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...rubber-limbed actor-dancer who brought an irrepressible vaudeville energy to films and TV; of heart failure; in Los Angeles. Born to vaudeville folk, he played straight man to a talking mule in six popular Francis movies and won an Emmy for an early TV series. In the Make 'em Laugh number in Singin' in the Rain, he made mock love to a cloth dummy, did backflips off a wall and then hurtled through it--still smiling--in the greatest comic dance solo in film history...
...Died. Donald O'Connor, 78, comedian and film sidekick whose Make 'Em Laugh number in Singin' in the Rain is considered one of the great solo dances in Hollywood history; in Calabasas, California. The son of an Irish-born circus strongman, O'Connor shared top billing in six films with Francis, a talking mule...
...have a moral responsibility to leave Iraq better than we found it,? a high-ranking Administration official told me last week. Morals often take a backseat to practicalities in the heat of an election, though, and one wonders whether the Democrats will resist the easy demagoguery of a Bring 'Em Home Now campaign...
...maybe it has nothing to do with diet or technology; Gaty explains that he takes a very romantic approach to dating. He likes to “wine ’em, dine ’em, and romance ’em.” He then “looks deep into their eyes and whispers sweet nothings” in their ears. When Gaty gets his plethora of ladies back to the bedroom, he is “a fan of the helicopter,” he says, referring to a highly challenging sexual position...
...overheard at Temple Bar on Saturday explaining his continued support for the recent course of U.S. Foreign Policy. Says Skippy, “Anyone who has no respect for the lives of others or of themselves, well, we should just kill ‘em all.” No word on whether or not Skippy has accepted the Bush Administration’s offer to serve as the first Secretary of Brotherly Love Enforcement...