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« Reply #460 on: June 24, 2011, 02:21:02 PM » |
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Things I did not know about Peter Falk:
Quote Mr. Falk had a glass eye, resulting from an operation to remove a cancerous tumor when he was 3 years old.
Quote Peter Michael Falk was born in Manhattan on Sept. 16, 1927, and lived for a time in the Bronx, near Yankee Stadium, but grew up mostly in Ossining, N.Y, where his father owned a clothing store and where, in spite of his missing eye, he was a high school athlete. In one story he liked to tell, after being called out at third base during a baseball game, he removed his eye and handed it to the umpire.
“You’ll do better with this,” he said
 Yeah, he wasn't cross-eyed or anything. 
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« Reply #461 on: June 24, 2011, 03:26:08 PM » |
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I heard about Peter;s passing on the news tonight. I loved him in Columbo. There was something about him that you couldn't help but like. RIP Peter. 
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« Reply #466 on: July 05, 2011, 08:53:40 PM » |
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« Reply #467 on: July 07, 2011, 03:52:09 PM » |
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98 years is a long time to live. I don't know if I'd like to live that long.
I might have mentioned--I can't remember his name, so, I'll call him Lou-- before, who lived to be nearly 104. He climbed the subway steps here in NYC until he was 101. He had 2 girlfriends, one, a young thing at 75. The other was 86. At 102, he started using a walker, reluctantly. He had all of his faculties.
My grandmother, at 93, was tired of living--Eating liquified food was too much effort. Also, because of going blind around that time and living in a nursing home, she was disoriented, unable to walk and bedridden.
I guess if I could get around like "Lou", then I'd still want to be here.
I say all this to say,
Rest in peace, Otto.
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« Reply #469 on: July 10, 2011, 06:29:27 PM » |
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Hmm, I thought someone would have posted about Betty Ford by now ... http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/09/us/politics/betty-ford-dies.htmlBetty Ford, Former First Lady, Dies at 93 By ENID NEMY
Betty Ford, the outspoken and much-admired wife of President Gerald R. Ford who overcame alcoholism and an addiction to pills and helped found one of the best-known rehabilitation centers in the nation, died Friday in Palm Springs, Calif. She was 93.
Her death was confirmed by Chris Chase, Mrs. Ford’s biographer.
The news of her death at Eisenhower Medical Center brought statements of condolence from President Obama, former Presidents George Bush, George W. Bush and Jimmy Carter, and Nancy Reagan, the former first lady.
“She was Jerry Ford’s strength through some very difficult days in our country’s history,” Mrs. Reagan said, “and I admired her courage in facing and sharing her personal struggles with all of us.”
Few first ladies have been as popular as Betty Ford, and it was her frankness and lack of pretense that made her so. She spoke often in support of the Equal Rights Amendment, endorsed legalized abortion, discussed premarital sex and revealed that she intended to share a bed with her husband in the White House.
When her husband’s voice failed him the morning after he was defeated by Jimmy Carter in 1976, it was she who read the official concession statement with smiling grace. And when Mr. Ford died in December 2006, it was Mrs. Ford who announced his death. The six days of national mourning returned her to a spotlight she had tried to avoid in her later years, living in Rancho Mirage, Calif., a golf community southeast of Palm Springs, and tending to her clinic there, the Betty Ford Center. R.I.P.
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« Reply #475 on: July 17, 2011, 11:53:28 PM » |
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 Chilean singer/actor Antonio Prieto passed away from heart failure July 14, 2011, at the age of 85 in Santiago, Chile and will be buried in Vina del Mar, Chile, July 16. During his 50-year career Prieto recorded over 1000 songs, acted in more than 33 films and had the first variety television show in South America. As an actor, he is best known internationally for the role of Don Miguel Rojo, the eldest of the bandit brothers in Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars with Clint Eastwood. Considered by music critics as an icon of the Latin Bolero genre, his biggest international hit was “La Novia” (“The Wedding”). http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/7/prweb8648150.htm
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