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In this Sept. 17, 2019, file photo, R. Kelly appears during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago. The R&B star gained weight and lost money while he awaits a sex-trafficking trial that starts in earnest next week, his lawyers said Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021, at a court hearing. The revelations came as U.S. District Judge Ann M. Donnelly in New York made a series of rulings to narrow down what evidence can be shown to jurors. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune via AP, Pool, File)

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In this May 23, 2021, file photo, a home destroyed in the 2020 North Complex Fire sits above Lake Oroville, in Oroville, Calif. California officials say the drought gripping the U.S. West is so severe it could cause one of the state's most important reservoirs to reach historic lows by late August, closing most boat ramps and shutting down a hydroelectric power plant during the peak demand of the hottest part of the summer. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

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Pat Metheny - It Starts When We Disappear

 

Cardinal Black - Tell Me How It Feels

 

BETTY EVERETT ~ "THE SHOOP SHOOP SONG" 1964

 

The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

 

Gloria Estefan - Samba

 

Leon Bridges - Steam

 

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Delta Variant got me last weekend, which is one of the reasons I haven't been posting much.  

I blame ButtBiscuit.  and Phyllis.  always.

Tired, coughing, eyes ache, low grade fever and continually wishing "Rhoda" had been a better show than it was......

Don't have a CLUE how I got it.  I do all the grocery shopping etc. but I'm always masked and lately I've been gloving up too. 

Ick.  Stay well.  And do NOT be fooled by ButtBiscuit's "it's all for my Kchildren" bullshit.  Seriously, I blame him.

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Oh,  boes......poor baby.      😟

That sucks mightily.  I got the OG Covid back in Nov and it's still kicking my ass.  Listen to your body, rest and drink lots of fluids (I've learned wine helps). 

Also...keep blaming ButtBiscuit for everything.  That helps even more....

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41 minutes ago, boes said:

Delta Variant got me last weekend, which is one of the reasons I haven't been posting much.  

I blame ButtBiscuit.  and Phyllis.  always.

Tired, coughing, eyes ache, low grade fever and continually wishing "Rhoda" had been a better show than it was......

Don't have a CLUE how I got it.  I do all the grocery shopping etc. but I'm always masked and lately I've been gloving up too. 

Ick.  Stay well.  And do NOT be fooled by ButtBiscuit's "it's all for my Kchildren" bullshit.  Seriously, I blame him.

(((boes))) I hope you feel better soon.

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1 minute ago, OhioSongbird said:

OK........I called it a few weeks ago and today proves it.

Stitch kidnapped Mariah, will deliver the baby and somehow present it to Abby so he can be the hero.  Just wish the dude was a better actor.....

Anybody with me?

I didn't get to see today's show. Just news because of the situation in Afghanistan.

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Heavenly Father, grant aid to Your servant Boes and lead him though the Delta Variant's physical ailments which he is grieved. Bestow Your mercy, and restore him health and a complete recovery. You are the Physician of our souls and bodies, for You are the source of healing and to You we give praise, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Both now and forever, and to the ages of ages. Amen.

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8 hours ago, boes said:

Delta Variant got me last weekend, which is one of the reasons I haven't been posting much.  

I blame ButtBiscuit.  and Phyllis.  always.

Tired, coughing, eyes ache, low grade fever and continually wishing "Rhoda" had been a better show than it was......

Don't have a CLUE how I got it.  I do all the grocery shopping etc. but I'm always masked and lately I've been gloving up too. 

Ick.  Stay well.  And do NOT be fooled by ButtBiscuit's "it's all for my Kchildren" bullshit.  Seriously, I blame him.

Thinking of you, boes, and sending those patented Preverted healing vibes your way.  Thank gods you're vaxxed, so here's hoping that gets you through this quickly. 

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20 hours ago, boes said:

Delta Variant got me last weekend, which is one of the reasons I haven't been posting much.  

I blame ButtBiscuit.  and Phyllis.  always.

Tired, coughing, eyes ache, low grade fever and continually wishing "Rhoda" had been a better show than it was......

Don't have a CLUE how I got it.  I do all the grocery shopping etc. but I'm always masked and lately I've been gloving up too. 

Ick.  Stay well.  And do NOT be fooled by ButtBiscuit's "it's all for my Kchildren" bullshit.  Seriously, I blame him.

