Playwright Ntozake Shange, 70. I always found For Colored Girls to be a bit divisive in the same way The Color Purple was, but I won't hate on what I think were her good intentions. RIP
Got to walk her across campus at LSU in 1985. She. Was. Hi. Lar.ious. And awesomely nice to a 23 year old who didn't know who she was. Yet.
‘Original Marlboro Man’ Bob Norris dies at age 90 https://www.kcbd.com/2019/11/08/original-marlboro-man-bob-norris-dies-age/ I had heard this before - he didn't smoke.
Maria Perego, Topo Gigio’s Creator, Dies at 95 The mouse puppet that she made in the late 1950s in Italy became a worldwide phenomenon, with the help of “The Ed Sullivan Show.”