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Sherbabe
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07-28-2002

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Good to know. I always thought there were.

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

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I will miss Maureen. She was a good actress. As for the host of Press Your Luck, he will be missed also!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oldtex
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03-06-2006

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Saw a commercial that Game Show Network will be doing a marathon of Press Your Luck, but missed when it's going to air. Will try to catch when next time I see to commercial.

It's so sad about the Tomarken's, they must have very carying people and we need so many more of their kind.

Native_texan
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08-24-2004

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Oldtex, I think the marathon is on Saturday.

Max
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08-12-2000

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Fashion Designer Oleg Cassini Dies at 92

Oleg Cassini, who designed the dresses that helped make Jacqueline Kennedy the most glamorous first lady in history, died Friday. He was 92.

Cassini died on Long Island, said Senada Ivackovic, marketing director for Oleg Cassini Inc. The cause of death was not immediately known.

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

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I liked some of his designs!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He will be missed!!!!!!!!!!

Sherbabe
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07-28-2002

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Buck Owens, country music legend, and co-star of the Hee Haw Tv show has passed away.

Max
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08-12-2000

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:-( Buck Owens was one of the first "big stars" I remember coming to our small-town County Fair. A contry music legend, definitely.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

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I remember singing to Buck Owens' songs when I was little. We used to love Tiger By The Tail.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

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Updated: 05:01 PM EST
'Hee Haw' Co-Host Buck Owens, 76, Dies
By GREG RISLING, AP

LOS ANGELES (March 25) - Singer Buck Owens, the flashy rhinestone cowboy who shaped the sound of country music with hits like "Act Naturally" and brought the genre to TV on the long-running "Hee Haw," died Saturday. He was 76.
Owens died at his home in Bakersfield, said family spokesman Jim Shaw. The cause of death was not immediately known. Owens had undergone throat cancer surgery in 1993 and was hospitalized with pneumonia in 1997.

His career was one of the most phenomenal in country music, with a string of more than 20 No. 1 records, most released from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s.

They were recorded with a honky-tonk twang that came to be known throughout California as the "Bakersfield Sound," named for the town 100 miles north of Los Angeles that Owens called home.

"I think the reason he was so well known and respected by a younger generation of country musicians was because he was an innovator and rebel," said Shaw, who played keyboards in Owens' band, the Buckaroos. "He did it out of the Nashville establishment. He had a raw edge."

Owens, elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996, was modest when describing his aspirations.

"I'd like to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs and had a hell of a time," he said in 1992.

An indefatigable performer, Owens played a red, white and blue guitar with fireball fervor. He and the Buckaroos wore flashy rhinestone suits in an era when flash was as important to country music as fiddles.

Among his biggest hits were "Together Again" (also recorded by Emmylou Harris), "I've Got a Tiger by the Tail," "Love's Gonna Live Here," "My Heart Skips a Beat" and "Waitin' in Your Welfare Line."


And he was the answer to this music trivia question: What country star had a hit record that was later done by the Beatles?

"Those guys were phenomenal," Owens once said.

Ringo Starr recorded "Act Naturally" twice, singing lead on the Beatles' 1965 version and recording it as a duet with Owens in 1989. The song, by Johnny Russell and Voni Morrison, tells of a poor soul who foresees a movie career playing "a man who's sad and lonely, and all I gotta do is act naturally. ... Might win an Oscar, you can never tell."

In addition to music, Owens had a highly visible TV career as co-host of "Hee Haw" from 1969 to 1986. With guitarist Roy Clark, he led viewers through a potpourri of country music and hayseed humor.

"It's an honest show," Owens told The Associated Press in 1995. "There's no social message - no crusade. It's fun and simple."

Owens himself could be rebellious, choosing among other things to label what he did "American music" rather than country.

"I took a little heat," he once said. "People asked me, 'Isn't country music good enough for you?'"

He also criticized the syrupy arrangements of some country singers, saying "assembly-line, robot music turns me off."


After his string of hits, Owens stayed away from the recording scene for a decade, returning in 1988 to record another No. 1 record, "Streets of Bakersfield," with Dwight Yoakam.


