Obituaries for 2019

[jmyrlefuller]

John Havlicek
Boston Celtics legend dies at 79



A 13-time NBA All-Star, Havlicek played his entire 16-season career with the Boston Celtics, the longest career of any NBA player up to that point. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1984. Renowned for his defensive abilities, Havlicek also held the ignonimous record for most missed shots; he still ranks second behind Kobe Bryant. He was known for being an outside shooter in an era before the three-point line. Havlicek's number 17 jersey is retired by the Bruins, who won eight NBA championships with him on their roster.

Havlicek died of compliations from Parkinson's disease April 25.

Obituary from the Boston Globe

Wikipedia

[EasyAce]

John Havlicek
Boston Celtics legend dies at 79



A 13-time NBA All-Star, Havlicek played his entire 16-season career with the Boston Celtics, the longest career of any NBA player up to that point. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1984. Renowned for his defensive abilities, Havlicek also held the ignonimous record for most missed shots; he still ranks second behind Kobe Bryant. He was known for being an outside shooter in an era before the three-point line. Havlicek's number 17 jersey is retired by the Bruins, who won eight NBA championships with him on their roster.

Havlicek died of compliations from Parkinson's disease April 25.

Obituary from the Boston Globe

Wikipedia

Hondo's signature play, 1965 NBA East finals:


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[musiclady]

John Havlicek
Boston Celtics legend dies at 79



A 13-time NBA All-Star, Havlicek played his entire 16-season career with the Boston Celtics, the longest career of any NBA player up to that point. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1984. Renowned for his defensive abilities, Havlicek also held the ignonimous record for most missed shots; he still ranks second behind Kobe Bryant. He was known for being an outside shooter in an era before the three-point line. Havlicek's number 17 jersey is retired by the Bruins, who won eight NBA championships with him on their roster.

Havlicek died of compliations from Parkinson's disease April 25.

Obituary from the Boston Globe

Wikipedia

Sorry to see this.

The 1960 Ohio State Buckeye basketball team with Havlicek and Jerry Lucas was a thing of beauty.

RIP, John....

[mountaineer]

Havlicek was from the Upper Ohio Valley (Bridgeport, OH), from which many legendary athletes came, e.g., the Niekro brothers, Lou Groza, Bill Mazeroski, wrestler Bobby Douglass, and more. A few years ago, Havlicek's alma mater, Bridgeport High School, named the new gymnasium after him, and he attended the ceremony.

[TomSea]

Charity 'Sunshine' Tillemann-Dick: Opera singer with transplanted lungs dies

Charity "Sunshine" Tillemann-Dick, a venerated American opera singer who survived two double lung transplants, has died at age 35.

Tillemann-Dick was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension in 2004, forcing her to undergo two emergency lung transplants needed to save her life.

Despite her illness Tillemann-Dick pursued a renowned career, performing her soprano work across the world.

Her family announced her death on her Facebook page on Wednesday.

Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48043765

No, I had not heard of her but found the story fascinating, may she rest in peace.

[jmyrlefuller]

Former Senator Dick Lugar (R-IN) dies at 87


Luger with Obama in Russia.

Richard Lugar served as mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana from 1968 until being elected to the U.S. Senate in 1976. During his mayoral tenure, the city punished suburban sprawlers by absorbing all the suburbs to which people had fled into a unified city-county government. He was ousted in a 2012 primary. He ran for President in 1996 but was largely an also-ran in a crowded Republican primary.

Lugar's politics were difficult to define: he was generally fiscally aligned with the Republicans, took left-wing stances on gun control, immigration and climate change, was inconsistent on abortion, would vote in favor of almost any judicial nominee regardless of who nominated them, and supported the war in Iraq. He frequently cooperated with Democrats to get legislation passed.

Lugar died April 28 from an autoimmune nerve disease.

