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Guess who died in 2017

Benjamin Grimm Jan 02 2017 01:39 PM

Polish sports journalist Bogdan Tuszyński, 84.

seawolf17 Jan 02 2017 03:40 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

OMG THE HORROR WHEN WILL THE CARNAGE END

Lefty Specialist Jan 02 2017 04:39 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I hear he swung a mean kielbasa in his day.

Frayed Knot Jan 02 2017 04:58 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Lefty Specialist wrote: I hear he swung a mean kielbasa in his day. That's what Mrs. Tuszynski said <bah-dum-Ching>

Zvon Jan 05 2017 03:53 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Bob Lemke. I was just writing about his custom card backs. They are the best. [url]http://boblemke.blogspot.com/ [url]http://nightowlcards.blogspot.com/2017/01/a-kindred-spirit-unmet.html I'm shocked and saddened. This guy was the grandpa of the custom card making community. He knew so much about the hobby from his days as editor of Baseball Cards magazine (circa 1980's). An awful loss. My thoughts go out to his family and friends.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 05 2017 06:30 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Bob Lemke. I was just writing about his custom card backs. They are the best. [url]http://boblemke.blogspot.com/ [url]http://nightowlcards.blogspot.com/2017/01/a-kindred-spirit-unmet.html I'm shocked and saddened. This guy was the grandpa of the custom card making community. He knew so much about the hobby from his days as editor of Baseball Cards magazine (circa 1980's). An awful loss. My thoughts go out to his family and friends. Here's a write-up. http://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/ho ... sses-away/ Like Zvon notes, Lemke's custom cards might be the best on the web. He had a side business, printing his customs and selling them. He would print the front and back of the cards separately and then affix them to each other. I got the impression that this project was more a labor of love than a money-making motivated idea. This past year, Lemke stopped producing real-life versions of his custom cards due to his deteriorating health. He wrote that the effort was too much of a strain on his hands and fingers, if I recall. His web-site, which is still up, is a treasure trove of baseball knowledge and Americana in general. [fimg=666]https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ElcAZpMbmes/VwvEIFbBMBI/AAAAAAAAILY/kDZcMyaTKbcFpU9CgCh5RuW1Utqea7-xg/s1600/66p%2Bfb.jpg[/fimg] custom Brian Piccolo, front and back [fimg=444]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HfS4i4n7wtc/UvvbpalaYQI/AAAAAAAAEjM/Z7cWF6kOSBE/s1600/55T+Kiner+f.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=444]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FD2glrXLgvw/Uvvbo8_NnlI/AAAAAAAAEjA/uwlgt4pU8ks/s1600/55T+Kiner+back.jpg[/fimg] custom '55 Topps Ralph Kiner, front and back

Fman99 Jan 05 2017 12:49 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I somehow never knew that Ralph played for the Cubs and Indians both in the latter years of his career. I thought all of his games had been played in a Pirates jersey.

Frayed Knot Jan 05 2017 01:56 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Ralph used to tell the story about how he was traded from the Pirates to the Cubs during a Pirates/Cubs series. In fact I remember him claiming that the trade came between games of a double-header, although either I'm misremembering it or he was (he wouldn't be the first ML'er to mis-cite various aspects of his career and have it treated as fact in the pre-retrosheet era) because the DH thing turns out to NOT be the case. But whenever the trade did come down (probably right after the game on the 3rd) he did play for Pitt in Forbes Field against the Cubs on June 3rd, 1953 and then switched dugouts to play for the Cubs vs the Pirates on the 4th

Edgy MD Jan 05 2017 02:31 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

There's probably a good article out there waiting to be written about the handful of major league trades made between the games of double-headers, between teams competing in the double-header. Of course, these can hardly happen any longer, because double-headers hardly happen any longer. The one Mets deal I remember going down that way was José Cardenál for cash back in 1979. I don't think he played in either game, though.

G-Fafif Jan 08 2017 03:37 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Longtime Village Voice writer Nat Hentoff, 91. http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/3 ... ies-at-91/

SteveJRogers Jan 08 2017 03:55 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Frayed Knot wrote: Ralph used to tell the story about how he was traded from the Pirates to the Cubs during a Pirates/Cubs series. In fact I remember him claiming that the trade came between games of a double-header, although either I'm misremembering it or he was (he wouldn't be the first ML'er to mis-cite various aspects of his career and have it treated as fact in the pre-retrosheet era) because the DH thing turns out to NOT be the case. Today people in certain corners on the internet would justify it either way as The Mandella Effect! *rolls eyes*

Frayed Knot Jan 08 2017 01:41 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

SteveJRogers wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Ralph used to tell the story about how he was traded from the Pirates to the Cubs during a Pirates/Cubs series. In fact I remember him claiming that the trade came between games of a double-header, although either I'm misremembering it or he was (he wouldn't be the first ML'er to mis-cite various aspects of his career and have it treated as fact in the pre-retrosheet era) because the DH thing turns out to NOT be the case. Today people in certain corners on the internet would justify it either way as The Mandella Effect! *rolls eyes* Yeah, I have no idea what that means.

Mets Guy in Michigan Jan 08 2017 02:57 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Zvon wrote: Bob Lemke. I was just writing about his custom card backs. They are the best. [url]http://boblemke.blogspot.com/ [url]http://nightowlcards.blogspot.com/2017/01/a-kindred-spirit-unmet.html I'm shocked and saddened. This guy was the grandpa of the custom card making community. He knew so much about the hobby from his days as editor of Baseball Cards magazine (circa 1980's). An awful loss. My thoughts go out to his family and friends. Just catching up to this. I used to love Baseabll Cards magazine. Very sad to hear.

SteveJRogers Jan 08 2017 04:37 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Frayed Knot wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Ralph used to tell the story about how he was traded from the Pirates to the Cubs during a Pirates/Cubs series. In fact I remember him claiming that the trade came between games of a double-header, although either I'm misremembering it or he was (he wouldn't be the first ML'er to mis-cite various aspects of his career and have it treated as fact in the pre-retrosheet era) because the DH thing turns out to NOT be the case. Today people in certain corners on the internet would justify it either way as The Mandella Effect! *rolls eyes* Yeah, I have no idea what that means. Long story short, all misrememberings of details, erroneous labels, even on official releases, misheard quotes or alternative recordings, etc that make you swear up and down are correct all did happen, but universes and dimension streams are being crossed. Named as such based on "many" people's assertion that Nelson Mandela never was released, and died while in captivity during the 1980s.

Edgy MD Jan 08 2017 04:55 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Now I have perhaps an 8% notion of what he means. No ... more like 5 or 6. And Mandela has only one L, in pretty much all universes and dimension streams. Meanwhile, longtime Village Voice columnist and civil liberties firebrand Nat Hentoff passes at 91. Taught me a lot — about the history of civil liberties, where they are rooted, and how subtly they are taken away. He also more or less taught me what jazz is. I had no ear and then I did. Also, back in the day when thoughtful record albums came with thoughtful essays you read over and over, Hentoff provided the liner notes to The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.

Frayed Knot Jan 08 2017 05:55 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Now all I have to do is find out what "universes and dimension streams being crossed" means and maybe I'll be up to snuff. Or maybe not, I'm not all that bright sometimes.

SteveJRogers Jan 08 2017 06:31 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

[url]http://mandelaeffect.com/about/ The latest "internet breaking" example is conflating the 1990's Shaq O'Neal "movie" Kazaam, where he "portrayed" a genie with Shazaam, same premise movie that was never made, or even speculated about being in production, but with comedian Sinbad.

G-Fafif Jan 08 2017 06:41 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Mandela's release from prison in 1990 was a huge story, as was his visit to the US shortly thereafter. His funeral a little more than three years ago was international news. Of all the things can people can find themselves misremembering in droves, this is a weird choice. I'm sorry Mr. Hentoff's passing, noted in the midst of this discussion last night, got lost in the shuffle.

SteveJRogers Jan 08 2017 07:08 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

G-Fafif wrote: Mandela's release from prison in 1990 was a huge story, as was his visit to the US shortly thereafter. His funeral a little more than three years ago was international news. Of all the things can people can find themselves misremembering in droves, this is a weird choice. I'm sorry Mr. Hentoff's passing, noted in the midst of this discussion last night, got lost in the shuffle. At least I didn't mention the MFY connection (there even is a plaque in MFYIII commemorating it, dedicated after his passing)

Frayed Knot Jan 08 2017 08:34 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I'm now considerably more confused than when this all started, but that's OK, it doesn't sound like anything I want to know more about.

MFS62 Jan 10 2017 02:45 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Sociologist Zygmont Bauman who wrote about the "fluid identity". 91 https://www.yahoo.com/news/polish-born- ... 42304.html Olavai Sholom Later

Edgy MD Jan 10 2017 08:58 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Seemingly every other cop in Nassau, and a bunch from the NYPD, have descended on Rockville Center to mark the passing of NYPD Detective Steven McDonald, and to escort his remains to the funeral home.

G-Fafif Jan 11 2017 02:06 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Edgy MD wrote: Seemingly every other cop in Nassau, and a bunch from the NYPD, have descended on Rockville Center to mark the passing of NYPD Detective Steven McDonald, and to escort his remains to the funeral home. Mets connection, from the closer to the detective. From 1987. http://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/25/sport ... -hand.html Jesse Orosco's magical flying glove, the one that seemingly defied gravity and never came down after the Met reliever flung it into the air in triumph at the conclusion of both the league playoffs and the World Series last year, is enchanted after all. It may be recalled that George Vecsey raised the question of the glove's mysterious properties in a Sports of The Times column on Monday. After studying tapes of the two clinching games, he noted that the glove had clearly gone up in the air but just as clearly had never come down on the pile of celebrating Mets. That the mitt did in fact come down - somewhere out of camera range - seemed obvious. ''I got the glove back,'' Orosco told Vecsey, ''that's all I know.'' Not quite. What Orosco knew, but wouldn't tell, is that the glove is continuing to work its magic - by buoying the spirits of a New York City police officer, Steven McDonald, who was paralyzed by a gunman's bullet in Central Park last year. According to Bernie Bennett, a New York public relations man, the story of the glove's latest enchantment began Dec. 12, when Orosco attended the police Honor Legion's annual Christmas party for the wives and children of slain police officers at O'Neill's restaurant in Maspeth, Queens, a Bennett client. Orosco, a friend of the restaurant's owner, George O'Neill, had already revealed a humanitarian streak, Bennett notes, by delaying a trip to his Florida home so that he could attend the party as its only celebrity guest. He revealed even more when he heard of McDonald's ordeal and learned that the officer was an avid Met fan who would be thrilled by a visit from him. Orosco paid that visit during a brief return to New York after Christmas, calling on McDonald at Bellevue Hospital. He brought along a bat and some other gifts, but when the conversation in the room turned to the glove he had twice lofted into baseball history, he decided he hadn't brought enough. The glove, he told McDonald, would be his. Because visits to McDonald are severely restricted, Orosco wasn't able to take the glove to the officer before he had to return to Florida, so he entrusted it to O'Neill's manager, Michael O'Connor, who said yesterday that he expected to arrange a visit to deliver it next week. In the meantime, O'Connor is quite sure the glove will not be floating off into space. It is being kept in the restaurant safe.

Edgy MD Jan 11 2017 04:58 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Yup. I just saw that The Daily News.

themetfairy Jan 12 2017 05:25 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

RIP Tony Rosato Of SNL and SCTV fame.

Edgy MD Jan 12 2017 06:50 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I thought he was dead. He had sadly gone way off the deep end with mental health issues. There was that dry spell for Saturday Night Live in the 1981–1982 season, when they were still trying to dig out of the disastrous hole dug in 1980-1981. Eddie Murphy was with the cast as an apprentice, and Piscopo and Kazurinsky hadn't yet established themselves, and Rosato had one character that had caught on. People were so hoping for anything to latch onto to save the show and for a very short time, he was it. Midweek press notes would come out: "Will Rosato do his character this week? Are they working on more spots for the character? Will it be in the first half of the show or the second?" His best bit on SCTV was doing Lou Costello in a bizarre sketch where they simultaneously parodied Abbott & Costello, Midnight Express (the film), and Midnight Special (the late-night music show), and probably a half dozen other things. Very meta. [youtube]WToCce62BZw[/youtube]

Frayed Knot Jan 15 2017 01:58 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Richard 'Dick' Gautier - aka [u:1k8lzto3]Hymie the Robot[/u:1k8lzto3] from GET SMART, 85

Frayed Knot Jan 15 2017 10:39 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka (born: James Smith) 73, which just about qualifies as old age on the pro wrestling circuit. He was born on the pacific island of Fiji I am surprised to learn, likely making him one of the few whose birthplace actually matched that of his character's ethnicity.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 16 2017 12:20 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Snuka spent the final years of his life fighting a murder charge that dated to the 80s. Believed to have strangled his girlfriend. Badly brain damaged and unable to testify

Edgy MD Jan 16 2017 01:41 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

A juiced-up pro wrestler brain-damaged and homicidally out of control. I'd be surprised if he wasn't. And we're about to make Linda McMahon a government administrator.

Frayed Knot Jan 16 2017 09:25 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Eugene Cernan -- aka the last man to walk on the moon -- 82 Half of the twelve moon walkers are now gone as are nine of the 24 who traveled as far as the moon. And it's not like anyone is taking their place. Apollo 11 -- [crossout]Neil Armstrong[/crossout] 11 -- Buzz Aldrin — Now age 86 12 -- Alan Bean — 83 12 -- [crossout]Pete Conrad[/crossout] 14 -- [crossout]Alan Shepard[/crossout] 14 -- [crossout]Edgar Mitchell[/crossout] 15 -- David Scott — 83 15 -- [crossout]Jim Irwin[/crossout] 16 -- Charlie Duke — 80 16 -- John Young — 85 17 -- Harrison Schmidt — 80 17 -- [crossout]Eugene Cernan[/crossout]

MFS62 Jan 16 2017 11:31 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Frayed Knot wrote: Richard 'Dick' Gautier - aka Hymie the Robot from GET SMART, 85 I remember him most as Conrad Birdie in Bye Bye Birdie on Broadway. RIP Later

themetfairy Jan 20 2017 12:18 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

RIP Miguel Ferrer

Mets Willets Point Jan 20 2017 04:31 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Democracy in the United States, July 4, 1776-January 20, 2017

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 20 2017 06:33 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

themetfairy wrote: RIP Miguel Ferrer He was great in ROBOCOP. I loved that he was a bad guy, but an enemy of other bad guys who were also his colleagues. The whole Omni Consumer Products workplace bullshit was great. They had no good employees. "You're gonna be one bad mother fucker!"

TransMonk Jan 20 2017 06:37 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: He was great in ROBOCOP. Agreed...my favorite Miguel Ferrer role. RIP

MFS62 Jan 20 2017 11:08 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

For the past few years, Ferrer has been a regular on NCIS - Los Angeles. This year, his voice sounded terrible, he looked weak and part of the story line was that he looked that way because he had been injured on a case. But if you saw him, you suspected how fragile he really was. You can get a hint of it on that clip. RIP Later

Ashie62 Jan 22 2017 09:11 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Pete "Overend" Watts of Mott the Hoople 1947-2017.

Mets Willets Point Jan 22 2017 10:20 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Maggie Roche, one of the three sisters in The Roches, 65.

