How About An Obituary Forum? (Today's Obit - James Garner)

[TruckDriver]

  I remember him from the greatest american hero

THAT'S the show.... I couldn't think of it at the time I posted the other post. I loved that show!!

[Brock Samson]

Rock Photographer Jim Marshall Passed today,..  

 I met him once and explained that for several years I had a giant poster of his Hendrix at Monterey photo on my wall. A month or so later he came by my house and gave me a handmade print of that photo signed by him,.. which of course I promptly framed, it now hangs proudly in my living room...
 

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/03/24/jim-marshall-legendary-rock-photographer-passes-away-at-74/
 
























a link with more Pics...
http://www.doubleexposure.com/double_exposure/covers/marshall/04.html

[moparstuart]

 wow those are some great photo's

[Old Moparz]

Brock, sad to read that. I can't help but wonder just how many photos I have looked at over the years that were taken by him? 

[Brock Samson]

i read he did close to five hundred album covers, and was often the only photog allowed on stage or back stage.

[Bob T]

Wow, he sure contributed a lot to history by doing his job well. Some amazing photos.  R.I.P.

[moparstuart]

'Dynasty' Actor John Forsythe Dies  Actor John Forsythe, who played a scheming oil tycoon on "Dynasty" and was the voice of Charlie on "Charlie's Angels," has died at 92, a publicist says. 

[bull]

Jimmy Dean died Sunday: http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/arts-and-entertainment/Country-Music-Star-Jimmy-Dean-Dead-at-81-96330054.html

[TruckDriver]

I remember him more for his breakfast sausage and commercials promoting them.

[hemi68charger]

Think you'll see this topic in the obituary forum........

[Old Moparz]

The guy's health has been bad for a while so it's not really a surprise. A lot of people didn't like him, I thought he was a bit of an ass, but I will admit he was really into wanting to win at all costs. That's pretty good if you're a Yankees fan like I am.

RIP George.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/sports/baseball/14steinbrenner.html?src=mv

George Steinbrenner, Yankees' Owner, Dies at 80


By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
Published: July 13, 2010

George Steinbrenner, who bought a declining Yankees team in 1973, promised to stay out of its daily affairs and then, in an often tumultuous reign, placed his formidable stamp on 7 World Series championship teams, 11 pennant winners and a sporting world powerhouse valued at perhaps $1.6 billion, died Tuesday morning, the team announced. He was 80 and lived in Tampa, Fla.

"He was an incredible and charitable man," the family said in a statement.

"He was a visionary and a giant in the world of sports. He took a great but struggling franchise and turned it into a champion again."

Mr. Steinbrenner's death came nine months after the Yankees won their first World Series title since 2000, clinching their six-game victory over the Philadelphia Phillies at his new Yankee Stadium, and two days after the team's longtime public-address announcer Bob Sheppard  died at age 99.

Mr. Steinbrenner had been in failing health for the past several years and rarely appeared in public. He attended the opening game at the new stadium in April 2009, sitting in his suite with his wife, Joan (pronounced Jo-ann). When he was introduced and received an ovation, his shoulders shook and he cried.

He next appeared at the Yankees' new home for the first two games of the World Series, then made his final appearance at the 2010 home opener, when Manager Joe Girardi  and shortstop Derek Jeter, the team captain, came to his suite to present him with his 2009 World Series championship ring.

Mr. Steinbrenner spoke for only 25 seconds at the stadium's groundbreaking ceremony in August 2006.

The blustering owner long familiar to Yankees fans and foes briefly re-emerged in October 2007 in a newspaper interview, when he threatened to fire Manager Joe Torre if the team did not advance beyond the first round of the American League playoffs. The Yankees were eliminated by the Cleveland Indians in that round, and soon afterward Torre departed after rejecting a one-year contract extension with a cut in his guaranteed salary.

[Old Moparz]

In the eyes of Yankees figures from Mr. Steinbrenner's heyday, his aura endured despite his frailty.

"He's arguably the most recognized owner in all of sports," Jeter said after Mr. Steinbrenner was driven onto the field in a golf cart in a ceremony before the 2008 All-Star Game at the old stadium.

"To be able to deliver this to the Boss, to the stadium he created and the atmosphere he created around here, it's very gratifying to all of us," Girardi said after the Yankees' World Series victory at the new stadium.

Mr. Steinbrenner, the Yankees' principal owner and chairman, had ceded increasing authority to his sons, Hal and Hank, who became co-chairmen in May 2008. Hal Steinbrenner, the Yankees' managing general partner as well, was given control of the team in November 2008 in a unanimous vote by the major league club owners, who acted on his father's request.

Mr. Steinbrenner was the central figure in a syndicate that bought the Yankees from CBS for $10 million. When he arrived in New York on Jan. 3, 1973, he said he would not "be active in the day-to-day operations of the club at all." Having made his money as head of the American Shipbuilding Company, based in Cleveland, he declared, "I'll stick to building ships."

But four months later, Michael Burke, who had been running the Yankees for CBS and had stayed on to help manage the franchise, departed after clashing with Mr. Steinbrenner. John McMullen, a minority owner in the syndicate, soon remarked that "nothing is as limited as being a limited partner of George's."

Mr. Steinbrenner emerged as one of the most powerful, influential and, in the eyes of many, notorious executives in sports. He was the senior club owner in baseball at his death, the man known as the Boss.

