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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 22, 2022 13:37:09 GMT -5
Blues great Guitar Shorty passed away on the 20th. Besides his own recordings Shorty played with Ray Charles, Sam Cooke and a host of others. He was, by all reports a significant influence on Jimi Hendrix. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 23, 2022 5:17:45 GMT -5
Hockey legend Guy Lafleur passed away at the age of 70. Thank you for that eloquent eulogy, The Captain. Lafleur was a humble giant and the last of the Canadiens trimurti (Maurice Richard, Jean Béliveau, and now him). I wasn't a Montreal fan back in the day, but even I had to admit that he was probably the world's best player at the end of the '70s. The Prime minister is considering a national funeral for Guy. A popular hero of his stature deserves it. |
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Post by The Captain on Apr 23, 2022 6:26:20 GMT -5
Thanks Roquefort Raider. Lafleur's dominance in the NHL was a little before my time (I went to my first Penguins game in January 1981), but as I learned more about the game, he obviously stood out as one of the best of all-time. I was listening to our local sports-talk radio guys yesterday afternoon. He knows more about hockey (and pro wrestling, but that is another story for another time) than probably all of the other radio talkers in Pittsburgh put together, and he brought up the piece I put above about the trade of the first-round pick. According to him, the league had nothing to do with it, but that it was actually part of Montreal's strategy in the early expansion era, where they traded players for whom they had no use for the new teams' draft picks in the hopes that they could get lucky if those teams had bad seasons. I checked NHL Trade Tracker, and there is credence to this. In the years after the expansion was announced, they grabbed the following: Minnesota's 1st-rounders in 1970, 1971, and 1972. California's 1st-rounders in 1968, 1970, 1971 (the Lafleur pick), 1972, and 1973, plus their 2nd-rounder in 1973. Los Angeles' 1st-rounders in 1969 and 1972 (turned out to be Steve Shutt), plus their 2nd-rounders in 1970, 1971 (turned out to be Larry Robinson) and 1973. They continued this practice throughout the 1970s as new teams entered the league. I found them making similar deals with Atlanta, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Vancouver, New York Islanders, and St. Louis. While it wasn't illegal, the NHL should have stepped in and stopped the practice, as the new teams were taking either prospects the Canadiens had zero use for (which should have been a red flag), over-the-hill players, or swapping picks (which would never be at the top of the draft list because of Montreal's success). |
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 23, 2022 10:49:04 GMT -5
Also passing away was actor Robert Morse, star of the Broadway hit, How To Succeed In Business, Without Really Trying, as well as the film adaptation.
Morse was noted on Broadway, with multiple Tony and Drama desk award nominations and wins for How To Succeed and his one-man show Tru, as Truman Capote. He also co-starred in the film The Loved One, with Jonathan Winters, based on the darkly satirical Evelyn Waugh book, as well as Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? and Quick, Before It Melts.
In recent years, he played Betram Cooper, on Mad Men.
He was also in the original cast of the musical Sugar, based on the film Some Like It Hot, in the Jack Lemmon role of Jerry/Daphne.
Morse also did a bit of voice acting, including the cartoon series Pound Puppies and portrayed Santa Claus, in Teen Titans Go.
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Post by Ricky Jackson on Apr 23, 2022 11:05:12 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 24, 2022 4:59:20 GMT -5
Also passing away was actor Robert Morse, star of the Broadway hit, How To Succeed In Business, Without Really Trying, as well as the film adaptation. Morse was noted on Broadway, with multiple Tony and Drama desk award nominations and wins for How To Succeed and his one-man show Tru, as Truman Capote. He also co-starred in the film The Loved One, with Jonathan Winters, based on the darkly satirical Evelyn Waugh book, as well as Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? and Quick, Before It Melts. In recent years, he played Betram Cooper, on Mad Men. He was also in the original cast of the musical Sugar, based on the film Some Like It Hot, in the Jack Lemmon role of Jerry/Daphne. Morse also did a bit of voice acting, including the cartoon series Pound Puppies and portrayed Santa Claus, in Teen Titans Go. I remember Morse for that movie and nothing else. I guess he never really broke through in movies and Tv as a regular name. But more and more these last few years I keep discovering many show business people walk away for a quieter life. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 24, 2022 11:19:33 GMT -5
Also passing away was actor Robert Morse, star of the Broadway hit, How To Succeed In Business, Without Really Trying, as well as the film adaptation. Morse was noted on Broadway, with multiple Tony and Drama desk award nominations and wins for How To Succeed and his one-man show Tru, as Truman Capote. He also co-starred in the film The Loved One, with Jonathan Winters, based on the darkly satirical Evelyn Waugh book, as well as Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? and Quick, Before It Melts. In recent years, he played Betram Cooper, on Mad Men. He was also in the original cast of the musical Sugar, based on the film Some Like It Hot, in the Jack Lemmon role of Jerry/Daphne. Morse also did a bit of voice acting, including the cartoon series Pound Puppies and portrayed Santa Claus, in Teen Titans Go. I remember Morse for that movie and nothing else. I guess he never really broke through in movies and Tv as a regular name. But more and more these last few years I keep discovering many show business people walk away for a quieter life. He did quite a bit of tv; but, a ton on the stage. IMDB lists 75 film and tv credits, including quite a bit of voice work, from the 80s on, including Desaad, in Superman The Animated Series. he had a total of 5 Tony nominations, with 2 wins. He made his stage debut in 1949; so he had a lot of work under his belt by the 1970s. The problem is the general public doesn't seem to retain that kind of thing, since we don't have video records of most performances and theater doesn't get the cache it does in Europe. He turns up in a lot of interesting character pieces, including the revived Twilight Zone, in the 80s, a Rankin-Bass special (Jack Frost) and even a soap opera (All My Children). He was part of the series That's Life, based on the work of James Thurber; but, it lasted only one season However, it is fondly remembered by those who saw it; but, it was probably too "stagey" and experimental for the average audience. |
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Post by The Captain on Apr 24, 2022 16:24:04 GMT -5
Thanks for the tips on these books! I have some money left on an Amazon GC and that second one about the Seals looks fascinating. It’s interesting how disparate the teams that came along in the first expansion were in terms of results. The Blues and Flyers were well-run organizations from the get-go and had success both early on and continuing for years. Los Angeles and Minnesota were middling at best and have remained much the same for their entire existences save for a few seasons. My Penguins were pretty much a trainwreck for their first 20 or so years until finally getting it together in the late 80s, while the Seals were a complete and utter dumpster fire from Day One. |
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Post by kirby101 on Apr 24, 2022 19:34:58 GMT -5
James Bama passes away at 93. Doc Savage, Aurora Models and top western artist.
