I didn't know he was still alive.

Apparently he (Eddy Arnold) did die.

TIS now has two kills.

He sang five songs and he's still alive.

[/Sollozzo imitation]

Well that's bad news for us, but not as bad as for him.

I want you to use all your powers and all your skills.....I dont want his great great great grandchildren to see him this way.

Look how we massacred this thread.

Good one, TIS! I've updated the list on Page 6

Congrats TIS on your 2nd kill. The only thing I remember about him is that he sung that song "Make The World Go Away."

Good call, TIS. This isn't the guy from Green Acres, is it? I know the name, but can't place him.

Here ya go Klyd.

That's Eddie Albert. I get them mixed up too.

didn't his daughter who was on LSD "fly" out of a window in the 60's?

He has outlived three children. His daughter, who jumped out of a window, a son that died in a car accident, and another son that died of lymphoma last year. Although Art claimed that LSD "made" his daughter jump, the autopsy showed no trace of drugs in her system.

Geoff didn't have her?

Polish Holocaust hero dies at age 98

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA, Associated Press Writer Mon May 12, 12:35 PM ET

WARSAW, Poland - Irena Sendler — credited with saving some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazi Holocaust by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, some of them in baskets — died Monday, her family said. She was 98.
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Sendler, among the first to be honored by Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial as a Righteous Among Nations for her wartime heroism, died at a Warsaw hospital, daughter Janina Zgrzembska told The Associated Press.

President Lech Kaczynski expressed "great regret" over Sendler's death, calling her "extremely brave" and "an exceptional person." In recent years, Kaczynski had spearheaded a campaign to put Sendler's name forward as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Sendler was a 29-year-old social worker with the city's welfare department when Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, launching World War II. Warsaw's Jews were forced into a walled-off ghetto.

Seeking to save the ghetto's children, Sendler masterminded risky rescue operations. Under the pretext of inspecting sanitary conditions during a typhoid outbreak, she and her assistants ventured inside the ghetto — and smuggled out babies and small children in ambulances and in trams, sometimes wrapped up as packages.

Teenagers escaped by joining teams of workers forced to labor outside the ghetto. They were placed in families, orphanages, hospitals or convents.

Records show that Sendler's team of about 20 people saved nearly 2,500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto between October 1940 and its final liquidation in April 1943, when the Nazis burned the ghetto, shooting the residents or sending them to death camps.

"Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory," Sendler said in 2007 in a letter to the Polish Senate after lawmakers honored her efforts in 2007.

In hopes of one day uniting the children with their families — most of whom perished in the Nazis' death camps — Sendler wrote the children's real names on slips of paper that she kept at home.

When German police came to arrest her in 1943, an assistant managed to hide the slips, which Sendler later buried in a jar under an apple tree in an associate's yard. Some 2,500 names were recorded.

"It took a true miracle to save a Jewish child," Elzbieta Ficowska, who was saved by Sendler's team as a baby in 1942, recalled in an AP interview in 2007. "Mrs. Sendler saved not only us, but also our children and grandchildren and the generations to come."

Anyone caught helping Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland risked being summarily shot, along with family members — a fate Sendler only barely escaped herself after the 1943 raid by the Gestapo.

The Nazis took her to the notorious Pawiak prison, which few people left alive. Gestapo agents tortured her repeatedly, leaving Sendler with scars on her body — but she refused to betray her team.

"I kept silent. I preferred to die than to reveal our activity," she was quoted as saying in Anna Mieszkowska's biography, "Mother of the Children of the Holocaust: The Story of Irena Sendler."

Zegota, an underground organization helping Jews, paid a bribe to German guards to free her from the prison. Under a different name, she continued her work.

After World War II, Sendler worked as a social welfare official and director of vocational schools, continuing to assist some of the children she rescued.

"A great person has died — a person with a great heart, with great organizational talents, a person who always stood on the side of the weak," Warsaw Ghetto survivor Marek Eldeman told TVN24 television.

In 1965, Sendler became one of the first so-called Righteous Gentiles honored by the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem for wartime heroics. Poland's communist leaders at that time would not allow her to travel to Israel; she collected the award in 1983.

Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev said Sender's "courageous activities rescuing Jews during the Holocaust serve as a beacon of light to the world, inspiring hope and restoring faith in the innate goodness of mankind."

Despite the Yad Vashem honor, Sendler was largely forgotten in her homeland until recent years. She came to the world's attention in 2000 when a group of schoolgirls from Uniontown, Kan., wrote a short play about her called "Life in a Jar."

It went on to garner international attention, and has been performed more than 200 times in the United States, Canada and Poland.

Sendler, born Irena Krzyzanowska, said she lived according to her physician father's teachings, arguing that "people can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter."

She married Mieczyslaw Sendler but they divorced after the war's end. Sendler then married fellow underground activist Stefan Zgrzembski, and they had two sons and a daughter. One died a few days after birth. The second son, Adam, died of a heart failure in 1999.

Sendler is survived by her daughter and a granddaughter.

James Garner suffered a stroke yesterday.

Ahhh, what the hell, nobody had picked him anyway. (He's still alive, happily).

I totally missed Eddy Arnold passing.

Sorry about James Garner. I do wish him well. I've always liked him.



TIS

Btw, I went to "more smilies" and tried to use it, but it wouldn't work. Has something changed as far as how to add them? I did the usual, highlight, copy/paste and it didn't work.

Works for me, TIS

Rockford had a stroke?

I like him. I wish him well.

FYI----David Chase (The Sopranos) got his first break in Hollywood writing for THE ROCKFORD FILES.

Dick Martin, from the comedy team of Rowan & Martin died yesterday at age 86.

Nobody here had picked him.

Sure, I remember Dick Martin. I liked his humor. Too bad. (Dan Rowen died a few years ago if I'm not mistaken.

TIS

Sock it to me.

Ha ha...Remember Goldie Hawn in her bikini with writing all over her body? Graffiti??

Lots of big names appeared on that show including Nixon, remember???

TIS

Damn, I almost got a little (morbidly) excited when I started reading this headline:
Last known WWI veteran honored for Memorial Day

Well, good for him! He's not on my list anyway.

I thought the same thing when I saw the headline Geoff. The first thing I said was, "Damm, Geoff probably has him on his list".

Sydney Pollack, noted film directed passed away of cancer. I didn't see where he was on anyone's list at a quick glance. He directed, among other films, Tootsie, Out of Africa, The Way We Were.

TIS


http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/26/pollack.obit.ap/index.html

Damn, TIS beat me by 3 seconds! No, he's not on anyone's list. I started a thread in the TV/Film Forum

Ha ha ha ha!! I noticed that right after I posted here. I replied to your thread and then saw your reply here. I'm right behind ya bro!!! You feel like you're being stalked???? Ha ha ha



TIS

What was all this talk about you being the fastest guy on the planet?

I am now offically getting ready for NEXT years dead pool

Not really.... you're four months and 27 days too late.

Get ready for next year.