BartCop Entertainment Archives - Saturday, 21 May, 2005
Saturday
21 May, 2005
(Updated Daily)
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'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Special Bonus!
Disinfotainment Today Presents
From Michael Dare
Al Franken for President
by
Paul Krassner
Guess who wrote this letter to Republican members of Congress: "I'm a lifelong Republican who just woke up from a 26-year-long coma. I notice you're trying to weaken the filibuster in the Senate because Democrats are blocking a few judicial nominees. I notice you say this is 'unprecedented.' But I remember how we Repubicans filibustered to block President Johnson's Supreme Court picks back in '68. Man, those were the days. Does 'unprecedented' mean something different nowadays?"
(A) Gore Vidal
(B) Al Franken
(C) Candorville
(D) Pat Buchanan
If your answer is (C), you are correct.
Candorville is a syndicated comic strip, joining Doonesbury, Boondocks, Non Sequitur and La Cucaracha in using humor as a vehicle for presenting information and analysis of current cultural and political controversies.
Animated cartoon TV programs also deal with such material. On the final episode of this season's
The Simpsons, Homer says to Bart: "If this school doesn't straighten you out, we'll send you straight to the Army, and they'll send you straight to whatever major quagmire is going on. Will it be North Korea? Iran? I guess wherever Commander Cuckoo Bananas wants to go next."
And, of course, some of the most incisive commentary comes from satirists - Harry Shearer, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, Mort Sahl, George Carlin, Lewis Black, Chris Rock, Wanda Sykes, Barry Crimmins, Dave Chappelle, Margaret Cho, Will Durst, Jimmy Tingle, Johnny Steele, Marc Maron and, the cornerstone of Air America Radio, Al Franken, who, as a guest on HBO's season finale of
Real Time, answered Maher's question about whether he was planning to run against Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman by candidly admitting that he's "seriously thinking about it."
I believe Franken could easily win that race. His progressive stance is enhanced not only by his sharp wit, but he's also well informed, articulate, honest, uncompromising, passionate, compassionate, imaginative and, in a strange way, even charismatic - all combining to inspire a genuine sense of trust. He would be a perfect candidate to serve as a true successor to the late Paul Wellstone.
In fact, I would definitely vote for Al Franken for president. As an entertainer with a national fan base, he could raise funds by going on tour, selling CDs and books, giving good quote and getting free publicity. He would be a Democratic equivalent to Ronald Reagan. I can picture him now at a White House press conference, reading aloud to electronic and print journalists all those comic strips that deal with the issues that they've been afraid to report.
I doubt that there are any grave skeletons in his closet. The worst that the Republican propaganda machine could do would be to show an old clip from a
Saturday Night Live sketch, where Franken, playing himself, announces that he has been "brought to you by the Communist Party of America."
Paul Krassner is the author of Murder At the Conspiracy Convention and Other American Absurdities and a stand-up satirist (latest album: The Zen Bastard Rides Again).
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Aaron Sarver: Howard Zinn Gets to the Source (In These Times)
The recently published companion volume, Voices of a People's History of the United States, is composed of source material from A People's History.
Terry Jones: Let them eat bombs (The Guardian)
A report to the UN human rights commission in Geneva has concluded that Iraqi children were actually better off under Saddam Hussein than they are now.
Top 10 filibuster falsehoods (Media Matters)
Falsehood #1: Democrats' filibuster of Bush nominees is "unprecedented"
Deborah Caldwell: Interview with Bishop John Shelby Spong
The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person. My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?
Bill Maher: New Rules
New Rule: The people in America who are most in favor of the Iraq war must now go there and fight it.
Terry Jones: film director, actor and Python
An Interview with Terry Jones
Fire on the Prairie: Progressive Radio
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Reader Comment
Re: 'CSI'
Boy do I feel ripped off.
That 'CSI' 1hour 25min "special" was a comfirmed dog. All those ads were too much for me.
There isn't enough good stuff to justify a purchase of tivo, so I threw the damned tv set out.
I've had enough. Good music and Satellite radio for me. I should spend more time practiceing my guitar anyway.
chris
Thanks, chris!
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Reader Comment
Re: Priscilla Owens
Hi Marty,
What kind of ego does Ms. Priscilla have? How can a person sit and watch
Congress literally implode over their own nomination? She's already been
fought over once.....and caused extremism on both sides as a result.
She should withdraw.
Sara
Thanks, Sara!
Funny how they whine about 'activist judges' then nominate nothing but...
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny & summer-hot.
