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Carrie92
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09-15-2003

Monday, July 12, 2004 - 4:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm sure it's been posted somewhere on the board already today... but Isabelle Sanford passed away today.
I just thought it would be a good idea to put all passings in their own thread, so everyone can be up to date, and add their sentiments.

I loved "Weezie" Jefferson. She was one of the first sitcom wives to really put her foot down with her husband. Maybe that's a bad choice of words, but she made her character a really strong woman. I'll always remember that deep, throaty voice saying "George!" and then following up with some sort of reasoning or lecture.

Great lady.

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Monday, July 12, 2004 - 6:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I always loved her in the Jeffersons!!

Rupertbear
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09-19-2003

Monday, July 12, 2004 - 8:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yes, she was a wonderful lady

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Monday, July 12, 2004 - 9:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
She was warm and friendly, funny and feminine with such a sparkle. Great memories. Thanks Isabelle.

Carrie92
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09-15-2003

Tuesday, July 13, 2004 - 8:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Actor Jimmie Skaggs died last week of lung cancer at age 59. Not sure what he was in, just that he appeared on TV, movies, and stage.

Maybe some of our movie geniuses (calling Mamie!) can help.

Max
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08-12-2000

Tuesday, July 13, 2004 - 9:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, here's his IMDB biography. Unfortunately no picture there. He seems to have worked a LOT in small parts.

There's a pic over here: Jimmie Skaggs

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - 9:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This is a good idea for a topic, Carrie. We should have thought of it sooner. It's a nice way to honor those who entertained us through the years.

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - 9:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I also found this tribute for him here:


http://www.actorsart.com/Skaggs.html



Mygetaway
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08-23-2000

Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - 5:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
They are playing tribute to Anna Lee (Lila Quatermaine, on General Hospital) who died May 14th, this week on General Hospital. There will be a memorial service show on Friday with lots of past and present actors from the show.

She has quite a history in films too....
Anna Lee on IMDb

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - 5:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I loved both actresses and they will be sorely missed. Such talent.

Carrie92
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09-15-2003

Monday, August 09, 2004 - 9:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
"Superfreak" Rick James passed away yesterday at age 58, of natural causes.

Carrie92
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09-15-2003

Monday, August 09, 2004 - 9:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Actress Fay Wray, best known for her role in "King Kong" (the 30's version) died today at age 91.

Secretsmile
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08-19-2002

Monday, August 09, 2004 - 10:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm not saying it's not a good thread but I thought we usually had these posts in News and Views.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Monday, August 09, 2004 - 10:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I like having this news in one thread...the deaths kinda get lost in news and views esp this election yr.

Carrie92
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09-15-2003

Monday, August 09, 2004 - 11:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I didn't know that, Secret, but I usually avoid the N/V thread (it can get hairy in there, yikes!), and I know there are others who do too.

Maybe we can post celebrity-type passings here and the rest over there? Just a thought.


Vee
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02-23-2004

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 6:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yes, please keep it here because it is far more likely to be seen than over there...in the wilderness. I can't handle that area well at all. Sorry!

Secretsmile
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08-19-2002

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 6:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OH Gosh, I didn't mean I cared that it was here, I think it's a great thread, sorry for the misunderstanding. I guess I just thought you all should know that we have discussed deaths on this site in the past.

Carrie92
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09-15-2003

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 5:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
NP, Secret! No hurt feelings here...

Vee
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02-23-2004

Friday, August 13, 2004 - 8:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Julia Child

Just heard that Julia passed away last evening. She was 91 years of age. I always loved watching her...a true original.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, August 13, 2004 - 8:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Julia Child passed away in her sleep Thursday night. She was 91.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Friday, August 13, 2004 - 8:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Julia Child dead at 91
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/13/obit.child.ap/index.html

NEW YORK (AP) -- Julia Child, whose warbling, encouraging voice and able hands brought the intricacies of French cuisine to American home cooks through her television series and books, died in her sleep three days before what would have been her 92nd birthday.

"America has lost a true national treasure," Nicholas Latimer, director of publicity for Alfred A. Knopf publishing, said in a statement Friday. "She will be missed terribly."

The statement said she died Thursday at her home in Santa Barbara, California. The cause of death was not given.

A 6-foot-2 American folk hero, "The French Chef" was known to her public as Julia, and preached a delight not only in good food but in sharing it, ending her landmark public television lessons at a set table and with the wish, "Bon appetit."

"Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal," she said in the introduction to her seventh book, "The Way to Cook." "In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal."

Chipper and unpretentious, she beckoned everyone to give good food a try. She wasn't always tidy in the kitchen, and just like the rest of us, she sometimes dropped things or had trouble getting a cake out of its mold.

