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Ophiliasgrandma
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This is a picture of Barbara Bel Geddes taken in the 50's. Note what is in her right hand...too sad!

Abby7
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In another thread, Tishala mentioned her part in the movie "Vertigo". I loved her in that movie.

Ophiliasgrandma, what is in her right hand? It's not clear on my computer.

eta: oh, i see it now. a cig. that is sad. i'm so happy my husband quit 4 months ago. he's 48, i hope it's not too late for him. (meaning too much damage already done). he's had a chest x-ray recently, just needs to see results. about 10 years ago his chest x-rays were good.

Mak1
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I was surprised to see her obit in our daily newspaper. There was the official p.r. obit, then one in the regular obit section. I knew she had a place in Maine but didn't know this was her home now. I found the line near the bottom very touching, where it mentions the wildlife that will miss her.


BARBARA BEL GEDDES LEWIS

NORTHEAST HARBOR - Barbara Bel Geddes Lewis, 82, passed away peacefully Aug. 8, 2005, at her home in Northeast Harbor. She was born Oct. 31, 1922, in New York City to Industrial Designer Norman Bel Geddes and Helen Belle Sneider Geddes. While in her teens, Barbara began an acting career on the Broadway stage that would soon bring her vitality and creative spirit to the world. Many joyful years were spent with her beloved husband, Windsor Lewis, at "The Farm," their home in Putnam Valley, New York. It was there that she shared her great love for all creatures of the earth with her daughters, surrounded by her precious dogs, geese, and birds. Barbara's refined sense of color and design manifested itself in her wonderful paintings and drawings. She was the creator of two books for children and a popular line of greeting cards. After more than a decade of television appearances, Barbara discovered the endless joys of living life in Northeast Harbor. It was here that she savored the tranquil beauty of her surroundings with her many dear friends. She will be deeply missed by her daughters, Susan and Betsy; five grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; her chipmunks, birds, and squirrels. Gifts in her memory may be made to the World Wildlife Fund, 1250 24th St., NW, Washington, DC 20037. At Barbara's request her ashes will be scattered privately in her favorite place.


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Herckleperckle
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Ted 'Double Duty' Radcliffe, 103
8-12-05
Star Catcher in Negro League Also Pitched
By Fred Mitchell, Chicago Tribune

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Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, a star in the Negro league and believed to be the oldest former professional baseball player, died of cancer Thursday in Chicago. He was 103.

Radcliffe was an all-star catcher and pitcher in the Negro league for half a century, playing for more than 30 teams.

Records were not always kept, but his biographer, Kyle P. McNary, estimated that Radcliffe had a .303 batting average, 4,000 hits and 400 homers in 36 years.

After starring as a pitcher and a catcher, he became a manager.

Damon Runyon gave him the nickname "Double Duty" after Radcliffe caught the first game, then pitched the second in a 1932 Negro League World Series doubleheader between the Pittsburgh Crawfords and the Monroe Monarchs at Yankee Stadium.

Radcliffe caught a shutout by Satchel Paige in the first game, then pitched a shutout in the second, prompting Runyon to write that Radcliffe "was worth the price of two admissions."

Radcliffe pitched five and caught nine of the all-star games in which he played and hit .376 in nine exhibition games against major leaguers, years before blacks were allowed to play in the major leagues.

In his later years, Radcliffe was frequently in the crowd for White Sox games at U.S. Cellular Field and occasionally visited the clubhouse. It was his tradition to throw out the first ball on his birthday, July 7.

Two weeks ago, he was scheduled to travel to Alabama for a ceremony celebrating the Birmingham Black Barons, but he fell ill and was hospitalized in Chicago.

"Double Duty shared such a love for baseball and a passion for life," White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf said. "We all loved to see him at the ballpark, listen to his stories and share in his laughter. He leaves such a great legacy after experiencing so much history and change during his long life. He will be missed by all of us with the White Sox."

In May, Radcliffe was among 14 Negro league players honored in a pregame ceremony at RFK Stadium before the Chicago Cubs played Washington. Sitting in a golf cart behind the plate, Radcliffe made the ceremonial first pitch by handing the ball to National coach Don Buford.

