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Post by paulette on Aug 24, 2018 18:10:55 GMT -6
Nice eulogy. Deep peace of the running wave Robin.
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Post by auntym on Aug 25, 2018 18:40:57 GMT -6
www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/john-mccain-obit-627682R.I.P JOHN McCAIN John McCain, Legendary Republican Senator, Dead at 81The legendary Republican senator is dead at the age of 81.Legendary senator John McCain has died after a nearly year-long bout with glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer. His family released the following statement: Senator John Sidney McCain III died at 4:28pm on 25th August 2018. With the Senator when he passed were his wife Cindy and their family. At his death, he had served the United States of America faithfully for sixty years. The son and grandson of Navy admirals, McCain survived being taken prisoner during the Vietnam War, before launching a storied career in politics, rising to become the 2008 Republican nominee for president. Throughout his career, McCain leveraged his relationship with the media — his “base,” he joked — to craft an image as a “straight-talking maverick,” a patriot who put country over party. Transcending an era of bitter partisanship and polarization, the charismatic McCain built a following across the American political spectrum. McCain’s legacy is more complex than his legend, of course. Many of his maverick moments covered for less-noble motivations – of pique or public relations. And his dying regret that he did not select Joe Lieberman as his running mate does not heal the damage he did to our body politic. By tapping Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for the 2008 ticket, McCain opened a Pandora’s Box of right-wing populism, energizing the nascent Tea Party and presaging the triumph of Donald Trump. He was 81. Born at a naval air station in Panama, John Sidney McCain III grew up Washington, D.C., in the shadow of admirals. His four-star grandfather commanded carrier operations in the Pacific during World War II. His distant father, “Junior,” also rose to four-star rank, serving as Commander-in-Chief of Pacific Command during the Vietnam War. The third John S. McCain fell farther from the tree. Growing up rebellious and hot tempered, McCain graduated near the bottom of his class at Annapolis. As a young Navy pilot, he displayed a higher aptitude for carousing than flying. He crashed planes and even caused a minor international incident while “clowning” in the skies over southern Spain. Deploying to Vietnam in 1967, Lt. Commander McCain was at the center of a catastrophic accident aboard the USS Forrestal; the ensuing inferno claimed 134 sailors’ lives and nearly sank the carrier. Months later, flying a bombing run over Hanoi, McCain was shot down and captured — suffering through more than five years as a prisoner of war. His crash injuries were ill-treated, and McCain was tortured into writing a propaganda statement for the North Vietnamese. “I had learned what we all learned over there,” McCain would reflect. “Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine.” CONTINUE READING: www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/john-mccain-obit-627682
John McCain, senator and former presidential candidate, dies at 81 www.cnn.com/2018/08/25/politics/john-mccain-obituary/index.html?utm_content=2018-08-26T00%3A45%3A07&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN&utm_term=image
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Post by swamprat on Aug 25, 2018 20:21:21 GMT -6
WOW! That was fast! Sigh......
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Post by jojustjo on Aug 25, 2018 23:14:14 GMT -6
God speed hero, thank you for your service to our country...prayers for your family.
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Post by auntym on Aug 26, 2018 12:15:34 GMT -6
www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/neil-simon-pulitzer-prize-winning-playwright-dead-at-91-715939/ Neil Simon, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright, Dead at 91 One of Broadway’s most successful authors wrote ‘The Odd Couple,’ ‘Barefoot in the Park,’ ‘Biloxi Blues’ and dozens more Tony-nominated playsNeil Simon, the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning playwright behind over 30 plays including The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park and Biloxi Blues, died Sunday at the age of 91. Simon’s family confirmed his death in a statement, adding that Simon died of complications from pneumonia at a Manhattan hospital. In recent years, Simon suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. “Neil Simon’s unparalleled career in the theater included more than thirty plays and musicals that opened on Broadway over a span of four decades. He made his playwriting debut in 1961, with Come Blow Your Horn and concluded his extraordinary Broadway run with 45 Seconds From Broadway in 2001,” the statement continued. “Neil Simon established his reputation writing some of Broadway’s most successful comedies, including Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, and Plaza Suite. Many of his later plays explored darker themes, as those found in Biloxi Blues, Broadway Bound and Lost in Yonkers.” One of the most successful and acclaimed authors in Broadway history, Simon racked up 17 Tony nominations over a career in theater that spanned 50 years, winning three awards: Best Author in 1965 for The Odd Couple, Best Play for 1985’s Biloxi Blues and Best Play for 1991’s Lost in Yonkers. The latter drama also won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Simon also received a special Tony Award for contribution to theatre in 1975. In addition to Simon’s plays that were adapted for films – like Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, California Suite, Brighton Beach Memories, to name a few – Simon also penned the original screenplays for Seventies comedies like The Heartbreak Kid, Murder By Death and The Sunshine Girl. “In addition to a Pulitzer Prize and four Tony Awards, Mr. Simon received many honors, including four Writers Guild of America Awards, an American Comedy Awards Lifetime Achievement honor, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s Monte Cristo Award,” the statement added. www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/neil-simon-pulitzer-prize-winning-playwright-dead-at-91-715939/
