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Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 10:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    

THURL RAVENSCROFT

'That's grrrrrrrrrrreat!'
The original Tony the Tiger voice.


Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 4:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I loved Howie Morris and his hilarious character of Ernest T. Bass. My favorite line was "How do you do Mrs. Wylie? No coffee, tea, or punch for me thank you." I loved when he was at Mrs. Wylie's for the singles social, Mrs. Wylie thought he was from back-Boston, and he went after Ramona. RIP Howie and thanks for my favorite Andy episodes.

Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 4:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Does anyone remember the Tony the Tiger race to the moon game that we played in our classroom in 1967/8? I vaguely remember we had a big Tony the Tiger poster with him in a space suit and we all got Tony buttons.

Maris
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03-28-2002

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 12:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LONDON, England (AP) -- Indian-born filmmaker Ismail Merchant, who with partner James Ivory became synonymous with classy costume drama, died Wednesday, his production company said.

Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 8:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    


Stephen Elliott, character actor who was seen all over the tube through the years.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 4:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just read that Eddie Albert passed away at the age of 99.

Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 4:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    

Eddie Albert (Oliver Windell Douglas-Green Acres)

Max
Member

08-12-2000

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 4:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
:-(

Farm living is the life for me! :-)

Mamie316
Member

07-08-2003

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 4:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Land spreading out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan just give me that countryside!

Good memories of Mr. Albert.

Tishala
Member

08-01-2000

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 5:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
New York is where I'd rather stay
I get allergic smelling hay
I just adore a penthouse view
Dahling I love you but give me Park Avenue.

RIP Mr. Albert

Twiggyish
Member

08-14-2000

Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 8:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
awwwww that's sad. It's hard to believe he was 99!!

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 8:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Awww, RIP in the Green Acres in the sky, Mr. Albert.

Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Friday, June 03, 2005 - 8:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
J.D. Cannon age 83

I'm sorry but right now I cannot find a photo, although I can clearly see his face in my mind. He played McCloud's boss and was on hundreds of tv shows over the years. His face would be very familiar to all of you. I'll keep looking, and, please, if you of you find a pix, please feel free to post it.

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Friday, June 03, 2005 - 9:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
C
J.D. Cannon

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Friday, June 03, 2005 - 1:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Another one? Geeze! These sure haven't been happing in threes lately. Its more like droves!

This is too sad.

Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Friday, June 03, 2005 - 4:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks for the help, Vee!

Vee
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02-23-2004

Friday, June 03, 2005 - 6:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
No problem, OGM! He certainly does have a recognizable face, but the name was not familiar to me at all.

Tishala
Member

08-01-2000

Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 3:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Anne Bancroft, Actress Who Played Mrs. Robinson, Is Dead at 73 NY Times

Anne Bancroft, enshrined in film history as the iconic Mrs. Robinson, the seductress who devours her daughter's nerdy boyfriend-to-be (Dustin Hoffman) in the 1967 film "The Graduate," and also remembered for her sensitive portrayal on both stage and screen of Annie Sullivan, the teacher who leads the blind and deaf Helen Keller out of darkness into light in "The Miracle Worker," died Monday at Mount Sinai Medical Center. She was 73.

The cause was uterine cancer, said John Barlow, a spokesman for the family.

Those widely dissimilar roles were emblematic of Ms. Bancroft's long career. During more than 50 years of acting in films, theater and television she played everything from Brecht's "Mother Courage" to the mother superior of a convent, and from an aging ballerina to the Prime Minister Golda Meir of Israel, and repeatedly won praise for her work. Arthur Penn, who directed her award-winning Broadway performances in "Two for the Seesaw" and "The Miracle Worker," both by William Gibson, put it this way: "More happens in her face in 10 seconds than happens in most women's faces in 10 years."

Ms. Bancroft worked hard to get beneath the surface, to inhabit a role as deeply as possible. While rehearsing for "The Miracle Worker," she put tape over her eyes to better understand what it was like to be blind like Helen Keller, learned sign language and spent time at a home for the visually impaired. Preparing for "Golda," she traveled to Israel and got to know and observe Prime Minister Meir. She was more interested in performance than theory, although she was a member of the Actors Studio early in her career. The actor Rod Steiger once gave her a copy of Stanislavsky's writings on acting. "I still have it," she said some years later, "but I've never read it."

The landmarks in Ms. Bancroft's acting life were, unquestionably, the two Gibson plays and "The Graduate." She had already accumulated a long list of credits in TV dramas when she moved to Hollywood in the early 1950's to join the crowd of young hopefuls jostling for jobs in second- or third-rate films. She was among the few who found steady work, appearing in more than a dozen grade-C features with titles like "Treasure of the Golden Condor," "Gorilla at Large" - "I played the title role" - and "Demetrius and the Gladiators." Disenchanted after five years or so, and newly divorced, she headed back to New York with the promise of an audition for a new Broadway play called "Two for the Seesaw." [...]

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 3:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
NOOO!! I like her!!!

Mamie316
Member

07-08-2003

Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 3:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh Wow! I didn't even know she had been ill. What a loss to the entertainment world. My thoughts and prayers are with Mr. Brooks and their family.

Tishala
Member

08-01-2000

Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 3:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
bancroft

Marysafan
Member

08-07-2000

Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 3:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Now THAT was an actress. I saw her in so many things. A real woman, who embraced life. She lived it.

Kep421
Member

08-11-2001

Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 3:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My favorite movie of hers is 84 Charing Cross Road with Anthony Hopkins....

I am very saddened to hear of her passing. She will be greatly missed...the world has lost a wonderful performer and beautiful human being.

Herckleperckle
Member

11-20-2003

Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 4:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What a shame. I loved her, too. I remember the ballet movie, The Turning Point, as well.

Here's all her movies, with dates:

Movies:
Haven (2001)
Heartbreakers (2001)
Keeping the Faith (2000)
Up at the Villa (2000)
Deep in My Heart (1999)
Great Expectations (1998)
Antz (1998)
Grandes EsperançAs (1998)
G.I. Jane (1997)
Critical Care (1997)
Até O Limite Da Honra (1997)
The Sunchaser (1996)
Homecoming (1996)
Home for the Holidays (1995)
How to Make An American Quilt (1995)
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1994)
Point of No Return (1993)
Malice (1993)
Mr. Jones (1993)
The Assassin (1993)
Broadway Bound (1992)
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool (1989)
Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
'Night, Mother (1986)
Agnes of God (1985)
Garbo Talks (1984)
To Be or Not to Be (1983)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Fatso (1980)
The Bell Jar (1979)
The Turning Point (1977)
Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
Lipstick (1976)
The Hindenburg (1975)
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
Young Winston (1972)
The Graduate (1967)
Seven Women (1966)
The Slender Thread (1965)
The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
The Miracle Worker (1962)
The Restless Breed (1957)
Girl in Black Stockings (1957)
Walk the Proud Land (1956)
Savage Wilderness (1955)
New York Confidential (1955)
A Life in the Balance (1955)
The Last Frontier (1955)
Demetrius and The Gladiators (1954)
The Raid (1954)
Tonight We Sing (1953)
The Kid From Left Field (1953)
Treasure of the Golden Condor (1953)
Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
Mel Brooks - An Audience


Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 4:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    


Beautiful to the end!