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Dolphinschild
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06-21-2006

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A tribute to Heath Ledger in Entertainment Weekly Magazine.

COVER STORY
Heath Ledger: Fallen Star
With his fearless role in the Oscar-winning ''Brokeback Mountain,'' the Aussie actor became far more than just a pretty face. Now with his untimely death, a career — and life — ends too soon.

(I don't know why it made the url so funky. I hope this works for everyone. If it doesn't, delete the first part up to the http:. That is the address.)

20173197%2C00.html,http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20173197,00.html

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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MARGARET TRUMAN DANIEL

Would one of you please post her information. She was quite a lady who lead an interesting life.

Darrellh
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07-21-2004

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Margaret Truman, the only child of former President Harry S. Truman who became a concert singer, actress, radio and TV personality and mystery writer, died Tuesday. She was 83.

Truman, known as Margaret Truman Daniel in private life, died at a Chicago assisted living facility following a brief illness, according to Susan Medler, a spokeswoman for the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence. She had been at the facility for the past several weeks and was on a respirator, the library said.

Her father's succession to the presidency in 1945 thrust her into the national spotlight while a college junior.

"I feel that I've lived several different lives and that was one of them," she said in 1980. "Some of it was fun, but most of it was not. It was a great view of history being made.

"The only thing I ever missed about the White House was having a car and driver," she once said.

Her singing career attracted the barbs of music critics — even the embarrassment of having her father threaten one reviewer. But she found a fulfilling professional and personal life in New York City where she met her husband, journalist Clifton Daniel, who later became managing editor of The New York Times. They married in 1956.


Mamie316
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07-08-2003

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Shell Kepler, who played nurse Amy Vining on "General Hospital" for more than 20 years, died yesterday in Portland, Ore.

According to the Medical Examiner's office, Kepler died of renal failure.

After her stint on "General Hospital" ended, Kepler moved to Portland and got involved in charity fundraising.

IMDb says she was 46, the M.E. says she was 49.


Retired
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07-11-2001

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Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

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I had to look her up, because I didn't remember her by name.


Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

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I had to look her up too Twiggy, Once I saw her picture I remembered her. too bad she was only a year older than me.

Konamouse
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07-16-2001

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Once you said "Amy Vining", I knew who you were talking about. Wow, didn't know she was sick. But Renal Failure could be acute (due to severe dehydration/sepsis/food poisoning) or chronic (on dialysis).


Twinkie
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09-24-2002

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Wow! I knew as soon as you said Amy Vining! I watched her so many years ago on GH. She was Laura Spenser's sister and she was always being real nosy, into everybody's business. What a shame.

Cablejockey
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12-27-2001

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Last man In iconic Flag Raising photo Dies.
Raymond jacobs, beleived to be the last survivng menber of the Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima, has died at 82.

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Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

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Rest in Peace Mr. Jacobs



Jasper
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09-14-2000

Tuesday, February 05, 2008 - 6:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jasper a private message Print Post    
Barry Morse, 89: Canadian actor-director

http://www.thestar.com/News/Obituary/article/300480

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

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He was awesome in The Fugitive! He lived a long life, too.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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BARRY MORSE

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a guru to the Beatles who introduced the West to transcendental meditation, died Tuesday at his home in the Dutch town of Vlodrop, a spokesman said. He was thought to be 91 years old.


Naja
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06-28-2003

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Roy Scheider of "Jaws" fame has passed away at the age of 75.

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Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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Mamie316
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07-08-2003

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My husband will be sad. Jaws is his favorite movie and he knows it line for line.

Lyn
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08-07-2002

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Rhoda's David Groh Dead at 68

"David Groh, who was best known to audiences as the handsome husband on Valerie Harper's 1970s sitcom Rhoda, has died at age 68. He died Tuesday from kidney cancer at L.A.'s Cedars-Sinai medical Center, with his wife at his side.

Groh played the husband of Harper's character, Rhoda Morgenstern. Rhoda launched in 1974 as spinoff of the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Though he was written out of the show following a divorce episode, in real life Harper and Groh remained good friends. He later went on to play roles in General Hospital, Baywatch and Law & Order, among others. He also appeared on Broadway, and in the films Get Shorty and Broken Vow.

