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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 4:46 pm
Singer Don Ho dies at 76 HONOLULU - Legendary crooner Don Ho, known for his raspberry-tinted sunglasses and catchy signature tune "Tiny Bubbles," has died, his publicist said. He was 76. Publicist Donna Jung said the singer died Saturday morning of heart failure. He had suffered with heart problems for the past several years, and had a pacemaker installed last fall. In 2005, he underwent an experimental stem cell procedure on his ailing heart in Thailand in 2005. Ho entertained Hollywood's biggest stars and thousands of tourists for four decades. For many, no trip to Hawaii was complete without seeing his Waikiki show — a mix of songs, jokes, double entendres, Hawaii history and audience participation. Shows usually started and ended with the same song, "Tiny Bubbles," which Ho mostly hummed as the audience enthusiastically took over. "I hate that song," he often joked to the crowd, adding that he saved it for the end because "people my age can't remember if we did it or not." Donald Tai Loy Ho, who is Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch and German, was born Aug. 13, 1930, in Honolulu and grew up in the then-rural countryside of Kaneohe.
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 5:40 pm
I was just thinking about him two days ago.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 5:46 pm
I'll never forget that episode of The Mole (I think? or what show?) where people had to stay in that room and listen to Tiny Bubbles over and over..
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 5:47 pm
Awwww, my parents loved Hawaii and Mom loved Don Ho. Sad.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 5:57 pm

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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 8:18 pm
Click here to hear Tiny Bubbles sung by Don Ho.
RIP Mr. Ho. 
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 8:32 am
Mr Hawaii. I always thought of him and Hawaii together. Great representative of his state.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 7:16 pm
"June Callwood, the remarkable Canadian journalist, humanitarian and social activist, died early Saturday after a long fight with cancer. She was 82". From the article on the CBC Web Site. Here is the link to the CBC article on her: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2007/04/14/callwood.html This wonderful lady was not only the person the CBC article so aptly described in their article however, she was a very close family friend. She was my Father and Grandfather's friend and she interviewed them many times. She also knew my Stepmom at the Toronto Star. She came to my Grandfather's funeral less than a week after her own son was killed in a terrible accident. She also lost her other son due to AIDS.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 7:19 pm
Wow! She sounds like an incredible woman.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 7:20 pm
I just reread the CBC article and realized June died Saturday. Sorry.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 7:20 pm
Mamie she was an incredible lady.
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Wink
Member
10-06-2000
| Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 7:26 pm
June Callwood was a national treasure. She will be missed so very much by so very many.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 8:13 pm
She must have been a remarkable person. I'm sorry to hear about Don Ho as well. On a lighter note, Sea mentioned one of my all time favorite episodes of The Mole. I absolutely can't hear that song without getting a smile on my face about that episode and that show.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 8:42 pm
This is an excerpt from an article I wrote on how celebrities cope with depression for YOU MAGAZINE - June Callwood told me: "I have a lot of depression. I fly a glider and I find that very spiritual. I read poetry, which you shouldn't, because sometimes poetry is pessimistic about humanity's progress. But the best is having my grandchildren over for an over-night." She was an admirable woman, and she will be sorely missed. 
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 8:52 pm
 June Callwood Click here to watch a quick video of her wit and wisdom: http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/video.php?id=840
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 9:11 pm
Yup that was pure June.....She was quite the woman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quick too with a quip!!!!!
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 1:44 pm
Actress Kitty Carlisle Hart dies at 96 NEW YORK - Kitty Carlisle Hart, whose long career spanned Broadway, opera, television and film, including the classic Marx Brothers movie "A Night at the Opera," has died at age 96, her son said Wednesday. Christopher Hart said his mother had been in and out of the hospital since contracting pneumonia over the Christmas holidays. "She passed away peacefully" Tuesday night at her Manhattan apartment, said Hart, who was at her side when she died. "She had such a wonderful life, and a great long run, it was a blessing." She had been touring around the country in her one-woman show "Here's to Life" until getting sick. David Lewis, her longtime musical director, said: "The show was about everyone she had known: Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and her wonderful relationship with her husband, Moss Hart." Lewis said when he once asked her "why she would attend events every single night of her life, and dress up and be the grand dame Kitty Carlisle Hart, she said that the grim reaper was lapping at her feet. She had to outpace him." A December appearance in Atlanta was her last, her son said. Hart had appeared for years on the popular game show "To Tell the Truth" as a celebrity panelist. Well known for her starring role as Rosa Castaldi in the 1935 movie "A Night at the Opera," her other film credits included: "She Loves Me Not" and "Here Is My Heart," both opposite Bing Crosby; Woody Allen's "Radio Days"; and "Six Degrees of Separation." From 1956 to 1967, she appeared on the CBS prime-time game show "To Tell the Truth" with host Bud Collyer and fellow panelists such as Polly Bergen, Johnny Carson, Bill Cullen and Don Ameche. The show featured three contestants, all claiming to be the same person. The panelists asked them questions to determine which was telling the truth. (The popular show also had runs, sometimes including Carlisle, in daytime and in syndicated versions.) Hart's late husband was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who wrote "You Can't Take It With You" and "The Man Who Came to Dinner" with George S. Kaufman and won a Tony for directing "My Fair Lady" on Broadway. Besides Christopher Hart, 59, a director, writer and producer, survivors include her daughter, Dr. Catherine Hart, and three grandchildren. Funeral arrangements were incomplete. "We're working on a terrific memorial," said her son.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 1:59 pm

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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 3:00 pm
Wow, I didnt know she was still alive. I remember her from to Tell the Truth. She was the best on that show, always had intelligent questions. She had class.
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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 5:44 pm
I grew up with To Tell The Truth. She was one classy lady.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 7:33 pm
I loved To Tell the Truth! Watched it with my parents. Kitty was definitely a class act.
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Lyn
Member
08-07-2002
| Thursday, April 19, 2007 - 9:01 pm
"The comics world mourns the loss of a true innovator, Wizard of Id creator Brant Parker. Parker, who collaborated in 1964 with recently deceased Johnny Hart to develop the strip, died at the age of 86 on April 15th in Lynchburg, VA. We wish the best to Brant's family." http://www.comics.com/creators/wizardofid/
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Friday, April 20, 2007 - 5:10 am
darn, I love that strip ...
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, April 20, 2007 - 11:58 am

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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 2:07 pm
Bobby "Boris" Pickett, the man who gave Halloween its graveyard-smash anthem, is joining his crypt-kickers in the great beyond. The "Monster Mash" mastermind died Wednesday night in Los Angeles at age 69 following a long battle with leukemia, according to manager Stuart Hersh. A struggling actor and musician Pickett turned his obsession with the old Boris Karloff-Bela Lugosi Universal fright flicks into a one-hit, career-making franchise. Pickett would break out his Karloff impersonation in between songs of his nightclub act. Per lore, one of his band mates suggested Pickett sing a song as Karloff. So he teamed with piano-playing pal Leonard Capizzi to come up with the ditty at Halloween. Before the novelty song reached iconic status, however, it was rejected by four major labels. Finally, "Alley Oop" singer Gary Paxton decided to release it on his own. Pickett, backed by Paxton and the Crypt-Kickers, a band that included then unknown keyboardist Leon Russell, recorded the song in 1962, complete with name-checks of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Wolf Man and appropriately cheesy sound effects. Six weeks later, on Oct. 20, "Monster Mash" topped the singles chart. The song eventually became one of the rare tunes to threepeat on the Billboard 100, getting a boost in popularity in August 1970 and May 1973.
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