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In the middens of our minds
We mill about the margins,
Watching family, friends
And other fanged beasts
Paw through the rubbish
In search of clues, news, treasure;
Answers to our riddles
Reasons for our rhythms
Seasons in heart?s rhymes
Patterns in the dust
Past Times illuminate
Say those who Excavate
The heaps of detritus, decay, despair
That litter our preliterate cranium;
Spinal cortex, shadows of the Id
Animal instincts we cannot explain
Nightmare and reflex, remembered
Memories in amber, caught with flies,
Mummified, calcified, fossilized
In levels, like tree rings or rock strata
We watch these independent observers
Dissect and direct us; in labile labs
We writhe under pitiless knives
Lives expended, explored, exhumed;
We watch mute, helpless as these
Self appointed surgeons
Archeologists of the Soul
Lay out who we were, are, as if
For a morgue?s steel tables
Or the impersonal eye of God
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No damages for student who said 'That's so gay'
SANTA ROSA, California (AP) -- A judge ruled Tuesday that a high school student who sued after being disciplined and then mercilessly teased for using the phrase "That's so gay" is not entitled to monetary damages.
Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Elaine Rushing said she sympathized with 18-year-old Rebekah Rice for the ridicule she experienced at Maria Carrillo High School. But, the judge said, Rice's lawyers failed to prove that school administrators had violated any state laws or singled the girl out for punishment.
"All of us have probably felt at some time that we were unfairly punished by a callous teacher, or picked on and teased by boorish and uncaring bullies," the judge wrote in a 20-page ruling. "Unfortunately, this is part of what teenagers endure in becoming adults."
The law "is simply too crude and imprecise an instrument to satisfactorily soothe deeply hurt feelings," Rushing said.
The case filed by Rice and her parents in 2003 brought widespread attention to a three-word phrase that some teenagers use to mean "stupid" or "uncool," but has come under attack as an insensitive insult to gay people.
The Rices argued that a teacher violated Rebekah Rice's First Amendment rights by sending her to the principal's office and putting a note in her school file. During a trial in February, Rebekah Rice testified she said "That's so gay" as a response to other students asking her rude questions about her Mormon upbringing.
Rushing said the school district was not liable for monetary damages because the law under which the Rices brought the lawsuit specifically excludes schools. In addition, she said that school officials are given wide latitude in deciding how to enforce non-discrimination provisions of the state education code.
The judge added that it didn't make sense to have the referral stricken from the girl's school record, since she graduated last year.
The lawsuit also accused the public high school of having a double standard because, it said, administrators never sought to shield Rebekah from teasing based on Mormon stereotypes. It also alleged that the Rices were singled out because of the family's conservative views on sexuality.
Rushing rejected each claim, going so far as to suggest that the Rices had created a miserable situation for Rebekah by advertising their dissatisfaction with the school's handling of the incident during her freshman year.
Neither the Rices nor their lawyer returned telephone calls seeking comment.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Dear Doody :)
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Are you sure about that 500 words for PROSE? That's one page...hardly much of a story.
Just curious.
TR
PS. Peeps, I am trying to reconstruct my entire computer/contact system and have been doing so for the last several weeks. I hope to be back in the AD/online loop by this weekend but may not be. I miss you guys but do keep sending all story-editor stuff to that address, I am now getting them.
Hell is being trapped in a room with your friends and nine thousand disassembled and mismatched computer bits...
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Find this article at:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/04/1...t.ap/index.html
Novelist Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84
Story Highlights? Author had suffered brain injuries in fall weeks ago
? An iconoclast, he exhorted audiences to think for themselves
? As POW, he survived WWII firebombing of Dresden, Germany
? Dresden experience formed basis of "Slaughterhouse-Five"
NEW YORK (AP) -- Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle," died Wednesday. He was 84.
Vonnegut, who often marveled that he had lived so long despite his lifelong smoking habit, had suffered brain injuries after a fall at his Manhattan home weeks ago, said his wife, photographer Jill Krementz.
The author of at least 19 novels, many of them best-sellers, as well as dozens of short stories, essays and plays, Vonnegut relished the role of a social critic. He lectured regularly, exhorting audiences to think for themselves and delighting in barbed commentary against the institutions he felt were dehumanizing people.