Obituary from USA Today

Wikipedia

[Gefn]

John Singleton , Oscar nominated director of “Boyz N The Hood” has died at 51. He was the first African American nominated for best director, AP reports

[Applewood]

@Freya

I guess it's official now.  Singleton had been reported dead earlier, but the report was premature.    Rest in peace, Mr. Singleton.

John Singleton, Pioneering Director Of 'Boyz N The Hood,' Dies At 51[/b]

Less than two weeks after John Singleton suffered a massive stroke, the trailblazing filmmaker has died in Los Angeles at the age of 51. The director, who made history with 1991's Boyz n the Hood as the youngest person and first African-American ever nominated for a best director Oscar, died Monday at Cedars-Sinai Hospital after his family took him off life support.

"This was an agonizing decision, one that our family made, over a number of days, with the careful counsel of John's doctors," the family said in a statement released to NPR, adding that he "passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family and friends."

"John Singleton is a prolific, ground-breaking director," they said, "who changed the game and opened doors in Hollywood, a world that was just a few miles away, yet worlds away, from the neighborhood in which he grew up."

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/29/718219541/john-singleton-pioneering-director-of-boyz-n-the-hood-dies-at-51

[Machiavelli]

Gino Marchetti, Baltimore Colts legend and Pro Football Hall of Famer, dies at 93

He was rugged, rangy and relentless in his pursuit of quarterbacks. For 13 years during their heyday, the Baltimore Colts were defined by a slab of a man known simply as Gino.

No Colts player epitomized the club — or the city — better than Gino Marchetti, the Hall of Fame defensive end who died Monday of pneumonia. Marchetti, 93, passed away at Paoli Hospital in Paoli, Pa.

“I kissed him and he knew me and smiled,” said Joan Marchetti, his wife of 41 years. “That was Gino’s way of saying goodbye.”

More

Wikipedia

[TomSea]

Gino Marchetti, Baltimore Colts legend and Pro Football Hall of Famer, dies at 93

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Big star alright...legend.

[jmyrlefuller]

Peter Mayhew
Actor known almost exclusively known as Chewbacca dies at 74



The English-born Mayhew was discovered by accident when George Lucas needed someone particularly tall to portray a large, hairy, vaguely humanoid alien; at 7'3", Mayhew, then working in a radiology lab, fit the bill. He would play the character in all three films in the original trilogy and would return for The Force Awakens; health problems forced him to give up the role prior to The Last Jedi.

Mayhew became an American citizen in 2005 and died April 30, 2019 from complications of spinal surgery.

Obituary from The Hollywood Reporter

Wikipedia

IMDB

[Smokin Joe]

Peter Mayhew
Actor known almost exclusively known as Chewbacca dies at 74



The English-born Mayhew was discovered by accident when George Lucas needed someone particularly tall to portray a large, hairy, vaguely humanoid alien; at 7'3", Mayhew, then working in a radiology lab, fit the bill. He would play the character in all three films in the original trilogy and would return for The Force Awakens; health problems forced him to give up the role prior to The Last Jedi.

Mayhew became an American citizen in 2005 and died April 30, 2019 from complications of spinal surgery.

Obituary from The Hollywood Reporter

Wikipedia

IMDB

So long Mr. Mayhew, thanks for the smiles (and we really apologize for comparisons to a former First Lady....Chewbacca wasn't that rough around the edges.)

[sneakypete]

By Richard Szabo
May 1, 2019

https://www.theepochtimes.com/lawnmower-accident-kills-former-delta-force-commander-eldon-bargewell_2902981.html

Several photos at the link above.

A former military officer in charge of an elite special mission unit of the United States Army died after a terrible accident in Alabama on April 29.

Former Delta Force Commander and Major General Eldon Bargewell died at the age of 72 after his lawnmower rolled over an embankment behind his home in Eufaula, 175 miles southeast of Birmingham.