Frayed Knot Jan 25 2017 06:16 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 25 2017 06:26 PM

Claude Hudson "Butch" Trucks, half of the two-drummer section of the Allman Brothers Band, 69. No cause of death yet reported. Butch is the uncle of guitarist Derek Trucks (Tedeschi-Trucks Band) and the nephew of Virgil Trucks, a RHP who won 177 games over 17 ML seasons, mostly for the Tigers. Do southern names get any better than Butch Trucks?

Edgy MD Jan 25 2017 06:25 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Butch was also apparently a deep reading philosophy buff: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.h ... A9639C8B63

Frayed Knot Jan 26 2017 07:50 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

And now it seems that Trucks died of a self-inflicted gunshot, possibly over financial issues, and did so in front of his wife.

themetfairy Jan 27 2017 04:40 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Mike Connors, Age 91 RIP Mannix

Lefty Specialist Jan 27 2017 01:17 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I liked Mannix because he used to get the crap beat out of him like every other episode. He wasn't perfect, but he usually got the bad guy in the end.

Benjamin Grimm Jan 27 2017 01:41 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

That's two CBS alumni this week.

Edgy MD Jan 27 2017 02:32 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

They also ran back-to-back for a year or two back then.

Frayed Knot Jan 27 2017 02:39 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Benjamin Grimm wrote: That's two CBS alumni this week. Captain Kangaroo better be on his best behavior.

MFS62 Jan 27 2017 02:41 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 27 2017 02:44 PM

Hunter was an NBC show of that genre of a slightly later generation. Fred Dwyer is still alive (I think). Later

d'Kong76 Jan 27 2017 02:43 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Captain Kangaroo passed many moons ago according to wikithingy... Robert James "Bob" Keeshan (June 27, 1927 – January 23, 2004)

Benjamin Grimm Jan 27 2017 02:56 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Has anyone checked in on Edward R. Murrow lately?

MFS62 Jan 27 2017 03:01 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Or X.Brands? (If you can remember that show, and the name of the character he played, without looking it up, raise your virtual hand) Later

cooby Jan 27 2017 03:17 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I liked the opening of Mannix when Peggy swung around in her office chair to that sudden loud beat! I think she was the reason I wanted to be a secretary (a career path already phasing out be the time I got old enough) Sitting around all day in a pretty dress while the boss was out getting beat up....occasion phone call to answer, typing who knows what since he was never there to dictate anything.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 27 2017 04:50 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

If you have ME TV on your cable, Mannix episodes are running weekdays at two in the morning, right after The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and right before Ironside.

cooby Jan 27 2017 04:55 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

My husband loves MeTV!

MFS62 Jan 28 2017 12:47 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Barbara Hale (Perry Mason's Della Street) - 94 http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/barbar ... cid=HPCDHP Its good to always be with a winner. RIP Later

themetfairy Jan 28 2017 01:35 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

RIP John Hurt

Frayed Knot Jan 28 2017 01:48 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I one role I tend to remember Hurt by is the 1989 film SCANDAL [Hurt, Ian McKellen, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda] about the early '60's British sex & politics 'Profumo Affair' where Hurt plays the fall-guy Dr. Stephen Ward - a film I'd like to re-see but one that sadly seems to be totally out of circulation among cable and DVD distributers.

41Forever Jan 28 2017 02:35 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

MFS62 wrote: Barbara Hale (Perry Mason's Della Street) - 94 http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/barbar ... cid=HPCDHP Its good to always be with a winner. RIP Later I always liked that she was able reprise the role in the Perry Mason TV movies, and even perform with her son in those shows. And with Raymond Burr having health issues, William Katt got most of the action!

G-Fafif Jan 31 2017 09:20 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

John Wetton of Asia (the group, not the continent), cancer, 67.

41Forever Jan 31 2017 09:25 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

G-Fafif wrote: John Wetton of Asia (the group, not the continent), cancer, 67. The smile has left my eyes. Loved Asia.

Ashie62 Jan 31 2017 09:51 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I believe Wetton spent time with King Crimson also.

sharpie Jan 31 2017 10:33 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

The John Wetton-era King Crimson was my favorite.

MFS62 Jan 31 2017 11:47 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

MFS62 wrote: Or X.Brands? (If you can remember that show, and the name of the character he played, without looking it up, raise your virtual hand) Later OK. Time's up. Native American actor X. Brands played the character Pahoo on the western show Yancy Derringer (played by Jock Mahoney) back in the early days of TV. Later

Edgy MD Feb 01 2017 12:33 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Lovely memories from Robert Fripp: https://www.facebook.com/notes/king-cri ... 8750082519

G-Fafif Feb 01 2017 01:37 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Herb Oscar Anderson, morning man on WABC for most of the 1960s -- including when it was the first flagship station of your New York Mets -- has left the air, so to speak.

G-Fafif Feb 06 2017 09:31 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Sonny Geraci, 69, five years after a brain aneurysm. He was the voice behind the hits of the Outsiders and Climax. [youtube]gaj1wVNvSqk[/youtube] [youtube]I95xCjQe6Jg[/youtube]

Edgy MD Feb 06 2017 09:33 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Hard to imagine a guy fronting two different acts and accumulating one hit with each that were more different.

Edgy MD Feb 06 2017 09:39 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

"Time Won't Let Me" is an obvious influence on another temporally themed rocker by a native Clevelander, no? [youtube:j5yabz18]n6Wn5kvqb6o[/youtube:j5yabz18]

Zvon Feb 07 2017 04:28 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

G-Fafif wrote: Sonny Geraci, 69, five years after a brain aneurysm. He was the voice behind the hits of the Outsiders and Climax. Never knew the guys name or that he did both those songs. I knew of the band Climax and Precious And Few was me and my girlfriends song in 1972. And after we split my next girlfriend wanted it to be "our song" as well (she had no idea it was previously used) and I remember thinking, can I do that? Can I use the same song? It seemed very improper. But it was such a perfect love song. How could I say no?

Edgy MD Feb 07 2017 02:17 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

You should have told her that time wouldn't let you.

G-Fafif Feb 07 2017 09:40 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Professor Irwin Corey, a funny man, 102. With an impish grin and wild hair, Corey was a nightclub and talk-show fixture who worked with stars from Jackie Gleason to Woody Allen. His admirers ranged from Damon Runyon to Lenny Bruce. Corey died Monday evening, his daughter-in-law tells NPR. The comedian had been sick earlier this year — but he'd been sent home from the hospital after seeming to recover. His last meal, she said, consisted of ice cream and egg drop soup. It's impossible to provide a short explanation of Corey's surreal brand of comedy, which was most potent when delivered in his seemingly nonsensical stream of non sequiturs. But the breadth of his career hints at his creative genius: Who else could have appeared in the 1976 film Car Wash, two years after accepting a National Book Award on behalf of the reclusive Thomas Pynchon? Billed as "the World's Foremost Authority," Corey's guise as an absent-minded professor offered a way to poke fun at multisyllabic jargon and those who use it. When political or scientific authorities seemed to annex a chunk of language, there was Corey to claw it back — a very human antidote to our complicated modern times. "Sometimes, I forget what I'm talking about in the middle of a word," Corey said. I saw him on Broadway 43 years ago. He seemed impossibly old then. He played Marlo Thomas's father in Thieves, and enthusiastically schmoozed his public at the stage door (something I found out at the best of my sister's theatrical friend Gary, who insisted we wait around for stars; Marlo was less cooperative, borrowing my sister's pen to give Gary an autograph and then throwing the pen back at my sister when she reasonably requested it).

MFS62 Feb 08 2017 02:00 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Richard Hatch http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/r ... cid=HPCDHP From the original Battlestar Galactica series. Later

Benjamin Grimm Feb 08 2017 02:04 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Wasn't he the first winner of Survivor?

Mets Willets Point Feb 08 2017 02:51 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Different Richard Hatch. This one was Apollo in the original BSG and Tom Zarek in the reboot.

Benjamin Grimm Feb 08 2017 03:38 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Professor Irwin Corey, 102.

Chad Ochoseis Feb 08 2017 04:03 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Professor Irwin Corey, 102. A fine man. Not a tall man, but a fine man. I was a fan of his for twenty years, from 1992 through 2005 approximately. And he never ceased to amaze and liquefy, particularly when expounding on his subjects of expertise, which were as wide as the air we breathe and as long as a piece of string. His passing should by no means go unmodulated. He was absolutely brilliant. One obituary here.

sharpie Feb 08 2017 04:36 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I was at a friend's event at the Bowery Poetry Project about six or seven years ago. After my friend's event was over, Professor Irwin Corey came on. He did a very funny ten minute or so rant about the politics of the time. It felt like a privilege to be there. When Thomas Pynchon won the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow Professor Irwin Corey appeared as Thomas Pynchon on the podium. Someone I knew, long dead now, said it was the funniest thing he'd ever seen. RIP, Professor.

Chad Ochoseis Feb 09 2017 12:12 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Link to the acceptance speech for Gravity's Rainbow.

Rockin' Doc Feb 12 2017 02:39 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Former Syracuse Orange Center, Fab Melo died in his sleep at home in Brazil. Cause of death is unknown at this time. [url]http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/18668751/former-syracuse-boston-celtics-center-fab-melo-dies-brazil

41Forever Feb 12 2017 08:11 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Al Jarreau, 76. [url]http://www.detroitnews.com/story/obituaries/2017/02/12/al-jarreau-time-grammy-winner-dies/97824628/

Edgy MD Feb 12 2017 09:10 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I was just watching his star turn in the The Jazz Singer. [youtube]DIyZCIBCJh8[/youtube]

MFS62 Feb 12 2017 10:51 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

41Forever wrote: Al Jarreau, 76. [url]http://www.detroitnews.com/story/obituaries/2017/02/12/al-jarreau-time-grammy-winner-dies/97824628/ My wife's favorite TV show back then was Moonlighting. She loved the theme and told me she was listening to it last week. RIP Later

Ashie62 Feb 12 2017 11:23 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Saw Jarreau like it was yesterday.

G-Fafif Feb 13 2017 03:46 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Saw Al Jarreau (and David Sanborn) at Summerstage in Central Park the night Anthony Young finally won a game in 1993. Truly a magical evening across the city. "We're In This Love Together" was the second dance at my wedding, the part where I danced with my mother-in-law and my wife danced with my father. "That really happened," Mrs. Fafif said yesterday, indicating it was very much a one-off. But not the love of Jarreau. [youtube:3f7ov5fo]otVH5cv9z1A[/youtube:3f7ov5fo]

TransMonk Feb 13 2017 04:14 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Jarreau was a Sconnie. He will be missed. RIP

G-Fafif Feb 15 2017 05:58 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

[youtube]xVff7TJzc-Q[/youtube] Bobby Freeman, who asked the musical question, "Do You Want To Dance," died on January 23 at age 76. Mr. Freeman was still a teenager when he wrote and recorded the song that became his signature. Sung with infectious enthusiasm and featuring a driving Latin rhythm and a joyful guitar solo, “Do You Want to Dance” reached No. 5 on the Billboard singles chart.

MFS62 Feb 15 2017 02:47 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I remember watching him perform that song on TV (American Bandstand?). RIP Later

d'Kong76 Feb 17 2017 08:40 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

RIP, The Animal... [fimg=650:26liswp4]http://www.wwe.com/f/styles/wwe_large/public/rd-talent/Bio/George_Steele_bio.png[/fimg:26liswp4]

Frayed Knot Feb 17 2017 08:42 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I'll take 'People whom I assumed were dead for many years already' for $600 Alex

Frayed Knot Feb 18 2017 06:05 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Norma McCovey - 69 She was famously the Roe in the Roe-v-Wade case that struck down various state laws banning abortions. She went on to have a later-in-life change of sides on the issue to the point of campaigning in 'Pro-Life' movements.

TransMonk Feb 18 2017 10:44 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

"Funky Drummer" Clyde Stubblefield dies at 73 When he had treatment for bladder cancer in 2000, incurring over $90,000 in medical bills, Stubblefield learned how loved he was both at home and around the world. Local musicians raised $10,000 through a series of fundraising gigs, and none other than Prince covered the remaining $80,000.

Fman99 Feb 19 2017 02:49 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Heroically awesome funk drummer. This is my favorite track of him and he is featured in it. Give the drummer some! [youtube:2t02um5m]8bztE5IbQOo[/youtube:2t02um5m]

Lefty Specialist Feb 23 2017 03:44 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Alan Colmes, 66. For years, the token liberal on Fox News.

MFS62 Feb 23 2017 03:54 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Lefty Specialist wrote: Alan Colmes, 66. For years, the token liberal on Fox News. He fought the good fight, trying to light the light rather than cursing the darkness. RIP Later

Chad Ochoseis Feb 23 2017 04:29 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

He was Monica Crowley's brother-in-law. I had no idea.

Edgy MD Feb 23 2017 04:34 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

The Hannity & Colmes show was reportedly pitched and developed as Hannity & (Liberal to be Named Later).

Lefty Specialist Feb 24 2017 01:27 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Colmes was Fox News' idea of the ideal liberal. Weak and always deferential to strong conservative types. He could really be embarrassing at times.

Vic Sage Feb 24 2017 02:29 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Lefty Specialist wrote: Colmes was Fox News' idea of the ideal liberal. Weak and always deferential to strong conservative types. He could really be embarrassing at times. Well, of course. Hannity wanted a "house" liberal, not a "field" liberal.

Frayed Knot Feb 26 2017 04:01 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Actor Bill Paxton, 61, from "complications during surgery".

G-Fafif Feb 26 2017 07:26 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Judge Joseph Wapner, 97. Presided over The People's Court.

Frayed Knot Feb 26 2017 07:59 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

G-Fafif wrote: Judge Joseph Wapner, 97. Presided over The People's Court. Man I remember a ton of peeps I knew at the time -- particularly those thinking about, headed for, or already in law school -- going nuts over that show when it was first on (and I didn't even know Raymond Babbitt). I never saw the attraction of it and watched maybe one or two shows in my life.

Edgy MD Feb 26 2017 09:10 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

[youtube:1fzzrh19]yTMXteZokXs[/youtube:1fzzrh19]

MFS62 Feb 26 2017 10:07 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

He was not only a combat soldier in Aliens, but a brilliant political pundit, too. RIP Later

cooby Feb 27 2017 12:15 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

My husband's sister died Friday evening after a very long struggle following a liver transplant last October. We'll be traveling to Pittsburgh for her funeral over the next few days, including a truly mind boggling SEVEN HOUR viewing tomorrow. Love you Debbie; may you rest in peace.

41Forever Feb 27 2017 01:22 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Very sorry to hear this, Cooby. Keeping your family in our prayers.

d'Kong76 Feb 27 2017 01:57 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Condolences to mr. coo and your family.

Fman99 Feb 27 2017 03:12 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

cooby wrote: My husband's sister died Friday evening after a very long struggle following a liver transplant last October. We'll be traveling to Pittsburgh for her funeral over the next few days, including a truly mind boggling SEVEN HOUR viewing tomorrow. Love you Debbie; may you rest in peace. :(

themetfairy Feb 27 2017 04:19 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

My condolences cooby :(

SteveJRogers Feb 27 2017 01:04 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

cooby wrote: My husband's sister died Friday evening after a very long struggle following a liver transplant last October. We'll be traveling to Pittsburgh for her funeral over the next few days, including a truly mind boggling SEVEN HOUR viewing tomorrow. Love you Debbie; may you rest in peace. RIP :(

41Forever Feb 27 2017 01:41 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Janet Patterson, a Hollywood costume designer, did pass away, but the photo used in the Academy Award memorial segment is a producer named Jan Chapman. As of this morning, Ms. Chapman is still alive, though a little upset. [url]http://variety.com/2017/film/awards/oscars-in-memoriam-segment-janet-patterson-wrong-photo-jan-chapman-1201997597/ Oops.

