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Dahli
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11-27-2000

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Oh wow, look at her, a real and true beauty at 97....amazing.

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

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What a cute, mischievous smile she has. What an example of selfless living. Thank God for people like her.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

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Yes, thanks BR for posting that I'd never heard of her before, and thanks to you, I will never forget her!

I've said it before and I'll say it again, those WWII Righteous Christians are my very favourite, dearest, bravest people on Earth.

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

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What a beautiful smile on Irene's face. Thank God for people like her in this world.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

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What a fantastic courageous decent person. I'm happy that she is remembered.

Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

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She was an angel amongst us.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

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Thanks for posting about Irena!

Babyruth
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07-19-2001

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Darrellh
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07-21-2004

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Actor John Phillip Law, angel in 'Barbarella,' dies at 70

LOS ANGELES - John Phillip Law, the strikingly handsome 1960s movie actor who portrayed an angel in the futuristic "Barbarella" and a lovesick Russian seaman in "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming," has died. He was 70.

Law died Tuesday at his Los Angeles home, said his daughter Dawn Law. The cause of death was not announced.

With his vivid eyes, blond hair and imposing physique, Law was much in demand by filmmakers in the late 1960s and early '70s.

He gained wide notice in 1966 with Alan Arkin, Carl Reiner and Theo Bikel in "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming," Norman Jewison's Cold War comedy in which a Soviet submarine runs aground off a peaceful New England island town.

He played the sweet Russian youth who falls in love with a local American girl in the film, which was nominated for four Oscars including best picture, actor (Arkin) and director.

French director Roger Vadim put Law's looks to good use in his 1968 science fiction film, "Barbarella," which starred Vadim's wife at the time, Jane Fonda, as a sexy space traveler in the faraway future. Law wore wings to portray Pygar, a blind angel.

"I've had more kicks out of playing far-out things," Law told the Los Angeles Times in 1966. "It's like putting on a funny face and going out in front of people and going, 'yaaaaaa.'"

Messages left Thursday for Fonda's New York publicist were not returned.

Law was World War I ace Baron Manfred von Richtofen in the 1971 "The Red Baron" and Charlton Heston's son in "The Hawaiians," a 1970 sequel to "Hawaii," based on James Michener's sprawling novel.

In Otto Preminger's 1967 film, "Hurry Sundown," he was a war veteran struggling to preserve his farm against a land speculator played by Michael Caine. Fonda played Caine's wife.

He continued his career in a variety of U.S. and foreign films and television over the past 30 years, including appearances in "The Young and the Restless" and "Murder, She Wrote."

Maris
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03-28-2002

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I can still hear him saying "Alison Palmer" in the Russians are coming. He was one hunk!!! Those blue eyes.

Maris
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03-28-2002

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law

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

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Landileigh
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07-29-2002

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i know this won't mean much to most people... but my whole valley is just stunned right now...
Robert Mondavi passed away at 9:00am this morning...


Escapee
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06-15-2004

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OMG! Such good wine! Such good California wine!

Merrysea
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08-13-2004

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OMG, landi, I just typed a blurb for the Weekender on the party Copia is(was) having on June 29 to celebrate his 95th birthday. It said he was the founder of his industry.

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

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I have been to the Mondavi Center several times here on campus. It's just beautiful!

Very sad news!

Merrysea
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08-13-2004

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Nic, the Mondavi Center really is incredible, isn't it. Have you taken the tour or seen performances there?

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

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It means something to me. That is sad.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

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Wow, it sure means something to me, too, landi!

Maris
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03-28-2002

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I would say at 95 he had a great life, wonderful accomplishment and left a legacy of some very nice wines.

Landileigh
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07-29-2002

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what most people don't understand is that he was the kind of guy you might see buying a sandwich at the local deli (the napa valley isn't big) or his wife might be reading (which she has done) to kindergartners. my valley has a total of 100,000 people from napa to calistoga residents. and we go to a 1,500,000 over the weekend. that was made possible thanks to the efforts of Bob Mondavi. i've had a few short conversations with him in my 20 years in this valley and he was always friendly and kind.

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

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Robert Mondavi

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

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Dick Martin of Rowan & Martin has died at age 86.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

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TV's 'Laugh-in' comic Dick Martin dies at 86 By BOB THOMAS, Associated Press Writer
Sun May 25, 4:12 AM ET



LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died. He was 86.

Martin, who went on to become one of television's busiest directors after splitting with Dan Rowan in the late 1970s, died Saturday night of respiratory complications at a hospital in Santa Monica, family spokesman Barry Greenberg said.

