DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

[Frunobulax]

That was sweet. That whole group on the bones had it going on. I too love NOLA but it causes my usual over indulgence in food and drink to look like snack time at day care.

There is a certain chaotic element to the street corner brass bands that really draws me in. I like the way it sounds like they are about to completely fall apart, but seem to just keep it between the lines.

Food and music are two of my favorite things in the world. Toss in a cocktail and the general attitude of the place, and it hits all my sweet spots.

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[GHT]

There is a certain chaotic element to the street corner brass bands that really draws me in. I like the way it sounds like they are about to completely fall apart, but seem to just keep it between the lines.

Food and music are two of my favorite things in the world. Toss in a cocktail and the general attitude of the place, and it hits all my sweet spots.

Food & music I'm leaning to more and more. That's because my favourite thing in the world nowadays, takes about a weeks notice and a packet of blue pills.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Exceptional description of New Orleans and surrounding area Frunobulax. While in the Army stationed in Louisiana I was fortunate to have a Cajun Army buddy who's family live in Lake Charles and turned me on to good home cooked local cuisine and shrimp festivals. We were also able to go to Mardi Gras and experience marching bands of celebration and several funeral processions among the wonderful chaos.
HD

 

[Bamaboots]

I like the way it sounds like they are about to completely fall apart, but seem to just keep it between the lines.

Having witnessed one with a not so celebrated 'guest' that went well, I wondered how this one might go. Someone did their best to keep this one between the lines. Mardis Gras size and no surprise.

 

[Worf]

I had the privilege of opening for Dr. John at "Alive @ 5" in Albany, NY about 3 years ago. It was the last stop on his then current tour. I never met or saw him. He was in his trailer the whole time. Which was cool. His backing band was amazing their "warm-up" tunes were strictly progressive jazz. I stayed around to watch his set from backstage.

Worf

 

[Trenchfriend]

R.I.P., Wilhelm Wieben, "Mr. Tagesschau".

 

[Doctor Strange]

Great Italian film (and opera) director Franco Zeffirelli:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/franco-zeffirelli-dead-romeo-juliet-920639

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/15/arts/music/franco-zeffirelli-dead.html

His Romeo and Juliet blew my teenage mind in 1968 and will always be my favorite filmed version.

 

[LizzieMaine]

TV quizmaster Robert Earle, who fronted "GE College Bowl," the most intellectually-demanding quiz show of all time, in the 1960s, has died at the age of 93. Earle -- who fought in WWII as a teenager, and went to become a college administrator and PR executive at General Electric -- took over for original host Allen Ludden in 1962, and remained with the program until it went off the air in 1970.

Earle avoided all the smarmy show-biz mannerisms of the usual run of game-show MCs, projecting a friendly yet no-nonsense authority image as he presided at the College Bowl podium, and helped to make arcane knowledge interesting and enticing to a generation of curious kids -- among them me -- who tuned in every Sunday afternoon to enjoy the contest and maybe learn something in the process.

 

[MisterCairo]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/franco-zeffirelli-dead-1.5177161

Zeffirelli was a great director, but the strangest thing I link him to is being the inspiration for Uncle Monty in Bruce Robinson's Withnail and I. Robinson was a young actor who played Benvolio in the 1968 Romeo and Juliet, and Zeff, who shall we say had twice the chance of a date on Saturday night, kept coming on to him. No threats or cornering like in Withnail, but Robinson was really put off by the experience.

 

[MisterCairo]

Gloria Vanderbilt has died, aged 95. Quite the career and life!

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/lifestyle/...n-cooper-says/ar-AAD0xfT?li=AAggNb9&ocid=iehp

Anyone else thinking of a very special episode of WKRP in Cincinnati?

 

[Frunobulax]

Gloria Vanderbilt has died, aged 95. Quite the career and life!

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/lifestyle/...n-cooper-says/ar-AAD0xfT?li=AAggNb9&ocid=iehp

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Anyone else thinking of a very special episode of WKRP in Cincinnati?

"Dayton's a scary place after dark, Andy!"

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[LizzieMaine]

As strange as it might seem for a personality so identified with the 70s, Gloria V was a major personality of the Depression era -- as the center of one of the muckiest public courtroom disputes of the decade. The battle over her custody as a ten-year-old kept the greasiest reporters on the New York tabloids busy for months --

The "stains on her character" for Little Gloria's mother Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt referred to allegations that she had engaged in a torrid lesbian affair with a minor member of the Russian-turned-British nobility, allegations based on the keyhole testimony of said noblewoman's upstairs maid. The senior Gloria was also said to be carrying on with a lesser Hohenzollern -- and much was made in the straphanger press about her apparent taste for unemployed aristocrats.

Little Gloria, thru all this, was slung around like a bag of mail -- and it's a wonder she managed to survive such a childhood with sanity intact.

(And if that's bad, I wonder what ever happened to poor Joan Donnelly there...)

 

[Fading Fast]

As strange as it might seem for a personality so identified with the 70s, Gloria V was a major personality of the Depression era -- as the center of one of the muckiest public courtroom disputes of the decade. The battle over her custody as a ten-year-old kept the greasiest reporters on the New York tabloids busy for months --

The "stains on her character" for Little Gloria's mother Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt referred to allegations that she had engaged in a torrid lesbian affair with a minor member of the Russian-turned-British nobility, allegations based on the keyhole testimony of said noblewoman's upstairs maid. The senior Gloria was also said to be carrying on with a lesser Hohenzollern -- and much was made in the straphanger press about her apparent taste for unemployed aristocrats.

Little Gloria, thru all this, was slung around like a bag of mail -- and it's a wonder she managed to survive such a childhood with sanity intact.

(And if that's bad, I wonder what ever happened to poor Joan Donnelly there...)

If the story had broke in pre-code-enforcement '34 or earlier, Hollywood could have turned it into one heck of a movie. Norma Shearer would have been a natural to play the mother.

It's funny, but when she had her "moment" in the '70s, I remember the older adults noting her childhood publicity.

 

[MisterCairo]

Beth Chapman, forever to be known as Dog The Bounty Hunter's wife, has died from cancer, aged only 51:

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainm...er-dies-at-51/ar-AADsHML?li=AAggNb9&ocid=iehp

One of those channel surfing shows I'd watch, usually on temporary duty at CFB Somewhere, but she seemed a good person. The two of them must have had a hoot doing their cameo on an episode of Corner Gas, filmed in Saskatchewan.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Bye, "Willie Tanner"...

 

[MisterCairo]

^

Yes, indeed. I knew him more from appearances on WKRP in Cincinnati and the cancelled too soon Buffalo Bill.

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainm...ht-dead-at-75/ar-AADti1Q?li=AAggFp5&ocid=iehp

Max Wright

 

[Trenchfriend]

R.I.P.

 

[Zombie_61]

Arthur Stanton Eric "Arte" Johnson has died of heart failure following a three-year battle with bladder and prostate cancer. He was 90 years old.

 

[3fingers]

Arthur Stanton Eric "Arte" Johnson has died of heart failure following a three-year battle with bladder and prostate cancer. He was 90 years old.

The very fact that Arte Johnson was 90 and that more and more of his generation are leaving us only reinforces the unpleasant realization that I too have less days in front of me than behind me. Where have the years gone?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Yep. When I think of "90 year old comic" I think of Smith and Dale doing "Dr. Kronkheit" on the Sullivan show. Arte Johnson was, the last time I thought about him, a rising young talent who had yet to reach his full potential.