MFS62 Feb 27 2017 02:36 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

The credibility of Price-Waterhouse. Later

Lefty Specialist Feb 27 2017 03:49 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

MFS62 wrote: The credibility of Price-Waterhouse. Later Yeouch, that was bad.

cooby Mar 02 2017 11:31 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Thank you all. Back now and on my way to stay with my grandson; that will help!

G-Fafif Mar 06 2017 07:49 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Robert Osborne, long the face of Turner Classic Movies, 84.

Benjamin Grimm Mar 06 2017 07:52 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Oh no! First Mary Tyler Moore and now Robert Osborne?

MFS62 Mar 07 2017 04:18 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

G-Fafif wrote: Robert Osborne, long the face of Turner Classic Movies, 84. RIP. Later

G-Fafif Mar 12 2017 11:05 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Joni Sledge, she of the Fam-a-Lee that inspired the 1979 Pirates to a world championship, 60. She once said creating Sister Sledge's signature hit was as much fun as it sounded. "Recording the track 'We Are Family' was like a one-take party -- we were just dancing and playing around and hanging out in the studio when we did it."

G-Fafif Mar 14 2017 01:16 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

John Andareise, long one of the voices synonymous with Knicks basketball, 78. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baske ... -1.2997039

d'Kong76 Mar 14 2017 01:59 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

One of my favorites, RIP Mr. Andareise.

G-Fafif Mar 18 2017 10:27 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Chuck Berry, founding father, rock 'n' roll, 90.

Frayed Knot Mar 18 2017 10:29 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Hail, hail Chuck.

TransMonk Mar 18 2017 10:49 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Three chords and a cloud of dust. Man, oh, man. RIP

Edgy MD Mar 18 2017 10:57 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Rounding third, he was headed for home; it was a brown eyed handsome man. That won the game; it was a brown eyed handsome man.

Frayed Knot Mar 18 2017 11:25 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, was the first man-made object to be aimed out of our solar system. On the slim chance that it would actually run into a world with intelligent life on it out there, an audio-video recording was sent along with it containing various pictures and sounds from earth as chosen by a scientific panel chaired by Astronomer Carl Sagan. Included were such natural sounds such as wind, surf, and thunder; greetings via the human voices of President Carter and U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, and also some music. One of the four musical choices included on the disc was Berry's 'Jonnny B. Goode'. Shortly afterward, Saturday Night Live announced that Voyager not only had been picked up by another civilization but that they immediately sent a message back. The reply from the aliens was just four words, but of course that message would be on the cover of the upcoming week's issue of TIME Magazine. Their replay: [fimg=300]http://cliff.hostkansas.com/images/2012/Send_More_Chuck_Berry.jpg[/fimg]

MFS62 Mar 19 2017 01:37 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

RIP, Chuck. You be good. Later

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 19 2017 01:40 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

George Thorogood was asked why he didn't write more original songs and he replied "Why should I? Chuck Berry already wrote the best ones."

Frayed Knot Mar 19 2017 02:41 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 20 2017 04:06 PM

Jimmy Breslin - 88 A writer with a brief NYM connection among his other work. [fimg=150]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gASC4CheoLg/Taw24FmqTBI/AAAAAAAAHdY/tIVLvXBCXoM/s1600/x14525.jpg[/fimg]

Edgy MD Mar 19 2017 03:05 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Breslin once interrupted the St. Patrick's Day Parade to scream at the administrators of my school, that they were educating a generation of young men to be drunks and jail-keepers. This frankly wan't an entirely inaccurate charge against Manhattan College at the time, but it was pretty rich coming from the first tabloid columnist to do a beer commercial, with a public image that was pretty much about how to be a professional drunk. [youtube:37g70ms3]2X-VL69ctg0[/youtube:37g70ms3]

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 19 2017 03:32 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

That Piels commercial is the first thing I think of when I think of Breslin. I also remember that my dad really hated the guy. I might have the facts mixed up here but the day Robert Moses died I believe it was Breslin who wrote a column with the title: MOSES LET THE PEOPLE GO...TO HELL! His Mets book has enduring influence but its deliberate service of mythmaking calls its veracity into question.

Frayed Knot Mar 19 2017 04:53 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

There are certainly no shortage of contradictions where it comes to Breslin.

MFS62 Mar 19 2017 05:46 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

The quintessential New Yorker. He wrote about average guys and reminded us they were the equals of the high brows, that they deserved their stories to be told, too. He elevated the language of the city to an elegance nobody before him could have imagined. Love him or hate him, he was us. RIP, Jimmy. We know you're probably looking down and laughing your ass off at all the fuss. Later

Lefty Specialist Mar 19 2017 07:18 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

One of those guys that you would have thought died years ago. Smoke, drank, lived life to the fullest and always came out of it with an interesting story, the kind of stories journalists don't do anymore. Yes, absolutely the quintessential New Yorker.

Mets Willets Point Mar 19 2017 07:48 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

This is one of those cases where hearing a person died makes me realize that they had been still alive up to that point.

Edgy MD Mar 19 2017 07:52 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I can argue that his image was carefully cultivated while Pete Hamill was more the real deal, but I can tip my hat to him too. One of the things I suck at is writing on deadline. Definitely the reason I would never be a real journalist. I torture over my angle and my syntax and my rhythm as the deadline ticks away. But some could folks hammer their shit out, submit it, and move on to the next story, and Breslin was one of those. A good tabloid writer knew that the art form was to contribute to the greater mosaic, getting perfect quotes and paragraphs while accepting that the stories they resided in were necessarily imperfect. John Lennon was shot at 10:50 PM, and amazingly commuters had this story to read on the train the next day. [fimg=700:8b6atntx]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2039623.1418161828!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_1200/breslin10n-2-web.jpg[/fimg:8b6atntx] [fimg=700:8b6atntx]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2039624.1418161828!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_1200/breslin10n-1-web.jpg[/fimg:8b6atntx]

Chad Ochoseis Mar 19 2017 08:03 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Mets Willets Point wrote: This is one of those cases where hearing a person died makes me realize that they had been still alive up to that point. Exactly what I thought when I saw this. Breslin is one of those people who would float into my mind every once in a while, and I'd check deadoraliveinfo.com and think, "Well, hey, whaddya know...he's still here!" When I was in elementary school, I'd wake up as soon as I heard the newsboy throw the Daily News at our apartment door, grab the paper, and turn straight to Breslin's column. Maybe I'd check the back page first if it was baseball season, but right after that, I'd go to Breslin. Klein the Lawyer, one of Breslin's (probably fictional) drinking buddies - an outer borough intellectual who was always outsmarting himself and getting screwed by his clients or by some unsympathetic municipal judge - was my hero. My dad hated it; I never left the paper in mint condition for him. And so began a father-son conflict that lasted in some form or another for the subsequent four decades or so.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 19 2017 09:26 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Chuck Berry rocks the movies in two memorable scenes: [youtube:2ri1x8qx]7Z1PBPrjZPQ[/youtube:2ri1x8qx] [youtube:2ri1x8qx]WSLMN6g_Od4[/youtube:2ri1x8qx]

G-Fafif Mar 19 2017 10:10 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

My dad, by no means on the same page with him politically, loved often aloud from Breslin's columns at the dinner table. Loved "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight." Queens boys born three months apart and died within eight months of each other.

MFS62 Mar 20 2017 12:02 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

There's a scene in the movie Teacher's Pet in which Clark Gable plays "a hard-nosed newspaper editor (who) poses as a night school student in order to woo a journalism teacher who cannot stand him." (from IMDB) He has to write a story about a murder. Every time I saw the movie and heard that story read, I could picture Jimmy Breslin writing it. If you have seen the movie and remember that scene, you might feel the same way. Later

G-Fafif Mar 20 2017 12:12 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

MFS62 wrote: There's a scene in the movie Teacher's Pet in which Clark Gable plays "a hard-nosed newspaper editor (who) poses as a night school student in order to woo a journalism teacher who cannot stand him." (from IMDB) He has to write a story about a murder. Every time I saw the movie and heard that story read, I could picture Jimmy Breslin writing it. If you have seen the movie and remember that scene, you might feel the same way. Good call. (I adore that movie.)

Edgy MD Mar 20 2017 01:43 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Other things Jimmy Breslin endorsed besides Piels. [youtube:1ica6l4e]JNtqs-ulCrU[/youtube:1ica6l4e] [youtube:1ica6l4e]Yj__7WRYlts[/youtube:1ica6l4e]

Frayed Knot Mar 20 2017 02:25 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Lefty Specialist wrote: One of those guys that you would have thought died years ago. Smoke, drank, lived life to the fullest ... And yet somehow managed to make it to age 88 while out-living his first wife (by 36 years) and two of his six children. I looked him up because I remember the story about him having a daughter with a rare blood disease although couldn't remember how that turned out (not good - died in '04). In doing so I found that his Wikipedia page, though probably being updated almost by the minute now, is surprisingly thin considering his level of fame and volume of work.

Mets Willets Point Mar 20 2017 04:47 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Chuck Berry rocks the movies in two memorable scenes: [youtube]7Z1PBPrjZPQ[/youtube] [youtube]WSLMN6g_Od4[/youtube] And, indirectly: [youtube]S1i5coU-0_Q[/youtube]

Edgy MD Mar 20 2017 04:20 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

If you had to give Rock 'n' Roll another name, you might call it "Chuck Berry". —John Lennon

d'Kong76 Mar 20 2017 05:31 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I've been carrying Berry riffs in a gunny sack in the back of my brain all day...

cooby Mar 20 2017 06:09 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I've had "Gyspys, Tramps and Thieves", and I'll bet I'm happier about my song than you are about yours

Edgy MD Mar 21 2017 12:18 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Martin McGuinness, an IRA-leader who somehow brokered and sustained the first lasting peace in Northern Ireland in centuries, dead at 66.

metirish Mar 21 2017 06:19 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Edgy MD wrote: Martin McGuinness, an IRA-leader who somehow brokered and sustained the first lasting peace in Northern Ireland in centuries, dead at 66. A giant in Irish politics , and that's saying something.

d'Kong76 Mar 22 2017 12:50 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Chuck Barris, 87 I didn't know (if I once did it has escaped me) that he wrote the oldie and goodie Palisades Park. [youtube]Q8KIdxXtX0M[/youtube]

Edgy MD Mar 22 2017 01:37 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Which means Chuck went to his grave collecting residuals from the Ramones. [youtube:xr5ekan2]sIyCx_NOrmw[/youtube:xr5ekan2]

d'Kong76 Mar 22 2017 02:03 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Nice 2'fr, don't think I've heard that one...

Edgy MD Mar 22 2017 02:42 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

The studio version is on Brain Drain — not a broadly loved Ramones album, but produced, at least in part, by Bill Laswell, and Bill Laswell don't make junk. Last album with DeeDee. There's a few live cuts of it on YouTube, and that sounded like the best.

Lefty Specialist Mar 22 2017 03:08 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

God help me, but I loved The Gong Show.

d'Kong76 Mar 22 2017 03:14 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Edgy MD wrote: The studio version is on Brain Drain — not a broadly loved Ramones album, but produced, at least in part, by Bill Laswell, and Bill Laswell don't make junk. Last album with DeeDee. I love Brain Drain, good Dee Dee fronted song on it 'Punishment Fit the Crime.'

d'Kong76 Mar 22 2017 03:15 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Lefty Specialist wrote: God help me, but I loved The Gong Show. It was a fun show for that era.

Chad Ochoseis Mar 22 2017 03:44 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Chuck Berry, founding father, rock 'n' roll, 90. Chuck Barris, 87 I didn't know (if I once did it has escaped me) that he wrote the oldie and goodie Palisades Park. And the Grim Reaper cowers in a corner, hoping Chuck Norris isn't next.

Frayed Knot Mar 22 2017 03:50 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I was just about to add that I had started last year's "Still Alive" thread with the news that, much to my surprise, Chuck Barris was still living. JCL immediately clocked in with the news that so was Chuck Berry. And now the two die just a few days apart. Coincidence? I don't think so!

Edgy MD Mar 22 2017 05:55 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Both outlasted King of Go-Go Chuck Brown by five years in the Chuck B. Survival Race. Greatest Living American Chucks, Newly Updated. [list=1][*]Yeager (94)[/*:m] [*]Hagel (70)[/*:m] [*]Grassley (83)[/*:m] [*]D (56)[/*:m] [*]Close (76)[/*:m] [*]Norris (76)[/*:m] [*]Schumer (66)[/*:m] [*]Leavell (64)[/*:m] [*]Mangione (76)[/*:m] [*]Palahniuk (55)[/*:m][/list:o] Nineteen-forty was a great vintage year for Chucks.

41Forever Mar 22 2017 06:30 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Both outlasted King of Go-Go Chuck Brown by five years in the Chuck B. Survival Race. Greatest Living American Chucks, Newly Updated. [list=1][*]Yeager (94)[/*:m] [*]Hagel (70)[/*:m] [*]Grassley (83)[/*:m] [*]D (56)[/*:m] [*]Close (76)[/*:m] [*]Norris (76)[/*:m] [*]Schumer (66)[/*:m] [*]Leavell (64)[/*:m] [*]Mangione (76)[/*:m] [*]Palahniuk (55)[/*:m][/list:o] Nineteen-forty was a great vintage year for Chucks. Chuck Woolery, king of hosts for game shows that did not require much in the way of smarts -- like "Love Connection" -- is 74 and going strong!

Edgy MD Mar 22 2017 06:37 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

That's the problem with lists only going to 10, Woolery. Maybe if you weren't such a tweetin' troll, you could've outranked Palahniuk.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 22 2017 09:10 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

My friend and I once conceived a surreal television comedy series called "Eight Chucks is Enough" which envisioned Berry, Barris, Norris, Wollery, Tanner, Cunningham, Charlie Brown, etc all living in the same home, but it never got off the ground. The same burst of creativity also conceived "Kidney Highway Patrol" starring Gary Coleman as a motorcycle cop.

Edgy MD Mar 22 2017 11:08 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Eight Chucks Is Enough—that was some brain thinking. [list]Top 5 Fictional Chucks 1. Chuck Brown (aka Charlie, to everyone but Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt) 2. Chuck Cunningham 3. Chuck Shick 4. Chucky, the Murderous Baby Doll 5. Chuck E. Cheese[/list:u]

41Forever Mar 23 2017 12:34 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: My friend and I once conceived a surreal television comedy series called "Eight Chucks is Enough" which envisioned Berry, Barris, Norris, Wollery, Tanner, Cunningham, Charlie Brown, etc all living in the same home, but it never got off the ground. The same burst of creativity also conceived "Kidney Highway Patrol" starring Gary Coleman as a motorcycle cop. Explains the fondness for extreme midget wrestling. Not that Gary was technically a midget...

