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Post by SUVFan on Feb 2, 2021 12:49:29 GMT -5
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Post by SUVFan on Feb 5, 2021 21:31:58 GMT -5
Christopher Plummer,
December 13, 1929 - February 5, 2021
Canadian actor Christopher Plummer died today at his home in Weston, Connecticut, aged 91, after suffering complications from a fall. His family released a statement announcing that Plummer had "died peacefully at his home in Connecticut with his wife Elaine Taylor at his side"
Plummer is best known to me for his role as Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music.
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Post by gth (Columbus OH) on Feb 5, 2021 21:34:59 GMT -5
If it's not sports stars, it's actors . . .
Christopher Plummer, 91, passed away today (February 5). The Canadian-born Plummer was best known for his role of Captain Georg von Trapp, head of the singing von Trapp family in the 1965 classic, The Sound of Music (a role he came to loathe).
But more recently, he was known for other roles: as the billionaire J. Paul Getty in All the Money in the World, journalist Mike Wallace in The Insider, Klingon General Chang in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and a voice role as explorer Charles Muntz in the animated Up. Plummer specialized in villanous roles.
His performance in Money was particularly unusual. Originally Kevin Spacey was cast in that role, and actually shot the scenes. But when news broke of Spacey's sexual abuse allegations, Plummer was brought in the reshot all of Spacey's scenes.
Plummer won 3 Oscars, all for Best Supporting Actor, in his 80s, after winning a raft of Tonys and Emmys in an acting career that began in 1958.
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Post by gth (Columbus OH) on Feb 5, 2021 22:47:59 GMT -5
Silly me, I missed the most obvious sendoff to Christopher Plummer in his most famous role as Georg von Trapp:
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Post by gth (Columbus OH) on Feb 7, 2021 21:32:17 GMT -5
George Schultz, 100, on Saturday (February 6), Ronald Reagan's longtime Secretary of State, at his home on the campus of Stanford University. Schultz was a Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institute on the Stanford campus.
Succeeding Reagan's first Secretary of State, Alexander Haig, Schultz served Reagan for over six years, during Reagan's historic Cold War overtures toward the Soviet Union, including negotiating the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. He was the longest serving Secretary of State since Cordell Hull, who served under FDR during World War II. Schultz already had an impressive resume from the Nixon administration, where he served as Secretary of Labor, Director of the Office of management and Budget and Secretary of the Treasury.
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Post by gth (Columbus OH) on Feb 8, 2021 9:00:58 GMT -5
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Post by sandipaws on Feb 8, 2021 21:28:45 GMT -5
Billy Brown
December 3, 1952 - February 8, 2021
Billy Brown, Alaskan Bush People Dad, Dies at 68: 'We Are Heartbroken,' Says Bear Brown.
According to Bear Brown, one of Billy's sons, he died on Sunday night after suffering a seizure. He was 68.
"We are heartbroken to announce that our beloved patriarch Billy Brown passed away last night after suffering from a seizure," Bear wrote on his private Instagram account alongside a photo of his parents, Billy and Ami Brown. "He was our best friend — a wonderful and loving dad, granddad and husband and he will be dearly missed."
"He lived his life on his terms, off the grid and off the land and taught us to live like that as well," continued Bear, 33. "We plan to honor his legacy going forward, and to continue with his dream. We ask for privacy and prayers during this painful time. God Bless Everyone!"
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Post by gth (Columbus OH) on Feb 8, 2021 22:40:04 GMT -5
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Post by gth (Columbus OH) on Feb 9, 2021 20:24:50 GMT -5
Mary Wilson, 76, Motown singer and member of the Supremes, died Monday night (February 8) in her home at Las Vegas.
The Supremes, consisting of Diana Ross, Wilson and Florence Ballard, had a string of Number 1 hits in the 1960s, such as "Stop! In the Name of Love," and “You Can’t Hurry Love”. Ross later went on to a solo career.
Wilson was preparing to release a solo album "Red Hot" announced two days before her death.
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Post by SUVFan on Feb 10, 2021 11:30:13 GMT -5
Marty Schottenheimer,
September 23, 1943 -- February 8, 2021
I remember meeting Marty at the Columbus Athletic Club's annual awards dinner, likely the winter after the Browns' loss that resulted from The Fumble. I was still an avid Browns fan then. He was not particularly impressed with my suggestion that, while he was great on the defensive side of the ball, he desperately needed an offensive coordinator if he wanted to reach the Super Bowl.
