She was one of my first crushes… I loved Grease as much as everyone else, and the Xanadu soundtrack was the first 8-track I bought. Growing up, my house was always filled with the sound of “…please mister please, don’t play B-17, it was our song, it was his song, but it’s over…”
Goodbye, Olivia.… Read the rest “”
He passed a few days ago, but I’m only now up to saying something. Part of that is because I’ve got the flu, but part of it is because I’m just fucking sad.
The first Neal Adams comic I purchased was Superman vs.… Read the rest “Neal Adams (1941-2022)”
God fucking dammit.
He was younger than me.
Dave has got to be utterly crushed.
Another important piece of my twenties just vanished.
Meat Loaf Dies: ‘Bat Out Of Hell’ Singer & ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ Actor Was 74
To most people, he was Paradise By The Dashboard Light, or Eddie from Rocky Horror. But to me, he was Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad.… Read the rest “Meat Loaf (1947-2022)”
I know he was just Hannah Horvath’s dad to most of you, but when I was a little kid, he was Tom Hanks’ horny, cross-dressing partner-in-retrospectively-creepy-crime on Bosom Buddies, and Julia Duffy’s nerdy husband on Newhart. He was never going to be a movie star like Hanks —Peter looked and acted a bit like the mutant offspring of Rick Moranis and David Hyde Pierce— but he had solid taste in projects, and remained relevant well into the 21st century.… Read the rest “Peter Scolari (1955-2021)”
Beyond tragedy. One of the finest actors of the 21st century… gone at 54.
I’ll have to come back to this later, because this one’s a Prince-level gut-punch.
The cheese stands alone. Goddammit.
I kinda got into The Stones back around the time they released Steel Wheels, but to be honest, I was always more of a Beatles kid. (Or to be even more honest, I was an Eagles kid.) I appreciated both, but their heydays were a little before my time, so I never developed incredibly strong opinions about their discographies or their musicianship.… Read the rest “Charlie Watts (1941-2021)”
ZZ Top had spent years as a band of hard-rocking old farts specializing in low-brow songs for horny teenaged boys, but they reached the pinnacle of their success via a pop-inflected song, a hot car, and a trio of girls head-bobbing and hip-twitching their way through one of the most watched music videos of the ‘80s.… Read the rest “Dusty Hill (1949-2021)”
Dakota Skye was one of the only “porn stars” of the 20teens whose stage name I bothered to remember… she was beautiful and energetic, and starred in some of the best GIFs still circulating on Tumblr.… Read the rest “Dakota Skye (1994-2021)”
In 1987, hair-metal had reached its zenith, David Coverdale was the closest thing MTV had to Robert Plant —who had been busy making ‘50s-style pop with The Honeydrippers earlier in the decade— and Tawny Kitaen was The Girl.
She did it kind of backwards.… Read the rest “Tawny Kitaen (1961-2021)”
