[PeterAlan]

Rosalynn Carter

[pilowsky]

Henry Kissinger.
"The Doctor of my dreams" - Python M.
“Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.” - Lehrer T.

[Cyberyeti]

Shane McGowan

https://www.youtube....h?v=ym-Oz0TMSb0

when I saw them live, Shane was clearly drunk, and they kicked off with the Irish rover which was much too fast for him, he mumbled his way through every other word, they propped him up on his mike stand, fed him pints of orange juice and he gradually sobered up through the gig

[thepossum]

Cyberyeti, on 2023-November-30, 07:04, said:

Shane McGowan

https://www.youtube....h?v=ym-Oz0TMSb0

when I saw them live, Shane was clearly drunk, and they kicked off with the Irish rover which was much too fast for him, he mumbled his way through every other word, they propped him up on his mike stand, fed him pints of orange juice and he gradually sobered up through the gig

Giving their fans what they came to see

In many ways the Pogues were contemporary with my adult life. All 40 years of it

I even lived in London-Irish country for a while

People focus on the wrong things

[Cyberyeti]

thepossum, on 2023-December-01, 16:59, said:

Giving their fans what they came to see

In many ways the Pogues were contemporary with my adult life. All 40 years of it

I even lived in London-Irish country for a while

People focus on the wrong things

While I was a Pogues fan, it was them or The men they couldn't hang who were trying to make it big at the same time, and TMTCH were an awesome live band. The Pogues made it and TMTCH went back to busking after a few albums all on different labels. I also have fond memories of Shane's cameo appearance in Eat the rich.

[barmar]

Norman Lear

[Lovera]

barmar, on 2023-December-06, 12:06, said:

Norman Lear

A long and very varied career (just reading it leaves me breathless).

[kenberg]

barmar, on 2023-December-06, 12:06, said:

Norman Lear

A long life and a good life, I congratulate him.

I see that All In The Family lasted for nine seasons, and then Archie Bunker's Place for four more. I believe I saw the first four seasons which is a couple of seasons longer than I usually stick with a series. I think that it was well-conceived, well-written, well-cast, well-acted.

[pilowsky]

Ryan O'Neal - "I've got scruples too, you know"

[barmar]

kenberg, on 2023-December-08, 08:01, said:

A long life and a good life, I congratulate him.

I see that All In The Family lasted for nine seasons, and then Archie Bunker's Place for four more. I believe I saw the first four seasons which is a couple of seasons longer than I usually stick with a series. I think that it was well-conceived, well-written, well-cast, well-acted.

In 1976 he had 7 TV shows airing at the same time:

All in the Family
Sanford and Son
Maude
Good Times
The Jeggersons
One Day At a Time
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

5 of them were regularly in the top 10 of the ratings. That's got to be a record that will never be beaten (Chuck Lorre seems to be trying). Over his entire career he produced 26 TV series.

OTOH, his filmography is totally blank from 1999 to 2016 (he created a revamped "On Day At a Time" in 2017) -- what a slacker.

[Cyberyeti]

Melanie https://www.google.c...LrAdeMNuZw,st:0

[jillybean]

Alexia Navalny.

Murdered like so many before him.

[helene_t]

Frans de Waal, Dutch primatologist and popular science educator.

Quote

De Waal rose to fame in the 1980s with his book Chimpanzee Politics (1982). This book was based on his observations of the power struggle in the chimpanzee colony of Burgers Zoo in Arnhem. The book offers a radical new view of ape leadership: it is not brute force and the direct application of power, but rather the mediation of conflicts and careful management of alliances that characterize the life of an ape leader. The monkey world suddenly became very human. So humane that conservative Republican Senator Newt Gingrich recommended the book in the 1990s as educational reading for young members of Congress.

The above quote from https://improbable.c...e-waal-is-gone/

[Cyberyeti]

Steve Harley https://www.google.c...AoaVU3-ve0,st:0

[pilowsky]

Shigeichi Negishi. Aged 100. Winner of the IgNobel prize for the invention of Karaoke.
When presented with the award and asked "Why?", he explained that "Well, I just wanted to teach the world, to sing, in perfect..."

[barmar]

O.J. Simpson. Notorious for murdering his wife and getting away with it.

He also played a sport and did some acting before that, but the murder will forever be his legacy.

[mycroft]

Quote from elsewhere (h.t. angusm):

Quote

For the funeral, they should load the coffin into a white Bronco and drive it very slowly through the streets of LA, followed by half the LAPD.

It would be both dignified and appropriate.

[PassedOut]

barmar, on 2024-April-11, 10:22, said:

O.J. Simpson. Notorious for murdering his wife and getting away with it.

He also played a sport and did some acting before that, but the murder will forever be his legacy.

That whole bizarre episode was off-the-charts stupid. In the first place, why marry someone you could even conceivably want to murder in the future?

[barmar]

PassedOut, on 2024-April-11, 13:39, said:

That whole bizarre episode was off-the-charts stupid. In the first place, why marry someone you could even conceivably want to murder in the future?

OJ was an abusive husband to begin with. There's lots of speculation on the Internet about what triggered him to muder her after they were divorced. One said he was jealous of her dating, another said that it was because Nicole didn't save him a seat at their daughter's dance recital that day. But he was a violent man, and he apparently snapped.

If this was a L&O episode, I think they'd have come up with a wacky insanity defense.

[Winstonm]

barmar, on 2024-April-15, 14:45, said:

OJ was an abusive husband to begin with. There's lots of speculation on the Internet about what triggered him to muder her after they were divorced. One said he was jealous of her dating, another said that it was because Nicole didn't save him a seat at their daughter's dance recital that day. But he was a violent man, and he apparently snapped.

If this was a L&O episode, I think they'd have come up with a wacky insanity defense.

Vince Bugliosi wrote a scathing criticism of the prosecution headed by Marcia Clark.