They did a wonderful tribute to him on the show Friday.
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An excellent writeup of her life and influence. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/books/susan-brownmiller-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KU8.IlLF.QcE4UtbZAEI-&smid=url-share
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And while she wasn’t famous herself, the daughter of one of the 3 stooges died. Marilyn Howard Ellman, Daughter of The Three Stooges’ Curly Howard, Dies at 86 - IMDb
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Oooh no… hot lips 
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Harrison Ruffin Tyler dies at 96. He was the last living grandson of John Tyler, who was president of the US in 1841-1845.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/29/nx-s1-5415207/president-tyler-grandson-harrison-ruffin-tyler
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I first encountered White’s writing in the early 80’s, when a college friend who had recently come out rented me his room in his MIT fraternity house for the summer, and the newly-published A Boy’s Own Story was on his bookshelf.
White’s survival to the age of 85, after being diagnosed with HIV in 1985, is kind of amazing really. He got to be a voice for so many who didn’t survive, including my aforementioned friend, who died in 1994 at the age of 29. (I later wondered what ever became of his partner, who was with him when he died. It turned out that he “died at the Golden Gate Bridge” in 2009, at the age of 44. My friend was the only partner mentioned in his obituary. 
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More recently, I’ve been reading White’s memoir of Paris, Inside a Pearl, because much of the book features his close friend Marie-Claude de Brunhoff (who was married at the time to Laurent de Brunhoff, the son of the Babar author who continued the Babar books after his father’s death, and who just died last year), and I learned through family research that she was a cousin of my grandmother’s.
While some of White’s material is a bit “TMI” for my not-so-adventuresome tastes, the subtitle of his NYT obit feels like it reduces his work to the “explicit,” and his contributions went far beyond that. He has spoken for so many who never got the chance to speak for themselves.
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I love his music.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/09/1209525990/sly-stone-obituary
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Sometimes I’m right
Or I can be wrong
My own beliefs
Are in my song
The butcher, the baker
The drummer and then
Makes no difference
What group I’m in
I, I ,I am everyday people.
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Frederick Forsyth (Day of the Jackal):
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I’ve had his 2016 album No Pier Pressure playing in my car for the last few days. Those gorgeous harmonies.
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I was 9 when I heard this song on the transistor radio our housekeeper kept on top of the fridge. She swayed her hips to the song, and I bobbed my head in time. It turned out to be my favorite song for many years (and yes, it’s still in my rotation) - I used to put the 45 on my little red and pink turntable in my room, hairbrush clutched in my hand, and would sing to my mirror, with the makeshift microphone (the brush).
Today I will play The Beach Boys and think about the incredible catalog of brilliant music that Brian Wilson brought into my life.
RIP Mr. Brian Wilson. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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When I was about 6, I saw a marquee on an auditorium in Worcester MA that the Beach Boys were Appearing Tonight! and a line of fans on the sidewalk circling the building. I remember asking my mother about it and if we could go. Hmm, no.
I did get to see them several times, including at Red Rocks, the greatest venue there is.
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Chris Robinson, a longtime fixture of daytime television best known for his role as Dr. Rick Webber on “General Hospital” and for delivering the line “I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV” in an iconic commercial, died Monday in his sleep at his ranch near Sedona, Arizona.
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Oh, and so soon after TV wife, Lesley.
I forgot that he was in that commerical. He was so classically '70s/'80s good looking.
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And also Leslie Charleson, who played Dr Monica Quartermain, died in January.