Benjamin Grimm Mar 23 2017 12:42 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Eight Chucks Is Enough—that was some brain thinking. [list]Top 5 Fictional Chucks 1. Chuck Brown (aka Charlie, to everyone but Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt) 2. Chuck Cunningham 3. Chuck Shick 4. Chucky, the Murderous Baby Doll 5. Chuck E. Cheese[/list:u] Don't forget Chuck Bortowski.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 26 2017 05:01 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Lefty Specialist wrote: God help me, but I loved The Gong Show. Me too. I still do. [youtube]hMKtFNwgb6M[/youtube]

MFS62 Mar 26 2017 02:41 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

The turn this thread has taken is making me want to upchuck. Later

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 26 2017 03:50 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Lefty Specialist wrote: God help me, but I loved The Gong Show. Me too. I still do. [youtube]hMKtFNwgb6M[/youtube] Wow!

batmagadanleadoff Mar 27 2017 01:57 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

d'Kong76 wrote: Lefty Specialist wrote: God help me, but I loved The Gong Show. It was a fun show for that era. Look how much unscripted and genuine fun everyone's having. [youtube]ME_rrjIODTE[/youtube] Popsicle Twins - original airing with crowd noise [youtube]tDxDYIQL6Nc[/youtube]

Fman99 Mar 27 2017 01:24 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Both outlasted King of Go-Go Chuck Brown by five years in the Chuck B. Survival Race. Greatest Living American Chucks, Newly Updated. [list=1][*]Yeager (94)[/*:m] [*]Hagel (70)[/*:m] [*]Grassley (83)[/*:m] [*]D (56)[/*:m] [*]Close (76)[/*:m] [*]Norris (76)[/*:m] [*]Schumer (66)[/*:m] [*]Leavell (64)[/*:m] [*]Mangione (76)[/*:m] [*]Palahniuk (55)[/*:m][/list:o] Nineteen-forty was a great vintage year for Chucks. I had to look up three of those guys.

Edgy MD Mar 27 2017 01:31 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I probably should have included former Mets coach and Mariners manager Chuck Cottier (81), but I hadn't realized he was still among the living. Go, Chuck!

cooby Mar 27 2017 01:32 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Lol so the original didn't have that dumb song?

batmagadanleadoff Mar 27 2017 03:50 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

cooby wrote: Lol so the original didn't have that dumb song? Yeah, I noticed that, too -- and I can't figure it out. The act got its name based on the backing song -- which wasn't in the second version. Strange. What a drag that Phyllis Diller was. Humorless. I never thought she was funny anyways.

cooby Mar 27 2017 04:09 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Me either. I love how in the comments section on youtube they go on about how risque this was for the 70s. Uh, no...

batmagadanleadoff Mar 27 2017 04:20 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I have no info and I'm just taking a guess here, but I'd bet anything that the act got past the censors by licking their popsicles normally and in a non-suggestive or provocative way.

themetfairy Mar 27 2017 05:04 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

According to Ken Levine, the segment was only shown on the East Coast. The censors had figured out what happened and wouldn't show it on the West Coast.

G-Fafif Mar 27 2017 08:34 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Roger Wilkins, civil rights leader and former assistant attorney general, 85.

Frayed Knot Apr 01 2017 12:13 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Brian Oldfield, 71 Flamboyant shot-put champion of the 1970s whose 'spin move' changed the traditional technique of the sport and led him to U.S. and world records several times although some of those records were never officially recognized and he never medaled in the Olympics due in part to getting caught in the gray area between the "amateur" days of track and field and its nascent professional stage which he joined early. The other sport my father introduced to his oldest son was track and field and I once saw Oldfield throw in an indoor meet either in the Nassau Coliseum or MSG. He was tough to miss with his huge build and mass of blond curls (imagine a 275 pound Mark Fidrych). "When God invented man, he wanted him to look like me"

Edgy MD Apr 01 2017 02:55 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I remember him from the 1978 World's Strongest Man competition.

Frayed Knot Apr 01 2017 12:12 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

You're probably thinking of 'Superstars', the somewhat contrived show from the ABC/Wide World of Sports factory which pitted sports stars of differing disciplines against each other various athletic events such as weight-lifting, obstacle courses, and whatnot. But, either way, as one of the first to charge over the wall into the then new world of professional T&F he wound up making a mere pittance from it even as it paved the way for the eventual take-down of the exixting system. And seeing as how he had already given up so many other benefits by ceding the "purity" of amateurism, that sort of made-for-TV stuff was tailor made for him and likely made him a whole lot more money than did his supposed real job.

Edgy MD Apr 01 2017 02:29 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

No, I'm thinking of the World's Strongest Man, a competition CBS ran, perhaps as their answer to Superstars, pitting big dudes from the fields of weightlifting, football, bodybuilding, stuntmanning, and such against one another in cartoony strong-guy events like trolley-pulling, tire-throwing, and of course tug-o-war. Oldfield was in the 1978 field, but the real star-studded cast was the 1977 group (which probably was the first year CBS carried it) and introduced Lou Ferrigno to a wider audience. Bodybuliders tended to get their gorgeous asses kicked in the events (diminutive Franco Colombu shattered his leg in the refrigerator race), but Ferrigno did alright. He had that rage-strength thing going.

Ashie62 Apr 01 2017 02:35 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I'm speculating he got some time on ABC's "Wide World of Sports."

Frayed Knot Apr 01 2017 03:09 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Turns out Oldfield competed in 'Superstars' and 'World's Strongest Man' [u:2dw5mlv3]AND[/u:2dw5mlv3] the Scottish 'Highland Games'. He also sparred with Ali although I'm sure that was just largely for show. Like I said, once he turned pro those were the better opportunities to make a buck than was actually throwing the shot. He also penned the musical theme to 'THE EXORCIST and my Junior High school was named after him. OK those last two were lies. Mike 'No Relation' Oldfield was the composer of 'Tubular Bells' and Oldfield JHS was named not after anyone in particular but rather for an old name of the town it was in.

Edgy MD Apr 06 2017 06:18 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Don F. Rickles heads into the unknown, to face the avenging spirits of everybody he's insulted. http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com ... y-the-copa

Benjamin Grimm Apr 06 2017 06:25 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

He was a great talk-show guest. I always enjoyed seeing him with Letterman or with Craig Ferguson.

batmagadanleadoff Apr 06 2017 06:33 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Don woulda made a terrific Gong Show judge. (Still rolling my eyes over Phyllis Diller).

d'Kong76 Apr 06 2017 06:38 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Rickles wrote: I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.

MFS62 Apr 06 2017 09:13 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I would have loved to have seen him at a roast for Donald Trump. RIP Later

Edgy MD Apr 06 2017 09:22 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

My pleasure. [youtube:2w9ke2rd]yXSdWvqNqwk[/youtube:2w9ke2rd]

Lefty Specialist Apr 06 2017 10:56 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

He was still sharp to the end and was doing shows as late as last year. Saw him in Vegas about 20 years ago and he absolutely killed. Laughed my ass off.

41Forever Apr 12 2017 01:07 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Another rocker -- J. Geils of the j. Geils Band (of course). OE: Didn't realize this was covered in the Rock Hall thread!

Edgy MD Apr 12 2017 01:43 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I shouldna stuck it there, but I thought it notable that they were nominated for the first time this year, and generated some discussion.

metirish Apr 12 2017 12:20 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

This Stinks anyway , had more hits than I remembered , his top 10? http://ultimateclassicrock.com/j-geils-band-songs/

Frayed Knot Apr 12 2017 12:47 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Dave's mom - 95 Referring, of course, to Letterman.

cooby Apr 12 2017 12:53 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

metirish wrote: This Stinks anyway , had more hits than I remembered , his top 10? http://ultimateclassicrock.com/j-geils-band-songs/ Had no idea they sang some of those. One Last Kiss is very haunting and I remember really liking it.

Edgy MD Apr 12 2017 01:30 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Frayed Knot wrote: Dave's mom - 95 Referring, of course, to Letterman. Funny woman. Her in Lillehammer, Norway, as Dave's Olympic correspondent was comedy gold.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 12 2017 01:49 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

metirish wrote: This Stinks anyway , had more hits than I remembered , his top 10? http://ultimateclassicrock.com/j-geils-band-songs/ Have we ever spent eternity on a desert island with J. Giels?

cooby Apr 12 2017 01:57 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Sounds like a plan!

Mets Willets Point Apr 12 2017 02:29 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

J. Giels now with the angels in a centerfold.

batmagadanleadoff Apr 12 2017 04:53 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

A coupl'a decades ago, I saw the J. Geils Band on very late night TV -- on The Joe Franklin Show, where the band terrorized poor Joe. They did everything but give ol' Joe a wedgie. It was all in good fun, though, I thought: based on the apparent camaraderie, it looked like the band were regulars on Joe's show and great friends of the host. Was that show live? Because it looked like the J. Geils Band literally walked onto the set at about three or four in the morning after a night on the town of decadence and debauchery. Anyways, the band romped around like they owned the set, and did improv incomplete takes from their earlier bluesy catalogue, including Whammer Jammer and some Sonny Boy Williamson tunes. The J. Geils Band may have been a party band, but their harmonica player -- Magic Dick -- yeah, that's his name -- is about as technically proficient on the harp as any rock and roll harmonica player that ever was.

Edgy MD Apr 12 2017 07:35 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Charlie Murphy, actor, writer, funny man, and witness to the Beirut bombing, dead at 57 from Leukemia. His "Hollywood Diaries" monologues on Chapelle's Show killed it, and were the source for some of Chapelle's most star-making material. His wife died young of cancer as well. I don't know how old their kids were, but ...

MFS62 Apr 12 2017 10:16 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Alma McLay - 97 She chronicled the Nuremberg Trials in 12 volumes, and I doubt Sean Spicer has read even one page of them. http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries ... story.html Later

MFS62 Apr 19 2017 12:15 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Ex-NFL-er Aaron Hernandez, currently serving a life sentence for murder, was found hanging in his jail cell this morning, an apparent suicide. Later

Benjamin Grimm Apr 23 2017 02:25 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Erin Moran, TV's Joannie Cunningham, 56.

Fman99 Apr 23 2017 02:31 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Erin Moran, TV's Joannie Cunningham, 56. Wow, 56, not that old. Sheesh.

MFS62 Apr 23 2017 03:30 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

These are not happy days. RIP, Erin. Later

Frayed Knot Apr 23 2017 11:22 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

IIRC, she had a bunch of problems following her TV days.

cooby Apr 23 2017 01:56 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Always with that big pretty smile though. You'd never guess.

41Forever Apr 23 2017 04:18 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017 Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Apr 24 2017 09:08 PM

My previous post was based on an apparently erroneous info. She appears to have died of cancer. Still horrible.

Lefty Specialist Apr 23 2017 06:21 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

She'd been on a downward spiral for a while. Apparently both Henry Winkler and Ron Howard tried to get her some help and she blew them off. Some people are just self-destructive. But sad nonetheless.

Edgy MD Apr 24 2017 01:34 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Erin Moran, putting it in the books. [tweet:2gohj8hv]https://twitter.com/joshlewinstuff/status/856354650827747328[/tweet:2gohj8hv]

Frayed Knot Apr 24 2017 01:56 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I think it's great that they both have the same barber.

Edgy MD Apr 24 2017 02:21 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Well, had, sadly. My Erin Moran memories: 1. We had a TV with poor vertical alignment and cropping, which cut off the very bottom of the names of Happy Days cast members. For the most part, it didn't create a problem—RON HOWARD, HENRY WINKLER, TOM BOSLEY, blah, blah, blah—but for two years, I thought her name was FRIN MORAN. 2. She co-starred with Lisa Whelchel in a made-for-TV film called Twirl, about frenemies caught up in the cut-throat world of baton twirling. Stella Stevens and Charles Haid (of Hill Street Blues) played a pair of those vicious twirling parents we all know so well. I was 14, but I remember staring agog at the promos, stunned that somebody greenlighted it.

Batty31 Apr 24 2017 10:12 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I had a chance to meet Erin..very sweet lady. RIP

Edgy MD Apr 24 2017 10:58 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Later reports break with the OD story line, saying she had stage IV cancer.

Frayed Knot Apr 26 2017 03:31 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Jonathan Demme - Academy Award Winning Director of 'Silence of the Lambs' -- 73

Edgy MD Apr 26 2017 03:38 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Went to school with his nephew and fellow director Ted Demme (Beautiful Girls, Blow), who pre-deceased him by 15 years. Jonathan's true triumph is, of course, Stop Making Sense.

G-Fafif Apr 26 2017 07:22 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Cuba Gooding, Sr., 72, the main ingredient in the Main Ingredient and father of an Oscar winner.

Edgy MD May 03 2017 01:49 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Guy I Knew from School wrote: What a crazy night. We literally saw Colonel Bruce Hampton collapse and die on stage at his own 70th birthday celebration concert. Irma and I and our friends Danny and Melissa were guests of Irma's oldest friend Christine. Her 14-year old son Brandon was one of the guest artists on the bill. Towards the end of a 3+ hour show some two-dozen musicians were on stage for an encore when Bruce points to Brandon to take his solo. Brandon starts jamming and Bruce takes a bow like he's doing a "we're not worthy" homage to Brandon when he literally falls down at Brandon's feet and never gets up. Sadly, he laid on the stage for a while before anyone knew what to do. Evidently, people thought he was playing around. Once they figured it out the show ended abruptly and they carried him off. The last thing this guy did in life was point to Brandon and say "take it". If that's not passing the torch I don't know what is. [fimg=600]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/z0fF-Eu5iFY/maxresdefault.jpg[/fimg]

Fman99 May 03 2017 01:38 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Met Col. Bruce at a show in Rochester in the 1990s after an Aquarium Rescue Unit gig. They were a great live act, and yet, he was greater still, hanging out with us after the show and telling stories of his adventures with members of the Dead, Allman Brothers, and so on.

MFS62 May 10 2017 02:04 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Katherine Berman in a car crash. Terrible. https://www.yahoo.com/news/did-katherin ... 38598.html RIP. Later

TransMonk May 10 2017 02:46 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Yikes! RIP. BTW, I glanced at the writer on that Berman article and briefly thought one of our own had taken a job with Newsweek. My eyes are moving faster than my brain this morning.

Edgy MD May 10 2017 03:19 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

How Did Katherine Berman Die? Wife of ESPN’s Chris Berman Killed in Car Crash What a strange headline, no? It suggests that the circumstances are shrouded in mystery and intrigue, when the article reports no such thing. Is that just SEO standard operating procedure? Because it's kind of insulting to the Berman family.

MFS62 May 11 2017 12:45 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Edgy MD wrote: How Did Katherine Berman Die? Wife of ESPN’s Chris Berman Killed in Car Crash What a strange headline, no? It suggests that the circumstances are shrouded in mystery and intrigue, when the article reports no such thing. Is that just SEO standard operating procedure? Because it's kind of insulting to the Berman family. I agree. Very insulting. Later

d'Kong76 May 15 2017 04:35 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Powers Boothe, 68 -- Loved him in Deadwood, RIP Mr. Tolliver...

cooby May 15 2017 04:53 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Total BS by PSU saying they'll beef up alcohol rules. The frat boys will just move their parties elsewhere. So many drunk kids fall off balconies in downtown State College that we hardly raise an eyebrow anymore. It takes a kid in a Frat house to get some attention. RIP to this poor kid. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/gra ... 2d66b1b7ad

cooby May 15 2017 04:58 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Oh by the way, kudos to his parents for making it national news

TransMonk May 18 2017 11:59 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Chris Cornell, 52 Fuck.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 18 2017 12:01 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

shocking. That guy could sing. First time I heard him I almost laughed, thinking I hadn't heard a rawk wailer like that since the 70s.

d'Kong76 May 18 2017 12:38 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

That's messed up. I like Audioslave better than Soundgarden, and he had some pipes. RIP.

