To those no longer with us....

[BogDog]

Words from Carl's ROCKY co-star: https://youtu.be/XO6Z-Fg_fVI

[PA Jack]

BogDog - good words from Stallone. The painting behind him is the LeRoy Neiman painting of the scene I liked so much at the end of Rocky III, where Creed and Rocky were sparring. They both threw a simultaneous first punch - the scene froze and faded into this painting, while Eye of the Tiger began to play. A good ending for the movie. A sad ending now, however, for Carl Weathers.

[Mynock]

Toby Keith.....1961-2024.....RIP Toby. I still think I should've been a Cowboy.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aIq1LvzSL ... dyBib3k%3D

[OBI-wan]

Mojo Nixon, 66.

[OBI-wan]

Richard Lewis, 76

[Boggy Man]

Brian Mulroney, Canada's 18'th Prime Minister from 1984 to 1993, passed away at 84.

https://apnews.com/article/mulroney-dead-canada-obit-38c27b66d9e23f732c7fa4e4bd405225

[MadMax359]

Richard Lewis, 76

this is going to add some poignancy to watching the last season of Curb Your Enthusiasm

[BogDog]

Richard Philip Lewis was born on June 29, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Englewood, New Jersey. He went to Dwight Morrow High School and Ohio State University, graduating in 1969 with a degree in marketing and communications. Lewis wrote ad copy in New Jersey while also writing jokes for comedians such as Morty Gunty. He finally got the nerve to perform his own jokes in 1971 at New York's Improvisation and Pips.

After appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) in 1974, he continued to tour and hone his act with help from David Brenner and Robert Klein. His film Diary of a Young Comic (1979) aired in the Saturday Night Live (1975) time-slot. His work on cable "I'm in Pain" for Showtime in 1988, The I'm Exhausted Concert (1988) earned a nomination from American Comedy Awards for Funniest Male Performer in a Television Special (for HBO); Richard Lewis: I'm Doomed (1990) (HBO) won him a second Ace Nomination for Best Stand-Up Comedy Special. His Richard Lewis: The Magical Misery Tour (1996) was filmed at New York's "Bottom Line" in December 1996. In December 1989, he performed to an SRO crowd at Carnegie Hall.

https://youtu.be/jxCp_COTj7M

[BogDog]

Steve Lawrence, singer, entertainer and half of popular stage duo Steve & Eydie, dies at 88


NEW YORK (AP) — Steve Lawrence, a singer and top stage act who as a solo performer and in tandem with his wife Eydie Gorme kept Tin Pan Alley alive during the rock era, died Thursday. He was 88.

Lawrence, whose hits included "Go Away Little Girl,” died from complications due to Alzheimer’s disease, said Susan DuBow, a spokesperson for the family.

Lawrence and Gorme — or Steve & Eydie — were known for their frequent appearances on talk shows, in night clubs and on the stages of Las Vegas. The duo took inspiration from George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern and other songwriters.

Soon after Elvis Presley and other rock music pioneers began to dominate radio and records, Lawrence and his wife were approached about changing their style.

"We had a chance to get in on the ground floor of rock ‘n’ roll," he recalled in a 1989 interview. "It was 1957 and everything was changing, but I wanted to be Sinatra, not Rick Nelson.

"Our audience knows we're not going to load up on heavy metal or set fire to the drummer — although on some nights we've talked about it," he joked.

Although Lawrence and Gorme were best known as a team, both also had huge solo hits just months apart in the early 1960s.

Lawrence scored first in 1962 with the achingly romantic ballad "Go Away Little Girl," written by the Brill Building songwriting team of Gerry Goffin and Carole King. Gorme matched his success the following year with "Blame It on the Bossa Nova," a bouncy tune about a dance craze of the time that was written by Brill hitmakers Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil.

By the 1970s, Lawrence and his wife were a top draw in Las Vegas casinos and nightclubs across the country. They also appeared regularly on television, making specials and guesting on various shows.

In the 1980s, when Vegas cut down on headline acts and nightclubs became scarcer, the pair switched to auditoriums and drew large audiences.

"People come with a general idea of what they're going to get with us," Lawrence said in 1989. "It's like a product. They buy a certain cereal and they know what to expect from that package."

[OBI-wan]

Eric Carmen, 74.