Tuesday, January 3, 2012

2011: The Good, the Bad and Ugly







1.3.12
2011: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
In no particular order...
THE GOOD:
*Osama killed
*Kadaffi killed
*Kim Jong-il dead
*the Occupy movement
*the end of the Iraq war
*Keith Olbermann
*Oprah Winfrey ends her show
*Stern signed to America's Got Talent
*Beavis and Butt-head return
*"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"
THE BAD:
*Nudity banned at Deja Vu Kalamazoo
*Ted Williams
*Fox News Channel
*Justin Bieber
*Glenn Beck
*Casey Anthony
*Grand Rapids LipDub
*Artie Lange no longer on the Stern show
*the City of Grand Rapids
*AND LOSING:
-actress Anne Francis
-actor Pete Postlethwaite
-"Baker Street" singer Gerry Rafferty
-actor/singer David Nelson
-Rock Concert host Don Kirshner
-fitness guru Jack Lalanne
-WCCW/Traverse City founder John Anderson
-Country singer Charlie Louvin
-comedian/actor Charlie Callas
-movie composer John Barry
-"Last Tango in Paris" actress Maria Schnieder
-"I Am Curious" actress Lena Nyman
-"Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" star Tura Satana
-Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore
-Seinfeld's Uncle Leo, Len Lesser
-NFL player Dave Duerson
-MLB star Duke Snider
-1940's sexpot Jane Russell
-the last surviving World War I vet, Frank Buckles
-Rocky and Bullwinkle animator Chris Jenkyns
-high school basketball star Wes Leonard
-Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr
-rapper Nate Dogg
-Country music legend Ferlin Husky
-Batman's Alfred, Michael Gough
-1970's disco diva Loleletta Holloway, also known for being sampled on Marky Mark's "Good Vibrations"
-actress Elizabeth Taylor
-former Vice Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro
-actor Farley Granger
-"Running Bear" singer Johnny Preston
-"Dog Day Afternoon" director Sidney Lumet
-audio guru Sidney Harmon
-1970's punk rocker Poly Styrene
-"Poetry Man" crooner and Howard Stern pal Phoebe Snow
-former Playboy model and 1950's actress Yvette Vickers
-1930's child actor Jackie Cooper
-baseball legend Harmon Killebrew
-wrestling legend "Macho Man" Randy Savage
-Gil-Scott Heron, who was called by some as the father of rap music
-"Grease" actor Jeff Conaway
-"Dr. Death" Jack Kervorkian
-Gunsmoke star James Arness
-"Lonely Boy" and "Thank You For Being a Friend" singer Andrew Gold
-Sirius/XM's Liquid Metal jock Mario Comesanas
-Anal Cunt lead singer Seth Putnam
-The Coasters lead singer Carl Gardner
-TV producer Bob Banner
-Bruce Springsteen sidekick Clarence Clemons
-Jackass member Ryan Dunn
-former First Lady Betty Ford
-Brady Bunch creator Sherwood Schwartz
-Grass Roots lead singer and guitarist Rob Grill
-Grammy award-winning singer Amy Winehouse
-America lead singer Dan Peek, who eventually became a Christian pop star
-sports radio talker Papa Joe Chevalier
-football and movie star Bubba Smith
-another "Grease" star, Annette Charles
-Warrant lead singer Jany Lane
-songwriter Jerry Lieber, who wrote a ton of tunes with Mike Stoller
-songwriter Nick Ashford, who also wrote a ton of hits with wife Valarie Simpson
-Jimmy Kimmel's uncle, Frank Potenza
-Oscar-winning actor Cliff Robertson, aka "Uncle Ben" from the recent Spider-Man movies
-Walter Mondale's daughter and radio talker Eleanor Mondale
-Bob Hope's wife, Delores Hope
-Ziggy creator Tom Wilson
-Ted Kennedy's daughter, Kara Kennedy
-legendary R&B singer and producer Sylvia Robinson, who was also called the "Grandmother of Rap Music" as the owner of Sugar Hill Records
-Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs
-actor Charles Napier
-Indy 500 winner Don Wheldon
-British TV legend Jimmy Savile
-GWAR's "Flattus Maximus", Cory Smoot
-60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney
-another former Playboy model and "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" star Cynthia Myers
-boxer Smokin' Joe Frazier
-rapper Heavy D.
-The Family Circus creator Bil Keane
-"Pac-Man Fever" singer Gary Garcia of Bruckner and Garcia
-retail pioneer Fred Meijer
-1970's porn legend Andrea True, also known for the 1976 disco smash "More, More More"
-comic Patrice O'Neal
-Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In regular Alan Sues
-MASH star Harry Morgan
-"Drift Away" singer Dobie Gray
-writer Christopher Hitchens
-radio talker Lynn Samuels
-Saturday Night Live and The Kids in the Hall writer Joe Bodolai
-and rock bands White Stripes, LCD Soundsystem and REM
THE UGLY:
*the horrific shooting in Tucson that involved Gabby Giffords
*Arnold Schwarzenegger
*the shooting rampage in Grand Rapids that left seven dead
*Penn State scandal
*The Kardashians
*Jersey Shore*Republicans
*Rick Snyder
*Lindsay Lohan
*the 1%

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