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...DIED. RODNEY DANGERFIELD, 82, necktie-tugging, bug-eyed U.S. comedian known for his self-deprecating one-liners and his catch phrase, "I don't get no respect"; in Los Angeles. After struggling as a young stand-up comic under the name Jack Roy, he quit show business and sold aluminum siding for 12 years. But in 1967, he returned with a new stage name and earned his first big break on The Ed Sullivan Show. Dangerfield's hard-luck shtick made him a TV staple in the '70s and '80s, and he starred in the slapstick screen comedies Caddyshack...
...last writer and speaker of a rare language used exclusively by women; in Jiangyong, China. Nushu, Mandarin for "women's script," was used to share emotions, particularly laments in marriage. In 2002, TIME counted Nushu among the 50% of the world's 6,000 languages facing extinction. DIED. RODNEY DANGERFIELD, 82, stand-up comic whose old-fashioned style of one-liners thrived in an era of hip young satirists; in Los Angeles. After struggling as a comic, using the stage name Jack Roy, he left the business for 12 years and sold aluminum siding. But he made a comeback...
...things go right, I'll be there about a week, and if things don't go right, I'll be there about an hour and a half." RODNEY DANGERFIELD, before surgery to replace a valve in his heart; he survived the procedure...
...things go right, I'll be there about a week, and if things don't go right, I'll be there about an hour-and-a-half." RODNEY DANGERFIELD, U.S. comedian, before undergoing successful surgery to replace a heart valve last week
...LONGEST-RUNNING NIGHTCLUBS, DANGERFIELD'S. HOW DID YOUR CLUB MANAGE TO SURVIVE WHEN SO MANY OTHER COMEDY CLUBS SHUT THEIR DOORS? The smorgasbord. No, seriously, it's an old-fashioned nightclub, it's comfortable, it's run right. We have a lot of high schools that hold their proms there...