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Ladytex
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09-27-2001

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RIP June ... we'll miss ya ...

Pamy
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01-02-2002

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very sad she was so young

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

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Jump for My Love
Slow Hand
I'm So Excited

june pointerjp



JUNE POINTER, the youngest of the POINTER SISTERS, lost her battle with cancer yesterday (11APR06) in Los Angeles. She was 52.

According to a statement, the JUMP (FOR MY LOVE) singer died surrounded by her sisters, RUTH and ANITA, and her brothers, AARON and FRITZ. Pointer had been hospitalized in Santa Monica, California since February (06).

June and her three sisters scored a number of hits in the late 1970s and 1980s after growing up singing in the choir of an Oakland, California church where their parents were ministers. After singing back-up vocals for acts like TAJ MAHAL and BOZ SCAGGS, the family group went it alone and released a self-titled debut album in 1973. They went on to pick up a Grammy Award in 1974 for Best Country Vocal (FAIRYTALE), but they really found their niche in the post-disco world, recording smooth tunes like SLOW HAND and dancefloor fillers such as I'M SO EXCITED. June Pointer left the group in the mid-1980s after tasting solo success with her solo debut album BABY SISTER in 1983. She also sang back-up to BRUCE WILLIS on the actor's 1987 RESPECT YOURSELF hit.

ruth anita bonnie and june

Ruth, Anita, Bonnie and June


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June appeared with Eugene Barry-Hill and sisters Ruth and Anita
in the 1996 Broadway musical tour of Ain't Misbehavin'


I loved the Pointer Sisters--their voices, their individuality and their beauty. They were a dynamite act.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

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Aww, I hadn't heard about June.. 52 years.. way too young and a loss of a talented woman, too.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

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For the Folkies out there:

td

Dear Friends,

Our longtime friend and fellow wandering minstrel TOM DUNDEE has passed away. On Saturday April 15th, Tom suffered serious injuries in a motorcycle accident in Chicago. He was in intensive care for three days before being taken off life support.
We are shocked and deeply saddened by the loss of our wonderful talented friend who was taken so suddenly. The entire folk music and songwriting community mourns his passing.
Through our tears and grieving hearts we shall find solace in his songs and stories, his humor and compassion and his humanity and wisdom.
May he forever sing with the angels and dance with the stars

“and it’s all such a delicate balance
takes away just as much as it gives
and to live it is real
to love it is to feel
you’re a part of what everything is”

Tom Dundee
Delicate Balance

This came in email from the team of Reilly and Maloney (Ginny Reilly and Dave Maloney)

Texannie
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07-16-2001

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Galbraith, economist, teacher and diplomat, dead at 97
Noted Harvard professor was often consulted by national leaders


By BARRY STAVRO
Los Angeles Times

John Kenneth Galbraith, the Harvard professor who won worldwide renown as a liberal economist, backstage politician and witty chronicler of affluent society, died Saturday night, his son said. He was 97.

Galbraith died of natural causes at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass., according to his son, Alan Galbraith.

Galbraith's fame was cemented with the 1958 publication of The Affluent Society, a phrase that soon worked its way into our language, and The New Industrial State, a follow-up work published in 1967. His books appeared at a time when America was without peer as an economic power.

Galbraith, an esteemed Harvard University professor, argued that the free-market economy was a myth. Giant corporations essentially operated free of competition, he said, often turning out frivolous goods for an ever increasingly consumer-minded society, while the capitalistic economy ignored more pressing social needs.

"Americans still have an extraordinary capacity to ignore poverty," Galbraith told an interviewer in 1983.

The Affluent Society was translated into a dozen languages and sold more than 1 million copies. It also helped influence a surge of federal spending on social programs in the 1960s, in what came to be known as "The Great Society" during Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency.

Galbraith was a man of varied talents. He also worked as a journalist, and served various roles in four Democratic administrations, including deputy administrator of the Office of Price Administration for President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, and as ambassador to India during the Kennedy administration.

He wrote more than 30 books — fiction, on Indian art and a volume on his Scottish family history — but his celebrity was earned from his works on politics and economics. His books were marked by a caustic wit and elegant prose that turned arcane economic theories into readily understood ideas.

Galbraith retired from Harvard University in 1975 but he remained widely sought out despite his theories having fallen somewhat from favor. Economist Adam Smith wrote, "Mr. Galbraith may sometimes be hard to take, but he is still worth taking."

