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My wife's mother passed Saturday night and we held the ceremony today & now that I'm the only one awake, I can't stop crying.  She was such a fantastic woman.   I'm sorry.  

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So far...   Read an article about the John Madden documentary.  He dies two days later. Read several articles about Betty White.  She dies that night. Watch an NFL documentary on D

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RIP, amigo. You were a favorite in my family.    

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Cloris Leachman, 94. Her IMDB page hoes back to 1948.Appeared  in countless TV series in the 50s through the 2010s. Became well known as Phyllis on the Mary tyler Moore Show in the 70s.Appeared in The Last Picture Show, Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety, The Longest Yard (remake), was the grandma on Malcom in the Middle, and as recently as last year  provided a voice in the  Croods latest cartoon.

Won 9 Emmys and a Best supporting Actress Oscar.

Her classmates at the Drama Department of Northwestern University included Paul Lynde, Charlotte Rae and  Patricia Neal .

 

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21 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

 

More on the above.......

 

RIP: Cloris Leachman, Emmy and Oscar Winner, Dies at 94.

What a career.

Twilight Zone........... cloris-twilight-zone-e1401406315558.jpg

 

 

 

I never recognized Leachman as the mother from that classic Twilight Zone episode.

 

So Leachman played the mother of a character played by Bill Mumy on the Twilight Zone  Mumy would later go on to play Babylon 5 character Lennier, who as an acolyte of Delen.  Delen was played by Mira Furlan, who also died this week (see a few posts above)

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On 1/23/2021 at 11:21 AM, B-Man said:

 

Gregory Sierra dies.

 

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/gregory-sierra-dead-barney-miller-sanford-and-son-1234890674/

 

 

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  Sierra did a fair amount of television.  He was the vigilante Paul on the All in the Family episode "Archie is branded."  Did a last hurrah type episode for Gunsmoke that included character-villain actor John Colicos.  

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14 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

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9 hours ago — Emmy and Tony winner Hal Holbrook, best known for his role as Mark Twain, whom he portrayed for decades, died on Jan. 23. He was 95.

 

I liked him in his John Carpenter appearances, too. RIP

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RIP: George Shultz, Reagan’s secretary of state, dies at 100.

 

As secretary of state, Shultz had a key test for ambassadors:

When I was in the first period when I was secretary of state, there was in my office a big globe. And when ambassadors, who were newly going to their posts or in their posts and coming back to visit me, would get ready to leave, I would say to them, “Ambassador, you have one more test before you can go to your post. You have to go over to the globe and prove to me that you can identify your country.” So unerringly, they would go over and they’d spin the globe around and they’d put their finger on the country they were going to, pass the test.

 

So Mike Mansfield, great elder statesman in America, former Senate majority leader and who had been ambassador to Japan for a while before I was there, and he was a close friend of mine from back when I was in the Nixon administration — so he was visiting and he got ready to leave. I said, “Mike, I got to give you the same test I give everybody else. Before you can go back to Japan, you got to show me that you can go over to the globe and put your finger on your country.” So he went over and he spun this globe around and he put his hand on the United States, said, “That’s my country.” So I’ve told that, subsequently, to all the ambassadors going out, “Never forget, you’re over there in that country, but your country is the United States. You’re there to represent us. Take care of our interests and never forget it, and you’re representing the best country in the world.”

Sadly, I doubt many of Biden’s ambassadors could pass that test.

 
 
 
 
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