The plumber showed up this morning, and had the new faucet installed in a timely manner, but, he'd left the drain reamer-thingy out on the curb & it was stolen.
He disappeared for a few hours to go get another one.
When he returned, he worked about an hour, but wasn't able to clear the line although he did manage to baptize my kitchen with a fine, greasy, black sludge.
He also trucked a couple of buckets of water/sludge into the bathroom, which he then dumped in the tub, leaving it a lovely greasy speckled black and gray.
Tonight the sink still doesn't drain, the line to the street now needs to be replaced, the house smells bad, the kitchen remains one hell of a mess (after several hours work), my fingers are pruny & I'm a bit cranky.
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS opens the night with a RERUN 'Without A Trace', followed by a RERUN 'CSI: The 3rd One', then '48 Hours'.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN 'Crossing Jordan', followed by a RERUN 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit', then a RERUN 'Law & Order'.
'SNL' has it's SEASON FINALE with Lindsay Lohan hosting, music by Coldplay.
The late, late 'SNL' RERUN is from 23 October, 1976, with Steve Martin hosting and music by Kinky Friedman.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN 'Lost', followed by a RERUN 'Desperate Housewives', then another RERUN 'Desperate Housewives'.
The WB fills the night with the movie 'Total Recall' (which I pray happens to it's 'star').
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
'MAD TV' has it's SEASON FINALE with Amber Tamblyn hosting.
UPN fills the night with the movie 'Silence Of The Lambs'.
A&E has 'City Confidential', another 'City Confidential', and 'Cold Case Files'.
AMC offers 'The Blues Brothers', followed by the movie '48 HRS.', then the movie 'Lionheart'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 6;
[2:30pm] 'Father Ted' - Chirpy Burpy Cheap Sheep;
[3pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 15;
[4pm] 'Faking It' - Painter Turns Conceptual Artist;
[5pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Weston Super Mare;
[5:30pm] 'What Not To Wear' - Judith;
[6pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 1;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 5;
[8pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 26;
[8:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 25;
[9pm] 'The Smoking Room' - Episode 7;
[9:40pm] 'The Office' - Episode 1;
[10:20pm] 'Kumars at No. 42' - Charlie Dimmock;
[11pm] 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' - Episode 6;
[11:40pm] 'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 6;
[12am] 'The Smoking Room' - Episode 7;
[12:40am] 'The Office' - Episode 1;
[1:20am] 'Kumars at No. 42' - Charlie Dimmock;
[2am] 'House Invaders' - Episode 26;
[2:30am] 'House Invaders' - Episode 25;
[3am] 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' - Episode 6;
[3:40am] 'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 6;
[4am] 'The Smoking Room' - Episode 7;
[4:40am] 'The Office' - Episode 1;
[5:20am] 'Kumars at No. 42' - Charlie Dimmock;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Queer Eye', followed by the movie 'Casino'.
Comedy Central has 'MAD TV', 'Comedy Central Presents' (Aries Spears), another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Frank Caliendo), and the movie 'Not Another Teen Movie'.
History has 'Conspiracy?', followed by the movie 'Bat 21', then the movie 'Flying Misfits'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'Happy Times' (2001);
[7:45AM] Short: 'Bad Liver & A Broken Heart' (1996);
[8AM] 'Blind Swordsman #7: Zatoichi's Flashing Sword' (1964);
[9:30AM] 'Histories Du Cinema: A Cannes Retrospective' (2003);
[10AM] 'At the IFC Center #1' (2005);
[10:30AM] 'IFC in Theaters' (2005);
[10:45AM] 'Next Stop Wonderland' (1998);
[12:30PM] 'Histories Du Cinema: A Cannes Retrospective' (2003);
[1PM] 'Cannes Closing Night: Live!' (2005);
[2:15PM] 'Histories Du Cinema: A Cannes Retrospective' (2003);
[2:45PM] 'At the IFC Center #1' (2005);
[3:15PM] 'Frazetta: Painting With Fire' (2003);
[5PM] 'IFC in Theaters' (2005);
[5:15PM] 'Next Stop Wonderland' (1998);
[7PM] 'Film School #7' (2004);
[7:30PM] 'Dinner For Five' (TBA) 1 (2005);
[8PM] 'Cannes Closing Night: Rebroadcast' (2005);
[9:30PM] 'Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession' (2005);
[11:30PM] 'Cannes Closing Night: Rebroadcast' (2005);
[1AM] 'Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession' (2005);
[3AM] 'Proof' (1992);
[4:45AM] 'IFC Short Film Showcase' (2005). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'The Abyss', followed by the movie 'Descent'.