41Forever May 18 2017 12:56 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Roger Ailes of Fox News dies at 77. Chris Cornell is apparently a suicide. So sad.

Lefty Specialist May 18 2017 01:02 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Ailes permanently cancelled due to low ratings.

Edgy MD May 18 2017 01:14 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: shocking. That guy could sing. First time I heard him I almost laughed, thinking I hadn't heard a rawk wailer like that since the 70s. Where's the 2017 archives? After Scott Weiland tapped out, I chronicled the premature death rate among lead singers affiliated with the grunger era, and holy smoke, it's got to be up two 75-80% at this point. In that sense, sadly not shocking.

Frayed Knot May 18 2017 01:26 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

41Forever wrote: Roger Ailes of Fox News dies at 77. Sounds like the classic case of a guy going right after his life's work ends: Charles Shultz, Andy Rooney, etc.

Frayed Knot May 18 2017 01:28 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Edgy MD wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: shocking. That guy could sing. First time I heard him I almost laughed, thinking I hadn't heard a rawk wailer like that since the 70s. Where's the 2017 archives? After Scott Weiland tapped out, I chronicled the premature death rate among lead singers affiliated with the grunger era, and holy smoke, it's got to be up two 75-80% at this point. In that sense, sadly not shocking. Being totally morose as a lifestyle choice is all fun and games until somebody loses a life.

Benjamin Grimm May 18 2017 01:31 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Frayed Knot wrote: Roger Ailes of Fox News dies at 77. Sounds like the classic case of a guy going right after his life's work ends: Charles Shultz, Andy Rooney, etc. Bob Murphy too, pretty much.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 18 2017 02:52 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

41Forever wrote: Chris Cornell is apparently a suicide. So sad. Oh crap. His brother & 2 sisters had a mellower band called "Inflatable Soule" that I liked way back when.

TransMonk May 18 2017 03:06 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I've seen Soundgarden a handful of times, but the most memorable was back in 1994 when they headlined a show with supporting acts Eleven, Jeff Buckley and Tad. Eleven featured former RHCP and future Pearl Jam drummer Jack Irons along with Alain Johannes and Natasha Shneider, both of whom would later collaborate with one of my current faves Queens of the Stone Age. Schneider died of cancer in 2008. Jeff Buckley practically got booed off the stage by the metal-heads waiting for Tad and Soundgarden...to the point where Cornell later chastised the crowd. I was (and still am) a Buckley fan. His cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah is tops in my book. Buckley drowned in the Mississippi river in 1997. Now, Cornell. It seemed of the Seattle band lead singers, he had his shit the most together. I'm seriously bummed. The 25th anniversary vinyl edition of the SINGLES movie soundtrack will arrive to me tomorrow. It contains some of the outtakes and movie score versions of some Cornell songs. I think I will end up listening to it all weekend as a memorial.

A Boy Named Seo May 18 2017 05:31 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

TransMonk wrote: I've seen Soundgarden a handful of times, but the most memorable was back in 1994 when they headlined a show with supporting acts Eleven, Jeff Buckley and Tad. Eleven featured former RHCP and future Pearl Jam drummer Jack Irons along with Alain Johannes and Natasha Shneider, both of whom would later collaborate with one of my current faves Queens of the Stone Age. Schneider died of cancer in 2008. Jeff Buckley practically got booed off the stage by the metal-heads waiting for Tad and Soundgarden...to the point where Cornell later chastised the crowd. I was (and still am) a Buckley fan. His cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah is tops in my book. Buckley drowned in the Mississippi river in 1997. Now, Cornell. It seemed of the Seattle band lead singers, he had his shit the most together. I'm seriously bummed. The 25th anniversary vinyl edition of the SINGLES movie soundtrack will arrive to me tomorrow. It contains some of the outtakes and movie score versions of some Cornell songs. I think I will end up listening to it all weekend as a memorial. Never was the biggest Soundgarden fan, but Cornell's death hits a little harder because of his close proximity to a time I cared about and other musicians that I still dig a lot. Huge pipes, man. Completely sad. On an unrelated note, I almost bought that SINGLES re-released soundtrack on vinyl, too, but half of the bonus stuff comes on CD. What the crap?

TransMonk May 18 2017 10:14 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Never was the biggest Soundgarden fan, but Cornell's death hits a little harder because of his close proximity to a time I cared about and other musicians that I still dig a lot. Huge pipes, man. Completely sad. I wasn't the biggest Soundgarden fan, either. But I do credit Soundgarden for getting me into the "underground" Seattle scene before the grunge thing exploded. It was a Soundgarden Sub-Pop single that got me on a mailing list that lead to getting compilations that introduced me to Nirvana, Green River, Mudhoney and tons of other bands. A Boy Named Seo wrote: On an unrelated note, I almost bought that SINGLES re-released soundtrack on vinyl, too, but half of the bonus stuff comes on CD. What the crap? I was a little freaked out to come home from work to find that this was delivered today when it's official release date is tomorrow. I immediately put it on, even though I have already listened to it once today. BTW, the vinyl is just the original release (but a 2-disc 180g version). All of the bonus stuff is on an included CD. Not to get too sidetracked, but this is a pretty great album. I feel it documents some of the better aspects of the "grunge" genre. It holds up pretty well...likely because it was released just as the explosion was happening and not after. All Seattle bands save Smashing Pumpkins (one of their best tracks, too) and Paul Westerberg. Who doesn't like a little Westerberg with their grunge? Even with the sad circumstances for putting it on, I enjoyed the couple of listens to it.

metirish May 18 2017 11:38 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Terrible ,mental illness is no joke , how can a man go from the stage to taking his own life? devastating

Edgy MD May 19 2017 01:25 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Cameron Crowe as director and Paul Westerberg as musical director/composer tended to mean that they were looking for a sweet vein of power pop within the grunge scene.

Ashie62 May 19 2017 02:39 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

metirish wrote: Terrible ,mental illness is no joke , how can a man go from the stage to taking his own life? devastating This is the issue more than profession, music or genre.

Fman99 May 19 2017 02:59 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Listened to a lot of Soundgarden today, well, more like, a lot of Chris Cornell acoustic stuff I found on Youtube. And reading his lyrics, he's got all kinds of references to suicide in his songs. Still, sad as hell.

cooby May 19 2017 02:39 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Does anybody else notice the guy in Times Square sometimes has on a red shirt and sometimes brown?

cooby May 19 2017 02:54 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

There are several surveillance videos posted now and I am absolutely astounded that more people aren't dead :( Makes me feel sick just seeing them once

themetfairy May 19 2017 03:21 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I was in that exact area last week, and it's always packed. You're right - it's amazing that there weren't more casualties.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 19 2017 04:10 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

cooby wrote: There are several surveillance videos posted now and I am absolutely astounded that more people aren't dead :( Makes me feel sick just seeing them once The car came to a stop exactly 1 block from my office. We were wondering what all the sirens were about since we could hear them loudly from the strreet. It happened about an hour before I typically take lunch but depending on what's going on I often walk there on my break.

A Boy Named Seo May 19 2017 06:12 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Listened to a Cornell tribute on Sirius Lithium channel yesterday, hosted by David Fricke (Rolling Stone) and someone else. Gotta say, a collection of Cornell best-of stuff is very, very good. He did an 'artist confidential' show, which was acoustic with a cello player, and they replayed that, as well, and that style served him really well. It's the session that turned out that Prince 'Nothing Compares to You' cover everybody probably heard about 10 times yesterday. [youtube:ibuskmya]IuUDRU9-HRk[/youtube:ibuskmya]

metirish May 19 2017 06:17 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

It is a beautiful version , love it....

A Boy Named Seo May 19 2017 06:17 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

On an unrelated note, I almost bought that SINGLES re-released soundtrack on vinyl, too, but half of the bonus stuff comes on CD. What the crap? I was a little freaked out to come home from work to find that this was delivered today when it's official release date is tomorrow. I immediately put it on, even though I have already listened to it once today. BTW, the vinyl is just the original release (but a 2-disc 180g version). All of the bonus stuff is on an included CD. Not to get too sidetracked, but this is a pretty great album. I feel it documents some of the better aspects of the "grunge" genre. It holds up pretty well...likely because it was released just as the explosion was happening and not after. All Seattle bands save Smashing Pumpkins (one of their best tracks, too) and Paul Westerberg. Who doesn't like a little Westerberg with their grunge? Even with the sad circumstances for putting it on, I enjoyed the couple of listens to it. I've always loved that soundtrack (and that Westerberg song is so effing catchy), but couldn't understand why the bonus stuff was on a CD. Aside from this laptop on my work desk, I'm a CD-free household and the one in the car is never used. Just upgraded to a pretty nice turntable/speakers at home and love listening to music again this way. I'm totally hijacking this death thread, but what kinda deck do you have? Mine is this guy -> http://www.fluance.com/rt81-high-fideli ... ond-needle

cooby May 19 2017 06:30 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: There are several surveillance videos posted now and I am absolutely astounded that more people aren't dead :( Makes me feel sick just seeing them once The car came to a stop exactly 1 block from my office. We were wondering what all the sirens were about since we could hear them loudly from the strreet. It happened about an hour before I typically take lunch but depending on what's going on I often walk there on my break. Yikes

TransMonk May 19 2017 10:37 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I'm totally hijacking this death thread, but what kinda deck do you have? Mine is this guy -> http://www.fluance.com/rt81-high-fideli ... ond-needle This way to the lowjack.

Benjamin Grimm May 23 2017 01:51 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Roger Moore, 89. I'm really surprised to learn that he was as old as 89. Fun fact: I've never seen any James Bond movies that didn't star either Roger Moore or Sean Connery.

sharpie May 23 2017 01:56 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Sean Connery outlives him (though he's a pup at 86).

Frayed Knot May 23 2017 02:07 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

At this point I've lost track of which Bond films I've seen and which I've skipped, they've just all started running together over the years. ACTOR Films Sean Connery 7 George Lazenby 1 Roger Moore 7 Timothy Dalton 2 Pierce Brosnan 4 Daniel Craig 4

Lefty Specialist May 23 2017 02:16 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Seen them all. Roger just wasn't as good as Sean. Maybe it was the polyester.

Lefty Specialist May 23 2017 02:20 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Dina Merrill, 93. Lived a fascinating life.

Edgy MD May 23 2017 02:58 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I was just thinking about Dina Merrill the other day. I was thinking about second- and third-tier Bat-villains. Her Calamity Jan character was something like fourth-tier, but once you're a Bat-villain, you're in the canon forever. I imagine she was as rich as anybody. I think she and her husband owned the back catalog of RKO.

41Forever May 23 2017 04:48 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Some of those single-episode bat villains (recognizing that a single episode in the first two seasons was actually two episodes) were not especially strong. But it's better to be a bad bat villain that not appear at all!

d'Kong76 May 23 2017 05:09 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I swear her breast (in the picture above) has slipped a little more out of that dress than it was this morning! RIP, 007... loved your work.

cooby May 23 2017 05:11 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Roger Moore, 89. I'm really surprised to learn that he was as old as 89. Fun fact: I've never seen any James Bond movies that didn't star either Roger Moore or Sean Connery. Me either

MFS62 May 24 2017 12:45 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I guess this means I am now the best looking man in a tuxedo. (Welllll, maybe Sean Connery still beats me out. ) RIP to both Roger and Dina. Later

Frayed Knot May 24 2017 01:19 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Who is that with RM?

Edgy MD May 24 2017 02:01 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Mrs. Ringo.

Frayed Knot May 24 2017 03:04 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

As Radar O'Reilly once said: "Ahhh, Bach!"

Edgy MD May 24 2017 06:47 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

[tweet:2tvdaw19]https://twitter.com/teamfaceplant/status/867117969113055232[/tweet:2tvdaw19]

metirish May 24 2017 07:07 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

That is an awesome story . wow

themetfairy May 27 2017 03:08 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski

Frayed Knot May 27 2017 06:25 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Jim Bunning, MLB pitcher and later a U.S. Congressman and Senator - 85 Author of a perfect game vs the 1964 Mets Also the father of nine and grandfather of 35!! and great-grandfather of (at least) 14

Edgy MD May 27 2017 07:06 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I fear that Brzezinski was the last adult in the room. That guy helped multiple presidents keep their perspective and their cool during the cold war. He won it as much as Reagan or anybody else did.

SteveJRogers May 27 2017 08:53 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Saw a social media posting about Allman's passing saying that 2016 is back after a 5 month vacation. #RollsEyes [url]http://m.tmz.com/2017/05/27/gregg-allman-dies/

cooby May 27 2017 11:40 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Greg allman, well crap

MFS62 May 28 2017 01:10 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Allman was an avid coin collector (I guess when he wasn't collecting wives) and over the years had purchased many thousand dollars of coins from the company for which I work. RIP. Later

Edgy MD May 28 2017 01:18 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

He always wanted one more silver dollar.

Lefty Specialist May 28 2017 01:42 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Edgy MD wrote: He always wanted one more silver dollar. Oooh. Awesome.

Fman99 May 28 2017 03:03 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

cooby wrote: Greg allman, well crap Was all set to see him play here in Syracuse last August but he canceled due to Ill health. Bummer

Frayed Knot May 28 2017 03:07 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

His [Gregg Allman] was a hard 69 years. Kept his great hair until the end though.

Edgy MD May 28 2017 04:24 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

He battled.

MFS62 May 29 2017 06:40 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Sports writer Frank Deford -78 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/spo ... ies-at-78/ I'll always remember him as the first editor-in-chief on The National , the first all sports daily newspaper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Sports_Daily Later

Frayed Knot May 29 2017 07:29 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Great writer and an intelligent voice. Most recently had been doing essays on NPR and been one of the correspondents on HBO's REAL SPORTS series.

41Forever May 29 2017 07:31 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Wow. I think Deford very recently retired from NPR -- like, within the month. I liked the National.

Edgy MD May 29 2017 09:45 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

My friend Martin heard an early rumor about the National, and got his résumé in early, before they were solicited even, and joined their editorial staff right out of school. Bill Murray was an investor and would stop by and visit with the staff on occasion. It obviously didn't work out, giving his career something of a false start, but he ended up marrying DeFord's niece, so he's got that going for him. Thanks, Frank DeFord!

Frayed Knot May 29 2017 10:19 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

IIRC, the biggest problem THE NATIONAL faced was distribution. They tried hooking onto the WSJ's delivery system but it put them on a schedule so early that they couldn't include a lot of the west coast scores and that, in the early days of rotisserie baseball, made it NOT the source for those players to go to in that pre-internet era.

metirish May 29 2017 11:21 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Absolutely loved The Old Ball Game : How John McGraw ,Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Saved Baseball

MFS62 May 29 2017 11:23 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

The National was a great idea. I thought it had good sports writers who weren't necessarily sports fans. The example I remember was a preview issue of the NCAA basketball tournament. It had a full page article, divided down the middle, about two point guards for the nation to keep an eye on. One of them was Tate George of UCONN, the other one went on to have an all star career in the NBA. IIRC it was Gary Payton. In an article like that, introducing the nation to little publicized players, the writer should give the reader some info on the players. You know, interesting facts. Nowhere in the articles did the writer mention how big the players were. Were they typical college point guards; little guys who had no chance to make the pros? Tate George was a 6'6" point guard (the other player was 6'3")- rare in today's NBA game and absolutely unheard of in those days. I re-read the article several times to see if I had missed it. I hadn't. As I said, the articles were well written. But that might have been something a fan might have wanted to know, d'ya' think? That lack of attention to detail, or was it fan's perspective?, cooled me on the paper. It wasn't the only time I noticed it, but it is the one I still remember most. Later

Edgy MD May 30 2017 02:06 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Tate George is currently serving a nine-year hitch for operating a supposed Ponzi scheme.

