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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 12:47 pm
Mitch Miller died.. he was 99 I think..
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 12:56 pm
I saw that in the paper the other day. I remember well 'Sing Along With Mitch'.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 11:24 pm
And the guy who invented Cheese Doodles (?) died at age 94.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Thursday, August 05, 2010 - 7:17 am
That was on national news last night. I've never eaten a CD or ever seen them. Maybe they have never been available in Oregon.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, August 05, 2010 - 8:39 am
Me neither, but I've heard of them.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Thursday, August 05, 2010 - 10:03 am
I've only heard them mentioned on tv shows and thought it was just a generic term they used, like weed whacker.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, August 08, 2010 - 8:00 pm
Oscar-winner actress Patricia Neal dies at 84 LA Times Actress Patricia Neal, who won an Oscar in 1964 for "Hud" and later fought back from crippling strokes, has died at age 84. Neal had lung cancer and died at her home in Edgarton, Mass., on Martha's Vineyard, said longtime friend Bud Albers of Knoxville, Tenn. The Kentucky-born Neal, famous for her husky voice, was already a Tony-winning stage actress when she made her film debut in 1949. Among her movies were "The Fountainhead" and "A Face in the Crowd." The year after winning the Academy Award, she suffered a series of strokes and had to relearn to walk and talk. But she returned to the screen and earned another Oscar nomination and three Emmy nominations. i loved her as an actress. i think she was also the original mother in The Waltons pilot
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, August 08, 2010 - 8:26 pm
She was the original mother in the pilot. She was also married to author Roald Dahl for a long time. My heart goes out to her family.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, August 08, 2010 - 8:45 pm

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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Sunday, August 08, 2010 - 10:07 pm
I remember her mostly from movie Hud. Scene she had with Paul Newman. Her line . . . . Hot Hot Hot "Sight of that through the kitchen window made me put down my towel more than once." (Sight of Paul without his shirt.)
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Monday, August 09, 2010 - 5:03 am
She was a great actress. She'll be missed! She overcame a lot of struggles in her life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Neal
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Monday, August 09, 2010 - 6:15 am
'Muppet Show' bandleader Jack Parnell dies at 87 LONDON – British jazz drummer Jack Parnell, who served as bandleader on "The Muppet Show," has died aged 87, his family said Monday. The family said Parnell died at his home in Southwold, eastern England, on Sunday following a yearlong battle with cancer. Parnell was born in 1923, the son of a showbiz family — his father was a music hall performer and his uncle ran a string of theaters — and began drumming professionally as a teenager. During World War II he served in the Royal Air Force and performed in a band at the headquarters of Bomber Command. Later, Parnell joined the renowned Ted Heath jazz band before leading his own ensembles. As musical director at British broadcaster ATV from the late 1950s, he oversaw the music for long-running variety show "Sunday Night at the London Palladium," produced specials featuring Tom Jones and Barbra Streisand, composed theme tunes and served as musical director of "The Benny Hill Show." In 1976, ATV began producing "The Muppet Show," a musical variety show with a cast of Jim Henson puppets and celebrity human guest stars. Parnell conducted the orchestra for the whole of the series' five-year run, although the ostensible bandleader was the pop-eyed Muppet conductor, Nigel. Parnell retired from ATV in 1982 but continued to perform with bands near his home well into his 80s. He is survived by his wife, Veronica, two daughters and three sons — two of them drummers
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, August 09, 2010 - 6:30 am
Patricia Neal was fabulous. Roald Dahl bailed out at some point after her stroke.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Monday, August 09, 2010 - 7:15 am
To be fair, Dahl and Neal had a 30-year marriage and five children, her strokes took place around 10 years into the marriage. She credits him with absolutely kicking her azz through rehabilitation. He also helped develop a device to relieve water on the brain, which their son endured after his accident. A man of amazing accomplishments that weren't all in the literary world. He left Neal for a friend of hers some time in the early '80's, unfortunately. She herself had a much-discussed affair (before her marriage) with Gary Cooper (who was married with a baby daughter), so I doubt she was inclined to cast an inordinate deal of shade Dahl's direction after all they both had been through.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Monday, August 09, 2010 - 7:35 am
 She wasn't a true beauty in the usual sense, but she sure could act the wallpaper off the wall.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Monday, August 09, 2010 - 11:20 am
She also played in an episode of Little House on the Prarie. She was a dying mother and wanted Charles to find homes for her children. I remember crying through that one!
