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French mime artist Marceau dies.
BBC News ^ | 09/23/2007

Posted on 09/23/2007 2:13:47 AM PDT by Argentine-Firecracker

Marceau was the world's best known mime artist The French mime artist Marcel Marceau has died at the age of 84, the AFP news agency has reported. The performer was known around the world for his silent portrayal of a white-faced clown with battered hat.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: france; marceau; mime; obituary
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To: Argentine-Firecracker

Let’s have a moment of silence...


41 posted on 09/23/2007 5:01:37 AM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: Argentine-Firecracker
Mime After Mime

42 posted on 09/23/2007 5:16:53 AM PDT by uglybiker (relaxing in a luxuriant cloud of quality, aromatic, pre-owned tobacco essence)
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To: LilAngel
“I always enjoyed his stuck-in-a-box routine.”

- I read somewhere that Mrs. Marceau used to boast that Marcel perfected his in-a-box routine by making love to her standing up.

43 posted on 09/23/2007 5:17:00 AM PDT by finnigan2
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To: Argentine-Firecracker

Will his death prompt a “Moment of Non-silence” from the mimes in San Francisco?


44 posted on 09/23/2007 5:21:01 AM PDT by Pharmboy ("Liberals love humanity but hate people" Dick Armey)
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To: Argentine-Firecracker
and the first time I saw him in DC was the first time I felt my first-born move!

"What's goin' on out there? I wanna see"

45 posted on 09/23/2007 5:43:22 AM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: Argentine-Firecracker

Eh?


46 posted on 09/23/2007 5:45:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: Argentine-Firecracker
So. . . what is more interesting:

A mime pretending to be trapped in a box or

A mime actually trapped in a box?

47 posted on 09/23/2007 5:50:20 AM PDT by Bear_Slayer (When liberty is outlawed only outlaws will have liberty.)
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To: Argentine-Firecracker
RIP, Marcel. You inspired many from all walks of life.
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48 posted on 09/23/2007 6:23:08 AM PDT by Dahoser (America's great untapped alternative energy source: The Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
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To: Argentine-Firecracker

Wish there were a lot more people as “unique” as Marceau.. there are several millions of us who talk too much and have nothing to say...Bye now


49 posted on 09/23/2007 6:42:06 AM PDT by Mad in Madrid
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To: Argentine-Firecracker

How could they tell? he might have been just miming death.


50 posted on 09/23/2007 6:45:12 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Moveon is not us...... Moveon is the enemy)
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To: Argentine-Firecracker

R.I.P.


51 posted on 09/23/2007 6:45:24 AM PDT by Tribune7 (Michael Moore bought Haliburton)
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To: Revelation 911
He was French and so that's all you need to speak ill of him. Here's a bit of his bio...

Marcel Mangel (stage name Marcel Marceau) was born on March 22, 1923, in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. He changed his family name to Marceau when his Jewish family was forced to flee their home at the beginning of the Second World War. His father, a kosher butcher, was deported to Auschwitz, where he was killed in 1944. Both Marceau and his brother Alain were in the French underground, helping children to escape to safety in neutral Switzerland. Then Marceau served as interpreter for the Free French Forces under General Charles de Gaulle.

What in your life compares to this?

52 posted on 09/23/2007 6:57:56 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: All

“Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts”

Stephen Wright


53 posted on 09/23/2007 7:12:31 AM PDT by april15Bendovr
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To: wtc911
so he hides that his family is among the blessed children of God

sorry - I'll die for my faith, thank you

54 posted on 09/23/2007 7:18:34 AM PDT by Revelation 911 (prov 30:33)
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To: Argentine-Firecracker
Au revoir, Marcel.

Thank you for all the laughs.

Thank you for the moments of awe and delight.

Go peacefully to God, and may you find a place there with Him.


55 posted on 09/23/2007 7:21:23 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Revelation 911

So did six million others as they walked into the gas chambers.
I wonder what would have happened if six million would have risen up during “Crystal Night” and started shooting those brown shirted bastards.


56 posted on 09/23/2007 7:22:38 AM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Hunter '08)
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To: Shooter 2.5
Most had been disarmed. Gun Control, dontcha know.

All the more reason to fight it here.

57 posted on 09/23/2007 7:32:41 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: wtc911

I liked his act.

With what you posted, I admire his heart!


58 posted on 09/23/2007 7:37:22 AM PDT by bannie
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To: Argentine-Firecracker

“If a tree falls in forest, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?” - Gary Larson in Far Side


59 posted on 09/23/2007 7:40:42 AM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: Bear_Slayer
So. . . what is more interesting:

A mime pretending to be trapped in a box or

A mime actually trapped in a box?

Not only trapped in a box, but buried in a mime field.

60 posted on 09/23/2007 8:48:30 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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