For many, Galbraith — who was 6 feet, 8 inches tall —literally and figuratively towered over his contemporaries. But more than three dozen Americans have won the Nobel Prize for Economics since 1969, and Galbraith was not among them.

Throughout his life Galbraith remained a wary observer of Wall Street. After the October 1987 stock market crash, when the Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 22 percent in a single day, Galbraith drew comparisons with the epic stock market crash of 1929. "I'm inclined to think that fools and their money will always be separated," he said.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/nation/3829941.html

Dipo
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04-23-2002

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I just heard on the news that Tiger Woods father had died. So sad, he was only 74.

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

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By Tiger Woods

I’m very saddened to share the news of my father’s passing at home early this morning. My dad was my best friend and greatest role model, and I will miss him deeply. I’m overwhelmed when I think of all of the great things he accomplished in his life. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend. I wouldn’t be where I am today without him, and I’m honored to continue his legacy of sharing and caring. Thank you to all who are sending condolences to my family and our Foundation. We are truly blessed to have so many who care during this difficult time.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

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Oh no that is so sad.

Tigerfan
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11-06-2003

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This one hit me pretty hard...

Earl Woods was a great man and an even better father. I've met them both and seen them interact with each other, and it's true, Earl was definately Tiger's best friend. Our thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family during this most difficult time.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

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They were very close and my heart goes out to him.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

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I just read that he had prostate cancer in '98 and then it came back in '04 and spread throughout his body. He's in a much better place now.

Wink
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10-06-2000

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Tiger has had many blessings in his life and his dad was one of them. He was a very special man. May he rest in peace.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

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http://sports.myway.com/news/05032006/v3122.html

ew

I'm also touched that Mark O'Meeara and another close golfer friend withdrew from this week's tournament and flew to California to help support Tiger.

They had a wonderful relationship.

Grannyg
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05-28-2002

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Very very sad but Mocha is right, he is in a much better place.

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

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Yup. My Dad died of Prostate Cancer in 2001 and the Anniversary of his death is May 12th so I was hit hard by the passing of Tiger Wood's Father.

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

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how sad for tiger and his family. i was surprised at how old his father was only because it meant he was in his 40's when tiger was born.
they had a great and close and loving relationship and i'll bet if/when tiger has kids, he will be just the same with them. the legacy will live on.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

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In a way he already has kids.. he and Earl started the Tiger Woods foundation and have been doing extensive work with kids here locally at the Tiger Woods Learning Center in Anaheim. So, I'm sure he'll be a really good Daddy when the time comes. Heck, at one tournament in Florida, he and Elin brought their yacht because she got him a puppy and their hotel didn't take dogs. So, they are practicing.

Max
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08-12-2000

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Former Boxer Floyd Patterson Dies at 71

Floyd Patterson was small for a heavyweight, but that never stopped him from taking on the giants of his time. Good enough to become the first two-time heavyweight champion of the world, he wasn't big enough to avoid taking beatings from Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston.

Patterson died Thursday at his home in New Paltz, N.Y., at the age of 71. He had Alzheimer's disease for about eight years and prostate cancer, nephew Sherman Patterson said.

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

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May 5
Source: Our Daily Dead

Harold “Bunny” Levitt has died at age 96. Levitt was the famed free-throw shooter of the all-black Harlem Globetrotters. Between quarters of basketball games, the Globetrotters challenged any member of the audience to beat Bunny in a free-throw contest. Anyone beating Bunny won $1,000. The Globetrotters never paid a dime. In 1935 he made 499 consecutive free-throws. Oh, and one other thing, Bunny was 5 feet 4 inches and white.

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

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May 3
Source: Our Daily Dead

For those of you whose Friday night routine somewhere in the period of 1970 to 2002 consisted of watching Louis Rukeyser on Wall Street Week, (can there be any better indication of either being married or otherwise needing a life than watching PBS on Friday nights?), Rukeyser is dead at age 73. The cause of death was multiple myeloma, a.k.a. cancer of the bone marrow.

”Good evening. I’m Louis Rukeyser and this is ‘Wall Street Week.’ Welcome back.”
Rukeyser’s opening line on every show.

Max
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08-12-2000

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Heatwave founder Wilder dead at 56

Band scored 1976's 'Always and Forever,' 'Boogie Nights'

CLAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- Johnnie Wilder Jr., the soulful lead singer of the R&B band Heatwave who continued singing after being paralyzed in a car accident, died Saturday, his daughter said Tuesday. He was 56.

Darrellh
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07-21-2004

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060517/ap_en_tv/obit_clarabell


NEW YORK - Lew Anderson, who captivated young baby boomers as the Howdy Doody Show's final Clarabell the Clown, has died at the age of 84.

