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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 5:01 pm
Famed attorney Johnnie Cochran dies LOS ANGELES -- Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., who became a legal superstar after helping clear O.J. Simpson during a sensational murder trial in which he uttered the famous quote ``If it doesn't fit, you must acquit,'' died today. He was 67. Cochran died of a brain disorder in Los Angeles, said law partner Randy McMurray.Cochran died of a brain disorder in Los Angeles, said law partner Randy McMurray. ``Certainly, Johnnie's career will be noted as one marked by celebrity cases and clientele,'' his family said in a statement. ``But he and his family were most proud of the work he did on behalf of those in the community.'' With his colorful suits and ties, his gift for courtroom oratory and a knack for coining memorable phrases, Cochran was a vivid addition to the pantheon of great American barristers. The ``if it doesn't fit'' phrase would be quoted and parodied for years afterward. It derived from a dramatic moment during which Simpson tried on a pair of bloodstained ``murder gloves'' to show jurors they did not fit. Some legal experts called it the turning point in the trial. Soon after, jurors found the Hall of Fame football star not guilty of the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. For Cochran, Simpson's acquittal was the crowning achievement in a career notable for victories, often in cases with racial themes. He was a black man known for championing the causes of black defendants. Some of them, like Simpson, were famous, but more often than not they were unknowns. ``The clients I've cared about the most are the No Js, the ones who nobody knows,'' said Cochran, who proudly displayed copies in his office of the multimillion-dollar checks he won for ordinary citizens who said they were abused by police. ``People in New York and Los Angeles, especially mothers in the African-American community, are more afraid of the police injuring or killing their children than they are of muggers on the corner,'' he once said. By the time Simpson called, the byword in the black community for defendants facing serious charges was: ``Get Johnnie.'' http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3108021
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 6:13 pm
Wow. I didn't know he was sick.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 6:31 pm
I second that Mocha....
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 7:53 pm
I was sad to hear this. I heard about 2 wks ago he might be sick
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 9:15 pm
I wasn’t happy about the O.J. verdict (at least the way it was reached by the jury), but he did a great job defending him, he was an interesting guy and I am sorry to hear this news.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - 5:19 am
I had to double check that it was the same one. I hadn't heard either.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - 10:52 am
I had his number on my speed dial just in case I ever needed a great defense lawyer.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, March 31, 2005 - 9:19 am
Terry Shaivo has died. www.cnn.com
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, March 31, 2005 - 9:28 am
God rest her soul and God bless her family.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Thursday, March 31, 2005 - 1:56 pm
I just learned that 37 year old comedian Mitch Hedberg has died of an apparent heart attack. Hubby and I just watched him on Comedy Central and the man really tickled my funny bone. This is very distressing, I just discovered him, and now he's gone. Here's a sample: I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughnut...I don't need a receipt for the doughnut - I'll just give you money and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I can't imagine a scenario in which I would need to prove that I bought a doughnut...Some skeptical friend, don’t even act like I didn't buy a doughnut, I've got the documentation right here...oh wait it's back home in the file...under "D", for doughnut. "I tried walking into a Target , but I missed." "I would imagine if you understood Morse Code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy." "I wrote a letter to my dad- I wrote, I really enjoy being here. But I accidently wrote rarely, instead of really. But I still wanted to use it, so I crossed it out and wrote I rarely drive steamboats, Dad. There's a lot you don't know about me. Quit trying to act like I'm a steamboat operator. This letter took a harsh turn right away." "The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how much I play, I'll never be as good a a wall. I played a wall once. They're relentless." "When someone hands you a flier, it's like they're saying here you throw this away." "I like rice. Rice is great if your hungry and want 2000 of something." "I got my hair highlighted, because I felt some strands were more important that others." "I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." "I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad a turkeys. There's turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastromi,.Some one needs to tell the turkey, man, just be yourself." "One time a guy handed me a picture of himself and he said. "Here's a picture of me when I was younger." Every picture of you is of when you were younger. Here's a picture of me when I'm older. How'd you pull that off? Let me see that camera." "I was walking by a drycleaner at 3a.m. and there was a sign that said Sorry, we're closed. You don't have to be sorry. It's 3a.m. and your a drycleaner. It would be ridiculous for me to expect you to be open. I'm not gonna come by at 10 and say, hey I was here at 3a.m and you guys were closed. Someone owes me an apology." And my personal favorite... "I got into and argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, because I tried to walk out and slam the flap. How are you supposed to express your anger in this situation? Zipper it up real quick Sorry I got carried away...but I got in the magic and didn't want to stop.
