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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 11:40 am
Thanks for that link, Twiggy.. brings tears. I've read Anne's diary, both versions and much more about them and seen "Anne Frank Remembered", might even have the video. Also read Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Berlin Diary and lots of other books. Even in HS I felt a strong pull to know what happened and certainly to not forget what happened. She was one of the good ones.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 11:48 am
Very sad about Miep!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She was a hero. I also think she was the last link left alive that aided the Frank family. I believe the other workers who helped have all passed away. As for Art Clokey I heard about that on the weekend! Very sad. He was also the creator of the Claymation Christian TV show Davey and Goliath that ran on the Commander Tom show out of Buffalo for many years. Not sure if that show was shown all over the US or not. The ABC affiliate in Buffalo ran it.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 11:24 pm
Teddy Pendergrass, who became R&B's reigning sex symbol in the 1970s and '80s with his forceful, masculine voice and passionate love ballads and later became an inspirational figure after suffering a devastating car accident that left him paralyzed, died Wednesday at age 59. The singer's son, Teddy Pendergrass II, said his father died at a hospital in suburban Philadelphia. The singer underwent colon cancer surgery eight months ago and had "a difficult recovery," his son said. "To all his fans who loved his music, thank you," his son said. "He will live on through his music." Pendergrass suffered a spinal cord injury and was paralyzed from the waist down in the 1982 car accident. He spent six months in a hospital but returned to recording the next year with the album "Love Language." He returned to the stage at the Live Aid concert in 1985, performing from his wheelchair. Pendergrass later founded the Teddy Pendergrass Alliance, an organization whose mission is to encourage and help people with spinal cord injuries achieve their maximum potential in education, employment, housing, productivity and independence, according to its Web site. Pendergrass, who was born in Philadelphia on March 26, 1950, gained popularity first as a member of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. In 1971, the group signed a record deal with the legendary writer/producers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. The group released it first single, "I Miss You," in 1972 and then released "If You Don't Know Me by Now," which was nominated for a Grammy Award. Pendergrass quit the group in 1975 and embarked on a solo career in 1976. It was his solo hits that brought him his greatest fame. With songs such as "Love T.K.O.," "Close the Door" and "I Don't Love You Anymore," he came to define a new era of black male singers with his powerful, aggressive vocals that spoke to virility, not vulnerability. His lyrics were never coarse, as those of later male R&B stars would be, but they had a sensual nature that bordered on erotic without being explicit. "Turn Off the Lights" was a tune that perhaps best represented the many moods of Pendergrass--tender and coaxing yet strong as the song reached its climax. Pendergrass, the first black male singer to record five consecutive multi-platinum albums, made women swoon with each note, and his concerts were a testament to that adulation, with infamous stories of women throwing their underwear on stage for his affection. Following the car accident, it was 19 years before Pendergrass resumed performing concerts. He made his return on Memorial Day weekend in 2001, with two sold-out shows in Atlantic City, N.J. Pendergrass is survived by his son, two daughters, his wife, his mother and nine grandchildren. So sad. He had such an amazing voice.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 1:48 am
Oh I'm so sorry to hear about this. TP was a fixture in Philadelphia, where I grew up, and almost all of my friends--but alas never me--had come in contact with him in one way or another. His car accident had attained an almost mythological importance in Philadelphia, especially in the African American community; he was as important to the city as Grace Kelly and Patti Labelle. RIP TP.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 11:49 am
This was a sad headline when I signed on today..
