Mr Peabody's Creator has Died!!!!

PHILADELPHIA - Cartoonist Ted Key, whose comic strip "Hazel" about a bossy maid went from magazine page to TV screen, died Saturday at his home in the Philadelphia suburb of Tredyffrin Township. He was 95.
Mr. Key had battled cancer, his son Peter said.
"Hazel" was a popular feature in The Saturday Evening Post from the time it debuted in 1943. It evolved into a prime-time series in 1961 that starred Shirley Booth and ran for four years on NBC and one year on CBS.
Mr. Key also created the characters Mr. Peabody and Sherman for producer Jay Ward. The time-traveling dog/scientist and his boy made their TV debuts in 1959 in segments on the show "Rocky and His Friends."
He created cartoon panels called "Diz and Liz" for Jack and Jill children's magazine, and produced a number of other animated animal characters. He also wrote a play for radio, wrote and illustrated books, and had freelance cartoons appear in Cosmopolitan, Better Homes and Gardens, and Sports Illustrated.
Mr. Key literally dreamed up the concept of his wildly popular maid cartoon.
"Like a lot of creative people, he kept a notepad near his bedside," Peter Key said of his father. "He had a dream about a maid who took a message, but she screwed it up completely. When he looked at the idea the next day, he thought it was good and sold it to the Post."
Mr. Key randomly picked the name for the maid. He was flattered that it later became synonymous with maids, according to his son.
Mr. Key acquired the rights to "Hazel" in 1969, and the comic was picked up for syndication by King Features. King still distributes the cartoon today, using those drawn by Mr. Key before he retired in 1993.
"Hazel" was so popular that when the first collection of cartoons was published in 1946, E.P. Dutton sold 500,000 copies. In all, Dutton published eight collections of "Hazel" cartoons.
Theodore Keyser was born in Fresno, Calif., on Aug. 25, 1912. His father, a Latvian immigrant who had changed his last name from Katseff to Keyser, changed his name to Key during World War I.
Mr. Key was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2006 and suffered a stroke in September.
In addition to his son, he leaves his second wife, Bonnie, two other sons, and three grandchildren. His first wife, Anne, died in 1984

A Lesbian is a Lesbian is a Lesbian

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, Associated Press Writer
ATHENS, Greece - A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and the world's gay women.
Three islanders from Lesbos — home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between women — have taken a gay rights group to court for using the word lesbian in its name.
One of the plaintiffs said Wednesday that the name of the association, Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece, "insults the identity" of the people of Lesbos, who are also known as Lesbians.
"My sister can't say she is a Lesbian," said Dimitris Lambrou. "Our geographical designation has been usurped by certain ladies who have no connection whatsoever with Lesbos," he said.
The three plaintiffs are seeking to have the group barred from using "lesbian" in its name and filed a lawsuit on April 10. The other two plaintiffs are women.
Also called Mytilene, after its capital, Lesbos is famed as the birthplace of Sappho. The island is a favored holiday destination for gay women, particularly the lyric poet's reputed home town of Eressos.
"This is not an aggressive act against gay women," Lambrou said. "Let them visit Lesbos and get married and whatever they like. We just want (the group) to remove the word lesbian from their title."
He said the plaintiffs targeted the group because it is the only officially registered gay group in Greece to use the word lesbian in its name. The case will be heard in an Athens court on June 10.
Sappho lived from the late 7th to the early 6th century B.C. and is considered one of the greatest poets of antiquity. Many of her poems, written in the first person and intended to be accompanied by music, contain passionate references to love for other women.
Lambrou said the word lesbian has only been linked with gay women in the past few decades. "But we have been Lesbians for thousands of years," said Lambrou, who publishes a small magazine on ancient Greek religion and technology that frequently criticizes the Christian Church.
Very little is known of Sappho's life. According to some ancient accounts, she was an aristocrat who married a rich merchant and had a daughter with him. One tradition says that she killed herself by jumping off a cliff over an unhappy love affair.
Lambrou says Sappho was not gay. "But even if we assume she was, how can 250,000 people of Lesbian descent — including women — be considered homosexual?"
The Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece could not be reached for comment.

