@purplehaze posted:Annie Glenn, wife of John Glenn, one of my childhood heroes. 🙁 Had the chance to hang out with them both often in the late 90s and through the 00s.
PH
Lived to be a hundred, overcame stuttering and unfortunately died of complications from the Coronavirus.
@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
@The Old Man posted:Retired, from disability, LA police officer Ken Osmond, 76. (Are you old enough to know?)
Eddie: Your father doesn't like me.
Wally : Why would you say that?
Eddie: On account of the way he looks at me when he opens the door. Sometimes I think he'd be happier to see Khrushchev standing there.
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
Susan Rothenberg.
You stuck to your understated style even when it was unfashionable.
@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.
Jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb, 91, played on "Kind of Blue."
Christo. That's a wrap. (Too soon?)
Ian Holm, perhaps best know perhaps for The Lord of the Rings, I think his greatest performance is in the overlooked The Sweet Hereafter directed by the overlooked Atom Egoyan.
Dame Vera Lynn, at 103.
Had no idea she was still alive.
"Mike Gotovac, legendary Dan Tana’s bartender, dies from COVID-19 at 76. Miljenko 'Mike' Gotovac tended bar at the iconic West Hollywood restaurant Dan Tana's for more than 50 years."
Milton Glaser
I <3 NY
@The Old Man posted:Ian Holm, perhaps best know perhaps for The Lord of the Rings, I think his greatest performance is in the overlooked The Sweet Hereafter directed by the overlooked Atom Egoyan.
Chariots of Fire
@jcocktosten posted:Chariots of Fire
I guess I was only thinking of good movies.
@sunnylea57 posted:Milton Glaser
Oh no, I missed the news.
First thoughts are; Dylan, Aretha, MoMA, I ❤️NY, Obama Hope,
R.I.P., indeed.
@wine+art posted:Oh no, I missed the news.
First thoughts are; Dylan, Aretha, MoMA, I ❤️NY, Obama Hope,
R.I.P., indeed.
I don't know the connection Milton Glaser and the Obama hope poster. A poster I'm not a fan of because it set Obama up with unreasonable expectations.
@wine+art posted:Oh no, I missed the news.
First thoughts are; Dylan, Aretha, MoMA, I ❤️NY, Obama Hope,
R.I.P., indeed.
Huge inspiration for me. I also liked his DC Comics “bullet” logo that was in use from the mid-1970s until the mid-2000s.
@sunnylea57 posted:Huge inspiration for me. I also liked his DC Comics “bullet” logo that was in use from the mid-1970s until the mid-2000s.
Oh, indeed.
Fun!
Hollywood composer Johnny Mandel. From The Shadow of Your Smile to the theme from M*A*S*H later used on MASH.
Carl reiner
@irwin posted:Carl reiner
Now concentrate, Hugh Downs died, he was 99.
Dr. Grinspoon who wrote “Marihuana Reconsidered" in 1971.
Ennio Morricone - one of the best film composers of all time. While some lean to the Good the Bad and the Ugly - I think Once Upon a Time in the West was his masterpiece. The use of the score with the story is phenomenal
@jcocktosten posted:Ennio Morricone - one of the best film composers of all time. While some lean to the Good the Bad and the Ugly - I think Once Upon a Time in the West was his masterpiece. The use of the score with the story is phenomenal
Without question.
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.
Charlie Daniels.
Kelly Preston. (Breast cancer.). 
Grant Imahara, host of MythBusters and White Rabbit
Rep. John Lewis, 80.
@The Old Man posted:Rep. John Lewis, 80.
I just saw this. It is very difficult for me to express how much love and respect I have for him. In an age of de-mystifying our idols, he continued to stand tall. My heart goes out to him and his loved ones. He made America, and, by extension, the world, better.
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.
@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.
How awful to fight bigotry and racism your whole life and you die while the most racist and bigoted president since Andrew Jackson occupies the White House.
"Emitt Rhodes, a one-man 1970s cult band from Hawthorne, dies at 70"
Derek Ho, Pipe master and former world champ
Musician Peter Green, leader of the very first incarnation of Fleetwood Mac.
Regis Philbin
@brucehayes posted:Regis Philbin
He overcame the Joey Bishop show.
