Sunday, January 20, 2008

 

Recent Deaths


It's odd we went 9 full days of the year before a celebrity passed away that I knew. But starting on the 10th it has been a near daily occurrence. In the last 10 days, I identified 10 celebrities that passed away. Three of them are easily major names that almost every American would recognize. While only 2 or 3 are fairly obscure names that probably only a few people would notice.

The full list
1/10 - Christopher Bowman, 40, figure skater, drug overdose
1/11 - Sir Edmund Hillary, 88, first to reach summit of Mount Everest, heart failure
1/13 - Johnny Podres, 75, 1st world series MVP for 1955 Dodgers, possible kidney failure
1/15 - Brad Renfro, 25, actor in Bully among others, possible drug overdose
1/17 - Bobby Fischer, 64, only American chess world champion, kidney failure
1/17 - Ernie Holmes, 59, Steeler DT 72-77 played on 2 Super Bowls, car accident
1/17 - Allan Melvin, 84, Sam the butcher on The Brady Bunch, cancer
1/18 - Georgia Frontiere, 80, owner of NFL's Rams since 1979, breast cancer
1/18 - Ugo Pirro, 87, screenwriter of Navaho Joe, and the Oscar winning films: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion & The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1/19 - Suzanne Pleshette, 70, The Bob Newhart Show. respiratory failure

I want to comment on two of the names.

Suzanne Pleshette will always be a favorite. I was a big fan of The Bob Newhart Show. She is probably the only female that I ever thought was attractive who was around the same age as my mother. And she gets major points for being part of the greatest ending to a television show with her cameo on Newhart.

I will always think of Georgia Frontiere from when she appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated with my cousin Bert Jones. It's a pity that, due to injuries, he was only able to last one season in L.A. It would have been interesting to see if he could have produced.

Hot Chick Born Today
Claire Robbins, 22, a very cute adult film star

Comments:
well, I have not seen Ms. Robbins professional work - but if that based on that photo - she is NOT cute. then again, we have never agreed on cute before...LOL.
 
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