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First Gregory Peck, then Katherine Hebpurn, now Buddy Hackett It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3036200.stm

Yeah

sad

Walter Matthau RIP

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/814676.stm

Crikey, only three years behind I am. Must have been listening to one of those "It Happened On This Day" broadcasts.

Seems like no-one picked up on the movie reference in the first post then

Sorry, Gosho, I didn't think Katharine Hepburn
and Gregory Peck were in "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World."
Buddy hackett *might* have been in it, though I'm
not sure. Zasu Pitts and Ethel Merman were in it, though.

Katherine Hepburn wasn't, but there was a strong KH link in that film

Deacon Blue?

Spencer Tracy had one of the most important
roles in that film, Gosho. I had forgot about
that till you mentioned it.

Now we just have to link Gregory Peck to it in a meaningful way (as opposed to a six-degrees-of-Gregory way )

"Hepburn", as in Audrey ... Roman Holiday?

And today the big walrus of lurve is no more

Eerie how the American Idol winner was compared to Barry White so often, isn't it?

Do you mean Ruben? You'd have to talk to Mrs Gosho about that - I didn't watch much of it.

I didn't watch it either... but couldn't help but notice it when the rest of the family was watching it within my range of vision.

I didn't think he sounded at all like Barry. I think they were just referring more to his charisma and girth.

Buddy Ebsen died

Now let me tell a story 'bout a man named Jed...

Oh, no! Not another one!

Celia Cruz and Compay Segundo Both of whom are probably not as well known as the others, but major stars in their own fields.

I had no idea who they were - had to google to find out.