We lost Gena Rowlands—one of the greats—but also our dignity, as headlines trumpet: actress from “The Notebook”.
— Carrie Coon ( @carriecoon ) August 15, 2024
Peter Marshall was famous for “Hollywood Squares,” of course, but he was also the father of former major leaguer Pete LaCock. I met LaCock once, and he joked that my Phillies cap brought back bad memories (he was on the 1980 Royals).
Greg Kihn
"Jeopardy" had a pretty funny video in the early days of MTV. The Weird Al made an even funnier parody.
Attended a Hollywood Squares taping (3 episodes) in the late 70s or 1980. Marshall had a weird denigrating reaction to one of the prizes in one of the shows, when they went to commercial some voice from above scolded him for that, but they didn't reshoot it.
Any child of the 80s remembers Phil Donahue as a classy mid day talk show icon before it turned to smut (or at least we assumed as much because our moms watched).
Also, Phil Donahue wasn’t dead yet?!
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Singer and actor James Darren, born James Ercolani, 88. South Philly native. I, of course, most remember him as the holodeck crooner Vic Fontaine on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
RIP. He starred in at least two baseball movies, Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings and, of course, Field of Dreams. Supposedly, he wasn’t much of a baseball fan.
