#msg1177102 (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,240284.msg1177102.html#msg1177102)
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Debbie Reynolds DEAD AT 84
Debbie Reynolds -- who rose to stardom in "Singin' in the Rain" and quickly became a staple among Hollywood royalty -- died Wednesday as a result of a stroke, TMZ has learned ... just one day after her daughter Carrie Fisher passed away ... this according to her son Todd.
Debbie was rushed to a hospital shortly after 1 PM when someone at the Beverly Hills home of her son, Todd, called 911 to report a possible stroke. We're told Debbie and Todd were making funeral plans for Carrie, who died Tuesday of cardiac arrest.
Debbie famously divorced Eddie Fisher in 1959 after his affair with Elizabeth Taylor. Debbie married 2 more times in 1960 and 1984.
She played iconic roles in "Tammy and the Bachelor" and "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" ... for which she earned an Oscar nomination.
Carrie's relationship with Debbie was the focus of Carrie's semi-autobiographical book, "Postcards from the Edge," which was later adapted for the big screen, starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine.
Debbie's survived by her son Todd, who tells us, "She's with Carrie."
She was 84.
http://www.tmz.com/2016/12/28/debbie-reynolds-dead/ (http://www.tmz.com/2016/12/28/debbie-reynolds-dead/)
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Debbie Reynolds has died.
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/debbie-reynolds-dead-dies-carrie-fisher-mother-1201949432/
RIP.
So dang sad.
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Variety reporting she has died.
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/debbie-reynolds-dead-dies-carrie-fisher-mother-1201949432/
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Debbie Reynolds has died.
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/debbie-reynolds-dead-dies-carrie-fisher-mother-1201949432/
RIP.
So dang sad.
It sounds to me like she simply died of a broken heart, which happens often.
If one believes in an afterlife, at least they went together.
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It sounds to me like she simply died of a broken heart, which happens often.
If one believes in an afterlife, at least they went together.
Drudge has a headline "She wanted to be with Carrie"
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(http://cbsnews3.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2013/03/25/784732db-c421-11e2-a43e-02911869d855/resize/620x465/a377a220c40c64a64d5ba0f7e02b3d29/Reynolds_HTWWW_promo.jpg)
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The stress, anxiety, and possibly guilt she put on her 84 year-old heart was too much.
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I can't wait for this year to be over. between illnesses of family, friends, and all these deaths, enough is enough!
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Praying Debbie's with her daughter and they are both resting in God's peace.
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So sad..
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Debbie Reynolds has died.
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/debbie-reynolds-dead-dies-carrie-fisher-mother-1201949432/
RIP.
So dang sad.
Speechless.
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Damn.
I lost my grandmother and mother this year as well but at least it was several months apart.
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It sounds to me like she simply died of a broken heart, which happens often.
If one believes in an afterlife, at least they went together.
I do, and they did....
Sigh...............
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Praying Debbie's with her daughter and they are both resting in God's peace.
On this we agree! Prayers up!
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It is the Hollywood curse of 3. It almost never fails.
George
Carrie
Debbie?
Yeah, but this has to be a better payout on the Death Pool. A mother and daughter in one week? Incredible odds.
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Prayers up for Debbie. Loved her in Singing in the Rain and a movie she made with Tony Randall which I can't think of the name..
Ping @CatherineofAragon
@Victoria33
The Mating Game -- One of my favorite comedies ever.
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The Mating Game -- One of my favorite comedies ever.
Thanks! Saw it a few years ago on TMC. Or is it TCM? Loved it. :)
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Merged Debbie Reynolds thread into Obituaries thread.
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Carrie Fisher, age 6, watching her mother, Debbie Reynolds, perform at the Riviera Hotel in 1963.
