Obituaries - Gone but not forgotten.

[youthathletics]

It now appears he died of COVID-19.

Strange, I had not heard of that when the news was reported this morning or during the afternoon. When I saw your post, I checked online and now see that he was one of those right cynics who thought covid was no big deal and he refused to take the vaxx. Sad just the same.

Not reading that anywhere either. He did make light of having it during the xmas season and was said he was doing well in a People Article. Said it would 10-15 weeks to learn what the medical examiner would determine.

What about the venerable NY Post who some around here excerpt all the time - just released
https://nypost.com/2022/01/21/meat-loaf ... -covid-19/

Ahh...I may have had my people crossed. I thought they were referring to Bob Saget.

[Kismet]

Don Wilson, 88 - Lead Guitarist for The Ventures

[ardilla secreta]

It now appears he died of COVID-19.

Strange, I had not heard of that when the news was reported this morning or during the afternoon. When I saw your post, I checked online and now see that he was one of those right cynics who thought covid was no big deal and he refused to take the vaxx. Sad just the same.

Not reading that anywhere either. He did make light of having it during the xmas season and was said he was doing well in a People Article. Said it would 10-15 weeks to learn what the medical examiner would determine.

What about the venerable NY Post who some around here excerpt all the time - just released
https://nypost.com/2022/01/21/meat-loaf ... -covid-19/

I had seen Meatloaf at the Tower Theater in the late 70’s. Terrible show. Was being endlessly heckled. “Get off the stage you fat phluck. You suck!” was heard based on my memory.

[Farfromgeneva]

It now appears he died of COVID-19.

Strange, I had not heard of that when the news was reported this morning or during the afternoon. When I saw your post, I checked online and now see that he was one of those right cynics who thought covid was no big deal and he refused to take the vaxx. Sad just the same.

Not reading that anywhere either. He did make light of having it during the xmas season and was said he was doing well in a People Article. Said it would 10-15 weeks to learn what the medical examiner would determine.

What about the venerable NY Post who some around here excerpt all the time - just released
https://nypost.com/2022/01/21/meat-loaf ... -covid-19/

I had seen Meatloaf at the Tower Theater in the late 70’s. Terrible show. Was being endlessly heckled. “Get off the stage you fat phluck. You suck!” was heard based on my memory.

It happens. I saw Neil Young get in a huff when he was closing out a horde tour show mid 90s and leave the stage early because folks were sunburnt, drunk/stoned and had been rocking out all day and wanted Harvest moon not mirror ball type tunes.

[Farfromgeneva]

I always thought that "Bat Out of Hell" was one of the greatest albums of all time: https://tinyurl.com/yjw52yjp

Sad that Meatloaf succumbed to the right wing delusionalism that is so politically correct in Texass. He even criticized Little Greta Thunberg for her belief in climate change:


https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainmen ... tion.html/

Of course, she had her defenders such as wrestler David Starr:


Meatloaf is a great artist.

Meatloaf was awesome as “Eddie” in Rocky Horror.

Meatloaf is an idiot when it comes to climate change and politics in general.

I guess two out of three ain’t bad.



Excellent article about "Bat Out of Hell":


https://jimsteinman.fandom.com/wiki/Bat ... ll_(album)


I well remember how he went full rich on stage when he sang back in '77. He appeared live on FM in NYC (I believe it was at the Bottom Line rock club) and he drove the audience wild with his fiery performance. Heck of a performer.

The director originally was shooting for Elvis to play Eddie in Rocky Horror and ultimately settled for Meatloaf. Tim Curry makes that movie, but Susan Sarandon has always been a hottie.

[Brooklyn]

Clark Gillies: https://www.foxnews.com/sports/clark-gi ... y-cup-dead



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https://www.nhl.com/news/new-york-islan ... -330173234

https://www.nhl.com/news/former-islande ... -330059912



Generally acknowledged as one of pro hockey's toughest dudes. Great teammate, did much charity work after his playing days. One of my all time favorite players.

[44WeWantMore]

PJ O'Rourke

National Review editor Richard Brookhiser wrote: "P.J. O'Rourke and I sat together at the 1988 GOP convention. When Bush41 promised the death penalty for drug kingpins, PJ asked, "Even if the drugs are good, and the prices fair?" R.I.P."
https://www.the-sun.com/news/4694538/jo ... urke-dead/

[44WeWantMore]

Now I know why I liked him beyond his ability, rare among writers, to make me laugh out loud *:

Just learned that the late P. J. O’Rourke had an MA in English from JHU.

