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What in the hell is with 2009 and all of the Celebrity's kicking off ???  :103- :103- :103-

We just lost billy mays today !!!

Reports: TV pitchman Billy Mays found dead in Tampa home

    12:02 PM EDT, June 28, 2009

TAMPA - The St. Petersburg Times is reporting that Billy Mays, the TV pitchman whose trademark voice helped sell everything from cleaning supplies to baking soda, was found dead this morning by his wife at his Tampa home. No cause of death has been reported and no foul play is suspected, according to Tampa police.

According to reports, Mays, 50, was pronounced dead at 7:45 a.m. at 2853 Bowen Daniel Dr., #1201. His wife, Deborah Mays, found him unresponsive this morning. The Medical Examiner's Office will complete Mays' autopsy by tomorrow afternoon.



THE 09 LIST.  :5- :5- :5- :5-  SO FAR

Claiborne Pell (01/01)
And our first stiff of the year is the exciting senator from Rhode Island, creator of the Pell Grant, and apparently the only politician on all of Wikipedia without a "scandals" section. Going to be a big year.

Pat Hingle (01/03)
Hingle buried.

Griffin Bell (01/05)
Rung.

Patrick McGoohan (01/13)
Number Deep 6.

Ricardo Montalban (01/14)
Boss...? Boss...?

Andrew Wyeth (01/16)
Easel come, easel go.

John Updike (01/27)
Rabbit make space.

Ingemar Johansson (01/30)
Down for the count.

Lux Interior (02/04)
Design flaw.

James Whitmore (02/06)
Brooks was here.

Philip Jose Farmer (02/25)
He wrote "A Woman a Day" and "Blown". We might be on to what killed him.

Paul Harvey (02/28)
Good day - you irritating, monotone, over opinionated, one-trick-pony weasel.

Horton Foote (03/04)
One Foote in the grave.

Natasha Richardson (03/19)
Went downhill fast.

Lou Saban (03/29)
Football coach - from when the footballs and helmets were made out of the same stuff.

Marilyn Chambers (04/12)
Under the green floor.

J.G. Ballard (04/19)
Just Gone? Jolly Ghost? Joined Graveyard? Jazzy Ghoul? Jostled Grave? Take your pick.

Doc Blanchard (04/19)
The doctor is out.

Jack Cardiff (04/22)
Marilyn Monroe once described him as "the best in the world". But then again, she was wasted a LOT.

Bea Arthur (04/25)
And then there's mulch.

Danny Gans (05/01)
The Las Vegas billboard industry just took a BIG hit.

Jack Kemp (05/02)
Unkempt.

Dom DeLuise (05/04)
Dom Dead. Decomposing delightfully. Deadpoolers delirious.

Dom DiMaggio (05/08)
Dom duplicate. Doornail dead. Deadpoolers dumbfounded.

Chuck Daly (05/09)
Might as well now.

Koko Taylor (06/03)
This is what happens when you keep wang dang doodling all night long.

David Carradine (06/04)
Time for you to leave.

Kenny Rankin (06/07)
Peaceful indeed.

Ed McMahon (06/23)
Heeeeeeeeeeere's Eternity!

Farrah Fawcett (06/25)
Not just Charlie's angel anymore.

Michael Jackson (King of pop) (06/25)
He touched so many...

Sky Saxon (06/25)
Clearly, he was pushing too hard.

Billy Mays (06/28)
Sell Sell Sell...

Bleach and Amonia makes Clorine gas.
I always thought that if you put bleach in the bowl and amonia in the tank you would have the setup for the perfect murder.
All the evidence is then flushed away.....and the body would be found alone in a locked room.

Perhaps Billy was snorting too much of his own product. He was not a small man my guess would be heart attack.

It was all the YELLING while he was selling.!!!

Strange happenings be transpiring this year....Something wicked this way comes?  :79- :128- :104- :5-

Karl Malden: 1912 - 2009

Karl Malden, an Oscar- and Emmy-winning actor perhaps best remembered for his role as Detective Lt. Mike Stone on the '70s TV series The Streets of San Francisco, has died of natural causes. He was 97.

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Famed CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite dead at 92

(http://blog.nj.com/ledgerupdates_impact/2009/07/large_Cronkite.jpg)
Famed CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, known as the
'most trusted man in America' died this evening.
He was 92. In this March 6, 1981 photo,
Walter Cronkite talks on the phone at his office,
prior to his final newscast as CBS anchorman in New York City.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwaA-hbvYF8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwaA-hbvYF8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K8Q3cqGs7I (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K8Q3cqGs7I)

RIP Walter We will miss you...

Walter Cronkite: And that's the way it was‎


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RIP Walter



...thanks for the vids Joey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkrABAfX2kI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkrABAfX2kI)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8sZ1DWsAHE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8sZ1DWsAHE)

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Handlers say Gidget the Chihuahua, whose Taco Bell commercials made her a star, has died. She was 15. The owner of Studio Animal Services in Castaic says Gidget suffered a massive stroke late Tuesday at her trainer's home in Santa Clarita and had to be euthanized.

