Walt Garrison, cowboy three times over (rodeo, Oklahoma State football, Super Bowl-winning NFL fullback with the Dallas Cowboys) dead at the age of 79. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Garrison
Cowboy quarterback Don Meredith speaking about Garrison’s dependability, “If it was third down, and you needed four yards, if you’d get the ball to Walt Garrison, he’d get you five. And if it was third down and you needed twenty yards, if you’d get the ball to Walt Garrison, by God, he’d get you five.”
You might also remember him as a TV spokesman for Skoal:
“Put a pinch between your cheek and gums”.
Richard Roundtree, who died October 24th at the age of 81 was perhaps best known for the “Shaft” series of movies starting in the early '70s; he had a long career in cinema with more than 150 credits, and was considered to have played “the first black action hero”.
Knight raised Indiana to the national top tier while upholding academic standards, but he was notorious for the rage he directed at players and referees.
Bobby Knight, one of college basketball’s signature coaches and a singular personality renowned for his tempestuousness and hubris, qualities that helped bring him to the pinnacle of his sport and also tainted his success, died on Wednesday at his home in Bloomington, Ind. He was 83.
His death was announced on his website. It did not give a cause.
Mercurial and volatile, Knight was among the most polarizing characters in American sports. He was a brilliant coach who sought out intelligent players, deployed a ferocious man-to-man defense, extolled the virtues of precision passing and preached the necessities of boxing out, rebounding and never-ending hustle.
Known as a principled perfectionist and a master teacher, he was also a driven competitor for whom losing was agony and a relentless motivator whose chief tool, it often seemed, was the anger-fueled rant.
@heartny@Kidsandliz@Kyeh
Sadly my guess is that he will follow shortly. He’s been on hospice care for quite a while and I think the loss of his wife will be the straw so to speak. May she rest in peace
@Cerridwyn@Kidsandliz@Kyeh I agree. When my dad recently passed away, my mom unexpectedly passed in her sleep only 3 weeks later. Broken heart syndrome, after being married 69 years.
@Kidsandliz Thanks for the link (and enabling the reading for us).
Nice, comprehensive reporting. I had forgotten much of that story. For one thing, I didn’t remember they had 3 sons. Amy got all the press.
@phendrick I think her brothers are older as she was the only one living in the white house. And it may be her brothers wanted their privacy. I could see their parents working hard to make sure that happened. Sort of harder when you actually live in the white house.
@Cerridwyn@heartny@Kyeh Sorry to hear about your parents. That happened with my aunt and uncle. They were 97 and 99 in a nursing home. One died and the other died 12.5 hours later. Incredibly hard on my cousins to loose both parents so close together but it was, I am sure, unimaginably tough on my aunt to know her husband had died. This was 4.5 days after her 97th birthday. My uncle so wanted to live to 100. He had 4 months to go to make it to 100. It was a blessing for her that she died so that she wasn’t living in deep grief without her husband of 72 years.
@Cerridwyn@heartny@Kidsandliz@Kyeh My father never expected to outlive my mother, but then she got taken by pancreatic cancer at 81, and he lived to be 93. My oldest brother relocated him to an assisted-living place near him for the last three years, after my father cut himself while preparing a meal, badly enough to need a trip to the ER, twice in one week. He’d developed a very minor hand tremor in his late '70s, and it got progressively worse with time. I’ve got one now, and it worries me a lot.
@Kidsandliz Per the article, “They also had three sons during the years 1947 to 1952.” The youngest would have been 24+ when they moved into the White House in January, 1977. [My parents were well shed of me by that age.]
I’m guessing that when she got her dementia diagnosis, she understood perfectly well what it was and what it meant and she handled that with as much dignity as she handled everything else all these years
@heartny The world is a little less bright without her in it. She was a tireless advocate for people that could not advocate for themselves. Rest in Peace dear Rosalynn, job well done.
I ran home from school, and scheduled classes in college around GH from like ‘81 to ‘88, lol! I loved the whole Cassadine saga (and Scorpio’s accent) and just couldn’t wait to watch that whole adventure.
I believe that was also around the time Rick Springfield was Noah Drake, so that may have had something to do with me watching as well.
The cast was really great during those years. I’d love to rewatch that part sometime…I wonder if it’s possible to watch certain segments of old soaps?
@k4evryng
I think the only way you can rewatch is through YouTube. Even Hulu only goes 2 weeks backs. I was saddened by Tyler Christopher, I really wanted him to come back as Nicholas
Marty Kroft of Sid and Marty Kroft fame. Creators of TV shows HR Puffinstuff, Lidsville. Land of the Lost and many others passed away of kidney failure. He was 86.
@ironcheftoni
Oh wow, now that was a favorite show (both of them) and I’ve probably had the theme song to H.R Puffinstuff stuck in my head more times than any other. Still can’t believe I’m at that age when all of the icons from my childhood shows are dying. That’s life, the end!