He spent much of his time away concentrating on his business interests, which included a Bakersfield TV station and radio stations in Bakersfield and Phoenix.


"I never wanted to hang around like the punch-drunk fighter," he told The Associated Press in 1992.


He had moved to Bakersfield in 1951, hoping to find work in the thriving juke joints of what in the years before suburban sprawl was a truck-stop town on Highway 99, between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area.


"We played rhumbas and tangos and sambas, and we played Bob Wills music, lots of Bob Wills music," he said, referring to the bandleader who was the king of Western swing.


"And lots of rock 'n' roll," he added.


Owens started recording in the mid-1950s, but gained little success until 1963 with "Act Naturally," his first No. 1 single.


Alvis Edgar Owens Jr. was born in 1929 outside Sherman, Texas, the son of a sharecropper. With opportunities scarce during the Depression, the family moved to Arizona when he was 8.


He dropped out of school at age 13 to haul produce and harvest crops, and by 16 he was playing music in taverns.


He once told an audience, "When I was a little bitty kid, I used to dream about playing the guitar and singing like some of those great people that we had the old, thick records of."


Owens' first wife, Bonnie Owens, sometimes performed with him and went on to become a leading backup singer after their divorce in 1955. She had occasional solo hits in the '60s, as well as successful duets with her second husband, Merle Haggard.


One of her two sons with Owens also became a singer, using the name Buddy Alan. He had a Top 10 hit in 1968, "Let the World Keep on a-Turnin'," and recorded a number of duets with his father.


In addition to Buddy, he is survived by two other sons, Michael and John.

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

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Director Richard Fleischer Dies at 89

Director Richard Fleischer, a prolific filmmaker who helmed such movies as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Fantastic Voyage, and Soylent Green, died Saturday of natural causes in Los Angeles; he was 89. The son of pioneering animator Max Fleischer (one of the men behind famed characters Betty Boop and Popeye), Richard joined RKO's New York branch in the early 40s as a writer and producer for the studio's Flicker Flashbacks series and won an Oscar for the documentary Design for Death. By the end of the decade was ensconced in Hollywood, directing a number of low-budget noir thrillers, one of his most famous being the train-set The Narrow Margin, one of the first films to use a handheld camera and filmed in only 13 days; it was later remade in the 90s. In 1954, Fleischer got his big break courtesy of Walt Disney (his father's rival), who tapped him to direct the big-screen adaptation of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea starring Kirk Douglas and James Mason. Disney's first entire live-action movie made in the United States, it became one of the studio's most famous and well-known films, inspiring attractions at Disney's theme parks that utilized versions of the Nautilus submarine and the famed battle with a giant squid. Fleischer's career was marked by forays into numerous genres, with some of his more notable movies being The Vikings (1958), Fantastic Voyage (1966), The Boston Strangler (1968), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Soylent Green (1973), and the Neil Diamond version of The Jazz Singer (1980). He also directed some of Hollywood's most well-known flops, including the Oscar-nominated musical Doctor Dolittle, the biopic Che! and the slave drama Mandingo. Throughout the 80s, Fleischer worked on a number of modern-day B movies, including cult faves Conan the Destroyer (starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Grace Jones) and Red Sonja. He is survived by his wife, Mary, three children and five grandchildren. --Prepared by IMDb staff

Darrellh
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LONDON (Reuters) - American singer Gene Pitney, who shot to fame in the 1960s with hits including "24 hours from Tulsa," has died while on tour in Britain, his agent said on Wednesday.

Jene Levy said Pitney, 65, died on Wednesday morning in the Welsh capital Cardiff where he had given a concert the day before.

There was no immediate word on the cause of death.
South Wales police said they had been called to a hotel at 0850 GMT on Wednesday morning and that the death was not being treated as suspicious.

His agent said his wife, Lynne, had been told of his death. Pitney also left three sons, David, Todd, and Chris.

Tour manager James Kelly was with Pitney on Tuesday night and said he was stunned by the singer's death.

"I've never seen him so well, he said. "He was absolutely buzzing and full of life."

He said Pitney had been found fully clothed on his hotel bed as if he had just lain down for a rest after the show.

