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______ Passed Away Today, RIP (5 Viewers)
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El Floppo
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Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Charlie Steiner
Footballguy
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
From the moment he found Zero Mostel "incredibly guilty" in The Producers, Wolf Garber (honest) was an MVP of comedy bit play. Gorgeous turns in My Favorite Year, The Late Show, The Jerk, Serial and countless TV shows. Always cantankerously sympathetic (a tough combo), always brought it down to cases. RIP -
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Eephus
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Nick Tosches, inimitable writer and critic dead at 69. His biographies of Jerry Lee Lewis, Dean Martin and Sonny Liston are essential.
Here's a brief video snippet of Tosches and Anthony Bourdain being crotchety and talking about the good old days. They're all gone now.
Here's a brief video snippet of Tosches and Anthony Bourdain being crotchety and talking about the good old days. They're all gone now.
krista4
Footballguy
Awwww. Will pull out my Nick Tosches Reader later today in tribute. There's no way I'm watching that video link; would make me too sad.Nick Tosches, inimitable writer and critic dead at 69. His biographies of Jerry Lee Lewis, Dean Martin and Sonny Liston are essential.
Here's a brief video snippet of Tosches and Anthony Bourdain being crotchety and talking about the good old days. They're all gone now.
E Street Brat
Footballguy
Close call for Lady Gaga
ffldrew
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CurlyNight
Footballguy
Al Baghadi, ISIS leader.
BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Awwww, maaaan. One of the rarest skills in music - the fills guy. Melodically, other than George Harrison, i can't think of one better.
I had the great fortune to be witness to a couple of cycles of the Feat's process. Lowell would descend, fat & happy, from his ranch in the Tehachapis, they'd rehearse a coupla wks, tour for 12-13, then record for 3-4more and George - who never appeared to sleep the entire time and was now 180lbs instead of 280 - would head back to the hills. The process is why his heart came to blow up @ 34yo from all the speedballs, his favorite fruit.
But, o, what a caravan was led in the time between. Truly like running away and joining the circus. Once Little Feat were headliners, mgmt paid for friends, players, campfollowers to keep Lowell entertained, because he wanted to jam, talk, fly 24/7 and it was wearing the band out. I was in tour mgmt before the paid entourage, so the job was collecting musicians who checked & sat in and keeping em til the next set came along. Baby Buddha that Lowell was, a lot of folks checked in.
More than the rest of em, Paul was always there when Lowell was close to the essence. I watched with Paul as George would smilethink for a while and pull notions str8 out of the ether, make sumn soar and invite everybody along. In the course of a jam, you don't pay attention to who's doing the real work. But Baby Buddha would get the inspirations, Billy Payne - as brilliant a jackhole as you ever wanna meet - would attach some contrary musicology to it but, by the time it got to the stage, it would somehow all make sense and that part was 90% Paul. He was the electrician, made all the connections so that the polar opposites of George & Payne would sound like an organic piece. Powerful intelligence & care right there. Thank you for that, old friend. RIP -
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Don Quixote
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wikkidpissah
Footballguy
The Kid is out of the picture. That kind of self-belief is rare and, much as i envy it sometimes, i'm glad that it is. Thanks, Kid, for the great art made possible by that self-belief. RIP -
BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
zamboni
Footballguy
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Encyclopedia Brown
Footballguy
Twenty years ago or so, he used to regularly call into a local disc-jockey and he would be on the air for two hours, answering any and all questions with braggadocio and self promotion.Leroy Hoard said:
He was so upfront about it all that it came off as a humorous and even endearing kind of shtick.
The only time he seemed to get serious and admit weakness was when he talked about Ali MacGraw and how she left him for Steve McQueen when they were filming The Getaway.
He said that was the beginning of his tailspin.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
I got to know one of em, Miss McGraw, when she moved to Santa Fe and our social Venn Diagrams slivered a little (i've told the story of our 1st meeting here before). McQueen (who she left Evans hi&dri for) was her great love but Evans was still her MVP - the one she'd call whenever - more than 20 yrs after throwing him over. Maybe it's cuz they had a kid, but that's still UnHollywoodish loyalty.zamboni said:
Doug B
Footballguy
Comedian and actor John Witherspoon passed this yesterday at age 77.