Actress Frances Sternhagen, she had many roles on stage and screen but most notably were Cliff Clavin’s mother on Cheers and Bunny MacDougal on Sex and the City.
I just remember in all her roles, she was a woman that you didn’t want to get on her wrong side!
Henry Kissinger died today at the age of 100.
Most of those years he was a foreign policy wonk, including as Secretary of State for both the Nixon and Ford administration, and was often seen on news programs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger
A more balanced report from the NYT (no fan of any administration he was associated with), mentioning his pros and cons, accolades and criticisms, with maybe more perspective than the Wikipedia article had: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/us/henry-kissinger-dead.html
I’ll comment that I wouldn’t want either a boy scout or a priest setting policy with other major powers, whether our “foes” or our “allies”.
@Cerridwyn Sure, but my official position is that What’s Up, Doc? is the single greatest film of all time (excluding Phantom of the Paradise) and should take precedence over Love Story, a movie not written by Buck Henry.
@mossygreen oh my goodness fan of the paradise I have not thought of that movie and eons. I remember watching him and it was brand spanking new and then when it came out on video cassette back in the day we actually got the first copy so it was brand spanking new never been played before you know you rented them back then and it was so awesome sorry this is off talk for rip
I did not know that Shecky Greene was still alive until earlier today (to clarify: I didn’t know that he was still alive, and he was still alive until earlier today) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shecky_Greene
/youtube shecky Greene stand up
“William Caleb “Cale” Yarborough was an American NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver and owner, businessman, farmer, and rancher. He is one of only two drivers in NASCAR history to win three consecutive championships, winning in 1976, 1977, and 1978.”
His was a name I heard a lot as a kid and teen because we did tend to follow NASCAR (when NASCAR was still closer to real stock car racing) and other types of automobile racing.
Dick Butkis
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dick-butkus-chicago-bears-icon-obit/
@earlyre
Dick Butkus…
@chienfou i didn’t name the guy…
nor the late nascar Driver Dick Trickle…
oh…nevermind…i see it now… sorry…
Extensive write-up posted by
@f00l here:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/rip-2023-q3#6520226caffd4d4c3d48e300
@chienfou @earlyre Just don’t call him Buttkiss, or he’ll be back for you.
Walt Garrison, cowboy three times over (rodeo, Oklahoma State football, Super Bowl-winning NFL fullback with the Dallas Cowboys) dead at the age of 79.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Garrison
Cowboy quarterback Don Meredith speaking about Garrison’s dependability, “If it was third down, and you needed four yards, if you’d get the ball to Walt Garrison, he’d get you five. And if it was third down and you needed twenty yards, if you’d get the ball to Walt Garrison, by God, he’d get you five.”
You might also remember him as a TV spokesman for Skoal:
“Put a pinch between your cheek and gums”.
Ronald Isley, founding member of The Isley Brothers, at age 84
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/10/12/rudolph-isley-obituary-isley-brothers/71157566007/
/youtube Isley Brothers - That Lady
Piper Laurie
https://www.aol.com/piper-laurie-three-time-oscar-194619580.html
@Cerridwyn She was so awe some in Carrie.
Phyllis Coates, Lois Lane to George Reeves Superman
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/15/arts/television/phyllis-coates-dead.html
@Cerridwyn She was such a good Lois!
Suzanne Somers dead at 76 following cancer battle
pagesix.com/2023/10/15/suzanne-somers-dead-at-76-following-cancer-battle/
Mark Goddard, best known for Lost In Space, dead at 87.
/image mark goddard
/image mark goddard lost in space
@mossygreen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Goddard
Richard Roundtree, who died October 24th at the age of 81 was perhaps best known for the “Shaft” series of movies starting in the early '70s; he had a long career in cinema with more than 150 credits, and was considered to have played “the first black action hero”.
Rest in Peace.
RIP Matthew Perry.
@FreePasta
!!!
@FreePasta @Kyeh yeah it said he was found dead in a hot tub at 54
@Cerridwyn @FreePasta
Yeah. That’s pretty shocking.
@FreePasta https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/28/entertainment/matthew-perry-dead/index.html
@FreePasta
Some of Chandler Bing’s best moments
/image Matthew Perry 4
Richard Moll, aka the bailiff “Bull” Shannon on 80s sitcom Night Court, at 80.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/27/entertainment/richard-moll-night-court-dead/index.html
Bobby Knight, Basketball Coach Known for Trophies and Tantrums, Dies at 83
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/sports/ncaabasketball/bobby-knight-dead.html
@f00l
A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers
https://www.amazon.com/Season-Brink-Knight-Indiana-Hoosiers/dp/1451650256
The film w Brian Dennehy:
We missed this one.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/03/us/ken-mattingly-death-apollo-astronaut-scn/index.html
Edit: screwed url
Ken Mattingly, who was originally supposed to be part of the Apollo 13 crew, on October 31.
