February 9, 201511 yr Another piece on Joe - Music: Debuts in Review; Joseph Grado, Tenor, In All-Italian Programhttp://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/03/arts/music-debuts-in-review-joseph-grado-tenor-in-all-italian-program.html
February 12, 201511 yr Rip Bob Simon. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-correspondent-bob-simon-1941-2015/
February 13, 201511 yr David Carr died. He was the New York Times media critic made famous by his investigation of my former employer, which was featured in the movie 'Page One'. As reported by Lefsitz: http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2015/02/13/david-carr/
February 13, 201511 yr ^ Boy, the David Carr thing makes me sad. He was one of my favorite writers over at the NYT. He was intelligent, honest, and frank, and he had a lot more left to give. RIP Edited February 13, 201511 yr by TMoney
February 13, 201511 yr RIP SIMON and RIP CARR. Journalism is taking a hit this week. Carr apparently just keeled over at work.
February 14, 201511 yr Great Carr extract: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/magazine/20Carr-t.html?pagewanted=all
February 17, 201511 yr Tough weekend. Louis Jourdan on Saturday and Lesley Gore today. RIP both of you, two more great entertainers lost.
February 24, 201511 yr RIP Clark Terry. Another amazing life in jazz comes to an end. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/arts/music/clark-terry-influential-jazz-trumpeter-dies-at-94.html?_r=0
February 24, 201511 yr Wow....RIP to a true great one. First time I heard a flugelhorn was him playing....
February 27, 201511 yr Author RIP Earl Lloyd, who died today at age 86. He was the NBA's Jackie Robinson. He broke the color barrier in 1950 and like Jackie was always a gentleman and remained a true ambassador of his sport throughout his life.http://www.nba.com/sixers/community/earl_lloyd_050208.html
February 27, 201511 yr Yutaka Katayama, Father of the Datsun/Nissan ‘Z,’ Dies at 105http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/25/business/yutaka-katayama-father-of-the-datsun-z-dies-at-105.html?mwrsm=Email "Perhaps the greatest boost Mr. Katayama gave the 240Z was its very name, which Nissan had intended only as a working model number. In the late 1960s, when the car was first introduced in Japan, a Nissan executive, enamored of a certain Lerner and Loewe musical, named it the Fairlady Z. When the first shipment of Fairlady Zs arrived in the United States, Mr. Katayama, judging the sobriquet horrifyingly effete for the American market, stripped the nameplate off each car with his own hands."
February 27, 201511 yr Didn't know much about Earl Lloyd, and knew basically nothing about Katayama-san, but what interesting stories!! RIP to people who made their marks on history.....
February 27, 201511 yr Spaceship Earth is now down one science officer. I was never even close to being a trekkie, and I'm greatly saddened by this.
February 27, 201511 yr Live long and Prosper - have some movie and TV to watching to do this weekend... RIP....
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