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| Saturday, September 27th, 2008 | 4:58 pm
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| | Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 | 12:30 pm
[grendelis]
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| | Sunday, September 14th, 2008 | 11:32 am
[flupiajo]
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| | Friday, September 5th, 2008 | 9:38 am
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| | Monday, August 18th, 2008 | 4:20 pm
[netochka]
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Sports pioneer Dottie Collins dead at 84 Dottie Collins, 84, Star Pitcher of Women’s Baseball League, Dies
By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
Published: August 15, 2008
Dottie Collins, who was a star pitcher in women’s professional baseball in the 1940s and later played a major role in preserving the history of the women’s game, died Tuesday in Fort Wayne, Ind. She was 84.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/sports/baseball/17collins.html
Pitching for six seasons in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, created in 1943 to provide home front entertainment while many major leaguers were off to war, Collins dazzled opposing batters. She pitched underhand, sidearm and overhand; she threw curveballs, fastballs and changeups; and in the summer of 1948, she pitched until she was four months pregnant. She won more than 20 games in each of her first four seasons. She threw 17 shutouts and had a league-leading 293 strikeouts in 1945 for the Fort Wayne Daisies, when the women’s game resembled fast-pitch softball. But Collins’s greatest contribution to women’s baseball may have come when its ball clubs had long been forgotten. The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., had been considering an exhibition on women and baseball during the mid-1980s, but, as Ted Spencer, its chief curator, recalled in an interview, it had little material to display until Collins approached him. “When I connected with Dottie, the ball started to roll,” Spencer said. “If it wasn’t for her, I don’t know where it would have gone.” (I was actually at the Baseball Hall of Fame at the start of the month, and I had a chance to see this exhibition. As stated on the following site, in the Hall of Fame's archives is the "charm school guide" for the AllAmerican Girls Baseball League, reprinted in part on this site. Consider this as part of the women's baseball league player's job description, along with sliding home in a skirt! Very impressive. - netochka) http://www.aagpbl.org/league/charm.cfm | | Sunday, August 10th, 2008 | 7:59 pm
[monkiechunk]
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| | Saturday, August 9th, 2008 | 6:42 pm
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Actor, comedian and exasperated dad Bernie Mac dies at 50 "Bernie Mac blended style, authority and a touch of self-aware bluster to make audiences laugh as well as connect with him. For Mac, who died Saturday at age 50, it was a winning mix, delivering him from a poor childhood to stardom as a standup comedian, in films including the casino heist caper "Ocean's Eleven" and his acclaimed sitcom "The Bernie Mac Show." http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx/?news=326331>1=28101 | | Sunday, July 27th, 2008 | 12:34 am
[flupiajo]
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Estelle Getty, Golden Girl, Dead at 84 "Estelle Getty, who portrayed the crabby, charming octogenarian in the television sitcom The Golden Girls, died in Los Angeles this week at age 84. She gave new prominence to elderly characters in prime time and endeared herself to viewers of all ages. She had been suffering from Lewy body dementia, a progressive brain disease. In Golden Girls, Getty’s character, Sophia, was the mother of Dorothy Zbornak, played by Bea Arthur who, in real life, was older than Getty. Sophia, characterised by her bluntness and cranky lamentations about old age, treated her daughter with a kind of loving contempt, and their two roommates, the man-obsessed Blanche (Rue McClanahan) and the dim-witted Rose (Betty White), with the eye-rolling impatience of one who would not indulge the self-delusions of others.
When Blanche complained that her life was an open book, Sophia witheringly replied: 'Your life is an open blouse.' "
Click here to read the full story | | Friday, July 25th, 2008 | 12:11 pm
[dinosaurbob]
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Randy Pausch, "Last Lecture Professor" From CNN.com: PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47. Randy Pausch emphasized the joy of life in his "last lecture," originally given in September 2007. Pausch died at his home in Virginia, university spokeswoman Anne Watzman said. Pausch and his family moved there last fall to be closer to his wife's relatives. Read the whole CNN story here.The Last Lecture. It's 75 minutes long but very worth watching. Current Mood:  sad | | Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 | 5:05 pm
[dinosaurbob]
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| | Monday, June 23rd, 2008 | 12:35 am
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Comedian George Carlin dies at 71 Comedian George Carlin a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs and dirty words, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday, a spokesman said. He was 71. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080623/us_nm/carlin_dc | | Friday, June 20th, 2008 | 12:30 pm
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| | Thursday, June 12th, 2008 | 2:45 pm
[kerrykate]
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Death Midwifery ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) deathmidwiferyA Community for those who study, interested or practice natural burials and death midwifery. | | Thursday, June 5th, 2008 | 1:33 pm
[grendelis]
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| | Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 | 12:28 pm
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| | Sunday, June 1st, 2008 | 7:20 pm
[netochka]
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Fashion king Saint Laurent dies http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7430487.stm"Yves Saint Laurent, considered by many as the greatest fashion designer of the 20th Century, has died in Paris at the age of 71... ...He made clothes that were elegant and sexy, reflecting women's more confident role in society. He took the world by storm with his trouser suits, highly coloured ethnic prints and designs inspired by the art world. Taunted as a schoolboy because of his homosexuality, Yves St Laurent suffered mental and physical ill health for much of his life and he appeared in public only rarely. But his influence will last for years to come, our arts correspondent Razia Iqbal says. France has lost not only its greatest fashion designer but also a cultural icon, she adds." | | Thursday, May 29th, 2008 | 8:49 am
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| | Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 | 3:52 am
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Sydney Pollack Acclaimed director, producer, and actor Sydney Pollack has died of cancer. He was 73. According to the AP, quoting Pollack's agent Leslee Dart, Pollack died Monday afternoon (5/26/08) at his home in Pacific Palisades, surrounded by family and friends. ( Read ) Current Mood: sadCurrent Music: Default - "Faded" | | Sunday, May 25th, 2008 | 10:52 am
[dinosaurbob]
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Robert Lynn Asprin (1946-2008) Robert Lynn Asprin of M.Y.T.H. Adventures and Phule's Company fame died May 22, 2008. He will be greatly missed. From his web page, Myth Adventures: Robert Asprin (1946-2008)
On May 22, 2008, Bob passed away quietly in his home in
New Orleans, LA. He had been in good spirits and working
on several new projects, and was set to be the Guest of Honor
at a major science fiction convention that very weekend.
He is survived by his mother, his sister, his daughter and his
son, and his cat, Princess, not to mention countless friends and fans and numerous legendary fictional characters.
He will be greatly missed.
If you wish to send a note to me or Bob’s family,
please write to Jodynye @ yahoo.com
Anyone who wishes to celebrate Bob’s life is welcome to show up for a ‘spontaneous wake’ at Fahy’s Irish Pub, the corner of Toulouse and Burgundy Streets in the French Quarter of New Orleans on Sunday evening, the 25th of May, 2008, from 9:00 PM until the last person leaves.
Bring your stories and your memories. Raise a pint for me. Current Mood: sad | | Thursday, May 1st, 2008 | 10:17 am
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