Guess who died in 2023

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Post by kcmets » Wed Dec 27, 2023 5:00 pm

ashie62 wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2023 4:47 pmTom Smothers. I remember most The Who destroying their gear on their show
Probably quite staged and phony but pretty crazy Tv for the times...

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Post by MFS62 » Wed Dec 27, 2023 5:32 pm



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Post by Frayed Knot » Wed Dec 27, 2023 6:07 pm

I always had trouble remembering which was which ... including just now.

I remember the show but it was a bit before my time at least as far as me appreciating the edginess and coloring outside the
lines going on. Learned most of that in retrospect. Nice career(s) even if their prime was a bit short (not entirely their fault).
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Post by kcmets » Wed Dec 27, 2023 6:46 pm

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Re: Guess who died in 2023

Post by TransMonk » Wed Dec 27, 2023 7:15 pm

i am a patient boy...i wait, i wait, i wait, i wait
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Post by Edgy MD » Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:25 pm

Also and perhaps most prominently, the last of founding family of Kohl's retailers, and probably one of the last living magnates from the golden age of the American department store.

Roomed with Bud Selig at Harvard, and they kind of worked side by side to try to create a Jewish-led renaissance in Milwaukee, and if didn't do too badly, during an era when the American city was seemingly in decline everywhere.

Also, he was, like, totally rich.
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Re: Guess who died in 2023

Post by Frayed Knot » Sun Dec 31, 2023 7:15 am

British actor Tom Wilkinson - 75

Most notably for me was his role as the lead courtroom attorney who goes off the rails in MICHAEL CLAYTON
Also FULL MONTY, IN THE BEDROOM, BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL, and as Ben Franklin in the JOHN ADAMS
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Post by metirish » Sun Dec 31, 2023 7:38 am

Veteran journalist and filmmaker John Pilger , age 84
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Post by Frayed Knot » Sun Dec 31, 2023 9:52 pm

The race to be the final death of 2023 appears to go to Shecky Greene [Fred Sheldon Greenfeld], the long time comedian and Vegas lounge act.
He was 97 and, had you asked me, prior to just now, I would have guessed that he had already been dead for decades.
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Post by Edgy MD » Sun Dec 31, 2023 10:22 pm

I just read your post twice and I still feel pretty certain that he's been dead for decades.
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Post by Frayed Knot » Mon Jan 01, 2024 9:00 am

I know, right?
I would have associated him as being from an era closer to my grandparents' generation.
Instead he turns out to be just three years older than my father.
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Post by MFS62 » Mon Jan 01, 2024 10:08 am

One of Edgy's first admonishments to me (when I posted a joke) was, "Take it easy, Shecky".
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Post by Frayed Knot » Mon Jan 01, 2024 10:27 am

Well 'Shecky', over the years, became a kind of shorthand for that old-fashioned version of the standup comic so it often got
used to stick on someone trying to be funny. A president attempting to inject some humor into a press conference might
attract a comment of, 'Hey check out Shecky Nixon over there'.
One of Imus's occasionally recurring characters was a (fake) Pakistani comic named Shecky Bahuda, aka: The Whacky Packy
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Post by MFS62 » Mon Jan 01, 2024 12:19 pm

"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness". William Lonsdale Watkinson
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Re: Guess who died in 2023

Post by Lefty Specialist » Mon Jan 01, 2024 3:40 pm

MFS62 wrote: Mon Jan 01, 2024 10:08 am One of Edgy's first admonishments to me (when I posted a joke) was, "Take it easy, Shecky".
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“Frank Sinatra once saved my life,” Greene quipped. “A bunch of guys were beating on me and Frank said, ‘OK, that’s enough.’ ”
Even duct tape can't fix stupid. But it can sure muffle the sound.
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