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Thursday, March 31, 2005 - 5:01 pm
Marysafan, thanks for sharing those jokes. Very funny man.
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Kaykay
Member
01-21-2004
| Friday, April 01, 2005 - 10:47 am
Frank Perdue passed today at the age of 84. Very sad 
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Friday, April 01, 2005 - 11:17 am
Kaykay, who is FP? (I feel bad for not knowing)
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Kaykay
Member
01-21-2004
| Friday, April 01, 2005 - 11:20 am
He was the founder of the Perdue chicken company.
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Max
Member
08-12-2000
| Friday, April 01, 2005 - 11:22 am
About Frank Perdue
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Kaykay
Member
01-21-2004
| Friday, April 01, 2005 - 11:29 am
Thanks Max 
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Max
Member
08-12-2000
| Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 9:09 pm
Nobel & Pulitzer winner Saul Bellow dies 
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 9:30 pm
SO sorry to hear about Mr. Bellow. Once upon a time when I was an undergrad, I thought of specializing in Jewish-American literature for my graduate studies. Mr. Bellow, along with Philip Roth, Anzia Yezierska, Joseph Heller, Allen Ginsberg, and Arthur Miller, provided one of the great voices of Judaism in America, but he was also an important voice of America generally. His contributions to our national literary culture will always be treasured and his voice will be missed. Blessed, praised, glorified, exalted, extolled, honored elevated and lauded be the Name of the holy one, Blessed is he- above and beyond any blessings and hymns, Praises and consolations which are uttered in the world; and say Amen. May there be abundant peace from Heaven, and life, upon us and upon all Israel; and say, Amen.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 11:49 pm
Monaco's Prince Rainier Has Died: Palace link Monaco's Prince Rainier III has died after a battle with lung, heart and kidney problems, his palace in Monaco said on Wednesday. He was 81. Rainier had ruled the tiny Mediterranean principality since 1949. He will be succeeded by 47-year-old Prince Albert, who took over his father's royal duties last week as hopes faded that Rainier would recover. go to Grace. rip prince rainier!
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 12:00 am
Jeez. Prince Rainier's death, so close to Pope John Paul's death, reminds me of the opening lines of Eliot's "The Waste-Land": APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers. [...] What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.Frisch weht der Wind Der Heimat zu. Mein Irisch Kind, Wo weilest du? 'You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Od' und leer das Meer. [...] O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag— It's so elegant So intelligent 'What shall I do now? What shall I do?' 'I shall rush out as I am, and walk the street 'With my hair down, so. What shall we do to-morrow? 'What shall we ever do?'
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 7:40 am
How fitting that poem is. I was just thinking that so far this year, it feels as if a more than ordinary number of those famous have died. Since January we have lost, Johnny Carson, Ossie Davis, Arthur Miller, Sandra Dee, Hunter Thompson, John Delorean, Johnny Cochran, Saul Bellow, The Pope, and Prince Ranier. And that is only the most prominent. Ther have been others, that I haven't mentioned. In looking up this list I see that Andre Norton, author of many sci-fi novels, had died March 17 at the age of 93.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Saturday, April 09, 2005 - 8:44 am
Debralee Scott age 52. She got her start on Mary Hartman. I loved her in her own tv show, Angie.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, April 09, 2005 - 11:14 am
I loved Angie. How did she die?
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Saturday, April 09, 2005 - 11:27 am
I don't remember the show Angie, but I loved her in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. I'm sad to hear this news ...
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Saturday, April 09, 2005 - 11:31 am
Oh no I loved her in Angie, and Saturday Night Fever.
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