Sharon Acker, versatile actor who appeared in pretty much every show on TV in the sixties, dead at 87.
Legendary Mad Magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee has finally folded in at age 102. Not a bad life, methinks. https://www.thewrap.com/al-jaffee-mad-magazine-fold-in-comic-dead-dies-obit-102
I think he was by far the last of the crew that made MAD what it was in its glory days. I saw an issue of it about ten years back, and it seemed to be a parody of itself rather than a parody of life as it was. I doesn't surprise me that MAD is nothing but reprints now.
Sa-LUTE! For most of two decades, my mother's Yule gift to my husband was a subscription to Mad Magazine. Brilliant.
Since I cannot post links yet, I'll just have to simply give the deets until I qualify to do so. "Father Bob" Maguire, Australian priest, community worker and media personality. Subject of the documentary In Bob We Trust has died at age 88.
its usually 20 posts and two weeks but since we know you're legit I've manually put you in the members usergroup - you should now be able to post links
Former Prime Minister of Jordan, Mudar Badran passed away https://en.royanews.tv/news/41292/2023-04-22
USS Arizona survivor Ken Potts has died at age 102. Lou Conter is the last known survivor of the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor. https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2023/04/22/ken-potts-one-two-remaining-uss-arizona-survivors-dies-102/
Who wins Dame Edna? Barry Humphries died the other day, at 89 years old. He had a hip replacement recently, but I didn’t catch what the actual cause of death was. https://nypost.com/2023/04/22/dame-edna-everage-actor-barry-humphries-dead-at-89/
I watched a bit of Sir Les Patterson. I didn't find it particularly funny - all it was, was a string of dirty and vulgar stories. I have nothing against vulgarities, if it's funny. But this wasn't. There was no punchline, no building up and subverting expectations. Jimmy Carr, for example, has some vulgar and very offensive comedy, but it's damn funny.
A great man. A lot of people don't realize the incredible amount of work he did for civil rights. As part of his activity in the African American Students Foundation, he would greet the students coming in from Africa and talk with them right after their reception by a representative of the State Department. The State Department guy would welcome the students to the US and tell them what a great place it was, how civil rights were being respected, and so on. Then Mr. Belafonte would meet with the students and say, "What you heard from the State Department is all bullshit. This is the way it really works..." And then he'd tell them about the Jim Crow laws and the disrespect from law enforcement. I heard this from a Tanzanian graduate student at the University of Missouri, who was one of those students.
I dunno, he did have that hardcore criminal history. Watch from about 2:10 where Petula Clark, a white woman, comes into physical contact with him. Some say it was Elvis thrusting his hips, some say it was Kirk kissing Uhura, but I submit that this was the exact moment when Western society began to flame out and go to hell. In case you missed it, this post is utterly sarcastic.
