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Hephaestion
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My mother grew up and went to school with Calder. Her father was the local church minister at Gitlakdamix and later Aiyansh, and was a friend of the Nisga'a chief -- so much so that my mother and uncle, who were both born on Nisga'a land, were given Nisga'a names and were "adopted" by the Nisga'a people.
Many, many years later, my mother went back to the Nass River valley to visit her old "family", and many of the older Nisga'a people remembered her fondly. She was particularly touched that Frank Calder called for a community dinner "to welcome home our wandering daughter". She stayed in the Nass valley for a couple of weeks, and had a wonderful time reminiscing with old friends. After she returned home, I heard many stories about Calder and others; she was deeply impressed with his long and tenacious struggle for justice for his people, and with the then-recent resolution to the land claims. When she died, last year, Frank Calder apparently sent a lovely card and letter... I think they had stayed in touch the last several years.
I have never made it up to the Nass River and the Nisga'a lands, but just based on my mother's stories, that is one place I'd love to go see before I croak...
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anne cameron
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Until there is a decent and moral treaty in place we are ALL born on native territory.
But to be formally adopted into the band...you absolutely must go visit, Heph...inheritence comes through the mother, you can probably request (and get) a similar Nisga'a membership yourself. The federales won't recognize it, but who gives a poop about them? If your mom was Nisga'a then so are you. |
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Hephaestion
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Journalist Ed Bradley, dead at age 65
| Quote: | The 60 Minutes correspondant Ed Bradley has died today at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York at the age of 65 after a struggle with leukemia.
"It's an incredibly sad day for everyone at CBS News. Ed was a phenomenal reporter and a great man, Senior Broadcast Producer Bill Owens told CBSNews. "Never have the words, 'he will be missed' meant more. "
Bradley was diagnosed with leukemia two years ago. It started to get worse two weeks ago, contracting pneumonia and succumbing to the disease. |
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Diane Demorney
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Jack Palance... RIP
http://www.nndb.com/people/579/000022513/
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Robert Altman has died at age 81.
| Quote: | Robert Altman, one of the most adventurous and influential American directors of the late 20th century, a filmmaker whose iconoclastic career spanned more than half a century but whose stamp was felt most forcefully in one decade, the 1970s, died Monday in Los Angeles. He was 81. His death, at a hospital, was confirmed today by a friend, the singer Annie Ross. The cause was not announced. Mr. Altman had a heart transplant in the mid-1990s, a fact he publicly revealed for the first time last March while accepting an honorary Oscar at the Academy Awards ceremony.
A risk-taker with a tendency toward mischief, Mr. Altman is perhaps best remembered for a run of masterly films — six in five years — that propelled him to the forefront of American directors and culminated in 1975 with what many regard as his greatest film, “Nashville,” a complex, character-filled drama told against the backdrop of a presidential primary.
They were free-wheeling, genre-bending films that captured the jaded disillusionment of the 70s. The best known was “MASH,” the 1970 comedy set in a field hospital during the Korean war but clearly aimed at antiwar sentiments engendered by Vietnam. Its success, both critically and at the box office, opened the way for Mr. Altman to pursue his ambitions.
In 1971 he took on the Western, making “McCabe and Mrs. Miller” with Warren Beatty and Julie Christie. In 1972, he dramatized a woman’s psychological disintegration in “Images,” starring Susannah York. In 1973, he tackled the private-eye genre with a somewhat loopy adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s “The Long Goodbye,” with the laid-back Elliott Gould playing Philip Marlowe as a 70s retro-hipster. And in 1974 he released two films, exploring gambling addiction in “California Split” and riffing on the Dust Bowl gangster saga with “Thieves Like Us.”
... Most of his actors adored him and praised his improvisational style. But Mr. Altman was also famous in Hollywood for his battles with everyone from studio executives to his collaborators, leaving more burned bridges than the Luftwaffe. He also suffered through periods of bad reviews and empty seats.
