No love for Mary Tyler Moore? I used to watch her show when I was a kid, and all the stuff never dawned on me that it was the first TV show where the main character was a single, career woman. I just thought it was cool because it was behind the scenes of a TV newsroom.
There is a thread in Music, TV & Movies (I never remember the order there) for famous people deaths. This is intended for noting the passing of the consequential, though not famous deceased.
My central Illinois homey, and former Congressman, Bob Michel, 93 http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-bl...use-leader-bob-michel-a-person-and-politician
Michael Novak, conservative Catholic scholar and pretty nice guy. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/...column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news I rarely agreed with his post-right turn books, but I met him after lectures at my college, grad school, and two colleges where my wife and I were working. The last time he said, "you again?" and was quite pleased when I told him I was actually going to introduce him.
Quintessential NYC tabloid columnist and all-around character Jimmy Breslin has died. The author-columnist Jimmy Breslin, a Pulitzer prize-winning chronicler of wise guys and underdogs who became the brash embodiment of the old-time, street smart New Yorker, died on Sunday. He was 87. Breslin died at his Manhattan home of complications from pneumonia, his stepdaughter, Emily Eldridge, said. Breslin was a fixture for decades in New York journalism, notably with the New York Daily News. It was Breslin, a rumpled bed of a reporter, who mounted a quixotic political campaign for citywide office in the 60s; who became the Son of Sam’s regular correspondent in the 70s; who exposed the city’s worst corruption scandal in decades in the 80s; who was pulled from a car and stripped to his underwear by Brooklyn rioters in the 90s. With his uncombed mop of hair and sneering Queens accent, he was like a character right out of his own work, and didn’t mind telling you. “I’m the best person ever to have a column in this business,” he once boasted. “There’s never been anybody in my league.” With typical disregard for authority, Breslin once took out a newspaper ad to “fire” ABC when it aired his short-lived TV show in a lousy time slot. The same year, he captured the 1986 Pulitzer for commentary and the George Polk award for metropolitan reporting. More than 20 years earlier, with Gay Talese and Tom Wolfe, he had helped create “New Journalism” – a more literary approach to news reporting. He was an acclaimed author, too, moving easily between genres. The Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight was his comic chronicle of the Brooklyn mob; Damon Runyon: A Life was an account of his spiritual predecessor; I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me was a memoir https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/19/jimmy-breslin-author-columnist-dies
RIP Don Rickles I liked you better when you were breathin, ya hockey puck! http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/don-rickles-dead-dies-comedian-insult-vegas-1202025068/
Still having trouble deciphering what "consequential" means. Though you do keep bumping it, so there's that...
Although I read it on another BS board first and have read a few articles since, I was still thrown off when I saw #RIP Mr Warmth trending on twitter.
The climbing world lost a giant. Ueli Steck https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/obituary_swiss-mountaineer-ueli-steck-dies-on-everest/43146274
Yeah, I guess we lost Royal Robbins about a month ago. Several years ago my friends and I got tickets on my birthday to see one Ueli Steck. I wasn't sure what to expect but I really enjoyed the philosophical themes he shared, notably that notion that there is an important trade-off between limiting the time your exposed to risks by being "fast and loose" vs. "slow and safer." Steck apparently slipped and fell several thousand feet while acclimatising for an attempt on a new route between Everest and Lhoste, He was alone after his partner descended with serious frostbite. Most of his body has been recovered from the base of Mount Nupste.
Former Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes Dead http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...4b03b485caf0c96?sma&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
My personal theology has a heaven, but no hell. But if there's a hell, here's Ailes'. He has the same job he had on Earth. All of his staff look exactly like him.
Lead singer of Soundgarden found dead. http://www.stltoday.com/entertainme...cle_b0f22087-b4b3-53a9-8dbb-b46399a5b4d1.html Aren't these rock stars dying young always suicide or mistaken drug interaction?