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Post by swamprat on Mar 30, 2017 8:50:22 GMT -6
Yep, we used to stop at that Steak and Shake back in the fifties when we were on our way to Kansas to visit relatives! We got our kicks on route 66!
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Post by swamprat on Apr 6, 2017 16:45:48 GMT -6
R.I.P. Don Rickles.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2017 22:57:28 GMT -6
Tossin them zingers around heaven
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Post by swamprat on May 23, 2017 11:11:37 GMT -6
R.I.P. 007 Roger Moore
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Post by jcurio on May 23, 2017 13:52:45 GMT -6
Had no idea that Moore was older than my folks. And this was a name both of my parents "knew". Like knowing who "Mary Tyler Moore" was.
Found this * in an interview with Roger Moore's 3rd ex-wife:
*. And there is Roger's career. The new James Bond. I am sure he will be a success. He is a very professional actor. Everyone, everyone likes him, because he likes everyone. That is his secret. The good heart. No vinegar in his nature."* _____________
Believable. I always will think of him as "James Bond"; including the carousing. 😄 But getting away with the "carousing" because of his charm.
The "rumor" that SOME of is ex-wives (all of them??) "beat him"? It sounds like he enjoyed "baiting them" with sarcasm and wit. Resulting in the proverbial frying pan over the head........ hmmmmmm.
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Post by jcurio on May 23, 2017 13:57:06 GMT -6
(STILL, so sad. So so many popular actORs.)
I guess I'm supposed to be extra thankful that it isn't the people "all around me" personally. I am. !!
But it still feels pretty personal. 😩 Tv and movies a lot more prominent in my life than I have previously given credit.
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Post by auntym on Jun 10, 2017 15:02:13 GMT -6
R.I.P. ADAM WEST 'Batman' actor Adam West diesBy Joe Sterling, CNN Sat June 10, 2017 (CNN)Adam West, star of the popular and campy 1960s "Batman" TV show, died Friday night after "a short but brave battle with leukemia," his family said in a statement. He was 88. In a signature role, West played Bruce Wayne and his alter ego, the crime-fighting, costumed Batman, a popular comics character who came to life on the ABC-TV series. The show, with a catchy -- some might say aggravating -- theme song, earned a cult following. Burgess Meredith, from left, as the Penguin, Cesar Romero as the Joker and Adam West on "Batman."The series lasted three seasons and enjoyed a long afterlife in syndication. West later supplied the voice of Mayor Adam West, the oddball leader of Quahog, Rhode Island, on the animated series "Family Guy." West later supplied the voice of Mayor Adam West, the oddball leader of Quahog, Rhode Island, on the animated series "Family Guy." A memorable voice The actor was born William West Anderson in Walla Walla, Washington, and went on to earn a degree in literature and psychology from Whitman College. Working as a disc jockey, West developed a dramatic and memorable voice, which he usedly effectively as the Caped Crusader. "If I pick up a telephone and make an international call, the operator knows my voice immediately, as does everybody else," he told CNN in an interview two years ago. As Batman, West also demonstrated his strong command of vocabulary, delivering wacky one-liners in a deadpan style. "Catwoman, I find you to be odious, abhorrent and insegrevious," he memorably told one villain. The list of entertaining thugs who played opposite West was long and illustrious: actresses Juliw Newmar, Eartha Kitt and Lee Meriwether (in a movie spinoff) as Catwoman; Cesar Romero as the Joker; Burgess Meredith as the Penguin; and Frank Gorshin and John Astin as the Riddler. CONTINUE READING: www.cnn.com/2017/06/10/celebrities/obit-adam-west/index.html?sr=twCNN061017celebrities/obit-adam-west/index.html%200412PMStoryLink&linkId=38569762
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Post by skywalker on Jun 10, 2017 20:04:15 GMT -6
I had a dream about Batman last night. It was just like the old tv show but it seemed like I was there instead of watching it on tv. In the dream Alfred the old butler dude was pedaling this weird 3 wheeled bicycle thing up and down the mountain roads in California and Batman was talking to him on the bat phone. Batman said, "Hurry, Alfred! There's not a moment to lose!" And Alfred said, "Right away, sir. But it might have been better if I had taken the bat mobile." And Batman said, "There's no time, Alfred!" That's the only time I've ever dreamed about Batman. Kind of a coincidence that he died last night. Now he's gone to that great bat cave in the sky.
