Richard alerted me to the death of Gavin MacLeod. 90 years old! Impressive! I don't remember ever seeing him in a movie or hearing about him doing anything onstage, but his two best-known TV shows are seriously major: *The Mary Tyler Moore Show* and *The Love Boat.*
Here's a bit about how he got the role on *The Mary Tyler Moore Show*:
And love! Exciting and new!
This was another case of YouTube making a helpful suggestion on their homepage:
Composer David Del Tredici died the other day at the age of 86. He won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1980 for "In Memory of a Summer Day," part one of Child Alice. He wrote many pieces inspired by A
The Best Actress winner for 2000 was Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich. That performance was a beguiling mixture of diva and mensch so instead I'm going to focus on two other Best Acrtess nominees tha