Coach and chief punk of the Syracuse Bulldogs. RIP Paul.
From wiki: (John) Byrne modeled his rendition of Wolverine on actor Paul D’Amato, who played Dr. Hook in the 1977 sports film Slap Shot.
“But I’ve never heard myself sing!”
I don’t know if an audience would put up with 4-minute aria, uncut in the middle of a chase movie today. But it was a mesmerizing performance.
Oh no! I didn’t know about this either. I was just listening to him the other day and wondering how he was doing.
My brother-in-law frequently collaborated with McCann and always had great stories to tell about him, and a treasure trove of funny quotes like “ain’t nothing worse than a white man in a dashiki”.
That sounds like the basis for a guest BB post…
Wilson Fittipaldi Jr, F1 driver and brother of Emerson Fittipaldi
Here’s one from my youth and days of watching Hee Haw. The First Lady of Banjo and one of 23 kids.
The whole family was crazy talented.
Well this was almost 4 years ago, but I just saw it:
(That looks like Perla Batalla & Julie Christensen joining with everyone else in the video, so I wonder if this was the same episode with Leonard Cohen? Man, I took Night Music for granted while it was on…)
I’ve never watched Coronation Street but he was a very well-known character actor, recognised for many other roles (mostly earlier in his career, though).
RIP, Flaco!
He played when Carlisle United got their biggest shock result ever.
The “hitting the FA Cup with a ball” story also started at Carlisle. A rivalry between us and Sunderland had started because we were both in the old second division, they weren’t playing against Newcastle regularly and we weren’t playing against Workington (who were still in the Football League back then).