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Guess who died in 2022

Benjamin Grimm Jan 01 2022 06:01 AM

Disgraced Italian business man Calisto Tanzi, 83.

G-Fafif Jan 01 2022 07:37 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Dan Reeves, who coached the Giants to the playoffs and two other teams to the Super Bowl, 77. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32972670/dan-reeves-former-nfl-coach-player-dies-77

Frayed Knot Jan 01 2022 04:57 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Although unmentioned in the linked ESPN piece, Reeves had been suffering from dementia in recent years. And while that's not unheard of for someone in their mid-70s, it's still semi-young. Reeves of course played prior to his coaching career which leads to wondering about CTE and as to whether the family will pursue an examination.

G-Fafif Jan 05 2022 01:26 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Lawrence Brooks, who had been the oldest living US veteran of World War II, 112. https://apnews.com/article/new-orleans-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-veterans-world-war-ii-7f524c95f9b3ac8f52ee487ed16a4cf1

MFS62 Jan 05 2022 02:19 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Lawrence Brooks, who had been the oldest living US veteran of World War II, 112. https://apnews.com/article/new-orleans-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-veterans-world-war-ii-7f524c95f9b3ac8f52ee487ed16a4cf1 Old soldiers never die. They just fade away. TEN HUT! Later

G-Fafif Jan 06 2022 10:43 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Peter Bogdanovich, director (and Dr. Melfi's therapist on The Sopranos), 82. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/peter-bogdanovich-dead-last-picture-show-1235070769/

MFS62 Jan 07 2022 08:56 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Sidney Poitier - 94 https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/movies/sidney-poitier-trailblazing-hollywood-icon-who-broke-barriers-black-actors-n1256724?fbclid=IwAR2yTK84GjdrySOPQS2_WL6TbBzyYrjfbaeDhxz6io9_EC8MjYDTYCfddDI RIP Later

Benjamin Grimm Jan 07 2022 09:05 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I call him Mr. Tibbs. https://groovyhistory.com/content/124237/7f3b05131f52e87d1a8405c71ee1850c.jpg>

Willets Point Jan 07 2022 09:20 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I watched In The Heat of the Night in recent years thinking it would be dated but it holds up surprisingly well and feels groundbreaking. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is totally dated though, but Poitier is still great in his role.

Edgy MD Jan 07 2022 09:21 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

That dude took me from crayons to perfume.

G-Fafif Jan 07 2022 01:29 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Lani Guinier, leading civil rights attorney whose nomination as assistant attorney general in 1993 was torpedoed in what echoes as a dress rehearsal for confirmation battles to come, 71.

Johnny Lunchbucket Jan 07 2022 01:57 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

If you asked me I'd have told u Sidney was dead for 30 years

kcmets Jan 07 2022 03:08 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I just looked at his list of movies and I've only seen the biggies. I liked A Patch of Blue but it's been like twenty years since last seeing it. Maybe I'll look for it tonight on one our countless 'free' movie viewing options.

Edgy MD Jan 07 2022 03:59 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

A Patch of Blue was a good film. A good book too. It surprisingly was the most successful of Poitier's career. It was the most lucrative too, as he worked for scale plus 10% of gross earnings. It seems mostly forgotten and if I didn't know that factlet, and was asked which of his films did the best in theatres, I'd have probably named seven or eight titles before guessing that. Maybe more.

G-Fafif Jan 07 2022 09:25 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

NYT on Guinier: While the rest of the country remembered her for her failed nomination, she continued to make strides as a legal scholar and teacher. She pioneered research on implicit bias in the classroom and workplace. Later in her career she opened a wide-ranging critique of merit, especially the way it distorts institutions like her own. Many of her positions have since moved into and informed the mainstream, especially her criticisms of voter redistricting processes. “The ability to see so far down the line was her gift,” Heather Gerken, the dean of Yale Law School, said in a phone interview. “She had a deep understanding of the insidious ways that power corrupts institutions, even institutions acting in good faith.” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/07/us/politics/lani-guinier-dead.html

Frayed Knot Jan 08 2022 06:13 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Lani Guinier, leading civil rights attorney whose nomination as assistant attorney general in 1993 was torpedoed in what echoes as a dress rehearsal for confirmation battles to come, 71. Yes, Guinier's torpedoing was a retribution move for Bork. Time was when, as long as the candidate was deemed to have the proper credentials for the post, the executive branch usually got their candidate approved and often by large and bipartisan majorities. The 'Borking' process killed off that trend. But that linked article also correctly points out how quickly and cowardly Clinton caved once opposition appeared. IIRC, he and Guinier were not just familiar with each other's stances but were friends to the point where he and Hillary had attended her wedding. All of which made his claim, once the flak started, that he wasn't aware of many of the legal views she espoused sound like the total bullshit they were. Even I knew at the time that he was full of it on this topic because I knew what her views were in advance of her nomination and I certainly make no claim, then or now, to being the most informed consumer of political news, particularly when compared to the then 44-ish y/o President who by that point had already been in politics for about 40 of those years. My "inside source" at the time was my subscription to Newsweek magazine. If only Bill C. had had one of those he could have avoided the entire embarrassment.

G-Fafif Jan 09 2022 10:18 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Michael Lang, who (with others, of course), brought the world Woodstock, 77. https://apnews.com/article/woodstock-michael-lang-dead-68205a6761ac4154c7d871471a81d3a3

G-Fafif Jan 09 2022 05:47 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Bob Saget, 65. https://www.tmz.com/2022/01/09/bob-saget-dead-dies-hotel-comedian-full-house/

G-Fafif Jan 09 2022 06:39 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Dwayne Hickman, who starred as Dobie Gillis, 87. https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/dwayne-hickman-dead-the-many-loves-of-dobie-gillis-actor-1235149782/

Edgy MD Jan 09 2022 07:08 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Bob Saget, 65. https://www.tmz.com/2022/01/09/bob-saget-dead-dies-hotel-comedian-full-house/ Saget played my college campus at Springfest time. He did an imitation of Jerry Lewis singing "Beat It" while aping Michael Jackson's steps. And when I say "Jerry Lewis," I mean "Jerry Lewis' idiot boy character." It was horrifying, but my well-lit classmates were just eating it up. Rolling in the aisles. Saget was killing it. My roommate was more lit than most, but he looked at me and he was just as horrified as I was. He somehow found the right soft spot in between the dying laughter and Saget's next bit to make a bullhorn out of his hands and yell, "YOU SUCK!!" Somehow that just did it. Fully half the room was instantly sobered up and snapped out of the spell. Saget finished his set more or less successfully, but never had them eating out of his hand again. It wasn't kind, and by most accounts, Saget wasn't a bad dude. Sean wasn't a dick — at least he wasn't that kind of dick — and he kind of felt bad. But when I'd ask about it, he'd say, "Jerry Lewis doing 'Beat It' — maybe I shouldn't have done that, but Goddaminit, somebody had to do something." Rock on, Bob Saget. I imagine you'll get the last laugh yet.

Johnny Lunchbucket Jan 09 2022 08:01 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Saget apparently had a reputation for his ability to out-blue any blue comic, but rarely utilized those powers in public acts, instead he used that primarily on other comics.

Fman99 Jan 09 2022 08:39 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Saget apparently had a reputation for his ability to out-blue any blue comic, but rarely utilized those powers in public acts, instead he used that primarily on other comics. Enjoyed him often on a number of different Sirius XM radio shows (O&A, Ron & Fez, etc.). He invariably killed and said very twisted shit.

Frayed Knot Jan 10 2022 04:29 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

In THE ARISTOCRATS Saget was one of those guys who you didn't expect to hear giving a variation on the theme, a contradiction which made his bits a bit funnier than you expected. But apparently his stand-up persona and his TV one were as far apart as is gets. OTOH, I just knew of his TV rep despite never actually seeing him anything as far as I can remember.

Fman99 Jan 10 2022 04:59 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

He also had this very funny bit in "Half Baked." [youtube]uUPHlAbAf2I[/youtube]

MFS62 Jan 10 2022 08:28 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Dwayne Hickman - 87 From Parkinson's Disease. Star of The Many Lives of Dobie Gillis https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2022/01/09/dwayne-hickman-the-many-loves-dobie-gillis-star-dies-87/9151963002/?fbclid=IwAR2NnZGhlnTR839Od0LMDSIjSyBe77eczIv6cIFUo13aPbm9S0Sxux071eY Later

G-Fafif Jan 10 2022 12:27 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

The great Jets receiver Don Maynard, 86.

MFS62 Jan 10 2022 12:53 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

=G-Fafif post_id=84321 time=1641842863 user_id=55] The great Jets receiver Don Maynard, 86.

Namath to Maynard was poetry in motion.

I loved watching him catch a pass and run right past the defender.

RIP



Later

ashie62 Jan 10 2022 03:58 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Don Maynard 86 Super Bowl III

Frayed Knot Jan 10 2022 05:16 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Saw Maynard catch a TD pass in the only football game I ever attended at Shea Stadium from ... Babe Parilli. Namath, IIRC, started the game but had been either injured or benched mid-game.

G-Fafif Jan 12 2022 02:59 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Ronnie Spector, 78. https://pitchfork.com/news/ronnie-spector-1960s-icon-and-ronettes-leader-dies-at-78/

MFS62 Jan 12 2022 03:34 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Ronnie Spector, 78. https://pitchfork.com/news/ronnie-spector-1960s-icon-and-ronettes-leader-dies-at-78/ My wife was one of her son's teachers in Elementary School. She told me Ronnie used to come to PTA meetings in a limo wearing a mink coat. RIP Later

Willets Point Jan 12 2022 04:45 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Glad she outlived her murderous ex.

cal sharpie Jan 12 2022 05:41 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I saw her in concert in Central Park in the ‘90's opening for Tommy James. She was great (so was Tommy).

G-Fafif Jan 14 2022 03:48 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

James Mtume, jazz/R&B producer and artist (“Juicy Fruit” got a lot of love from brand new Z-100 in August 1983), 76. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/arts/music/james-mtume-dead.html

G-Fafif Jan 14 2022 03:53 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Also lost from the music world this month, Marilyn Berger, co-writer of haunting movie themes “The Way We Were” and “The Windmills of Your Mind,” among many others. She was 93. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/08/arts/music/marilyn-bergman-dead.html

kcmets Jan 14 2022 07:22 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

The Windmills of Your Mind played three times faster and harder would make a great punk or metal song... [YOUTUBE]WEhS9Y9HYjU[/YOUTUBE]

G-Fafif Jan 15 2022 07:43 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Rosa Lee Hawkins of the Dixie Cups, 76. https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/music/article_7c0d77e4-73bd-11ec-9db6-33c7b0dce3db.html

whippoorwill Jan 16 2022 08:24 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

=kcmets post_id=84609 time=1642213324 user_id=53] The Windmills of Your Mind played three times faster and harder would make a great punk or metal song... [YOUTUBE]WEhS9Y9HYjU[/YOUTUBE]

Noel Harrison…MASSIVE crush on him when I was a little girl. When I saw this I thought you meant him

MFS62 Jan 18 2022 09:29 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Ed Asner - 91 https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mary-tyler-moore-actor-ed-180435206.html RIP Later

Edgy MD Jan 18 2022 09:34 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Not for nothing, but didn't he die last summer?

Benjamin Grimm Jan 18 2022 09:38 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I guess he enjoyed the experience and wanted to do it again.

Frayed Knot Jan 18 2022 10:21 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Either that or he came back after discovering a new issue on which he was vaguely informed that he wanted to protest.

MFS62 Jan 18 2022 10:38 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Edgy MD wrote: Not for nothing, but didn't he die last summer? Right under the by-line: Tue, January 18, 2022, 10:36 AM Later

Benjamin Grimm Jan 18 2022 10:50 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

They have it wrong. He died on August 29, 2021. From "Guess Who Died in 2021": Ed Asner has passed away. [url]https://www.fox47news.com/entertainment/actor-ed-asner-of-mary-tyler-moore-show-and-lou-grant-dies-at-91?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot So many special roles, but my favorite is a 1970s Christmas movie called "The Gathering."

Edgy MD Jan 18 2022 11:14 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Clearly, Yahoo News could use an editor like Lou Grant.

The Hot Corner Jan 20 2022 06:31 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Edgy MD wrote: Clearly, Yahoo News could use an editor like Lou Grant. It appears Yahoo is letting Ted Baxter do the editing for them.

Edgy MD Jan 20 2022 09:08 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Baxter's the best. [YOUTUBE]JOViEBlk-C0[/YOUTUBE] That's the gift that keeps giving right there. The amazing part is that Ted Knight was a war hero who won five Bronze Stars.

G-Fafif Jan 21 2022 08:32 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Comedian and actor Louie Anderson, 68. Dynamite as the mother in Baskets. https://variety.com/2022/film/news/louie-anderson-dead-dies-comedian-1235159674/

Benjamin Grimm Jan 21 2022 08:35 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

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G-Fafif Jan 21 2022 09:28 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Fred Parris of the Five Satins, 85. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/20/arts/music/fred-parris-dead.html

ashie62 Jan 21 2022 10:10 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Dang, Louie Anderson, Baskets. There was a scene where he as a guy, was playing a very jealous woman, and being lights out good.