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Post by auntym on Sept 6, 2018 13:53:18 GMT -6
ktla.com/2018/09/06/actor-burt-reynolds-dies-at-82-hollywood-reporter/ Burt Reynolds, Legendary Star of ‘Smokey and the Bandit’ and ‘Boogie Nights,’ Dies at 82 September 6, 2018 Burt Reynolds, the mustachioed megastar who first strutted on screen more than half a century ago, died Thursday, according to his agent Todd Eisner. He was 82. Actor Burt Reynolds is pictured in a scene from "Smokey and the Bandit." The Georgia native, whose easy-going charms and handsome looks drew prominent roles in films such as "Smokey and the Bandit" and "Boogie Nights," suffered a cardiac arrest, Eisner said. An iconic Hollywood sex symbol in front of the camera, Reynolds also tried his directorial hand behind it, and later earned a reputation for " The Georgia native, whose easy-going charms and handsome looks drew prominent roles in films such as "Smokey and the Bandit" and "Boogie Nights," suffered a cardiac arrest, Eisner said. An iconic Hollywood sex symbol in front of the camera, Reynolds also tried his directorial hand behind it, and later earned a reputation for philanthropy after founding the Burt Reynolds Institute for Film & Theatre in his home state of Florida. His roles over the years ranged and pivoted from Southern heartthrob to tough guy to comedy, notably for his role as Rep. David Dilbeck in the 1996 film "Striptease," which flopped at the box office but earned him widespread praise for his comedic prowess. But it was John Boorman's 1972 thriller "Deliverance," which cast Reynolds as outdoorsman Lewis Medlock, that is widely credited for launching his early career. Reynolds called it "by far" his best film. "I thought maybe this film is more important in a lot of ways than we've given it credit for," he said in an interview years later. The movie's infamous rape scene may have helped the public -- especially men -- better understand the horrors of sexual attacks, Reynolds said. "It was the only time I saw men get up, sick, and walk out of a theater," he added. "I've seen women do that (before)," but not men. Born in south Georgia, Reynolds and his family moved to Michigan and eventually wound up in southeastern Florida, according to the website of the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, where he was inducted in 1993. At Palm Beach High School, he first made a name for himself as a football star and earned an athletic scholarship to Florida State University. But when injuries derailed a promising athletic career, Reynolds turned to acting. He then scored small parts in the late 1950s before landing a role in the New York City Center revival of "Mister Roberts" in 1957, as well as a recurring spot in the TV series "Gunsmoke." By 1974, Reynolds had hit it big and starred as an ex-football player who landed in prison in the film "The Longest Yard." Two years earlier, he broke taboo and posed nude in Cosmopolitan magazine, which helped cement his growing status as a sex symbol. He later said he regretted that centerfold image, which showed Reynold's spread out across a bearskin rug, and said it distracted attention from his "Deliverance" co-stars and likely cost them an Academy Award. Reynolds' notoriety soared through the late 1970s and 1980s, during which time he spearheaded the "Smokey and the Bandit" and "Cannonball Run" movie franchises. He also earned People's Choice Awards in 1979, 1982 and 1983 as all-around male entertainer of the year. But he also turned down some of the biggest roles in Hollywood history. From James Bond to Hans Solo in George Lucas' 1977 blockbuster "Star Wars," Reynolds also reportedly was among Paramount Pictures' top choices to play Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 epic "The Godfather." Again, the star expressed regrets. "I took the part that was the most fun... I didn't take the part that would be the most challenging," Reynolds said in an interview with CNN. His love life also drew headlines after a high-profile divorce to actress Loni Anderson preceded Reynolds bankruptcy filing in 1996, amid a budding romance with actor Sally Field. A year later, Anderson released her version of events in a tell-all book called "My Life in High Heels." In 1998, Reynolds scored his sole Oscar nomination for best supporting actor after his portrayal of a porn film producer in the film "Boogie Nights," despite his dislike of the film and its apparent glorification of the porn industry. Years later, with a mustache gone gray, he suffered from health issues that included open heart surgery. Reynolds also checked into a drug rehab clinic in 2009. The purpose was "to regain control of his life" after becoming addicted to painkillers prescribed following back surgery, his manager said. Once among Hollywood's highest-paid actors, Reynolds later fell into financial trouble amid private ventures in an Atlanta restaurant and a professional sports team, though he continued to make cameo appearances and teach acting classes. "I worked as an actor for 60 years, I must have something I can give," he told CNN. Reynolds made an acting resurgence in recent years, appearing in numerous films and TV shows. He was cast in the upcoming Quentin Tarantino directed "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," scheduled for release next year.
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Post by auntym on Sept 6, 2018 14:05:15 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Sept 6, 2018 15:05:49 GMT -6
R.I.P., Bandit.
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Post by jojustjo on Sept 6, 2018 23:10:22 GMT -6
Just watched Smokey and the Bandit with my daughter...forgot how fun that movie was. Way to go Burt...God speed
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Post by jcurio on Sept 7, 2018 19:23:42 GMT -6
What is “funny” to me, is I was not “aware” of his “sex symbol status”. 😲😊
I don’t know if that is because he was my dads’ age Or what. Sure, I thought he was cute. I saw him in the “Smokey and the bandit” movies, etc, and to me, he just portrayed the “good ole boy” so well. 😁 Loved his laugh.