"I will say anything to be funny, often in the most horrible situations," Vonnegut, whose watery, heavy-lidded eyes and unruly hair made him seem to be in existential pain, once told a gathering of psychiatrists.
A self-described religious skeptic and freethinking humanist, Vonnegut used protagonists such as Billy Pilgrim and Eliot Rosewater as transparent vehicles for his points of view. He also filled his novels with satirical commentary and even drawings that were only loosely connected to the plot. In "Slaughterhouse-Five," he drew a headstone with the epitaph: "Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt."
But much in his life was traumatic, and left him in pain.
A meat locker labeled slaughterhouse-five
Despite his commercial success, Vonnegut battled depression throughout his life, and in 1984, he attempted suicide with pills and alcohol, joking later about how he botched the job.
His mother had succeeded in killing herself just before he left for Germany during World War II, where he was quickly taken prisoner during the Battle of the Bulge. He was being held in Dresden when Allied bombs created a firestorm that killed an estimated 135,000 people in the city.
"The firebombing of Dresden explains absolutely nothing about why I write what I write and am what I am," Vonnegut wrote in "Fates Worse Than Death," his 1991 autobiography of sorts.
But he spent 23 years struggling to write about the ordeal, which he survived by huddling with other POWs inside an underground meat locker labeled slaughterhouse-five.
The novel, in which Pvt. Pilgrim is transported from Dresden by time-traveling aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, was published at the height of the Vietnam War, and solidified his reputation as an iconoclast.
"He was sort of like nobody else," said Gore Vidal, who noted that he, Vonnegut and Norman Mailer were among the last writers around who served in World War II.
"He was imaginative; our generation of writers didn't go in for imagination very much. Literary realism was the general style. Those of us who came out of the war in the 1940s made sort of the official American prose, and it was often a bit on the dull side. Kurt was never dull."
A novelist -- and car salesman
Vonnegut was born on Nov. 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, a "fourth-generation German-American religious skeptic Freethinker," and studied chemistry at Cornell University before joining the Army.
When he returned, he reported for Chicago's City News Bureau, then did public relations for General Electric, a job he loathed. He wrote his first novel, "Player Piano," in 1951, followed by "The Sirens of Titan," "Canary in a Cat House" and "Mother Night," making ends meet by selling Saabs on Cape Cod.
Critics ignored him at first, then denigrated his deliberately bizarre stories and disjointed plots as haphazardly written science fiction. But his novels became cult classics, especially "Cat's Cradle" in 1963, in which scientists create "ice-nine," a crystal that turns water solid and destroys the earth.
Many of his novels were best-sellers. Some also were banned and burned for suspected obscenity. Vonnegut took on censorship as an active member of the PEN writers' aid group and the American Civil Liberties Union. The American Humanist Association, which promotes individual freedom, rational thought and scientific skepticism, made him its honorary president.
His characters tended to be miserable anti-heroes with little control over their fate. Pilgrim was an ungainly, lonely goof. The hero of "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" was a sniveling, obese volunteer fireman.
Vonnegut said the villains in his books were never individuals, but culture, society and history, which he said were making a mess of the planet.
"We probably could have saved ourselves, but we were too damned lazy to try very hard ... and too damn cheap," he once suggested carving into a wall on the Grand Canyon, as a message for flying-saucer creatures.
He retired from novel writing in his later years but continued to publish short articles. He had a best-seller in 2005 with "A Man Without a Country," a collection of his nonfiction, including jabs at the Bush administration ("upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography") and the uncertain future of the planet.
He called the book's success "a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life."
Vonnegut, who had homes in Manhattan and the Hamptons in New York, adopted his sister's three young children after she died. He also had three children of his own with his first wife, Ann Cox, and later adopted a daughter, Lily, with his second wife, the noted photographer Krementz.
Vonnegut once said that of all the ways to die, he'd prefer to go out in an airplane crash on the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro. He often joked about the difficulties of old age.
"When Hemingway killed himself he put a period at the end of his life; old age is more like a semicolon," Vonnegut told The Associated Press in 2005.
"My father, like Hemingway, was a gun nut and was very unhappy late in life. But he was proud of not committing suicide. And I'll do the same, so as not to set a bad example for my children."
