The RIP Famous Person Thread

[Latindancer]

[Sumbitch]

Self-help guru Wayne W. Dyer dies at 75

Am I the only one who found this to be a bit ironic?

Hell no:

[Latindancer]

The only Japanese American to fly over Japan during World War II, has died. He was 98.

This is an interesting piece of news and quite a milestone, particularly since the guy lived to be 98.

Just because YOU haven't heard of him, Cujo, does not mean that he was not famous. In my mind this is half what this thread is about : discovering that people who were famous elsewhere outside our own parochial little worlds have died, and learning a bit about their often extraordinary lives.

If you can't see this you have a problem. This thread is not all about YOU.
You are trying to impose your narrow view of things too strongly here and are coming across as an idiot and forum nazi.

[harrybarracuda]

Cujo the tosser will have a shit fit. Another famous person of which he's never heard. But Cujo is very important and must tell us who is famous.

Martin Milner, Star Of 'Adam-12' And 'Route 66,' Dies At 83
SEPTEMBER 07, 2015 3:59 PM ET



Actor Martin Milner, whose work as Officer Pete Malloy introduced generations of Americans to a tough and honorable policeman on Adam-12, died on Sunday. Milner, who was 83, died at home in Carlsbad, Calif.

Word of Milner's death came out Monday, via a fan page on Facebook. His former co-star on Adam-12, Kent McCord, then confirmed to the AP that the actor had died.

"I had a long, long friendship with Marty and we remained friends up till the end," McCord tells the news agency. "He was one of the really true great people of our industry with a long, distinguished career ... Wonderful films, wonderful television shows, pioneering shows like Route 66. He was one of the great guys. I was lucky to have him in my life."

Born in 1931 in Detroit, Milner grew up in Seattle and Los Angeles, where he studied theater at the University of Southern California before his acting career took off.

In 1949, Milner had a minor role in the John Wayne film Sands of Iwo Jima. He went on to other notable roles in the 1950s, acting in 1955's Mister Roberts, with Henry Fonda, and 1959's Compulsion, with Orson Welles. In 1957, he appeared in both Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and Sweet Smell of Success. In 1967, he appeared in Valley of the Dolls.

But one of the most fateful acting jobs Milner had came in 1950, when he met Jack Webb on the set of Halls of Montezuma. At the time, Webb was in the second year of making his Dragnet radio series — and just two years away from turning the show into a TV series. He went on to create Adam-12 in 1968.

In 1960, Milner became a household face after Route 66 debuted, telling the itinerant stories of Tod Stiles, a once-wealthy young man who drove around America in his Corvette along with his friend Buz Murdock (George Maharis). It was famously filmed on-location.

"We never saw the schedule," Maharis told NPR in 2012. "It was week-to-week. We didn't know where we were going and sometimes we wouldn't know what the script was until two days before shooting."

Route 66 ran for more than 115 episodes; Milner followed it up with Adam-12, which ran from 1968-75. In it, he played Malloy, the veteran cop who was partnered with rookie officer Jim Reed (McCord).

On Monday, Milner's death brought the notice of the current chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. In a tweet, Charlie Beck wrote:

"Adam 12 and Martin Milner embodied the spirit of the LAPD to millions of viewers. His depiction of a professional and tough yet compassionate cop led to thousands of men and women applying to become LAPD officer, including me. Godspeed Martin, you will live forever in our hearts."

In the later phase of his career, Milner went on to guest-star on numerous TV shows. Starting in 1993, Milner, an avid fisherman, began co-hosting a syndicated radio talk show about fishing, called Let's Talk Hook-Up. He stayed with the program for about a decade.

Milner is survived by three of his four children — Molly, Stuart, and Andrew — and by his wife, Judy Jones. A fourth child, Amy, died of leukemia in 2004.

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[Storekeeper]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/ar...=fb-share&_r=0

Judy Carne, a sprightly British actress and comedian who rocketed to pop culture fame as the “sock it to me” girl on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,” a landmark of television zaniness, before her career was derailed by drug arrests and a near-fatal automobile accident, died on Thursday in Northampton, England. She was 76.

The probable cause was pneumonia, said a friend, Jon Barrett, who said Ms. Carne had been in the hospital for several days and that the official death certificate was not yet available.

After starting her career in England and building a résumé of appearances onstage, on television and in movies, Ms. Carne moved to the United States, where her first television role was as an exchange student in the sitcom “Fair Exchange.” She also became the first wife of a later-to-be movie star, Burt Reynolds.

