Johnny Cash <\/b>died yesterday. A deep, forthright voice, set with sincerity against plain, yet equally forthright lyrics, gave him six decades of music fame. He was an iconic talent in 20th Century music performance. I’m not a big country fan, but he was definitely a listenable fellow. <\/p>\n
John Ritter <\/b>died yesterday, too. Known most my most for his interminable role in that 80s TV abomination Three’s Company<\/i>, I’ll remember him more for two later roles: the creepy too-good-to-be-true boyfriend of Buffy’s mom in an early BtVS <\/i>episode, and the voice of Clifford the Big Red Dog <\/i>during eleventy-dozen dinner-time cartoons with Kitten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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