* For example:

I had one fundamental question about economics: Why do some places prosper and thrive while others just suck? It’s not a matter of brains. No part of the earth (with the possible exception of Brentwood) is dumber than Beverly Hills, and the residents are wading in gravy. In Russia, meanwhile, where chess is a spectator sport, they’re boiling stones for soup. Nor can education be the reason. Fourth graders in the American school system know what a condom is but they’re not sure about 9 x 7. Natural resources aren’t the answer. Africa has diamonds, gold, uranium, you name it. Scandinavia has little and is frozen besides. Maybe culture is the key, but wealthy regions such as the local mall are famous for lacking it.

and

And here was another shock. Professor Samuelson, who wrote the early editions by himself, turns out to be almost as much of a goof as my friends and I were in the 1960s. “Marx was the most influential and perceptive critic of the market economy ever,” he says on page seven. Influential, yes. Marx nearly caused World War III. But perceptive? Samuelson continues: “Marx was wrong about many things . . . but that does not diminish his stature as an important economist.” Well, what would? If Marx was wrong about many things and screwed the baby-sitter?

https://www.econlib.org/p-j-orourke-rip/

[NoLeft]

Charley Taylor, Receiver/Running Back for Washington Pro football team. Played when they were bad, then good. Also provided class.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/19/sport/ch ... index.html

[Brooklyn]

Emile "the Cat" Francis:


https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/spor ... s-nhl.html



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Emile Francis Built the Rangers His Way
Francis, who died Saturday at 95, installed a no-nonsense culture as the Rangers’ general manager and coach. His tenure included nine consecutive playoff appearances.

Emile Francis was selected as the recipient of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame’s Wayne Gretzky International Award in 2015. The award recognizes people who have contributed to hockey’s growth in the United States.

Emile Francis came to New York and found a hockey wasteland. By the time he had finished his stints as the general manager and coach of the Rangers, he had made them a significant player among the city’s many professional sports teams.

Not bad for a wiry little guy from North Battleford, Saskatchewan. In fact, I found him the most fascinating personality I came to write about in my more than 40 years of covering sports.

Francis, who died at age 95 on Saturday, brought his own values to New York and never wavered. Life, like hockey, was simple to the man who earned the nickname “the Cat” for his quick moves as a goaltender. His philosophy could be summed up in a few of his favorite expressions:

“This game is slippery. It’s played on ice.”

“Hockey is like pool. It’s not what you make, but what you leave.”

“You can’t complain with half a loaf of bread under your arm.”

Francis, who had been a backup goalie with Chicago and the Rangers, became New York’s general manager in 1964. The team had suffered six straight losing seasons in the six-team N.H.L.

Midway through the next season, he fired Coach Red Sullivan and took over behind the Rangers’ bench. And then, in the 1966-67 season, with the team under his complete control, it began a playoff streak that would last for nine straight seasons. But twice during that stretch he hired other coaches — first, the former star of the dynastic Montreal Canadiens, Bernie Geoffrion, whom Francis wanted as a symbol of victory for his maligned skaters. When Geoffrion faltered, Francis took over. Then there was also the 1973 hiring of Larry Popein, who was fired during the season and replaced by the Cat.

In those pre-computer days, Francis kept his notes on a pad in his jacket pocket. He could pull out statistics from the farm clubs or from his players.

And he was in charge. He often made the team’s train or plane reservations. He booked the hotels. At practice, he donned skates and led the team in calisthenics. He brooked no challenges, no outside interference, no distractions. He was putting together a team in his image, and he demanded his players follow his rules.


They did, and they did it well. He installed a system of hockey based on control, solid teamwork and conservatism. But the team never won a Stanley Cup, making the finals only once during his tenure. I always believed that if he had loosened up a bit — allowed, say, his best threat, Rod Gilbert, not to be shackled to his teammates but to roam a bit freer — the Rangers might have captured a championship.

But that was Emile’s way, and it was always a team effort. He was obsessed with not having anything out of place.

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I attended training camp one fall in Kitchener, Ontario, with my wife and my infant daughter. Francis told the person at the front desk to put us in a room at the back of the hotel — he did not want a woman at training camp. Too distracting.

I was so fascinated with the game — and with him — that I wrote a book called “A Year on Ice,” which chronicled the roller-coaster 1969-70 season (and, I’m proud to say, was just made into a fictionalized film). To add what I thought at the time was total honesty, I included a paragraph that described a woman running out of a player’s hotel room in tears. That was it. A few sentences.

Just about the time the book came out, Francis was embroiled in contract battles with some of his stars. He suspended Brad Park, Jean Ratelle, Vic Hadfield and Walt Tkaczuk because they refused to play an exhibition in training camp without contracts. It was the beginning of players fighting for their rights in hockey. I wrote extensively about their demands, and Francis wasn’t happy.

It was all resolved after bitter battles. Then, a few weeks after the book was published, at Skateland, the team’s practice rink in New Hyde Park, N.Y., the trainer told me, “Emile would like to see you in the locker room.”

I walked in and there he was, in the middle of the room, with the entire team. He said, “I want you guys to hear this,” and he read the excerpt about the woman running out of the player’s hotel room.

