BrunoBrimley

Bad news. If he is in as poor a state of health as you claim then he won't be around long enough for a 2006 list.

My understanding is this-The Big Guy In The Sky only wants the best of the best therefore he's left us with the two worst. Add to this Paul and Ringo and their long term game of 'Paul is dead'. It was all Ringos idea but Paul just couldn't resist going along with it. He claimed it was so he could check on fan loyalty. The Big Guy In The Sky doesn't like people pretending to be dead since it'll come soon enough. Well for most people it will.

An annoying comeuppance for me really. However the site is also annoying. First they tell us American Dennis appeared on March 12, 1951 and then that the British Dennis first appeared on March 17 of that same year. This tells us American Dennis appeared first however the site then says 'the British Dennis is far more of a menace than his namesake'. Huh? Namesake? A)they appeared at virtually the same time and B)namesake is applied to being named after someone else; which in reality means British Dennis is the namesake. Of course what this has to do with Rocky and Bullwinkle is beyond me. What you don't get the Bullwinkle connection? Charles Lane--->>Alan 'Rocky' Lane--->>The Rocky and Bullwinkle show. (This is why I am often called Mr. Know-it-all). But mostly thanks for clearing the Dennis the Menace mystery.

Yes cinemorgue is a terrific site. Anyway back to Ernie he is still quite active and explained it thusly last year "old age is just an expression". As near as I can tell his health is fairly good, no reports of problems other than the lingering deafness he sustained while married to Ethel Merman. I always loved his work and have seen 'Marty' dozens of times--I have it on tape and hope to get a DVD of it soon. Also always stayed glued to the set when he was McHale in McHale's Navy. Always curious as to what scrape Ensign Parker (Tim Conway) would get into and how McHale (Borgnine) would save him before Captain Binghamton (Joe Flynn) and Lt.Elroy Carpenter (Bob Hastings) could nab them. It was a fun, if not always historically accurate series.

Dennis the menace British? Hardly! The creator of this annoying slingshot toting boy was Hank Ketcham who was born in 1920 in Seattle WASHINGTON which the last I checked was still part of the United States of AMERICA. Yup. Dennis was an all American boy, who spent hours and hours of having fun much to the delight of his neighbor Mrs. Wilson and to the chagrin of his other neighbor Mr. Wilson. Back to Charles Lane I remember him mostly as Homer Bedloe from Petticoat Junction (a sort of spin-off from The Beverly Hillbillies). He seemed like he was a 100 back then. Interesting thing about Dennis is that if he had grown up and married Margaret Wade (the bespectacled girl he couldn't stand) she would have been Margaret Mitchell. (and with that, I was Gone With The Wind)

But can Moses die? Or is he he already loaded into his chariot as he agian refelects on days as Ben Hur? Probably won't die any time soon he is too stubborn.

Thank you Captain. And here to add to the fun and pleasure of all our pals is a link to a photo for the drowning: http://www.geocities.com/cinemorgue2/georgekennedy.html Remember it's the right thing to do and a tasty way to do it, there's no reason not to.

Looks to me like Jack Palance. Here (hopefully) is a link. http://www.fametracker.com/2_stars_1_slot/...ce_coburn.shtml And yeah he was in One Man Jury. Also remembered for his one arm pushup on stage at the Academy Awards a few years ago. (Or was it some other award show?). Born in 1919 he used to be a boxer

Until you mentioned him I had thought he was dead but apparently not. It seems it was one of his wives that was dead and he is said to have remarried in 1999. Born in 1914 he is definitely edging up the ladder to the jump-off platform. No idea though on his health. One other note, if you feed him undercooked oatmeal he will strap you into a wheelchair and give it a shove down a very steep flight of stairs.

And for the record the late Alan North portrayed Capt. Hocken in the television series Police Squad upon which all of The Naked Gun films were based.

I mainly recall Kennedy as Bumper Morgan in the short lifed television series The Blue Knight. The series was based on the novel of the same name by the great author Joseph Wambaugh, who also gave us The Onion Field and The Choir Boys as well as other police style novels. The series followed along the same track as the movie of the same name which had starred William Holden as Bumper Morgan aging cop. As to the imminent demise of George Kennedy since he just turned 80 in February it is clear the man is on borrowed time. That said, keep in mind he is still working so even though his time is running out his energy and zest for life is not. Oh and the bosses name in the Naked Gun series was Hocken. Captain Ed Hocken if I recollect it rightly. Now back to your regularly scheduled oatmeal.

