Estate of the Union
Legacy Carrier
Or
CSK RIP
(From the Derby Dead Pool, where I’m now tied for 28th)
Coretta Scott King, who spent the last 4 decades ensuring that Martin Luther King’s legacy did not fall with him, has died at the age of 78 from complications from a stroke and heart attack suffered last August. A classically trained singer and pianist studying at a Boston conservatory, King put aside her career to support Martin Luther King, Jr., then a young Boston University theology student, but soon one of the leaders of both the Civil Rights Movement and the peace movement aimed at ending the war in Vietnam. She was by his side during the Montgomery bus boycott, when he received the Nobel Peace Prize and spent the years after his death fighting to found the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change and then establishing a national holiday in his honor. Under her direction the center focused on the issues that contribute to violence, such as hunger, unemployment, voting rights and racism. Not everyone was full of praise, however. “It is an unconscionable defiant act by a special interest group to take more than their fair share,” said Mississippi Senator Trent Lott. “Was it really necessary for a day of memorials to Mrs. King when a month has already been set aside for Black History Month?”
As if the president speaking in public wasn’t enough to make me think about the sweet embrace of death, the 6th hit of the year was announced yesterday. By comparison, the 6th hit of last year’s record campaign came on Feb. 10. Dawn’s Ashes to Ashes is alone in corralling Coretta and moves into a 4-way for first.
The Leaderboard:
1st Matt 1 hit, 20 points
(tie) Paul - Pushing Daisies 1 hit, 20 points
(tie) Monty - Comedy of Terrors 1 hit, 20 points
(tie) Dawn - Ashes to Ashes 1 hit, 20 points
5th Me - Our Hearse Is a Very, Very, Very Fine Hearse 1 hit, 10 points
(tie) Mark - Beltway Boneyard III: Fillibustering the Grim Reaper 1 hit, 10 points
Uncommon Dead Women...and Others
(Props to Michelle Haus)
Or
The I Die Chronicles
(More kudos to Michelle Haus)
Or
The Die-di Chronicles
(Honorifics to Craig)
Or
Wasserstein In Decline
(Another shameless steal from the Derby Dead Pool)
Chick-lit playwright Wendy Wasserstein, who chronicled 20th century life for gyno-Americans with trenchant humor, has died of lymphoma at the age of 55. Among Wasserstein’s works was the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Heidi Chronicles,” “The Sisters Rosensweig,” and “Uncommon Women and Others,” her first stage success.
Hill’s Angel
Henry McGee, whose mute mugging and persistent perplexion mirrored the world’s failure to understand how The Benny Hill Show was such a success, has died at the age of 75. In other Brit stuff, he played upper class schmucks who got their comeuppance and was famous for being in the Sugar Puffs ads along with the Honey Monster. Don’t bother asking, I have no idea what that means.
Or
CSK RIP
(From the Derby Dead Pool, where I’m now tied for 28th)
Coretta Scott King, who spent the last 4 decades ensuring that Martin Luther King’s legacy did not fall with him, has died at the age of 78 from complications from a stroke and heart attack suffered last August. A classically trained singer and pianist studying at a Boston conservatory, King put aside her career to support Martin Luther King, Jr., then a young Boston University theology student, but soon one of the leaders of both the Civil Rights Movement and the peace movement aimed at ending the war in Vietnam. She was by his side during the Montgomery bus boycott, when he received the Nobel Peace Prize and spent the years after his death fighting to found the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change and then establishing a national holiday in his honor. Under her direction the center focused on the issues that contribute to violence, such as hunger, unemployment, voting rights and racism. Not everyone was full of praise, however. “It is an unconscionable defiant act by a special interest group to take more than their fair share,” said Mississippi Senator Trent Lott. “Was it really necessary for a day of memorials to Mrs. King when a month has already been set aside for Black History Month?”
As if the president speaking in public wasn’t enough to make me think about the sweet embrace of death, the 6th hit of the year was announced yesterday. By comparison, the 6th hit of last year’s record campaign came on Feb. 10. Dawn’s Ashes to Ashes is alone in corralling Coretta and moves into a 4-way for first.
The Leaderboard:
1st Matt 1 hit, 20 points
(tie) Paul - Pushing Daisies 1 hit, 20 points
(tie) Monty - Comedy of Terrors 1 hit, 20 points
(tie) Dawn - Ashes to Ashes 1 hit, 20 points
5th Me - Our Hearse Is a Very, Very, Very Fine Hearse 1 hit, 10 points
(tie) Mark - Beltway Boneyard III: Fillibustering the Grim Reaper 1 hit, 10 points
Uncommon Dead Women...and Others
(Props to Michelle Haus)
Or
The I Die Chronicles
(More kudos to Michelle Haus)
Or
The Die-di Chronicles
(Honorifics to Craig)
Or
Wasserstein In Decline
(Another shameless steal from the Derby Dead Pool)
Chick-lit playwright Wendy Wasserstein, who chronicled 20th century life for gyno-Americans with trenchant humor, has died of lymphoma at the age of 55. Among Wasserstein’s works was the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Heidi Chronicles,” “The Sisters Rosensweig,” and “Uncommon Women and Others,” her first stage success.
Hill’s Angel
Henry McGee, whose mute mugging and persistent perplexion mirrored the world’s failure to understand how The Benny Hill Show was such a success, has died at the age of 75. In other Brit stuff, he played upper class schmucks who got their comeuppance and was famous for being in the Sugar Puffs ads along with the Honey Monster. Don’t bother asking, I have no idea what that means.
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