July 26, 2023
Links to the past, with relevance today!

CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING: Donna Mills, 82, answers the question we all want answered ... how does she look like this?!
TWITTER: "Life, it never die!" You gotta hear this fake '90s hit.

AP NEWS: Marla Gibbs, 92, has a memoir coming — It's Never Too Late.
HOLLYWOOD SHOW: Keith Thibodeaux, 72, the guy who played Little Ricky on I Love Lucy and The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, will make his first-ever Hollywood Show appearance in October, signing autographs and posing for photos. TV icon for real!

EXTRATV: Sinéad O'Connor, whose debut The Lion and the Cobra (1987) and 1990 single "Nothing Compares 2 U" catapulted her to uncomfortable fame, died July 26. She was 56. Her death came just about 18 months after her son Shane's suicide at age 17.
THE A.V. CLUB: Forty years of Madonna, and her 40 best songs ranked ... do you agree?
THR: Stu Silver, 76, who created both Webster and It's a Living, has died after battling cancer.
VARIETY: Barbie was introduced in 1959, and 2023 marked the year Mattel too its first not-so-baby-steps into the future of the brand.