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Jimmy Dean Obituary

Posted by Allan Ellenberger on Jun 15th, 2010
2010
Jun 15

OBITUARY

Jimmy Dean dies at 81; country music star and sausage king

 

 

 

The Texas-born entertainer, who hit it big with the Grammy-winning ‘Big Bad John’ in 1961, also had his own TV variety shows and a role on ‘Daniel Boone.’ But many know him from his sausage brand and commercials.

 

By Dennis McLellan
Los Angeles Times
June 15, 2010

 

When the Country Music Assn. announced in February that Jimmy Dean would be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame later this year, Dean joked, “I thought I was already in there.”

 

“Seriously, it brought a huge grin to my face,” he said in a news release. “I am honored.”

 

Dean already had been inducted into the Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997 and the Texas Music Hall of Fame in 2005.

 

That’s not to mention his 2009 induction into the Meat Industry Hall of Fame.

 

Indeed, Dean, who died Sunday evening at his home in Henrico County, Va., at age 81, may be better known by some today as “the sausage king” of TV commercial fame than a hit-making country music star and one-time TV show host who helped bring country music into the mainstream in the 1960s.

 

Click here to continue reading the Los Angeles Times obituary for Jimmy Dean

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Mary Wickes 100th Birthday

Posted by Allan Ellenberger on Jun 13th, 2010
2010
Jun 13

100th BIRTHDAY

Mary Wickes

 

 

 

AMERICAN ACTRESS

 

 

 

Click below to watch Mary Wickes in The Decorator, an unaired 1965 pilot starring Bette Davis

 

 

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Clark Gable’s crypt kissed

Posted by Allan Ellenberger on Jun 12th, 2010
2010
Jun 12

CELEBRITY GRAVES

Clark Gable’s Tomb Vandalized By A Kiss

 

TMZ.com

 

(NewsCore) – The tomb of silver screen star Clark Gable was vandalized by an adoring bandit who left her mark with lipstick — causing a repair team to be called to clean it, TMZ reported Sunday.

 

Gable, who is entombed in a mausoleum at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Calif. — also the final resting place of Walt Disney, Michael Jackson and a host of other celebrities — is regularly sought after by female fans, and traces of lipstick are occasionally spotted by the actor’s son John Clark Gable.

 

Although most previous marks were easily wiped away, the latest one stubbornly stuck, forcing a “total overhaul” of the white marble monument by a repair team.

 

John Clark Gable also warned against letting Jackson fans into the mausoleum — claiming that if they came inside, their tributes could damage surrounding memorials, including his father’s.

 

He said he asked security to “keep an eye out” for the lipstick bandit’s return.

 

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Beetlejuice at Hollywood Forever

Posted by Allan Ellenberger on Jun 11th, 2010
2010
Jun 11

SCREENINGS

cinespia – cemetery screenings season 2010 presents

 

 

 

  

hollywood forever cemetery:

6000 Santa Monica Boulevard at gower

saturday, june 12, 2010

beetlejuice

directed by tim burton (1989, 92 mins)

gates 7:30 pm movie 9:00 pm (NEW TIME)
no reservation necessary
$10 donation tickets available at gate
$5 parking available inside
as a courtesy to other moviegoers: NO TALL CHAIRS!!

 

Tim Burton’s fantasy/ horror comedy is one of the most fun and imaginative films of the 80s. A couple of recently deceased ghosts contract the services of a “bio-exorcist” in order to remove the obnoxious new owners of their house. Winona Ryder stars as the moody teenage daughter who befriends the ghosts and helps them with their problem with the living. The fantastic make-up special effects won an Oscar. Join us for this special screening below (and above) the stars.

 

dj carlos nino spins before and after the screening.

