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Loretta Lynn, country music icon, dead at 90
'Coal Miner's Daughter' singer Loretta Lynn has died.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/lo...on-dead-90

RIP to the Queen of Country Music, Loretta Lynn. She always reminded me of my mother, both women who grew up in the holler who went to do bigger and better things in their lives yet remaining very much that small town girl in spirit.

(10-04-2022 10:06 AM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  Loretta Lynn, country music icon, dead at 90
'Coal Miner's Daughter' singer Loretta Lynn has died.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/lo...on-dead-90

They don't make them like her anymore...unfortunatley. She was a gem.

Loretta Lynn, ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ icon and country singer, dead at 90

Carly Pearce did a tribute song to her most recently called Dear Loretta with Deanna Carter.

Concordia University Texas Head Baseball Coach Tommy Boggs Passes Away at 66

Pulitzer Prize Winner Charles Fuller Passes Away at 83, wrote 'A Soldier's Play' adapted into the film 'A Soldier's Story'

Quote:Charles Fuller, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed drama A Soldier's Play and Oscar-nominated for his work on the film adaptation A Soldier's Story, died of natural causes on Monday, October 3, 2022 in Toronto with his wife Claire Prieto-Fuller by his side.

He was born on March 5, 1939 and he was 83 at the time of his death. He leaves behind his wife, his son, David Ira Fuller, his daughter in law, four grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Fuller received the Dramatists Guild's Flora Roberts Award for his extensive body of work. Mr. Fuller's creative efforts involve a wide range of theatre, film and television. He was a member of The Negro Ensemble Company, where his Zooman and the Sign won him an Obie and A Soldier's Play won him a Pulitzer Prize, Best American Play and an Edgar Award.

Mr. Fuller's adaptation of his play became the 1984 film A Soldier's Story, which was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, and won a Writers Guild of America Award. He has written screenplays for CBS, PBS and Showtime. He has also mentored young playwrights at Cherry Lane Theatre and was commissioned by Cherry Lane to write a play, One Night, which opened there in 2014.

'A Soldier's Story' starred Denzel Washington, Howard E. Rollins, Jr. & Adolph Caesar in one of his few major (and moste memorable) roles before he died.

If you've never seen it, you really should. It's an amazingly well-done film.

[Comedian Judy Tentuna Dead At 72

Grammy Award Country Singer, Jody Miller Dead At 80


She won the Grammy for her biggest hits in the 60s with Queen of the House.

(10-07-2022 06:02 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Grammy Award Country Singer, Jody Miller Dead At 80


She won the Grammy for her biggest hits in the 60s with Queen of the House.

Country music star and ‘Queen of the House’ singer Jody Miller dead at R.I.P.

Artist: Jody Miller (Myrna Joy Miller)
Album: Queen Of The House
Song: "Queen Of The House"
1965 Capitol Records

The bell Tolls for thee: Robert Toll, Founder of Home Builder Toll Brothers, Has Died at Age 81

Quote:Robert Toll worked his way through the University of Pennsylvania law school in the mid-1960s to please his parents and got a job with the Philadelphia law firm Wolf Block. He soon found himself toiling in a tiny office and hated the work.

Mr. Toll chucked his legal career and joined his younger brother, Bruce, to found Toll Brothers Inc. in 1967. They built two model colonial-style homes in suburban Philadelphia and soon had contracts to build 20 more.

The first homes were priced at around $17,500, Bruce Toll said, but their father, Albert Toll, advised them to build fancier models that could sell for around $25,000 in Bucks County, Pa. “Those houses today sell for a million dollars,” Mr. Toll said.

The brothers gradually expanded from the Northeast to the Pacific Coast, Southeast, Texas and other regions. Toll Brothers went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 1986.

Mr. Toll, who remained chairman and chief executive until 2010, often told colleagues that the kitchen and master bedroom suite, with a luxurious bathroom, were what sold a house.

Motown great Ivy Joe Hunter dies at age 82

Artist: Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
Album: Dance Party
Song: "Dancing In the Street"
Songwriters: Marvin Gaye, William "Mickey" Stevenson and Ivy Jo Hunter (George Ivy Hunter)
July 31, 1964 Gordy Records



Artist: The Contours
Album: Dance With The Contours (The Contours: Can You Dance)
Song: "Can You Jerk Like Me"
Songwriters: William "Mickey" Stevenson and Ivy Jo Hunter (George Ivy Hunter)
1964 Gordy Records



Artist: The Isley Brothers
Album: Soul on the Rocks
Song: "Behind a Painted Smile"
Songwriters: B. Verdi and Ivy Jo Hunter (George Ivy Hunter)
1969 Tamla Motown Records

BREAKING NEWS: Murder She Wrote actress Angela Lansbury dead at 96.

[Murder She Wrote Actress Angela Lansbury dead at 96

5 days before her death. I remember watching her in the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

(10-11-2022 02:59 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Murder She Wrote Actress Angela Lansbury dead at 96

5 days before her death. I remember watching her in the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

She was in almost everything for a good part of her career. Not an actress today's fans might necessarily think of. but she was a huge star back inn the golden age of movies. A well-deserved rest after a spectacular career.

Edit: also, this: She was in darn-near every movie form a while in the Golden era. Her career depth was remarkable, and many younger folks today who've never seen her in her younger years would be astounded by all that she did and the quality with which she did it. She was one of the great actresses of the film era.

I meant to say she died 5 days before her 97th birthday.

Angela was in Blue Hawaii with Elvis.

RIP Willie Spence
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/musi...-rcna51854

"Former "American Idol" runner-up Willie Spence died after a car accident on Tuesday, according to authorities.

Spence, 23, finished as runner-up to Chayce Beckham in the show's 19th season, which aired last year...."

Willie was a remarkable talent if you never heard him perform. I saw him before he turned professional. Very nice young man. Sad that he won't be able to share his talent.

(10-12-2022 12:17 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(10-11-2022 02:59 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Murder She Wrote Actress Angela Lansbury dead at 96

5 days before her death. I remember watching her in the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

She was in almost everything for a good part of her career. Not an actress today's fans might necessarily think of. but she was a huge star back inn the golden age of movies. A well-deserved rest after a spectacular career.

Edit: also, this: She was in darn-near every movie form a while in the Golden era. Her career depth was remarkable, and many younger folks today who've never seen her in her younger years would be astounded by all that she did and the quality with which she did it. She was one of the great actresses of the film era.

For one who spanned decades in her career and did so with a breadth of roles, class, dignity, and charm, and who in her golden years was still every bit as capable of a commanding performance, perhaps an appropriate epitaph would be:

That's Not All She Wrote!

This is the first movie I saw her in when I was a kid. Then later it was Blue Hawaii with Elvis.

Angela moved her family out of LA because her teenaged daughter was involved with a guy who got her hooked on drugs. He had her steal money from the house, use credit cards, get food from the kitchen, etc. His name was Charles Manson.