My mom adored Clint Walker when he was on Cheyenne. Definitely the rugged, Hollywood good looks of the 50's that made him perfect for that role. I saw Clint Walker recently, I think on the TV Land Awards. Poor fella...he got old. But he still has that wonderful rugged voice.
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Are you related to anyone famous?
by Mulan ini thought this might be a fun "fluff" thread.
someone posted the other day that marc anthony (the singer) is their cousin.
i have done extensive genealogy research so i know a few famous relatives.
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Johnny Cash and John Ritter have died
by obiwan in.
this so bums me out.
i'm not a big johnny cash fan, but he was a cornerstone for the country music industry.. john ritter was a funny guy, i wiil always remember three's company.. they will both be missed.
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June Carter Cash died in May. She died the same day as my grandmother. Johnny Cash looked so sad and ill at the funeral. It was a tragedy. My first thought...he isn't far behind. I hate to think those things, but it seems to happen that way. However my grandmother outlived her spouse by almost 35 years!
John Ritter's death is a total shock to the entertainment world, Hollywood community and his legions of fans. I remember him as the minister in tennis shorts who married Ted and Georgia on one of the later episodes of "Mary Tyler Moore." What a funny show. It comes around every so often on TV Land. John Ritter seemed to play ministers early in his career, as he was a minister on "The Waltons." John Ritter was beloved by the Hollywood community, considered one of the nice guys who always showed up at charity events, social events, things like that. He had remarried and had a 5 year old daughter. Poor little girl, now she won't have her daddy.
We'll miss them both...
Why are we losing so many in Hollywood this year?
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Have YOU Ever Met Up With Anyone Famous
by RAYZORBLADE inhave any of you on this forum, ever met up with anyone considered famous?
i've met a great deal of people over the years.
one of my most memorable: dennis leary, drinking a few pints with him as he sang "margaritaville" from the jukebox.
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I have met Byron Scott several times - former Laker and now coach of the New Jersey Nets.
Also met Dr. Julius Erving - really nice guy.
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Worst Garage Sale Experiences
by Nosferatu ini remember the worst garage sale i ever went to.
i walked into the back yard, and i saw nothing outside, and the car was parked in the garage.
the man who was holding the yard sale asked "is there anything you're looking for?".
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No personal garage sale experiences from hell, but my neighbor had one a few weeks ago. Although her ad and signs said "starts promptly at 8:00" - she got up that morning at about 6:30 and there were several cars parked out front "lurking" for when she opened. She looked out the window and saw four cars jockeying for position in front of our cul-de-sac. One even blocked our driveway. I went out and asked them to move their car. Her son went outside to look at the musical cars going on and two women asked in broken English if the sale started. He said "sure" and opened the garage with the door opener. So my friend has 5 strangers in her garage looking at things at 7:00 a.m. She was still in her robe when she realized what 10 year old junior had done. She tried telling these women to come back and they got mad and said "your son says it's OK." She chased them off and then lowered the garage, much to the dismay of the retirees wanting to buy her stuff. Turns out that her son had several things for sale there and he wanted the revenue from his toys as soon as possible. I saw her yelling at junior and getting very frustrated over the whole situation. Finally hubby chased the two women off who were refusing to leave. They reopened at 8:00 and the same mass of crazies came back to try and buy. She put up a sign that said "all prices firm" and still people were wanting to lower her prices. She was so frustrated she closed the sale at noon and donated everything to the local Christian charity. But most of her stuff is like what Julie Andrews says to Christopher Plummer in the Sound of Music after he remarks about her ugly dress "The poor didn't want this one!"
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Larry Hovis from Hogan's Heroes passes away
by TresHappy ini am a big fan of hogan's heroes.
i love watching those old shows on tv land.
i read that one of the stars, larry hovis, passed away yesterday.
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I am a big fan of Hogan's Heroes. I love watching those old shows on TV Land. I read that one of the stars, Larry Hovis, passed away yesterday. He played demolitions expert Carter on the show for its entire run.
Although not really famous, still a very nice man. My parents went to school with him and we have corresponded back and forth through e-mails the past few years.
Larry Hovis, 67, musician, writer, comedian
By EVERETT EVANS
Copyright 2003 Houston ChronicleLarry Hovis, who began his career in Houston nightclubs and theaters in the 1950s and became a familiar face on such television series as Hogan's Heroes and Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, died Tuesday at Austin's Christopher House Hospice. He was 67.
Hovis, whose wife, Ann, died of cancer several years ago, had battled cancer for three months.
Born in Wapato, Wash., Hovis was 3 when his family moved to Houston and was a teen at Reagan High School when he began his professional career singing with The Mascots. The quartet won a talent contest and appeared on TV's Arthur Godfrey Show.
As a member of the Bill Gannon Trio, Hovis became a popular figure in Houston's nightclub scene in the late 1950s.
"He sang all the high parts in harmony numbers," recalled veteran disc jockey Paul Berlin. "But his strong suit was his sense of humor. He was very clever at dreaming up parody lyrics and clever comments between songs."