G-Fafif May 30 2017 04:52 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Here's an oral history of The National, compiled by Grantland, speaking of great ideas that didn't quite make it. After a game like today's, I would have loved to have trundled down to the corner and bought a copy if it still existed...and if it had been delivered...and if it had a writeup in this edition. Deford's book on the Giants, as Irish noted above, was a treat. As was basically everything the man wrote. I met him ever so briefly about a decade ago. Couldn't have been classier or warmer to a total stranger. A loss, but thankfully a legacy remains in place.

Frayed Knot May 30 2017 12:38 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega - 83 Spent a few years in headlines as a burr in the U.S.'s saddle way back when.

Edgy MD May 30 2017 01:49 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Was prosecuted by our newest, bestest American hope Robert Mueller.

Benjamin Grimm May 30 2017 01:54 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I was trying to remember what song the U.S. was playing continually to drive him mad while he was holed up prior to his capture.

MFS62 May 30 2017 01:57 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I was trying to remember what song the U.S. was playing continually to drive him mad while he was holed up prior to his capture. "Its a Small World"? I know that if you locked me up and played that song continuously, I'd confess to anything. Later

Lefty Specialist May 30 2017 02:35 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I seem to recall they were blaring Howard Stern at him day and night, which would be pretty funny.

Benjamin Grimm May 30 2017 02:40 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I found this article: Music torture: How heavy metal broke Manuel Noriega

Rockin' Doc Jun 03 2017 03:11 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Former PGA professional, Roberto De Vicenzo died earlier this week in Argentina at the age of 94. He won the British Open in 1967, but he is most famous for signing an incorrect scorecard following his final round at the 1968 Masters. His scoring error cost him a shot and dropped him out of a first place tie and into second place.

batmagadanleadoff Jun 03 2017 05:01 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Former PGA professional, Roberto De Vicenzo died earlier this week in Argentina at the age of 94. He won the British Open in 1967, but he is most famous for signing an incorrect scorecard following his final round at the 1968 Masters. His scoring error cost him a shot and dropped him out of a first place tie and into second place. His gaffe was SI cover-worthy. [fimg=555]https://vault-cdn.si.com/SI_ISSUE_IMAGES/Sports%20Illustrated/1968/04/19680422/Sports_Illustrated_42963_19680422-001-775.jpg[/fimg] GOLF'S CRAZIEST DRAMA excerpt: It was a Masters finish they will still talk about when Arnold Palmer's grandsons are wearing the green jackets of champions. Eleven players started the final round within three strokes of the lead, and six of them still were in contention through the last nine holes Not till the final two holes did the tournament distill into a contest between Roberto de Vicenzo, the gay and charming Argentine, and Bob Goalby (see cover), a big, handsome onetime football player from Illinois who has been laboring fitfully on the golf tour for 11 years. When Goalby sank a sticky four-foot putt for a par at the 72nd with de Vicenzo pulling at his lower lip as he watched apprehensively from a chair at the scorer's table alongside the green, a big cheer went up for the tie. Both were in at 277, 11 strokes under par and the fourth best score in the 32-year history of golf's spring classic. As everyone started replanning his schedule for the playoff on Monday, de Vicenzo was led off to the television room for the ersatz presentation ceremony that is broadcast prior to the real thing. It was only after Roberto had left the scorer's table that Tommy Aaron looked at de Vicenzo's scorecard and noticed something odd. The final total read 66 instead of 65, which was the remarkable score Roberto had shot. Aaron called it to the scorer's attention, and that green-coated gentleman snatched up the card and rushed off with it to a nearby cottage where the ailing Bobby Jones, president of the Augusta National Golf Club and co-host of the Masters, was watching the tournament on television. Clifford Roberts and several other officials got wind of the trouble and also hurried over to Jones's cottage. At this brief meeting in Jones's bedroom it was agreed that nothing could be done, that the harsh rules of golf must apply. De Vicenzo had signed and thereby verified the wrong score, and the rules say that in such a case the score he signed must stand. So Roberto was credited with 278 and Bob Goalby became the 1968 Masters champion on a scorekeeping error.

Lefty Specialist Jun 10 2017 04:21 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Holy Tombstones, Batman! Adam West is dead at 88.

41Forever Jun 10 2017 05:54 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Lefty Specialist wrote: Holy Tombstones, Batman! Adam West is dead at 88. Rats. Another childhood hero gone! I had to blog about this one. [url]http://metsguyinmichigan.blogspot.com/2017/06/every-signature-tells-story-adam-west.html

Edgy MD Jun 10 2017 05:59 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

It makes sense that he and Roger Moore would go around the same time. Two suave, devilishly handsome crimefighters—one American and one Brit—who had enough of a funny bone to play squares in a time of hipsters. Before he did Batman, he did a Bond parody of his own. [youtube:h57cc1kq]yRNcoJtsZhg[/youtube:h57cc1kq]

SteveJRogers Jun 10 2017 06:33 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Edgy MD wrote: It makes sense that he and Roger Moore would go around the same time. Two suave, devilishly handsome crimefighters—one American and one Brit—who had enough of a funny bone to play squares in a time of hipsters. And two guys often derided for the sincere camp they brought to their respective franchises.

Edgy MD Jun 10 2017 06:50 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Yup. Unjustly so.

batmagadanleadoff Jun 10 2017 09:34 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Edgy MD wrote: It makes sense that he and Roger Moore would go around the same time. Two suave, devilishly handsome crimefighters—one American and one Brit—who had enough of a funny bone to play squares in a time of hipsters. Before he did Batman, he did a Bond parody of his own. [youtube]yRNcoJtsZhg[/youtube] The James Bond connection was even bigger than you might've known. Adam West had first crack at the Bond role in Diamonds are Forever. West, believing that a Brit should play Bond, turned down the role -- a decision he'd later regret. Diamonds turned out to be Sean Connery's last Bond flick. [fimg=555]https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4201/35183585396_d89540a1cb_b.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=555]https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4243/35183466506_c8dcf82397_b.jpg[/fimg]

d'Kong76 Jun 11 2017 01:46 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

He was really the only Batman I ever knew (and I know this is blasphemous to the comic-book boys and big-box-office movie fans) and I'm sad to hear of his passing. To the bat polls, one more time... [youtube:3ool0o5e]VSaDPc1Cs5U[/youtube:3ool0o5e]

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 11 2017 12:41 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

He was the best Batman by far.

MFS62 Jun 11 2017 01:25 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

That show was the classic example of "camp TV". RIP, Adam. Later

batmagadanleadoff Jun 11 2017 11:14 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Wes Wilson was one of the '60s most influential commercial artists, best known for the psychedelic style he developed while creating many of rock and roll's now iconic posters for Bill Graham's Fillmore West venue. (Wes is still alive AFAIK; this is an Adam West post). Here's a sampling of the typical Wes Wilson style poster youse are all probably very familiar with, which includes the melt-in-your-eyes trippy font Wes also invented for his Fillmore work. [fimg=333:2ek4j17z]http://recordmecca.com/wp-content/uploads/mqc/874_large_1.jpg[/fimg:2ek4j17z] [fimg=289:2ek4j17z]http://www.wes-wilson.com/uploads/1/7/0/4/17048818/6159015_orig.jpg[/fimg:2ek4j17z] [fimg=293:2ek4j17z]http://www.postergeist.com/posters/Ebay/BG44.jpeg[/fimg:2ek4j17z] Wes developed his now-classic psychedelic style over time, and over several posters. Below is Wilson's first ever poster for a Bill Graham Fillmore West concert, released in 1966, during the Batman-TV craze: [fimg=666:2ek4j17z]http://concertposterauction.com/uploaded/rad2C598m5Fjkr010.jpg0.jpg[/fimg:2ek4j17z]

Edgy MD Jun 11 2017 11:34 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Still alive and kicking are the band Adam West: [youtube:2joafud7]l3Ny4I3p-z8[/youtube:2joafud7] And even better is the band Adam West the Bat: [youtube:2joafud7]Oi5X-i9XzoQ[/youtube:2joafud7]

themetfairy Jun 18 2017 02:19 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

RIP Flounder

Frayed Knot Jun 18 2017 02:20 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Stephen Furst -- aka: Kent 'Flounder' Dorfman -- 63. Complications of diabetes Helmut Kohl, chancellor of West Germany / just plain Germany during the reunification era. Complications of being 87

cooby Jun 18 2017 11:18 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Weirdly last night in my really cool neighbors yard, we watched an old campy movie called Midnight Madness, in which Stephen Furst had a major role. When I got home and saw here that he had died, I texted my neighbor right away and we were both astounded at the timing

Fman99 Jun 19 2017 03:15 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

cooby wrote: Weirdly last night in my really cool neighbors yard, we watched an old campy movie called Midnight Madness, in which Stephen Furst had a major role. When I got home and saw here that he had died, I texted my neighbor right away and we were both astounded at the timing My brother and I obsessed about this movie as kids as it was in a semi-regular HBO rotation. So stupid, and funny. Look between the huge melons!

MFS62 Jun 19 2017 01:37 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Larry Grantham - at 78 https://sports.yahoo.com/jets-great-lar ... 57429.html He is my all time favorite Titan/Jet. He was listed at 202 pounds on the roster for SB III, but according to Dave Anderson's great book about the game, by the end of that long season, he played linebacker in the game at 192 pounds. Larry was one tough sumbitch, and I'll never forget him. ​​​​​​​Later

cooby Jun 19 2017 01:40 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Fman99 wrote: cooby wrote: Weirdly last night in my really cool neighbors yard, we watched an old campy movie called Midnight Madness, in which Stephen Furst had a major role. When I got home and saw here that he had died, I texted my neighbor right away and we were both astounded at the timing My brother and I obsessed about this movie as kids as it was in a semi-regular HBO rotation. So stupid, and funny. Look between the huge melons! The really weird part was after Midnight Madness, Bill started up an Adam West Batman movie, in tribute, and we'd been watching this dead guy all evening....

Mets Willets Point Jun 21 2017 01:59 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Tony DiCicco, soccer coach who led the US Women's National Team to their first Olympic gold medal in 1996 and their historic World Cup win in 1999.

metirish Jun 21 2017 09:31 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Pete Flynn , Foley's pub just sent a tweet about his passing Very sad news

d'Kong76 Jun 21 2017 09:39 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

RIP, Pete. Deserves his own thread.

MFS62 Jun 22 2017 01:05 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Mets Willets Point wrote: Tony DiCicco, soccer coach who led the US Women's National Team to their first Olympic gold medal in 1996 and their historic World Cup win in 1999. Thank you, Tony. Without that World Cup victory, we would never have had our Brandi Chastain moment. RIP Later

MFS62 Jun 23 2017 01:10 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Gabe Pressman. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/gab ... -1.3271830 He WAS New York news. RIP Later

Mets Willets Point Jun 23 2017 01:58 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

For part of my childhood, I thought he was The Gay Pressman. I wondered why they never called him by his name rather than just saying he was gay.

Edgy MD Jun 29 2017 01:24 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Na na, hey hey, kiss Steam's Gary DeCarlo goodbye as he passes at 76 with a legacy of singing lead on one of the most unlikely and enduring one-hit wonders. [youtube:cbsa0goj]jsaTElBljOE[/youtube:cbsa0goj]

Frayed Knot Jun 29 2017 07:08 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Dave Semenko, 59 of cancer. A tough guy Edmonton Oiler for a number of years, best known as Gretzky's protection. If you went too near the 'Great One' there'd be a price to pay. He also once went a couple of rounds with Muhammad Ali. He was also a guy I had a brief conversation with at the one and only time I ever went to a Devils game (lost track of how many arenas ago that was). We had good seats to where you had to walk up to get beers or get to the bathroom and back down towards the ice coming back. So I'm returning from one or the other and paused at the top of the aisle waiting for a break in the action before I head back to the seats. While standing there I noticed the large guy next to me had a can of beer (Bud Light - funny what details stick in your mind) and while wondering how he had a can of beer in an arena where no one in their right minds would give cans to hockey fans, I glanced up and immediately recognized him - much easier in those helmet-optional days when I was a much bigger hockey fan than now. He was obviously not playing that night and my quick effort to strike up a conversation as to whether he was injured was met with a couple of mono-syllabic answers revealing that, no, he was a healthy scratch that night and that, no, he was not happy about it. The break in the action came none too soon.

G-Fafif Jul 16 2017 11:47 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Babe Parilli, AFL Legend with the Boston Patriots, Joe Namath's backup with the Super Bowl Jets, 87.

41Forever Jul 17 2017 12:37 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

George Romero of Night of the Living Dead fame. That movie scared the snot out of me as a kid -- and it has the ultimate kick-in-the-gut ending.

41Forever Jul 17 2017 12:43 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Wow, we also lost Martin Landau today. Not many of the Impossible Mission Team left. [url]http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/martin-landau-dead-ed-wood-811318

Edgy MD Jul 17 2017 01:17 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

[youtube:2iwjw720]zTosBomAyho[/youtube:2iwjw720] [youtube:2iwjw720]Z3FxD-RU1UE[/youtube:2iwjw720] [youtube:2iwjw720]MPT-7YblCKY[/youtube:2iwjw720]

Fman99 Jul 17 2017 01:22 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

He was so damn good in Ed Wood.

Frayed Knot Jul 17 2017 03:14 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Babe Parilli, AFL Legend with the Boston Patriots, Joe Namath's backup with the Super Bowl Jets, 87. Reading the NYDN obit where it said: "Parilli was traded to the Jets in 1968 at age 38 and became Namath’s backup. He completed 29 of 55 passes for 401 yards with 5 touchdowns. Three of those TD passes came in the fourth quarter of a come-from-behind 35-17 victory over the Dolphins on Dec. 1 [1968] at Shea in relief of Namath." I'm reasonably sure that that was the one and only NYJ game I ever attended at Shea. I didn't grow up in a football household but I must have expressed some curiosity about it and my father managed to secure a pair of tickets from a neighbor who had an in on some season tickets. Not being a rebellious kid at the time I wasn't one of those who worshipped Namath so I remember experiencing some degree of satisfaction when Parilli came in to relieve Joe Willie and led the Jets to a come from behind win. I don't believe that it was an injury that took Namath out of the game but that he was just pulled for poor play even though the Jets were only trailing by a few when the change was made.

MFS62 Jul 17 2017 02:13 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

41Forever wrote: Wow, we also lost Martin Landau today. Not many of the Impossible Mission Team left. [url]http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/martin-landau-dead-ed-wood-811318 I liked Space 1999. As for Babe Parilli, IIRC, in a pre-SB press conference, Namath needled the NFL reporters by saying that Parilli was better than many of the NFL starting QBs. RIP to both of them Later

Ashie62 Jul 17 2017 05:20 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

G-Fafif wrote: Babe Parilli, AFL Legend with the Boston Patriots, Joe Namath's backup with the Super Bowl Jets, 87. One of the faces of the AFL, at least in Boston.

