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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 6:02 pm
She was such a beautiful woman.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 11:56 pm
I loved the Mod Squad as a kid, and wanted so badly to grow up to look like Peggy Lipton. I am so sad about Tige Andrews...
Very sad about Barbara McNair too, I distinctly remember her on TV and she was lovely.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 12:09 am
Frankie Laine (1913-2007) has died. Just heard it on the 11pm news here.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 12:11 am
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0481840/
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 9:06 am
Billy Henderson, co-founder of the Spinners From the folks in Canada we find out that Billy Henderson, member of the Spinners, has died at age 67 (on 2/4/07). Henderson died Friday of complications from diabetes at a Daytona Beach, Fla., health care facility, his wife, Barbara, said. The 1972 song I’ll Be Around was part of a string of Top 20 Spinners hits that included Could It Be I’m Falling in Love, Then Came You and The Rubberband Man. The five-member band of high school friends formed in 1954 in Ferndale, Mich., a Detroit suburb. They went on to be nominated for six Grammy Awards and became the second black musical group to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Four of the original band members, including Henderson, continued to perform together until recently. He was dismissed from the group in 2004 after suing the group’s corporation and business manager to obtain financial records.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 9:30 am
Published: February 7, 2007 Willye B. White, the First 5-Time U.S. Track Olympian, Dies at 67
Willye White at the Amateur Athletic Union championships in 1964. Willye B. White, who willed her way out of the Mississippi Delta cotton fields and became the first American track and field athlete to compete in five Olympics, died yesterday in Chicago. She was 67. The cause was pancreatic cancer, said Sarah Armantrout, a longtime friend. White competed in every Olympics from 1956 through 1972, and only an injury kept her off the 1976 team. She won a silver medal in the long jump in 1956, when she was a 16-year-old high school sophomore, and another in the 4x100-meter relay in 1964. She was America’s best female long jumper for almost two decades, with a career best of 21 feet 6 inches. She won nine consecutive United States outdoor championships, set seven American records and, by her count, competed in 150 nations. At 5 feet 4 inches and 130 pounds, she could perform weightlifting squats with more than 380 pounds. White was born Dec. 31, 1939, in Money, Miss., and grew up in Greenwood. She was brought up by her grandparents, she said, because her father had contended that with her red hair, green eyes and light brown skin, she was not his child. (On his deathbed, he said she was.) “I started chopping cotton when I was 10,” she told Sports Illustrated in 1975. “You could chop for a whole week and never finish a row. I got paid $2.50 a day for 12 hours. The only way I could get any recognition was through sports. Sports gave me an escape. It kept me off the street.” White started track as a 10-year-old sprinter. She turned to the long jump because, she said, “For every 500 sprinters, there were two long jumpers.” She later entered Tennessee State University, where the track coach was the renowned Ed Temple. Another future Olympian, the sprinter Wilma Rudolph, was a teammate. But White left after six months because, as she told The New York Times in 1993, “Coach Temple wanted to control every aspect of your life, and I was too much of a free spirit for that.” In 1960, she moved to Chicago and, in 1976, earned a degree in public health administration from Chicago State University. She started her career as a practical nurse. Then she spent 37 years working in city government as a health administrator, a director of recreational services and a creator of sports programs for young girls in housing projects. In 1991, she founded the Willye White Foundation to help children develop self-esteem. In 1989, she was one of four candidates seeking three vice-presidential openings on the United States Olympic Committee, but was not elected. George Steinbrenner, the principal owner of the Yankees, was among the elected candidates. In 2003, she ran for the Chicago City Council and lost. White was married in 1961 and divorced in 1964. She is survived by a brother and a sister. She was elected to 11 halls of fame, including the International Women’s Sports, the National Track and Field, and Black Sports. But she said her most significant accomplishment was leaving the cotton fields. In 1993, she told Runner’s World: “Athletics was my flight to freedom: freedom from prejudice, freedom from illiteracy, freedom from bias. It was my acceptance in the world.”
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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 1:31 pm
about all of them. RIP.
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 2:00 pm
Anna Nicole Smith died Thursday after collapsing at a hotel and being rushed to the hospital, one of her lawyers said.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 2:03 pm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17050167/?GT1=9033 Wow.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 2:07 pm
OMG. I didn't have the news on today. Good heavens.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 2:13 pm
Wow is right.
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Jhonise
Member
07-10-2003
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 2:18 pm
That is sad.
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Bandit
Member
07-29-2001
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 2:29 pm
I'm with y'all....wow is right. Something fishy must be going on.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 2:36 pm
I am stunned, completely!
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 2:45 pm
I have felt sad for Anna for sometime now even before her son died. I watched her show and thought to myself, what kind of life is that? How depressing and sad for her family to see her that way. I hope the rumors aren't true that she was on methadone while pregnant with her baby girl. Still, my heart hurts for the family and the baby girl.
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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 2:47 pm

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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 3:00 pm
Wonder why she traveled with a private nurse. Lot of good that did her. There's reportedly a 10-minute gap between when the nurse found her (and called the hotel operator for aid) and the bodyguard arrived and decided to do CPR.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 3:06 pm
I suppose we will have the identity of Danielynn's father confirmed soon now.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 3:06 pm
It's a very tragic end to a rather tragic life. It was hard not to see this coming.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 3:10 pm
What a tragedy! I hope her baby daughter goes to a loving and stable family. She'll need it growing up.
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Bandit
Member
07-29-2001
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 3:11 pm
Reports are coming in now that she had been experiencing "flu-like symptoms" the past couple of days.
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 3:11 pm
I feel so bad for that baby girl. This is just tragic.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 3:12 pm
You're right, Mamie--it did seem rather predictable. Still shocking all the same. And yes, she was a pathetic, tragic figure. I did feel sorry for her.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 3:14 pm
Also, that she had a high fever last night. The legal battle will be long and protracted. Anna Nicole kept fighting Larry Burkhead's petition for a DNA test. Supposedly, she and Stern were married in the Bahamas. That marriage will be contested IF as in some areas, the Bahamas recognizes the husband as the father, regardless of biological paternity. It's gonna go on and on....
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Bandit
Member
07-29-2001
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 3:16 pm
I thought their marriage wasn't legal..it was one of those "committment ceremonies."
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