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Zgoodgirl
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08-22-2003
| Friday, August 22, 2008 - 10:52 am
Cult Legend Julius 'Sho'nuff' Carry Dies (Aug. 21) He had dozens of other gigs over the years, but to many, Julius J. Carry III will always be known as Sho'nuff. The 'Last Dragon' actor who make putting on and taking off sunglasses cool way before David Caruso died on Aug. 19 from pancreatic cancer complications at the age of 56

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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, August 22, 2008 - 4:29 pm
WTH is going ON lately?
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Mocha
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08-12-2001
| Saturday, August 23, 2008 - 6:06 pm

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Earthmother
Member
07-14-2002
| Saturday, August 23, 2008 - 6:17 pm
when did she work there Mamie? I was still there when Howie Long was a rookie!!! Crap I'm old. Actually Gene Upshaw lived in San Lorenzo which is a small suburb a couple of miles from Oakland while he played for the Raiders. His son and mine played baseball together.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, August 23, 2008 - 6:21 pm
My husband grew up in San Lorenzo! Small world. Kathy worked there in the late 70s, I think.
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Earthmother
Member
07-14-2002
| Saturday, August 23, 2008 - 6:28 pm
Mamie, I sent you an email
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Landileigh
Member
07-29-2002
| Saturday, August 23, 2008 - 11:08 pm
and i was born in oakland in 62, and moved to castro valley in 72. graduated castro valley high 1979. mamie and i have talked and we have similar childhoods. earthmother, i bet we'd all have similar stories.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, September 02, 2008 - 11:51 am
Don LaFontaine, the man who popularized the now loved-catch phrase, "in a world where..." and lent his voice to thousands of movie previews, has died. He was 68. LaFontaine died Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from complications in the treatment of an ongoing illness, said Vanessa Gilbert, his agent. LaFontaine made more than 5,000 previews, called trailers, in his 33-year career while working for the top studios and television networks. In a rare on-screen appearance in 2006, he parodied himself on a series of U.S. television commercials for a car insurance company where he played himself telling a customer, "In a world where both of our cars were totally under water..." Movie trailers won't ever be the same.
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Tuesday, September 02, 2008 - 1:49 pm
Singer-actor Jerry Reed dies at the age of 71 By JOHN GEROME, Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Jerry Reed, a singer who became a good ol' boy actor in car chase movies like "Smokey and the Bandit," has died of complications from emphysema at 71. His longtime booking agent, Carrie Moore-Reed, no relation to the star, said Reed died early Monday. "He's one of the greatest entertainers in the world. That's the way I feel about him," Moore-Reed said. Sony BMG Nashville Chairman Joe Galante called Reed a larger-than-life personality. "Everything about Jerry was distinctive: his guitar playing, writing, voice and especially his sense of humor," Galante said. "I was honored to have worked with him." Reed's catalog of country chart hits, from 1967 through 1983, were released under the label group's RCA imprint. As a singer in the 1970s and early 1980s, Reed had a string of hits that included "Amos Moses," "When You're Hot, You're Hot," "East Bound and Down," "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)" and "The Bird." In the mid-1970s, he began acting in movies such as "Smokey and the Bandit" with Burt Reynolds, usually as a good ol' boy. But he was an ornery heavy in "Gator," directed by Reynolds, and a hateful coach in 1998's "The Waterboy," starring Adam Sandler. Reynolds gave him a shiny black 1980 Trans Am like the one they used in "Smokey and the Bandit." Reed and Kris Kristofferson paved the way for Nashville music personalities to make inroads into films. Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson and Kenny Rogers (TV movies) followed their lead. "I went around the corner to motion pictures," he said in a 1992 AP interview. Reed had quadruple bypass surgery in June 1999. Born in Atlanta, Reed learned to play guitar at age 8 when his mother bought him a $2 guitar and showed him how to play a G-chord. He dropped out of high school to tour with Ernest Tubb and Faron Young. At 17, he signed his first recording contract, with Capitol Records. He moved to Nashville in the mid-1960s where he caught the eye of Chet Atkins. He first established himself as a songwriter. Elvis Presley recorded two of his songs, "U.S. Male" and "Guitar Man" (both in 1968). He also wrote the hit "A Thing Called Love," which was recorded in 1972 by Johnny Cash. He also wrote songs for Brenda Lee, Tom Jones, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole and the Oak Ridge Boys. Reed was voted instrumentalist of the year in 1970 by the Country Music Association. He won a Grammy Award for "When You're Hot, You're Hot" in 1971. A year earlier, he shared a Grammy with Chet Atkins for their collaboration, "Me and Jerry." In 1992, Atkins and Reed won a Grammy for "Sneakin' Around." Reed continued performing on the road into the late 1990s, doing about 80 shows a year. "I'm proud of the songs, I'm proud of things that I did with Chet (Atkins), I'm proud that I played guitar and was accepted by musicians and guitar players," he told the AP in 1992. In a 1998 interview with The Tennessean, he admitted that his acting ability was questionable. "I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, `I could never do that.' "When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: Money."
