Paul, June, Mylene
RIP Paul Silas, 79, whose NBA career spanned 1964–2012, playing and coaching. He had a stellar career at Creighton University as well, averaging more than 20 PPG, leading the NCAA in rebounds in the ‘62-’63 season, 20.6 per game. Drafted in the second round by the Hawks in 1964, he was a member of three league champions, twice with the Celtics, once with the Supersonics. He was an all-star twice and was named to the NBA All-Defensive team twice. Overall, he averaged 9.4 PPG and 9.9 RPG. After serving as an assitant coach for six years, he became head coach of the Hornets from ‘99–2003. He also had two-year stints with the Cavaliers and Bobcats. His overall record was 387–488. In 2017 he was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame. He was a father of three. Well done, Sir. Photo from Google Images:
RIP actress/centerfold June Blair, 90. She was Playboy’s Miss January in 1957, which did not hamper her career despite the more conservative era. There are 27 titles under her name at IMDb, the most significant The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, where she played the wife of real life husband David in 28 episodes. Before that she was engaged to singer Nino Tempo, who wrote Looney over Juney in her honor. Her marriage lasted 14 years and produced two sons. She did not marry again. Photo from GI:
While watching a photo array at youtube last night, a name and image completely unfamiliar to me popped up, Mylène Demongeot. There are 101 titles under her name at IMDb. I recognize only a few, including Otto Preminger’s Bonjour Tristese (1958), which has been on my Netflix list for years, the disc no doubt stolen or lost in the mail. She passed away in early December at 87. She had substantial roles in films such as Abigail Williams in a French interpretation of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible; Milady in the two parts of the 1961 French version of The Three Musketeers; and Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1965). Here’s an awesome quote attributed to her: “Having been bound once to the prow of a ship in Cinecitta for one of the gladiator movies I made there, I could only hear the director instructing me in a megaphone: ‘Be sexy! Be sexy!’ Whatever that meant!” She also wrote several books, including this, photo from GI:
Headline from foxnews.com: “‘WALK THE WALK, MAN’: Pete Buttigieg ripped for using taxpayer-funded private jets as calls to cut emissions continue.” Why would this surprise anyone? It happens constantly.
This was one of those sessions of the floating book shop that bordered on insanity. The wind kicked up, and once the shade engulfed the area, it was really cold. My thanks to the lovely young woman who purchased five kids’ books in Hebrew, and to Alice, who bought All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosely; and to the woman who took home Vision in White by Nora Roberts; and to Wolf, who selected a Russian translation of Stephen King’s Insomnia.
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