Edgy MD Jan 21 2022 07:18 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Meat Loaf, Louie Anderson, and now Thich Nhat Hahn. That makes for some interesting travel companions on the journey into the hereafter.

Johnny Lunchbucket Jan 21 2022 08:12 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Clark Gillies, 67.

G-Fafif Jan 21 2022 08:14 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

One of the greats. https://www.nhl.com/islanders/news/clark-gillies-passes-away/c-330036716

Chad ochoseis Jan 21 2022 08:33 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I'll take Unfortunate Coincidences for $400, Alex. https://news.yahoo.com/weber-grills-apologizes-ill-timed-012139192.html

Edgy MD Jan 21 2022 09:22 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I think of him as the third member of the Trottier-Bossy line during the Stanley Cup run, but I think he only started the run with those two. Somewhere along the way, Bob Bourne got bumped to the first line and Gilles fell to the all-G-Men second line of Gilles-Goring-Gilbert. All six were Canadians in those pre-Russian invasion days, but I think Trottier identified as Native American and played for the U.S. in the Canada Cup.

Frayed Knot Jan 22 2022 03:46 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I don't remember the term "Power Forward" being used at the time (as it was in that link) but it's a good description for Gilles and players like him from back in the day when your team's tough guy/fighter (although there was rarely just one) didn't mean just a barely-talented goon. You don't score 30+ goals/year, as Gilles did in his prime seasons, if your only job is to protect Bossy. Trottier/Bossy/Gilles was a helluva first line for a number of years. And while each clearly had individual strengths, their roles weren't as strictly defined as they would have been in later years when expansion more or less doubled the size of the league since their day. IIRC, both he and Bobby Bourne had shots at baseball careers but pursued hockey instead. From the colorfully named town of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Gilles had a standard answer when asked where Moose Jaw was: 'About six feet in front of its ass'

Edgy MD Jan 22 2022 06:41 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Yeah, I think Gilles was a catcher. Bourne was a lefty-swinging first-baseman who actually played a single professional season in the Appy League.

Frayed Knot Jan 22 2022 09:15 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I thought I remember both as 1B-men, but maybe not. Bourne was fast as hell on his skates, one figures he would have been so on his feet as well. Surprising that they didn't put him in the outfield.

G-Fafif Jan 22 2022 09:37 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

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Edgy MD Jan 22 2022 11:36 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Well, that's a catcher's mitt at his feet. Funny that he made it as far as working out for the team but never played.

Frayed Knot Jan 22 2022 02:02 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Not surprising also that Clark was a real good golfer, doing well in the mini 'Celebrity Tour' that existed for a time. That tour was informally known as the Rick Rhoden tour for a while as the one-time Pittsburgh pitcher dominated the ex- (and sometimes current) jocks and actors who made up the rest of the field. The main event on that tour was (and is) at Lake Tahoe which has aired on NBC for years. So I'm watching one year and it's Rhoden and former NBA'er Bill Lambeer in the final pairing down the stretch so much of the TV coverage is on them. Michael Jordan, at least 20 strokes back, got every one of his shots on TV as well (NBC then held the NBA rights). Lawrence Taylor, probably only recently retired, got the next most TV time even though he was at least a dozen shots in back of Jordan. And then there was Gilles, in 3rd place and in the pairing right behind Rhoden & Lambeer. But he was a hockey player, and an ex-one at that, so was of no interest to the network. He was shown maybe twice the whole day despite being just off the lead.

G-Fafif Jan 30 2022 11:16 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Dr. Johnny Fever is off the air. Howard Hesseman, who is remembered for his Emmy Award-nominated role as DJ “Dr. Johnny Fever” Caravella on 1978-82 sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati, died Saturday of complications from the colon surgery he had last summer. He was 81. https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcberman1/2022/01/30/wkrp-in-cincinnati-star-howard-hesseman-dies-as-81/

whippoorwill Jan 30 2022 02:30 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Aw great show and character. We also liked him in Head of the Class

whippoorwill Jan 30 2022 02:32 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

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smg58 Jan 30 2022 06:05 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Dr. Johnny Fever is off the air. Howard Hesseman, who is remembered for his Emmy Award-nominated role as DJ “Dr. Johnny Fever” Caravella on 1978-82 sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati, died Saturday of complications from the colon surgery he had last summer. He was 81. https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcberman1/2022/01/30/wkrp-in-cincinnati-star-howard-hesseman-dies-as-81/ Booger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Johnny Lunchbucket Jan 30 2022 09:41 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

My neighbor growing up, Joey, was 56. Very sweet funny guy, everyone liked him. I knew him before he introduced the whole neighborhood to Rush and once that happened we kind if disconnected. He was also a really talented musician who became a leading craftsman making electric violins, working with one of the guys from Transsiberian Orchestra.

Frayed Knot Jan 31 2022 04:23 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I like that his older, more studious, and more straight-laced brother was always known as Steven (never Steve or Stevie), both by his parents and by everyone else as far as I ever heard. But Joseph, the laid-back rock-n-roller, never seemed to be anything other than Joey in or outside his family. Not sure how early those monikers got established but both seemed to fit.

G-Fafif Feb 04 2022 10:23 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

[youtube]WlgT-Lj8-no[/youtube] Sister Janet Mead, unlikely Top 5 hitmaker, reportedly (but not assuredly) 84. Sister Janet's recording of “The Lord's Prayer,” which featured her pure solo vocal over a driving drumbeat — she had a three-octave range and perfect pitch — became an instant hit in Australia, Canada and the United States. It soared to No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 during Easter time in 1974, and she became one of the few Australian recording artists to have a gold record in the United States. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/03/arts/music/janet-mead-dead.html

Edgy MD Feb 04 2022 12:23 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

There's the folk rock Church I grew up in. It was totally Catholic, Stills, Nash, and Young. To me, it was just Church, but I can't imagine the culture shock my parents had to get through. Rest in peace and rock on, Sister Janet.

batmagadanleadoff Feb 04 2022 02:04 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Oh my God! What have you done to me? I clicked on that video just once and now that tune is stuck in my head in an endless loop.

G-Fafif Feb 05 2022 09:56 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

[youtube]9MJ8flVWL1I[/youtube] Donny Gerrard, who sang lead on the 1973 hit “Wildflower” for the Canadian group Skylark, 75. At 10, I bought the 45; it had skips and I exchanged it for a smoother copy (withstanding snark from the teenaged TSS record department clerk that I had to have this particular record). https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-donny-gerrard-lead-singer-skylark-wildflower-dead-20220204-zacrgee3rvg57cm6gp5cayafjq-story.html

Marshmallowmilkshake Feb 05 2022 10:48 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

[youtube]WlgT-Lj8-no[/youtube] Sister Janet Mead, unlikely Top 5 hitmaker, reportedly (but not assuredly) 84. Sister Janet's recording of “The Lord's Prayer,” which featured her pure solo vocal over a driving drumbeat — she had a three-octave range and perfect pitch — became an instant hit in Australia, Canada and the United States. It soared to No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 during Easter time in 1974, and she became one of the few Australian recording artists to have a gold record in the United States. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/03/arts/music/janet-mead-dead.html I'd never heard that! It's really good!

G-Fafif Feb 05 2022 08:22 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Former Nets coach Bill Fitch, 89. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/03/sports/basketball/bill-fitch-dead.html

Edgy MD Feb 05 2022 08:40 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

His last two gigs were coaching the Nets and the Clippers in the nineties. That's a rough draw. Three 17-win seasons in his last seven years.

G-Fafif Feb 13 2022 08:44 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Filmmaker Ivan Reitman, 75. https://apnews.com/article/ivan-reitman-dead-d67947aa895371cd9f5840e6e9339440

G-Fafif Feb 15 2022 02:35 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Writer P.J. O'Rourke, 74. https://deadline.com/2022/02/p-j-orourke-dead-satirist-author-npr-panelist-was-74-1234934208/

Edgy MD Feb 15 2022 03:53 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Before clicking that, I was all, "That's gonna be lung cancer, isn't it?"

Chad ochoseis Feb 15 2022 05:52 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

For a very long time here, my sig line was one of my favorite quotes of his: PJ O'Rourke wrote: Republicans are the party that say government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it. Was himself a Republican, of course. But raised many good points all the same, and gave himself and the rest of us a good laugh about it. RIP

Frayed Knot Feb 15 2022 06:10 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I occasionally enjoyed some of his curmudgeonly humor in recent years. Decades before I was old enough to do any of that, my father and he did some work together at Nat Lampoon.

Johnny Lunchbucket Feb 15 2022 07:24 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

How To Drive Fast On Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed And Not Spill Your Drink. Funny cuz it's true 👍

G-Fafif Feb 19 2022 09:22 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Emile “The Cat” Francis, 95. https://www.nhl.com/news/rangers-hall-of-fame-coach-francis-dies-at-95/c-330990796

Willets Point Feb 21 2022 07:00 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Over the years in the CPF Holiday Charity Gift Exchanged I've designated Partners in Health as my charity of choice numerous times. The organization has worked in Haiti and other developing nations to treat people with deadly illnesses in ways that are affordable and sustainable with local medical staff taking over operations. Well. the founder of PIH, Dr. Paul Farmer, died in his sleep while working in Rwanda. He was 62.

Willets Point Feb 22 2022 08:40 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I should add that if you are at all interested in learning more about Dr. Farmer, I highly recommend the book Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder.

TransMonk Feb 22 2022 01:42 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Mark Lanegan, Singer for Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age, Dies at 57 No cause of death listed, but he was battling kidney disease and had a hell of a time with COVID last year. RIP

Edgy MD Feb 22 2022 03:40 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I've said this before, but man, the death rate for lead singers from grunge and grunge-adjacent nineties bands is just awful. Screaming Trees were actually from Washington, too. He was a pretty good singer, I thought.

G-Fafif Feb 22 2022 03:58 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Gary Brooker, lead singer for Procol Harum, 76, from cancer. https://pitchfork.com/news/procol-harum-gary-brooker-dies-at-76/

RealityChuck Feb 23 2022 09:28 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

The Amazing Johnathan, "magician" and comedian, 63. One of the funniest comedians I've ever seen. His act was purportedly his doing magic, but he rarely got a trick completed. He used everything -- prop comedy, violence, silly one-liners -- and kept it up nonstop. You never knew what might happen next. I was lucky enough to see him live in Las Vegas. I was laughing from start to finish.* He brought up a volunteer and just riffed on things for half an hour. [YOUTUBE]u6P1QRqFeww[/YOUTUBE] [url]https://nypost.com/2022/02/23/the-amazing-johnathan-standup-comic-and-magician-dead-at-63/ *Even before the start, actually. The camera focused on me with the subtitle "Kenny Fucking Rogers."

seawolf17 Feb 23 2022 11:45 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Dude was *intense* on stage, and *brilliant.* That is one of my favorite old comedy clips. "Aaaaand they're already linked. That's gonna save us a lot of time."

G-Fafif Feb 24 2022 04:47 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Sally Kellerman, the original Hot Lips and Thornton Melon's love interest, 84. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/sally-kellerman-dead-hot-lips-houlihan-mash-1235099282/

Willets Point Feb 24 2022 06:25 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Also starred in the second pilot episode of Star Trek and did a considerable amount of voiceover work.

G-Fafif Mar 05 2022 07:51 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Johnny Brown, Mr. Bookman on Good Times, 84. https://www.tmz.com/2022/03/05/johnny-brown-good-times-dead-dies-84/

kcmets Mar 05 2022 08:33 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Sally Kellerman, the original Hot Lips and Thornton Melon's love interest "Why don't you call me sometime when you have no class."

G-Fafif Mar 06 2022 01:07 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Legendary political reporter Walter Mears, 87. Mears' ability to find the essence of a story while it was still going on and to get it to the wire — and to newspapers and broadcasters around the world — became legend among peers. In 1972, Timothy Crouse featured Mears in “The Boys on the Bus,” a book chronicling the efforts and antics of reporters covering that year's presidential campaign. Crouse recounted how, immediately after a political debate, a reporter from The Boston Globe called out to the man from AP: “Walter, what's our lead? What's the lead, Walter?” The question became a catchphrase among political reporters to describe the search for the most newsworthy aspect of an event — the lead. “Made me moderately famous,” Mears cracked in 2005. It was a natural question. Mears had to bang out stories about campaign debates while they were still underway. Newspaper editors would see his lead on the wire before their own reporters filed their stories. So it was defensive for others on the press bus to wonder what Mears was leading with, and to ask him. https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-arts-and-entertainment-elections-walter-mears-9fc052a4f05087d0a2c54f57696d31a3

batmagadanleadoff Mar 08 2022 04:21 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

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Double Switch Mar 08 2022 06:18 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Sitting here on my desk is a copy of a really poor movie he was in in 1947 - The Brasher Doubloon. It's terrible but he lived it down and had a nice career in spite of that.

Frayed Knot Mar 08 2022 06:26 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I have no idea who that pictured person is.