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Tuesday, September 02, 2008 - 3:41 pm
http://tinyurl.com/6dmasf The voice over king dies.
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Tuesday, September 02, 2008 - 5:42 pm
Wow, a lot of passings. I loved Jerry Reed in Smoky and the Bandit, especially with that dog. What was the dog's name and breed? He was hilarious.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Tuesday, September 02, 2008 - 5:55 pm
Jerry Reed Just Sunday I was taking about my fave Smokey And The Bandit scene where he ran over the row of motorcyles parked outside the bar. Funny!
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Mamie316
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07-08-2003
| Wednesday, September 03, 2008 - 6:33 pm
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Bill Melendez, best known for bringing the Peanuts characters to life with such classics as "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," died Tuesday at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica. He was 91. Melendez, the only animator permitted by Charles M. Schulz to work with the Peanuts characters, earned eight Emmy Awards, 17 Emmy nominations, one Oscar nomination and two Peabody Awards. He began his career at Disney and Warner Bros., working on classic characters at those studios, and spent more than 70 years in the entertainment industry. In 1948, the Mexican native left Warner Bros. and for more than a decade served as a director and producer on more than 1,000 commercials and films for United Productions of America, Playhouse Pictures and John Sutherland Prods. It was at UPA that Melendez started doing work for the New York-based J. Walter Thompson ad agency, whose clients included Ford. The carmaker expressed interest in using the Peanuts characters to sell its cars on TV, and in 1959 Melendez prepared his animation work and showed it to Peanuts creator Schulz. Melendez went on to bring Charlie Brown and his pals to the screen in more than 63 half-hour specials, five one-hour specials, four feature films and more than 372 commercials. In addition to perennial favorites "A Charlie Brown Christmas" (1965) and "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" (1966), Melendez produced the Oscar-nominated "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" (1971), "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" (1973), "She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown" (1980) and "You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown" (1975). He also provided the voices for Snoopy and Woodstock through the years. Melendez also animated TV specials "Garfield on the Town," "Cathy," "Babar Comes to America" and "The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe," among others. He shared an Emmy in 1987 for outstanding animated program with three others for "Cathy." His last credit was as a producer for the 2006 TV special "He's A Bully, Charlie Brown." Melendez, who sported a handle bar mustache for decades, began his career at Walt Disney Studios and worked on "Pinocchio," "Fantasia," "Bambi," "Dumbo" and classic Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck cartoons. He then moved to Warners to animate Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and others. He worked under the monikers C. Melendez and J.C. Melendez.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, September 13, 2008 - 11:38 pm
Writer David Foster Wallace found dead LA Times David Foster Wallace, the novelist, essayist and humorist best known for his 1996 novel "Infinite Jest," was found dead Friday night at his home in Claremont, according to the Claremont Police Department. He was 46. Jackie Morales, a records clerk at the department, said Wallace's wife called police at 9:30 p.m. Friday saying she had returned home to find that her husband had hanged himself. [...] "He is one of the main writers who brought ambition, a sense of play, a joy in storytelling and an exuberant experimentalism of form back to the novel in the late '80s and early 1990s," Ulin said. "And he really restored the notion of the novel as a kind of canvas on which a writer can do anything." Wallace won a cult following for his dark humor and ironic wit, which was on display in "The Broom of the System," his 1987 debut novel; "Girl With Curious Hair," a 1989 collection of short stories, and "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments" (1997). In 1997, he also received a grant from the MacArthur Foundation. In a 1996 profile in the New York Times Magazine, Frank Bruni wrote, "Wallace is to literature what Robin Williams or perhaps Jim Carrey is to live comedy: a creator so maniacally energetic and amused with himself that he often follows his riffs out into the stratosphere, where he orbits all alone." Other collections of fiction and nonfiction followed, including "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men" (1999), "Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity" (2003) and "Oblivion" (2004). [...] he also wrote the greatest pieces about tennis ever--one in esquire and one in the ny times. more than that, wallace was, imo, the greatest, smartest writer of his generation. it's a terrible loss.
