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R.I.P. Marcel Marceau.
I remember when he appeared in the Mel Brooks film "Silent Movie" as mentioned in the article. In a cast that included Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Marty Feldman, Paul Newman, Bernadette Peters, Sid Caesar, Burt Reynolds, Liza Minelli, and many others, Marcel was the ONLY one to speak.
 
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I remember seeing 'Silent Movie' now that you mention it. That was a good one. It was funny to see Marcel Marceau speaking and everyone else not. That was Mel Brooks alright.
 
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'Young and Restless' actor Michael Evans dead

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- British-born actor Michael Evans, who wooed Audrey Hepburn on Broadway in "Gigi" and was the best friend to a billionaire on the soap opera "The Young and the Restless," has died. He was 87.

Evans died September 4 from age-related complications, said his son Nick Evans.

From 1980 to 1995, Evans played Col. Douglas Austin, the friend of billionaire Victor Newman, on CBS's long-running "The Young and the Restless." Newman is played by Eric Braeden, who hailed Evans as "a total professional from the old English school, a gentleman through and through."

Full story at CNN/AP News.
 
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I remmeber him when Victor first met Nikki. THeywere very close friends on the show as well as off I believe. RIP Michael Evans
 
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Bond's Moneypenny, Lois Maxwell, Dies
Sep 30, 11:03 AM (ET)

LONDON (AP) - Lois Maxwell, who starred as Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond movies, has died, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported Sunday. She was 80.

The Canadian-born actress starred alongside Sean Connery in the first James Bond movie, "Dr. No," in 1962 as the secretary to M, the head of the secret service.

She died Saturday night at Fremantle Hospital near her home in Perth, Australia, the BBC cited a hospital official as saying.

Bond star Roger Moore said she was suffering from cancer.

Full story at Iwon/AP News.
 
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Awe that's ashame about Lois Maxwell :( She was so good as Miss Moneypenny. I had forgotten she was born in Canada. She will be sorrily missed.
 
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Jane Seymour's Mother Dies in England
Oct 3, 8:24 AM (ET)

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mieke Frankenberg, the mother of Jane Seymour and a survivor of a Japanese concentration camp, has died. She was 92.

Frankenberg died Monday in Hillington, England, of complications from a stroke, said Seymour's publicist, Dick Guttman.

Seymour said her mother was born in Holland and lived in Indonesia during World War II, where she spent more than three years in a Japanese concentration camp. After that, she moved to England, married a doctor named John Frankenberg and had three daughters. Her husband died in 1990.

Seymour, a contestant on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars," said she wouldn't attend Tuesday night's results show as she planned to travel to England.

"She was ageless and had the spirit of a lively, effervescent, enthusiastic 21-year-old and only her body let her down," the 56-year-old actress said in a statement.

"She had been through it all, seen horrors up close and chose to see the light and love of God and mankind in every aspect of life," Seymour said.

Seymour starred in the TV series "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" and dozens of other TV movies and shows.
 
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Tony-Winning Actor George Grizzard Dies
Oct 3, 1:53 PM (ET)

NEW YORK (AP) - Broadway and screen actor George Grizzard, who won acclaim, and a Tony Award, for performing in Edward Albee's dramas, has died. He was 79.

Grizzard died Monday at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center of complications from lung cancer, said his agent, Clifford Stevens.

Grizzard's film roles included a bullying U.S. senator in "Advise and Consent" in 1962 and an oilman in "Comes a Horseman" in 1978. On television, Grizzard made regular appearances on "Law & Order" and won a best supporting actor Emmy for the 1980 TV movie "The Oldest Living Graduate," which starred Henry Fonda. His TV credits stretch back to the '50s, when he appeared in various anthology series such as "Playhouse 90."

But he considered himself primarily a stage actor.

Full story at Iwon/AP News.
 
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This week's Honorary Unsubscribe goes to Charles B. Griffith. A screenwriter and director, Griffith mostly worked for B-movie producer Roger Corman. Griffith wrote the scripts for Corman films such as "Attack of the Crab Monsters", "Not of This Earth", "A Bucket of Blood", "Teenage Doll", "Creature from the Haunted Sea" and "Rock All Night". But he's best known for 1960's "The Little Shop of Horrors", where Griffith also provided the voice for the carnivorous plant, "Audrey Jr.", who kept urging Seymour to "Feed me!" The film was later adapted into a stage musical, which was then itself adapted back to a successful film. "Griffith's scripts were very imaginative and often quirky and kind of subversive," says science fiction film commentator Tom Weaver. "And when you look at any list of Roger Corman's early pictures, those were the ones that put Corman on the map." Griffith died at his home on September 28 at 77.
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Congresswoman Dies After Cancer Fight
Oct 7, 7:11 AM (ET)
By LARRY O'DELL

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Republican U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Davis, who represented southeastern Virginia for seven years, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005. This year, she suffered a recurrence.

But her health took a turn for the worse during the past week and she died Saturday morning at her home in Gloucester after a two-year battle with the disease.

Davis, 57, became Virginia's first Republican woman elected to Congress in 2000, and she was a member of the House Armed Services Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Full story at Iwon/AP News
 
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Maria Von Trapp's Stepson Dead at 91
Oct 13, 7:58 PM (ET)
By WILSON RING

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Werner von Trapp, a member of the musical family made famous by the 1965 movie "The Sound of Music," has died, his family said. He was 91.

Von Trapp died Thursday at his home in Waitsfield. The cause of death was not announced. The family confirmed his death, but declined to comment further.

"The Sound of Music" was based loosely on a 1949 book by his stepmother, Maria von Trapp, who died in 1987. It tells the story of an Austrian woman who married a widower with seven children and teaches them music.

Full article at Iwon/AP News.
 
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