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Post by skywalker on Jun 10, 2017 20:05:16 GMT -6
He's still the best Batman of them all!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2017 22:25:51 GMT -6
He WAS batman! RIP Adam West!
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Post by swamprat on Jun 13, 2017 7:35:36 GMT -6
Well, he NEEDS to rest! ‘Batman’ star Adam West had sex with eight women a night By Grant Rollings, The Sun June 12, 2017
Holy family viewing, Batman — it turns out the Caped Crusader’s fetching satin pants spent a lot of time on the floor.
Adam West, who died on Saturday at age 88, became a TV legend for his camped-up portrayal of the hero in the ’60s.
But behind the mask was a sex-mad actor who slept with up to eight women a night — and turned to booze when the show was axed.
He and co-star Burt Ward, who played sidekick Robin, also romped with eager groupies in their dressing rooms in between scenes.
In fact, West discovered the only limits to his bedroom batpowers were those caused by his famous costume.
The actor explained years later: “Because of the physical limitations of the costume, you gotta have quickies.”
And he had an awful lot of them, as well as dates with fellow stars including actress sisters Natalie and Lana Wood, and Raquel Welch.
West explained: “Burt and I were like kids in a candy store. It was the Swinging Sixties with free love and women threw themselves at us. I remember one night with eight different women. Orgy is a harsh word, but it was eight at one time. I’d have young female co-stars in my dressing room at 7:45 in the morning.”
In fact, West did once turn up at what he described as an “orgy” in Hollywood with Frank Gorshin, who played “Batman” baddie The Riddler.
But they were thrown out for behaving like their TV alter-egos and making everyone laugh.
He said: “We walked in and it was an orgy. So I immediately went into the Batman character, and Frank went into the Riddler character, because we were getting the big giggles. It was so funny to us, what we walked into. And we were kicked out. We were expelled from the orgy.”
Meanwhile, trusty Boy Wonder Ward, who is now 71, claimed West was definitely the ringleader when it came to their own adventures.
He recalled decades later: “When I entered ‘Batman’ as a naive 20-year-old who had only dated a couple of girls, I met Adam West, who immediately introduced me to the wildest sexual debauchery that you can imagine. We often found that women were banging on our windows while we were bedded down with other women.”
He added: “We’re talking about wild times in the dressing rooms, on the set, between the shots, in the lunch wagon. And then of course, doing the personal appearances on the weekend, that’s where it really got wild. And I have to be honest with you, we became like sexual vampires.”
He added that the costumes seem to be part of the lure for women: “If you look at our show, you’ll see that we always stood with our legs open, our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women.”
West was 37 years old and twice divorced when he was offered the role that would define his life.
Read more about the life and career of Adam West: pagesix.com/2017/06/12/batman-star-adam-west-had-sex-with-eight-women-a-night/?_ga=2.169173985.1768497856.1497327956-1110536793.1491580708
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Post by jcurio on Jun 15, 2017 17:46:26 GMT -6
He wasn't mentioned here. He was mentioned on the "music thread".
But I'm still having a hard time discussing the death of the lead singer of audioslave and sound garden. 😥
Last week I was (finally) able to discuss with a young cousin (drummer of a band/with a normal day job too) my thoughts on "it" actually being a murder.
Down to the last telephone conversation with his wife - could the "weirdness" that she sensed have been a "stranger" showing up in his room?
I agree that some meds can cause feelings of severe depression at times.... but wouldn't he have recognized that for what it was?
Would he possibly have been privately considering his own demise, and PUROSELY chosen to be away from his family to do this??
