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Richard 77
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Genero36

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Posted: 05/13/20 9:31 pm ::: |
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Mary Pratt, who played for the Rockford Peaches and Kenosha Comets in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, has died. She was 101.
Pratt pitched in the women's league from 1943-47. The league was profiled in the 1992 movie “A League of Their Own,” starring Tom Hanks and Geena Davis. |
https://www.wthr.com/article/rockford-peaches-pitcher-mary-pratt-league-their-own-fame-dies-101
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pilight

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Posted: 05/16/20 2:34 pm ::: |
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Fred Willard
https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/fred-willard-best-in-show-actor-dead-obit-1000942/
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“A four-time Emmy nominee radiated a unique charm that established him as one of our generation’s most gifted comic actors,” Willard’s rep wrote in a tribute. “A master of sketch comedy, Fred was most heralded for his quick wit and improvisational expertise, which he demonstrated in hundreds of appearances on stage, on the big screen, and on a wide range of television shows.” |
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jammerbirdi

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Posted: 05/16/20 3:01 pm ::: |
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Oh not Fred Willard. Jeez.
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pilight

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Posted: 05/16/20 6:46 pm ::: |
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Phyllis George
https://deadline.com/2020/05/phyllis-george-dies-nfl-sportscaster-tv-host-miss-america-obituary-1202936639/
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Phyllis Ann George, the 50th winner of the iconic Miss America pageant, pioneering sportscaster, and former First Lady of Kentucky, died Friday, May 14, following a long struggle with a blood disorder. |
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Youth Coach
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Posted: 05/16/20 8:33 pm ::: |
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Little Fires Everywhere director Lynn Shelton has passed away from a blood disease according to reports. |
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Richard 77
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Posted: 05/16/20 9:18 pm ::: |
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Fred Willard
https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/fred-willard-best-in-show-actor-dead-obit-1000942/
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“A four-time Emmy nominee radiated a unique charm that established him as one of our generation’s most gifted comic actors,” Willard’s rep wrote in a tribute. “A master of sketch comedy, Fred was most heralded for his quick wit and improvisational expertise, which he demonstrated in hundreds of appearances on stage, on the big screen, and on a wide range of television shows.” |
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Wow. Three deaths I've just heard of.
I enjoyed Fred Willard's body of work. I especially liked that he was the only live actor to appear in Wall-E as the corporate head of Buy & Large._________________ If you cannot inspire yourself to read a book about women's basketball, or any book about women's sports, you cannot inspire any young girl or boy to write a book about them. http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/Richardstrek |
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pilight

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Posted: 05/17/20 8:32 am ::: |
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Astrid Kirchherr
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/16/arts/astrid-kirchherr-dead.html
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Astrid Kirchherr, the German photographer whose portraits of the Beatles when the musicians were a scruffy British bar band playing in Hamburg’s red-light district captured not only their toughness but also the sensitivity beneath their leather-clad exteriors, died on Tuesday in Hamburg, Germany. She was 81. |
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Shades
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Posted: 05/17/20 10:23 am ::: |
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I wonder if these celebs who are dying lately of the blood disorders were tested for coronavirus? Apparently the virus can cause problems with the blood too.
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Genero36

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Posted: 05/18/20 2:15 pm ::: |
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Ken Osmond, Who Played Leave It to Beaver's Eddie Haskell, Dead at 76
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“He was an incredibly kind and wonderful father. He had his family gathered around him when he passed,” his son, Eric, said in a statement. “He was loved and will be very missed.”
Osmond originated the role of smart-aleck-next-door Eddie on the CBS sitcom and played him for the show’s entire, six-season run. He later reprised the character in a TV movie (Still the Beaver), a sequel series (The New Leave It to Beaver) and a theatrical film (1997’s Leave It to Beaver), as well as on the short-lived TV shows Parker Lewis Can’t Lose and Hi Honey, I’m Home! |
https://tvline.com/2020/05/18/ken-osmond-dead-leave-it-to-beaver-eddie-haskell-obituary/
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pilight

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Posted: 05/22/20 9:49 am ::: |
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Jerry Sloan
https://www.sltrib.com/sports/jazz/2020/05/22/jerry-sloan-utah-jazzs/
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The late league commissioner David Stern once called Sloan “one of the greatest coaches in the history of the NBA.” |
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Genero36

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Posted: 05/22/20 9:56 am ::: |
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Oh shit. RIP.
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hyperetic

Joined: 11 Oct 2005 Posts: 5227 Location: Fayetteville
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cthskzfn

Joined: 21 Nov 2004 Posts: 12851 Location: In a world where a PSYCHOpath like Trump isn't potus.
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Richard 77
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jammerbirdi

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Posted: 05/27/20 9:27 am ::: |
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One of the all-time great jazz drummers, Jimmy Cobb. All time great rhythm sections with Paul Chambers on bass. Played on Kind of Blue and with Miles for years. With Wes Montgomery on the Smokin' at the Half Note album.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/arts/music/jimmy-cobb-dead.html?searchResultPosition=1
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Posted: 05/31/20 5:44 pm ::: |
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Christo -
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Christo, known for massive, ephemeral public arts projects died Sunday at his home in New York. He was 84. |
https://wsbt.com/entertainment/christo-artist-known-for-massive-fleeting-displays-dies
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pilight

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Posted: 05/31/20 5:58 pm ::: |
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Herb Stempel
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/herbert-stempel-dead.html
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Mr. Stempel might have become a forgotten man. Instead, he helped blow the cover off one of the major scandals of the age, telling the news media, prosecutors and congressional investigators that it was all a hoax. |
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Genero36

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Posted: 06/02/20 10:33 am ::: |
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Sleep peacefully.
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GlennMacGrady

Joined: 03 Jan 2005 Posts: 6428 Location: Heisenberg
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Posted: 06/02/20 8:22 pm ::: |
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A beast of a rebounder and pick setter, and perhaps the best outlet passer who ever played the game. He could grab a rebound and throw a full court strike outlet pass while still in the air.
One of the best games I've ever seen as a fan was when Columbia upset Wes Unseld's #2 ranked Louisville team, which also had Butch Beard, in the 1967 Holiday Festival at MSG. |
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Posted: 06/07/20 12:52 am ::: |
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Gymnast/olympian Kurt Thomas passed away.
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jammerbirdi

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Genero36

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Posted: 06/08/20 3:24 pm ::: |
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RIP to Bonnie Pointer. Her and June haven't had the cleanest of lives. May all the cause of that pain be at peace.
TRAGIC LOSS Pointer Sisters’ Bonnie Pointer ‘dead at 69’
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GRAMMY-winning Motown singer Bonnie Pointer, of The Pointer Sisters, has died at 69 years old.
Full name Patricia Eva "Bonnie" Pointer, she was a member of the R&B group in the ‘60s and ‘70s before venturing out on her own and building a solo singing career. |
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/11814644/pointer-sisters-bonnie-pointer-dead-69/
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https://youtu.be/Pt9OVvHM87o
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