G-Fafif Mar 08 2022 07:47 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Conrad Janis, an actor familiar to television viewers as Mindy's father on the hit sitcom “Mork & Mindy” who was also a skilled jazz musician and a gallerist well known in the New York art world, died on March 1 in Los Angeles. He was 94. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/arts/television/conrad-janis-dead.html

G-Fafif Mar 08 2022 07:48 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Ken Duberstein, one of many Reagan chiefs of staff, 77. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/us/politics/ken-duberstein-dead.html

G-Fafif Mar 08 2022 08:01 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Charles Entenmann, baked goods guy, 92. https://nypost.com/2022/03/08/charles-entenmann-who-helped-franchise-long-island-family-bakery-dead-at-92/

batmagadanleadoff Mar 09 2022 10:57 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Frayed Knot wrote: I have no idea who that pictured person is. Madge?

G-Fafif Mar 10 2022 09:04 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Emilio Delgado, Luis from Sesame Street, 81. https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-jim-henson-arts-and-entertainment-a0df824005ff6b74e70b6b2a6ab9c7b4

Double Switch Mar 11 2022 04:22 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Bobbie Lee Nelson (January 1, 1931 – March 10, 2022) was an American pianist and singer, the older sister of Willie Nelson.

G-Fafif Mar 13 2022 03:15 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

William Hurt, 71. https://variety.com/2022/film/news/william-hurt-dead-kiss-of-the-spider-woman-1235203576/

TransMonk Mar 13 2022 04:55 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

One of my fave Hurt characters: [fimg=500]https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMmIyMGQ4ZmQtYjBjZC00MmY2LWEyZDYtMmY4YTJhMGYyZDkxXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjI0Mjg2NzE@._V1_.jpg[/fimg] RIP

Frayed Knot Mar 13 2022 05:28 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Last I heard from Hurt was when he was slated to play the title role in a bio-pic on Gregg Allman a few years back. But then a worker on the set was killed by a train -- in an accident which seemed to be as poorly explained as the prop gun shooting incident in the recent Alec Baldwin flick has been so far. Production was halted and Hurt dropped out, apparently killing the film for good.

Edgy MD Mar 13 2022 10:19 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Hurt was my favorite celebrity interview. He'd be on a junket promoting The Legend of Sasquatch or Lost in Space or something, and insist that the interviewer take his craft seriously and address him like he'd just painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling. He'd get the de rigueur question of "What's it like working with Edward Norton (or whoever)?" and he'd invariably answer with the likes of, "Well ... it is work. And it's hard bloody work at that." The reviewer would suddenly realize this goof was going to give his boring stupid assignment a great angle, and come back with. "That's terrific ... so what's it like working with Ed Norton?" and Hurt would prattle on crankily about the grave responsibility of the artist and the profound questions they ask and the legacies they leave behind and the writer would be all excited to call his editor to ask for 1,000 more words.

Lefty Specialist Mar 14 2022 06:33 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

He was so good in Broadcast News as the bubbleheaded blonde newscaster who at least KNEW he was bubbleheaded. Still one of my favorite movies of all time.

whippoorwill Mar 15 2022 10:08 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Razor Ramon

G-Fafif Mar 15 2022 08:03 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Another Islander from the dynasty days, Jean Potvin, passes away. Denis's brother was 72. https://www.nhl.com/islanders/news/jean-potvin-passes-away/c-331868756

G-Fafif Mar 17 2022 09:46 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Timmy Thomas, who asked the musical question, “Why Can't We Live Together?” He was 77. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/mar/14/timmy-thomas-r-and-b-singer-of-why-cant-we-live-together-dies-aged-77

batmagadanleadoff Mar 18 2022 01:33 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Domenico DeMarco, legendary pizzaiolo and owner of Di Fara's Pizzeria in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, 85.

G-Fafif Mar 18 2022 09:24 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

John Clayton, ESPN's NFL insider, 67. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33541834/long-nfl-reporter-john-clayton-dies-67

kcmets Mar 19 2022 06:00 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

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G-Fafif Mar 23 2022 12:42 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 23 2022 05:11 PM

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, 84. Madeleine K. Albright, a child of Czech refugees who fled from Nazi invaders and Communist oppressors and then landed in the United States, where she flourished as a diplomat and the first woman to serve as secretary of state, died on Wednesday in Washington. She was 84. The cause was cancer, her daughter Anne said. Enveloped by a veil of family secrets hidden from her for most of her life, Ms. Albright rose to power and fame as a brilliant analyst of world affairs and a White House counselor on national security. Under President Bill Clinton, she became the country's representative to the United Nations (1993-97) and secretary of state (1997-2001), making her the highest-ranking woman in the history of American government at the time. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/us/madeleine-albright-dead.html

Edgy MD Mar 23 2022 01:07 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Knew who Vladimir Putin was right from the start.

G-Fafif Mar 23 2022 08:16 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Scoey Mitchlll (Mitchell), 92. https://www.pasadenaweekly.com/arts_and_events/comedian-actor-scoey-mitchlll-dies/article_0c13cb32-aae5-11ec-92bb-0b7ce0452c34.html

G-Fafif Mar 25 2022 09:24 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Taylor Hawkins, drummer for Alanis Morissette and Foo Fighters, 50.

Edgy MD Mar 25 2022 09:33 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Holy shit, right? Found in his hotel room in Bogota, where the band were scheduled to play a festival gig.

TransMonk Mar 26 2022 11:26 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I kinda saw that guy as the John Belushi of touring rock bands. Always 100% physical, though never looking healthy. Drug use and partying for years and years even after people kinda knew it's been a problem. One hell of a musical talent, though. He could play the skins well enough to back up a superstar drummer, had a killer singing voice and could work a crowd as well. I'm not terribly surprised but still terribly sad. It's another band I had several opportunities to see but never did. RIP

Frayed Knot Mar 26 2022 08:06 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

"Multiple substances" (opioids, heroin, Marijuana, etc.) reportedly found in Hawkins' hotel room.

Edgy MD Mar 26 2022 08:21 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

He checked a lot of boxes.

smg58 Mar 27 2022 09:27 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

By all accounts he was a lovable guy in spite of his demons. And by all accounts, he had demons. It's a shame, but it's not a new story.

G-Fafif Apr 01 2022 09:22 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Bill Fries, better known as C.W. McCall, 93. Let this trucker roll — 10-4. [youtube]j3VN54M1OXA[/youtube]

Johnny Lunchbucket Apr 02 2022 04:35 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

CW McCall is responsible for one of the only times my dad and me had bought a record by the same artist. I had the convoy 45 and he had a previous album with the great comedy song "Classified"

kcmets Apr 02 2022 06:31 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Convoy was a great 'song' -- fer sure, fer sure. Real ol' school rap. The funny thing is he's probably lip-syncing on that Douglas video. RIP.

Edgy MD Apr 02 2022 08:57 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

C.W. McCall was a persona Bill Fries had come up with for local commercials. When the voiceovers started making him some money, he started cutting records as C.W., had a hit, and left his old name behind. Kind of like Chubby Checker. The stage name was supposed to be a character, not a career. It was as if, mid-career, Carol Burnett just changed her name to Eunice.

Frayed Knot Apr 02 2022 02:17 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Yeah, 'CONVOY' was the bigger hit ... but this one was better [YOUTUBE]UjeTq2fShRc[/YOUTUBE]

G-Fafif Apr 03 2022 09:33 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Estelle Harris, George's mother on Seinfeld, 93. https://variety.com/2022/film/news/estelle-harris-dead-dies-seinfeld-toy-story-1235221983/

Benjamin Grimm Apr 03 2022 09:54 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

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Willets Point Apr 03 2022 12:15 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Mrs. Potato Head is how I know Estelle Harris too.

Frayed Knot Apr 03 2022 03:51 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

=G-Fafif post_id=88222 time=1649000034 user_id=55] Estelle Harris, George's mother on Seinfeld, 93.

A good side character in the show even if eventually over-used towards the end.

G-Fafif Apr 04 2022 04:25 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Gene Shue, NBA player and coach, 90. https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/former-nba-great-gene-shue-dies-90-2022-04-04/

MFS62 Apr 05 2022 06:10 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Bobby Rydell - 60's pop singer - 79 https://variety.com/2022/music/obituaries-people-news/bobby-rydell-dead-pop-idol-bye-bye-birdie-1960s-1235225834/ Later

MFS62 Apr 06 2022 09:32 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Nehemiah Persoff - Actor 102 https://deadline.com/2022/04/nehemiah-persoff-dead-obituary-actor-yentl-gunsmoke-was-102-1234995573/ He was in early Television- Twilight Zone, Gunsmoke and Movies- Yentl. Olevai Shalom. Later

G-Fafif Apr 09 2022 09:35 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

NFL QB Dwayne Haskins, struck by a car at 24. Geez. https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/04/09/dwayne-haskins-struck-by-car-and-killed/

ashie62 Apr 09 2022 10:55 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Horrible. Just horrible and sad.

Frayed Knot Apr 09 2022 03:03 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Most recent report I read was that he was walking along an interstate (an odd choice start with) and then, for some reason, tried to cross the road and was hit by a dump truck!

whippoorwill Apr 10 2022 02:50 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

It's a sad mystery. Steelers really needed him and it's awful to see such a young fellow die

batmagadanleadoff Apr 10 2022 03:05 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Frayed Knot wrote: Most recent report I read was that he was walking along an interstate (an odd choice start with) and then, for some reason, tried to cross the road and was hit by a dump truck! It's a really strange way to die, for a guy supposedly as fit, healthy and alert as anybody being that he was in good enough shape to play quarterback in the NFL.

kcmets Apr 10 2022 04:19 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Sounds like suicide. Me, if i go, I'm getting hit by an Amtrack. I like trains.

G-Fafif Apr 12 2022 01:38 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Gilbert Gottfried, truly the comedian's comedian and co-host of one of the great podcasts of our times, 67.

Johnny Lunchbucket Apr 12 2022 03:17 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Oh that's horribly sad. What a funny guy. I always recall being at a show in Carolines, where they seat you on these really narrow tables opposite other people. Gilbert is on fire this night, starting off with his bit where he turns thanking the audience for coming into a diatribe where he'd desperately like to kill and dismember all of us, getting more and more gruesome and yet funnier with every word; it's like 45 seconds into the show, I'm laughing so hard I can't breathe, and I look across the table to this Wall Street douche with a blank look on his face who just doesn't get it. Years later I was at the show that was recorded for the Aristocrats movie.

kcmets Apr 12 2022 03:25 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Funny bastard. Deserves his own thread full of YouTube video in the coming days.

Frayed Knot Apr 12 2022 04:02 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

The papers mention 'after a lengthy illness' but it was nothing I had heard about previously. I also saw him many, many moons ago in some east side comic spot, so long ago that he was still pretty much an unknown. He was one of three or four that night but he was the one who had me busting a gut. 'I was in the land of the three-named people. Jan Michael Vincent was there, Joe Don Baker ... most of the Cosby show'. A truly unique talent.

TransMonk Apr 12 2022 04:20 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

AFLACK!

Fman99 Apr 12 2022 06:18 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Damn that's a bummer. I heard him on various radio shows over the years and he consistently killed.

Frayed Knot Apr 12 2022 06:31 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Gottfried had a degenerative heart condition.

Edgy MD Apr 12 2022 06:51 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/realgilbert/status/870681575003783169[/TWEET]

G-Fafif Apr 12 2022 08:40 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

[tweet]https://twitter.com/howierose/status/1289917633685487616[/tweet]

G-Fafif Apr 12 2022 08:42 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

[tweet]https://twitter.com/howierose/status/1513999227789225988[/tweet]

dinosaur jesus Apr 12 2022 09:26 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I enjoyed his broadcast a lot. The man was steeped in old-time show business. And he did the best Groucho.

G-Fafif Apr 15 2022 07:17 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Another loss to the Islanders family, Mike Bossy, 65. https://www.nhl.com/islanders/news/mike-bossy-passes-away/c-333031072

MFS62 Apr 15 2022 07:58 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Another loss to the Islanders family, Mike Bossy, 65. https://www.nhl.com/islanders/news/mike-bossy-passes-away/c-333031072 This makes me very sad. RIP Later

Frayed Knot Apr 15 2022 08:08 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 15 2022 09:23 AM

Damn! Tough year for 2/3 of the greatest line in franchise history (and one of the best in anyone's history). Stay safe Trots. I don't think we ever heard the cause of death on Gillies. Bossy I know had had bouts with cancer in the past.

Johnny Lunchbucket Apr 15 2022 08:36 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Yeah Bossy had lung cancer I think

G-Fafif Apr 15 2022 01:44 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

First George's mom, now Jerry's: Liz Sheridan, 93. https://deadline.com/2022/04/liz-sheridan-dead-seinfeld-mother-alf-broadway-1235003021/

Edgy MD Apr 15 2022 02:57 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Bossy was a classic hockey town guy. Even though he's from Montreal, Ahuntsic-Cartierville was more like a small village on the outskirts of the city. He married the girl at the snack bar, and he somehow arrived in the NHL speaking no English. He was so culturally at sea his rookie year, Trottier invited him to move in. His fifty goals nine years in a row is still an unmatched feat.

