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Feb 2, 2012 23:20:42 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Feb 2, 2012 23:20:42 GMT -5
Mac--highlight the URL in your post, then hit the image button (4th from the left in row starting with red button). It will bracket "img" at the front and "/img" at the end. You can also type these at the beginning and end of the URL.
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Feb 12, 2012 18:34:54 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Feb 12, 2012 18:34:54 GMT -5
R.I.P. Whitney Houston (1963-2012), electrifying multi-Grammy-winning superstar singer and actress, died at age 48 at her hotel room prior to attenidng a Grammy Award party of unknown (so far) cause.
(At the Super Bowl) Whitney Houston ruled pop music as its queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown. Houston's end came on the eve of music's biggest night — the Grammy Awards. It's a showcase where she once reigned, and her death was sure to cast a heavy pall on Sunday's ceremony. A Grammys tribute to her was quickly planned, with Jennifer Hudson leading the show, Access Hollywood reported. At her peak, Houston was the golden girl of the music industry. From the middle 1980s to the late 1990s, she was one of the world's best-selling artists. She wowed audiences with effortless, powerful, and peerless vocals that were rooted in the black church but made palatable to the masses with a pop sheen. Her success carried her beyond music to movies, where she starred in hits like The Bodyguard and Waiting to Exhale. She had the perfect voice and the perfect image: a gorgeous singer who had sex appeal but was never overtly sexual, who maintained perfect poise. She influenced a generation of younger singers, from Christina Aguilera to Mariah Carey, who when she first came out sounded so much like Houston that many thought it was Houston. The unhappy story of her last decade is well known and doesn't need repeating. At this time I prefer to celebrate her greatness and let it be her legacy. She deserves that respect. We all have our demons but few of us have the talent she had to give pleasure to so many. R.I.P. Whitney Houston, one of pop music finest artists.
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Feb 29, 2012 19:04:29 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Feb 29, 2012 19:04:29 GMT -5
R.I.P. Davy Jones, singer-actor & Monkees star, died at age 66 of a heart attack.
Davy Jones was most famous for his role in the pop group The Monkees, which was put together in 1965 for the TV show of the same name. With such hits as "Daydream Believer," "Last Train to Clarksville," "I'm a Believer," and "Pleasant Valley Sunday," and the "Monkees" theme song, the group sold more than 50 million records.
After "The Monkees" disbanded in 1971, Jones sang solo as well as with various reincarnations of the group. In 2008, Hahoo Music named Jones the top teen idol of all time. He also acted on stage and screen, starring in Oliver! on Broadway. Recently, he played himself on an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants and released his final album in 2009. R.I.P. Davy Jones. You gave millions of people much joy.
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Mar 29, 2012 14:44:32 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Mar 29, 2012 14:44:32 GMT -5
R.I.P. Earl Scruggs, bluegrass pioneer and banjo player .died at age 88 in a Nashville, Tenn. hospital.
Earl Scrugs hard-driving picking style influenced a generation of players and helped shape the sound of 20th-century country music along with his guitar-playing partner Lester Flatt, Mr. Scruggs and Mr. Flatt probably reached their widest audiences with a pair of signature songs: “Foggy Mountain Breakdown,” which they recorded in 1949 with their group the Foggy Mountain Boys, and which was used as the getaway music in the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde; and “The Ballad of Jed Clampett,” the theme song of the 1960s television sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies. (Mr. Scruggs and Mr. Flatt also appeared on the show at times.) He also helped shape the “high, lonesome sound” of Bill Monroe, often called the father of bluegrass, and pioneered the modern banjo sound. His innovative use of three fingers rather than the claw-hammer style elevated the five-string banjo from a part of the rhythm section — or a comedian’s prop — to a lead or solo instrument. What became known as the syncopated Scruggs picking style helped popularize the banjo in almost every genre of music. At an 80th birthday party for Mr. Scruggs in 2004, the country singer Porter Wagoner said, “Earl was to the five-string banjo what Babe Ruth was to baseball. He is the best there ever was,” Mr. Wagoner said, “and the best there ever will be.” R.I.P. Earl Scruggs. banjo-player extraordinaire.
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Apr 7, 2012 12:24:25 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Apr 7, 2012 12:24:25 GMT -5
R.I.P. Thomas Kinkade, "Painter of Light' artist, died at age 54 from natural causes at his home in Los Gatos, Calif.
