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Post by jimsteel on May 20, 2018 16:51:07 GMT -5
 Vic Damone, Who Crooned His Way to Postwar Popularity, Dies at 89 Feb. 12, 2018 Vic Damone, the postwar crooner whose intimate, rhapsodic voice captivated bobby soxers, middle-age dreamers and silver-haired romantics in a five-decade medley of America’s love songs and popular standards, died on Sunday in Miami Beach. He was 89. Ed Henry, a family friend, said the cause was complications of respiratory failure. Mr. Damone suffered a mild stroke in 2000 but recovered and retired in 2001 after a farewell tour that included appearances at the Hollywood Bowl and Carnegie Hall. He came out of retirement a decade later to give one last performance in Palm Beach, Fla., where he lived. For anyone old enough to remember the age of phonograph records, the velvet baritone of Vic Damone was an unforgettable groove in a soundtrack that also included Frank Sinatra, Perry Como and Tony Bennett, singers who arose in the big band era and reached peaks of popularity in the 1950s. |
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Post by TTX on May 20, 2018 20:47:54 GMT -5
RIP Vic.
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Post by Texas Kid on May 22, 2018 18:38:18 GMT -5
  Just saw the great western star Clint Walker passed from Congestive Heart Failure at 90. ANother childhood hero gone. RIP Cheyenne |
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Post by TTX on Jun 4, 2018 6:49:18 GMT -5
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Post by throwingtoasters on Jun 4, 2018 18:57:16 GMT -5
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Post by jimsteel on Jun 5, 2018 12:16:41 GMT -5
 Kate Spade, American Designer, Is Dead at 55 The American designer Kate Spade was found dead on Tuesday, according to police officials. The police said that Ms. Spade, 55, was discovered unresponsive at a Park Avenue apartment, where she had hanged herself. She had left a note, but the official did not comment on what it said. She was pronounced dead at the scene at 10:26 a.m. A housekeeper found Ms. Spade in her bedroom hanging from a red scarf tied to a doorknob, the police said. She was unconscious and the housekeeper called 911. Ms. Spade’s husband was at the scene. A police spokesman did not know the whereabouts of Ms. Spade’s daughter. Born Kate Brosnahan in Kansas City, Mo., in December 1962, Ms. Spade was one of the first of a powerful wave of female American contemporary designers in the 1990s. She built a brand on the appeal of clothes and accessories that made women smile, her cheerful lack of restraint and bright prints striking a chord with consumers. She herself was the embodiment of her aesthetic, with her proto-1960s bouffant, nerd glasses and kooky grin, which masked a business mind that saw the opportunities in becoming a lifestyle brand, almost before the term officially existed. Ms. Spade, who had been the accessories editor of Mademoiselle magazine, founded Kate Spade with her husband-to-be, Andy and a friend, Elyce Arons, in 1993. Frustrated with the handbags of the era, which she found to be over-accessorized, she had wanted “a functional bag that was sophisticated and had some style,” she told The New York Times in 1999. |
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Post by Texas Kid on Jun 6, 2018 20:29:33 GMT -5
 I just learned the last Munchkin passed away a bit ago, Jerry Maren is now somewhere over the rainbow. |
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Post by TTX on Jun 7, 2018 6:22:16 GMT -5
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Post by TTX on Jun 8, 2018 10:25:03 GMT -5
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Post by Crimson Cross on Jun 8, 2018 10:39:29 GMT -5
I've always liked Bourdain and his shows, so when I was looking for something on Google earlier I saw the report of Anthony Bourdain dead by suicide and I was shocked, but you just never know...
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