I guess I just considered him “taken”. I always thought his heart belonged to Sally. 😊
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Post by auntym on Oct 2, 2018 12:07:37 GMT -6
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/peggy-sue-dead-buddy-holly-song-731986/ Peggy Sue Gerron, Who Inspired Buddy Holly Classic, Dead at 78“Peggy Sue” namesake went to same Lubbock high school as rocker, married Crickets drummer Jerry AllisonBy Jon Blistein / 10-2-2018 Peggy Sue Gerron, the woman who inspired Buddy Holly's 1957 classic, "Peggy Sue," has died at the age of 78.Jaime R. Carrero/AP Peggy Sue Gerron, the woman who inspired Buddy Holly’s 1957 hit song “Peggy Sue,” died Monday at the University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reports. She was 78. Gerron met Holly in Lubbock in the mid-Fifties when he was a budding musician and she was still a high school student at Lubbock High (Holly’s alma mater). As Gerron recalled, their first encounter occured when Holly, running late for a gig, accidentally knocked her over. “He ran over to me, guitar in one hand, amp in the other, and said, ‘I don’t have time to pick you up, but you sure are pretty’, before he ran off,” Gerron told the BBC in 2013. “So another girl came and helped me pick up my books and she said, ‘Do you know who that was? That was Buddy Holly.'” Several weeks later, Gerron was on a date with her future husband, Crickets drummer Jerry Allison, when they ran into Holly and his date. “[Holly] started laughing, Jerry asked him what was so funny, and he said ‘I’ve already overwhelmed your Peggy Sue,'” Gerron remembered. As for how Gerron ended up as the namesake of “Peggy Sue,” there are several versions of the legend. In one telling, the track was first tiled “Cindy Lou,” after Holly’s niece, but Allison convinced his bandmate to change it in order to impress Gerron. In another version, Holly changed the title to placate Allison after their producer, Norman Petty, forced him to play in the studio’s reception room because his snare was too loud. Gerron first heard Holly and the Crickets play “Peggy Sue” at a concert in a packed school auditorium. “I was just delighted, I thought it was a fascinating song,” she told the BBC. “It’s really hard to stand still when you’re listening to ‘Peggy Sue.'” “Peggy Sue” peaked at Number Three on the Billboard singles chart. Holly even wrote a sequel to the track, “Peggy Sue Got Married,” which was posthumously released in 1959 after the rock legend died in a plane crash. The real Peggy Sue did marry Allison, and the couple stayed together through much of the Sixties. Gerron even spent some time on the road with the Crickets as they continued to tour and perform after Holly’s death. After Gerron and Allison divorced, Gerron returned to California — where she’d been born — went back to college, became a dental assistant, remarried and had two children. According to the bio on her website, she even became the first licensed woman plumber in California after her husband started a plumbing business. Gerron returned to Lubbock in the mid-Nineties to care for her ailing mother. In later years, Gerron became a devoted ham radio enthusiast, and in 2008 she published a memoir, Whatever Happened to Peggy Sue? During her BBC interview, Gerron spoke about the peculiar nature of her place in rock and roll history and what it’s like to encounter Holly fans. “I think they have me frozen in time, I think when most people think of me, it’s as a young woman frozen in an era that has long passed,” Gerron said. “But it hasn’t limited me. You have to be you, and I couldn’t stand up and say, well, no, that’s not me.” www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/peggy-sue-dead-buddy-holly-song-731986/ Real Peggy Sue, of 1958 Buddy Holly song fame, dies in Texas: apnews.com/cb9944141d98449690e361422459bfe0?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=APCentralRegion
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Post by jojustjo on Oct 5, 2018 10:18:08 GMT -6
Sounds like she had a full life
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Post by auntym on Oct 18, 2018 14:36:46 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/10/the-passing-of-ufo-investigator-robert-dean-and-wistleblower-karl-wolfe/ The Passing of UFO Investigator Robert Dean and Wistleblower Karl Wolfeby Paul Seaburn / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/paulseaburn/October 19, 2018 This past week, the field of ufology lost two of its well-known members – UFO investigator Robert Dean and whistleblower Karl Wolfe. Robert Dean is best known for revealing that, while a member of the U.S. military stationed at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in the 1960s, he was able to read a document entitled “UFO Assessment: An Evaluation of a Possible Threat” because his security clearance allowed him access to documents labeled “Cosmic Top Secret.” While Dean could not obtain a copy, he remembered the contents of the papers and revealed them to the public after retiring from a 28-year career in the Army. Those contents, according to Dean, included detailed information on UFO sightings, ET encounters and alien autopsies. Dean claimed the research was approved by NATO and exposed (at least internally) that Earth was inhabited by four alien species that looked like humans and were secretly interacting with us. Dean spoke often both within the ufology community and to the general public about what he saw in “The Assessment” and, while he was unable to offer proof, lived long enough to see the US government finally admit it has investigated UFOs and release videos of encounters. Robert Dean was 89. Karl Wolfe was another former military officer (Air Force sergeant) who also claimed to have a special security clearance in the 1960s while working in the Tactical Air Command at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. In 2001 at the now-famous Disclosure Project event held at the National Press Club in Washington DC and organized by ufologist Steven Greer, Wolfe revealed that, while working as a technician processing photographic surveillance from the war in Vietnam, he was sent to a building filled, to his surprise and suspicion, with non-English-speaking civilians and interpreters. In a darkroom used for processing photos from the first lunar orbiter mission in 1966, another technician allegedly showed him pictures of structures on the far side of the moon. He descried it in his testimony: “He pulled out one of these mosaics, and showed this base which had geometric shapes – there were towers, there were spherical buildings, there were very tall towers and things that looked somewhat like radar dishes, but they were very large structures.” While he had no evidence, Wolfe spoke about his experience at subsequent ufology events. He died this week in a tragic traffic accident that is still under investigation. Karl Wolfe was 74. As expected, some are trying to link the accident to Wolfe’s revelations about an alleged secret moon base and others to the coincidental passing of two UFO whistleblowers with a week of each other. The circumstances of each man’s passing seem to suggest otherwise, but actual information about such a connection is as likely to be disclosed as is evidence of what both men claimed they saw and told to anyone who would listen. mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/10/the-passing-of-ufo-investigator-robert-dean-and-wistleblower-karl-wolfe/
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Post by jcurio on Oct 18, 2018 20:25:47 GMT -6
I’m “in sinc”.
As in, earlier this week, I had the “wayward” thought to put in an internet search engine:
Ufologists that have died since 1966.
No kidding. But it has been a very busy week for me, and didn’t do this. At the time of the “thought”, I reassuringly told myself : “I’m just having this thought because NO ONE needs to die these days because SECRETS are coming out”.
Seriously. People will still remain skeptics. Disinformation will still happen. NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO DIE.
