Terry Don Phillips obit

Terry Don Phillips

August 29, 1947 — May 26, 2026

 

He was not on the list.

Dr. Terry Don Phillips, who made some of the most significant coaching hires in Clemson history during his 10 years (2002-12) as athletic director, passed away early Tuesday morning in Clemson, SC. Phillips, 78, had been in hospice care after being diagnosed with dementia over a decade ago.

Among the coaches he hired are current football coach Dabo Swinney, current men’s basketball coach Brad Brownell and current men’s soccer coach Mike Noonan.

Swinney is the winningest football coach in Clemson history and Brownell is the winningest men’s basketball coach. Clemson is the only Division I school in the nation where the current men’s basketball and football coaches are the winningest in school history.

Noonan has won two national championships (2021 and 2023) and Swinney has won two national championships (2016 and 2018). Those are four of the six national titles in school history. A fifth, the 2003 golf national championship under Larry Penley, was earned in Phillips first year as athletic director.

Over his 10 years as Clemson athletic director, Clemson won 13 ACC Championships in eight different sports, including five different women’s sports. Clemson athletic programs had 57 top 25 national finishes, 37 top 20s, and 14 top 10s during his time leading the program. Fifteen different sports had a top 25 finish, including six different sports that recorded a top 10 finish in that time frame.

Clemson went to the Final Four of national tournaments in three different sports during this time, Baseball, women’s tennis and men’s soccer.

A major facility enhancement took place in every program over his 10 years with an investment over $140 million with just $25 million of debt. The combined unrestricted fund reserve grew approximately 90 percent between 2002-12 

Phillips was inducted into the Clemson Athletic Hall of Fame in 2019 and was also made an Honorary Alumnus of Clemson University by the Clemson Alumni Association on August 22, 2019.

Phillips came to Clemson after serving as the athletic director at Oklahoma State from 1994-2002. During his career in Stillwater, Oklahoma State won a pair of national championships in men ’s golf, reached the Final Four in men’s basketball and made two trips to the College World Series. Additionally, Oklahoma State won 13 Big 12 Championships and had 11 individual national champions across various sports.

Phillips began his 42-year career in college athletics as a graduate assistant coach at the University of Arkansas, his alma mater, in 1970. He then became an assistant coach at Virginia Tech from 1971-78 where he worked with former Clemson head coaches Danny Ford and Charley Pell.

He then moved into administration and became the athletic director at Liberty University in 1980-81, then at Southwestern Louisiana from 1981-88.

Phillips returned to his alma mater as a senior associate athletic director under Frank Broyles in 1988 and remained there until 1994 when he became the athletic director at Oklahoma State.

Phillips was a three-year letterman as a defensive lineman at Arkansas under Broyles and played in the famous Arkansas vs. Texas game of 1969. He lettered in 1966, 1968 and 1969 and the Razorbacks posted a 27-5 record.

Phillips was inducted into the University of Arkansas Hall of Honor in 2010.

Phillips earned his undergraduate degree from Arkansas in 1970, earned a Master’s degree from Virginia Tech in 1974 and his Ph.D from Virginia Tech in 1978. He earned his J.D. degree from Arkansas in 1996.

He continued to teach a sports law class while he was the athletic director at Clemson.

Born in Longview, Texas, Phillips was the third son to Verna (Zimmerman) and Loyd Fay Phillips, and raised in east Texas with his two brothers, David Neal and Loyd Wade.

When Terry Don was diagnosed with an unspecified type of dementia after his 2012 retirement, he and Tricia were determined to “make the best of a journey nobody wants.” Their intentionality to find joy in every day brought laughter, traveling backroads across the U.S. with their beloved yellow lab, Atticus, and a lot of ice cream. It also created an opportunity for friends and family across the country to share visits, fond memories and special words of affirmation when it meant the most to Terry Don.

Phillips is survived by his wife Tricia Brown Phillips, beloved children, Sarah-Jane Mayer, Fayetteville, Ark.; husband Jonathan; John Dennis Phillips, Phoenix, Az. Meagan Stone, Duncan, SC; Marshall Stone, Carrollton, Ga; wife Ashley; Madison Archer Stone, Jupiter, Fla. and grandchildren Shelby and Will Mayer, both students at The University of Arkansas; Darcy and Derek Schall; Ozzy Stone.

A private burial and service will be held at a later date in Quitman, Texas.

Any memorials may be made to one of two programs that support and provide a variety of services to people with disabilities, mental health challenges or special needs.

He served as the athletic director at Liberty Baptist College—now known as Liberty University—from 1980 to 1981, at the University of Southwestern Louisiana—now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette—from 1983 to 1988, at Oklahoma State University from 1995 to 2002, and at Clemson University from 2002 to 2012.

Phillips played defensive tackle at Arkansas from 1966 to 1969. His older brother, Loyd Phillips, was an All-American defensive lineman for Arkansas between 1964 and 1966, and won the 1966 Outland Trophy.

Phillips remained at Arkansas as a graduate assistant for the 1970 and 1971 seasons, before moving to Virginia Tech as an assistant coach. Phillips left Virginia Tech after 1978. He then joined the Florida Gators coaching staff as an administrative assistant to head coach Charley Pell.

In 1980, Phillips became athletic director at Liberty University. He then served as the assistant athletic director at the University of Missouri. He moved to Louisiana–Lafayette in 1983, before returning to his alma mater, Arkansas, in 1988 as Senior Associate Athletic Director.

Phillips stayed at Arkansas until 1994, and then left for the AD job at Oklahoma State once it became apparent that then-Arkansas AD Frank Broyles had no intention of retiring. Under Phillips, the Cowboys basketball team continued their success under coach Eddie Sutton, reaching the NCAA Final Four in 1995 and the Elite Eight in 2000. In football, Phillips hired coach Les Miles in 2001, who would turn the program around and lead the team to 3 straight bowl bids after Phillips left the school.

In 2002 Phillips left Oklahoma State for Clemson. There, he has overseen the hiring of basketball coaches Oliver Purnell in 2003 and Brad Brownell in 2010. He also promoted Dabo Swinney to head football coach and oversaw the "WestZone" expansion of Memorial Stadium in 2006.

Phillips was inducted into the University of Arkansas Sports Hall of Honor in 2010.

Donald E. Newhouse obit

Donald E. Newhouse, son of Samuel I. Newhouse, dies at 96

 

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Donald Newhouse, former leader of Advance Publication’s newspaper division and son of Samuel I. Newhouse Sr., died Tuesday at 96 at his New Jersey estate, nj.com first reported. Donald’s son Steven Newhouse confirmed that the cause of death was lymphoma, The New York Times reported.

