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The actress Mitzi Gaynor dies at age 93.

Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber was born in Chicago on Sept. 4, 1931, into a show business family. Her father, Henry, was a Hungarian-born cellist and orchestra conductor; her mother, Pauline (Fisher) von Gerber, was a dancer. When Frances, as she was known, was 3, the family moved to Detroit; when she was 11, they moved to Southern California.

At 13, she joined the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, and it was in one of that company’s shows that she was seen by executives of 20th Century Fox and offered a contract. She had been going by the name Mitzi Gerber (Mitzi being a nickname for Marlene), but studio officials asked her to change it, borrowing the last name of the silent-film star Janet Gaynor.

Late in life, Ms. Gaynor talked good-naturedly about Marilyn Monroe (with whom she also appeared in a 1952 romantic comedy, “We’re Not Married”) and Monroe’s success compared with hers. “I had more talent. I could do more things,” she told The Hollywood Reporter sweetly in a video interview in 2013. But, she acknowledged, “I wasn’t — sexy.”
 
johnbratten said:
The actress Mitzi Gaynor dies at age 93.

Late in life, Ms. Gaynor talked good-naturedly about Marilyn Monroe (with whom she also appeared in a 1952 romantic comedy, “We’re Not Married”) and Monroe’s success compared with hers. “I had more talent. I could do more things,” she told The Hollywood Reporter sweetly in a video interview in 2013. But, she acknowledged, “I wasn’t — sexy.”
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I beg to differ.
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Mimi Hines, Canadian actress, singer, and comedian, dies at age 91.

Hines was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on July 17, 1933, the daughter of Eugene Saborne and Lillian Hines. Her parents split when she was young, and she used her mother's surname

When Mike Wallace interviewed her in 1961, he informed her that a newspaper writer had recently described her as “two buck teeth and a carload of talent.”

“That’s not true,” she responded. “My whole mouth is buck.”


 
johnbratten said:
Mimi Hines, Canadian actress, singer, and comedian, dies at age 91.

Hines was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on July 17, 1933, the daughter of Eugene Saborne and Lillian Hines. Her parents split when she was young, and she used her mother's surname

When Mike Wallace interviewed her in 1961, he informed her that a newspaper writer had recently described her as “two buck teeth and a carload of talent.”

“That’s not true,” she responded. “My whole mouth is buck.”


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What an amazing talent!
 
Many of you may not be old enough to remember dial-up internet and AOL, but for those of you who are, I note the passing of Elwood Edwards, at the age of 74. He was the voice who uttered "You've got mail!" when you logged on, a line made famous in the rom-com by that name, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.

While slow dial-up sucked compared with instant access by WiFi or fiber optic cable, in many ways the internet was a better place back then, with no algorithms feeding you conspiracy theories and other crap and no one tracking you to peddle stuff you don't need.
 
windar said:
Many of you may not be old enough to remember dial-up internet and AOL, but for those of you who are, I note the passing of Elwood Edwards, at the age of 74. He was the voice who uttered "You've got mail!" when you logged on, a line made famous in the rom-com by that name, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.

While slow dial-up sucked compared with instant access by WiFi or fiber optic cable, in many ways the internet was a better place back then, with no algorithms feeding you conspiracy theories and other crap and no one tracking you to peddle stuff you don't need.
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Windows '95 golden era!... I miss the modem's lovely singing bbbrrgggmm bbbrrll gggrrjjjnnn
 
windar said:
He was the voice who uttered "You've got mail!" when you logged on
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That's weird - I always had a female voice to give that notification...
No idea who made that one though. I didn't use AOL for long but I copied that notification WAV file out and used it in Mozilla Thunderbird when I changed to a real ISP :)
 
windar said:
But during that time, your phone line was occupied-no scam calls or bothersome relatives could get through. You could cook and eat a meal, have sex, go for a run and the picture would be there when you were done!
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I thought I was really going upmarket when I got hold of a 56K modem - suddenly I could download almost 10Mb in an hour.... :)
 
Darkprincess69 said:
That's weird - I always had a female voice to give that notification...
No idea who made that one though. I didn't use AOL for long but I copied that notification WAV file out and used it in Mozilla Thunderbird when I changed to a real ISP :)
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I had a female voice, that was with Compuserve. I was in Britain at the time in the mid 90s and AOL, Compuserve and Virgin would pop CDs in your post box that enabled you to get online and sign up with them.

My first internet contract gave me 10 hours of online time for a whole month.
 
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