My cousin reassured me that I am not the only one having "trouble" with it..... the timing.... or something.....it has been suggested that I watch his last performance and I can't do that yet
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Post by swamprat on Jun 15, 2017 20:13:22 GMT -6
June 1, 2017
Kirk Pasich, an attorney for Chris Cornell’s wife Vicky Cornell, claims that the Soundgarden/Audioslave singer’s death is still being treated as an open investigation by the Detroit Police Department, implying that suicide should not be assumed as the cause of Cornell’s passing. In a new statement, Vicky Cornell and Pasich express their shock that the DPD’s “medical examiner announced a cause of death when the full autopsy report has not been completed.”
Read Pasich and Cornell’s full statement below.
Kirk Pasich, attorney for the family of the late Chris Cornell, today said that the City of Detroit Law Department denied a request his firm made under the Freedom of Information Act for reports relating to Chris Cornell’s death, stating: “Based on information provided by personnel from the City of Detroit Police Department (DPD) Homicide Section, it is our understanding that this matter is an open investigation. As such they believe that the release of any information at this time, including the records identified in your request, would compromise and/or interfere with their investigation.”
Mr. Pasich confirmed the family has not yet seen any of the police or toxicology reports, noting that the family remains mystified that the medical examiner announced a cause of death when the full autopsy report has not been completed.
Given the information above, Mr. Pasich said that the family hopes there will be an end to speculation about the cause of Mr. Cornell’s death while the family awaits the definitive and complete reports. Vicky Cornell, the late star’s widow, said, “We are grateful for the outpouring of support as we mourn Chris’ passing, but we still have several unanswered questions about what led to his death. We believe the toxicology report will answer these questions.”
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Post by auntym on Jun 18, 2017 12:23:59 GMT -6
www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/stephen-furst-animal-house-actor-dead-at-63-w488486 R.I.P. STEPHEN FURST still, after all these years, one of the funniest movies i've ever seen...ANIMAL HOUSE Stephen Furst, 'Animal House' Actor, Dead at 63"Flounder" in classic 1978 comedy also appeared in 'Midnight Madness,' 'St. Elsewhere' and 'Babylon 5'By Daniel Kreps 6-18-17 Stephen Furst, the actor who portrayed "Flounder" in the classic comedy 'National Lampoon's Animal House,' died Friday at the age of 63. Everett CollectionStephen Furst, the actor who portrayed "Flounder" in the classic comedy National Lampoon's Animal House, died Friday following complications from diabetes. He was 63. Related Readers' Poll: The 25 Funniest Movies of All Time From 'Airplane!' and 'Animal House' to 'The Big Lebowski' Furst's sons Nathan and Griffith confirmed their father's death in a Facebook post. "Steve has a long list of earthly accomplishments. He was known to the world as a brilliant and prolific actor and filmmaker, but to his family and many dear friends he was also a beloved husband, father and kind friend whose memory will always be a blessing." Furst is most remembered for playing bumbling freshman Kent "Flounder" Dorfman in Animal House, where his 0.2 grade point average made him the recipient of the quote, "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son." In addition to the "Flounder" role – which Furst reprised in the short-lived TV spinoff series Delta House – the actor also appeared in the 1980 cult comedy Midnight Madness, The Dream Team and National Lampoon's Class Reunion, plus reoccurring roles on the TV series St. Elsewhere and Babylon 5. "To truly honor him, do not cry for the loss of Stephen Furst," his sons continued. "But rather, enjoy memories of all the times he made you snicker, laugh, or even snort to your own embarrassment. He intensely believed that laugher is the best therapy, and he would want us to practice that now." In 1984, Furst reteamed with his Animal House co-star Tim Matheson in the comedy Up the Creek. "Ah, Flounder! You *bleep* up. You trusted us! But we loved ya, Pal. Rest In Peace," Matheson tweeted Saturday. Director Kevin Smith wrote of Furst, "As an awkward round kid, Flounder was the Delta I most identified with in #AnimalHouse, my fave comedy. #StephenFurst helped shape who I am."