Both Donald and his brother Samuel I. Newhouse Jr. attended Syracuse University and left college early to join their father’s company, the Times reported. After Donald left SU, he became a circulation manager at The Long Island Press.

Samuel I. Newhouse Sr. purchased the Staten Island Advance in 1922 and began to expand his privately held media conglomerate from there. Donald and his older brother, who died in 2017, inherited the empire after their father’s death in 1979.

In 1964, after a gift from Samuel I. Newhouse Sr., SU opened the Newhouse I building. Seven years later, in 1971, the Newhouse School of Public Communications was officially formed when SU’s School of Journalism merged with its television and radio academic program, named in honor of the school’s main benefactor. The S.I. Newhouse Foundation donated $15 million in 2003 to fund the construction of Newhouse 3.

Donald announced in 2020 that the foundation would pledge $75 million to the Newhouse School, the largest gift in SU’s history.

In 2024, Donald returned to SU to unveil the Newhouse Family Plaza during the Newhouse School’s 60th anniversary celebrations.

“I am fortunate to have the chance, in the same month that I celebrate my 95th birthday, to look back with overwhelming pride at the record of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. It is one of the great joys of my life,” Donald said at the event.

Advance Publications, through its subsidiary Condé Nast, runs several magazines, including The New Yorker, Architectural Digest and Wired, in addition to media organizations across the country. Donald, however, ran the newspaper subsidiary, which included large papers like The Oregonian and The Plain Dealer.

Although he maintained the title of president, Donald stepped back from Advance Publications’ operations in the mid-2000s, the Times reported. He instead put effort into research and awareness of frontotemporal degeneration, a form of dementia that his wife Susan Marley died from.

“Donald Newhouse was always clear and confident about his values as an owner and as a newspaperman,” Sandra Mims Rowe, leader of The Oregonian from 1993-2010, said. “Newspapers were in his DNA, and it showed.”

He owned Advance Publications. It was founded in 1922 by his father, Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., and its properties include Condé Nast (publisher of such magazines as Vogue, Tatler, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker), dozens of newspapers across the U.S. (including The Star-Ledger, The Plain Dealer, and The Oregonian), a stake in cable company Charter Communications, and a stake in Warner Bros. Discovery. According to Forbes, he had an estimated net worth of $11 billion as of June 2024. He resided in New York City.

Newhouse was born in New York City to a Jewish family. Newhouse's father, Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and began the family media business. His mother, Mitzi Epstein, was an arts patron and philanthropist who grew up in an upper middle class family on the Upper West Side, the daughter of a silk tie importer. Newhouse was included on The Jerusalem Post's list of the world's 50 richest Jews in 2010

Bob Horner obit

 

Longtime Atlanta Braves infielder Bob Horner dies at 68

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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Longtime Atlanta Braves infielder Bob Horner died Tuesday, according to the team. He was 68.

His cause of death is currently unknown.

Horner, who was selected by Atlanta with the No. 1 overall pick in 1978 and famously reached the majors without ever playing a minor league game, played for Atlanta from 1978-86, racking up 1,047 hits, 218 home runs and 685 RBIs while earning one All-Star selection (1982). He was named National League Rookie of the Year in 1978 after slashing .266/.313/.539 with 23 home runs and 63 RBIs.

He was also the first Atlanta player to ever hit four home runs in a single game. That happened in 1986 against the Montreal Expos.

“Bob Horner built a career out of being first,” the team said in a statement. “The Atlanta Braves extend sincere sympathies to his wife, Chris, two sons, Tyler and Trent, and his numerous friends and fans across the game.”

Horner paired with Dale Murphy to form one of the league’s most formidable power-hitting duos for contending Braves teams in the early 1980s. Horner hit 30 home runs in a season three times — in 1979, 1980 and 1982 — while receiving Most Valuable Player votes in three different seasons. During Horner’s tenure with Atlanta, Murphy won back-to-back National League MVP awards in 1982 and 1983.

The team did not retain Horner following the 1986 season, and he went unsigned in the major leagues during the 1987 campaign. Determined to keep playing, Horner signed a one-year, $2 million contract with the Yakult Swallows of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball.

He returned to the majors and played one season for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1988, posting a .703 OPS in 60 games, largely limited by a lingering shoulder injury that dated to his college days at Arizona State University, before announcing his retirement on March 9, 1989.

After a record-setting NCAA College athletic career with the Arizona State Sun Devils baseball team, Horner bypassed the minor leagues and moved directly to the major leagues, where together with Dale Murphy, he formed a power-hitting tandem for the Atlanta Braves teams of the early 1980s. Horner averaged 35 home runs and 109 runs batted in per his 162-game average and became the 11th player in Major League Baseball history to hit four home runs in one game on July 6, 1986.

Horner became a victim of the Major League Baseball collusion scandal of 1986–87 after the courts found that owners had illegally shared information during free agency negotiations seeking to deflate player salaries. He was among hundreds of players and former players who were awarded millions of dollars in lost salary. He played the 1987 season in the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yakult Swallows, before returning to play one final season in MLB with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1988. A string of injuries prematurely ended Horner's baseball career after just 11 seasons. He was inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame as a member of its inaugural class on July 4, 2006.

Horner was born in Junction City, Kansas, but grew up in Glendale, Arizona. He attended Apollo High School, where he set school records.

As a freshman at Arizona State in 1976, he hit .339 with 42 RBI and nine home runs (tied with Ike Davis for third all-time by a Sun Devil freshman, two behind Barry Bonds) as ASU won the Western Athletic Conference championship and made a trip to the College World Series.

As a sophomore, Horner was a First Team All-American as he hit .389 with 87 RBI and a school record 22 home runs as ASU again won the WAC title. The Sun Devils went on to win the 1977 College World Series with Horner winning the Most Outstanding Player award.

In his junior and final season at ASU, Horner hit .412, 100 RBI and a new school-record 25 home runs, leading the team to a third-consecutive conference title and another trip to the College World Series.

His college career at Arizona State University culminated with Horner again being named a First Team All-American and the first winner of the Golden Spikes Award, college baseball's equivalent of the Heisman Trophy.

Overall, at ASU, Horner batted .383 with a then-NCAA and still-standing ASU record 56 home runs and 229 RBI.

Horner was drafted by Atlanta with the first overall pick in the 1978 amateur draft, and he made his Major League Baseball debut the same year. He is among the few players who went straight from college to a starting position in the major leagues without spending any time in the minors. In his first game, he belted a home run off future Hall of Fame pitcher Bert Blyleven of the Pirates. In 89 games, Horner batted .266 with 23 home runs and 63 runs batted in in 323 at-bats, with an on-base percentage of .313 and a slugging percentage of .539. His 23 home runs led all National League third basemen in 1978. He won the National League Rookie of the Year award over Ozzie Smith.

