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IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death	posted on 03-27-2002 @ 2:21 PM
O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00	LOS ANGELES (AP) - Actor Dudley Moore, who became an unlikely Hollywood heart-throb portraying a cuddly pipsqueak whose charm melted hearts in "10" and "Arthur," died Wednesday at his home in New Jersey, a spokeswoman said. He was 66. Moore died at 11 a.m. EST, said publicist Michelle Bega in Los Angeles. The British-born actor died of pneumonia as a complication of progressive supranuclear palsy, she said. There was more than a touch of autobiography in "10," the 1979 film in which Moore played a musician determined to marry a perfect woman. But the happy ending eluded him in real life. Four marriages ended in divorce. He confessed to being driven by feelings of inferiority about his working-class origins in Dagenham, east London, and because of his height of five feet, 2 1/2 inches. In later life he also spoke of the pain of being rejected by his mother because he was born with a deformed left foot. Comedians, he said in an interview with Newsday in 1980, are often driven by such feelings. "I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. ... I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic." Moore also radiated a sense of emotional neediness, which was probably rooted in his childhood. His mother, Ada, once told him that she had wanted to kill him at birth because of his club foot. "She said I would suffer unbearably, but obviously it was the pain she was going to suffer, feeling as she did that she was on trial for producing a hunchback," Moore told his biographer, Barbara Paskin. Music was Moore's entree into public performance, first as a chorister and organist in his parish church in Dagenham, near London, and then in 1960 as a young Oxford graduate recruited for the hit four-man comedy review "Beyond the Fringe." "Fringe," which played two years in London and then moved to Broadway, was perhaps the greatest assembly of young comic talent in Britain in this century. Moore was teamed with Alan Bennett, later a successful playwright; Jonathan Miller, the cerebral opera producer and medical doctor, and Peter Cook, a surreal comic talent and a famously dissipated talent. Moore's whimsical sense of humor fitted oddly with the more savage satirical style of his partners. "Apart from his musical contributions to the show," Cook wrote in Esquire in 1974, "Dudley's suggestions were treated with benign contempt by the rest of us." I guess Hobson alerted the media "It appears my wee wee has been strucken with rigor mortis." Wednesday March 27- CBS: 60 Minutes 2, Amazing Race 2, 48 Hours...NBC: Ed, The West Wing, Law & Order ... FOX: That 80s Show, Grounded for Life, The Bernie Mac Show, Series premiere of Greg the Bunny ... ABC: My Wife and Kids, George Lopez (series premieres), Drew Carey Show, Wednesday 9:30 (8:30 Central) (REPEAT NO JOB FOR AWHILE)...UPN: Enterprise, The Practice early season...WB: Dawson's Creek (repeat), Felicity...USA: Beverly Hills Cop 3...

TeenWeek what's a status?	posted on 03-27-2002 @ 2:24 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00

SLASH Pompous, Arrogant, Enigmatic, Bitter, Quirky, Misanthrope with a Weird Sense of Humor and an Iron Clad Memory while flooding the board with my Stream of Consciousness UFC STRIKE 3 (I'm a dick and I like to ruin people's plans)	posted on 03-27-2002 @ 2:29 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Aug. 00	Too bad he couldn't have switched bodies with Kirk Cameron. AIM: SmarterChild Write To Me Here I think it all started with the Declaration of Independence -- the idea that we had the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That pursuit is what took America from the revolution to the computer age in 200 years. But the progress has come at a price. The obvious being the people that were exploited to make it possible; the not so obvious being us, the first group of people that were given no obvious frontiers to conquer. We hear stories that about the good old days that don't seem to apply anymore. It's a generation gap that leaves us without role models. But the bright side is that without role models, there are no roles. Maybe that's what the 60s were all about -- getting rid of the roles. But what do we replace them with? Without any guidance, what do we replace them with? Without any guidance, the choices become overwhelming. Sometimes it just makes everything feel hopeless. So we destroy our bodies in the search of an ideal. Try to salvage relationships that don't work. We feel we must do something, instead of doing something that we feel. It is the prison of self-imposed momentum, and the sad part is that we get used to it. It reminds me of a song I heard the other day. It's called "The Going Nowhere Fast." But the people I have met here have shown me another side of Nowhere. They've pointed out the beautiful irony that stagnation makes it easy to stop and smell the roses, if we just let it. What would we be if we had nothing to rebel against? Well we could finally be ourselves, the first group of people who stopped looking for the answers long enough to appreciate the questions. And all we have to do is to make our own Declaration of Independence. We can embrace the right to life and liberty by simply realizing that happiness exists -- not to pursue, but to accept. After that the only challenge would be to make sure with the rest of our lives that we weren't just another fad. I don't know, it's an idea. What do you think?

IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death	posted on 03-27-2002 @ 2:34 PM
O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00	quote: Too bad he couldn't have switched bodies with Kirk Cameron. I'd rather be dead than adopted father to a bunch of savage Mowgli children. "It appears my wee wee has been strucken with rigor mortis." Wednesday March 27- CBS: 60 Minutes 2, Amazing Race 2, 48 Hours...NBC: Ed, The West Wing, Law & Order ... FOX: That 80s Show, Grounded for Life, The Bernie Mac Show, Series premiere of Greg the Bunny ... ABC: My Wife and Kids, George Lopez (series premieres), Drew Carey Show, Wednesday 9:30 (8:30 Central) (REPEAT NO JOB FOR AWHILE)...UPN: Enterprise, The Practice early season...WB: Dawson's Creek (repeat), Felicity...USA: Beverly Hills Cop 3...

**~BeckyDC~** Teh TWATWAFFLE Y's teh EGGROLL!!!	posted on 03-27-2002 @ 2:43 PM
Psychopath Registered: Sep. 01	Wow. gives me a reason to get drunk tonight!! :-D "I can't feel the way you want me to, I'll use you, abuse you, I'll use you, confuse you. I can't feel the way you want me to, It's just my POWER TOOL" zaps zaps zaps zaps zaps

Beans Malone	posted on 03-27-2002 @ 2:49 PM
Psychopath Registered: Mar. 02	RIP you made me laugh :) Now that this is working I wish I had something witty to put here

Subzero316 TERRORIST voted most likely to get searched at the airport Subama Bin Zero (© AntsInMyPants - 2002) Seriously need to rethink my concept of "funny" Alkey is my bitch! I'm havening a hard time fittening in. It's official, I am seriously a complete and utter ass-tool, please anally rape me with a rusty 5 iron wraped in barbed wire. I am the new Balloon Not. Be careful around me ladies, I don't use common sense.	posted on 03-27-2002 @ 4:29 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00	Rest In Peace Mr. Moore God speed What? - Stone Cold Steve Austin

drkn2forget	posted on 03-28-2002 @ 2:42 AM
Psychopath Registered: Feb. 01	quote: Too bad he couldn't have switched bodies with Kirk Cameron. Slash that is god-damn funny man. NYPD NYFD Port Authority

KingOfPain	posted on 03-28-2002 @ 10:50 AM
Hanger-On Registered: Mar. 02	I scored major points yesterday in our Death Pool. I had both Dudley and Uncle Milty. On top of the points I got for Princess Margaret, I am way in the lead! (Instead of money, the winner of our pool gets seven years bad karma) [KOP] For every crackhouse I will plant a tree...

JackDan1974	posted on 03-28-2002 @ 11:54 AM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Jul. 01	It's sad day when Arthur has died. :( At least he got to run around the beach naked with Do Derik.. This message was edited by JackDan1974 on 3-28-02 @ 12:00 PM

PeterDragon	posted on 03-28-2002 @ 1:49 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01	Dudley Moore- A very funny comic actor who should have chosen movie scripts better. Is is a "sucks to be you" that he died on the same day as Uncle Milty, thereby pushing his obit from page 1 (Bearle) to page 6?

Filzy Stand up straight Stomach in Shoulders back SOUND OFF!!!	posted on 03-28-2002 @ 2:47 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 00	There is no god. Dudley Moore and Milton Berle dies, but yet, Freddie Prize Jr. and Fred Durst won't go away. Truly a sad day indeed. poor chap. "I'm proud that I've never had a drug problem or complained that sucess sucks and shot myself like Kurt Cobain did. Sorry, but sucess is something people like me dream about. ~Chuck Schuldiner b.05-13-67 d.12-13-01 R.I.P. [Email]Filzy_metz@hotmail.com[/Email]

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