Senator Paul Wellstone, one of the few, true liberals in the U.S. senate. Terrible, awful news.

Sen. Wellstone Dies in Plane Crash

Jeff
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actor Richard Harris, (recently played Dumbledore in Harry Potter, also Arthur in Camelot)

Richard Harris??? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! How? When????

*cries*

~Acting is being able to look life square in the face, and not be afraid of what you see~

I see Jeff beat me to announcing Wellstones death.
Both his wife and daughter died too. He was a nice guy for a politition.

How conveniant for the republicans.

Sigh and Richard Harris too...

"All~this~world~is~but~a~play.Be~thou~a~joyful~player!"

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actor Richard Harris, (recently played Dumbledore in Harry Potter, also Arthur in Camelot)

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Yeah I read about that, but I could not remember what movies I had seen him in...so Dumbledore died.



Are all the other Harry Potter movies already filmed (like they did with LOTR) or are they going to have to get someone else to play Dumbledore?

Someone else. This'll answer both grandlethal & lady jasmine's Q's (from imdb.com): "died at the age of 72 at University College Hospital in London. No cause of death was named, though Harris's family said he died peacefully. Recent reports noted that Harris had been undergoing chemotherapy since August after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease, though Harris and his family had been optimistic that he would be able to reprise his role as Professor Albus Dumbledore in the third Potter film, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. "

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"Jonathan Harris, the flamboyantly fussy actor who portrayed the dastardly, cowardly antagonist Dr. Zachary Smith on the 1960's sci-fi show ''Lost in Space,'' has died. He was 87.

Harris died Sunday from a blood clot in his heart while receiving therapy at an Encino-area hospital for a chronic back problem, family spokesman Kevin J. Burns said Monday."

Lonnie Donegan.

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Musician Lonnie Donegan has died at the age of 71.
Best known for novelty songs like My Old Man's a Dustman, Lonnie Donegan enjoyed a worldwide reputation among musicians as exalted as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Van Morrison.

Donegan's enthusiastic espousal of skiffle, blues, gospel and American folk music was instrumental in igniting the 1960s British blues revival.

He was born in Glasgow in 1931, the son of a classical violinist. Although he moved to London's East End aged just two, and always considered himself a Glaswegian.

Christened Anthony James Donegan, he became known as Lonnie in the early 1950s when an over-excited master of ceremonies confused him with the American guitarist Lonnie Johnson.


Lonnie Donegan (r) with jazzmen Kenny Ball (l) and Chris Barber

"When I was nine, I told my parents I wanted a guitar," he said. Five years later, Lonnie Donegan got his hands on his dream instrument, a battered 30-shilling version.

Through a jazz club, Donegan met Chris Barber, the singer, trombonist and doyen of British trad jazz. To fill a much-needed role in the band, Barber taught him the banjo.

After two years of National Service, Donegan and a group of other musicians, including Chris Barber, set out to improve their playing, eventually re-forming as the Barber Sunshine Hot Six.

Influenced Beatles

Personnel changes marked the band's evolution into the Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group. A new, transatlantic, musical form had been born.

During the early 1950s skiffle, with its guitar-driven rhythm, tea-chest basses and washboard percussion, was hugely popular and Lonnie Donegan was its biggest star, notching-up 28 top-30 hits.




The King: Elvis recorded a Donegan-penned song

Three records, including a version of Leadbelly's Rock Island Line, topped the charts.

The accessible nature of skiffle led to an explosion in guitar sales, from a mere 5000 in 1950 to 250,000 in 1957.

Among those who formed their own groups were Liverpudian schoolboys, the Quarrymen, who would be reincarnated as the Beatles. Other young fans included the Kinks and the Who.

Banned in America

But Donegan himself denied that skiffle ever existed as a musical genre. "Skiffle is a mixture of music, it's a mongrel music," he once claimed.

"It came via me singing American folk and blues songs with jazz improvisation and overtones. You can call it anything you like. It's neither fish nor fowl."

But the hits kept coming, among them Cumberland Gap, Puttin' on the Style and Battle of New Orleans.


Lonnie Donegan

And his success was transatlantic, though he was initially banned from playing guitar in the United States when the American Federation of Musicians classified him as a variety act.

Even so, he became the first British male artist to have two American Top 10 hits.

Lonnie Donegan appeared on the Perry Como Show on American television, in an intriguing comedy double act with Ronald Reagan, and sharing the bill with a debuting comedian, Woody Allen.

