{"id":23126,"date":"2021-07-08T09:14:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T14:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23126"},"modified":"2021-07-08T09:14:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T14:14:12","slug":"obit-watch-july-8-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23126","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: July 8, 2021."},"content":{"rendered":"

Noted for the hysterical record: four of the alleged six assassins of Haitian president Jovenel Mo\u00efse have been killed<\/a>. Two are in custody.<\/p>\n

Robert Downey Sr.<\/a> Variety<\/a>. THR<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Suzzanne Douglas<\/a>, actress. She did some theater work:<\/p>\n

Douglas starred in such productions as The Threepenny Opera opposite Sting, The Tap Dance Kid and It\u2019s a Grand Night for Singing. Other theater credits included Arthur Laurent\u2019s Hallelujah, Baby! \u2014 Douglas was the first African-American to play Dr. Bearing in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play \u2014 and Wit and Crowns, which won an Image Award for ensemble performance. She also starred in productions of Henry V, Julius by Design and Regina Taylor\u2019s The Drowning Crow.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She also did some film (“How Stella Got Her Groove Back”, “School of Rock”, among others) and a lot of TV work.<\/p>\n

Lawrence<\/a> sent over a memo from the Burning in Hell Department: Ahmad Jibril<\/a>. He headed the Palestinian terror group PFLP-GC:<\/p>\n

Among the group\u2019s attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians were 1970\u2019s bombing of Swissair Flight 330 that killed 47 people; a 1970 attack on an Israeli school bus that killed 12, most of them children; 1974\u2019s Kiryat Shmona massacre of 16 people; and 1987\u2019s \u2018Night of the Gliders,\u2019 in which members of the group flew into an Israeli base and killed six soldiers.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He was 83, and it sounds like he died of “natural causes”. (And not the “He was hit by one of those sword missiles<\/a> fired from a drone, so naturally he died” sort of “natural causes”.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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