Pro wrestler Umanosuke Ueda http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2011/12/21/19152096.html

Former WABC host Lynn Samuels dies Christmas Eve at 69 Activist took
on conservatives and President Obama alike BY DAVID HINCKLEY NEW YORK
DAILY NEWS Sunday, December 25 2011, 12:52 PM Years ago, when she was a left wing host on WABC, Lynn Samuels used to do a change-of-pace Christmas Eve show in which, among other things, she invited listeners to sing Christmas carols. This year on Christmas Eve, Samuels died. She was 69. No cause of death was immediately announced. Her body was discovered after she failed to report for her 10 a.m. Saturday show at Sirius XM radio and the company asked police to go to
her Woodside, Queens, home. On the radio, Samuels was exactly what much of the country thinks New York sounds like. She had a city accent she never tried to hide or soften, even when her bosses suggested it would prevent her from ever getting a radio job outside the city. “This is who I am,” she said. “She was unique beyond
words,” said John Mainelli, her WABC program director and longtime friend.
“I'm so glad I knew her.” Samuels was a self-described progressive who often threw curveballs. She was a long-standing critic of President Obama, saying she didn’t believe he ever really had progressive credentials. Her periodic unpredictability didn’t serve her well in today’s party- line talk radio, but helped give her a long run in the earlier, looser talk era. Her criticism of conservatives often extended to her fellow radio hosts, but she would add that she liked a number of them personally. She became close friends with conservative host and writer Matt Drudge, serving for a time as his call screener. Mainelli said
he exchanged messages with her on Friday, at which time she said she would
be doing both her Saturday and Sunday shows live this weekend.

“I am stunned,” Jay Diamond, her one-time WABC colleague, wrote on
the New York Radio Message Board. “She sometimes got mad at me, but I
loved her, and we were friends to the end. The world of radio, and the
world in general, will miss this great talent, and great human being.”
Aside from politics, Samuels would devote long segments to cultural
matters like books, music, a movie she saw or the merits and demerits of
wearing foundation garments. Her Christmas Eve show, which she said
was not her favorite program, began as an attempt simply to do something fun
and different on a night when most people weren’t discussing budget
legislation. Her own politics ran back to the activist movements of
the 1960s, about which she often talked. Her radio career began around 1979
with a late-night show at WBAI (99.5 FM). She moved to WABC in
the late 1980s and remained there on different shifts for about 15 years.
She was fired three times and rehired twice. After WABC she
struggled at times to stay in the city, taking a job in a laundromat while
keeping her hand in radio at Sirius XM. A very private person off
the air, Samuels left no immediate survivors. But the local
radio world was saddened. To the end, said Mainelli, she was “the
same as she had always been - lively, full of curiosity, and happy, all
existential things considered.”

Original Mother Jim “Motorhead” Sherwood dies– DECEMBER 26, 2011POSTED
IN: OBITUARIESAmerican musician Euclid James “Motorhead” Sherwood, notable for playing soprano, tenor and baritone saxophone, tambourine, vocals and vocal sound effects in Frank Zappa’s original Mothers of Invention, died on December 25th.Motorhead Sherwood appeared on all the albums of the original Mothers line-up and the posthumous releases “Burnt Weeny Sandwich” and “Weasels Ripped My Flesh”, as well as a number of subsequent Zappa albums. He also appeared in the films “200 Motels”, “Video from Hell” and “Uncle Meat”.Sherwood and Zappa met in high school in 1956. Sherwood was in a class with Zappa’s brother Bobby, who introduced the two after learning that Sherwood was a collector of blues records. Sherwood sat in with Zappa’s first band, R&B group The Black-Outs. In 1964 Sherwood and Zappa lived in Zappa’s Studio Z in Cucamonga for some time.Sherwood first joined The Mothers of Invention as a roadie and equipment manager, also contributing sound effects (using both his voice and saxophone) to their first album, 1966′s “Freak Out”. He became a full member around the time of the group’s experimental residence at the Garrick Theater in 1967.The nickname “Motorhead” was coined by fellow Mothers member Ray Collins, who observed that Sherwood always seemed to be working on repairing cars, trucks or motorcycles, and joked that “it sounds like you’ve got a little motor in your head”. In later years, Sherwood contributed to various projects
alongside fellow Mothers alumni, including records by The Grandmothers,Mothers keyboardist Don Preston, Ant-Bee and Sandro Oliva.Jim “Motorhead” Sherwood was 69 years old.http://www.weirdomusic.com/2011/12/26/original-mother-jim-motorhead-sherwood-dies/More
info"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Sherwood


Pedro Armendáriz, Jr. (April 6, 1940 - December 26, 2011) was a Mexican
actor.Life and careerArmendáriz Jr. was born in Mexico
City, the son of actors Carmelita (née Pardo) and Pedro Armendáriz. He has been
married to actress Ofelia Medina.Armendáriz has appeared in over 100
movies. Among them are The Magnificent Seven Ride, El Crimen del Padre Amaro,
Matando Cabos and La ley de Herodes, and played Don Pedro in The Mask of Zorro
and The Legend of Zorro. He also had small roles in Earthquake (film) (1974),
Tombstone and Amistad.Both Armendáriz and his father appeared in James
Bond movies. The elder Armendáriz appeared in From Russia with Love in 1963,
while Pedro Jr. appeared in 1989's Licence to Kill. Also both actors portrayed
Pancho Villa, the senior Armendáriz on several movies and Pedro Armendáriz Jr in Old Gringo (Spanish: Gringo Viejo) opposite Gregory Peck and Jimmy Smits.
Interestingly, Pedro Armendáriz Jr also portrayed Pancho Villa's enemy Luis
Terrazas in the film And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself opposite Antonio
Banderas.He died in 2011 of cancer at age 71 in New York
City.Obit (in Spanish)- http://www.elporvenir.com.mx/notas.asp?nota_id=550708


Pedro Armendáriz, Jr. (April 6, 1940 - December 26, 2011) was a Mexican
actor.Life and careerArmendáriz Jr. was born in Mexico City, the son of actors Carmelita (née Pardo) and Pedro Armendáriz. He has been married to actress Ofelia Medina.Armendáriz has appeared in over 100 movies. Among them are The Magnificent Seven Ride, El Crimen del Padre Amaro, Matando Cabos and La ley de Herodes, and played Don Pedro in The Mask of Zorro and The Legend of Zorro. He also had small roles in Earthquake (film) (1974), Tombstone and Amistad.Both Armendáriz and his father appeared in James Bond movies. The elder Armendáriz appeared in From Russia with Love in 1963, while Pedro Jr. appeared in 1989's Licence to Kill. Also both actors portrayed Pancho Villa, the senior Armendáriz on several movies and Pedro Armendáriz Jr in Old Gringo (Spanish: Gringo Viejo) opposite Gregory Peck and Jimmy Smits.

Interestingly, Pedro Armendáriz Jr also portrayed Pancho Villa's enemy Luis
Terrazas in the film And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself opposite Antonio
Banderas.He died in 2011 of cancer at age 71 in New York
City.Obit (in Spanish)- http://www.elporvenir.com.mx/notas.asp?nota_id=550708