R.I.P. David Soul:

David Soul, who starred as Detective Kenneth “Hutch” Hutchinson in the TV series “Starsky & Hutch,” died Thursday, his wife told BBC. He was 80. https://t.co/sK4zCI8Qi1

— Variety (@Variety) January 5, 2024

R.I.P. David Soul.
I literally just mentioned him yesterday because I heard "Don't Give Up On Us, Baby." I even still have the 45 from when I was a kid. Of course, I saw S & H, plus his Star Trek episode. The original Salem's Lot is one of my favorite horror films.
He and his SL co-star, Lance Kerwin, passed just short of a year of each other.

Edited January 5, 20241 yr by applcin

 

I don't think the passing of former Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson was mentioned here. This is a difficult read about how neglected she was in her rehab facility, hastening her death.

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/04/texas-eddie-bernice-johnson-lawsuit/

9 hours ago, DRW50 said:

I don't think the passing of former Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson was mentioned here. This is a difficult read about how neglected she was in her rehab facility, hastening her death.

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/04/texas-eddie-bernice-johnson-lawsuit/

Reading that breaks my heart and makes me absolutely furious.

I have not seen an official source, but Michele Val Jean posted on Twitter that Bridget Dobson has passed away.

 

Soaphub obituary of Bridget Dobson:
https://soaphub.com/days-of-our-lives/news-days/santa-barbara-creator-bridget-dobson-dead-at-85/

Soaphub said their source is Pierpaolo Dongiovanni from his facebook.
He said that Bridget's husband Jerome Dobson told him. 
ttps://www.facebook.com/pier.fromitaly/posts/pfbid0kiGa8KNmCPxNH77Yx9jZGuuBTHP2VpRGUEbUZyyw8UEoq58JQLJZSTUbY4uojDbcl
 

Pierpaolo Dongiovanni interviewed Bridget Dobson in a series of six interviews over 2012, 2013, and 2014.
 

2012-2014 interviews with Bridget Dobson, part 1
https://pierin26santabarbara.blogspot.com/2012/12/my-exclusive-unusual-interview-with.html?q=bridget+interview

2012-2014 interviews with Bridget Dobson, part 2
https://pierin26santabarbara.blogspot.com/2012/12/my-exclusive-interview-with-bridget.html

2012-2014 interviews with Bridget Dobson, part 3
https://pierin26santabarbara.blogspot.com/2013/04/my-exclusive-interview-with-bridget.html


2012-2014 interviews with Bridget Dobson, part 4
https://pierin26santabarbara.blogspot.com/2013/10/my-exclusive-interview-with-bridget.html


2012-2014 interviews with Bridget Dobson, part 5
https://pierin26santabarbara.blogspot.com/2014/04/my-exclusive-interview-with-bridget.html


2012-2014 interviews with Bridget Dobson, part 6
https://pierin26santabarbara.blogspot.com/2014/07/my-exclusive-interview-with-bridget.html

1 hour ago, BetterForgotten said:

I have not seen an official source, but Michele Val Jean posted on Twitter that Bridget Dobson has passed away.

 

OH NO. NO. It's too much. Earlier Michele Val Jean had posted to me around the time of the Daytime Emmys IM segment that it was just brutal, the kind of loss we've experienced in soap fandom. I thought her word choice was so excellent. 

20 minutes ago, janea4old said:

Soaphub obituary of Bridget Dobson:
https://soaphub.com/days-of-our-lives/news-days/santa-barbara-creator-bridget-dobson-dead-at-85/

Soaphub said their source is Pierpaolo Dongiovanni from his facebook.
He said that Bridget's husband Jerome Dobson told him. 
ttps://www.facebook.com/pier.fromitaly/posts/pfbid0kiGa8KNmCPxNH77Yx9jZGuuBTHP2VpRGUEbUZyyw8UEoq58JQLJZSTUbY4uojDbcl
 

Pierpaolo Dongiovanni interviewed Bridget Dobson in a series of six interviews over 2012, 2013, and 2014.
 

2012-2014 interviews with Bridget Dobson, part 1
https://pierin26santabarbara.blogspot.com/2012/12/my-exclusive-unusual-interview-with.html?q=bridget+interview

2012-2014 interviews with Bridget Dobson, part 2
https://pierin26santabarbara.blogspot.com/2012/12/my-exclusive-interview-with-bridget.html

2012-2014 interviews with Bridget Dobson, part 3
https://pierin26santabarbara.blogspot.com/2013/04/my-exclusive-interview-with-bridget.html


2012-2014 interviews with Bridget Dobson, part 4
https://pierin26santabarbara.blogspot.com/2013/10/my-exclusive-interview-with-bridget.html


2012-2014 interviews with Bridget Dobson, part 5
https://pierin26santabarbara.blogspot.com/2014/04/my-exclusive-interview-with-bridget.html


2012-2014 interviews with Bridget Dobson, part 6
https://pierin26santabarbara.blogspot.com/2014/07/my-exclusive-interview-with-bridget.html

These 6 interviews are my very favorites of Bridget. I have saved so many quotes from them. I am now so sad that I am going to go away. 

From my personal notes: 

Finally the obit

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/sandy-springs-ga/bridget-dobson-11612335

I remember reading Tom Shales’s reviews and columns many years ago. A dwindling generation:

 

Tom Shales, a Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic for The Washington Post who brought incisive and barbed wit to coverage of the small screen, died at a hospital in Fairfax County, Va. He was 79. https://t.co/libqO6gIR0

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 13, 2024

Tom Shales annual review of Kathie Lee Gifford's' Christmas Specials were legendary.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1997/12/12/another-chestnut-ready-to-roast/ecc0aac8-64de-45b9-ad57-b1289734a769/

Kathie Lee Gifford sings songs like she's mad at them. What did they ever do to her? Maybe she was frightened by a song as a child. And by Christmas, too, because each year on television she wreaks a bit more revenge.

Also RIP Alec Musser aka Del Henry #2

 

Edited January 14, 20241 yr by j swift

She had been the last surviving member of the original series’s cast:

 

Joyce Randolph, Trixie on 'The Honeymooners,' Dies at 99 https://t.co/u2JvRjy3Ve

— Variety (@Variety) January 14, 2024

 

 

Trixie Norton was not much of a role, but I thought Joyce Randolph worked so well with Art Carney and Audrey Meadows.  I just hope she had a rewarding life and that she knew how much "Honeymooners" fans appreciate her.  May she RIP.

The Emmys IM segment

https://twitter.com/i/status/1747099443017425060