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Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, January 20, 2006 - 6:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I always liked him.

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

Friday, January 20, 2006 - 7:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chaplin a private message Print Post    
Me too and also Wilson Pickett. Such a loss!!!!!!!!!!

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Friday, January 20, 2006 - 10:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
how strange that tony and shelley went only a week or so apart. i guess maybe they are together again.

Cablejockey
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12-27-2001

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I too was thinking about him when I read that Shelley had died. From her biography, I read that she was very in love with him, and regretted it not working out. I wondered about what happened to him, he hasnt been in anything for years and his career had wound down by the 80s. So how weird it is that he and Shelley died within a week of each other.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 8:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Tony had a hard time getting along with directors and other actors on set. He sabotaged his own career from what I read in the morning paper.

Cablejockey
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12-27-2001

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I just remembered one of my favorite movies he was in with Jane Fonda--Period of Adjustment. You dont see it on tv anymore, but it was pretty funny.

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 2:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
Wasn't he in a tv series, too?

Cablejockey
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12-27-2001

Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 2:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cablejockey a private message Print Post    
He was in a few. The most successful one was The Name of the Game. Robert Stack was in it too.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062591/

Darrellh
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07-21-2004

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 9:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Darrellh a private message Print Post    
Chris Penn has passed away. He was 43. He was in Footloose. His brother is Sean Penn.

Max
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08-12-2000

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Actor Chris Penn found dead
No signs of foul play, police say

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Actor Chris Penn, brother of Sean Penn, was found dead Tuesday at a condominium near the beach in Santa Monica, police said.

Police said they discovered the 40-year-old actor's body around 4 p.m. Lt. Frank Fabrega said there were no obvious signs of foul play.

Sean Penn's publicist, Mara Buxbaum, issued a statement saying that "the Penn family would appreciate the media's respect of their privacy during this difficult time."

Chris Penn's body was found inside the four-story condominium complex after police were called by someone from within the building, Fabrega said.

An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death, authorities said.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 5:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
I don't know why, but this one made me suck all the oxygen out of the room. I was always kind of rooting for Chris Penn (mostly because he avoided the public ass-hattery his brother seems to enjoy). Also he made a nice career for himself without having leading-man looks.

Oh, and although Sean Penn whizzes me off, he has always seemed a good friend. I remember him putting in yeoman's service trying to save Robert Downey from himself. I hope that Chris was not similarly afflicted and that he truly died of natural causes. Tragic any way you look at it, though.

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 5:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
What sad news! And so young! I loved Chris in "Footloose". I'm sorry to hear that he's gone.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 6:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
That's tough news. It's a sad loss.

Native_texan
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08-24-2004

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 6:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Native_texan a private message Print Post    
When I think of Chris Penn, I automatically think of the montage in Footloose when Kevin Bacon is teaching him to dance. I preferred him over Sean any day and it was upsetting this morning to see the crawler read something like "Brother of Sean Penn found dead in home. Chris Penn was 40." It was like no one would know who he was and it was only newsworthy because of Sean.

Konamouse
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 7:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Konamouse a private message Print Post    
Yahoo News Story

I wonder if he just didn't have a heart attack. He appeared to have a weight problem. I wonder if he was also a smoker. Only 43 years old.



Mameblanche
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04-13-2005

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 8:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
ITA Konamouse, I had those same thoughts about causes. I'm also a non-fan of Sean. Seems as cuddly as a porcupine. Chris seemed more approachable. Sad news.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 10:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
It's a shame. He was so young. I think it's sad that he has to be catagorized as Sean Penn's brother. He did films in his own right. I was watching Queer Eye for the Straight Guy last night and they had Michael Bacon on and they talked a bit about being called Kevin Bacon's brother. But Kevin was saying that he was Michael's brother. He really adored his big brother.

Max
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08-12-2000

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 2:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Max a private message Print Post    
Fayard Nicholas, of dancing duo, dead

Wednesday, January 25, 2006; Posted: 1:09 p.m. EST (18:09 GMT)

Fayard Nicholas, along with his brother Harold, was renowned for his dancing prowess.

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Fayard Nicholas, who with his brother Harold wowed the tap dancing world with their astonishing athleticism and inspired generations of dancers, from Fred Astaire to Savion Glover, has died. He was 91.

Nicholas died Tuesday at his home from pneumonia and other complications of a stroke, his son Tony Nicholas said.

"My dad put Heaven on hold and now they can begin the show," the younger Nicholas said Wednesday.

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 3:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
"My dad put Heaven on hold and now they can begin the show,"

Love the quote!!! I remember the Nicholas Brothers from The Cotton Club.

Max
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08-12-2000

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 3:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Max a private message Print Post    
Yeah, I liked that quote, too. :-)

Mameblanche
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04-13-2005

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 9:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Sad. :-(

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 12:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
wow, how sad. chris penn was found dead yesterday. he was only 40....
it's so hard to be only able to come on line once a day or so with this darn dial-up! i miss all the news, both good and sad.

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

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That was sad about Chris Penn and also Fayard Nicholas. I am not really a Sean Penn fan either as I remember how bad he treated Madonna and other women however, he deserves the recent acting accolades he has gotten in his career and he seems to have cleaned up his act. I was not as aware of Chris Penn's acting career.

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 5:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
Philly Soulman Gene McFadden, 56, died Friday of cancer. He was best known for co-writing and singing the 1979 hit "Ain't No Stopping Us Now".


hollywoodreporter.com

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Monday, January 30, 2006 - 3:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
Playwright Wendy Wasserstein dies at 55
Authored such enduring works as ‘Sisters Rosensweig,’ ‘Heidi Chronicles’ link


Playwright Wendy Wasserstein, who chronicled the feminist struggles and successes of the baby-boomer generation in such wryly observant works as “The Heidi Chronicles” and “The Sisters Rosensweig,” has died of lymphoma at the age of 55.

Wasserstein died Monday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, said Andre Bishop, header of Lincoln Center Theater and Wasserstein’s close friend and mentor. She had been ill for several months.

Broadway theaters will dim their lights Tuesday in honor of Wasserstein.

“Wendy had a voice like no other and a great sense of the absurd,” said Swoosie Kurtz, who appeared in “Uncommon Women and Others,” Wasserstein’s first stage success. “She could take something that was sad or somber in life, wrap her words around it and somehow make it light and not so disturbing.”

Wasserstein’s writing was known for its sharp, often comedic look about what women had to do to succeed in a world dominated by men.

“She was an extraordinary human being whose work and whose life were extremely intertwined,” said Bishop, who produced most of her works, first at Playwrights Horizons and later at Lincoln Center Theater. “She was not unlike the heroines of most of her plays — a strong-minded, independent, serious good person who happened to have a wicked sense of humor.”

Wasserstein found her greatest popular success with “The Heidi Chronicles,” which won the best-play Tony as well as the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1989. Its insecure title character (played by Joan Allen) takes a 20-year journey beginning in the late 1960s and changes her attitudes about herself, men and other women. Equally popular was “The Sisters Rosensweig,” which moved from Lincoln Center to Broadway in 1993, and concerned three siblings who find strength in themselves and in each other.[...]