Frayed Knot Apr 15 2022 03:50 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Some of the francophones in Quebec resented Bossy for learning English (and essentially speaking it accent-free) and would often pronounce his name over the PA as Michelle despite him using the anglophonic Mike/Michael. Shades of 'Bob' Clemente. btw, his father was Ukrainian. While his skinny frame was often being knocked around, Bossy somehow always righted himself and found the net when the puck came his way. When asked how he knew where the net was in all that tumult his simple answer was; 'It never moves'. Isles are in Montreal tonight, Bossy's team vs his home town team.

G-Fafif Apr 21 2022 06:01 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Eternally boyish Robert Morse, 90. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/robert-morse-dead-mad-men-tony-winner-1235133283/

MFS62 Apr 21 2022 06:37 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

His memorable line just after the credits in The Loved One set the tone for the entire movie. RIP Later

MFS62 Apr 21 2022 02:40 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Daryle Lamonica "The Mad Bomber"- AFL Quarterback -80 https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/04/21/daryle-lamonica-dies-at-80/ RIP Later

G-Fafif Apr 22 2022 06:17 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Another NHL great: Guy Lafleur, 70. https://montrealgazette.com/sports/hockey/nhl/hockey-inside-out/lafleur

Frayed Knot Apr 22 2022 01:18 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Bad week for high-scoring right wings from Quebec. Both he and Bossy of lung cancer. Hockey, seemingly more than other sports, has often had a consensus best player/face of the sport and, in the pre-Gretzsky era, that face was Lafleur. I remember a magazine ad for Koho, at the time the biggest name in sticks. It was an action shot of Lafleur skating, instantly recognizable in the iconic Montreal uni and his blond hair flowing in those pre-helmet days. With the Koho trademark clearly visible, the caption on the ad was simply: Need We Say More? Following a retirement due to a dispute with Montreal mgmt, he returned (to the Rangers) several years later making him an active player who was already in the Hockey HOF, still helmetless (via the grandfather rule) though by then the hair was less blond and there was less of it. For icon status, particularly in Quebec but all over Canada really, Mickey Mantle might be a good comparison.

Edgy MD Apr 22 2022 02:31 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

YouTube keeps pushing Gilbert Gottfried clips at me. It's revelatory. You can't watch 10 minutes with out going from he's the best to he's the worst to he's the best. Sometimes multiple times. He seemed to be in constant state of burning his career to the ground and building it up at the same time.

MFS62 Apr 22 2022 02:44 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Frayed Knot wrote: For icon status, particularly in Quebec but all over Canada really, Mickey Mantle might be a good comparison. Good analogy. I guess that makes Gordie Howe Babe Ruth. Kids wanted to be Mantle when they grew up, but they knew there could never be another Babe Ruth. Later

Frayed Knot Apr 22 2022 03:23 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

This has nothing to do with whether Howe was better than Lafleur or not; they overlapped somewhat but their primes were separate. This is more about how both Mantle & Lafleur were national faces of the sport on account of being the best player on their sports' most storied franchise during a dynastic run for each and at a time each sport was unquestionably the national game with the majority of players homegrown.

MFS62 Apr 23 2022 07:25 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

This is what my Canadian friend wrote: the flower died yesterday in my life, hockey has always had one star just better than the best: orr, lafleur, gretzky, lemieux, sid the kid, etc i hated the montreal canadians with all my heart...like only a leaf fan can.....they were the epitome of evil (for bosox fans - picture the yankees if the yankees represented a language being forced on you).....but even i knew the late 70's canadians were fucking amazing and star studded.....perhaps the greatest team of all time...and the greatest player on the greatest team was lafleur.....lord god, could he skate....he flew down the ice with his hair flowing behind him (no helmet)....he was unstoppable once he reached full flight.....but the thing i will always think of when i think of lafleur is how he just loved to play the game....can u remember as a teen, playing a game of baseball or softball or whatever and it was just fun...pure innocent fun....just enjoying it for what it was...that is the way lafleur played hockey...he just loved to play hockey.....he was having a good time that's what i'll think of when i smile and think of "le Démon Blond" (the Blond Demon)....i found it so canadian that his death was the top story in both the national radio and tv news....he was an icon tough week for hockey as mike bossy died too....there was a man whose only skill at hockey was scoring goals....that's all he could do, score....very humble man.... thanks to both for the memories regards Later

kcmets Apr 23 2022 08:37 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Edgy MD wrote: YouTube keeps pushing Gilbert Gottfried clips at me. It's revelatory. I meant to give him his own thread and dropped the ball. Gilbert was The Fifth Ramone... stayed tuned...

Edgy MD Apr 23 2022 09:26 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Excellent.

Frayed Knot Apr 23 2022 02:52 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

....but the thing i will always think of when i think of lafleur is how he just loved to play the game....can u remember as a teen, playing a game of baseball or softball or whatever and it was just fun...pure innocent fun....just enjoying it for what it was...that is the way lafleur played hockey...he just loved to play hockey.....he was having a good time There's a passage from Ken Dryden's memoir THE GAME* where he talks about getting dressed in the locker room prior to a practice but already hearing skates against the ice and pucks against the boards. And he doesn't have to look. He knows. It's Lafleur. Skating by himself with a bucketful of pucks before anyone else has joined him; he's out there skating around imaginary defensemen and banging pucks off the boards at various locations and angles just to see how they'll come off; he's honing and refining skills the same way he learned them in the first place, not by rote or by structured drills but by feel and imagination and invention. "Inventing the game", a rough translation of an Indian expression from (I believe) lacrosse, is used by Dryden to explain how skills are learned and miraculous plays are made because they had previously been imagined and tried. So when one sees a "miracle" play by Pele or Magic, Gretzky or Tiger, or a small handful of other so-called geniuses of sport, its genesis likely goes beyond what's god-given or coached, it was likely created years before by a kid, or even by an adult, who never stopped imagining what most others never considered. * Almost 50 years old now but my favorite athlete-written sports book (that and BALL FOUR, though very different tomes). I'm paraphrasing what was written then and adding some of my own, but I think it gets the basic gist.

Marshmallowmilkshake Apr 23 2022 07:09 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Long-serving U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch. [url]https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2022/04/23/senator-orrin-hatch-dies/7428897001/ He was also a prolific songwriter. His Christmas song "Skating with my Baby" is about Rockefeller Center.

Edgy MD Apr 23 2022 07:44 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Served for two Congresses as president pro tempore of the Senate. Seemed to wear a lot of pink ties.

G-Fafif Apr 26 2022 06:18 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Jim Hartz, quintessential 1970s NBC News face and voice, 82. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/24/business/media/jim-hartz-dead.html

G-Fafif Apr 26 2022 05:21 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Susan Jacks of the Poppy Family, 73. https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/poppy-family-singer-susan-jacks-passes-away-at-73

Edgy MD Apr 26 2022 07:21 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Former wife of "Seasons in the Sun" guy Terry Jacks. From a Ukrainian-Canuck family.

Frayed Knot Apr 26 2022 07:48 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Edgy MD wrote: Former wife of "Seasons in the Sun" guy Terry Jacks. Between 'Seasons in the Sun' and 'Which Way You Going Billy', theirs may have been the sappiest house on the planet in that era.

Edgy MD Apr 26 2022 08:01 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I tend to think that "Seasons in the Sun" precipitated the end of their marriage, but that might not be kind.

G-Fafif Apr 28 2022 04:10 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Andrew Woolfolk, saxophonist for Earth, Wind & Fire, 71. https://www.thedailybeast.com/earth-wind-and-fires-saxophonist-andrew-woolfolk-dies-at-71

RealityChuck Apr 29 2022 11:55 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Neal Adams (1941-2022) For my money, the greatest comic book artist of his era. https://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4zqsphDe21qz4kbl.jpg> http://www.vaultcollectibles.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/neal-adams-signed-signature-autograph-art-print-batman-dark-knight-221-1-199x300.jpg> https://i0.wp.com/blog.gocollect.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/121872_d44d58d1f7f052757ec8fd912543bdb876110ad9.jpg?fit=400%2C606&ssl=1>

Benjamin Grimm Apr 29 2022 12:00 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

=RealityChuck post_id=90745 time=1651254943 user_id=82] For my money, the greatest comic book artist of his era.

It's hard to argue against that.

Edgy MD Apr 29 2022 12:56 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

It's cool how those three covers have his distinctive style, but a tone distinctive to the characters. The Green Lantern/Green Arrow team-ups in the seventies was the goods, wasn't it?

Benjamin Grimm Apr 29 2022 01:03 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

And the Kree-Skrull War storyline in The Avengers.

Edgy MD Apr 29 2022 01:09 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I guess I'm just a sucker for drifter stories. My favorite book from the 70s is Ghost Rider. I wasn't introduced to it until 1987 or so, and I started scouring around for back issues.

Benjamin Grimm Apr 29 2022 01:43 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I recall that you have a fondness for the Incredible Hulk TV series that I don't share at all.

Edgy MD Apr 29 2022 02:46 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

It's the highway-bound essence of the whole American existential farce in a 44-minute nutshell, or in 32 pages, if you prefer. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-04ymg1X14RM/TrsbwjuAnYI/AAAAAAAAPds/RR0W8PNx1pc/s1600/hulk%2Bdeath01.JPG> (The pilot telefilm kinda blew chunks though.) https://www.weseetheworldinbendaydots.com/uploads/7/5/7/0/75709061/published/screenshot-20200502-112434.png?1589900776> https://www.coverbrowser.com/image/ghost-rider/41-16.jpg> Fuck yes!

Willets Point Apr 29 2022 03:13 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

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Edgy MD Apr 29 2022 06:21 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Awesome.

G-Fafif Apr 30 2022 02:13 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Naomi Judd, 76. https://variety.com/2022/music/news/naomi-judd-dead-dies-judds-wynonna-ashley-country-music-duo-1235255214/

Johnny Lunchbucket May 02 2022 09:46 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

One of my close friends growing up, Brendan, died Sunday after a fast onset of pancreatic cancer. Brendan was a very funny guy from a big family of crazy Irish brothers, but his humor was very peculiar and elaborate, extremely funny to those who got it and mysterious if you didn't. A huge Mets fan. I've talked about how my friends back in the 80s referred to the Mets as the "Brothers"-- that was Brendan and his crew. I'd known Brendan lived in the city for many years but I hadn't seen him since I hitchhiked to Albany to visit him during college. We'd only just reconnected on facebook and turned out we lived in the same neighborhood but never got together as he was chemo-sick. Brendan also worked in WTC on 9/11 and lost a lot of co-workers. He was one of the people who read off names of the dead in the event every year.

Marshmallowmilkshake May 02 2022 09:55 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Very sorry to hear this.

Edgy MD May 02 2022 10:18 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Sorry about Brendan. You've shared the hitchhike-to-Albany story here before and I just realized that I have a hitchhiking-to-Binghamton passing reference in my screenplay, and if I ever sell it, I owe you a cut.

Johnny Lunchbucket May 02 2022 10:45 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Nice. Brendan was the kinda guy who made getting together fun enough that you'd totally do something stupid and hitchhike 300 miles to get there

kcmets May 02 2022 10:59 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

RIP, Brendan

Chad ochoseis May 02 2022 11:23 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Very sorry to hear it. If you're interested, I have a cousin who has gotten very involved in pancreatic cancer charities since his father died of it a few years ago (also a huge Mets fan; I've tried to get him into the Pool in the past). I could connect you on FB.

Johnny Lunchbucket May 03 2022 05:24 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Thanx. In true Brendan fashion he has requested all attendees at his wake wear Hawaiian shirts and Mets hats (funeral attendees must wear tuxedos)

G-Fafif May 04 2022 05:49 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Norman Mineta, Transportation Secretary under two presidents, 90. https://apnews.com/article/california-bill-clinton-maryland-san-jose-george-w-bush-46b99b1f3337c48083bb124701036753

batmagadanleadoff May 05 2022 04:44 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

David Birney, 83, star of "Bridget Loves Bernie", the highest rated TV show ever to be canceled after just one season.

