Posted on 12/20/2008 6:18:26 AM PST by rhema
Well I’m not on the list so I guess I’ll get dressed and greet the day.
Buckley, Helms, Heston, Snow, and Solzhenitsyn: redoubtable men, all.
I also remember Isaac Hayes fondly from his role as Gandolph Fitch in The Rockford Files.
The American Republic, November 4, 2008
Hey Rockfish!
Well I’m not on the list so I guess I’ll get dressed and greet the day.
Buck up! The year's not quite over, so you've still got a chance to make the list. Everybody's pulling for you...
"And kings -- as peasants -- come to dust."
Makes me want to cue up an espisode like "Just Another Polish Wedding". I have seasons 3 and 4 on DVD.
And may the hair on your ass turn to fish hooks.
(grin)
We can add Watergate’s “Deep Throat” to the list. Mark Felt, 95, died last night.
> (Sir) Edmund Hillary, 88, Jan. 11—New Zealand mountaineer and explorer who with Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay in 1953 became the first to scale the world’s tallest peak, the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest.
New Zealand and Nepal mourned.
Sir Ed, as he was known here, was also a philanthropist of some note, building schools and hospitals and core infrastructure for the Sherpa people in Nepal.
His picture is on our $5 Note: our smallest note in circulation and thus the most widely circulated.
Left out were Anita Page, silent film and early 1930’s actress (I’ve got her autograph) and Beverly Garland, Queen of the 1950’s exploitation and monster B flicks.
They didn’t mention Van Johnson. Both Johnson and Cyd Charisse vanished into the Brigadoon mist this year.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 89, Aug. 3—Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, helped erase sympathy for the Soviet Union among leftist intellectuals, and inspired millions to stand strong in the face of repression; sheltered in America before returning to Russia, he also criticized Western culture for what he considered its weakness and decadence.
He tried to tell us. If only we will fight for freedom the way that he did.
I’m gonna miss Harvey Korman.
And Betty Page.
The passing parade.
Also left out, Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright.
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