She made guest appearances on westerns including “Bonanza” and “Gunsmoke,” dramas like “12 O’Clock High” and comedies including “Gidget” and “The Patty Duke Show” before landing a starring role in a “Love on a Rooftop,” a romantic comedy set in San Francisco about a young woman from a wealthy family who has disappointed her father by marrying a struggling young architect played by Peter Deuel (later known as Pete Duel).

Ms. Carne became widely known on “Laugh-In,” an ensemble comedy show composed of brief bits of slapstick antics and verbal nonsense tumbling over one another in furious succession. It ran on NBC from 1968 to 1973.

Often racy in content — well, racy for the time — the show featured attractive women (Ms. Carne and Goldie Hawn among them) in miniskirts and other revealing costumes and jokes about sex, drugs and politics that tested network censors. It was enormously popular, in part because of Ms. Carne and the running gag that became a national meme.

Slender but shapely, with a pixieish haircut and a gamely irrepressible manner, she would appear before the camera and declare, in one variation or another, “It’s sock-it-to-me time,” and she would be subsequently doused with water or she’d vanish through a trap door in the floor or have some other indignity visited on her.

The phrase “sock it to me,” evidently seized by the show’s writers from a chant in Aretha Franklin’s recording of the Otis Redding song “Respect,” became cool, hip enough lingo that celebrity guests appeared on “Laugh-In” in cameo bits to utter it, including, most famously, Richard Nixon, less than two months before he was elected president in 1968.

Ms. Carne was trained in dance and theater and reportedly took the name Judy at the suggestion of a teacher. The name Carne came from a character in a play by the English playwright Charlotte Hastings. She was born Joyce Audrey Botterill in Northampton on April 27, 1939. Her parents were greengrocers.

Ms. Carne left “Laugh-In” in 1970. The sock-it-to-me label had become trying to live with, she said; people would douse her with water on the street.

That year she starred in a Broadway revival of the musical “The Boy Friend,” but her life began spiraling out of control as a drug habit grew worse. She was arrested several times, and as a result she wasn’t being cast as readily as she had been, and her nightclub bookings dried up.

She and Mr. Reynolds divorced in 1965, and in her 1985 autobiography, “Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside,” written with Bob Merrill, she wrote that Mr. Reynolds was abusive.

In the memoir she confessed to myriad love affairs with name brand actors and others, and she acknowledged her drug abuse, including an addiction to heroin. A second marriage, to Robert Bergmann (sometimes spelled Bergman) in 1970, lasted less than a year, though he figured importantly later in her life. She leaves no immediate survivors.

Mr. Barrett said he met Ms. Carne when she returned to England after the 1978 automobile accident, settling in Pitsford, near Northampton. He was a hairdresser and she came in to have her hair cut, he said. Ms. Carne was popular with her neighbors and performed occasionally in cabaret and dinner theater, he said, but she was frail and remained so. “She was a bit of a recluse toward the end,” Mr. Barrett said.

The accident came about after she began spending time again with her former husband Mr. Bergmann. He was behind the wheel when their car went off the road in Bucks County, Pa., and she broke her neck.

“I lost sight of myself in the last few years,” she told People magazine during her recuperation. “My whole life has been extremes. It took me near death to see the light at the end of the tunnel.”

She added: “I guess this is the ultimate sock-it-to-me.”

[harrybarracuda]

a struggling young architect played by Peter Deuel (later known as Pete Duel)

Strange that, he had a stellar career but blew his brains out.

[harrybarracuda]

'Marmaduke' comic strip creator Brad Anderson dies at 91



The Associated Press
Published Tuesday, September 8, 2015 2:07PM EDT
MONTGOMERY, Texas -- Brad Anderson, creator of the "Marmaduke" cartoon strip that for more than 60 years featured the antics of a lovable Great Dane, has died.
A statement Tuesday from Universal Uclick, which syndicated the comic strip, says Anderson died Aug. 30. He was 91.
Universal Uclick spokeswoman Julie Halper didn't immediately provide additional details on the death of Anderson, who lived in Montgomery, Texas, near Houston.
Anderson was born in Jamestown, New York, in 1924. The Universal Uclick website says Anderson's interest in cartooning dated to his childhood, when he drew popular cartoon characters to amuse himself.
He graduated from Syracuse University and did freelance work for magazines before creating "Marmaduke" in 1954.
Anderson's son, Paul, assisted him in later years on the popular comic strip.