But if there were fallow times, there were as many comebacks, including most recently in 2001 with “Gosford Park,” a multiple-Oscar nominee for which he received his seventh Academy Award nomination, including five for directing. |
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So many brilliant films. Aside from the obvious ones, there are the more obscure masterpieces as well: Three Women. Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. Vincent and Theo. Thieves Like Us. Popeye. Buffalo Bill and the Indians.
What a marvelous run he had. |
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al-Qa'bong
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Philippe Noiret est mort
Bonjour Zola.
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Philippe Noiret (ici au festival de Cannes en 2003 /AP)
L'acteur Philippe Noiret, 76 ans, est décédé jeudi 23 novembre "des suites d'une longue maladie", a indiqué à l'AFP son agent artistique Artmedia.
Il laisse derrière lui une immense carrière de quelque 125 films, et de très nombreuses pièces de théâtre.
Acteur fétiche de Bertrand Tavernier ("L'horloger de Saint-Paul", "Que la fête commence" etc.), Philippe Noiret a formé des couples mythiques avec Catherine Deneuve, Romy Schneider ou Simone Signoret, et il a obtenu deux César d'interprétation masculine, en 1976 dans "Le vieux fusil" (de Robert Enrico) et en 1990 pour "La vie et rien d'autre" (de Bertrand Tavernier). |
He was great in "Les Ripoux" and "Cinema Paradiso" as well.
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Diane Demorney
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`Raymond' dad Peter Boyle dies in NYC
| Quote: | NEW YORK - Peter Boyle, the actor who transformed from an angry workingman in "Joe" to a tap-dancing monster in "Young Frankenstein" and finally the comically grouchy father on "Everybody Loves Raymond," has died. He was 71.
Boyle died Tuesday evening at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He had been suffering from multiple myeloma and heart disease, said his publicist, Jennifer Plante.
"It's like losing a spouse," Doris Roberts, who played his wife on "Raymond," said in a statement. "I'm going to miss my dear friend, so unlike the character he played on television. He's a brilliant actor, a gentleman, incredibly intelligent, wonderfully well read and a loving friend."
A member of the Christian Brothers religious order who turned to acting, the tall, prematurely balding Boyle gained notice in the title role of the 1970 sleeper hit "Joe," playing an angry, murderous bigot at odds with the emerging hippie youth culture.
Briefly typecast in tough, irascible roles, Boyle began to escape the image as Robert Redford's campaign manager in "The Candidate" and left it behind entirely after "Young Frankenstein," Mel Brooks' 1974 send-up of horror films. The latter movie's defining moment came when Gene Wilder, as scientist Frederick Frankenstein, introduced his creation to an upscale audience. Boyle, decked out in tails, performed a song-and-dance routine to the Irving Berlin classic "Puttin' On the Ritz."
It showed another side of Boyle, one that would be best exploited in the sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond," in which he played curmudgeonly paterfamilias Frank Barone for 10 years. |
more at link.
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NWOntarian
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Civil servant who helped create medicare dies at 90
| Quote: | Thomas Shoyama, one of Canada’s most respected civil servants, who helped create the universal health care system as a deputy minister for Tommy Douglas, has died.
His career saw him grow from humble beginnings in Kamloops to the most senior level of government service in Saskatchewan, and later, managing key portfolios for prime ministers Pierre Trudeau, John Turner and Jean Chrétien.
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Shoyama was sent to an internment camp in B.C.’s Interior during the Second World War, where he published a newspaper and became a spokesman for the rights of Japanese-Canadians.
After the war, he moved to Regina and worked for 18 years in the Saskatchewan government, eventually rising to the rank of deputy minister of finance and economic advisor to premier Tommy Douglas.
“He was one of the founders of medicare,” said Fyke, who went on to serve as head of health services on Vancouver Island. |
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leftcoastguy
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NWOntarian
Thanks for posting this orbit about Mr Shoyama.
This is type of person I would recommend for for some high Canadian honour as a true Canadian hero. After the pain of what he and his community suffered during WW2, to go and contribute to our society in the way he did is quite remarkable.
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Hephaestion
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CBC Radio is reporting that "Mr. Harbour-Master", Denny Doherty is dead.
Oh yeah... he was also in some band called "The Mommas and the Poppas", too.
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al-Qa'bong
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Oh no.