Gidget was the sassy mascot in Taco Bell commercials from 1997 to 2000. While other dogs had bit parts, it was her bug-eyed, big-eared face that is seen pronouncing, in a dubbed male voice, "Yo quiero Taco Bell," Spanish for "I want Taco Bell."

The ads made the Taco Bell mascot wildly popular, although they provoked some criticism from activists who felt they used Mexican stereotypes.

Gidget also had a role in the movie "Legally Blonde 2."

Brian,

Thanks for the sad news about Gidget!  :8-

I wonder if I play that ad on my phone at a Taco Bell Restaurant if I can convince them that Tacos are 2 for 99 Cents right now?  :103-

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Now..... YO QUIERO TACO BELL!!!!

Thanks for making me crave it!  :37- :37- :37-

CaptainHappy :95-

I guess I now know where I'm going for lunch today.... :96-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6fwT2z6cTA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6fwT2z6cTA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYk4N9ZmvYE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYk4N9ZmvYE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8sZ1DWsAHE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8sZ1DWsAHE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LONtNt9at_k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LONtNt9at_k)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0oEw0IMLXI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0oEw0IMLXI)


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Through The Eyes Of John Hughes R.I.P. February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5IlsgtkFbA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5IlsgtkFbA)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO32_AJSTAM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO32_AJSTAM)

Wow...some true classics in there. Brings back lots of memories.
So many of those movies were hysterical!
A fine tribute to the work of John Hughes!

Man, he was ONLY 59?...another gone long before his time.

What a shame that he left us so young. I like most of his films, and PT&A is one of my all time favorites. Seeing those two videos reminded me of just how many films of his are part of our Baby Boomer culture. Rest in Peace John.

CHICAGO (AP) - Political columnist Robert Novak, who was a central figure in the Valerie Plame CIA leak case, has died after a battle with brain cancer.

His wife, Geraldine Novak, tells the Chicago Sun-Times that he died at his home in Washington on Tuesday. He was 78.

Novak was long known as the co-host of CNN's "Crossfire" and had been a columnist for the Sun-Times for decades.

He was diagnosed with a brain tumor in July 2008, less than a week after he struck a pedestrian in downtown Washington with his Corvette and drove away.

In recent years, he was perhaps best-known for being the first to publish Plame' name. He came under withering criticism and abuse from many for that column, which Novak says began "a long and difficult episode" in his career.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqUMsqORq1k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqUMsqORq1k)

Need to add
Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Now we need to add
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy

CaptainHappy :95-

This thread is getting far longer than any one year has a right to be.  :58-  :37-

Eunice Kennedy Shriver (08/11)
That only leaves 2 more from the Kennedy clan - unless you count the NINETEEN kids they had. Hard to believe they just aren't dying fast enough.

Les Paul (08/13)
No Les, no more.

Robert Novak (08/18)
Now he gets to meet the real Prince of Darkness.

Ted Kennedy (08/25)
Another Kennedy? Shouldn't we be out of them by now?


Senator Ted Kennedy's Life and Legacy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itEmzChxr4Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itEmzChxr4Q)

http://www.stiffs.com/recentdeaths.cfm#bottom (http://www.stiffs.com/recentdeaths.cfm#bottom)

WTF??

It not like they were a Chevy Nova....

What, No compassion for the dead?

If you're using a car, it should have been the Pinto...

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Dominick Dunne, No more power, privilege or justice

NEW YORK (AP) - Author Dominick Dunne, who told stories of shocking crimes among the rich and famous through his magazine articles and best-selling novels such as "The Two Mrs. Grenvilles," died Wednesday in his home at age 83.

Dunne's son, actor-director Griffin Dunne, said in a statement released by Vanity Fair magazine that his father had been battling bladder cancer. But the cancer had not prevented Dunne from working and socializing, his twin passions.

In September 2008, against the orders of his doctor and the wishes of his family, Dunne flew to Las Vegas to attend the kidnap-robbery trial of O.J. Simpson, a postscript to his coverage of Simpson's 1995 murder trial, which spiked Dunne's considerable fame.

In the past year, Dunne had traveled to Germany and the Dominican Republic for experimental stem cell treatments to fight his cancer. He wrote that he and actress Farrah Fawcett were in the same cancer clinic in Bavaria but didn't see each other. Fawcett, a 1970s sex symbol and TV star of "Charlie's Angels," died in June at age 62.

Dunne discontinued his column at Vanity Fair to concentrate on finishing another novel, "Too Much Money," which is to come out in December. He also made a number of appearances to promote a documentary film about his life, "After the Party," which was being released on DVD.

Dunne, who lived in Manhattan, was beginning to write his memoirs and, until close to the end of his life, he posted messages on his Web site commenting on events in his life and thanking his fans for their support.

Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter praised Dunne as a gifted reporter who proved as fascinating as the people he wrote about.

