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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 10:51 am
CNN Breaking News - Author John Updike loses his battle with lung cancer.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 11:41 am
That's very sad. He was a fine writer.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 6:29 pm

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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 6:39 pm
James Brady: Korean War veteran, writer and Parade Magazine columnist: James Brady
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Karen
Member
09-06-2004
| Friday, January 30, 2009 - 1:39 pm
A friend of mine works for a news service who just received word that a celebrity has died, though the info hasn’t been released to the public yet. Suppose I can’t post that info until a public link is available, huh?
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, January 30, 2009 - 1:46 pm
perhaps you should talk about it in the gossip section until it is released, you have got me interested.
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Msbullwnkl
Member
08-16-2005
| Friday, January 30, 2009 - 2:01 pm
Karen, you have me interested also!
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Friday, January 30, 2009 - 7:07 pm
Did anything come of this? I haven't heard anything about a death on the news. Karen, have you heard more? Things like this make me nervous.
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Karen
Member
09-06-2004
| Friday, January 30, 2009 - 8:47 pm
Boy am I glad I didn't post anything earlier. Somewhere somehow wires got crossed or something and she'd heard that Patrick Swayze had died. I would've been driven from the board by an angry mob if I'd posted something as erroneous as that.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, January 30, 2009 - 8:56 pm
DH heard on the radio that Swayze had stopped his cancer treatments. I'm going to google to see what the latest update is on his condition. I am hoping that's just a rumour.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Friday, January 30, 2009 - 8:57 pm
Phew, very glad it isn't true!
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Friday, January 30, 2009 - 9:00 pm
I'm getting a bad feeling about all this. Poor Patrick....
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, January 30, 2009 - 9:07 pm
Nearly any info from United Kingdom sites report that Patrick Swayze has stopped all treatment. Earlier today, a "spokesman" for him (US) said this wasn't true. There are actually more reports on him stopping treatment than anything recently. It is suspiciously like what we heard about Paul Newman, they said he was fine yet he suddenly passed. PS looked pretty bad on the Barbara Walters special, so if the UK reports are true, I hope the doctors are able to make him comfortable.
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Msbullwnkl
Member
08-16-2005
| Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 9:29 am
Very glad to hear it isn't true. Personally, I just wish they would leave him and his wife alone to deal with his cancer.
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Kc103
Member
07-13-2004
| Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - 2:08 pm
"Chicago" Eddie Schwartz has passed away. People who live in Chicago, or surrounding areas, might remember him. (WGN and WIND's signals carried quite far.) I listened to him for years on the radio. First at WIND, then at WGN, and even at The LOOP. Although he was the butt of many jokes, I think he was respected by many in the broadcasting field. http://www.suntimes.com/news/obituaries/1412577,eddie-schwartz-chicago-radio-dies-020409.article http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/02/longtime-wgn-radio-host-eddie-schwartz-dies.html http://chicagoradiotv.com/2009/02/eddie-schwartz-passes-away/
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - 2:11 pm
I sure remember Eddie. That's so sad...he'll be missed. I remember the years when Steve Dahl used to relentlessly make jokes about him.
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Kc103
Member
07-13-2004
| Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - 2:12 pm
They're talking about that right now on WLS-AM! I saw Kevin Matthews many times when he had his band Ed Zepplin...based on Eddie.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Saturday, February 07, 2009 - 7:36 am
Actor Whitmore Passes Away 7 February 2009 6:00 AM, PST Actor James Whitmore has died of lung cancer, aged 87.The Emmy and Tony award winning star was diagnosed with the illness in November and passed away on Friday afternoon at his home in Malibu, California. Whitmore was famed for his one-man shows about former American presidents Harry Truman and Theodore Roosevelt. He won a Tony Award in 1948 for his role in Broadway show Command Decision and in 1975 received an Academy Award nomination for best actor for his portrayal of Truman in Give 'em Hell, Harry! He was also the recipient of an Emmy Award in 2000 as outstanding guest actor in drama series The Practice. Whitmore starred in over 50 films throughout his career - most recently in 1994's critically acclaimed The Shawshank Redemption. He is survived by his third wife, Noreen Nash, three sons and eight grandchildren.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Sunday, February 08, 2009 - 7:57 am
Lux Interior, lead singer for the legendary underground punkabilly band the Cramps, passed away this week at age 62 from a longstanding heart condition. "Lux was a fearless frontman who transformed every stage he stepped on into a place of passion, abandon, and true freedom. He is a rare icon who will be missed dearly," the Cramps' publicist said in an official statement. Lux will be dearly missed, and we send our condolences to his bandmate and soulmate of more than 30 years, guitar-wielding vixen Ivy Rorschach. Their partnership was one of the great rock 'n' roll romances of the ages. Human Fly--Cramps in their prime, Lux RIP
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, February 09, 2009 - 12:32 pm
Blossom Dearie dies at 82; jazz and cabaret singer Los Angeles Times
Blossom Dearie, the singer and songwriter whose sweet soprano voice, harmonically innovative piano stylings and sophisticated performances made her a popular attraction in jazz and cabaret for nearly half a century, has died. She was 82. Dearie died Saturday morning at her home in New York City, her manager Donald Schaffer told The Times. He said she had been in failing health for several years and died of natural causes Critic Leonard Feather once described Dearie as "chic, sleek and squeaky clean, a voice in a million" and while she was clearly classified as a jazz vocalist, she found that description incomplete. "I don't want to be called a jazz singer," she told Feather some years ago, "though I certainly have some roots there. I'm not a cult singer either . . . and after being called a legend, that sounds too much like an epitaph. I think of myself as a songwriter's singer. All the great Broadway and Hollywood teams are in my repertoire, along with contemporary people like Dave Frishberg. . . . Writers bring their songs to me because they rely on me to define their work with respect. That's very flattering." [...]
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Monday, February 09, 2009 - 3:41 pm
In this mornings paper I read about her passing. I don't believe I've ever heard of her before. It reads like she had a good life and a long one.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, February 09, 2009 - 3:58 pm
She did the Schoolhouse Rock song "Unpack Your Adjectives" and that's probably how most people would know her.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, February 09, 2009 - 7:18 pm
Tish & OG: Schoolhouse Rock, Blossom Dearie sings FIGURE EIGHT Blossom Dearie sings Unpack Your Adjectives 1985 Blossom Dearie, Various Jazz Vocals
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, February 09, 2009 - 7:30 pm
I'd completely forgotten about Figure Eight. That's a hauntingly beautiful little ditty. I have, I think, most of Ms Dearie's albums. Her best were with Verve in the late 50s. I'm a big fan of the CDs "Give Him the Ooh-La-La" and "My Gentleman Friend." She had such a distinctive, small, delicate, rhythmic voice.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, February 09, 2009 - 7:42 pm
Tish, my idea of a perfect evening: Sitting at a table in a supper-club, with the lights low, a glass of Baileys on the rocks, and my sweetie by my side, listening to this kind of musical performance into the wee hours.
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