Wait, this can't be true; I just saw him on 90 Minutes Live, singing "California Dreamin'" with Flo and Eddie.
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Tehanu
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| Quote: | Denny Doherty, the Canadian tenor who was the lead singer of the 1960s super group the Mamas and the Papas, is dead. He was 66.
A family member said this afternoon that the singer-songwriter, originally from Nova Scotia, died earlier today at his home in Mississauga after a short illness.
The Halifax-born Doherty led the group - which included founder John Phillips, his wife Michelle and their friend Cass Elliot - onto the charts with hits including "Monday, Monday," "California Dreamin," "Dream a Little Dream of Me" and "Dedicated to the One I Love."
Michelle Phillips is the only member still living. Elliot and Phillips both died in the 1990s. |
Toronto Star. |
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al-Qa'bong
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Officer Levitt checks out.
Barney Miller regular Ron Carey dies
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al-Qa'bong
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Ah, not Gump too. | Quote: | Hall of Fame goaltender Lorne (Gump) Worsley, a Montreal native who played 21 years in the NHL with the New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens and Minnesota North Stars, died Friday.
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Back in those Montreal-St. Louis Stanley Cup Finals in the late-60s, I used to hope the Toe Blake would put Rogie Vachon in goal because I thought the Gumper was the better goalie.
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Diane Demorney
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Anna Nicole Smith 1967-2007
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The Evil Twin
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| Quote: | | Anna Nicole Smith 1967-2007 |
What a sad last few years she's had.  |
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sparqui
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I wonder who will take care of her infant daughter?
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sparqui
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That's if they go ahead with the paternity testing Norse. That legal battle hasn't been resolved yet.
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sparqui
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A bad week in Quebec.
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Canadian animator Ryan Larkin dies
Last Updated: Friday, February 16, 2007 | 10:01 PM ET
CBC Arts
Renowned Canadian animator Ryan Larkin, a one-time rising star in the National Film Board and more recently the subject of an Oscar-winning short, has died at the age of 63.
Laurie Gordon, Larkin's manager and friend, said Larkin died peacefully in his sleep Wednesday at Gordon's home St. Hyacinthe, Que., following a long-term battle with cancer.
"Ryan was an inspiration to everyone who knew him and to generations of creative spirits in Canada and around the world," Gordon said. "He was charismatic even in the face of his illness."... |
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2007/02/16/ryan-larkin-obit.html
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Body of Quebec teenage athlete found
Last Updated: Saturday, February 17, 2007 | 4:06 PM ET
CBC News
The body of a 16-year-old athlete who had been missing since Wednesday was found on Saturday in a suburb of Quebec City.
Alexandre Morin became the target of an intense search when he disappeared after going speedwalking just hours before a major snowstorm struck the region.
Several hundred volunteers and 40 police officers had been searching snowbanks and roads.
Authorities say his body was found buried in snow at the bottom of a steep embankment behind a municipal garage in Sillery, Que... |
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2007/02/17/quebec-teen.html
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sparqui
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(I feel like I'm on death watch here...) Anyway, Celia Franca has passed away at the age of 85.
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[b]Canada's National Ballet School mourns NBS co-founder Celia Franca
TORONTO, Feb. 19 /CNW/ - The staff, students and Board of Canada's
National Ballet School mourned the death today in The Ottawa Hospital of Celia Franca, the School's co-founder.
After founding the National Ballet of Canada in 1951, Ms. Franca argued strongly for establishing a full-time school for the training of dancers. The National Ballet School opened in September 1959 with Betty Oliphant as its Principal and co-founder.
While NBS was legally incorporated as a separate not-for-profit entity in 1963, the bond with the National Ballet has always been strong. Over the years, NBS has nurtured dozens of company dancers, including principals Rex Harrington, Veronica Tennant, Martine Lamy, Guillaume Coté and Karen Kain, now Artistic Director of the National Ballet of Canada... |
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2007/19/c2119.ht...
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Hephaestion
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr., 1917-2007
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Doris Anderson. Feminist activist, Chatelaine editor, died today at age 85.
| Quote: | Doris Anderson, the longtime editor of Chatelaine who used the magazine to bring women's rights to the forefront, died in Toronto on Friday at the age of 85.