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 5:39 pm
I loved Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes and Teddy was so damn sexy.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Friday, January 15, 2010 - 3:20 pm
Teddy Pendergrass...Close the Door http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54-9Jvq1Li4
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 12:59 pm
LONDON — Erich Segal, the author of the hugely popular novel “Love Story,” has died of a heart attack, his daughter said Tuesday. He was 72. Francesca Segal said her father died Sunday at his home in London. She said he had suffered from Parkinson’s Disease —a neurological condition that affects movement — for 25 years. His funeral was held in London on Tuesday, she said. Segal was a Yale classics professor when he gained nationwide fame for the book “Love Story” about a young couple who fall in love, marry and discover she is dying of cancer. The book was turned into a hit film in 1970, starring Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw. It gained seven Oscar nominations — including one for Segal for writing the screenplay, as well as for best picture, best director and best actor and actress (O’Neal and MacGraw.) It won one Oscar, for best music. Its most famous line — “Love means never having to say you’re sorry” — became a national catch phrase. Segal’s daughter said that her father fought hard again Parkinson’s Disease. “That he fought to breathe, fought to live, every second of the last thirty years of illness with such mind-blowing obduracy, is a testament to the core of who he was — a blind obsessionality that saw him pursue his teaching, his writing, his running and my mother, with just the same tenacity. He was the most dogged man any of us will ever know,” she said in a eulogy she read at his funeral and e-mailed to the AP. www.chron.com
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Rissa
Member
03-19-2006
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 3:49 pm
Double post
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Rissa
Member
03-19-2006
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 3:52 pm
Singer Kate McGarrigle has passed away from cancer at age 63. Her son Rufus released a statement: "When inevitably I read today in the papers that my mother lost her battle with cancer last night, I am filled with an immense desire to add that this battle, though lost, was tremendously fruitful during these last 3 1/2 years of her life," said Wainwright, a Grammy nominee and two-time Juno winner. "Yes, it was all too brief, but as I was saying to her sister Anna last night while sitting by her body after the struggle had ceased, there is never enough time and she, my amazing mother with whom everyone fell in love, went out there and bloody did it. "I will miss you mother, my sweet and valiant explorer ..."

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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 3:54 pm
That's just too young. And she was so talented.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 6:03 pm
I know who he is but I never heard of her.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 7:10 pm
I tried to post about that earlier but my browser croaked on me. Been youtubing..
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Wink
Member
10-06-2000
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 8:48 pm
The McGarrigle and Wainwright families are treasures of the Canadian music community. Kate you will be sadly missed.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 9:37 pm
Very sad about both Segal and McGarrigle!!!!!!!!!!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 1:04 am
LOS ANGELES – Jean Simmons, the lovely, ethereal film star who played Ophelia to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, sang with Marlon Brando in "Guys and Dolls" and costarred with Gregory Peck, Paul Newman and Kirk Douglas, has died. She 80. Simmons, who won an Emmy Award for her role in the 1980s miniseries "The Thorn Birds," died Friday at her home in Santa Monica, her agent Judy Page told the Los Angeles Times. Simmons had lung cancer. Already a stunning beauty at 14, Simmons made her movie debut in the 1944 British production "Give Us the Moon." Several minor films followed before British director David Lean gave the London-born actress her breakthrough role of Estella, companion to the reclusive Miss Havisham in 1946's "Great Expectations." That was followed by the exotic "Black Narcissus," and then Olivier's Oscar-winning "Hamlet" in 1948, for which Simmons was nominated as best supporting actress. She would be nominated for another Oscar, for best actress for 1969's "The Happy Ending," before moving largely to television roles in the 1970s, '80s and '90s. Her other notable films included "Elmer Gantry" (with Burt Lancaster), "Until They Sail" (with Newman), "The Big Country" (Peck), "Spartacus," (Douglas), "This Earth Is Mine" (Rock Hudson), "All the Way Home" (Robert Preston), "Mister Buddwing" (James Garner) and "Rough Night in Jericho" (Dean