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______ Passed Away Today, RIP (4 Viewers)

Epic Problem said:
How in the hell was he 74? 
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Same reaction here. JMV's Ski was "The Kid" to Burt Reynold's grizzled vet Sonny Hooper in 1978's Hooper**.

So ... yeah. Time waits for no one. RIP.

** obligatory Hooper link. JMV walks up at 2:30 to back up Burt's crew. Then he outslugs Bald Bull around 4:50. Bouncers throw JMV out with the trash at 5:53 :D  

 
NREC34 said:
Babe Ruth’s daughter passed yesterday. 

102 years of age
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Julia Ruth Stevens

July 7, 1916 - March 9, 2019

On Saturday, March 9, 2019, Julia Ruth Stevens, Babe Ruth's daughter, passed away. She was 102 years old.

She was a great ambassador for her beloved "Daddy," for our American pastime, and for the Babe Ruth Museum.

In my three-decades-plus tenure at the Museum I had the privilege of dozens, if not hundreds of hours of conversations with this remarkable woman, many of which were recorded.

She would tell me about time spent with her father, traveling to Japan, attending football games, or quiet Sunday evenings at home listening to their favorite radio show, "The Lone Ranger."

Julia frequently traveled to Baltimore for Museum events and programs, and was in town for the 1993 All-Star game. The night before the contest we took her to a local crab house...she so loved those steamed crustaceans! Sometime during the evening we learned that a group of All-Star players were feasting in the next room. Julia asked if I would escort her there to greet them. But before we could make a move the players came to our table and lined up to get her autograph. Such was the legacy of her famous father.

Every visit to Baltimore included a flurry of media interview requests, and she was always up for the challenge, the consummate professional. I remember one occasion when the Orioles invited her to the broadcast booth during a game at Camden Yards against the Yankees. Mike Flanagan, who was doing the interview, pulled me to the side and said, "Can she really do this?" I assured him she would do just fine, and Mike took it from there. He asked her if she still followed baseball and she said she rooted for Boston or Baltimore, rattling off the names of current players, but never for New York. The sting from the way the Yanks cashiered her Daddy in 1934, it seems, was still painful.

Despite her advancing years, Julia still liked to party a bit, and during her last Baltimore visit about six years ago we took her to the ballpark for another game against the Yankees, wheelchair and all. Afterwards, with a sellout crowd exiting Camden Yards, happy from an Orioles victory, Jule said, "Michael, I want a grasshopper!" And so off we went along Pratt Street, bar after bar, in search of the green exotica! She was staying at the Hilton Hotel just across from the ballpark and it was there that I successfully ordered her specialty drink, which she consumed, in the wheelchair, in a niche behind the bar. The next day she was good to go for an interview at the Museum before nearly 200 of her adoring fans.

In my time at the Museum I've had the chance to interview dozens of people who had known Babe Ruth, including teammates, opposing players, family, friends and fans. 

Sadly, with Julia's passing, it's time to say so-long to those with first-hand knowledge of the greatest and most celebrated player the game of baseball has ever known.

Thanks, Julia, for your passionate support of the Museum, and for your wonderful friendship. We love you.

Mike Gibbons

Director Emeritus and Historian

The Babe Ruth Birthplace Foundation

 
[scooter] said:
Legendary session drummer Hal Blaine has died at the age of 90

The guy played drums on literally thousands of hit songs. Name your 10 favorite American hit songs from the '60s and chances are high that he played on at least 1 or 2 of them.
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Missed this one - damn :(  What a legend.

Here's a list of the songs he played on, and even this is only a partial representation: https://www.revolvy.com/page/List-of-recordings-of-songs-Hal-Blaine-has-played-on?fbclid=IwAR1d34y9_3BpvqglARnjRNrj_BXm8tW4K7nSC31gGhWr4gMR005NBt8_114

His most iconic one IMO is the opening to "Be My Baby".

 
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wikkidpissah said:
Stanley Donen , director

Gene Kelly's creative partner thru his greatest years, director of Singin' in the Rain and On the Town for him and musicals like Seven Brides for Seven Brothers & Pajama Game once he went out on his own. One of the few directors of musicals to do dramas and comedies as well, he did such varied flicks Charade, Bedazzled, The Little Prince and even Blame it on Rio. He was also a great mentor & friend to my director cousin Rob. RIP -
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Stanley Donen night on TCM.

 
[scooter] said:
Legendary session drummer Hal Blaine has died at the age of 90

The guy played drums on literally thousands of hit songs. Name your 10 favorite American hit songs from the '60s and chances are high that he played on at least 1 or 2 of them.
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If you haven’t seen the music documentary, The Wrecking Crew, go watch it. It’s an amazing look at the group of session musicians (including Blaine, of course) in LA during the 60s/70s that played on ev.er.eee.thing. 

 
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