Famous person is dead. R.I.P. [R]

Fernando Valenzuela - 63

 

I am taking liberties as this is an animal who died, but if you have not see the PBS special yet, it is excellent:
Grizzly 399 was documentary star

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rip-griz...CJOxXxXoWxdDWEFLPQ_aem_0u_X5jOp7peUwIHpPDQQWw

 

Jack Jones death: The Love Boat theme singer dies at 86

 

I walked past an open door in vegas and he was on stage. Told his 'Little Boy Blue' joke. Got a heckle. Told the guy to give him a break cause hes just a working class Jew from Brooklyn

 

WFUV Public Radio
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farewell to Grateful Dead founding member @PhilLesh, who passed peacefully today at home.

 

Phil Lesh, 84, bladder cancer? At any rate he beat the odds on liver transplants all to pieces.


He said something once about when the band was playing well, and he was, that he would see musical staffs floating in the air in front of him, with the notes he was about to play-- only the notes would be pine trees or bluebirds, or dolphins or such like. I certainly remember that zoned out look on his face, part concentration and part ecstatic fugue.

"What do you want me to do
To do for you to see you through?
For this is all a dream we dreamed
One afternoon long ago

Walk out of any doorway
Feel your way, feel your way like the day before
Maybe you'll find direction
Around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you

What do you want me to do
To watch for you while you're sleeping?
Then please don't be surprised
When you find me dreaming too

Look into any eyes you find by you
You can see clear through to another day
Maybe it's been seen before through other eyes
On other days while going home."

Go home, Phil, kick the cornstarch off your mukluks and have seat by the fire. You did great.

 

Former Brazil defender Ze Carlos dies aged 56 | The Daily Star

 

Philadelphia Union goalkeeper Holden Trent dies at 25

 

We’ll start watching the final season of Discovery tomorrow night. We’ll do it in her honor.

Unless it sucks. Then the second season of Strange New Worlds will be in her memory

 

You'll end up dedicating SNW season 2.

 

Teri Garr, 'Young Frankenstein' actress, dead at 79

 

Quincy Jones is gone, at 91. He overcame some very difficult life circumstances to become a talented musician, though younger audiences know him more for his music producing.

“With 28 wins, Jones is the second most Grammy awarded artist of all time - nominated a record 80 times since 1961. The music icon won Grammys for producer of the year thrice and he's received two Grammy awards each for both album and song of the year.”

 

What a massive, multifaceted cultural impact he had. In terms of popular culture, who among his contemporaries can top him? Dude was involved with It’s My Party, and with making Will Smith a cultural-impact heir. And all kinds of things in between, like a little thing called Thriller.

 

Voice of AOL's 'You've Got Mail' greeting Elwood Edwards, a former WKYC

 

Tony Todd - 69

The original Candyman and he also had a ton of roles over the years in everything from Platoon to a recurring role on Star Trek: TNG.

 

I met him once, at an advanced showing of Candyman II.
Very nice guy.

Candyman II (Farewell to the Flesh), not so good.

Candyman is one of my favorite "horror' movies.
The use of Cabrini Green (fortunately, now long gone) and the juxtaposition with the luxury condos a block away (still there) was fantastic.

Also, I was studying at UIC during the time that the movie came out.

Also, Virginia Madsen? Mmmm!

 

GOOD CALL!

 

Dude! So was I!

 

Did you study under
Dr. Martin Wine, Shakespeare
or
Dr. Ned Lukacher, especially in his Literary Criticism Theory?
I think I also had Dr. Natalie Schmidt for some dramatic theory course.

Frankly, they are the only professors I remember from my time at UIC.

 

I had a seminar with Lukacher, and I knew Natalie Schmidt from the mailroom. I couldn’t have picked Wine out of a police line up, alas.

I can’t imagine what Lukacher would have been like in an undergraduate class. His seminars ranged from gnomic to incomprehensible (on the same afternoon).

Did you take the freshman writing classes there, and if so, can you remember the TA who taught the class?

 

Lukacher was a sonofabitch as an undergrad, not surprisingly.
Brilliant, and, damn, he let you know it.

I had him for Modern Literary Criticism (starting with Oscar Wilde and up through Derrida, et al.)
It was one of most impactful courses I have ever taken, as an undergrad, in grad school or law school, but he scared the crap out of some of the students.
It was a small class, maybe 10-12 students and most were terrified of him.

I doubt Martin Wine could pick Martin Wine out of a police line up.
His "classic" line was:
Those who can, do
Those who can't, teach
Those who can't teach, teach English.
It may have been true in his case.
He was enthusiastic and knew his Shakespeare well enough, but he was not a good "teacher."

I transferred into UIC in 1987 as a junior, so I skipped all of the freshman courses. Never had a TA or a class in the depresso-lecture halls.
I was there from '87-90 (part time) then went back in '95. I ended up transferring to Loyola as UIC had gutted their English department (at least their evening program) in the mid-90's.

It was sad, as I really like being there. I thought about going back for grad school, before (stupidly) deciding on law school.

 

John Robinson - 89

Coached USC, twice, and the LA Rams. He was the Rams all time wins leader until current coach Sean McVay. He had a college bowl record of 8-1 (USC and UNLV), never had a losing season at USC, and won 4 Rose Bowl's while he was there as well as the National Championship in 1978.

He attended prep school with John Madden.

 

Bela Karolyi, gymnastics coach, an subject of a recent death hoax, 82.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...astics-coach-dies/76368196007/?csp=chromepush

 

I'm a little embarrassed that I didn't know who he was.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/17/shel-talmy-obituary