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Darrellh
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07-21-2004
| Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 6:23 am
Lisa Blount, Arkansas actor-producer, dies at 53 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A publicist for Lisa Blount confirms that the Arkansas-born actor and Academy Award winning filmmaker has died at age 53. Steve Rohr's statement did not provide a cause of death. Pulaski County coroner Garland Camper told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette there were no signs of foul play. Blount won an Academy Award in 2001 for best live-action short film as producer of "The Accountant." Her husband Ray McKinnon directed and starred in the film. She also earned a Golden Globe nomination for playing Debra Winger's best friend in "An Officer and a Gentleman" in 1982. Blount was born in Fayetteville and grew up in Jacksonville before moving to Los Angeles. Blount and McKinnon moved to Little Rock in 2005.
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Mamie316
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07-08-2003
| Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 9:25 am
James MacArthur, the boyish actor who became a household name in the 1970s as Danny "Danno" Williams on TV's Hawaii Five-0, died Thursday, a family representative told PEOPLE. He was 72 and his family was at his side at the time of his death, according to a family statement. No further details, including a cause, were given. Born in Los Angeles on December 8, 1937, MacArthur was adopted shortly after his birth by two living legends: actress Helen Hayes, considered the First Lady of the American stage, and her husband, Charles MacArthur, who, with collaborator Ben Hecht, wrote what some consider the greatest American stage comedies of all time, The Front Page and Twentieth Century. The young MacArthur grew up with his parents' biological daughter, Mary, on the family estate in Nyack, New York, which was called "Pretty Penny" – so named because that's what it had cost. Growing up in such an atmosphere was not always easy. As MacArthur told McCall's magazine in 1956 (and reprinted on his official Web site): "I think my mother is a great actress and the sweetest, gentlest and most generous woman I ever met. But she's vague at times and often impractical and sometimes does strange things … She knows practically nothing about handling money." Though he played sports as a boy, it seemed almost pre-ordained that MacArthur would become an actor. During summer breaks as a student at Harvard in the late 1950s and early '60s he played the clean-cut male love interests in Third Man on the Mountain, Kidnapped and Swiss Family Robinson – all for Walt Disney – and, in 1961, debuted on Broadway opposite another newcomer, Jane Fonda, in the comedy Invitation to a March, which ran 113 performances and won him the Theatre World Award for Best New Actor. Other Broadway roles followed, as did movies, including the 1965 all-star WWII drama, The Battle of the Bulge and 1968's Clint Eastwood spaghetti Western, Hang 'Em High, in which MacArthur played a traveling preacher. That was the role that led to his being cast as Detective Dan Williams on Hawaii Five-0, which costarred Jack Lord and ran on CBS from 1968 to 1980. (A new version, starring Alex O'Loughlin and Scott Caan, debuted this fall on CBS and is also a ratings hit.) Off camera, according to the family statement, "James was an avid tennis player and enjoyed skiing, fishing and hiking. He was a skilled flamenco guitarist and a consummate reader. His passion for playing golf led him to meet and fall in love with his wife, LPGA tour player and teacher, 'H.B.' Duntz." His wife of more than 25 years, Helen Beth Duntz, survives MacArthur, as do four children and seven grandchildren. (MacArthur's first two marriages, from 1958 to 1967 to actress Joyce Bulifant, and another, from 1970 to 1975 to actress Melody Patterson, both ended in divorce.) In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions be made to the Helen Hayes Awards in Washington, D.C.; the Helen Hayes Hospital in Nyack; the Solebury School MOM Fund in New Hope, Penn.; the Palm Desert Community Presbyterian Church, Palm Desert, Calif.; and the Hawaii Theatre in Honolulu.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 10:20 am
I read an article where he said his favorite Hawaii 5-0 episode was the one in which his mother, Helen Hayes, was a guest star. She helped them solve a murder. He was always my favorite character on the show. Farewell, Dano
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Twiggyish
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08-14-2000
| Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 1:48 pm
My parents knew him when they were in Crested Butte, CO. They would go there for several months of the year. He and his wife were there a lot. Mom said he was a very nice regular guy.
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Mameblanche
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08-24-2002
| Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 6:42 pm

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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Friday, October 29, 2010 - 10:01 am
James Wall, Captain Kangaroo's 'Mr. Baxter,' dies (AP) AP - James Wall, Captain Kangaroo's neighbor "Mr. Baxter" on the children's show and longtime stage manager for CBS News, has died. He was 92. CBS News says Wall died Wednesday in New York City after a short illness. The former vaudevillian joined the popular children's show in 1962 as a stage manager before persuading the show's producers to create its first black character in 1968. He played Baxter and another recurring roll on the show until 1978. Wall was a stage manager for many CBS broadcasts over the years, including "60 Minutes," "Face the Nation," and the US Open Tennis Championships. In 1994, Wall was honored with an achievement award by the Director's Guild of America.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Sunday, October 31, 2010 - 8:35 pm
James MacArthur (Danno in original "Hawaii Five-0") died Thursday at 72 of natural causes. Link
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Monday, November 01, 2010 - 8:35 am
Color, his death was discussed upthread.
