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Blowhard, Chair Thrower and occasional Head Basketball coach Bobby Knight. Nov 03 23 09:39 pm Link John Bailey, ASC. A great cinematogapher. RIP, John. https://deadline.com/2023/11/john-baile … /#comments Nov 10 23 11:32 pm Link Rosalynn Carter, 96 Nov 19 23 02:02 pm Link Hunter GWPB wrote: Rosalynn and Jimmie were married for 77 years! Nov 19 23 02:12 pm Link Former Secretary of State and war criminal (alleged) Henry Kissenger dies at 100, worked in the cabinet of Nixon and Ford finding ways to prolong the nightmare of Vietnam Nov 29 23 08:38 pm Link Nov 30 23 09:26 am Link Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, 93 Dec 01 23 09:28 am Link Switching it up a bit- going for something lighthearted. Glynis Johns turned 100 on 5 October 2023. You may remember her as suffragette Winifred Banks in Mary Poppins. Already with significant stage experience, she debut in her first film in 1938. Her first adult role was in a 1941 film, "The 49th Parallel," which included Laurence Olivier. She was on stage and in film over eight decades as actress, singer and dancer. "Aged five, she joined the London Ballet School; by six, she was hailed in Britain as a dancing wonder; by ten, she was working as a Ballet instructor; and by eleven, she had earned a degree to teach. Hoping to study with the Sadler's Wells Ballet at age twelve, she was enrolled instead at Clifton High School in Bristol, balancing academia with the two hours a week she spent at the Cone School of Dancing (which later merged with the Ripman School to form Tring Park School for the Performing Arts). As a dance student, Johns amassed some 25 gold medals." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glynis_Johns Dec 03 23 09:34 pm Link sit-com giant Norman Lear. his legacy is the television of the 70's kept working into his 90's Dec 06 23 06:18 pm Link Ryan O’Neal, the heartthrob actor who went from a TV soap opera to an Oscar-nominated role in “Love Story” and delivered a wry performance opposite his charismatic 9-year-old daughter Tatum in “Paper Moon,” died Friday, his son said. “My dad passed away peacefully today, with his loving team by his side supporting him and loving him as he would us,” Patrick O’Neal, a Los Angeles sportscaster, posted on Instagram. Dec 08 23 05:36 pm Link RIP Andre Braugher actor from Homicide, Glory and Brooklyn nine-nine dies at 61 Dec 12 23 10:06 pm Link https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertai … 021054007/ Laura Lynch, a founding member of the Dixie Chicks band, has died in a Texas car crash, officials confirmed. Lynch, 65, was killed instantly in a head-on collision Friday by an oncoming car attempting to pass another on an undivided highway near El Paso Dec 23 23 09:27 pm Link Tom Smothers, one half of the legendary folk duo "Smothers Brothers" and co-creater of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, an iconic irreverent 60's television variety show on CBS, which tested the limits of permitted political speech on broadcast tv. With sadness, RIP Tommy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smoth … omedy_Hour Dec 27 23 11:51 am Link Dec 27 23 07:54 pm Link https://apnews.com/article/world-war-ii … 3ae758b16f The reputed last member of the famed American jungle fighting unit in World War II nicknamed the Merrill’s Marauders has died. Russell Hamler, 99, died on Tuesday, his son Jeffrey said. He did not give a cause of death. Hamler was the last living Marauder, according to a biography published by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in January. The soldiers spent months behind enemy lines, marching hundreds of miles through the tangled jungles and steep mountains of Burma to capture a Japanese-held airfield and open an Allied supply route between India and China. They battled hunger and disease between firefights with Japanese forces during their secret mission, a grueling journey of roughly 1,000 miles (1,610 kilometers) on foot that killed almost all of them. Dec 28 23 04:42 pm Link Jan 06 24 02:57 pm Link Hunter GWPB wrote: Nice that you did this tribute to her, as she just passed on January 4th. Jan 06 24 09:06 pm Link Melanie Safka, singer who performed at Woodstock, died Tuesday January 23, 2024 at the age of 76. Beautiful voice, beautiful person. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_(singer) Jan 28 24 07:54 pm Link Carl Weathers of NFL, Rocky, Predator and many others dies at 76 R.I.P. Carl Feb 02 24 03:05 pm Link Country singer Toby Keith died Monday at the age of 62 after a battle with stomach cancer. “Toby Keith passed peacefully last night on February 5th, surrounded by his family. He fought his fight with grace and courage. Please respect the privacy of his family at this time,” a statement posted to Keith’s website and social media said. https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/06/entertai … index.html Feb 06 24 03:55 am Link Feb 06 24 10:47 am Link Lou Krasky, an Associated Press photographer who took photos of presidents and the pope as well as hurricanes, golf tournaments, car racing stars and space shuttle launches throughout his more than 35 years with the wire service, has died. Krasky, 86, died Thursday, his family said. No cause of death was given. https://apnews.com/article/lou-krasky-o … 81f5cf9062 Feb 12 24 02:18 pm Link Mojo Nixon -- August 2, 1957 – February 7, 2024 Musician, actor, radio personality.  Feb 13 24 08:27 am Link Richard Lewis years and years of stand up, Curb Your Enthusiasm on team curmudgeon R.I.P. Feb 28 24 04:57 pm Link Chris Macan wrote: Wow, old Mojo Nixon looks so different from when I went to see him and the band in their rocking early days in a small club in Austin while I was back there for a visit. I was dancing with a couple of girls right next to the stage, and he evidently liked what he saw, and so invited us to come to the band's house for an after-party. We all had a great time there for a few more hours. I wondered when he died how many people even knew he existed. A rebel in a bottle. Feb 29 24 09:41 pm Link Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 87. https://apnews.com/movies-arts-and-ente … e3198fb761 Mar 29 24 04:44 pm Link Chris Macan wrote: Modelphilia wrote: Quite a lot, he was one of the major personalities on the SiriusXM Outlaw Country station, Apr 03 24 06:50 pm Link O.J. Simpson dead at 76! Whatever your feelings about this, OJ was certainly someone who was in the public eye through out much of his life for various reasons, some good, some bad. https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/oj-sim … index.html Apr 12 24 07:31 pm Link Dickey Betts: December 12th 1943 - April 18th 2003 Guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer best known as a founding member of the Allman Brothers Band. Wrote some of the best Allman Brothers Band hits. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/18/entertai … index.html Apr 18 24 01:45 pm Link |
