"I played 18 years in top football and seventeen times for Sweden but that moment against Cruyff was the proudest moment of my career. I thought I'd win the ball for sure, but he tricked me. I was not humiliated. I had no chance. Cruyff was a genius."
—Sweden defender Jan Olsson, victim of the Cruyff Turn at the 1974 FIFA World Cup
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 24 March 2016 13:12 (eight years ago) link
RIP Johan ;_;
― A Fifth Beatle Dies (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 March 2016 13:14 (eight years ago) link
From a friend of mine on Facebook:
Met him once in Barcelona, I said "You're Johan Cruyff" he said "I know ".
― A Fifth Beatle Dies (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 March 2016 13:26 (eight years ago) link
Joe Garagiola was an American TV icon who p much doesn't mean shit to anyone under 50... the ultimate jock turned ubiquitous bald TV guy.
The very first MLB game I ever attended was the July 24, 1976 game between the Indians and the Tigers at Cleveland Stadium, which was also an NBC Game of the Week. (Mark Fidrych was pitching, and had a rare bad appearance, but the Tigers still won 5-4.) I very vividly remember my dad catching a view of the broadcast booth from our seats and saying, "Hey, look! It's Joe Garagiola!"
― T.L.O.P.son (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 March 2016 13:26 (eight years ago) link
rip Johan
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 March 2016 18:04 (eight years ago) link
I only know Garagiola from Peanuts
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 24 March 2016 18:05 (eight years ago) link
in the early to mid '70s, when he was on Today and hosting a game show, he was very well known to people who didn't know he was a baseball player-broadcaster.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 March 2016 18:14 (eight years ago) link
Rita Gam, '50s glamor girl
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rita-gam-dead-glamorous-actress-877486
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 March 2016 18:33 (eight years ago) link
good memories as a boy learning cruyff's footwork
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 24 March 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
Garry Shandling
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:24 (eight years ago) link
WTF?!
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link
Yup
http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/garry-shandling-dead-larry-sanders-show-show-1201738601/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiWiJW_nsw8
― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:28 (eight years ago) link
No. Man.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:42 (eight years ago) link
What?!?!
― A Fifth Beatle Dies (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:49 (eight years ago) link
This is getting stupid now
― Ecomigrant gnomics (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 March 2016 21:30 (eight years ago) link
yow, that's another tough one. i grew up watching him, same as the rest of you. RIP
― ulysses, Thursday, 24 March 2016 21:39 (eight years ago) link
his show was the greatest takedown of Letterman ever
― Tay, an artificially intelligent software chatbot (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 24 March 2016 21:46 (eight years ago) link
err Carson
― Tay, an artificially intelligent software chatbot (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 24 March 2016 21:47 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/mar/24/johan-cruyff-barcelona-legacy
Nice Cruyff piece/obit concentrating on Barca
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 24 March 2016 22:29 (eight years ago) link
that's a beautiful piece
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 24 March 2016 23:14 (eight years ago) link
As well it should, this thread is giving me more anxiety than the Supreme Court thread used to.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 25 March 2016 00:16 (eight years ago) link
Space shuttle engineer Robert Ebeling:http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/science/robert-ebeling-challenger-engineer-who-warned-of-disaster-dies-at-89.html
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 26 March 2016 16:27 (eight years ago) link
jim harrison
― mookieproof, Sunday, 27 March 2016 16:08 (eight years ago) link
Earl Hamner Jr, creator of The Waltons
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 02:59 (eight years ago) link
As well as one of the top three most prolific writers of Twilight Zone episodes, I believe. RIP.
― Woke Up Scully (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 03:55 (eight years ago) link
(the other two being Serling and Matheson)
― Woke Up Scully (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 03:56 (eight years ago) link
yes, 8 of em (which wd put him 4th behind George Clayton Johnson too)
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-earl-hamner-jr-dies-20160324-story.html
http://www.rodserling.com/EarlHamner.htm
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 11:41 (eight years ago) link
Thought GCJ wrote seven of them. Anyway
http://file770.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Earl-and-George-2012-07-22_13-56-55_668.jpg
― Woke Up Scully (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 12:35 (eight years ago) link
Did you know that those two shared a birthday?
― Woke Up Scully (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 12:43 (eight years ago) link
who me? not fannish enough to know; i probably forgot who GCJ was until he died.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 14:46 (eight years ago) link
German "jazz" singer (which in this case means bad but hugely popular Sinatra imitator) Roger Cicero.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 14:50 (eight years ago) link
― Woke Up Scully (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 16:16 (eight years ago) link
Patty Duke
― mutually aquatinted (doo dah), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 16:39 (eight years ago) link
oh no
my FB feed will be filled with gays posting NEEEEELEY O'HAAAAAAARA
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 16:41 (eight years ago) link
“Adrienne Corri, who has died aged 85, was an actor of considerable range and versatility whose career ranged from the high—with Shakespearean roles alongside Ralph Richardson and Alec Guinness—to the decidedly low, including appearances in many quota quickies and low-budget horror movies that showcased her striking red-haired beauty.... Although seen regularly on big and small screens in the 1950s and 60s, Corri is mainly remembered for her participation in the short but notorious gang rape scene from Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971).”
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/mar/28/adrienne-corri-obituary
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 19:01 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FstdPCbolng
Kind of odd that both William Schallert and John Astin outlived Patty.
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 19:33 (eight years ago) link
Was wondering about Schallert.
― Woke Up Scully (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 19:53 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSRaCfSfxyg
― Hey (Extended Mix), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 19:54 (eight years ago) link
Patty Duke and Helen Keller:
http://bestteenagersever.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/tumblr_m6apr4r8lx1qbz9meo1_500.jpg
― clemenza, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 00:32 (eight years ago) link
Photos taken of famous people together that you would never have expected to be together but make you happy all the same.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 00:35 (eight years ago) link
Beautiful photograph. Sorry to say, but I'm pretty sure I've never seen The Miracle Worker. Kael likes it: "Truffaut's The Wild Child is a more beautifully conceived picture on the same theme, but even with its imperfections and staginess this early Penn film is extraordinary."
― clemenza, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 00:46 (eight years ago) link
Feel like it was in broadcast television regularly back in the day.
― Woke Up Scully (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 00:47 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I've had numerous chances, I just was never sure that I could make it through all the screaming and tantrums. (Totally different, but why I had no interest in Whiplash.) Seeing as it's Arthur Penn, I should give it a chance.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 00:57 (eight years ago) link
Ronnie Corbett
https://twitter.com/PA/status/715490421095333888
― Alba, Thursday, 31 March 2016 10:48 (eight years ago) link
and it's goodnight from him etc
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 31 March 2016 10:53 (eight years ago) link
:(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJQ-ZircSO0
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Thursday, 31 March 2016 10:58 (eight years ago) link
RIP big man
― disco Polo (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 31 March 2016 11:05 (eight years ago) link
Guilty lol at the comment I just saw elsewhere about him having died after a short illness being exactly the kind of gag that would have been in the news roundup at the end of an episode of the Two Ronnies.
― ailsa, Thursday, 31 March 2016 11:15 (eight years ago) link
last Friday, but Terry Brain, creator of 80s cartoon Trap Door, died aged 60
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 31 March 2016 11:42 (eight years ago) link