Jimi Jimi Jimi

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Vivid Entertainment is releasing a sex tape allegedly starring Jimi Hendrix.
The Los Angeles-based adult entertainment company said they obtained the footage of the music legend shot in a hotel room about 40 years ago from a memorabilia collector.
The footage features Hendrix engaging in various sexual acts with two women, according to a statement released by Vivid. The company said they consulted with several experts to authenticate the footage.
Hendrix died of a drug overdose in 1970. Seattle-based representatives for Hendrix's estate did not want to comment about the tape.

The Art of Lice

A group of German artists are living in an Isreali art galley for the next month. Not at all odd you may think. The artists are living, eating and doing other natural things in thie gallery only they are covered in lice. The artists have lice living in their hair. Lice are parasites as were Jews thought to be in Nazi Germany.

RIP: Helen Court

Hazel Court, 'scream queen' of 1950s, '60s horror films in Britain and the United States
By Bruse Weber
New York Times News Service / April 20, 2008
NEW YORK - Hazel Court, a British actress who began as a popular ingenue and became a cult figure as a "scream queen" in horror films on both sides of the Atlantic, died Tuesday in Lake Tahoe, Calif.
She was 82 and lived in Lake Tahoe.
The cause was a heart attack, said her daughter Sally Walsh of Los Angeles.
A redheaded, leggy, green-eyed beauty who was a busy film actress and a pinup girl in England in the 1950s, Miss Court went on to make dozens of guest appearances on American television.
She also had a long and varied professional life, including a second career as a sculptor.
She became best known for showing considerable cleavage and screaming bloody murder in movies such as "Devil Girl From Mars" (1954), "The Curse of Frankenstein" (1957), "Doctor Blood's Coffin" (1961), and Roger Corman's treatments of three works by Edgar Allan Poe: "Premature Burial" (1962), "The Raven" (1963), and "The Masque of the Red Death" (1964).
In the last two, her best-known films, she costarred with Vincent Price.
Her scream-queen roles continued to bring her fan mail - up to 100 letters a month, Walsh said - until her death.
"She knew it wasn't serious acting," Walsh said.
"She and Vincent were extremely close, and they found humor in everything," she said. "They had a ton of fun, and they didn't take the movies seriously. But she took her fan mail seriously. She was amazed by and touched by it, and she answered every one."
Miss Court was born in Sutton Coldfield, outside Birmingham, England, on Feb. 10, 1926.
She began acting on stage as a teenager and first appeared on screen in an uncredited bit part in the 1944 film "Champagne Charlie."
Over the next decade and a half, she graduated to featured roles and then to leads, marrying her first husband, the actor Dermot Walsh, along the way.
They divorced in 1963, and she later married Don Taylor, the American actor and director, who died in 1998.
Miss Court first visited the United States in 1958, when CBS imported a television series filmed in London, a cross-cultural situation comedy called "Dick and the Duchess," in which she starred with Patrick O'Neal as an English girl married to an American man. She also filmed the first of four episodes of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents."
Miss Court eventually relocated to Los Angeles.
From 1962 to 1972 she appeared frequently on network television series.
Her acting career ended in the 1970s.
In its place she took up stone sculpturing, studying in Italy and accepting and completing commissions that included one for the library at Pennsylvania State University.
She also wrote an autobiography, "Hazel Court: Horror Queen," to be published this month by an English publisher, Tomahawk Press.
In the book, she wrote that though she might have achieved renown as an actress who shrieked and bled with abandon, she always retained the ladylike primness with which she was raised.
"Just in case I should pop off to Heaven in the night, I always remember to wash up, punch up the cushions, and straighten up after a dinner party," she wrote. "I wouldn't want everyone to come in and find it a mess. It's very English of me."

Vulgar Once Obese Talk Show Host Files For Divorce

Who else but the vilest of the vile, the fattest of the fat Star (I'm getting married)Jones could make such an ass of herself and throw the most vulgar wedding in years and now file for divorce. I guess now that she has not or maybe she has had a gastric bypass she is ready to move on. What was that guy thinking?

Vanilla Who?

Vanilla Ice was arrested for assaulting his wife in Florida. Or was it for still trying to be a celebrity. 18 years baby 18years.