The Special Operations Association (SOA) in Texas paid a tribute to Bargewell, who was arguably one of most highly decorated soldiers still on active duty back in 2006 when he retired. In a social media post, SOA described his death as “another heartbreaking loss of a dear friend and special man.”

“This was absolutely one of America’s finest patriots and gentlemen. Those of us blessed to know him have a hole in our hearts that will never be filled,” SOA said in a Facebook post dated April 30.

Bargewell’s final post was serving as deputy chief of staff for operations in Iraq.

“[He was] director of operations for operations [like] Restore Hope (Haiti), Enduring Freedom-NATO (Afghanistan) and Iraqi Freedom (Iraq) … when Delta was organized, Eldon was an original member and served at every level of Delta from operator to commander,” SOA said.

“He [also] commanded special operations units from recon teams to special operations command level in Cambodia, Laos, North Vietnam, the Middle East, El Salvador, Operation Just Cause (Panama), Desert Storm (Iraq), Restore Democracy, and Allied Force (Bosnia/Kosovo).”

Bargewell began his 39-year career back in 1967, just a couple of years after graduating from high school in Hoquiam, Washington.

According to SOA, he had finished a special forces qualification course one year later and served his country in the Vietnam War at a top-secret unit called Command and Control North, MACV-SOG, as team leader for Reconnaissance Team Viper.

“During his service in Vietnam, Eldon earned the distinguished service cross, second only to the medal of honor in 1971 for ‘extraordinary heroism’ by breaking an assault by enemy forces despite suffering from ‘multiple fragmentation wounds from an exploding B-40 rocket,’ continued to fight and insured the safe extraction of his team,” SOA said.

Al.com reported that the cross award citation commended Bargewell for releasing a “deadly volume of machine gun fire” on the enemy despite being wounded himself. He refused medical treatment in order to defend the area and allow the safe extraction of his team.

“Staff Sergeant Bargewell’s extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army,” the commendation said.

After returning from Vietnam in 1972, Eldon attended Infantry Officers’ Candidate School and graduated as the leadership honor graduate of his class.

Arizona friend Don Wayne Curry paid a tribute to Bargewell on social media after learning of his accident. “Ranger friend Major General Eldon Bargewell passed away,” Curry said in a Facebook post dated May 1. “Near the time of his retirement [he] was reportedly the most decorated active member of the Army, died at his home in Eufaula, Alabama, Monday from a lawn mower flipped over a[n] embankment.”

Bargewell also received three bronze stars with combat “V” for valor under fire, four purple hearts, an army commendation medal with combat “V,” and a presidential unit citation.

[skeeter]

So long Mr. Mayhew, thanks for the smiles (and we really apologize for comparisons to a former First Lady....Chewbacca wasn't that rough around the edges.)

[Bigun]

Damn! 

Don't know when he was with MACV- SOG but I don't think I ever met him.

[sneakypete]

Damn! 

Don't know when he was with MACV- SOG but I don't think I ever met him.

@Bigun

Go to the link and view the photo of him taken sitting at the launch site,waiting to go on a mission into Laos. He could have been a male model,and you KNOW the way it looks means he caught a lot of crap going through basic,AIT,and airborne training.

[sneakypete]

Damn! 

Don't know when he was with MACV- SOG but I don't think I ever met him.

@Bigun

Tried to send you a PM,but you have me blocked. Were you with SOG?

[Bigun]

@Bigun

Go to the link and view the photo of him taken sitting at the launch site,waiting to go on a mission into Laos. He could have been a male model,and you KNOW the way it looks means he caught a lot of crap going through basic,AIT,and airborne training.

@sneakypete

LOL!  Ya think?

[Bigun]

@Bigun

Tried to send you a PM,but you have me blocked. Were you with SOG?