[barrylad66]

R.I.P bryn merrick. bass player from the damned and a local good bloke from my town..

[can123]

R.I.P bryn merrick. bass player from the damned and a local good bloke from my town..

Most hated team in the world - Barry Town AFC. Obvious where I am from, isn't it ? Still, pity about him dying so young, very sad.

[palexxxx]

R.I.P bryn merrick. bass player from the damned and a local good bloke from my town..

Not only is he not famous, but I've never heard of the band either.

[can123]

Not only is he not famous, but I've never heard of the band either.

They have never heard of you either but they will speak kindly of you when you have croaked, I am sure.

[kmart]

R.I.P bryn merrick. bass player from the damned and a local good bloke from my town..

Not only is he not famous, but I've never heard of the band either.

You deserve a red just for not knowing The Damned.

[barrylad66]

R.I.P bryn merrick. bass player from the damned and a local good bloke from my town..

Most hated team in the world - Barry Town AFC. Obvious where I am from, isn't it ? Still, pity about him dying so young, very sad.

a jack bastard i quess

[barrylad66]

R.I.P bryn merrick. bass player from the damned and a local good bloke from my town..

Not only is he not famous, but I've never heard of the band either.

You deserve a red just for not knowing The Damned.

your most kind....

[harrybarracuda]

William Becker, Who Transformed Janus Films, Dies at 88
By SAM ROBERTSSEPT. 13, 2015



William Becker, a theater critic and financier who acquired Janus Films with a partner in 1965, expanded its catalog of art-house and Hollywood classics and broadened their distribution to university audiences and home viewers on DVD, died on Saturday at his country home in Southampton, N.Y., on Long Island. He was 88.

The cause was complications of kidney failure, his daughter, Alison Price Becker, said.

Janus’s founders said that the company’s two-faced logo symbolized art and commerce, and nobody embodied that duality more than Mr. Becker, a culturally minded businessman, Rhodes scholar and intimate of auteurs and writers who was driven as much by a passion for film as an art form as by making money.

Founded in the mid-1950s by two former Harvard students, Janus originally prospered by exposing American filmgoers to the avant-garde work of groundbreaking but largely unfamiliar post-World War II European and Japanese directors, including Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, François Truffaut, Luis Buñuel, Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu, Robert Bresson and Kenji Mizoguchi.

After acquiring the company, Mr. Becker and Saul J. Turell, a documentary producer and television pioneer, secured the rights to a vast trove of international films, including Jean Renoir’s “Grand Illusion” and Sergei Eisenstein’s “Battleship Potemkin,” as well as vanguard American works like Orson Welles’s “Citizen Kane” and the original “King Kong.”

They transformed Janus from a financially shaky boutique company to one that is still flourishing today by distributing its films in all forms, from celluloid to streaming on the Internet.

In 2006, when the company celebrated its first half-century by releasing a DVD boxed set titled “Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films,” the critic Dave Kehr, writing in The New York Times, likened the collection to the 50-volume set of the world’s great literature selected a century earlier by Charles William Eliot, the president of Harvard.

“Janus Films does not have quite the clout of Harvard,” Mr. Kehr wrote, “but it says a lot about the central role Janus has played in American film culture that the selections made by a modestly staffed for-profit distribution house have come to assume almost as much canonical authority as Mr. Eliot’s choices.”

Arthur William John Becker III was born in St. Louis on May 23, 1927, to Arthur Becker Jr., an engineer and president of a fuel oil company, and the former Margaret Heath.

He entered Washington University in St. Louis when he was 15 and, as a precocious teenager already open to radical culture, began corresponding with the renegade writer Henry Miller. He attended Duke, graduated from Harvard in 1948 and earned a doctorate at Wadham College at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, writing his thesis on the poet William Butler Yeats.

After serving in the Navy on Guam, he was a drama critic for the literary journal The Hudson Review in the early 1950s and a partner of Roger L. Stevens, the Broadway producer and real estate mogul who once owned the Empire State Building and who helped Mr. Becker buy Playbill, the theater magazine.

Mr. Becker and Mr. Turell, who was acquiring films for what became the Walter Reade Organization, bought Janus from its original owners, Cyrus Harvey Jr. and Bryant Haliday, two actors who capitalized on the post-World War II popularity of foreign films by programming art films at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, Mass.

They expanded to the 55th Street Playhouse in Manhattan in 1953 and three years later founded Janus, with its distinctive logo depicting the two-faced ancient Roman god of new beginnings (the company also had two heads).

