Passages

[FrauBlucher]

Dick Enberg was in my top 3 all time favorite announcers. He was so smooth and never superfluous in his calls. It didn't matter what he was calling either. He will be missed.

[bearcuborg]

Nailed it...I completely agree.

For years, I’d eagerly get up like it was Christmas morning to hear him call Wimbledon...

[FrauBlucher]

bearcuborg, Enberg even did this.... Sports Challenge. This was a great show. Loved watching this as a kid.

[GaryC]

Peter Duffell

[vidussoni]

Oscar-winning editor Jerry Greenberg (The French Connection, Apocalypse Now)

[bearcuborg]

bearcuborg, Enberg even did this.... Sports Challenge. This was a great show. Loved watching this as a kid.

Thanks, I wasn’t aware of this! I’m also younger. My favorite sports show as a kid was Sportswriters on TV. I grew up in Chicago...

[Dylan]

Composer Dominic Frontiere, who is probably best remembered for his wonderful work on the 1960s Outer Limits television series. He was 86.

[Rayon Vert]

Bob Givens, creator of Bugs Bunny.

[bearcuborg]

Clifford Irving

[dwk]

Rose Marie

[rohmerin]

Franco's daughter is at her last hours and the Civil War has come back, twitter way.

Imagine Hitler's family or Stalin's or whoever, living in their own country they ruled.
Brown-nosed by part of society, Granted by a Dukedom by the King, Grandee of Spain, enjoying the wealth they accumulate during Franco's power, with Looted art, gifted Castles, billions of euros hidden, Bishops crying.

120.000 Republicans killed by Franco's are still TODAY under the land in the sideways of any roads.

That happens only in Spain.
Hija de la gran puta.

[Polybius]

Chevy Chase should do a cameo on the next available Weekend Update. It would make a nice bookend.

[rohmerin]

Famous image from newsreel when little Carmen wished Merry Xmas to German kids and she blessed all them (Legion Condor)
Now is official, the witch's dead.

[GaryC]

Heather Menzies

[Adam]

Dan Talbot
http://variety.com/2017/film/news/danie ... 202650123/
http://deadline.com/2017/12/daniel-talb ... 202233734/

[bearcuborg]

We all owe that man a debt of gratitude. Especially New Yorkers...

[Professor Wagstaff]

Sue Grafton

[flyonthewall2983]

CBS Sunday Morning's annual "Hail and Farewell"

[FrauBlucher]

Warner Archive retweeted Peggy Cummins passed. She was 92.

[Feego]

An official obit for Cummins.

[hearthesilence]

Rick Hall. Legendary owner and proprietor of FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, thus earning his title as "the Father of the Muscle Shoals Sound."

One that he produced and/or co-wrote.

[domino harvey]

Jerry Van Dyke -- I know this is at his expense, but this is still one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life

[hearthesilence]

I'm not really familiar with his work, but when skipping through channels one time, I caught a joke he delivered on Coach that's stuck with me ever since: "Chicken's like a steak - it's supposed to have a little pink in it."

[Big Ben]

Jerry Van Dyke -- I know this is at his expense, but this is still one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life

This is incredible.

[rohmerin]

France Gall, iconic French singer, Eurovision winner with Poupée de cire, poupée de son.