One of the most popular artists in America with his paintings hanging in an est. one out of every 20 homes in the US. Fans cite the warm, familiar feeling of mass-produced works of art while it has become fashionable for art critics to dismiss his pieces. Besides his paintings, his website offers prints, mugs, nightlights and other home-decor items adorned with his paintings, which feature bridges, churches, cottages, Disney scenes, gazebos estates and the outdoors. But all was not sweetness and light in the Kinkade world. In 2010, his production arm, Pacific Metro of Morgan Hill, Calif., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection a day after a $1 million payment was due to former Kinkade gallery owners who won a judgment after claiming Kinkade used his Christian faith as a tool to fraudulently induce them to invest in his galleries, the Los Angeles Times reported at the time. From 1997 through May 2005, as galleries failed, Kinkade reaped more than $50 million from his prints and licensed product lines, according to testimony in the case cited by the Times. But whatever the truth may be, his works brought happiness to many people, great art or not. R.I.P. Thomas Kinkade, "Painter of Light.'
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Apr 8, 2012 12:20:55 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Apr 8, 2012 12:20:55 GMT -5
R.I.P. Mike Wallace, CBS journalist (60 Minutes]), died at age 93 at a care facility in New Haven, Conn. He was married four times, had a daughter and son (Chris, also a TV journalist on Fox) and a son killed in a mountain climbing accident in 1962.
Known for his tough interviews, he was a founding staff member of 60 Minutes, retiring as a regular correspondent in 2006. "It was 65 years from Mike's first appearance on camera -- a World War II film for the Navy -- to his last television appearance, a 60 Minutes'interview with Roger Clemens, the baseball star trying to fight off accusations of steroid use," colleague Morley Safer wrote in a tribute on CBSNews.com. In almost 40 years on 60 Minutes,"Wallace worked on some 800 reports, won 21 Emmys and developed a relentless on-air style that often was more interrogation than interview. When Wallace prefaced a question with "Forgive me for asking ..." or responded to a dubious answer with "Oh, come on," "60 Minutes" viewers knew he was about to get tough. His sometimes-abrasive manner resulted in the nickname "Mike Malice," and some viewers will always remember him as the man who made diva Barbra Streisand cry on camera. Myron Leon Wallace was born in Brookline, Mass., on May 9, 1918 and began calling himself Mike because he thought it was more manly. In 1939, he graduated from the University of Michigan but it wasn't until 1955 that he found his calling - a TV show called Nightbeat, where he asked pointed questions of writers, gangsters, artists and movie stars. Then came 60 Minutes, breaking new ground in broadcast journalism with its surprise interviews, undercover reports, hidden cameras and one-way mirrors. His death was announced by Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation this morning and a special 60 Minutes program to Wallace will be aired April 16th. R.I.P. Mike Wallace, incomparable CBS journalist.
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Apr 8, 2012 12:25:42 GMT -5
Post by Forever Sunshine on Apr 8, 2012 12:25:42 GMT -5
Not sure if you know but we do have a remembrance board that has RIP threads in it. The board is located in the Hot Spots category on the main page.
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Apr 18, 2012 15:38:29 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Apr 18, 2012 15:38:29 GMT -5
R,I.P. Dick Clark, TV host (American Bandstand) & personality, died at age 82 of a heart attack in Los Angeles, Calif.
Clark is best known for hosting long-running television shows such as American Bandstand, the game show Pyramid and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve. Born Richard Wagstaff Clark in Mount Vernon, New York, on November 30, 1929, he began his broadcast career working at a radio station managed by his father. His American Bandstand work, which he began as a local TV show in Philadelphia in 1956, earnimg him the nickname "America's oldest living teenager." The show was picked up by ABC and broadcast nationally a year later, continuing for 30 years.. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Clark in its nonperformer category in 1993.
R,I.P. Dick Clark, Americans oldest teenager.
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Apr 19, 2012 22:41:44 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Apr 19, 2012 22:41:44 GMT -5
FS--I've been doing this since the beginning here on Crapsters. I'll have to think about changing.
