(Warning - sidetrack) In what was easily my most unexpected celebrity encounter while I lived in the DC area, JB came to the gym I went to in Silver Spring. We exchanged small talk when I went to use a machine near him, and he was a real pleasant fellow. David
On Saturday, May 20, 2023 at 09:20:19 AM PDT, Brad Beam <b.b...@suddenlink.net> wrote: In a case of coincidence, Norah O’Donnell was off last night, so it was left up to tontine-winner James Brown (aka JB) to announce the passing on the CBS Evening News. Sent from my iPhone On May 20, 2023, at 09:30, 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: The football hero, first in college at Syracuse, then in a record-smashing nine-year NFL career in Cleveland... then a prolific actor, breaking out in The Dirty Dozen but becoming an icon of Blaxploitation films along fellow ex-footballer Fred Williamson... last credited as a version of himself in the drama Draft Day with Kevin Costner in 2014. Thursday in L.A.; 87.https://variety.com/2023/film/news/jim-brown-dead-dirty-dozen-1235619369/ https://www.nfl.com/news/jim-brown-hall-of-fame-rb-browns-legend-and-civil-rights-icon-dies-at-87 (links)B -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/be16ccbb-dab3-4479-b0d8-65fdb49c3857n%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/8D1DAB3B-4A9B-4B32-962D-1D4A3A0D8B9E%40suddenlink.net. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/1662586634.211962.1684627353445%40mail.yahoo.com.