Martin). Simmons had left Britain for Hollywood in 1950, accompanied by her future husband Stewart Granger. There, they were befriended by reclusive tycoon Howard Hughes, who flew them to Tucson, Ariz., for a surprise wedding. "When I returned from the honeymoon," Simmons told a reporter in 1964, "I learned that Hughes owned me — he had bought me from (British producer) J. Arthur Rank like a piece of meat." What followed was a string of films that she would later dismiss as terrible, although she took some solace in the fact Hughes, legendary in those days as a womanizer, never bothered her. "I was married to Jimmy (Granger's real name was James Stewart), so Hughes remained at a distance," she recalled. "But those movies! So terrible they aren't even on videocassettes." Among the titles: "Angel Face," "Affair with a Stranger" and "She Couldn't Say No." Simmons finally ended up suing Hughes for the right to make more prestigious films at other studios, and the result was "Young Bess" (as young Queen Elizabeth I), "The Robe" (the first movie filmed in CinemaScope), "The Actress," "The Egyptian" and "Desiree." In the latter film, in 1954, she played the title role opposite Brando's Napoleon. The pair teamed again in 1955 for "Guys and Dolls," the Samuel Goldwyn-produced musical in which Simmons is Sarah Brown, a Salvation Army-style reformer conned into a weekend fling in Havana by gambler Sky Masterson. She loved the rehearsals for that film, Simmons recalled in 1988, "especially the dancing routines with Marlon trying not to step on me and choreographer Michael Kidd looking very worried." "I got to sing," she added, "because Sam Goldwyn said, `You might as well wreck it with your own voice than somebody else's.'" By the 1970s, her career as a lead film actress had ended, but Simmons continued to work regularly on stage and in television. In the 1980s and '90s she appeared on such television shows as "Murder, She Wrote," "In the Heat of the Night" and "Xena: Warrior Princess." She also appeared in numerous TV movies and miniseries, including a 1991 version of "Great Expectations," in which she played Miss Havisham this time. The careers of both Simmons and her husband Granger had flourished in the 1950s, he as a swashbuckler, she as the demure heroine. But long absences on film locations strained their relationship, and they divorced in 1960. They had a daughter, Tracy. Shortly after her divorce, Simmons married Richard Brooks, who had directed her in "Elmer Gantry" and would again in "The Happy Ending." Their marriage, which produced a daughter, Kate, ended in divorce in 1977.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 4:42 am
This gives a nice video clip of Jean Simmons, with a few clips of her career: British-born Hollywood actress Jean Simmons dies at 80 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8476400.stm?ls British film actress Jean Simmons, who played Ophelia in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet and sang with Marlon Brando in Guys and Dolls, has died aged 80. Simmons, who won an Emmy Award for her role in The Thorn Birds in the 1980s, died at her home in Santa Monica on Friday, her agent told the LA Times. She had been suffering from lung cancer for some time. <snipped>
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 7:21 am
I think it's interesting that a new Sparticus is getting ready to be shown on tv when Jean Simmons was in the original movie blockbuster with Kirk Douglas. I'll never forget her scene when she's saying goodbye to him as he is dying on a cross.

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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 10:20 am
Jean was a very talented actress and will be missed!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 10:58 am
Bisc that's a wonderful tribute vid, thanks for scoping it out for us. I just told DH and he thought I meant 'Gene' Simmons, until I explained it was the British actress 'Jean' Simmons, from The Robe and Spartacus.
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Erniesgirl
Member
06-26-2006
| Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 11:54 am
James Mitchell from All My Children has passed. He played Palmer Cortland. I thought he looked very frail on the 40th Anniversary show. I wonder if they'll write his passing into the show.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 11:59 am
How sad. I used to watch it back in the day when Palmer was trying to keep Nina and Cliff apart.
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 6:07 pm
Two sad losses. I loved watching his evil at work with Nina and Cliff!
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Monday, January 25, 2010 - 5:48 pm
Pernell Roberts died, for those of you old enough (like me) he was the older brother in Bonanza. he was also on a TV show in the 80s trapper john MD. I loved him in Bonanza.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, January 25, 2010 - 5:57 pm
Awww....that's another sad one Maris. Bonanza days
Trapper John M.D. Days
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