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Monday, August 09, 2010 - 11:26 am
I cried too Huk, every time I watched it but one. I watched that episode [probably for the gazillionth time] with my mom the day before she died, knowing the time was near but not realizing it was that near. I sat in bed with her and we held hands through the whole show. It was probably the only time I watched that episode that I didn't cry.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, August 14, 2010 - 4:20 pm
Abbey Lincoln, Jazz Singer and Writer, Dies at 80 NY Times
Abbey Lincoln, a singer whose dramatic vocal command and tersely poetic songs made her a singular figure in jazz, died on Saturday in Manhattan. She was 80 and lived on the Upper West Side. [...] Ms. Lincoln’s career encompassed outspoken civil rights advocacy in the 1960s and fearless introspection in more recent years, and for a time in the 1960s she acted in films, including one with Sidney Poitier. Long recognized as one of jazz’s most arresting and uncompromising singers, Ms. Lincoln gained similar stature as a songwriter only over the last two decades. Her songs, rich in metaphor and philosophical reflection, provide the substance of “Abbey Sings Abbey,” an album released on Verve in 2007. As a body of work, the songs formed the basis of a three-concert retrospective presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center in 2002. Her singing style was unique, a combined result of bold projection and expressive restraint. Because of her ability to inhabit the emotional dimensions of a song, she was often likened to Billie Holiday, her chief influence. But Ms. Lincoln had a deeper register and a darker tone, and her way with phrasing was more declarative. [...] i don't really want to post the entirety of the Times article, but i do want to give Ms Lincoln her respect. she and her then-husband Max Roach teamed to make the indelible, incandescent album We Insist! The Freedom Now Suite, which was perhaps the great integration of jazz and the civil rights struggle. she also appeared in a very good film. Nothing But a Man, about a preacher's daughter (Lincoln) who is involved with a day laborer. Ms Lincoln left the US for many years, spending most of it in Japan and France, both of which she felt were more accepting of her jazz and her racial politics. she enjoyed a resurgence in the US starting about 15 or so years ago when she signed to the Verge/Gitanes label. her music has an indescribable quality, really....it is both insistent and aloof; she was far better at interpreting traditional songs than writing her own, which were often didactic in the extreme. she was an important voice in the history of jazz and one, sadly, that too few people heard. Bird Alone [with Stan Getz] [youtube]
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 12:29 pm
Tish, thx for the link. Her music is wonderful.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 9:41 pm
Herman Leonard, photographer of jazz greats, dies NOLA.com Herman Leonard, a photographer who created some of the most famous images of such jazz greats as Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and others, died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Mr. Leonard, 87, lived in New Orleans until Hurricane Katrina struck and destroyed much of his collection. [...]
Subjects of Mr. Leonard's photographs include Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie. In 1980, Mr. Leonard moved to the island of Ibiza, where he remained until 1987. In 1985 he released his first book, "The Eye of Jazz." In 1988, the first exhibition of Leonard's jazz photographs was held in London. His first U.S. show premiered the next year. [...]
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 6:10 am
I heard on CBS Sunday Morning that news correspondent Harold Dow, died yesterday! The name wasnt familiar, but when I saw his picture and heard his voice I realized that I had been watching him for years! Very sad, he was just 62. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/21/national/main6793819.shtml
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Brenda1966
Member
07-02-2002
| Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 7:27 am
Yes, I remember him too! How sad. Did the article indicate heart attack? I got the feeling from their description of "suddenly".
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 2:43 pm
CAuse of death wasnt specified, but it did sound like a heart attack!
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 2:56 pm
I don't know if anyone else used to watch his show, but Jack Horner, host of the Star Gazer show on PBS died. http://www.universetoday.com/71831/star-gazer-jack-horkheimer-dies/
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 9:53 pm
Wow a lot of stars died all in such a short time! I loved Patricia Neal. She had one of the most unique voices in Hollywood. I preferred Michael Learned as the Mother on the Walton's though as did the writers when decided who to cast in the TV series. Patricia Neal decided to decline the TV series role also from what I heard. She had a really hard life. Didn't one of her strokes take place while she was pushing her son's pram on a NY sidewalk which resulted in the pram going out into the traffic and her son being badly injured? I loved her in the movie Hud with Paul Newman also.
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