Exquisitely Bored in Nacogdoches

1925-2010 Elvis wanted to look like Tony Curtis. ELVIS.

From my my post about the 1956 epic, Giant

It saddened me to hear this past Sunday of the recent passing of Richard Gladwell. Gladwell was the host of a program played on NPR statio...

Peace to Michael Jackson . Nothing left to prove. A life even more tragic than Elvis '? How is that possible? The comparisons will com...

On The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in the '70s Ed McMahon , TV icon, is gone . When I was growing up, he was everywhere on televis...

"Playwright, screenwriter Horton Foote dies at 92" Horton Foote (March 14, 1916 - March 4, 2009) was an American playwright and s...

I nearly did a post on the passing of Alexander Courage (composer of the original Star Trek theme) earlier this week, but I hesitate to po...

GETTY "Neil Aspinall, the 'fifth Beatle', dies aged 66" Another of The Beatles inner inner circle is gone. Neil Aspinall ...

"Maharishi Mahesh Yogi dies" The Beatles with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Wales, late '67 or early '68 What did The Beatles d...

"Quiet Riot lead singer Kevin Dubrow dies" Metal health'll drive you mad.

A Wrinkle in Time author L'Engle dies

"Channel 13's Marvin Zindler dies at 85" Growing up in Galveston, I watched Marvin Zindler on Channel 13 in Houston, frequen...

"Letterman regular 'Bud' Melman dies"

the Godfather

"Syd Barrett, founder of Pink Floyd, dies" Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun. Shine on you crazy diamond. Now t...

1946-2006 "Billy Preston, 59; Dazzling, Troubled Keyboardist Known as the `Fifth Beatle'" Like it or not, this is what he'...

Chris Penn was found dead in California. No word, as of yet, of the cause. I just heard about this (9:34 PM central time). It's a shock...