Friday, May 20, 2011

Randy Savage

Died May 20, 2011. Born November 15, 1952. Cause of Death: Injuries sustained in auto accident.
American professional wrestler, hip hop icon and actor best known for his time with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). He also had a short run with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). Savage held twenty championships during his professional wrestling career and is a seven-time world champion: a two-time WWF Champion, four-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, and one-time USWA Unified World Heavyweight Champion. Also a one-time WWF Intercontinental Champion, WWE has named Savage the greatest Intercontinental champion of all time and credited him for bringing "a higher level of credibility to the title through his amazing in-ring performances. Aside from championships, Savage is the 1987 WWF King of the Ring and the 1995 WCW World War 3 winner. For much of his tenures in the WWF and WCW, he was managed by his real life wife, "Miss Elizabeth" Hulette.
Savage was recognizable by wrestling fans for his distinctively deep and raspy voice, his ring attire (often comprising sunglasses, a bandana or head band, flashy robes, and a cowboy hat), intensity exhibited in and out of the ring, and his signature catch phrase ("Ooh yeah!"). WWE has said of Savage: "There has never been a Superstar more colorful than "Macho Man" Randy Savage. His style—perfectly punctuated by his entrance music, "Pomp and Circumstance"—has only been outshined by his performance in the ring.

Jennifer Lyn Jackson

Drug Overdose. Died January 22, 2010. Born March 21, 1969. Best known as Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for April 1989. She was also one of three finalists for the magazine's 35th Anniversary pictorial.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Barbara Stuart

Barbara Stuart

Died May 15, 2011. Born January 3, 1935.

Stuart portrayed "Miss Bunny", the blonde girlfriend of Sergeant Vincent Carter, played by Frank Sutton, on the CBS military sitcom Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., starring Jim Nabors. In all, she appeared in 21 episodes during the series run. Stuart appeared in four episodes, "Gomer and the Dragon Lady" (1964 as Hannah), "Gomer, the Beautiful Dreamer", "Changing Partners", and "Win-A-Date", (1967–1969, as Bunny Wilson).

In 1969, Stuart was cast as Wilma Winslow in the CBS sitcom The Queen and I, set on a cruise ship and a precursor of The Love Boat, starring Larry Storch, formerly of F Troop. In 1985, she was cast as Marianne Danzig, the wife of a Mafia godfather in the ABC crime drama Our Family Honor, with Eli Wallach in the starring role. She appeared in the television movie and the short-lived series of the same name.

Between 1959 and 1961, Stuart appeared in four episodes of the NBC crime drama The Lawless Years, starring James Gregory and Robert Karnes. She appeared in different roles in episodes entitled "The Marie Walters Story", "The Maxey Gorman Story", "The Billy Boy 'Rockabye' Creel Story", and "Ginny", in which she held the title role.

At the turn of the 1960s, Stuart appeared as Alice nine times in the first season of CBS's sitcom Pete and Gladys, starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams, in episodes entitled "Crime of Passion", "The Goat Story", "Camping Out", "Bowling Brawl", "No Man Is Japan" (all 1960), "The Insurance Faker", "The Great Stone Face", "The Six Musketeers", and "Gladys Opens Pete's Mail" (all 1961).

Harmon Killwbrew

 Died May 17, 2011. Born June 29, 1936.

Nicknamed "Killer" and "Hammerin' Harmon", was a Major League Baseball first baseman, third baseman, and left fielder. During a 22-year baseball career in which he played for the Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins, and Kansas City Royals, he was second only to Babe Ruth in American League (AL) home runs and retired as the AL career leader in home runs by a right-handed batter (since broken by Alex Rodriguez). He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984.