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He was so ahead of his time.
I saw him on a commercial the other night and you wouldn't believe he is 90 !!!
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Added: 8th October 2007
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LONDON - Deborah Kerr, who shared one of Hollywood's most famous kisses and made her mark with such roles as the correct widow in "The King and I" and the unhappy officer's wife in "From Here to Eternity," has died. She was 86.
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Kerr, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, died Tuesday in Suffolk in eastern England, her agent, Anne Hutton, said Thursday.
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Added: 18th October 2007
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Posted By: Old Fart |
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On April 1, 1996, the Cincinnati Reds opened the Major League Baseball season by hosting the Montreal Expos. Seven pitches into the game, 51-year-old umpire John McSherry staggered away from home plate on unsteady legs and collapsed face-first to the ground. He likely died immediately of a massive heart attack, but he was officially pronounced dead an hour later. Another umpire, Tom Hallion, accompanied McSherry to a Cincinnati hospital. The remaining two umpires, after consulting with the Reds and Expos, decided to postpone the game. The decision did not sit well with outspoken Reds' owner Marge Schott who was unhappy about having to issue rainchecks to the 50,000 spectators. (She later sent flowers to McSherry's funeral, but reports claimed they were second-hand flowers she herself had received on Opening Day from a local TV station.) McSherry, who tipped the scales at over 300 pounds, was a stereotypical out-of-shape MLB umpire. Beginning in 1997, MLB insisted on tough new physical fitness standards for its arbiters.
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Added: 26th June 2008
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Remember this dramatic series that starred Jack Palance in the lead role? It was first brought to television as a Richard Donner directed tele-movie, then picked up as a series on the network that began with a big C.
It must of impressed the executives then, the two hour tele-film was given the go with the ratings it grabbed on the original January broadcast.
Eight months later, in the fall of 1975, Palance's Bronk was aired, though until mid-summer of 1976; just after having just over twenty episodes completed for airing.
The crime show involved Palance playing a rough European named Alex Bronkov, who was given the job of watching over Ocean City, California from its then elected Mayor.
The show included those who were closely-tied around Bronk in its weekly plot, this was the general main storyline as he sought out the crime that was ensued over the area he was asked to cover in "his own way".
Carroll O'Connor from "All in the Family" who had become famous overnight as the unhappy Archie Bunker on "All In The Family". He executive produced this crime series for the network. Carroll O'Connor was the one who had thought up the idea of this tele-vehicle for Jack. Carroll also directed a number of the episodes.
After the show was shown on its original time-slot, it was repeated through the mid-seventies on the 1976-1977 'CBS Late Night' event. It is surprising that the series didn't run longer on its first time out with more episodes being produced. Ratings were the main fault here over its limited run. The network aired the show a second time as it was satisfied enough with its first airing.
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Added: 8th December 2009
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