Oh, sweetie, I'm so sorry to hear this! I hope it gets no worse than what you're putting up with right now, and eases off quickly.

Toronto is just wilfully ignoring the possibility of the Delta Variant--public schools opening in September, and so on, with standard cases on the rise again. Such stupidity where people's lives are concerned.

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The Food and Drug Administration could grant the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine full approval Monday, The New York Times reported.

The move would make it the first Covid vaccine to go from emergency use authorization to full FDA approval.

The move may help persuade more people to get vaccinated and more businesses and schools to mandate vaccinations.

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Rachael Price ft Chris Thile - Can't Find My Way Home

 

St. Vincent - Controversy

 

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Olivia Vedder, Eddie Vedder, Glen Hansard - My Father's Daughter

 

Suzanne Vega - Toms Diner

 

The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet

 

Bill Haley and his Comets - Shake Rattle And Roll

 

The Psychedelic Furs - Wrong Train

 

Angels - Shaddow Boxer

 

Foo Fighters - Darling Nikki

 

Earth, Wind & Fire - September

 

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They Might Be Giants - I Can't Remember the Dream

 

Gene Vincent - Be-Bop-A-Lula

 

Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers - Get Lucky

 

Sturgill Simpson - The Ballad of Dood & Juanita

 

 

Townes Van Zandt - Pancho and Lefty. & Heartworn Highways

 

Lorde - Mood Ring

 

Kane Brown - One Mississippi

 

Aaliyah - If Your Girl Only Knew

 

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

 

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Don Everly of early rock ‘n’ roll Everly Brothers dies at 84

 Don Everly, one-half of the pioneering Everly Brothers whose harmonizing country rock hits impacted a generation of rock ‘n’ roll music, has died. He was 84.

Everly died at his home in Nashville, Tennessee, on Saturday, according to his attorney and family spokesperson Linda Edell Howard. His brother, Phil Everly, died in January 2014 at age 74.

“Don lived by what he felt in his heart,” a statement from the family said. “Don expressed his appreciation for the ability to live his dreams ... living in love with his soul mate and wife Adela, and sharing the music that made him an Everly Brother. Don always expressed how grateful he was for his fans.”

In the late 1950s and 1960s, the duo of Don and Phil drew upon their rural roots with their strummed guitars and high, yearning harmonies, while their poignant songs — many by the team of Felice and Boudleaux Bryant — embodied teenage restlessness and energy. Their 19 top 40 hits included “Bye Bye Love,” “Let It Be Me,” “All I Have to Do Is Dream” and “Wake Up Little Susie,” and performers from the Beatles to Simon & Garfunkel cited them as key influences.

In the late 1950s and 1960s, the duo of Don and Phil drew upon their rural roots with their strummed guitars and high, yearning harmonies, while their poignant songs — many by the team of Felice and Boudleaux Bryant — embodied teenage restlessness and energy. Their 19 top 40 hits included “Bye Bye Love,” “Let It Be Me,” “All I Have to Do Is Dream” and “Wake Up Little Susie,” and performers from the Beatles to Simon & Garfunkel cited them as key influences.

“The Everly Brothers are integral to the fabric of American music,” said Jerry Lee Lewis in a statement. “With my friend Don’s passing, I am reflective … reflective on a life full of wonderful friends, spectacular music and fond memories. There’s a lot I can say about Don, what he and Phil meant to me both as people and as musicians, but I am going to reflect today.”

Songs like “Bye Bye Love” and “Wake Up Little Susie” appealed to the postwar generation of baby boomers, and their deceptively simple harmonies hid greater meaning among the lighter pop fare of the era.

The two broke up amid quarreling in 1973 after 16 years of hits, then reunited in 1983, “sealing it with a hug,” Phil Everly said.

Although their number of hit records declined in the late 1980s, they had successful concert tours in the U.S. and Europe.

They were inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, the same year they had a hit pop-country record, “Born Yesterday.” Two years earlier, they had success with the up-tempo ballad “On the Wings of a Nightingale,” written by Paul McCartney.

“As a singer, a songwriter and a guitar innovator, Don Everly was one of the most talented and impactful artists in popular music history,” said Kyle Young, CEO of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, in a statement. The brothers were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001.