"The secret is: you got to coordinate!"
"The secret is: you got to coordinate!"
drunken slob
Footballguy
Don't know how many of you watch, "Black Jesus," but he was great on there, as was Charlie Murphy
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[scooter]
Footballguy
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Spoon and George Wallace are the last great "you got a job? i'll take the job and thank you for it, no matter what kinda peckowood you are" comics in a world that mostly dont operate that way anymore and, therefore, became the conscience for a lot of otherwise-spoiled comics. Thank God for that, and for Spoon, bringin' joy. RIP -
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simsarge
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EYLive
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RIP Rudy from Survivor.
Survivor Contestant Rudy Boesch Dies at 91 After Long Battle with Alzheimer's Disease
Survivor Contestant Rudy Boesch Dies at 91 After Long Battle with Alzheimer's Disease
Tom Servo
Nittany Beavers
jamny
Footballguy
RIP Rudy.
Remember how huge that first season was. Hatch made the front page of many newspapers when he won.
[scooter]
Footballguy
He was on the very first season at the age of 72. That was 19 years ago, so.........
Tom Servo
Nittany Beavers
Flamboyant Puerto Rican astrologer Walter Mercado dies at age 88. He was well-known throughout all of Latin American and among Hispanics in the USA. My ex-wife used to watch him on TV.
In 2016, he predicted total destruction of the world if Trump became president: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article91718662.html
In 2016, he predicted total destruction of the world if Trump became president: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article91718662.html
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
zamboni
Footballguy
This seemed to happen a few months ago, but didn't hear about it. I really liked watching her - she was nice on the eyes even when competing.
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Tom Servo
Nittany Beavers
There's a tad bit of irony with this. Still a sad situation for her friends and family.
BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
Detroit Lion and MSU Great WR
Charles Rogers
https://twitter.com/digdeep810/status/1193855258788683776?s=21
RIP DAWG
Charles Rogers
https://twitter.com/digdeep810/status/1193855258788683776?s=21
RIP DAWG
The_Man
Footballguy
RIP, Jake Burton Carpenter, founder of Burton Snowboards and really the guy that brought snowboarding into existence. He convinced Stratton Mountain to let him and his friends to ride there and the sport took off from there. Just a decent, chill guy who made a fortune and got to spend his life doing what he loved, dead at 65.
Jules Winnfield
Footballguy
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Gahan Wilson gave me my first adult moment. Once i found my father's "special drawer", i rifled thru it regularly in search of new naughty mags and party records. Oh, the stolen moments of salacious surreptity but, to this day, i have never seen an image that shook my tree more than, in the second half of one of me Da's Playboys, a GW cartoon of a line of sad, fat, naked old men grimly climbing a children's slide that turned out to be a giant cheese grater. The slide was an inverted Progress of Man - the farther down, the less man there was - and, of course, a giant pile of shredded loser below. I was maybe 8yo and i knew this was hilarious but didn't know why. Stared at it over & over thru the years and am haunted by it still. Could not find the image on the innerwebs for y'all. You were grate, Mr. Wilson. RIP -
The only reason Michael J Pollard was popular was that there always seemed to be a similarly inexplicable, goofy, giggleshrugging guy in every pot circle of the 60s. RIP -
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Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Gahan Wilson marched to his own beat, that's for sure.
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
Gahan Wilson, B. Kliban, and Gary Larson - my top 3 cartoonists. The first one that I really remember was in a National Lampoon - "Baby Eating Through the Centuries" was a several page comic book panel spread - take off of the Jonathon Swift's a Modest Proposal.
Joe Summer
Footballguy
Harry Morton, founder of the Pink Taco restaurant chain.
(And son of the guy who founded the Hard Rock Cafe)
(And grandson of the guy who founded Morton's Steakhouse)
He was 38. Found unresponsive in his Beverly Hills home.
(And son of the guy who founded the Hard Rock Cafe)
(And grandson of the guy who founded Morton's Steakhouse)
He was 38. Found unresponsive in his Beverly Hills home.
