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Andree Braugher, the Captain on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, just 61. I remember first seeing him in a movie called Duets. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/andre-braugher-actor-brooklyn-nine-nine-homicide-dead-rcna129429
he was the bookish Harvard enlistee in Glory, IIRC.
His most memorable role was in Homicide: Life on the Streets. Set in Baltimore. Outstanding show.
George McGinnis. Former ABA and NBA star. Was a great athlete but not the hardest worker. Sixers could not get over the bump until they traded him for Bobby Jones. He is in the HOF. RIP George. You helped us forget 9-73.
Former UNC basketball great Eric Montross, 52 of cancer. Way too young.
“The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” promised to make better use of their talents. But it, too, was ulcer-inducing. At the same time he was fighting with the network, Mr. Smothers found himself in conflict with his brother, who was more politically conservative. (Mr. Smothers later described himself as hot-tempered, prone to starting fights with just about anyone in order to get his way.)After the show was canceled, “I lost perspective, my sense of humor,” he said in a 2006 interview with a Vancouver website, the Comedy Couch. He protested the Vietnam War and took part in John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Bed-In for Peace honeymoon in Montreal in 1969....“The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” writing staff won an Emmy Award in 1969, but the politically controversial Mr. Smothers had omitted his name from the roster of nominees to avoid hurting the chances of the other writers. To rectify that omission, he was presented in 2008 with a special Emmy by Steve Martin.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/12/27/tom-smothers-brothers-comedy-dead/86. Had been under cancer treatment. the Smothers Brothers Show was originally put up as counterprogramming to Bonanza, then the #1 rated show on TV, but began to outdraw Bonanza due to its topical humor. The Smothers Brothers gave Steve Martin a start as a writer. Due to censorship battles and the show being killed due to its controversy, Tom became a big free speech advocate. some stuff that's less widely known:https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/12/27/tom-smothers-brothers-comedy-dead/
Jacques Delors (98) - former EU Commission President, regarded as the architect of the modern EU.
Cale Yarborough at 84.