In 1985, Horner played 130 games and finished with a .267 batting average, 27 home runs, and 89 RBIs. In 1986, Horner set personal career highs. On July 6, 1986, in a game against the Expos, he became the eleventh player in Major League Baseball history to hit four home runs in a single game and only the second one to do so in a game that his team lost (the first one being Ed Delahanty). Later in the season, after hitting a record 210 career home runs without a grand slam home run, Horner finally belted a homer with the bases loaded to give the Braves a 4–2 victory over the Pirates. Horner's record for homers without a grand slam stood until 1998 when Sammy Sosa surpassed the mark by hitting his first grand slam on the 248th home run of his career.

Robert Daley obit

Robert Daley, Author Of 'Prince Of The City', Dies At 96

 

Robert Daley, author of 'Prince Of The City', leaves behind a powerful body of work shaped by policing, corruption, conscience and urban power.

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Robert Daley, the author and former New York City deputy police commissioner whose books brought the machinery of policing, corruption and urban power to the page, has died at 96. Daley was best known for 'Prince of the City', his 1978 nonfiction account of police corruption that later became Sidney Lumet’s acclaimed 1981 film of the same name.

Daley’s career was unusually wide-ranging. Born in New York City in 1930, he graduated from Fordham University in 1951 and served in the US Air Force during the Korean War. Before becoming known as an author, he worked as publicity director for the New York Giants during the era of players such as Frank Gifford, Charlie Conerly and Sam Huff. He later joined The New York Times, serving on its foreign staff from Europe and North Africa.

His time inside the New York Police Department gave his writing its defining authority. Daley served as deputy commissioner of the NYPD in 1971 and 1972, a turbulent period marked by police corruption investigations, organised crime violence, major robberies and attacks on officers. He later drew on that experience in 'Target Blue: An Insider’s View of the N.Y.P.D.', giving readers a close look at the inner workings, pressures and contradictions of the force.

'Prince of the City' became his most enduring work. The book followed Robert Leuci, an NYPD narcotics detective whose cooperation with investigators exposed corruption within the department’s Special Investigation Unit. The story centred not only on criminal conduct, but on loyalty, guilt and the complicated moral code that shaped police life. Critics recognised its force, with contemporary commentary noting the power of Daley’s portrayal of the flawed policeman as a modern literary figure.

The film adaptation, directed by Sidney Lumet and released in 1981, starred Treat Williams as the Leuci-inspired detective Daniel Ciello. The screenplay was written by Lumet and Jay Presson Allen, based on Daley’s book. Although the film was not a major commercial success, it became an important entry in the canon of American police corruption dramas and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Daley’s work was not confined to police nonfiction. He wrote novels, sports books, works on bullfighting, wine and aviation, and several of his books were adapted for film or television. His novel 'Year of the Dragon' was adapted into Michael Cimino’s 1985 film, while 'Tainted Evidence' became Sidney Lumet’s 'Night Falls on Manhattan' in 1997.

What made Daley distinctive was his ability to move between reportage and fiction without losing the feel of lived experience. His books often carried the weight of institutions seen from the inside: police departments, courts, cities, sports teams and political hierarchies. He was drawn to people working under pressure, especially those whose public duty collided with private compromise.

Daley leaves behind a body of work shaped by access, observation and moral unease. In 'Prince of the City', he helped turn one police corruption case into a lasting study of power and conscience. That remains his signature achievement: showing that the real drama of crime often begins not with the lawbreaker outside the system, but with the compromised man inside it.

Howard Storm obit

Howard Storm Dies: Veteran TV Director Of ‘Mork & Mindy,’ ‘Valerie’ And More Was 95

 

He was not on the list.

Howard Storm, a veteran television director who shot many episodes of Mork & Mindy, Rhoda, Valerie and many other shows, passed away on May 26. He was 94.

Storm’s career included an extraordinary 59-episode run on Mork & Mindy as well as episodes of ALF, Full House, Head of the Class, Major Dad, Perfect Strangers, Kenan & Kel, Everybody Loves Raymond, Angie and Doc.

Storm got his start as a a stand-up comedian. He performed in Las Vegas, opened for Andy Williams and appeared on The Merv Griffin Show more than a dozen times.

His TV acting career began in the early sixties with appearances on shows such as The Untouchables and later Love, American Style and That Girl.

At about the same time, he began crafted scripts for The Partridge Family, Happy Days and The Bob Newhart Show. He also forged an early creative bond with Woody Allen, serving as Allen’s assistant and collaborator on Bananas and Take the Money and Run.

In 1975, Storm transitioned into directing. He became closely associated with TV legends James L. Brooks and Garry Marshall, helming episodes of their classic shows, including Laverne & Shirley and Taxi.

He directed his only theatrical feature film in 1985: Once Bitten. It starred Lauren Hutton and a then-unknown Jim Carrey.

In the early aughts, Storm served as National Awards Chairman for the DGA.

Storm is survived by his sons Anthony and Casey Storm, his daughter-in-law Julia and his grandsons Leo and Sidney. He was preceded in death by his wife, Patricia.

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Kel Mitchell and Kenan Thompson in Kenan & Kel (1996)

Kenan & Kel

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Peter Boyle, Brad Garrett, Patricia Heaton, Doris Roberts, and Ray Romano in Everybody Loves Raymond (1996)

Everybody Loves Raymond

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Tamera Mowry-Housley, Tim Reid, Jackée Harry, and Tia Mowry in Sister, Sister (1994)

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Richard Lewis and Don Rickles in Daddy Dearest (1993)

Daddy Dearest

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Scorch (1992)

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1992

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Nicole Dubuc, Chelsea Hertford, Gerald McRaney, Shanna Reed, and Marisa Ryan in Major Dad (1989)

Major Dad

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Billy (1992)

Billy

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1992

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Vidiots

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Robin Givens, Brian Robbins, Dan Frischman, Khrystyne Haje, Howard Hesseman, and Dan Schneider in Head of the Class (1986)

Head of the Class

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Howie Mandel, Joel Brooks, Sheldon Feldner, Tom Poston, and Wendy Schaal in Good Grief (1990)

Good Grief

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City (1990)

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1990

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Sugar and Spice (1990)

Sugar and Spice

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2 episodes

 

Jason Bateman, Dan Ponce, Sandy Duncan, Jeremy Licht, and Josh Taylor in Valerie (1986)

Valerie

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Paul Fusco and Mihaly 'Michu' Meszaros in ALF (1986)

ALF

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Suzanne Somers in She's the Sheriff (1987)

She's the Sheriff

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Just the Ten of Us (1987)

Just the Ten of Us

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First Impressions

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Mr. Belvedere (1985)

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Mary-Kate Olsen, John Stamos, Andrea Barber, Candace Cameron Bure, Dave Coulier, Lori Loughlin, Bob Saget, Jodie Sweetin, Blake Tuomy-Wilhoit, Dylan Tuomy-Wilhoit, and Scott Weinger in Full House (1987)

Full House

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Misha McK and Peg Murray in Me & Mrs. C. (1986)

Me & Mrs. C.

