I always wondered if he were alive today what he would think of his creation STILL playing concerts decades later. Who would have ever thought the band would continue through the years even after Mick Jagger ended up with some heart issues? The show must go on, after all.
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The pornography "industry" should be sued out of existence.
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"Drag Queen Story Hour" is a hideous idea and smacks of grooming kids. It doesn't belong anywhere and needs to be scrapped.
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Obituary: Comic Arte Johnson, a mere 90, known for his work on Laugh-In decades ago, has died. He died of heart failure after battling bladder and prostate cancer for three years.
Interesting background:
Arthur Stanton Eric Johnson was born on Jan. 20, 1929, in Benton Harbor, Michigan. His father was a lawyer, and Johnson spent most of his young years in Chicago. He entered Austin High School at age 12 and the University of Illinois at 16, where he graduated with a major in radio journalism._____
"I'm of the subway, streetcar, bus school of acting," he once told the Los Angeles Times. "In Chicago, there were all these areas for various nationalities. When you passed through on a bus, you'd hear the accents. I picked up the musicality of the languages … that's where the double-talk stems from."
After college, Johnson migrated to New York, where he wrote for a calendar company, and then served a stint in the Army. Back in New York, he landed a publicity job at Viking Press (he worked with John Steinbeck getting out the 1952 novel East of Eden) but was disenchanted with the publishing world.
During a walk during his lunch hour at Viking, he came upon an audition across the street from Carnegie Hall. He talked his way in, charmed songwriter Jule Styne and landed a part as a 65-year-old Frenchman in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
He must be related to Rosie Ruiz.
Lots more about Fantastic Frank is at this site.
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