We note the passing of actor Max Von Sydow. You may remember him in many films like Conan the Barbarian and Flash Gordon but it was more serious roles that stood out. He played chess against death in Ingmar Bergman's “The Seventh Seal. It was one of 11 films he made with the great Swedish director. He played Jesus Christ in “The Greatest Story Ever Told. He was the assassin Joubert in Three Days Of The Condor and the priest Father Merrin in The Exorcist. Later he appeared in Minority Report, Shutter Island and Star Wars:The Force Awakens. He also won a prime-time Emmy nomination for his role as the Three-Eyed Raven in Game Of Thrones. In all he appeared in more than 100 movies and tv shows in his long and distinguished career.
Also heard about the passing of former major leaguer Don Pavletich. He died last week. Maybe only hard core baseball card collectors from the 1960's will remember him. He was a Wisconsin native who grew up in West Allis and spent most of his 12 year career with the Reds as a backup catcher.
Thanks to noted baseball card connoisseur and pop culture maven Jeff Ash for the heads up.
James Taylor's new album of pop standards has cracked the top ten on the albums chart. He's the first artist to have a Top Ten LP in the last six decades. 3 other artists have earned top ten LPs in the six decades 60's thru 2010's. Can you name them? Answer below today's cover tunes.
The Bucks sat 7 players last night including 4 starters as they lost in Denver. They are a banged up bunch but still lead Toronto by six games in the East. They host Boston in a big matchup on Thursday.
Covers Of The Day
Trivia answer- Rolling Stones, Santana and Barbra Streisand
Quotes Of The Day
BREAKING: GOP Rep. Doug Collins has become the third member of Congress to self-quarantine. Collins was with Trump at the CDC in Atlanta on Friday. An awful lot of Republicans are quarantining themselves from this Democratic and media 'hoax'!
The White House doctor told Donald Trump to self-quarantine. Will he?
“As markets plummet, I sure would like to see the trading activity of the president, his family and friends.”-David Rothkopf
“If you set out to design the worst possible leader for a crisis, it would be Trump. Aggressively ignorant, lashes out at anyone who tells him what he doesn't want to hear and — tragically — with a large following of Americans who believe what he says So he isn't just failing to respond to the crisis, he's actively blocking anyone else's efforts to respond — and he's giving bad advice that millions will follow, making things worse”-Paul Krugman
Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale
““I’m making so much money!” Parscale declared, inserting an expletive. Parscale called the account “untrue and ridiculous,” but since becoming campaign manager, he has bought a $2.4m canalside home in Florida; two condos worth $2m; and a Ferrari.”
“HHS Secretary Azar claiming on Fox News that “nobody is trying to minimize” the public health threat posed by coronavirus six minutes before President Trump posted a tweet doing just that”-Aaron Rupar
I know people like to mock Trump for his lack of accomplishments, but he was able to destroy the U.S. economy twice as fast as George W. Bush.
“Many of us have always feared how Trump would behave amidst a crisis that needed steady, sacrificial presidential leadership and factual communication. Now we’re in that crisis, and our worst fears are coming true.”-Ezra Klein
“Every time Dems get back the White House they have to clean up Republican messes. Next January, the mess could be huge — a botched response to a pandemic, an economy in free-fall, a government nearly destroyed by cronyism and corruption, int'l institutions in disarray.”-Robert Reich