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Find this article at:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/04/1...t.ap/index.html
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Find this article at:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/04/1...t.ap/index.html
Novelist Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84
Story Highlights? Author had suffered brain injuries in fall weeks ago
? An iconoclast, he exhorted audiences to think for themselves
? As POW, he survived WWII firebombing of Dresden, Germany
? Dresden experience formed basis of "Slaughterhouse-Five"
NEW YORK (AP) -- Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle," died Wednesday. He was 84.
Vonnegut, who often marveled that he had lived so long despite his lifelong smoking habit, had suffered brain injuries after a fall at his Manhattan home weeks ago, said his wife, photographer Jill Krementz.
The author of at least 19 novels, many of them best-sellers, as well as dozens of short stories, essays and plays, Vonnegut relished the role of a social critic. He lectured regularly, exhorting audiences to think for themselves and delighting in barbed commentary against the institutions he felt were dehumanizing people.
"I will say anything to be funny, often in the most horrible situations," Vonnegut, whose watery, heavy-lidded eyes and unruly hair made him seem to be in existential pain, once told a gathering of psychiatrists.
A self-described religious skeptic and freethinking humanist, Vonnegut used protagonists such as Billy Pilgrim and Eliot Rosewater as transparent vehicles for his points of view. He also filled his novels with satirical commentary and even drawings that were only loosely connected to the plot. In "Slaughterhouse-Five," he drew a headstone with the epitaph: "Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt."
But much in his life was traumatic, and left him in pain.
A meat locker labeled slaughterhouse-five
Despite his commercial success, Vonnegut battled depression throughout his life, and in 1984, he attempted suicide with pills and alcohol, joking later about how he botched the job.
His mother had succeeded in killing herself just before he left for Germany during World War II, where he was quickly taken prisoner during the Battle of the Bulge. He was being held in Dresden when Allied bombs created a firestorm that killed an estimated 135,000 people in the city.
"The firebombing of Dresden explains absolutely nothing about why I write what I write and am what I am," Vonnegut wrote in "Fates Worse Than Death," his 1991 autobiography of sorts.
But he spent 23 years struggling to write about the ordeal, which he survived by huddling with other POWs inside an underground meat locker labeled slaughterhouse-five.
The novel, in which Pvt. Pilgrim is transported from Dresden by time-traveling aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, was published at the height of the Vietnam War, and solidified his reputation as an iconoclast.
"He was sort of like nobody else," said Gore Vidal, who noted that he, Vonnegut and Norman Mailer were among the last writers around who served in World War II.
"He was imaginative; our generation of writers didn't go in for imagination very much. Literary realism was the general style. Those of us who came out of the war in the 1940s made sort of the official American prose, and it was often a bit on the dull side. Kurt was never dull."
A novelist -- and car salesman
Vonnegut was born on Nov. 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, a "fourth-generation German-American religious skeptic Freethinker," and studied chemistry at Cornell University before joining the Army.
When he returned, he reported for Chicago's City News Bureau, then did public relations for General Electric, a job he loathed. He wrote his first novel, "Player Piano," in 1951, followed by "The Sirens of Titan," "Canary in a Cat House" and "Mother Night," making ends meet by selling Saabs on Cape Cod.
Critics ignored him at first, then denigrated his deliberately bizarre stories and disjointed plots as haphazardly written science fiction. But his novels became cult classics, especially "Cat's Cradle" in 1963, in which scientists create "ice-nine," a crystal that turns water solid and destroys the earth.
Many of his novels were best-sellers. Some also were banned and burned for suspected obscenity. Vonnegut took on censorship as an active member of the PEN writers' aid group and the American Civil Liberties Union. The American Humanist Association, which promotes individual freedom, rational thought and scientific skepticism, made him its honorary president.
His characters tended to be miserable anti-heroes with little control over their fate. Pilgrim was an ungainly, lonely goof. The hero of "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" was a sniveling, obese volunteer fireman.
Vonnegut said the villains in his books were never individuals, but culture, society and history, which he said were making a mess of the planet.
"We probably could have saved ourselves, but we were too damned lazy to try very hard ... and too damn cheap," he once suggested carving into a wall on the Grand Canyon, as a message for flying-saucer creatures.
He retired from novel writing in his later years but continued to publish short articles. He had a best-seller in 2005 with "A Man Without a Country," a collection of his nonfiction, including jabs at the Bush administration ("upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography") and the uncertain future of the planet.
He called the book's success "a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life."