Don Everly was born in Brownie, Kentucky, to Ike and Margaret Everly, who were folk and country music singers. Phil Everly was born to the couple in Chicago, where the Everlys moved from Brownie when Ike grew tired of working in the coal mines.

The brothers began singing country music in 1945 on their family’s radio show in Shenandoah, Iowa.

Their career breakthrough came when they moved to Nashville in the mid-1950s and signed a recording contract with New York-based Cadence Records.

Their breakup came dramatically during a concert at Knott’s Berry Farm in California. Phil Everly threw his guitar down and walked off, prompting Don Everly to tell the crowd, “The Everly Brothers died 10 years ago.”

The disputes between the brothers even went to court, when Don Everly sued the heirs of Phil Everly in 2017 over the copyright to three of their songs, including “Cathy’s Clown.” The case went all the way to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.

But after Phil’s death in 2014, Don said that he felt a spiritual message from his brother before he died.

“Our love was and will always be deeper than any earthly differences we might have had,” Don Everly said in a statement in 2014.

While apart, they pursued solo singing careers with little success. Phil also appeared in the 1978 Clint Eastwood movie “Every Which Way but Loose.” Don made a couple of records with friends in Nashville, performed in local nightclubs and played guitar and sang background vocals on recording sessions.

Don Everly said in a 1986 Associated Press interview that he and his brother were successful because “we never followed trends. We did what we liked and followed our instincts. Rock ‘n’ roll did survive, and we were right about that. Country did survive, and we were right about that. You can mix the two, but people said we couldn’t.”

Decades later, their impact on popular music is still evident. In 2013, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones released a loving tribute to the Everlys on their collaborative album “Foreverly.”

-- Kristen Hall

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Jimi Hendrix - Nine To The Universe

 

The Vines - Gimme Love

 

Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks - Tune Grief

 

MAYAENI - Broken Glass

 

Silversun Pickups - Well Thought Out Twinkles

 

Switchfoot - Out Of Control

 

Young the Giant - My Body

 

AC/DC - Shoot To Thrill

 

Wizardz Of Oz Feat Joe Pringle - Bad Man

 

DIONNE BROMFIELD - Move a Little Faster

 

Bush - Red Light

 

JAMES GANG - Funk #49

 

TRENT REZNOR & ATTICUS ROSS - Hand Covers Bruise

 

Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris - We Found Love

 

Dead Kennedys - I Fought the Law

 

The Naked And Famous - Serenade

 

Grouplove - Spun

 

Icona Pop - Manners

 

Graffiti6 - Stone In My Heart

 

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Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies at age 80

Charlie Watts, the self-effacing and unshakeable Rolling Stones drummer who helped anchor one of rock’s greatest rhythm sections and used his “day job” to support his enduring love of jazz, has died, according to his publicist. He was 80.

Bernard Doherty said Tuesday that Watts “passed away peacefully in a London hospital earlier today surrounded by his family.”

“Charlie was a cherished husband, father and grandfather and also as a member of The Rolling Stones one of the greatest drummers of his generation,” Doherty said.

Watts had announced he would not tour with the Stones in 2021 because of an undefined health issue.

The quiet, elegantly dressed Watts was often ranked with Keith Moon, Ginger Baker and a handful of others as a premier rock drummer, respected worldwide for his muscular, swinging style as the Stones rose from their scruffy beginnings to international superstardom. He joined the band early in 1963 and remained over the next 60 years, ranked just behind Mick Jagger and Keith Richards as the group’s longest lasting and most essential member.

Watts stayed on, and largely held himself apart, through the drug abuse, creative clashes and ego wars that helped kill founding member Brian Jones, drove bassist Bill Wyman and Jones’ replacement Mick Taylor to quit and otherwise made being in the Stones the most exhausting of jobs.

A classic Stones song like “Brown Sugar” and “Start Me Up” often began with a hard guitar riff from Richards, with Watts following closely behind, and Wyman, as the bassist liked to say, “fattening the sound.” Watts’ speed, power and time keeping were never better showcased than during the concert documentary, “Shine a Light,” when director Martin Scorsese filmed “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” from where he drummed toward the back of the stage.

The Stones began, Watts said, “as white blokes from England playing Black American music” but quickly evolved their own distinctive sound. Watts was a jazz drummer in his early years and never lost his affinity for the music he first loved, heading his own jazz band and taking on numerous other side projects.

