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Of course Mary Rodgers was the daughter of the legendary composer Richard Rodgers, and her son and RR's grandson, Adam Guettel, composed the music for the Broadway show "Light In The Piazza." She was a longtime friend of Stephen Sondheim, who knew her father (but mainly Oscar Hammerstein) during his own childhood.
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Thank you, Dan. I had not known about Ms. Rodgers, and I read the obits every day in two major national newspapers. You have succeeded where they have failed.
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Forgive me for inserting a non sequitor into the proceedings, but seeing Nancy Sinatra I can't resist sharing my memory of the sight of her at the funeral for Mel Torme. She was genuinely tearful in her speech, but she couldn't resist dressing bra-less in a blouse unbuttoned almost to her waist. One fellow's comment: "These boobs were made for gawking."
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Re: Forgive me for inserting a non sequitor into the proceedings, but seeing Nancy Sinatra I can't resist sharing my memory of the sight of her at the funeral for Mel Torme. She was genuinely tearful in her speech, but she couldn't resist dressing bra-less in a blouse unbuttoned almost to her waist. One fellow's comment: "These boobs were made for gawking."
One of these days those boobs are gonna walk all over you -- get the message?
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SAM KELLY, British actor has died at the age of 70. he was in such TV shows as ALLO ALLO, PORRIDGE ETC
RIP Sam Kelly. I of course remember him as Captain Hans Geering from Allo Allo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSLaLnhdGC0
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Jul 1, 2014 - 11:17 AM
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Yen Fai
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Source: http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-et-mn-carla-laemmle-dies-20140613-story.html
Carla Laemmle, a dancer and actress whose uncle, Carl Laemmle, founded Universal Studios, where she grew up, died Thursday night, June 12, 2014, at her home in Los Angeles. One of the last links to Hollywood’s silent film era, Laemmle was 104.
“Her heart just stopped,” Laemmle’s great niece, Rosemary Hilb, said Friday morning, noting that she had been in good health.
Born in Chicago on Oct. 20, 1909, Laemmle moved to Los Angeles isn the early 1920s when her uncle invited his brother Joseph and his family to live in a bungalow on the movie lot.
Carla Laemmle lived on the Universal Studios lot, founded by her uncle Carl Laemmle, from 1923 to 1936.
She became a ballet dancer and actress and appeared in “The Phantom of the Opera” (1925) and “Dracula.” For that 1931 classic she spoke the film’s first lines: “Among the rugged peaks that frown down upon the Borgo Pass are found crumbling castles of a bygone age ... . “
In a 2012 interview with The Times, film historian Scott Essman called Laemmle nearly “the last tie to an era that is pretty much gone. When you talk about these great Universal films of that period — we are at a point now that it is all memory.”
At the time, Laemmle was looking forward to her 103rd birthday party.
"I never thought about age," she told The Times. "I always had a feeling that I was in my 20s."
More on Carla Laemmle will appear at latimes.com/obits
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Yes it is sad a era of live memories that are gone. We owe a lot of thanks to that family for sure one man who really set, the sense of wonder films going, Wherever he is. man he knows the better truth now, the truth we all search and love during our first journey on this planet.R,I,P-------R.I.P
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JERRY WICKHAM has died at the age of 80. He appeared in such films as RAMSON, REMAINS OF THE DAY ETC.
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I'm a big fan of "Remains of the Day," but don't remember an actor named Jerry Wickham. I tried to find him in the credits for that film at IMDb, but it didn't show him, and when I did a search of his name, a picture came up and I immediately thought "He looks sooooooooo much like Jerry Weintraub!" Well, it WAS Jerry Weintraub and I couldn't find anything there about Wickham. At first I thought about Peter Vaughan, who plays Anthony Hopkins' father in that movie (who dies in the film), but he seems to still be alive. You're not thinking about Wickham from "Pride And Prejudice"?
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Sorry, slight correction- this was the info I got-name was JEFFRY WICKHAM- BRITISH ACTOR IN MOVIES LIKE, RAMSON, REMAINS OF THE DAY, VERA DRAKE, ETC, HE ALSO WAS PRESIDENT OF EQUITY FROM 1992 TO 1994., maybe they edited out his scenes during final cut?
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Bob Hastings, Lieutenant Elroy Carpenter on "McHale's Navy", the voice of the raven in the second season of "The Munsters" and the voice of Archie Andrews in the Golden Days Of Radio, has died at age 89. And I just got word from Facebook that "Land Of The Giants" Don Matheson has also passed away.
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