"Anyone who remembers the sight of O.J. Simpson trying on the famous glove probably remembers a bespectacled Dunne, resplendent in his trademark Turnbull & Asser monogrammed shirt, on the court bench behind him," Carter wrote in a statement released Wednesday. "It is fair to say that the halls of Vanity Fair will be lonelier without him and that, indeed, we will not see his like anytime soon, if ever again."

Earlier this summer, Dunne was well enough to attend a Manhattan party hosted by Tina Brown. Chatting with an Associated Press reporter, he spoke of Michael Jackson, who had recently died, and remembered lunching with the singer and Elizabeth Taylor. Jackson was so excited to see her, Dunne said, he presented her with a diamond necklace just for the occasion.

Dunne was part of a famous family that also included his brother, novelist and screenwriter John Gregory Dunne; his brother's wife, author Joan Didion; and his son.

A one-time movie producer, Dunne carved a new career starting in the 1980s as a chronicler of the problems of the wealthy and powerful.

Tragedy struck his life in 1982 when his actress daughter, Dominique, was slain - and that experience informed his fiction and his journalistic efforts from then on.

"If you go through what I went through, losing my daughter, you have strong, strong feelings of revenge," Dunne said in 1990 in discussing his novel "People Like Us," in which the protagonist shoots the man convicted of killing his daughter.

"As a novelist, I could create a situation in which I could do in the book what I couldn't do in real life. I intended for Gus (the character in the book) to kill the guy. But when I got to that part I couldn't write it. He wounds him and goes to prison himself for a couple of years."

He was as successful as a journalist as he was as a novelist and spent many of his later years in courtrooms covering high profile trials. Writing for Vanity Fair, he covered such cases as the William Kennedy Smith rape trial in 1991 and the trial of Erik and Lyle Menendez, accused of murdering their millionaire parents, in 1993.

"You're talking about kids who had everything - the cars, the tennis courts, swimming pools, credit cards. And yet this happened," he said at the time of the Menendez trial.

As much as those trials riveted the nation, they were far overshadowed in 1994 when football great O.J. Simpson was accused of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. With a trial that stretched out over a year and cable TV outlets providing endless coverage, the bespectacled Dunne became a familiar face to millions.

"I especially like to watch the jurors," Dunne explained to Fox TV during the trial. "I always pick out about four jurors who become my favorites. I sort of try to anticipate what they are thinking and how they are reacting."

He called his book on the Simpson trial, "Another City, Not My Own,""a novel in the form of a memoir." It, too, reached the best-seller lists.

"Every word is true, but it's written in the style of a novel," he said.

From the gritty world of the courtroom during the day, he would move into the glamorous realm of high society at night, dining with the rich and famous, charming them with his inside stories of the Simpson trial.

He was a colorful raconteur and his stories mesmerized listeners. He was a much sought after dinner guest on both coasts and in the glamour capitals of Europe where he frequently traveled. He was a regular at the Cannes Film Festival, interviewing members of royalty and movie stars.

His assignments took him to London to cover the inquest into Princess Diana's death and to Monaco to look into the mysterious death of billionaire Edmond Safra.

He continued appearing regularly on television, and in 2002 debuted a weekly program on Court TV, "Power, Privilege and Justice."

"I am openly pro-prosecution and make no bones about it," he told the San Francisco Chronicle that year. "I don't think there are enough people out there sticking up for victims."

The show gave him an added dose of celebrity when it was distributed in foreign countries.

He had already been working on "The Two Mrs. Grenvilles," a fictionalized retelling of a sensational 1950s society murder, when his 22-year-old daughter Dominique was strangled by her former boyfriend, John Sweeney, in 1982, shortly after she had completed her first movie, "Poltergeist."

Sweeney was convicted only of voluntary manslaughter, not murder, and was freed after serving less than four years of a six-year sentence. The verdict was seen as a major victory for the defense, and Dunne bitterly told the judge in court, "you withheld important information from this jury about this man's history of violent behavior." He later told the Los Angeles Times the sentence was "a tap on the wrist."

In a 1985 AP interview, Dunne said he nearly stopped writing when Dominique was slain.

"I was going to stop the book," Dunne said. "I didn't want to do a book that dealt with a murder. But my book editor wouldn't let me quit. She was incredibly sympathetic and lenient on time. I'm glad now that she didn't let me quit."

"People Like Us" and "The Two Mrs. Grenvilles" were both turned into miniseries, and he stressed he had nothing to do with the changes the TV scriptwriters made.

"If I had wanted it that way, I would have written it that way," Dunne told TV Guide, referring to changes made in the key character in "People Like Us" to make him more sympathetic.

Among his other books were the 1993 "A Season in Purgatory," that helped revive interest in the 1975 slaying of teenager Martha Moxley in Greenwich, Conn. A Kennedy relative, Michael Skakel, was convicted in the killing in 2002.

He also wrote "An Inconvenient Woman" and "The Mansions of Limbo."

