That’s as good as it gets for any of us!
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She was so good in that role. Louis Fletcher had a gift for playing righteously uptight characters.
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That statement at the Oscars, tho.
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I missed this from a month ago. Sammy Chung was one of the first successful Anglo-Chinese football players
And from yesterday
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One of the absolute greats. A giant of music.
It’s possibly not a popular taste but the truth is that I’ve listened to Alice Coltrane more often than John but he was key for both. I had the privilege of going to see him about three years ago and he couldn’t walk much but man could he still play the horn!
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He released a record only last year that the hipsters loved:
But I’m listening to Astral Travelling from Thembi right now. It’s outrageously beautiful.
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I think that may have been the case for me, for a good while anyway. (John might’ve caught up since.)
Getting more off-topic but IIRC, Doja Cat (our younger one is a fan) was a student of Alice’s.
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And also her Oscar speech, in which she signed part of it to her deaf parents.
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Oh jeez, that was some stiff competition she had that year.
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I’ll remember him as a person who cared about the environment and his constituents. May he rest in peace.
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Another important ‘backroom boy’. If non-Brits have not seen Only Connect, let me just say I cannot conceive of a truly Happy Mutant who would not take to it. If this were Chris Stuart’s only achievement he would still be a hero. It isn’t, of course.
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Aw… Sad news!
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I just watched him last week!
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Oh, man. He was way too young. 
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This is local to Michigan but I know there are a few of us in this forum.
I remember Carl from Detroit’s AOR heyday when we were a number one market with rock and roll stations up and down the dial on my Pioneer Super Tuner with a huge literal anolog dial.
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Brown also appeared as Lazarus in the Star Trek OS, episode The Alternative Factor.
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