LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Character actor Calvert DeForest, best known for his dead-pan appearances as the pudgy, bespectacled everyman Larry “Bud” Melman on David Letterman’s late-night TV show, has died at age 85.
DeForest died on Monday at Good Samaritan
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* The Music: Today is the birthday of Johan Sebastian Bach. So, today’s choice is a natural: Switched On Bach. Recorded by Walter Carlos, who later became Wendy Carlos (I suppose we are dealing with Todd Rundgren called “the Tourtured
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With a nod of thanks to Warren Zevon, who, I think would approve.
Shadows are falling and I’m running out of breath
Keep me in your heart for awhile
If I leave you it doesn’t mean I love you any
Lewis Fein, Cathy’s World:
We lost Cathy at 2:05 PM today. May her memory last, her family persevere and her friends endure this terrible loss. We’ll all have more to write shortly, but for now I’d like to truly
The Washington Post is all excited because Patrick Fritzgerald, he of the Wilson affair fame, got rated. Wow. Dan Eggen and John Solomon report:
U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald was ranked among prosecutors who had “not distinguished themselves” on
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Luther Ingram, the soul singer who seduced audiences with his hit “(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right,” has died of a heart attack at age 69, his family said on Wednesday.
Ingram,
Word of what we’re up against:
Insurgents in Iraq detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle with two children in the back seat after US soldiers let it through a Baghdad checkpoint over the weekend, a senior US military official said Tuesday.
Erb is the kind of person who to my mind exemplifies why I don’t trust anyone from the left, at all anymore, any further than I can throw Jim Nadler. .
It’s also why I gave someone else there
She ought to be. The ad perfectly captures Mrs. Clinton’s cynical use of the word “conversation.” View the video. What do you think??
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Liberals are now claiming a strange new theory of executive power — that it’s the bureaucrats, the “experts,” the permanent government in DC, that have almost all of the actual power in the executive branch, and the President is acting
