Astro from UB40 has died. https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...27c1f4-40a6-11ec-9ea7-3eb2406a2e24_story.html
Dean Stockwell, center, with Gene Kelly, left, and an obscure singer named Frank Sinatra, right. Stockwell, left and right . . . And left, with Scott Bakula, though not from Quantum Leap...
Moody Blues co-founder, drummer Graeme Edge - 80 (March 30, 1941-November 11, 2021) https://www.npr.org/2021/11/12/1055026618/moody-blues-co-founder-drummer-graeme-edge-dies-at-80
Not sure why but only about a month ago out of the blue, I looked up Curley Culp. Then I heard he was sick right after that. He was a great nose tackle! RIP!
Stephen Sondheim, Titan of the American Musical, Is Dead at 91 An intellectually rigorous artist who perpetually sought new creative paths, Mr. Sondheim was the theater’s most revered and influential composer-lyricist of the last half of the 20th century, if not its most popular. His work melded words and music in a way that enhanced them both. From his earliest successes in the late 1950s, when he wrote the lyrics for “West Side Story” and “Gypsy,” through the 1990s, when he wrote the music and lyrics for two audacious musicals, “Assassins,” giving voice to the men and women who killed or tried to kill American presidents, and “Passion,” an operatic probe into the nature of true love, he was a relentlessly innovative theatrical force. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/theater/stephen-sondheim-dead.html
Charles Moose, Montgomery County police chief during 2002 D.C. sniper attacks, dies at 68 Moose led a three-week manhunt for snipers who killed 10 people in the Washington region nearly 20 years ago. https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2021/11/26/charles-moose-dead/
After a protracted debate, I finally got my S.O, who doesn't really like musicals much, to watch "West Side Story" the older version last night. Then she went to bed, and i signed on to check the scores, and found that he had died... also that he was gay, which kinda puts a whole different feel to "Somewhere."
Once upon a back in the day I took my SO to see 'A Little Night Music' thinking it was just an Anglicized ad for Mozarts 'Eine Kleine Nachtmisik' . Imagine my chagrin when it was just a bunch of rich Swedes banging each others wives and singing about clowns and clouds. I fell asleep.
You went to a concert that night and a play broke out? I better warn you that "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" has nothing to do with Little Red Riding Hood..."
Lee Elder, 1st Black Golfer To Play At The Masters, Dies At Age 87 Elder broke down racial barriers and paved the way for Tiger Woods and others to follow. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lee-...kQnZXRmDiNhnIU2fI1mO4_zQvuqO6otr6CqrfpAzbgtig
Legendary body-builder who peaked in the pre-steroid era Dave Draper dies at 79 https://news.yahoo.com/legendary-bo...2nMuSnq_An1k4rDacROVcRFZAZ5VVHzMF1rJo-QdfnH4J Iron worked pretty well for him. He apparently died of the same congestive heart failure that killed a lot of men in his family in their forties. and here he is pressing Sharon Tate in the 1967 movie Don't Make Waves
Noted Viagra spokesman Bob Dole. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/05/us/politics/bob-dole-dead.html AA respectable Republican from their last respectable generation.
Stonewall Jackson, a country singer and longtime Grand Ole Opry member known for his classic hit "Waterloo," died Saturday (Dec 4th) at age 89.
I was trying to remember if he was the guy who advertised in comic books, teling kids that they'd get sand kicked in their faces if they weren't swole. But that was Joe Weider. Dole's Republican generation was the one whose dog whistling eventually led us to Trump.
Charles Atlas, actually. Atlas was from a generation before Weider, who was himself one of Draper's (and Schwarzeneggar's) mentors.