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Grateful Dead Singer Donna Jean Godchaux Dead at 78
The vocalist spent the Seventies with the legendary group, and also sang backup on hits by Elvis Presley and Percy Sledge

 

So, all the posts about random soccer players who never had a single thing to do with TV, movies, or music go flying by without comment, but a multi time Oscar nominee and a Golden Globe winner is what you get stupidly pissy about?

 

All you posted was name and age in link form.

I know who Alan Ladd was, and Ernie, and Cheryl, but as it happens I never heard of Diana. I even saw one of her movies I guess, but it was memorable to me only for a marvelous bit part by a very young Jodie Foster.

I knew who several of the soccer players were, and the posts contained real information about them. But yours was just "Here, click on this" and that's apt to be dangerous-- what if she was Rick Astley's wife or something?

 

Paul Tagliabue - 84

Former NFL commissioner.

 

Paul Tagliabue, who presided over an era of labor peace, soaring revenues and expansion for the National Football League in his 17 years as commissioner while facing rising concerns over a lack of minority hiring, the effects of concussions and the use of drugs, died on Sunday at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 84.

 

Lenny Wilkens, Hall of Fame basketball player and coach, has died at 88.
Wilkens, who was known as the godfather of Seattle basketball, played for 15 seasons and his 1,332 wins as a head coach rank third all-time.

 

Wilkens had the dubious fortune to coach the second Dream Team in the Olympics, which won but only beat people by 6 and 8 points instead of 60 or 80, and so he came in for criticism for success.

It sucks to be the coach of a great team in the time between when the other guys get better and the time when they get good.

RIP to a classy guy.

 

I remember him mainly with the Atlanta Hawks but then later my hometown Raptors.

For the longest time he was #1 on the all-time Wins as a Coach. But also #1 on all-time Games Lost. A testament to his longevity.

RIP Lenny Wilkens

EDIT: Wilkens still is Games Losses leader but so are Popovich, Sloan, Don Nelson. The same names that appear on the Games Won list.

 

My first memory of him was that he was the coach of the Super Sonics the year the Washington Bullets beat them for the championship. Of course that was the last great thing the Bullets did while Wilkens went on to do other great things.

 

Former NBA star Michael Ray Richardson dies at age 70 - ESPN

 

Oakland football coaching legend John Beam has died after being shot on Laney College's campus Thursday afternoon. He was 66.

Laney rose to national prominence in the Netflix series "Last Chance U."

 

Todd Snider, Americana Music Master, Dead at 59

 

Didn't even outlive Ol' Willie...

 

Came rather late to both Prine and Todd, but hopefully both of them will be causing trouble upstairs and making beautiful tunes together.

 

Darren DeVivo: Radio Show Host and DJ And Beatles Video/Podcaster
Gilson Lavis, the longtime drummer of Squeeze, died on November 5. He was 74.
In addition to Squeeze, Lavis was also the longtime drummer in Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra. (Of course, Holland and Lavis were also bandmates in Squeeze.)
Lavis was born on June 27, 1951 and joined Squeeze in 1976. He remained part of Squeeze until they broke up in 1982.
Lavis, who retired from music a year ago, was also an accomplished portrait artist.

 

Ugh. Six albums' players down in a morning-- three each, Snyder and Squeeze.

 

Kenny Easley - 66

One of the best safeties to ever play the game. His early years with the Seahawks were the best of his generation. DPOY and HOF accolades were well earned.

 

Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield, the Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist, dies aged 63 | Stone Roses | The Guardian

 

CBS 8 San Diego ·
Randy Jones, Cy Young-winning Padres pitcher, dies at 75, leaving a legacy as one of the team's most beloved players.

 

Last NL pitcher with 25 complete games in a season.


Also with Jim Kaat, pitched the last MLB game that lasted under 90 minutes
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Reggae pioneer Jimmy Cliff dies at 81 | AP News

 

Fuzzy Zoeller - 74

One of the last true characters in golf.

 

I worked the range at an event called 'the Grand Slam of Golf', at Kemper Lakes, in 1986. The major champions played with big $ amateurs. Nicklaus, Norman, Zoeller, Tway. Tway was a timid stick in mud. Zoeller was fun, engaging and treated every person there as a golf peer. He was really nice (as were Nicklaus and Norman)

 

Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88

Drawing comparisons to the greatest of dramatists, he entwined erudition with imagination in stage works that won accolades on both sides of the Atlantic.

Tom Stoppard, the Czech-born English playwright who entwined erudition with imagination, verbal pyrotechnics with arch cleverness, and philosophical probing with heartache and lust in stage works that won accolades and awards on both sides of Atlantic, earning critical comparisons to Shakespeare and Shaw, has died at his home in Dorset, England. He was 88.

Few writers for the stage — or the page, for that matter — have exhibited the rhetorical dazzle of Mr. Stoppard, or been as dauntless in plumbing the depths of intellect for conflict and drama. Beginning in 1966 with his witty twist on “Hamlet” — “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” — he soon earned a reputation as the most cerebral of contemporary English-language playwrights, venturing into vast fields of scholarly inquiry — theology, political theory, the relationship of mind and body, the nature of creativity, the purpose of art — and spreading his work across the centuries and continents.

Among his best known plays are “The Real Thing” (1982), a Tony Award-winning contemporary tale about the marriage of a playwright and an actress that considers the intersection of love and literature; the prolix and ribald comedy “Arcadia” (1993), an Olivier Award winner (the British equivalent of the Tonys), which, set on an English estate both in 1809 and nearly 200 years later, concerns the human desire to acquire knowledge and the ways in which the most well-educated people misuse, misinterpret or misunderstand it; and “The Coast of Utopia,” a trilogy devoted to an excitable Russian intelligentsia in 19th-century Czarist Russia, which premiered in London in 2002 and won the Tony Award on Broadway — the award cited all three parts — in 2007

 

"Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" was the thing that got me interested in doing theater myself. Also saw the original production of "Travesties" the night the theater caught fire. And I loved "Shakespeare In Love," which I went to not knowing it was Stoppard-- until it became exceedingly obvious early on. Shakespeare towers over the very greatest; but after that I'd say Shaw, Stoppard, Pirandello, Chekov, Williams...