She was suffering from pulmonary fibrosis, CBC News has confirmed.
... Anderson, who grew up in poverty in Calgary, took the helm of Chatelaine in 1957 and quickly tackled hard-hitting issues such as the wage gap, birth control and abortion. One of her first editorials demanded the presence of more women in Parliament.
... In 1981, when Parliament was about to pass the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Anderson lobbied hard to have a clause added that guaranteed the equal rights of men and women. |
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I won't claim to be familiar with this person before hearing her life being discussed this morning on CBC radio. What did surprise me was that no mention of her death had yet appeared on this board:
http://www.cbc.ca/lifeandtimes/anderson.html |
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That definitely IS a major oversight skeptikool. Thanks for bringing it up. Here is a beautiful and indepth tribute to Doris Anderson:
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DORIS ANDERSON, JOURNALIST AND POLITICAL ACTIVIST 1921-2007
Chatelaine editor who triumphed in publishing brought a tough and combative vigour to the politics of gender, writes SANDRA MARTIN
SANDRA MARTIN
..."She was tremendous, like a rock," said former politician Flora MacDonald, remembering the issue of Chatelaine in which Ms. Anderson commissioned "a big article on 50 women who would make good parliamentarians and then she took 12 of us and put us on the cover. She was always promoting women and she would keep an eye out for people whom she thought might be encouraged to get into the political arena."
Journalist Michele Landsberg, a close friend since the days when she worked for Ms. Anderson at Chatelaine in the 1970s, said: "Doris was tremendously vibrant intellectually right to the end. I saw her for lunch a couple of weeks ago and she was still militating for proportional representation -- and gleefully swapping gossip, too. Despite her increasing frailty -- she was so gaunt at the end, and she just hated dragging around that oxygen tank -- Doris still radiated strength, solidity and wry humour."
"She has been the de facto leader of whatever women's movement there has been in Canada for the last 40 years. Nobody else has emerged," said journalist Rosemary Spiers, former president of Equal Voice, a group dedicated to increasing women's participation in political life and their representation in elected office.... |
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070303.OBANDERSO...
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Skeptikool's having a little trouble posting (I think he's been affected by a bug we're still trying to work out) but he just PMed me to say he hadn't noticed my post about Doris Anderson right above his ...
And yeah, the tributes to Doris Anderson are pouring in, although personally I think it should have been front-page news. Not many people have affected so many others. Look at how she helped get women into the constitution ... and compare it to the ERA hassles south of us. |
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Hephaestion
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Bob Hattoy
| Quote: | Bob Hattoy made a memorable speech to the Democratic National Convention in 1992, in which he told America that he did not want to die. He had just learnt that he had AIDS, and he castigated then-President George Bush senior for doing nothing about the disease.
"We are part of the American family. And, Mr. President, your family has AIDS, and we are dying, and you are doing nothing about it. I don't want to live in an America where the president sees me as an enemy. I can face dying because of a disease, but not because of politics," he said.
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When President Clinton took office he appointed Hattoy to the White House personnel department, and later appointed him to the Presidential Commission on HIV/AIDS. He served as chairman of the commission's research committee. He served as chairman of the commission's research committee. He went on to hold senior administrative positions in California. |
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John Inman
| Quote: | John Inman, best known for playing one of the most prominent camp characters in British TV history, has died. He was 71.
Mr Inman's portrayal of Mr Humphries in the popular BBC comedy Are You Being Served, made him a household name. He died this morning in St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, West London.
His catchphrase, "I'm free," and his camp mannerisms and double-entendres made his Mr Humphries character one of the most obviously gay voices on television.
Both Inman and the producers of Are You Being Served denied that Mr Humphries compounded a stereotype of gay men. In 1976 he was named BBC TV personality of the year.
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In December 2005 Mr Inman formed a civil partnership with his partner of 33 years, Ron Lynch.
Actress Rula Lenska, who worked with Mr Inman, told the BBC:"It was suggestive but never in your face or aggressive. It had an innocent quality that you rarely find today." |
Yeah, 'coz fags who know their place are just SO much easier to deal with, right Rula Lenska?  What an assholish comment to make.
