sad... "Tim Conway, Comedian and ‘Carol Burnett Show’ Star, Dies at 85" (Variety.com - Tuesday, 5/14/19)
Stanton T. Friedman, Scientist Who Tracked U.F.O.s, Dies At 84 - N.Y. Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/obituaries/stanton-friedman-dead.html Stanton T. Friedman, whose conviction that extraterrestrials have arrived on Earth led him to leave his career as a nuclear physicist to lecture widely about alien visitations, died on May 13 in Toronto. He was 84. His family said he died of a heart attack at Toronto Pearson Airport on his way home to Fredericton, New Brunswick, from a speaking engagement in Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Friedman had worked for major corporations on projects like rockets and compact nuclear plants for space when he left the world of established science to become a prominent voice in the study of unidentified flying objects, or ufology, a field embraced by many but viewed by many more with skepticism. In several books, many television appearances and hundreds of speeches around the world, Mr. Friedman demonstrated little doubt that alien spaceships had come and gone, and that extraterrestrials had walked the Earth. He argued that the United States government had engaged in a “cosmic Watergate” to cover up evidence of alien landings, most notably the one that believers say took place in 1947 on a ranch near Roswell, N.M., spawning an enduring fascination with reports of alien encounters. His fascination with the possibility of extraterrestrial life began in 1958, when he read “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects,” which had been published two years earlier. The author, Edward Ruppelt, a former Air Force officer, had worked for a federal government investigation of possible U.F.O. sightings called Project Blue Book. He became a true believer two years later, when he found a key volume of Project Blue Book and seized on one particular statistic in it: that 701 of all the sightings charted by the investigation had been categorized as “unknowns” — objects in the sky that could not be explained as more than conventional airborne craft. He believed that some of the unknowns could have been flying saucers (the term he preferred over U.F.O.s), although the report doubted that they represented “technological developments outside of the range of present-day scientific knowledge.” Mr. Friedman left nuclear physics to focus on ufology full-time in 1970, deriving his income largely from lecture fees. He was often ready to assert a government cover-up of alien arrivals. A Pentagon report that was made public in 1997, shortly before the 50th anniversary of the Roswell incident, said that no flying saucer debris or alien bodies had been discovered in the New Mexican desert.
******** WFAN BREAKING: Bill Buckner, whose error led to #Mets' 1986 title, dead at 69. https://t.co/a1jbK6FCBP pic.twitter.com/LIfsJdCYJT— WFAN Sports Radio (@WFAN660) May 27, 2019
Exactly. It's some true bullshit to do this to someone for non-political reasons. The man died ringless- let him at least rest in peace.
Leon Redbone died Thursday, May 30. He was 69. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/obituaries/leon-redbone-dead.html
Paul Darrow, famous for his role as Kerr Avon on the British science fiction show Blake's 7, has died. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...arrow-cult-favourite-in-blakes-7-dies-aged-78 It's a bit of a coincidence, but I've been rewatching Blake's 7 recently, and was just about to start watching the final episode when I saw this news.
Very sad news today Justin Edinburgh Leyton Orient manager has passed away Justin Edinburgh of Tottenham Hotspur.
Yes. I believe he was Leyton Orient's manager whent they placed 1st of 24 during the 2018–19 season in the National League and were promoted to League Two for next season....
Franco Zeffirelli, 96 https://www.usnews.com/news/enterta...ian-director-franco-zeffirelli-dies-at-age-96 Zeffirelli made it his mission to make culture accessible to the masses, often seeking inspiration in Shakespeare and other literary greats for his films, and producing operas aimed at TV audiences. Claiming no favorites, Zeffirelli once likened himself to a sultan with a harem of three: film, theater and opera. "I am not a film director. I am a director who uses different instruments to express his dreams and his stories - to make people dream," Zeffirelli told The Associated Press in a 2006 interview. From his out-of-wedlock birth on the outskirts of Florence on Feb. 12, 1923, Zeffirelli rose to be one of Italy's most prolific directors, working with such opera greats as Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and his beloved Maria Callas, as well Hollywood stars including Elizabeth Taylor, Mel Gibson, Cher and Judi Dench. Throughout his career, Zeffirelli took risks — and his audacity paid off at the box office. His screen success in America was a rarity among Italian filmmakers, and he prided himself on knowing the tastes of modern moviegoers.
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