Doris Day
Yeah just saw that. Her friends said she was in good health until catching pneumonia recently, which killed her. All in all not a bad way to go. Luckier than many.
She was almost too wholesome in the 1950s, if you can wrap your head around that. The constant butt of cultural jokes in the 1970s through the 1980s, she wasn’t made of the same stuff as Trump (whatever that is) and ended up the OG cat lady living with her animals in Carmel Valley, CA.
She came perilously close to wrecking that movie, Hitchock’s remake of his The Man Who Knew Too Much in 1956, though. Not a great actress but very likable.
RIP Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff
Sad, but 97 is a damn good run. We should all be so fortunate.
Tru dat. But her son sure contributed to the counterculture scene. Ying and the Yang.
At a 2013 event promoting his memoir, What’s So Funny? My Hilarious Life , Burnett, now 86, painted her collaborator as an on-set prankster.
“Tim’s goal in life was to destroy [costar] Harvey Korman,” she told the crowd, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“Harvey wet his pants,” Conway bragged.
It’s an anecdote he also recalled in a 2013 interview with the Los Angeles Times.
“Harvey never saw what I was going to do until he was actually doing the sketch,” he said. “As a matter of fact in the dentist sketch you can actually see Harvey wet his pants from laughing.”
Watched her show as a kid with my parents.
Whenever those 2 were in a sketch, we’d try to see if Harvey would break character.
Mr. Conway played a hapless dentist who pokes himself three times with the Novocain needle, while Korman, the helpless patient, looks on from the dental chair. Mr. Conway’s timing and matter-of-fact performance as a man left immobilized by his own incompetence left Korman desperately trying to suppress his laughter.
Finally unable to cope, Korman was said to have wet his pants on the air. “I’m very proud of that, too,” Mr. Conway later said, “because I owned a cleaners at the time.”
Bob Hawke. Aged 89
Australian Prime Minister 1983-1991
Longest serving Labor Party PM
Established Medicare and sex discrimination legislation among other things that annoyed the Liberal party.
Long time holder of world record for downing a yard glass of beer whilst a student at Oxford in 1956: 2.5 pints in 11 seconds.
And famous for his reaction to Australia winning the Americas Cup in 1983
There. Full stereotype done.
You scared me. I thought Newhart had died for a second.
Back in the day, I knew about Lauda thanks to this:
A celebrity to my toddler.
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/05/23/europe/judith-kerr-dies-scli-intl/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fedition.cnn.com%2F
Oh, my daughter loved that when she was younger. We’ll read it again tonight.
EDIT: No, we won’t. She just said she doesn’t want to. She wants to read some history book about ancient Greeks. Odd girl.
Great guy, great quarterback
Leon Redbone
for anyone who likes Blues Piano…RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thXWYbFdcsY&fbclid=IwAR3AUYVqpDKhvDBQmLntnzNjGZbzc59ODQ7Lh4Al9KQDQVv9HV6PWOwPFnU
Dr. John is a tough loss for Americans.
A true original. A giant in American music. I’m not sure we make musicians like Dr. John anymore, not even in NOLA.