Obit watch: August 2, 2020.

Your Wilford Brimley obits: NYT. Variety. THR.

Thing I did not know #1: he was, at one point (and “briefly”) a bodyguard for Howard Hughes.

Thing I did not know #2:

He had a pleasant singing voice and recorded several albums of jazz standards, including “This Time the Dream’s on Me” and “Wilford Brimley With the Jeff Hamilton Trio.” He could more than hold his own as a guitarist too.

The Brimley/Cocoon Line. (Lawrence told me about this last night.) Not to be confused with the Mendoza Line, or the Vicky Mendoza Diagonal.

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2 Responses to “Obit watch: August 2, 2020.”

  1. Captain Witold Pilecki says:
    August 2, 2020 at 6:09 pm

    I remember the Seinfeld episode he was on where he played the US Postmaster General, scolding Kramer who was trying to opt out of receiving any future mail.

    https://youtu.be/On3cQ0sPvSY

  2. Ritchie says:
    August 3, 2020 at 6:54 am

    At the very end of “The Lost Boys”-“This’d be a nice little town if it wasn’t for all the damn vampires.”