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Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Monday, June 23, 2008 - 11:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080623/ap_en_ot/obit_dody_goodman

Dody Goodman has also passed. So sad!

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Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Monday, June 23, 2008 - 11:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
I loved her voice.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Monday, June 23, 2008 - 11:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Can anyone see if there is anything on Youtube with her talking and link it here?

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Monday, June 23, 2008 - 12:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8jIP5RXE6s

Dody in Grease ... loved her!!

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Monday, June 23, 2008 - 1:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Oh no I loved her too!

Maris
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03-28-2002

Monday, June 23, 2008 - 1:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maris a private message Print Post    
One of my favorite standups of his was back in the early seventies, where he talked about going to catholic grammar school and about the rules in grammar school, like no running with scissors.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Monday, June 23, 2008 - 2:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Vacanick, that for the link showing Dody. I miss Eve Arden.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Monday, June 23, 2008 - 8:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
I'm 2nd VP of the county supervisor's assn and one of my duties is to give a thought of the day at our monthly meetings. I figured I would add a little flair and my first thought of the day was from George Carlin!! It was such a hit that I give a funny thought and then a serious one! I gave another Carlin thought last month.

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving's not for you.

LOL loved him!

Maris
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03-28-2002

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Op-Ed Contributor
Dying Is Hard. Comedy Is Harder.
By JERRY SEINFELD
Published: June 24, 2008
THE honest truth is, for a comedian, even death is just a premise to make jokes about. I know this because I was on the phone with George Carlin nine days ago and we were making some death jokes. We were talking about Tim Russert and Bo Diddley and George said: “I feel safe for a while. There will probably be a break before they come after the next one. I always like to fly on an airline right after they’ve had a crash. It improves your odds.”

I called him to compliment him on his most recent special on HBO. Seventy years old and he cranks out another hour of great new stuff. He was in a hotel room in Las Vegas getting ready for his show. He was a monster.

You could certainly say that George downright invented modern American stand-up comedy in many ways. Every comedian does a little George. I couldn’t even count the number of times I’ve been standing around with some comedians and someone talks about some idea for a joke and another comedian would say, “Carlin does it.” I’ve heard it my whole career: “Carlin does it,” “Carlin already did it,” “Carlin did it eight years ago.”

And he didn’t just “do” it. He worked over an idea like a diamond cutter with facets and angles and refractions of light. He made you sorry you ever thought you wanted to be a comedian. He was like a train hobo with a chicken bone. When he was done there was nothing left for anybody.

But his brilliance fathered dozens of great comedians. I personally never cared about “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television,” or “FM & AM.” To me, everything he did just had this gleaming wonderful precision and originality.

I became obsessed with him in the ’60s. As a kid it seemed like the whole world was funny because of George Carlin. His performing voice, even laced with profanity, always sounded as if he were trying to amuse a child. It was like the naughtiest, most fun grown-up you ever met was reading you a bedtime story.

I know George didn’t believe in heaven or hell. Like death, they were just more comedy premises. And it just makes me even sadder to think that when I reach my own end, whatever tumbling cataclysmic vortex of existence I’m spinning through, in that moment I will still have to think, “Carlin already did it.”

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Spygirl
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04-23-2001

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 8:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spygirl a private message Print Post    
Wow. Well written.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 8:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Very.

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 6:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    

quote:

He worked over an idea like a diamond cutter with facets and angles and refractions of light.




I loved that about Carlin's humor. Just when you thought he had explored all sides of a joke, he came up with something else that had your sides splitting.

Grooch
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06-16-2006

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 8:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grooch a private message Print Post    
Last night on Bravo (I believe the show is called "Inside the Actor's Studio") They ran an episode of George Carlin being interviewed.

Hopefully, they will repeat it and it is well worth watching, if you get the chance.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 10:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
SNL will have Carlin stuff this weekend. He was the first host ...

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 11:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
oh wow! I never knew that! very cool trivia!

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 11:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
That last line of Seinfeld's article made me LOL and also brought a tear to my eye.

Maris, thx so much for sharing that article.

Maris
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03-28-2002

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 11:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maris a private message Print Post    
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3PiZSFIVFiU

Chewpito
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01-04-2004

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NEW YORK (AP) -- A European Vogue cover model fell to her death from her Manhattan apartment building Saturday in an apparent suicide, published reports said.


Fashion model Ruslana Korshunova died Saturday in a fall from her apartment building in New York.

Ruslana Korshunova, 20, died around 2:30 p.m. in a fall from a building on Water Street, in Manhattan's Financial District, The New York Post, the Daily News and Newsday reported. The newspapers cited unnamed officials and police.

Police said the fall was under investigation. Korushnova's New York agency and a spokeswoman for medical examiners did not immediately return telephone messages.

Originally from the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, the almond-eyed, flowing-haired Korshunova appeared in advertisements and on runways for such designers as Marc Jacobs, Nina Ricci and DKNY. British Vogue hailed her as "a face to be excited about" in 2005.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Sunday, June 29, 2008 - 7:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    

RUSLANA KORSHUNOVA

What a shame. Her parents and those who love her must be devastated.

Jhonise
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07-10-2003

Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 12:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jhonise a private message Print Post    
‘Stargate: SG1’ actor signs off

By Chloe Tse


2008-07-02

Canadian Don S. Davis is dead at age 65
Army vet-turned-television star Don Sinclair Davis had a heart attack on Sunday that resulted in his death at the age of 65.

Davis was most famous for his role on Stargate SG-1 as General George Hammond and on Twin Peaks as Major Garland Briggs. He also played Dana Scully’s father on the popular ‘90s sci-fi drama The X-Files.

Reports say that a family friend told the Vancouver Sun that Davis had been dealing with heart problems for years and also suffered from diabetes.

Not just a television actor, Davis starred in horror movies such as Beneath and short thriller film Passing Darkness.

Davis leaves behind his wife, Ruby, and a son from his previous marriage.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 12:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
:-(

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 12:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
Oh wow. I liked him on SG-1.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 12:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
I'm very sad.

Merrysea
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08-13-2004

Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 12:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Merrysea a private message Print Post    
Oh, no, I loved General Hammond.

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 1:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
aww me, too. How sad.