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Callasin
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06-21-2005

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Thanks Wargod. I'll visit that section after work tonight.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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ROBERT JORDAN

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

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Alice Ghostley from Bewitched.

Man she was funny. I didn't realize she was still alive.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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ALICE GHOSTLEY

Biloxibelle
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12-21-2001

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Awww I am sorry to hear of Alice's passing. She could always make me laugh.

I loved her as Bernice Clifton on Designing Woman. To date one of the funniest episodes I have ever watched was when one of the girls gave her a Christmas present. It was a skirt meant for her Christmas tree and Bernice showed up wearing it herself.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

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Oh I loved her too! Biloxi that is one of my fav shows and I loved her on it.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

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Awwww she was such a funny lady.

Retired
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07-11-2001

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Mamie316
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07-08-2003

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She was wonderful on Designing Women. She will be missed.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

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:-( I remember her Hollywood Squares appearances. I always thought she was like a female version of Paul Lynde, the way she delivered her lines.

Racinrach
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11-16-2006

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That is sad. she played Esmeralda on bewitched... there wasn't a T.V show in the 70-80's she didn't pop on and make you laugh!

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

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Thanks Rach! I THOUGHT I remembered her from Bewitched, but couldn't remember who she played.

Konamouse
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07-16-2001

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Famed French Mime Marcel Marceau Dies

PARIS (AP) — Marcel Marceau, whose lithe gestures and pliant facial expressions revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence, died Saturday. He was 84.

Wearing white face paint, soft shoes and a battered hat topped with a red flower, Marceau — notably through his famed personnage Bip — played the entire range of human emotions onstage for more than 50 years, never uttering a word. Offstage, however, he was famously chatty. "Never get a mime talking. He won't stop," he once said.

A French Jew, Marceau escaped deportation during World War II — unlike his father, who died as Auschwitz — and worked with the French Resistance to protect Jewish children.

His biggest inspiration was Charlie Chaplin. Marceau, in turn, inspired countless young performers — Michael Jackson borrowed his famous "moonwalk" from a Marceau sketch, "Walking Against the Wind."

Marceau performed tirelessly around the world until late in life, never losing his agility, never going out of style. In one of his most poignant and philosophical acts, "Youth, Maturity, Old Age, Death," he wordlessly showed the passing of an entire life in just minutes.

"Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?" he once said.

Prime Minister Francois Fillon praised Marceau as "the master," saying he had the rare gift of "being able to communicate with each and everyone beyond the barriers of language."

In recent decades, Marceau took Bip from Mexico to China to Australia. He's also made film appearances. The most famous was Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie": He had the only speaking line, "Non!"

"France loses one of its most eminent ambassadors," President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a statement.

Marceau's former assistant, Emmanuel Vacca, announced the death on France-Info radio, but gave no details.

Marceau was born Marcel Mangel on March 22, 1923, in Strasbourg, France. His father Charles, a butcher who sang baritone, introduced his son to the world of music and theater at an early age. The boy adored the silent film stars of the era: Chaplin, Buster Keaton and the Marx brothers.

When the Germans marched into eastern France, he and his family were given just hours to pack their bags. He fled to southwest France and changed his last name to Marceau to hide his Jewish origins.

With his brother Alain, Marceau became active in the French Resistance. Marceau altered children's identity cards, changing their birth dates to trick the Germans into thinking they were too young to be deported. Because he spoke English, he was recruited to be a liaison officer with Gen. George S. Patton's army.

In 1944, Marceau's father was sent to Auschwitz, where he died.

Later, he reflected on his father's death: "Yes, I cried for him."

But he also thought of all the others killed: "Among those kids was maybe an Einstein, a Mozart, somebody who (would have) found a cancer drug," he told reporters in 2000. "That is why we have a great responsibility. Let us love one another."

When Paris was liberated, Marcel's life as a performer began. He enrolled in Charles Dullin's School of Dramatic Art, studying with the renowned mime Etienne Decroux.

