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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Friday, September 24, 2010 - 4:14 am
I read his bio several years ago and he seemed very sad, very driven. His professional life was golden back in the 50s, but his personal life was crap. RIP Eddie...
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Friday, September 24, 2010 - 4:26 am
I liked Eddie Fisher back in the 50's and I can remember his songs being huge hits when I was just entering what we called junior high school (7th - 9th grades) in California. I too was unaware that he was still alive. RIP Eddie.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Friday, September 24, 2010 - 5:21 am
 1967 with future wife Connie Stevens.......Later years.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, September 24, 2010 - 6:07 am
 http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2010/09/22/jackie-burroughs-obit.html Jackie Burroughs, the stage and screen actress best known for her role as schoolteacher Hetty King on TV's Road to Avonlea, has died at the age of 71. The British-born Canadian actor died at home in Toronto Wednesday afternoon, CBC News has confirmed. She had been suffering from stomach cancer. snip
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, September 24, 2010 - 6:08 am
Eddie Fisher R.I.P.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, September 24, 2010 - 5:01 pm
Eddie married after Connie, someone younger and the his last wife. But it seems he wrote two really bitter memoirs, trashing at least the first three wives. He had been in a wheelchair for several years.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 10:44 am
Carrie Fisher famously said after his memoir in 1999 trashing her mother Debbie Reynolds among others, "That's it I'm having my DNA fumigated." LOL.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 10:45 am
I love Jackie Burroughs. She was wonderful in Avonlea.
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 11:02 am
Carrie Fisher is brilliantly funny. I saw her one-woman show on Broadway, "Wishful Drinking". She covers the absurdity of her pedigree, based on the affairs, divorces, remarriages, etc, of her parents. Eddie was probably not the best father, to say the least, but she did speak of him with love. The show has been filmed for HBO - everyone watch it when it arrives (not sure when) - you won't be disappointed. She does the entire show in silk pajamas and starts off with a giant board of the family tree (& she uses a pointer), which is more insane than I realized. lol
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 12:36 pm
I can't wait to watch it. I loved the book!
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 3:38 pm
I don't get HBO but I'm definitely going to look for the book. Thanks for the heads-up, Bonza.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 3:54 pm
GAL, I laughed out loud all the way through the book.
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Monday, September 27, 2010 - 11:22 am
http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=598087>1=28101 Gloria Stuart, Elder Rose on Titanic, passes. Gloria Stuart, who played the older Rose in the 1997 blockbuster "Titanic," passed away at the age of 100 on Sunday at her home in West Los Angeles. Stuart was diagnosed with lung cancer several years ago, her daughter Sylvia told The Washington Post. Stuart was born July 4, 1910, in Santa Monica, Calif., and began acting as a child. After starring in many 1930s horror films and musicals, and then working only sporadically for nearly 60 years, Stuart become the oldest Academy Award nominee in history for "Titanic." She the elderly Titanic survivor portrayed by Kate Winslet as a young woman. She last appeared on the big screen in Wim Wenders' "Land of Plenty" in 2004. Stuart was honored by the Screen Actors Guild for her years of service in June. Following "Titanic," Stuart wrote a memoir, "I Just Kept Hoping," in which she said of her late-blooming career, "When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long." She is survived by one daughter, four grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Like her "Titanic" character, it sounds like Stuart lived a long, full life. In addition to her daughter, Stuart is survived by four grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Monday, September 27, 2010 - 11:36 am
Maybe she's meeting her own Jack at the top of the staircase.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Monday, September 27, 2010 - 12:23 pm
What a lovely lady she was. She will be missed.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Monday, September 27, 2010 - 12:46 pm
 
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Monday, September 27, 2010 - 12:51 pm
OG, thanks. I was hoping someone would post an early, as well as more current, pic.
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Southern_grits
Member
10-08-2009
| Monday, September 27, 2010 - 12:54 pm
Aww, I loved her.
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Landileigh
Member
07-28-2002
| Monday, September 27, 2010 - 4:11 pm
Pro Football Hall of Famer George Blanda passed away today at the age of 83. I grew up believing he was and always will be the greatest I've ever witnessed in my lifetime. Nothing like the "Old Man"
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, September 27, 2010 - 5:43 pm
It's a sad day for us Raider fans.
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Merrysea
Moderator
08-13-2004
| Monday, September 27, 2010 - 7:06 pm
I'm sorry to hear about George. I'm not much of a football fan, but I did know about George Blanda.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 5:12 am
Is he the field goal kicker who had only half a foot, or some such thing?
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Landileigh
Member
07-28-2002
| Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 6:39 am
no, he's the greatest clutch player that ever played in the NFL. he was a quarterback and kicker that played until he was 48. When most players are washed up at 39, Al Davis, owner of the Raiders aquired him, and he had 9 of the best years of his entire career.
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Texannie
Member
07-15-2001
| Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 8:32 am
He played for the Oilers back in the day. He was known here not only for being a good player, but stopping the game, coming over to the stands and cussing out anyone who boo'd him! LOL
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Merrysea
Moderator
08-13-2004
| Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 10:37 am
LOL, Texannie, he was a true Raider even then!
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