Born in 1902 in Mobile, Ala., Theodore Roosevelt Radcliffe began his professional career with the Detroit Stars in 1928. He went on to play for the St. Louis Stars, Homestead Grays, Pittsburgh Crawfords, Columbus Blue Birds, New York Black Yankees, Brooklyn Eagles, Cincinnati Tigers, Memphis Red Sox, Birmingham Black Barons, Chicago American Giants, Louisville Buckeyes and Kansas City Monarchs.

He managed the Cleveland Tigers in 1937, Memphis Red Sox in 1938 and the Chicago American Giants in 1943.

Hall of Famer Ty Cobb once reported that as a catcher in an exhibition game, Radcliffe wore a chest protector that said, "Thou shalt not steal."

At 5-foot-9 and 210 pounds, Radcliffe had a strong throwing arm and good reflexes. As a pitcher, he was known to throw the emery ball, the cut ball and the spitter, pitches common at the time but long since outlawed.

One of 10 children, Radcliffe played baseball with his brothers and their friends, using a taped ball of rags.

Ted and one of his brothers, Alex, hitchhiked to Chicago in 1919 to join an older brother. A year later, Ted signed with the semipro Illinois Giants for $50 for every 15 games and 50 cents a day meal money. This worked out to about $100 a month.

He traveled with the Giants for a few seasons before joining Gilkerson's Union Giants, another semipro team, with whom he played until he joined the Detroit Stars of the Negro National League in 1928.

Radcliffe was the regular catcher for the Stars for the first half of the season. When the pitching staff became weary toward the end of the season, he began pitching and helped the team to a championship. His career-best batting average was .316 for the 1929 Detroit Stars.

The 1931 Homestead Grays, according to Radcliffe, was the greatest team of all time. That Pittsburgh team included Josh Gibson, Oscar Charleston, Jud Wilson and Smokey Joe Williams.

Radcliffe managed the Memphis Red Sox in 1937, in addition to catching and pitching for them. In 1943, at age 41, he rejoined the Chicago American Giants and won the Negro American League MVP award. The next season, he blasted a home run into the upper deck of Comiskey Park to highlight that season's East-West All-Star game.

Funeral services are scheduled for Wednesday in Chicago.

Herckleperckle
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Ted Croner, 82
NY Times 08-17-2005

Ted Croner, whose rigorously blurry photographs of New York at night in the 1940's epitomized the film noir energy of a city that never sleeps, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 82. He died of natural causes, said Margit Erb of the Howard Greenberg Gallery, which represents him.

Mr. Croner belonged to what the curator Jane Livingston called the New York School of photography, which included Lisette Model, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Robert Frank and William Klein. For the cover of her 1992 book "The New York School Photographs 1936-1963," Ms. Livingston chose a picture by Mr. Croner. The picture, "New York at Night, 1948" shows a Manhattan skyline reduced to abstract slashes of white light among black tall buildings against a gun-metal gray sky. Such images, Ms. Livingston wrote, "most quintessentially define the New York School."

Mr. Croner's best-known work is "Taxi, New York Night, 1947-48," taken while he was a student at Alexei Brodovitch's legendary "design laboratory." In producing this dazzling, bold blur of an image, Mr. Croner took a leaf from his teacher's book and went a few steps further. In 1945 Brodovitch had created a book of photographs, "Ballet," which in its styleless style - all blur and unorthodox angles - captured the evanescent, elegant nature of dance.

According to Mr. Croner, Brodovitch asked him to take 12 to 15 photos of the city at night for a Strawbridge & Clothier department store display. Mr. Croner accepted the assignment, even though the $100 budget would barely cover the cost of film and processing.

"As things turned out," Mr. Croner said, "it was one of my greater moments, not only as a photographer but also as perhaps the most important positive step in my career as a commercial photographer."

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Livingston chose one of Croner's pictures for the cover of her book.


Herckleperckle
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Joe Ranft, 45
LA Times 08-18-2005

Joe Ranft, one of the key creators of Pixar's hit animated features and the voice of Heimlich the Bavarian caterpillar in "A Bug's Life" (1998), was killed in an automobile accident Tuesday afternoon. He was 45.

A spokeswoman for the Mendocino County sheriff-coroner's office confirmed that Ranft was killed when the car in which he was a passenger veered off the road while traveling north on Highway 1, plunging 130 feet over the side of the road and into the ocean.

