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Post by Cei-U! on Dec 27, 2023 20:47:40 GMT -5
I'm old enough to have watched (and understood the humor of) the Smothers Brothers TV show in its heyday. Some 30-odd years later, I saw them perform live at Bumbershoot. They were as funny and topical in the '90s as they were in the '60s. RIP, Tommy.
Cei-U!
I summon the fond memories!
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 27, 2023 21:47:13 GMT -5
I'm just old enough to have theoretically seen it; but I was a wee lad and they were on a network we couldn't tune in well; However, I saw them repeatedly on the Tonight Show, specials and variety shows and they always killed.
Here's some fun with Johnny Carson....
and, one of their most famous moments, from their show....
Rest in Peace, Yo-Yo Man!
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 31, 2023 12:42:22 GMT -5
Actor Tom Wilkinson, probably best known here for Batman Begins, as well as the Full Monty and The Patriot (sadly), has passed away, at 75.  This is where I first recall seeing his work, as Helen Mirren's live in boyfriend, in the first Prime Suspect series. Tremendous actor and a great loss. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 31, 2023 12:46:56 GMT -5
Also passing away, actor/dancer/choreographer Maurice Hines, brother of Gregory Hines.
Here are the pair of them, in The Cotton Club...
and Sesame Street.....
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Post by Calidore on Dec 31, 2023 14:09:27 GMT -5
Also also passing away, longtime tough-guy actor Richard Romanus (80), father of...actor Richard Romanus and older brother of actor Robert Romanus.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 31, 2023 17:46:11 GMT -5
Also also passing away, longtime tough-guy actor Richard Romanus (80), father of...actor Richard Romanus and older brother of actor Robert Romanus. Voice of Harry Canyon, in the Heavy Metal movie. He used to appear in all kinds of things; but, I especially remember him in the short lived police show Strike Force, with Robert Stack. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 31, 2023 23:56:51 GMT -5
Las Vegas and nightclub comic Shecky Greene has moved up to the Big Room in the Sky, at age 97.
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Post by foxley on Jan 1, 2024 20:20:14 GMT -5
R.I.P. to John Pilger, Australian journalist, writer, scholar and documentary filmmaker, who has passed away aged 84. He is perhaps best known as the journalist who brought the Cambodian genocide to world attention when he and his frequent collaborators documentary filmmaker David Munro and photographer Eric Piper entered Cambodia in the wake of the overthrow of the Pol Pot regime. After Pilger's initial articles, they made the documentary Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia.  |
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Post by Rob Allen on Jan 2, 2024 16:14:25 GMT -5
I've just learned of the death last Friday of jazz pianist & singer Les McCann. He was 88. A soul jazz innovator, his music is a popular source of samples in the hip-hop world.
Here's probably his best-known track, Compared to What, recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1969, with Eddie Harris on sax, Benny Bailey on trumpet, Leroy Vinnegar on bass and Donald Dean on drums. This became a hit; both the single and the album it appeared on sold over a million copies.
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Post by Calidore on Jan 2, 2024 20:34:45 GMT -5
I've just learned of the death last Friday of jazz pianist & singer Les McCann. He was 88. A soul jazz innovator, his music is a popular source of samples in the hip-hop world. Here's probably his best-known track, Compared to What, recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1969, with Eddie Harris on sax, Benny Bailey on trumpet, Leroy Vinnegar on bass and Donald Dean on drums. This became a hit; both the single and the album it appeared on sold over a million copies.
Hearing that song for the first time (via the Atlantic Rhythm & Blues box set) was a religious experience. One of the shortest-seeming 9-minute songs I've ever heard.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 4, 2024 12:14:43 GMT -5
R.I.P. Don Read. Read was the head football coach at Portland State and Oregon, but really made his name as the head coach at Montana. Under his leadership the Griz went into the I-AA tournament five times and won the National Championship in 1995. Read made the Griz a national power in I-AA football.  |
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Post by Calidore on Jan 4, 2024 18:52:21 GMT -5
Actress Glynis Johns, who played the mother in Mary Poppins and won a Tony for her work in the play A Little Night Music, has died at 100.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 4, 2024 21:44:28 GMT -5
Actress Glynis Johns, who played the mother in Mary Poppins and won a Tony for her work in the play A Little Night Music, has died at 100. Wonderful actress. Loved her as the fair Jean, in The Court Jester, with Danny Kaye, and she was delightfully nasty, as Kevin Spacey's mother, in The Ref. She was quite sexy, in her young days, though that squeaky voice she had was something else. She seemed to lose that, as she aged. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 5, 2024 11:14:18 GMT -5
RIP to actor and recording artist David Soul, perhaps best known for his roles in Starsky & Hutch and Salem's Lot. He was 80.
I used to have a David Soul Mego when I was a kid, and I remember my folks having one of his albums on 8 track when I was a kid.
-M
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Post by driver1980 on Jan 5, 2024 11:38:52 GMT -5
R.I.P. to John Pilger, Australian journalist, writer, scholar and documentary filmmaker, who has passed away aged 84. He is perhaps best known as the journalist who brought the Cambodian genocide to world attention when he and his frequent collaborators documentary filmmaker David Munro and photographer Eric Piper entered Cambodia in the wake of the overthrow of the Pol Pot regime. After Pilger's initial articles, they made the documentary Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia. Years ago, my newspaper of choice was the Daily Mirror. John Pilger wrote some good articles for that paper, and I found myself agreeing with him 99% of the time. |
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