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Post by jcurio on Oct 18, 2018 20:35:59 GMT -6
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Post by jcurio on Oct 18, 2018 20:41:11 GMT -6
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Post by jcurio on Oct 18, 2018 20:57:23 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Nov 12, 2018 13:47:13 GMT -6
www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39267963R.I.P STAN LEE 11-12-2018 Stan Lee obituary: The genius of the superhero creatorStan Lee was born Stan Lieberman in 1922American comic book writer Stan Lee was the human behind the superheroes. Many marvel at the man who gave his characters extraordinary powers and everyday headaches - a formula which revolutionised comics. The Hulk, Iron Man, Daredevil and the Fantastic Four all sprang from his fertile imagination and spilled onto the page. But while his career may have started in pen and ink, it grew and evolved into much more. From digital graphic novels to blockbuster Hollywood films; leading Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation; Stan Lee was prolific. Born in 1922 to poor working-class Jewish immigrants from Romania, Stan Lieberman got a job in Timely Publications - that would eventually become Marvel Comics - a company owned by a relative. He was assigned to the comics division and - thanks to the reach of his imagination - rose to editor by the age of 18. For more than 20 years, he was "the ultimate hack" - knocking out crime stories, horrors, westerns, anything to sate the appetite of his juvenile readership. Words of more than two syllables were discouraged. Characters were either all good or all bad, with no shades of grey. So embarrassed was Lieberman by much of what he was writing that he refused to put his real name on the by-line. He assumed the "dumb name", Stan Lee, which he later legally adopted. By the time he was 40, Lee had decided he was too old for the comic game. His British-born wife, Joan, suggested he had nothing to lose and, for his swansong, should write the kind of characters he really wanted to create. After a rival comic had come up with a superteam consisting of Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, Timely needed to respond. Lee's answer, in 1961, was the Fantastic Four - a team of astronauts who gained super powers after being bombarded with cosmic rays. They were to change Lee's life, and the comics industry, forever. Lee gave each character individual, everyday teenage problems such as dandruff, ingrown toenails and acne. They would frequently fall out with their parents and each other. The fan letters poured in. Without immediately knowing it, Stan Lee had ushered in the golden age of comics, and his imagination was rekindled. His Marvel universe spawned the new title of Marvel Comics. Soon after, nerdy Peter Parker was transformed - after a bite from an irradiated spider - into someone who could crawl up the sides of New York's skyscrapers. Spider-Man was born. He was to become an icon of modern popular culture. Spidey, as he is affectionately known, had quite extraordinary powers - yet he had problems at work, at home and with his girlfriends. At last, the teenager was no longer just the sidekick, but the main hero. And the hero was no longer just brawn, he had brains too. "Just because he's a hero and has super powers doesn't mean he doesn't have problems," Stan Lee told the BBC. The Hulk, The Mighty Thor, Iron Man and the rest all grappled with problems like drug abuse, bigotry and social inequality. Radically, Lee gave the artists responsible for the comic designs credits for their work. Jack Kirby, Frank Miller, John Romitaand and others achieved cult status in their own right. Other superheroes broke new ground in other ways. Daredevil was blind, Black Panther was black and Silver Surfer pondered the state of humanity. Lee's influence remains. Some years ago the Marvel hero, Northstar, came out of the closet. In its heyday, Marvel was selling 50 million copies a year. Until he retired from editing in 1971, Stan Lee wrote all the copy for Marvel's covers. In 1999, his Stan Lee Media venture, aimed at marrying comic-strips with the internet, went spectacularly wrong. Lee went bankrupt and his business partner landed in prison for fraud. In 2001 though, he started a new company entitled POW! (Purveyors of Wonder) Entertainment, which went on to develop films and TV programmes. His half-century-year-old creations are still as enduring as ever - with X-Men, Fantastic Four, Hulk, Daredevil, Iron Man and the Avengers all given the Hollywood treatment. Spider-Man was a huge box office hit, with the 2002 original and its 2004 sequel taking almost $1.6bn (£857m) in ticket sales around the world - before DVD and merchandise sales were counted. More recently the three Captain America films, starring Chris Evans, took $2.24bn at the worldwide box office. Robert Downey Jr's Iron Man pulled in $2.4bn. Marvel's appeal was unequivocal. And fans also delighted in seeing Lee's brief cameo appearances in almost every Marvel live-action movie. Lee also enjoyed success with graphic novels. In 2012 he co-wrote Romeo and Juliet: The War which landed on The New York Times' best-seller list and launched a YouTube channel, Stan Lee's World of Heroes. He introduced his digital graphic novel Stan Lee's God Woke at the 2016 Comic-Con. The print version won the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards' independent voice award. In later years he lamented his deteriorating eyesight, which meant he could no longer read the comic books where he made his name. He told the Radio Times in 2016 that he "missed reading 100%". And he also talked about what he considered to be the greatest superpower - luck. He said: "Every time I go to a comic book convention, at least one fan will ask me, 'What is the greatest superpower of all?' I always say that luck is the greatest superpower, because if you have good luck then everything goes your way." www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39267963
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Post by jcurio on Nov 12, 2018 18:12:07 GMT -6
Yep. This is a good story. And Stan Lee doing his cameos was fun.... this guy in entertainment industry will be missed.