In 1957, after screening two films by an obscure Italian director named Fellini, they scored their first breakthrough hit with Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal,” a medieval fantasy that unfolds against a plague epidemic and features a chess duel between a knight (Max von Sydow) and the personification of Death (Bengt Ekerot).

By the early 1960s, though, Janus had become a victim both of tepid reviews for foreign films from mainstream critics and of its own early success, as major studios started luring directors from abroad. The owners were approached by old friends from the Harvard Veterans Theater Workshop, including Mr. Becker, who had just returned from Oxford.

“I was looking for a job where I could have one foot in the money world and one foot in the theater,” Mr. Becker recalled in a 2006 interview with the film historian Peter Cowie.

During the 1960s and ‘70s, the new owners vastly expanded Janus’s library of 30 films, forging relationships with foreign distributors and acquiring rights to experimental works and to a repertoire of classics that could be combined in recurring festivals as a new generation embraced film as an art form.

Mr. Becker’s talents embodied the Janus logo’s twin goals — for example, when he negotiated with the French filmmaker Jacques Tati, who was over budget on a film and had gone into bankruptcy and lost all his titles to his lenders.

“We put up the final $25,000 that enabled him to get control of his films back from the banks,” Mr. Becker said.

Janus capitalized on an art-house revival, the growth in college enrollment and proliferation of university film courses, and a growing market in home video by releasing its collection on laser disc, and later on DVD, with commentaries and other supplemental features, joining forces with Voyager, which evolved into the Criterion Collection, and eventually expanding into cable television and online videos.

“Nothing beats seeing a new generation of audiences get blown away by a Bergman or a Fellini, a Renoir or a Truffaut,” Mr. Becker said.

He slowly eased his way out of the business as his son Peter became president of Criterion. Mr. Turell’s son Jonathan became managing director of Janus and chief executive officer of Criterion.

In addition to his daughter, a restaurateur and product development consultant, and his son Peter, Mr. Becker is survived by his wife, the choreographer Patricia Birch; another son, Jonathan, a photographer; a sister, Jane Daniel; and six grandchildren.

His circle of friends was composed primarily of writers, many from The Paris Review, including his Harvard classmate George Plimpton. He and his wife lived in a Greenwich Village loft formerly occupied by the poet Allen Ginsberg, whom Mr. Becker met through a childhood friend, Lucien Carr, a member of Ginsberg’s Beat Generation circle.

Jonathan Becker said his father brought “an academic’s discipline and discernment and a financier’s initiative” to the movie world, and an antenna for auteurs whose works animated others.

“George Lucas volunteered to me,” Jonathan Becker recalled, “‘None of us might have been inspired had it not been for the Janus films at our schools.’”

[Boon Mee]

Gary Richrath, founding member of REO Speedwagon died last Sunday. He was only 65.

Reo Speedwagon - Little Queenie



Great tune.

RIP, Gary...

[palexxxx]

^ Of course it's a great tune, written by a master, Chuck Berry.

[Scottish Gary]

R.I.P bryn merrick. bass player from the damned and a local good bloke from my town..

Not only is he not famous, but I've never heard of the band either.

You deserve a red just for not knowing The Damned.

The Damned were a great band but I must admit ive never heard of Bryn Merrick.

[harrybarracuda]

Novelist Jackie Collins dies aged 77



The novelist Jackie Collins has died of breast cancer at the age of 77, her family said in a statement.
"It is with tremendous sadness that we announce the death of our beautiful, dynamic and one-of-a-kind mother," the statement said.
The British-born writer, sister of actress Joan Collins, died in Los Angeles, her spokeswoman said.
Collins's career spanned four decades and she sold more than 500 million books in 40 countries.
The family statement said the writer lived "a wonderfully full life", adored by family, friends and readers.
"She was a true inspiration, a trailblazer for women in fiction and a creative force. She will live on through her characters but we already miss her beyond words," it added.
Collins was diagnosed with stage-four breast cancer six-and-a-half years ago, according to US celebrity magazine People.
Scandalous bestseller
Her sister Joan, 82, told People magazine she was "completely devastated".
"She was my best friend. I admire how she handled this. She was a wonderful, brave and a beautiful person and I love her," she said.
Jackie Collins began writing as a teenager, making up racy stories for her schoolfriends, according to a biography on her website.
Her first novel, The World is Full of Married Men, was published in 1968 and became a scandalous bestseller. It was banned in Australia and branded "disgusting" by romance writer Barbara Cartland.
In 1985, her novel Hollywood Wives was made into a mini-series by ABC, starring Anthony Hopkins and Candice Bergen.
In a 2011 interview with the Associated Press, Collins said that she "never felt bashful writing about sex".
"I think I've helped people's sex lives," she said.
"Sex is a driving force in the world so I don't think it's unusual that I write about sex. I try to make it erotic, too."

