Bob Feller: fireballer and curmudgeon at 92.

When I was seven or eight, I read a book of baseball history that had a chapter on Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Bob Feller and Stan Musial as heroes of the transition from the Ruthian era. Musial's still alive, perhaps because he only lost one year of his career to World War II.

I never met Blake Edwards, but I did see Joe DiMaggio on the street in San Francisco once. I wanted to knock him down so I could help him up.

Only 15 more days left to die to make it into this thread.

I'm working on it...

Damn. This is a biggie for me. I'm the only person I know who fell in love with Trout Mask Replica at the age of twelve. (In fact, I might be the only person I know to have fallen in love with that album at all. Maybe some of you are similarly smitten.) Looks like I'll be putting that, Doc At The Radar Station and Ice Cream For Crow into heavy rotation for the next few days.

In case you don't want to wait for the Oscars, a 2010 recap from TCM. It was a bad year for people in Airplane!

I have no idea who she is (and reviewing the web site I still have no idea) but she really makes me think of Phyllis Diller. And so I looked her up and am shocked to learn she is still alive considering she was 106 years old when I was a kid.

Witch!