Sounds like he tried to spread some credit for work done on this franchise. 🙂
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Post by auntym on Nov 15, 2018 12:25:09 GMT -6
www.cnn.com/2018/11/15/entertainment/roy-clark-dies/index.html?utm_term=image&utm_source=twCNN&utm_content=2018-11-15T17%3A54%3A55&utm_medium=social Roy Clark, 'Hee Haw' host, dies at 85By Megan Thomas and Kevin Bohn, CNN Thu November 15, 2018 LOS ANGELES - APRIL 25: Roy Clark, string instrument player and host of the CBS television country music and variety show, "Hee Haw." Image dated April 25, 1969. Los Angeles, CA. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images) (CNN)Roy Clark, a country music star and former host of the long-running TV series "Hee Haw," died Thursday, his publicist told CNN. He was 85. Clark died of complications from pneumonia at his home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to publicist Sandy Brokaw. The guitarist and banjo player began his musical career as a young teen, making his first appearance at the Grand Ole Opry at age 17. Clark was the host or co-host of "Hee Haw" from 1969 to 1992. www.cnn.com/2018/11/15/entertainment/roy-clark-dies/index.html?utm_term=image&utm_source=twCNN&utm_content=2018-11-15T17%3A54%3A55&utm_medium=social
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Post by auntym on Dec 1, 2018 10:59:27 GMT -6
www.cnn.com/2018/12/01/politics/george-h-w-bush-reactions/index.html?utm_content=2018-12-01T14%3A15%3A02&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN&utm_term=image Political world react to George H.W. Bush's deathBy Madeline Holcombe, CNN / Sat December 1, 2018 CNN Special Report "Remembering 41: President George H. W. Bush" airs tonight at 8 p.m. ET.(CNN)The 41st President of the United States and patriarch of a political dynasty, George H.W. Bush died on Friday in Houston. He was 94 years old. Friends, world leaders and fellow politicians are now paying tribute to the man remembered as a World War II combat pilot, a Cold War politician, and a compassionate family man. President Donald J. Trump and first lady Melania Trump: Melania and I join with a grieving Nation to mourn the loss of former President George H.W. Bush, who passed away last night. Through his essential authenticity, disarming wit, and unwavering commitment to faith, family, and country, President Bush inspired generations of his fellow Americans to public service — to be, in his words, "a thousand points of light" illuminating the greatness, hope, and opportunity of America to the world. President Bush always found a way to set the bar higher. As a young man, he captained the Yale baseball team, and then went on to serve as the youngest aviator in the United States Navy during the Second World War. Later in life, he rose to the pinnacle of American politics as a Congressman from Texas, envoy to China, Director of Central Intelligence, Vice President of eight years to President Ronald Reagan, and finally President of the United States. With sound judgement (sic), common sense, and unflappable leadership, President Bush guided our Nation, and the world, to a peaceful and victorious conclusion of the Cold War. As President, he set the stage for the decades of prosperity that have followed. And through all that he accomplished, he remained humble, following the quiet call to service that gave him a clear sense of direction. Along with his full life of service to country, we will remember President Bush for his devotion to family — especially the love of his life, Barbara. His example lives on, and will continue to stir future Americans to pursue a greater cause. Our hearts ache with his loss, and we, with the American people, send our prayers to the entire Bush family, as we honor the life and legacy of 41. President Obama: America has lost a patriot and humble servant in George Herbert Walker Bush. While our hearts are heavy today, they are also filled with gratitude. Not merely for the years he spent as our forty-first President, but for the more than 70 years he spent in devoted service to the country he loved -- from a decorated Naval aviator who nearly gave his life in World War II, to Commander-in-Chief of our Armed Forces, with plenty of posts along the way. Ambassador to the United Nations. Director of Central Intelligence. U.S. Envoy to China. Vice President of the United States. George H.W. Bush's life is a testament to the notion that public service is a noble, joyous calling. And he did tremendous good along the journey. Expanding America's promise to new immigrants and people with disabilities. Reducing the scourge of nuclear weapons and building a broad international coalition to expel a dictator from Kuwait. And when democratic revolutions bloomed across Eastern Europe, it was his steady, diplomatic hand that made possible an achievement once thought anything but -- ending the Cold War without firing a shot. It's a legacy of service that may never be matched, even though he'd want all of us to try. After seventy-three years of marriage, George and Barbara Bush are together again now, two points of light that never dimmed, two points of light that ignited countless others with their example -- the example of a man who, even after commanding the world's mightiest military, once said "I got more of a kick out of being one of the founders of the YMCA in Midland, Texas back in 1952 than almost anything I've done." What a testament to the qualities that make this country great. Service to others. Commitment to leaving behind something better. Sacrifice in the name of lifting this country closer to its founding ideals. Our thoughts are with the entire Bush family tonight -- and all who were inspired by George and Barbara's example. Former Vice President Al Gore: President George H.W. Bush served our nation with extraordinary integrity and grace. I will remember him for his personal kindness and for his love of this country. He earned bipartisan respect for speaking up and taking action for what he believed was right, even when doing so was unpopular. He inspired countless Americans to volunteer and improve their communities through his point of life Foundation. President Bush leaves behind an American legacy of a lifetime of service that will be revered for generations. President Bill and Hillary Clinton: Hillary and I mourn the passing of President George H.W. Bush, and give thanks for his great long life of service, love, and friendship. I will be forever grateful for the friendship we formed. From the moment I met him as a young governor invited to his home in Kennebunkport, I was struck by the kindness he showed to Chelsea, by his innate and genuine decency, and by his devotion to Barbara, his children, and their growing brood. The letter George H.W. Bush left for Clinton is a lesson in eleganceFew Americans have been—or will ever be—able to match President Bush's record of service to the United States and the joy he took every day from it; from his military service in World War II, to his work in Congress, the United Nations, China, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Vice Presidency and the Presidency, where he worked to move the post Cold War world toward greater unity, peace, and freedom. He never stopped serving. I saw it up close, working with him on tsunami relief in Asia and here at home after Hurricane Katrina. His remarkable leadership and great heart were always on full display. I am profoundly grateful for every minute I spent with President Bush and will always hold our friendship as one of my life's greatest gifts. Our hearts and prayers are with George, Jeb, Neil, Marvin, Doro, their families, and the entire Bush clan. US Naval Air Forces: Naval Aviation mourns the passing of our 41st President, George H.W. Bush, a Naval Aviator, statesman, and humble public servant. His legacy lives on in those who don the cloth of our great nation and in the mighty warship which bears his name, @cvn77_GHWB. May he Rest In Peace. CONTINUE READING: www.cnn.com/2018/12/01/politics/george-h-w-bush-reactions/index.html?utm_content=2018-12-01T14%3A15%3A02&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN&utm_term=imageTHE LETTER BUSH LEFT CLINTON: www.cnn.com/2018/12/01/politics/george-bush-bill-clinton-letter-trnd/index.html