Yeah!  1967

[sneakypete]

Yeah!  1967

@Bigun

Cool! Send me a PM. We may have known one another. I was still on Okie part of the time in 67,but when back to Bragg in late 67 or early 68. Called Mrs A in late summer of 68,and a month later got orders to the 5th. Went to a leg signal battalion at first because I was still on profile with a dislocated shoulder and pulled muscles in my back,but contacted SGM Odom and made sure the skids would be greased for me to get back to SF as soon as the profile ended. Sure enough,I reminded him a few days before my profile ended,and he sent a guy over in a jeep with orders transferring me back to the 5th the same morning the profile ended. I knew him from when he was the B Company SGM on Okie,

I have never figured out why anybody would want to remain in the regular army. It seemed to me I was more of a cross between a babysitter and a prison guard than I was a NCO.

[mountaineer]

Jim Fowler, Host of 'Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom,' Dies at 89
Mike Barnes

Jim Fowler, the naturalist and longtime co-host and host of the TV show Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, died Wednesday at his home in Norwalk, Connecticut, his family announced. He was 89.

Fowler, an Emmy winner for his work on the nature program, also made more than 100 appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, served as a wildlife correspondent for the Today show and showed up (with a hawk) as a guest on a talk show hosted by Kramer (Michael Richards) out of his apartment on a 1997 episode of Seinfeld.

Fowler and fellow zoologist Marlin Perkins worked on Wild Kingdom starting with the pilot episode that aired on Jan. 9, 1963, through Perkins' retirement in 1985. Fowler then went it alone for a few years and returned to the show when it was revived in 2002.

Born on April 9, 1930, in Albany, Georgia, Fowler grew up on his family farm. He excelled on his high school baseball and football teams and was offered a contract by the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees. He attended Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, earning degrees in zoology and geology.

The 6-foot-6 Fowler worked at a raptor sanctuary in Florida and forged a reputation as an authority on predatory birds when he became the first man to successfully trap a harpy eagle and bring it back alive to the U.S. ...  Hollywood Reporter via MSN News

[dfwgator]

Jim Fowler, Host of 'Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom,' Dies at 89
Mike Barnes

Jim Fowler, the naturalist and longtime co-host and host of the TV show Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, died Wednesday at his home in Norwalk, Connecticut, his family announced. He was 89.

Fowler, an Emmy winner for his work on the nature program, also made more than 100 appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, served as a wildlife correspondent for the Today show and showed up (with a hawk) as a guest on a talk show hosted by Kramer (Michael Richards) out of his apartment on a 1997 episode of Seinfeld.

Fowler and fellow zoologist Marlin Perkins worked on Wild Kingdom starting with the pilot episode that aired on Jan. 9, 1963, through Perkins' retirement in 1985. Fowler then went it alone for a few years and returned to the show when it was revived in 2002.

Born on April 9, 1930, in Albany, Georgia, Fowler grew up on his family farm. He excelled on his high school baseball and football teams and was offered a contract by the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees. He attended Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, earning degrees in zoology and geology.

The 6-foot-6 Fowler worked at a raptor sanctuary in Florida and forged a reputation as an authority on predatory birds when he became the first man to successfully trap a harpy eagle and bring it back alive to the U.S. ...  Hollywood Reporter via MSN News

I remember the funny parodies:
Marlin Perkins: "While Jim is being mauled by the lion, I'll be up here getting a manicure."

[mountaineer]

I have to admit, my first thought was of his appearance on Seinfeld.

[Cyber Liberty]

I remember the funny parodies:
Marlin Perkins: "While Jim is being mauled by the lion, I'll be up here getting a manicure."

That's how I explained who he was to Mrs. Liberty.  She had never watched MoO Wild Kingdom.

[verga]

That's how I explained who he was to Mrs. Liberty.  She had never watched MoO Wild Kingdom.

MY memory is when one of the constrictors had him pretty well wrapped up and they cut to commercial. When they came back he was free  and the snake was gone. I wonder what happened to that poor creature?

[Cyber Liberty]

MY memory is when one of the constrictors had him pretty well wrapped up and they cut to commercial. When they came back he was free  and the snake was gone. I wonder what happened to that poor creature?