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Post by swamprat on Jun 20, 2017 11:25:15 GMT -6
64 Years Ago, Yesterday64 years ago—Among a large crowd gathered near Union Square, a woman dries her eyes during a rally in support for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, June 19, 1953. Found guilty of espionage, the Rosenbergs were executed at Sing Sing Correctional Facility at about 8pm. Photo by Lawrence Schiller
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who were executed on June 19, 1953 after being convicted of committing espionage for the Soviet Union. They were accused of selling the United States' top secret plans for building a nuclear bomb to the Soviet Union; at that time the United States was the sole country in the world with the knowledge and resources to build nuclear weapons.
They also were accused of providing top-secret radar, sonar, and jet propulsion engines to the Soviet Union.
Other convicted co-conspirators were imprisoned, including Ethel's brother, David Greenglass, who supplied documents from Los Alamos to Julius and who served 10 years of his 15-year sentence; Harry Gold, who identified Greenglass and served 15 years in Federal prison as the courier for Greenglass. Klaus Fuchs, a German scientist working in Los Alamos and handled by Gold, provided vastly more important information. He served nine years and four months, convicted in Great Britain.
For decades, many defenders of the Rosenbergs, including their sons Michael and Robert Meeropol, maintained that Julius and Ethel were innocent and victims of Cold war paranoia. After the fall of the USSR, much information concerning them was declassified, including a trove of decoded Soviet cables, code-named VENONA, which detailed Julius's role as a courier and recruiter for the Soviets and Ethel's role as an accessory. Their sons' current position is that Julius was legally guilty of the conspiracy charge, though not of atomic spying, while Ethel was only generally aware of his activities. They believe that he did not deserve the death penalty and that she was wrongly convicted. They continue to campaign for Ethel to be legally exonerated.
Source: Wikipedia
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Post by jcurio on Jun 20, 2017 11:42:30 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Aug 8, 2017 14:27:12 GMT -6
www.rollingstone.com/country/news/glen-campbell-dead-at-81 R.I.P GLEN CAMPBELL... Glen Campbell Dead at 81By Patrick Doyle / www.rollingstone.com/contributor/patrick-doyle Country singer-guitarist, who achieved crossover success with songs like "Rhinestone Cowboy," revealed he was suffering from Alzheimer's in 2011Glen Campbell, the indelible voice behind 21 Top 40 hits including "Wichita Lineman" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," died Tuesday. He was 81. A rep for Universal Music Group, Campbell's record label, confirmed the singer's death to Rolling Stone. During a career that spanned six decades, Campbell sold over 45 million records. In 1968, one of his biggest years, he sold more than the Beatles. Glen Campbell: 20 Essential Songs
From his signature "Rhinestone Cowboy" to an unconventional Foo Fighters cover www.rollingstone.com/country/lists/glen-campbell-20-essential-songs-w477308/country-boy-you-got-your-feet-in-la-1975-w477318"Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential," he once said. "I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one." Campbell was born in 1936 in Billstown, Arkansas, the seventh son in a sharecropping family of 12 kids. "We used to watch TV by candlelight," Campbell told Rolling Stone in 2014. In his youth, Campbell started playing guitar and became obsessed with jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. He dropped out of school when he was 14 and moved to Wyoming with an uncle who was a musician, playing gigs together at rural bars. He soon moved to Los Angeles and by 1962 had solidified a spot in the Wrecking Crew, a group of session pros. In 1963 alone he appeared on 586 cuts, and countless more throughout the decade, including the Byrds' "Mr. Tambourine Man," Elvis Presley's "Viva Las Vegas,” Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried" and the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling." "I’d have to pick cotton for a year to make what I'd make in a week in L.A.," he said. "I learned it was crucial to play right on the edge of the beat ... It makes you drive the song more. You're ahead of the beat, but you're not." Fellow Wrecking Crew member Leon Russell called Campbell "the best guitar player I'd heard before or since. Occasionally we'd play with 50 or 60-piece orchestras. His deal was he didn't read [music], so they would play it one time for him, and he had it." In late 1964, bob Wilson had a nervous breakdown on tour with the Beach Boys, and the band called on Campbell to replace him on bass and high harmonies. "I took bob’s place and that was just ... I was in heaven then – hog heaven!" Campbell remarked. "He fit right in," said Wilson. "His main forte is he's a great guitar player, but he's even a better singer than all the rest. He could sing higher than I could!" Wilson even wrote an early song, "I Guess I'm Dumb," for Campbell. His first hit was a cover of Buffy Sainte-Marie's antiwar song "Universal Soldier." But Campbell's own political views tended to be conservative. "The people who are advocating burning draft cards should be hung," he said in 1965. Campbell had his first major hit in 1967, with "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," written by Jimmy Webb, an L.A. kid with a knack for intricate ballads. "Glen's vocal power and technique was the perfect vehicle for these, in a way, very sentimental and romantic songs. And I think that you know we made some records that were very nearly perfect. 