The musician and actor died Sunday in Hawthorne of complications of prostate cancer, said his son, Christopher Anderson.

Long mute as Clarabell, Anderson broke the clown's silence in the show's final episode in 1960. With trembling lips and a visible tear in his eye, he spoke the show's final words: "Goodbye, kids."

Though Anderson was not the only man to play "Buffalo Bob" Smith's mute sidekick, he was the best, Smith said in his memoir.

Darrellh
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07-21-2004

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060517/ap_en_tv/obit_thomas


LOS ANGELES - Frankie Thomas, who became famous in the 1950s for his starring role in the TV children's show "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet," has died. He was 85.

Thomas died Thursday of respiratory failure at Sherman Oaks Hospital, said his stepdaughter, Julie Alexander.

Thomas began acting on Broadway in the early 1930s and soon ventured west to Hollywood, where he appeared in films including "A Dog of Flanders," "Boys Town" and "The Major and the Minor," as well as four Nancy Drew movies.

In 1950, he beat out actors including Jack Lemmon to win the title role of Tom Corbett, a Space Academy cadet who was training to become a member of the elite Solar Guard, 400 years in the future.

Darrellh
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07-21-2004

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Dancer Katherine Dunham Dies at Age 96 By SAMANTHA GROSS, Associated Press Writer
Mon May 22, 1:19 AM ET



NEW YORK - Katherine Dunham, a pioneering dancer and choreographer, author and civil rights activist who left Broadway to teach culture in one of America's poorest cities, has died. She was 96.

Dunham died Sunday at the Manhattan assisted living facility where she lived, said Charlotte Ottley, executive liaison for the organization that preserves her artistic estate. The cause of death was not immediately known.

Dunham was perhaps best known for bringing African and Caribbean influences to the European-dominated dance world. In the late 1930s, she established the nation's first self-supporting all-black modern dance group.

"We weren't pushing `Black is Beautiful,' we just showed it," she later wrote.

During her career, Dunham choreographed "Aida" for the Metropolitan Opera and musicals such as "Cabin in the Sky" for Broadway. She also appeared in several films, including "Stormy Weather" and "Carnival of Rhythm."

Her dance company toured internationally from the 1940s to the '60s, visiting 57 nations on six continents. Her success was won in the face of widespread discrimination, a struggle Dunham championed by refusing to perform at segregated theaters.

For her endeavors, Dunham received 10 honorary doctorates, the Presidential Medal of the Arts, the Albert Schweitzer Prize at the Kennedy Center Honors, and membership in the French Legion of Honor, as well as major honors from Brazil and Haiti.

"She is one of the very small handful of the most important people in the dance world of the 20th century," said Bonnie Brooks, chairman of the dance department at Columbia College in Chicago. "And that's not even mentioning her work in civil rights, anthropological research and for humanity in general."

After 1967, Dunham lived most of each year in predominantly black East St. Louis, Ill., where she struggled to bring the arts to a Mississippi River city of burned-out buildings and high crime.

She set up an eclectic compound of artists from around the globe, including Harry Belafonte. Among the free classes offered were dance, African hair-braiding and woodcarving, conversational Creole, Spanish, French and Swahili and more traditional subjects such as aesthetics and social science.

Dunham also offered martial arts training in hopes of getting young, angry males off the street. Her purpose, she said, was to steer the residents of East St. Louis "into something more constructive than genocide."

Government cuts and a lack of private funding forced her to scale back her programs in the 1980s. Despite a constant battle to pay bills, Dunham continued to operate a children's dance workshop and a museum.

Plagued by arthritis and poverty in the latter part of her life, Dunham made headlines in 1992 when she went on a 47-day hunger strike to protest U.S. policy that repatriated Haitian refugees.

"It's embarrassing to be an American," Dunham said at the time.

Dunham's New York studio attracted illustrious students like Marlon Brando and James Dean who came to learn the "Dunham Technique," which Dunham herself explained as "more than just dance or bodily executions. It is about movement, forms, love, hate, death, life, all human emotions."

In her later years, she depended on grants and the kindness of celebrities, artists and former students to pay for her day-to-day expenses. Will Smith and Harry Belafonte were among those who helped her catch up on bills, Ottley said.

"She didn't end up on the street though she was one step from it," Ottley said. "She has been on the edge and survived it all with dignity and grace."

Dunham was married to theater designer John Thomas Pratt for 49 years before his death in 1986