Saturday July 25 Reads

Obituary:  Television host Regis Philbin, 88, has died of natural causes.  I didn't much watch his talk show, but his co-host Kathie Lee Gifford was known as one of the most hated women in the United States.   He was the rather bland of the two and avoided the brickbats that often came Kathie's way.

Born on August 25, 1931, Philbin was raised in the Bronx and graduated from Cardinal Hayes High School in 1949 before attending the University of Notre Dame, where he earned a sociology degree in 1953.

After serving in the Navy, Philbin began his career in show business as a writer and made his way in front of the camera in 1961 with a local talk show in San Diego called The Regis Philbin Show. Then in 1967, he became widely known as Joey Bishop's sidekick on The Joey Bishop Show.

After a string of local talk shows, including A.M. Los Angeles and Regis Philbin's Saturday Night in St. Louis, he moved to New York in 1983 to host The Morning Show, which was renamed three years later as Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee.

Fun fact:  "Regis" was in fact his real first name.  His complete name was Regis Francis Xavier Philbin.    In truth, who could have possibly have made it up as a substitute for a real name?  Supposedly he was named for his father's high school, Regis High School.

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The blogger has it completely wrong.  AOC IS a fuck-up, a narcissist who has an inflated sense of self-importance.  She doesn't recognize what a total dipshit she is.
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Another assumption about marriage has been shot to shit.

Mindset is more important than a license to fuck.
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Sexist attitudes about women's appearance never change, even in lockdown.
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Obituary:  Noted actor John Saxon, 83, has died.

He was born Carmine Orrico on Aug. 5, 1936, the eldest of three children of an Italian immigrant house painter. While in high school, he worked as a spieler at a Coney Island archery concession, becoming proficient with the bow and arrow.

"Brooklyn was a tough place to grow up in, but it taught you survival, and if you were ambitious, it taught you to want better things," he once said.

Walking out of a movie theater after skipping class at New Utrecht High School, he was spotted by a male modeling agent and then appeared in magazines like True Romances.

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Another obit: Peter Green, 73, guitarist and one of the founders of the band Fleetwood Mac, has died.

"It is with great sadness that the family of Peter Green announce his death this weekend, peacefully in his sleep," said Swan Turton solicitors in a statement. The firm added that a further statement will be given in the coming days.

The English singer-songwriter and guitarist, from Bethnal Green in East London, formed Fleetwood Mac with drummer Mick Fleetwood in 1967.

In 1965, Green filled in for Eric Clapton in the band John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers -- in which Fleetwood played the drums. Two years later, Green and Fleetwood left the band to form Fleetwood Mac, later convincing Bluesbreakers bassist John McVie to join them.

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