Enna wrote:

He lived 20 months after his pancreatic cancer diagnosis and lived his life to the fullest in that time period. He kept acting and wrote his autobiography. He was strength and grace until the end. My favorite movie of his is still To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything. He played a drag queen with such dignity and style!

I thought he was sick for longer. He was looking a bit under the weather as early as 2005 we thought.

I liked him in the early years too, in Dirty Dancing.
My old classmate with her later infamous nose job acted in that with him.
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Eve wrote:

I thought he was sick for longer. He was looking a bit under the weather as early as 2005 we thought. I liked him in the early years too, in Dirty Dancing. My old classmate with her later infamous nose job acted in that with him.

You mean Jennifer?

Is that why Matthew dumped her?

bmwracer wrote:

RIP Patrick Swayze, 1952-2009. Condolences to his friends and family.

RIP ...wow another for the year 2009
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gaijinmark wrote:

Ah yes, Road House one of those movies that falls in the class of "So bad that it's good"

So true

Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary dies

DANBURY, Conn. (AP) �\
Mary Travers, one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died.

The band's publicist, Heather Lylis, says Travers died at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut on Wednesday. She was 62 and had battled leukemia for several years.

Travers joined forces with Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey in the early 1960s.

The trio mingled their music with liberal politics, both onstage and off. Their version of "If I Had a Hammer" became an anthem for racial equality.

Other hits included "Lemon Tree," "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and "Puff (The Magic Dragon.)"

They were early champions of Bob Dylan and performed his "Blowin' in the Wind" at the August 1963 March on Washington

Geez and I might be the only two old enough to know who Peter, Paul, and Mary were. This is really sad.

gaijinmark wrote:

Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary dies DANBURY, Conn. (AP) �\ Mary Travers, one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died. Geez and I might be the only two old enough to know who Peter, Paul, and Mary were. This is really sad.

Mary Travers Rest In Peace. I thank her for sharing her beautiful voice with us.

I know who Peter, Paul and Mary were. Nice harmonies and good music! Songs of protest & peace. I was a teenager when I attended the August 28, 1963 March on Washington with my parents. Don't feel bad gaijinmark you are not alone.

gaijinmark wrote:

Geez and I might be the only two old enough to know who Peter, Paul, and Mary were.

I did too.

62 wasn't that old at all.

Another cancer victim.

Condolences to her friends, family, and fans.

EDIT: Mary Travers was 72 years old.

Wiseman, who played villain in 1962 'Dr. No,' dies

NEW YORK – Joseph Wiseman, an actor who played the sinister scientist and title character of Dr. No in the first James Bond feature film, has died. He was 91.

Wiseman, who had been in declining health, died Monday at his home in Manhattan, his daughter, Martha Graham Wiseman, told The New York Times and Los Angeles Times.

A screen and stage actor, Wiseman's film credits include "Detective Story" (1951) and "The Unforgiven" (1960). He also had guest roles on television shows "Law & Order," "The Streets of San Francisco," "The Twilight Zone" and "The Untouchables," according to The New York Times.

He is likely best known, however, for his villainous role in "Dr. No," the first in a long string of James Bond movies. The 1962 film introduced Sean Connery as James Bond and also starred Ursula Andress.

Wiseman was born in Montreal on May 15, 1918. He moved to the United States with his family when he was a boy.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Wiseman started acting when he was a teenager, getting his start in summer stock.

In 1938, he was given a small part in his first Broadway play, Robert E. Sherwood's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois."

Wiseman's other Broadway credits include "Joan of Lorraine" (1946), "Antony and Cleopatra" (1947), "Detective Story" (1949); and most recently in the stage adaptation of Abby Mann's film "Judgment at Nuremberg" (2001).

"Stage acting was what he wanted to be remembered for," Wiseman's daughter told the Los Angeles newspaper.

Pie-splattered comedian Soupy Sales dies at 83
By DAVID N. GOODMAN, Associated Press Writer

Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83.

Sales died Thursday night at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx, New York, said his former manager and longtime friend, Dave Usher. Sales had many health problems and entered the hospice last week, Usher said.

At the peak of his fame in the 1950s and '60s, Sales was one of the best-known faces in the nation, Usher said.

"If President Eisenhower would have walked down the street, no one would have recognized him as much as Soupy," Usher said.

At the same time, Sales retained an openness to fans that turned every restaurant meal into an endless autograph-signing session, Usher said.

"He was just good to people," said Usher, a former jazz music producer who managed Sales in the 1950s and now owns Detroit-based Marine Pollution Control.

Sales began his TV career in Cincinnati and Cleveland, then moved to Detroit, where he drew a large audience on WXYZ-TV. He moved to Los Angeles in 1961.

The comic's pie-throwing schtick became his trademark, and celebrities lined up to take one on the chin alongside Sales. During the early 1960s, stars such as Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Shirley MacLaine received their just desserts side-by-side with the comedian on his television show.