Someone figured out where the head ends and the neck begins.

[TomSea]

Peggy Lipton: Twin Peaks and The Mod Squad star dies aged 72

Actor shot to fame in the 1960s playing a hippie undercover cop and returning to television with David Lynch’s cult series

Peggy Lipton, a star of the groundbreaking late 1960s TV show The Mod Squad and the 1990s show Twin Peaks, has died of cancer aged 72.

Lipton died surrounded by her family, her daughters, Rashida and Kidada Jones, said in a statement.

“We are heartbroken that our beloved mother passed away from cancer today,” they said. “She made her journey peacefully with her daughters and nieces by her side. We feel so lucky for every moment we spent with her. We can’t put all of our feelings into words right now but we will say: Peggy was, and will always be our beacon of light, both in this world and beyond. She will always be a part of us.”

Read more at: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/may/12/peggy-lipton-twin-peaks-and-the-mod-squad-star-dies-aged-72

wikipedia - Peggy Lipton
wikipedia - Mod Squad
wikipedia - Twin Peaks


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I've heard this. I didn't know she sang this. Pretty good.  I've heard this song, I don't know if it was her version. Maybe I heard Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Poneys version.



Mod Squad mates,    Clarence Williams III and   Michael Cole are still living.

Clarence Williams III has been in a number of films I've seen.

[Gefn]

Just saw the news about Peggy Lipton on Bing trending news. Vaguely remember Odd Squad because I was a kid then but I do remember her on Twin Peaks. Her daughter was in The Office.
RIP.

[Applewood]

Mod Squad was a big deal when I was in my late teens-early 20s.  Used to watch the show religiously every week.  Not long ago, one of those retro-tv stations ran the series.  I made it through about a quarter of an episode when I changed the channel.  The show seems so lame today. 

Lipton's character always seemed way too serious to me.  Sullen, actually. She was my least favorite character on the show.  Of course, as a hormonal teenager, I was more interested in Michael Cole's character.  I do remember that back in the 1970s , Lipton's marriage to Quincy Jones raised some eyebrows.  Mixed racial couples still weren't as accepted as they are now. 

Anyway, rest in peace, Miss Lipton.

[sneakypete]

Mod Squad was a big deal when I was in my late teens-early 20s.  Used to watch the show religiously every week.  Not long ago, one of those retro-tv stations ran the series.  I made it through about a quarter of an episode when I changed the channel.  The show seems so lame today. 

@Applewood

I get a lot of those channels on my HD antenna,and I am the same way about the westerns I used to love as a kid. Real formula snooze fests. About the only stuff that still holds together is stuff like Alfred Hitchcock Presents,The Twilight Zone,and similar dramas.


 

[Applewood]

@Applewood

I get a lot of those channels on my HD antenna,and I am the same way about the westerns I used to love as a kid. Real formula snooze fests. About the only stuff that still holds together is stuff like Alfred Hitchcock Presents,The Twilight Zone,and similar dramas.

I still watch westerns -- mainly in homage to my late father.  When I was a kid, he and I used to watch Bonanza, Rawhide, the Virginian, etc. etc. all the time.  One of my favorite childhood memories. What irks me nowadays is that sometime in the 1960s, westerns became politically correct.  Stupid -- since in the era when these westerns were set, people weren't tolerant of Indians, blacks, Jews or anyone else who wasn't purebred white. 

The Twilight Zone scared me as a kid, but as I grew older, I started watching reruns.  I realized that Rod Serling was something of a genius -- you might say way ahead of his time.  The stories on "Alfred Hitchcock" too were outstanding.  My favorite was the one where the woman killed her husband by clubbing him with a frozen roast.  Detectives looked all over for the murder weapon.  The wife had it baking in the oven.  She even invited the detectives to stay for dinner.  They ate the murder weapon.  LOL  Clever. 