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What a Country (1986)

What a Country

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Randall Batinkoff, Randee Heller, Guy Killum, Chip McAllister, Dick O'Neill, and Raphael Sbarge in Better Days (1986)

Better Days

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Jasper Carrott in Cinemax Comedy Experiment (1985)

Cinemax Comedy Experiment

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Bronson Pinchot and Mark Linn-Baker in Perfect Strangers (1986)

Perfect Strangers

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The Redd Foxx Show (1986)

The Redd Foxx Show

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Jamie Lee Curtis, Danny Glover, Steve Guttenberg, Shelley Duvall, Elliott Gould, Martin Short, and Michael York in Tall Tales & Legends (1985)

Tall Tales & Legends

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Randy Josselyn, David Kaufman, Carol Mansell, Kyle Richards, and Dick Sargent in Down to Earth (1984)

Down to Earth

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Jim Carrey, Lauren Hutton, and Karen Kopins in Once Bitten (1985)

Once Bitten

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Brothers (1984)

Brothers

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Faerie Tale Theatre (1982)

Faerie Tale Theatre

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Girls of the Comedy Store

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Bea Arthur in Amanda's (1983)

Amanda's

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Playboy Video Magazine, Vol. 4

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Lydia Cornell, Jim J. Bullock, Nancy Dussault, Ted Knight, and Deborah Van Valkenburgh in Too Close for Comfort (1980)

Too Close for Comfort

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Martin Sheen in Prime Times (1983)

Prime Times

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Scott Baio and Erin Moran in Joanie Loves Chachi (1982)

Joanie Loves Chachi

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Tom Ewell, Leonard Frey, Joel Higgins, Meeno Peluce, and Carlene Watkins in Best of the West (1981)

Best of the West

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6 episodes

 

Clark Brandon and Barnard Hughes in Mr. Merlin (1981)

Mr. Merlin

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1982

1 episode

 

Nell Carter in Gimme a Break! (1981)

Gimme a Break!

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1981

2 episodes

 

Danny DeVito, Marilu Henner, Jeff Conaway, Tony Danza, Andy Kaufman, and Judd Hirsch in Taxi (1978)

Taxi

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1981

2 episodes

 

Robin Williams and Pam Dawber in Mork & Mindy (1978)

Mork & Mindy

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Annie Potts, Georgia Engel, and Adrian Zmed in Goodtime Girls (1980)

Goodtime Girls

6.9

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1980

1 episode

 

Kathy Cronkite, Mickey Deems, Don Galloway, Gina Hecht, David Huddleston, Diana Muldaur, and Will Seltzer in Hizzonner (1979)

Hizzonner

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1979

 

Donna Pescow in Angie (1979)

Angie

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1979

3 episodes

 

Laverne & Shirley (1976)

Laverne & Shirley

7.0

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1976–1978

8 episodes

 

Please Stand By (1978)

Please Stand By

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1978

1 episode

 

Robin Tyler and Patty Harrison in The Krofft Comedy Hour (1978)

The Krofft Comedy Hour

7.0

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1978

 

Martin Mull and Fred Willard in Fernwood Tonight (1977)

Fernwood Tonight

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1977

3 episodes

 

Barbi Benton, Marianne Black, and Didi Carr in Sugar Time! (1977)

Sugar Time!

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Abe Vigoda, Todd Bridges, Len Bari, John Cassisi, Barry Gordon, Denise Miller, Sarah Natoli, and Florence Stanley in Fish (1977)

Fish

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1977

1 episode

 

Busting Loose (1977)

Busting Loose

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1977

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Barnard Hughes in Doc (1975)

Doc

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8 episodes

 

Valerie Harper in Rhoda (1974)

Rhoda

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An Old Man's Gold (2012)

An Old Man's Gold

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Michael Paschal

2012

 

Julia Roberts, Kathy Bates, Patrick Dempsey, Hector Elizondo, Queen Latifah, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Ashton Kutcher, Bradley Cooper, Eric Dane, Emma Roberts, and Taylor Lautner in Valentine's Day (2010)

Valentine's Day

5.8

Louder Guy

2010

 

Roma Downey, John Dye, and Della Reese in Touched by an Angel (1994)

Touched by an Angel

6.1

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Fred Fontaine

1998

1 episode

 

Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man (1994)

Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man

7.7

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1996

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Howie Mandel, Joel Brooks, Sheldon Feldner, Tom Poston, and Wendy Schaal in Good Grief (1990)

Good Grief

7.6

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Patron

1990

1 episode

 

The Check Is in the Mail... (1986)

The Check Is in the Mail...

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1986

 

Michael Nesmith in Television Parts (1985)

Michael Nesmith in Television Parts

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1985

1 episode

 

Broadway Danny Rose (1984)

Broadway Danny Rose

7.4

Howard Storm

1984

 

Off the Wall (1983)

Off the Wall

4.3

Ludwig the Tailor

1983

 

Joan Collins in Homework (1982)

Homework

3.6

Swim Coach

1982

 

Solly's Diner (1980)

Solly's Diner

6.8

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Solly (voice, uncredited)

1980

 

Coming Attractions (1978)

Coming Attractions

4.5

Prisoner #1

1978

 

American Hot Wax (1978)

American Hot Wax

6.9

Billy Russo

1978

 

Don Rickles in CPO Sharkey (1976)

CPO Sharkey

7.0

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Floyd

1978

1 episode

 

Valerie Harper in Rhoda (1974)

Rhoda

6.9

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1975–1976

2 episodes

 

Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson in Sanford and Son (1972)

Sanford and Son

7.9

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Bellboy

1976

1 episode

 

Tunnel Vision (1976)

Tunnel Vision

5.0

Ralph Stevens

1976

 

Flannery and Quilt (1976)

Flannery and Quilt

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Kevin Caselli

1976

 

Will Geer, Anjanette Comer, Gabriel Dell, Huntz Hall, and Joyce Van Patten in The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975)

The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery

5.8

Freddie Jessup

1975

 

McCoy (1975)

McCoy

6.3

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1975

1 episode

 

