Okay, I think I got all the latest updates -- let me know if I missed anyone.
(Saying you/someone got one helps a lot as I can't check every name on every list )

Sorry I've been so M.I.A., but it's been a hell of a couple years w/ family stuff....

You owe me a Charlotte Rae. I want my Charlotte Rae..... I WANT MY CHARLOTTE RAE!!!

I didn't want you to get too far ahead of me, but fine...

If I may go back to Aretha for a moment. I read a story that she did NOT leave a will. Isn't that odd for someone with big money? Article said she was worth 80 million. Also said she had a special needs child (I assume an adult) who will need help the rest of his life. However, usually the assets are divided among the children first, so I don't think there'd be a problem. Yet I assume relatives could come out of the woodwork right? I'm just amazed that someone that wealthy didn't have a will.



TIS

Huh. I hadn't heard that, but apparently you're right! Very odd...!

Hi, TIS!

Robin Leach - RIP

Not really sure what Robin Leach did, but he was one of a kind.

Sen. John McCain dead at 81

Seemed like a truly decent man. R.I.P.

Many of the game's players had picked him for their lists.

There are only a handful of men that I place in the same category of honor, integrity, and courage with my father; John McCain is one of them.

Neil Simon, King of Comedy Playwrights, Dies at 91

(+1 SV)

We are losing the great ones.

Decades from now, I wonder who today's young people will consider their era's great ones.

Could you imagine.... it will probably be Bieber or Ditty....LoL.

We lost one of our truest patriots. RIP John McCain. I get the feeling Donald Trump is sleeping easier now.

Probably YouTube millionaires who film reaction videos and nerds who get rich by posting videos of themselves playing video games on YouTube.

Hollywood poster designer and painter Silvano Campeggi, one of the most important graphic artists in the history of American cinema, has died at the age of 95..

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lif...a29b720-31fd-450b-8559-57db3199d7cf.html

LMFAO

Ur f...ing right....I personally can't stand millenials ..they think they know it all when in fact they r destroying the planet w/ tech..name 1 fuckin' place u can call & talk 2 a human being....MAYBE ur barber??...if ur lucky...u call a brothel in Las Vegas & u have 2 press 3 for a blowjob, press 5 for missionary..well, u get the idea...U can't get a job unless u have computer...what if ur an athletic 70 yr. old who still can work @ all kinds of shit , but dont adhere 2 technology?? ...ur fuckin' left out in the cold...not 4 nuthin' but...I was the best line cook in the late 80's...do u see any cooks working the line past the age of 35??? ...NO.where do they go??? If u dont own ur own shit or r a major force in the establishment that you toiled in for yrs. to get there in first place,,U my chef/cook friend r shot...the ? is WHERE DO THEY ALL GO???...all my chef friends r either kings of someone else's castle or they have their own little joint...us in the mid age have 2 b very careful about the ever rotating door we choose..if ur still a line cook @ the age of 35..ur headed 4 a premature death sooner than u think...if ur over 180 LBS....u wont b able 2 quickly manuevever so quickly around the line & the younger dudes..therefor ,,,ur a has been..& believe u me,, line cooking is no joke..it's all sportsmanship.......I just realized I'm off topic & rambling...sorry,,I'll go back 2 my Blue Moon & lemon twist.

Boomers invented most of the tech we use today. Even the smart phone. Frank Canova at IBM, Steve Jobs... boomers.

I know Oak...just sayin'..I dont even own a cell phone aside from the 1 I keep in my car strictly 2 call AAA in case of emergency...but I cant stand the way tech has delayed our everyday living by recordings & such..ppl. ..especially youth dont even look @ each other on a date because they r staring @ their toys(phones) in a restaurant..or worse yet..@ a family function(Thanksgiving)...not 2 mention driving & texting..man that gets me going when I see that......Nuthin' like the 70s , 80s..when things were simple & straight..music also..music does not exist anymore.

Driving while doing that crap is a bunch of BS. I have seen a number of near accidents involving that, and a few accidents as well. You can't blame just the millennials, but seniors as well. I have seen elderly women involved in car accidents, one on her phone ignoring the red light that changed at an intersection, when North and South lanes started to go already. The other one not paying attention to a right away crossroad, and ran into a refrigeration van.

Guys, let's keep the way-off-topic banter here to a minimum in this thread.

Sorry SC...I didnt even realize it.

Hoodlum you say you can't stand Millennials, but then you write like one. It's hard word reading what you have typed..

Actress Jacqueline Pearce has died at age 74.



She was best known for appearances in two Hammer Films horror movies (The Reptile and The Plague of the Zombies), starring opposite Jerry Lewis in Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River, and especially for her role as the villainous Servalan in the British sci-fi series Blake's 7.

R.I.P.


Signor V.

Burt Reynolds Dead: Actor Sadly Dies At 82 After Going Into Cardiac Arrest

He was on 5 lists (not mine, of course)

He actually died five years ago but nobody had the heart to tell him. He had his face lifted so many times that the cleft in his chin used to be his belly-button.

Joking aside, he was funny back in the day but he became an asshole in the last twenty years.

I'm sorry to hear about Burt Reynolds. He was huge back in the 70s. I believe the top box office draw for a few years. Heck, I'm old enough to remember when myself and ladies from the office during our lunch break went looking for a copy of the Cosmopolitan, just to see the centerfold of Burt. Anyone remember that? We went to a couple different drugstores/stores and they sold out right away. We got to buy one at least. Ha ha. RIP I really haven't followed his career tho in a long time.



TIS

As you guys know I always watch a lot of westerns
And I also watched some of Burt movies he was a great actor
‏rest in peace

If anyone has the desire to see him bare of everything except his toupee , Burt's centerfold is probably posted loads of places on the Net.


Signor V.