I still remember his rookie season, when he won the first of his 6 Stanley Cups (strictly speaking this might be his pre-rookie season, since he did not play enough games to qualify for rookie of the year, and instead won this award the next year after he already had his name on the Stanley Cup). He was a great goaltender, but also a very smart guy (bachelor’s from Cornell, law degree from McGill), and after his hockey career was elected as a Member of Canada’s Parliament.
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Not a big hockey fan, but I remember Dryden as the goalie on the Canadian team which beat the Russians in 1972. At the eight of the Cold War, it was a victory that was seen as larger than just hockey.
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Cornell hockey legend! RIP
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McNeil was not a celebrity per se but was well known regarding his efforts in the Civil Rights movement. The poster made a point of saying he was not a celebrity, which is the title of the thread she started. That was all I was reacting to. He was certainly a great citizen and well known.
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Tom Shipley, half of the folk-rock duo Brewer & Shipley that is most famous for “One Toke Over the Line” died on Aug. 24 at age 84.
I listen to replays of the 1970’s show by Casey Kasem on the SiriusXM 70’s channel and was laughing a few weeks ago when the song was in the top 40 and he gave some implausible story about how the song wasn’t about the obvious.
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Supertramp is one of the bands that I never saw in concert, but always wanted to. H saw them when he was living in London in the early 1980’s.
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Polly Holliday from Alice.
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Awww. Polly lived near me and I would see her in church occasionally. She was very down to earth and a genuinely nice lady.
Kiss My Grits.
RIP
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Robert Redford is dead at 89. He was such an icon.
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Just heard this. Soooo sad
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So sorry to hear about Robert Redford. The scene in The Way We Were with Barbra Streisand toward the end is one of my all-time favorites. He was SO handsome!
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I had such a crush on him. RIP.
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Shoot, sorry to hear that. He was only eight months older than my dad, who resembled him a little (maybe his smile or his charm?). 
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This one makes me so sad. Robert Redford was my first teenage crush 
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I loved Out of Africa. And Butch Cassidy. And The Sting. All the Presidents Men. Even The Great Gatsby! Movies just seemed bigger and better when I was younger.
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Who didn’t have a crush on Redford? Holy cow, that smile….
I am very fond of The Electric Horseman (he goes to kiss Jane Fonda, she spooks, he says “I don’t bite”). My kids have seen Butch Cassidy probably 10 times, and The Sting 3 or 4 (their reactions to the whole movie were priceless). And my journalist kid is perpetually telling his peers they need to see All The President’s Men (which honestly is a little sad in modern context)
I think Redford would have enjoyed pushing other people off the news cycle, and it is great to see so many obits saying he was beautiful, but look at all the things he accomplished that really matter.
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Watergate and All the President’s Men is what prompted me to go into journalism. 
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