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Ginger1218
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08-31-2001

Friday, April 02, 2010 - 2:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ginger1218 a private message Print Post    
Oh wow, John Forsythe grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He lived with his mother on Ocean Parkway and Church Avenue, in the same building as my mother lived with my grandparents. They knew each other as children growing up. He was a year younger than my mom. A very handsome man.

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Friday, April 02, 2010 - 2:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
I liked John Forsythe in Bachelor Father. That was a great show.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Friday, April 02, 2010 - 8:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
:-( RIP Mr. Forsythe

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

Saturday, April 03, 2010 - 5:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chaplin a private message Print Post    
I had a crush on John Forsythe. His voice was so sexy and so was he.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Thursday, April 08, 2010 - 12:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
(CNN) -- Actor Christopher Cazenove died in a London hospital after a monthlong battle with a blood infection Wednesday, his family said.

Cazenove was best known for the role of Ben Carrington on TV's "Dynasty," although he appeared on hundreds of television shows over the past four decades.

His death came one week after that of John Forsythe, who played his nemesis on the 1980s prime-time soap opera.

Cazenove, a British-born actor, contracted septicemia in late February, said a statement from his partner, Isabel Davis, and family.

"Despite a valiant fight and the untiring efforts of the wonderful team at St Thomas', he was eventually overwhelmed," the statement said.

Before "Dynasty," Cazenove was well known in the United Kingdom for playing Charles Haslemere in the British series "The Duchess of Duke Street."

He was 66, according to the Internet Movie Database.


Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Thursday, April 08, 2010 - 1:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
:-( I am so sad to hear this. I had a mini-crush on him, he was so handsome and he had a really neat accent.



Darrellh
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07-21-2004

Saturday, April 10, 2010 - 8:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Darrellh a private message Print Post    
Dixie Carter dies at 70

LOS ANGELES – "Designing Women" actress Dixie Carter, who used her charm and stately beauty in a host of roles on Broadway and television, died Saturday. She was 70.

Publicist Steve Rohr, who represents Carter and her husband, actor Hal Holbrook, said Carter died Saturday morning. He would not disclose where she died or the cause of death.

"This has been a terrible blow to our family," Holbrook said in a written statement. "We would appreciate everyone understanding that this is a private family tragedy."

A native of Tennessee, Carter was most famous for playing quick-witted Southerner Julia Sugarbaker for seven years on "Designing Women," the CBS sitcom that ran from 1986 to 1993.

She was nominated for an Emmy in 2007 for her seven-episode guest stint on the ABC hit "Desperate Housewives."

Carter's other credits include roles on the series "Family Law" and "Different Strokes."



Pamy
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01-02-2002

Saturday, April 10, 2010 - 9:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Loved her! Prayers going out to Hal and her family

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Saturday, April 10, 2010 - 9:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Very sad, my prayers go out to her family.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Saturday, April 10, 2010 - 9:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Wow! I expected Hal to go before her. That's so sad. Has anyone heard if she'd been sick?

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Saturday, April 10, 2010 - 9:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
:-(

Sia
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03-10-2002

Sunday, April 11, 2010 - 12:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sia a private message Print Post    
DixieCarter
She was a classic.

Sia
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03-10-2002

Sunday, April 11, 2010 - 12:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sia a private message Print Post    
Dixie Carter, left, with the cast of "Designing Women:"
DesigningWomen

Sia
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03-10-2002

Sunday, April 11, 2010 - 12:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sia a private message Print Post    
Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Munchkin coroner in "The Wizard of Oz" and proclaimed in the movie that the Wicked Witch of the East was "really most sincerely dead," has died. He was 94.

Sia
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03-10-2002

Sunday, April 11, 2010 - 12:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sia a private message Print Post    
Raabe as he appeared in "The Wizard of Oz:"
Raabe1

and a more recent photo:
Raabe2

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Sunday, April 11, 2010 - 2:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
Ms Carter on men: youtube

Ms Garland talks about the Munchkins on Jack Parr: youtube [very funny and she's obviously high or drunk]

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Sunday, April 11, 2010 - 5:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
NOOOOO, not Dixie Carter!!!!!

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Sunday, April 11, 2010 - 7:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
This morning when my DD told me of Dixie's passing I was gobsmacked. It just did not compute.

As for Mr. Raabe, I still quote, 'She's not merely dead, she's most sincerely dead?'

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Sunday, April 11, 2010 - 2:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
I'm very sad to hear Dixie died.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Sunday, April 11, 2010 - 3:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
The coroner/mayor scene in The Wizard of Oz is one of my very favorites.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Sunday, April 11, 2010 - 3:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Dixie's family is now saying her death was due to complications from uterine cancer.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, April 12, 2010 - 12:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
They don't really say what type or stage or what complication..

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WellnessNews/dixie-carter-endometrial-cancer/story?id=10352600&page=1

The video clip with that article is worth watching..

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 9:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
Benjamin Hooks, Civil Rights Leader and Former Head of NAACP, Has Died
Washington Post

Benjamin L. Hooks, a champion of minorities and the poor who increased the NAACP's stature as its executive director, died Thursday. He was 85.

State Rep. Ulysses Jones, a member of the church where Hooks was pastor, said Hooks died at his home in Memphis following a long illness.

Hooks became executive director of the NAACP in 1977, taking over a group that was $1 million in debt and had shrunk to 200,000 members from nearly a half-million in the 1950s and 1960s. He pledged to increase enrollment and raise money for the organization.

"Black Americans are not defeated," he told Ebony magazine soon after his induction. "The civil rights movement is not dead. If anyone thinks that we are going to stop agitating, they had better think again. If anyone thinks that we are going to stop litigating, they had better close the courts. If anyone thinks that we are not going to demonstrate and protest, they had better roll up the sidewalks."

By the time he left as executive director in 1992, the group had rebounded, with membership growing by several hundred thousand. To make that happen, he created community radiothons to make the public more aware of activities by local NAACP branches and boost membership. [more at link]

RIP, Mr Hooks

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 9:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
RIP ... thanks for posting that Tishala. I came earlier to do so, but the board was in maintenance mode. Here is the cnn.com story

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

Friday, April 16, 2010 - 9:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chaplin a private message Print Post    
I met Dixie Carter many years ago in Bermuda. I was there with my ex husband on holidays and she was there filming Bob Hope's very last Christmas special. We were on the streets of downtown Hamilton in Bermuda watching Bob and Dixie filming. They were filming the Silver Bells sequence Bob always did in every Christmas special. In between takes Bob and his wife as well as Dixie would go into the crowds and meet their fans.