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Lewy Body dementia - age 83

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/david-gergen-obituary?pid=209382175

*Trivia: The beautiful young romantic lead became a cloistered nun at age 24 (she is now 86) and a member of the Academy Awards Oscar voting committee.

Viv we hardly knew ye

~ high water-mark of first wave rock . . . ?

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So which member of Cheap Trick died? I can't find any news about it anywhere. Not even Billboard or Wikipedia.

I wish this thread would be less cryptic and not depend on people puzzling out riddles.

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*Trivia: The beautiful young romantic lead became a cloistered nun at age 24 (she is now 86) and a member of the Academy Awards Oscar voting committee.

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If she's 86 then what is she doing in the obituaries thread?

He likes to play games.
It was the obituaries thread. Now it's part game show.

Ted Matuzak was already dead, no? So that means Ted Hendricks died?

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*Trivia: The beautiful young romantic lead became a cloistered nun at age 24 (she is now 86) and a member of the Academy Awards Oscar voting committee.

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If she's 86 then what is she doing in the obituaries thread?

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1. Who said she is dead? I said she is 86. The dead one had a hit song with the same name as the movie, she was in the movie and she is depicted in the art work on the movie poster. Do the work;

2. His name was John Matuszak, not Ted.
My buddy, who played for the Raiders, was assigned by Madden as the designated babysitter for the Tooz at the '77 SB vs the Vikings in Pasadena. My buddy thinks the Tooz dropped a couple of 'ludes pre game.

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If a period of time goes by and there are no new deaths, this thread will fall down the list. A new death? Then add it here and it will pop back up to the top.

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OT, sorrry, turns out we're not getting out much anymore.
[monty python's Holy Grail "not dead yet" skit goes here]
# things change

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*Trivia: The beautiful young romantic lead became a cloistered nun at age 24 (she is now 86) and a member of the Academy Awards Oscar voting committee.

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If she's 86 then what is she doing in the obituaries thread?

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1. Who said she is dead? I said she is 86. The dead one had a hit song with the same name as the movie, she was in the movie and she is depicted in the art work on the movie poster. Do the work;

2. His name was John Matuszak, not Ted.
My buddy, who played for the Raiders, was assigned by Madden as the designated babysitter for the Tooz at the '77 SB vs the Vikings in Pasadena. My buddy thinks the Tooz dropped a couple of 'ludes pre game.

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Connie Francis sang where the boys are.
Born
Dec 12, 1937 Newark, NJ
Died
Jul 16, 2025 Broward Florida



Now then… who's the costar?
And what does any of this have to do with Tooz, d. 1989.

A: Dolores Hart is the costar.
But why you are focused on her… or Matuszac….




Okay…. Two separate posts.
And the nun was merely trivia to Connie's "announcement"

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Viv we hardly knew ye

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Cleaning up your sloppiness with a proper obituary.

David Kaff, who played keyboardist Viv Savage in Rob Reiner's 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, has died. His band Mutual of Alameda's Wild Kingdom shared the news to Facebook, writing "David always had a kind word and a quick wit that would slay you where you stand. Then he'd make you smile doing it!" A cause of death was not given, though the statement mentions that Kaff "passed away peacefully in his sleep" on Saturday, July 12. He was 79 years.

Born David Kaffinetti in 1946, Kaff got his start as a founding member of the British psychedelic rock band Rare Bird. The group was among the first to sign to Charisma Records, later the label home of Genesis and Peter Gabriel, and put out five studio albums between 1969 and 1974. Rare Bird's sole UK chart hit, 1970's "Sympathy," features a prominent organ line courtesy of Kaff. In 1972, Kaff also went into the studio with Chuck Berry for The London Chuck Berry Sessions, which yielded the No. 1 single "My Ding-a-Ling."

In This Is Spinal Tap, Kaff portrays the frizzy-haired keyboard player in fictional metal band Spinal Tap. Despite a smaller role relative to lead actors Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer, Kaff's Viv Savage left his mark thanks to a combination of physical comedy (especially during the film's staged concert footage) and quotable one-liners. At one point, asked by McKean's David St. Hubbins if he's able to play Nigel Tufnel's (Guest) bassline on "Big Bottom," Savage quips back, "I've got two hands, yeah I can do it."

The Cosby Show star dead at 54: Malcolm-Jamal Warner tragically drowns

https://mol.im/a/14926235

The two stars of this show died, respectively, at age 52 and 54.

~ class, baby

"Cleaning up your sloppiness with a proper obituary."

I think celebrity obituaries should be interactive unless the situation is too sad.

"I wish this thread would be less cryptic and not depend on people puzzling out riddles."

This one's for you, EOB!



Thank you for your service, Corporal Job, U.S. Army, European Theater

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RIP.

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Holy crap, I didn't go to Miramonte (or Campo), but I sort of knew, like, 4-5 of those people, or at least knew the families.

RIP

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I'm guessing Nancy Fonseca had a younger sister named Sandra?

Go Mats.

Excellent.
What percentage do you suppose has passed 51 years after graduation?

20%-25%.

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A bit higher than 20% because it's a more affluent sample and because they did live to their HS graduation.

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A bit higher than 20% because it's a more affluent sample and because they did live to their HS graduation.

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Thx.
As we get older, we're all wondering.
Here's a good page. Different graphics.

https://www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/four-charts-to-understand-causes

And this chart is kind of what I was looking for.

They threw Cal Bear Greg a bone and gave Crate & Barrel a cameo in the Ballard series (which I found quite good). We didn't get to rock long hair like that at BOD because of the hair length regulation, which is why we all wanted to land in college 15 minutes down the freeway to become freaks.

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20%-25%.

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Approximately 20% of Americans are projected to die before reaching the age of 70, according to Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). This means that the remaining ~80% of the population is expected to live past their 70th birthday, with many living into their 80s and beyond.

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Thx.
As we get older, we're all wondering.
Here's a good page. Different graphics.

https://www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/four-charts-to-understand-causes

And this chart is kind of what I was looking for.

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It should be a bit lower than 20%, not a bit higher, I made a mistake above, more survivors means a lower death rate, not higher.

MHS in 1966-67. Perhaps 30% are so far deceased, including coaches Durant and Blackwood:


MHS class of 1983 class pictures over the years. I'd think MoragaBear should be in here:

He helped create metal, he had a very unique voice, and he recreated himself numerous times. What a career.

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MHS in 1966-67. Perhaps 30% are so far deceased, including coaches Durant and Blackwood:


MHS class of 1983 class pictures over the years. I'd think MoragaBear should be in here:

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concordtom, I feel so mellow and live-and-let-live this week that I'm not going to rat out "a certain poster" for recently posting an obit notice on the Breaking News thread. That said, as Founder and Creator of this thread (which happens to be one of Bear Insider's Top100 innovations this century), if you are so motivated, you certainly have every right to go over there yourself for an investigation, followed by any reprimand / smack down you deem appropriate.

That's okay.
I have compassion for those who lack that which you and I take for granted, that which you and I just spoke about last week.

Hillary called them deplorables. What are you going to do?

"I dropped a leg on death many times in the past, but there eventually comes a day when you have to put death over, brother."