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Retired
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07-11-2001

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Supergranny
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02-03-2005

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He really had a touch with the game shows, I remember when they had all these different women trying out for card turner on Wheel of Fortune. There were a couple of them I really liked and Vanna was not one of them...but Merv took a liking to Vanna and look he was right on! She turned out to be such a star.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

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:-( I was a huge MG fan. I liked his warm, friendly, and funny way of 'interviewing' celebs that seemed more like he was hanging out with them and not really interviewing them at all, and they they were very comfy and palsy-walsy with him. I've tried to bring warmth and the humour into my interviews as well. He was a great one to emulate. :-)

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

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It is sad to see these older stars passing. Kind of the ending of an era.

Texasdeb
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05-23-2003

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I'll be 50 next month & I remember watching the Merv Griffin talk show when I would be home sick from grade school. Wow! What a neat guy - did he ever have any negative publicity? The stars of today could take a lesson.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

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Jimmer, it's so true. I often wonder who the 'greats' of my kids' generation will be.
Texasdeb, there was some kind of scandal about young boys about 20 years or so ago.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

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Max Roach, a Founder of Modern Jazz, Dies at 83
NY Times


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the great max roach
Max Roach, a founder of modern jazz who rewrote the rules of drumming in the 1940’s and spent the rest of his career breaking musical barriers and defying listeners’ expectations, died early today in Manhattan. He was 83.

As a young man, Mr. Roach, a percussion virtuoso capable of playing at the most brutal tempos with subtlety as well as power, was among a small circle of adventurous musicians who brought about wholesale changes in jazz. He remained adventurous to the end.

Over the years he challenged both his audiences and himself by working not just with standard jazz instrumentation, and not just in traditional jazz venues, but in a wide variety of contexts, some of them well beyond the confines of jazz as that word is generally understood.

He led a “double quartet” consisting of his working group of trumpet, saxophone, bass and drums plus a string quartet. He led an ensemble consisting entirely of percussionists. He dueted with uncompromising avant-gardists like the pianist Cecil Taylor and the saxophonist Anthony Braxton. He performed unaccompanied. He wrote music for plays by Sam Shepard and dance pieces by Alvin Ailey. He collaborated with video artists, gospel choirs and hip-hop performers.

He found himself in historic situations from the beginning of his career. He was still in his teens when he played drums with the alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, a pioneer of modern jazz, at a Harlem after-hours club in 1942. Within a few years, Mr. Roach was himself recognized as a pioneer in the development of the sophisticated new form of jazz that came to be known as bebop.

He was not the first drummer to play bebop — Kenny Clarke, 10 years his senior, is generally credited with that distinction — but he quickly established himself as both the most imaginative percussionist in modern jazz and the most influential. In Mr. Roach’s hands, the drum kit became much more than a means of keeping time. He saw himself as a full-fledged member of the front line, not simply as a supporting player. [...]

Always among the most politically active of jazz musicians, Mr. Roach had helped the bassist Charles Mingus establish one of the first musician-run record companies, Debut, in 1952. Eight years later, the two organized a so-called rebel festival in Newport, R.I., to protest the Newport Jazz Festival’s treatment of performers. That same year, Mr. Roach collaborated with the lyricist Oscar Brown Jr. on “We Insist! Freedom Now Suite,” which played variations on the theme of black people’s struggle for equality in the United States and Africa.

The album, which featured vocals by Abbey Lincoln (Mr. Roach’s frequent collaborator and, from 1962 to 1970, his wife), received mixed reviews: many critics praised its ambition, but some attacked it as overly polemical. Mr. Roach was undeterred. “I will never again play anything that does not have social significance,” he told Down Beat magazine after the album’s release. “We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we’re master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we’ve been through.”

“We Insist!” was not a commercial success, but it emboldened Mr. Roach to broaden his scope as a composer. Soon he was collaborating with choreographers, filmmakers and Off Broadway playwrights on projects, including a stage version of “We Insist!” [...]

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

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'Queen of mean' hotelier Helmsley dies

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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Interesting person.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

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Luciano Pavarotti dies at 71

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

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Was just coming to post that War. So sad.

Dolphinschild
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06-22-2006

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Me too War, thanks for posting it. I agree Eeyore, I have been choked up since I heard. I have been on youtube listening to him sing tonight. My youngest asked who he was and I told her he had one of the most beautiful voices and she sat and listened with me.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

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Very sad. Such an amazing talent.

Karen
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09-07-2004

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I didn't even know he was sick until the 6 o'clock news tonight, which said he'd been sent home from the hospital to leave this world in peace. So sad.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

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Ah I just came to report the same. He actually lived longer than they expected, but still very sad.

Italian Tenor Pavarotti Dies at Age 71
Luciano Pavarotti, whose vibrant high C's and ebullient showmanship made him the most beloved and celebrated tenor since Caruso and one of the few opera singers to win crossover fame as a popular superstar,...

Mocha
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08-12-2001

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Amazing talent.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

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That is sad. He was one of the few opera singers that I would actually seek out to listen to.

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

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May he rest in peace. I loved his voice.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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MIYOSHI UMEKI
1929-2007

She was a best supporting actress winner for the movie Sayonara. Very lovely and sweet in the part. Her winning performance was heartbreaking.

Maris
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03-28-2002

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She was also the nanny in Courtship of Eddie's father on TV. I can still picture her saying "Mr. Eddie's father"

It was sad about Pavarotti but I am glad he is free from suffering. He was ill for so long.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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Thanks, Maris, for reminding me she was on that program. Wasn't she a sweet person?

Neko
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08-03-2001

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Wow, OG.

I was really sad to hear Pavarotti died, but it wasn't very unexpected...

Dolphinschild
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06-22-2006

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OG's 12:13 posts having a melt down? lol

Wow, Mrs. Livingston is gone. I loved her in Courtship of Eddies Father. That was one of my favorite shows as a kid and I still miss that show. Thanks OG for posting it for us. I didn't know.

Maris
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03-28-2002

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Yep it was one of my favorite shows too. I loved Jodie Foster in it, she was a great kid.