Angelo Badalamenti was my music teacher for two years before he got to go totally pro. I believe that's my sole claim to fame.

Alan Shepard, first American in space.

You wouldn't think lesbians would need a coach, but there you go.
Have you seen Glenn's biker movie, Angels Hard As They Come? With a very young Gary Busey. As biker movies go, it's a thing of beauty.

If only someone had gotten the rights to the Rancid Crabtree stories, a younger Scott Glenn was ideal to play ol' Rance.

We went to the same high school, though she was well into her career (making a name in NYC but pre-Tonight Show) when I started there in 10th grade.
The school had relocated just before I started attending, and they had a housewarming of sorts, local officials and so on, and Ms. Rivers came in and did a free show that…

"Round Galilee with a Fridge"

"with the one about keeping the Sabbath day holy being the most boring."
And I'd just started drinking some very hot tea when I read this. Oh, well. I don't use sugar, so it's easy to clean up.

Nice level of snark.

It's odd how little things can change your opinion of someone, even an actor. Years (decades) ago, I was watching 12 O'Clock High, an old tv program, and Bruce Dern was the guest star. At one point, he asked a waitress for something, and he tacked on "dear," as in, "another cup of coffee, dear," and it was weirdly…

I met Richard Kiley once. He and his wife were very nice, even after my horse dropped a load on their front lawn. I hope they had rose bushes.

This is turning into an unusually regrettable year. I know he was old, but shit, Dick Cheney is still alive.

I saw her twice on Broadway. Best in Applause, with a friend. The other time, Cactus Flower, with my parents.

Just shows what happens when old folks get excited.
Seriously, though, it's a shame. Still, long life.

On the internet, no one knows you're a dog.

So on an episode of Silk, two bands were fighting over who wrote a song they'd both recorded, and it turned out they'd both plagiarized G. Verdi.
There aren't a lot of original ideas left, nor original ways to express them.

I love Sean O'Neal.

"Oh! You’re astonished at the size of its apparent marketability. "
So fucking brilliant.

It was that last godawful tv show he was in that killed him.

I am, and I did. I watched Circus Boy. Also Ramar of the Jungle, which is just an old show.
There was another circus show, Frontier Circus, that starred John Derek (Bo's husband, though not at the time) and Richard Jaekyll and Chill Wills. If we're playing Can you top this.

It depends on the hat.