Musical heritage

As the skiffle craze waned at the end of the 1950s, Lonnie Donegan recorded new material, fun songs like Does Your Chewing Gum Lose its Flavour? and My Old Man's a Dustman.

The Beatles began their transformation of popular music in the early 1960s but, as some of his fans became stars in their own right, Lonnie Donegan's reputation as a musical innovator soared.




Days like this: Lonnie Donegan with Van Morrison

Elvis recorded one of his songs, I'm Never Gonna Fall in Love Again and Paul McCartney was the moving force behind Putting on The Style, a 1978 tribute album featuring cameos by, among others, Elton John, Rory Gallagher and Brian May.

Lonnie Donegan also developed a close musical friendship with Belfast's finest, Van Morrison. The two collaborated on Donegan's well-received comeback album, 1998's Muleskinner Blues.

Morrison later recorded another homage to Donegan, The Skiffle Sessions, featuring another fan, the legendary New Orleans blues pianist Dr John.

Though Harold Macmillan was Prime Minister when Lonnie Donegan's last hit single graced the charts, the slightly-built performer with the strange Cockney-American singing voice enjoyed a musical reputation which will live on through thousands of skiffle fans around the world.

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I'm surprised no-one has posted this yet: Jam Master J, one of the three founding members of Run-DMC, was killed this past week in his studio in Queens. Also Adolph Green, one half of Comden and Green, one of the last great collaborative teams in Broadway history...probably most famous for Singin' In The Rain

~That Theatre Chick, aka Amy

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I'm surprised no-one has posted this yet: Jam Master J, one of the three founding members of Run-DMC, was killed this past week in his studio in Queens.

~That Theatre Chick, aka Amy

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I was going to mention it but I don't want it to be true and this thread sort of makes it so.

The (damn that DJ made my day) Scott

margaret phillips from 'northern exposure'


http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/12/obit.phillips.ap/index.html

q.....

awww i liked her!

Nororious 'Moor murderer' Myra Hindley has died.

Link to story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2483015.stm

Over the moor, take me to the moor
Dig a shallow grave
And I'll lay me down

Lesley-Anne, with your pretty white beads
Oh John, you'll never be a man
And you'll never see your home again
Oh Manchester, so much to answer for

Edward, see those alluring lights ?
Tonight will be your very last night

A woman said : "I know my son is dead
I'll never rest my hands on his sacred head"

Hindley wakes and Hindley says :
Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes, and says :
"Oh, wherever he has gone, I have gone"

But fresh lilaced moorland fields
Cannot hide the stolid stench of death
Fresh lilaced moorland fields
Cannot hide the stolid stench of death

Hindley wakes and says :
Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes, and says :
"Oh, whatever he has done, I have done"

But this is no easy ride
For a child cries :

"Oh, find me ... find me, nothing more
We are on a sullen misty moor
We may be dead and we may be gone
But we will be, we will be, we will be, right by your side
Until the day you die
This is no easy ride
We will haunt you when you laugh
Yes, you could say we're a team
You might sleep
You might sleep
You might sleep
BUT YOU WILL NEVER DREAM !
Oh, you might sleep
BUT YOU WILL NEVER DREAM !
You might sleep
BUT YOU WILL NEVER DREAM !"

Oh Manchester, so much to answer for
Oh Manchester, so much to answer for

Oh, find me, find me !
Find me !
I'll haunt you when you laugh
Oh, I'll haunt you when you laugh
You might sleep
BUT YOU WILL NEVER DREAM !
Oh ...
Over the moors, I'm on the moor
Oh, over the moor
Oh, the child is on the moor

(THe Smiths: "Suffer Little Children")

- Michael

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Veteran Hollywood star James Coburn has died at the age of 74.
He suffered a massive heart attack at his Los Angeles home, his manager Hillard Elkins said.
The Oscar-winning actor appeared in more than 70 films in a career spanning six decades.

He was best known for his portrayals of archetypal tough guys in such films as The Magnificent Seven, Our Man Flint and The Great Escape.

But it was for his performance as a dissolute father in the 1999 film Affliction that he received an Academy Award, for best supporting actor.

Born in Laurel, Nebraska, on 31 August, 1928, Coburn studied acting in Los Angeles and New York, where he made his debut on stage.

He was 31 when he won his first film part in Ride Lonesome, in 1959.

This was followed a year later by his career-defining role as knife-throwing Britt in The Magnificent Seven, appearing alongside such movie greats as Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen.

Although short on dialogue in the movie, Coburn's mere screen presence grabbed the public's attention, film historian Leonard Maltin noted.