(http://forums.previously.tv/applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=http://i.imgur.com/k0yNU3L.jpg&key=9d03857be187f6d98e149d6d3a5243bdec104ca1e568d672e345b12944c47957)
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A whopping four more to add to the pile:
Bruce DeHaven, special teams coach who oversaw Wide Right and Music City Miracle, dies at 68
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/12/27/panthers-special-teams-coach-bruce-dehaven-dies-at-68-after-cancer-battle/
Former NFL safety Keion Carpenter dies at 39
http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/news/keion-carpenter-dies-nfl-bills-falcons-virginia-tech-baltimore-carpenter-house-age-39/143m601zpyfm31e53mqw03oe6s
LaVell Edwards, who turned Brigham Young University into a national football powerhouse, dies at 86
http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/18371394/former-byu-cougars-coach-lavell-edwards-dies-86?ex_cid=espntw&sf48687001=1
Robert Hulseman, heir to Solo Cup fortune and the guy who decided to make them in red, dies at 84
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/red-solo-cup-inventor-robert-hulseman-dies-age-84-n701256
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Carrie Fisher, age 6, watching her mother, Debbie Reynolds, perform at the Riviera Hotel in 1963.
(http://forums.previously.tv/applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=http://i.imgur.com/k0yNU3L.jpg&key=9d03857be187f6d98e149d6d3a5243bdec104ca1e568d672e345b12944c47957)
That pic is precious.
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That pic is precious.
@Free Vulcan
It's just so bizarre to look at it and know the two of them will one day have a joint funeral. Ugh.
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@Free Vulcan
It's just so bizarre to look at it and know the two of them will one day have a joint funeral. Ugh.
Yes, they will. Saw it on the TeeVee this morning. 8888crybaby
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William Christopher Dies: Father Mulcahy Actor On ‘M.A.S.H.’ Was 84
William Christopher, the actor best known as Father Mulcahy on the classic sitcom M.A.S.H., died today following a battle with lung cancer. He was 84, and died in his Pasadena home according to his son, John, who made the news public.
Born in Evanston, Illinois in 1932, Christopher got his start as a stage actor in the 1950s before moving into television and film. Christopher held a variety of guest roles on many 1960s shows including The Andy Griffith Show, The Patty Duke Show, and The Men from Shiloh; he would also land recurring roles on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. – as Private Lester Hummel-, That Girl and Hogan’s Heroes.
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More on William Christopher:
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/01/01/m-s-h-actor-william-christopher-dies-at-84.html
And Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Christopher?wprov=sfla1
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Since I didn't want to start a new thread and this obits thread is about to run its course, here's a commentary on how so many Americans react to the deaths of celebrities:
Social media users have hijacked celebrity deaths for self-glorification
By Johnny Oleksinski
New York Post (http://nypost.com/2016/12/31/social-media-has-hijacked-celebrity-deaths-for-self-glorification/)
Dec. 31, 2016
Two Hollywood icons died this week, a mother and daughter, only one day apart. But Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds’ untimely ends have already been pushed aside by — what else? — tweets.
Death itself is no longer the most dramatic event there is.
Last Tuesday, Steve Martin, an actual friend of Fisher’s, took to Twitter to pay tribute to the “Star Wars” icon.
“When I was a young man,” he wrote, “Carrie Fisher was the most beautiful creature I had ever seen. She turned out to be witty and bright as well.”
New York magazine flogged Martin, implying he was as piggish as Jabba the Hutt. How dare he objectify Fisher? Anonymous tweeters piled on, and within hours Martin deleted his innocent tweet. ...
This onslaught of feuds and memes and mini-obits is all part of our crippling addiction to mournography — the near-pornographic levels of grief we exhibit for the loss of total strangers and the race to be the best at it.
Today, people are glued to every celebrity death, reveling in virtual snuff films while having nonstop paroxysms of surface-level sadness. We’ve convinced ourselves that this fixation is loving — generous even — when it’s actually as selfish as a man-spreader on the subway.
Grieving on social media is one of the most shameful acts of acceptable narcissism today. See how upset I am? See how big a fan I was? See the run-in I had with her in line at Starbucks? It’s a cockfight at a funeral, a talent show at a wake. Mourning, once complex and personal, has been reduced to a few hasty clicks and GIFs.