On a tiny stage at the Theatre de Poche, a smoke-filled Left Bank cabaret, he sought to perfect the style of mime that would become his trademark.

Bip — Marceau's on-stage persona — was born.

Marceau once said that Bip was his creator's alter ego, a sad-faced double whose eyes lit up with child-like wonder as he discovered the world. Bip was a direct descendant of the 19th century harlequin, but his clownish gestures, Marceau said, were inspired by Chaplin and Keaton.

Marceau likened his character to a modern-day Don Quixote, "alone in a fragile world filled with injustice and beauty."

Dressed in a white sailor suit, a top hat — a red rose perched on top — Bip chased butterflies and flirted at cocktail parties. He went to war and ran a matrimonial service.

In one famous sketch, "Public Garden," Marceau played all the characters in a park, from little boys playing ball to old women with knitting needles.

In 1949, Marceau's newly formed mime troupe was the only one of its kind in Europe. But it was only after a hugely successful tour across the United States in the mid-1950s that Marceau received the acclaim that would make him an international star.

Single-handedly, Marceau revived the art of mime.

"I have a feeling that I did for mime what (Andres) Segovia did for the guitar, what (Pablo) Casals did for the cello," he once told The Associated Press in an interview.

As he aged, Marceau kept on performing at the same level, never losing the agility that made him famous.

"If you stop at all when you are 70 or 80, you cannot go on," he told The AP in an interview in 2003. "You have to keep working."

Funeral arrangements were not immediately known.
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My mother took me to a performance at the LA Civic Light Opera when I was a child. It was mesmerizing. His show stuck with me my entire life.


Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

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For Kona and other Marcel Marceau fans - click here for a wonderful Youtube.

Ophiliasgrandma
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MARCEL MARCEAU

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

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He was a gentle soul.

Retired
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07-11-2001

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Darrellh
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07-21-2004

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Sorry, the closest smilie I could find to Marcel. I remember watching him on the old Ed Sullivan Show.

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

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I think that's where I first saw him, too.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

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Ex-'Young and Restless' actor, Michael Evans dead
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British-born actor Michael Evans, who wooed Audrey Hepburn on Broadway in "Gigi" and was the best friend to a billionaire on the soap opera "The Young and the Restless," has died. He was 87.

Evans died September 4 from age-related complications, said his son Nick Evans.

From 1980 to 1995, Evans played Col. Douglas Austin, the friend of billionaire Victor Newman, on CBS's long-running "The Young and the Restless." Newman is played by Eric Braeden, who hailed Evans as "a total professional from the old English school, a gentleman through and through."

Evans made his London stage debut in 1948. In 1950, he came to Broadway for the short-lived play "Ring Round the Moon."

He went on co-star in the 1951 production of "Gigi" as the handsome Parisian who falls in love with young Gigi, played by Audrey Hepburn. The play, which made Hepburn a star, was based on the same novel by the French author Colette that was later turned into a Hollywood musical starring Leslie Caron.

In the late 1950s he played Henry Higgins in a touring production of "My Fair Lady," performing in the United States and abroad, including in Russia at the height of the Cold War.

Evans also appeared on numerous TV shows, including "Dr. Kildare," "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," "Hunter" and "I Spy," as well as in such films as "Bye Bye Birdie" and "Time After Time."

John Michael Evans was born in 1920 in Sittingbourne, England; his father had been a flier in World War I and his mother a concert violinist. The younger Evans served in the Royal Air Force in World War II

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

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I just loved when he was Douglas.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

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Oh yeah I remember him, dang.

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

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Wasn't he called the Colonel by Victor?

Cablejockey
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12-27-2001

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Lois Maxwell who played Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond movies, has died of cancer in Australia.http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/20610/Bond-fans-mourn-Miss-Moneypenny-dead-at-80

Jasper
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09-14-2000

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I used to be a faithful reader of her column in the Toronto Sun. She was a funny lady.