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Post by jcurio on Dec 1, 2018 11:16:36 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Dec 8, 2018 15:41:55 GMT -6
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/john-lennon-the-last-interview-179443/ John Lennon: The Last InterviewBy Jonathan Cott / www.rollingstone.com/author/jonathan-cott/December 23, 2010 Three days before he died, John Lennon talked with ‘Rolling Stone’ for nine hours. For the first time, we present this extraordinary interviewJohn Lennon on the cover of 'Rolling Stone.' Annie LeibovitzOn the evening of Friday, December 5th, 1980, John Lennon spoke to Rolling Stone editor Jonathan Cott for more than nine hours at his apartment on New York’s Upper West Side and at the Record Plant recording studio. Three nights later, Lennon would be murdered as he was returning home from a mixing session. The interview had originally been scheduled to run as the cover story of the first issue of 1981, but after Lennon’s killing, Cott instead wrote an obituary for Lennon and ended up using very little from their conversations. In fact, he never even fully transcribed his tape. On the 30th anniversary of Lennon’s death, we present, for the first time, the full text of Lennon’s last major print interview: the joyous, outrageously funny, inspiring, fearless and subversive conversation Lennon shared with us that night, as he was preparing to jump back into the limelight after five years of private life with Yoko and their young son, Sean. “Welcome to the inner sanctum!” said John Lennon, as he greeted me with high-spirited, mock ceremoniousness in Yoko Ono’s beautiful cloud-ceilinged office in their Dakota apartment. It was December 5th, 1980. I sat down on a couch next to Yoko, and she began telling me how their collaborative new album, Double Fantasy, came about: The previous spring, John and their son, Sean, were vacationing for three weeks in Bermuda while Yoko stayed home “sorting out business,” as she put it. While in Bermuda, John phoned her to say that he had taken Sean to the botanical gardens and had come across a flower called a Double Fantasy. “It’s a type of freesia,” John would later say, “but what it means to us is that if two people picture the same image at the same time, that is the secret.” “I was at a dance club one night in Bermuda,” John interrupted as he sat down on the couch, and Yoko got up to bring coffee. “Upstairs, they were playing disco, and downstairs I suddenly heard ‘Rock Lobster’ by the B-52’s for the first time. Do you know it? It sounds just like Yoko’s music, so I said to meself, ‘It’s time to get out the old ax and wake the wife up!'” She and John spoke on the phone every day and sang each other the songs they had composed in between calls. “I’ve heard,” I said to John, “that you’ve had a guitar hanging on the wall behind your bed for the past five or six years, and that you only recently took it down to play on Double Fantasy.” “I bought this beautiful electric guitar, round about the period I got back with Yoko and had the baby,” John said. “It’s not a normal guitar; it doesn’t have a body. It’s just an arm and this tube-like, toboggan-looking thing, and you can lengthen the top for the balance of it if you’re sitting or standing up. I played it a little, then just hung it up behind the bed, but I’d look at it every now and then, because it had never done a professional thing, it had never really been played. I didn’t want to hide it the way one would hide an instrument because it was too painful to look at – like, Artie Shaw went through a big thing and never played his clarinet again. But I used to look at it and think, ‘Will I ever pull it down?’ “Next to it on the wall I’d placed a wooden number nine and a dagger Yoko had given me – a dagger made out of a bread knife from the American Civil War, to cut away the bad vibes, to cut away the past symbolically. It was just like a picture that hangs there but you never really see, and then recently I realized, ‘Oh, goody! I can finally find out what this guitar is all about,’ and I took it down and used it in making Double Fantasy.” “I’ve been playing Double Fantasy over and over,” I said, getting ready to ply him with another question. John looked at me with a time-and interview-stopping smile. “How are you?” he asked. “It’s been like a reunion for us these last few weeks. We’ve seen Ethan Russell, who’s doing a videotape of a couple of the new songs, and Annie Leibovitz was here. She took my first Rolling Stone cover photo. It’s been fun seeing everyone we used to know and doing it all again – we’ve all survived. When did we first meet?” “I met you and Yoko on September 17th, 1968,” I said, remembering the first of many future encounters. I was just a lucky guy, at the right place at the right time. John had decided to become more “public” and to demystify his Beatles persona. He and Yoko, whom he’d met in November 1966, were preparing for the Amsterdam and Montreal bed-ins for peace, and were soon to release Two Virgins, the first of their experimental record collaborations with its Shakespearean “noises, sounds and sweet airs.” The album cover – the infamous nude portrait of them– was to grace the pages of Rolling Stone‘s first-anniversary issue. John had just discovered the then-impoverished San Francisco-based magazine, and he’d agreed to give Rolling Stone the first of his “coming-out” interviews. As “European editor,” I was asked to visit John and Yoko and to take along a photographer (Ethan Russell, who later took the photos for the Let It Be book that accompanied the album). So, nervous and excited, we met John and Yoko at their temporary basement flat in London. First impressions are usually the most accurate, and John was graceful, charming, exuberant, direct and playful; I remember noticing how he wrote little reminders to himself in the wonderfully absorbed way that a child paints the sun. He was due at a recording session in a half-hour to work on the White Album, so we had agreed to meet the next day to do the interview, but John and Yoko instead invited Ethan and me to attend that day’s session for “Birthday” and “Glass Onion” at Abbey Road Studios. (I remember making myself scarce behind one of the giant studio speakers in order not to raise the hackles of the other visibly disconcerted three Beatles.) Every new encounter with John brought a new perspective. Once, in 1971, I ran into John and Yoko in New York. A friend and I had gone to see the film Carnal Knowledge, and afterward we bumped into the Lennons in the lobby. Accompanied by the yippie activist Jerry Rubin and a friend of his, they invited us to drive down with them to Ratner’s restaurant on the Lower East Side for blintzes, whereupon a beatific, long-haired young man approached our table and wordlessly handed John a card inscribed with a pithy saying of the yogi Meher Baba. Rubin drew a swastika on the back of the card, got up, and gave it back to the man. When he returned, John