Goodbye to Marianne Faithfull at the age of 78.
The often-troubled singer/actress came to fame in the sixties with a beautiful singing voice that saw her make the charts several times with her top-charting single her cover of the Rolling Stone's "As Tears Go By" in 1965.
Faithfull would be in a relationship with Stones lead singer Mick Jagger for several years and wound up homeless and suffering from Anorexia after their breakup in the early seventies.
Faithfull's voice would change into a raspy sound after battles with laryngitis and drug addiction permanently damaged her vocal cords but that didn't stop Faithfull from future success with several critically successful albums and roles in films and stage productions.
Goodbye to Peter Tuiasosopo at the age of 61.
A replacement player for the Los Angeles Rams for three games in the 1987 strike season, Tuiasosopo made his name in movies and films more than in the NFL, as he would never play another game in the league.
Tuiasosopo is known to most for his role in the Street Fighter films or a recurring role on NCIS but to me, he will always be thought of as "Manu Manu" the center for the Texas State Armadillos in the football comedy "Unnecessary Roughness"
Goodbye to Bob Kuban at the age of 84.
The namesake of the 1960s group Bob Kuban and the In-Men, Kuban and his group hit it big with their 1966 song "The Cheater," which ranked as high as twelve on the charts and is still an oldies station staple today.
Kuban and the In-Men had two other songs that reached the top 100 before returning to St.Louis, where they would remain the top local band.
Kuban and the In-Men performed at the opening ceremonies of the first Busch Stadium in St.Louis in 1966 and while the band was topped by Kuban in the title, it was not Kuban who sang vocals on "The Cheater", it was Walter Scott who ironically would be murdered by his wife's lover in 1983 in an attempt to cover up infidelity.
Goodbye to Tony Roberts at the age of 85.
The veteran actor acted in several Woody Allen films and was a stage actor in Neil Simon productions in a fifty-five career.
Used mostly in supporting roles, Roberts received two chances to break out as a lead, both in 1971 and both with Sandy Duncan as his co-star.
Both " The Million Dollar Duck" (a Disney film with Dean Jones and Duncan) and "Star Spangled Girl" (a Neil Simon production based on Simon's play with the theme song that Davy Jones would sing on a Brady Bunch episode) performed poorly at the box office.
Roberts would not receive another chance to play the lead in a film or television series.
But to me, a child of the age, those two roles are memorable.
I used to go to almost all the Disney films as a child, so Million Dollar Duck sticks with me as a good memory and Star Spangled Girl was a film that often found its way to late-night viewing in the days without many options to choose from as a "Late Night Movie".
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