In 1999, Dunne published a memoir called, "The Way We Lived Then," a compilation of photographs of him and his family with famous people and his recollections of the glamour life he and his wife Lenny enjoyed for many years.

Dunne was born in 1925 in Hartford, Conn., to a wealthy Roman Catholic family and grew up in some of the same social circles as the Kennedys. In his memoir, he traced his fascination with Hollywood to a childhood trip he took "out West" with an aunt. They took one of those home of the stars bus tours and he vowed to come back and be part of the glamorous world he had glimpsed.

He served in the Army during World War II and graduated from Williams College in 1949.

While in the Army, he was awarded the Bronze Star for heroism in 1944 for carrying two wounded men to safety at the Battle of Merz in Feisberg, Germany.

He wrote that, "Winning a medal was the only thing I can ever remember doing that won any admiration from my father."

At Williams College in Massachusetts, he and a fellow student, Stephen Sondheim, appeared in plays together. After college, he went to New York where he landed a job in the fledgling TV industry as stage manager of the "Howdy Doody" children's show. NBC brought him to Hollywood to stage manage the famous TV version of "The Petrified Forest' with Humphrey Bogart.

Among his credits as a producer were the TV series "Adventures in Paradise" and "The Boys in the Band," a pioneering 1970 drama about gay life. Two of his films, "The Panic in Needle Park" and "Play It As It Lays," were written or co-written by his brother John and sister-in-law Didion.

He was invited to celebrity parties and said he decided then, "This is how I want to live."

But Dunne said his years living the high life in Hollywood left him divorced, broke and addicted, and he moved to a cabin in Oregon to dry out and to start over as a novelist. While his brother was the famous Dunne at that time, the Times said, "nowadays, (Dominick) Dunne is far better known."

John Gregory Dunne died in 2003.

Dunne and his wife, Ellen Griffin Dunne, known as Lenny, were married in 1954. They divorced in the 1960s but he wrote that afterward they remained close nonetheless. She died in 1997.

Beside Dominique, they had two sons, Alexander and Griffin. Griffin has acted in such films as "An American Werewolf in London" and "After Hours." He branched into directing and producing as well, with "Fierce People" and "Practical Magic" among his credits.

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Special Correspondent Linda Deutsch in Los Angeles and AP National Writer Hillel Italie in New York contributed to this report.

I just reposted from http://www.stiffs.com/recentdeaths.cfm#bottom ....  not my words ...

I see that Joey beat me to the response, but I wanted to add that that site is completely irreverent and without any respect whatsoever. They have a cash contest every year to predict who will die: now that, they take seriously. (check out the legal page: http://www.stiffs.com/09legal.html  He even has a clause stating that entrants will be disqualified for being charged with criminal violations connected with any celebrity on any of its lists. I guess he doesn't want his contestants fixing the contest by shooting celebrities! :58- :18- )  It appears that the site owner has taken in $11,295 in entry fees this year alone, and is only giving out $3,940 in cash and prizes, leaving him with a nice little profit of at least $7,355. (It's actually more, because the tee-shirts and mugs cost him less than retail and are tax-deductible as business advertising expenses.) I would have thought that it would be illegal, as it seems to me to be a sweepstakes of sorts, but I guess that he gets away with it because the users are supposed to use their research skills to make their lists.

Still, one has to admit that some of the joke remarks that they use for the deceased are darned funny, if not original. For example, under Les Paul's name they used the joke "No Les, No more," which they stole directly from a real headstone in Tombstone Arizona's cemetery, which I've personally seen and photographed.

Thanks Brianzz  :3- for posting about Dominick Dunne, No more power, privilege or justice

Not being able to sleep very well, means that I see alot of shows on TRU TV as they run till early in the morning. His show was always kinda cool to watch.


I wouldn't want to be a celeb right now, they are dropping like flies!!!  :60- :60- :60-

Wait, who am I kidding! I would jump at the chance and take the risk!!  :97- :97- :97-

CH :95-

A couple good ones:

Art Fleming (04/25)
We'll take Dead Game Show Hosts for a hundred, Alex. :31-

Albert R. Broccoli (06/27)
Just as well. It's awful to think of anyone spending the rest of his days as a vegetable. :138-

And the piece de resistance:

DeForest Kelley (06/11)
All together, everybody ... "He's dead, Jim!"  :72- :72- :72- :72-

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Or if laughing is not appropriate...

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CH :95-

One more:

Ike Turner (12/12)
Looks like he beat Tina to death.


Now I'm bad!  >:D :190- :97- :97- :97-

Refer to reply #27 above!

CH :95- :97-

Patrick Swayze is the latest. Anybody remember Road House?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E4GEUkgq1U (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E4GEUkgq1U)


Point Break?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuVDrpl1tIY&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuVDrpl1tIY&feature=related)

Road House was one of the better ones....the addition of Sam Elliot to ANY movie makes it good.