Edgy MD May 05 2022 07:26 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Few Love Boat guests brought as strong a hair game as David Birney. [FIMG=380]https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTExODQwNTk5MTReQTJeQWpwZ15BbWU4MDc1NzE0MTIy._V1_.jpg[/FIMG]

TransMonk May 05 2022 08:47 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I remember him from Oh God, Book II. RIP [fimg=500]https://musicart.xboxlive.com/6/cfbdd1ad-0000-0000-0000-000000000009/504/image.jpg?w=1920&h=1080[/fimg]

G-Fafif May 07 2022 10:52 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Two nightspot heavyweights: Mickey Gilley, whose mechanical bull was ridden to fame in Urban Cowboy, 86. https://news.yahoo.com/mickey-gilley-helped-inspire-urban-213116519.html Regine, of Regine's fame, 92. https://deadline.com/2022/05/regine-dead-discotheque-entrepreneur-singer-actress-was-92-obituary-1235013917/

Lefty Specialist May 09 2022 07:56 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Mickey Gilley had his own beer. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/VZcAAOSwEKpb4do8/s-l500.jpg>

G-Fafif May 11 2022 04:28 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Bob Lanier, awesome college and NBA center, 73. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33895398/nba-great-bob-lanier-hall-fame-center-detroit-pistons-milwaukee-bucks-dies-73

Willets Point May 12 2022 09:02 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Naomi Judd, 76. https://variety.com/2022/music/news/naomi-judd-dead-dies-judds-wynonna-ashley-country-music-duo-1235255214/ Ashley Judd reveals that her mother's death was suicide by gunshot. https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/ashley-judd-speaks-mothers-passing-puts-spotlight-mental/story?id=84653269

G-Fafif May 12 2022 01:57 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

AFL legend Gino Cappelletti, 89. https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/05/12/patriots-great-gino-cappelletti-dies-at-89/

G-Fafif May 23 2022 08:45 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Vangelis, of “Chariots of Fire” theme fame, 79. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/arts/music/vangelis-composer-best-known-for-chariots-of-fire-dies-at-79.html

Marshmallowmilkshake May 26 2022 10:32 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

[url]https://nypost.com/2022/05/26/goodfellas-actor-ray-liotta-dead-at-67/ Shoeless Joe Jackson has walked back into the cornfield. Way too young.

TransMonk May 26 2022 11:32 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Oh my! He played some good roles. Goodfellas and Field of Dreams, obviously. I loved him in Blow as well. RIP

Frayed Knot May 26 2022 12:09 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Longtime smoker (and not just in his roles).

G-Fafif May 26 2022 05:08 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Alan White, longtime drummer for Yes, 72. http://alanwhite.net/

Edgy MD May 26 2022 05:32 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Alan White also made a terrific impact on early John Lennon and George Harrison efforts. "Instant Karma!" is probably the best Ringo drum track that's not actually played by Ringo.

G-Fafif May 26 2022 06:47 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Andy "Fletch" Fletcher from Depeche Mode, 60. https://ew.com/music/andy-fletcher-depeche-mode-keyboardist-dies-at-60/

Fman99 May 26 2022 07:36 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Man, Ray Liotta was great. I loved him in the movies everybody loved him in, but, also, some other ones. Check out "Cop Land," he is particularly great in that.

Frayed Knot May 26 2022 08:07 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Liotta was not known widely prior to GOODFELLOWS. But Scorcese tells a story about Liotta walking into the room for auditions or initial meetings or whatever and noticing his security people all tensing up and moving towards him as he entered. Scorcese reasoned that if his security team all sensed the possibility of menace in the actor then the audience would do the same even though Henry Hill is seen committing very little violence in the film itself. But it was the projection that he might which led the director to insist on Liotta's casting even as the suits were pushing for, I think it was, Tom Cruise and Madonna for the parts that eventually went to Liotta and Lorraine Bracco.

kcmets May 26 2022 08:16 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Frayed Knot wrote: Tom Cruise and Madonna for the parts I'm gonna have nightmares!

Edgy MD May 26 2022 08:42 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

My brother-in-law was (still is) a sophisticated man of sophisticated tastes. Wine, music, society — the man shopped from the top shelf. But he had a bizarre love for the dumbest action movies. He preferred the films that couldn't afford Stallone and Schwarzeneggar — not just the B teamers of Dolph Lundgren and Steven Seagall, but shit that wished they had Stallone or Ahnold, but couldn't get the money together. The night his first child was born, he went to see Time Cop. My brother, at the time, wanted to be like my brother-in-law, and do the things BiL did. Brother spent a nice stretch of a few months seeing every piece-of-shit muscle action flick that Hollywood could roll out, just at the time when they were rolling out one every three or four weeks. One day, on his way out of the theater after seeing Double Impact or Harley Davidson and Marlboro Man or some shit like that, a suit tapped him on the shoulder and asked if he had seen any of a number of films in the past year. All of them being sweaty muscle action fare, he answered that he had seen 'em all. "Well terrific," the suit answered, "we'd like you to be part of the test audience for our new feature, No Escape." He got two passes and invited me along, and holy shit! Some producer was trying to turn Ray Liotta into an action star! This was exciting, high concept, and ... not a good movie. Ray projects menace and toughness and malice and shit, but he isn't particularly big, and facing off against big baddies, it showed. The idea is that he's a prisoner with an escape-y background on an inescapable island, where the hopeless denizens have divided into two groups — one living by jungle law and even cannibalism (IIRC), and the other trying to build a mutually beneficial society. Ray just wanted to escape, but there was NO ESCAPE. The sort of socio-moral duality of the two groups made it kind of heady for a stupid film, and hey, it had Lance Henriksen, who is always just the right amount of creepy, but it was never going fly, and it was my job to tell them so. Never having previously been given such a chance to speak truth to power, I wrote on my feedback card like a maniac throughout the film. Twenty minutes after curtain, I was still giving feedback. Feedback, feedback, feedback. They sort of had to kick me out and wrestle my card away. I felt bad. If my feedback alone didn't sink this film, clearly other test audiences were in agreement (though presumably with more brevity). It took two more years for the film to come out, in limited release, with changes in the editing and music. I can't imagine it lasted much longer than two weeks. Maybe it went straight to video even, I'm not sure. Ray never did become an action star, and his next feature lead was a romantic comedy with Whoopie Goldberg, so I felt kind of responsible. And I kind of felt like the film was mine in a way. I looked for it in video stores, asked friends if they had ever heard of it. As time passed, I wondered if my brother and I had dreamed it up. Ernie Hudson as the evil warden? That didn't really happen, did it? But happen it did. There was just too much sadistic freak behind those eyes for Ray to be a hero. My favorite film he's featured in was Something Wild, where he's a totally unhinged (but kind of swinging) antagonist to Jeff Daniels. Go see that shit.

MFS62 May 27 2022 05:57 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Edgy MD wrote: There was just too much sadistic freak behind those eyes for Ray to be a hero. As in Hannibal. Spoiler alert He was the boss everyone wants to lose his mind (well, part of it). Later

TransMonk May 27 2022 07:34 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Edgy MD wrote: Alan White also made a terrific impact on early John Lennon and George Harrison efforts. "Instant Karma!" is probably the best Ringo drum track that's not actually played by Ringo. Lots of Yes-adjacent info in the GWD thread this week with Vangelis and now White. "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" came on the radio this week and I found myself marveling at the drum performance on that track being by the same drummer as "Imagine". RIP - Hope he's reunited with Chris Squire.

Johnny Lunchbucket May 27 2022 08:09 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Good Ray Liotta story, edge

Willets Point May 27 2022 08:43 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

No Escape has a 2.8 average rating on Letterboxd. Surprisingly high after Edgy's description. By the way, Liotta appeared in two different Muppets movies, and had an, ahem, interesting relationship with one of his co-stars. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FTtlbtJWIAIQXZ1?format=jpg&name=small>

Edgy MD May 27 2022 12:53 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Fun — if modestly unsettling — facts about No Escape. 1. The dystopian future that it was set in is the year ... 2022! 2. Ray's not really a criminal. He's only in jail because he's a marine that dared to tell the truth about some shadowy military operation that went sideways — in Benghazi, Libya!

G-Fafif Jun 06 2022 07:02 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Alec John Such, original bassist for Bon Jovi, 70. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/05/entertainment/alec-john-such-bon-jovi-bassist-death/index.html

G-Fafif Jun 07 2022 01:28 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 07 2022 09:09 PM

Jim Seals, half of Seals & Crofts, 79. (Age originally reported as 80.) https://pitchfork.com/news/jim-seals-half-of-soft-rock-duo-seals-and-crofts-dies-at-80/

Edgy MD Jun 07 2022 02:24 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

If you listened to Casey Kasem back in the day, and continue to listen to his 1970s replays, you know that his staff couldn't play a Seals & Crofts hit without Casey relaying crucial S&C knowledge. If they were on the charts, Casey had an essay cued up. Among the anecdotes I recall: 1. Jim and Darrell were members of The Champs, famous for their instrumental smash "Tequila!" They weren't on that release, and The Champs weren't really a band, but a bunch of studio musicians throwing together a B-side for somebody else's record, but the DJ's turned it over and loved the flip side, so S&C were among the musicians hastily recruited to go on tour when the record climbed the charts. 2. They later, with a lot of the same guys, joined Glen Campbell's backing band, the GC's, but when they got off the road, Glen used his old buddies in The Wrecking Crew to cut the records. So their ongoing theme became, "We were the touring guys, not the recording guys," and so they set off to make their own mark as a duo. 3. Both became practicers of and advocates for the Baha'i faith, a persecuted religion based primarily in the Persian region, which holds that God's revelations can be found in all the great world religions. The Baháʼí House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois is one of the masterpieces of architect/sculptor of sacred spaces John Joseph Earley. After getting dumped by Warner Brothers, S&C's recording career was shot, but they were always a big draw for Baha'i gatherings. 4. The recently departed Jim Seals was the brother of Dan Seals of England Dan and John Ford Coley, meaning that, AMAZINGLY, one half of 2/3 of the Holy Trinity Acts of Mid-Seventies Soft Rock Duos came from the same womb.

Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 07 2022 03:46 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I believe the Seals brothers were only part of a big musical family--like cousins and and Uncles and stuff were musicians too

MFS62 Jun 09 2022 09:03 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Paul Vance -92 Lyricist for a one hit wonder and other songs. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/06/arts/music/paul-vance-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Obituaries&fbclid=IwAR1RPfgGlNwNqPCwPftXK6Q4LHb5HSkTD_nBymssAXJP7c-dgZhdEt6ARRI Later

MFS62 Jun 11 2022 01:19 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

From the AP in Yahoo (couldn't find the original on the AP website) Capt. John J Sax, son of ex-Major Leaguer Steve Sax was among the 5 GIs killed in the crash of an Army Osprey plane this week. https://www.yahoo.com/news/son-former-la-dodger-steve-182958200.html RIP Later

whippoorwill Jun 11 2022 07:01 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Wow

G-Fafif Jun 13 2022 02:09 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Philip Baker Hall, character actor supreme (Bookman the library cop on Seinfeld most notably), 90. https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-theater-movies-obituaries-6d880589f6c644cf529a308756ce7be6

Frayed Knot Jun 13 2022 03:04 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

During the scene where Bookman is giving Jerry a verbal barrage, Jerry (the actor) is clearly on the verge of cracking up at several points. Hall, on the other hand, never breaks character nor misses a beat the whole time.

batmagadanleadoff Jun 13 2022 03:10 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I just saw Hall starring in "Hard Eight" on cable just two or three days ago. Never saw this movie before. It was the movie Paul Thomas Anderson directed just a year after and immediately following his breakout hit - "Boogie Nights". Many of the "Boogie" actors also appeared in "Hard Eight", including John C. Reilly, who I''m beginning to notice, is like in every single movie I might be interested in watching. What does he -- make like a feature movie every other month? Anyways, Hall was a really solid character actor.

Edgy MD Jun 13 2022 09:45 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Also bid farewell to Julee Cruise, the eerie songstress who gave eerie tv program Twin Peaks much of it's eeriness. She later joined B-52's on the road while Cindy Wilson took time off to start a family.

G-Fafif Jun 14 2022 06:56 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Hall brought real emotion to his role as Walt, the crotchety neighbor who young Luke befriends on Modern Family, a show that avoided real emotion, all while being funny as hell.

G-Fafif Jun 15 2022 10:41 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Joel Whitburn, who knew Billboard better than anyone ever, 82. After founding the Record Research Inc. company in 1970, Whitburn became one of the leading authors of reference books on the Billboard charts, releasing over 100 total entries of series like Top Pop Singles, Top 40 Hits, Top 40 Albums and Top 40 Country Hits. Particularly in the time before the internet made archival chart information widely available, his books proved invaluable in providing the whole industry with reliable chart stats and records, becoming fixtures on the bookshelves for DJs, execs, writers and artists alike. (His accurate reporting also made it more difficult for publicists and labels to credibly fudge the chart achievements of their artists, a notoriously common practice in the early '70s.) https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/joel-whitburn-dead-charts-books-record-research-1235087319/

G-Fafif Jun 18 2022 09:29 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Mark Shields, solid-as-hell political show staple from the center-left before those sorts of programs became unwatchable, 85. [tweet]https://twitter.com/judywoodruff/status/1538160062153228288[/tweet]

Edgy MD Jun 18 2022 09:34 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Yeah, he and David Brooks did great tag-team work in later years, wondering out loud if their gig opened the door for all the worst things.

MFS62 Jun 21 2022 05:57 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Len Rosenbluth - 89 basketball player https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=439789948152769&set=a.131797368952030&comment_id=1448300155638428¬if_id=1655851605762579¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic&ref=notif Won the MVP of the NCAA tournament over Wilt Chamberlain. Went to James Monroe High School, the same as our Ed Kranepool. Later

G-Fafif Jun 22 2022 02:43 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Tony Siragusa, Baltimore Raven and sideline reporter, 55. https://www.profootballrumors.com/2022/06/former-dt-broadcaster-tony-siragusa-dies

Edgy MD Jun 22 2022 05:12 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

The Ravens also lost a 26-year-old linebacker — Jaylon Ferguson. No cause of death yet reported. Football is not a safe place to be or a safe thing to do.