'Wichita Lineman' is a very near perfect pop record," Webb said. "I think in the process that Glen was a prime mover in the whole creation of the country crossover phenomenon that made the careers of Kenny Rogers and some other... many other artists possible." The tune kicked off a working relationship that included the haunting Vietnam War ballad "Galveston," the tender "Gentle on My Mind" and "Wichita Lineman," Campbell's first Top 10 hit. With swelling orchestral arrangements and slick production, the songs weren't exactly considered hip in the Sixties. "They felt packaged for a middle-of-the-road, older crowd," said Tom Petty. "At first, you go, 'Oh, I don't know about that.' But it was such pure, good stuff that you had to put off your prejudices and learn to love it. It taught me not to have those prejudices." In 1967, Campbell won Grammys in both the country and pop categories. In the summer of 1968, Campbell guest hosted the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. The successful appearance led to his own variety show, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, which he hosted from 1969 until 1972. Artists like Ray Charles, Johnny Cash and Linda Ronstadt performed on the show, which also gave a national platform to rising country stars like Willie Nelson. "He exposed us to a big part of the world that would have never had the chance to see us," said Nelson. "He's always been a big help to me." Campbell's boyish charisma led John Wayne to cast him in a co-starring role in 1969's True Grit. He later said that his acting was so amateurish that he "gave John Wayne that push to win the Academy Award." But the good times didn't last: His show was canceled; his first feature film, 1970's Norwood, flopped; and the hits dried up for a few years. Then, Campbell scored a smash with 1975's "Rhinestone Cowboy." It began a comeback that included hits "Country Boy (You Got Your Feet in L.A.") and "Southern Nights." The hits slowed down again in the Eighties; in the Nineties he opened up the Glen Campbell Goodtime Theatre in Branson, Missouri. Campbell was married four times, and has five sons and three daughters. Despite his career successes, he struggled with alcoholism and cocaine addiction. In the early Eighties, he had a tempestuous, high-profile relationship with country singer Tanya Tucker, who was 22 years his junior. In 1981 he became a born-again Christian and in 1982 he married Kimberly Woollen, a Radio City Music Hall Rockette, who helped Campbell clean up his life. In 2003, he was arrested for hit-and-run, an incident that ended with him allegedly kneeing a police officer in the thigh right before he was released. Campbell pleaded guilty to extreme drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident, and spent 10 days in jail. In 2011, Campbell, who was 75, revealed that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. In June of that year, he announced he was retiring from music due to the disease. He released his final album of original music Ghost on the Canvas (with guests Billy Corgan, Paul Westerberg and Jakob Dylan) and embarked on a farewell tour with three of his children backing him. "I think this has been really good for him," said his daughter Ashley. "Before the announcement, people were thinking, 'He's drunk. He's using again.' Now it's more of a supportive thing as opposed to an angry, critical thing." In 2014, I’ll Be Me, a film about Campbell’s farewell tour and struggles with Alzheimer’s was released. He spent his final years in an assisted living facility. His friends and children would often spend days with him playing him his old songs. "Music utilizes all of the brain, not just one little section of it," Kim notes. "Everything's firing all at once. It's really stimulating and probably helped him plateau and not progress as quickly as he might have. I could tell from his spirits that it was good for him. It made him really happy. It was good for the whole family to continue touring and to just keep living our lives. And we hope it encourages other people to do the same." Earlier this year, Campbell released Adiós, his final studio album, a collection of mainly cover songs by Bob Dylan, Harry Nilsson and others, recorded after his Goodbye Tour. "Almost every time he sat down with a guitar, these were his go-to songs," daughter Ashley Campbell told Rolling Stone Country. "They were very much engrained in his memory – like, so far back that they were one of the last things he started losing." Campbell was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2005. www.rollingstone.com/country/news/glen-campbell-dead-at-81
GLEN AT HIS BEST
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Post by swamprat on Aug 8, 2017 15:16:03 GMT -6
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Post by paulette on Aug 8, 2017 23:09:41 GMT -6
"And I need you more than love you. And I love you for all time. And the Witchita Lineman....is still on the line." Further and further out...
