First thing I thought of was The Outsiders. He was one of the guys that brought Pony, Johnny and Dallas to the hospital.
“You shouldn’t smoke it’s bad for you.”
“You’re smoking.”
“Of course I’m smoking, I’ve been smoking a long time.”
It didn’t yesterday when I posted. There appears to be an edit war going on.
Missed Ngugi wa Thiong’o back in May. This makes me sad. I love his books.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/29/nx-s1-5415596/ngugi-wa-thiongo-kenyan-writer-dead
This was posted in the Abe Vigoda thread, but it certainly belongs here as well.
Fred Smith has delivered his last parcel, age 80.
Lynn Hamilton, just mentioned in the “Abe Vigodas” thread, cashed in 5pts a few days ago.
I just learned that Smith’s son, Arthur, is the offensive coordinator for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Another rocker bites the dust. Mick Ralphs of Mott the Hoople and Bad Company, passes at age 81.
All the old dudes?
I guess he has become a shooting star.
The day before yesterday I was singing “Julie Julie do you love me..” and thinking about how Bobby Sherman bought an airplane as his career waned and rented it out to 70’s rock bands, and how he’s one of the last surviving cast members from Here Come the Brides…
So, yet another forgotten celebrity I’ve killed.
Aww… he was one of my first teen heartthrobs. 
He, David Cassidy and Donny Osmond were The Bubblegum Trio.
“Easy Come, Easy Go” popped up on my Spotify playlist the other day.
mmm
Are you trying to kill Kip Winger now?
The lovely June Lockhart turns 100 today, and is thus Deathpool-proofed.
Thank you; wasn’t aware she is alive. Abe Vigoda thread!
So the mother on Lost in Space is who she is? Wow, very impressed to learn she is alive. My brother and I used to watch re-runs of that in the 80’s.
June Lockhart will always be Lassie’s ‘mother’ to me 
I remember her has the mother of the “Aztec Princess” on General Hospital, also.