Credit Cerridwyn for this find. Frank Borman, Apollo 8 commander.
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/09/953342565/nasa-apollo-gemini-astronaut-frank-borman-dies
Rosalynn Carter, the humanitarian and mental health advocate who transformed the role of America’s first lady, has died. She was 96.
https://cnn.it/3R6fByV
@heartny
Such a classy lady.
@heartny @Kyeh Here is a url (Washington Post) for a very good article/memorial tribute. (reading this is free)
https://wapo.st/47hxpgf
@heartny @Kidsandliz @Kyeh
Sadly my guess is that he will follow shortly. He’s been on hospice care for quite a while and I think the loss of his wife will be the straw so to speak. May she rest in peace
@Cerridwyn @heartny @Kidsandliz Yes, I’m sure he will - he’s 99! They did live and thrive for a remarkably long time.
@Cerridwyn @Kidsandliz @Kyeh I agree. When my dad recently passed away, my mom unexpectedly passed in her sleep only 3 weeks later. Broken heart syndrome, after being married 69 years.
@heartny @Kidsandliz @Kyeh and statistically that tends to impact men more than women
@heartny
@Kidsandliz Thanks for the link (and enabling the reading for us).
Nice, comprehensive reporting. I had forgotten much of that story. For one thing, I didn’t remember they had 3 sons. Amy got all the press.
@phendrick I think her brothers are older as she was the only one living in the white house. And it may be her brothers wanted their privacy. I could see their parents working hard to make sure that happened. Sort of harder when you actually live in the white house.
@Cerridwyn @heartny @Kyeh Sorry to hear about your parents. That happened with my aunt and uncle. They were 97 and 99 in a nursing home. One died and the other died 12.5 hours later. Incredibly hard on my cousins to loose both parents so close together but it was, I am sure, unimaginably tough on my aunt to know her husband had died. This was 4.5 days after her 97th birthday. My uncle so wanted to live to 100. He had 4 months to go to make it to 100. It was a blessing for her that she died so that she wasn’t living in deep grief without her husband of 72 years.
@Cerridwyn @heartny @Kidsandliz @Kyeh My father never expected to outlive my mother, but then she got taken by pancreatic cancer at 81, and he lived to be 93. My oldest brother relocated him to an assisted-living place near him for the last three years, after my father cut himself while preparing a meal, badly enough to need a trip to the ER, twice in one week. He’d developed a very minor hand tremor in his late '70s, and it got progressively worse with time. I’ve got one now, and it worries me a lot.
@Kidsandliz Per the article, “They also had three sons during the years 1947 to 1952.” The youngest would have been 24+ when they moved into the White House in January, 1977. [My parents were well shed of me by that age.]
@Kidsandliz @phendrick So their youngest is a year older than me.
@heartny
I’ve been a longtime fan of Rosalyn Carter
I’m guessing that when she got her dementia diagnosis, she understood perfectly well what it was and what it meant and she handled that with as much dignity as she handled everything else all these years
@heartny The world is a little less bright without her in it. She was a tireless advocate for people that could not advocate for themselves. Rest in Peace dear Rosalynn, job well done.
Tyler Christopher who played Nikolas Cassadine in General Hospital died on Halloween
He was an amazing actor.
Also Billy Miller who played Billy Abbot on the young and the restless and Jason Morgan and drew Caine on general hospital died September 15.
Jackie Zeman who played Bobbie Spencer on General Hospital died may 9th.
Lot of death for one show.
@Star2236 wow! So many great cast members gone!
I ran home from school, and scheduled classes in college around GH from like ‘81 to ‘88, lol! I loved the whole Cassadine saga (and Scorpio’s accent) and just couldn’t wait to watch that whole adventure.
I believe that was also around the time Rick Springfield was Noah Drake, so that may have had something to do with me watching as well.
The cast was really great during those years. I’d love to rewatch that part sometime…I wonder if it’s possible to watch certain segments of old soaps?
@k4evryng
I think the only way you can rewatch is through YouTube. Even Hulu only goes 2 weeks backs. I was saddened by Tyler Christopher, I really wanted him to come back as Nicholas
My grandfather WW2 vet. He was 96.
@sohmageek much hugs
@sohmageek I am so sorry. Glad he lived to a ripe old age but that doesn’t make it any less hard.
@Kidsandliz @sohmageek
Greatest Generation.
They had their flaws. We I think we have privileged to be their descendants.
@sohmageek I am so sorry. Sending hugs.
@sohmageek I’m so sorry for your loss.
Marty Kroft of Sid and Marty Kroft fame. Creators of TV shows HR Puffinstuff, Lidsville. Land of the Lost and many others passed away of kidney failure. He was 86.
