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W winedrmikeMember

Adam Schlesinger- age 52- victim of COVID-19

Lead singer of Fountains of Wayne, and he wrote "That thing you do" for the Tom Hanks movie.  The band got its name from the iconic store of the same name in Wayne, NJ which sold outdoor concrete sculptures and fountains.  The store has since gone under and the building leveled.  I guess there just isn't much demand anymore from people that want to put a statue of a boy pissing in the middle of their circular driveway.

And let me tell you, even after all these years, Stacy's mom still has it going on.

purplehazepurplehazeMember
arsenal4ever posted:

John Prine from Covid-19

An American original

This sucks

Of all the entertainer/celebrity passings in my lifetime, I can't think of one that hit me as hard as this.  I heard when he went into ICU, and then not much else for a few days.  I hoped (knew) that he was going to get the very best medical care possible.  I really believed that he'd make it.  Given his poor state of health, I was obviously overly optimistic.

I got into John Prine as a freshman in college (1975) and his music has been part of the soundtrack of my life ever since.  Agree with jc that his humor, spare but efficient lyrics and incredible ability to connect with an audience were all part of what made up a truly American treasure.  Hard to come up with "favorites" for someone like JP, but some to listen to for those not familiar with his work:

Sam Stone (I cried when I first heard this one.  Yeah, I was high... but whatever)

Angel from Montgomery 

Hello in There (one of his saddest and yet most uplifting songs)

Lake Marie (came to love this one later in life)

All the Best (if you've ever broken up with anyone, the first verse is fuking classic)

Souvenirs (top 5 for me)

That's the Way the World Goes Round (...it's a half an inch of water and you think you're gonna drown.)

Bruised Orange.

Hard to go wrong with Prine, except for a few of his more gimmicky numbers.  

I was very lucky to have had the chance to bring my eldest granddaughter to see him the last time he was at Wolf Trap in Virginia.  She asked me, "Poppop, can we go see him again the next time he's in DC?"  My response was something to the tune of... "If he lives long enough darlin', we will definitely go."  

Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery,
Make me a poster of an old rodeo,
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to,
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go.

RIP.

PH

 

steve8steve8Member
italianwino posted:

Al Kaline was a great baseball player. The youngest player at age 20 to win the batting title.

I missed this. RIP indeed. I'm young enough to have missed most of his best years but I'll always remember his performance in the 1968 World Series when I first started watching MLB. I also remember his work in the broadcast booth after he retired from playing with George Kell and Ernie Harwell during some pretty grim years for the Tigers.

board-oboard-oMember

I am so sorry to see this. He was a hero of mine. I have used his wine book for decades and he was so very right on so many occasions. I recall being given a 1958 La Mission Haut Brion that had been in a friend's relative's basement for years. Knowing how bad the 1958 Bordeaux vintage was, I was expecting garbage, but it was a truly excellent wine. I looked up the 1958 vintage in Broadbent's book and he said the vintage was horrible, except that La Mission had produced a very good wine.

 

irwinirwinMember
@The Old Man posted:

Raise your hand if you remember seeing Stiller and Meara on The Ed Sullivan Show. 

Raise your hand if you remember watching The Ed Sullivan Show. 

Raise you hand if you know who Ed Sullivan was. 

I certainly remember the Ed Sullivan show and watched it many times. I remember seeing Stiller and Meara, but can't say necessarily it was on is show.  I also remember Topo Gigio.

The Old ManThe Old ManMember
@irwin posted:

I certainly remember the Ed Sullivan show and watched it many times. I remember seeing Stiller and Meara, but can't say necessarily it was on is show.  I also remember Topo Gigio.

And of course Senor Wences.

I liked Stiller best as George's father, better than the two actors who played Jerry's. Not a bad life, a decades-long career with a resurgence in his "senior" years. A loving wife and a successful son and dying at 92. We should all be so lucky.

J jcocktostenMember
@The Old Man posted:

And of course Senor Wences.

I liked Stiller best as George's father, better than the two actors who played Jerry's. Not a bad life, a decades-long career with a resurgence in his "senior" years. A loving wife and a successful son and dying at 92. We should all be so lucky.

The Stillers used to go to synagogue on the West side where my mom was the Executive Director.  Always very nice to the congregants.  

What a funny man - RIP 

bomba503bomba503Member

Steve West - Founding DJ (1983) on 91X in San Diego one of the first mainstream alternative music stations in the US. I came to SD for the first time shortly after it was founded and was amazed to find a regular FM station playing all the music I loved. If there were others in the US there werent many

 

Update: Was talking to a friend who has worked in alternative radio for decades. The alternative music genre began in the late 70's. The two pioneering stations were KROQ in L.A. And WLIR in Long Island, NY. 91X lineage goes back to KROQ 

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purplehazepurplehazeMember
@The Old Man posted:

Lived to be a hundred, overcame stuttering and unfortunately died of  complications from the Coronavirus.

Actually, she never totally overcame it, although she made an incredible improvement in her 50s after attending an intense 3 week course at Hollins Communications Research Institute in Roanoke, VA.  She'd have an occasional hiccup in our conversations and I could tell that she was constantly aware of, and working on her speech.  

I've got some great John and Annie Glenn stories which I've shared with many of you who I've had the chance to raise a glass with.  They include schnapps and hot cocoa, stories Annie told me of her childhood friendship with John, sphincter tightening stories of early space travel by Senator Glenn and the incredible kindness she showed my daughter when she attended the rededication of the John Glenn College of Public affairs in her sophomore year at OSU.  

I addressed John Glenn as Senator Glenn when we first met, and he gently chided me and asked me to please call him John.  I don't think that I ever pulled it off.  I think the most informal I was able to get was Mr. Glenn.  It's that way with one's heroes often.  

