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R.I.P. Adam Schesinger, 52, emmy winner and Fountains of Wayne cofounder. He died this morning from complications from COVID-19.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ada ... 26865.html

Jeff Grosso Dead: Legendary Skateboarder Dies at 51

https://heavy.com/sports/2020/04/jeff-grosso-death/

Julie Bennett, voice of Cindy Bear (Yogi's girlfriend) at 88

https://deadline.com/2020/04/julie-benn ... 202898851/

Bill Withers. 70s era musician was 81.

Famous for songs Aint No Sunshine and Lovely Day.

World keeps going around was my favorite song of his.

Tom Dempsey, legendary NFL kicker, dead after coronavirus bout at age 73
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/tom-demp ... -at-age-73

Actress Patricia Bosworth dead at 86 due to coronavirus (another actress I never heard of )
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/a ... oronavirus

Michigan ER nurse dies alone at home from coronavirus:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/detroit-er-n ... oronavirus

Honor Blackman dies at 94. She was best known for playing "Pu**y" Galore in Goldfinger. Her family noted in their press release that her death was from natural causes and not corona virus related.

https://www.tmz.com/2020/04/06/honor-bl ... -avengers/

Detroit Tigers legend Al Kaline died today at age 85.

Al Kaline's obit at The Detroit News: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sport ... 956782001/.

My first baseball glove in the late 1950s was an "Al Kaline" model. It was one of the old, flat "pancake" gloves. As a kid, I used to wonder how anyone could actually catch anything with a glove like that!

And it's a shame that today's pro (and college) athletes can't all have class and act like gentlemen like Mr. Kaline.

Here is Al getting his 3,000th hit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X91njDARL4.

And WDIV has a nice video tribute to Al at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSyJ-VwoesA.

Garry K

‘Gomer Pyle’ actor Forrest Compton dead at 94 from coronavirus complications
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/g ... oronavirus

John Prine, Who Chronicled the Human Condition in Song, Dies at 73

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment ... r-BB12ibT0

Mort Drucker died at age 91. He was most famous as a Mad Magazine artist. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/obitu ... 111529684/

Garry K

Stirling Moss, ex-Formula 1 driver, has died at age 90. https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/mot ... 61296.html

A video tribute to Moss at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DVpg5ubvyM. (Why do they always have to put stupid music in the background?)

Of course, whenever I think of race-car drivers, I think of the great quote from Rene Arnoux (who drove for different Formula 1 teams, mostly in the 1980s. Someone who interviewed Arnoux asked him what the difference was between tennis players and racing drivers. Arnoux answered, "A tennis player needs a racquet and balls. The race-car driver doesn't need a racquet!"

Garry K

Garry K wrote: A video tribute to Moss at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DVpg5ubvyM. (Why do they always have to put stupid music in the background?)

That music is subtle and pleasant. Very fitting for the video. Nothing stupid about it.

R.I.P. Tony Award winning actor Brian Dennehy. He died on 4/15/20 of cardiac arrest at the age of 81.

R.I.P. cartoon animator Gene Deitch, 95. Deitch was known for such cartoons as Tom and Jerry and Popeye.
https://comicbook.com/irl/2020/04/18/ge ... qzytQcpEVc

Robin Seymour has died at age 94. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/ ... 158326002/

For those who are too young to remember Mr. Seymour, or who did not grow up in the Detroit area back in the 1960s, he was a DJ on local Detroit-area radio stations. He also hosted "Swingin' Time," Detroit's own local "American Bandstand type of show (although the studio was in Windsor, Ontario). A lot of local bands got to play music on Swingin' Time. There's an early clip of Bob Seger on Swingin' Time at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMUrxXwL-NM (lip-synced, of course). And here's the Rationals on Swingin' Time at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW9DDIfmDUk.

Garry K

R.I.P. Tom Lester, 81. He is best known for his role as Eb Dawson on the TV show "Green Acres."
https://www.wjtv.com/news/green-acres-s ... sses-away/

R.I.P:
Const. Heidi Stevenson.

EOW 4-19-2020.

Const. Heidi Stevenson was identified Sunday by the RCMP as the officer killed while responding to the call about an active shooter. She was a 23-year member of the force and a mother of two children, one in Grade 6 and the other in Grade 8.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nova-s ... -1.5539000