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Offline Chris_

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Art Linkletter dies at 97
« on: May 26, 2010, 03:02:15 PM »
Art Linkletter, the Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan-born host of the popular TV show People Are Funny, has died at 97.

His son-in-law announced the performer died at his home in Los Angeles. There's no statement on the cause of death, although he suffered a stroke in 2008.

Linkletter's career got going in the 1950s, when he hosted the NBC shows House Party and People Are Funny, and in 1955, he presided over the grand opening of Disneyland. House Party contained a popular segment in which Linkletter interviewed children, "Kids Say the Darndest Things," which became a book and then a TV series hosteded by comedian Bill Cosby in the late 1990s.


Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2010/05/26/linkletter-obit.html#ixzz0p4GFlvla
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Re: Art Linkletter dies at 97
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2010, 03:13:38 PM »
I really liked his  "Kids Say the Darnedest Things".
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Re: Art Linkletter dies at 97
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2010, 03:18:59 PM »
I didn't even know he was still alive. RIP Art!
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Re: Art Linkletter dies at 97
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2010, 04:16:10 PM »
Aw.  He did good entertainment.  I enjoyed it.  Prayer up for his family.
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