TransMonk Jul 31 2017 03:28 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Sam Sheppard, 73

sharpie Jul 31 2017 03:31 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Terrible news. I met him a few times during my San Francisco theater days in the 70s/80s. Nice man and a great playwright.

Mets Willets Point Jul 31 2017 03:32 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I know him best from The Right Stuff. Hard to believe that Chuck Yeager outlived the man who played a younger version of himself.

sharpie Jul 31 2017 03:38 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Also, Jeanne Moreau, sexy French actress best known for Jules and Jim, has died at 89.

RealityChuck Aug 01 2017 08:02 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

June Foray, 99. The voice of Rocket J. Squirrel, Natasha Fatale, Nell Fenwick, Tweety's owner Granny, Marc Anthony's owner in "Feed the Kitty," Cindy Lou who, and many more cartoon characters.

Edgy MD Aug 01 2017 09:08 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Wow, all that and Granny too. I wouldn't have guessed that Looney Tunes used anybody besides Mel Blanc.

themetfairy Aug 08 2017 09:00 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

RIP Glen Campbell, an entertaining singer, actor and television personality.

cooby Aug 08 2017 11:24 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Very sad :(

Frayed Knot Aug 09 2017 12:25 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

We've discussed Campbell here before, specifically that him being tagged as "un-hip" during the '60s and early '70s combined with a TV/network image that played up his country roots tended to pigeonhole him into a narrower audience than he maybe deserved. But he was a good singer, a terrific guitar player, a well-renown session man, and even a substitute Beach Boy. A lot of his songs -- well, not his songs as he was always an interpreter -- probably would have benefited from the Rick Rubin treatment where they were redone in a more stripped-down version in his later years (a la Johnny Cash) in contrast to the over-produced sensibilities that make much of his early career stuff sound very dated today. Not quite that here, but at least a less structured session without the over-production [youtube:8ly7uugs]ETkzK9pXMio[/youtube:8ly7uugs]

Chad Ochoseis Aug 09 2017 01:04 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

[youtube:1km8lm50]AxSarBcsKLU[/youtube:1km8lm50] #195 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list. I prefer the Freedy Johnston version, but this one certainly didn't suck.

MFS62 Aug 09 2017 02:08 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Frayed Knot wrote: We've discussed Campbell here before, specifically that him being tagged as "un-hip" during the '60s and early '70s combined with a TV/network image that played up his country roots tended to pigeonhole him into a narrower audience than he maybe deserved. But he was a good singer, a terrific guitar player, a well-renown session man, and even a substitute Beach Boy. A lot of his songs -- well, not his songs as he was always an interpreter -- probably would have benefited from the Rick Rubin treatment where they were redone in a more stripped-down version in his later years (a la Johnny Cash) in contrast to the over-produced sensibilities that make much of his early career stuff sound very dated today. Not quite that here, but at least a less structured session without the over-production [youtube]ETkzK9pXMio[/youtube] There is an amazing group of stars in that video. Thanks for that. RIP Later

Mets Willets Point Aug 09 2017 02:51 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

The Smothers Brothers played a big role in promoting Glen Campbell, despite his perceived unhip-ness and being on the opposite side of the political fence of the Smothers. Tom Smothers even produced Campbell's first tv variety show as a summer replacement for "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour."

Frayed Knot Aug 20 2017 12:20 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Comedian/Activist Dick Gregory - 84

41Forever Aug 20 2017 06:40 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 20 2017 06:41 PM

Jerry Lewis, at 91. [url]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/20/movies/jerry-lewis-dead-celebrated-comedian-and-filmmaker.html I had no idea that Gary Lewis of the Playboys, who sang "This Diamond Ring," was his son.

d'Kong76 Aug 20 2017 06:41 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Jerry Lewis, 91. RIP

seawolf17 Aug 20 2017 09:05 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Jerry Lewis was a jerk.

d'Kong76 Aug 20 2017 09:50 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Just reporting a celebrity death. A huge celebrity for over half a century and helped raise $2 billion dollars for a good cause. I'm aware that it became a con- troversial thing to many over the years but I'm not gonna spit on the guy and call him a jerk when he's been dead 'at the present time' for less than 24 hours. Beyoncé is a jerk, but she's still alive.

Edgy MD Aug 20 2017 09:56 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

My best friend growing up had a dad who worked for the Muscular Dystrophy Association as purchasing director. Jerry had an office there in the midtown headquarters. He was never there, of course, but we were allowed to go in and it had the most amazing red shag carpet the world may have ever seen. There was also a picture of him as The Clown in that insane movie of his that was never released. His parents worked the telethon every year. In retrospect, it was just awful television, but he and I would stay up and watch it together and my family always supported brands that supported MDA. Not that it took much discipline to support 7-Up and McDonald's, but still. Because of MDA, my nephew has had a far more fulfilling and independent life than he might have otherwise have had. And lest it go unsaid, because of Jerry Lewis, MDA. RIP, you crazy clown.

MFS62 Aug 20 2017 10:40 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

d'Kong76 wrote: Just reporting a celebrity death. A huge celebrity for over half a century and helped raise $2 billion dollars for a good cause. I'm aware that it became a con- troversial thing to many over the years but I'm not gonna spit on the guy and call him a jerk when he's been dead 'at the present time' for less than 24 hours. Beyoncé is a jerk, but she's still alive. Thank you. Well said. RIP. Later

41Forever Aug 20 2017 10:43 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

We used to go to the Jerry Lewis Theaters in the shopping center that at the time had a Sears in Massapequa. Many Disney double features viewed in the mid-1970s!

Mets Willets Point Aug 21 2017 04:18 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Flags at half-staff all across France.

seawolf17 Aug 21 2017 11:00 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

d'Kong76 wrote: Just reporting a celebrity death. A huge celebrity for over half a century and helped raise $2 billion dollars for a good cause. I'm aware that it became a con- troversial thing to many over the years but I'm not gonna spit on the guy and call him a jerk when he's been dead 'at the present time' for less than 24 hours. Fair point.

dgwphotography Aug 21 2017 03:48 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Joseph Bologna, 82 Surprised that this flew under the radar. He was great in My Favorite Year

MFS62 Aug 22 2017 01:32 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

RIP, Joe. These things tend to come in threes. That's the third celebrity death this past weekend. (Other two were Dick Gregory and Jerry Lewis) Other older celebrities can breathe a sigh of relief. For now. Later

G-Fafif Aug 24 2017 07:52 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Jay Thomas, 69. Known nationally as Eddie LeBec on Cheers, I always think of him as the morning man on 99 X when I was in high school and, later, the guy Howard Stern bumped at K-Rock. He did all right for himself away from radio.

Edgy MD Aug 24 2017 08:11 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

That guy seemed to get a lot of shows that didn't quite catch on. Host of the breakthrough-in-disgraceful-television Who Wants to Marry a Millionairre?, if I recall correctly.

Edgy MD Aug 25 2017 02:33 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Three David Letterman holiday traditions: 1) Paul Schaefer doing his Cher impersonation. 2) Darlene Love singing "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)." 3) Jay Thomas telling his Clayton Moore story. [youtube:1c7gpvqz]KFabfnfhIaY[/youtube:1c7gpvqz]

Frayed Knot Aug 25 2017 03:06 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Edgy MD wrote: Three David Letterman holiday traditions: ... 3) Jay Thomas telling his Clayton Moore story. And then throwing footballs at the pizza on top of the Christmas tree.

seawolf17 Aug 30 2017 08:36 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Stony Brook Hall of Fame basketball coach Rollie Massimino, who apparently went on to coach other places after leaving here in 1971.

MFS62 Aug 31 2017 02:08 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

seawolf17 wrote: Stony Brook Hall of Fame basketball coach Rollie Massimino, who apparently went on to coach other places after leaving here in 1971. RIP, Rollie. You coached the perfect game in that 'Nova Championship win. Later

dgwphotography Sep 01 2017 02:25 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Richard Anderson, Oscar Goldman from The Six Million Dollar Man, 91.

MFS62 Sep 01 2017 01:16 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

dgwphotography wrote: Richard Anderson, Oscar Goldman from The Six Million Dollar Man, 91. We can rebuild him. RIP. Later

MFS62 Sep 02 2017 09:47 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Shelly Berman - 92 https://www.yahoo.com/news/shelley-berm ... 49971.html His was the first comedy album to go gold. Olevai sholom. Later

Edgy MD Sep 03 2017 01:26 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

You might not read much about him, but Democratic party activist Rick Stafford has passed, after spending 40 years lobbying, cajoling, and nudging the Democratic Party — and Republicans too — to take a strong stand on LGBT rights. We see the breakthrough of gay marriage in recent years. He helped craft that plank and introduce it to the party platform, but more fundamentally, he helped lead the way there in helping craft less visible but foundational steps: the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act, the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ the Ryan White HIV Treatment Extension Act, a national AIDS strategy, the lifting of the HIV entry ban, the federal housing programs that ban discrimination on sexual orientation and gender identity, etc.

MFS62 Sep 03 2017 01:31 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

RIP, Rick. You fought the good fight. Later

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 03 2017 03:23 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Holy shit, Walter Becker.

G-Fafif Sep 03 2017 04:44 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Oof. Donald Fagen remembers his partner here. Walter Becker was my friend, my writing partner and my bandmate since we met as students at Bard College in 1967. We started writing nutty little tunes on an upright piano in a small sitting room in the lobby of Ward Manor, a mouldering old mansion on the Hudson River that the college used as a dorm. We liked a lot of the same things: jazz (from the twenties through the mid-sixties), W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, science fiction, Nabokov, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Berger, and Robert Altman films come to mind. Also soul music and Chicago blues. Walter had a very rough childhood - I’ll spare you the details. Luckily, he was smart as a whip, an excellent guitarist and a great songwriter. He was cynical about human nature, including his own, and hysterically funny. Like a lot of kids from fractured families, he had the knack of creative mimicry, reading people’s hidden psychology and transforming what he saw into bubbly, incisive art. He used to write letters (never meant to be sent) in my wife Libby’s singular voice that made the three of us collapse with laughter. His habits got the best of him by the end of the seventies, and we lost touch for a while. In the eighties, when I was putting together the NY Rock and Soul Review with Libby, we hooked up again, revived the Steely Dan concept and developed another terrific band. I intend to keep the music we created together alive as long as I can with the Steely Dan band. [youtube]P1ERl6DGZI[/youtube]

Frayed Knot Sep 03 2017 07:54 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Becker always came off as the silent partner in Steely Dan; not just that he wasn't the singer but that I rarely if ever heard him speak. You accepted that he was an equal part of the creative process, yet still always seemed to be the one in the background, the one with the lesser solo career, or as the guy more interested in the music than in the obvious trappings of stardom..

Edgy MD Sep 03 2017 10:51 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Also, despite being the co-founder, was rarely featured, as he started off on bass, then switched to guitar as the act shrunk from a full band to a duo-with-supporting-musicians. But even as the permanent guitarist, he usually took a back seat to whichever (outstanding) guitarists were joining the group for a particular album's sessions. He has some nice work (see the juke box thread), but it appears irregularly. Produced a few albums with the tragically under-regarded Scottish band China Crisis, as well as Ricki Lee Jones' fantabulous comeback album Flying Cowboys.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 04 2017 12:53 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

That was a nice statement from Don. I didn't know Becker was ill but they missed the big Classics East event at CitiField last month. Did anyone go to that show?

Fman99 Sep 04 2017 02:14 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I have long been a fan of Steely Dan. Sad to hear of his passing.

Edgy MD Sep 06 2017 08:52 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Going the same day as Walter Becker was great American poet John Ashbery, a native of upstate New York. John was made for this thread, musing on mortality even when he was young. [list][list]Then everything, in her belief, was to be submerged[/list:u] And soon. There was no life you could live out to its end [list]And no attitude which, in the end, would save you. The monkish and the frivolous alike were to be trapped in[/list:u] death’s capacious claw [list]But listen while I tell you about the wallpaper—[/list:u][/list:u] But he also had a cheeky side, pounding out this terrific epic. [list]THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED They all kissed the bride. They all laughed. They came from beyond space. They came by night. They came to a city. They came to blow up America. They came to rob Las Vegas. They dare not love. They died with their boots on. They shoot horses, don’t they? They go boom. They got me covered. They flew alone. They gave him a gun. They just had to get married. They live. They loved life. They live by night. They drive by night. They knew Mr Knight. They were expendable. They met in Argentina. They met in Bombay. They met in the dark. They might be giants. They made me a fugitive. They made me a criminal. They only kill their masters. They shall have music. They were sisters. They still call me Bruce. They won’t believe me. They won’t forget.[/list:u]

RealityChuck Sep 09 2017 01:01 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Science fiction author Jerry Pournelle. Pournelle is best known for his collaborations with Larry Niven, including a couple of NYT best sellers. I knew him mostly in the SFWA groups online, where he was a crusty debater over politics and science fiction.

G-Fafif Sep 10 2017 04:29 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Don Williams, warm and knowing country music voice, 78. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/arts ... &smtyp=cur

Edgy MD Sep 10 2017 07:56 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

The first song I wrote was trying to sound like Don Williams. I had never really heard of him, but young woman I was working with had a Don Williams thing. And I had thing for her, so ...

Fman99 Sep 14 2017 01:19 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Frank Vincent, age 80. Loved him in Goodfellas as Billy Batts.

Edgy MD Sep 14 2017 01:23 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

More stunningly, Grant Hart — founder, drummer, and co-leader of Hüsker Dü, as well as Nova Mob — has succumbed to kidney cancer at the young age of 56. I hadn't known he'd been sick, but strangely, the last few weeks, I'd play one of his songs every time I'd pick up the guitar Grant's debut solo album, Intolerance, was an incredible kick in my face. So much so that I used its cover art as my avatar when I first logged onto METS ONLINE. It was a literal solo album, in that he played every instrument, even though his musicianship was relatively limited, so he'd occasionally end up whistling or blasting on harmonica where there was supposed to be a guitar solo. And yet ever track works, searing with the joys and regrets born of the wreckage of young adulthood — his "big windows to let in the sun" from "2541" landing at the same time as his former partner's "See a Little Light," with one looking back and one looking forward, but both searching for the same light. It's an album of redemptive and cathartic power pop goodness I recommend to anybody whose coat I can get grab. [youtube]jfofrlvDKq0[/youtube] [youtube]GjJC5e4VpDY[/youtube] [youtube]jzl-sI1w7cM[/youtube]

Frayed Knot Sep 15 2017 12:46 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Cassini - 20, assisted suicide

MFS62 Sep 15 2017 01:28 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Frayed Knot wrote: Cassini - 20, assisted suicide It was by design. Later

TransMonk Sep 16 2017 12:14 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Harry Dean Stanton, Character Actor Who Became a Star, Dies at 91 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/movi ... actor.html

Edgy MD Sep 16 2017 01:09 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Gosh. "No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad." — Roger Ebert It's not that everything he was in was great, but it was all interesting.