Jack Albertson and Freddie Prinze in Chico and the Man (1974)

Chico and the Man

6.9

TV Series

Second Customer

1974

1 episode

 

Steelyard Blues (1973)

Steelyard Blues

5.3

Health Inspector

1973

 

Dick Van Dyke, Hope Lange, and Angela Powell in The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1971)

The New Dick Van Dyke Show

6.7

TV Series

Intern #1

1973

1 episode

 

The Don Rickles Show (1972)

The Don Rickles Show

6.5

TV Series

Artie

1972

1 episode

 

Maud Adams and Beau Bridges in The Christian Licorice Store (1971)

The Christian Licorice Store

5.0

McGhee

1971

 

Sandy Duncan in Funny Face (1971)

Funny Face

6.4

TV Series

Attendant

1971

1 episode

 

Arthur Hill in Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1971)

Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law

7.0

TV Series

Klunick

1971

1 episode

 

That Girl (1966)

That Girl

7.3

TV Series

Elevator Operator Frankie

1971

1 episode

 

The Governor & J.J. (1969)

The Governor & J.J.

7.0

TV Series

Guido

1970

1 episode

 

Stuart Margolin and Julie Newmar in Love, American Style (1969)

Love, American Style

6.8

TV Series

Tom (segment "Love and the Hitchhiker")

1970

1 episode

 

Robert Mitchum and George Kennedy in The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys

6.1

Harry (uncredited)

1969

 

Woody Allen in Take the Money and Run (1969)

Take the Money and Run

7.2

Fred

1969

 

Abel Fernandez, Nicholas Georgiade, Paul Picerni, and Robert Stack in The Untouchables (1959)

The Untouchables

8.0

TV Series

Phil Thorne (as Howie Storm)

1960

1 episode

 

Hennesey (1959)

Hennesey

8.0

TV Series

Sailor (as Howie Storm)

1959

1 episode

 

Producer

Reunited (2010)

Reunited

7.4

executive producer

2010

 

City (1990)

City

5.9

TV Series

co-producer

1990

13 episodes

 

Playboy Video Magazine, Vol. 4

7.2

Video

producer

1983

 

Writer

Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Marion Ross, Tom Bosley, Erin Moran, Don Most, and Anson Williams in Happy Days (1974)

Happy Days

7.4

TV Series

story by

1975

1 episode

 

The Bob Newhart Show (1972)

The Bob Newhart Show

8.1

TV Series

written by

1974

1 episode

 

Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Carroll O'Connor, and Jean Stapleton in All in the Family (1971)

All in the Family

8.4

TV Series

written by

1974

1 episode

 

The Partridge Family (1970)

The Partridge Family

6.6

TV Series

written by

1973

1 episode

 

Additional Crew

Woody Allen, Burt Reynolds, and Gene Wilder in Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask

6.7

assistant to producers

1972

 

Bananas (1971)

Bananas

6.9

assistant: to Woody Allen

1971

 

Thanks

Chevy Chase and Richard Dreyfuss in The Last Laugh (2019)

The Last Laugh

5.6

special thanks

2019

 

Good Men (2011)

Good Men

7.1

Short

special thanks

2011

 

Solly's Diner (1980)

Solly's Diner

6.8

Short

special thanks

1980

 

Self

Superstar (2021)

Superstar

7.8

TV Mini Series

Self

2021

1 episode

 

Robin Williams in Eye of the Storm (2021)

Eye of the Storm

Self

2021

 

Gilbert Gottfried in Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast (2014)

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

9.6

Podcast Series

Self - Guest

2020

1 episode

 

Robin Williams in Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (2018)

Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

7.9

Self - Director, 'Mork and Mindy'

2018

 

Stu's Show (2006)

Stu's Show

6.4

Podcast Series

Self - Guest

2015–2017

3 episodes

 

Archive of American Television (1997)

Archive of American Television

7.0

TV Series

Self

2008

1 episode

 

Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters (1969)

Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters

7.0

TV Series

Self

1970

1 episode

 

The Dennis Wholey Show (1969)

The Dennis Wholey Show

TV Series

Self

1969

1 episode

 

The Steve Allen Show (1968)

The Steve Allen Show

7.5

TV Series

Self

1969

1 episode

 

The Dick Cavett Show (1968)

The Dick Cavett Show

8.3

TV Series

Self

1968

1 episode

 

David Frost in Frost on Sunday (1968)

Frost on Sunday

7.7

TV Series

Self

1968

1 episode

 

Pat Boone in Pat Boone in Hollywood (1967)

Pat Boone in Hollywood

TV Series

Self

1967

1 episode

 

Merv Griffin in The Merv Griffin Show (1962)

The Merv Griffin Show

6.6

TV Series

Self - comedian

1965–1967

12 episodes

 

The John Bartholomew Tucker Show

TV Series

Self

1966

1 episode

 

Clay Cole in The Clay Cole Show (1959)

The Clay Cole Show

TV Series

Self

1966

1 episode

 

Mike Douglas in The Mike Douglas Show (1961)

The Mike Douglas Show

7.0

TV Series

Self

1965

1 episode

 

On Broadway Tonight

TV Series

Self

1964

1 episode

 

Talent Scouts (1962)

Talent Scouts

7.8

TV Series

Self

1963

1 episode

 

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958)

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

8.0

TV Series

Self (as Howie Storm)

1959

1 episode

 

Frankie Duarte obit

Frankie Duarte, former top bantamweight, dies aged 71

 He was not on the list.

Frankie Duarte, the thrill-seeking bantamweight and super-bantamweight contender from the 1970s and 80s, has passed away at the age of 71 from a brain tumor.

“A raging warrior in the ring and the most lovable person outside of it,” wrote his great friend Rich Marotta while paying tribute to Duarte. “The SoCal boxing community will miss him dearly.”

Duarte, from Santa Monica in California, started boxing at the age of 13 hoping that the sport would keep him on the straight and narrow. But Duarte, despite turning professional at 18, would frequently find himself battling his taste for fast living.

In a terrific contest, Duarte lost in five rounds to Albert Davila in a 1977 WBC bantamweight eliminator. But within two years Duarte was, by his own admission, lost to drugs.

Heroin addiction had taken hold. His mother kicked him out of the family home.

“I was living with an aunt,” Duarte told MaxBoxing in 2022. “I was strung out on heroin, I thought, ‘what am I doing?’ I dropped to my knees, and I cried. I thought, ‘this is no life’.”

What followed, in 1984, was the beginning of an incredible comeback. Trained by a young Joe Goossen, Duarte – by then widely written off – still had it all to do.

