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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, August 11, 2008 - 6:27 pm
Sea, I thought the very same thing about Mr. Jackson.
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Chewpito
Member
01-04-2004
| Monday, August 11, 2008 - 6:43 pm
I havent posted in a bit, was so shocked and sad about Bernie Mac's passing...So young and so much fun to watch....what sad news... Then yesterday while at the gym I hear that Isaac Hayes has left us too....Im just so sad... Issac was huge in my life... I have many fond memories with his music in the back ground....What a great loss.. Im so sad at his passing..
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Weinermr
Member
08-18-2001
| Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 1:51 pm
Here's number 3. George Furth is in the center.
By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer August 12, 2008 George Furth, an actor and Tony Award-winning playwright who wrote the book for the landmark 1970 Broadway musical "Company" and also wrote the 1971 play "Twigs," died Monday morning. He was 75. Furth died at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, according to Dennis Aspland, his agent. Aspland said that Furth had been healthy until a week ago and that he did not know the cause of death. "As a writer and as an actor and as an enthusiast, I think he epitomized those things in theater and entertainment that are good," said Warren Beatty, a close friend. Beatty was 18 when he met Furth at Northwestern University in the '50s. Furth had returned for a visit to his alma mater. "I've never known anybody with more genuine friendships," Beatty told The Times on Monday. "Everybody who knew him loved him." Furth won a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for best book of a musical for "Company," which ran on Broadway from 1970 to 1972 with Dean Jones as the central character. "Company," with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, is the story of a young bachelor in Manhattan surrounded by married couples, all of whom have different attitudes about his being single. " 'Company' is the show that put him on the map," Miles Kreuger, president of the Los Angeles-based Institute of the American Musical, told The Times on Monday. "It's one of the most important musicals of its era. " 'Company' tells us more about the cynicism of urban America in the 1970s than all the sociological tracts ever written. It is a work of considerable wisdom." With Sondheim writing the music and lyrics, Furth also wrote the book for "Merrily We Roll Along," the 1981 musical based on the George S. Kaufman-Moss Hart play. Furth and Sondheim also co-wrote the 1996 play "Getting Away With Murder," a murder mystery that had a short run on Broadway. Furth also wrote the book for the 1977 musical "The Act." He was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for outstanding new play for "Precious Sons," which had a short run on Broadway in 1986. His 1981 comedy "The Supporting Cast" also had a brief run on Broadway. Furth had a long career as a character actor, appearing in more than 85 films and TV show episodes from the early '60s to the late '90s. He may be best remembered for his role in the 1969 western "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." He played Woodcock, the devoted railroad clerk who refuses to open the train car containing the safe for the outlaws. Furth also played the banker that Beatty's Beverly Hills hairdresser character tries to get a loan from in the 1975 movie "Shampoo." "I loved what he did for us," Beatty said. "He was a great comedian, George." Furth was born George Schweinfurth on Dec. 14, 1932, in Chicago. He graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor's degree in speech in 1954 and received a master's of fine arts from Columbia University in 1956. Aspland said Furth had no known surviving immediate family members. At Furth's request, there will be no funeral service; a memorial service is pending. dennis.mclellan@ latimes.com
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 8:29 am
From Soul Men

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Sharinia
Member
09-07-2002
| Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 8:49 am
I didn't know that Bernie Mac was living in the chicago area (again). He died in the hospital that my nephew was born in (northwestern memorial). Hard to believe ..
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 8:59 am
Sally Allen, known as the world's tallest woman, at 7 ft 7 in, has died at the age of 53. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/13/national/main4347348.shtml?source=mostpop_story
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 9:14 am
I've seen Sandy Allen interviewed on tv, she seemed like a very nice lady!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 3:19 pm
I read this morning that Isaac Hayes had a stroke.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 4:31 pm
Yeah I read that too Sea. 
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 4:16 pm
Original member of The Spinners dies in Detroit DETROIT (AP) — Pervis Jackson, one of the original members of the R&B group The Spinners, has died at a Detroit hospital. Claudreen Jackson says her husband, Pervis, died about 2 a.m. Monday at Sinai-Grace. She says the 70-year-old bass singer had been diagnosed two days ago with brain and liver cancer. She says doctors found tumors late last month, but were unsure at the time if they were malignant. Pervis Jackson last performed with other members of the group in mid-July in California. The Spinners formed in Detroit as a 1950s doo-wop group. They strung together a number of hits in the 1970s that included Mighty Love and I'll Be Around with Atlantic Records. In addition to his wife of 40 years, Jackson is survived by two daughters and two sons.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 6:51 pm
I love the Spinners! My old high school music. How sad.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 7:00 pm
Now I've got "It's A Shame" stuck in my head.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 7:01 pm
"LeRoi Moore, saxophonist and founding member of Dave Matthews Band, died unexpectedly Tuesday afternoon, August 19, 2008, at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles from sudden complications stemming from his June ATV accident on his farm near Charlottesville, Virginia. Moore had recently returned to his Los Angeles home to begin an intensive physical rehabilitation program."
