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Zgoodgirl
Member
08-22-2003
| Friday, July 25, 2008 - 7:23 am
Randy Pausch
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, July 25, 2008 - 7:32 am

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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Friday, July 25, 2008 - 7:41 am
that is sad. I so enjoyed his "Last Lecture"
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, July 25, 2008 - 8:30 am
OG, I didn't know off the top of my head either, but I am pretty sure you have viewed his lecture. In case you have not, here it is: http://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/
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Imbewitched
Member
03-08-2002
| Friday, July 25, 2008 - 9:31 am
I am so sorry to hear that Randy Pausch has passed. I visited his website almost every day to see how he was doing. And also to see what new and fun things he was experiencing. He was a shining beacon of positivity and possibility.
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Yoda
Member
08-11-2005
| Friday, July 25, 2008 - 9:46 am
Randy Pausch was such an inspiration and even in his passing he still inspires me! Thoughts and prayers to his wife and young children.
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Friday, July 25, 2008 - 9:52 am
Oh, I am so so sad. What a wonderful man. The world really lost a good one today.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Friday, July 25, 2008 - 11:29 am
I'm sorry to hear that. He seemed like a truly special individual with a great appreciation for life.
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Sharinia
Member
09-07-2002
| Friday, July 25, 2008 - 12:07 pm
rip randy
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, July 25, 2008 - 1:02 pm
Aww, I'm really sad about Randy, too. He was something special with his message. Link
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Friday, July 25, 2008 - 2:54 pm
This is one that actually made me cry. I've been following him all year, and while it's certainly not unexpected, it IS a tragedy. Prayers for his wife, children, and all the friends and students whose lives he touched.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, August 04, 2008 - 3:39 pm
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian author http://news.aol.com/entertainment/article/russian-author-solzhenitsyn-dies/115551 MOSCOW - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author whose books chronicled the horrors of dictator Josef Stalin's slave labor camps, has died of heart failure, his son said Monday. He was 89. Stepan Solzhenitsyn told The Associated Press his father died late Sunday at his home near Moscow, but declined further comment. Through unflinching accounts of the years he spent in the Soviet gulag, Solzhenitsyn's novels and non-fiction works exposed the secret history of the vast prison system that enslaved millions. The accounts riveted his countrymen and earned him years of bitter exile, but international renown. And they inspired millions, perhaps, with the knowledge that one person's courage and integrity could, in the end, defeat the totalitarian machinery of an empire. Beginning with the 1962 short novel "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," Solzhenitsyn (sohl-zheh-NEETS'-ihn) devoted himself to describing what he called the human "meat grinder" that had caught him along with millions of other Soviet citizens: capricious arrests, often for trifling and seemingly absurd reasons, followed by sentences to slave labor camps where cold, starvation and punishing work crushed inmates physically and spiritually. ...
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Monday, August 04, 2008 - 3:49 pm
Years ago I read his 3 most famous novels. Startling!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Monday, August 04, 2008 - 3:50 pm

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Sandra
Member
07-06-2004
| Saturday, August 09, 2008 - 6:25 am
Bernie Mac 
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, August 09, 2008 - 6:42 am
Actor and comedian Bernie Mac dies at age 50 Actor and comedian Bernie Mac died Saturday in a Chicago-area hospital from complications from pneumonia. Bernie Mac, the Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actor and comedian who worked his way to Hollywood success from an impoverished upbringing on Chicago's South Side, died Saturday at age 50. "Actor/comedian Bernie Mac passed away this morning from complications due to pneumonia in a Chicago area hospital," his publicist, Danica Smith, said in a statement from Los Angeles. She said no other details were available and asked that his family's privacy be respected. The comedian suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body's organs, but had said the condition went into remission in 2005. He recently was hospitalized and treated for pneumonia, which his publicist said was not related to the disease. Recently, Mac's brand of comedy caught him flack when he was heckled during a surprise appearance at a July fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate and fellow Chicagoan Barack Obama. Toward the end of a 10-minute standup routine, Mac joked about menopause, sexual infidelity and promiscuity, and used occasional crude language. The performance earned him a rebuke from Obama's campaign. But despite controversy or difficulties, in his words, Mac was always a performer. "Wherever I am, I have to play," he said in 2002. "I have to put on a good show." Mac started his comedy career at age 8, with a standup performance at a church dinner. In 1977, at age 20, he took that act to comedy clubs in Chicago. His film career started with a small role as a club doorman in the Damon Wayans movie Mo' Money in 1992. Mac went on to star in the Ocean's Eleven franchise with Brad Pitt and George Clooney and his turn with Ashton Kutcher in 2005's Guess Who? — a remake of the Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn 1967 classic Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? — topped the box office. Mac also had starring roles in Bad Santa, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and Transformers. The comedian drew critical and popular acclaim with his Fox television series The Bernie Mac Show, which aired more than 100 episodes from 2001 to 2006. The series about a man's adventures raising his sister's three children, won a Peabody Award in 2002. At the time, judges wrote they chose the sitcom for transcending "race and class while lifting viewers with laughter, compassion — and cool." The show garnered Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for Mac. He also was nominated for a Grammy award for best comedy album in 2001 along with his The Original Kings of Comedy co-stars, Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley and Cedric The Entertainer. In 2007, Mac told David Letterman on CBS' Late Show that he planned to retire soon. "I'm going to still do my producing, my films, but I want to enjoy my life a little bit," Mac told Letterman. "I missed a lot of things, you know. I was a street performer for two years. I went into clubs in 1977." Mac was born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough on Oct. 5, 1957, in Chicago. He grew up on the city's South Side, living with his mother and grandparents. His grandfather was the deacon of a Baptist church. In his 2004 memoir, Maybe You Never Cry Again, Mac wrote about having a poor childhood — eating bologna for dinner — and a strict, no-nonsense upbringing. Mac's mother died of cancer when he was 16. In his book, Mac said she was a support for him and told him he would surprise everyone when he grew up. "Woman believed in me," he wrote. "She believed in me long before I believed." http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5933770.html
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Saturday, August 09, 2008 - 7:16 am
Pneumonia is so common, but still deadly.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Saturday, August 09, 2008 - 7:19 am
So sad. In February 2005, Mac, then 47, revealed that for the previous two decades he had suffered from sarcoidosis, an autoimmune disease that causes inflammation in organs such as the lungs or lymph nodes. "It has not altered or limited my lifestyle," he said at the time. Since 1977, Mac was married to Rhonda McCullough, with whom he had a daughter, Je'Niece, born in 1978. A graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana (with a bachelors degree in psychology and a masters in mental health counseling), Je'Niece married in 2003 and also has a daughter, Jasmine. His family survives Mac.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Saturday, August 09, 2008 - 7:22 am
That is really sad. I loved Bernie Mac. Great comedian, his facial expressions were great. Loved him in the Ocean movies.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Saturday, August 09, 2008 - 7:24 am

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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, August 09, 2008 - 8:37 am
So very sad.
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Saturday, August 09, 2008 - 8:41 am
Wow, that really sucks.
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Holly
Member
07-22-2001
| Saturday, August 09, 2008 - 8:50 am
I really, really liked him. Just looking at him made me laugh. What a shame.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Saturday, August 09, 2008 - 9:04 am

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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Saturday, August 09, 2008 - 9:46 am
Wow, I just learned about Bernie Mac. Too young, what a loss!
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