There is no brief way to describe how much I’ve enjoyed the music of The Doors and X which Ray Manzarek made, so I’ll write about one song.
This song has been a part of my life. It’s This is the kind of song that you listen to on a sunny day with the windows out and you’re driving, preferably on a highway going up or down the coast in Southern California.
On the day of his death, I want to appreciate Ray for his part in making sun light warmer, stronger for making wind cooler and the ocean and the beach more beautiful.
“Hopefully [history] will remember me for my music and forgive me of the things I did that let ‘em down.”
— George Jones, country music legend who died today at 81.
Jonathan Winters roasts Johnny Carson (by LaffTherapy)
Winter’s style was creating characters who were vehicles for the comedy. Robin Williams said that Winters was his greatest comedic inspiration.
C. Everett Koop, who raised the profile of the surgeon general by riveting America’s attention on the then-emerging disease known as AIDS and by railing against smoking, has died in New Hampshire at age 96.
Jerry Buss: The Show Master of Showtime
Jerry Buss, the Los Angeles Lakers’ playboy owner who shepherded the NBA franchise to 10 championships from the ’80s Showtime dynasty to the Kobe Bryant era, died Monday…
He was a really good man,” Bridges says. “He really was like Mr. Drummond. Just an all-around nice guy. He treated me better than my own father treated me.”
“When I had my son, I took him to Conrad’s house and he loved him, played chess with him, called him his grandson,” Bridges says. “He just really knew how to take care of people.
He had run Kennedy’s 1960 presidential campaign in his district, where Kennedy won by 40,000 votes. In October 1963, he was the only one of nine Southerners on the judiciary committee to vote for the Kennedy administration’s civil rights bill.
When Johnson took up the bill after Kennedy’s death, Mr. Brooks was one of 11 out of 92 Southerners to vote for it on the House floor in 1964.
President Richard M. Nixon, he loathed. Mr. Brooks said he would have voted to impeach him on Jan. 21, 1969, but it “would not have looked good” to do it the day he was inaugurated, Jan. 20. Five and a half years later, as a ranking member of the judiciary committee, he helped draft the articles of impeachment that prompted Nixon to resign.
He was also a leader in the House investigation of President Ronald Reagan for trading arms for the hostages in Iran and using the proceeds to finance the right-leaning Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
