Another loss for Joe's Celebrity List

Marvin Hamlisch was famous in the musical world and passed at 68. A friend of mine from the PR industry was close to him and feels the loss painfully; and I sense his pain. Today, 68 is young. Marvin Hamlisch has a very nice online guest book and information about his memorial services at the Temple Emanuel in New York City.

So sorry!

He should have been just beginning.

8/13/2012

Yes, shocking and a few days ago Tony Martin passed

away at 93 ! His wife Cid Charisse passed away a year ago.

Cheers..Joe..

8/13/2012



We'll we just lost another one !

Helen Girly Brown- Cosmopolitan Magazine Editor 90 Yrs Old

Wrote " Sex And The Single Girl, " 1962



Cheers..Joe..

8/20/2012

Another great one is gone : " Phyllis Diller , 95 "

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/20/phyllis-diller-dead_n_1812818.html?utm_hp_ref=celebrity&icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl6%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D194782

Joe........

Aw Phooey!

And Tony Scott, who was only 68 - director of Top Gun, Days of Thunder, Enemy of the State, Unstoppable, and many other films - younger brother of Ridley Scott. He apparently committed suicide after learning he had terminal brain cancer.

Ann

Very sad and too bad.

And now another - Neil Armstrong at 82

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong

Quote :

When Armstrong noticed they were heading towards a landing area which he believed was unsafe, he took over manual control of the LM, and attempted to find an area which seemed safer, taking longer than expected, and longer than most simulations had taken.[69] For this reason, there was concern from mission control that the LM was running low on fuel.[70] Upon landing, Aldrin and Armstrong believed they had about 40 seconds worth of fuel to left, including the 20 seconds worth of fuel which had to be saved in the event of an abort.[71] During training, Armstrong had landed the LLTV with less than 15 seconds left on several occasions, and he was also confident the LM could survive a straight-down fall from 50 feet (15 m) if needed. Analysis after the mission showed that at touchdown there were 45 to 50 seconds of propellant burn time left.[72]
The landing on the surface of the moon occurred at 20:17:39 UTC on July 20, 1969.[73] When a sensor attached to the legs of the still hovering Lunar Module made lunar contact, a panel light inside the LM lit up and Aldrin called out, "Contact light." As the LM settled on the surface Aldrin then said, "Okay. Engine stop," and Armstrong said, "Shutdown." The first words Armstrong intentionally spoke to Mission Control and the world from the lunar surface were, "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." Aldrin and Armstrong celebrated with a brisk handshake and pat on the back before quickly returning to the checklist of tasks needed to ready the lunar module for liftoff from the Moon should an emergency unfold during the first moments on the lunar surface.[74][75][76] During the critical landing, the only message from Houston was "30 seconds", meaning the amount of fuel left. When Armstrong had confirmed touch-down, Houston expressed their worries during the manual landing as "You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again".[71]
Although the official NASA flight plan called for a crew rest period before extra-vehicular activity, Armstrong requested that the EVA be moved to earlier in the evening, Houston time. Once Armstrong and Aldrin were ready to go outside, Eagle was depressurized, the hatch was opened and Armstrong made his way down the ladder first.....

At the bottom of the ladder, Armstrong said "I'm going to step off the LEM now" (referring to the Apollo Lunar Module). He then turned and set his left boot on the surface at 2:56 UTC July 21, 1969,[77] then spoke the famous words "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind."[78]

My eyes are tearing as I write.

My husband was away attending an insurance underwriter's workshop in Hartford, Connecticut. Lynn (our only child at the time) and I were staying at my parents' home. We woke Lynn up for the event. She was two-and-a-half. She says she still remembers much of that evening (she's 45 now), but not this bit, which is my favorite.

After the landing my dad took her outside and pointed up toward a clearly visible moon and told her that the men we had just seen landing on the TV were on that same moon we could see in the sky. She looked up at it, eyeing it carefully, turned her head back toward the den and the TV which could be clearly seen behind the glass doors to the patio, back up at the moon, back to the TV, and then at my father, and looking him squarely in the eye and in a serious voice (she was nearly always a serious child) said, "I don't b'lieve dat, Dada."

Annie

Thanks for the memories, Ann.