He had his eccentricities — Watts liked to collect cars even though he didn’t drive and would simply sit in them in his garage. But he was a steadying influence on stage and off as the Stones defied all expectations by rocking well into their 70s, decades longer than their old rivals the Beatles.

Watts didn’t care for flashy solos or attention of any kind, but with Wyman and Richards forged some of rock’s deepest grooves on “Honky Tonk Women,” “Brown Sugar” and other songs. The drummer adapted well to everything from the disco of “Miss You” to the jazzy “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” and the dreamy ballad "Moonlight Mile."

Jagger and Richards at times seemed to agree on little else besides their admiration of Watts, both as a man and a musician. Richards called Watts “the key” and often joked that their affinity was so strong that on stage he’d sometimes try to rattle Watts by suddenly changing the beat — only to have Watts change it right back.

He also had an impact on the Rolling Stones that extended beyond drumming. He worked with Jagger on the ever more spectacular stage designs for the group’s tours. He also provided illustrations for the back cover of the acclaimed 1967 album “Between the Buttons” and inadvertently gave the record its title. When he asked Stones manager Andrew Oldham what the album would be called, Oldham responded “Between the buttons,” meaning undecided. Watts thought that “Between the Buttons” was the actual name and included it in his artwork.

To the world, he was a rock star. But Watts often said that the actual experience was draining and unpleasant, and even frightening. “Girls chasing you down the street, screaming...horrible!... I hated it,” he told The Guardian newspaper in an interview. In another interview, he described the drumming life as a “cross between being an athlete and a total nervous wreck.”

Watts found refuge from the rock life, marrying Shirley Ann Shepherd in 1964 and having a daughter, Seraphina, soon after. While other famous rock marriages crumbled, theirs held. Jagger and Richards could only envy their bandmate’s indifference to stardom and relative contentment in his private life, which included happily tending horses on a rural estate in Devon, England.

Author Philip Norman, who has written extensively about the Rolling Stones, said Watts lived “in constant hope of being allowed to catch the next plane home.” On tour, he made a point of drawing each hotel room he stayed in, a way of marking time until he could return to his family. He said little about playing the same songs for more than 40 years as the Stones recycled their classics. But he did branch out far beyond “Satisfaction” and “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” by assembling and performing with jazz bands in the second half of his career.

Charles Robert Watts, son of a lorry driver and a housewife, was born in Neasden, London, on June 2, 1941. From childhood, he was passionate about music — jazz in particular. He fell in love with the drums after hearing Chico Hamilton and taught himself to play by listening to records by Johnny Dodds, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington and other jazz giants.

He worked for a London advertising firm after he attended Harrow Art College and played drums in his spare time. London was home to a blues and jazz revival in the early 1960s, with Jagger, Richards and Eric Clapton among the future superstars getting their start. Watts’ career took off after he played with Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated, for whom Jagger also performed, and was encouraged by Korner to join the Stones.

Watts wasn’t a rock music fan at first and remembered being guided by Richards and Brian Jones as he absorbed blues and rock records, notably the music of bluesman Jimmy Reed. He said the band could trace its roots to a brief period when he had lost his job and shared an apartment with Jagger and Richards because he could live there rent-free.

“Keith Richards taught me rock and roll,” Watts said. “We’d have nothing to do all day and we’d play these records over and over again. I learned to love Muddy Waters. Keith turned me on to how good Elvis Presley was, and I’d always hated Elvis up ’til then.”

Watts was the final man to join the Stones; the band had searched for months to find a permanent drummer and feared Watts was too accomplished for them. Richards recalled the band wanting him so badly to join that members cut down on expenses so they could afford to pay Watts a proper salary. Watts said he believed at first the band would be lucky to last a year.

“Every band I’d ever been in had lasted a week,” he said. “I always thought the Stones would last a week, then a fortnight, and then suddenly, it’s 30 years.”

For much of his career, Watts resisted the excesses of his bandmates, but he fell into heroin addiction in the mid-1980s. He would credit his stable relationship with his wife for getting him off drugs.

“I was warring with myself at that time,” he told Rolling Stone magazine.

With his financial future secure because of the Stones’ status as one of the world’s most popular live bands, Watts was able to indulge his passion for jazz by putting together some of the most talented musicians in Britain for a series of recordings and performances. They typically played during the long breaks between Stones tours.

