Percy Spencer. Who? He invented the microwave and gave the Peeps their purpose. His ass died in 1970, but you can't separate the two inventions!
Former Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf has passed. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/05/former-pakistan-president-pervez-musharraf-dies-in-dubai-after-long-illness
Was coming to post this. I didn't even know that Aretha Franklin recorded a version of 'Say a Little Prayer' until I read the Guardian article they just posted. I had only heard the Dionne Warwick version before.
https://nypost.com/2023/02/15/raquel-welch-dead-fantastic-voyage-actress-and-sex-symbol-was-82/ Raquel Welch; possibly the last of the original Hollywood sex symbols.
My first view of Raquel was in Fantastic Voyage. I also thought she was the best Constance. And quite a different look to a Spaghetti Western gunfighter.
(This is what I said on my Facebook author page today.) Reflecting on the death yesterday (2/15/23) of actress Raquel Welch. How many members of the public were aware only of her reputation as a sex symbol and performer in movies, some more successful than others? That was me, totally clueless as to her talent and range, until I needed a touring Broadway musical for my first novel, "The Single Eye," a play my hero Eric could take his soon-to-be-ex girlfriend to in November of 1981. Enter Google search, and up popped the road production of "Woman of the Year," starring--- this can't be right--- Raquel Welch. But it was right. Not only did Miss Welch take the lead in the Fall '81 tour, she effortlessly stepped into the star role of the Broadway version in place of icon Lauren Bacall, where, according to the critics, she sang and danced better and projected a more stunning stage than Miss Bacall herself. I'd had no idea. My respect for Miss Welch went up several levels, and I had a perfect interlude for my romantic hero, where he's ogling yet another woman besides Sandy, my heroine, whom he doesn't yet esteem as he ought. All it was all the better that "Woman of the Year" is about a woman in conflict between the career she loves and her love for her husband and their marriage. Allowing that my heroine's passion for the hero is still unspoken at this point in the novel, this parallels her dilemma very well. Serendipity at its best. (End of Facebook post) And her savvy, brains, and ability didn't stop with that one performance, or with her acting career. She sailed her ship into harbor in full trim with all the rigging intact.
