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08-30-2019 , 09:22 PM

#2851

R*R

I wish I was Einstein

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 12,753

Is she the last of the Mary Tyler Moore show?

I'm feeling old. Such a great show.

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08-30-2019 , 09:27 PM

#2852

parisron

Carpal \'Tunnel

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Betty White is 97.

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08-30-2019 , 09:28 PM

#2853

AngusThermopyle

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Originally Posted by R*R

Is she the last of the Mary Tyler Moore show?

Asner, MacLeod, Leachman and White.

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08-30-2019 , 09:29 PM

#2854

R*R

I wish I was Einstein

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 12,753

ok ty

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08-30-2019 , 09:30 PM

#2855

parisron

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Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 19,787

You were close tho.

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08-30-2019 , 09:30 PM

#2856

REDeYeS00

always sloppy

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 22,802

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Originally Posted by R*R

Is she the last of the Mary Tyler Moore show?

I'm feeling old. Such a great show.

hardly

Betty White is still alive and crushing life at 97
Cloris Leachman is still alive at 93
Ed Asner is still alive at 89
Gavin MacLeod is still alive at 88

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08-30-2019 , 09:33 PM

#2857

R*R

I wish I was Einstein

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 12,753

I generally don't remember or research stuff like that so thanks. That's why I asked.

I do remember how much I enjoyed the show.

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08-31-2019 , 09:08 AM

#2858

DC2LV

veteran

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 3,185

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Originally Posted by AngusThermopyle

Asner, MacLeod, Leachman and White.

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Originally Posted by REDeYeS88

hardly

Betty White is still alive and crushing life at 97
Cloris Leachman is still alive at 93
Ed Asner is still alive at 89
Gavin MacLeod is still alive at 88

There's also John Amos, who had a recurring role during the first four seasons playing Gordy the weatherman. He also came back for one episode in the final season as the guest star (after he became a star in his own right for Good Times). He's currently 79.

I always enjoyed his small, but memorable appearances.

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08-31-2019 , 09:23 AM

#2859

kioshk

Nixonian

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 92,839

They should still show Mary Tyler Moore reruns, hell I'd gladly watch that. Put that with The Bob Newhart Show back-to-back again, like Saturday night in the 70s. Good times! (pretty good show itself)

John Amos was a good actor, always made things better and drew your attention. Like Ricardo Montalban he mighta been a huge star if he'd been born in a different age.

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08-31-2019 , 11:25 AM

#2860

microbet

Solar Powered

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 56,720

MTM + Bob Newhart was a staple for me in the 80s on cable on WGN iirc.

Good Times! was my absolute favorite show when in it's first run, but I was a little kid. In reruns...it was ok, but too melodramatic. I liked John Amos too. Looking at IMDB he had recurring roles on 15 different TV series.

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08-31-2019 , 12:21 PM

#2861

Phat Mack

Twat-Waffle

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 11,966

I love the guy.

Pardon me?

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08-31-2019 , 03:50 PM

#2862

Mulezen

grinder

Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 604

Donnie Fritts...great keyboard/songwriter (Waylon Jennings backup)
Outlaw country...Fine solo album a few years back

https://youtu.be/rhof0r1Xi2I

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08-31-2019 , 05:36 PM

#2863

REDeYeS00

always sloppy

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 22,802

actually he played with Kristofferson and wrote a song or two that Waylon recorded.

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08-31-2019 , 05:55 PM

#2864

Mulezen

grinder

Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 604

Here he is singing a song he co-wrote and sang with Waylon
https://youtu.be/HgovqS8EYFc
I love his solo recording...grows with each listening...Memphis Chicken...yeah

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09-01-2019 , 09:45 AM

#2865

kioshk

Nixonian

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 92,839

Pal Benko died last week, chess grandmaster originally from Hungary, world-class player. Also a fixture of the 60s American chess scene and friend/opponent of Bobby Fischer. Later he was a mentor to the Polgar ladies. He was a cool old dude when I saw him doing analysis at a chess tournament in Philadelphia in 1995. Still had a thick head of mostly black hair! And still with a sharp playful active mind. Also very gracious in manner to us chess unwashed masses as he'd analyze our games.

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09-05-2019 , 10:07 AM

#2866

John Cole

Lounge Nighthawk

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 18,199

kioshk,

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertai...er-era/597343/

As an aside, I was in Philadelphia for a conference a number of years ago and stopped into the library with a couple of colleagues. There was a long line of about three hundred people, all carrying books. A guy was there signing who no one except me recognized. Gary Kasparov. I couldn't believe they didn't know who he was.

Last edited by John Cole; 09-05-2019 at 10:14 AM.

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09-06-2019 , 07:05 AM

#2867

kioshk

Nixonian

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 92,839

There's an election coming up in Russia I hear, maybe Kasparov will end up overthrowing Putin or something! I wouldn't put anything past him, very special person. But I guess Putin may be special in his own way haha.

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09-07-2019 , 04:39 AM

#2868

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 74,274

Carol Lynley, 77.

Lovely 60s and 70s actress, probably most famous for being the sexy singer who falls for Red Buttons in The Poseidon Adventure.

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09-08-2019 , 02:39 AM

#2869

Gioco

veteran

Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 2,410

Coincidental hiking deaths of physicists:

Steven Gubser who was working on a theory of everything:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/s...bser-dead.html

and

Ann Nelson who was working on solving contradictions in the Standard Model:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/s...lson-dies.html

Both gone way too young.

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09-12-2019 , 12:42 AM

#2870

coolnout

Carpal \'Tunnel

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Austin Songwriting Genius Daniel Johnston Dead at 58
Eccentric singer-songwriter reportedly died of heart attack

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09-12-2019 , 12:57 AM

#2871

Bighurt52235

I was born to eat hamburgers

Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 24,218

What about T Boone?!

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09-12-2019 , 05:57 PM

#2872

kioshk

Nixonian

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 92,839

T Boone was something else, I was just reading about him. Not making men like that these days!

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09-13-2019 , 09:34 AM

#2873

mrbaseball

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RIP T Boone

As an energy trader myself I followed him a lot and he was a fascinating guy always worth watching and listening to. He was quite the philanthropist as well. I'd much rather someone smart like him divvy up a billion dollars to great causes rather than the government stealing it from him and wasting it.