Soupy Sales, Entertainer, RIP 83 Years Old

Fox News reports:

DETROIT â€”  Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83.

Sales died at Thursday

Last week, we were forced to say goodbye to our Canine friend, and family member of 16 years. And yes, that’s quite old for a dog.

A wonderful freind, she was, and a great companion. She will be missed.

Big Lou is gone. The LA TIMES is reporting:

Albano, who was sent home from the hospital earlier this week and place under hospice care, was 76 years old.

Albano is best known to non-wrestling fans as the father in

SIFY MOVIES: Al Martino, the singer of 1960’s hits such as Spanish Eyes and Volare, died aged 82 in his home town of Philadelphia, according to a statement from his publicist Wednesday.

Philly is in mourning, this morning.

Scott Fybush is reporting this morning the death of Jim Nettleton.

Diamond” Jim Nettleton began his broadcast career in Pottstown, then got his big breaks in Connecticut – in Waterbury, New Haven (WAVZ), and most of all in Hartford, where

Big Russ has passed:

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The father of the late “Meet the Press” moderator Tim Russert, the inspiration for his son’s best-selling book about their relationship and lessons learned, has died.

The family of Timothy

The New York Times is reporting:

William Safire, a speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon and a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for The New York Times who also wrote novels, books on politics and a Malaprop’s treasury of articles

The Wall Street Journal today has an op-ed up on Irving Kristol, (really just a collection of quotes from Kristol, which is likely the best way to handle such things)  Forbes is reporting Kristol as having died at age 89

From the New York Daily News, comes word that Mary Travers of Peter, Paul, and Mary fame is dead at 72. Leuchimea, the cause.

Nine Eleven was a day which made me feel humble but proud to be an American.   It was a day when off-duty firefighters went into the burning towers knowing full well they would never come out.   It was day when

Rose Friedman has passed away, from the Friedman Foundation:

Rose Director Friedman passed away Tuesday, August 18, 2009, in her home in Davis, California, of heart failure. While the exact date of her birth is uncertain, she is believed

We lost a great one this morning, from Sun-Times (Chicago):

Most people know the late Sun-Times columnist Robert D. Novak, who died this morning [Tuesday] from complications of a brain tumor, as a journalist. And indeed he was among the

Les Paul, the guitar legend, has  reportedly died., over in White Plains, NY.

Mike Allen at The Politico is reporting:

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the founder and honorary chairperson of Special Olympics, died early this morning at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass., surrounded by her family, the organization said in a statement. She

The New York Times is reporting the death of Walter Cronkite:

Walter Cronkite, an iconic CBS News journalist who defined the role of anchorman for a generation of television viewers, died Friday at the age of 92, his family said.