In the prior season, I believe, Linde Infante had served as the OC and QB Bernie Kosar excelled running Infante's creative, complex offense. When Infante took the Green Bay head coach job, Marty decided that he could handle the offense, too, and didn't replace Infante. It wasn't the same. Like most defensive minded coaches, such as Earle Bruce or Mark Dantonio, Schottenheimer seemed to think the best play to run in a crucial situation was the one the defense would least expect in the situation. It never occurred to him that those plays were not expected because they generally had little chance of working.
Schottenheimer was all in all a great coach who oversaw the team's greatest success during the Model era. By all accounts he was a great person.
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Post by gth (Columbus OH) on Feb 10, 2021 22:36:19 GMT -5
Porn purveyor Larry Flynt, 78, died today (February 10) of heart failure. Flynt was the publisher of skin mag Hustler, a downmarket competitor to Playboy. According to a report on Channel 28, Flynt was based in Columbus for some years, after founding a strip joint.
Due to the unsavory nature of his business and the legal attention it attracted, Flynt became, according to his obit, a "champion of First Amendment rights," specifically, the "right" to publish prurient photos. (Somehow, I don't think James Madison, who drafted the First Amendment, had Flynt's business in mind).
Flynt was paralyzed form the waist down after being shot by a sniper in 1978.
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Post by SUVFan on Feb 15, 2021 20:31:08 GMT -5
According to a report on Channel 28, Flynt was based in Columbus for some years, after founding a strip joint. For a while Flynt lived in Bexley, a Columbus, Ohio suburb, most ironically directly across the street from Columbus School for Girls, the top all girls prep school in the metro area. |
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Post by SUVFan on Feb 17, 2021 12:20:03 GMT -5
Rush Limbaugh,
January 12, 1951 -- February 17, 2021From Fox News:
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Post by gth (Columbus OH) on Feb 17, 2021 14:25:22 GMT -5
I had a real love-hate relationship with Rush Limbaugh over the years. Particularly during the Clinton era, and before the Gingrich "Contract with America" Limbaugh seemed to be the effective counter (sometimes the only counter) to the liberal media establishment.
In recent years that role diminished, with the rise of Fox News, not to mention many other conservative radio talk-show hosts. And I was never really comfortable with some of the obviously showman-style things -- his "shtick" -- that he affected on his show. (And don't get me started on his jumping on the Trump train).
And there were aspects of his stated beliefs that were not quite in alignment with social conservatism. He never emphasized pro-life issues all that much. And his widow Kathryn, was his fourth wife (exceeding even the thrice-married Donald Trump). He emphasized free enterprise capitalism much more than family values.
But his influence was profound and historic. As a fellow talk-show host, Hugh Hewitt, once said about conservative talk radio: "Rush built the house we all live in."
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Post by SUVFan on Feb 18, 2021 11:11:41 GMT -5
I'll miss Rush. For me he was mostly the equivalent of a cartoon character. I saw him primarily as an entertainer, never a source for hard news or sound policy.
I do agree with a comment that Dan Bongino made on Hannity last night. Bongino (I believe he's a cancer survivor himself) observed that for him, personally, for Sean, for virtually everyone who does a talk show, they had days where they pretty much phoned it in. Bongino pointed out that Rush never did that. He brought his A game every day. Recently, maybe in the last 3 months or so, he was making mistakes that he never made previously. He'd get facts wrong, which he rarely did when he was well.
Obviously, the cancer treatments were taking their toll and he was totally exhausted after 3 hours on the air. Mark Steyn, an increasingly frequent guest host commented on Tucker's show last night that he was asking his guest hosts to stand by hour-to-hour in case he couldn't finish. AFAIK, they never had to step in during a show but just the fact that Rush was covering the possibility suggested that he was a lot sicker than he was letting on.
He did manage to carry on for 6 months longer than the reported amount of time his doctors originally said he had after the initial diagnosis. I'm sure part of that was his access to the best medical care available but I think a lot of it was due to Rush's sheer determination to do his job and not disappoint his audience.
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