Tom Shipley, Viv Prince, Jeff Meldrum, and Polly Holliday Dies

More to report on, here in the summer of 2025.

These individuals have performed in the highly successful rock band, Brewer and Shipley; was the drummer for the band the Pretty Things; was an American anthropologist and academic, an expert on foot morphology and locomotion in primates; and was an actress in movies such as All the President’s Men, Gremlins and Mrs. Doubtfire, and played the character Flo, in the television series Alice and Flo.

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Johnny Rodriguez, Ruth Buzzi, Mike Peters, and Peter Engel Dies

Spring of 2025 has taken some more musicians, actors and producers.

These artists have recorded country #1 hits like “You Always Come Back to Hurting Me,” “Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico,” and “That’s the Way Love Goes”; performed comedy and TV on Laugh-In, Sesame Street, The Monkees; sang for bands such as Hairy Hippie, The Toilets, Seventeen and The Alarm; and produced over 1000 episodes of TV like Saved By The Bell.

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Teri Garr Dies

She was a beautiful, versitle dancer, actress, and comedian in film and television.

Teri Garr, born December 11, 1944, in Lakewood, Ohio, is an American actress and comedian celebrated for her comedic timing and versatile performances in film and television. Raised in a show-business family—her father Eddie Garr was a vaudeville performer and comedian, and her mother, Phyllis Lind Garr, a wardrobe mistress and model—she was exposed to the entertainment industry from a young age.

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What Is A Reservoir Dog?

“You Shoot Me In A Dream, You Better Wake Up And Apologize.” – Mr. White

Reservoir Dogs is a 1992 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino in his feature-length debut. The question here is exactly what is a “reservoir dog”. There is not one answer to this question. Many people have spent the last 20-plus years trying to figure it out. Some believe that Tarantino will never reveal where he derived the title.

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Outbreak (1995)

I watched this star-studded Warner Brothers Picture Company 1995 movie Outbreak on AMC. It is a Wolfgang Peterson film (The Neverending Story, Enemy Mine, Shattered, In the Line of Fire, Air Force One, The Perfect Storm, Troy, Poseidon) which he was also executive producer and director. The movie is based on Richard Preston’s 1994 nonfiction book “The Hot Zone”. In 1967 a virus infects a whole town in the African Jungle.

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