admonished him gently, saying that that wasn’t the way to change someone’s consciousness. Acerbic and skeptical as he could often be, John Lennon never lost his sense of compassion. Almost 10 years later, I was again talking to John, and he was as gracious and witty as the first time I met him. “I guess I should describe to the readers what you’re wearing, John,” I said. “Let me help you out,” he offered, then intoned wryly, “You can see the glasses he’s wearing. They’re normal, plastic, blue-frame glasses. Nothing like the famous wire-rimmed Lennon glasses that he stopped using in 1973. He’s wearing needle-cord pants, the same black cowboy boots he’d had made in Nudie’s in 1973, a Calvin Klein sweater and a torn Mick Jagger T-shirt that he got when the Stones toured in 1970 or so. And around his neck is a small, three-part diamond heart necklace that he bought as a makeup present after an argument with Yoko many years ago and that she later gave back to him in a kind of ritual. Will that do? “But I know you’ve got a Monday deadline, so let’s get boogieing!” “Double Fantasy” is the first recording you’ve made in five years, and, to quote from your song “The Ballad of John and Yoko,” “It’s good to have the both of you back.” But the illusion that I was cut off from society is a joke. I was just the same as any of the rest of you; I was working from nine to five – baking bread and changing some nappies and dealing with the baby. People keep asking, “Why did you go underground, why were you hiding?” But I wasn’t hiding. I went to Singapore, South Africa, Hong Kong, Bermuda. I’ve been everywhere in the bloody universe. And I did fairly average things, I went to the movies. But you weren’t writing a lot of songs during those years. I didn’t write a damn thing. . . . You know, it was a big event for us to have a baby – people might forget how hard we tried to have one and how many miscarriages we had and near-death scenes for Yoko . . . and we actually had a stillborn child and a lot of problems with drugs, a lot of personal and public problems brought on by ourselves and with help from our friends. But, whatever. We put ourselves in situations that were stressful, but we managed to have the child that we tried to have for 10 years, and, my God, we weren’t going to blow it. We didn’t move for a year, and I took up yoga with the gray-haired lady on TV [laughs]. You can’t really win. People criticized you for not writing and recording, but it’s sometimes forgotten that your three previous albums – Some Time in New York City, Walls and Bridges and Rock ‘N’ Roll – weren’t universally praised . . . especially the agitprop Some Time in New York City, which included songs like “Attica State,” “Sunday Bloody Sunday” and “Woman Is the Nigger of the World.” Yeah, that was the one that really upset everyone. Yoko calls it “Bertolt Brecht,” but, as usual, I didn’t know who he was until she took me to see Richard Foreman’s production of The Threepenny Opera four years ago, and then I saw the album in that light. I was always irritated by the rushness of sound on it, but I was consciously doing it like a newspaper where you get the misprints, the times and the facts aren’t quite right, and there’s that you’ve-got-to-get-it-out-by-Friday attitude. But I’ve been attacked many, many times . . . and right from the beginning: “From Me to You” was “below-par Beatles,” don’t forget that. That was the review in the NME [New Musical Express]. Jesus Christ, I’m sorry. Maybe it wasn’t as good as “Please Please Me,” I don’t know, but “below par”? I’ll never forget that one. And you know how bad the reviews were of our Plastic Ono albums? They shredded us! “Self-indulgent, simplistic whining” – that was the main gist. Because those albums were about ourselves, you see, and not about Ziggy Stardust or Tommy. . . . And Mind Games, they hated it. But it’s not just me. Take Mick, for instance. Mick’s put out consistently good work for 20 years, and will they give him a break? Will they ever say, “Look at him, he’s number one, he’s 37 and he has a beautiful song, ‘Emotional Rescue,’ it’s up there”? I enjoyed it, a lot of people enjoyed it. And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God. I haven’t seen him, but I’ve heard such good things about him. Right now his fans are happy. He’s told them about being drunk and chasing girls and cars and everything, and that’s about the level they enjoy. But when he gets down to facing his own success and growing older and having to produce it again and again, they’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it. All he has to do is look at me or at Mick. So it goes up and down, up and down – of course it does, but what are we, machines? What do they want from the guy? Do they want him to kill himself onstage? Do they want me and Yoko to *bleep* onstage or kill ourselves onstage? But when they criticized “From Me to You” as below-par Beatles, that’s when I first realized you’ve got to keep it up, there’s some sort of system where you get on the wheel and you’ve got to keep going around. CONTINUE READING: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/john-lennon-the-last-interview-179443/
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Post by auntym on Dec 18, 2018 13:17:50 GMT -6
www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/penny-marshall-laverne-shirley-actress-dead-770765/R.I.P PENNY MARSHALL... Penny Marshall, Director and ‘Laverne & Shirley’ Actress, Dead at 75 Filmmaker behind Big, Awakenings and A League of Their Own succumbs to complications from diabetesBy Kory Grow / www.rollingstone.com/author/kory-grow/December 18, 2018 Penny Marshall, TV's Laverne and the director behind 'Big,' "Awakenings' and 'A League of Their Own' has died at the age of 75. Harry Langdon/Getty Images Penny Marshall, the influential actress and filmmaker, died Monday night at her home in California. A rep confirmed the entertainer’s death to Rolling Stone, adding that her death was due to complications from diabetes. She was 75. “Our family is heartbroken over the passing of Penny Marshall.” Marshall’s family said in a statement. After making a name for herself with recurring roles on The Odd Couple and Happy Days, she shot to fame with Laverne & Shirley, a Happy Days spinoff that ran from 1976 to 1983. She stepped behind the camera in the Eighties, directing a string of blockbusters: Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Big, Awakenings and A League of Their Own, among others. Both Big and A League of Their Own grossed more than $100 million — the former the first film by a female director to surpass that financial mark — breaking new ground for female directors. She also produced the hit films Cinderella Man and Bewitched, among others. A decade ago, Marshall was treated for brain and lung cancer. She is survived by her sister Ronny, her daughter and three grandchildren, Spencer, Bella and Viva. Her family told the Daily News that they will hold a “celebration of life” in her honor, which they will detail at a later date. www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/penny-marshall-laverne-shirley-actress-dead-770765/************************** Actress Penny Marshall, who found fame in TV's "Laverne & Shirley" before going on to direct such beloved films as "Big" and "A League of Their Own," has died. She was 75. www.cnn.com/2018/12/18/entertainment/penny-marshall-dead/index.html?utm_term=image&utm_content=2018-12-18T19%3A17%3A55&utm_source=twCNN&utm_medium=social
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Post by swamprat on Jan 28, 2019 14:16:02 GMT -6
Today is a sad anniversary.
