I guess this means no more Final Fours for Loyola. Her inspiration put them over the top a few years ago. I think that she was 99 when they went to that Final Four. Who would have thought that she’d live another 7.5 years after that magical season. She finally retired just a month ago. We should all be so lucky as Sister Jean.
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The most surprising thing to me about Sister Jean was that she became a nun in 1937 – 92 years ago!
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Different world back then. 
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John Lodge, the singer and bass guitarist for the British rock group the Moody Blues, who wrote some of the band’s biggest hits, including “Ride My See-Saw” and “I’m Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band),” has died. He was 82.
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I’ve been a Moody Blues fan since the late 1960s - John Lodge was so far ahead of his time. RIP John Lodge.
(funny & true story, when we lived in Auckland, I had just seen the Moody Blues in concert - my mom went on a business trip and came home, all giddy on my behalf because “Moody Blue” was on her flight, and she sadly wasn’t able to get an autograph for me. I questioned her over and over again, only to discover it wasn’t “Moody Blue” on her flight, but Muddy Waters (which in itself was a feat, as New Zealand was just opening their doors to black performers 
- saw Bill Cosby there and half his riff was about trying to get into the country!)
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Saw them live about 10 years ago and they were still magical. Their ability to innovate with Days of Future Passsed put them on a whole different level from other popular bands.
Thank you, John Lodge.
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That’s so sad - she was pretty young.
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That Woody Allen outlives her when he seems so much older (10 years)
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Say it isn’t true!
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For whatever reason, this seems shocking. 
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In 2008, I took D1 on a California college look-see after she finished a long bike ride from Seattle to San Francisco. We hit colleges all along the coast, and finished with a stay at a lovely hotel in Santa Monica. We were in the lobby waiting for our room to be ready, when in walked Diane Keaton, wearing an amazing Chanel-like suit with a hat like you’d see in fashion drawings. We could not believe our eyes. I’m not one to be starstruck or a celebrity worshipper, but I have to admit that I was totally entranced. That same trip, I saw David Beckham early in the morning, looking sleepy-eyed, like he’d just rolled out of bed, with his two little boys running around the lobby. But he didn’t hold a candle to Diane!
RIP Diane. Gone too soon.
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If not the most romantic marriage, certainly in the top 5 for me, is Nina and George Banks from the Father of the Bride movies. I have loved Diane Keaton in many roles, but probably no more than in those movies. I know it’s fiction, but the idea of having someone look at me the way that George looks at Nina at different times in those films is the ultimate picture of romantic love. This death has made me very sad.
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