Dick Contino has hiked up his pants for the last time.
What does that mean? Gavan O’Herlihy is still holding back 38 points.
Eddie Murphy reported dead in a car crash.
Mmm, so far the news feeds are not reporting that, there was someone making a mistake with what Murphy did die:
As Catamount noted, we can blame Facebook for that hoax.
Thanks!
Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, checks out at 88.
He became one with the universal joint.
Jonathan Demme dead at 73 (0 picks)
Bummer.
Ditto.
Just learned he directed Stop Making Sense.
I was shocked to hear of Johnathon Demme’s death; I thought he died fifteen years ago. Turns out that was Ted Demme.
Leonard Reiffel, the guy who wanted to nuke the moon but redeemed himself by inventing the process by which TV announcers can draw lines and circles on a TV screen, signs off at age 89.
He’s Chairface Chippendale?
Norman T. Hatch, a Marine combat cinematographer during World War II whose harrowing footage became the basis of an Academy Award-winning documentary short, has died, his son said. He was 96.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/wwii-combat-cinematographer-norman-hatch-dies-96-47033003
Not a big celebrity but an important chronicler of history.
That was the first time I took notice of him. Then I saw his Married to the Mob which was a fun movie. Then of course Silence of the Lambs.
Thomas Forkner, Waffle House Co-Founder, Dies at 98
I wonder if he was Covered and Smothered.
Florence Finch, age 101, died Dec 8, 2016. Yes, I know. Too old and last year but it’s an important story in yesterday’s NYT. A building is being dedicated to her today in Hawaii.
“…this Philippine-born daughter of an American father and Filipino mother — one who, in 1947, received the Medal of Freedom (the forerunner of today’s Presidential Medal of Freedom), the nation’s highest award to a civilian.”
"Mrs. Finch (then Mrs. Smith) convinced the occupying forces that she was Filipino and, armed with superior penmanship, wangled a job writing gas rationing vouchers for the now Japanese-run Philippine Liquid Fuel Distributing Union.
Unbeknown to her employer, however, she was actually collaborating with the Philippine resistance movement. Her job enabled her to divert precious fuel supplies to the underground and help sabotage shipments to the Japanese. After she learned of her husband’s death, her efforts became even more vigorous."
"Major Englehart (he became a lieutenant colonel) managed to get word to her that he had been captured and that he and fellow war prisoners were being maltreated. She helped smuggle food, medicine, soap and clothing to them in a prison until she was caught.
Confined to a two-by-four-foot cell, she was interrogated and then tortured, enduring repeated shocks from electrical clamps on her fingers. She never talked."
Please read.
Ueli Steck, famed Swiss mountain climber, dead after plunging 3,280 feet near Mount Everest.
Yeow!
One might say he reached
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terminal velocity.