[bobo746]

Todd Ewen, Former NHL Star and Stanley Cup Winner, Dead in Apparent Suicide

Former NHL star Todd Ewen died this past weekend, the St. Louis Blues confirmed via Twitter on Saturday. The following day, police confirmed Ewen's death was from an apparent suicide. He was 49.
“We’re sad to learn of the passing of former Blue Todd Ewen today,” the Blues tweeted on Saturday, Sept. 19. “Our thoughts are with the Ewen family at this time.”
The late hockey enforcer skyrocketed to NHL fame when he played more than 500-plus games in the 1980s and '90s. According to CTV Calgary reporter Amanda Singroy, police have ruled Ewen's death as a suicide.
"We've learned former #nhl enforcer Todd Ewen appears to have died of self-inflicted gunshot wound to head @CTVNews," Singroy tweeted on Sept. 20.

[misskit]

Jack Larson, Jimmy Olsen on First Superman TV Show, Dies at 87



Typecast after the series ended in the late 1950s, the actor turned to writing plays and librettos and produced several James Bridges films.

Jack Larson, forever typecast as the overeager cub reporter Jimmy Olsen on the 1950s television series Adventures of Superman, has died. He was 87.

Larson, who later produced several films written and/or directed by his longtime companion, the late Oscar nominee James Bridges, died Sunday at his home in Brentwood, The New York Times reported. Further details of his death were not immediately available.

In 1951, Larson signed up to play the hapless Olsen for $250 an episode on Adventures of Superman, the first TV show to feature the Man of Steel from the comics. At the time, he wanted to go to New York to tackle Broadway and didn’t think the series — then one of the few to be filmed, not done live — would amount to anything.

"The casting man and my agent talked to me very seriously about doing this," he recalled in a 2003 interview with the Archive of American Television. "They said, 'Look, you’re a very mixed-up kid, do this. It’s 26 shows, it’s a season’s work, and you’ll have enough money to go to New York. It’s probably like doing a Saturday morning serial. No one will ever see it. Take the money and run.' "

After wrapping work on Superman in about five months, he did get to New York, did live television and appeared in Kid Monk Baroni (1952), notable for giving Leonard Nimoy his first major role.

Meanwhile, Superman had premiered in syndication and had become an instant sensation. Larson suddenly was getting recognized on the subway as Jimmy, the wide-eyed, bowtie-wearing kid who kept running into trouble at The Daily Planet — only to be bailed out by Superman (George Reeves).

Once, Larson said, the police had to rescue him from a restaurant after kids recognized him from the show. "My life had turned upside down," he recalled, "and this was not a good experience."

Larson refused to do publicity for the series, hoping it would just go away. It didn’t.

"I wouldn’t do a magazine interview, I wouldn’t do anything, because I thought everything I do as Jimmy Olsen publicity is just a further nail in my coffin as an actor," he said.

His contract kept him from doing much of anything else, and Larson would appear on Superman for six seasons (a seventh was shelved because of the sudden death of Reeves in June 1959; Larson believed it was suicide).

He was forever typecast as Olsen and rarely worked as an actor again.

Jack Edward Larson was believed to be born in Los Angeles on Feb. 8, 1928 (though he often said his birth year was 1933). An only child, he was raised a bit east of L.A. in Montebello.

At age 14, he became a California state bowling champion in his age group and considered a career as a pro. He appeared in an MGM short film as a “kid kegler” with champion bowlers Ned Day and Hank Marino in a Santa Monica bowling alley owned by Harold Lloyd.

After Larson was sent to Pasadena Junior College, his instructors discovered that he had a gift for writing and motivated him to put together plays and star in them as well.

When Larson wrote and then appeared in a musical comedy about college kids on an Easter Week vacation, he was spotted by a Warner Bros. talent scout and given a screen test.

"It sounds like an amazing thing to happen," he recalled in an interview for the school’s archives, "but Hollywood discovered me at PJC’s Sexson Auditorium. For a young stage actor like myself, movies really meant something, so you can imagine the excitement I felt."

