Age 94. RIP Abe Vigoda. He seems to most famous for the Godfather and Barney Miller, but I just remember him as always being used in bits for Late Night with Conan O’Brien. The AV Club has nice article about him, hopefully soon, someone puts up a supercut of some of his Conan appearances.
Via TO.
As I googled for this, the title of the one of the articles put it best: Remembering Robert Loggia With One Of The Greatest Commercials Of All Time:
Jeff Lyne still sounds awesome. Definitely catch him on Fallon playing a new song, When I Was A Boy, but if you have never seen a live version of it, watch the web ‘sclusive version of him playing Mr Blue Sky on the same show:
Link to video of When I Was A Boy.
Via Stereogum.