Born on February 17, 1941 in Hartford, Connecticut, Pitney initially had no real ambition to be a singer. According to his official Web site, as a boy he was more at home collecting stamps and coins, trapping mink and muskrat and experimenting with electronics.

But music gradually began to take over his life and he formed a band while a student at Rockville High School.

After high school, Pitney teamed up with singer Ginny Arnell and recorded for Decca as Jamie & June.

His initial successes came when other musicians recorded his songs and he concentrated on writing rather than performing.

Roy Orbison released "Today's teardrops" as the B-side of his hit single "Blue Angel" in 1960, while "Rubber Ball" became a million-seller hit for American artist Bobby Vee and Britain's Marty Wilde.

Pitney then began to record his own songs, scoring his first American top 20 hit with the title song from the movie "Town without pity."

Another movie theme, "The man who shot Liberty Valance" gave him another hit but it was the 1963 release of "24 hours from Tulsa" that brought him worldwide fame.

Pitney had 16 top 40 songs in the United States from 1961 to 1968, and he had 40 hit songs in Britain up to 1974.

He enjoyed a revival in Britain in 1990 when his duet with Marc Almond "Something's gotten hold of my heart" reached number one.

Vee
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02-23-2004

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I am sorry to read this news...

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Cablejockey
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12-27-2001

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I am shocked. I was just reading about him on a music site yesterday, thinking how long his career has been, and great it was that he was still out there touring. It sounds like he went quickly and unexpectantly. link

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

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Thanks for the picture, Vee. I knew already, but only from Darrell's note to me. Came here to see if there was an article. So thanks much, too, Cable. (What memories I have of his songs as a teen! Only Love Can Break A Heat, Town Without Pity, and on and on--including the song recorded by the Crystals that Darrell shared--He's a Rebel).

Max
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08-12-2000

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'Baby Jane' writer dead at 85
Henry Farrell also wrote 'Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte'

Wednesday, April 5, 2006; Posted: 1:01 p.m. EDT (17:01 GMT)
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Henry Farrell, author of "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" and other melodramatic thrillers that spurred a genre of psychological horror movies featuring female protagonists, has died. He was 85.

Farrell died March 29 after a long illness at his home in Pacific Palisades, longtime friend Mary Bishop said.

Marysafan
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08-07-2000

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So sorry to hear about Gene Pitney. He was a favorite of mine. When I was in the eighth grade, my mother bought a "Hi-Fi". It was a piece of furniture...blond none-the-less. Then she joined the Columbia House record club. She let me pick a selection and I picked a Gene Pitney Album. The cover was bright red with a heart-shaped picture of Gene in the middle. I loved that album.

I played it over and over and over until I could lip sinc the entire thing. I can still hear..."The man who shot Liberty Valance...boom...(that's the part where I shape my hand like a gun and pretend to shoot)...He shot Liberty Valance....He was the bravest of them all."

When I was in high school, Gene Pitney was coming to our area for a concert. It was the hottest day of the summer probably the hottest day of the decade, over a hundred degrees (that's hot and highly unusual for the UP of Michigan). My family was going to spend the day at Champion Beach and begged me to go with them, but I wouldn't miss the concert. I remember telling Mom that if it was anyone else but Gene Pitney, I would go.

Well, at that time unbeknownst to us commonfolk, Gene was in the throws of a deep problem with alcohol. The concert was cancelled at the last minute without any explanation. I was angry with him for a long, long time.

I am glad that he had gotten his life back together and realized success. I didn't know that he wrote "Hello, Mary Lou". I had been holding Ricky Nelson responsible for that embarrassment all my life. The teasing I endured! But now that they are both gone, and truly missed, I forgive them.

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

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this probably belongs in the 'hollywood gossip' area, but i thought you should all know of his passing:

The Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of a yeast infection and complications from repeated pokes in the belly. He was 71.

Doughboy was buried in a lightly greased coffin. Dozens of celebrities turned out to pay their respects, including Mrs. Butterworth, Hungry Jack, the California Raisins. Betty Crocker, and Captain Crunch. The grave site was piled high with flours. Aunt Jemima delivered the eulogy and lovingly described Doughboy as a man who never knew how much he was kneaded. Doughboy rose quickly in show business, but his later life was filled with turnovers. He was not considered a very smart cookie, wasting much of his dough on half-baked schemes. Despite being a little flaky at times, he was still a crusty old man and was considered a roll model for millions.

