Memory from the mid-1980s: A dude known as one of the coolest cats on campus, a future founder of Squirrel Nut Zippers, walking by himself one evening along the main college drag, strumming This Guy’s in Love With You on his guitar.
NEW YORK -- Tim McCarver, the All-Star catcher and Hall of Fame broadcaster who during 60 years in baseball won two World Series titles with the St. Louis Cardinals and had a long run as one of the most recognized, incisive and talkative television commentators in the country, died Thursday. He was 81.
McCarver's death was announced by the National Baseball Hall of Fame, which said he died Thursday morning in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was with his family.
Richard Belzer, the comedian and actor best known for playing the acerbic Detective John Munch across a number of NBC crime dramas, including “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” over more than two decades, has died, according to his longtime manager. He was 78.
Belzer “passed away peacefully” early Sunday morning local time at his home in France, according to Eric Gardner, his manager.
Writer Bill Scheft, a longtime friend of the actor, told The Hollywood Reporter that Belzer had “lots of health issues.”
RIP Tom Sizemore, who suffered a brain aneurysm on February 28 and was taken off life support yesterday. Love him in Heat, Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down, but his role in the lesser-known movie Heart and Souls with Robert Downey Jr, Charles Grodin, Kyra Sedgwick and Alfre Woodard is what we remember him most for in this house.
RIP Tom Sizemore, who suffered a brain aneurysm on February 28 and was taken off life support yesterday. Love him in Heat, Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down, but his role in the lesser-known movie Heart and Souls with Robert Downey Jr, Charles Grodin, Kyra Sedgwick and Alfre Woodard is what we remember him most for in this house.
Lynyrd Skynyrd wasn’t bothered by Watergate, but now they’re sheepish over their use of the Confederate flag.
The Southern rock band has long been known for its ‘70s-era hits like “Sweet Home Alabama” and defiant embrace of Old Dixie imagery. But the group’s lone surviving original member, Gary Rossington, recently told CNN that the band, recognizing the stars-and-bars flag’s offensive and racist undertones, will cease using it as a stage decoration at concerts supporting its new album “Last of a Dyin’ Breed.”
Larry Tesler, an icon of early computing, has died at the age of 74.
Mr Tesler started working in Silicon Valley in the early 1960s, at a time when computers were inaccessible to the vast majority of people.
It was thanks to his innovations - which included the "cut", "copy" and "paste" commands - that the personal computer became simple to learn and use.
Xerox, where Mr Tesler spent part of his career, paid tribute to him.
"The inventor of cut/copy & paste, find & replace, and more, was former Xerox researcher Larry Tesler," the company tweeted. "Your workday is easier thanks to his revolutionary ideas."
Lance Reddick, the actor who brought Baltimore police officer Cedric Daniels to life on “The Wire” before turning into one of Hollywood’s most reliable film stars, has died at the age of 60. The news was first reported by TMZ.
Reddick’s death came as a surprise to many, as he had been actively promoting his role in the upcoming “John Wick: Chapter 4” for the last several weeks. However, he pulled out of attending the film’s premiere in New York City on Wednesday night for unspecified reasons. The cause of his death was not revealed.
I’m surprised no-one mentioned Lisa Loring, the original Wednesday Addams most of us grew up with.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jan/30/lisa-loring-the-original-wednesday-addams-dies-at-age-64
And the second Borg Queen, Annie Wersching. (Yes, I know she had other roles too!)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jan/29/annie-wersching-best-known-for-role-in-tv-series-24-dies-at-45