RIP Thread... pile them up in here

Kirstie Alley, 71. Cancer

 

Something I learned today... the character Bob was a music teacher.

 

I was hanging in the waiting room at a medical facility waiting for my wife to get some x-rays done, and the TV was on a game show channel. They were showing old re-runs of Match Game, and by chance they had an episode where Kirstie Alley was a contestant back when she was at UCLA.

I knew the studios out there pulled in college kids (such as Sid and Marty Kroft using then-freshman Bill Laimbeer as a Sleestak on "Land Of The Lost"), but I didn't know Kirstie had done Match Game.

 

The original Lt Savick (one of my favorite roles by Kristie)

 

Mills Lane, Hall of Fame boxing referee, dies at age 85

 

He went back to his corner.

 

I only recently learned that Obie O'Brien passed away last year. Not the not-so-famous music producer associated with Bon Jovi, but the even less famous former magician.


It's a bummer for me because I took up sleight-of-hand during COVID, and he created a version of an ace production that is one of my favorite card tricks.

But the real reason why his loss should be significant to sports fans: he was an All-American hockey player in college, and he went on to become a college professor in mathematics and stayed involved with college and international hockey as an official and administrator.

He was the official scorekeeper for the "Do you believe in miracles?" USA vs Russia game in the 1980 Olympics.

 

Jim Stewart, founder of influential southern soul label Stax Records, has died aged 92.

As the founder of Stax, Stewart was responsible for signing and nurturing the careers of many of soul and R&B’s most influential figures, including Isaac Hayes, Otis Redding, Carla Thomas, Albert King and the Bar-Kays.

 

The original Lt Savick (one of my favorite roles by Kristie)

RIP I do remember her in that Role ....The Wrath of Khan......her First role.

 

Looks like Saavik was indeed her first real role. She had a bit part in one episode of a short-lived sci-fi show in 1978 (and wasn't even listed in the credits) and had a couple of game show appearances in 1979 and 1980 (winning $6000 on Match Game). And then out of nowhere she landed the role of Saavik.

 

George Newall, a Creator of ‘Schoolhouse Rock,’ Dies at 88
He was the last surviving member of the team that produced the educational cartoon for ABC-TV that informed Generation X.

 

Conjunction junction, George no longer functions.

 

Oh how I hope that I will but today I am still just a bill.

 

Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, ready or not, there he goes...

 

Dallas musician Jess Barr, one-time guitarist for Slobberbone, dies at 46

 

This one’s for any Ohio residents who have stopped at the Ï-71 Ashland exit. We have stopped nearly every time we pass Grandpa’s Cheese Barn since I was a kid.


ASHLAND, Ohio -- Paul “Dick” Baum, the “Grandpa” of Grandpa’s Cheesebarn in Ashland, passed away Thursday, Dec. 8, at age 93. He and his wife had just celebrated 73 years of marriage on Dec. 4.

A well-known stop along I-71 south of Cleveland, Grandpa’s Cheesebarn and Sweeties Chocolates were founded in 1978 by Richard and Ronda Poorbaugh, with help from Ronda’s dad, a.k.a. “Grandpa.”

 

Gary Friedkin, probably best known for playing Clarence the cook on "Happy Days", has passed away due to complications from COVID-19.

 

Whoa... just read that sports journalist Grant Wahl died while covering the World Cup in Qatar.

He's best known for soccer coverage (this was his eighth time working the World Cup), but he was also the writer behind the Sports Illustrated article that made then-high school junior LeBron James famous at the national level.

He reportedly lost consciousness late in the Argentina-Netherlands match on Friday, was taken out on a stretcher, and passed away either en route or shortly after arriving at a hospital.

 

yep, sad... he looked very young too.