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 7:01 pm
Here's the Spinners' It's A Shame: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgqsmV95U4Q
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 7:03 pm

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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 7:04 pm
Dave Mathews Band - Say Goodbye: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkjdA1TiI8s&feature=related
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 9:29 pm
quote:LeRoi Moore (Born Gary Lee Moore) (September 7, 1961 - August 19, 2008) was the saxophonist for the Dave Matthews Band. ATV accident and death Moore was injured on June 30, 2008 in an ATV accident on his farm outside Charlottesville, Virginia, breaking several ribs and puncturing a lung[citation needed], and was hospitalized at UVA for several days. Jeff Coffin, the saxophonist from Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, stood in for Moore on subsequent tour dates. Though released several days later, Moore was re-hospitalized in mid-July for complications related to the accident. On August 19, 2008, the official Dave Matthews Band website reported that Moore died of complications from his injuries in the ATV accident. The following statement was released on the band's website: We are deeply saddened that LeRoi Moore, saxophonist and founding member of Dave Matthews Band, died unexpectedly Tuesday afternoon, August 19, 2008, at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles from sudden complications stemming from his June ATV accident on his farm near Charlottesville, Virginia. LeRoi had recently returned to his Los Angeles home to begin an intensive physical rehabilitation program. [4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeRoi_Moore
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 3:07 am
I know Meggieprice is meeting PrincessGrace at the Dave concert this weekend, I am sure it will be a hard concert for the band to play so soon after this sad news
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 2:06 pm
Very sad for them and for all their rabid fans, but probably better for all of them to be together.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 5:51 am
and it just keeps coming: NFL union chief Gene Upshaw dies at 63 NFL Players Association executive director Gene Upshaw has died, apparently of pancreatic cancer. His death was confirmed Thursday morning by Jeffrey Kessler, a lawyer who has represented the NFLPA in labor negotiations. Kessler said Upshaw did not receive his diagnosis until Sunday night "and he didn't tell anybody. He didn't know until Sunday." Employees of the NFLPA, based in Washington, D.C., were beginning to get word of Upshaw's death around 8:30 a.m. ET. The Hall of Fame guard who played 16 seasons for the Oakland Raiders was 63. He was a seven-time Pro Bowl selection and an five-time all-pro. He also played on two Super Bowl champions and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1987, the same year he led a players' strike as union chief. Upshaw is survived by his wife, Terri, and sons, Justin, Daniel and Eugene Jr.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 6:06 am
Shocking!! On a side note, my father was born and raised in Oakland. He was a huge early Raiders fan. My grandmother was an even bigger fan. She would be so sad!!!
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Earthmother
Member
07-14-2002
| Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 6:53 am
I used to work at the Oakland Hilton, home of the Raiders back in the day. Mr. Upshaw was always pleasant and respectful, unlike many of his team-mates.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 7:59 am
This is a sad day for all of us Raider fans. My husband's ex-girlfriend (his sister's best friend) used to work at the Hilton too.
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Landileigh
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 9:30 am
when i was 15, at my first job (gift wrapping at Macy's Bayfair), Mr. Upshaw came in to get the present for his wife gift wrapped for christmas. I was given the job. It was 1978, so you can imagine the size, but, it was a console television! i had to have 2 guys lifting while i wrapped. he gave me a $50 tip, considering the gift wrap was free.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Friday, August 22, 2008 - 7:11 am
Congressional Medal of Honor winner Ed (Too tall to fly) Freeman passed away yesterday. I just read the book "We were Soldiers Once...and Young". Ed (Too tall) and Bruce Crandall were helicopter pilots who ignored orders and landed time and time again in a hot zone to evacuate the wounded. They ferried the wounded between the hot zone and a safer place where the medivac helicopters would land. If not for their bravery, who knows how many more men we would have lost during that battle in the Ia Drang valley. He was an amazing man...a made of the right stuff. I'm glad I had the opportunity to learn about his exploits just in time to honor his passing. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/galloway/story/49688.html
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