At least here, we knew this one was coming.
Lost the battle with cancer. Another way too soon at 57 yrs old.
RIP Patrick...you will be missed by many.

REMOVED

Mary Travers (09/16)
If she had a hammer, she'd still be dead.

Henry Gibson (09/17)
"The Afterlife" ... by Henry Gibson.

Susan Atkins (09/24)
Parole granted.

Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian who made an art form out of taking a pie in the face and delighted a generation of Detroiters with his loopy TV show on Channel 7 in the 1950s, died Thursday night in New York.

Sales, who had been in ill health for several years, was 83. His former manager, Dave Usher, said Sales last week entered a Bronx hospice, where he died. He is survived by his wife, Trudy, and two sons, Hunt and Tony.

“He was the first person from Detroit television whose first name had instant recognition from coast to coast,” said former Channel 7 anchorman Bill Bonds. “If you said ‘Soupy' in New York, they knew who it was. If you said ‘Soupy' in Los Angeles, everybody knew who it was. I'd worked in both markets, and the first thing anybody said when I mentioned I was from Detroit was ‘Soupy.' ”

Born Milton Supman in Franklinton, N.C., and raised in West Virginia, Sales was best known to Detroiters as the goofy yet cerebral host of “Lunch with Soupy,” a half-hour show that featured Sales hamming it up in a variety of sometimes surreal situations.

The show, which began airing in Detroit in 1953, featured a cast of unforgettable characters: an incorrigible dog by the name of White Fang, “the meanest dog in all Deeeetroit,” who communicated via a series of guttural noises; Black Tooth, an overly affectionate dog whom Sales would constantly tell “don't kiss”; Hippy the Hippo, and Willy the Worm.

Of course, there were the pies. Sales once estimated that he took 9,000 pies in the face during the course of his career.

But the most famous of Sales' bits was “lunch.” A typical menu might include a hot dog as the main course. Before Sales would take a bite, viewers would hear the sound of squealing pigs. Or, viewers might hear the sound of mooing cows as Sales sipped milk.

The lunchtime show was also known for its unpredictability. Sales would leave the set, camera in tow, and harass other Channel 7 hosts.

He once left the set in mid-show and hunted down Channel 7's Edythe Fern Melrose, a woman of unyielding dignity who was known as “The Lady of Charm.” Sales blasted her with a pie.

“She didn't know it was coming,” once recalled former Detroit radio personality Mark Andrews, himself since deceased, who watched the program as a grade-school student at Fraser's Eisenhower Elementary. “It might be the funniest moment I've seen on television.”

The show was “must-see” TV, long before NBC came up with the phrase. Thousands of Detroit baby boomers would become “Birdbaths,” the designation given to members of his club.

Tom De Lisle, a Detroit writer and TV producer, once recalled to the Free Press growing up on Detroit's east side and watching the show. He and his brother, Skip, lived close enough to their grade school that they could go home for lunch to watch Sales.

“We calculated that we could catch the last joke on the show and make it back to our desks by the time the bell rang if we ran like hell. And that's what we did,” recalled De Lisle. “We stood in the doorway, hung right to the last second of Soupy's show, said ‘Go!' and ran. The show was creative, different and live every day.”

With the success of the noontime show, Channel 7 quickly developed a nighttime show, “Soupy's On,” for the 11 p.m. time period.

“Soupy's On” was a comedy-variety show, with Sales performing sketch comedy with a team of local actors and actresses. He also regularly featured the best jazz performers of the day, including Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk.

Sales created a multitude of characters for his evening show: Charles Vichyssoise, a slippery French crooner who was forever sparring with unruly patrons at the Club Chi Chi; Wyatt Burp, and Ernest Hemingbone, who argued with his literary rivals.

Sales later admitted that the pace of doing a noon show and a 11 p.m. live comedy program — one hour of live television, five days a week — contributed to the breakup of his marriage, played havoc with his family life and left him exhausted.

But he made serious money for Channel 7 — so much money that Sales could be credited with saving the American Broadcasting Company, which owned the station, in addition to the ABC-TV network. At the time, ABC was struggling and relied heavily on its owned-and-operated stations in cities like Detroit, where Sales was raking it in.

Sales left Detroit in late 1959 and ended up at KABC-TV, the ABC-owned station in Los Angeles.

“I thought it was time to move on because I didn't want to be 60, 65 and be sitting around one night having a drink and wonder if I could have made it in another market,” he wrote in his autobiography, “Soupy Sez.”

After Detroit, Sales hosted children's shows in New York and Los Angeles. Frank Sinatra asked to appear on the Sales show in Los Angeles and take a pie in the face.

When Sinatra appeared on the set, a director offered the singer a tour of the set. “Don't bother,” Sinatra reportedly said, “I know the show better than you do.”

Sales' L.A. show ran between 1961 and 1963, but was canceled because local television was moving from live, locally produced TV to syndicated material.

But Sales had one more go-around with children's television, at New York's WNEW-TV between 1964 and 1967, where he get into trouble for jokingly asking his fans to send him money.

