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Forum: Home Base 04-14-2020, 11:19 AM
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Posted By Diaphone Jim
Yes: Stirling Moss Easily in my top few sports...

Yes: Stirling Moss
Easily in my top few sports heroes and one I met and spoke to personally.
I have a photo from the LA Times Sports section of Moss, Phil Hill and a handsome unidentified UC...
Forum: Home Base 03-10-2020, 03:14 PM
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Posted By Diaphone Jim
I saw "The Seventh Seal" when it came out; I was...

I saw "The Seventh Seal" when it came out; I was in high school and I thought von Sydow was an old man.
Here it turns out he was just a little older than I am.
Forum: Home Base 02-08-2020, 11:12 AM
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Posted By Diaphone Jim
Orson Bean was killed by a car while walking. ...

Orson Bean was killed by a car while walking.
He was a very funny man.
I am pretty sure it was in Mad Magazine where he showed how to make a fir tree out of a newspaper. I made two many years...
Forum: Home Base 01-23-2020, 06:15 PM
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Posted By Diaphone Jim
Jim Lehrer was a great fan of public bus...

Jim Lehrer was a great fan of public bus transportation writing both fiction and nonfiction about them. He may have even driven them.
He also replied personally to every letter I wrote him.
Forum: Home Base 12-03-2019, 11:08 AM
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Posted By Diaphone Jim
Well, that's good.

Well, that's good.
Forum: Home Base 12-02-2019, 07:04 PM
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Posted By Diaphone Jim
I enjoyed Harry Belafonte's music, acting and...

I enjoyed Harry Belafonte's music, acting and social commentary for many, many years. I am sorry to see him go.
Forum: Home Base 11-25-2019, 05:26 PM
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Posted By Diaphone Jim
Gahan Wilson seemed to be sort of an heir to...

Gahan Wilson seemed to be sort of an heir to Charles Addams.
Miss them both.
Forum: Home Base 08-24-2019, 11:25 AM
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Posted By Diaphone Jim
Rest in Pain, David Koch. Years ago, mostly...

Rest in Pain, David Koch.

Years ago, mostly in the '50s and '60s, trying to get a look at automobiles under development was a sport.
A guy named Jim Dunne made it his profession, photographing...
Forum: Home Base 02-19-2019, 05:29 PM
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Posted By Diaphone Jim
Glinda posted: "That is some weird, lame shit....

Glinda posted: "That is some weird, lame shit. People actually spent money on this guy's albums?"

Gee, I wish you had been around to save me in 1959 when I bought those disgusting albums.
I...
Forum: Home Base 02-19-2019, 11:20 AM
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Posted By Diaphone Jim
OK, that is officially weird. It must be that...

OK, that is officially weird. It must be that Ken Nordine didn't affect anyone here but me.
What he did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k88msPKWkKY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4qdLuwCib0
Forum: Home Base 02-18-2019, 10:44 AM
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Posted By Diaphone Jim
Ken Nordine died Saturday at 98. I guess I...

Ken Nordine died Saturday at 98.
I guess I thought he died years ago.
Someone stole my two albums of his "Word Jazz" and "Son of Word jazz," so they hadn't popped up in going through my LP...
Forum: Home Base 10-23-2018, 05:41 PM
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Posted By Diaphone Jim
Hank Greenwald, San Francisco Giants (and other...

Hank Greenwald, San Francisco Giants (and other teams) radio announcer.
He made you feel like you were friends and like you were watching the game on the radio.
Knowledgeable and funny, dead at 82....
Forum: Home Base 06-22-2018, 11:19 AM
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Views: 773,259
Posted By Diaphone Jim
As a young psychiatrist, Charles Krauthammer...

As a young psychiatrist, Charles Krauthammer worked as an intake doctor in a large city facility. I always wondered how terrible it would have been to have to deal with him when suffering mental...
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