Sundance -
[6:30AM] 'Ford Transit' (Documentary);
[7:45AM] 'The Navigators' (World Cinema);
[9:30AM] 'Darren Vigil Gray: Counterclockwise' (Documentary);
[10AM] 'Bandwagon' (Feature);
[11:40AM] 'Delusions in Modern Primitivism' (Short);
[12PM] 'The First Amendment Project: Some Assembly Required' (Original Production);
[12:30PM] 'When the War is Over' (Feature);
[1:30PM] 'Tom & Viv' (Feature);
[3:30PM] 'The Battle Of Algiers' (World Cinema);
[5:35PM] 'The President Versus David Hicks' (Documentary);
[7PM] 'Bandwagon' (Feature);
[8:40PM] 'Second Skin' (Short);
[9PM] 'A Slipping-Down Life' (Feature);
[11PM] 'The Secret Lives of Dentists' (Feature);
[12:35AM] '32 Short Films About Glenn Gould' (Feature);
[2:15AM] 'A Certain Kind of Death' (Documentary);
[3:30AM] 'Chain Camera' (Documentary);
[5AM] 'Tom Dowd & the Language of Music' (Documentary). (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM:
[6am] 'The Seventh Cross' (1944);
[8am] 'The Naked City' (1948);
[10am] 'The Outriders' (1950);
[12pm] 'Valley Of The Kings' (1954);
[1:30pm] 'The Prisoner Of Zenda' (1952);
[3:30pm] 'The Devil At 4 O'Clock' (1961);
[6pm] 'Dark Passage' (1947) [View Trailer];
[8pm] 'Gaslight' (1944) [View Trailer];
[10pm] 'Midnight Lace' (1960) [View Trailer];
[12am] 'Out Of The Fog' (1941);
[1:30am] 'Footsteps In The Dark' (1941);
[3:30am] 'Another Man's Poison' (1951);
[5:30am] 'Cartoon Alley #6' (2005). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sunday - 05/22
TCM:
[6am] 'Love Laughs At Andy Hardy' (1946);
[8am] 'The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer' (1947) [View Trailer];
[10am] 'It Happened At The World's Fair' (1963) [View Trailer];
[12pm] 'Where The Boys Are' (1960);
[2pm] 'Hannah and Her Sisters' (1986) [View Trailer];
[4pm] 'Cape Fear' (1962) [View Trailer];
[6pm] 'Gaslight' (1944) [View Trailer];
[8pm] 'Jason And The Argonauts' (1963) [View Trailer];
[10pm] 'Clash Of The Titans' (1981) [View Trailer];
[12am] 'Scaramouche' (1923) SILENT ;
[2:15am] 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' (1956) [View Trailer];
[3:45am] 'The Uninvited' (1944) [View Trailer];
[5:30am] 'Festival of Shorts #41' (2002). (ALL TIMES EDT)
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Academy Award winning actress Patricia Neal, 79, (L) poses with friends, actor Eli Wallach and actress and singer Kitty Carlisle Hart (R) during ceremonies unveiling Neal's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in Hollywood, May 20, 2005. Neal won the best actress Oscar in 1963 for her role in the film 'Hud.' Neal, is also known for her work with stroke victims, as she herself recovered from massive strokes in 1966.
Photo by Fred Prouser
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Raises More Than $3M
Cannes AIDS Benefit
Penelope Cruz offered the dress off her back to raise $100,000 for AIDS research. Boris Becker and Monica Seles donated a tennis lesson. And Liza Minnelli sold a song.
A glitzy benefit dinner Thursday on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival brought in more than $3 million, a record at the annual soiree for the American Foundation for AIDS Research, or amfAR.
Host Sharon Stone showed off her talents as a speed-talking auctioneer. When an Alfa GT went on the block, the "Basic Instinct" actress told one bidder: "You're good-looking, but you'd be better-looking in that car." It went for $90,000.
The first items on the block were two vanity cases that Stone designed for luggage maker Louis Vuitton. With a retail value of $12,200, they sold for $180,000 each.
Actors who attended included Salma Hayek, Clive Owen, Benicio Del Toro, Brittany Murphy, Jessica Alba, Javier Bardem, Ziyi Zhang and twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Along with Stone, other chairmen of the event included designer Kenneth Cole, filmmaker Roman Polanski and Miramax co-founder Harvey Weinstein.
