[LANMaster]

I have also been a long time Lou Rawls fan.

I remember one time back in the 70's he was on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show (or some awards program) and was singing, "You'll never find" while smoking on stage. He started coughing in the middle of the song. It was really a sad sight.
That spot would make an exceptional anti smoking commercial.

No surprise that it was lung cancer that took him. I'm surprised he made it to 72 years old.

May God rest his gentle soul.

[eggplant43]

My Lai Hero dies:


http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20060107/D8EVPLUO1.html

[angelize56]

Remembering Elvis on what would have been his 71st birthday today! I still remember the day he died...I was working at Fotomat and heard it on the radio...I closed down the store to run home and let my Mom know...she was one of the biggest Elvis fans around!

Elvis' drummer dies

07/01/2006 11:27 - (SA)

Bogota - Bill Lynn, drummer for rock n' roll king Elvis Presley, died of lung complications in Colombia on Thursday.

Lynn, 73, died at his home in Villa de Leyva, a scenic town 200 kilometres north of Bogota.

In Bogota, Lynn owned a bar called Legends and Superstars, featuring Elvis memorabilia.

The drummer was born in Bogota but grew up in the United States.

Cristina Alarcon, a friend of Lynn's and the culture and tourism secretary for the department of Boyaca said: "He had a strong flu, which got worse in the early morning, and he died.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Enterta...859484,00.html

[angelize56]

Eric Namesnik

YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) _ Eric Namesnik, who won silver medals in swimming at the 1992 and '96 Olympics, died Wednesday following a car accident last week. He was 35. (Too young!)

Namesnik was critically injured in the Jan. 7 accident, caused by icy conditions in Pittsfield Township, according to USA Swimming. He had been in a medically induced coma to reduce swelling around his brain before he died at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital.

http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/s...toryId=1143249

[ekim68]

Originally Posted by eggplant43

My Lai Hero dies:


http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20060107/D8EVPLUO1.html

I read this somewhere else. An amazing act of heroism. I wonder how many others
would actually do something like this now....

It brings to my mind; "How brave can I be? Will I do, or be able to do the right
thing at the right time"....I'm only so brave...

[eggplant43]

I do believe that what he did took unbelievable courage, and a moral backbone that many simply lack.

[poochee]

Filmmaker dies in plane crash in Lancaster
The Associated Press
Last Updated 8:02 pm PST Friday, January 13, 2006

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gary Rhine, a Jewish filmmaker who focused on the struggles of American Indians, died in a single-engine plane crash in Lancaster. He was 54.
Rhine, who was also a flight instructor, was killed Monday when the Cirrus SR20 aircraft he and a student were flying crashed in a field near Gen. William J. Fox Airfield.

Rhine and the student, whose identity has not been released, died upon impact.

Rhine felt inspired to focus on the plight of American Indians after a trip to Israel, said his wife, Irene Romero.

"He really felt what he called the 'American holocaust' had not been documented at all," she said.

In his first film, "Wiping the Tears of Seven Generations," Rhine used the 100th anniversary of the Wounded Knee massacre in 1990 to tell the story of the Sioux Nation's loss.

"The Peyote Road" protested the 1990 U.S. Supreme Court decision that denied 1st Amendment protection to the sacramental use of peyote by American Indians during ceremonies.

In "The Red Road to Sobriety" in 1995, Rhine showed viewers the first Native American Alcoholics Anonymous convention in a story that showed "how alcohol was used as a tool to annihilate tribes," his wife said.

Rhine's documentaries consistently won awards at regional and international festivals, including the American Indian Festival.

Read rest of article at: Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com

[angelize56]

Awww....how sad....Shelly Winters has died at age 85! I loved her performance as Nana Mary on "Roseanne"!

[angelize56]

On Shelly:

Updated: 1:51 p.m. ET Jan. 14, 2006

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Shelley Winters, the forceful, outspoken star who graduated from blond bombshell parts to dramas, winning Academy Awards as supporting actress in "The Diary of Anne Frank" and "A Patch of Blue," has died. She was 85.

Winters died of heart failure early Saturday at The Rehabilitation Centre of Beverly Hills, her publicist Dale Olson said. She was hospitalized in October after suffering a heart attack.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10851769/

[Chicon]

Originally Posted by angelize56

On Shelly:

Updated: 1:51 p.m. ET Jan. 14, 2006

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Shelley Winters, the forceful, outspoken star who graduated from blond bombshell parts to dramas, winning Academy Awards as supporting actress in "The Diary of Anne Frank" and "A Patch of Blue," has died. She was 85.

Winters died of heart failure early Saturday at The Rehabilitation Centre of Beverly Hills, her publicist Dale Olson said. She was hospitalized in October after suffering a heart attack.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10851769/

She was a great lady !

[eggplant43]

I always enjoyed her on Johnny Carson, she was a scream. She led quite an adventuresome love life, if rumors, and her recollections were correct. I'll always think of her in the Poisiden (sp?) adventure.

[hewee]

She was my mom's favorite actress. She will be missed.

[ekim68]

I just read in our local newspaper that a very good friend of mine died five days ago.

I meant to call him last week....Good grief...

[angelize56]

Very sorry to hear that ekim....I guess we all need to remember the old adage "don't put off until tomorrow what we can do today"!

[LANMaster]

Hiya Mar. How are you feeling?