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Monday, September 15, 2008 - 10:02 am
Pink Floyd member Richard Wright dies at age 65 32 minutes ago LONDON - A Pink Floyd spokesman says founding member Richard Wright has died. He was 65. Wright died Monday after a battle with cancer at his home in Britain. His family did not want to give more details about his death. The spokesman is Doug Wright, who is not related to the artist. Richard Wright met Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and Nick Mason at college and joined their early band Sigma 6. Sigma 6 eventually became Pink Floyd and Wright wrote and sang some of the band's key songs. He wrote "The Great Gig In The Sky" and "Us And Them" from Pink Floyd's 1973 "The Dark Side Of The Moon." He left the group in the early 1980s to form his own band but rejoined Pink Floyd for their 1987 album "A Momentary Lapse of Reason."
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, September 15, 2008 - 11:23 am
Richard Wright
Pink Floyd Darrell, DH is going to be very bummed about this. He's such a huge Pink Floyd fan.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, September 15, 2008 - 11:25 am
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
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Sportsfan
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09-03-2007
| Monday, September 15, 2008 - 11:29 am
I'll See You On The Dark Side of The Moon

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Zgoodgirl
Member
08-22-2003
| Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 9:24 am
Motown Hit Machine Norm Whitfield Dies ANGELES (Sept. 17) - Norman Whitfield, who co-wrote a string of Motown classics including "War" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," has died. He was 67. A spokeswoman at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center says Whitfield died there Tuesday. He suffered from complications of diabetes and had recently emerged from a coma, The Detroit Free Press reported.
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 9:42 am
All that good music that was produced by these men, and now they are gone....
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Zgoodgirl
Member
08-22-2003
| Saturday, September 20, 2008 - 5:40 am
'Tutti Frutti' drummer Earl Palmer dead at 84 LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Earl Palmer, the session drummer whose pioneering backbeats were recorded on such classics as Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" and The Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," has died. He was 84.
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Debra
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11-20-2003
| Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 6:35 am
Legendary actor Paul Newman dies at age 83 The Associated Press Article Launched: 09/27/2008 06:56:20 AM PDT NEW HAVEN, Conn.—A spokeswoman for screen legend Paul Newman says the actor has died at age 83. Spokeswoman Marni Tomljanovic says Newman died Friday of cancer. No other details were immediately available. Newman was nominated for Academy Awards 10 times, winning a regular Oscar in 1987 for "The Color of Money" and two honorary ones. He was equally at home in comedies such as "The Sting" and dramas such as "Hud." He sometimes teamed with his wife, Joanne Woodward, also an Oscar winner for the 1957 film "Three Faces of Eve."
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Mameblanche
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08-24-2002
| Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 6:59 am
It's a great loss! He was handsome, talented, decent, and he did so much for charity.

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Mameblanche
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08-24-2002
| Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 6:59 am
Family * father Arthur S Newman: died on May 11, 1950 at age of 56; Jewish * mother Theresa Newman: Catholic of Hungarian descent; converted to Christian Science * brother Arthur S Newman: production manager on "Cool Hand Luke" and "Winning"; associate producer of "Rachel, Rachel" * son Scott Newman: born in 1950; died from a mixture of alcohol and drugs on November 11, 1978 at age 28; mother, Jacqueline Witte * daughter Susan Newman: born in 1953; mother, Jacqueline Witte * daughter Stephanie Newman: born in 1954; mother, Jacqueline Witte * daughter Elinor Teresa Newman: born on April 8, 1959; mother, Joanne Woodward; runs Newman's Own Organics: Second Generation which produces organic pretzels in five varieties * daughter Melissa Steward Newman: born in September 1961; mother, Joanne Woodward; married to Raphael Elkind; gave birth to son Peter in May 1996 * daughter Claire Olivia Newman: born in 1965; mother, Joanne Woodward Companions * wife Jacqueline Witte: married in December 1949; divorced in 1957 * wife Joanne Woodward: married on January 28, 1958; met during the Broadway run of "Picnic" (c. 1953); Newman was starring in the play, Woodward was an understudy link
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Cablejockey
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12-27-2001
| Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 7:00 am
I just heard about this and am so surprised and saddened by his passing. Gee, I didnt even know he had cancer! He gave us such memorable performances and entertainment over the years. And I cant even begin to fathom that he was 83!!
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