Sad how the good ones are taken out. On a lighter note I hear as they were getting into the new vehicle that had just been delivered last week, in an attempt to blend in with the hip young Beirutian crowd he said(and I quote): "Man this car is da bomb!" R.I.P. Rafik

According to the calculatory Xaranspalager (patent pending) Fidel Castro is protected through unseen prreviously hitherto unknown forces. the same forces which coincidentally prevent hurricanes from obliterating Castro's home have also allowed him the dubious sometimes honorific pleasure of an extended life span. If you are curious as to the workings of the Xparanspalager(patent still pending) let me explain it to you. A handful of data is inserted into slot A and figures and occasionally true facts are keyed in. After this several ultra-sensitive codes are processed through during which time a minimum of 12 persons within a 2500 mile radius must meet untimely deaths. If this happens then a person is granted between 35 and 85 additional years of life provided of course that they remember at all times the value of communism in island nations. I entered your name Josco and all I could guarentee at present was a meager 34 years and 362 sardonic days. Don't know if this helps you much.

Sadly (for you) he will live at least another 35 years.

What do you mean "sitcom?" Surely that's not true. For it to be described as a sitcom, that would mean there had to be some comedic portion to it, no matter how minescule. And that's something that clearly, was never the case. Please! The show was hysterical. Every time you looked at these clowns in their K-mart and sears outfits all color co-ordinated with each other. And the story lines! Those were over the top funny. JUst realizing the lack of realness. Ever take a look at their backyard? Why was it so small compared to the distance across the front of the house and why did things bounce off that back lawn? And what type of architect builds a house for all those people with only 1 bathroom? The comedy of errors on this show. How about the time they got a boat? It was a small rowboat and they were all excited. I can't see how even 2 would fit in much less all 9 (remember Alice the maid went everywhere with them.) Okay it wasn't the same as some shows but it did its work.

Actually, the older I get, the more I see Reagan's incompetence. That comparison, however, causes innumerable conflicts: FDR was a hard core, elitist socialist. He wanted to reward the non-productive with the fruits of productive work. The reality of reality though TH is that Reagan's alleged incompetence was more a matter of his early stages of Alzheimers. Sadly by the time term 2 began he was already becoming a bitt out there. Who can forget over the years before anyone admitted that he was ill how he would quote from Rambo as if it were he. And those great Iran Contra hearings and the ever popular "I can't recall" What they never said was that was his response when they began by asking his name. The other thing to remember is that Reagan is dead and the past is the past. Was he the best? Not by a longshot but he was far from the worst and after Grinning Man Carter it was a big improvement. For those who are prone to blasting George Bush (the first) keep aware at all times he was saddled with some of Reagan's deteriorating mind policies. Keep in mind too that he himself had refered to Reagan's economic plan as 'Voodoo economics'. George the second. Now there's a great guy and considering the mess left by Bubba and Kill-em-off Hillary he's far ahead of where any would have expected---even his identical twin brother who was adopted---Alfred E. Neuman (hey I spell the way I see fit). F.D.R.??? What a joke. He just wanted to be ruler forever as was evidenced by his 4th run. I would not be surprised if the papers were found to show he had engineered every last step of WW2. The last stellar president before our current one would have to be (and nobody can disagree on this truth) William Howard Taft. Now, Taft was a man who could be respected and admired.

So what you're telling me is there's hope for at least one more Connery run as Bond? But what if... oh never mind.

Hmmm... you sound like a killjoy.

Is executioner the top level? Surely we could get some additional levels. Perhaps spice it up with ways of executing. Slicers, dicers, ice-picks, piano wire, barbed wire, dental floss pulls, hat-pin (prick all over the body for a slooooooow bleed). The choices are nearly limitless.