I consider myself very lucky to have met both of these down-to-earth Ohioans  Although I'm an atheist, I truly hope that there is a chance that their souls are together again.  They were a true duprass.  If you don't know what that means, you need to read more Vonnegut.

RIP John and Annie.

PH

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purplehazepurplehazeMember

Eddie Haskell: Hey Wally, nobody's home. Let's call up some girls and pretend we're talent scouts.

June Cleaver: [Enters the room.] Hello, Eddie.

Eddie Haskell: Oh. Hi, Mrs. Cleaver. Gee Mrs. Cleaver, your hair looks real pretty today.

June Cleaver: Well, you should know Eddie, being a talent scout.

Eddie was the first "bad boy," in network TV family programming.  You knew he was up to no good, but you couldn't wait to find out what it was.  

PH

haggishaggisMember
@The Old Man posted:

Lived to be a hundred, overcame stuttering and unfortunately died of  complications from the Coronavirus.

This reminds me that another person who "overcame" stuttering (but not totally, and is still alive, thank goodness) is Joe Biden.  A lot of his detractors say that his sometimes halting speaking style is evidence that he is suffering dementia.  He rarely talks about his stuttering "problem," but that's the rest of the story.

J jcocktostenMember

A friend of mine from high school emailed me to see if I had heard - she remembered how obsessed I was with the film and score when we were in high school.  We were once in a burger joint before we we supposed to go to a party and the movie was on one of the tvs and I refused to leave until it was over - we missed the whole party and stayed at the restaurant til closing

@The Old Man posted:

Without question.

 

W wine+artMember
@irwin posted:

Lewis:  A huge figure who devoted his life to fairness and equality, and tried his best to help others.  We could use more of his type.  A lot more.

Stand up, Mr. Lewis is about to pass by. 

When you look and understand the true character of this mans soul, then you see what 180 degrees the opposite looks like in the Oval Office.  Love and turn the other cheek / Hate and divide.... Spend your life trying to make your country a better place / Spend your life focused solely on oneself. 

This much I know. Mr. Lewis is universally loved and admired in his life and passing. The person sitting in the Oval Office will not enjoy such when he is gone. 

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sunnylea57sunnylea57Member
@brucehayes posted:

Don't forget he was also a Pop Shoppe tv spokesman.

In the late mid 1969s, Shack was house hunting and looked at the house immediately behind us in Clarkson (Mississauga), the western suburb of Toronto. The agent didn’t have a key to the house, but Shack saw my brother and me playing in our backyard. He recruited my brother to crawl through the milk box and unlock the door for him. It would have been fun to have him as a neighbour, but he didn’t buy the house.

W wine+artMember
@steve8 posted:

The empathy just drips from that post.

Empathy. Empathy. Empathy? The Dump and his insistence of no mask at his rally, had ‘do not sit’  stickers removed from seats in hopes of making the crowd look larger and knowingly holding the event while 6 of his staff in Tulsa tested positive and then Cain testing positive a week after attending the event points to me who should have empathy with the blood on his hands. 

patespo1patespo1Member
@wine+art posted:

Empathy. Empathy. Empathy? The Dump and his insistence of no mask at his rally, had ‘do not sit’  stickers removed from seats in hopes of making the crowd look larger and knowingly holding the event while 6 of his staff in Tulsa tested positive and then Cain testing positive a week after attending the event points to me who should have empathy with the blood on his hands. 

Also his 'team' continued to post on social media mistruths about Covid, up to the day before he died.  Loss of life is never positive, but my empathy is gone in this case. 

W wine+artMember
@patespo1 posted:

College Football for this Fall ( May be premature but it’s at least on life support) 

Unfortunately, the drumbeat seems to be heading this way. 

College football dominates fall weekends as millions head back to college campuses each Friday/Saturday, no sport creates the debate and fan fervor over rankings, playoff selections and all week TV and radio sports talk. 

billhikebillhikeMember
@csm posted:

Big Ten expected to announce cancellation of fall season, with potential postponement to the spring. Would be weird to see football and march madness happening at the same time. 

With the fuctard selfish mentality resulting in events such as the Sturgis motorcycle rally still happening, we may not see either next spring. Fucking embarrassing.

The Old ManThe Old ManMember
@csm posted:

Do yourself a favour and google the best of Shoresy (and Katie, but that is for different reasons).  Simply brilliant and laugh out loud funny.  

Clips without context is not best way to enjoy this brilliant show. Season 1 episode 1 and then move forward. To be clear a big part of the show is hockey jock talk but there's also skid talk, hick talk, preacher talk, smelt talk, rez talk and various other outlier group's talk. In addition, they create and run memes which build and develop over each episode.

I do not use the word brilliant lightly, this show is brilliant.

steve8steve8Member
@The Old Man posted:

"Cathy Smith, Who Injected John Belushi With Fatal Drugs, Dies at 73
After giving an interview to The National Enquirer, she was convicted in Mr. Belushi’s overdose death and served time in prison." NY Times

I read an article about her a couple of weeks ago just after she died. I didn't realize she had a relationship with Gordon Lightfoot for several years before she moved to California. I'll never be able to listen to Sundown the same way again.

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steve8steve8Member
@sunnylea57 posted:

Going back 3+ weeks now. Just noticed no one had mentioned it here.

Justin Townes Earle, age 38 of a probably drug overdose.

Singer/songwriter. Steve Earle's son.

I did see that when it happened. I don't have and didn't even know any of his music before his death despite having a lot of his father's albums and CD's. Sad story and the apple didn't fall far from the tree.