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R.I.P. Inga Swenson. Probably familiar to most for her role on Benson. https://people.com/inga-swenson-dead-7567265

I saw Tony Bennett perform at Carnegie Hall some 25 years ago. At one point, his mic malfunctioned and he sang the rest of the song without one. You could still hear him up in the balcony. Perfection.

So sad about Tony Bennett. 😔 Still, he had a great life before his illness took over. I think he was the last and longest-lived of that generation of Italian-American singers...Sinatra, Martin, Como, Vale, Lanza, etc.

You may have gotten your answer already since it's been 11 months but, if not, she became a holistic practitioner in Bayonne, NJ. The link below is/was her business. Not sure if it's still active as the website looks like it hasn't been updated for about 7 years. Their FB page has a couple of recent(?) posts but is pretty stagnant as well. http://www.walkinhealth.net/home.html

Lucy & Dominique on GH. They were romantic rivals for Scott, moreso on Lucy's part than Dominique's, who was a genuinely kind person. Lucy was definitely jealous of Dom, and she was still mostly considered by the town as a "bad girl" or, at least, a selfish manipulator. But Dom showed Lucy compassion and friendship, which touched Lucy's heart, and when Dom was diagnosed as terminal, Lucy stepped up and then some. She came to love Dom like a sister, and became the surrogate to carry Scott & Dom's baby. She did it out of friendship and not with machinations to get Scott. I think Dom was the first real friend Lucy had ever had, and the fact that Dom was especially kind and gentle made an impression on Lucy.

R.I.P. Barry Newman. I have vague memories of watching the court drama Petrocelli as a child. Mostly I remember they relied heavily on the use of showing the recreations/flashbacks from the different perspectives, which wasn't that common at the time. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/barry-newman-dead-vanishing-point-petrocelli-1235506906/

I think it's both a play on Jack's name and on Jumbo's relationship with him. "Giovanni Battista" is Italian for John The Baptist. The names John and Jack are sometimes interchangeable (perfect example was President John Kennedy sometimes being called Jack Kennedy). Both Jumbo and Jack are supposed to be Italian, Jumbo often called Jack "Giovanni" and Jumbo was something of a "godfather" figure to Jack. The godfather, of course, also is present at a child's baptism...even though Jumbo wasn't actually there for that, he does play that paternal figure role for Jack.

My subscription just renewed about a month ago so I guess I'll be seeing that refund soon. I haven't watched in many months, probably close to a year and I'm still in the early 70s episodes. But I kept the scrip since it wasn't very much. I had a feeling this subscription thing was going to tank sooner rather than later, for several reasons. One is that they never really lived up to their early declarations of what the paid content was going to have. I remember "trivia games" being mentioned and how it all was going to be so interactive. I know COVID sidelined some things, including access to their warehouse. But, 3 years down the road from that and they hadn't really added much of anything new. (I'll have to check out the site again; last time I checked a couple of weeks ago was when they had that disappearing act except for that horror channel and then the episodes came back all jumbled and not monthly sectioned like it had been.) I also think that they probably overestimated the amount of people that were willing to pay premium for what amounted to just one series. All along, the whole thing has felt like, to mix metaphors, the little guys were trying to play in the big leagues and perhaps biting off more than they could chew. It all just sounded more lofty and exciting than how it turned out.

Aw, Gordon. He had so many health problems over the years that I think he was happy just to be alive. He felt like he was on borrowed time for years. I love “Sundown“ and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald“. I’m glad that he was able to overcome all that and perform again in his later years.

Kym Johnson-Herjavec's tribute to Jerry: https://www.instagram.com/p/CrjwqrtybRt/ Her appearance today on Australian tv being interviewed about him: https://www.instagram.com/p/CrkFkKMuFPI/

I think viewers fell in love with both of them then. They had the odds against them and I don't mean just in terms of his lack of dancing skill. She was the new girl on the show, the fans didn't know her, she wasn't American, and they thought they knew more than they wanted to about Jerry. I think their friendship, her patience with him, his (suprising to many) humility, self-deprecation and kindness, and the love for his family made the viewers keep voting for them to stay. Then they did the father/daughter style Tennessee Waltz and she taught him and his daughter to dance for the daughter's upcoming wedding. I know I saw a side to the man watching him then that I hadn't expected. I still didn't watch his show but I was more aware of the man himself.

I follow Kym Herjavec's IG page. She posted her reaction to Len Goodman's death. I'm sure there'll be one for Jerry as well as he was her first partner when she debuted on the US DWTS and they remained good friends. She's losing friends left and right. She once toured with Barry Humphries and she adored Olivia Newton-John, who sang at her wedding. https://www.instagram.com/p/Crau-3IPawK/ (for Len)

That's the same one I saw, Jam! Maybe we were there at the same time. 😉 Rosalind also mentions on the DVD that the only time she's ever gotten married is when she "married" Leonard Frey in the film.

Yes, and they used hair from director Norman Jewison's greying beard to age him, lol. Plus, he was also quite thin and lanky...lots of padding, lol.

I loved Topol in Fiddler. It's one of my favorite movies, probably my favorite musical. I have the anniversary DVD. Got to see him do the Broadway revival as well in the early 90s. He also played a Nazi hunter in "The House on Garibaldi Street." 😪

Maurizio Costanzo, called the king of Italian tv talk show hosts; his show has been on some 40 years. He appeared on The David Letterman Show at least once and also survived an attempted mafia hit by car bomb.

I've never watched Law & Order. I remember Richard Belzer from, of all things, Alan Thicke's single season of "Thicke of the Night" back in the early 80s.

We've lost another former child star. What's so weird to me about this is that recently, out of nowhere, the thought came to me that John Astin would be the last survivor of The Addams Family, even though he's in his 90s. I knew nothing about her health problems. R.I.P. Lisa Loring https://deadline.com/2023/01/lisa-loring-dead-actor-original-wednesday-addams-1235243958/

Gina leaves behind the inevitable feuding over the estate situation, which actually started long before her death, and who in her life was or wasn't taking advantage. She has a much-younger "ex-husband" she supposedly married in Spain in 2006 then claimed years later he had committed fraud with an imposter by "marrying" her by proxy. Her long-time aide lives in her house with his companion and there are accusations of him taking advantage. Her son, her only child, was estranged from her and claims the aide took advantage of her diminished mental capacity.

Another untimely passing. I remember him being all over tv in the 70s. He was an excellent child/teen actor. And Salem's Lot is a favorite of mine. He left acting and, apparently, fell on hard financial times the last couple of years; there was even a gofundme page set up on his behalf, which didn't raise very much.

I must admit I didn't know who she was until I read that she was in one of my favorite films, Fiddler On The Roof. She played the ghost of Fruma Sarah, Lazar Wolf's dead wife, who was part of Tevye's "dream" sequence.

Cher posted on Twitter that her mother has died. Georgia Holt was 96.