In an A-line skirt and blouse, and an apron with a dish towel tucked into the waist, Julia Child grew familiar enough to be parodied by Dan Aykroyd on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" and the subject of Jean Stapleton's musical revue, "Bon Appetit." She was on the cover of Time magazine in 1966.

Active and a frequent traveler in her 80s, Child credited good genes and a habit begun in her 40s of eating everything in moderation.

Susy Davidson, a consultant who worked with Child on "Good Morning America," called Child's friendship a great gift.

"She's helped me redefine age, No. 1," Davidson once said. "She is the standard by which I judge all professionals. She's always eager to learn something, to try something new. She just has this generosity of spirit."

She was foremost a teacher and never lost sight of the goal set out in volume one of "Mastering the Art of French Cooking": "Anyone can cook in the French manner anywhere, with the right instruction. Our hope is that this book will be helpful in giving that instruction."

Like her friend James Beard, Child was influenced but not battered by the popularity of fast food, low-fat food, health food.

She aimed "The Way to Cook" at a new generation and while it offered plenty of recipes using butter and cream, it left room for experimentation and variation in its blend of classic French and free-style American techniques. It was a hit, with nearly 400,000 copies in print just four months after publication.

She worried, however, that the health craze was overdone.

"What's dangerous and discouraging about this era is that people really are afraid of their food," she told The Associated Press in 1989. "Sitting down to dinner is a trap, not something to enjoy. People should take their food more seriously. Learn what you can eat and enjoy it thoroughly."

Child did not take a cooking lesson until she was in her 30s. And she was in her 50s when her first television series began in 1963.

Born in Pasadena, California, Child once said she was raised on so-so cooking by hired cooks.

She graduated from Smith College in 1934 with a history degree and aspirations to be a novelist or a writer for the New Yorker magazine. Instead, she ended up in the publicity department of a New York City furniture and rug chain.

When World War II began, she joined the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA. She was sent off to do clerical chores in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), where she met Paul Child, a career diplomat who later became a photographer and painter, on the porch of a tea planter's bungalow in 1943.

They married in 1946 and two years later were sent to Paris.

Child enrolled in the famed Cordon Bleu cooking school, motivated at least in part by a desire to cook for her epicure husband. She was considered a bit odd by her friends, who all had hired help in the kitchen.

"I'd been looking for my life's work all along," she told the AP. "And when I got into cooking I found it. I was inspired by the tremendous seriousness with which they took it."

In France, she also met Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, with whom she collaborated on "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," which was nine years in the making and became mandatory for anyone who took cooking seriously.

It was published in 1961 and was followed by "The French Chef Cookbook"; "Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vol. II," with Beck; "From Julia Child's Kitchen"; "Julia Child & Company"; "Julia Child & More Company"; and "The Way to Cook," in October 1989.

She was 51 when she made her television debut as "The French Chef." The series began in 1963 and continued for 206 episodes. Child won a Peabody award in 1965 and an Emmy in 1966, and went on to star in several more series for Boston's WGBH-TV.

Russell Morash, Child's director from the beginning, recalled her as "spontaneous from the outset, a natural television talent -- very relaxed but very professional."

"I happened to be the right woman at the right time," she said, noting that John F. Kennedy had a French chef at the White House and more Americans were traveling abroad.

Since the 1980s, she devoted attention to promoting the serious study of food and cooking. She co-founded the American Institute of Wine and Food in San Francisco in 1981 and co-founded the James Beard Foundation in New York City in 1986.

More recently, she teamed with fellow television chef Jacques Pepin for the 1994 PBS special, "Julia Child & Jacques Pepin: Cooking in Concert" and a 1996 sequel, "More Cooking in Concert."

Paul Child died in 1994, and in late 2001, Julia Child, a longtime resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts, moved to Santa Barbara. The couple had no children.

Bandit
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07-29-2001

Friday, August 13, 2004 - 9:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    

Sorry to hear that.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Friday, August 13, 2004 - 10:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
WOW! just this am on Good Morning American, Emeril Lagasse was saying that next week was her 92nd birthday and talking about the party they were going to have for her!!

Weinermr
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08-18-2001

Saturday, August 14, 2004 - 6:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I will miss Julia Child. I always enjoyed watching her cook, and hearing her thoughts about cooking, about cuisine, and about eating. She was funny, and honest, and unshakeable in her opinions. She was also quite entertaining, and clearly enjoyed food, and sharing it with others. Recently, she had been paired with my other most favorite TV chef, Jacques Pepin.

Weinermr
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08-18-2001

Saturday, August 14, 2004 - 6:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
In the last month, we've lost two great, and quite influential movie score composers. I will miss them both as well.