Vonnegut, who had homes in Manhattan and the Hamptons in New York, adopted his sister's three young children after she died. He also had three children of his own with his first wife, Ann Cox, and later adopted a daughter, Lily, with his second wife, the noted photographer Krementz.
Vonnegut once said that of all the ways to die, he'd prefer to go out in an airplane crash on the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro. He often joked about the difficulties of old age.
"When Hemingway killed himself he put a period at the end of his life; old age is more like a semicolon," Vonnegut told The Associated Press in 2005.
"My father, like Hemingway, was a gun nut and was very unhappy late in life. But he was proud of not committing suicide. And I'll do the same, so as not to set a bad example for my children."
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Find this article at:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/04/1...t.ap/index.html
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I like this very much, esp the last four stanzas.
Kisses...
TR
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PS: The comment about a rainbow on your shoulder? Is that a tattoo or a metaphor?
Can't it be both?
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TR said in another post that he hasn't been happy with the results of his poetry or plays lately. I agree, I guess in a way, we all can
agree with that statement.
Glad we can all agree that TR's writing has been subpar lately.
That wasn't what I meant at all, at all. I meant take out the self awareness of the speaker, let the reader evaluate his acts instead of having them spelled out so directly.I tried taking out the first person like TR suggested, and I didn't like that version either. I think I shall let this stew around in my minda bit longer and then take a fresh leap as it were.
As for TR's statement about people on the internet and the bad spelling. I can't figure out if you are picking on me about a mis-spelledword in the piece or making a general statement. Because I looked for a spelling error and can't find it.
Totally a random remark and an area I'm not without guilt in myself, so also a hypocritical remark.
Nice to see both TR and Gabe back on the poetry forum.Thanks...I think.
Kisses...
TR
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Right but I just think that the speaker shouldn't be aware of it. He asked, that was my response. Let the readers make their own judgements.
TR
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I like the idea and some of the sections, Jason, but think it would be better (since you asked!) if you took out the self awareness...left it just, King of the ChatRoom, etc, and no sense of irony or the absurd. That's my take, anyway.
I'm not so sure the Net is any emptier than Real Life...they can both deliver their own versions of faux intimacy and control. Still, I do wish people on the net were better spellers...
Kissy-poo
TR
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Well, guess it didn't come off but the mental image was of the big screens at a crowded dance floor where they were showing the Nicole whatsername music videos that came out right after her death (Fire Rescue Team, first on the scene, etc). Actually, the whole thing was about a recent night out but I never did get the poem to where I was satisfied with it, just decided to post it anyhow. Same with most poems lately, just not happy with the results. I'm working on some plays but can't say I'm happy with those either, yet. *sigh*
Kisses...
TR
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am I still breathing?
my lungs are fire, skin aflame
so close beside you
cannot draw a breath
except to gasp, grasp
cling; clasp your body,
bring our lips together
am I still breathing?
take my pulse and count the beats
so near, so dear, so
hard upon my heart
that love will make it
burst; this thumping thirst,
this pounding need for you
tell me, tell me?
?am I still breathing?
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The sun never came up today
I boxed your things in cardboard
Slipped our new picture from its frame
I packed your paperback hoard
And those love letters with your name
The sun never came up today
Outside the sky is crying
And streaking up the window pane
Inside my eyes are lying
They?re blaming it all on the rain
And the sun never came up today
I folded up the clothing
That smelled faintly of your cologne
Ignored the scent of loathing
Caught from your voice inside my phone
No, the sun never came up today
I wonder at the raindrops
And this high noon as black as night
I wonder when this pain stops
And whether storms give way to light
What if the sun never came up?
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411
beauty queen on disco screens
skin and hair and teeth and smile:
Fire Rescue Team
first at the scene
Hollywood 911
more glitter girls undone;
pixels of princess-no-more
beams shoot up the dancing floor
thumping bass pulse of the place
spikes and latex; fishnet lace;
colors peek from dark
flavored halo arc
flesh mashed tight
flash shadowed light;
antique crystal chandelier
boutique bodies disappear
downs and drink, boyfriend alone
vanishing to parts unknown;
you?re in the bathroom stall
fucking up against the wall
sweating bodies having fun
somebody call 411;
screaming queens and disco screens
no one quite knows what it means
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bacchanal
gleams and dreams where whipped cream redeems
in ithyphallic id-drenched scenes;
crisp cucumbers number slumbers
and large looming satyrs lumber
let us touch and tempt, taste torment,
bent and rent, spent by visions sent;
your coccyx quivers, full of need
feed that steed with strawberry seed
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I just wanted to point out that this contest is extraordinarily unfair to us vampires.