“And this is the guy you’re talking to, trusting him?” Francis said, looking at me. Then he added, “Get out.”

Shortly afterward, the Rangers Fan Club held its annual dinner. I went there with my wife, Rosalind. And there was Francis. He walked over to her and said: “I’m sorry for what I did. But I’ll do anything to keep my team together.”

It was why, even though the team played in the heart of Manhattan at Madison Square Garden, he didn’t want his players anywhere near the place, lest they become distracted. He insisted they live on Long Island, and virtually all of them put down roots in Long Beach.

When Francis originally came to New York, he didn’t find many children playing hockey. So he started a league that grew to seven teams and included clubs from New Jersey, Westchester County and Long Island.

He was determined to make the game a part of New York life, and he succeeded. But he was always determined to keep his small-town Canadian roots and values. Somehow, he juggled the two brilliantly.




The Cat also said that New Yorkers are the greatest hockey fans in the world. What a great credit he was to this game.

[44WeWantMore]

Paul Cantor

https://web.archive.org/web/20181214195 ... aul-cantor

[44WeWantMore]

Gary Brooker

[Kismet]

Actress Sally Kellerman,84, the original MASH cinematic Hot Lips Houlihan.

[Brooklyn]

here's a big name from the past - Tim Considine:


https://deadline.com/2022/03/tim-consid ... 234971353/



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Tim Considine, one of the most popular young Disney actors of the 1950s before originating the role of the eldest brother on the 1960s sitcom My Three Sons, died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 81.

His death was announced by his son Christopher, and shared on Facebook by My Three Sons co-star Stanley Livingston, who played Chip Douglas to Considine’s Mike. “Tim and I have been friends for more than 70 years,” Livingston wrote, adding “He will be missed by all those who knew him. I love you Bro.”

Considine was already known to television audiences — particularly youngsters — by the time he was cast for the 1960 debut on ABC of My Three Sons. He had played Spin Evans on the mid-’50s Mickey Mouse Club serial “The Adventures of Spin and Marty,” and, later in the decade, Frank Hardy (to Tommy Kirk’s Joe Hardy) on the Club‘s “The Hardy Boys” serial.

He appeared in yet a third Club serial, “Annette” starring Annette Funicello, and in 1959 took on the big-screen role opposite his future My Three Sons castmate Fred MacMurray in Disney’s hit comedy The Shaggy Dog.


Tim & his ideal date:


https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7b/8b/bd ... 1ac795.jpg


Spin & Marty:


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back in the day he was TV land's ideal Big Brother

[Brooklyn]

Charles Enternmann ~ a true New Yorker:



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Charles Entenmann, who helped bring baked goods to supermarkets, dies at 92
Charles Edward “Charlie” Entenmann, who helped expand his family’s Long Island, New York, bakery from a local delivery service to a household name, died last month. He was 92. An obituary said Entenmann died “peacefully” on Feb. 24 in Florida, where he lived, surrounded by his surviving children.

Entenmann’s, now a supermarket staple, was opened by Charlie Entenmann’s grandfather, William, in Brooklyn in 1898, according to the company website. Entenmann’s built a baking facility on five acres in Bay Shore, later expanding to 14 acres. The company was sold in 1978 and has changed hands a few times since. It is now owned by Bimbo Bakeries USA.

His love for the humanities and Long Island led him to support and advocate for the Great South Bay YMCA in Bay Shore.
He funded research to improve water quality and habitats in the Great South Bay.
With his brothers, endowed Southside Hospital in Bay Shore with a gift to establish the Entenmann Family Cardiac Center.

In his retirement, his passion for advancing a limitless energy source led to the development of a self-sustaining power cell at his Biosearch, LLC, research lab. In addition, Charlie started Biolife, LLC, a company that produces various healthcare products to stop bleeding.

https://news.yahoo.com/charles-entenman ... 05824.html

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/ne ... d=33396300




Wonderful human being from a truly wonderful family.

[Brooklyn]

Scott Hall



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It's like losing your favorite kid brother. Will miss him for life.

[Nigel]

Scott Hall



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It's like losing your favorite kid brother. Will miss him for life.

Hey Yo.

[Brooklyn]

da baaad guy



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never to be forgotten

[Brooklyn]

While he gained fame as Razor Ramon, a year before he worked with DDP and was known as Diamond Studd:



https://preview.redd.it/poi5px00tp361.j ... ceee759c72



You can readily see how the earlier character influenced the more refined and charismatic RR.

[Brooklyn]

Elnardo Webster - nice guy from Jersey with a great sense of humor:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaabk ... d=BingHp01



http://www.nasljerseys.com/images/2016/ ... _small.jpg


brief pro career: http://www.nasljerseys.com/ABA/Players/ ... lnardo.htm

But had a long career as educator. Jersey guy done good.