Year End Wrap Up - Wings

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Year End Wrap Up - Wings

Postby Marsbar » Wed Dec 30, 2020 1:16 am

Here is a list of some exceptional folks who put on their wings during 2020

John Baldessari, conceptual artist

Ronald Bell, musician, Kool & The Gang

Salome Bey, singer

Honor Blackman, actor

Christo, artist

Christie Blatchford, journalist

Chadwick Boseman, actor

Kobe Bryant, professional basketball player

Bonnie Burstow, anti-psychiatry critic, educator

Pete Carmichael, musician, Diableros

David Carter, author, Stonewall historian

Brent Carver, actor

Sean Connery, actor

Nick Cordero, actor

Simeon Coxe, musician, Silver Apples

Spencer Davis, musician

Olivia de Havilland, actor

Brian Dennehy, actor

Chi Chi DeVayne, drag queen

Manu Dibango, musician

Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, poet laureate priest (2019)

Linda Diebel, journalist

Kirk Douglas, actor

Shirley Douglas, actor/activist

Saeb Erekat, Palestinian peace negotiator

Tony Fernandez, baseball player

Genesis P-Orridge, musician

Andy Gill, musician, Gang of Four

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Buck Henry, actor, screenwriter

Toots Hibbert, musician

Mary Higgins Clark, author

Ian Holm, actor

Houdini, Toronto rapper/songwriter

Rae Johnson, artist

Terry Jones, actor/director

Rishi Kapoor, actor

Irrfan Khan, actor

Ivan Kral, musician

Larry Kramer, AIDS activist/author

John le Carré, author

Bunny Lee, reggae producer

John Lewis, U.S. congressman & civil rights leader

Little Richard, musician

Diego Maradona, soccer player

Ellis Marsalis Jr., jazz musician

Howie Meeker, hockey player, commentator, MP

Terrence McNally, playwright

Ennio Morricone, composer

Daniel David Moses, First Nations playwright/poet

Joanne Nisbet, dancer, senior ballet mistress at National Ballet of Canada

Nobuhiko Obayashi, filmmaker

Neil Peart, musician, Rush

Regis Philbin, talk show host

Bonnie Pointer, singer

David Prowse, Darth Vader actor

Kelly Preston, actor

Charley Pride, musician

John Prine, musician

Sushant Singh Rajput, actor

Helen Reddy, singer

Carl Reiner, actor

Diana Rigg, actor

Naya Rivera, actor

Kenny Rogers, singer/songwriter, riverboat gambler

Regan Russell,animal rights activist

Adam Schlesinger, songwriter

Joel Schumacher, director

Eddie Shack, hockey player

Lynn Shelton, filmmaker

Jerry Stiller, comedian

Kenzo Takada, fashion designer

Deanne Taylor, performer and playwright

Doug Taylor, local historian

Alex Trebek, game show host

John Turner, Canadian Prime Minister

Eddie Van Halen, musician

RM Vaughan, writer and artist

Max von Sydow, actor/director

Andrew Weatherall, musician/producer

Charles Webb, author

Bill Withers, musician

*with thanks to NOW Magazine
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Re: Year End Wrap Up - Wings

Postby therealshell824 » Thu Dec 31, 2020 4:37 pm

Also, Adolfo Gutierrez Quiñones or Adolfo Gordon Quiñones, known professionally as Shabba Doo, the star of the great movie Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, one of the most incredibly fun flicks that I have ever seen.
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