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Judge James Randal Ross, great-grandson of outlaw Jesse James
| Quote: | Retired Judge James Randal Ross, great-grandson of outlaw Jesse Woodson James and author of the book "I, Jesse James," has died. He was 80.
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Born in July 1926, in Independence, Mo., Ross was the closest living relative of outlaws Frank and Jesse James. He was an Orange County Superior Court judge from 1983 to 1995, when he retired.
Of all the cases he handled, Ross was most proud of one involving Disneyland banning gays from dancing at the Anaheim amusement park, Eric James said. Disneyland had imposed the ban in 1957, when dancing was first allowed. In 1980, a homosexual couple was kicked out of the park for dancing together. When the case made it to Ross' court, he ruled in favor of the gay couple. In July 1985, Disneyland lifted the 28-year-old ban.
"He was quite proud of that case. He felt that basically it was in the tradition of the James family to make sure civil rights are restored to citizens," Eric James said. |
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Jean Baudrillard, 77, Critic and Theorist of Hyperreality, Dies
| Quote: | The French critic and provocateur Jean Baudrillard, whose theories about consumer culture and the manufactured nature of reality were intensely discussed both in rarefied philosophical circles and in blockbuster movies like “The Matrix,” died yesterday in Paris. He was 77.
Michel Delorme, director of Galilee, Mr. Baudrillard’s publisher, announced his death, which he said followed a long illness.
Mr. Baudrillard, the first in his family to attend a university, became a member of a small caste of celebrated and influential French intellectuals who achieved international fame despite the density and difficulty of their work. |
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Captain America is dead
| Quote: | | The venerable superhero is killed in the issue of his namesake comic that hit stands Wednesday, the New York Daily News reported. On the new edition's pages, a sniper shoots down the shield-wielding hero as he leaves a courthouse. |
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Captain America was the first comic book I ever read. Granted, I didn't read many more after that, but my first was his.
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Calvert DeForest aka Larry "Bud" Melman
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Paul Cohen, one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century. He demonstrated that the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis are independent of the other axioms of set theory.
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| Quote: | Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle” and “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night in Manhattan. He was 84 and had homes in Manhattan and in Sagaponack on Long Island.
Mr. Vonnegut suffered irreversible brain injuries as a result of a fall several weeks ago, according to his wife, Jill Krementz. [...]
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So it goes...
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| In one of his later essays, Vonnegut wrote about the joy of performing small tasks, like waiting in line to buy postage stamps, suggesting that people's rush to make life more "efficient" with computers et cetera was more harmful than helpful. If I remember correctly, he summarized his point by writing: "the meaning of life is farting around." |
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| Not unexpected ... Vonnegut had a good long run (particularly for someone who was a chain smoker for many years), but sad indeed. What a warm, quirky, passionate voice he always was. |
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Another great Vonnegut quote: "Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae."
And my favorite: "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." |
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Hawaiian singer Don Ho died today, age 74.
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I always picture Ed Allen when Don Ho is mentioned.
So how's Ed Allen (and one, and two, and stretch) doing?
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I thought I'd heard that Ed Allen died of a heart attack...
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| Quote: | June Callwood, the remarkable Canadian journalist, humanitarian and social activist, died early Saturday after a long fight with cancer. She was 82.
...Callwood blazed trails for women's rights, gay rights and the rights of the underprivileged with a history of activism dating back to the 1960s. |
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| Also here. Still very sad about this. |
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Consider that some of us never venture into the feminist forum, but yes, it's still sad.
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Kitty Carlisle
| Quote: | Kitty Carlisle Hart, whose long career spanned Broadway, opera, television and film, including the classic Marx Brothers movie "A Night at the Opera," has died at age 96, her son said Wednesday.
Christopher Hart said his mother had been in and out of the hospital since contracting pneumonia over the Christmas holidays. "She passed away peacefully" at home, said Hart. "She had such a wonderful life, and a great long run, it was a blessing."
