Monday Reads

After over a year on the lam, Darren Agee Merager, 53, has been arrested and charged with crimes relating to the infamous Wi Spa incident of June 2021 and a previous incident.

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 You can't make this stuff up. Or maybe you can.

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Why is this even up for debate? The answer is an emphatic no.

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Obituary:   I was looking at an episode from season 8 of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, and there was an episode that showed David, I am certain of it, having a copy of Playboy magazine hidden somewhat away but shown to the camera. I thought, my goodness, this is a foreshadowing of things to come. As everybody knows, sometime around 1960 David was in a tv show called Two Faces West, where he met June Blair, who had once been Playboy's Playmate of the Month of June 1957. Of course she and David married and she became a regular cast member of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet until the end of the series. She was the last remaining regular cast member of the show. She passed away earlier this month at the age of 90.

It appears she had a very hard life as a child.  Hollywood Reporter:

Margaret June Blair was born in San Francisco on Oct. 30, 1932. Abandoned by her father at eight months and by her mother at age 3, she became a ward of the State of California and grew up with at least eight families.

Blair modeled and attended four high schools in Los Angeles before she made her onscreen debut as a “Miss Lonelyhearts” columnist on CBS’ Our Miss Brooks in 1956, leading to a contract at 20th Century Fox.

In addition to Hell Bound, she appeared in the films Man of a Thousand Faces, My Man Godfrey, Top Secret Affair and This Could Be the Night and on episodes of Conflict and Bachelor Father in 1957.

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Another obit: Shirley Watts, 84, who was the widow of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, who passed away last year, has died after a short illness.

Unlike her husband, Shirley was a big fan of the Rolling Stones and always played their records, something he didn't do.  She was also known for touring with him and the band, often with their daughter Seraphina and later with her and HER daughter.

Snip:

Born Shirley Ann Shepherd in London, she and Charlie first met in the early 1960s after she dropped in on a rehearsal for Alexis Korner's band with classmates from art school, where she was studying, Charlie said in the book According to the Rolling Stones.

They were soon married, and Shirley often joined her husband on tour with the Stones, according to Chrissie Shrimpton, a former girlfriend of Mick Jagger.

"The firm rule was always 'no girls on tour' but Shirley would nearly always go because Charlie simply refused to get up or wash if she didn't," Shrimpton said in Phillip Norman's biography of the frontman.

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