kurtster wrote:
So is this the radio host that ultimately influenced the free form style I listened to on CHOM-FM Montreal and other alternative FM radio stations back in the late 60s, early 70s?

 kurtster wrote:

NPR put up a piece on him.

Among the great folk and blues artists to play live on Fass' radio show were Joni Mitchell, Odetta, Carly Simon, Taj Mahal, The Incredible String Band, Moondog, The Holy Modal Rounders, Phil Ochs, and Bob Dylan, who joked around and took listener calls on one show in 1966.

One caller praised Dylan's writing and guitar playing but urged him to "sing a little better."

"I appreciate that," Dylan responded. "Good, solid, rock-bottom, foundational criticism."

Felix Anthony Silla was Cousin Itt on the Adams Family 

Bob Fass
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 cc_rider wrote:

Condolences if the family disbursed all the money. I have a feeling they have their toes in the sand somewhere.

 Steely_D wrote:

 Antigone wrote: 
I have a memory of her visiting my elementary school in Berkeley when the Henry Huggins books came out.  We had a small library in the school and she had something to do with it and was there somewhat often for a year or two or so. That was 4th, 5th and 6th grade for me.  One of her children may have attended the same school.  Very fuzzy.  That was a long, long time ago.  She did spend a lot of time in Berkeley of and on.  I do remember her though because the meeting the lady who actually wrote the books was indeed a special treat for a young kid.

She contributed a lot of joy to this world.

To a wonderful life well lived.  

Beverly Cleary

 Steely_D wrote:
 

I should read LD. The TV mini-series adapted from it was outstanding. 

McMurtry was an interesting guy. IIRC he had a used bookstore in DC and would buy book collections from famous people in town, including the considerable holdings of Alice Roosevelt (Teddy's daughter). 

 cc_rider wrote:
 
Yes, there’s the movie. But if you’ve never read Lonesome Dove and its surrounding books, you’re really missing some great writing.

 maryte wrote:
 
Yeah, that's a tough one. Apparently Death was the only thing that could stop him from writing.
c.

 cc_rider wrote:
 

I saw the obit page on the RAFT and that you were the most recent poster and knew it was about McMurtry.

Larry McMurtry

 Lazy8 wrote:
 
Cancer... that sucks.

George Segal dead at 87

Sabine Schmitz

 GeneP59 wrote:
 

He was also brilliant as Lieutenant Al Giardello onHomicide: Life on the Street. One of the great tragedies of our streaming era is that the rights to the  distribution of the series are so tangled that it's not likely you'll see the show on Netflix and the like.

 rgio wrote: 
Live and Let Die  

Yaphet