 

sunday, june 13, 2010

blow up

directed by michelangelo antonioni (1966, 111 minutes)

cinespia – cemetery screenings season 2010

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Carmine Coppola’s 100th Birthday

Posted by Allan Ellenberger on Jun 11th, 2010
2010
Jun 11

100th BIRTHDAY

Carmine Coppola

 

 

AMERICAN COMPOSER

 

 

 

Click below to listen to Intermezzo by Carmine Coppola from The Godfather III

 

 

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Robert Cummings 100th Birthday

Posted by Allan Ellenberger on Jun 10th, 2010
2010
Jun 10

100th BIRTHDAY

Robert Cummings

 

 

  

AMERICAN ACTOR

 

 

 

Click below to watch Bob Cummings in a CBS television promotion

 

 

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Lost Chaplin film found

Posted by Allan Ellenberger on Jun 9th, 2010
2010
Jun 9

FILM HISTORY

 Lost Charlie Chaplin film discovered in Michigan antique sale

 

 

Still image from Charlie Chaplin’s cameo appearance in a Keystone comedy called A Thief Catcher in January 1914.

 

By Scott Eyman
Palm Beach Post

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

 

The diminutive figure emerges from the underbrush wearing a Keystone Cop uniform about four sizes too large. He screws up his courage by giving a very familiar wiggle of his butt, followed by a very familiar wriggle of his shoulders.

 

He’s wearing a little moustache that would soon become world famous, carrying only a nightstick and the possibility of greatness.

 

It’s Charlie Chaplin, making a cameo appearance in a Keystone comedy called A Thief Catcher in January 1914, just about a month after he started working at the Edendale, California, studio. It’s the 36th film he made in a frantic year’s activity before he left for more green, not to mention greener, pastures.

 

Until a few months ago, nobody knew it existed.

 

Click here to continue reading the Palm Beach Post article

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Lost silent films found

Posted by Allan Ellenberger on Jun 8th, 2010
2010
Jun 8

FILM HISTORY

Long-Lost Silent Films Return to America

 

 

 

 A scene from “Why Husbands Flirt” (1918), one of some 75 silent movies, found in a New Zealand archive, being returned to the United States.

 

By Dave Kehr
New York Times
June 7, 2010

 

A late silent feature directed by John Ford, a short comedy directed by Mabel Normand, a period drama starring Clara Bow and a group of early one-reel westerns are among a trove of long-lost American films recently found in the New Zealand Film Archive.

 

Some 75 of these movies, chosen for their historical and cultural importance, are in the process of being returned to the United States under the auspices of the National Film Preservation Foundation, the nonprofit, charitable affiliate of the Library of Congress’s National Film Preservation Board. (This writer is a member of the board, and has served on grant panels for the foundation, though none related to the current project.) Chris Finlayson, New Zealand’s minister for arts, culture and heritage, is expected to announce the discovery and the repatriation officially this week.

 

The films came to light early in 2009, when Brian Meacham, a preservationist for the Los Angeles archive of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, dropped in on colleagues at the New Zealand Film Archive in Wellington during a vacation.

 

Click here to continue reading this New York Times article

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Brittany Murphy’s grave marker

Posted by Allan Ellenberger on Jun 7th, 2010
2010
Jun 7

CELEBRITY GRAVES

Brittany Murphy’s grave is marked at Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills

 

Brittany Murphy and Simon Monjack

 

 

 

 

 

Brittany Murphy’s recently deceased husband, Simon Monjack, is resting next to her.

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Dorothy de Borba Obituary

Posted by Allan Ellenberger on Jun 5th, 2010
2010
Jun 5

OBITUARY

Dorothy de Borba dies at 85; child actress in ‘Our Gang’ comedies

 

 Dorothy de Borba, left, in a scene with Matthew “Stymie” Beard, Bobby “Wheezer” Hutchins and Shirley Jean “Measure” Rickert in “Our Gang.” (Associated Press / June 5, 2010)

 

She played Dorothy on the popular program in the early 1930s, appearing in 24 episodes. She was known for her light-brown hair that was typically done up in ringlet curls topped with a big bow.

 

By Dennis McLellan
Los Angeles Times
June 5, 2010

 

Dorothy de Borba, a former child actress who played Dorothy in the “Our Gang” comedies in the early 1930s, has died. She was 85.

 

Please click here to continue reading the Los Angeles Times obituary for Dorothy de Borba

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