The audition led a contract and a role as Lieutenant "Shorty" Kirk in Raoul Walsh’s Fighter Squadron (1948), a film that also marked the big-screen debut of Rock Hudson.

After Superman was finished — he said his favorite episode was the Maltese Falcon-inspired "Semi-Private Eye" from 1954 — there was talk about doing a 13-episode show called Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen. "But it was not agreeable with me to go on and do that," he said in the TV Archive interview.

Larson took to writing plays, including The Candied House, a mystery that was based on Hansel and Gretel and opened the L.A. County Museum of Art’s Leo S. Bing Theatre in 1966, and Cherry, Larry, Sandy, Doris, Jean, Paul, a comedy about being gay that Bridges once helmed in London.

Larson also wrote librettos for various operas like Virgil Thomson’s prestigious Lord Byron, which premiered at New York’s Lincoln Center in 1972.

Larson couldn’t resist the call of the old days and appeared in 1991 in the syndicated series Superboy. He played "Old Jimmy Olsen" (an older version of Justin Whalin) in a 1996 episode of ABC’s Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, then was seen as a bartender in Bryan Singer’s 2006 film Superman Returns.

He also appeared in a 2010 episode of NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Larson and Bridges met when they were supporting players in the cast of Johnny Trouble (1957), starring Ethel Barrymore in her final film. They later formed a production company, and Larson produced such Bridges films as The Baby Maker (1970), Mike’s Murder (1984), Perfect (1985) and Bright Lights, Big City (1988).

Bridges died of cancer in June 1993 at age 57.

Larson, who also was close with actor Montgomery Clift until his death in 1966, shared a historical Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home on a Brentwood hillside with Bridges for years.

"It was obvious to anyone that since we lived together we were partners," Larson told the Los Angeles Times in 2011. "We always went places together. We never pretended. I always did what I felt like doing. I never did publicity when I was very popular as Jimmy. The question [about being gay] never came up."

Jack Larson Dead: Jimmy Olsen on 'Superman' TV Show Was 87 - Hollywood Reporter

[Storekeeper]

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/stor...er-dies-age-90

[Humbert]

"It ain't over till it's over" RIP Yogi

[harrybarracuda]

Gotta have some quotes (and some background would have been nice!).

NEW YORK (AP) - Yogi Berra, the Hall of Fame catcher renowned as much for his dizzying malapropisms as his record 10 World Series championships with the New York Yankees, has died. He was 90.

Berra died of natural causes Tuesday at his home in New Jersey, according to Dave Kaplan, the director of the Yogi Berra Museum.

Short, squat and with a homely mug, Berra was a legendary Yankee who helped the team reach 14 World Series during his 18 seasons in the Bronx.

Berra played in more World Series games than any other major leaguer, and was a three-time American League Most Valuable Player.

But his name appears almost as often in Bartlett's Famous Quotations as it does in baseball's record book.

1. “It ain’t over till it’s over.”
2. “It’s deja vu all over again.”
3. “I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.”
4. “Never answer an anonymous letter.”
5. “We made too many wrong mistakes.”
6. “You can observe a lot by watching.”
7. “The future ain’t what it used to be.”
8. “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”
9. “It gets late early out here.”
10. “If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.”
11. “Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.”
12. “Pair up in threes.”
13. “Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.”
14. “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”
15. “All pitchers are liars or crybabies.”
16. “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.”
17. “Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.”
18. “He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.”
19. “I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.”
20. “I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five.”
Modal Trigger
Yogi Berra and Joe DiMaggio in 1955.
21. “I don’t know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.”
22. “I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.”
23. “I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.”
24. “In baseball, you don’t know nothing.”
25. “I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?”
26. “I never said most of the things I said.”
27. “It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.”
28. “I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.”
29. “I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I’d never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.”
30. “So I’m ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.”
31. “Take it with a grin of salt.”
32. (On the 1973 Mets) “We were overwhelming underdogs.”
33. “The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.”
34. “You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours.”
35. “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

[Bobcock]

R.I.P bryn merrick. bass player from the damned and a local good bloke from my town..

RIP...a blast from the past.... I remember Bryn from Victimize.... in fact their single Baby Buyer is one of the few songs I've not be able to track down in digital format for my iPod.

I think Bryn is the guy who gave my nephew a guitar formerly owned by Fast Eddie from Motorhead.

You don't have Baby Buyer in digital form do you?

edit:.... this made me look again and I have found it on You Tube, I'll download it tonight