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Norm!!!
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Manassas, VA
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Fred Travalena, we hardly knew ye
OH MY GOD, IT'S THE CELEBRITY APOCOLYPSE!!!
Impressionist, Vegas headliner Fred Travalena dies - Yahoo! News LOS ANGELES – Impressionist Fred Travalena, a headliner in Vegas showrooms and a regular on late-night talk shows with his takes on presidents, crooners and screen stars, has died in Los Angeles. He was 66. Publicist Roger Neal says Travalena died Sunday at his home in the Encino area after a recurrence of the non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that first surfaced in 2002. Travalena was known for the sheer volume of celebrities he imitated, leading to the nicknames "The Man of a Thousand Voices" and "Mr. Everybody." His act included presidents from Kennedy to Obama, musicians from Frank Sinatra to Bruce Springsteen and actors from Marlon Brando to Tom Cruise. |
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06-29-2009, 11:30 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Kansas City, MO
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Who?
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06-29-2009, 11:30 AM
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Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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hey Brad!
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06-29-2009, 11:32 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Wisconsin
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His impersonation of Farrah, Michael and Ed is really spot on.
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You, you will regret what you have done this day. I will make you regret ever being born. Your going to wish you never left your mothers womb, where it was warm and safe... and wet. i am going to show you pain you never knew existed, you are going to see a whole new spectrum of pain, like a Rainboooow. But! This rainbow is not just like any other rainbow, its... Last edited by Mustang : 06-29-2009 at 11:32 AM. |
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06-29-2009, 11:32 AM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Big Ten Country
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The fact that you don't know who he is means that his impressions must be really good. |
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06-29-2009, 11:37 AM
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Favored Bitch #2
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Here
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Never heard of him.
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06-29-2009, 11:41 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Maryland
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Hey Brad! I've heard of him!
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06-29-2009, 11:44 AM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: NYC
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Gold! Rough month for Vegas impressionists. |
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06-29-2009, 11:51 AM
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This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: In Absentia
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I vaguely recall the name/face as someone from the 80s. I think he might have even guested on a game show or TV show back then as well.
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06-29-2009, 11:57 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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i remember him.
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06-29-2009, 11:58 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Massachusetts
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not a celeb
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06-29-2009, 12:16 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: The Town of Flower Mound
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If we're now posting the deaths of celebrities that nobody actually knows...
RIP Gale Storm Gale Storm, perky star of 1950s TV, dies at 87 - washingtonpost.com LOS ANGELES -- Gale Storm, whose wholesome appearance and perky personality made her one of early television's biggest stars on "My Little Margie" and "The Gale Storm Show," has died at age 87. Storm, who had been in failing health in recent years, died Saturday at a convalescent hospital in Danville, said her son, Peter Bonnell. Before landing the starring role in "My Little Margie" in 1952, Storm appeared in numerous B movies opposite such stars as Roy Rogers, Eddie Albert and Jackie Cooper. After her last TV series, "The Gale Storm Show," ended in 1960 she went on to a successful singing career while continuing to make occasional TV appearances.
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UTEP Miners!!! I solemnly swear to never cheer for TO |
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06-29-2009, 12:19 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Actually I was going to post hers last night as the end of the second set of three, she was a pretty big deal in her day.
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06-29-2009, 12:22 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Dayton, OH
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This post is underrated.
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06-29-2009, 12:23 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Big Ten Country
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Oh, also, I saw on Facebook that the dog (or maybe cat -- some pet, I didn't pay that much attention) of someone that I haven't talked to since high school also died, so there's that as well.
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06-29-2009, 02:04 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: The scorched Desert
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Jackass, you made me spit Coffee on my keyboard! Well played.  |
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06-29-2009, 02:13 PM
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This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: In Absentia
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This dude was a regular on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, no doubt hanging with Ed McMahon. He impersonated Michael Jackson at an MTV Music Awards show. He appeared in an episode of Good Sports with Farrah Fawcett (for good measure, Lyle Alzado was also on the show).
He ties it all together.
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