Definitely a large influence on my childhood.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/variety.com/2023/film/news/marty-krofft-dead-h-r-pufnstuf-1235808822/amp/
@ironcheftoni
Oh wow, now that was a favorite show (both of them) and I’ve probably had the theme song to H.R Puffinstuff stuck in my head more times than any other. Still can’t believe I’m at that age when all of the icons from my childhood shows are dying. That’s life, the end!
@ironcheftoni @Lynnerizer
I had a crush on Jack Wild …
Actress Frances Sternhagen, she had many roles on stage and screen but most notably were Cliff Clavin’s mother on Cheers and Bunny MacDougal on Sex and the City.
I just remember in all her roles, she was a woman that you didn’t want to get on her wrong side!
https://ew.com/frances-sternhagen-dead-tony-winner-sex-and-the-city-actress-93-8408118
@ironcheftoni I loved her in The Closer… she was the sweet Southern mom to Kyra Sedgwick’s character and I got tears
when she died on that show. 🕊
Henry Kissinger died today at the age of 100.
Most of those years he was a foreign policy wonk, including as Secretary of State for both the Nixon and Ford administration, and was often seen on news programs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger
@phendrick
Respected by some, And despised/condemned by others.
He had quite a career.
@f00l @phendrick
/youtube monty python henry kissinger
@phendrick Rolling Stone’s take on it…
www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748
@werehatrack Their usual, unbiased “take”.
A more balanced report from the NYT (no fan of any administration he was associated with), mentioning his pros and cons, accolades and criticisms, with maybe more perspective than the Wikipedia article had:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/us/henry-kissinger-dead.html
I’ll comment that I wouldn’t want either a boy scout or a priest setting policy with other major powers, whether our “foes” or our “allies”.
@phendrick @werehatrack
Several different perspectives on Kissinger
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/30/henry-kissinger-cambodia-bombing-war/
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/29/henry-kissinger-diplomat-nobel-obituary-031478
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/henry-kissingers-death-met-with-polarized-reaction-around-the-world/ar-AA1kLaA8
Some good articles are paywalled so I left them out.
The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan has died aged 65, following a recent hospital stay after being diagnosed with encephalitis.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67546785.amp
Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/01/politics/justice-sandra-day-oconnor-first-woman-on-the-supreme-court-dies/index.html
@steeltoesenator Here’s another one (link gives free access)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/us/sandra-day-oconnor-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ck0.UvnB.40bn68OssnEe&smid=url-share
Norman Lear
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/06/arts/television/norman-lear-dead.html
In case the NYT article is paywalled:
https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/norman-lear-dead-dies-tv-legend-all-in-the-family-1235823995/
Ryan O’Neal from Love Story
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/movies/ryan-oneal-dead.html
@Cerridwyn Sure, but my official position is that What’s Up, Doc? is the single greatest film of all time (excluding Phantom of the Paradise) and should take precedence over Love Story, a movie not written by Buck Henry.
@mossygreen oh my goodness fan of the paradise I have not thought of that movie and eons. I remember watching him and it was brand spanking new and then when it came out on video cassette back in the day we actually got the first copy so it was brand spanking new never been played before you know you rented them back then and it was so awesome sorry this is off talk for rip
POPSOCKETS! SPA KITS! POLLY POCKETS! AWESOME!
@Cerridwyn @mossygreen What’s Up, Doc? and Paper Moon are his two best movies.
People need to quit dying the rest of the month
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/andre-braugher-actor-brooklyn-nine-nine-homicide-dead-rcna129429
@Cerridwyn NINE NINE!!!
But they didn’t
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/camden-toy-buffy-vampire-slayer-020029342.html
Tom Smothers, of the Smother Bros duo, has died at age 86.
https://apnews.com/article/3e1727faf1b6469da7b2cfc7b2874c56
@f00l
@phendrick
Turns out he was good friends w John Lennon.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/arts/television/tom-smothers-john-lennon.html
Tom Wilkinson, 75, BAFTA-winning & Oscar-nominated actor. He was great in everything he was in, but he’ll always be Gerald from The Full Monty to me.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/tom-wilkinson-dead-full-monty-michael-clayton-1235776939/
I did not know that Shecky Greene was still alive until earlier today (to clarify: I didn’t know that he was still alive, and he was still alive until earlier today)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shecky_Greene
/youtube shecky Greene stand up
2023 RIP recap
Cale Yarborough passed away on December 31st.
“William Caleb “Cale” Yarborough was an American NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver and owner, businessman, farmer, and rancher. He is one of only two drivers in NASCAR history to win three consecutive championships, winning in 1976, 1977, and 1978.”
His was a name I heard a lot as a kid and teen because we did tend to follow NASCAR (when NASCAR was still closer to real stock car racing) and other types of automobile racing.