That seems a little disrespectful to me tbh, to use this great artist's death to score cheap political points.

Didn't mean to be disrespectful, I'm a big fan of Cohen, and glad we got a last album out of him (as with Bowie earlier this year). I haven't heard the whole album yet, but the title song is great.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37957088

The last of the Magnificent Seven is gone. RIP Robert Vaughn.

R.I.P. to U.N.C.L.E.

Wow,just watched last night.Also The Great Escape .

For Leonard watch McCabe and Mrs. Miller.

2016 has been pretty harsh.

RIP to all the greats

This probably won't be of interest to most here, but I thought it deserves a mention. Bill Stanfill, former All-Pro Defensive End with the Miami Dolphins, and a member of the "No-Name" Defense that went undefeated in 1972, has died at the age of 69.

I was 16 in 1972, and a season ticket holder for the Miami Dolphins (as I had been since their inception in 1966), and Bill Stanfill was a personal favorite of mine.

As everyone who follows the NFL is aware, concussions and brain injuries are a major concern these days, but weren't back in the 1970s. Stanfill had been dealing with diagnosed brain damage since 2003 that had been getting progressively worse. Coincidentally, he was interviewed earlier this year by a Miami Herald columnist as part of an article on how former players from the Miami Dolphins have been struggling with these issues.

Here's the section of the article pertaining to Stanfill:

Stanfill, a first-team All-Pro during the Dolphins’ 1972 undefeated season, said he was diagnosed with frontal lobe damage in his brain in 2003 and tests last October indicated he is “20 percent worse.”

Stanfill, 69, who lives about an hour away from Fernandez in rural southwestern Georgia, said he took thousands of hits to his head as a player and has no doubt his lobe damage was caused by that.

There are days “I can’t remember where to go,” said Stanfill, who receives assistance from his wife. *“And even some old friends, I don’t have a clue what their name is. I want to be cremated but I want my brain tested [for CTE].”

Stanfill worked as a real estate broker after his playing career but retired five years ago because “my memory was so bad. I felt I needed to retire because I didn’t want to screw over my clients.”

Like many former players with cognitive difficulties, Stanfill is awaiting financial relief.

The NFL and players agreed to a potential*$1 billion settlement of a lawsuit brought by former players to compensate them for brain damage, but some former players are appealing because it doesn’t include CTE. That has delayed payments in the range of $190,000 for every former player diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or moderate dementia.

“I deserve every cent I can get out of this lawsuit,” Stanfill said.

The entire article can be found here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/sport...-quantita.html

Scroll down until it says Friday Buzz Column.

Robert Vaughn also great in Bullitt

I remember Stanfill...I'm so conflicted about football these days

Robert Vaughn's great scene in The Magnificent Seven when he says, "At one time I would have got them all." Let's not forget his commercials for sleazy lawyers.

Songwriter Leon Russel, dead on Saturday, November 12, 2016, at age 74 in Nashville, TN.

How many days 'til I die?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV6u97beANs

Saddenz. Wherever he is, I hope there's some young blood...

Oh man I forgot about those. First movie I thought of was Bridge at Remagen.

It's been 20 years since I've seen it but I remember 2 things:

1 Underrated little WWII flick

2 Vaughn was excellent as the German officer.

Leon Russell was criminally overlooked for most of his career, quite an artist. His songs sound like nobody else's. Great voice too, the phrasing.

Melvin Laird, former U.S. Defense Secretary, dead on November 16, 2016, at age 94. Presided over the wind down of the Vietnam war and most of my military service.

You'll have to agree that he was beloved in Austin. I don't know about the rest of the world.

Melvin Laird died, Nixon's Secretary of Defense.

Again?

William Trevor, Irish master of the short story, dead at age 88 on November 20, 2016, at Somerset, England.

Ralph Branca died, the Brooklyn Dodger pitcher who gave up Bobby Thomson's famous 1951 pennant-winning home run.

Or infamous, considering that the Giants admitted years (actually decades) later that they were cheating during the last two months of the season by using a telescope as well as electronic devices to steal the pitcher's signs and relaying that information to their batters.

In any case, for those who don't follow baseball, or aren't familiar with "the shot heard 'round the world", here's a video clip:

Florence Henderson, most famously known as the mom on The Brady Bunch, has died. She was 82.

And my apologies DC2LV, I am not referring directly to just your most recent post even though it applies.