Hovis wrote Every Time I Ask My Heart, recorded by the young Joel Grey.A few years later he recorded his solo album, My Heart Belongs Only to You, for Capitol Records.
In his early 20s, Hovis began acting in such early Alley Theatre productions as Seventeen, Make a Million and in the scene-stealing role of Ensign Pulver in Mr. Roberts. He also scored a popular success in Come Blow Your Horn at The Playhouse.
His comedic and musical talents lending themselves to revue format, Hovis appeared in New York productions of The Billy Barnes Revue and From A to Z.
He moved to Los Angeles in 1964, sold his screenplay for a beach party/spy spoof titled Out of Sight, and began performing his stand-up comedy act at The Horn in Santa Monica. He was "discovered" there by Richard Linke, Andy Griffith's manager, and cast in a regular role on TV's Gomer Pyle, USMC. This led to his role as Carter, the demolitions expert, in Hogan's Heroes. The comedy set in a Nazi prisoner of war camp premiered in 1965, and Hovis stayed with it for all six seasons, through 1971.Hovis also wrote for the popular Laugh-In variety series, and for two seasons appeared as a regular among its crew of zanies. Throughout the 1960s and '70s, Hovis performed in TV movies, game shows and guest shots on such series as Ben Casey, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Andy Griffith Show, My Living Doll and The Doris Day Show.
At the decade's close, he returned to theater and Texas connections, playing outrageous Melvin P. Thorpe (the character based on TV personality Marvin Zindler) in the hit musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. He performed in both the first national tour and in the long-running Houston production that opened at the Tower Theater in 1979. Hovis and his family returned to Texas in the 1990s, and for 12 years he taught acting and directed plays at Texas State University-San Marcos (formerly Southwest Texas State University).
Hovis is survived by his mother, Ruth Davis; sisters, Joan Eubank and Janet Hudson; brothers, Tom Davis and Mike Hovis; and children, Kimberly, Deborah, Michael and Paul Hovis. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Theater Building at Texas State.
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Have YOU Ever Met Up With Anyone Famous
by RAYZORBLADE inhave any of you on this forum, ever met up with anyone considered famous?
i've met a great deal of people over the years.
one of my most memorable: dennis leary, drinking a few pints with him as he sang "margaritaville" from the jukebox.
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Glad to hear that he's doing well. Probably my feelings stem from my initial and only meet up with him. Wasn't very nice, not rude but not amiable. I didn't ask for an autograph, just spoke briefly with him while hunting for the Mona Lisa.
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Have YOU Ever Met Up With Anyone Famous
by RAYZORBLADE inhave any of you on this forum, ever met up with anyone considered famous?
i've met a great deal of people over the years.
one of my most memorable: dennis leary, drinking a few pints with him as he sang "margaritaville" from the jukebox.
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Actually met: Rick Springfield at the Louvre Museum in 1985. He was on concert tour. Still riding high from the General Hospital and "Jessie's Girl" fame. Now I think he's playing free concerts at festivals around the country. In another words - has been.
Actor Charles Durning - very nice man.
Another character actor: Jack Warden. Another nice guy.
Jerry Mathers and Tony Dow
I have met others but I'd be copying and pasting photos all day.
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What is The Zaniest Thing You've Ever Done?
by Frannie Banannie inmy most zany thing was back in 1970 when i lived in maryland....i was working for the pr.
geo.
and also had a part time job in the evening working for giant food in their payroll/personnel dept.....one evening, my boss at giant food in hyattsville, phoned me and told me that a coworker of his was going to come down to the office and that if i would provide him with transportation to where they were meeting, i could have the rest of the evening off and he would write in my time as though i'd worked the whole evening as usual....great!
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On a dare, I ran thru a coed dorm sans a bra....
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A bright spot has gone...
by safe4kids inout of our lives.
my mother-in-law, jo, passed away yesterday afternoon.
she died peacefully in her sleep.
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My sincere condolences to your family.
Losing my grandmother this past May was a jolt beyond all reason. She had been there for me. At 40, I was lucky to have any grandparent still living. Her death was the best thing for her, not having to fight to breathe anymore. Her death was particularly difficult for my aunt and my cousin. This past Labor Day weekend we drove up to a beautiful hilltop in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma (Mount Scott to be exact) and released balloons to help us with the grief process. It was wonderful and healing, as my aunt had lost her best friend also this past year. The "letting go" of those balloons was wonderful for my family. We had a good cry and let go all those emotions deep inside us. It will take a while, but time will make it better.
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US anti-abortionist faces execution
by ignored_one inus anti-abortionist faces execution
the first man to face the death penalty in the united states for killing a doctor who performed abortions is to be executed on wednesday.
paul hill, 49, is due to die by lethal injection in northern florida, following his conviction of the murder of two people outside an abortion clinic in 1994. .
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TresHappy
Paul Hill is an arrogant sob. I saw him on Donahue a few years before he went and killed these 2 men. He said it was OK for a person to kill if he was an abortion doctor or abortion provider. Then I see him on TV being arrested for the murders. He basically announced his intentions on national TV. What a turd.