Coburn played sidekicks and villains in movies through the 1960s, eventually landing a lead role of his own in the humorous spy spoofs Our Man Flint (1966), and In Like Flint, the following year, loosely based on the new James Bond series.

After a spate of films in the 1970s, including the highly acclaimed Golden Girl (1979), Coburn was afflicted with arthritis and all but disappeared from the screens.

Lamenting the lack of work, Coburn said at the time that "actors are boring when they're not working, it's a natural condition, because they don't have anything to do, they just lay around and that's why so many of them get drunk".

By the end of the 1990s, Coburn claimed he had "healed" himself and the work began to flow again.

His final role was as a dying author in the 2002 film The Man from Elysian Fields, which received mixed reviews.

Hillard Elkins said Coburn was a consumate professional.

"He was a guy who looked like he was casual, but he studied and he worked and he understood character," said Mr Elkins.

"He was a hell of an actor, he had a great sense of humour and those performances will be remembered for a very long time," he added.
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One of our infrequent library patrons committed suicide last week.

newspaper article

Now *that* took some balls.

And though I only really spoke with him once or twice, I'm kind of :::whoa::: about the whole thing.

He seemed like a nice guy. What on earth could have happened to make him want to do *that*?

amypata

"Today is made of yesterday, each time I steal
toward rites I do not know, waiting for the lost
ingredient, as if salt or money or even lust
would keep us calm and prove us whole at last."
--Anne Sexton

William Marrié, one of the dancers from Movin' Out

From the NY Times:

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William Marrié, a classical dancer of exceptional dramatic power from the National Ballet of Canada who was appearing as a lead in "Movin' Out," the Twyla Tharp-Billy Joel Broadway show, died on Saturday morning at New York Presbyterian Hospital from injuries sustained in a traffic accident.

Mr. Marrié, who would have been 34 today, was on his motorcycle Friday evening when he and a taxi collided at 46th Street and Park Avenue, the police said. It was unclear which direction each vehicle was traveling, and the police report did not indicate whether Mr. Marrié was wearing a helmet.

Mr. Marrié starred as Eddie, the Long Island mechanic and Vietnam veteran, at the Wednesday and Saturday matinees of "Movin' Out." He had moved from Toronto to New Jersey while performing in the show, at the Richard Rodgers Theater. After his accident, the role was performed by Lawrence Rabson, another Canadian in the cast, on Saturday afternoon.

Ms. Tharp's strenuous choreography for the show, which has no dialogue, requires what she calls two equally good casts on days when there are two performances.

In no way, however, could Mr. Marrié be regarded as an understudy. Anyone who saw his emotionally nuanced performance as Eddie and his stunning appearances in Toronto or with American Ballet Theater in New York would have been dazzled by both his dramatic depth and his bravura technique.

As a guest with Ballet Theater two years ago, he made his Petruchio in John Cranko's "Taming of the Shrew" a complex character that the ballet does not usually reveal. Dancing opposite Irina Dvorovenko as Katherina, he played with stretched-out phrases of movement that changed tempo and direction with the quickness of asides to the audience. It was an example of great and rare dance acting.

Ms. Tharp singled out this quality yesterday. "The intensity that was part of his charisma came from an actor's route," she said. "He looked emotionally at a scene and the dancing came from that.

"He was a wonderful dancer and a huge heart. He was passionate as a human being, very smart, and there was nothing phony about him. He was just getting the exposure he deserved."

Born in Montreal, Mr. Marrié studied at the École Superieur de Danse du Quebec and the Banff School of Performing Arts. He joined the National Ballet of Canada in 1990 and became a soloist in 1995. Although he appeared in classical roles, he was featured prominently in the ballets of James Kudelka, the company's artistic director, who named him a principal in 2001.

At the premiere of Mr. Kudelka's dark version of "Swan Lake" in Toronto in 1999, Mr. Marrié's resilience and energy created a demonically danced Rothbart.

His especially tormented everyman in Mr. Kudelka's "Four Seasons" was further testimony to the depth of his performances.

He is survived by his mother, Andrée LeBlanc; his father, Claude Marrié; two sisters, Maude and Edith Marrié; a brother, Blaise; and his stepfather, Gilles Bleiveise

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~That Theatre Chick, aka Amy

Freaky about the trains, Amy.

*sigh* I missed the story about Margaret Philips until just now. It sounds like she was really a tough old bird. Northern Exposure is my favorite show of all time.

Jeff
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Oops, I didn't see your post Amy until I made my comment. That's really a shame. 34 is way too young to die.

Jeff
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