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Darrellh
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07-21-2004
| Thursday, May 03, 2007 - 11:25 am
BALTIMORE - Gordon Scott, a handsome, muscle-bound actor who portrayed Tarzan in the 1950s, has died. He was 80. Scott, who had been living in a working class section of south Baltimore, died Monday at Johns Hopkins Hospital of post-heart surgery complications, a hospital spokesman said. Scott made 24 movies including "Tarzan and the Lost Safari" (1957), "Tarzan's Fight for Life" (1958), "Tarzan and the Trappers" (1958), "Tarzan's Greatest Adventure" (1959) and "Tarzan the Magnificent" (1960). The cast in the 1959 movie included Sean Connery and Anthony Quayle. Tarzan, the vine-swinging hero of the jungle, was created by the author Edgar Rice Burroughs. Scott was among a long line of actors, including Johnny Weissmuller and Larry "Buster" Crabbe, who portrayed him. "He was an absolutely wonderful Tarzan who played the character as an intelligent and nice man who carried himself well, much as my grandfather had originally written it," Danton Burroughs told The (Baltimore) Sun. Scott was a lifeguard at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas when he was discovered by Hollywood producer Sol Lesser, said Scott's brother Rayfield Werschkull of Portland, Ore. He was signed to a seven-year-contract after he outperformed 200 other international candidates. During the 1954 production of his first film, "Tarzan's Hidden Jungle," he fell in love with co-star Vera Miles. The couple married that year and divorced four years later. After the Tarzan movies, Scott appeared in Westerns and gladiator films. Scott's later years were spent in Baltimore, in a row house owned by Roger and Betty Thomas.
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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Thursday, May 03, 2007 - 3:00 pm

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Jhonise
Member
07-10-2003
| Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 1:34 pm
Hilary Alexander mourns the passing of one of fashion's most inspirational characters Fashion has lost one of its brightest stars. Isabella Blow, the internationally renowned British stylist, director and muse died suddenly in Gloucester this morning. Isabella is credited with launching the career of Alexander McQueen <snip> Isabella Blow 'died of overdose'
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - 9:44 am
jerry falwell died. (sorry, no link...just heard it on the news.)
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - 10:01 am
I'm shocked.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - 10:10 am
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/15/jerry.falwell/index.html
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - 10:18 am
thanks ladytex, i checked google/news. couldn't find a link. (worried i might be wrong but still posted w/o a link).
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - 11:18 am
huh
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 3:53 am
Yolanda King, daughter of MLK, dies at 51 ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Yolanda Denise King, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s eldest child who pursued her father's dream of racial harmony through acting and motivational speaking, has died. She was 51....

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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 9:18 am
51! That is way, way to young. How sad.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 10:01 am
That is very sad news.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 10:06 am
Very sad and way too young!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 10:07 am
Oh no.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 10:10 am
That's terrible. May peace be with the family. (She looks a lot like that actress from All My Children)
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 11:01 am
She looks a lot like her daddy in that picture. What a passionate woman.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 1:47 pm
What a lovely lady! I'm saddened to hear of her passing.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 2:25 pm
Wow! 51 is certainly too young to die of natural causes. Has it been mentioned what she died of?
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 2:28 pm
I just heard about this on The View. So sad and so young. They didn't mention what caused the death.
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Retired
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07-11-2001
| Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 2:37 pm

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Kep421
Member
08-11-2001
| Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 2:50 pm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18693695/ This article indicates the reason for death isn't known... but a heart problem is suspected.
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Sherbabe
Member
07-28-2002
| Sunday, May 27, 2007 - 10:09 pm
ANGELES (AP) - Charles Nelson Reilly, the Tony Award winner who later became known for his ribald appearances on the "Tonight Show" and various game shows, has died. He was 76. Reilly died Friday in Los Angeles of complications from pneumonia, his partner, Patrick Hughes, told the New York Times. Reilly began his career in New York City, taking acting classes at a studio with Steve McQueen, Geraldine Page and Hal Holbrook. In 1962, he appeared on Broadway as Bud Frump in the original Broadway production of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." The role won Reilly a Tony Award. He was nominated for a Tony again for playing Cornelius in "Hello, Dolly!" In 1997 he received another nomination for directing Julie Harris and Charles Durning in a revival of "The Gin Game." After moving to Hollywood in 1960s he appeared as the nervous Claymore Gregg on TV's "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" and as a featured guest on "The Dean Martin Show." He gained fame by becoming what he described as a "game show fixture" in the 1970s and 80s. He was a regular on programs like "Match Game" and "Hollywood Squares," often wearing giant glasses and colorful suits with ascots. His larger-than-life persona and affinity for double-entendres also landed him on the "Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson more than 95 times. Reilly ruefully admitted his wild game show appearances adversely affected his acting career. "You can't do anything else once you do game shows," he told The Advocate, the national gay magazine, in 2001. "You have no career." His final work was an autobiographical one-man show, "Save It for the Stage: The Life of Reilly," about his family life growing up in the Bronx. The title grew out of the fact that when he would act out as a child, his mother would often admonish him to "save it for the stage." The stage show was made into the 2006 feature film called "The Life of Reilly." Reilly's openly gay television persona was ahead of its time, and sometimes stood in his way. He recalled a network executive telling him "they don't let queers on television." Hughes, his only immediate survivor, said Reilly had been ill for more than a year. No memorial plans had been announced.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Sunday, May 27, 2007 - 10:22 pm

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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Sunday, May 27, 2007 - 10:25 pm
I'll always remember him from Match Game. 
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, May 28, 2007 - 6:48 am
Oh no I loved him on Match Game.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Monday, May 28, 2007 - 7:11 am
What a character he was! So warm and funny and he absolutely made Match Game. Those glasses, those pursed lips. Ha! Course I first enjoyed him on The Ghost and Mrs. Muir as Claymore Gregg.

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