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Very recently I saw 1955’s "Kiss Me Deadly" for the first time, and was astonished to see the first character in the movie.


I had known of Cloris Leachman only since 1971, and many remember seeing her first in the clip LittleSiss posted above. And although she won her Oscar for a dramatic role, she will be remembered for comedy.

Can’t think of anything better to be remembered for.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/n...ly-in-one-particular-young-frankenstein-scene
 
Dutch meteorologist and atmospheric scientist Paul Crutzen (1933-2021).
In 1995 he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for discovering the hole in the ozone layer, and the processes and agents that caused it.

Loxuru said:
Dutch meteorologist and atmospheric scientist Paul Crutzen (1933-2021).
In 1995 he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for discovering the hole in the ozone layer, and the processes and agents that caused it.
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Ooops! This previous post was intended for 'Passings'. :doh::doh::doh:
 
windar said:
Hammerin' Hank Aaron, the all time Major League Baseball home run leader, (well, OK, Barry Bonds passed him, but Hank did it without pharmaceutical help) has died at the age of 86. He played briefly in the Negro Leagues at the tail end of the days of segregation in the sport and then spent almost his entire career in the Major Leagues with the Braves, first in Milwaukee and then in Atlanta, where they moved. As he chased Babe Ruth's lifetime home run record of 714, Aaron received a lot of hate mail. Despite that, he hit #715 on April 8. 1974 and retired with a total of 755.
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The obituary from the Economist. (Ernie Banks, Mr. Cub, who played at the same time as Aaron, but "only" 18 years instead of 23, and with "only" 512 home runs instead of 755, is buried in Graceland, Chicago's elite cemetery (and of architectural interest). So although American racism is dying hard, it is nevertheless dying.)
 

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Hal Holbrook who created the one-man show, Mark Twain Tonight, and was nominated for an Oscar at 85 (the oldest ever).
An example of religion
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I saw him at least twice while he was touring years ago. I do recall one of the printed play bills.
"Intermission: A trombone player has been engaged, but is unreliable and should not be expected."

This show before a live audience was a masterpiece: he had to memorize the whole damned thing. (He did have a lighted cigar, but I don't know whether he inhaled. He was 95, so clearly the tobacco didn't do him in.) He clearly enjoyed doing it.
 
Captain Tom Moore, a veteran of the Burma campaign in World War II, whose walks around his garden patio during COVID lockdown, which raised almost 33 million Pounds ($45 million) for the National Health Service became a worldwide sensation, is dead at 100 from complications of COVID. He was knighted by the Queen for his work this past July. At the ceremony, he was allowed to dispense with the customary kneeling because he said if he knelt he wasn't sure he'd be able to get up again. Rest in peace, Sir Tom!

www.nytimes.com

Tom Moore, 100, Dies; Inspired Covid-Ravaged U.K. With Charity Walks

An Army veteran nicknamed Captain Tom, he raised tens of millions of pounds for Britain’s health workers by walking 100 laps of his garden.
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Barbaria1 said:
Not quite true ... a few of them have recognizable shapes. ;)

And the good ones are blue and the others are red :rolleyes:
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My Lady contends that Ohio is purple; it went for Obama twice, after all.

It also went for Trump twice, causing me intense existential despair that I ever moved this God cursed hellscape here. :eeek:
 
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