Glad to see I wasn’t the only one who was a little hazy about who she was!
This is where I basically know her from. I knew she found her fame in the 60s, but my knowledge of her work begins and ends with The Memory Remains.
Bad day for figure skating.
Ooooh, Dick Button. The man who I thought was in his 80’s back when I was a kid in the 1980’s.
Kind of strange he died right after some former Olympians had their lives cut short.
What a world.
Well, Mahaloth got points for Button and zadscmc gets on the board for Faithfull
| 1 | Kitten Mitten | 68 | 2 | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | GIGObuster | 59 | 2 | 0 |
| 2 | Jeezums | 59 | 2 | 0 |
| 4 | Mahaloth | 40 | 2 | 1 |
| 5 | Captain Klutz | 35 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | Happy Lendervedder | 35 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | Hoopy Frood | 35 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | It’s Not Rocket Surgery | 35 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | Jegpeg | 35 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | Little Nemo | 35 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | Pheoinix | 35 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | phungi | 35 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | Queen Anne’s Lace | 35 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | Railer 13 | 35 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | Registered at Last | 35 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | Reindeer Flotilla | 35 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | RobotDevilDog | 35 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | RTFirefly | 35 | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | vivalostwages | 22 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | zadscmc | 22 | 1 | 1 |
| 21 | Culling the Herd | 14 | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | Sternvogel | 10 | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | Superdude | 10 | 1 | 0 |
| 24 | commasense | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| 24 | Hatchie | 5 | 1 | 1 |
On a slight highjack, that video did not use any special effects to create the rotating stage, but it did use a trick of the eye.
The stage itself is stationary. The room surrounding it was rotating and the cameras were attached to the room.
Also…
Apparently, this is up for debate. Per the IMDb trivia:
Often named as the first movie to use the word “fuck” in its dialogue. Another contender is “Ulysses (1967),” another film of 1967. However, “The Victors” - which features the F-word in a song soldiers are heard singing - was first seen four years earlier. (This scene appears now to vanished completely from the film and is not on the DVD version; however, it was remarked by critics in 1963).
Being in that stadium, all those fellow athletes, the competition, and knowing all of them but you are gone.
Horst Köhler is dead at 81:
None of the usual English writing newspapers I read mentions his death. Thank Godott the Japan Times writes in English, otherwise I would have had to post a link in German.
Cleveland TV legend ‘Big Chuck’ Schodowski dead at 90 - cleveland.com https://search.app/TeizND9UUqR39U8p9
I don’t know him, but Svengoolie thought it was important.
Here’s a direct link to the Schodowski obituary. I grew up in suburban Cleveland, and spent many Friday nights watching Hoolihan and Big Chuck, so a part of my childhood is gone.
Oh shit, I killed another one! Yesterday, for no reason besides whatever caused me to do it, I went on YouTube to watch old 9-Lives Morris the Cat commercials. Just now I read that the voice actor died.
Norbert, social media influencer and philanthropist therapy dog with his own picture book series (his first one Norbert: What Can Little Me Do? won many awards), is dead at roughly 80 dog years.
I suppose I’d better copy this from the Themed thread:
Brian Murphy, UK sitcom actor known for Man About The House, its spinoff George and Mildred (he is the original Mr Roper), and Last Of The Summer Wine, has died aged 92.
The Aga Khan is dead:
Strange how these ultra-rich folks tend to call themselves philanthropists. I guess it feels good when people call you that. I suppose his heirs will consider his joining the choir invisible a philantropic act too.
I feel for him.
< earworm activated >
You horrible little man, I shall have my revenge.