His first jazz record, the 1986 “Live at Fulham Town Hall,” was recorded by the Charlie Watts Orchestra. Others by the Charlie Watts Quintet followed, and he expanded that group into the Charlie Watts and the Tentet.

Watts was an acclaimed jazz bandleader when he was stricken with throat cancer in 2004. He received extensive treatment and made a full recovery. His return to health allowed him to resume touring with both the Stones and his jazz band.

By then, the young man who had worn his brown hair down to his shoulders in the late 1960s had evolved into a craggy, white-haired, impeccably dressed senior statesman of rock. Getting Watts to talk about his place in rock history was almost impossible, but he seemed to enjoy talking about fashion. It was not unusual to see him attired in a custom-made suit and polka dot tie while his bandmates wore jeans and T-shirts.

In the tumultuous, extremely competitive world of rock and roll, Watts seemed to make few enemies.

“It all seems to boil down to a certain quality which is as rare as hen’s teeth in the music business, but which Charlie Watts is perceived to have in abundance. In a word, decency,” columnist Barbara Ellen wrote after interviewing Watts in 2000. “You’ve got to hand it to a...man who’s played with the world’s most influential rock ‘n’ roll band...and stayed happily married to his wife, Shirley....A man who, moreover, remains resolutely determined not to take his elevated position too seriously.”

-- Jill Lawless

 

Rock steady, Charlie.

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Hey boes.....

How you feelin'?

Thanks for asking, Ohiosongbird.  I'm feeling better today than I have in the past 10 days or so.  The worst has been this constant headache and eyeache, but both are less today.  Tired, too.  The strangest bit has been my sense of smell.  I swear everything smells like I stepped in something awful.  But all in all I it's been manageable.  Now that the headache is less and the eyes don't hurt so much, especially.

How about you?  Have you been feeling any better?  

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Glad to hear you're feeling a bit better. 

I was feeling decent the last few days but woke up in the middle of the night barfing and with a terrible stomach ache.  Didn't eat anything spicy or overeat (I eat like a bird) so who knows.  That happened to me last month, too.  Never lost my sense of smell/taste but my BIL did.  I still have the fatigue 10 mos later.  This stuff effects everyone differently.  Hubby had a mild case last fall but seems to be doing fine...thank God.  I don't know what we'd do if we both were down.

Hang in there, kid!

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My mother-in-law has long-term effects; sudden exhaustion, periodic headaches not helped by standard analgesics/with vertigo symptoms, unable to play tennis or a brisk walk for more than 20 minutes. little appetite. My in-laws moved to Oahu 10 months ago so she could recuperate from home recovery of Coronavirus, and they've chosen isolation in Hawaii during the resurgence of Delta/Delta+/Lambda/Epsilon outbreaks in southern California. 

Many post-Covid-19 patients we know have one or a variety of long-term symptoms. And insurance companies are being very stringent on treatments being covered post-Covid-19.

Mr. Stunt and I planned to vacation with them in September but Hawaii governor asks tourists to stay away as Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations hit record highs.

Another plague year shot to hell.

 

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Kenny Malone, prolific session drummer dies

Lauded drummer and studio musician Kenny Malone died today (Aug. 26) after being hospitalized earlier this week due to COVID-19. He was 83.

Born Aug. 4, 1938 and raised in Denver, Colorado, Malone served in the Navy band in Washington, D.C., eventually becoming head of the percussion department at the Armed Forces School of Music. He made the move to Tennessee in 1970 and quickly found success as a session musician.

Malone was known for his unique hand drumming technique that allowed for a special combination of sounds for his recordings. Spanning folk, country, and other genres with early sessions for John Prine (Sweet Revenge), Dolly Parton (Jolene), Waylon Jennings (Dreaming My Dreams), Ronnie Milsap (Night Things), Wanda Jackson (I’ll Still Love You), and Amy Grant (Amy Grant), among others.

Throughout his nearly 40 year career, Malone has been asked to record for an array of artists, including Carl Perkins, Ray Charles, George Jones, Janie Fricke, Johnny Cash, Don Williams, Dobie Gray, Donna Fargo, David Allen Coe, Merle Haggard, The Whites, Crystal Gayle, Charlie Pride, Moe Bandy, Floyd Cramer, Dr. Hook, Barbara Mandrell, Johnny Paycheck, Kenny Rogers, Michael Johnson, Dottie West, Lynn Anderson, John Hartford, New Grass Revival, Béla Fleck, Barefoot Jerry, B.J. Thomas, Bobby Bare, Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs, John Anderson, and Lacy J. Dalton.

