Remarking on remarkable dead guys no one remarks on anymore

Ricardo Montalbán (DOD 1/14/09). I mean COME ON, who didn't love Montalbán as Khan in the original Star Trek series and later in The Wrath of Khan movie? Look at that shirt-thing he's wearing. I want to play with his nipples right now!

And need I even mention the Mr. Rourke roll in Fantasy Island?

Oh. I guess I just did.

Best of all, behold the 1975 Chrysler Cordoba commercial. Aw baby, you and I could make beautiful music on that soft Corinthian leather.

um ... HELL YEAH.

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Peter Jennings (DOD 8/7/05).  Peter Jennings was my favorite anchorman of all time. I watched him religiously on ABC's World News Tonight, but I fell for him in earnest one night as he reported on then-Duchess Sarah Ferguson. It was the last story of the broadcast--the "human interest" piece--and featured footage of Ferguson in loud ill-advised clothing. The copy covered the media's obsession with her weight gain.

After he finished reading from the teleprompter, Jennings set down his papers, folded his hands and looked straight into the camera.

"I don't think you're fat, Fergie," he said. I exhaled as my pupils morphed into gleaming hearts.

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Lee Hazelwood (DOD 8/4/07). I could listen to the opening lyric's of Hazlewood's "Some Velvet Morning" 100 times and not tire of them:

Some velvet morning when I'm straight
I'm gonna open up your gate
And maybe tell you 'bout Phaedra
And how she gave me life
And how she made it in

Oh hell, listen for yourself:



If that's not enough Hazlewood for you, go dig a 2006 interview wherein he smokes, picks his nose, talks about the making of "Some Velvet Morning," and the misbegotten youth of today. Who cares? I still dig Hazlewood like crazy.

Open up my gate ... hmmmm ...

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Dan Rowan (DOD 9/22/87).  Laugh-In notwithstanding, Dan Rowan was just hot.

Add the facts that Rowan was born on a carny train in 1922 and was a fighter pilot in WWII and there you go.

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Adam West, I am not proud to admit I had to see if you were still kicking. And you are. So if you're out there my little Batmanian, know that you'll be on this list as soon as you head on up to that ol' Bat Cave in the sky. I so love you baby.

Aside to readership, you will want to watch at least a few minutes of this 1985 footage from the WEWS Cleveland "Morning Exchange." Notice how West calls the chick "Kathy" again and again. I wonder if they made it after taping the segment.

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