“I was making a comeback, but it wasn’t handed to me,” Duarte remembered. “I had to start back at square one. Nobody was handing anything to me. I really thought I’ll have two fights and then make enough to get a car and then get a job and be done with boxing. I really was thinking about having two fights and that was it.”

Though he would lose to Richie Sandoval, via 10-round split decision, he would beat Jesus Salad in 1986 before falling just short over the 15-round distance in a bid for Bernard Pinago’s WBA bantamweight title the following year.

But despite planning to then retire, what followed in 1987 saw him crowned as the winner of The Ring’s Comeback of the Year award when he stopped old rival Davila in a thrilling rematch.

In his last fight, in 1989, Duarte was stopped by WBC super-bantamweight boss, Daniel Zaragoza. By then, he was more than ready to walk away with an impressive 45-8-1 (33 KOs) record.

“I want to be remembered as a guy who gave fans an exciting fight,” Duarte once said. “A guy who always tried to give the fans good fights, remembered for putting on a good fight every time I got in the ring.”

Sonny Rollins obit

Sonny Rollins, Jazz’s ‘Saxophone Colossus,’ Dies at 95

 

He was not on the list.

Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, the “Saxophone Colossus” who was schooled by bebop’s legends as a prized sideman and became their peer as a formidable leader, improviser and composer, has died, according to a social media post from his family. No cause of death was cited; he was 95.

Sporting a burly tone, a tart sense of instrumental humor and keen melodic and harmonic ingenuity, Rollins was acknowledged as a jazz voice as groundbreaking as that of his friend and contemporary John Coltrane, with whom he unforgettably locked horns on “Tenor Madness” in 1956.

He penned such now-standard entries in the jazz book as “Airegin,” “Doxy,” “Oleo” and “St. Thomas,” the last of which was a calypso adaptation (one of several he recorded) that reflected his family’s Caribbean origins. He sported an all-encompassing knowledge of the standard repertoire, and could wring highly personalized statements from such unlikely vehicles as “Toot, Toot, Tootsie.” One of his most celebrated albums, 1957’s “Way Out West,” was built around his interpretations of cowboy songs.

Imposing, customarily taciturn and somewhat eccentric — he shaved his hair into a Mohawk style during the ’60s, long before punk fashion adopted it — the musician nicknamed “Newk” (after a resemblance to major league pitcher Don Newcombe) looked askance at the limelight, and took two protracted hiatuses from recording and performing at the height of his powers.

Over the course of a career that stretched back to the late 1940s, his stature was acknowledged with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, the Kennedy Center Honors and a National Medal of Arts.

Calling him “an invincible presence” on the 50th anniversary of his professional debut, critic Gary Giddins said Rollins was “one of the most cunning, surprising and original of jazz visionaries.”

He was born Theodore Walter Rollins in New York’s Harlem neighborhood. He began playing piano and then alto saxophone, finally taking up the tenor horn in emulation of his boyhood idol Coleman Hawkins, who lived in his neighborhood. He learned his jazz craft at Benjamin Franklin High in East Harlem, and played alongside such future stars as altoist Jackie McLean, pianist Kenny Drew and drummer Art Taylor. Through a classmate, he met pianist-composer Thelonious Monk, whose angular, puckish compositions would have an impact on his own work.

He made his recording debut at 18 in 1949 for Prestige Records in a band led by trombonist J.J. Johnson. In quick succession, he cut dates with pianist Bud Powell, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Monk and trumpeter Miles Davis, who recorded three of Rollins’ compositions at a 1954 session.

In spite of the attention his early work attracted in such glittering hard bop company, Rollins recorded only intermittently in the early ’50s, for — like many other young jazzmen who fell under the spell of star bebop altoist and notorious drug addict Charlie Parker — he had acquired a debilitating heroin habit.

He was arrested and jailed on drug charges in 1950 and for parole violation in 1953. At a ’53 Miles Davis date that paired him with Parker, the bop elder himself urged the young musician to clean up. In late 1954, he checked into the federal drug facility in Lexington, Kentucky, where he kicked his habit.

Rollins’ career took off in earnest in 1955 when he joined the august quintet led by trumpeter Clifford Brown and drummer Max Roach (who later appeared on a Prestige date led by the saxophonist). The year 1956 saw his breakout as a leader: He fronted Miles Davis’ working band (minus the trumpeter) on the Prestige album “Tenor Madness,” which featured the titular battle with Coltrane, and recorded “Saxophone Colossus,” which contained the lengthy, brilliantly imagined blues improvisation “Blue 7,” hailed by such critics as Gunther Schuller and Martin Williams as a jazz high water mark.

He also recorded for Blue Note during this period, making a mark with two volumes of “A Night at the Village Vanguard,” drawn from a pair of forceful trio sets with cut with two different rhythm sections in November 1957 at the noted New York club.

As his star continued to rise, Rollins notably recorded for a pair of West Coast-based labels, Orrin Keepnews’ Riverside and Lester Koenig’s Contemporary. His work for the former company included sideman duty on Monk’s “Brilliant Corners” (1956) and a storming trio session, “Freedom Suite” (1958). His Contemporary sides included “Way Out West” and “Sonny Rollins Meets the Contemporary Leaders” (1958), a satisfying collaboration with such California players as Barney Kessel and Hampton Hawes.

The spotlight grew too hot, however, and after the latter date Rollins dropped out of sight for nearly three years. He exercised and woodshedded, and a story in Metronome magazine revealed that he could be seen and heard playing on New York’s Williamsburg Bridge.

A 1977 television commercial for Pioneer Electronics featured Rollins performing on the bridge and re-enacting that period, although it mistook the Williamsburg Bridge for the Brooklyn Bridge.

He later told the New Yorker’s Whitney Balliett, “I found it’s a superb place to practice. Night or day. You’re up over the whole world. You can look down on the whole scene. There is the skyline, the water, the harbor. It’s a beautiful scene, a panoramic scene…You can blow as loud as you want. It makes you think. The grandeur gives you perspective.”

Upon emerging from his sabbatical, Rollins was signed to the major RCA Records in a rare, and uncommonly lucrative, deal for a jazz performer. His first two albums for the label, “The Bridge” and “What’s New?” (both 1962), were energetic and uncommonly lyrical affairs that featured the hushed guitar work of Jim Hall. The LPs also commenced his empathetic association with bassist Bob Cranshaw, who appeared on Rollins’ albums for the next half-century.

In his time off, Rollins had clearly cocked an ear to the roaring “new thing” of such exploratory musicians as Coltrane and altoist Ornette Coleman, and in the summer of 1962 he recorded a live album, “Our Man in Jazz,” at New York’s Village Gate with trumpeter Don Cherry and drummer Billy Higgins of Coleman’s group.