[Gefn]

@sneakypete

“I Love Lucy” has a huge fan base still as well as “The Mary Tyler Moore” show. IMHO

@Applewood the story about the roast is Roald  Dahl author, and it was Alfred Hitchcock. With Barbara Bel Geddes as the woman.

Later redone in the 80s in “Tales of the Unexpected” starring Brian Blessed. It’s called “Lamb to the slaughter”

That was my favorite Alfred Hitchcock and I think Brian Blessed is a wonderful actor since I saw him in “I Claudius”. I read the short story in college.

my least favorite Alfred Hitchcock was his last one aired about the magician who sawed the woman in half. Gross.

Sorry about all this, can you tell I have a degree in British Lit?

[skeeter]

Mod Squad was a big deal when I was in my late teens-early 20s.  Used to watch the show religiously every week.  Not long ago, one of those retro-tv stations ran the series.  I made it through about a quarter of an episode when I changed the channel.  The show seems so lame today. 

Lipton's character always seemed way too serious to me.  Sullen, actually. She was my least favorite character on the show.  Of course, as a hormonal teenager, I was more interested in Michael Cole's character.  I do remember that back in the 1970s , Lipton's marriage to Quincy Jones raised some eyebrows.  Mixed racial couples still weren't as accepted as they are now. 

Anyway, rest in peace, Miss Lipton.

My dad wouldn't have Mod Squad on TV if they paid him per episode. I had to settle for hearing the other kids talk about it at school on Wednesday mornings.

[Applewood]

@Freya   

Don't apologize.  Been a long time since I watched I Claudius.  Saw it when it was on PBS and I have the whole series on DVD.  Should really drag it out and binge watch it again.  Brian Blessed played Augustus Caesar, right?     My favorite character was the ruthless, murderous Livia played by Sian Phillips.  That woman was evil.

I had forgotten that Barbara Bel Geddes was the wife in that Hitchcock episode.  Of course, I remembered her from the original Dallas series.  When I saw the Hitchcock episode years later, I looked at the wife and thought she looked familiar.  And she was.   

TV today just isn't as good as it used to be.

[Wingnut]

She was a beauty.   

[sneakypete]

@sneakypete

“I Love Lucy” has a huge fan base still

@Freya

There is just no excuse for that. Millions of young girls,including my ex,grew up with her as a role model for married women. Biggest fight we ever got into was over her insisting we watch that vapid crap instead of something I wanted to watch. Since I was the one working and paying the bills,I told her we were going to watch what I wanted to watch,and she blew up. Not that it did her any good. REALLY pissed me off because by then all the Lucy shows were re-runs anyhow,and she had already seen them. As well as learned her lessons on how to act from Lucy.

 I might even go so far as to say their should have been a bounty put on her head,as well as the heads of her writers.

as well as “The Mary Tyler Moore” show. IMHO

She was just a harmless airhead. I saw her show a couple of times while visiting friends,and never could figure out why anyone watched it. Back then if you wanted to be entertained,you were better off reading a book. The 50's had more intelligent tv shows than the 60's. Hell,Hee Haw was on of the bright and shining intellectual stars of tv in the 60's.

@Applewood the story about the roast is Roald  Dahl author, and it was Alfred Hitchcock. With Barbara Bel Geddes as the woman.

Later redone in the 80s in “Tales of the Unexpected” starring Brian Blessed. It’s called “Lamb to the slaughter”

THANK YOU! One of my favorite tv shows of the era,and I had forgotten all about it. I do think I have a DVD of all the episodes around here somewhere,though.

Or maybe it is my "Tales from the Cyrpt" DVD? Another GREAT series. LOVED the Cyrpt Critter!

[Cyber Liberty]

@Freya

There is just no excuse for that. Millions of young girls,including my ex,grew up with her as a role model for married women. Biggest fight we ever got into was over her insisting we watch that vapid crap instead of something I wanted to watch. Since I was the one working and paying the bills,I told her we were going to watch what I wanted to watch,and she blew up. Not that it did her any good. REALLY pissed me off because by then all the Lucy shows were re-runs anyhow,and she had already seen them. As well as learned her lessons on how to act from Lucy.