Nonsense. You've never heard of a light trap?
You could redeem yourselves, however, by changing the prize from a dinner with an AD author to a dinner of an AD author.Here at AwesomeDude, we take a liberal, but laisser-faire, approach to acts between consenting adults. You are free to make whatever arrangements you like with your prize Author, but we can't act as procurer. Unless you pay us to.
TR
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Is this in reference to the new FEEDBACK FORM or something else?
TR
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Contestants may enter even if Daylight Saving Time is not currently in place where they live or even if it is never used (Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawaii, Arizona, etc). Everyone is eligible. You need only save daylight, no other restrictions apply. Our intent is to honor the idea of Daylight Saving Time, that of having additional hours of sunlit fun in the evenings, more time for partying, dating and reading romantic stories here at AwesomeDude.
So, yes, you can enter but the time frame of the contest applies to USA EASTERN TIME ZONE use of Daylight Saving Time. Thus, in your case, you will submit your entry right at the time you actually enter DST down under, Graeme. But don't miss our deadline!
Kisses...
TR, on behalf of AwesomeDude Admin -
In honor of our upcoming THIRD anniversary, AwesomeDude Admin is proud to announce our very first CONTEST! Prize: gift certificate to Amazon and dinner with an AD Author (on The Dude?s tab, we know Authors aren?t always flush).
To win you must save daylight during Daylight Savings Time, and the prize goes to whomever saves the most. This contest is open to any readers at AwesomeDude and may be played even by those who live outside areas where Daylight Saving Time is in use. No age or other requirements.
RULES:
Beginning with the first day of Daylight Savings Time (and please note that this begins earlier this year!), those entering the contest must begin saving daylight. Those who save the most daylight by midnight of the last day of Daylight Savings Time will be awarded a prize.
Only pure daylight is allowed. No pre-dawn light or twilight will be accepted. Daylight on cloudy days is allowable. Moonlight is strictly prohibited and any of it mixed with daylight will bring immediate disqualification.
Contestants are instructed to save their accumulated daylight in any container they wish, then ship the container to the AwesomeDude mailing address (request shipping info at DST@awesomedude.com) at the end of Daylight Saving Time ? or when they think they have saved enough daylight to win.
Good Luck!
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Thank you for all the kind comments. That was actually my first short story and written because I'd begun to fear that I had nothing in me, nothing anyone wanted to read, besides Drama Club...a fate worse than death, it then seemed to me. The idea of being a one-note writer had no appeal to me, calling into question my new-found and fledgling skills as author. I still feel there are a million kinds of word manipulation that I haven't yet attempted...or even thought of...but am anxious to attempt.
I've made an effort since then to try my hand at different things, styles and sorts of storytelling. I currently finished my first play and am working on another before going back to revise the first. That second one might show up here in audio version, though probably not text. I have always enjoyed theatre...what a shock! But yes, I recited from plays as a preschooler, they tell me, and am having fun approaching the theatre from a new angle, as a (hopeful) playwright. No word yet on whether my playwriting sucks massively. I also hope to work on some other writing and recording projects this month, including the aforementioned Drama Club. Would anyone be interested in audio clips of Drama Club chapters, or are they too long?
All my audio clips are single readthroughs, mainly because I am a lazy rabbit, though some of the longer ones will, of necessity, probably be done in sections (or have the coughs edited out!). I'm not sure if Camy's comment is entirely complimentary, but my audio files definitely aren't slick. I hope to redo the ones up yet again as I've an even better headset than before. I love reading aloud, though prefer a live audience, and really enjoy making the audio clips...and am very glad to know that people like them!
Something About Tom draws on my experience as a teacher, though those exact things never happened to me. Of course, I have taught and coached drama and might have dated the fellow teacher or three. The description of 'Tom' is based on a pilot of my acquaintance, plopped into the high school setting and basically just rewritten. He is a very nice guy, though, whoever lands him will be a lucky fellow.
In writing that story, Something About Tom, I was trying to do something other than DC and: to write a story without dialogue, in first person present tense, without naming the main character, and with the readers knowing what the narrator didn't (his crush and Tom's reciprocal feeling). I had no idea if it would work but The Dude loved the story, so I wrote some more...
