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Jimmer
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08-30-2000

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He was a great character and a lot of fun!!! Sorry to hear this.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

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:-(

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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Gretchen Wyler

Would someone be so kind as to post her obituary?

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Monday, May 28, 2007 - 8:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
OMG! I just posted about him in the Poll and then scrolled down to this thread!!!!

I have always loved his wit

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

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Gretchen Wyler

for you, OG

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

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He brought a lot of laughs into our household. He'll be missed. I just used to love him with Brett Somers.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

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Careening down memory lane here....

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Monday, May 28, 2007 - 12:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Charles, one of my all-time favorites. He made me laugh purely and without reservation.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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Thanks, LadyT.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Monday, May 28, 2007 - 3:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Can someone explain why "ER" is by Gretchen Wyler's name? She was definitely an activist, but I don't get the ER connection (and can't find it in IMDB.com).

LOVED Charles Nelsen Riley -- what a funny, funny man!

Eris
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11-13-2003

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I don't know where the image was pulled from Teach but if you look closely you can see a bit of white next to the E as if it is another letter-part of a bigger word, just cut off.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

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It's probably the end of Wyler.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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Yes, that is what it is, the end of her name.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

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Ahhh -- thanks. :-) It's the "little" things that bug me!

Tishala
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08-01-2000

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Some great Charles moments:

"Beverly Hills" Brett Summers

Brett and Charles Go On Tour

Match Game Reunion

Charles "Hosts" Match Game

RIP.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

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Journalist who chronicled civil rights movement dies at age 85

ROBERT WELLER
Associated Press Writer

DENVER — William E. Peters, a journalist who played a key role in publicizing the struggle for equal rights when it could lead to martyrdom, has died at age 85 in a Lafayette hospice.

Peters helped make the late Martin Luther King a national figure with an article in Redbook magazine in August 1956.

"When William Peters died this week, the world lost a good man, I lost a valued friend and journalists everywhere a role model for what a reporter should be," said Robert Stein, who as editor of Redbook sent Peters to profile King.

Stein, in a Web posting, said Peters had worked for him for a decade in the 1950s on subjects ranging from McCarthyism to integration.

"...when the Montgomery bus strike started, Bill went to Alabama for me to do the first article about Martin Luther King in a national publication under the title, "Our Weapon Is Love," said Stein. Later, Peters wrote a series and book with the widow of the murdered civil rights leader. Medgar Evers."

Peters wrote that King's adoption of Gandhi's strategy of nonviolent protest was bold "in the explosive atmosphere prevailing in the South."

In Stanford University's Martin Luther King papers, it says, "Peters' article remains an important source for tracing King's intellectual development. King explained to Peters, for example, that 'the spirit of passive resistance came to me from the Bible, from the teachings of Jesus. The techniques came from Gandhi.'"

CBS then hired Peters, and sent him to cover voter registration efforts in the South. He subsequently worked for ABC and then became an independent producer.

He produced a series of documentaries that won many George Foster Peabody Awards, including stunning reports on how Jane Elliott, a Riceville, Iowa, third-grader teacher taught children about racial discrimination by separating them by eye color. One day the blue-eyed group was considered dumb, the next day they switched roles with the brown-eyed students.

The same child who was praised a day before for achievement was humiliated. All the children were white, which made it easy to see how labels set children up to fail, said Elliott on Sunday in a telephone interview from Riceville.

"He filmed the exercise the third time I did it. You could see that if you think a child is not worthy then you teach down to them. Black teachers cried after seeing the film because they realized they were doing it themselves," said Elliott. The first televised account of the class was "The Eye of the Storm," shown on ABC in 1970. A 1985 version: "A Class Divided: Then and Now," won an Emmy for PBS 1985.

Even though the U.S. Supreme Court had declared segregation unconstitutional in 1954, it remained in practice in many areas around the country.

Peters died May 20, said the eldest of his three daughters, Suzanne Peters Payne. He was at HospiceCare of Boulder and Broomfield counties in Lafayette when he died of pneumonia.

He was born in San Francisco on July 30, 1921. He left Northwestern University after two years to become an Air Force pilot in World War II, writing a piece for the Ladies Home Journal about being shot down and spending many hours at sea before being rescued. He returned to graduate with a degree in English after the war.

He is survived by four children from his first wife, Ann Miller, Jennifer Johnson of Boulder, Colo., Payne of Lafayette, Gretchen Peters of Nashville; and a son, Geoffrey Peters of Vienna, Va.

A plane will fly over Flagstaff Mountain in neighboring Boulder to scatter his ashes on June 2.

Callasin
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06-21-2005

Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 6:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Callasin a private message Print Post    
Don Herbert "Mr. Wizard" has died at age 89. I used to love watching his show.

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=265522&GT1=7703

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

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Aww, that's so sad, I loved Mr. Wizard

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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I thought he was so cool.



Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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Mala Powers, actress

(Would one of you mind posting her obit, please. I'm of an age where I remember her very well.)

Serate
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08-21-2001

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Mala Powers, 75; starred in 'Cyrano,' other 1950s films

Actress Mala Powers, who played Roxane to Jose Ferrer's "Cyrano de Bergerac" and starred in other films of the 1950s, has died. She was 75.

Powers died Monday of complications from leukemia at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, according to actress Kim Barrett, who was Powers' protegee.

She was born Mary Ellen Powers in 1931 in San Francisco to journalist parents who moved to Hollywood. She began training as an actress at an early age at Max Reinhardt's Dramatic Workshop and as a preteen had a bit part in a 1942 Bowery Boys movie, "Tough As They Come."

In 1950 Powers appeared opposite Ferrer in "Cyrano de Bergerac," which won him an Oscar for best actor.

Also in 1950, she starred as a rape victim in "Outrage," directed by Ida Lupino. The film created a minor sensation because rape had not been treated frankly on the screen due to the industry's self-censorship.

Howard Hughes was impressed by Powers' performances and placed her under contract at RKO. Among her films: "Edge of Doom," "Rose of Cimarron," "City Beneath the Sea," "City That Never Sleeps," "Bengazi" and "The Storm Rider."

Powers' movie career dwindled in the late 1950s, but she remained active in radio, stage and television.

In later years Powers became interested in children's stories, writing a Christmas book, "Follow the Star," in 1980 and, five years later, "Follow the Year," which explained holidays to children.

She also wrote and narrated stories for the New York Telephone Co.'s Dial-a-Children's-Story program starting in 1979. The one-minute stories, which could be accessed by dialing a special number, were later available in other markets.

Powers also taught acting, which she had studied while attending UCLA. In 2003, she made her final stage appearance in "Mr. Shaw Goes to Hollywood" at the Laguna Playhouse in Laguna Beach.

Powers is survived by Toren Vanton, her son from her first marriage. Her second husband, publisher M. Hughes Miller, died in 1989

Abby7
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07-17-2002

Wednesday, June 13, 2007 - 7:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Abby7 a private message Print Post    
Frankie from Real World San Diego has died.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19194354/

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Wednesday, June 13, 2007 - 10:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Oh man that brings tears to my eyes. I really liked Frankie and you know she lived her life her way knowing full well it wouldn't be all that long.

She was only 25.

Retired
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07-11-2001

Wednesday, June 13, 2007 - 11:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Retired a private message Print Post    
Sorry about all the passings. :-(

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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I had a dear acquaintance who died of CF. It's a horrible disease and an extra horrible one to die from. She suffered greatly all her 22 years.