Sad
The vice principal of Hill Valley High School has died.
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RIP Mary Beth Hurt.
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OK, I heard that and wondered whether I had been mispronouncing it wrong all this time.
According to the NYT obit, Perrine herself accepted both pronunciations. Perhaps she’s like Charlize Theron who was just happy that people know her name even if they all pronounce it incorrectly.
I always thought it was Perrine - rhymes with nine - however her Playboy pictorial has the headline “Perrine as in Queen.”
Anyway, RIP
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for the Illinois fans.
For those who are unfamiliar with David Mirkovic, part of our Balkan Bloc, his first name is pronounced “Dah-vid”, not “Day-vid”. There’s a video clip of him where he says “a lot of media thinks that I’m going to get offended if you say “Day-vid”…since I was a kid, my nickname was David (Day-vid).”
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Coming from Montreal, to me “Perrine” would rhyme with “Queen”. However, I tend to be oblivious regarding how French names are pronounced in the USA.
I used to work with someone who had a French Canadian name, and French Canadian ancestry. I knew how his name would be pronounced in Quebec, but had no idea how to pronounce it down here in the USA. I asked him how Americans would pronounce his name. He said that he also had no idea, and that he routinely heard all sorts of different pronunciations and just put up with all of them.
Right. Perrine is a French surname, where it is pronounced as rhyming with queen. She can trace her ancestry in the US to Daniel Perrin, a French Huguenot who was one of the first settlers of Staten Island 100 years before the American War of Independence - what the Yanks call the Revolutionary War thinking that America is the only country that ever had a revolution. Ditto the Civil War. 
. Whether the family ever Americanized the pronunciation is unknown to me.
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Our friend’s father in South Africa pronounced it “Dah-VEED,” accent on the second syllable. My dad’s name is David, too, so I had to remember which way to say it when I was with both of them.
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Sid Krofft, the co-creator of the classic TV series “Land of the Lost” and “H.R. Pufnstuf,” has died at 96
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Oh that is so sad. They had an indoor amusement park in Atlanta back in the day. Gone But Not Forgotten: The World of Sid and Marty Krofft | Atlanta History Center
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I just read that in the past week, we’ve lost Davey Lopes, who was a key part of the legendary Dodgers infields of Garvey, Lopes, Russell and Cey from the late 70s on and then Phil Garner, part of the great 1979 Pirates “We are Family” team.
Both became managers.
Part of the childhood now passing.
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Alan Osmond, Oldest Member of The Osmonds, Dies at 76
https://people.com/alan-osmond-oldest-member-the-osmonds-dies-at-76-11954616
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As a former Donny/Osmond fanatic when I was like 12 this is sad to see. I can picture him way back when. He may be the second Osmond brother to pass?
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Yes, Wayne died last year
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My cousins were such Osmond maniacs as kids.
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I saw the Osmonds in 1973. This makes me sad.
A (relatively) young one, Patrick Muldoon of Melrose Place and Starship Troopers died at age 57 after a heart attack:
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Musician Dave Mason has died:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/arts/music/mason-dave-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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He could have coined the theme song of the College Confidential…..a quiet, unknown giant. Rock Hall of Famer. Sad news.
“So let’s leave it alone, 'cause we can’t see eye to eye
There ain’t no good guy, there ain’t no bad guy
There’s only you and me and we just disagree”
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