Doughboy is survived by his wife Play Dough, and two children, John Dough and Jane Dough, plus they had a bun in the oven. He is also survived by his elderly dad, Pop Tart, and an estranged brother on the west coast, Sour Dough. The funeral was held at 3:50 for about 20 minutes.
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i just wanted to add a little levity to an otherwise thread of sadness. we have lost way too much talent recently...

Happymom
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Thanks Tabby.

(I haven't thought of the CA raisins in a long time.)

Sherbabe
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07-28-2002

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Proof, an Eminem protégé and member of the Detroit rap outfit D12, was shot to death early Tuesday at a nightclub along Eight Mile Road.

"Memorial service arrangements are still being made, and his friends and family would appreciate privacy during this difficult time," said Dennis Dennehy, the publicist for D12 at Interscope Records.

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According to a spokeswoman for the Detroit police, the 32-year-old Proof, whose real name was Deshaun Holton, was shot in the head after a fight erupted around 5 a.m. at C.C.C., a bar in a Eight Mile Road strip on Detroit's northern edge. The rapper was rushed to Holy Cross Hospital in a private vehicle, but was pronounced dead on arrival.

Dennehy added that, contrary to some early reports, another member of D12, Bizarre, was not involved in the shooting and was at home in Atlanta at the time.

Authorities said a 35-year-old man was also shot in the head and was listed in critical condition at St. John's Hospital, but his identity has been withheld.

Police say an investigation is underway and no suspects have been named.

His death comes four months after another member of Eminem's entourage, Obie Trice, suffered minor gunshot wounds after coming under fire on Detroit's Lodge Freeway on New Year's Eve.

Proof, who sometimes went by Big Proof, was considered a mainstay in Detroit's hip-hop scene. Last August, he released his solo debut, Searching for Jerry Garcia. He recorded two albums with D12, 2001's Devil's Night and 2004's D12 World, both of which topped the charts. The group, which also includes Eminem, was expected to head into the studio later this month and begin work on its third album.

Proof also served as Eminem's best man in January, when he swapped vows again with high school sweetheart, Kim Mathers. The rappers were good friends, with Proof also appearing in Slim Shady's blockbuster semiautobiographical film, 8 Mile, as Li'l Tic, the wordsmith who smacked down Em in an early rap battle.

And in a tragic coincidence, Proof played a murder victim in the Eminem video "Like Toy Soldiers," with Eminem and members of D12 attending his funeral.

Speaking to the hip-hop Website SOHH.com last summer to promote his album, Proof tried to distance himself from the violence in his lyrics.

"I feel that when you're put in a position of power to reach back to people who are in the streets still trying to make it that you try to make sure that people aren't beefing," he said. We're trying to have peace in the streets."

The Q&A ended with a question about what he hopes fans remember about him "when all is said and done."

"I'd want them to say that I'm a true artist," he said. "That as far as being who I am and expressing what it is that makes up me, that I did it the best and that I stay trued to the hip-hop roots.

"If I were to take my bow--which I never hope to do, I think I can rap forever--then I'd want people to understand that I did this for the love."

Deedee
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June Pointer, the youngest of the Pointer Sisters -- known for the '70s and '80s hits "I'm So Excited," "Fire" and "Slow Hand" -- has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday. She was 52.

Pointer died Tuesday at Santa Monica University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center, the family said in a statement. She had been hospitalized since late February. The type of cancer wasn't disclosed.

She died "in the arms of her sisters, Ruth and Anita and her brothers, Aaron and Fritz, by her side," the statement said.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

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I was just reading about June on yahoo. So sad, I loved the Pointer Sisters.

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

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So young ... very sad.

Max
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08-12-2000

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Wow. :-( I remember seeing the Pointer Sisters perform when I was in college. It was the heyday of their music and they put on a fantastic show. This is very sad.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

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I just heard about June on the radio. Very sad.