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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 4:33 pm
I never even heard that Henry Gibson passed away. I loved his little old man on Laugh-In. Wanna a walnetto?
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 5:53 pm
Henry Gibson played a grandfather leprachaun in a Disney channel movie ... The Luck of the Irish. Cute movie!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, September 20, 2009 - 7:45 am
Van, I just checked and it was Arte Johnson who played the old man.
 
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, September 20, 2009 - 8:42 am
That's right!
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Sunday, September 20, 2009 - 9:04 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Gibson The Luck of the Irish might be my favorite movie of his but Henry Gibson had a long career in lots of great films and parts .. The Blues Brothers ... who knew! 
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Foolscap
Member
09-04-2004
| Sunday, September 20, 2009 - 5:03 pm
Henry Gibson was also very good in Robert Altman's movie "Nashville".
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, September 27, 2009 - 3:02 pm
William Saffire Has Died NY Times William Safire, the conservative columnist and word warrior who feared no politician or corner of the English language, died Sunday at age 79. The Pulitzer Prize winner died in Maryland, his assistant Rosemary Shields said. He had been diagnosed with cancer, but she declined to say when that had happened or what type of cancer he had. Safire spent more than 30 years writing on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times. In his ''On Language'' column in The New York Times Magazine and more than a dozen books, Safire traced the origins of words and everyday phrases such as ''straw-man,'' ''under the bus'' and ''the proof is in the pudding.'' New York Times Co. Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said in a statement: ''For decades, Bill's columns on The Times's Op-Ed Page and in our Sunday Magazine delighted our readers with his insightful political commentary, his thoughtful analysis of our national discourse and, of course, his wonderful sermons on the use and abuse of language. Bill will be greatly missed.'' [...]
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Sunday, September 27, 2009 - 7:58 pm
I have read and used many of William Safire's articles on language!
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, October 04, 2009 - 4:50 pm
The amazing Argentine singer Mercedes Sosa has died. Mercedes Sosa, an Argentine singer who emerged as a electrifying voice of conscience throughout Latin America for songs that championed social justice in the face of government repression, died today at a medical clinic in Buenos Aires. She was 74 and had liver, kidney and heart ailments. With a rich contralto voice, Ms. Sosa was foremost a compelling singer whose career spanned five decades. She performed with entertainers as varied as rock star Sting, the Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés and folk singer Joan Baez, who said she was so moved by Ms. Sosa's "tremendous charisma" and emotive firepower that she once dropped to her knees and kissed Ms. Sosa's feet. Ms. Sosa's towering artistry, which led to several Latin Grammy Awards, belied her physical dimensions. Short, round, dark-skinned and often dressed in peasant clothing, Ms. Sosa was affectionately nicknamed "La Negra" (the Black One) as an homage to her indigenous ancestry. It was a term of endearment that followed her throughout the Spanish-speaking world, said ethnomusicologist Jonathan Ritter, who has written about Ms. Sosa. "It's hard to overestimate her popularity and importance as a standard-bearer of folk music and political engagement through folk music," he said. Ms. Sosa once declared that "artists are not political leaders. The only power they have is to draw people into the theater." While not defining herself as a political activist, Ms. Sosa asserted herself in the "nueva canción" musical movement of the 1960s and 1970s that blended traditional folk rhythms with politically charged lyrics about the poor and disenfranchised. Washinton Post Sra. Sosa cantando: Gracias a la Vida [youtube]
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Monday, October 05, 2009 - 1:15 am
Thanks Tish, that Sra. Sosa cantando was beautiful. I can see why she was so popular.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, October 08, 2009 - 1:07 pm
Photographer Irving Penn Has Died Philadelphia Inquirer Irving Penn, 92, a grand master of American fashion photography whose "less is more" aesthetic combined with startling sensuality defined a visual style he applied to designer dresses or fleshy nudes, famous artists or tribal chiefs, cigarette butts or cosmetics jars, many of them now-famous photographs owned by leading art museums, has died. Mr. Penn died yesterday at his New York apartment, according to his brother, film director Arthur Penn.