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Well known for her starring role as Rosa Castaldi in the 1935 movie "A Night at the Opera," her other film credits included: "She Loves Me Not" and "Here Is My Heart," both opposite Bing Crosby; Woody Allen's "Radio Days"; and "Six Degrees of Separation."
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From 1956 to 1967, she appeared on the CBS prime-time game show "To Tell the Truth" with host Bud Collyer and fellow panelists such as Polly Bergen, Johnny Carson, Bill Cullen and Don Ameche. The show featured three contestants, all claiming to be the same person. The panelists asked them questions to determine which was telling the truth. (The popular show also had runs, sometimes including Carlisle, in daytime and in syndicated versions.)
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Discipline ruled Hart's success. She began every day with an exercise routine, even after she turned 90. "I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do. ... I do 40 leg lifts without stopping, And then I take my legs, I put them over my head, and I touch the floor behind me with my toes, and then very slowly I let myself down, touching every vertebrae as I go," Hart told "60 Minutes."
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She served on the [NY] state arts council from 1971 to 1996, including 20 years as its chairwoman. In 1988, she testified in Albany to a legislative committee amid complaints that the council had funded gay-oriented projects. "We fund art," she said. "We are neutral as far as anyone else is concerned. We don't fund anyone's point of view."
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She was once asked which she loved more - the movies or television.
"I think television had more of an influence on my life than the movies because with television you came into somebody's home," Hart replied. "People remember me from television. They don't even remember me from 'A Night at the Opera.' They have no idea that I played the lead and did all the singing. But they do remember television, particularly 'To Tell the Truth.'" |
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Bertha Wilson, first female Canadian Supreme Court Judge.
Another sad loss, coming fast after Doris Anderson and June Callwood.
| Quote: | Former Supreme Court of Canada Judge Bertha Wilson - who died Monday after a long illness - played a historic role in Canadian law both as a pioneering female jurist and as a primary architect of Charter of Rights jurisprudence.
The first female judge to ascend to the Supreme Court, Judge Wilson was appointed just weeks before the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was enacted in 1982. She quickly became a strong proponent of using the Charter to end centuries of discrimination.
... Judge Wilson's landmark cases included one in which she created the so-called battered woman's defence for women who had killed abusive partners (R v Lavallee). In another landmark case - R v Singh - she wrote that refugee claimants must be given proper oral hearings.
However, Judge Wilson's most famous words were probably penned in the Henry Morgentaler abortion case. While the majority reasons in the Morgentaler judgment were relatively narrow and technical, Judge Wilson wrote a concurring judgment that went well beyond her colleagues in asserting a woman's right to be free of state interference.
“It is not just a medical decision,” Judge Wilson wrote. “It is a profound social and ethical one as well. It asserts that the woman's capacity to reproduce is to be subject not to her control, but to that of the state.” |
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More on Bertha Wilson:
| Quote: | ... In 1955, six years after immigrating to Canada, Wilson, living in Halifax with her husband, John, a United Church minister, decided to enrol at Dalhousie Law School.
Dean Horace Read harshly suggested she "go home and take up crocheting."
... One of Wilson's most important decisions on the court was a family law case involving the division of property. After breaking up with her common law partner, with whom she had built a beekeeping business, Rosa Becker was left with 40 beehives and $1,500.
Wilson said the trial judge had grossly underestimated the value of Becker's contribution and awarded Becker a one-half interest in the business capital and revenue.
Later, in her nine years on the Supreme Court, Wilson helped her colleagues understand the "feminist critique" of equality law, which was that seemingly neutral laws often operate to the disadvantage of women and minorities, said Toronto legal scholar Peter Hogg.
The landmark 1990 case of Angelique Lavallee, for example, considered self-defence from a battered woman's perspective. Wilson, writing for the court, upheld the acquittal of Lavallee, who had shot her common law partner in the back of the head.
In the 1988 Morgentaler ruling striking down Canada's ban on abortion, Wilson's reasons focused on a woman's right to choose. |
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YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CBC Radio is reporting that that miserable piece of shit, Jerry Falwell, has done the entirety of humankind a favour by fuckin' dying!
AT LAST! 
I spit on his foul memory.
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