This past week we had a number of marvelously eclectic stories to captivate one's attention and give us some distractions to our otherwise hum-drum lives (haha) ...
Which, if any, of these stories piqued your interest the most this past week?
1.) Ah-nuld's 'Living Loving Maid' and 'Love Child'... (Why am I not amazed?)
2.) The Oprah 'I'll Always Love You' Fan-Fest count-down to her last show...(OMG! What to do? What to watch?... p.s. is she really a 'closet' Scientologist?)
3.) Saturday's 'Apocalypse Now' fizzle... (Good excuse fer a party, though, I'm sayin'...)
4.) Lizzie does Dublin... (No Sex Pistols singin', 'God Save the Queen', more's the pity...)
5.) Obama lectures Israel (Israel sez, "Get real, Dude") Obama then sings, 'We are Family' to AIPAC...
6.) 'When the Levee Breaks'..or, the Great American Flood, as it were...(Gators and snakes and bears, Oh My!)
7.) The 'Helter Skelter' hilarity of GOP presidential candidates doin' the 'You're Hot and then You're Cold' shuffle (featuring 'Newt the Hoot', so much the better...)
8.) Your pick... (Give us a thrill, would ya now, maybe?)
Connie Schultz: "Dear Parents: Learn from Me" (Creators Syndicate)
By the time she was 14, she had already become an expert at throwing my words back at me. Don't you love how they do that? "You're the one who taught me to speak my mind!" she yelled from across the room. "You're the one who said I should give my opinion!" Grrrr. "Not with me," I shouted back.
Paul Krugman's Blog: Charlatans and Cranks (New York Times)
The 2010 election may, in retrospect, turn out to have been a disaster for the GOP: it empowered the extremists, leading them to believe that they could go the whole way and keep winning elections. I guess we'll see.
Bill Press: Democrats For Newt in 2012
… I am officially launching Democrats for Newt Gingrich in 2012. Newt's the one. Of course, I'll support Obama in the general election. But Gingrich has my support in the GOP primary, and I hope he'll have yours, too. Because he's the only Republican who speaks the truth.
Matt Miller: The Trouble with Men
The revelation that Arnold Schwarzennegger fathered a 10-year-old child with a household staffer (who still worked for the family until a few months ago-poor Maria!), plus IMF chief and "caviar socialist" Dominique Strauss-Kahn's alleged sexual assault of a young hotel maid, are just the latest reminders that there's something seriously wrong with at least a few members of my gender.
Charlyn Fargo: Walnuts Top the Nuts Tree (Creators Syndicate)
You've probably heard that nuts are a good snack because of the antioxidants they contain. But a new analysis finds that walnuts may be the best nuts for you. Presented at the American Chemical Society National Meeting, a report finds that walnuts have a combination of healthier antioxidants and higher quality antioxidants than any other nut.
Chuck Norris: A Day to Remember (Creators Syndicate)
My father fought and was wounded in World War II in the Battle of the Bulge. I served in the U.S. Air Force in Korea. I am also an honorary Marine. My brother Aaron served in the U.S. Army in Korea. And our brother, Wieland, served in the U.S. Army as well in Vietnam, where he paid the ultimate price on June 3, 1970. (His name is etched among the 58,000 fallen servicemen and women on the Vietnam Wall Memorial in Washington, D.C.)
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Halal (Arabic; means lawful or legal) is a term designating any object or an action which is permissible to use or engage in, according to Islamic law. The term is used to designate food seen as permissible according to Islamic law (Sharia). The opposite of this word is haraam.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Haram
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
Halal is the arabic word which means permissible. It refers to Food,
finance, relationships, etc, etc Its opposite is Haram
Marian replied:
haram
Adam answered:
From HalalCertofication.com:
What is the meaning of "Haram" ?
The opposite of halal is haram , which is Arabic for unlawful or prohibited.
what is Haram food ?
All kinds of food are considered halal except the following, which are haram:
• Swine/pork and its by-products .
• Animals improperly slaughtered or dead before slaughtering .
• Animals not slaughtered in the name of Allah .
• Alcohol and all forms of intoxicating and hazardous drinks .
• Carnivorous animals, birds of prey, and land animals without external ears .
• Pests such as rats, centipedes, scorpions and other similar animals .
• Animals forbidden to be killed in Islam e.g. ants, bees, spider and woodpecker birds .
• Animals which are considered repulsive generally like lice, flies, maggots and other similar animals .
• Animals that live both on land and in water such as frogs, crocodiles and other similar animals .
• Blood and by-products of blood .