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Thursday, November 04, 2010 - 6:39 am
NEW YORK – Jerry Bock, who composed the music to some of the most memorable shows in Broadway history, including the melodies for "Fiorello!" and "Fiddler on the Roof," has died. He was 81. Richard M. Ticktin, Bock's attorney and family friend, said the composer died Wednesday morning at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, N.Y., of heart failure. Together with lyricist Sheldon Harnick, Bock wrote the powerful score to "Fiddler on the Roof," one of the most successful productions in the history of the American musical theater, having an initial run of eight years. It earned the two men Tony Awards in 1965. "He was wonderful to work with," said Harnick, who collaborated with Bock for 13 years. "I think in all of the years that we worked together, I only remember one or two arguments — and those were at the beginning of the collaboration when we were still feeling each other out. Once we got past that, he was wonderful to work with." Bock had recently spoken at a memorial service for "Fiddler" playwright Joseph Stein, who died Oct. 24. "So now two of the three creators of 'Fiddler on the Roof' have passed away within three weeks of each other," said Ticktin. Born Jerrold Lewis Bock in New Haven, Conn., Bock was the son of a traveling salesman father and a mother who played the piano by ear. The young composer took up the piano at age 9, but admitted he was often impatient with formal lessons and preferred to improvise. Bock, who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972, also wrote dozens of children's songs and won an Emmy this year for "A Fiddler Crab Am I" from the show "The Wonder Pets!" Described by Ticktin as a "workaholic," Bock had just finished writing music and lyrics for a new unproduced musical, "Counterpoint," based on a script by Evan Hunter. (Ticktin said the rest of the creators still want to stage the musical.) Survivors include Bock's wife, Patti, daughter Portia Bock, son George Bock and granddaughter Edie Mae Shipler. Funeral services will be private, his lawyer said.
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Thursday, November 04, 2010 - 10:33 am
AP - Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson, who directed Cincinnati's Big Red Machine to back-to-back World Series championships and went on to win another title in Detroit, died Thursday. He was 76.
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Wink
Member
10-06-2000
| Thursday, November 04, 2010 - 10:59 am
Sparky was one of a kind and is so dearly loved and remembered by all Tiger fans. RIP.
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Erniesgirl
Member
06-26-2006
| Friday, November 05, 2010 - 5:32 pm
Jill Clayburgh Dies at 66; Starred in Feminist Roles http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/arts/06clayburgh.html?_r=1&hp
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, November 05, 2010 - 6:02 pm
Wow! God bless her for living with it for 21 years.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, November 05, 2010 - 6:19 pm
RIP Ms Clayburgh. I loved "An Unmarried Woman"
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Friday, November 05, 2010 - 7:22 pm
Sorry to hear this about Jill Clayburgh and about Sparky Anderson as well.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Friday, November 05, 2010 - 8:04 pm
Wow we lost a lot of stars this week!!!!!!!!!
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Saturday, November 06, 2010 - 5:17 am
Oh how sad.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, November 06, 2010 - 7:03 am
Sad! (For some reason I used to get her mixed up with Mary Steenburgen.)
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, November 06, 2010 - 3:13 pm
Must have been debilitating to fight leukemia for 21 years.. always waiting for the other shoe to drop.. 1/3 of her life. (Jill Clayburgh)
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Texasdeb
Member
05-23-2003
| Saturday, November 06, 2010 - 3:36 pm
Is she the actress who married Robert Wagner after Natalie Wood passed?
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Landileigh
Member
07-28-2002
| Saturday, November 06, 2010 - 4:12 pm
no Texasdeb. That was Jull St. John.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, November 07, 2010 - 6:28 am
I just checked, Jill and Robert have been married 20 years this past May. May they have 20 more!
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 7:00 am
Italian cinema legend Dino De Laurentiis dies AFP Dino De Laurentiis, producer of some of Italy's best-known films including works by Federico Fellini and Roberto Rossellini, has died in Los Angeles aged 91, Italian media reported on Thursday. The Oscar-winner also produced several famous films in the United States, including "Serpico" with Al Pacino in 1973, "Three Days of the Condor" with Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway in 1975 and Ridley Scott's "Hannibal" in 2001. "Cinema has lost one of its greats," said Walter Veltroni, an Italian lawmaker and former mayor of Rome who founded the Rome Film Festival. "The name of Dino De Laurentiis is tied to the history of cinema," he said. [...] He won an Oscar in 1956 for Fellini's "La Strada" and was nominated 38 times. In 2001, he received the Irving G.Thalberg Memorial Award at the Oscars for demonstrating "a consistently high quality of motion picture production." [...] for Food Network fans, he's also the grandfather of my make-believe bff, Giada de Laurentiis
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 3:22 pm
38 nominations for Oscar? That has to be some kind of record.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, November 12, 2010 - 10:20 am
Without much googling, doubt if I have THE answer for most nominations but this looks good.?
quote:The individual who was awarded the most total Oscars was none other than Walt Disney, who walked away with 26 Academy Awards over his lifetime. He had 64 total Oscar nominations.
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