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Post by on_the_edge on Oct 24, 2021 18:29:41 GMT -5
Oh no, not Gunther. I was still hoping for the Friends special where he finally hooked up with Rachel.
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Post by jimsteel on Oct 24, 2021 19:28:02 GMT -5
Joanna Cameron, Star of DC's The Secrets of Isis, Dies at 70
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Post by on_the_edge on Oct 24, 2021 19:34:24 GMT -5
Damn they are hitting hard the last week. I remember watching that as a kid on Saturday mornings.
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Post by jimsteel on Oct 24, 2021 23:00:02 GMT -5
Sonny Osborne, one half of the Osborne Brothers, dies at 83 Sonny Osborne, one half of the Osborne Brothers, died on Sunday. Osborne was born in Leslie County and began pursuing music professionally at the age of 14. The Osborne Brothers premiered in Knoxville, TN in 1953 and became the first bluegrass group to appear on a college campus with their 1960 performance at Antioch College. The group was inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 1994. Osborne retired in the early 2000s, but he remained active in the bluegrass world through his mentorship of younger musicians. He co-founded the yearly Osborne Brothers Festival in Hyden, which continues to this day. He also entertained Bluegrass Today audiences with a weekly question-and-answer column, Ask Sonny Anything. Osborne suffered a stroke in August but still completed the weekly column.
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Post by jimsteel on Oct 26, 2021 10:05:54 GMT -5
Former Rangers, Everton and Scotland boss Walter Smith dies aged 73 Smith led Rangers to 10 top-flight titles, five Scottish Cups and six League Cups as well as to the UEFA Cup final in 2008.
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Post by throwingtoasters on Oct 27, 2021 2:59:44 GMT -5
Mort Sahl, Incisive Stand-Up Comic, Dead at 94 Mort Sahl, the incisive standup comic who called out hypocrisy as he addressed politics and social issues and served as a trailblazer for future generations in the comedy world, died on Tuesday in Mill Valley, California. He was 94. The New York Times confirmed his death with his friend, Lucy Mercer. Sahl made the Top 10 of Rolling Stone‘s “50 Best Stand-Up Comics of All Time” list for his ability to riff on politics “in a way no one had heard before. Just imagine a comic digging through the headlines (sometimes in the middle of a set) looking to expose hypocrisy with the right piece of journalistic evidence – and scoring in a big way.” He made a name for himself performing at the hungry I in San Francisco beginning in 1953, where not only did he buck the system with quick-witted monologues addressing politics and social issues head-on, but he brought a more casual vibe to the then-staid style in the comedian world, where punch lines and mother-in-law jokes ruled and suits and ties were the dress code. He preferred to appear like the youth he reached, wearing casual styles and using language that was relatable to his Sahl’s work influenced generations of comedians, including Lenny Bruce, Dick Gregory, Jonathan Winters, Joan Rivers, George Carlin and Richard Pryor. He called out hypocrisy during his routines and no political figure was in the safe zone, whether they were Democrat or Republican. Off the stand-up stage, he was also a pioneer. In 2011, his live 1955 album Mort Sahl at Sunset was credited as the first standup comedy album and named by the Library of Congress to the National Recording Registry. He served as the inaugural host of the Grammy Awards in 1959, that same year he co-hosted the Academy Awards alongside Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, Laurence Olivier, among others. He appeared on a variety of television shows, including The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and The Ed Sullivan Show and also hit the big screen in films including 1963’s Johnny Cool and 1967’s Don’t Make Waves, among others. But it was his stand-up material that continued to resonate, even after he appeared to be blacklisted from television for reportedly reading from the Warren Commission report onstage after Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. In the Seventies, he had a career resurgence following Watergate. He released the album Sing a Song of Watergate and appeared on late-night TV as well as performed a number of college shows. In 1987, he staged the one-man Broadway show Mort Sahl on Broadway and he performed at clubs in the years following. He worked well into the 2000s. Most recently, he was regularly performing at Throckmorton Theater in Mill Valley, with his shows streaming online up until the pandemic.
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Post by jimsteel on Oct 27, 2021 21:18:46 GMT -5
“Mrs. Country Music,” The Pioneering Rose Lee Maphis Has Died at 98
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Post by jimsteel on Oct 29, 2021 21:41:38 GMT -5
Billy Joe Shaver, Legendary Outlaw Country Songwriter, Has Died at The Age of 81
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Post by jimsteel on Oct 29, 2021 21:43:14 GMT -5
TikTok Star and Youtuber Huey Haha Dead at 22
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Post by jimsteel on Oct 29, 2021 22:31:07 GMT -5
Jovita Moore, Atlanta News Anchor, Dies at 53 Jovita Moore, an Emmy award-winning news anchor at WSB-TV in Atlanta, has died, seven months after her brain cancer diagnosis. She was 53 years old.
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