Also killed was the driver, Elegba Earl, 32, of Los Angeles. Another passenger, Eric Frierson, 39, also of Los Angeles, was hospitalized with moderate injuries at Mendocino Coast District Hospital in Fort Bragg, according to the sheriff-coroner's office.

Ranft was widely respected as one of the top story artists in the animation industry. He was one of seven writers nominated for an Academy Award for best original screenplay for 1995's "Toy Story."

But Ranft spent most of his time drawing storyboards for animated films.

"I don't know if people really understand what I do," he said in a 1998 interview with The Times. "When I say that I do story for animation, they say, 'Oh, you're a writer!' If I tell them I'm kind of a writer, but I draw, they get this puzzled look. But when I say, `I'm the voice of Heimlich,' the lightbulb goes on and they say, 'Oh, great!' "

Telling stories in one form or another was Ranft's lifelong passion. Born in Pasadena, he grew up in Whittier, where his early interests included movies, drawing, performing in school plays and doing sleight-of-hand magic.

"I liked evoking a response from an audience through the illusion of magic," he said. "Animation is the ultimate illusion, the illusion of life: These characters don't really exist; we create the illusion of a character."

Ranft entered the character animation program at California Institute of the Arts in the fall of 1978. As a student, he was inspired by Bill Peet's storyboards from the 1946 Disney feature "Song of the South."

"His pastel drawings were so alive, they just knocked me over. Even though they were just still drawings, they screamed to be animated," Ranft recalled. "I knew that's what I wanted to try to accomplish."

At Disney, Ranft worked on "Oliver & Company" (1988), "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988), "Beauty and the Beast" (1991), "The Lion King" (1994) and "Fantasia/2000." He oversaw the story on "The Rescuers Down Under" (1990) and was co-writer and supervising animator on "The Brave Little Toaster" (1987).

More recently, he served as executive producer on "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride," due this fall.

Landi
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AP/LOS ANGELES - Actor Brock Peters, best known for his heartbreaking performance as the black man falsely accused of rape in "To Kill a Mockingbird," died Tuesday at his home after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 78.

Peters was diagnosed with the disease in January and had been receiving chemotherapy treatment, according to Marilyn Darby, his longtime companion. His condition became worse in recent weeks.

He died peacefully in bed, surrounded by family, she said.

Peters was born George Fisher on July 2, 1927 in New York. His long film career began in the 1950s with the landmark productions of "Carmen Jones" in 1954 and "Porgy and Bess" in 1959.

In recent years, he played Admiral Cartwright in two of the "Star Trek" feature films. He also appeared in numerous TV shows. His distinctive deep bass voice was often used for animated characters.

He was perhaps best known for portraying accused rapist Tom Robinson, defended by Gregory Peck's Atticus Finch in the 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Peters paid tribute to Peck after he died in 2003.

"In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love," Peters said. "Gregory Peck gave us these attributes in full measure."

Peters recounted how shortly before he was to start filming, he was awakened early on a Sunday morning by a phone call from Peck to welcome him to the production. He was so surprised, he recalled, that he dropped the telephone.

"I worked over the years in many, many productions, but no one ever again called me to welcome me aboard, except perhaps the director and the producer, but not my fellow actor-to-be."

In May, Peters was on hand as Harper Lee, the reclusive author of "To Kill a Mockingbird," made a rare step into the limelight to be honored by the Los Angeles Public Library.

In "Carmen Jones," Peters worked with Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte. Otto Preminger's production of "Porgy" starred Sidney Poitier and Dandridge, and featured Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey and Diahann Carroll as well as Peters.

Among Peters' other films were "Soylent Green," "The L-Shaped Room" and "The Pawnbroker."

His accolades include a National Film Society Award, a Life Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild, and a Tony Award nomination for his performance on Broadway in "Lost in the Stars."

In a 1985 story by The Associated Press on blacks in the movies, Peters said there had been a string of recent hits involving blacks, but "I have been here a long time, and I have seen this cycle happen before. I'll wait awhile and see if this flurry of activity leads to anything permanent."

Peters was a widower and has one daughter, Lise Jo Peters.


Coco
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Ophiliasgrandma
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Twiggyish
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awwwwww now I konw him!! I've seen him in many things.


Mamie316
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I've always loved Brock Peters' voice. So deep.

