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Here is my combined remembrance of two entertainers we lost this weekend:

Remembering Loni Anderson 1945-2025

Actress Loni Anderson has died at 79. She was great as Jennifer on TV's WKRP in Cincinnati (CBS 1978-82). The radio station sitcom was one of the best of it's era. In recent years we've lost co-stars Frank Bonner in 2021 and Howard Hesseman in 2022. Anderson, herself, even returned as Jennifer for the revival sitcom The New WKRP in Cincinnati (syndicated 1991-93).

Gary Sandy, Anderson and Hesseman on WKRP

Other notable roles she had included an episode of Three's Company in 1978, an episode of Amazing Stories in 1985, the sitcom Easy Street (NBC 1986-87) and the SNL spinoff movie A Night at the Roxbury.

The link above is the obit from Hollywood Reporter.

Remembering Jonathan Kaplan 1947-2025

Director Jonathan Kaplan has died at 77. He got his start with Roger Corman (like so many) and eventually directed mainstream movies like Project X (a movie I dug a ton as a tween), the Oscar-winning drama The Accused, and Immediate Family. It needs to be added at the Kaplan also directed a ton of music videos for Rod Stewart ("Infatuation" and "Lost in You") and John Mellencamp ("Lonely ol' Night", "Small Town", "Rain on the Scarecrow", and "Get a Leg Up").

Anthony Edwards and Kaplan on the set of E.R.

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it also says the NGO CoffeeWatch is filing a complaint with US Customs and Border Protection attempting to block these corporations from importing coffees produced wholly or in part by slave labor in Brazil.

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Verdoux - “Listen, give me ten minutes.”

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