In Remembrance...2008

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Estelle Getty, best known for playing Sophia on The Golden Girls, died today after a long battle with Alzheimer's. She was almost 85.

 

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Broadway actor and soap opera star Larry Haines died last Thursday. He was 89.

Haines first became known in the 1930s for his work on the radio show Gangbusters. He is probably best known for playing Stu Bergman on Search For Tomorrow, which he played for nearly the show's entire run and won two Emmy Awards for.

 

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Randy Pausch finally lost his battle with pancreatic cancer, which he wrote about in the bestselling book, The Last Lecture, today. He was 47.

No Golden Girls fans in this forum?

 

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Broadway star Bruce Adler, a multi-Tony nominee, died yesterday of cancer. He was 63.

Adler sang "Arabian Nights" at the beginning of the Disney movie Aladdin.

 

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Broadway star Bruce Adler, a multi-Tony nominee, died yesterday of cancer. He was 63.

Adler sang "Arabian Nights" at the beginning of the Disney movie Aladdin.

Arabian Nights is my second most favorite Disney song, right after A Whole New World.

Rest In Peace, Bruce

 

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Youssef Chahine, one of Egypt's most celebrated film directors, died Sunday. He was 82.

Chahine won a lifetime achievement award at Cannes in 1997.

 

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Joe Beck, a jazz guitarist who collaborated with artists like Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra, and James Brown, died July 22 of lung cancer. He was 62.

 

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Bud Browne, whose 16 millimeter films of surfers at Venice Beach were the first surf movies, died last Friday. He was 96.

 

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize winning author whose books detailed the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, died yesterday. He was 89.

 

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Skip Caray, the play-by-play announcer for the Atlanta Braves, died yesterday of bronchitis. He was 68.

Skip was the son of fellow announcer Harry Caray.