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Bandit
Member
07-29-2001
| Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 9:45 am
LOL....red dots in an obituary!
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 4:02 pm
aww, that's sad ... I love his dogs ... RIP, Mr. Takamoto (Scooby's and Muttley's Dad)
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 7:43 am
Carlo Ponti, Producer and husband of Sophia Loren died at 94.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 8:34 am
I didn't even realize that he was still alive!
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 8:47 am
me either, I thought he died years ago. the family announced that the funeral arrangements were "extremely private"
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 8:49 am
They always seemed like a very closeknit family.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 9:26 am
Wow, sort of like if I had had to guess, I would have said he AND Lady Bird Johnson were already gone!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 9:51 am
Ladybird Johnson is alive?!
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 10:04 am
very much so, Mamie
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 10:10 am
(Oh good! It just occurred to me that we need a new "Keep America Clean" campaign. Of all the First Ladies' programs, Ladybird's has remained with me. Wish that our highways and byways were free of litter again.)
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 10:14 am
Well, God bless her.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 11:02 am
Lady Bird Wildlife Center http://www.wildflower.org/?nd=lbj
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 1:13 pm
Wow. I'm another one that thought Carlo Ponti was already dead. He and Sophia have been married forever.
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Bandit
Member
07-29-2001
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 2:19 pm
Munsters star Yvonne DeCarlo Dies at 84
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 3:27 pm
LOS ANGELES - Yvonne De Carlo, the beautiful star who played Moses' wife in "The Ten Commandments" but achieved her greatest popularity on TV's slapstick comedy "The Munsters," has died. She was 84. De Carlo died of natural causes Monday at the Motion Picture & Television facility in suburban Los Angeles, longtime friend and television producer Kevin Burns said Wednesday. De Carlo, whose shapely figure helped launch her career in B-movie desert adventures and Westerns, rose to more important roles in the 1950s. Later, she had a key role in a landmark Broadway musical, Stephen Sondheim's "Follies." But for TV viewers, she will always be known as Lily Munster in the 1964-1966 horror-movie spoof "The Munsters." The series (the name allegedly derived from "fun-monsters") offered a gallery of Universal Pictures grotesques, including Dracula and Frankenstein's monster, in a cobwebbed gothic setting.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 4:10 pm
awwww Lily is gone. 
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 4:14 pm
Sad! When my little girlfriends and I played moviestar, I always got dibs on being Yvonne DeCarlo...the ultimate in sexy glamour!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 4:17 pm
 
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 4:45 pm
De Carlo died of natural causes Monday at the Motion Picture & Television facility in suburban Los Angeles, She died there at that facility? Is that some kind of home or something?
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 4:58 pm
yes, it is. http://www.mptvfund.org/
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 5:01 pm
*Texannie's Link*
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 5:36 pm
Awwww
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Peapod
Member
01-31-2004
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 8:18 pm
Didn't she have a sister who was also an actress? What was her name?
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 8:40 pm
I haven't seen anything that mentions a sister at all.
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Sherbabe
Member
07-28-2002
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 9:55 pm
Hope you are not thinking of Olivia Dehaviland. She was sister to Joan Fontaine.
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