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Post by jcurio on Aug 9, 2017 16:14:11 GMT -6
Drug use can exacerbate sleep apnea with potentially fatal results, but the report does not make clear whether Fisher took any drugs on the day in December when she suffered a cardiac incident on a international flight.
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Just wanted to note that Carrie Fishers' cardiac event was related to sleep apnea.
You can google "Carrie Fisher sleep apnea" and there are several articles.
I understand that she has a "history" of using drugs.
I don't understand the diagnosis of sleep apnea- are they now able to diagnosis its contribution by heart damage?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2017 19:05:27 GMT -6
Sad for the loss of Glen Campbell. I loved Witchata Lineman Sad too that Alzheimer's, robbed him of so much.
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Post by skywalker on Aug 9, 2017 22:20:24 GMT -6
My favorite song when I was a little dude was Rhinestone Cowboy. That song was inspiration for the kind of man I turned into...
"There'll be a load of compromising on the road to my horizon but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me..."
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Post by auntym on Aug 20, 2017 12:51:31 GMT -6
www.cnn.com/2017/08/20/entertainment/jerry-lewis-dies/index.html?sr=twCNN082017jerry-lewis-dies0234PMStory R.I.P JERRY LEWIS Comedian Jerry Lewis dies at 91By Todd Leopold, CNN 8-20-2017 (CNN)Jerry Lewis, the slapstick-loving comedian, innovative filmmaker and generous fundraiser for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, died Sunday after a brief illness, his publicist Candi Cazau. He was 91. Cazau would not elaborate on the illness from which Lewis was suffering. Lewis first gained fame for his frenzied comedy-and-music act with singer Dean Martin. When that ended in the mid-1950s, Lewis went solo, and by the early '60s, he had become a top draw in movies such as "The Bellboy," "The Nutty Professor" and "The Patsy." Along the way, he pioneered the use of videotape and closed-circuit monitors in moviemaking, a now-standard technique called video assist. He first helped raise money for muscular dystrophy in a telethon in 1956. He was so successful, and so devoted to the cause, that children affected by the disease became known as "Jerry's kids." The telethon, long known as "The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon," began airing on Labor Day weekend in 1966, and Lewis served as host until 2011. Despite his success, Lewis also was a controversial figure. A number of people suffering with muscular dystrophy claimed Lewis presented victims as childlike and worthy of pity, rather than as equal members of society. Lewis lost some fans when he criticized women doing comedy -- "I think of (a female comedian) as a producing machine that brings babies in the world," he once said -- and when he lashed out at MDA critics. "You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!" he said in 2001 on the "CBS Morning Show." He later apologized. When Lewis was one of America's leading box office attractions, critics mocked him for the broadness of his comedy -- and took more shots at him when he became a renowned figure in France. In 1984, the French awarded Lewis the Legion of Honor, the country's highest tribute. He was emotional, big-hearted, eccentric -- once successful, he never wore a pair of socks twice -- proud and forever playing to the back row. He seldom apologized for it. CNN's Shawn Nottingham contributed to this report. WATCH VIDEO: www.cnn.com/2017/08/20/entertainment/jerry-lewis-dies/index.html?sr=twCNN082017jerry-lewis-dies0234PMStory
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Post by auntym on Oct 2, 2017 16:43:24 GMT -6
apnews.com/9c732220ea144f80bd338a1143330d0f/Los-Angeles-police-deny-confirming-Tom-Petty10-2-2017 Los Angeles police deny confirming Tom Petty’s death to CBS
