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keifernet Samba Search & Rescue
Joined: May 11, 2002 Posts: 19395 Location: Samba Center for Behavioral Science
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:04 pm Post subject: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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Looks like we were all wrong... Karl Malden cashed in his last American Express Travelers Check!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_en_mo/us_obit_malden
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alexs64 Samba Savior
Joined: January 17, 2005 Posts: 817 Location: Hold my pocket and I will tell you.
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 3:04 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! |
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He was also from Gary, Indiana.
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He was the son of a Czech mother and a Serbian father, and worked for a time in the steel mills of Gary, Indiana, after dropping out of college.
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I am sure he was one of Gary Indianas' favorite sons as well. _________________ (16:05:01) twinwindows: She prolly got a bigger dick then you
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MrBreeze Samba Hitman
Joined: October 06, 2002 Posts: 5541 Location: Lawn Guyland, Noo Yawk
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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He's one of those people that when they die you think "I thought he died 15 years ago" _________________ -=Rob
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RCB Samba Member
Joined: September 05, 2005 Posts: 4143 Location: San Francisco-Bay Area
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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Karl Malden was a pretty cool dude, he didnt get caught up in all the Hollywood hype and was one damn good actor.
I think that Walter Cronkite is next |
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Vanhag Samba Mortician
Joined: June 29, 2003 Posts: 2606 Location: Desert Coast
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:17 am Post subject: |
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Oh NO! It was Mrs. Slocombe! What'll happen to her pussy now?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/people_nm/us_britain_sugden
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LONDON (Reuters) – British actress Mollie Sugden, best-known for her role as Mrs Slocombe in the television comedy series "Are You Being Served?," has died at the age of 86.
Her agent Joan Reddin told newspapers Sugden died on Wednesday after a long illness. "She was a lovely, lovely person. She was a great professional," Reddin said.
With her hair highly coiffed and referring frequently to her "pussy," Sugden played the bossy Mrs Slocombe throughout the run of the BBC's innuendo-laden Are You Being Served? between 1972 and 1985.
Re-runs of the show in the United States in the 1990s gained her a new audience overseas.
"She was great fun, a very good actress, very versatile. She could play serious stuff and comedy," said Frank Thornton, who played opposite Sugden in the series as the stuffy floorwalker Captain Peacock.
"It was a very happy show to work on -- you can't play comedy with people you dislike," he told BBC television.
Mark Freeland, head of BBC comedy, said she was one of television's iconic funny women.
"Her daftly enormous purple rinse and never-to-be-forgotten catchphrase are the stuff of comedy legend," he said.
Sugden had also found success in the BBC TV comedy series "The Liver Birds" and played an occasional role as pub landlady Nellie Harvey in the long-running ITV soap opera "Coronation Street."
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Glenn Mr. 010
Joined: December 25, 2001 Posts: 76948 Location: Sneaking up behind you
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:21 am Post subject: |
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Vanhag wrote: |
Oh NO! It was Mrs. Slocombe! What'll happen to her pussy now? |
how long will her hair stay purple? _________________ Glenn
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jmsmilin Samba's Most Posted
Joined: November 10, 2005 Posts: 3302 Location: Out on Pa-troll.
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notchback Insensitive Jerk
Joined: December 16, 2003 Posts: 7024 Location: Behind the Zion Curtain
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Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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MrBreeze wrote: |
He's one of those people that when they die you think "I thought he died 15 years ago" |
Something like Abe Vigoda. _________________
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keifernet Samba Search & Rescue
Joined: May 11, 2002 Posts: 19395 Location: Samba Center for Behavioral Science
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Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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Damn... time to make sure your living will and trust papers are in order eh? |
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69 Jim Samba Member
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Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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The great Alexis Arguello, dead. |
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John Moxon Samba Moderator
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Patty B. Samba Member
Joined: July 14, 2005 Posts: 2181 Location: Brampton, Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:56 am Post subject: |
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She was much younger in that show than I thought she was
RIP funny lady! |
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jmsmilin Samba's Most Posted
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MrBreeze Samba Hitman
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:42 am Post subject: |
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Steve McNair shot four times, classified as homicide |
Be a hell of a suicide. _________________ -=Rob
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abgwin Samba Member
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:47 am Post subject: |
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John Moxon wrote: |
Vanhag wrote: |
Oh NO! It was Mrs. Slocombe! What'll happen to her pussy now? |
Well Miss Brahms (Wendy Richards) won't be looking after it...she passed away a couple of weeks before Mrs. Slocombe. |
I think Captain Peacock (Frank Thornton) must be the last left standing. _________________ Siglines don't hurt people: people hurt people. |
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MrBreeze Samba Hitman
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:41 am Post subject: |
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Robert Mcnamera dead at 93 _________________ -=Rob
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arod Samba Member
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:02 am Post subject: |
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Steve McNair, dead. a former NFL MVP, is that considered a celebrity? |
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Tram Samba Socialist
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:17 am Post subject: |
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Wow. Robert Mc Namara died today and I never heard or saw jack squat yet.
And, Marilyn Chambers died this year too. _________________ Немає виправдання для війни! Я з Україною.
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The_Codeman Samba Member
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coad Samba Scapegoat
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:25 am Post subject: |
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Not to defend Robert McNamara or anything, but he was one of the very first American Auto execs who actually cared about safety and did something about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeguard_%28Automobile_safety%29
At Ford:
http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/2007/1/2007_1_29.shtml
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He did have a vision for automobiles, but it had nothing to do with chrome or horsepower or tailfins. Instead he was absorbed by such novel concepts as safety, fuel economy, and basic utility. He advocated qualities that 20 years later would make Japanese carmakers big powers in the United States.
“He wanted small cars way back then,” recalls Lee Iacocca, who as a young man worked under McNamara. “He wanted pollution controls. I didn’t know what he meant when he talked about emissions in the 1950s. He said we had to start worrying about pollutants. People didn’t know what the hell the ecology was.” |
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