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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 9:42 am
I have been watching the shows about her also!
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 1:52 pm
Bernard Madoff is dead. Found in his pool.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 2:07 pm
Madoff's in prison isn't he...? What's he doing by a pool?
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 2:10 pm
Found the story, it seems to be Jeffrey Picower, someone strongly linked to Madoff's scheme and likely to be facing charges.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 2:10 pm
I lied - it is a billinoiare Madoff INVESTOR who is dead. My apologies. I was confused too, what would Madoff be doing at his pool in Florida. The dead man's name is Jeff Picower. Here is the headline that confused me: "Madoff Billionaire Found Dead in Palm Beach Swimming Pool" ABC News.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 3:34 pm
That is so sad about that little girl. Life can be cruel at times.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 11:38 pm
Canadian actor Lou Jacobi is dead. So sad. He played Mr. Van Dam first on Broadway in the original production of The Diary Of Anne Frank and then in the original movie. He last acted at 85 and was 91 when he died yesterday!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Monday, October 26, 2009 - 8:05 am
LOU JACOBI
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Monday, October 26, 2009 - 9:48 am
Thanks OG for posting Lou's photo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He was such a good actor and a loss for Canada. Between him and the loss of Jan Rubes we have lost some power houses of acting lately!
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Sia
Member
03-10-2002
| Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 11:22 am
So sad about Shiloh Pepin. This week my daughter and I just watched the two hour-long episodes about her life that we'd recorded: Mermaid Girl and Mermaid Girl: A New Chapter. I had no idea that she was ill again. Very sad for her that her parents had separated, too; that compromised her care, surely.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, November 03, 2009 - 12:19 pm
Claude Levi-Strauss dies at 100 Reuters French intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss, the founder of structural anthropology, has died at the age of 100, his publishing house Plon said on Tuesday. Levi-Strauss, who was known to a wider public thanks to his 1955 memoir and masterpiece, "Tristes Tropiques," died on Saturday. He would have turned 101 on November 28. "He was France's greatest scientist," said writer Jean d'Ormesson, fellow member of the Academie Francaise which brings together the elite of the country's intellectual establishment. A brilliant student who excelled at geology, law and philosophy, Levi-Strauss was posted to Brazil as a professor in 1935. It was there that he found his vocation for anthropology. [...] In particular, he used tribal customs and myths to show that human behavior is based on logical systems which may vary from society to society, but possess a common sub-structure. These findings, which challenged the notion that Western European culture was somehow unique or superior, resonated with the ideas of opponents of colonialism and Levi-Strauss gained a following beyond the circle of professional anthropologists. He argued that linguistics, communications and mathematical logic could be used to reveal fundamental social systems. Exceptionally erudite, Levi-Strauss was not the most accessible of thinkers and many of his works are impenetrable to laymen, but he managed to transcend the esoteric bounds of science with "Tristes Tropiques." [...] i'm thinking this is a wholly inadequate description of Prof Levi-Strauss's work, so I'll see what the French press is saying....
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Weinermr
Member
08-18-2001
| Tuesday, November 03, 2009 - 12:37 pm
I'm sad that Lou Jacobi died. I watched him for years, but especially loved his part in the movie Avalon. "You cut the turkey without me? You have to wait for the brother to cut the turkey!"

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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, November 16, 2009 - 5:14 pm
Comedian and MTV personality Ken Ober has died at the age of 52. Ober hosted MTV quiz show Remote Control and had been recently working behind-the-scenes in production on Mind of Mencia and The New Adventures of Old Christine. The cause of his death is unknown at this time.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Saturday, November 21, 2009 - 6:52 am
I just found out this week that David Lloyd died, he wrote the Chuckles the Clown episode on the Mary Tyler Moore show. One of my all time favorite episodes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgIDwJHTYt8&feature=related
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Saturday, November 21, 2009 - 7:51 am
I read that too in yesterday's paper. 'Chuckles' was a real milestone in that it poked fun at death. I guess it really hadn't been done before.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Saturday, November 21, 2009 - 7:54 am
It was rated the 4th best television episode of all time and it won him an emmy.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Saturday, November 21, 2009 - 7:56 am
I loved that episode of the Mary Tyler Moore show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Thursday, November 26, 2009 - 10:34 am
DENNIS COLE http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/arts/television/22cole.html?ref=obituaries
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, November 26, 2009 - 10:47 am
I remember him. He was sooooooo handsome! He was married to Jaclyn Smith for a while.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Thursday, November 26, 2009 - 12:54 pm
I remember him. I thought he was sooooo handsome, too.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, November 26, 2009 - 12:57 pm
He was really a fixture on TV shows during the 70s.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Friday, November 27, 2009 - 11:06 pm
I remember him really well!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, November 27, 2009 - 11:09 pm
Cute, but I basically didn't watch much TV at all during the seventies..
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 7:56 pm
I'm a bit late posting this, and most people probably won't know who this guy is. But anyone in the Denver area knew who he was. And probably most football fans have seen him some time or other over the past 30 years. Denver Broncos' "Barrel Man" Tim McKernan Dies at age 69

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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Friday, December 11, 2009 - 9:35 am
Gene Barry of Bat Masterson and Burke's Law fame has died at age 90.
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