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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 09/23/2007 : 05:54:48
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From CNN: PARIS, France (AP) -- Marcel Marceau, who revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence, has died, his former assistant said Sunday. He was 84.
Marcel Marceau.
Marceau died Saturday in Paris, French media reported. Former assistant Emmanuel Vacca announced the death on France-Info radio, but gave no details about the cause.
Wearing white face paint, soft shoes and a battered hat topped with a red flower, Marceau, notably through his famed personnage Bip, played the entire range of human emotions onstage for more than 50 years, never uttering a word. Offstage, however, he was famously chatty. "Never get a mime talking. He won't stop," he once said.
A French Jew, Marceau survived the Holocaust -- and also worked with the French Resistance to protect Jewish children.
His biggest inspiration was Charlie Chaplin. Marceau, in turn, inspired countless young performers -- Michael Jackson borrowed his famous "moonwalk" from a Marceau sketch, "Walking Against the Wind." |
I generally hate mimes as much as the next fellow, but Marceau was a master entertainer.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 09/23/2007 05:55:29
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
2998 Posts |
Posted - 09/23/2007 : 06:04:20 [Permalink]
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| The embalmer really should make him look like he is trapped in a box. If I were Marceau, that would be in my Living Will. |
by Filthy
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 09/23/2007 : 08:22:21 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by pleco
The embalmer really should make him look like he is trapped in a box. If I were Marceau, that would be in my Living Will.
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That's good.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 09/23/2007 : 08:28:50 [Permalink]
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We are losing the good ones all too fast, and what do we have to replace them? Luciano Pavrati too, has left us.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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maledoro
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 09/23/2007 : 09:03:12 [Permalink]
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I had a feeling that any day now I was going to lose my mime...
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"Nothing frightens me more than religion at my door."
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
1383 Posts |
Posted - 09/23/2007 : 20:23:18 [Permalink]
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| Can't say I'm a great fan of his work, but he did stand out in Mel Brook's "Silent Movie". |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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Ghost_Skeptic
SFN Regular
Canada
510 Posts |
Posted - 09/23/2007 : 21:09:07 [Permalink]
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| I think we should observe a minute of noise in his memory. |
"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. / You can send a kid to college but you can't make him think." - B.B. King
History is made by stupid people - The Arrogant Worms
"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism." - William Osler
"Religion is the natural home of the psychopath" - Pat Condell
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter" - Thomas Jefferson |
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
Posted - 09/24/2007 : 07:14:54 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ghost_Skeptic
I think we should observe a minute of noise in his memory.
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Brilliant!
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Dave W.
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USA
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 09/24/2007 : 08:49:09 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Originally posted by Hawks
Can't say I'm a great fan of his work, but he did stand out in Mel Brook's "Silent Movie". |
His entire cameo in that film.
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I'd forgotten about that. Nicely done.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Marcel Marceau is silenced
