Sunday, July 27, 2025

Eighties Icons Fall


Last week saw the deaths of Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Ozzy Osbourne, and Hulk Hogan.  I was not particularly a fan of any of those people, but I can’t deny the huge presence that they had in popular culture for all of us who grew up in the Eighties.  


I couldn’t help thinking that the next blow to my Eighties childhood would be that Chuck E. Cheese himself would die. 


And maybe I was a little bit prescient.


Chuck E. Cheese didn’t die. 


But he was arrested for credit card fraud.