Cannes AIDS Benefit
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Actor and comedian Chris Rock, who stars in the movie 'The Longest Yard,' arrives with his wife, Malaak Compton-Rock, for the movie's premiere Thursday, May 19, 2005, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Danny Moloshok
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Receives UCLA Medal
Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins, who won an Oscar for his role in "The Silence of the Lambs," will receive the UCLA Medal - the highest honor at the University of California, Los Angeles - during the School of Theater, Film and Television commencement on June 17, the university said Wednesday.
Hopkins, who has been teaching a series of seminars for acting and directing students at UCLA, has appeared in nearly 100 films. His screen credits also include "The Remains of the Day," "Nixon" and "Amistad."
Anthony Hopkins
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F-Word, Lost Job - Opie & Anthony?
Arthur Chi'en
TV reporter Arthur Chi'en was canned by WCBS/Ch. 2 yesterday after he shouted the F-word at two meddlers who horned in on his live shot.
Chi'en was in the middle of a 6a.m. broadcast about MetroCard scammers when two men sneaked up behind him with a sign promoting radio shock jocks Opie & Anthony.
For a few moments, as the knuckleheads heckled him and gave the finger to the camera, Chi'en kept his cool and continued talking.
But as soon as he finished his report, he spun around and shouted at the intruders: "What the f--- is your problem, man?"
If he thought the WCBS control room had already cut to tape, he was wrong. The expletive went out over the air.
Meanwhile, fans of the Opie & Anthony show, who have mounted a campaign to annoy television reporters, were boasting about the infantile stunt on the deejays' Web site.
The potty-mouthed pair have a show on XM satellite radio, where they landed after being bounced by WNEW-FM for a contest that enticed two listeners to have sex in St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Arthur Chi'en
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Developing 'Apprentice' Musical
Donald Trump
Move over Max Bialystock. Broadway's foremost wheeler-dealer in "The Producers" could be joined by another man enamored by big money. Producers Barry and Fran Weissler and Mark Burnett, with an assist from real-estate mogul Donald Trump, are developing a musical based on "The Apprentice," Trump's hit NBC television series.
The show is being planned for a spring 2006 New York opening. Weissler currently is assembling a team to create the musical.
Donald Trump
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Brian Wilson, one of the original Beach Boys, stands in front the official California State Landmark, on the former site of the home of Beach Boys Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson, Friday, May 20, 2005, during dedication ceremonies in Hawthorne, Calif. The location is now a wall on the Century (105) Freeway.
Photo by Stefano Paltera
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Wins After Betting on Giacomo
Trudie Styler
Wouldn't you bet on a horse named after your son? When Giacomo, the 50-1 long shot named after Sting's 9-year-old son, won the Kentucky Derby May 7, the singer didn't have any money down - but his wife did.
Trudie Styler, who is married to Sting and has four children with him, turned $500 into $25,000 by betting on the horse. Giacomo is owned by Jerry Moss, the co-founder of A&M Records, which signed Sting's old band, the Police, in 1978.
Giacomo will race Saturday at the Preakness, the second leg of racing's Triple Crown. He sits with significantly better odds at 6-1.
Trudie Styler
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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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Female Afghan TV Host Shot Dead
Shaima Rezayee
A ground-breaking Afghan television host whose Western style drew praise from youthful fans and condemnation from Muslim clerics may have been slain with involvement from her own brothers, police said Friday.
Shaima Rezayee, 24, who tossed aside her burqa for Western dress and became a host on an MTV-style music show, knew her life was in danger, according to a radio interview she gave not long before she was shot in the head at her Kabul home Wednesday.
Rezayee, like other young Afghan women, was denied schooling and forced to wear the burqa in public until the Taliban regime was ousted by the U.S. invasion in late 2001. The Taliban also banned music - even humming on the street.
Her hour-long show, "Hop," showed videos of Western singers such as Madonna, as well as Turkish and Iranian pop stars. The casual chat between male and female announcers on Rezayee's show also drew reproach. Marriages are still mostly arranged in Afghanistan and some regard as suspect even conversation between men and women who are not related.
Jamil Khan, head of the criminal investigation department for Kabul police, declined to comment on a possible motive for the killing, but said police would question Rezayee's two brothers after mourning ceremonies conclude early next week.
Shaima Rezayee
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A monument and an epitaph stand at the site of Sitting Bull's grave Tuesday, March 8, 2005, near Mobridge, S.D. The 40 acre parcel of land the grave sits on has been purchased by two local men who plan to clean up and develop the site.
Photo by Doug Dreyer
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On Display in D.C.