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Apr 19, 2012 23:04:02 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Apr 19, 2012 23:04:02 GMT -5
R.I.P. Levon Helm, drummer and singer in the influential rock group The Band and actor, died at age 71 in New York City, having suffered from cancer for several years.,
The drummer/singer was part of Bob Dylan's backup band when Dylan turned away from folk toward a more electrified rock sound (album: The Basement Tapes, The Last Waltz; songs: "The Weight," "Up On Cripple Creek," "Ophelia," "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down). In his later years, he was known for Midnight Rambles, concerts he hosted at his barn in Woodstock, N.Y. Helm was diagnosed with throat cancer and underwent radiation treatment. Like many Americans who have to pay out of pocket for their health care, he ran into financial trouble. At one point he was in serious danger of losing his home in Woodstock, where he'd settled after his days with Dylan. And this began one of the most remarkable 2nd acts in rock history. Needing to raise money, but too frail to tour, Helm began giving concerts in the barn-cum-recording studio attached to his house, inviting local and visiting musicians to join him. He also asked guests to bring drinks and a dish, making each show a potluck feast. He called them Rambles. As his throat healed, he began singing again. People came from around the world to hear the man play in his own home. Along with established musicians like Elvis Costello, he'd invite younger acts like My Morning Jacket up to play. For a while, Helm was healthy enough to begin traveling and playing out again. He resumed making records, and won himself a few Grammys. As the Rambles became a bona fide regional attraction, Helm became a kind of cultural ambassador for Woodstock and New York's Hudson Valley. He let neighborhood folks come to the Rambles for free, played countless benefits for local charities and fundraisers. Once a year, he'd stage a special Kid's Ramble at his house, where five bucks got you an afternoon of family-style music plus all the hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza and cupcakes you could eat. It's sad to think that can't happen now. But Levon's legacy remains alive in his music, which will continue teach, inspire and wow all comers. R.I.P. Levon Helm, drummer and singer extraordinaire. You deserve it.
(From left to right, Levon Helm, Robbie Robertson and Bob Dylan onstage at Madison Square Garden in 1974)
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Apr 19, 2012 23:22:50 GMT -5
Post by Forever Sunshine on Apr 19, 2012 23:22:50 GMT -5
FS--I've been doing this since the beginning here on Crapsters. I'll have to think about changing. Yep, and the prayer and remembrance board was started in August of '11. I remember when you started this one I told you we had one already but . . . Honestly, doesn't matter to me other than some get doubled.
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May 8, 2012 9:49:20 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on May 8, 2012 9:49:20 GMT -5
R.I.P. Maurice Sendak, acclaimed children’s author and illustrator who was best known for classic Where the Wild Things Are, died at age 83 in Danbury, Conn., reportedly of complications from a stroke.
He bagan his career illustrating children’s books by other authors before starting to write his own stories. When Where the Wild Things Are came out in 1963, its monstrous characters raised concerns from some parents, but the book quickly brought him international acclaim, including the prestigious Caldecott Medal. The book was adapted into a feature film in 2009. Sendak wrote and illustrated many other books, including the controversial 1970 work In the Night Kitchen, about a boy who dreams of helping a baker create a cake in a bizarre kitchen. The book's hero, Mickey, is naked in illustrations throughout the book, and it has frequently been challenged and banned. Other Sendak works include Outside, Over There (1981), the story of a girl who is left to care for her younger sister and reluctantly goes to her rescue when the child is abducted by goblins. Sendak created a stage version of Where the Wild Things Are in 1979 and designed opera and ballet sets for such groups as Houston Grand Opera and the New York City Opera. He also collaborated with "ngels in America playwright Tony Kushner on an English version of the Czech children's opera Brundibar. His illustrated book version, featuring text by Kushner, was named one of the 10 best illustrated books of 2003 by the New York Times Book Review. Sendak's many accolades include a 1970 Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's illustration, a 1982 National Book Award for Outside Over There, a 1983 Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, and a 2003 Astrid Lingren Memorial Award. In one of his last public appearances, the outspoken author was a guest of Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report in January. The two traded wisecracks and Sendak gave capsule reviews to children's classics by other authors, including Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss, which he liked, and the 1985 book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, which he had little use for. During the Colbert interview, the famously cranky Sendak remarked, "I didn't set out to make children happy!" And yet he did — generations of them. R.I.P. Maurice Sendak - you made millions of children very happy.
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May 10, 2012 9:36:45 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on May 10, 2012 9:36:45 GMT -5
R.I.P. Vidal Sassoon, famed hairstylist known for creating the modern 'bob,' dead at age 84 of apparent natural causes at his Los Angeles home.
The British stylist opened his first eponymous hair salon in 1954 and it grew into a worldwide chain with locations in New York and Los Angeles. Sassoon's popularity grew as he promoted his low-maintenance, “wash and wear” hair philosophy, changing the constricting, structured styles of the 1950s to the more free-flowing, creative cuts of the '60s – taking a cue from the women's liberation movement. Sassoon grabbed headlines when he created Mia Farrow’s iconic pixie cut for the 1968 movie, Rosemary’s Baby – at a reported cost of $5,000.
