Joseph Heller still dead, still at 76 (and other celebrity deaths): RIP Hank Aaron and Willie Mays

Cindy Morgan, 69, model and actress.

Most famous for starring in Tron and as Lacey Underall in Caddyshack.

Franz Beckenbauer. Der Kaiser.

I used to manage a bar ~1980. After closing, I'd come home and be too wound up to sleep, so I'd flick on the TV. ESPN was just beginning and they were desperate for content, so they would play old European soccer matches in the wee hours.

I'd roll one, pop open a beer and try to follow what was going on. Although what he was doing made little sense to me, my favorite player soon became some crazy German guy. He'd start out behind the fullbacks, let off the big kick, then run it down by sweeping in out of nowhere, and attack from the wing, 2" in front of the goalie's nose.

GOAL!

I wonder wtf ever happened to that guy...

RIP

Your post reminded me of watching a soccer match in Italy on TV, IÂ’m certain it was fairly meaningless but I was drinking beer and enjoying the evening and the patrons were as oblivious as I was to the meaningless of it all. Such is life. But I enjoyed it nonetheless.

For some reason the link doesn't work, but I know my Python.

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Let's start off the New Year right with a Go Fund Me to get Johnny a new phone.

Peter Schickele aka P.D.Q. Bach, a serious concert composer and musical parodist, died Tuesday, January 16, 2024, near Woodstock, N.Y., at age 88.

Johnny Got His Phone, written and directed by Dalton Trumbo.

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Norman Jewish at 97. Director of Moonstruck and In the Heat of the Night, among others.

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fantastic director

Norman Jewison, not Jewish.

And more importantly for this forum, he also directed The Cincinnati Kid.

He told a great story of being selected to direct Fiddler on the Roof. After they hired him they told him that they felt he could be trusted with the material because he was Jewish.

NJ: But I'm Polish Catholic!
Committee: That's OK. It's the same thing.

Melanie (Safka) known for having played at Woodstock and for her big hit song of 1971, "Brand New Key", dead at 76.

And Rollerball.

Melanie's Brand New Key is an extraordinary pop song, one of my all-time favorites. Takes me right back to Friday afternoons in Mrs. Agostini's 6th grade class, we got to play 45s. Those were small black discs btw; you'd put one on a turntable and drop a needle onto it, imagine that.

One of, if not the first, 45 i ever owned.

you know it's a euphemism for sex, right?

did you miss the part where he said '6th grade class'?

Junior I'm high school then. I figured it out.

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if you were to be reminded of hormones in your teens

RIP Melanie although I have to admit I took Brand New Key in the Lounge worst songs draft.

I thought so also, but she said in an interview that she really didn't mean it that way.

Boo!