Scrolling through Twitter and Facebook feeds when a major star dies, the deluge of hollow, meaningless RIP’s and Awwww’s leaves many users needing to take a shower. And yet, weighing in has become so commonplace that we expect it. Mob-like, we demand it.
The day Fisher died, anonymous commenters started bullying Paul Simon, who she was once married to: Why hadn’t he tweeted?
Out of necessity or generosity, he did — one day later. ...
At their most cynical, social-media users can turn a celebrity death into an easy branding tool.
When Fisher suffered her heart attack on a flight to Los Angeles on Dec. 23, one fellow passenger immediately took to Twitter.
Discarding common decency like a crumpled receipt, a passenger seated behind Fisher, YouTube star Anna Akana, took to the social-media platform to break the news to her 132,000 followers.
“Don’t know how else to process this but Carrie Fisher stopped breathing on the flight home. Hope she’s gonna be OK,” tweeted Akana, ending her message with a tacky frown emoji.
She’s no naif. This is classic self-protection. Akana starts off with an emotional appeal — “Sorry to be the bearer of bad news” — then sneakily breaks a huge story — “but you heard it here first, folks!” ...
How thoughtful.
Her tweet was, in all likelihood, the way Fisher’s family discovered that their mother, daughter and sister might be brain-dead. And yet, it was Akana — a promoter of “rape prevention leggings” — who needed to “process” the situation.
Fundamentally, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are tools for self-promotion. They are personal websites topped with someone’s name, and everything beneath that header is a carefully curated version of how they want to be perceived. Deep expressions of honest emotion need not apply.
It takes guts to write a thoughtful letter or e-mail to a man who’s just lost his mom and sister. It takes heart to give him a hug and share some kind words in person. But unlike private condolences, pithy public messages turn the spotlight squarely on you.
Paying respects has, in our new reality, become so disrespectful.
Excerpted somewhat; read entire article here (http://nypost.com/2016/12/31/social-media-has-hijacked-celebrity-deaths-for-self-glorification/).
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FYI - there is already a 2017 obit thread. I put my post here since William Christopher passed in 2016. :(
Thank you for the above article. It's sad how nasty people have become.
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what a bummer about William Christopher.
Rest in Peace, Father Mulcahy.
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I wasn’t going to post this one, but what the heck. It happened a few days ago, and it’s an interesting obit for any animal lovers we have.Besides, he fathered over 100 pandas.
Pan Pan, world's oldest male panda and 'hero father,' dead at 31 - NY Daily News
Bamboo-hoo.
The world said goodbye this week to a prolific provider of panda progeny, as Pan Pan, the world's oldest male panda, has died, Xinhua reports.
His cute kind rarely living beyond 20 years of age, this giant among giant pandas would lend a lusty paw as he helped get his species off the International Union for Conservation of Nature's list of endangered animals.
Described as a "hero father," 25% of all pandas living in captivity are descendants of Pan Pan, according to CNN.
The cuddly creatures are now classified as vulnerable by the organization, as less than 2,000 pandas exist in the wild.
Pan Pan, whose name means “Expectation,” was diagnosed with cancer in June and lived out the last of his days at what amounted to a panda nursing home until he died Dec. 28.
In his youth, this bold breeder of black-and-white bears was in "full blossom" toward the end of the 1990s, according to a post on the China Panda Protection and Research Center's Weibo page.
"I heard old employees talk about Pan Pan — how strong and virile he was," the post states. "In the mating season, he was particularly excited and rugged, covered with hormones from top to bottom.”
Left to mourn him are his son Bai Yun of the San Diego Zoo, grandson Tai Shan of the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., and approximately 130 other descendants.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/pan-pan-world-oldest-male-panda-hero-father-dead-31-article-1.2928973
pictures and video at source
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I wasn’t going to post this one, but what the heck. It happened a few days ago, and it’s an interesting obit for any animal lovers we have.Besides, he fathered over 100 pandas.
For the record, significant animal deaths are allowed... and I considered posting that one too.