Malone is thought to be one of most recorded drummers in Nashville history, although the complete list of his credits is unknown.

“He expanded the vocabulary of Nashville drumming, and was always an innovator who invented his own unique style of hand drumming, often combining sticks and brushes with hand percussion to create a unique sound and feel that left lots of space for other instruments and the vocals. He was well known for asking for a lyric sheet instead of a chord chart, and always put the song first in a way that was very special,” Dave Pomeroy, president of the AFM Local 257, says of the 51-year AFM 257 member.

Malone will be remembered by the Nashville music community for his influence on music and his joke-telling.

Funeral arrangements have not yet been announced.

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One of my favorite Brit coms!  Just watched the one I taped last nite on our local PBS station this morning.  Still had the original Rose in it.  Richard's a saint but Onslo is my guy.

I actually have answered the phone like that when I get a robo/scam/political/'I don't know who the fuck you are' calls.  Get some interesting reactions. 

Good times....                 😋

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16 minutes ago, OhioSongbird said:

One of my favorite Brit coms!  Just watched the one I taped last nite on our local PBS station this morning.  Still had the original Rose in it.  Richard's a saint but Onslo is my guy.

I actually have answered the phone like that when I get a robo/scam/political/'I don't know who the fuck you are' calls.  Get some interesting reactions. 

Good times....                 😋

I would pay good money to hear you do that!

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Ed Asner, TV’s blustery Lou Grant, dies at 91

Ed Asner, the burly and prolific character actor who became a star in middle age as the gruff but lovable newsman Lou Grant, first in the hit comedy “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and later in the drama “Lou Grant,” died Sunday. He was 91.

Asner’s representative confirmed the actor’s death in an email to The Associated Press. Asner’s official Twitter account included a note from his children: “We are sorry to say that our beloved patriarch passed away this morning peacefully. Words cannot express the sadness we feel. With a kiss on your head- Goodnight dad. We love you.”

Built like the football lineman he once was, the balding Asner was a journeyman actor in films and TV when he was hired in 1970 to play Lou Grant on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” For seven seasons he was the rumpled boss to Moore’s ebullient Mary Richards (He called her “Mary,” she called him “Mr. Grant”) at the fictional Minneapolis TV newsroom where both worked. Later, he would play the role for five years on “Lou Grant.”

Asner’s character had caught on from the first episode of “Mary Tyler Moore,” when he told Mary in their initial meeting, “You’ve got spunk. ... I hate spunk!” The inspired cast included Ted Knight as Ted Baxter, the dimwitted news anchor; Gavin MacLeod as Murray Slaughter, the sarcastic news writer; and Betty White as the manipulative, sex-obsessed home show hostess Sue Ann Nivens. Valerie Harper and Cloris Leachman, playing Mary’s neighbors, both saw their characters spun off into their own shows.

Asner is the third “Mary Tyler Moore” alum to die in recent months. Leachman died in January and MacLeod died in May.

The 99-year-old White is the lone surviving main cast member from “Mary Tyler Moore.”

“Mary Tyler Moore” was still a hit when the star decided to pursue other interests, and so it was brought to an end in the seventh season with a hilarious finale in which all of the principals were fired except for the bumbling Baxter.

Asner went immediately into “Lou Grant,” his character moving from Minneapolis to Los Angeles to become city editor of the Tribune, a crusading newspaper under the firm hand of Publisher Margaret Pynchon, memorably played by Nancy Marchand.

Asner won three best supporting actor Emmys on “Mary Tyler Moore” and two best actor awards on “Lou Grant.” He also won Emmys for his roles in the miniseries “Rich Man, Poor Man” (1975-1976) and “Roots” (1976-1977).

He had more than 300 acting credits and remained active throughout his 70s and 80s in a variety of film and TV roles. In 2003, he played Santa Claus in Will Ferrell’s hit film “Elf.” He was John Goodman’s father in the short-lived 2004 CBS comedy “Center of the Universe” and the voice of the elderly hero in the hit 2009 Pixar release, “Up.” More recently, he was in such TV series as “Forgive Me” and “Dead to Me.”