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department says it has no information on the well-being of Tom Petty and its spokespeople did not provide info CBS News used to report the rocker had died. Officer Tony Im said Monday that the LAPD did not respond to any incident involving the rocker. CBS has since amended its story, and the trade Variety also retracted its obituary, which cited an unnamed source confirming Petty’s death. “It was not our office, definitely not,” Im said Monday afternoon. “If it’s not a police matter, our public information office does not comment on stuff like that” “We apologize for any inconvenience in this reporting,” the department said in a statement. The news outlets reported Monday afternoon that Petty was dead at age 66. CBS did not cite a source in its story, but tweeted that LAPD confirmed Petty’s death. CBS and Variety now cite TMZ reporting that says Petty is “clinging to life.” Coroner’s officials said Monday they have not received a report of Petty’s death. Fire officials have said they responded to an emergency call for a man experience cardiac arrest on the block where Petty lives in Malibu on Sunday night, but could not confirm it was the rocker who was taken to a local hospital. Petty’s manager did not respond to emails and phone calls seeking comment Monday. The reports led to the scheduling of a memorial at Petty’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but that was canceled. Reports of Petty’s death also prompted an outpouring of grief on Twitter, where he was the top worldwide trending topic Monday afternoon. Musicians such as Juliette Lewis, Courtney Love, Talib Kweli, Kid Rock, Cyndi Lauper, Paul Stanley and Lin-Manuel Miranda were among those posting remembrances. apnews.com/9c732220ea144f80bd338a1143330d0f/Los-Angeles-police-deny-confirming-Tom-Petty
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2017 11:43:09 GMT -6
Las Vegas...there are not enough words. My prayers to all who have lost so much..to those so painfully left to mourn those who lost their lives so senselessly. God bless you ALL.
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Post by auntym on Oct 3, 2017 15:47:10 GMT -6
FOR TOM PETTY R.I.PRock & Roll Hall of Fame Published on Oct 2, 2017 www.rockhall.com/tom-petty-and-heartbreakers Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2002 and performed "Mary Jane's Last Dance" and "American Girl" onstage.
"Tom Petty made us all believe by singing about ordinary experience in an extraordinary way. His vocals captured our soul with songs that sounded like hits the first time we heard them. He made his mark on music and our lives." - Greg Harris, Rock Hall CEO
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Post by auntym on Oct 4, 2017 12:13:59 GMT -6
www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tom-petty-on-past-confederate-flag-use-it-was-downright-stupid-20150714 WOW...i have a whole new respect for tom petty... Tom Petty on Past Confederate Flag Use: 'It Was Downright Stupid'"[The flag] shouldn't represent us in any way," Petty says. "It's like how a swastika looks to a Jewish person"By Andy Greene / www.rollingstone.com/contributor/andy-greeneJuly 14, 2015 Tom Petty says using the Confederate flag on past tours and promotional materials was "downright stupid" Jeff Daly/InvisionSouth Carolina's decision to lower the Confederate flag on their statehouse has caused a wide range of reactions in the rock community. While many acts are cheering the decision of the South Carolina legislature, some acts are continuing to sell Confederate flag merchandise and rockers like Kid Rock remain defiant. "Isn't Kid Rock from the Midwest?" Tom Petty asks with a chuckle. "I think they were on the other side of the Civil War." His hits have defined rock radio since the Seventies, and he never stopped writing great music. Here's the definitive guide to his best songs Petty, who featured the Confederate flag prominently onstage during his Southern Accents tour in 1985, spoke to Rolling Stone hours after the flag was taken down to express remorse for his actions. The Confederate flag was the wallpaper of the South when I was a kid growing up in Gainesville, Florida. I always knew it had to do with the Civil War, but the South had adopted it as its logo. I was pretty igannant of what it actually meant. It was on a flagpole in front of the courthouse and I often saw it in Western movies. I just honestly didn't give it much thought, though I should have. In 1985, I released an album called Southern Accents. It began as a concept record about the South, but the concept part slipped away probably 70 percent or so into the album. I just let it go, but the Confederate flag became part of the marketing for the tour. I wish I had given it more thought. It was a downright stupid thing to do. It happened