MFS62 Sep 16 2017 01:23 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Edgy MD wrote: It's not that everything he was in was great, but it was all interesting. He even made the Steven Segal movie "Fire Down Below" better. He was from Kentucky, and the movie takes place there. You could tell his little dance during the closing credits wasn't choreographed, but from his heart. RIP. Later

Frayed Knot Sep 16 2017 02:49 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

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Edgy MD Sep 16 2017 05:23 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Ebert eventually confessed in one of his reviews that the rule ultimately failed: In Dream a Little Dream, Robards is this old guy who lives near the high school. The kids are always using his yard as a shortcut, and he's always shouting at them. But basically he's a happy guy, who's in love with his wife (Piper Laurie) and enjoys philosophical talks with his neighbor. The neighbor is played by Harry Dean Stanton, who has more to lose than Robards in this movie, since "Dream a Little Dream" is a clear violation of the Stanton-Walsh Rule, which states: "No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad."

Frayed Knot Sep 20 2017 03:06 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Jake LaMotta - 96 That certainly beats the odds!!

sharpie Sep 20 2017 03:46 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

We found in the files recently a memo from a young royalties assistant who happened to be the only person around when Jake LaMotta showed up at her desk demanding royalty income for his memoir. She wrote that he was pretty scary.

MFS62 Sep 20 2017 09:52 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

He was only knocked down once in his entire boxing career. (as per ABC-TV News) RIP Later

Frayed Knot Sep 20 2017 10:09 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

sharpie wrote: We found in the files recently a memo from a young royalties assistant who happened to be the only person around when Jake LaMotta showed up at her desk demanding royalty income for his memoir. She wrote that he was pretty scary. I'm guessing that Jake was pretty scary up to and including about three weeks ago. MFS62 wrote: He was only knocked down once in his entire boxing career. (as per ABC-TV News) Does that count the times he threw fights?

MFS62 Sep 20 2017 11:41 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Frayed Knot wrote: MFS62 wrote: He was only knocked down once in his entire boxing career. (as per ABC-TV News) Does that count the times he threw fights? Low blow. Go to a neutral corner. One more and the referee will disqualify you. Later

Frayed Knot Sep 21 2017 01:42 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Well considering that he was suspended (at least once) for throwing a fight it's not much of a low blow now is it? In the movie they've got DeNiro/LaMotta, after absorbing a shit-ton of blows without an obvious attempt to fight back, taunting Sugar Ray with "You still didn't knock me down Ray, you couldn't put me down", which implies there was at least one thrown fight were he still didn't go down. Of course that's assuming such a scene actually happened.

MFS62 Sep 21 2017 10:22 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Frayed Knot wrote: Well considering that he was suspended (at least once) for throwing a fight it's not much of a low blow now is it? You're right, but I was taught to not speak ill of the dead. Unless they were really an evil fucker, I don't say anything at all. Later

d'Kong76 Sep 25 2017 03:48 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, 37

MFS62 Sep 28 2017 12:18 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Hugh Heffner: https://www.yahoo.com/news/hugh-hefner- ... 14304.html Innovative publisher and entrepreneur. But when he tried to live the life he espoused, he became a caricature of himself. RIP, Heff. Thanks for the mamaries. Later

Lefty Specialist Sep 28 2017 05:19 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Oh, to be Hugh Hefner for 20 minutes. Just for the hell of it.

Benjamin Grimm Sep 28 2017 06:14 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

You'd like to be dead for 20 minutes?

Lefty Specialist Sep 29 2017 12:27 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Jimmy Kimmel said it best. "Hugh Hefner is the only person who gets to heaven and is disappointed."

41Forever Sep 29 2017 12:38 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Lefty Specialist wrote: Jimmy Kimmel said it best. "Hugh Hefner is the only person who gets to heaven and is disappointed." A local columnist disagrees. A little harsh, perhaps. I find the "good articles" one of the most annoying parts of the whole Playboy mystique. It's like the rich Corinthian leather or the fine mahogany paneling in a strip bar - part of the canard that for the man of wit and distinction, naked, submissive women are an essential component. So long, Hugh Hefner. You were a real piece of work.

Frayed Knot Oct 01 2017 12:06 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Let's make a deal at the pearly gates -- Monty (Halparin) Hall, 96 Was anyone here aware that Monty Hall was still alive? I mean, prior to today that is.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 01 2017 12:46 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I knew he was alive and in his 90s. Didn't know he was as deep into his 90s as 96.

MFS62 Oct 01 2017 01:24 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

He took Gate # 1. RIP. Later

Edgy MD Oct 01 2017 02:37 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Mets content. Backwards, but still. [fimg=700:2qelrd2w]http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/lets-make-deal-odd-couple.jpg[/fimg:2qelrd2w]

Frayed Knot Oct 07 2017 07:40 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Connie Hawkins - 75

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Frayed Knot wrote: Connie Hawkins - 75 My Bayside High School team was eliminated in the PSAL tourney by Columbus, or we would have had the honor of losing the Championship to Connie's Boys High team. The book about him, "Foul" was one of the most deeply moving books I ever read. I vividly remember the story when he came home from school and there was a note from his mother that said "There's some fruit in the refrigerator". When he opened the door, the only food in there was one peach. I remember how happy I was when he was finally given a chance to be a pro in the ABA. RIP, Connie. You paid your dues. For those of us who saw you, the legend will live on. Later

Frayed Knot Oct 07 2017 09:37 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

My knowledge of Hawkins's history is fairly limited and was all learned after the fact, both because it was before my time and because I was never a basketball follower anyway. But the blackballing of him, both by the colleges and the NBA, was borderline criminal and it's good to know that the rights of college players has advanced at least five or ten years in the 50+ years since his time. I'd love it if this latest coach/sneaker/bribery scandal were to blow up into something big enough to bring the entire current model of big time college sports crashing to the ground, although the chances of that are slim to none.

Chad Ochoseis Oct 09 2017 07:01 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Y.A. Tittle, who took two knees, age 90.

MFS62 Oct 10 2017 02:09 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

He set all of his records when the league was mostly a Wing-T running league and really didn't know how to defend the long pass. If you look at films of some of his games, you'll notice that many of his long passes were dying quail side-arm "wobblies" that would probably get picked off today. But I also remember the "all initial backfield" of the 'Niners, YA Tittle, CR Roberts, RC Owens and JD Smith. R.I.P. Y.A. Later

G-Fafif Oct 11 2017 08:49 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Bunny Sigler, 76, who helped make Philly Soul sound like Philly Soul.

G-Fafif Oct 12 2017 07:45 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Bob Schiller, 98, wrote for I Love Lucy, All In The Family, Maude and a whole bunch of other TV shows. Radio, too.

Edgy MD Oct 15 2017 12:27 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I'm not saying we're in a Godless universe, but Morgan Freeman is [crossout:jsjdgb8l]dead[/crossout:jsjdgb8l] TOTALLY NOT DEAD. [fimg=600:jsjdgb8l]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Morgan-Freeman.jpg[/fimg:jsjdgb8l]

Fman99 Oct 15 2017 12:40 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Edgy MD wrote: I'm not saying we're in a Godless universe, but Morgan Freeman is dead. [fimg=600]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Morgan-Freeman.jpg[/fimg] Ya sure about that? I am reading it's another hoax.

d'Kong76 Oct 15 2017 01:52 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Seemingly more fake news.

Edgy MD Oct 15 2017 02:06 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Really? Fuck yeah! I feel like the biggest of douches. I always double check, and I was about to, but there was this thing, and I ... shit.

G-Fafif Oct 18 2017 06:49 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Reputable source reporting Michele Marsh, former WCBS-TV anchor, 63, has died of complications from breast cancer.

Frayed Knot Oct 19 2017 01:57 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I remember that she and NYG punter Dave Jennings dated for a while during which time she did a feature story on him for whichever news station she was with at that point, CBS/2 I think it was which conveniently also carried most of the Giant games at the time. That they were an item was hardly a well-kept secret but the station presented the feature without acknowledging that fact. Meanwhile, the rest of the news room was visibly giggling when the piece ended as if they were in a Jr HS cafeteria and they were the only ones in on the latest gossip.

G-Fafif Oct 19 2017 05:40 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Gord Downie, 53, the Tragically Hip, dead from brain cancer, which continues to suck.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 24 2017 08:48 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Robert Guillaume, 89. TV's Benson.

41Forever Oct 24 2017 09:08 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I liked his work in "Sports Night" A great show!

Edgy MD Oct 24 2017 09:14 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I preferred when he managed the Padres in the World Series.

Lefty Specialist Oct 24 2017 10:12 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

41Forever wrote: I liked his work in "Sports Night" A great show! Sports Night was so totally underrated. A great cast doing snappy dialogue from Aaron Sorkin. Pity it only lasted two seasons.

Frayed Knot Oct 24 2017 10:33 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

IIRC, Guillaume had a stroke* during the run of SPORTS NIGHT and so they wrote that into his character for future episodes. * had it during the filming of an episode says Wiki-Pee

41Forever Oct 25 2017 01:55 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Lefty Specialist wrote: 41Forever wrote: I liked his work in "Sports Night" A great show! Sports Night was so totally underrated. A great cast doing snappy dialogue from Aaron Sorkin. Pity it only lasted two seasons. Lots of West Wing crossovers.

Mets Willets Point Oct 25 2017 02:01 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

An unspecified state flies the flag at half-staff in memory of their former Lieutenant Governor.

HahnSolo Oct 25 2017 02:21 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Are we sure Kraus wasn't responsible?

Edgy MD Oct 25 2017 02:35 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Kraus and he were BFFs by the end of the show.

Mets Willets Point Oct 25 2017 02:47 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Fats Domino, 89 Until a few minutes ago I would've assumed that Fats Domino was significantly older than Robert Guillaume, not the same age.

sharpie Oct 25 2017 09:10 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

So, with Chuck Berry also passing this year, the inaugural class of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has only three living members. Living: Don Everly Jerry Lee Lewis Little Richard Dead: Chuck Berry James Brown Ray Charles Sam Cooke Fats Domino Phil Everly Buddy Holly Elvis Presley

Edgy MD Oct 25 2017 09:22 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Amazing that that original class's last survivors are Don (a drinker and drugger), Jerry (a universal sinner, who has gotten up from his deathbed at least twice), Little (booze, lots o' coke, heroin, PCP, DWI, promiscuity), and Fats (fat). On the other hand looking down the list of the others, there aren't a whole lot of models of clean living.

MFS62 Oct 26 2017 01:18 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Ain't it a shame. Later

G-Fafif Nov 01 2017 12:36 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Jack Bannon, 77, actor who portrayed one of the terrific low-key characters of yore, Art Donovan on Lou Grant. Art was who Lou told to get the forever unseen Rosenberg to the site of a breaking story that engendered potential danger, which became a running joke between me and my dad. "Oh sure, send the Jewish reporter to the scene of the crime."

Edgy MD Nov 10 2017 03:33 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

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MFS62 Nov 10 2017 02:01 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

RIP, John Hillerman. He exuded class. And I'm nuts for Tia Carerre, too. Later

dgwphotography Nov 10 2017 03:56 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Wow. I was a big Magnum fan, and he was good on Ellery Queen, too. on edit - I just went through his IMDB page, and I don't remember him in one of my favorite movies of all time - What's Up, Doc

Edgy MD Nov 10 2017 04:30 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

He also stole every scene he had in Blazing Saddles. He was a native Texan and somehow turned his Texas drawl into Eton droll. On the run of Magnum, Higgins was visited by long-lost half brothers three separate times, with each character additionally played by Hillerman: garish Texan Elmo Ziller, Irish priest Father Paddy McGuinness, and exiled Iberian royal Don Luis Mongueo. A fourth brother, Soo Ling, is mentioned but never appears. The cliffhanger of whether Higgins really is/was Robin Masters has never been resolved.

Chad Ochoseis Nov 10 2017 05:08 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

In a film with Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, and John Huston, his performance stood out. What more can be said?

41Forever Nov 12 2017 11:38 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Liz Smith, legendary gossip columnist, at 94. [url]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/arts/liz-smith-dead.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

G-Fafif Nov 16 2017 06:29 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Ferdie Pacheco, 89, the "Fight Doctor," ringside physician to Muhammad Ali and a boxing legend.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 18 2017 03:29 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Malcolm Young, 64. The secret genius of AC/DC's musclebound rock. A giant! [youtube:2eal4ct7]0SUB3hekonU[/youtube:2eal4ct7]

d'Kong76 Nov 18 2017 04:22 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

RIP [youtube:27l2kuaf]QMvE0yFnR0I[/youtube:27l2kuaf]

41Forever Nov 19 2017 05:01 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Country legend Mel Tillis at 85. [url]http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2017/11/19/mel-tillis-dead-country-music-hall-famer/852933001/

Frayed Knot Nov 20 2017 10:08 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Charles Manson - 83 and there was much rejoicing ... Yay!!

41Forever Nov 20 2017 07:50 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Actress and singer Della Reese at 86. [url]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tvnews/della-reese-%E2%80%98touched-by-an-angel%E2%80%99-star-and-randb-singer-dies-at-86/ar-BBFn6WO

Edgy MD Nov 20 2017 08:01 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

And ordained minister. Survived for a long time after getting her pinky toe shot off.

Ashie62 Nov 22 2017 03:18 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

And David Cassidy is gone too soon. 67

G-Fafif Nov 29 2017 08:11 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Two voices who shaped the music of the early Sixties have left us, each at the age of 78: Pete Moore of the Miracles; and Wayne Cochran, who originated "Last Kiss". I learned his name from Elwood Blues's thorough introduction to "Going Back To Miami," which, not surprisingly, was a Miami radio favorite in the early Eighties. [youtube]Bu6gntFWHYU[/youtube]

G-Fafif Nov 30 2017 07:11 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Jim Nabors, a.k.a. PFC Gomer Pyle, 87.

cooby Nov 30 2017 07:13 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Wow just heard him singing on the radio yesterday

Edgy MD Nov 30 2017 07:21 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

My father knew Gomer. Had a standing invitation to visit his macadamia ranch in Hawaii. True story! Not a Lot of Surviving Mayberrians: Opie Taylor, Thelma Lou, Ellie Walker, Johnny Paul Jason, the unloved Deputy Warren Ferguson, Charlene Darling, a few or the Darling Boys, Leon the Toddler, Sam Jones ... .

G-Fafif Nov 30 2017 07:22 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

cooby wrote: Wow just heard him singing on the radio yesterday Has a singing voice ever so vastly differed from an acting voice?

cooby Nov 30 2017 07:24 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Exactly! I remember snickering when my mom bought one of his albums. Then she played it

d'Kong76 Nov 30 2017 07:27 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

When Gomer joined The Marines on the AGShow, that was classic TV. RIP. Say hi to Gunnery Sergeant Carter for us.

Edgy MD Nov 30 2017 07:44 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

Wasn't really looking to be an actor. Just a guy who liked to sing, but he goofed around with some characters in his cabaret act and Andy Griffith was in the audience one night and liked what he was doing. He lost two shows to the rural purge. And Gomer Pyle, USMC was ranked at or near the top week after week.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 30 2017 07:51 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

My friend in Hawaii was a Neighbors neighbor. He says he's a nice guy who let them park at his beachfront place when he went surfing.

Benjamin Grimm Nov 30 2017 08:12 PM Re: Guess who died in 2017

I remember when I was a kid, my father casually mentioned the rumor that Jim Nabors had married Rock Hudson. That blew my mind. At that point, I had no awareness that there was such a thing as gay people.

MFS62 Dec 01 2017 12:34 AM Re: Guess who died in 2017

G-Fafif wrote: Jim Nabors, a.k.a. PFC Gomer Pyle, 87. When I heard the news, my thought was "Well golllleeee". RIP, Jim. Later