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 25, 2022 23:03:05 GMT -5
James Bama passes away at 93. Doc Savage, Aurora Models and top western artist. The man probably did more for Doc Savage than anyone, apart from Lester Dent. The George Pal movie got made because of Bama's Bantam covers creating a resurgence in popularity for the character. Ask anyone to describe Doc Savage, physically (assuming they know who he is) and they will 90% of the time give you a description of Steve Holland, the model for Bama, based on those covers, rather than Lester Dent's descriptions in the stories. Sometime back in the late 80s, we stayed at a hotel either at or just bordering Westport Plaza, in St Louis. There was a gallery connected to the hotel or the mall there, that had one of Bama's western prints, of a Native American, that just made me drool and wish I had the cash. Later, we got a book collection of his western art, at Barnes & Noble; which was still pretty pricey, even with employee discount. I loved it; but, wished it covered his full career, including the Doc Savage covers, his men's adventure magazine illustrations, the Aurora kits and other things. Ironically, I have been perusing a website devoted to pulp covers that features everything from the pulp magazines, to paperback covers, to the men's adventure magazines, with references to the artists, depictions of some of the original paintings vs the published version (especially covers) and instances where they were reused for other works. I have been saving some of the images I really liked and Bama was one of the first artists I checked out, along with Earl Norem, Mort Kunstler, Norman Saunders, Margaret Brundage and Rafael DeSoto. Here's a couple of his covers....   and the original painting of one of his book covers....  one of my favorite Doc Savage covers...  and one of his western paintings....  The Aurora monster model kits.....  and the man.....  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 25, 2022 23:07:00 GMT -5
ps The Yankee Gunslinger Who Rustled a Harem sounds like a swipe of either Robert E Howard's El Borak or the earlier (and likely Howard influence) Jimgrim, from Talbot Mundy.
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Post by berkley on Apr 25, 2022 23:39:07 GMT -5
Hockey legend Guy Lafleur passed away at the age of 70. Thank you for that eloquent eulogy, The Captain . Lafleur was a humble giant and the last of the Canadiens trimurti (Maurice Richard, Jean Béliveau, and now him). I wasn't a Montreal fan back in the day, but even I had to admit that he was probably the world's best player at the end of the '70s. The Prime minister is considering a national funeral for Guy. A popular hero of his stature deserves it. It's almost too big for me to take in, he was that big a star during the last of my peak years as a hockey fan. Hardly know what to say. 70 seems very young now to die. A great sporting hero, one of the very greatest for me personally when I was still at the age when you had heroes. |
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Post by berkley on Apr 25, 2022 23:44:44 GMT -5
Bama definitely gave me my first mental picture of Doc Savage, reinforced by the Marvel comics that followed his version. But when I read a reproduction of the first Doc Savage story 10 or 15 years back, it had the original cover and that fit so well with the description in the book that I now have a kind of dual image in my mind: that one and Bama's.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 26, 2022 4:20:16 GMT -5
Bama definitely gave me my first mental picture of Doc Savage, reinforced by the Marvel comics that followed his version. But when I read a reproduction of the first Doc Savage story 10 or 15 years back, it had the original cover and that fit so well with the description in the book that I now have a kind of dual image in my mind: that one and Bama's. I never knew him , but I did see those Aurora images. Just amazing work. |
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Post by foxley on Apr 26, 2022 7:46:53 GMT -5
Bama definitely gave me my first mental picture of Doc Savage, reinforced by the Marvel comics that followed his version. But when I read a reproduction of the first Doc Savage story 10 or 15 years back, it had the original cover and that fit so well with the description in the book that I now have a kind of dual image in my mind: that one and Bama's. I'm very near to completing my run of the Bantam Doc Savage novels. This sad news will probably spur me to haul out my list and start tracking down some of the ones I'm still missing.
R.I.P. Mr. Bama.
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