 I might even go so far as to say their should have been a bounty put on her head,as well as the heads of her writers.

She was just a harmless airhead. I saw her show a couple of times while visiting friends,and never could figure out why anyone watched it. Back then if you wanted to be entertained,you were better off reading a book. The 50's had more intelligent tv shows than the 60's. Hell,Hee Haw was on of the bright and shining intellectual stars of tv in the 60's.

@Applewood the story about the roast is Roald  Dahl author, and it was Alfred Hitchcock. With Barbara Bel Geddes as the woman.

THANK YOU! One of my favorite tv shows of the era,and I had forgotten all about it. I do think I have a DVD of all the episodes around here somewhere,though.

Or maybe it is my "Tales from the Cyrpt" DVD? Another GREAT series. LOVED the Cyrpt Critter!

@sneakypete

My ex used a different show/character for a role model.  She liked "Married With Children" and Peggy Bundy.  That's how she got to be an ex.

[Wingnut]

@sneakypete

My ex used a different show/character for a role model.  She liked "Married With Children" and Peggy Bundy.  That's how she got to be an ex.

Did you score 4 touchdowns in one game?

[sneakypete]

@sneakypete

My ex used a different show/character for a role model.  She liked "Married With Children" and Peggy Bundy.  That's how she got to be an ex.

@Cyber Liberty

Both were manipulative,controlling bitches that didn't work,and did nothing but stay at home all day and think up schemes to try to control and harm their husbands. Granted,Ricky Ricardo was a saint compared to Al Bundy,but no matter how low Al sank,Peggy was there to put her foot on his head to push it under water.

[EasyAce]

Personally, I'd rather watch or (way better yet) listen to Our Miss Brooks.

[Gefn]

Breaking

Doris Day has died at the age of 97

Obits to follow news just broke

[Gefn]

Breaking news

Obits to follow.

[jmyrlefuller]

Doris Day
Mid-20th century iconic actress turned reclusive animal enthusiast dies at 97



Born to German immigrants in 1922 (though she believed herself to have been born in 1924), Doris Kappelhoff rose to stardom fairly quickly in the 1940s as a vocalist for various radio groups; her 1945 recording of "Sentimental Journey" with the Les Brown orchestra was her first hit. A major star who transitioned successfully from radio to film, Day had the image of a squeaky-clean icon of the 1950s and starred in several hit films, both musical-comedy and dramatic.

Bad-faith contracts made by her husband shortly before his unexpected death in the late 1960s led to her reluctantly moving to television, most consistently with the sitcom The Doris Day Show, which ran from 1968 to 1973. She largely retired after her last television special in 1975, retreating to her estate in Carmel, California, where she tended to her animals. She only made occasional appearances after that.

Married four times, her only son, Terry Melcher (who recorded as surf-rock duo Bruce & Terry in the 1960s), predeceased her in 2004. She was survived by one grandson, Ryan Melcher.

Obituary from the Associated Press

Wikipedia


"Que Será Será," Day's signature song

IMDB

[Polly Ticks]

RIP, Ms. Day


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[skeeter]

She spent her retirement running a dog rescue - her high end hotel in down town Carmel is pet friendly and is always packed with dogs and their owners.

[Applewood]

Doris Day was a wonderful performer.  Very pleasant singing voice.  I heard somewhere that she became a recluse when she lost her looks to aging.  I suppose her third husband losing her nest egg and the death of her only son didn't help.  She basically withdrew from people and focused primarily on animal causes. I understand her last husband complained Miss Day loved her animals more than him.

Rest in peace, Miss Day. 

