So long, Jim Brown

[Bob Jersey]

The football hero, first in college at Syracuse, then in a record-smashing nine-year NFL career in Cleveland... then a prolific actor, breaking out in The Dirty Dozen but becoming an icon of Blaxploitation films along fellow ex-footballer Fred Williamson... last credited as a version of himself in the drama Draft Day with Kevin Costner in 2014. Thursday in L.A.; 87.

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/jim-brown-dead-dirty-dozen-1235619369/
https://www.nfl.com/news/jim-brown-hall-of-fame-rb-browns-legend-and-civil-rights-icon-dies-at-87 (links)

B

[Brad Beam]

In a case of coincidence, Norah O’Donnell was off last night, so it was left up to tontine-winner James Brown (aka JB) to announce the passing on the CBS Evening News.

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On May 20, 2023, at 09:30, 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <tvor...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

The football hero, first in college at Syracuse, then in a record-smashing nine-year NFL career in Cleveland... then a prolific actor, breaking out in The Dirty Dozen but becoming an icon of Blaxploitation films along fellow ex-footballer Fred Williamson... last credited as a version of himself in the drama Draft Day with Kevin Costner in 2014. Thursday in L.A.; 87.

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/jim-brown-dead-dirty-dozen-1235619369/
https://www.nfl.com/news/jim-brown-hall-of-fame-rb-browns-legend-and-civil-rights-icon-dies-at-87 (links)

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[Bob Jersey]

I reported on the first time I'd seen JB do Evening News, on a weekend IIRC.  That probably wasn't the first time he'd been there either...

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Brad Beam, to moi, May 20th:

[Bob Jersey]

Actually, it was... https://groups.google.com/g/tvornottv/c/AtmL_T2V9Gw/m/2Xxa02akYmIJ (web archive)      B

Moi, to Brad Beam, May 20th:

[David Bruggeman]

(Warning - sidetrack)

In what was easily my most unexpected celebrity encounter while I lived in the DC area, JB came to the gym I went to in Silver Spring.  We exchanged small talk when I went to use a machine near him, and he was a real pleasant fellow.

David

https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/8D1DAB3B-4A9B-4B32-962D-1D4A3A0D8B9E%40suddenlink.net

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