"did regis philbin pass away?"  "yes"  "is that your final answer?"   btw, he had a good run. when i was a kid, i remember regis being joey bishop's "sidekick" on the "joey bishop show". my parents didn't watch that show much... meanwhile, "the merv griffin show" was another story!

Radiowiz wrote:

Someone should also mention Peter Green from Fleetwood Mac. Dead at 73.

If things tend to happen in 3's...who's next?? Hopefully nobody...

Unfortunately, there has been a third. It's Olivia De Havilland, one of the last of the studio system stars from the so-called "Golden Age of Hollywood."

Her most famous role was as Melanie Wilkes in the 1939 classic "Gone With the Wind," but she was quite a pioneer in showbiz, winning a precedent setting court case against her studio that would set a standard for stars in the years to come.  

And she had quite a run - she was an amazing 104 when she passed away on Saturday. 

Olivia De Havilland, Oscar-Winning Actress, Dies At 104 

The 7 Things You Never Knew About Olivia De Havilland

[Edit: And I guess locally, we could say Eddie Shack technically makes it 4 in the same weekend. Amazingly, despite their age and the pandemic, none of them seem to have succumbed to COVID-19.]

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one of the impressive things (to me) about regis is the fact that even in his 80's he remained being a valuable media commodity. in other words, he never succumbed (perhaps it was a gene thing) to the word "elderly".