"He had had some pretty severe respiratory problems for many years, and he had pretty much stopped breathing a week ago," Greenberg said.

Martin had lost the use of one of his lungs as a teenager, and needed supplemental oxygen for most of the day in his later years.

He was surrounded by family and friends when he died just after 6 p.m., Greenberg said.

"Laugh-in," which debuted in January 1968, was unlike any comedy-variety show before it. Rather than relying on a series of tightly scripted song-and-dance segments, it offered up a steady, almost stream-of-consciousness run of non-sequitur jokes, political satire and madhouse antics from a cast of talented young actors and comedians that also included Ruth Buzzi, Arte Johnson, Henry Gibson, Jo Anne Worley and announcer Gary Owens.

Presiding over it all were Rowan and Martin, the veteran nightclub comics whose standup banter put their own distinct spin on the show.

Like all straight men, Rowan provided the voice of reason, striving to correct his partner's absurdities. Martin, meanwhile, was full of bogus, often risque theories about life, which he appeared to hold with unwavering certainty.

Against this backdrop, audiences were taken from scene to scene by quick, sometimes psychedelic-looking visual cuts, where they might see Hawn, Worley and other women dancing in bathing suits with political slogans, or sometimes just nonsense, painted on their bodies. Other times, Gibson, clutching a flower, would recite nonsensical poetry or Johnson would impersonate a comical Nazi spy.

"Laugh-In" astounded audiences and critics alike. For two years the show topped the Nielsen ratings, and its catchphrases_ "Sock it to me," "You bet your sweet bippy" and "Look that up in your Funk and Wagnall's" — were recited across the country.

Stars such as John Wayne and Kirk Douglas were delighted to make brief appearances, and even Richard Nixon, running for president in 1968, dropped in to shout a befuddled sounding, "Sock it to me!" His opponent, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, was offered equal time but declined because his handlers thought it would appear undignified.

Rowan and Martin landed the show just as their comedy partnership was approaching its zenith and the nation's counterculture was expanding into the mainstream.

The two were both struggling actors when they met in 1952. Rowan had sold his interest in a used car dealership to take acting lessons, and Martin, who had written gags for TV shows and comedians, was tending bar in Los Angeles to pay the rent.

Rowan, hearing Martin was looking for a comedy partner, visited him at the bar, where he found him eating a banana.

"Why are you eating a banana?" he asked.

"If you've ever eaten here, you'd know what's with the banana," he replied, and a comedy team was born.

Although their early gigs in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley were often performed gratis, they donned tuxedos for them and put on an air of success.

"We were raw," Martin recalled years later, "but we looked good together and we were funny."

They gradually worked up to the top night spots in New York, Miami and Las Vegas and began to appear regularly on television.

In 1966, they provided the summer replacement for "The Dean Martin Show." Within two years, they were headlining their own show.

The novelty of "Laugh-In" diminished with each season, however, and as major players such as Hawn and Tomlin moved on to bigger careers, interest in the series faded.

After the show folded in 1973, Rowan and Martin capitalized on their fame with a series of high-paid engagements around the country. They parted amicably in 1977.

"Dan has diabetes, and his doctor advised him to cool it," Martin told The Associated Press at the time.

Rowan, a sailing enthusiast, spent his last years touring the canals of Europe on a houseboat. He died in 1987.

Martin moved onto the game-show circuit, but quickly tired of it. After he complained about the lack of challenges in his career, fellow comic Bob Newhart's agent suggested he take up directing.

He was reluctant at first, but after observing on "The Bob Newhart Show," he decided to try. He would recall later that it was "like being thrown into the deep end of the swimming pool and being told to sink or swim."

Soon he was one of the industry's busiest TV directors, working on numerous episodes of "Newhart" as well as such shows as "In the Heat of the Night," "Archie Bunker's Place" and "Family Ties."

Born into a middle-class family in Battle Creek, Mich., Martin had worked in a Ford auto assembly plant after high school.

After an early failed marriage, he was for years a confirmed bachelor. He finally settled down in middle age, marrying Dolly Read, a former bunny at the Playboy Club in London. Survivors include his wife and two sons, actor Richard Martin and Cary Martin.

At Martin's request there will be no funeral, Greenberg said.

Martin lost the use of his right lung when he was 17, something that never bothered him until his final years, when he required oxygen 18 hours a day.

Arriving for a party celebrating his 80th birthday, he fainted and was treated by doctors and paramedics. The party continued, however, and he cracked, "Boy, did I make an entrance!"

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Associated Press writer Andrew Dalton contributed to this report.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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You can't have one without the other.


Rowan and Martin