The first Maggie Smith role I remember was in Hook, and she was only 56 at the time! The makeup was incredible, because I've always thought of her as one of those 'ages-differently' people, like Steve Martin—stuck in some sort of continuum just out of sync with the rest of us.
Maybe not a 'celebrity' in the typical sense, but raise your hand if you ever remember seeing advertisements in computer magazines for the "Valentine1 Radar Detector with Arrows" with this guy on the page:
Mike Valentine passed away a week ago from an aneurysm.
I was about eight years old, and though I really had no concept of what the hell "speeding" was or why someone would need to detect radar, the ads for the Valentine1 radar detector somehow made an impression on me. When I started driving and finally understood what radar detectors were for, the V1 is what I remembered as being touted as "the" radar detector to have.
Mike Valentine is essentially the father of the modern police radar detector. He has countless patents to his name, he invented directional speed radar detection (rather than pure forward-facing proximity-based detection), and his detector was routinely at the top of the pack for range, sensitivity, and junk signal rejection in pretty much every radar detector shootout. He made one model and only one, priced it very reasonably relative to his competitors, and customers could send them in for upgrades instead of having to buy an entirely new model, until he released the V1 Gen2 a few years ago (which is what I run).
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Maybe not a 'celebrity' in the typical sense, but raise your hand if you ever remember seeing advertisements in computer magazines for the "Valentine1 Radar Detector with Arrows" with this guy on the page:
Mike Valentine passed away a week ago from an aneurysm.
I was about eight years old, and though I really had no concept of what the hell "speeding" was or why someone would need to detect radar, the ads for the Valentine1 radar detector somehow made an impression on me. When I started driving and finally understood what radar detectors were for, the V1 is what I remembered as being touted as "the" radar detector to have.
Mike Valentine is essentially the father of the modern police radar detector. He has countless patents to his name, he invented directional speed radar detection (rather than pure forward-facing proximity-based detection), and his detector was routinely at the top of the pack for range, sensitivity, and junk signal rejection in pretty much every radar detector shootout. He made one model and only one, priced it very reasonably relative to his competitors, and customers could send them in for upgrades instead of having to buy an entirely new model, until he released the V1 Gen2 a few years ago (which is what I run).
I don't know if there was a C&D or R&T magazine that didn't have a photo of him one of his ads since the 80's to the point I could recognize him more than most movie stars. He was also very charitable with several organizations and straight up good people. RIP.
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Songwriting was merely one aspect to the Renaissance man, who was also a Golden Globe-winning actor, Golden Gloves boxer, Rhodes scholar, author, U.S. Army veteran, pilot, and onetime record-label janitor. But it was his penetrating lyricism that caused a seismic shift in the perception of country music by the late Sixties. Well-educated (with a military discipline) though he was, he quickly fell in with the freshman class of “outlaw” singer-songwriters that would buck the star system and influence generations to come.
Yeah....he really did do it all.
RIP
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