Almost every trip to a local store will bring us into contact with vehicles bearing vanity plates. While most drivers are pondering over what the combination of seven letters and/or numbers mean, my thoughts are far away as I ruminate about the famous folks no longer with us. Surely in some aery realm the status-conscious who reached earthly heights must be navigating from cloud to cloud or sphere to sphere bearing a badge of identification fore and aft. Look up instead of down and see the plates coming into view right now…
Charlie Daniels: IN AMER
Ed Gardner: ARCHIE
Tommy Kirk: MERJNES
Stephen Sondheim: COM2NTE
Hans Conreid: UNTNOOSE
Jay Black: CARAMIA
Neil Simon: ODDCOUP
Cloris Leachman: PHYLLIS
Michael Nesmith: DIFDRUM
Cicely Tyson: MISJANE
Dick Wilson: NOSQUEZ
Ian Holm: OLBILBO
Henry Aaron: HMRHANK
Peter Palmer: LILABNR
Joan Didion: LETMETL
B.J. Thomas: RANDRPS
Tommy Lasorda: DODGBLU
Charley Pride: KISANGL
Jane Powell: 7 BRIDES
Mort Sahl: THEFURY
Johnny Mercer: TOOMARV
Arlene Golonka: MILLIES
Mac Davis: IBELMUS
Art Metrano: LTMAUSR
Bob Bailey: JDOLLAR
Reg Presley: LVALRND
Jack Burns: HUH?GUY
Hal Holbrook: TWA2NTE
Ed Asner: LUGRANT
Larry McMurtry: PASSBY
Phil Spector: WALSOND
Markie Post: CHRSSUL
Olivia de Havilland: MELANIE
Chuck Close: BIG PIX
Jane Withers: JOPLUMB
Phyllis George: NVSANEV
Betty Lou Gerson: CRUDAVL
Tom Seaver: TOMTRIF
Carlton E. Morse: 1MANFAM
Ron Popeil: BUTWAIT
Wrought Thoughts 