While Rollins more than held his own in this rarefied company, his exploration of the “free jazz” terrain proved short-lived. His other, more conservative but still expressive sets for RCA comprised a joint project with Coleman Hawkins, a recital of familiar bop tunes and a collection of standards.

A three-album stint for Impulse! Records followed; it was highlighted by “Alfie” (1966), a U.S. studio re-creation of the score he had composed and recorded with British sidemen for the soundtrack of Lewis Gilbert’s drama starring Michael Caine.

Rollins dropped out of sight again for another six years, to practice meditation and Eastern spiritual disciplines. He emerged again in 1972, when he began an association with Milestone Records that ran for nearly 30 years. While not entirely unrewarding, his time with the label found him working not always comfortably in electric settings; numbers like 1979’s “Disco Monk” did little to burnish his reputation.

Nonetheless, in 1981 he made a surprisingly fulfilling guest shot on the Rolling Stones’ album “Tattoo You,” contributing a breathtaking solo on the band’s “Waiting for a Friend.”

In 1986, filmmaker Robert Mugge released a documentary profile of Rollins, aptly titled “Saxophone Colossus.”

In his latter-day eminence, Rollins received a pair of Grammy Awards: His 2000 collection “This Is What I Do” was named best jazz instrumental album, while his playing on “Why Was I Born?” — from “Without a Song,” a live date cut shortly after the 9/11 attacks — was honored as best jazz instrumental solo.

Rollins, who lived near the World Trade Center in New York at the time, achieved a different kind of fame in the days after the 9/11 attack when CNN broadcast footage of him, horn in hand, and his neighbors waiting to be evacuated; ironically, the newscasters didn’t recognize him but some viewers did.

“I heard a big pow — I didn’t know what it was, but of course I found out a few minutes later,” Rollins told Variety in 2021. “I was living on the top floor, I think it was the 39th, and I went downstairs and everyone was on the street watching it all, completely in shock. These things like snowflakes began raining down — it was some kind of toxic stuff coming from the buildings.

“When we were evacuated the next day, I had my horn with me,” he continues. “People were looking at me strangely, because with all the police and ambulances and trucks and the army, it was like a World War II movie — and here’s me, this guy in a beret with a saxophone.”

Ironically, he nearly skipped the concert — in Boston, four nights after 9/11 — that won him the Grammy. “I told my wife, ‘I’m too messed up to make it,’ because along with everything else, I’d had to walk down 39 flights of stairs when we were evacuated,” he recalled to Variety. “But she said, ‘No, no — you must!’ And I’m glad she persuaded me, because there were other musicians from New York there, and the audience was very happy we did it. I think we sort of brought back a little sanity in the middle of all that madness.”

In 2008, he founded his own imprint, Doxy Records, which documented several of his live performances, including one in tandem with Ornette Coleman.

Rollins may have received the greatest attention of his latter-day career in 2014, when the New Yorker’s “Shouts & Murmurs” column ran a brief mock “profile,” unidentified as fiction, of the tenor player that featured fabricated quotes condemning jazz as art and lifestyle.

The jazz community went up in arms about the piece, which was quickly and apologetically relabeled as humor in the magazine’s Web edition. In an online video interview conducted in his home, Rollins himself called the story “scurrilous,” and compared it to something one might find in Mad magazine — to which, he said, he subscribed.

Rollins continued to perform regularly into the 2010s, but he was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis and suffered respiratory issues that ultimately forced his retirement. His last public performance took place in 2012 at the Detroit Jazz Festival and officially stopped playing saxophone two years later. However, he made an appearance as himself on a 2013 episode of “The Simpsons” that also featured Tony Bennett.

In his later years, he received a National Medal of Arts from former president Barack Obama, a Kennedy Center Honor, and a honorary degree from the Julliard School in New York. His 1962 album “The Bridge” was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2015. In 2023, he sold the rights to his publishing and recorded music to Reservoir Media for an undisclosed amount.

Rollins is survived by his nephew Clifton Anderson and his nieces Vallyn Anderson and Gabrielle DeGroat. His second wife Lucille, to whom he was married for nearly 40 years, died in 2004.

No public memorial is planned at this time, according to the announcement.

Rollins said in 2009, “I think when the creative person ends, he continues in the next existence. I’m a person who believes this life isn’t the be-all and end-all of everything. A spiritual person doesn’t feel like that.”

Forbes Kennedy obit

Flyers Family Mourns Forbes Kennedy

The Flyers family was saddened to learn of the passing of Forbes Kennedy on May 25, 2026.

 He was not on the list.

The Flyers family was saddened to learn of the passing of Forbes Kennedy on May 25, 2026. The senior member of the Flyers Alumni, Mr. Kennedy was 90 years old. Born August 18, 1935, in Dorchester, New Brunswick, "Forbie" was best known as virtual royalty in Prince Edward Island: a beloved pillar of the community as well as an iconic figure in the sport of ice hockey.

Hardly a heavyweight, the 5-foot-8 Kennedy was nevertheless considered one of the toughest pound-for-pound players in NHL history. He had a tasmanian devil-like quality on the ice, whether it was battling for a loose puck or throwing rapid-fire punches with surprising force behind them. If he lost a battle, he'd go right back at it the next time out. In fact, Kennedy's opponents grew weary of seeing him come at them repeatedly. There was absolutely no quit in the fiery forward.

Bud Poile, the Philadelphia Flyers’ first general manager, was already familiar with Kennedy at the time the new NHL team selected the forward from the Boston Bruins with the 87th overall pick of the 1967 Expansion Draft. Kennedy had made several minor league stops with the Edmonton Flyers in 1959-60 to the mid-60s. The Edmonton coach: Bud Poile.

While not an “enforcer” in the sense the term would come to mean a decade later, Kennedy was usually among the most frequent combatants in most leagues in which he played.

"It was much better to have Forbie on your side than against you," Flyers Hall of Fame defenseman Joe Watson recalled of his teammate from the first two seasons of franchise history.

"I remember one time -- can still see it -- when we were playing the Blues. Noel Picard, who was huge (6-foot-1, 210 pounds) and mean as could be, riled up our guys. Well, he wasn't afraid of any of us, except Forbie. Forbie went after Picard and he skated away as fast as he could," Watson recalled with a chuckle.

Kennedy could do other things, too. At minor league levels, “Forbie” posted 20-plus goals several times and averaged a little less than a point per game in a few seasons. At the NHL level, Kennedy was a mucker-and-grinder; a solid one who carved his niche and played 603 National Hockey League regular season games (70 goals, 108 assists, 178 points, 888 penalty minutes) and 12 Stanley Cup playoff games. Over the course of his NHL career, Kennedy played for the Detroit Red Wings, Bruins, Flyers, and Toronto Maple Leafs.

