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Lloyd Bochner, best remembered for a classic episode of The Twilight Zone, has died at the age of 81. In the episode, a member of an advanced alien race (played by Richard Kiel), explains that he has come to offer earthlings the chance to travel to his planet where they will be well treated, as indicated in a book he leaves for them, “To Serve Man.” Decoding expert Michael Chambers and his assistant study the book, with the assistant informing Chambers, as he boards the alien ship, that “It’s a cookbook.” Too late for the human shish kabob. Bochner later parodied that role during a crowd panic scene in The Naked Gun 2 ½: The Smell of Fear. He also played Cecil Colby, Blake Carrington’s archrival who dies of a heart attack in bed with Alexis on Dynasty.
A quiet man of music, denied a longer fate
Skitch Henderson, long-time bandleader on the Tonight Show in the 1950s and ‘60s for Steve Allen and Johnny Carson, has died at the age of 87. The living legacy of the leader of the band is the long-running routine “Stump the Band” where audience members would suggest obscure songs and the band would attempt to play them. Henderson also founded the New York Pops, twice. First in the 1950s, but the informal group faded away before Henderson formalized a group of freelance musicians in the 1980s.
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To Bury Man
Lloyd Bochner, best remembered for a classic episode of The Twilight Zone, has died at the age of 81. In the episode, a member of an advanced alien race (played by Richard Kiel), explains that he has come to offer earthlings the chance to travel to his planet where they will be well treated, as indicated in a book he leaves for them, “To Serve Man.” Decoding expert Michael Chambers and his assistant study the book, with the assistant informing Chambers, as he boards the alien ship, that “It’s a cookbook.” Too late for the human shish kabob. Bochner later parodied that role during a crowd panic scene in The Naked Gun 2 ½: The Smell of Fear. He also played Cecil Colby, Blake Carrington’s archrival who dies of a heart attack in bed with Alexis on Dynasty.
A quiet man of music, denied a longer fate
Skitch Henderson, long-time bandleader on the Tonight Show in the 1950s and ‘60s for Steve Allen and Johnny Carson, has died at the age of 87. The living legacy of the leader of the band is the long-running routine “Stump the Band” where audience members would suggest obscure songs and the band would attempt to play them. Henderson also founded the New York Pops, twice. First in the 1950s, but the informal group faded away before Henderson formalized a group of freelance musicians in the 1980s.
http://ghideadpool.blogspot.com/
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