R.I.P. some creative folks...

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Diverse but significant group
One of them created Deadman and the Doom Patrol, two of the most interesting and unusual superheroes (and groups) in comics.

One truly defined "making the most of celebrity."

And one of them truly defined the '70's music scene for so many people.

Captain Zorikh - Big Apple Convention , posted 04/24/07
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To be missed...
Rest in Peace:

Tom Poston
AKA Thomas Poston

Born: 17-Oct-1921
Birthplace: Columbus, OH
Died: 30-Apr-2007
Location of death: Los Angeles, CA
Cause of death: Illness


Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Handyman on Newhart

Military service: US Army Air Corps (1941-45, WWII European Theater)

Wife: Jean Sullivan (m. 1955, div. 1968, one daughter)
Daughter: Francesca Poston
Wife: Kay Hudson (m. 1968, div. 1975, two sons)
Son: Jason
Son: Hudson
Wife: Kay Hudson (remarried m. 1980, d. 10-Jul-1998)
Wife: Suzanne Pleshette (m. 11-May-2001, until his death)


University: Bethany College
University: American Academy of Dramatic Arts


Sigma Nu Fraternity
Air Medal
Emmy 1958 for The Steve Allen Show (supporting)


TELEVISION
The Steve Allen Show Can't Remember His Name (1956-59)
Mork and Mindy Franklin Delano Bickley (1979-82)
Newhart George Utley (1982-90)
Bob Jerry Fleisher (1992-93)
Grace Under Fire Floyd Norton (1995-98)
Committed Clown (2005-)


FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Christmas with the Kranks (24-Nov-2004)
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (7-Aug-2004)
Beethoven's 5th (2-Dec-2003)
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood (19-May-2000)
The Story of Us (13-Oct-1999)
Krippendorf's Tribe (27-Feb-1998)
Carbon Copy (25-Sep-1981)
The Girl, the Gold Watch, & Dynamite (25-May-1981)
Up the Academy (1980)
Rabbit Test (1978)
The Happy Hooker (14-May-1975)
Cold Turkey (19-Feb-1971)
Soldier in the Rain (27-Nov-1963)
Zotz! (Jul-1962)


Official Website:
www.tomposton.com/


Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
Kurt Vonnegut
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
Kurt Vonnegut
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
Kurt Vonnegut
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!
Kurt Vonnegut
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand
Kurt Vonnegut
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
Kurt Vonnegut, A Man without a Country
Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
Kurt Vonnegut, A Man without a Country
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.
Kurt Vonnegut, A Man without a Country
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
Kurt Vonnegut, Braekfast of Champions (page 20)
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
Kurt Vonnegut, breakfast of champions (page 19)
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.
Kurt Vonnegut, Cold Turkey
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys.net
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
Kurt Vonnegut, Novel 'Hocus Pocus' 1990
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse V
How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five


Arnold Drake
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www.newsarama.com/general/A...erview.htm


Anna Nicole Smith

Dennis Johnson
www.nba.com/history/play..._summary.html
www.nba.com/sonics/histo...64236-51.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Johnson

Brad Delp, lead vocalist of the group, Boston

I looked out this morning and the sun was gone
Turned on some music to start my day
I lost myself in a familiar song
I closed my eyes and I slipped away

Its more than a feeling, when I hear that old song they used to play (more than a feeling)
I begin dreaming (more than a feeling)
till I see marianne walk away

So many people have come and gone
Their faces fade as the years go by
Yet I still recall as I wander on
As clear as the sun in the summer sky

When Im tired and thinking cold
I hide in my music, forget the day
And dream of a girl I used to know
I closed my eyes and she slipped away
She slipped awa y. she slipped away.

I see my marianne walkin away

Walter Becker, co founder of the group, Steely Dan
(a few years late, I just heard, apologies)

REELIN' IN THE YEARS

Your everlasting summer
You can see it fading fast
So you grab a piece of something
That you think is gonna last
You wouldn't know a diamond
If you held it in your hand
The things you think are precious
I can't understand

Are you reelin' in the years
Stowin' away the time
Are you gatherin' up the tears
Have you had enough of mine

You been tellin' me you're a genius
Since you were seventeen
In all the time I've known you
I still don't know what you mean
The weekend at the college
Didn't turn out like you planned
The things that pass for knowledge
I can't understand


I spend a lot of money
And I spent a lot of time
The trip we made in Hollywood
Is etched upon my mind
After all the things we've done and seen
You find another man
The things you think are useless
I can't understand


SHOW BIZ KIDS

While the poor people sleepin'
With the shade on the light
While the poor people sleepin'
All the stars come out at night
After closing time
At the Guernsey Fair
I detect the El Supremo
From the room at the top of the stairs
Well I've been around the world
And I've been in the Washington Zoo
And in all my travels
As the facts unravel
I've found this to be true


They got the house on the corner
With the rug inside
They got the booze they need
All that money can buy
They got the shapely bods
They got the Steely Dan T-shirt
And for the coup-de-gras
They're outrageous


Show biz kids making movies
Of themselves you know they
Don't give a f**k about anybody else

Richard Jeni, comedian
www.modamag.com/richardjeniinterview.htm






- (Mr) , posted 05/01/07

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