Kisses...
TR
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'Are You Being Served?' star dies
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Actor John Inman, best known for his role as camp shop assistant Mr Humphries in the long-running BBC comedy "Are You Being Served?" died aged 71 on Thursday.
Inman, who later became a pantomime regular, was one of the sitcom's most memorable cast members and his catchphrase "I'm free" became part of popular culture.
In 1976, he was voted "Funniest Man On Television" by readers of TV Times magazine and was also named BBC TV's "Personality Of The Year."
He died at St Mary's Hospital in London after having been ill for some time, his manager Phil Dale said in a statement.
"John, through his character Mr. Humphries of Are You Being Served? was known and loved throughout the world," Dale said.
"He was one of the best and finest pantomime dames working to capacity audiences throughout Britain.
"John was known for his comedy plays and farces which were enjoyed from London's West End throughout the country and as far as Australia, Canada and the USA."
Inman's long-term partner Ron Lynch was "devastated" at the news, the BBC said.
Actress Wendy Richard, who played Miss Brahms in "Are You Being Served?," said she had been regularly visiting Inman who had been seriously ill with Hepatitis A.
"You just have to regard it as being an end to his suffering," a tearful Richard told BBC radio.
"I think John was one of the wittiest and most inventive actors I have ever worked with. He was a brilliant, brilliant pantomime dame. He was a very good all-round actor really."
Inman's character Mr. Humphries attracted criticism at the height of the department store-based sitcom's success from some gay rights groups who were upset by what they saw as his portrayal of an over-the-top homosexual.
"He never ever said Mr. Humphries was gay," Richard said. "He was just a young man who was very, very good to his mother."
Copyright 2007 Reuters. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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AwesomeDude News & Views
Week of March 4th
ALL VISITORS AND NEW MEMBERS, please visit the Welcome Forum in AD Forums for detailed instructions on how to get the most from AwesomeDude website! Registration is not necessary to read in the Forums.
N&V is Short and Sweet this week, courtesy of TR?s lousy health?but, hey, we have great new chapters for you this week at AwesomeDude!
New Serial Stories and Chapters
Cole Parker?s charming When He Was Five is up to Chapter Five here for you at AwesomeDude!
Pieces of Destiny, the first novel in four years by John Francis aka Pecman, is now updated to Chapter Three! Don?t miss the early action!
Sequoyah?s heartwarming Saga of the Elizabethton Tarheels updates to Chapter 14!
Revised Bodega Bay by Nickolas James is up to Chapter 18 at AD!
The exciting action of Mystery and Mayhem at St. Marks by Joel is at Chapter 19 this week!
The gripping action of Sky?s The Limit by Captain Rick is now at Chapter 20!
Jamie?s ever-popular Scrolls of Icaria updates to Book 2 Chapter 19!
The Kept, cool & creepy excitement from Josiah Jacobus-Parker now has Chapter Five online!
Brand new novel Time in a Bottle by Nickolas James starts this week with Chapter One!
Operation Hammerhead, a new novel by James Savik begins with Chapter One!
Site Changes
NEW!! FEEDBACK FORMS FOR READERS!
Newly introduced at AwesomeDude are user-friendly feedback forms at the end of short stories and current chapters of serialized novels (or last chapter, if complete)! These can be filled out easily and quickly after reading any short story or chapter you enjoy!
They are being attached now to current shorts and chapters and The Dude will backdate these through our entire AwesomeDude archive as time allows! If you see these, use them; take a sec to let the author know what you think of his work!
If you?re an author with questions, post in the Web Wiz Forum or contact The Dude at dude@awesomedude.com
Okay, boys and girls, that's all the news that?ll fit. Next update will be for the week of March 11th.
Kisses?
TR
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Is this Bush's fault for sending in the clowns?
You went there!
Very funny.
TR
TR Scan to donate
Punkchewashun (Punctuation)
in Writers' Workshop
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I feel the same way. Like smoking, it's a habit I enjoy, that exhilarating thumbs-down double-hit to the space bar learned so long ago, and I'm not giving it up. Nope. Not even for my beloved Wibster.
Kisses...
TR, who has been sort of MIA lately
PS 'writebythyself' had me laughing pretty hard for a second there...