Nonetheless, Asner told The Associated Press in 2009 that interesting roles were hard to come by.

“I never get enough work,” he said. “It’s the history of my career. There just isn’t anything to turn down, let me put it that way.”

“I’d say most people are probably in that same boat, old people, and it’s a shame,” he said.

As Screen Actors Guild president, the liberal Asner was caught up in a political controversy in 1982 when he spoke out against U.S. involvement with repressive governments in Latin America. “Lou Grant” was canceled during the furor that followed and he did not run for a third SAG term in 1985.

“There have been few actors of Ed Asner’s prominence who risked their status to fight for social causes the way Ed did,” said actor Gabrielle Carteris, who is SAG-AFTRA’s president. She noted that his advocacy “did not stop with performers. He fought for victims of poverty, violence, war, and legal and social injustice, both in the United States and around the globe.”

Asner discussed his politicization in a 2002 interview, noting he had begun his career during the McCarthy era and for years had been afraid to speak out for fear of being blacklisted.

Then he saw a nun’s film depicting the cruelties inflicted by El Salvador’s government on that country’s citizens.

“I stepped out to complain about our country’s constant arming and fortifying of the military in El Salvador, who were oppressing their people,” he said.

Former SAG President Charlton Heston and others accused him of making un-American statements and of misusing his position as head of their actors union.

“We even had bomb threats at the time. I had armed guards,” Asner recalled.

The actor blamed the controversy for ending the five-year run of “Lou Grant,” although CBS insisted declining ratings were the reason the show was canceled.

Although the show had its light moments, its scripts touched on a variety of darker social issues that most series wouldn’t touch at the time, including alcoholism and homelessness. Asner remained politically active for the rest of his life and in 2017 published the book “The Grouchy Historian: An Old-Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right-Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs.”

Asner, born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1929, almost became a newsman in real life. He studied journalism at the University of Chicago until a professor told him there was little money to be made in the profession.

He quickly switched to drama, debuting as the martyred Thomas Becket in a campus production of T.S. Eliot’s “Murder in the Cathedral.”

He eventually dropped out of school, going to work as a taxi driver and other jobs before being drafted in 1951. He served with the Army Signal Corps in France.

Returning to Chicago after military service, he appeared at the Playwrights Theatre Club and Second City, the famed satire troupe that launched the careers of dozens of top comedians.

Later, in New York, he joined the long-running “The Threepenny Opera” and appeared opposite Jack Lemmon in “Face of a Hero.”

Arriving in Hollywood in 1961 for an episode of television’s “Naked City,” Asner decided to stay and appeared in numerous movies and TV shows, including the film “El Dorado,” opposite John Wayne; and the Elvis Presley vehicles “Kid Galahad” and “Change of Habit.” He was a regular in the 1960s political drama series “Slattery’s People.”

He was married twice, to Nancy Lou Sykes and Cindy Gilmore, and had four children, Matthew, Liza, Kate and Charles.

- Marcela Isaza

 

 

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The 99-year-old White is the lone surviving main cast member from “Mary Tyler Moore.”

Not True. John Amos is still alive.

 

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1 hour ago, SweePea59 said:

Not True. John Amos is still alive.

Weathermen don't get any respect, even though that is often the reason we consistently watch the News.  Amos was the baby of the cast and is only 81.5 now.

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49 minutes ago, deirdra said:

Weathermen don't get any respect, even though that is often the reason we consistently watch the News.  Amos was the baby of the cast and is only 81.5 now.

I remember when he quit Good Times. The whole J.J. eating the show and IMO, ruining it. I liked it before it became all Dyn-O-mite, all the time.

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Just watching today's ep and Devon just said "There's no one would have been able to predict that Stitch would do something that damn crazy...."

Hello......over here! (jumping up and down--waving arms).  I did weeks ago.

Nobody on that damn show ever listens to me.....

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41 minutes ago, OhioSongbird said:

Just watching today's ep and Devon just said "There's no one would have been able to predict that Stitch would do something that damn crazy...."

Hello......over here! (jumping up and down--waving arms).  I did weeks ago.

Nobody on that damn show ever listens to me.....

Many of us have been paying attention to your prophesies. 

You are our Cassandra, Ohio.

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