MFS62 Jun 23 2022 06:17 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Was Ray Lewis there? Later

MFS62 Jun 27 2022 06:04 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Marlin Briscoe - First African-American to start an AFL game at quarterback. 76 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlin_Briscoe?fbclid=IwAR27PAsE03EkrKwYy7CXoHEn_-jbRQg9a0F7zcLuPcC2BqyBLdTzotZ32ng RIP Later

G-Fafif Jul 07 2022 11:27 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

James Caan, 82. https://nypost.com/2022/07/07/james-caan-the-godfather-and-misery-star-dead-at-82/

Frayed Knot Jul 07 2022 03:25 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

He wasn't at a toll booth when it happened, was he?

kcmets Jul 07 2022 04:09 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

[BLOCKQUOTE]Hey, listen, I want somebody good - and I mean very good - to plant that gun. I don't want my brother coming out of that toilet with just his dick in his hands, alright?[/BLOCKQUOTE]

MFS62 Jul 07 2022 04:11 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

My favorite Caan line, from Eraser: “You know, some people take things for granted, like the ability to chew solid food.” Olavai Shalom. Later

Edgy MD Jul 08 2022 04:00 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, assassinated. Longest serving pm in the country's history

Frayed Knot Jul 08 2022 05:34 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

[BLOCKQUOTE]Hey, listen, I want somebody good - and I mean very good - to plant that gun. I don't want my brother coming out of that toilet with just his dick in his hands, alright?[/BLOCKQUOTE] Or, as the dubbed for TV version had it, "with just a stick in his hand". Moving that movie to TV caused a minor kerfuffle at the time as the movie rating code was only a few years old then [1966 I believe, whereas the movie came out in '72] so the idea that an 'R' rated movie would become an almost instant classic was new. So what to do? Unlike GOODFELLOWS 20-some years later, THE GODFATHER had very little language issues to deal with (but apparently "dick" was deemed enough of one), so the debate was about cutting the sex (wedding scene) or the violence (tame-ish by today's standards but more novel then). And then there was the whole Italian thing. Italian-American groups raised enough of a protest, arguing that putting it on TV would roil up anti-Italian sentiment*, that the network (ABC I think) ran a lawyerly-worded disclaimer at the beginning claiming no disrespect to anyone while going out of their way to not mention who might possibly be offended by its running. Sort of reminiscent of when Jeremy Giambi apologized during his steroids controversy while never actually saying what he was apologizing for, just that he was sorry for ... something. So "his dick" got changed into "a stick", the Sonny & bridesmaid scene was shortened (just the panting at the end IIRC), and ABC asked some non-specific group of people who had made great contributions to the United States not to stay mad at them for running the recent Oscar winner. And within a few years cable TV had taken over so this sort of controversy wound up existing only in that narrow window of time. * Mario Cuomo famously refused to even watch the movie (at theaters or on TV) for many years, finally relenting decades later and declaring it "maybe a classic".

G-Fafif Jul 08 2022 07:58 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Larry Storch, Corporal Agarn on F Troop[/], 99, per his Facebook page.

kcmets Jul 08 2022 09:25 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

[YOUTUBE]RwYxNhyIzMU[/YOUTUBE]

Lefty Specialist Jul 08 2022 09:40 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Some '60's shows didn't age well. F Troop was one of them.

kcmets Jul 08 2022 09:51 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

They don't get much sillier, and there were a lot of silly shows back then.

Frayed Knot Jul 08 2022 11:01 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

For some reason, Storch popped into my mind just a day or two ago. I was pretty sure he was still alive and was closing in on the century mark Looks like I killed him. Lefty Specialist wrote: Some '60's shows didn't age well. F Troop was one of them. I have no doubt that it didn't age well (haven't seen one in decades) but it was a fave of mine at the time.

batmagadanleadoff Jul 08 2022 11:56 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Larry Storch, Typewriter Chewing Gum, 2019. [FIMG=555]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49675546787_e6bdfbe8b8_c.jpg[/FIMG]

TransMonk Jul 08 2022 11:58 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Abe was a true leader. I know Japan's gun woes are minuscule compared to the US, but I am surprised he did not have more security. RIP

MFS62 Jul 08 2022 12:33 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

but I am surprised he did not have more security. Especially since the weapon used was a "home made shotgun". That sounds like a short range weapon.(as opposed to a rifle) I agree with you that a shooter shouldn't have been able to get that close. Later

Edgy MD Jul 08 2022 05:46 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

=TransMonk post_id=98829 time=1657303136 user_id=71] Abe was a true leader. I know Japan's gun woes are minuscule compared to the US, but I am surprised he did not have more security. RIP

He's not a PM anymore. He probably wasn't particularly handled so as to be invulnerable.



The next former PM might well be.

G-Fafif Jul 08 2022 06:01 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Tony Sirico, Paulie Walnuts, 79.

Lefty Specialist Jul 08 2022 06:36 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

He really bought into the character of Paulie Walnuts. [YOUTUBE]UM_ukXM4KkU[/YOUTUBE]

whippoorwill Jul 09 2022 06:29 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Frayed Knot wrote: For some reason, Storch popped into my mind just a day or two ago. I was pretty sure he was still alive and was closing in on the century mark Looks like I killed him. Lefty Specialist wrote: Some '60's shows didn't age well. F Troop was one of them. I have no doubt that it didn't age well (haven't seen one in decades) but it was a fave of mine at the time. I was thinking about F Troop the other day too, mostly Calamity Jane embarrassing the Captain all the time. Cute show.

Frayed Knot Jul 10 2022 03:59 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Frayed Knot wrote: IIRC, both [Gilles] and Bobby Bourne had shots at baseball careers but pursued hockey instead. Two things I just learned about Clark Gilles (from the January portion of this thread) He lived the last portion of his life (and died also) in Greenlawn, NY. (a village within Huntington township). That won't mean much to most of you but it will to a few. And the above links that he and teammate Bobby Bourne shared continued. Bourne's son married Gilles' daughter.

G-Fafif Jul 11 2022 11:13 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Adam Wade, the singer/actor I remember primarily for hosting the game show Musical Chairs and going to commercial breaks by announcing we were going to “pause for the cause,” 87. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/adam-wade-dead-singer-game-show-host-1235177763/

Benjamin Grimm Jul 14 2022 02:10 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Ivana Trump, 73. Mother of Uday and Qusay and the Typewriter.

Willets Point Jul 14 2022 02:30 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

My first thought is to wonder what she knew.

kcmets Jul 14 2022 02:40 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

It would be fun if just one of these women would say he has a three-and- a-half-inch pecker. But they're probably contractually obligated not to say.

whippoorwill Jul 14 2022 02:47 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Stunning!

Edgy MD Jul 14 2022 03:00 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Oh, I think one or two have spoken about his penis. As for what Ivana knew, she knew he raped her, and that should have been enough for the rest of us.

Frayed Knot Jul 14 2022 03:26 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Ivana Trump, 73. Mother of Uday and Qusay and the Typewriter. The typewriter? I mean, I know who you're talking about but don't get the reference.

MFS62 Jul 14 2022 03:47 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

=kcmets post_id=99742 time=1657831240 user_id=53] It would be fun if just one of these women would say he has a three-and- a-half-inch pecker. But they're probably contractually obligated not to say.

I think that's what Stormy Daniels (or was it one of the other hookers he paid off?) was alluding to when she said it looked like a mushroom. And that's why he didn't want it to go to open court where it might have to be included in sworn testimony.



Later

MFS62 Jul 14 2022 03:54 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Mark Fleischman, Studio 54 owner, dies by assisted suicide - 82 From Yahoo: Fleischman announced his plans to die by suicide on in an interview published last month in the New York Post. He had an undetermined degenerative condition that left him unable to walk or dress himself. He said he had attempted suicide two years ago, with an overdose of Xanax, but was revived at a hospital. Later

Willets Point Jul 14 2022 05:47 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Edgy MD wrote: As for what Ivana knew, she knew he raped her, and that should have been enough for the rest of us. It was enough for me, but I was wondering if she knew about any of the more recent crimes of her ex and her children that lead to someone silencing her during the 1/6 hearings.

Edgy MD Jul 14 2022 05:54 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I wouldn't think she knew much about that, but who knows? It's more likely, I would guess, that she could have provided help with regard to the investigations into his business dealings in the New York. The cause of death is being investigated. Police have speculated that she had a fall down the stairs.

kcmets Jul 14 2022 07:22 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Article Xll- you can never tell anyone I have a small dick. Here's $500,000.

Edgy MD Jul 14 2022 07:38 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

The standard Article XII in all his NDAs, I imagine.

Fman99 Jul 14 2022 08:19 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

For a half a mil you could tell everyone my dick was shaped like a can of tuna. I wouldn't give a fig

Benjamin Grimm Jul 15 2022 04:24 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

What if it was shaped like a fig?

Frayed Knot Jul 15 2022 06:12 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Benjamin Grimm wrote: What if it was shaped like a fig? Then he wouldn't give a tuna. Wait, What? Still looking for an explanation of 'The Typewriter' reference.

Benjamin Grimm Jul 15 2022 06:40 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

It's how batmagadan has referred to her, in lieu of using the c-word.

Willets Point Jul 15 2022 09:09 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Edgy MD wrote: The cause of death is being investigated. Police have speculated that she had a fall down the stairs. Yep. This is super suspicious.

whippoorwill Jul 15 2022 09:45 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

You know, I read a ton of murder mysteries, and in all of them the coroner comes to the scene and makes a preliminary statement. Surely in real life they can tell if she fell down stairs or just merely died at the bottom of a staircase

Benjamin Grimm Jul 15 2022 11:11 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

The question here is whether or not Humpty Dumpty was pushed. https://44.media.tumblr.com/0d9abc2c976bfd8742d43d9362ecfed5/tumblr_oymeptzljg1w67ki0o2_540.gif>

G-Fafif Jul 15 2022 11:16 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

William Hart, who blew our minds as lead singer of the Delfonics, 77. https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/william-hart-delfonics-singer-dead-1235114788/

Frayed Knot Jul 15 2022 11:17 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

They've ruled out falling up the stairs as the cause.

batmagadanleadoff Jul 15 2022 02:14 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Benjamin Grimm wrote: It's how batmagadan has referred to her, in lieu of using the c-word. They're synonyms, aren't they?

Fman99 Jul 15 2022 08:13 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Frayed Knot wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: What if it was shaped like a fig? Then he wouldn't give a tuna. Wait, What? Still looking for an explanation of 'The Typewriter' reference. Factually accurate (in that I wouldn't give a tuna. My genitals are actually very phallicly formed and sculpted)

nymr83 Jul 15 2022 09:11 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I am shocked that nobody started a "RIP Trump" or "Trump dead!" thread to announce Ivana's death with the shock title suggesting something else like the old "Mets sign Rodriguez!" type thread but it wasnt Alex Rodriguez

Edgy MD Jul 16 2022 07:20 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Mocking a death — even that of a crooked old rich lady — is serious bidness. Death will fuck you right back.

MFS62 Jul 16 2022 07:33 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

The way I learned it was, "You don't make ill of the dead". Later

Edgy MD Jul 16 2022 11:07 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

James Caan, improvising his lines in The Godfather, supposedly coined the term "Bada-bing!" [YOUTUBE]-EaR5x3Mh6M[/YOUTUBE]

kcmets Jul 17 2022 10:18 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

If he is the true inventor of bada-bing that's pretty huge. You know what I'm sayin'?

whippoorwill Jul 19 2022 03:36 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

My very first best friend, Scot 😢

Edgy MD Jul 19 2022 03:42 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I'm very sorry, whipporwill.

Marshmallowmilkshake Jul 19 2022 03:54 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

=whippoorwill post_id=100303 time=1658266587 user_id=79] My very first best friend, Scot 😢

Oh no! Condolences. Tell us about him when you are able to. I'm sure he was a special person.

whippoorwill Jul 19 2022 04:01 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Well, yes he was. He told me all about sex at age 4 but don't get the wrong idea. He was a funny, athletic, goofball that everyone loved and I almost regret saying no haha I was talking to his brother on Facebook a year or so ago and he seems to have disappeared too :( Thank you Marshmallow! I have thought about him often over the years and not only am I heartbroken, but disappointed that I could never find him again to say hi

Johnny Lunchbucket Jul 20 2022 05:44 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

My very first best friend, Scot 😢 So sorry coobs. I was just gonna mention I was sad to learn but awkward about the right words to say, learning that a guy I barely knew irl (acquaintances in college) but whom I came to "know" and admire a lot as a facebook presence, passed away suddenly and left 2 teen kids. Can i say that "I really knew the guy?" It's weird. Cuz what I really know is all "what he wanted to show us online" Anyway Josh was 54, and had a big and unexpected heart attack. He really loved the Phillies, the Flyers and he was thoughtful, and insightful about his faith in his Fandom, like I think we are here. He was also good-hearted and friendly and could take a joke, and loved his family, and his career (a newspaper copy editor) and shopping at Wegmans.