As a Flyer, Kennedy led the team in penalty minutes both in the inaugural 1967-68 season (130 penalty minutes, in addition to 10 goals and 28 points in 73 regular season games) and in 59 games (195 penalty minutes along with eight goals and 15 points) in 1968-69. Kennedy, who dressed in all seven games of the Flyers war of a Stanley Cup Quarterfinal series with the St. Louis Blues in 1968, was traded to the Maple Leafs along with Brit Selby on March 2, 1969 in exchange for the reacquisition of Bill Sutherland

along with Gerry Meehan and Mike Byers.

Kennedy made an immediate impression on Flyers fans -- he was one of the favorites at the Spectrum -- and teammates alike.

"When I think of Forbie, I always see him chomping on a cigar -- he always had one. He was very sociable, good with people off the ice. Actually, Forbie was the one who got all our players going to Rexy's even in the early years. He became friends with Pat [Fietto, the owner].  We'd go after practice at the old Cherry Hill Arena. So even after Forbie was gone from the Flyers, we still went to Rexy's. But he's the one that started that tradition," Watson recalled.

Kennedy was also the first Flyer to be suspended or fined by the NHL during the inaugural season. The league imposed a $100 fine for “slashing and provoking fisticuffs” with LA Kings defenseman Dave Amadio in the third period of a 7-1 Flyers road loss on February 16, 1968.

After finishing his playing career in 1970, Kennedy began a minor league and junior level coaching career that intermittently spanned 1974-75 to 1998-99.

Although he only played two seasons with the Flyers, Kennedy held Philadelphia and the team in his heart. Shortly after the formation of the Flyers Alumni Association (then called the Philadelphia Legends) in 1984, Kennedy traveled from PEI to Philly to attend the first-ever alumni reunion get-together. There's a photo of Kennedy with Watson, Andre Lacroix, Don Saleski and Ken Blackburn (an early team executive) smiling together at the event.

In January 2017, Kennedy came back to Philadelphia again. This time, he was there to celebrate the organization's 50th anniversary season and catch up with his fellow surviving members of the 1967-68 team.

"We all reminded Forbie there was one thing he was afraid of: mice. He had a phobia. The boys used to get him all the time with a fake mouse on the floor. Or roll up some tape in his glove. 'Forbie! A mouse!'  He'd scream and jump up, cigar in his mouth. He fell for it every time," Watson laughed.

Even at the 50th reunion?

"Naw, we behaved ourselves. No mouse. But we all had a great time that night."

Over the 2024 holiday season, it was the Flyers Alumni's turn to visit Forbie. Joe Watson and Al MacAdam spent the day with him in PEI. It is the first installment of the Flyers Alumni Association's "Housecalls" program in which members of the Alumni travel to spend time with elderly or infirmed fellow former Flyers players.

"I'm the oldest Flyer? I guess that's a good thing," Kennedy joked at the time.

"I'm going to miss Forbie. Everyone will miss him. Just a great guy and a great teammate," Watson said.

Forbes spent the following season with the WHL's San Francisco Seals before the team was relocated and renamed for absorption into the NHL, becoming the California Seals.

Kennedy's most infamous game was marked by a violent incident in the 1969 Stanley Cup playoffs in Boston, as teammate Pat Quinn delivered a massive hit to Bruins star Bobby Orr, knocking him unconscious. Kennedy responded to the incident by partaking in four fights before punching a linesman and getting ejected from the game. He received a lengthy suspension and his tenure with the Toronto Maple Leafs ended.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Regular season                        Playoffs

Season Team   League GP       G         A         Pts       PIM     GP       G         A         Pts       PIM

1951–52          Charlottetown Abbies PEIHA 6          16        8          24        20        6          23        14        37            21

1952–53          Halifax St. Mary's       MMHL            11        16        11        27        24        —        —        —            —        —

1952–53          Halifax St. Mary's       M-Cup —        —        —        —        —        12        12        7          19            25

1953–54          Montreal Junior Canadiens     QJHL  54        19        19        38        43        8          1          8            9          6

1954–55          Montreal Junior Canadiens     QJHL  46        7          14        21        118      4          0          2            2          4

1955–56          Montreal Junior Canadiens     QJHL  —        —        —        —        —        —        —        —            —        —

1955–56          Montreal Junior Canadiens     M-Cup —        —        —        —        —        10        3          5            8          19

1955–56          Montreal-Shawinigan  QHL    3          0          3          3          2          —        —        —        —            —

1956–57          Chicago Black Hawks NHL    69        8          13        21        102      —        —        —        —            —

1957–58          Detroit Red Wings      NHL    70        11        16        27        135      4          1          0          1            12

1958–59          Detroit Red Wings      NHL    67        1          4          5          149      —        —        —        —            —

1959–60          Detroit Red Wings      NHL    17        1          2          3          8          —        —        —        —            —

1959–60          Edmonton Flyers         WHL   30        6          10        16        39        —        —        —        —            —

1959–60          Hershey Bears AHL    21        3          11        14        50        —        —        —        —        —

1960–61          Spokane Comets         WHL   70        23        38        61        165      4          2          1          3            0

1961–62          Detroit Red Wings      NHL    14        1          0          1          8          —        —        —        —            —

1961–62          Edmonton Flyers         WHL   58        23        31        54        124      —        —        —        —            —

1962–63          Edmonton Flyers         WHL   23        7          15        22        38        —        —        —        —            —

1962–63          Boston Bruins NHL    49        12        18        30        46        —        —        —        —        —

1963–64          Boston Bruins NHL    70        8          17        25        95        —        —        —        —        —

1964–65          Boston Bruins NHL    52        6          4          10        41        —        —        —        —        —

1965–66          Boston Bruins NHL    50        4          6          10        55        —        —        —        —        —

1965–66          San Francisco Seals    WHL   6          3          3          6          48        —        —        —        —            —

1966–67          California Seals           WHL   71        25        41        66        91        6          2          0          2            4

1967–68          Philadelphia Flyers     NHL    73        10        18        28        130      7          1          4          5            14

1968–69          Philadelphia Flyers     NHL    59        8          7          15        195      —        —        —        —            —

1968–69          Toronto Maple Leafs   NHL    13        0          3          3          24        1          0          0          0            38

1969–70          Buffalo Bisons            AHL    19        2          1          3          42        4          0          0          0            0

1969–70          Omaha Knights           CHL    —        —        —        —        —        6          0          1          1            7

NHL totals       603      70        108      178      988      12        2          4          6          64