Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Way too many
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Too many people who have made the world an interesting and exciting place to live have died recently. Now I hear that Gale Storm and Kenny Rankin both are gone. The Gale Storm Show was one of the few shows my parents let me watch (in reruns of course or I'd be even older than my already ridiculously large number of years old). I'm pretty sure that allowance was part of my mother's determination to convince me that the world was a simple and sweet place where women were always pretty and agreeable, and men were always organized and in charge in the best possible way. The fact that her reality and the world's bore little resemblance to her or these shows' unreasonable facsimile thereof was apparently irrelevant. In any case, Gale Storm was wonderful in her show and, more to my own point, in several noir movies as well. As for Kenny Rankin, he was extremely popular with people who liked his style and he was always upbeat and wildly enthusiastic. His styles ranged from Dylan to Reddy which made him accessible although difficult to categorize.
It's been a sad week for us all. We'd be wise to keep well in mind how quickly we and those we love, as well as those we merely like and even those we don't like all that much, depart this mortal coil.
It's been a sad week for us all. We'd be wise to keep well in mind how quickly we and those we love, as well as those we merely like and even those we don't like all that much, depart this mortal coil.
Labels: passings, people of note
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