Selected first overall in the 1967 NFL draft by the Baltimore Colts, Smith soon became, along with Deacon Jones, one of the first truly modern-style pass-rushers and sack artists. He played long before sacks were first tabulated as an official NFL statistic in 1982, but he was known from the start of his professional career to be nearly impossible to block.
He played for three teams — the Colts, Oakland Raiders and Houston Oilers, appeared in two Pro Bowls and was named First-Team All-Pro in 1971. Smith played in two Super Bowls — Super Bowl III, which the Colts lost to the New York Jets in an enormous upset, and Super Bowl V, which the Colts won with a last-second field goal against the Dallas Cowboys. Smith retired after the 1976 season, having played in 111 regular-season games.
After his football career ended, Smith became perhaps even more well-known as an actor. He struck gold in the "Police Academy" series of movies, playing the hyper-strong Moses Hightower and providing a series of riotous slapstick scenes.
Nick Ashford, who with wife Valerie Simpson wrote such legendary Motown songs as "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and "Reach Out and Touch Somebody's Hand," has died after a prolonged battle with throat cancer, his publicist announced. He was 70.
Their songs were spun into hits by, among others, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Gladys Knight, Marvin Gaye, Chaka Khan, Whitney Houston and Ashford & Simpson themselves – including the '80s hit "Solid As a Rock."
Post subject: Re: Obits:8-23-11 Motown Legend Nick Ashford Dies
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9-11-2001 2,969 Americans killed in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia by Terrorists that hijacked Jets for suicide runs into World Trade Center, Pentagon and third target was thwarted by heroic plane passengers.
Both 110 story Trade towers in New York collapsed, Pentagon severely damaged.
Robertson had the most success in war movies. His strong presence made him ideal for such films as "The Naked and the Dead," ''Battle of Coral Sea," ''633 Squadron," ''Up From the Beach," ''The Devil's Brigade," ''Too Late the Hero" and "Midway."
Robertson's funeral is set for Friday in East Hampton.
What from? Pancreatic cancer that he had about a year ago?
_________________ What is this thing right now? Put your arms up on one side of the horizon, put them up into the sky and twist them across, meeting unto the other side of the horizon. That is a sign symbol of life. Face the goodness in life.
_________________ What is this thing right now? Put your arms up on one side of the horizon, put them up into the sky and twist them across, meeting unto the other side of the horizon. That is a sign symbol of life. Face the goodness in life.
Andy Rooney so dreaded the day he had to end his signature "60 Minutes" commentaries about life's large and small absurdities that he kept going until he was 92 years old.
Even then, he said he wasn't retiring. Writers never retire. But his life after the end of "A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney" was short: He died Friday night, according to CBS, only a month after delivering his 1,097th and final televised commentary.
Rooney had gone to the hospital for an undisclosed surgery, but major complications developed and he never recovered.
Rooney and his wife, Marguerite, were married for 62 years before she died of heart failure in 2004.
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