Guess who died in 2023

[Fman99]

Sorry to hear it F.
This one sounds like it was much more unexpected than your dad's case.

Thanks all.

Her partner took her to urgent care on Tuesday because she was feeling very lethargic and out of sorts. She was diagnosed with low BP and dehydration, plus Covid. But after an IV she bounced back pretty quickly. I spoke to her Wednesday night and she sounded like she always does, she was grousing about the hospital food but was otherwise looking forward to coming home. Had a cardiogram on Thursday and was waiting to be OK'd for discharge when she went into cardiac arrest very suddenly in the afternoon yesterday. Very unexpected.

My dad suffered with cancer, chemo etc in his last 15 months of life, so in a sense this was much preferable. Though I expected her to live many more years.

[whippoorwill]

Wow so sudden 😢 I am glad you had the chance to talk to her

[G-Fafif]

Lance Kerwin, the title character in the late ’70s coming of age drama James at 15/James at 16, 62.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv ... 235309901/

[G-Fafif]

Billy Packer, voice of college basketball, 82.

[TransMonk]

Tom Verlaine, guitarist and vocalist of punk rock band Television, dies at 73

Television is my favorite of the CBGB-era NYC punk bands. The first side of Marquee Moon was life changing for me. RIP

[Frayed Knot]

Billy Packer, voice of college basketball, 82.

Most are obviously on his announcing career, and that's fine.
To me, though, Packer was maybe the most staunch advocate for keeping college athletes in a perpetual state of unpaid servitude with zero control over their lives. Billy and his friends could get rich off college b-ball of course, as long as the actual talent got not a dime.
Hell, he didn't want the players to be able to make money after leaving college.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Bobby Hull, The Golden Jet of hockey, at 84.

https://nypost.com/2023/01/30/bobby-hul ... ead-at-84/

[Benjamin Grimm]

Lisa Loring, the original Wednesday Addams, 64.

[kcmets]

Tom Verlaine, guitarist and vocalist of punk rock band Television, dies at 73

Television is my favorite of the CBGB-era NYC punk bands. The first side of Marquee Moon was life changing for me. RIP

Yeah, I need to revisit Television. It's been some time.

NY Times has a good obit - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/29/arts ... songs.html

[MFS62]

Bobby Hull, The Golden Jet of hockey, at 84.

https://nypost.com/2023/01/30/bobby-hul ... ead-at-84/

Hull was famous for his cannonball-like slap shot.
Personal memory:
The Rangers had a goalie named Marcelle Paille. (Pronounced Pai -eee, but the fans pronounced it pile, as in pile of s**t))
At the old MSG I saw Hull fire a slapshot that Paille saved with his stick. The puck went straight up in the air, came down, hit Paille on the top of his head, rolled down his back, and into the goal.
The fans went nuts.

Hull and the Rangers' Andy Bathgate had two of the hardest slap shots of their era.

RIP, Bobby
Later

[Frayed Knot]

Back when he was playing, 'everybody knew' that Bobby Hull had the hardest slap-shot and was the fastest skater.
Whether those things were actually true or just assumed to be in those days prior to being able to measure everything is speculation but they
were cool labels to have in any case.

Hull was one of the first stars to jump to the WHA (the Winnipeg Jets) for all kinds of money back when the NHL was still dispensing greenbacks
with an eye-dropper. Phil Esposito turned down essentially the same deal out of loyalty to Bruins GM Harry Sinden. Sinden rewarded that loyalty
by trading him to the Rangers the next year. Like Hull, the team Espo would have signed with soon folded and he would have been right back in
the NHL only with a bigger bank account for his troubles.

'The Golden Jet' nickname was of course for the blond hair flowing behind him during that window before helmets were required but while Hull
still had hair. His son Brett had a lengthy career which might even have been statistically on par with his father's but, playing as Brett did in a
much larger league and in a more high-scoring era, he didn't have nearly the same impact. Bobby Hull was YUGE in mid-century hockey.

[Frayed Knot]

Barrett Strong -- a few days shy of turning 82

A singer and a piano player, Strong was one of the first acts signed to Motown and hit early in 1960 with 'MONEY (That's What I Want)'
But his main contribution was as a writer, most notably with partner Norman Whitfield. What might you know of his, how about? ...
- I Heard it Through the Grapevine
- War (What is it Good For?)
- Smiling Faces
- Cloud Nine
- Psychedelic Shack
- Ball of Confusion
- I Can't Get Next to You
- Papa Was a Rollin' Stone
- Just My Imagination

[Edgy MD]

I like to think of "Money" as the first mod song.

[Fman99]

Barrett Strong -- a few days shy of turning 82

A singer and a piano player, Strong was one of the first acts signed to Motown and hit early in 1960 with 'MONEY (That's What I Want)'
But his main contribution was as a writer, most notably with partner Norman Whitfield. What might you know of his, how about? ...
- I Heard it Through the Grapevine
- War (What is it Good For?)
- Smiling Faces
- Cloud Nine
- Psychedelic Shack
- Ball of Confusion
- I Can't Get Next to You
- Papa Was a Rollin' Stone
- Just My Imagination

Impressive list

[whippoorwill]

Lisa Loring, the original Wednesday Addams, 64.

Sad. And I’d have thought she was older

[G-Fafif]

Cindy Williams, Shirley who worked at the Shotz Brewery, 75.

https://apnews.com/article/television-t ... 702e82d7bd

[kcmets]

She was adorable. RIP.

[Frayed Knot]

I never watched L & S, so I mostly remember Cindy Williams from AMERICAN GRAFFITI and from the other Academy Award Nominated 1974 offering by Francis Ford Coppola (w/GODFATHER Part II) the very under-seen, THE CONVERSATION

[Frayed Knot]

New fact for me: Cindy Williams was married to singer Bill Hudson (the Hudson Brothers), also the first husband of Goldie Hawn

[whippoorwill]

Aw…yes she was adorable

[G-Fafif]

Floyd Sneed, drummer for Three Dog Night, 80.

https://deadline.com/2023/01/floyd-snee ... 235245967/

[kcmets]

The world could use a little more joy to the fishes in deep blue sea
right about now. RIP, Floyd!

[Fman99]

Cindy Williams, Shirley who worked at the Shotz Brewery, 75.

https://apnews.com/article/television-t ... 702e82d7bd

I met her here in Syracuse, at the airport, a number of years ago (along with Henry Winkler, they were here as honorary guests of the big annual Syracuse Nationals car show). She was a very pleasant lady.

[MFS62]

Paco Rabanne-88
He was a designer with a futuristic vision of fashion in the 1960s.
He designed the costumes for the movie Barbarella.

As a side light, he also had a product line of men's fragrances. A person I worked with (Arthur Noto) left that company, Erno Lasszlo, to become the president of Paco Rabanne.

Later

[G-Fafif]

Harry Whittington, hunting buddy then-sitting Vice President Dick Cheney shot in the face in 2006, 95.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/05/us/p ... -dead.html