Fman99 Jul 20 2022 07:34 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Man, that sucks. Sorry JCL for your loss (and you too Coobs). Online friends certainly count as friends.

Edgy MD Jul 20 2022 07:51 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: He really loved the Phillies, the Flyers and he was thoughtful, and insightful about his faith in his Fandom, like I think we are here. He was also good-hearted and friendly and could take a joke, and loved his family, and his career (a newspaper copy editor) and shopping at Wegmans. Sounds like you knew him better than I know most of my in-the-flesh comrades. Peace to Josh.

whippoorwill Jul 20 2022 01:34 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

A very nice tribute JCL

Johnny Lunchbucket Jul 20 2022 01:56 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Edgy MD wrote: Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: He really loved the Phillies, the Flyers and he was thoughtful, and insightful about his faith in his Fandom, like I think we are here. He was also good-hearted and friendly and could take a joke, and loved his family, and his career (a newspaper copy editor) and shopping at Wegmans. Sounds like you knew him better than I know most of my in-the-flesh comrades. Peace to Josh. Thanks... It's funny... between writing this, and now, I actually saw a "real obituary" actually written by a mutual friend who irl was much closer, and I pretty much got the facts right, but missed the details. Like Josh was a very big sports fan ... despite once losing three teeth in a little league mishap, which is the difference, and also, good writin'

kcmets Jul 20 2022 04:00 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Condolences to whippoorcoob and JCL. I knew four people who died this year and there are few on the ropes and it's only July. It's all very unsettling some days...

whippoorwill Jul 21 2022 06:17 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

In my HS class alone there's been about seven. It's crazy And that's not including last years COVID desths

The Hot Corner Jul 23 2022 08:05 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

When i was young virtually all of my major gatherings with family and friends were for graduations and weddings. For quite some time now, the pendulum has swung so that the vast majority of such gatherings are now for funerals. It is a grim reminder that we are all slowly growing older. I have come to realize that life is too short, so we have to try to live it to the fullest while we can. My condolences to cooby, JCL, and all those that have lost loved ones.

whippoorwill Jul 23 2022 08:28 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Thank you Hot Corner My boss was in my High School class and when I lament the latest loss, he says ‘well, cooby, we're all getting older….' Sheesh that's not much solace

whippoorwill Jul 23 2022 08:29 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

=whippoorwill post_id=100687 time=1658586514 user_id=79] Thank you Hot Corner My boss was in my High School class and when I lament the latest loss, he says ‘well, cooby, we're all getting older….' Sheesh that's not much solace

Usually we're standing there dripping in sweat with dirt all over us so I guess we're at least getting some exercise lolol

kcmets Jul 23 2022 11:35 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I had a boss many moons ago who when he learned of someone having a friend or family member pass would say, "Gee, I hope it was nothing serious!"

G-Fafif Jul 25 2022 12:40 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Paul Sorvino, Paulie in Goodfellas, 83. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/paul-sorvino-dead-goodfellas-1235185779/

Benjamin Grimm Jul 26 2022 10:43 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Tony Dow, Beaver Cleaver's brother Wally. 77. https://handmade-business.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Tony-Dow-Main-Image.jpg>

Edgy MD Jul 26 2022 01:57 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Sorvino and Caan teamed up in The Gambler with Lauren Hutton, so somebody ought to look in on her. Plus, check out who else was in that film. [list] [*]Burt Young [*]Carmine Caridi [*]Vic Tayback [*]M. Emmet Walsh [*]James Woods [*]Stuart Margolin [/list] I don't know who your favorite sweaty character actor is, but there's a good chance he's on that list. Plus it had Antonio Fargas playing a pimp a year before he hit the little screen as Huggy Bear.

Benjamin Grimm Jul 26 2022 01:58 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I was thinking about Vic Tayback the other day, and I have no idea why.

MFS62 Jul 26 2022 02:24 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I was thinking about Vic Tayback the other day, and I have no idea why. We're beginning to worry about you. Later

Benjamin Grimm Jul 26 2022 02:26 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/person/7995965/5ec93123b172b.jpg> This probably belongs in the Guess Who Died in 1990 thread.

whippoorwill Jul 26 2022 02:30 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Cripes I thought for a minute that Mel had died

Benjamin Grimm Jul 26 2022 02:41 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

He did! Thirty-two years ago!

Willets Point Jul 26 2022 02:49 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

In an alternate universe, the sitcom that was spun off of a Martin Scorsese drama was Taxi instead of Alice.

Benjamin Grimm Jul 26 2022 06:56 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Tony Dow, Beaver Cleaver's brother Wally. 77. https://handmade-business.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Tony-Dow-Main-Image.jpg> Wally's family has retracted the news of his death.

Benjamin Grimm Jul 26 2022 06:57 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Tony Dow, Beaver Cleaver's brother Wally. 77. https://handmade-business.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Tony-Dow-Main-Image.jpg> Wally's family has retracted the news of his death.

kcmets Jul 26 2022 07:26 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Eddie Haskell has to be somehow mixed up in this mix up.

Edgy MD Jul 26 2022 08:46 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

It's certainly pulling a Tanya Roberts. It seems he's in hospice care and the family probably prepared an announcement pre-emptively and the publicist mistakenly launched it.

Benjamin Grimm Jul 27 2022 02:06 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Tony Dow is dead again. But Vic Tayback has somehow returned to the living.

MFS62 Jul 27 2022 02:10 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I wonder how Abe Vigoda feels about this. :) Later

G-Fafif Jul 27 2022 02:22 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Official word: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/27/entertainment/tony-dow-obit/index.html

G-Fafif Jul 31 2022 11:36 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Bill Russell, Celtic extraordinaire, 88.

Willets Point Jul 31 2022 11:52 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Rest in Power. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/31/sports/celtics-legend-bill-russell-dies-age-88/

Frayed Knot Jul 31 2022 01:03 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

On the short list of 20th century sports icons. Very short list.

Benjamin Grimm Jul 31 2022 02:28 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's Uhura, 89.

Edgy MD Jul 31 2022 03:08 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Ouch.

kcmets Aug 01 2022 11:25 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Bill Russell's resume is/was amazing: 13 seasons with the Celtics 5-time NBA MVP 11-Time NBA champion 12-time NBA all-star 2-time NCAA champion Olympic gold medalist First black head coach in North American pro sports history Triple phwam... RIP

Edgy MD Aug 01 2022 02:23 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

And with all that adding up, he's the first guy I think of when I think, "The numbers don't tell the whole story."

Marshmallowmilkshake Aug 08 2022 10:21 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

David McCullough, the best-selling author and documentary narrator with a gift for exploring America's past, is dead at 89. Monday, August 8, 2022 12:17 PM ET Mr. McCullough won Pulitzer Prizes for two presidential biographies, “Truman” (1992) and “John Adams” (2001). He received National Book Awards for “The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal” (1977) and “Mornings on Horseback” (1981), about the young Theodore Roosevelt and his family. He was a wonderful historian.

Edgy MD Aug 08 2022 10:40 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Wow, that certainly gets headlines above the passing of Roger E. Mosely, T.C. to Tom Selleck's Magnum, P.I., forever bailing out his buddy while forced to drop hints that time and helicopter fuel aren't free. Mosely, who sadly died from injuries sustained in a car crash earlier in the week, was a regular on TV for a decade or more before landing the role of T.C., but spent his latter years as a track and field coach. Speaking of TV, the HBO adaptation of McCullough's John Adams bio shouldn't have had his name on it. They took a gross amount of liberty with the story as recorded by McCullough.

Marshmallowmilkshake Aug 09 2022 07:20 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 09 2022 01:21 PM

Lamont Dozier, of Holland, Dozier, Holland fame -- one of the best songwriting trios of all time! [url]https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-62474956?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_campaign=64&at_custom4=26656CEC-17D8-11ED-83C1-1EEA4744363C&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_custom3=%40BBCNews&at_custom2=twitter&at_medium=custom7

whippoorwill Aug 09 2022 09:58 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Love so many of their songs!

MFS62 Aug 09 2022 11:18 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Actor Clu Gulager - 93 Star of many early TV shows, including The Virginian. ( I hope this link is acceptable) https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/clu-gulager-e2-80-98the-virginian-e2-80-99-and-e2-80-98return-of-the-living-dead-e2-80-99-actor-dies-at-93/ar-AA10nWjg Later

Edgy MD Aug 09 2022 12:54 PM Re: dozier

Lamont Dozier, of Holland, Dozier, Holland fame -- one of the best songwriting trios of all time! [url]https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-62474956?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_campaign=64&at_custom4=26656CEC-17D8-11ED-83C1-1EEA4744363C&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_custom3=%40BBCNews&at_custom2=twitter&at_medium=custom7 I'd be hard-pressed to come up with who else might be in the running. Certainly, many great songs have been written by teams of three, but not too many teams of three maintain a decades-long mostly exclusive partnership with one another. I guess Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb who were often credited all together at various points in their career, but at other times, no. A lot of Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry songs are credited as Greenwich/Barry/Spector, but that was probably Spector playing the heavy as often as not, and it wasn't an ongoing thing.

Marshmallowmilkshake Aug 09 2022 01:20 PM Re: dozier

Edgy MD wrote: Lamont Dozier, of Holland, Dozier, Holland fame -- one of the best songwriting trios of all time! [url]https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-62474956?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_campaign=64&at_custom4=26656CEC-17D8-11ED-83C1-1EEA4744363C&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_custom3=%40BBCNews&at_custom2=twitter&at_medium=custom7 I'd be hard-pressed to come up with who else might be in the running. Certainly, many great songs have been written by teams of three, but not too many teams of three maintain a decades-long mostly exclusive partnership with one another. I guess Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb who were often credited all together in at various points in their career, but at other times, no. A lot of Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry songs are credited as Greenwich/Barry/Spector, but that was probably Spector playing the heavy as often as not, and it wasn't an ongoing thing. Good call. I probably should have said "songwriting team." The sure did crank out the hits.

Willets Point Aug 11 2022 02:30 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

#6 will hang in the rafters for every NBA team in honor of Bill Russell.

MFS62 Aug 12 2022 12:10 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Anne Heche - 53 Pronounced dead today after car accident. OE: Yahoo reprinting Indiewire story: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/anne-heche-dead-53-actress-183534054.html Additional edit: She is brain dead, but is being kept alive while doctors find suitable recipients for her organs. Her family says she wanted to be an organ donor. Later

G-Fafif Aug 24 2022 06:52 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Len Dawson, Super Bowl IV MVP, 87.

Frayed Knot Aug 24 2022 12:51 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I read just days ago that Dawson was in care for dementia. I often find that those kind of 'leaked' stories are essentially the family saying that the person is in their final lap. Not sure if his case was just an age thing or if it was related to his day job of 50+ years ago. Be interesting to see if the family goes the brain donation route for evidence of CTE.

MFS62 Aug 24 2022 01:30 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I had read he was in hospice care, but there was no mention of dementia in that story. Sad. RIP Later

Edgy MD Aug 24 2022 04:58 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Crickets drummer Jerry Allison was co-writer of "That'll Be the Day," both of them having enjoyed the title line when John Wayne delivered it in The Searchers. And this'll be the day that Crickets drummer Jerry Allison has died.

G-Fafif Aug 30 2022 02:39 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Mikhail Gorbachev, 91.

MFS62 Aug 30 2022 02:45 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

He tore down that wall. Later

Frayed Knot Aug 30 2022 04:09 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

=MFS62 post_id=105749 time=1661892346 user_id=60] He tore down that wall

No he didn't.

MFS62 Aug 30 2022 04:34 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Frayed Knot wrote: He tore down that wall No he didn't. Technically, you are right. But I don't think it would have been allowed to happen without his concurrence. https://www.britannica.com/story/mr-gorbachev-tear-down-this-wall-reagans-berlin-speech I wrote a paper for my Economic Geography class in 1964 (while the wall was still up) titled "The Political and Economic Effects of the Berlin Airlift." The airlift kept the city fed until restrictions were eased. But I never went as far as to say the wall would come down. Later

Frayed Knot Aug 30 2022 04:50 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

If the bar is going to be that he didn't order, as his predecessors would likely have done, the mass shootings of those taking part in wall destruction then, sure. But that's not really much of a standard to clear. By that point the East German gov't was losing control of their people and the U.S.S.R. was losing control of E.G. so any decision to NOT act was more out of lack of power and options rather than of suddenly being on the side of, y'know, freedom.

MFS62 Aug 30 2022 05:19 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I know. I was trying to link his death to the memory of the famous Ronald Reagan speech. I guess my allusion didn't come out the way I hoped it might. Later

Willets Point Aug 30 2022 05:40 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Sad he lived long enough to see all of his accomplishments negated by Putin.

Edgy MD Aug 30 2022 07:04 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Well, most of Eastern Europe remains nominally free.