Escapee
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Oldest Person In The World Dies

Reader234
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> BREAKING NEWS Chief Justice William Rehnquist died Saturday at age 80.


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Saturday, September 3, 2005; Posted: 11:25 p.m. EDT (03:25 GMT)


Chief Justice William Rehnquist

Supreme Court
William H. Rehnquist
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who helped shift the U.S. Supreme Court toward a more conservative ideology and strongly supported states' rights during his three decades on the bench, has died.

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Marysafan
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CNN just reported that Bob Denver, best known as Gilligan and Maynard G. Krebs has died.

Max
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Kaykay
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Bob Denver, TV's Gilligan, Dead at 70 9 minutes ago



LOS ANGELES - Bob Denver, whose portrayal of goofy first mate Gilligan on the 1960s television show "Gilligan's Island," made him an iconic figure to generations of TV viewers, has died, his agent confirmed Tuesday. He was 70.

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Denver died Friday at Wake Forest University Baptist Hospital in North Carolina of complications from treatment he was receiving for cancer, his agent, Mike Eisenstadt, told The Associated Press. Denver's death was first reported by "Entertainment Tonight."

Denver had also undergone quadruple heart bypass surgery earlier this year.

Denver's wife, Dreama, and his children Patrick, Megan, Emily and Colin were with him when he died.

"He was my everything and I will love him forever," Dreama Denver said in a statement.

Denver's signature role was Gilligan. But he was already known to TV audiences for another iconic character, that of Maynard G. Krebs, the bearded beatnik friend of Dwayne Hickman's Dobie in the "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis," which aired from 1959 to 1963.

"Gilligan's Island" lasted on CBS from 1964 to 1967, and it was revived in later seasons with three high-rated TV movies. It was a Robinson Crusoe story about seven disparate travelers who are marooned on a deserted Pacific Island after their small boat was wrecked in a storm.

The cast: Alan Hale Jr., as Skipper Jonas Grumby; Bob Denver, as his klutzy assistant Gilligan; Jim Backus and Natalie Schafer, as rich snobs Thurston and Lovey Howell; Tina Louise, as bosomy movie star Ginger Grant; Russell Johnson, as egghead science professor Roy Hinkley Jr.; and Dawn Wells, as sweet-natured farm girl Mary Ann Summers.

TV critics hooted at "Gilligan's Island" as gag-ridden corn. Audiences adored its far-out comedy. Writer-creator Sherwood Schwartz insisted that the show had social meaning along with the laughs: "I knew that by assembling seven different people and forcing them to live together, the show would have great philosophical implications."


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Ophiliasgrandma
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Mocha
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Awwwww

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Grammy winner 'Gatemouth' Brown dies
Louisiana musician had escaped Katrina

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (AP) -- Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, the singer and guitarist who built a 50-year career playing blues, country, jazz and Cajun music, died Saturday in his hometown of Orange, Texas, where he had gone to escape Hurricane Katrina. He was 81.




Weinermr
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Monday, September 12, 2005
Radio and television career spanned 6 decades
Associated Press
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INDIANAPOLIS -- Sportscaster Chris Schenkel, whose easygoing baritone won over fans during a more than six-decade broadcasting career in which he covered everything from bowling to the Olympics, died Sunday following a long battle with emphysema. He was 82.

Schenkel's wife, Fran, said she and the couple's two sons were at her husband's side when he passed away early Sunday at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Ind., where he had been hospitalized for two weeks after undergoing surgery for a bleeding ulcer.

"He was a very, very sincere, loving man who loved what he did," said Fran Schenkel, noting that they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in January.

Schenkel's radio and television career included virtually every major sports competition and several pioneering broadcasts.

He was the first to cover The Masters on television, in 1956; the first to call a college football game coast to coast on ABC; and the first to serve as live sports anchor from the Olympics, in Mexico City in 1968.

His career highlights included calling gymnast Nadia Comaneci's perfect 10 at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, and calling the 1958 NFL championship game between the Baltimore Colts and New York Giants.

He was also the longtime voice of the Professional Bowlers Association, entertaining a generation of viewers with his Saturday afternoon broadcasts.

George Bodenheimer, the president of ESPN, Inc. and ABC Sports, called Schenkel a pioneering sportscaster and a "true gentleman."

