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RIP Yvonne De Carlo |
| January 10th, 2007 under Obits. [ Comments: none ]
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Yvonne De Carlo, the sultry actress who made her mark in films ("The Ten Commandments") and television ("The Munsters") and was one of the stars of the original production of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies, died Jan. 8. She was 84. She died of natural causes at the Motion Picture & Television facility in suburban Los Angeles, longtime friend and television producer Kevin Burns told the Washington Post. In 1971, Ms. De Carlo made one of her many comebacks in the Harold Prince production of Follies, a musical about a gathering of erstwhile Broadway stars. It was destined to become a classic of the American musical theatre. She played one-time headliner Carlotta Campion and, as such, sang what is perhaps the show’s most iconic song, the show business survivor anthem, "I’m Still Here." Though it would be her only Broadway credit, the part earned her a place in theatre history. Like her character, Carlotta, Ms. De Carlo managed to persevere throughout a career characterized by many ups and downs. She first gained fame in a series of "B" movie westerns and adventures, winning roles based mainly on her vampish looks and shapely figure. She was rarely listed in the credits. Following her performance in "Salome—Where She Danced" in 1945, she was typecast as Hollywood’s resident exotic temptress. Her films during this period included such suggestive titles as "Slave Girl," "Casbah" and "Scarlet Angel." She reached her apotheosis in this sort of role playing Sephora in the 1956 epic "The Ten Commandments," in which she tried her best to lure the unmoved Charlton Heston. Soon after, however, her star dimmed. She was saved from obscurity when she was cast of Lily Munster, slinky wife of Fred Gwynne’s Frankenstein-like Herman Munster in the horror-genre sitcom spoof, "The Munsters." The show ran only two seasons, from 1964 to 1966, but lasted a lifetime in reruns. Between annual Easter TV airings of "The Ten Commandments" and "The Munsters" repeats, Ms. De Carlo was forever in the public eye. In 1955, Ms. De Carlo married Bob Morgan, a stunt man. They had two sons, Bruce and Michael. She said that she took the job on "The Munsters" to pay for Morgan’s medical expenses after he was injured doing a stunt for "How the West Was Won."
Playbill
So sad, we all grew up with her because who didn’t watch the Munsters?
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RIP Saddam Hussein! |
| December 29th, 2006 under Obits. [ Comments: none ]
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Saddam Hussein, the shotgun-waving dictator who ruled Iraq with a remorseless brutality for a quarter-century, was taken to the gallows and executed Saturday, Iraqi state-run television reported. It was a grim end for the 69-year-old leader who had vexed three U.S. presidents. Despite his ouster, Washington, its allies and the new Iraqi leaders remain mired in a fight to quell a stubborn insurgency by Saddam loyalists and a vicious sectarian conflict. State-run Iraqiya television news announcer said "criminal Saddam was hanged to death and the execution started with criminal Saddam then Barzan then Awad al-Bandar." The station earlier was airing national songs after the first announcement and had a tag on the screen that read "with Saddam’s execution marks the end of a dark period of Iraq’s history." A U.S. judge on Friday refused to stop Saddam’s execution, rejecting a last-minute court challenge. The execution came 56 days after a court convicted Saddam and sentenced him to death for his role in the killings of 148 Shiite Muslims from a town where assassins tried to kill the dictator in 1982. Iraq’s highest court rejected Saddam’s appeal Monday and ordered him executed within 30 days
Fox News
The Hollywood Reporter wrote an article about whether or not the nets will air his hanging video that was confirmed filmed at the time of his execution. Will you watch it if it becomes available?
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James Brown takes the Apollo stage one last time |
| December 28th, 2006 under Obits. [ Comments: none ]
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I still say ewww, but I posted it for those of you who wanted to see it. BTW that is Rev Al Sharpton with him.
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James Brown – Dead at the Apollo |
| December 27th, 2006 under Obits. [ Comments: none ]
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 Legendary music man James Brown will lay in repose at the Apollo Theater in Harlem tomorrow. The Theater last night posted a tribute to Brown on its marquee. The body of Brown, who died Monday, will be returned to Augusta, Ga., for a private service on Friday. Meanwhile, the Times Square club where he was supposed to take the stage on New Year’s Eve is promising ticket holders a replacement show. The B.B. King Blues Club on West 42nd Street will announce today who will be filling the spot, said p.r. director Rena Siwek. Also, 1,400 tickets had been sold as of late last week for a show tonight at the Palace Theater in Waterbury, Conn.
NY Post
Personally I never got that lying in state thing, but that is me.
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RIP President Gerald R Ford |
| December 26th, 2006 under Obits. [ Comments: none ]
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 Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon’s scandal-shattered White House as the 38th and only unelected president in America’s history, has died, his wife, Betty, said Tuesday. He was 93. Ford had battled pneumonia in January 2006 and underwent two heart treatments — including an angioplasty — in August at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. He was the longest living president, followed by Ronald Reagan, who also died at 93. Ford had been living at his desert home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., about 130 miles east of Los Angeles. Ford was an accidental president, Nixon’s hand-picked successor, a man of much political experience who had never run on a national ticket. He was as open and straight-forward as Nixon was tightly-controlled and conspiratorial. Ford was an accidental president, Nixon’s hand-picked successor, a man of much political experience who had never run on a national ticket. He was as open and straight-forward as Nixon was tightly controlled and conspiratorial. He took office minutes after Nixon flew off into exile and declared "our long national nightmare is over." But he revived the debate a month later by granting Nixon a pardon for all crimes he committed as president. That single act, it was widely believed, cost Ford election to a term of his own in 1976, but it won praise in later years as a courageous act that allowed the nation to move on. The Vietnam War ended in defeat for the U.S. during his presidency with the fall of Saigon in April 1975. In a speech as the end neared, Ford said: "Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. But it cannot be achieved by refighting a war that is finished as far as America is concerned." Evoking Abraham Lincoln, he said it was time to "look forward to an agenda for the future, to unify, to bind up the nation’s wounds." Ford also earned a place in the history books as the first unelected vice president, chosen by Nixon to replace Spiro Agnew who also was forced from office by scandal. He was in the White House only 895 days, but changed it more than it changed him. Even after two women tried separately to kill him, the presidency of Jerry Ford remained open and plain. Not imperial. Not reclusive. And, of greatest satisfaction to a nation numbed by Watergate, not dishonest.
AP (story) and Gerald R Ford Presidential Library (photo – check out this site for more info on him)
So sad.
Here is Betty Ford’s statement:
"My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather has passed away at 93 years of age," Mrs. Ford said in a brief statement issued from her husband’s office in Rancho Mirage. "His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country."
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