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...just like that, he was gone. Only a few months after announcing he was shutting down his five-decade-old comic, just hours before that newspaper containing his farewell Sunday strip arrived at the door of his Santa Rosa, Calif., home - Charles Schulz died in his sleep Saturday evening. "Peanuts," he had long said, would end with him, and he was ready; having been diagnosed with colon cancer just months earlier, he was wrapping things up. The last daily "Peanuts" comic strip ran January 3; Sunday's was the final big weekend act, and was a farewell note...
...there was always Schulz. "Peanuts" was his life, and we followed its arc in the lines he drew for the strip: Tentative at first, in "Li'l Folks," the proto-"Peanuts" comic started for the St. Paul Pioneer Press in 1947; bold, strong and in control it its 1960s heyday (even Linus lookedsecure); ragged in its final years. Somehow, even though we all knew what to expect - and what an ultimate betrayal that would have been, for Lucy to actually let Charlie Brown kick that football - we were always interested in the whole neurotic gang, and now that Charles Schulz...
...seconds explain the movie's $250 million dollar gross. After all, every Indian in America went to see for themselves whether we had actually made it up on to the big screen. But truth be told, Indians will probably never stop being the lame-o sidekick or the inane comic relief (Apu, anyone?). Oh, but not to confuse those casting agents out there, I still want to be Anakin's Indian friend in Episode II. Help me out, Natalie...
...splendid lecturer and stand up comic and all that one needs to be to succeed as a professor," he says...
...play progressed, McNeely became increasingly overwhelmed. He began the match in high spirits, amusing the crowd with comic commentary between serves, but the third game found him screaming angrily at himself after missed balls. Wyant, though obviously tired, seemed to only get more comfortable as the match progressed...