Oscar winning writer Frank Pierson. age 87
Dog Day Afternoon and Cool Hand Luke.
He wrote the famous line "What we have here is failure to communicate."
Also wrote Cat Ballou. And wrote and directed A Star is Born.
Thank you Mr. Pierson for a line I have used for over forty years.
Here's another good line from Cool Hand Luke.
"I'm shaking it, boss. I'm shaking it"!
Chad Everett dide of lung cancer. He was 75. He was quite a heart throb when I was in school although I never cared for him.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20614685,00.html
Everett grew up in Dearborn, Michigan which is just a few short miles from where I live now. Used to watch Medical Center all the time. His wife, Shelby Grant, was an up and coming actress when they married. I remember her as one of Derek Flints girls in Our Man Flint back in 66. Didn't know that she to, passed away last year. RIP to both Chad and Shelby.
Just saw the headline that Andy Griffith has died at 86.
RIP Don. You were one of the kids my generation grew up with. I just saw Barry Livingston, who played Ernie, recently on an episode of CSI Miami. Never see his brother, Stan, who played Chip and I believe Tim Considine, who played the oldest brother, Mike, is out of show business and writes these days. And did you know, that the late actress, Lani O'Grady, who played one of the daughters on Eight Is Enough, was Don Gradys sister.
He was so good as Sam Drucker on Green Acres (142 episodes) and Petticoat Junction (165 episodes) as well as guest appearances on The Beverly Hillibillies (10 episodes). Thought he was the best general store manager in the world. And though we haven't seen him in over 22 years, just knowing that he now gone, he will be missed.
Not to mention that he played Doc, Ozzie and Harriets family doctor on their show for a number of years.
Singer Bob Welch, who was with Fleetwood Mac at one time before going solo died from suicide at 65. In his solo career, he had the songs Sentimental Lady and Ebony Eyes.
Oddly enough, Joostens character on Desperate Housewives also died of cancer in the last show of the series.
Robin Gibb has a wakened from his coma.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17798956
But what that article didn't say was that Robin Gibb now has colorectal cancer and it's not good.
Rest in Peace to all of them. Also, one of the Gibbs is in a Coma last I heard and isnt looking good for him
Yeah, Karl, that's Robin Gibb. He's been ill for some time. Suffering from liver cancer, I think. Then he got pneumonia just recently before going comatose. His twin brother, Maurice, passed away a few years ago from cancer. And their younger brother Andy died yrs ago, drug overdose, I believe. With that, looks like only the oldest brother, Barry will be left.
Levon Helm, a great talent, now gone. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down is one of my favorite songs of all time. And the way Helm sang that song with that raw powerful voice is what made it a great song. I used to like the Joan Baez version until I heard Helm sing it. Did a helluva job on Cripple Creek, too. RIP, Levon. You will be missed.
Yes, 93 is definitely up there. My wifes mother just passed away nearly a month ago at 94. When you think about it, can you imagine all the history they lived through and saw? They were born on the back edge of WW1, they were kids during Prohibition, teenagers during the Great Depression, young adults during WW2, raised families during the Cold War. They lived through some of the most historical times ever. They were the greatest generation.
Artist Thomas Kinkade has died at 54. Always liked looking at his work. Always had that nice homey feel to them.
Jerome Courtland, 85, best known as Andy Burnett on Disney's short-lived TV series and in several westerns opposite Glenn Ford, Randolph Scott and George Montgomery, died March 1 in California.
I've always liked Courtlands character of Abner in Battleground. Always saying, "that's fer sure, that's fer dang sure" or when he was trying to find some winter boots to fit his oversize feet, he called them, "them thar gooloshes" instead of galoshes.
Yeah, I saw that program about the Sherman Brothers about a year ago and thought it was quite good. All those great songs they wrote for Disney, and yet, before that they wrote two very well known rock n roll songs from the 50's, Tall Paul and You're Sixteen. Very talented pair.
Former baseball player Gary Carter has died at 57 after fighting brain cancer for the last few years. He played for the old Montreal Expos and NY Mets during a stellar career. Won himself a World Series with the Mets back in either 86 or 87, can't remember which year. RIP Gary.
Singer-actress Whitney Houston has died of an undisclosed cause at 48. For the last bunch of years she had fought drug abuse, plus her tumulrtous marriage to singer Bobby Brown. Great voice now silenced.
Always liked Brecks style. Always the rugged, no holds barred type. First time I remember seeing him was in his first tv series, Black Saddle, where he played a gunfighter turned lawyer.
I can remember one Kotter show when Epstein brought a note from home to get him out of doing something and he signed it, Epsteins mother.
Display MoreLOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Dolores Hope, the widow of actor-comedian Bob Hope, died of natural causes at her Los Angeles home Monday, her family said. She was 102.
Although she put her singing career on hold after her marriage to Hope, Dolores Hope was active as a philanthropist, involved in her own causes as well as her husband's.
Military troops entertained by her husband's USO shows knew Dolores Hope because she would usually close the shows with a rendition of "Silent Night," according to a biography provided by her family.
Her last USO show performance came at age 84 when she sang "White Christmas" to Operation Desert Storm troops from the back of a truck in the Saudi desert.
She restarted her singing career at the age of 83 by recording several albums. She performed with Rosemary Clooney at Rainbow and Stars in New York for several weeks.
Born in Harlem in New York on May 27, 1909, Dolores DeFina was a singer at Manhattan's Vogue Club when she met Bob Hope in 1933. It was "love at first song," the biography quotes Bob Hope saying.
The couple married the next year and later adopted four children.
The couple moved from New York to California in the late 1930s, where he pursued a movie and radio career.
Bob Hope was 100 when he died on July 27, 2003.
The family will hold a private funeral at burial at the Bob Hope Memorial Garden, San Fernando Mission, California, where her husband was interred.
Alamo221, hate to tell you buddy, but Delores Hope passed away back in September.
Rest in Peace James. I remember when you came to Kingsville, Texas with some others from that movie: The Final Countdown-for the World Premier being held there.
I've always been a fan of that movie. To me it's probably the best "what if" movie ever made.