Japanese Paintings
For more than two centuries before Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Tokyo Bay in 1853, artists recorded the life of the city's show business and red-light district in painting and print. Their work goes on display Friday at the Japanese Information and Culture Center. Some pieces have never been exhibited publicly before.
The 37 paintings, three of them more than 300 years old, are the unusual part of the show. Rolled up on scrolls by their proud owners and usually seen only on special occasions, they were much more expensive than paper prints. According to one expert, prints could be bought for the price of a bowl of noodles when they were first issued.
Images in this show come from among more than 3,000 in a single collection. They are now lodged in the Kawasaki Isago no Sato Museum in Kawasaki, an industrial and high-tech center of 1.3 million people, sometimes seen as a southern suburb of Tokyo.
Japanese Paintings
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An undated handout photo shows an ancient Cypriot vase dating from 2000 BC. Historians say the object, adorned with tiny figurines of people in a wine press, is the oldest representation worldwide of winemaking in antiquity. Italian experts claim to have unearthed evidence suggesting not only did Cyprus introduce clay drinking goblets and wine jars for transportation further afield, but it had at least a 1,500 year head start on any of its Mediterranean cousins on the art of making wine.
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Returning to Newspapers -- Sort Of
'Calvin and Hobbes'
"Calvin and Hobbes" will return to newspapers later this year, and its reclusive creator, Bill Watterson, will answer questions.
Before fans of the renowned comic and cartoonist get too excited, it should be quickly noted that it will be reruns of "Calvin and Hobbes" that newspapers can publish from Sept. 4 to Dec. 31. And Watterson will reply to queries in a controlled way via Andrews McMeel Publishing.
The reruns and question-answering are designed to promote "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes" -- AMP's huge, three-volume, 23-pound collection of all 3,160 "Calvin and Hobbes" strips that ran in newspapers between Nov. 18, 1985, and Jan. 1, 1996. The hardcover, slipcased set -- which will be released Oct. 4 with a first printing of 250,000 -- also includes new art and an introductory essay by Watterson.
'Calvin and Hobbes'
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Russian Lake Disappears
Bolotnikovo
One day residents of the tiny Russian village of Bolotnikovo, several hundred kilometres east of Moscow, were fishing in their picturesque lake. The next they were staring at the crater left when it suddenly disappeared.
Dmitri Zaitsev, a fireman from the nearby village of Filino, said: "Everything is gone - water, trees, fish." The lake, he said, used to be home to carp up to 20kg (44lb) in size, but after the disappearance villagers "went down to collect fish [from dry land]".
The lake vanished two weeks ago when its snow and ice melted. It is thought to have drained into an underground river or cave. The crater has a cone 20 metres wide and 15 metres deep down which the water probably disappeared.
Retreating lakewaters are nothing new in the former Soviet Union. The Aral Sea, once the world's fourth largest lake, lost almost half its volume during the latter decades of the 20th century.
Bolotnikovo
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In Memory
Henry Corden
Henry Corden, the voice of cartoon caveman Fred Flintstone's "Yabba-dabba-doo!" for more than two decades, has died. He was 85.
Corden died of emphysema Thursday night at AMI Encino Hospital, his longtime agent Don Pitts said Friday. Corden's wife of nine years, Angelina, was with him at the time.
He took over as the lovable loudmouth Fred Flintstone when original voice Alan Reed died in 1977. Reed had been doing Flintstone since the character debuted in 1960.
Born in Montreal, Corden moved to New York as a child and arrived in Hollywood in the 1940s. His first acting role was in the 1947 film "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty." Known for playing villains, he found small parts in movies, including 1952's "The Black Castle" and "The Ten Commandments" in 1956.
Corden moved into voice acting in the 1960s, and deployed his dialect skills in bit parts for Hanna-Barbera, including "Jonny Quest," "Josie and the Pussycats" and "The New Tom & Jerry Show."
Since "The Flintstones" echoed "The Honeymooners," Corden tweaked his role to approximate Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden character, Pitts said.
Corden, who lived in Encino, had been working until his health suffered about three months ago. He can most recently be heard on ubiquitous cereal commercials yelling "Barney, my Pebbles!"
Besides his wife, Corden is survived by five children and five grandchildren. A private memorial "party" is planned, Pitts said.
Henry Corden
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Zarafa the giraffe, top, peers out of his crate as he is transported down a busy inner city suburb street in Sydney Australia Thursday, May 19, 2005. The 22 month-old giraffe was being from her home at Western Plains Zoo to new lodgings at Taronga Zoo in a hope of future contributions to the regional management program for giraffes.
Photo Rob Griffith
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