@Rothko posted:The Year 2020. Burn in hell.
Actually it's been a horrible century. Starting with 9/11, to the horrors of Trump to Covid.
True. But 2020 was definitely the worst.
@The Old Man posted:Actually it's been a horrible century. Starting with 9/11, to the horrors of Trump to Covid.
Not to belittle any of those events but I think there's a long way to go to match the 20th century. That said, it's definitely not beyond the capability of the human race.
600,000 died in the US civil war. Obviously, that war lasted more than 4 years, but the total population was much lower. The 1918 flu killed about 675,000 Americans and the population was just over 100 million, so fewer than 1/3 of today’s population.
This pandemic is pretty awful also.
meanwhile we need to distribute the vaccines and administer them way faster.
Paul Westphal at 70. Played against him in HS. Phenomenal player who choose USC when everyone went to UCLA in those days. Great NBA guard for the Celtics and Suns.
Floyd Little
Gerry Marsden, lead singer for Gerry and the Pacemakers, at 78.
@arsenal4ever posted:Paul Westphal at 70. Played against him in HS. Phenomenal player who choose USC when everyone went to UCLA in those days. Great NBA guard for the Celtics and Suns.
Not to mention player and coach of the Seattle Super Sonics.
Actress Tanya Roberts at 65. In addition to being a Bond girl, she was in Charlie's Angels and played Midge on That 70's Show,
@brucehayes posted:Actress Tanya Roberts at 65. In addition to being a Bond girl, she was in Charlie's Angels and played Midge on That 70's Show,
Huh, didn't see this one coming. Cue the Monty Python Bring Out Your Dead sketch.
Apparently, she is really dead now.
@brucehayes posted:Actress Tanya Roberts at 65. In addition to being a Bond girl, she was in Charlie's Angels and played Midge on That 70's Show,
She was the best part of The Beastmaster.
Marion Ramsey, Police Academy & Broadway
Baseball's Tommy Lasorda at 93.
Brian D. Sicknick, US Capitol Police officer. Sicknick was injured Wednesday when a mob of insurrectionists, incited by Trump, stormed the US Capitol. "He died at approximately 9:30 p.m. ET Thursday 'due to injuries sustained while on-duty,' Capitol Police officials said in a statement."
@The Old Man posted:Brian D. Sicknick, US Capitol Police officer. Sicknick was injured Wednesday when a mob of insurrectionists, incited by Trump, stormed the US Capitol. "He died at approximately 9:30 p.m. ET Thursday 'due to injuries sustained while on-duty,' Capitol Police officials said in a statement."
I have read that he had been struck with a fire extinguisher.
Michael Apted. While Coal Miner's Daughter, an OK movie, is perhaps his most well know film (though I do love Levon Helm in this movie) and his Up movies are known to even casual followers of documentary films, I love him for his work on both Rome and Masters of Sex. Unfortunately he was not able to pull off translating the unique Gorky Park to the theatrical movie screen.
@brucehayes posted:Baseball's Tommy Lasorda at 93.
Lasorda is a quotable fellow. He was talking about a baseball player who was a slow runner and said that if the player were in a race with a woman who was 8 months pregnant, the ballplayer would finish 3rd.
Pat Loud of the Loud family from An American Family, 94. Reality TV began there.
Siegfried Fischbacher, of Siegfried and Roy fame, at 81 of pancreatic cancer.