Sassoon moved to the U.S. and sold his name to Proctor & Gamble to produce the popular Vidal Sassoon hair care line.
In 2011, a documentary was made about the style maven’s career, which spanned seven decades. In it, Sassoon shares memories of childhood poverty, living in a ghetto and being shipped away to a Jewish orphanage. His mother encouraged him to go into the hairdressing trade, and at age 14, he started an apprenticeship working as a "shampoo boy." Sassoon then went to fight in Israel's 1948 War of Independence, continuing on to style success upon his return. But he carried on the battle against anti-Semitism, creating the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
It took Sassoon nine years to perfect his styling technique, and he promoted his products with the tag line "If you don't look good, we don't look good." In an interview with The New York Times in 2011, Sassoon explained the key to being a great hairdresser - "The ability to look at somebody’s face and body structure," he said. "It’s like sculpture. You eliminate the superfluous."
R.I.P. Vidal Sassoon and thank you for freeing women 's hairstyles. It has been much appreciated by all of us.
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May 17, 2012 14:03:03 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on May 17, 2012 14:03:03 GMT -5
R.I.P. Donna Summer Sudano, disco legendary singer, died at age 63 reportedly after a battle with cancer.
"Early this morning, we lost Donna Summer Sudano, a woman of many gifts, the greatest being her faith," the singer's family said in a statement. "While we grieve her passing, we are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy. Words truly can't express how much we appreciate your prayers and love for our family at this sensitive time." Summer won five Grammy Awards and six American Music Awards, and charted three multi-platinum albums. The Grammy-winning singer, nicknamed the Queen of Disco, had numerous hits in both the 1970s and 1980s, including "Last Dance," "She Works Hard for the Money" and "Bad Girls." Her duet with Barbra Streisand, "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" was one of four Summer songs that topped the Billboard Top 100 charts. Summer was the first female artist to chart with back-to-back multi-platinum double albums. She appeared in the 1978 film, Thank God It's Friday, which won the best original song Oscar for "Last Dance." Summer also appeared twice on the 1990s hit TV show Family Matters, playing Steve Urkel's Aunt Oona from Altoona. In 2011, she was a guest judge on music reality show Platinum Hit, and she performed with the female finalists on the 2008 American Idol finale. Summer was also a formally trained painter. In 2010, she told Atlantic City Weekly that she sold her first painting for $38,000 and thought, "I may want to stop singing now." Summer estimated she had sold close to a million dollars worth of art. She is survived by her husband, musician Bruce Sudano, three daughters, and four grandchildren. R.I.P. Donna Summer, Queen of Disco.
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May 17, 2012 14:06:22 GMT -5
Post by Royston Vasey on May 17, 2012 14:06:22 GMT -5
Her I Feel Love was great.
RIP, Donna.
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Jun 6, 2012 11:24:10 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Jun 6, 2012 11:24:10 GMT -5
R.I.P. Ray Bradbury, legendary sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes and The Martian Chronicles). died at age 91 in Los Angeles after a lengthy illness. He is survived by his four daughters, Susan Nixon, Ramona Ostergren, Bettina Karapetian, and Alexandra Bradbury, and eight grandchildren. His wife of 57 years, Marguerite, died in 2003.
Bradbury began his career writing science fiction for fanzines in 1938 and became a full-time writer in 1943. His major breakthrough as a science fiction writer was the publishing of The Martian Chronicles in 1950. The story of the effects of man’s attempt to colonize Mars after a massive nuclear war on Earth, the book reflected the anxieties over nuclear war in the 1950s and the fear of foreign powers. Perhaps his best-known book is Fahrenheit 451, which was released in 1953 and tells the story of a professional book-burner who works under a totalitarian government that has outlawed the written word. The main character, Montag, flees for his life after he starts stealing books meant to be burned and falls under the tutelage of a professor out to educate him. Several of the author's works became movies or television shows, including the movie version of his novel Something Wicked This Way Comes. Versions of Bradbury’s stories appeared on episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presentsand The Twilight Zone, and he also had his own cable series, Ray Bradbury Theater, that ran from 1986-1992. Bradbury's books and 600 short stories predicted a variety of things, including the emergence of ATMs and live broadcasts of fugitive car chases. While Bradbury's books often focused on his vision of the future, he scorned modern technologies such as video games, ATMs and the Internet, the last of which he considered a scam to enrich computer companies. Among the awards Bradbury won during his career, he received the O. Henry Memorial Award, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Bradbury received the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and a 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation. His work also appeared three times in the Best American Short Stories collections. "In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back." he wrote in a book of essays published in 2005. "Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior." R.I.P. Ray Bradbury, author extradinaire. You have given us your readers many hours of thought-provoking pleasure.
