Buck Henry..screen writer for The Graduate, SNL, co-creator of Get Smart, directed Heaven Can Wait. Gave himself parts and showed up in all kinds of movies and tv shows.
wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2020 9:11 am
Buck Henry..screen writer for The Graduate, SNL, co-creator of Get Smart, directed Heaven Can Wait. Gave himself parts and showed up in all kinds of movies and tv shows.
Mel Brooks said that he (Mel) deserves no credit for Get Smart and that his name was on it, just so Buck would have the chance to do it. The whole show was Buck's. One of my favorite shows when I was a kid.
Fantastic obit, ostensibly written by the deceased.
Interesting personal note, Ken wrote an article in the Register about my sister and brother-in-law's engagement. At the time they were working at competing TV stations in DSM.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:32 pm
by mister d
That’s real good.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2020 10:03 pm
by wlu_lax6
Gene Corrigan. Duke lax player W&L and UVA lax coach and soccer coach. Athletic director (W&L, UVA, and Notre Dame), ACC commish, NCAA prez. Sons are an ESPN producer, head lax coach at Notre Dame, and NC State AD.
Gene was a lax hall of famer, VA sports hall of fame, and ,NC sports HOFer. One of his grandsons played lacrosse at Notre Dame, coaches at W&L last year, and is now at Harvard.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2020 11:11 am
by Shirley
Yeah, Corrigan was a giant in college athletics, and it seems like one of those guys that everyone liked. My mom taught several of his sons in high school when he was the AD at UVA.
Loved and hated - the guy was once the absolute king of television.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2020 5:30 pm
by wlu_lax6
Happened last week but Clayton Christensen, the author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. HBS professor and just great speaker. Also his son Matt was on the 2001 Duke National Championship Hoops team.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2020 9:36 am
by Baloney
Michael "Mad Mike" Hoare, widely considered the world's best known mercenary, has died aged 100. Inspiration for The Wild Geese.
This one is pretty obscure...Bill Robinson. Canadian basketball ball of famer. 5'11" and no 3 point line. 1974 all tournament at the world championship. 1976 Olympic team Played at Simon Fraiser.
Only reason this one crossed my radar was his daughter is a friend from W&L.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2020 12:12 am
by DaveInSeattle
Lyle Mays....keyboardist who played for many years with Pat Metheny...
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2020 10:22 am
by Sabo
DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 12:12 am
Lyle Mays....keyboardist who played for many years with Pat Metheny...
Ugh. This is shitty news.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2020 2:51 pm
by wlu_lax6
Bill Sento. Loyola Soccer Coach HOF. If you read his bio, note what sport he did not play.
Kind of the Buckner of SS. Really good career overshadowed by the error, plus being Jeter’s Wally Pipp, plus being the other guy in the McGriff for Alomar and Carter trade.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2020 12:14 pm
by Pruitt
That sucks. He was one of my all time favourite players.
God he was a great fielder. I would argue that he would be in Cooperstown if he was a Dodger, Met or Yankee during the bulk of his career.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2020 5:49 pm
by degenerasian
mister d wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 11:51 am
Kind of the Buckner of SS. Really good career overshadowed by the error, plus being Jeter’s Wally Pipp, plus being the other guy in the McGriff for Alomar and Carter trade.
For Blue Jays fans, Fernandez was the main guy in the trade. McGriff and Alomar were new and Carter was a journeyman. Fernandez was everyone's favorite player. The one time when Bill Madlock took Fernandez out on a slide and broke his elbow, i think Torontonians wanted him detained for questioning.
mister d wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 11:51 am
Kind of the Buckner of SS. Really good career overshadowed by the error, plus being Jeter’s Wally Pipp, plus being the other guy in the McGriff for Alomar and Carter trade.
For Blue Jays fans, Fernandez was the main guy in the trade. McGriff and Alomar were new and Carter was a journeyman. Fernandez was everyone's favorite player. The one time when Bill Madlock took Fernandez out on a slide and broke his elbow, i think Torontonians wanted him detained for questioning.
I forgot about that.
Been so long since I followed baseball, I forgot how much I used to hate the fucking Tigers.
Jack Welsh...General Electric's Guru and the reason you have to hear about six-sigma black belts.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 1:24 pm
by brian
James Lipton. (I had no idea he was this old. That means he was well in his 80s when acting on Season Four of Arrested Development.)
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2020 7:50 am
by wlu_lax6
Okay this guy may be too obscure for even the obscure thread. But since the NY times Sports Section had a profile on his death..he gets posted ....becuase of his name...not his birth name of Matvey Natanzon....but rather what he was known as.....