It’s really interesting seeing these older actors who are dying lately and they have worked in movies their entire adult lives so there are so many images of them in different roles over the years. Maybe especially notable to me because I only ever knew of them once they were already older and only once they die that I am presented with them as they aged.
Gotta love a guy who (may have) called Toby Keith out
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/sports/dikembe-mutombo-dead.html
RIP to Mutombo. What a legend. I always loved how he would make a huge block, and then do his signature finger wag. Even his GEICO commercial was good.
That medium article misses something important - In a later interview with a smaller outlet, they asked about the incident, and while he reiterated he still didn’t remember the altercation, he also pointed out that his wife did, and pointed out that he had long-standing memory issues. Which is true - he was having pretty serious medical issues, particularly struggling with memory and cognition to the point of doctors suspecting Alzheimers or dementia, due to having Lyme Disease, completely undiagnosed and untreated for the better part of a decade.
MLB all-time hits leader Pete Rose has died, though he sucks as a person.
I would be willing to accept an argument that the punishment was too severe for the crime, but you are so correct. By all accounts Pete Rose was a terrible person. The fact that Pete Rose lives 83 years and Dikembe lives 58 erases any possibility belief in a just and good deity.
Thank you! I was just going to mention the incident, which I find wonderful. Then I second-guessed it, believing that it was possibly apocryphal, so I only did a very quick Google search. I really needed to get back to working on my grad school work.
RIP Quincy Jones
Remember this guy? He donated to Trump’s border wall.
Good riddance.
Rickey Henderson
He was one of those people that was so good at baseball that everyone knew his name. The only other thing I know about him is that he was quite a character that always referred to himself in the third person.
Gordon Ung
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/29/us/jimmy-carter
RIP to Jimmy Carter. A much better president than he’s often given credit for, and a far better person than most others to hold the office.