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Jun 13, 2012 9:58:55 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Jun 13, 2012 9:58:55 GMT -5
R.I.P. Ann Rutherford, actress, died at age 94 from heart disease at her home in Beverley Hills, Calif.
The demure brunette Canadian-born actress played the sweetheart in the long-running Andy Hardy series in the 1930s and 1940s with Mickey Rooney and Scarlett O’Hara’s youngest sister in Gone With the Wind. After leaving the MGM studio, Rutherford played in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and The New Adventures of Don Juan and then appeared in a number of television shows. She retired after her last movie role in 1976, "In her last years here, Gone With the Wind really kept her going," her fellow actress and friend Anne Jeffreys said. "She received thousands of fan letters for Gone With the Wind. And she donated things -- a script that she had gotten, a tea set that they used in the film, a necklace, things like that. ... It really was wonderful for the last part of her life, because she was in great demand." She is survived by a daughter, Gloria May, who lives in San Francisco, and two grandsons. R.I.P. Ann Rutherford, actress.
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Jun 27, 2012 8:29:04 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Jun 27, 2012 8:29:04 GMT -5
R.I.P. Nora Ephron, the celebrated screenwriter and director, died at age 71 of leukemia in New York City.
She best known for penning the screenplay for When Harry Met Sally (1989) and then writing and directing Sleepless in Seattle (1989) and You've Got Mail (1998), The daughter of Hollywood screenwriters, Ephron established herself as an original voice with an idiosyncratic taste on modern manners with the personal essays she wrote in the 1960s for such publications as New York ,Esquire and the New York Times Magazine. She made her feature screenwriting debut in 1983 with Mike Nichol's Silkwood, which received an Oscar nomination, as did her screenplays for. Sleepless and Harry Ephron moved into directing with the 1992 feature This Is My Life, the story of a stand-up comic starring Julie Kavner. The following year, Sleepless proved to be a huge hit, making Ephron one of Hollywood's few successful woman directors. Most recently, she directed 2009's Julie & Julia, which starred her frequent collaborator Meryl Streep as Julia Child. Ephron was married to the writer Nicholas Pileggi and has two sons, Jacob and Max Bernstein, from her previous marriage to investigative reporter Carl Bernstein. of Watergate fame. R.I.P. Nore Ephron, writer, screenwriter and movie director.
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Jun 27, 2012 8:35:37 GMT -5
Post by Forever Sunshine on Jun 27, 2012 8:35:37 GMT -5
We keep doubling these. LOL I'll stop doing them on the Remembrance Prayer board.
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Jul 4, 2012 17:45:37 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Jul 4, 2012 17:45:37 GMT -5
R.I.P. Andy Griffith, actor, comedian, TV producer, Grammy-winning Southern gospel singer and writer who brought his signature role as Andy Taylor, sheriff of Mayberry, N.C. on The Andy Griffith Show to TV (1960-69) and to Matlock (1986-95), died at age 86 yesterday morning in Dere County, NC.
Griffith originally achieved success when he starred in a one-hour teleplay version of No Time for Sergeants (March 1955) on a television anthology series. He expanded that role in a full-length theatrical version of the same name (October 1955) on Broadway and then in the movies in 1958 (also feature Don Knotts). He first garnered Hollywood's attention with his starring role in 1957's A Face in the Crowd, playing a country boy who schemes his way into TV and politics. In 1960, Griffith landed The Andy Griffith Show on CBS, starring alongside his friend Don Knotts for five years. Ron Howard also starred in series, playing Opie, the only child of Sheriff Taylor. Griffith left the show in 1968 but returned for the 1986 reunion TV movie Return to Mayberry, as well as two more reunion specials in 1993 and 2003. In 2005, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom frm Barack Obama. Griffith is survived by his third wife, Cindi Knight, and daughter from his first marriage, Dixie Nan Griffith.
R.I.P. Andy Griffith, actor, comedian, TV producer, Grammy-winning Southern gospel singer and writer who, though nominated, never won an Emmy for his TV work.
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