[libertybele]

I still watch westerns -- mainly in homage to my late father.  When I was a kid, he and I used to watch Bonanza, Rawhide, the Virginian, etc. etc. all the time.  One of my favorite childhood memories. What irks me nowadays is that sometime in the 1960s, westerns became politically correct.  Stupid -- since in the era when these westerns were set, people weren't tolerant of Indians, blacks, Jews or anyone else who wasn't purebred white. 

The Twilight Zone scared me as a kid, but as I grew older, I started watching reruns.  I realized that Rod Serling was something of a genius -- you might say way ahead of his time.  The stories on "Alfred Hitchcock" too were outstanding.  My favorite was the one where the woman killed her husband by clubbing him with a frozen roast.  Detectives looked all over for the murder weapon.  The wife had it baking in the oven.  She even invited the detectives to stay for dinner.  They ate the murder weapon.  LOL  Clever.

I used to watch westerns with my Dad as well.  We used to curl up together on a Saturday afternoon in the den with a bowl of cheddar cheese popcorn.  John Wayne was my absolute favorite!!

[sneakypete]

I still watch westerns -- mainly in homage to my late father.  When I was a kid, he and I used to watch Bonanza, Rawhide, the Virginian, etc. etc. all the time.  One of my favorite childhood memories. What irks me nowadays is that sometime in the 1960s, westerns became politically correct.  Stupid -- since in the era when these westerns were set, people weren't tolerant of Indians, blacks, Jews or anyone else who wasn't purebred white. 

@Applewood

I don't know where you got that idea,but it just wasn't true outside of the northern cities. My own grandmother was a full-blooded Tuscarora Indian,and lived with no trouble at all in rural NC,where most of the tribe had lived until the British paid them to move to NY. She even lived in Norfolk,Va with her white husband and 6 children with no problems until he was murdered one night. He had a sailing ship,and had been involved in smuggling in liquor from the Carribean. Neither she nor any of her children had a moment of trouble.

I have heard reports the typical white settler in western NC were friendlier with the Cherokee tribe than they were to the Colonial government officials. Talked with other part and full Indians I met in the army (LOTS of Indians in SF) from all over the country who never had any problems from white people because they were Indians.

I am NOT saying it didn't happen because I am sure it did in places. Especially with "Reservation Indians",who gave being a drunk a bad reputation. There is something about the blood chemistry of Indians that causes us to just not be able to handle drinking alcohol like most people. We tend to get aggressive and we tend to easily become alcoholics.

[TomSea]

2 American icons.

This is her I believe, in this "Juke Box Baby" video...sung by Perry Como. Amazing dancing.


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As I recall, she a big animal lover activist as well.

[EasyAce]

I used to watch westerns with my Dad as well.  We used to curl up together on a Saturday afternoon in the den with a bowl of cheddar cheese popcorn.  John Wayne was my absolute favorite!!

@libertybele
When I came to have a thing for old-time radio twenty years ago or so, I started listening to some of the radio westerns.

I now believe the best of those westerns beats any television western ever. (Except, maybe, The Virginian.) Including:

Gunsmoke (The radio original is way better than the television version, which used a lot of the radio scripts, by the way, and it had a far different and more effective cast: William Conrad as Matt Dillon; Georgia Ellis as Kitty; Parley Baer as Chester; Howard McNear as Doc.)

The Six Shooter (Jimmy Stewart in the title role of a laconic traveler throughout the old west; the series' Christmas episode, "Britt Ponset's Christmas Carol," is a classic. And its choice of "The Highland Lament" for its theme music was the most inspired theme of any western, radio or television.)

Frontier Gentleman (John Dehner as a London Times reporter traveling through the old west and packing a swift gun himself when need be.)

Fort Laramie (Not to be confused with NBC-TV's eventual hit Western Laramie; it starred Raymond Burr as a Cavalry captain; if you listen closely enough, you could consider it his season-long audition for Perry Mason, since his character Lee Quince had a lot of Mason's traits.)