[luvdemwhoppers]

"I just want to see how long I can keep this thing going. The easiest thing is dying. Living is a a pain in the butt."

Jack Lallanne.

You did well Jack, better than most.

[rtpoe]

And he never made it seem like it was an effort. He enjoyed every single push-up or sit-up or what-have-you. Even the stunts, like swimming to the mainland from Alcatraz Island while pulling a boat, were a lark for him. No grunting, no sweating, no pain - just all gain, and all joy.

[Shara]

All that healthy living and he died so young. The rest of us don`t have chance. Zsa Zsa Gabor still lives and the gods look down and laugh.

young... 96?

[gOOber]

young... 96?

Yes.

[bignatslover]

 George Burns smoked cigars every day and lived to be 100.  Go figure.

[3deroticer]

Well, George Burns also religiously workout every morning very close to the end. Guess who inspired him? I remember an interview that he gave about his routine and how he used the chair and bed for the series of exercise base on Jack LaLanne system of what we call the body dynamic workout. Still popular today with the PX90 system. There were 2 major fitness guru at the time, Vince Gironda and of course Jack! Many doctor warn people of too much exercise, and you had weight resistance school of thought or using your own body weight, of the 2, I think Jack was more accessible to the public. Weights were harder to come by since the war effort created a deficit for the supply.

[rtpoe]

"Charlie Callas was a cast of thousands all by himself. He could do a thousand faces, a thousand voices and a thousand sound effects. In 'High Anxiety,' he played a cocker spaniel. He cost me a lot of money — it was almost impossible to finish a scene without the whole crew collapsing in laughter." - Mel Brooks

The Shotgun Joke
Same joke, years later...
On "men's" magazines
"Eulogizing" Don Rickles
Spinning plates

[3deroticer]

My mom said she read about Jack Lalanne, that he knew he was going to die and he said to his wife that his death was going to be bad for business.

[pedonbio]

My mom said she read about Jack Lalanne, that he knew he was going to die and he said to his wife that his death was going to be bad for business.

Entirely possible. As I have said before, for Ken Lay, dying when he did was an upward career move.

[rtpoe]

(his death was on Jan. 16, but I just heard about it today)

While watching a line of ants at a Fourth of July picnic, novelty-toy entrepreneur Milton Levine was transported back to childhood and his uncle's farm in Western Pennsylvania, where he collected ants in jars and watched them "cavort," Mr. Levine told the Los Angeles Times in 2002. "We should make an antarium," he recalled announcing.

Selling for $1.98, the original 6-by-9-inch ant farm was an immediate hit, soon selling thousands a week by mail order to children persuaded by commercials on after-school television shows. Ants were delivered separately, once you had purchased the farm.

In 1991 he noted, "Most novelties, if they last one season, it’s a lot. If they last two seasons, it’s a phenomenon. To last 35 years is unheard of." Mr. Levine certainly appreciated Pogonomyrmex californicus, the California Red Ant. "I found out their most amazing feat yet,” he said. "They put three kids through college."

Obituary in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (the city of his birth)

Video: A young boy loves his ant farms

[gonZo]

Tura Satana
July 10, 1938 – February 4, 2011
Rest In Peace

[pedonbio]

Alas, gonZo, I just heard:

[BoobMeNow]

A cult legend has passed at 72:

http://www.turasatana.com/

[pedonbio]

Gary Moore of Thin Lizzie, dead at 58:

[gonZo]

RIP Tura Satana

I hope you're in heaven,
grinding some pencil-neck's
scrotum under your stiletto heel.