Goodbye to Hugh Dane at the age of 75.
Dane was a long-time character actor was best known to many (and me) as Hank the Security Guard in the NBC classic The Office.
Dane never got a break in a starring role in film or television, but he'll always have a firm spot in the heart of all fans of the Office.
Goodbye to Alan Bean at the age of 88.
Bean was part of Apollo 12 and the second crew to land on the moon.
Bean had never been to space at all and had been relegated to working on the Skylab project before the death of C.J. Williams opened the spot on the Apollo 12 crew mission.
Bean would return to Skylab and eventually commanded a mission that spent 59 days in space and might have been the first commander of the space shuttle had he not decided to retire.
Bean would become a painter and his paintings dealt with his time on the moon and were realistic down to the exact colors of the moon dust and Apollo vehicles.
Goodbye to Matt "Guitar" Murphy at the age of 88.
Murphy, who played guitar with about any famous blues man that you could think if, wound up being more famous to another (mine) generation for playing himself in the "Blues Brothers" film starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd.
I'm not sure if you are between 45-60, that you haven't seen that film and that role was where Murphy received his longest lasting fame.
"Let's Boogie".
Goodbye to Richard Goodwin at the age of 86.
Goodwin, who seemed to have his finger in everything political in the late 1950's and 1960's, was a speechwriter for both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, worked in the congressional investigation on the game show scandals (as shown in the film Quiz Show) and came up (with LBJ) for the name of the Johnson domestic programs as the Great Society.
Goodwin wrote the famous "We Shall Overcome" speech by Johnson in 1965 and worked on Al Gore's concession speech after his controversial 2000 Presidential election loss to George Bush.
Goodwin was married to author and news pundit Doris Kearns Goodwin for over 40 years and was also the New Hampshire campaign manager for Eugene McCarthy in 1968 in McCarthy's famous near-upset of Lyndon Johnson that sent Johnson from a re-election bid.
Goodbye to Joseph Campanella at the age of 93.
Campanella appeared in close to any hour-long television series that you could think of in the 60's and 70's as a character actor/guest star including a stint as Joe Mannix's boss in "Mannix" and Bonnie Franklin's ex-husband in "One Day at a Time" before transitioning into soaps in the late 80's until 2005.
I'll be back tonight with the Cavaliers pick with the eighth pick of the NBA Draft.
Their selection could wind up being a franchise building block for the post-LeBron age, a player to support a return of LBJ or might even be a Cavalier for a few months before bringing in some veteran help.
Who really knows at this point, but I'll offer some thoughts later...
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