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Mamie316
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07-08-2003
| Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 6:43 am
That name brings back a lot of memories. Especially for all of us here in the bay area and especially the Raider fans. He really was an inspiration.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 6:49 am
Eddie Robinson, Grambling State and Legendary College Football Coach Passes Away Salem-News.com Eddie G. Robinson, Sr. Photo: Grambling State Athletics (GRAMBLING, Louisiana ) - Surrounded by family and friends, former Grambling State University football coach, Eddie G. Robinson, Sr. passed Tuesday evening at Northern Louisiana Medical Center (formerly Lincoln General Hospital) in Ruston, Louisiana after a lengthy illness. Robinson is known as the giant of college football and especially among historically Black Colleges and Universities. He came to Grambling in 1941 and coached at the institution until his retirement in 1997. Robinson won 17 championships in his conference (SWAC), held the championship title 9 times for Black Colleges and creatively established a streak of 27 consecutive winning seasons 1960-86. During his tenure, Robinson established himself as the winningest coach in college football history becoming the first coach to record 400 wins. Robinson retired with a record of 408 wins, 165 losses and 15 ties. More than 200 of his players went on to play in the National Football League including Super Bowl XXII MVP, Redskins quarterback Doug Williams, who would ultimately succeed Robinson as Grambling's head coach in 1998. "The University, state and nation have lost an extraordinarily great person. Truly one of a kind. It is impossible to measure fully the impact of Coach Robinson's life. As remarkable as his achievements in football were, his impact off the field was perhaps even more important. He touched, shaped and inspired the lives of so many. His sterling example and great positiveness influenced the whole nation. Coach Robinson was a great American. As long as Grambling State University exists, as long as football is played, as long as Americans remain patriotic, Coach Rob's spirit will live. That is a special kind of immortality only very special people can attain. We are deeply saddened by his passing and we will miss him. But we will celebrate his life with great joy and gratitude. Our hearts and best wishes are with his wife, Doris and his family," said Dr. Horace A. Judson, GSU President http://www.salem-news.com/articles/april052007/robinson_death_040507.php a really amazing man!!!
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 7:43 am
there's another good obit for Eddie Robinson in the Black History Thread
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Sunday, April 08, 2007 - 1:58 am
Ex-Kiss guitarist Mark St. John dies
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Lyn
Member
08-07-2002
| Sunday, April 08, 2007 - 6:31 pm
'B.C.' cartoonist Johnny Hart dies ALBANY, New York (AP) -- Cartoonist Johnny Hart, whose award-winning "B.C." comic strip appeared in more than 1,300 newspapers worldwide, died Saturday while working at his home in Endicott, New York. He was 76. "He had a stroke," Hart's wife, Bobby, said Sunday. "He died at his storyboard." http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/08/obit.hart.ap/index.html
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Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001
| Monday, April 09, 2007 - 6:19 am
He was a wonderful human being with an equally wonderful comic strip.
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Retired
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07-11-2001
| Monday, April 09, 2007 - 10:29 am

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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Monday, April 09, 2007 - 1:05 pm
Awwwwww, at least he was doing what he loved to do at the time of his death.
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Nickovtyme
Member
07-29-2004
| Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 12:22 pm
I read B.C. since I was a kid, in the papers and my dad used to buy the paperbacks.... and I never understood what an Apteryx is. "I am an apteryx, a flightless bird with hairy feathers" I hope they will still run the strip.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 6:21 pm
ROSCOE LEE BROWNE Could one of you please post his obituary?
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 6:26 pm
He had the most magnificent voice!