"Everyone at ABC and ESPN mourns the loss of a great friend and colleague. Chris was a pioneer in sports television and was the pre-eminent play-by-play announcer to a generation of sports fans," Bodenheimer said in a statement. "More importantly, he was a true gentleman, beloved by all. He treated everyone with respect and friendship."

Schenkel was born Aug. 21, 1923, on his parents' farm in Bippus, Ind., one of six children. His parents, second generation German immigrants, managed a grain and feed business.

He attended Purdue University and fought in the Philippines during World War II and later in Korea, as an infantry platoon leader. He returned home to find a radio job in Richmond, Ind., before moving into television in Providence, R.I.

In 1947, he assumed TV play-by-play duties for Harvard University football. Schenkel was hired by CBS in 1952 and began a 13-year run as the television voice of the New York Giants that included calling the 1958 NFL championship game with Chuck Thompson. He joined ABC Sports in 1965.

Schenkel also had a long association with the Indianapolis 500. During the 1971 race, Schenkel, astronaut John Glenn and Tony Hulman, the late owner of Indianapolis Motor Speedway, were passengers in the Dodge Challenger pace car when it skidded into a bleacher full of photographers.

Twenty-two people were injured, including Schenkel.

Schenkel was inducted into 16 halls of fame, including the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters and College and Pro Football halls, and he won an Emmy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1993.

During the past couple of years, Fran Schenkel said her husband received numerous letters from soldiers serving in Iraq whom she said apparently had seen some of his film appearances. Aside from his work on sports documentaries, Schenkel portrayed himself in several films, including the 1996 comedy "Kingpin."

"They must have been showing a lot of his films in Iraq. We got a lot of mail from the soldiers over there. They'd ask for a picture and we'd send them and write back to the boys," Fran Schenkel said. "He felt very good about it."

In addition to his wife, Schenkel is survived by sons Ted and John, daughter Tina and several grandchildren.



Marysafan
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Oh wow. I loved Chris Schenkel. He was such a huge part of my life as I was such a sports junkie. I always remember his PBA bowling commentaries, and of course the Olympics.

Herckleperckle
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Mao Tse-Tung, 82
NYTimes 09-09-2005
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HONG KONG, Sept. 9--Mao Tse-tung, who began as an obscure peasant, died one of history's great revolutionary figures.

Born at a time when China was wracked by civil strife, beset with terrible poverty and encroached on by more advanced foreign powers, he lived to fulfill his boyhood dream of restoring it to its traditional place as a great nation. In Chinese terms, he ranked with Chin Shih-huang, the first Emperor, who unified China in 221 B.C., and was the man Chairman Mao most liked to compare himself to.

With incredible perseverance and consummately conceived strategy, he harnessed the forces of agrarian discontent and nationalism to turn a tiny band of peasants into an army of millions, which he led to victory throughout China in 1949 after 20 years of fighting. Along the way the army fought battles as big as Stalingrad and suffered through a heroic march as long as Alexander's.

Then, after establishing the Chinese People's Republic, Mao launched a series of sweeping, sometimes convulsive campaigns to transform a semifeudal, largely illiterate and predominantly agricultural country encompassing almost four million square miles and a fifth of the world's population into a modern, industrialized socialist state. By the time of his death China had manufactured its own nuclear bombs and guided missiles and had become a major oil producer.

With China's resurgence, Mao also charted a new course in foreign affairs, putting an end to a century of humiliation under the "unequal treaties" imposed by the West and winning new recognition and respect. Finally, in 1972, even the United States abandoned its 20 years of implacable hostility when President Richard M. Nixon journeyed to Peking, where he was received by a smiling Mao.

At the same time he brooked no opposition to his control. To consolidate his new regime in the early 50's he launched a campaign in which hundreds of thousands were executed. In the late 50's, despite criticism from other party leaders, he ordered the Great Leap Forward, ultimately causing widespread disruption and food shortages. Throughout his years in power he toppled one of his rivals after another in the party. In the Cultural Revolution he risked throwing the country into chaos.

While China achieved enormous economic progress under Mao, some critics felt his constant political campaigns and his emphasis on conformity finally reduced many Chinese to a dispirited, anxious mass ready to go along with the latest shift in the political wind.

Ophiliasgrandma
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Huh, he died in 1976.