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Post by on_the_edge on May 3, 2023 19:13:39 GMT -5
Gonna have to have a drink when I get home in honor of Rosie passing. She was a great character on MASH. On MeTV they are doing MASH May and each week is dedicated to a character. They may have to add a week in June and do it for her. A "grape nehi", for sure! Oh wait. That would be for Gary Burghoff instead! Todd C WTIC True but he mostly drank and ordered them at Rosie's place. I actually have had a few of them in the past. There is a place that sells all kinds of different sodas not to far from me and they probably carry them.
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Post by jimsteel on May 5, 2023 10:19:15 GMT -5
Miss Universe finalist Sienna Weir dead at 23 Weir was riding at Windsor Polo Grounds in her native Australia on April 2 when her horse took a tumble. She was rushed to Westmead Hospital where she spent two days on life support before dying from fatal injuries.
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Post by TTX on May 5, 2023 10:37:47 GMT -5
RIP.
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Post by jimsteel on May 6, 2023 23:32:01 GMT -5
Newton N. Minow, who as Federal Communications Commission chief in the early 1960s famously proclaimed that network television was a “vast wasteland,” died Saturday. He was 97. Minow, who received a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, died Saturday at home, surrounded by loved ones, said his daughter, Nell Minow. “He wanted to be at home,” she told The Associated Press. “He had a good life.” Though Minow remained in the FCC post just two years, he left a permanent stamp on the broadcasting industry through government steps to foster satellite communications, the passage of a law mandating UHF reception on TV sets and his outspoken advocacy for quality in television.
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Post by TTX on May 7, 2023 5:11:56 GMT -5
they named the ship on Gilligan's Island after him.
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Post by jimsteel on May 7, 2023 22:53:51 GMT -5
New York local news legend John Roland dies at 81
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Post by jimsteel on May 7, 2023 22:56:48 GMT -5
Australian DJ and music writer Ian Bell has died of a heart attack in Paris while on holiday with his family and en route to the UK for the Eurovision Song Contest. He was 60 Bell, 60, was a not only a much loved stalwart of the Adelaide music business who was often photographed with stars such as Mel C of the Spice Girls and Rita Ora, he has also been remembered as a 'lovely and kind' person. His career, which started in the 1980s, saw the versatile nightclub DJ develop into a pop culture expert, record shop owner and music writer and photographer.
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Post by jimsteel on May 9, 2023 5:20:19 GMT -5
Actor Terrence Hardiman, star of 90s children's series The Demon Headmaster, dies aged 86
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Post by jimsteel on May 9, 2023 5:31:55 GMT -5
Grace Bumbry, 1st Black singer at Bayreuth, dies at 86
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Post by jimsteel on May 9, 2023 12:08:22 GMT -5
Iconic Brazilian rock singer Rita Lee dies at 75 after two-year battle with lung cancer
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