Obit: On June 22, ten days after his Good Morning World co-star Ronnie Schell passed away, Joby Baker, 92, had died. He had been long married to Andre Previn's ex-wife, Dory, until she died in 2012.
Baker was also featured in Elvis Presley travelogues, er, movies and in the Gidget films.
His death was announced Saturday.
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Joseph Baker was born in Montreal on March 26, 1934. After his mother died when he was a toddler, his father — who had affectionally nicknamed him “Jobela” — took him to live in Oahu, Hawaii.
When Pearl Harbor was bombed on Dec. 7, 1941, Baker escaped injury in the immediate aftermath when the house he was living in was hit by friendly fire. He and his stepmother quickly left the islands, taking the RMS Aquitania with thousands of other evacuees to San Francisco, he recalled in 2022.
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He later left acting to sculpt and paint full time. This is a site featuring a few of his works.
This author isn't saying anything new. Authoritarian "thinking" has been a part of this country since its beginnings, and that includes the religious whack jobs. You can explain them and their "thinking" all you want--and they are NOT "conservative--but nothing can be done about them. They are lost.
Democrats don't need them and don't want them. There are millions and millions of people who don't vote--those and current Democratic voters and independents are where it is at.
"Conservative" voters have to die out.
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I was out of town on vacation last week with little internet access and didn't hear about the death of Alan Greenspan, who was a Randian type, literally a disciple of hers when he was young all those many decades ago, but he somehow secured a spot as the head of the Fed for many years. He died so young, only 100 years old. He died on the 22nd of June, while I was in the Mount Hood area going on enjoyable hikes to know about it.
He had been married since the late 1990s to broadcast journalist Andrea Mitchell.
Greenspan proved right the old saying, "The good die young." Kind of like Henry Kissinger, who also had made it to the century mark.
Greenspan was born March 6, 1926, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City, where he showed mathematical acumen from a young age. In his early years, he attended the Juilliard School and played jazz saxophone and clarinet in a band.
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This part was unintentionally hilarious:
“Ayn Rand and I remained close until she died in 1982, and I’m grateful for the influence she had on my life. I was intellectually limited until I met her,” Greenspan wrote in “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World.”
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That doesn't say much for his "intellect" to follow somebody who clearly had a personality disorder or perhaps even a form of autism. She never played with a full deck. At least Greenspan didn't become a boy toy for her, thank God.
Andrea Mitchell did note her husband continued to love jazz and was a diehard baseball fan, so Alan did have a few virtues besides the "virtue of selfishness."
A bunch of chickenshits in white masks claiming to be "patriots" tried to create havoc in D.C. at the Metro, but they don't even know how to use it. Furthermore, despite their loud mouths, they know they are way, way, way, way, way, way outnumbered.
Adam Mockler:
The "fair" is proving to be a complete flop, just like everything else Trump touches.
Original Village People lead singer, Victor Willis, 74, has died after a "short but aggressive illness" in the words of his band. Willis was once married to actress Phylicia Rashad. Willis sang for Village People during the years when they had their greatest hits, the late 1970s.
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Texas-born Willis was a co-founder and the original lead singer for the band, whose hit singles included “Y.M.C.A.,” “Go West” and “In the Navy.”
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Willis left the group in 1979 in hope of embarking on a solo career before he re-formed the flamboyant disco band in 2017, leading to disputes with some of his former bandmates.
“Y.M.C.A.,” the catchy 1978 song for which Willis often dressed up as a cop, had a resurgence in popularity after Trump began dancing to it at the end of his campaign rallies in 2020.
Willis said he got thousands of complaints about the use of the song at Trump’s events and had decided to ask him “to stop using Y.M.C.A. because his use had become a nuisance to me.”
Thomas Bryant Ligon was born in New Orleans on Sept. 10, 1940. His father, Walter, was a U.S. Army colonel who later worked for the Defense Department.
Ligon attended St. Albans School in Washington and then Yale University, where he starred as Kilroy in Tennessee Williams’ Camino Realand reportedly got the attention of the playwright.
He graduated from college as an English major in 1962 and pursued acting in New York, where he shared a $25-a-month sublet in the Village with another young actor, Sam Waterston.
Byrne died June 20, according to The Guardian. A cause of death was not disclosed. USA TODAY has reached out to his representatives for comment.
Over a career that spanned six decades, London-born Byrne played supporting roles in a string of box office hits, including the James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies" and "Braveheart."
Yesterday, I made the trip up to the top of Lower Table Rock near Medford, Oregon. It was the first time in two years I made the hike. It was perfect weather, with temperatures in the lower 60s, unusual for this time of year.
The USSC upheld birthright citizenship, albeit by too narrow a margin, and that pissed off the Trump administration.
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This is a nice appreciation of the life and work of Ann Blyth, who passed away last week at the age of 98.
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There is no constitutional right for men to cheat in women's sports, as is far more often the case in these matters; instead, the USSC said it was a state matter.
Last week as part of an organized hike in the Mount Hood area, I visited beautiful Umbrella Falls, which is located on the east side of Mount Hood. The day was a rainy day, and some people went further than I did in the rain. The falls were worth it, however.
The gray jays were especially adept at eating food out of people's hands.
This was a picture of a chipmunk that happened to go into a Ziploc bag in search of food!
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