NASA lost seven of its own on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986, when a booster engine failed, causing the Shuttle Challenger to break apart just 73 seconds after launch.
In this photo from Jan. 9, 1986, the Challenger crew takes a break during countdown training at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. From left to right are Teacher-in-Space Christa McAuliffe and astronauts Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnik, Mission Commander Dick Scobee, astronaut Ronald McNair, pilot Mike Smith, and astronaut Ellison Onizuka.
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Post by jcurio on Jan 28, 2019 14:28:18 GMT -6
Yep.
Definitely a “pall” over today 😢
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Post by jojustjo on Jan 28, 2019 18:00:42 GMT -6
Now they KNOW the mysteries of the universe and how far they can really fly. The ultimate journey
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Post by plutronus on Feb 1, 2019 2:56:30 GMT -6
Today is a sad anniversary.
NASA lost seven of its own on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986, when a booster engine failed, causing the Shuttle Challenger to break apart just 73 seconds after launch.
In this photo from Jan. 9, 1986, the Challenger crew takes a break during countdown training at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. From left to right are Teacher-in-Space Christa McAuliffe and astronauts Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnik, Mission Commander Dick Scobee, astronaut Ronald McNair, pilot Mike Smith, and astronaut Ellison Onizuka.
In 1986, my two partners and I had a contract with RocketDyne, the manufacturer of the three Space Shuttle Main Engines that were located on the rear of the orbitor. The job entailed the design, fabrication, integration of a super-computer and a telemetry data-stream decoder and the quick-look water-fall and post acquisition data analysis software. The RocketDyne SSME engineers had devised a method to measure the SSME TurboPump shaft torque while the engines were running. The data was to be down-linked from the Space Shuttle down-link telemetry during ascent and streamed to contractor facilities via the National Space Transportation Laboratory (NSTL) microwave data link network throughout the US. The fuels contained within the Main Engine Tank, the big red cylinder which was located underneath the shuttle, were pumped into the engines under tremendous pressure. The hydrogen and the oxygen, each, swimming pool size volumes per second.
We had been working around the clock to complete the analysis system as we were told that the STS-51L Mission would be delayed should our system not be functional in time for the launch!!! I was doing the hardware part and my partner was writing the analysis software.
The super-computer, a Perkin-Elmer 3250 was mounted on a 'false' floor, meaning that the floor tiles, see-through metal cross-hatch 'squares' could be individually lifted revealing a cable space beneath the tiles to allow laying and routing of cables and power wires underneath and between the computer cabinet 'racks'. We were working very long and hard hours. One morning, I was awakened by my partner, seems I had fallen asleep behind the computer where I had been reconfiguring the back-plane for the MAC processor, a specialty high-speed adapter for the CSPI array processor...fancy math co-processor, a box the size of a microwave oven, about $300,000.
"Wake up!, the astronauts are here to see our system". I didn't known that they were coming? Seems that three of them, STS-51L Mission Commander Dick Scobee, Shuttle Pilot Mike Smith and Mission Specialist Judith 'Judy' Resnik, had each hopped into a T-38 trainer jet, flying down from Kennedy Spaceflight Center in Florida, landing at the Tactical Airlift Wing in Van Nuys then flown by Rockwell (orbitor manufacturer and corporate Hq of RocketDyne) helicopter to RocketDyne. I tucked my shirt-tail in, ran my fingers through my hair and walked out to greet them.
I don't know how to describe the astronauts other than to say that they were beautiful people. Although Mike Smith seemed to be older, all three of them exuded a vibrant vitality and that after chatting with them for a time, it was obvious to see that they were very smart people. Literally cream of the crop. My partner and I are standing there with them, chatting, but I began to notice, that all three of them would take turns staring at my face and then look down toward my knees. They repeated this numerously, and after a short while, Judy Resnick (a veritable babe) leaned forward and whispered into my, "Perhaps you'd like to go freshen up in the men's room?" and then, I thought "Oh my God! My zipper is open!" and I rushed off for the restroom. Got inside and checking my zipper, it was ok? But then I looked in the mirror and it appeared that I had been sleeping on a waffle iron!!! The false-floor. Good thing they didn't see me drooling :))
But the bathroom at RocketDyne was also an experience. Production toilet stalls, arranged along the wall, opposite the sinks, about forty of them, and peeking inside of each stall, located underneath each toilet seat lid, were Space Shuttle Mission decals!! And there also mission decals affixed in the back of the urinals too! When toilet seat lids were up, ya could see a mission decal. RocketDyne. It was Space Shuttle City over there. I was proud to be working on the Space Shuttle. It was cool.
So I when I returned from freshening up, my partner had wandered off with astronauts Scobee and Smith, but Judy Resnick was hanging around eyeballing the hardware that I was engineering. Judy Resnick was a Xerox Corporation hardware engineer, a member of their advanced system R&D group prior to becoming a NASA Astronaut. She was wearing a NASA Space Shuttle ballpark hat, which are basically unobtainium, and I mentioned how cool it was. She gave me her hat! It is one of my treasures, which I occasionally wear.
Two weeks later, January 28, 1986 they were all killed.
The malfunction blew everyone's mind, RocketDyne was like a morgue. Its been 33 years, and it still hurts.
plutronus
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Post by swamprat on Feb 1, 2019 10:35:16 GMT -6
Today is a sad anniversary.
Two weeks later, January 28, 1986 they were all killed.
The malfunction blew everyone's mind, RocketDyne was like a morgue. Its been 33 years, and it still hurts.
plutronus
Thank you for recounting this, plutronus. What an awesome (albeit painful) memory!
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Post by skywalker on Feb 1, 2019 10:59:41 GMT -6
That hat would be super cool. Especially considering how you got it. I'd take that sucker to my grave.
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