Sales was suspended for the stunt, but reinstated after massive demonstrations in front of WNEW-TV studios.

Sales left Channel 5 in New York in 1968 after years of fighting with station management.

His attitude about station managers, which remained unchanged until his death, was that TV executives ruined television. He said that most station managers would not “know a tap dancer from a trombone player,” and that their primary contribution was “getting drunk on their six-martini lunches.”

His mark on television remained well into the 1980s and beyond. New York Times critic John J. O'Connor noted in 1986 that Pee-wee Herman's act could be traced back to Sales.

Said Channel 7 anchorman Erik Smith: “He was our youth. He was my lunch every day. He was my Jell-O. He had that profound an impact as an individual as anybody in the history of Detroit television. I still find myself doing some of his mannerisms. And I'm still a proud Birdbath.”

 :3- :3- :3- Loved that show.

I remember when the stage manager played a trick on him when he answered the door in one of his skits. He
was so surprised he could hardly talk. They never showed why but later I saw who was hid beside the door and
it was a woman top-less.

Another great loss. :8-

Ron

No word yet from his twin brother Anal Roberts

Ronnie James Dio 1942 - 2010 RIP 

He will be missed, Its a dark day in the world of Heavy Metal.

I'll have to crank up the Sabbath and Rainbow at work this week in tribute. :71- :71-

RIP, Ronnie, you were one of the Gods of Metal.  :89-


<edit> This should get interesting, as I work with a LOT of people who will be getting their first exposure to this type of music... :72- :72-

Of course, there are a lot of metalheads in the Norwegian company we just acquired, so they'll be in the swing of things. :89- :89- :89- :89-

Ronnie had one of the better voices in Metal/Rock...Look Out !!!!

RIP,Ronnie gone but not forgotten.

I seen RJD in concert at least 6 times back in the day and still have all his albums.  He will be missed by us old die hard metal heads.  I wonder if it was "Heaven or Hell".  I am going to dig my stuff out as well and pay a tribute to him.  B.

Saw him in concert a few years back. Awsome. Always been one of my favs.  And I agree he definitely had a great voice and one of the best at that.
His death is a big loss. Really sucks. I was bummed when I heard it.  I would have liked to seen him in concert again.
E~

So, we have a consensus.

Those from the Asian subcontinent are definitely more in tune with metal than those from the Asian continent when you consider the 40+ category. One female of the latter category was about to rip her ears from her head, and I think her eyes may have been bleeding at one point.  :3- :244- :3- :200- :72- :97-

and as I thought, the Norwegians were having a blast.

We need a new smilie:

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Wouldn't that run a huge risk of opening the hole even more and allowing more oil to leak into the gulf?

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It's difficult to tell, but it appears from the live underwater BP, camera that the oil is leaking in several spots from the fractured pipe that is currently bent over and laying on the Gulf floor.
I can understand why it is so difficult to stop the flow of oil when there is no single access point to plug.
The pipe itself is the problem. The broken end of the pipe is laying horizontally on the sea floor, and there are multiple holes and leaks down the length of the pipe before it enters the hole that was drilled on the Gulf floor.
Since the oil is leaking from the pipe and not the drill hole, blowing up the pipe will do nothing to stop the flow of oil from the source. In fact, it would probably make it worse.

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Rocket  I don't know what size pipe that would be use for off shore wells, but if Calif. some years ago I hauled a lot of well casing from the LA ( Long Beach ) harbor to the Bakersfield area oil fields. Allmost all the casing was 8 5/8" diamenter. Different wells required different wight per. foot casing. I really don't remember the weight but think most of it was around 50 pounds per foot. You talked about drill rod, it's not very big at all,  my guess is a inch to inch and a quarter in diamenter and twenty five feet long.

I think this was the First one this week then the other 2 which makes 3 
 
People Are Funny Host Art Linkletter Dies at Age 97
Posted May 26th 2010 at 03:30 PM by PopEater / Wire Services
Art Linkletter, who hosted the popular TV shows 'People Are Funny' and 'House Party' in the 1950s and 1960s, has died. He was 97. His son-in-law, Art Hershey, says Linkletter died Wednesday at his home in the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles. '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. ...

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Basically they will cap that one with mud and drill another one and cause another disaster?   :25-  :97-

Not to hijack this thread any further,   :30-   but.....   
when they were trying the top kill by pumping down mud, they claimed only mud was coming out of the pipe. NO OIL...
So, now that the top kill didn't work they want to drill a relief well that will take 30 to 45 days.
Why don't they keep pumping down mud for the time being and stop the flow. I would rather have mud wash up on the beaches then the crude.

I remember watching a movie a long time ago about a guy named "Red" who capped wells by using dynamite.
"Hellfighters" played by John Wayne.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfighters_%28film%29 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfighters_%28film%29)

Apparently this guy Red Adair helped put out the oil well fires in Kuwait after the Gulf War at age 75!