"I'll probably be remembered for the pies, and that's all right," Sales said in a 1985 interview.

Sales was born Milton Supman on Jan. 8, 1926, in Franklinton, North Carolina, where his was the only Jewish family in town. His parents, owners of a dry-goods store, sold sheets to the Ku Klux Klan. The family later moved to Huntington, West Viriginia.

His greatest success came in New York with "The Soupy Sales Show" �\ an ostensible children's show that had little to do with Captain Kangaroo and other kiddie fare. Sales' manic, improvisational style also attracted an older audience that responded to his envelope-pushing antics.

Sales, who was typically clad in a black sweater and oversized bow-tie, was once suspended for a week after telling his legion of tiny listeners to empty their mothers' purse and mail him all the pieces of green paper bearing pictures of the presidents.

The cast of "Saturday Night Live" later paid homage by asking their audience to send in their joints. His influence was also obvious in the Pee-Wee Herman character created by Paul Reubens.

Sales returned from the Navy after World War II and became a $20-a-week reporter at a West Virginia radio station. He jumped to a DJ gig, changed his name to Soupy Heinz and headed for Ohio.

His first pie to the face came in 1951, when the newly christened Soupy Sales was hosting a children's show in Cleveland. In Detroit, Sales' show garnered a national reputation as he honed his act �\ a barrage of sketches, gags and bad puns that played in the Motor City for seven years.

After moving to Los Angeles, he eventually became a fill-in host on "The Tonight Show."

He moved to New York in 1964 and debuted "The Soupy Sales Show," with co-star puppets White Fang (the meanest dog in the United States) and Black Tooth (the nicest dog in the United States). By the time his Big Apple run ended two years later, Sales had appeared on 5,370 live television programs �\ the most in the medium's history, he boasted. He had a pair of albums that hit the Billboard Top 10 in 1965; "Do the Mouse" sold 250,000 copies in New York alone.

Sales remained a familiar television face, first as a regular from 1968-75 on the game show "What's My Line?" and later appearing on everything from "The Mike Douglas Show" to "The Love Boat." He played himself in the 1998 movie "Holy Man," which starred Eddie Murphy.

He joined WNBC-AM as a disc jockey in 1985, a stint best remembered because Sales filled the hours between shock jocks Don Imus and Howard Stern.

Sales is survived by his wife, Trudy, and two sons, Hunt and Tony, a pair of musicians who backed David Bowie in the band Tin Machine.

bmwracer wrote:

Pie-splattered comedian Soupy Sales dies at 83

I am old enough to remember how funny he was! My friends used to imitate White Fang and Black Tooth.
Rest in Peace dear Soupy Sales! Thank you for the laughter.

Enna wrote:

I am old enough to remember how funny he was! My friends used to imitate White Fang and Black Tooth. Rest in Peace dear Soupy Sales! Thank you for the laughter.

I always remembered the pie-throwing... It never failed to make me laugh.

I cant say I was a big fan but he was part of the after school afternoon.
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Actress Brittany Murphy dies

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/21/2777031.htm



Only 32... so young.

Anime Dad wrote:

Actress Brittany Murphy dies http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/21/2777031.htm Only 32... so young.

There is no way that's natural causes...she looked so gaunt and thin in public...and to have a full cardiac arrest, not even a heart attack at 32...something untoward is definitely going to come to light after they investigate.

Yeah, I thought so too. Plus there must be a good reason her "fortunes faded" in the last few years..

Anime Dad wrote:

Yeah, I thought so too. Plus there must be a good reason her "fortunes faded" in the last few years..

Something bizarre is definitely afoot.

Tu_triky wrote:

There is no way that's natural causes...she looked so gaunt and thin in public...and to have a full cardiac arrest, not even a heart attack at 32...something untoward is definitely going to come to light after they investigate.

It's either drugs or an eating disorder. Or maybe both. It's sad stuff.

And I don't think I welcomed you back to the forum, Tu. Glad you're back.
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sadacori wrote:

It's either drugs or an eating disorder. Or maybe both. It's sad stuff.

I'd agree with your observations; yes, unfortunate in either case.

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And I don't think I welcomed you back to the forum, Tu. Glad you're back.

Thanks, cori. Kochira koso.

I already read that Brittany Murphy's husband has allegedly stated that he doesn't want an autopsy conducted on his wife....seriously wtf? Your wife is 32 and dies suddenly from sudden cardiac arrest and you don't want to know the cause? That is seriously fishy.

EDIT: Police/Coroner's office are conducting one anyone

Tu_triky wrote:

I already read that Brittany Murphy's husband has allegedly stated that he doesn't want an autopsy conducted on his wife....seriously wtf?

What a loon...

If there are suspicions, he can't refuse can he?