A pioneer of modern sports ownership, Mr. Steinbrenner started the wave of high spending for playing talent when free agency arrived in the mid-1970s, and he continued to spend freely through the Yankees' revival in the late '70s and early '80s, the long stretch without a pennant and then renewed triumphs under Torre and General Manager Brian Cashman.

The Yankees' approximately $210 million payroll in 2009 dwarfed all others in baseball, and the team paid out millions in baseball's luxury tax and revenue-sharing with small-market teams.

In the frenetic '70s and '80s, when general managers, field managers and pitching coaches were sent spinning through Mr. Steinbrenner's revolving personnel door (Billy Martin had five stints as manager), the franchise became known as the Bronx Zoo. In December 2002, Mr. Steinbrenner's enterprise had grown so rich that the president of the Boston Red Sox, Larry Lucchino, frustrated over losing pitcher Jose Contreras to the Yankees, called them the "evil empire."

[ODZKing]

Yep, somewhere George and Billy are together again.
God speed George.

[Old Moparz]

Tony Curtis passed away. He had made some good movies over the years, RIP.

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/coroner-actor-tony-curtis-dies-las-vegas-home-ap?nc

Actor Tony Curtis Dies at Las Vegas Home

LAS VEGAS - The Clark County coroner says actor Tony Curtis has died. Coroner Mike Murphy says Curtis died at 9:25 p.m. MDT Wednesday at his Las Vegas area home of a cardiac arrest. Curtis, who had heart bypass surgery in 1994, began his acting career as a 1950s heartthrob but became a respected actor with such films as "The Defiant Ones" and "Sweet Smell of Success.

"The Defiant Ones" brought him an Oscar nomination in 1958 for his portrayal of a racist escaped convict handcuffed to a black escapee, Sidney Poitier. The following year, he co-starred in one of the most acclaimed film comedies ever, Billy Wilder's "Some Like It Hot."

[chargerboy69]

I always like Tony Curtis.  That is too bad.  Tony Curtis and Eddie Fisher both in the same week.

[Old Moparz]

I forgot Tony Curtis was in the movie, "The Great Race" & remember seeing it when I was a kid. It was a fun movie. I vaguely recall him making another car movie, but never saw it. After googling for it, I see this one called "Johhny Dark". Another long distance race story, but in the 50's.

And this one clip was interesting, it's called "Don't Make Waves" with Sharon Tate in a small bikini jumping in slow motion on a trampoline with Tony Curtis watching. (You have to see his expression.....lol) Never saw this one either, but I might now    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFcinyDkk1Q&feature=related

[hemi-hampton]

"I Spy" actor, Robert Culp dies today after a fall at his home. He was 79.

I always liked his acting. I have a lot of movies with him in them. He is in the '70's movie "Hot Rod" with Pernell Roberts too. If you never seen the movie, find it and get it. Awsome drag racing movie with a '40 Willy's in it.

You will be missed Robert, Rest In Peace 

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postmortem/2010/03/actor-robert-culp-dead.html

Culp also starred in a very obscure made for TV movie never released on Video or CD called OUTRAGE from 1974. I loved this movie as a Kid. Was about a bunch of Neighborhood punks in Hot Rods (Mopars) always harrassing him. Anybody else remember this one? LEON.

[Old Moparz]

Culp also starred in a very obscure made for TV movie never released on Video or CD called OUTRAGE from 1974. I loved this movie as a Kid. Was about a bunch of Neighborhood punks in Hot Rods (Mopars) always harrassing him. Anybody else remember this one? LEON.

Sounds like it's worth watching. I like some of the low budget flicks with cars, sometimes cheesy, but still cool. 

[MoparManJim]

RIP Stephen J Cannell, age 69 , the guy behind the A-team series. http://news-briefs.ew.com/2010/10/01/st ... -producer/ 

[TruckDriver]

Stephen J. Cannell, Rockford Files and A-Team Creator, Dies at 69


http://www.tvguide.com/News/Stephen-Cannell-Rockford-1023903.aspx


Here is all the tv shows he created. I highlighted the shows I loved watching growing up.

21 Jump Street
Adam-12
The A-Team
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Baretta
Booker
Broken Badges
Castle (as himself)
Chase
Cobra
The Commish
The D.A.
Diagnosis Murder (acting)
The Duke
The Greatest American Hero
Hardcastle and McCormick
The Hat Squad
Hawkeye
Hunter
J.J. Starbuck
The Last Precinct
Magnum, P.I. (acting)
The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage
Pacific Blue (acting)
Palace Guard
Profit
The Quest
Renegade (acting)
Richie Brockelman, Private Eye
Riptide
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (acting)
The Rockford Files
The Rousters
Santa Barbara (soap opera) (acting)
Silk Stalkings (acting)
Sonny Spoon
Stingray
Stone
Street Justice
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
Toma
Top of the Hill
Unsub
Wiseguy

[TruckDriver]

Barbara Billingsley of 'Leave it to Beaver' fame dies 

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/10/16/obit.barbara.billingsley/?hpt=Sbin

[Old Moparz]

That show was before my time, but I did watch the reruns once in awhile. I did want to see Beaver get rapped on the head by his parents though, he needed it.

RIP Barbara Billingsley.

[skip68]

Dirtiest thing ever said on that show, " Ward, I think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night!" lol! Mrs. Skip68

[Ghoste]

I heard Tom Bosley today as well.

[skip68]

Just in: Tom Bosley "'Mr. Cunningham" of Happy Days fame, passed as well! R.I.P. "MR. C".      Mrs. skip68