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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, January 25, 2010 - 6:28 pm
I used to love watching Trapper John with Gregory Harrison playing Gonzo.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Monday, January 25, 2010 - 6:55 pm
Slowly, but surely the older tv stars are dying off.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Monday, January 25, 2010 - 7:20 pm
No, not Pernell Roberts! I liked him in Bonanza. He was the handsome brother.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Monday, January 25, 2010 - 7:23 pm
and the smart one. Quiet. I think I was just 8 or 9 but he was yummy to me.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Monday, January 25, 2010 - 7:30 pm
I had a crush on him. He had a sexy voice. I was older than you when I was watching him.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Monday, January 25, 2010 - 8:24 pm
I loved Pernell Roberts also!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So sad. I thought I had also heard about James Mitchell, but I could not remember which role he played so thanks for reminding me he was Cortland. I liked him a lot. Too bad the show is going off the air in September.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 1:37 am
Awww, just read in another article he was the last surviving cast member of Bonanza. I guess I knew that, but didn't really realize it. 
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 5:27 am
This may be an unknown name to most, but "Vic Cianca, iconic Pittsburgh Police officer died at the age of 92." Vic was a downtown police officer for many years. He entertained everybody as he escorted people across the street. He came to fame when Candid Camera did a short story on him in the 60's. Apparently, even celebrities wanted to meet him after that show aired. He was fun to watch.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 7:15 am
I think I remember him, Dogdoc. He seemed like someone who thoroughly enjoyed life and brightened everyone's day.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 9:44 am
Michael Landon and Pernall Roberts both died of pancreatic cancer.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 11:11 am
Pernell Roberts, RIP.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 12:17 pm
That was Vic, Jimmer. He was a favorite in Pittsburgh and then Candid Camera found him. He directed traffic and pedestrians in the downtown area and did it with a flair. (That is no easy task)
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 4:22 pm
Zelda Rubinstein has died. "All are welcome all are welcome." I loved that lady. Link Boston Herald.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 4:49 pm
Howard Zinn Has Died Boston.Com Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and a leading faculty critic of BU president John Silber, died of a heart attack today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling, his family said. He was 87. "His writings have changed the consciousness of a generation, and helped open new paths to understanding and its crucial meaning for our lives," Noam Chomsky, the left-wing activist and MIT professor, once wrote of Dr. Zinn. "When action has been called for, one could always be confident that he would be on the front lines, an example and trustworthy guide." For Dr. Zinn, activism was a natural extension of the revisionist brand of history he taught. Dr. Zinn's best-known book, "A People's History of the United States" (1980), had for its heroes not the Founding Fathers -- many of them slaveholders and deeply attached to the status quo, as Dr. Zinn was quick to point out -- but rather the farmers of Shays' Rebellion and the union organizers of the 1930s. As he wrote in his autobiography, "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train" (1994), "From the start, my teaching was infused with my own history. I would try to be fair to other points of view, but I wanted more than 'objectivity'; I wanted students to leave my classes not just better informed, but more prepared to relinquish the safety of silence, more prepared to speak up, to act against injustice wherever they saw it. This, of course, was a recipe for trouble." [...]
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 5:08 pm
So sorry to hear about Zelda Rubinstein. I once met her at a party, and she was a trip!! Really neat gal.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 6:24 pm
Awwww I'm sad to hear about Zelda. What a cool lady she was.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 11:26 am
J.D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye, Has Died J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose "The Catcher in the Rye" shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91. Salinger died of natural causes at his home on Wednesday, the author's son said in a statement from Salinger's literary representative. He had lived for decades in self-imposed isolation in the small, remote house in Cornish, N.H. "The Catcher in the Rye," with its immortal teenage protagonist, the twisted, rebellious Holden Caulfield, came out in 1951, a time of anxious, Cold War conformity and the dawn of modern adolescence. The Book-of-the-Month Club, which made "Catcher" a featured selection, advised that for "anyone who has ever brought up a son" the novel will be "a source of wonder and delight — and concern." Enraged by all the "phonies" who make "me so depressed I go crazy," Holden soon became American literature's most famous anti-hero since Huckleberry Finn. The novel's sales are astonishing — more than 60 million copies worldwide — and its impact incalculable. Decades after publication, the book remains a defining expression of that most American of dreams — to never grow up. ABC
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Hermione69
Member
07-23-2002
| Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 1:29 pm
I just wanted to honor this man - Alexander Lebenstein - a local Holocaust survivor who died today. He came and spoke to the students at our school many times and also received some national and international acclaim for making an impression on so many young people and, indeed, people of all ages. I had the privilege of meeting him and even videotaping him one of the times he spoke at our school. Link 1 to Richmond.com Link 2 to Richmond Times Dispatch Online Link 3 to TheGazeboBook.com This is Mr. Lebenstein (r) with Mr. Wiesel, the well known author of Night.

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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 1:55 pm
That's lovely! Thank you for introducing us to Mr. Lebenstein.
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Hermione69
Member
07-23-2002
| Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 2:01 pm
I hate that I made a typo on Holocaust. Maybe a mod will fix it. From one of the stories - He had long wanted to return to Riga, Latvia, where his family had been moved to live in a Jewish ghetto and where both of his parents were killed. He said his mother, Lotti, was taken to a nearby forest and never returned. He believes she is buried in a mass grave there. In the deserted Rumbula forest, one of two in Latvia where thousands of Jews were massacred, Lebenstein and his companion, Celeste Kocen, walked past large, grassy mounds that mark the location of mass graves. "It kept replaying in my mind," he said. "You were in this huge forest. First, I heard the birds singing. Then, I heard only machine guns." But he said something drew him back to one of the sites a second time. "I thought I felt something," Lebenstein said. "I went back there and my eyes were opened." He saw huge bushes of lilacs, his mother's favorite flower. He broke off a lilac and placed it on one of the grave sites.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 2:23 pm
Thank you for telling us about him. It's wonderful that he was able to survive and then make such a significant impression on people.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, February 04, 2010 - 5:55 pm
NEW YORK – NBC says Frances Reid, who played matriarch Alice Horton on "Days of Our Lives" for four decades, has died in Los Angeles. She was 95. The network says Reid died Wednesday. She was among the original cast of the daytime soap opera, which premiered in 1965. Reid starred opposite Macdonald Carey, who played her husband until his death in 1994. Her final appearance as a regular was in 2007. Reid made appearances on episodic TV and other soaps including "As the World Turns." In the 1950s, she performed on anthologies such as "Studio One" and "Philco Television Playhouse" during what is recalled as TV's Golden Age. Reid received the Daytime Emmys' Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. She was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1914.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 1:52 am
So sad tonight.. the passing of Capt. Phil Harris of the Cornelia Marie, FV on The Deadliest Catch. He had suffered from a massive stroke but seemed to be recovering. The Bering Sea will never be quite the same. See our thread for the show for a collection of articles.. ../156/6456926.html"#DEE7EF"> | Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 7:10 am
As I posted on the Deadliest Catch thread this is very sad news. Captain Phil was just one of those characters you meet, or in this case see on TV, who is so unique, so much themselves that you can't help but be drawn to him at some level. RIP Captain. 
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 11:58 am
I agree.. just something about him.. seems like he lived young and hard, starting on fishing vessels at age 3, captain at age 21, died at 53
And as I said in the DC thread.. I'm grateful to have known of him and been able to follow him on the show. Very sad for his family and crew and the viewers as well.
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