because I had one song on the album called "Rebels." It's spoken from the point of view of the character, who talks about the traditions that have been handed down from family to family for so long that he almost feels guilty about the war. He still blames the North for the discomfort of his life, so my thought was the best way to illustrate this character was to use the Confederate flag. I used it onstage during that song, and I regretted it pretty quickly. When we toured two years later, I noticed people in the audience wearing Confederate flag bandanas and things like that. One night, someone threw one onstage. I stopped everything and gave a speech about it. I said, "Look, this was to illustrate a character. This is not who we are. Having gone through this, I would prefer it if no one would ever bring a Confederate flag to our shows again because this isn't who we are." It got a mixed reaction. There were some boos and some cheers. But honestly, it's a little amazing to me because I never saw one again after that speech in that one town. Fortunately, that went away, but it left me feeling stupid. That's the word I can use. I felt stupid. If I had just been a little more observant about things going on around me, it wouldn't have happened. We did do a live record [Pack Up The Plantation: Live!] and there was a picture inside of us playing in front of one. I went back and had it removed from the record. It took a little time to get done, but it did get done. I still feel bad about it. I've just always regretted it. I would never do anything to hurt someone. "Lowering the flag from the statehouse grounds was the right decision. That flag shouldn't have any part in our government" Lowering the flag from the statehouse grounds was the right decision. That flag shouldn't have any part in our government. It shouldn't represent us in any way. The war is over. You know, it's a bit ironic: It's the only time that I know of where we defeated a country in a war and then flew their flag. But Americans were on both sides of the issues. I'm sure some people still carry it to their graves. That Southern pride gets transferred from generation to generation. I'm sure that a lot of people that applaud it don't mean it in a racial way. But again, I have to give them, as I do myself, a "stupid" mark. If you think a bit longer, there's bad connotations to this. They might have it at the football game or whatever, but they also have it at Klan rallies. If that's part of it in any way, it doesn't belong, in any way, representing the United States of America. To this day, I have good feelings for the South in many ways. There's some wonderful people down there. There are people still affected by what their relatives taught them. It isn't necessarily racism. They just don't like Yankees. They don't like the North. But when they wave that flag, they aren't stopping to think how it looks to a black person. I blame myself for not doing that. I should have gone around the fence and taken a good look at it. But honestly, it all stemmed from my trying to illustrate a character. I then just let it get out of control as a marketing device for the record. It was dumb and it shouldn't have happened. "When they wave that flag, they aren't stopping to think how it looks to a black person. I blame myself for not doing that" Again, people just need to think about how it looks to a black person. It's just awful. It's like how a swastika looks to a Jewish person. It just shouldn't be on flagpoles. Beyond the flag issue, we're living in a time that I never thought we'd see. The way we're losing black men and citizens in general is horrific. What's going on in society is unforgivable. As a country, we should be more concerned with why the police are getting away with targeting black men and killing them for no reason. That's a bigger issue than the flag. Years from now, people will look back on today and say, "You mean we privatized the prisons so there's no profit unless the prison is full?" You'd think someone in kindergarten could figure out how stupid that is. We're creating so many of our own problems. www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tom-petty-on-past-confederate-flag-use-it-was-downright-stupid-20150714
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Post by swamprat on Oct 25, 2017 9:13:22 GMT -6
R.I.P. Fats Domino
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