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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Shirley Maclaine

Shirley Maclaine stories: 2 news summaries
OBITUARY

 Comic Soupy Sales 
 Dead at 83 

Always willing to take a pie in the face, he battled a variety of illnesses

Oct 22, 09 10:54 PM CDT
(AP) - Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, died tonight at 83. A longtime friend said Sales died at a hospice in New York, which he entered last week as... More »

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entertainment • television • Detroit • obituary • comedy • Frank Sinatra • pie • Shirley Maclaine • Soupy Sales • Tony Curtis

OBITUARY

 Impressionist 
 Travalena Dead at 66 


Jun 29, 09 11:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fred Travalena, a master impressionist whose catalog of voices ranged from US presidents to Frank Sinatra doing Boy George, has died at 66 of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, the Los Angeles Times reports. The actor-singer-mimic, known as the "Man of a Thousand Faces," opened for the likes of... More »

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cancer • entertainment • television • Las Vegas • obituary • comedy • Johnny Carson • Wayne Newton • Tonight Show • impression • Fred Travalena • impressionist • mimic • non-Hodgkin's lymphoma • Shirley Maclaine

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