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 6:34 pm
LOS ANGELES -- Actor Roscoe Lee Browne, whose rich voice and dignified bearing brought him an Emmy Award and a Tony nomination, has died. He was 81. Browne died early Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after a long battle with cancer, said Alan Nierob, a spokesman for the family. Browne's career included classic theater to TV cartoons. He also was a poet and a former world-class athlete. His deep, cultured voice was heard narrating the 1995 hit movie "Babe." On screen, his character often was smart, cynical and well-educated, whether a congressman, a judge or a butler. Born to a Baptist minister in Woodbury, N.J., Browne graduated from historically black Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where he later returned to teach comparative literature and French. He also was a track star, winning a 1951 world championship in the 800-yard dash. Browne was selling wine for an import company when he decided to become a full-time actor in 1956 and had roles that year in the inaugural season of the New York Shakespeare Festival in a production of "Julius Caesar." In 1961, he starred in an English-language version of Jean Genet's play "The Blacks." Two years later, he was The Narrator in a Broadway production of "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe," a play by Edward Albee from a novella by Carson McCullers. In a front page article on the advances made by blacks in the theater, the New York Times noted that Browne's understudy was white. He won an Obie Award in 1965 for his role as a rebellious slave in the off-Broadway "Benito Cereno." In movies, he was a spy in the 1969 Alfred Hitchcock feature "Topaz" and a camp cook in 1972's "The Cowboys," which starred John Wayne. "Some critics complained that I spoke too well to be believable" in the cook's role, Browne told The Washington Post in 1972. "When a critic makes that remark, I think, if I had said, 'Yassuh, boss' to John Wayne, then the critic would have taken a shine to me." On television, he had several memorable guest roles. He was a snobbish black lawyer trapped in an elevator with bigot Archie Bunker in an episode of the 1970s TV comedy "All in the Family" and the butler Saunders in the comedy "Soap." He won an Emmy in 1986 for a guest role as Professor Foster on "The Cosby Show." In 1992, Browne returned to Broadway in "Two Trains Running," one of August Wilson's acclaimed series of plays on the black experience. It won the Tony for best play and brought Browne a Tony nomination for best featured (supporting) actor. The New York Times said he portrayed "the wry perspective of one who believes that human folly knows few bounds and certainly no racial bounds. The performance is wise and slyly life-affirming." Browne also wrote poetry and included some of it along with works by masters such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti and William Butler Yeats in "Behind the Broken Words," a poetry anthology stage piece that he and Anthony Zerbe performed annually for three decades.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 6:42 pm
Oh I loved him! Another actor died recently, he was in the Uptown Saturday Night movie, oh what is his name...
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 6:43 pm
It's Calvin Lockhart. He was soo handsome.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 6:43 pm
Calvin Lockhart
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 6:43 pm
He was very handsome.
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Mamie316
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07-08-2003
| Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 6:44 pm

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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 6:54 pm
I don't remember Lockhart. I enjoyed Browne's performances. He had a certain magnetic presence that's hard to describe.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 8:49 pm
oh I loved Roscoe Lee Browne's voice, and Calvin Lockhart was so sexy looking ... such sad news ... may they RIP
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 4:27 am
Kurt Vonnegut has died. NEW YORK - Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle," died Wednesday. He was 84. story
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 12:05 pm
Damn. That sucks. I loved his books.
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Retired
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07-11-2001
| Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 1:45 pm
about all 3. RIP.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 10:06 am
BARRY NELSON He was the very first actor to play James Bond. Would someone please post his obit?
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Retired
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07-11-2001
| Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 12:18 pm
link Actor Barry Nelson dies at 89 By GREG RISLING, Associated Press Writer Fri Apr 13, 9:33 PM ET LOS ANGELES - Barry Nelson, an MGM contract player during the 1940s who later had a prolific theater career and was the first actor to play James Bond on screen, has died. He was 89. Nelson died on April 7 while traveling in Bucks County, Pa., his wife, Nansi Nelson, said Friday. The cause of death was not immediately known, she said. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1941, Nelson was signed to MGM after being spotted by a talent scout. He appeared in a number of films for the studio in 1942, including "Shadow of the Thin Man," "Johnny Eager" and "Dr. Kildare's Victory." He also landed the leading role in "A Yank on the Burma Road," playing a cab driver who decides to lead a convoy of trucks for the Chinese government. Nelson entered the Army during World War II and went on the road with other actors performing the wartime play "Winged Victory," which was later made into a movie starring Red Buttons, George Reeves and Nelson. After the war, Nelson starred in a string of movies, including "Undercover Maisie," "Time to Kill" and "Tenth Avenue Angel." He is the answer to the trivia question: Who was the first actor to play James Bond? Before Sean Connery was tapped to play the British agent on the big screen in 1962's "Dr. No," Nelson played Bond in a one-hour TV adaptation of "Casino Royale" in 1954. Nelson switched to the stage during the 1960s and 1970s, appearing on Broadway in "Seascape" "Mary, Mary" and "Cactus Flower." He earned a Tony nomination in 1978 for his role in "The Act," which also starred Liza Minnelli. "He was a very naturalistic, believable actor," said his agent, Francis Delduca. "He was good at both comedy and the serious stuff." Among his other film credits were "Airport" and "The Shining," and he also appeared on such TV shows as "Murder, She Wrote," "Dallas" and "Magnum P.I." More recently, Nelson and his second wife (they married in 1992) spent a lot of time traveling. He planned to write a couple of books about his time on stage and in Hollywood. Nelson is survived by his wife. He did not have any children from either marriage. Funeral arrangements were pending.
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 12:21 pm
yes, that is very sad. i was just happy to hear is wasn't Sean. whew!
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