Groh is survived by his son, mother, sister and wife."

Cablejockey
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12-27-2001

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So sad....i loved him on Rhoda.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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I'm sure the actor David Groh was a very fine man, but his character ruined the show for me.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

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:-( Dammit. 68 is waaay too young!

The Rhoda show was such a huge part of my youth. One of the few things mom and I enjoyed together.

(Doesn't he also appear in a Viagra commercial nowadays?)

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Johnnie Carr, who joined childhood friend Rosa Parks in the historic Montgomery bus boycott and kept a busy schedule of civil rights activism up to her final days, has died. She was 97.

Carr died Friday night, said Baptist Health hospital spokeswoman Melody Ragland. She had been hospitalized after a stroke Feb. 11.

Carr succeeded the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association in 1967, a post she held at her death. It was the newly formed association that led the boycott of city buses in the Alabama capital in 1955 after Parks, a black seamstress, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to whites on a crowded bus.

A year later the U.S. Supreme Court struck down racial segregation on public transportation.

"Johnnie Carr is one of the three major icons of the Civil Rights Movement: Dr. King, Rosa Parks and Johnnie Carr," said Morris Dees, co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center. "I think ultimately, when the final history books are written, she'll be one of the few people remembered for that terrific movement."

As the Improvement Association's president, Carr helped lead several initiatives to improve race relations and conditions for blacks. She was involved in a lawsuit to desegregate Montgomery schools, with her then-13-year-old son, Arlam, the named plaintiff.

"She hadn't been sick up until she had the stroke," Arlam Carr said Saturday. "It was such a massive stroke that she never was able to recover from it. She was still very active — going around and speaking — but it was just one of those things."

She played a prominent role in 2005 on the 50th anniversary of Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat, speaking to thousands of schoolchildren who marched to the Capitol.

"Look back, but march forward," Carr urged the huge crowd of young people.

She also traveled to memorial services in Washington, where her eulogy of Parks was "really the most dynamic" moment, recalled Julian Bond, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

"There were many people who spoke who were much better known ... but she carried the day," said Bond, who helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Just days before her stroke, Carr participated in King Day ceremonies in Montgomery, speaking after a parade. Admirers marveled at her energy and commitment into her 90s.

"She was always an encourager and not a divider," Mayor Bobby Bright told the Montgomery Advertiser. "She was just a loving person. She was truly the mother figure that we all so desperately needed in Montgomery during a very trying period of our history."

In a statement, Gov. Bob Riley said Carr was a "remarkable woman and will be deeply missed."

She was a true inspiration, Riley said, and "leaves behind a lasting legacy of pride, determination, and perseverance."

The family said funeral arrangements would be announced later.

Arlam Carr said that his mother's 97th birthday was last month, but that the only place her age showed was on paper.

"She was still driving her own car. How many 97-year-olds are still driving and you feel comfortable with their driving?" he said. "She has lived a very active life. If there's one thing about it, we all know we're going to leave here one day and this was just the time the Lord wanted her to 'come on'."

Dees said he, too, was impressed with Carr's vigor and amazed that "she never showed the strain of age. Her voice was strong and her spirit was always cheerful."

"One of the things I respect her for is she did not have the rancor and anger that so many local African-Americans of the civil rights movement had," he said. "She was very willing to build bridges. Montgomery's always been very divisive, and she showed an example of reaching across racial lines."

In recent decades, civil rights landmarks, including the site where Parks was arrested, have become historic points of interest for tourists.

"When we first started, we weren't thinking about history," Carr told The Associated Press in an interview in 2003. "We were thinking about the conditions and the discrimination."

Bond called Carr a "spark plug" and "one of the remaining links we had to the Montgomery bus boycott."

"She was remarkable to have had such a long career and to have held concern for justice in the forefront for all this time," he said. "It's a great tragedy that she's gone, and those of us who knew her are blessed to have that experience."


Ophiliasgrandma
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JOHNNIE CARR

Pretty lady!