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https://www.npr.org/2023/05/01/13346427 ... dies-at-84

"Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian Folk Legend, Dies At 84

Canadian folk-rock icon Gordon Lightfoot has died at the age of 84.

Lightfoot died at a Toronto hospital on Monday night of natural causes, according to his publicist. The singer-songwriter had long suffered from serious health problems that caused extensive hospitalization in 2002.

Lightfoot hailed from a tiny town in Ontario. He first made his name in Toronto's coffeehouse scene. There, he impressed folk music stars Ian and Sylvia, who helped introduce him to the world outside Canada by recording some of his songs. Lightfoot himself found international fame in 1971, with a song called "If You Could Read My Mind.""

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is one of my favorite Gordon Lightfoot songs.

Eileen Saki, 'M*A*S*H' actress, dead at 79
Actress known as owner of Rosie's Bar on famed TV series
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/e ... ss-dead-79

Surprised nobody mentioned Lightfoot's "Canadian Railroad Trilogy". If you don't have Murray Sayles' "Last Train Across Canada", you probably should. Educational entertainment helped even more by Gordon Lightfoot, and of course Sayle was a fascinating character as well.

Man o' War

Tori Bowie, Olympic gold medalist in 2016, dead at 32
Bowie won a gold medal at the 2016 Olympics in Rio and was an NCAA champion
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/tori-bow ... alist-dead

Former Detroit Red Wings player Petr Klima died today at 58.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sport ... s-Redesign

Vida Blue, former AL MVP and 3-time World Series champ, dies
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/375 ... champ-dies

Joe Kapp, former Vikings star QB who led team to Super Bowl, dead at 85
Kapp was named one of the 50 greatest Vikings players
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/joe-kapp ... -bowl-dead

Actress Jacklyn Zeman has died at the age of 70. She portayed Nurse Bobbie on "General Hospital" for more than 40 years.
https://www.tmz.com/2023/05/10/general- ... O9-Rk4JRHs
https://ktla.com/entertainment/general- ... ies-at-70/

NFL legend Jim Brown dead at 87
Brown was a three-time MVP
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/browns-l ... dead-at-87

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Fri May 19, 2023 4:47 pm

NFL legend Jim Brown dead at 87
Brown was a three-time MVP
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/browns-l ... dead-at-87

The most impactful athlete of all time next to Walter Payton, in my opinion.

Huge loss for not only the sports community, but the world.

Ray Stevenson Dead at 58
Ray Stevenson has passed away at the age of 58. The cause of death has not currently been confirmed. Stevenson was well known for his roles in Punisher: War Zone, the Thor movies, and television series Rome and Star Wars: Rebels. He recently appeared in S.S. Rajamouli's RRR and is set to reprise his Rebels role in the upcoming live-action Star Wars series Ahsoka.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment ... 4bd29&ei=6

Sheldon Reynolds of The Commodores and Earth, Wind & Fire, dies at 63
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/sh ... ead1&ei=11

Singer Tina Turner dies aged 83
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/celebri ... 5726&ei=16

Ed Ames, ‘Daniel Boone’ Star and Ames Brothers Singer, Dies at 95

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/ed-am ... dad8&ei=84

Born on July 9, 1927 in Malden, Mass., Ames was the youngest of nine children, and later received a B.A. in theater and cinema arts from UCLA in 1975.

He is survived by his wife Jeanne; two children, Ronald and Sonya, seven grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and stepson Stephen Saviano. Another daughter, Marcella, predeceased him.

'Carrie' Actress Samantha Weinstein Dead at 28

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment ... dad8&ei=93

Weinstein, who portrayed Heather in the 2013 remake of Carrie, passed away on May 14 after battling ovarian cancer.