It all used to be so easy...... the left were commies, the right were not. Now the left has moved to the centre, as has the right. The centre has expanded to allow room for them all, and they ALL want to make us pay more tax and assume more control over every aspect of our lives! So, left or right, it's all wrong. Oh, I'm off again...................... Nurse!!! It's true that the right has moved towards the center but the left in order to distance themselves and show themselves as 'pinacles of perfection' and 'beacons of forwardness' have moved so far to the left that they've slipped off the edges of reality several times. Add to this that the center has not expanded but rather it has shrunk. It only appears to have expanded as the lefties left. I am in anxious awaitment of the 2008 elections when we have Cruz Bustamante on the Dem ticket against Rudy Gulianni on the Republican ticket with Shrillery on the Indy ticket. Move over Ralph Nader you're through.

She was the wife in Citizen Kane. As for how you confused her with Wilford I guess I'll never know. They really look nothing alike.

He is not a number, he is a free man. By the way who is #-1?

well there were some photos of him a year or so back at a LaCrosse match set in Hawaii and he was in a wheelchair with crutches placed in front of him so it's a possibility however lot's of people who are heavyset survive past 90 so don't discount the man yet. Think clearly, if his weight were a major issue he wouldn't have lasted this long.

Mr. Doohan is doing better thanks to his upped daily intake of dilithium crystals.

Josco--- Brady Bunch----story of a widower with 3 sons and a woman (widow?) with 3 daughters who get married. Episode 1 they have an outdoor wedding the boys dog chases the girls cat and chaos erupts. The parents yell at the children and then leave for the honeymoon but feel bad and then go home and get them and bring them on the honeymoon along with the maid. Strange family. They were Robert Reed as Mike Brady the father, an architecht. Florence Henderson as Carol Brady, the mother. Ann B. Davis as Alice Nelson the maid (she had been Schultzie in an earlier series) the children, Barry Williams as Greg, Christopher Knight as Peter, Mike Lookinland as Bobby, Maureen McCormick as Marcia Marcia Marcia. Eve Plumb as Jan. Susan Olsen as Cindy. Also appearing was Allan Melvin as Sam the Butcher (a recurring role) he liked to go bowling with Alice and lock employees in the freezer. Used to air Friday night at 8p.m. on ABC network. Gilligans Island, 7 people head out for a 3 hour tour (a 3 hour tour) from a Hawaiian dock and well the weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed, if not for the courage of the fearless crew the Minnow would be lost (the Minnow would be lost). Well the ship landed on an uncharted 'desert' isle and the characters lived for a couple of seasons before being mercifully cancelled. They were (in no particular order) The skipper, Jonas Quimby (Alan Hale Jr. who had also been Casey Jones in the 50s series of that name), Gilligan, (Bob Denver fresh out of Dobie Gillis series), The Professor (Russell Johnson), The movie star, Ginger Grant (Tina Louise), the millionaire, Thurston Howell; the 3rd (Jim Backus also known as the voice of Mr.McGoo, the nearly blind guy of cartoon fame), the millionaire's wife Lovey (Natalie Schaffer) and Mary Ann a farm girl (Dawn Wells). There were also a few movies in the 80's and 90s--Rescue from G.I. and Harlem Globetrotters on G.I. Gilligan loved eating coconuts and laying underneath the skippers hammock. The skipper liked women. The professor liked looking puzzled. MaryAnn liked looking frustrated. Ginger liked men. The millionaire LOVED money, his wife loved him. As to It's about time the original lyrics were "It's about time it's about space, it's about two men in the strangest place." The lyrics offended some so they were re-tooled to "It's about time, it's about space, about strange people in the strangest place. It's about time, it's about flight, traveling faster than the speed of light. The show was about 2 astronauts who got caught in a time warp of some sort and landed in a prehistoric earth. The show was sinking fast and got a new look where the astronauts came back to present day (around 1966 or 67) and brought the prehistoric Gronkd (Imogene Coca, formerly from Your Show of Shows with Sid Ceaser, note, Coca also went on to play an Aunt on the Brady Bunch, in a 1 show only appearance). It was supposed to be funny but it wasn't. I seem to recall it airing the same season as My Mother The Car (Jerry Van Dyke had a car possessed by the spirit of his late mother) another failure show. Mercifully all these shows died quickly but are for some reason still rebroadcast constantly on television stations throughout the world.