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Archive through June 26, 2005

The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: 2005 Jun. ~ Aug.: Free Expressions ARCHIVES: Passings (ARCHIVES)_: Archive through June 26, 2005 users admin

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Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 4:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh crap! I love her!

Maris
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03-28-2002

Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 5:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That is too bad, she was great and I thought she and Mel made such a great couple.

She was great in the Prisoner of second avenue, one of my favorite movies. The fight scene with Shirley in the Turning Point was priceless.

Suitsmefine
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07-29-2002

Wednesday, June 08, 2005 - 5:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I loved her in the movie "'Night Mother" with Sissy Spacek.....I also thought she was such a funny lady too, I can see why She and Mel made it, gotta have a great sense of humor to be married to the same person that many years!
I thought she was beautiful! A real classic beauty....

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Wednesday, June 08, 2005 - 6:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I read Gene Wilder's book and he wrote that Anne Bancroft would just light up and laugh at everything when Mel was around.

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Wednesday, June 08, 2005 - 7:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
what confuses me about bancroft is that she was only 35 when she did the graduate (if she died at 73 and the graduate was made in 1967, that would have been 38 years ago). if she played the mom of a gal who was supposed to be 20 or 21, she should have been in her 40's to my way of thinking. i always thought she was very attractive, but she looked older than 35 in the graduate and was supposed to have been probably in her mid-40's. just wonderin'.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Wednesday, June 08, 2005 - 9:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
She was 36 when they filmed The Graduate and Dustin Hoffman was 30. They just made her look older for the part.

Lyn
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08-07-2002

Friday, June 10, 2005 - 10:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
TV Guide Online
MOURNED: MacGyver actor Dana Elcar, whose real-life struggle with glaucoma and blindness was written into the show, died Monday of complications from pneumonia. He was 77. Elcar's other TV credits included Baretta and Black Sheep Squadron.

Dana Elcar

Max
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08-12-2000

Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 7:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lane Smith
lane smith
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Lane Smith, a longtime character actor who played a small-town district attorney who crossed words with Joe Pesci in "My Cousin Vinny," died Monday. He was 69.

:-(

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 10:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I do recognize him. He lent a lot to the movies. He will be missed.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 1:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I liked him when he was Perry White on Lois and Clark.

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 1:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mamie ... I thought he was on Lois and Clark, thanks for reminding me. How sad to go that young.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 5:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh gosh, he was in so many things. He was a good actor. That is young.

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 7:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, no. Sigh. He was a terrific counterpoint to Joe Pesci in that film. (Never saw him in the Perry White role.) I am sorry he went so young.

Spygirl
Moderator

04-23-2001

Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 10:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh wow - he was the "I<clap>dentical" guy from My Cousin Vinny - very sad!

Abby7
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07-17-2002

Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 11:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
spy, i was going to post that too. dh always imitates him doing that. <clap> "Identical!", <hands up>.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 8:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
'60 Minutes' commentator Alexander dies
Pioneering journalist was known for 'Point-Counterpoint'

Friday, June 24, 2005; Posted: 12:45 p.m. EDT (16:45 GMT)


California (AP) -- Trailblazing journalist Shana Alexander, whose verbal skirmishes with conservative James J. Kilpatrick on CBS' "60 Minutes" were spoofed in a "Saturday Night Live" skit, has died of cancer. She was 79.

Alexander died at an assisted living facility in Hermosa Beach, her niece, Hannah Bentley, said Thursday night.

Alexander wrote for magazines including Newsweek and National Geographic and was the first female staff writer employed by Life magazine. She was also the first female editor at McCall's magazine.

But Alexander was best known for her "Point-Counterpoint" segments with Kilpatrick at the end of each "60 Minutes" broadcast in the late 1970s.

"She was one of the first female journalists to become a big-time name in television journalism, when women were few and far between," the show's founding executive producer, Don Hewitt, told The Associated Press.

"Point-Counterpart" was so popular it was frequently parodied in a "Saturday Night Live" skit. Jane Curtin played the liberal Alexander role and Dan Aykroyd, in the Kilpatrick role, began his remarks with the line, "Jane, you ignorant ."

Alexander reported on some of the biggest news stories of her time, including the early days of the women's rights movement, President Nixon's handling of the Vietnam War and the slaying of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany.

She also wrote a number of nonfiction books, including "Anyone's Daughter," a biography of kidnapped heiress Patricia Hearst.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/24/obit.alexander.ap/index.html

Cablejockey
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12-27-2001

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 8:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This is sad news indeed. I've admired Shana Alexander for years.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 9:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Maris posted a little bit about it yesterday in Hollywood gossip. She really was quite a remarkable woman.

Marysafan
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08-07-2000

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 10:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow...she was truly remarkable. I remember her bringing me so many stories..."and this is Shana Alexander reporting from...."

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 9:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    


Paul Winchell - 82

Among others things he is noted for is the voice of Tigger.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 10:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I remember watching his show when we were young. My brothers, sister and I still say "What's the secret password? Scotty watty do do!"

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 10:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I heard some Pooh thing recently and somebody else was doing Tigger. It just wasn't the same.

Weinermr
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08-18-2001

Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 1:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My personal opinion - when the voice artist dies, the character should die with it. Fred Flintstone, Bugs Bunny, Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, etc. JMHO

I will miss Paul Winchell too. I used to watch Winchell Mahoney Time when I was a kid.

I read Paul Winchell's obit in the L.A. Times today. He sued Metromedia Inc. and won, in the late 80's. They were having a dispute over syndication rights to recordings of Winchell Mahoney Time, and Metromedia Inc. destroyed the videotapes! These were virtually the only record of Paul Winchell's ventriloquism performed live. I'm glad he won.

Paul Winchell obituary

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 2:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
His daughter April does lots of voice work on cartoons, etc., and she appears twice a month on the Mr. KABC show. I think I'll send her an email.

ETA: Or maybe not. I went to her web site and...well...sometimes it's better to keep some things private.

Kstme
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08-14-2000

Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 4:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
'Hershey's is the very best...chocolate.' Good bye, Mr Winchell. :-(