Robert Reid-a great and super nice rocket of the 70's and 80's...

(02-20-2024 08:43 PM)texowl2 Wrote:  Robert Reid-a great and super nice rocket of the 70's and 80's...

Reid played a key role for the Rockets in their NBA Finals runs in 1980 and 1986.

Just a few days ago....

Former JMU, Maryland, Davidson and Georgia State basketball coach Lefty Driesell dead at 92

Don't turn around....

People Are Mourning The Death Of Flaco

Quote: I love you flaco. You will always be a free bird pic.twitter.com/4v7loELO6A

— Noah Hurowitz (@NoahHurowitz) February 24, 2024

Quote: Rest In Peace, my upper Manhattan neighbor, Flaco. I hope somewhere in the afterlife, Millie and Barney are having a staring contest with you. pic.twitter.com/jC2YiTVFwC

— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) February 24, 2024

Quote:We will miss you terribly.
pic.twitter.com/NGowPnWA5d

— Vee Nabong (@VenusNabs) February 24, 2024

Former BYU and Dallas Cowboys receiver Golden Richards, 73.

Comedian Richard Lewis

https://deadline.com/2024/02/richard-lew...235841064/

(10-01-2023 08:57 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(10-01-2023 02:18 PM)westsidewolf1989 Wrote:  Tim Wakefield, the great knuckleball pitcher for the Red Sox. 57 from brain cancer

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/3853...-cancer-57

Quote: Our hearts are broken with the loss of Tim Wakefield.

Wake embodied true goodness; a devoted husband, father, and teammate, beloved broadcaster, and the ultimate community leader. He gave so much to the game and all of Red Sox Nation.

Our deepest love and thoughts are with Stacy, Trevor, Brianna, and the Wakefield family. http://pic.twitter.com/ah5kV2Yt8j

— Red Sox (@RedSox) October 1, 2023

....only 57 years old. R.I.P.

Oh my, this is tragic...Widow of Tim Wakefield dies less than 5 months after former pitcher's passing; Stacy Wakefield dies of pancreatic cancer (Tim died of brain cancer) Stacy and Tim were married from 2002 until his passing. They had two children together.

Astronaut Dick Truly

https://www.nasa.gov/people/richard-h-truly/

Pigcasso has died: ‘An inspiring figure’

Oink Vey!

Crooner Steve Lawrence. He was also the agent Maury Sline in “The Blues Brothers”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituarie...-obituary/

(02-29-2024 02:21 PM)Grungy Wrote:  Astronaut Dick Truly

https://www.nasa.gov/people/richard-h-truly/

Truly, no more Dick?

Tony Bennett

(03-17-2024 11:46 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Tony Bennett ...

... died on July 21, 2023.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Bennett

If you want to mention new deaths of note, Fred Faour died the other day. A local sports radio personality, he was also sports editor of the Chronicle for a bit. And son of a longtime sportswriter as well. Just 59.

Artist: Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
Album: The Best Years of Our Lives
Song: "Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)"
Songwriter: Steve Harley
January 31, 1975 EMI Records




Stephen Malcolm Ronald Nice (27 February 1951 – 17 March 2024), known by his stage name "Steve Harley", was an English singer, songwriter and frontman of the glam rock group Cockney Rebel. He scored five UK hit singles with the band in the mid-1970s, including "Judy Teen", "Mr. Soft" and the number one "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)". R.I.P.


Of course, this was my first rememberance of hearing the tune...

Artist: Duran Duran
Album: B-Side of 12" 'The Reflex' Single
Song: "Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)"
Songwriter: Steve Harley
(recorded live at Hammersmith Odeon, London, November 16, 1982 EMI Records/ Capitol Records

Thomas Patten Stafford (September 17, 1930 – March 18, 2024) was an American Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and one of 24 astronauts who flew to the Moon. He also served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1969 to 1971.

Oklahoma astronaut Tom Stafford known for Apollo 10 mission dies at 93

North Texas adman turned ‘Benji’ filmmaker Joe Camp dies at 84

After Hollywood shut him out, Camp scored a smash hit anyway with his movie about a lovable stray dog.



Shows you can go against Hollywood values and still be wildly successful and popular...

Character actor M. Emmet Walsh. You've seen him in a hundred things.

https://nypost.com/2024/03/20/entertainm...ead-at-88/

(03-21-2024 09:53 AM)loki_the_bubba Wrote:  Character actor M. Emmet Walsh. You've seen him in a hundred things.

https://nypost.com/2024/03/20/entertainm...ead-at-88/

You’re right, Loki. Seems like he was in EVERYTHING.
Usually they were sort of cameo parts…. Like in Raising Arizona. But he was very interesting ..and menacing…in bigger roles…like Blood Simple and Sneaky Pete.
I’ll miss him.

He always managed to capture the spirit of the thing.