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blastula said:
Chuck Mangione not feeling so good or anything no more. 😿
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I hadn't thought of him in years. His hit song came out about the time I entered college. We had a talent show in our dorm complex, and this girl in my building did his "Feels So Good" song with just her mouth/lips...no instruments. It was amazing. She got a standing ovation from the crowd. Sounded just like the real thing.
 
Aw. I was never a big fan of his work, but a nice guy. One evening at Princeville (Kauai) a friend who worked there pulled me aside and told me Chuck Mangione was there for dinner - alone - and would I join him for company. Had a very pleasant dinner, discussed lots of recording studio stuff, and the burdens and costs of success in that business.
So it makes me a little sad to hear of his passing. But he was old … almost ten yrs older than I am. Twice as old as my niece we are grieving.
RIP.
 
Elixir said:
Aw. I was never a big fan of his work, but a nice guy. One evening at Princeville (Kauai) a friend who worked there pulled me aside and told me Chuck Mangione was there for dinner - alone - and would I join him for company. Had a very pleasant dinner, discussed lots of recording studio stuff, and the burdens and costs of success in that business.
So it makes me a little sad to hear of his passing. But he was old … almost ten yrs older than I am. Twice as old as my niece we are grieving.
RIP.
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You always gotta "one up" me, doncha? I brag about my (admittedly weak) connection to Chuck Mangione, and you have to pipe in about having a one-on-one dinner with him. :pouting:
 
Tom Lehrer. Had no idea he was still alive.

apnews.com

Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97

Tom Lehrer songs included “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park,” “The Old Dope Peddler,” “Be Prepared” and “The Vatican Rag,” in which he poked at the rites and ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church.
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GenesisNemesis said:
Hulk Hulgan at 71. Bye bye MAGA dumbass.
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Oh I typed Hulgan. Whatever, he was still way more of a dumbass than me and he deserved his last name to be misspelled anyway. Fuck you, Hulk Hulgan.
 
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Dave Ziran, sport writer for The Nation magazine, told of CNN calling him about his thoughts on Hogan's passing. Ziran basically told them Hogan was a racist, woman assaulting POS. The CNN caller said "Thanks. We'll keep looking."
 
ZiprHead said:
Dave Ziran, sport writer for The Nation magazine, told of CNN calling him about his thoughts on Hogan's passing. Ziran basically told them Hogan was a racist, woman assaulting POS. The CNN caller said "Thanks. We'll keep looking."
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I've been trying to figure out how to approach Hogan's death. I remember watching him in Rocky III as "Thunderlips," and though I wasn't a huge fan of wrestling thought he was good for telling kids to take their vitamins and such. He sold himself as the "good guy" wrestler. Over the years it came out that he was a virulent racist, then he turned to MAGA, and that was enough for me to say "fuck that guy" and not care, but then it hit me. Like...five minutes ago.

There was a time when he turned "heel" and became "Hollywood Hogan."

In a way, Hogan was emblematic of old school Hollywood all along. But instead of young starlets locked into ironclad contracts with studios, the WWE (and WCW) were exploiting beefcake wrestlers. Pushing them to conform to impossible physical standards. To take whatever drugs you had to in order to look good for the camera. Work long, brutal hours for shit pay on the slim hopes that you'd someday "make it," and if you didn't become a "star," they'd discard you and leave you broke and broken on the side of the road. Or even dead. Beloved wrestlers died of drug overdoses, suicides, or just having their bodies give out. Vince McMahon was like a studio head of old Hollywood, pulling the strings, taking all the money, and ruling over his entertainment fiefdom like a king. Yeah, women were disposable eye candy, but -in an odd twist - so were the men.

When the "starlets" decided to stand up to the studio head and unionize, "Hollywood" Hogan ratted them out, and stood up for Vince and the exploitation machine.

Yeah...fuck that guy.
 
I never watched wrestling but somehow Hogan was a big enough figure everyone knew of him. I vaguely remember he had a reality tv show at one time. And there was some sex tape scandal he featured in that brought down a media company. Seems he died relatively young. Probably something linked to his lifestyle choices.
 
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ZiprHead said:
Dave Ziran, sport writer for The Nation magazine, told of CNN calling him about his thoughts on Hogan's passing. Ziran basically told them Hogan was a racist, woman assaulting POS. The CNN caller said "Thanks. We'll keep looking."
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I've been trying to figure out how to approach Hogan's death. I remember watching him in Rocky III as "Thunderlips," and though I wasn't a huge fan of wrestling thought he was good for telling kids to take their vitamins and such. He sold himself as the "good guy" wrestler. Over the years it came out that he was a virulent racist, then he turned to MAGA, and that was enough for me to say "fuck that guy" and not care, but then it hit me. Like...five minutes ago.

There was a time when he turned "heel" and became "Hollywood Hogan."

In a way, Hogan was emblematic of old school Hollywood all along. But instead of young starlets locked into ironclad contracts with studios, the WWE (and WCW) were exploiting beefcake wrestlers. Pushing them to conform to impossible physical standards. To take whatever drugs you had to in order to look good for the camera. Work long, brutal hours for shit pay on the slim hopes that you'd someday "make it," and if you didn't become a "star," they'd discard you and leave you broke and broken on the side of the road. Or even dead. Beloved wrestlers died of drug overdoses, suicides, or just having their bodies give out. Vince McMahon was like a studio head of old Hollywood, pulling the strings, taking all the money, and ruling over his entertainment fiefdom like a king. Yeah, women were disposable eye candy, but -in an odd twist - so were the men.

When the "starlets" decided to stand up to the studio head and unionize, "Hollywood" Hogan ratted them out, and stood up for Vince and the exploitation machine.

Yeah...fuck that guy.
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Yeah. Ziran mentioned the union part too. I forgot to include that.
 
TSwizzle said:
I never watched wrestling but somehow Hogan was a big enough figure everyone knew of him. I vaguely remember he had a reality tv show at one time. And there was some sex tape scandal he featured in that brought down a media company. Seems he died relatively young. Probably something linked to his lifestyle choices.
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As I heard, it was the reality tv show that displayed his racism. His daughter said she was dating a black man and he went livid over it, throwing the n word out numerous times.
 
TSwizzle said:
I never watched wrestling but somehow Hogan was a big enough figure everyone knew of him. I vaguely remember he had a reality tv show at one time. And there was some sex tape scandal he featured in that brought down a media company.
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There was the time he and his family were trying to profit off an accident that his son was in that killed someone.
Hogan's screwing with Mark Callaway, faking a neck injury.
And whatever the fucking hell was the end to Wrestlemania IX.
Don't know if an autopsy will be done, but his inability to remember the past with much accuracy, would be interesting to see if he was lying/self-deluded or suffering from CTE.

But thankfully, Hogan got what he deserved when thoroughly boo'd in his last appearance at a WWE event. He joins the Ultimate Warrior in the fourth ring of hell.
 
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