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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 4:39 pm
Oh crap! I love her!
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 5:51 pm
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.
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Suitsmefine
Member
07-29-2002
| Wednesday, June 08, 2005 - 5:03 pm
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....
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, June 08, 2005 - 6:00 pm
I read Gene Wilder's book and he wrote that Anne Bancroft would just light up and laugh at everything when Mel was around.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Wednesday, June 08, 2005 - 7:26 pm
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'.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, June 08, 2005 - 9:28 pm
She was 36 when they filmed The Graduate and Dustin Hoffman was 30. They just made her look older for the part.
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Lyn
Member
08-07-2002
| Friday, June 10, 2005 - 10:46 am
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.

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Max
Member
08-12-2000
| Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 7:59 am
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.

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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 10:12 am
I do recognize him. He lent a lot to the movies. He will be missed.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 1:04 pm
I liked him when he was Perry White on Lois and Clark.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 1:17 pm
Mamie ... I thought he was on Lois and Clark, thanks for reminding me. How sad to go that young.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 5:33 pm
Oh gosh, he was in so many things. He was a good actor. That is young.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 7:08 pm
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.
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Spygirl
Moderator
04-23-2001
| Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 10:10 pm
Oh wow - he was the "I<clap>dentical" guy from My Cousin Vinny - very sad!
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 11:01 pm
spy, i was going to post that too. dh always imitates him doing that. <clap> "Identical!", <hands up>.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 8:39 am
'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
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 8:57 am
This is sad news indeed. I've admired Shana Alexander for years.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 9:02 am
Maris posted a little bit about it yesterday in Hollywood gossip. She really was quite a remarkable woman.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 10:18 am
Wow...she was truly remarkable. I remember her bringing me so many stories..."and this is Shana Alexander reporting from...."
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 9:36 am
Paul Winchell - 82 Among others things he is noted for is the voice of Tigger.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 10:29 am
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!"
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 10:35 am
I heard some Pooh thing recently and somebody else was doing Tigger. It just wasn't the same.
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Weinermr
Member
08-18-2001
| Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 1:49 pm
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
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 2:37 pm
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.
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Kstme
Member
08-14-2000
| Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 4:43 pm
'Hershey's is the very best...chocolate.' Good bye, Mr Winchell. 
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