TIS, got her first kill.

Good one, TIS. It's been a slow year so far, which I guess is good for the ppl on our lists

am i the only one that has none?

David Mills, "Wire" writer passed away.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/31/david-mills-dead-the-wire_n_520036.html

Herb Ellis , jazz guitarist who played with Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/arts/music/31ellis.html

Awww, John Forsythe has died. So long Charlie.

http://www.tmz.com/2010/04/02/john-forsythe-dies-pneumonia-charlies-angels-dynasty/

Really? Wow, this surprises me. They didn't disclose the cause of death. I hadn't read that she was ill. It's a surprise for some reason. Too bad!!


TIS

LOVED "Designing Women" and wanted to be just like Julia Sugarbaker! She and Holbrook had wonderful chemistry and I just loved it when he would appear on the show as Julia's boyfriend Reese.

Designing Women was a good show. It's the only show I seen her act in.

I doubt anyone else will remember, but Dixie was also in one of my favorite soap operas at the time (maybe in the 60's), The Edge of Night. She played a lawyer. Damn, that was forever ago.


TIS

I never seen that soap but the name sounds familiar.

I thought she was alot older than 70.

I actually thought that Hal Holbrook passed away.

I remember 'The Edge of Night', although it wasn't one of the soaps my mother watched regularly (she was more of an NBC gal - Days of Our Lives, The Doctors, Another World).

By the way, you must be referring to Dixie, not Delta Burke would would've been around 10yrs old in the mid-60's.

My Grandma got me hooked on DOOL when I was 13. She lived with us while my mother was in the hospital with cancer. And I'm still watching it.

Oops! Of course, I meant Dixie. Yes, Delta is much younger. My mistake.

TIS

Did anybody have Malcolm McLaren on his list?

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Benjamin L. Hooks, a champion of minorities and the poor who as executive director of the NAACP increased the group's stature, has died. He was 85.

State Rep. Ulysses Jones, a member of the church where Hooks was pastor, said Hooks died early Thursday at his home, following a long illness.

Hooks became executive director of the NAACP in 1977, taking over a group that was $1 million in debt and shrunk to 200,000 members from nearly a half-million in the 1950s and 1960s. He pledged to increase enrollment and raise money for the organization.

"Black Americans are not defeated," he told Ebony magazine soon after his induction. "The civil rights movement is not dead. If anyone thinks that we are going to stop agitating, they had better think again. If anyone thinks that we are going to stop litigating, they had better close the courts. If anyone thinks that we are not going to demonstrate and protest, they had better roll up the sidewalks."

By the time he ended his position as executive director in 1992, the group rebounded, with membership growing by several hundred thousand. Toward this, he created community radiothons to make the public more aware of activities by local NAACP branches and boost membership.

"He came in at a time the NAACP was struggling and gave it a strong foundation. He brought dignity and strong leadership to the organization," Jones said.

Hooks also created an initiative that expanded employment opportunities for blacks in Major League Baseball and launched a program where corporations participated in economic development projects in black communities.

"The nation best remembers Benjamin Hooks as the leader of the NAACP," President George W. Bush said in 2007 when he presented Hooks with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the country's highest civilian honors. "Dr. Hooks was a calm yet forceful voice for fairness, opportunity and personal responsibility. He never tired or faltered in demanding that our nation live up to its founding ideals of liberty and equality."

Nearly two decades earlier, Hooks pleaded with Bush's father, then-President George H.W. Bush, for action on a string of gasoline bomb attacks in the South that killed in December 1989 a federal judge in Alabama and a black civil rights lawyer in Savannah, Ga.

The same month, another bomb was intercepted at an NAACP office in Jacksonville, Fla. and an Atlanta television station received a letter threatening more attacks on judges, attorneys and NAACP leaders.

"We believe that this latest incident is an effort to intimidate our association, to strike fear in our hearts," he said at the time. "It will not succeed. We intend to go about our business, but we will most certainly be taking precautions."

Walter Leroy Moody, now 75, was convicted of the killings and other charges in 1997 and remains on Alabama's death row.

Hooks' inspiration to fight social injustice and bigotry stemmed from his experience of guarding Italian prisoners of war while serving overseas in the Army during World War II — foreign prisoners were allowed to eat in "for whites only" restaurants while he was barred from them.

When no law school in the South would admit him, he used the GI bill to attend DePaul University in Chicago, where he earned a law degree in 1948. He later opened his own law practice in his hometown of Memphis, Tenn.

"At that time you were insulted by law clerks, excluded from white bar associations and when I was in court, I was lucky to be called 'Ben,'" he once said in an interview with Jet magazine. "Usually it was just 'boy.' "

Actress Lynn Redgrave has died after a 7 year battle with cancer. She'll be reunited with her niece Natasha Richardson now.

Goodbye Georgie Girl.

RIP Lynn.....the end of a hugely talented family. I believe her brother Corin died recently, and Vanessa, the only one left has not been well.

At first I was thinking Vanessa (I get them mixed up), but yea, I remember Lynn. I had no idea she was sick.

I never saw the movie, Georgie Girl but the title song was extremely popular. I think I last saw her maybe on game shows and such. I didn't know she was related to Natasha Richardson either.

Sorry to hear it. wasn't her father also famous?

TIS

Yes, he was Sir Michael Redgrave. Quite famous in his day in Britain.

Signor V.

Last time I saw her on tv she was on a epi. of the Nanny.

Some of my fondest memories are of listening to Ernie Harwell broadcast Tigers games while my Dad worked on his car or had me assist in other tasks around the house.

I also remember when Bo Schembechler fired Ernie and the outcry was so huge that the Tigers were forced to bring Ernie back.

This leaves Vin Scully as the last of the great old time baseball announcers from radio days.

RIP Lena Horne - 2 people had her on their list

What a beautiful classy woman. There aren't too many people from that generation left.

She was a class act all the way. RIP

Such a gorgeous woman, and quite a talent, too.