I don't think this works under water though...
They must of had problems finding enough mud perhaps?

I think they should use really large sections of pipe and lower them into the water by use of helicopter.

By stacking these rings they could then funnel the oil up and then siphon it off from the top.

I believe the use of explosives is to vaporize any oxygen which in turn extinguishes the fire. The well can then be capped (on land anyways).

 Dan (tacman)

Rocket your right, it's the sucker rod that's 1 to 1 1/4" I'm not sure on the drill  rod..

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I haven't see copper sweated main risers in highrise buildings built after 1970
They us Victaulic couplings for the domestic water.
http://www.victaulic.com/content/plumbingpotablewatersolutions.htm (http://www.victaulic.com/content/plumbingpotablewatersolutions.htm)

Exclusive photo of Gary Coleman's custom casket.

 Dan (tacman)

Damn, That's Cold.........  :72- :72- :97- :208- :25- :30-




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Rue McClanahan from the Golden Girls (Blanche) has passed on.  I think only Betty White is left out of the group?

I wasn't born till the late 70's but I sure loved ELO when I was younger

NewsOxy.com (http://www.newsoxy.com/entertainment/mike-edwards-elo-14589.html)

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Uh, somehow, I think that they meant to say that the bale of hay had rolled down a hill to the road. :25-


It's sad to hear that he's passed.

I guess he couldn't BALE out in time...  :200-

I used to have 3 or 4 of their vinyls... All puns aside, I'm sorry to hear of this.

I still have one of their albums in my collection. Now with the new USB turntables I can listen again.  Nothing like remembering white noise  :89-  Course I stilll have 8 tracks and an 8 track player, but the tapes are starting to dry out :(

I wish I had the time to digitize all my records, 8-tracks, and cassettes...that'll never happen though  :37-

I had read some place that it was an early worlds fair that introduced the RCA phono-graph (record player) to the public.

They started off with a closed curtain and the audience heard the band playing then they withdrew the curtain and all that was left was a the RCA crank style phono-graph that was producing the music. It was apparetly the wax tubes.

They played (on NPR) what was at that time considered a perfect recording and the white noise was deafing compared to what we are used to today.
But at  the time it was good enough to fool the public......

Good luck with digitizing 8-tracks. I tried this for a bunch of tapes my stepdad had. I had a working 8-track component deck, hooked it up to the computer, had it working great... then nothing...

The glue holding the metallic strip that both binds the tape together AND signals it's time to change tracks on the player had turned to dust. After the third straight tape came apart at the same place, I gave up.

I had a stack of old albums from the 70s... found them at a yard sale years ado and paid $1 each... got maybe 30 or 40 of them.... beatles, zepelin, creme.... all the goodies. I was looking for them last month, asked the wife in passing if she saw them. "Oh, we got rid of those a few years ago in our yard sale, didnt I tell you?" NO YOU DIDN'T!

So now, her and the kids are worried about some of their things disapearing.... :)

You could open the cartridge, take the ends and splice them, and put it back together. Worst case, you would have to use a non-conducting tape and manually switch tracks at the right time. Best case, you could try to find a metallic tape or "Bunkerize" something -- perhaps a tiny piece of aluminum foil with double sided tape or a metallic tape from a crafts store.. :103-  It would only have to hold for three passes.

I have manual splicers for 1/4" and 1/2" audio tape buried somewhere deep in my garage (never did get the 1" and 2" splicers). I have no idea if they are still made in this digital age. They are made of solid blocks of aluminum. They're not 100% necessary, but they hold both ends of the tape in perfect alignment and also let you make precision cuts that mate, either diagonally or vertically. They also used to make very thin splicing tape, but that wouldn't give you the conducting metal that you need.


P.S. If you've never looked inside one of these, the tape is pulled out of the center of a single spool and then wound back onto the outside of the spool after being played. The spool is wound loosely enough so that the tape can be pulled up and sideways out of the center without damaging (wrinkling or stretching) it. I haven't seen one in close to 30 years, so there may be more that I've forgotten due to CRS.

I looked up "bunkerize" in the dictionary cuz i wasn;t  familiar with the term... It says to "adapt and make useful by being inventive; to tinker until something works like you want it to"  :208-  :97-  :72-  :200- :89-

"Bunkerize"
  To modify something from it's original intent in order to make it function in a different way.


Your definition hits it also.

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Well, I "Bunkerized" the dry tape with this solution...works perfectly!

Aluminum duct tape....I had a roll of it in the garage for when
I taped up the new pipes for the clothes dryer machine.
Switches the tracks right on the money on the old 8-track player.
I had to clean the capstan a couple of times but now I'm playing stuff my 10 yr younger wife never heard.... :72-

Bunker,

Good thing that I reread this, as at first I was afraid that you were "Bunkerizing" a 10 year old and calling her your wife, not to mention the use of duct tape!!! :5- :88- :96- :200- :208-

Well lets see if our current crowd lets this thread go back on TRACK!  :103-

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Glad to hear that it worked. :89- :71-


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Very sad news indeed for the world of comedy. Greg Giraldo was great and shined on the Comedy Central Roasts!