Lefty Specialist Aug 31 2022 06:23 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/i/status/1564719570061086735[/TWEET]

kcmets Aug 31 2022 07:56 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Not sure I remember that commercial, kinda fun. Thanks.

whippoorwill Aug 31 2022 12:40 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Love it!

kcmets Aug 31 2022 01:01 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

The days of Gorby and Ronnie seem so boring and bland by today's standards.

Edgy MD Aug 31 2022 08:33 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

What's the deal with Gorby? Is there going to be state funeral offered by the country run by a KGB despot trying to unmake his legacy?

Fman99 Sep 01 2022 10:35 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Justin Turner's HR bid. Died on the warning track. Brandon Nimmo is guilty of murdering it and I ain't sorry to say so

MFS62 Sep 01 2022 03:15 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Edgy MD wrote: What's the deal with Gorby? Is there going to be state funeral offered by the country run by a KGB despot trying to unmake his legacy? According to a Reuters report, he will be buried on Sunday and will NOT be given a state funeral. Later

Edgy MD Sep 01 2022 04:04 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

A Nobel Peace Prize Laureate should not go out without a chance for him to be honored internationally, if not in Russia, then in Stockholm. In fact, we can probably convert the CPF headquarters into an appropriate venue in a day or two.

Benjamin Grimm Sep 01 2022 06:04 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I'll get Maja on it.

Frayed Knot Sep 02 2022 09:58 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Hard hitting heavyweight Ernie Shavers - 78 Multiple fighters of his era described him as the hardest puncher they ever faced but he remained a cut below the likes of Ali, Frazier, Holmes and lost to all three during his career. He was also the first I remember to go with the shaved head look. It was still unusual at the time that I remember an interviewer asking Shaver's wife about it. She, at least initially, hated it adding that she thought his head "looked like a chocolate lemon". The odd things you remember from 50 years ago.

Edgy MD Sep 02 2022 10:39 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

The original version (and subsequent sequels) of arcade favorite Punch-Out! aka Mike Tyson's Punch-Out! featured an opponent named "Bald Bull," who I always figured was based on Shavers. He always telegraphed when his Sunday punch was coming, but if he even brushed you with it, it was lights out. [fimg=400]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7vUD4_XsAMEW2O.png[/fimg] Shavers, by the way, also will not be honored with a Russian state funeral.

kcmets Sep 02 2022 11:52 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Reminds me of The Iron Sheik, who is still alive at the present time.

G-Fafif Sep 02 2022 11:59 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Barbara Ehrenreich, 81, a writer who advocated tirelessly for the simple concept of fairness. [tweet]https://twitter.com/benehrenreich/status/1565753750752575493[/tweet]

G-Fafif Sep 02 2022 12:06 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

It was a casual meeting. Over salmon and field greens, Barbara Ehrenreich was discussing future articles with her editor at Harper's Magazine. Then, as she recalled, the conversation drifted. How could anyone survive on minimum wage? She mused. A tenacious journalist should find out. Her editor, Lewis Lapham, offered a half smile and a single word reply: “You.” The result was the book “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America” (2001), an undercover account of the indignities, miseries and toil of being a low-wage worker in the United States. It became a best seller and a classic in social justice literature. Ms. Ehrenreich, the journalist, activist and author, died at 81 on Thursday at a hospice facility in Alexandria, Va., where she also had a home. Her daughter, Rosa Brooks, said the cause was a stroke. ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story Working as a waitress near Key West, Fla., in her reporting for “Nickel and Dimed,” Ms. Ehrenreich quickly found that it took two jobs to make ends meet. After repeating her journalistic experiment in other places as a hotel housekeeper, cleaning lady, nursing home aide and Wal-Mart associate, she still found it nearly impossible to subsist on an average of $7 an hour. Every job takes skill and intelligence, she concluded, and should be paid accordingly. One of more than 20 books written by Ms. Ehrenreich, “Nickel and Dimed” bolstered the movement for higher wages just as the consequences of the dot-com bubble snaked through the economy in 2001. “Many people praised me for my bravery for having done this — to which I could only say: Millions of people do this kind of work every day for their entire lives — haven't you noticed them?” she said in 2018 in an acceptance speech after receiving the Erasmus Prize, given to a person or institution that has made an exceptional contribution to the humanities, the social sciences or the arts. Ms. Ehrenreich noticed those millions throughout a writing career in which she tackled a variety of themes: the myth of the American dream, the labor market, health care, poverty and women's rights. Her motivation came from a desire to shed light on ordinary people as well as the “overlooked and the forgotten,” her editor, Sara Bershtel, said in an email. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/books/barbara-ehrenreich-dead.html

MFS62 Sep 02 2022 12:49 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

She covered the kinds of stories about business' exploitation of workers that the Muckrakers had 100 years earlier. It was a shame that the same kinds of conditions still existed. RIP Later

whippoorwill Sep 02 2022 02:11 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

=kcmets post_id=106148 time=1662141162 user_id=53] Reminds me of The Iron Sheik, who is still alive at the present time.

He sure does!

Fman99 Sep 02 2022 07:18 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Edgy MD wrote: The original version (and subsequent sequels) of arcade favorite Punch-Out! aka Mike Tyson's Punch-Out! featured an opponent named "Bald Bull," who I always figured was based on Shavers. He always telegraphed when his Sunday punch was coming, but if he even brushed you with it, it was lights out. [fimg=400]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7vUD4_XsAMEW2O.png[/fimg] Shavers, by the way, also will not be honored with a Russian state funeral. Over the course of my lifetime this guy knocked me on my ass more often than anyone or anything that wasn't alcohol.

G-Fafif Sep 08 2022 07:35 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Longtime CNN anchor (and inspiration for the naming of our first cat Bernie) Bernard Shaw, 82.

Edgy MD Sep 08 2022 07:52 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Shaw was the only national anchor who refused to call Florida in 2000.

G-Fafif Sep 12 2022 10:20 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Ramsey Lewis, 87. https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-jazz-legend-ramsey-lewis-dies-at-age-87/

MFS62 Sep 13 2022 08:13 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Ramsey Lewis, 87. https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-jazz-legend-ramsey-lewis-dies-at-age-87/ The Ramsey Lewis Trio was the first concert I attended with the person who is now my wife. It was at Carnegie Hall. (the other act was Mongo Santamaria.) RIP Later

cal sharpie Sep 13 2022 09:54 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Jean-Luc Godard, New Wave French filmmaker, 91, by way of assisted suicide.

G-Fafif Sep 13 2022 02:41 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

National timewaster Ken Starr, 76.

Marshmallowmilkshake Sep 13 2022 03:17 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

In one of my old jobs, I had opportunities to interview many people, including many of some note who came to town for speaking engagements. Some were exactly like what you thought they we like, for good or bad. Ken Starr was one of those people who was very different from what I expected. I guess I thought he'd be somewhat dour and rigid. But he was very friendly, self-effacing and humble. I asked what you get for being Time Magazine's Man of the Year. "Nothing," was the answer.

Edgy MD Sep 13 2022 03:29 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Mainly got the independent counsel gig based on his acclaim and success bringing down Senator Packwood.

Gwreck Sep 13 2022 04:21 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

In one of my old jobs, I had opportunities to interview many people, including many of some note who came to town for speaking engagements. Some were exactly like what you thought they we like, for good or bad. Ken Starr was one of those people who was very different from what I expected. I guess I thought he'd be somewhat dour and rigid. But he was very friendly, self-effacing and humble. I asked what you get for being Time Magazine's Man of the Year. "Nothing," was the answer. Of course, that both is and was false. He leveraged his fame into numerous other well-paid jobs, pursuing several questionable and/or distasteful legal theories. And that's before we even get to the hypocrisy (he actually said it was “unconstitutional” to impeach a President) and incompetence (failing to address sexual violence at Baylor). There's a lot more here than him seeming “humble.”

batmagadanleadoff Sep 13 2022 06:19 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

A long time ago, I interviewed Adolf Hitler and what a nice guy he was. He even offered me extra whipped cream to go with my apple strudel and anyone who goes to that trouble has to be a nice guy. I think it's really important for me to say that about Hitler because everything youse might know about Hitler could be so misleading without having the full picture.

Willets Point Sep 13 2022 06:24 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=107183 time=1663114755 user_id=68] A long time ago, I interviewed Adolf Hitler and what a nice guy he was. He even offered me extra whipped cream to go with my apple strudel and anyone who goes to that trouble has to be a nice guy. I think it's really important for me to say that about Hitler because everything youse might know about Hitler could be so misleading without having the full picture.

The one good thing you can say about Hitler that you can't say about anyone else is that he killed Hitler.

MFS62 Sep 14 2022 08:09 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Irene Papas - actress -93 Famous for Zorba the Greek https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2022-09-14/greeces-irene-papas-who-won-hollywood-fame-in-zorba-the-greek-dies Later

Lefty Specialist Sep 15 2022 03:56 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

In one of my old jobs, I had opportunities to interview many people, including many of some note who came to town for speaking engagements. Some were exactly like what you thought they we like, for good or bad. Ken Starr was one of those people who was very different from what I expected. I guess I thought he'd be somewhat dour and rigid. But he was very friendly, self-effacing and humble. I asked what you get for being Time Magazine's Man of the Year. "Nothing," was the answer. Of course, that both is and was false. He leveraged his fame into numerous other well-paid jobs, pursuing several questionable and/or distasteful legal theories. And that's before we even get to the hypocrisy (he actually said it was “unconstitutional” to impeach a President) and incompetence (failing to address sexual violence at Baylor). There's a lot more here than him seeming “humble.” Now visiting the special place in hell reserved for him.

whippoorwill Sep 15 2022 04:09 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Trump died????!!!!????

Willets Point Sep 15 2022 05:31 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Don't get my hopes up, cooby!

Edgy MD Sep 23 2022 03:33 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Bang that crash symbol for longtime (and well traveled) drummer Anton Fier. Always in the band that just missed breaking free of the underground, Fier was a founder of The Golden Palominos, and was also celebrated for his work with The Lounge Lizards, The Feelies, The Lodge, Pere Ubu, The Voidoids for a short period, and in whatever Bob Mould called his backing band. He was part of several of John Zorn's noise orchestras, that pretty much were the best and the worst of what the nineties had on offer, depending on your speed, but he was terrific either way. I don't have anything for the juke box thread, because footage of him is scarce, but you can find digestible versions of what he did in the heart of the Palominos catalog as well as the funner, early Feelies. Still alive by all accounts is fellow drummer Anton Fig, who will probably still be confused with him. https://www.medadmbjmc.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Anton-Fier-1-293x300.png>

MFS62 Sep 24 2022 10:51 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Louise Fletcher - 88 actress. Most famous role, Nurse Ratched, in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. https://www.thewrap.com/louise-fletcher-nurse-ratched-one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest-dies-88/ Later

kcmets Sep 26 2022 07:01 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

One of my top 25 movies. I thought she had passed years ago.

Edgy MD Sep 28 2022 09:53 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Ms. Fletcher is joined by nineties rap star and one-time firefighter Coolio, passing away at 59, two months after the "Gangster's Paradise" video surpassed one billion views on YouTube.

whippoorwill Sep 29 2022 06:06 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Oh man! I'm probably 50 of those views! RIP Coolio, and also nurse Ratched. One of my favorite movies

Edgy MD Sep 29 2022 08:05 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Coobio.

whippoorwill Sep 29 2022 09:17 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Indeed!

whippoorwill Sep 29 2022 12:54 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

=whippoorwill post_id=109095 time=1664453189 user_id=79] Oh man! I'm probably 50 of those views! RIP Coolio, and also nurse Ratched. One of my favorite movies

Just watched it again and I looked up to see one of my cats was intently listening! She has Mommy's taste in music

kcmets Sep 29 2022 02:13 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

I just watched a minute, never heard/seen it before. Hope to never again. RIP, go hug Louise for us!

whippoorwill Sep 29 2022 02:38 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Oh the video isn't great at all. But the song! Especially the backup verse

Frayed Knot Sep 29 2022 04:49 PM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Oh the video isn't great at all. But the song! Especially the backup verse iow, the part stolen from Stevie Wonder. Sorry, "sampled".

whippoorwill Sep 30 2022 05:44 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

True

G-Fafif Oct 01 2022 11:10 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Former N.J. Governor Jim Florio, 85. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/26/former-new-jersey-gov-jim-florio-dies-at-85-00058795 Longtime CBS newsman Bill Plante, 84. https://deadline.com/2022/09/bill-plante-dead-longtime-cbs-news-white-house-correspondent-was-84-1235129855/

G-Fafif Oct 04 2022 08:54 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Loretta Lynn has died at 90.

kcmets Oct 04 2022 09:43 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

You didn't have a childhood if you didn't listen to Loretta 8-tracks riding around in a purple Gremlin with a white interior. RIP...

Edgy MD Oct 04 2022 10:10 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

Wow. Did yours have a racing stripe? https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kwUvUiHXGUY/hqdefault.jpg>

whippoorwill Oct 04 2022 10:33 AM Re: Guess who died in 2022

My memory was that she was a grandma at age 30 or so