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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 8:19 am
RIP to two funny guys.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 8:31 am
He was a very funny man. He will be missed. I used to love to watch him and his wife Dolly on Tattletales. They were a cute couple.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 12:32 pm
We never missed an episode of Laugh-In at our house growing up. Very funny stuff those two put together.
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Racsan
Member
04-09-2004
| Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 1:11 pm
So sad. I remember watching Laugh In when I was little.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 2:14 pm
We still have the fickle finger of fate...
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 7:55 pm
PHOENIX - Thelma Keane, the inspiration for the Mommy character in the long-running "Family Circus" comic created by her husband, Bil Keane, has died. She was 82. She died Friday of Alzheimer's disease, the family said. "Family Circus," which Keane began drawing in 1960, depicts the good-humored life of two parents and their four children. It is now featured in about 1,500 newspapers. "She was the inspiration for all of my success," Bil Keane, 85, told The Associated Press from his home in Paradise Valley on Sunday. "When the cartoon first appeared, she looked so much like Mommy that if she was in the supermarket pushing her cart around, people would come up to her and say, 'Aren't you the Mommy in 'Family Circus?' and she would admit it." Bil and Thelma "Thel" Keane met during World War II in the war bond office in Brisbane, Australia. She was a native Australian working as an accounting secretary, and Bil worked next to her as a promotional artist for the U.S. Army. "I had this desk alongside the most beautiful Australian 18-year-old girl with long brown hair," Bil Keane said. "And I got up enough nerve to ask her for a date." The two married in 1948 and moved to Bil Keane's hometown of Philadelphia. They had five children and moved to the Phoenix suburb of Paradise Valley in 1958. Not only was Thelma Keane the inspiration for the always-loving and ever-patient comic character also named Thel, but she worked full-time as her husband's business and financial manager. Her family says she was the reason Bil Keane became one of the first syndicated newspaper cartoonists to win back all rights to his comic. "There was nothing that I did in the cartoon world or in the business world that she wasn't the instigator of, and she certainly deserves all the credit that I get credit for," Bil Keane said. Thelma Keane's Alzheimer's disease was diagnosed about five years ago, and she had been at an assisted-living center near the family home for the last three years, said her daughter, Gayle Keane, 58, of Napa, Calif. Just last month, Gayle Keane said, her mother was singing and dancing as the family visited her and celebrated her birthday. "We all had a time to say goodbye in the end," Gayle Keane said. "I just think she's in a better place, and she's not dealing with that fog and confusion that Alzheimer's brings into your life." Bil Keane continues to produce "Family Circus" with the help of his youngest son, Jeff. Keane sketches out the ideas, characters and captions and sends them to Jeff for inking. In addition to Bil, Gayle and Jeff Keane, survivors include her sons Neal, Glen and Christopher, and nine grandchildren. Keane said that although his wife is gone, she is still with him. "The losing of Thel is a heartbreaking thing for me," he said. "However, it makes me realize how important she was to my worldly success, and I know where she is now, I feel that she's still helping me and probably giving me the inspirations you can only get from an angel in heaven.
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Landileigh
Member
07-29-2002
| Monday, May 26, 2008 - 12:42 am
I KNOW GAYLE KEANE! i didn't know she was THAT Keane!
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Monday, May 26, 2008 - 6:30 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_sydney_pollack LOS ANGELES - An agent for actor and director Sydney Pollack says the Academy Award winner has died. He was 73. Agent Leslee Dart says Pollack died of cancer Monday afternoon at his home in Pacific Palisades. She says Pollack was surrounded by family. Pollack appeared in some of the films he directed, including the gender-bending hit "Tootsie," which starred Dustin Hoffman. Pollack won producing and directing Oscars for "Out of Africa" in 1985. I really liked Sydney Pollack, both as an actor and a director. Sorry to hear he passed.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, May 26, 2008 - 6:53 pm
The world has lost a great talent. I'm very saddened by the loss.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Monday, May 26, 2008 - 7:46 pm
I liked him so much as an actor, a director, and a person.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Monday, May 26, 2008 - 8:01 pm

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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, May 26, 2008 - 9:32 pm
I didn't know he was sick. 
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Sharinia
Member
09-07-2002
| Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 6:31 am
Tootsie and Out of Africa are two of my fave movies ever he was a pretty handsome old fellow (but maybe thats just my Russian bias talking)
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 9:14 am
I loved him on Will & Grace.
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 11:36 am
His movie, The Way We Were, is one of my favorites.
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 9:50 am
Emmy-winning composer Earle Hagen dies at 88 "LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Earle Hagen, the prolific Emmy-winning composer of theme songs for "The Andy Griffith Show," "The Dick VanDyke Show," "That Girl" and "The Mod Squad" died of natural causes at his home near San Diego on Monday. He was 88. Hagen composed original music for more than 3,000 television shows during his three-decade career, which also included a tenure as an film score arranger and orchestrator for 20th Century Fox. In 1960, he shared an Oscar nomination with Lionel Newman as musical director for the Marilyn Monroe film "Let's Make Love." In 1968, he won an Emmy for his work on "I Spy." Hagen not only wrote the "Andy Griffith" theme, but also whistled the famous tune."
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 2:17 pm
Sad. His theme songs were terrific. I loved the Mod Squad theme. And all his other ones you mentioned were equally memorable. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BmurO7ZW_Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0-XrZoHj2k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRaMIKRZ19M
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 1:37 pm
Hockey player Luc Bourdon was killed Thursday afternoon when his motorcycle struck a tractor-trailer in northern New Brunswick, Canada. Bourdon played for the Vancouver Canucks and was the first round draft pick for the team. He was only 21-years old.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 1:40 pm
Awful. Can't wait to hear what Don Cherry has to say on Coaches Corner on Saturday. He's always so passionate about the young kids.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 2:12 pm
That's way too young.
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Tigerfan
Member
11-06-2003
| Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 2:13 pm
I read that as well. Truly tragic. Prayers for him and his family and team mates. 
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 2:17 pm
Sad news! Alexander Courage composer of TV Themes as well as Movie Themes died at age 88. He was best known for his theme music for Star Trek as well as The Walton's TV shows. (Chaplin posted that in my folder.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHhePr0TKfc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYyIPbPAQ2Y (The Walton's and Star Trek, were 2 of my all time fave shows! /mb)
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 2:54 pm
Luc Bourdon
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 3:00 pm
Alexander Courage
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 3:27 pm
When ever someone dies an early death, I often thing of this poem...thought I would find it and share A. E. Housman (1859-1936) XIX TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG THE time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market-place; Man and boy stood cheering by, And home we brought you shoulder-high. To-day, the road all runners come, Shoulder-high we bring you home, And set you at your threshold down, Townsman of a stiller town. Smart lad, to slip betimes away From fields where glory does not stay And early though the laurel grows It withers quicker than the rose. Eyes the shady night has shut Cannot see the record cut, And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears: Now you will not swell the rout Of lads that wore their honours out, Runners whom renown outran And the name died before the man. So set, before its echoes fade, The fleet foot on the sill of shade, And hold to the low lintel up The still-defended challenge-cup. And round that early-laurelled head Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead, And find unwithered on its curls The garland briefer than a girl's.
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