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39427081/ns/today-entertainment/ (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39427081/ns/today-entertainment/)

RIP...

Sad thing, sad reason, and at a young age too! :8- :37- :30- :25-

CH :95-

Add another one to the list!

Hollywood legend Tony Curtis dies at 85

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39433821 (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39433821)

CH :95-

He was the only movie star I remember seeing on the Hanna Barbera productions - "The Flintstones"

I still remember watching the Acadamy award show (my wife made me)  and it was co-hosted by Jon Lovitz.
He reached over and honked Jamie-Lee's knocker.
She responded by turning and grabbling his crotch.

This image was soon replaced by the horrifed look of Tony Curtis sitting in the front row. I was sure he was going to have a coranry at that moment.

Liked his work....

"Stony Curtis" :96-

Bunker, I can understand you're forgetting some of the others like "Perry Masonary", "Cary Granite", "Alvin Brickrock" (Alfred Hitchcock), and "Rock Quarry" (Rock Hudson), BUT
HOW could you forget "Ann Margrock" ???  :5-  :30- :30- :25-

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1.     Tony Curtis     Tony Curtis  September 29th, 2010
The Sweet Smell of Success for 35 poolsters.
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2.    Arthur Penn    Arthur Penn September 28th, 2010
Penn Stationary.
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3.    George Blanda    George Blanda September 27th, 2010
Great football player. Ugly as a mud fence, but a great football player.
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4.    Gloria Stuart    Gloria Stuart September 26th, 2010
She was honored TWICE in one month for a long and outstanding career.
Haven't these people ever heard of The Woody Herman Phenomenon? They might as well have pushed her off a cliff.
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5.    Eddie Fisher    Eddie Fisher September 22nd, 2010
Dumped Debbie Reynolds to marry Liz Taylor. Fucking GENIUS.
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6.    Leonard Skinner    Leonard Skinner September 20th, 2010
Pronounced.
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7.    Harold Gould    Harold Gould September 11th, 2010
Ghouled.
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8.    Kevin McCarthy    Kevin McCarthy September 11th, 2010
Snatched.
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9.    Paul Conrad    Paul Conrad September 4th, 2010
So long, cartoon boy.
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10.    Robert Schimmel    Robert Schimmel September 3rd, 2010
He beat cancer and then died in a car accident. What a comedian!

Joey, you might want to let everyone know that those quips come from the celebrity death pool site, www.stiffs.com, and that you didn't insert them. Oh wait, I just told them. :200-


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lol...I was gonna say...boy, that Joey is foul-mouthed! :96- :200- :72-

"I didn't do it"
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Leslie Nielsen, who went from drama to inspired bumbling as a hapless doctor in "Airplane!" and the accident-prone detective Frank Drebin in "The Naked Gun" comedies, has died. He was 84.
His agent John S. Kelly says Nielsen died Sunday at a hospital near his home in Ft. Lauderdale where he was being treated for pneumonia.

 Dan (tacman)

Airplane was the absolute best!

RIP

Will Smith Dead?  Probably bogus, looked official on breaking news.  Story goes, he was killed while filming in New Zealand. Hope not, tragic loss if true, though.

It is said to be a hoax.

http://rumorfix.com/full-entry/2011/3/24/will-smiths-son-jaden-smith-not-dead.html (http://rumorfix.com/full-entry/2011/3/24/will-smiths-son-jaden-smith-not-dead.html)

This is what I was able to find on line about it..

http://will.smith.mediafetcher.com/news/top_stories/actor_new_zealand.php (http://will.smith.mediafetcher.com/news/top_stories/actor_new_zealand.php)

Thought he was in New York filming Men in Black III ????

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/12/will-smiths-trailer-boote_n_860958.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/12/will-smiths-trailer-boote_n_860958.html)

If you look at the source of the site


That's HTML for current date, some sort of spam site I'm sure.

Nothing on the morning news or CNN, must be a false report, hoax... I'm glad, hes too young and does a lot of good movies. Can't wait to see Men in Black 3 and I am Legend 2...

OMFG...

http://mel.gibson.mediafetcher.com/news/top_stories/actor_new_zealand.php (http://mel.gibson.mediafetcher.com/news/top_stories/actor_new_zealand.php)

http://bugs.bunny.mediafetcher.com/news/top_stories/actor_new_zealand.php (http://bugs.bunny.mediafetcher.com/news/top_stories/actor_new_zealand.php)

http://new.life.games.mediafetcher.com/news/top_stories/actor_new_zealand.php (http://new.life.games.mediafetcher.com/news/top_stories/actor_new_zealand.php)

This must've been one hell of a movie... and we're all in it

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CaptainHappy :95-

Phony internet spam. It's the latest 'fad'. :279- Go figure. :52-

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