He became a Vogue contributor in 1943 and was one of the first photographers to cross from commercial to art photography, using the same technique no matter what he photographed - isolating his subject, eschewing props, and building perfection through his printing process. "In Penn's photographs, generations of brilliant artists and lovely young women are endowed with dignity for their enduring moment," fashion critic Kennedy Fraser wrote in a 2007 Vogue magazine tribute to Mr. Penn at 90. He was a purist who mistrusted perfect beauty, which brought an engaging tension to his fashion photographs as well as his still lifes and portraits. Among his most familiar photographs are ads he shot for Clinique that have appeared since 1968. Each is a balancing act of face-cream jars, astringent bottles, and bars of soap, photographed at close range to suggest the monumental scale of Pop-art soup cans and baseball bats. [...]
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, October 08, 2009 - 5:01 pm
I read a long long article about Penn's life.. just amazing.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Monday, October 12, 2009 - 11:58 am
I don't know how popular the pop group Boyzone were here, but Stephen Gately has died suddenly, aged 33. He was the sweet little one who came out as gay about 10 years ago, when it was thought that boyband members couldn't reveal they were gay or they'd lose their teenybopper following. Cause of death is unknown at the moment. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8301242.stm
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 6:47 am
Singer and actor Al Martino, Johnny Fontane in The Godfather, died yesterday at age 82.
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 3:16 pm
"Vic Mizzy, the American film and television composer who wrote the theme song to "The Addams Family," has died at the age of 93, with his death announced on his website. The Brooklyn-born composer, who was a studio pianist for a radio station before serving with the U.S. Navy during World War Two, had a string of hits in the 1930s and 1940s including "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time," and "With a Hey and a Hi and a Ho-Ho-Ho." But he is best known for writing the theme tunes for the TV shows "Green Acres" and "The Addams Family" with its infamous rat-tat-tat-tat opening and punctuated with two finger snaps."
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 7:58 am
Here's the song for you to enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIJoTEliQcU
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 2:15 pm
'To Kill a Mockingbird' actress dies in NC HIGHLANDS, N.C. – The actress who portrayed the false accuser in the movie "To Kill a Mockingbird" has died of brain cancer in North Carolina. The husband of Collin Wilcox-Paxton confirmed Thursday that the 74-year-old actress died Oct. 14 in Highlands in the southwest part of the state. Scott Paxton said no funeral was held. Her part in "To Kill a Mockingbird," based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer-winning novel, was brief and memorable. She played Mayella Ewell, the young white woman who accuses a black man of rape. She angrily breaks down as the defense attorney suggests she lied to avoid abuse from her racist father. The black defendant is convicted anyway and later killed. She is also survived by her three children and three grandchildren.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 9:16 pm
Soupy Sales has died. He was 83.
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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 10:24 pm
RIP SOUPY SALES: Green Pieces of Paper http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-OGy3Kh7yM
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Friday, October 23, 2009 - 4:31 am
I watched Soupy Sales, White Fang and Black Tooth as a kid. Soupy was goofy but funny. I am sorry he is gone. Thanks for the clip Hypermom
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Friday, October 23, 2009 - 6:36 am
SOUPY SALES
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Friday, October 23, 2009 - 9:43 am
Sad about Soupy Sales. I mainly remember him from game show appearances. I am very sad about the actress from To Kill A Mockingbird who died since that is one of my favourite movies of all time.
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Sherbabe
Member
07-28-2002
| Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 6:21 pm
Being from Detroit, I remember Soupy on TV everyday w/ his show. Sorry for his loss. Also, mermaid girl, Shiloh, passed away today. She was 10 years old.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 2:02 am
I had never heard of Shiloh, here's the story w/pic I located to find out. Sad, I'm sorry for the loss and the struggles she endured, she sounds like a wonderful youngster! 'Mermaid Girl' Shiloh Pepin Dies At 10 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114137628 Shiloh Pepin, who was born with a rare condition often called "mermaid syndrome" and gained a wide following on the Internet and national television, has died. She was 10. <snipped>
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 7:51 am
Darn, I've been watching and they just had a new show on her last week. She sure had a tough life, but surgery wasn't really an option for her early on...and when the doctors thought they might be able to improve her life with surgery she wouldn't do it. It was so very sad, and now this.
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