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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Monday, May 24, 2010 - 3:56 am
Jose Lima, 37-year-old former major league pitcher, has died of an apparent heart attack. He and my cousin pitched for Houston at the same time and were great friends. I was out with the two of them one night and can't recall ever having so much fun - "Lima Time" was this tornado of hilarity and generosity that Jose had inside him and unleashed at will. At one point he had the entire restaurant singing "Who Let the Dogs Out" in an organized call and response. His smile could light up an entire ballpark, and I never saw him refuse an autograph - one day in particular I recall it was 130 degrees on the Cincinnati field and he was merrily signing autographs in the blazing sun prior to the game while the rest of the players cowered in their dugouts trying to cool themselves. RIP to a wonderful man. On an unrelated note, Brittany Murphy's husband Simon Monjack has been found dead.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, May 24, 2010 - 9:21 am
I watched him play many times. My son has an autographed ball from him. Very sad. GAL, who is your cousin?
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, May 24, 2010 - 10:30 am
Yikes.. Brittany Murphy's husband now found dead..
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, May 24, 2010 - 10:35 am
Simon Monjack, that is.. they are saying three were presc drugs around but it appears to be natural, pending toxicology/autopsy. His MIL found him on Sunday night.
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 12:01 pm
TV's 'People Are Funny' host Art Linkletter dies http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100526/ap_en_tv/us_obit_art_linkletter LOS ANGELES – Art Linkletter, whose "People Are Funny" and "House Party" shows entertained millions of TV viewers in the 1950s and '60s with the funny side of ordinary folks and who remained active as a writer and speaker through his ninth decade, died Wednesday. He was 97. Linkletter died at his home in the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles, said his son-in-law, Art Hershey, the husband of Sharon Linkletter. "He lived a long, full, pure life, and the Lord had need for him," Hershey said. Linkletter had been ill "in the last few weeks time, but bear in mind he was 97 years old. He wasn't eating well, and the aging process took him," Hershey said. Linkletter hadn't been diagnosed with any life-threatening disease, he said. Linkletter was known on TV for his funny interviews with children and ordinary folks. He also collected their comments in a number of best-selling books. "Art Linkletter's House Party," one of television's longest-running variety shows, debuted on radio in 1944 and was seen on CBS-TV from 1952 to 1969. Though it had many features, the best known was the daily interviews with schoolchildren. "The prime time "People Are Funny," which began on radio in 1942 and ran on TV from 1954 to 1961, emphasized slapstick humor and audience participation — things like throwing a pie in the face of a contestant who couldn't tell his Social Security number in five seconds, or asking him to go out and cash a check written on the side of a watermelon. The down-to-earth charm of Linkletter's broadcast persona seemed to be mirrored by his private life with his wife of more than a half-century, Lois. They had five children, whom he wrote about in his books and called the "Links." <snip> "But I'm an optimist. Even though I've had tragedies in my life, and I've seen a lot of difficult things, I still am an optimist," he said. Linkletter had extensive business interests. He headed a company involved in real estate development and management and operation of cattle ranches in Montana, New Mexico and California. He held interests in oil and gas wells, owned livestock in Australia and was involved in a solar energy firm. He is survived by his wife, Lois, whom he married in 1935, and daughters Dawn Griffin and Sharon Linkletter, as well as seven grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 12:33 pm
Wow, I didn't realize he was still around! But that's the way to go. Really old, still married, rich and scandal free.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 12:35 pm
I did not even realize he was still alive! God bless him and his family.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 12:48 pm
RIP Mr. Linkletter, you were a class act.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 1:24 pm
OMG - married for 75 years!!!!
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 1:32 pm
Good lord, I will have to live to 101! LOL I loved watching his show.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 2:10 pm
He was a funny guy. I'm happy he had such a great life.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 2:11 pm
How I best remember him:

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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 2:18 pm
I didn't know he was still alive either! I loved watching Kids Say the Darndest Things after school. I remember wishing he was my Grandfather (because both of mine were dead before I was born).
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 2:43 pm
RIP Mr. Linkletter. I remember an episode on the Bill Cosby version, where Linkletter was there, and it turned out the entire audience was made up of "Att's kids." That was pretty special. The Bill Cosby attempt at his show didn't hold a candle to the original though. In part cause Cosby seemed to seek out to ridicule the kids for the things they said. Whereas Mr. Linkletter made them endearing.
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 3:40 pm
We lost another great tv icon of my youth. I wish there were reruns of his show, he was so charming and funny.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 4:00 pm
IT was the first thing DH said when he came home... And my reply was that while it was sad, I didn't know he was still around!
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Texasdeb
Member
05-23-2003
| Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 4:15 pm
I loved him as a child and I used to dream of being one of the kids on his show.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 5:48 pm
Art Linkletter would ask the kids "Is there something your parents told you not to tell?" If the kid said "yes" he would get it out of them. I liked him.
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Sia
Member
03-10-2002
| Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 6:51 pm
Seamonkey, you're absolutely right: Art Linkletter must have lived a great life to have passed of simple aging at age 97, famous, successful, "really old, still married, rich and scandal free." That can't be said of many television personalities. Look at Johnny Carson and Bob Barker, just to name two who have had their share of scandals.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 7:20 pm
He will be missed. I loved Kids Say the Darndest Things also. Can you imagine being married 75 years to the same person. I doubt there are many who will be able to say that they have achieved that in the next few years with the divorce rate so high nowadays. Some of my favourite moments were when he interviewed kids on what they thought their Dad's jobs were. When I worked with kids I used to make the kids describe things like what Daddy and Mommy did for a living or how to make their favourite food. I would write the ideas down and compile books for Mother's Day and Father's Day and then have the kids illustrate them. I would laminate them so they would become keepsake item parents could dig out when the child was much older. Parents used to love them.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 2:27 am
I loved his sweet humor. I've said this before, but I was reading once about the dash. There is the date we are born and the date we die. There is a dash that separates those dates. That dash represents a lifetime. He truly lived his dash to the fullest! A life well lived.
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Snoopsmom
Member
02-19-2003
| Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 3:28 am
Bless Art, he will be missed. I knew he was still alive. For the past 10 years or so he would be on Larry King's show around his birthday. Hadn't seen him in the past year or two, but last time he was on he was still sharp as a tack. Always seemed like a very down to earth, nice man. Have fond memories of watching his daytime show as a child with my Nana and always loved Kids Say the Darndest Things. I credit Art with my own attempt at humor and saying the "darndest thing". When in kindergarten many decades ago we had a little show so our parents could see how much we were learning. We were all assigned a letter of the alphabet and had to name something that began with that letter. My letter was 'F' and the word I was supposed to say was 'frankfurter'. This had all been practiced prior to show day. Well, I decided I was going to try to be funny like the Art's kids and instead of saying frankfurter when asked for a word that started with the letter "F" answered 'hot dog'! Everyone did laugh, but my mother was mortified.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 6:02 am
LOL, Snoop. You should have been on TV with Art for that one.
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 7:38 am
Our paper had some of the darndest things today and this is my all time absolute favorite: Art - Have you ever met Santa Claus? Kid - Meet him? I fixed him a bourbon and water!

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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, May 28, 2010 - 10:46 am
Gary Coleman Has Died. Radar Online
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