• Foods and drinks which contain any of the above haram ingredients or contaminated through contact with any of the above products .
Well, that means no blood pudding or frog's lega, but who's eating bees and centipedes anyway?
Charlie responded:
Halal - permitted
Haraam - forbidden
Amusingly, the Thunderbird spell checker recognizes Halal, but not Haraam
Sally said:
Halal is an Arabic word meaning lawful or permitted. The opposite of halal is haram, which means unlawful or prohibited.
I actually have this book, which is very interesting. He is a pretty good writer. I also have "Fasts as Ordained Before You," in the style of the, "Chicken Soup for the Soul" series. In it, the author shares inspirational stories.
PS: shout out to all the readers in the flood/tornado ravaged states. Hang tough guys, we are sending prayers/good thoughts/donations your way...
MAM wrote:
The opposite of halal is haraam, which means unlawful or prohibited. Often used to describe what food can or cannot be eaten in the Arab world.
Allah's Messenger forbade the eating of the meat of beasts having fangs.
-Narrated by Bukhari,
And, Joe S responded:
Halal is an Arabic word meaning lawful or permitted. The opposite of halal is haram, which means unlawful or prohibited.
Santorum has discovered Barnum's secret - that the public loves a show and that one can say almost anything and someone will believe it. Santorum's brilliant strategy is to grab the most attention he can, caring little for any negative fallout, hoping the other "acts in the show" get ignored while he basks in the limelight of outrageous notoriety.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a RERUN'NCIS'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Ewan McGregor, Scott Pelley, and Brad Paisley.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Courteney Cox and Carrot Top.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Biggest Loser', followed by a FRESH'The Voice'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Meredith Vieira, Demetri Martin, and Ben Harper.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Ed Helms and the Cars.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Mike Mills, Foster the People, and MNDR.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'DWTS', followed by a FRESH'DWTS'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are the winners of "Dancing with the Stars", Taylor Lautner, and Britney Spears.
The CW offers a RERUN'One Tree Hill', followed by a RERUN'Hellcats'.
Faux has a FRESH'American Idol', followed by the SEASON FINALE'Glee'.
MY has 'Are You Smarter Than ! 5th Grader?', another 'Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?', 'Don't Forget The Lyrics', and another 'Don't Forget The Lyrics'.
AMC offers the movie 'Batman Returns', followed by the movie 'Rocky II', then the movie 'Rocky III'.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] BBC World News
[7:00 AM] BBC World News
[8:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - 9 - Matt Smith, Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Ellie Goulding
[9:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 Black Pearl
[10:00 AM] Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
[11:00 AM] The X-Files - Ep 22 F. Emasculata
[12:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 7 Oscars
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 5 The Mixing Bowl
[3:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 14 Devil's Due
[4:00 PM] The X-Files - Ep 22 F. Emasculata
[5:00 PM] Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 7
[7:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[8:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 14 Devil's Due
[9:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 7 - Sushi Ko
[10:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 - Mama Rita's
[11:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 The Priory
[12:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 7 - Sushi Ko
[1:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 - Mama Rita's
[2:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 The Priory
[3:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 7 - Sushi Ko
[4:00 AM] Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
[5:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', another 'Real Housewives Of OC', still another 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Pregnant In Heels'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Wyatt Cernac: Comedy Person', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', then a FRESH'Sports Show With Norm Mcdonald'.
On a RERUNJon Stewart (from 5/9/11) is Keira Knightley.
On a RERUNColbert Report (from 5/12/11) is John Bradshaw.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Kung Fu Panda'.
History has 'American Pickers', 'Only In America With Larry TCG', another 'Only In America With Larry TCG', followed by a FRESH'How The States Got Their Shapes'.
IFC -
[6:00 AM] Le Divorce
[8:30 AM] Strangers in Good Company
[10:45 AM] Last Summer in the Hamptons
[1:00 PM] Le Divorce
[3:45 PM] Mistress
[6:00 PM] Arrested Development
[6:30 PM] Arrested Development
[7:00 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[7:30 PM] Onion News Network
[8:00 PM] House Party
[10:15 PM] Thank You for Smoking
[12:15 AM] Human Nature
[2:15 AM] The Larry Sanders Show
[2:45 AM] The Larry Sanders Show
[3:15 AM] The Larry Sanders Show
[3:45 AM] House Party (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:05 AM] Worlds Apart
[8:00 AM] Carts Of Darkness
[9:00 AM] Love Lust & Little Black Dress
[10:00 AM] ALL ON THE LINE - Leila Shams (Episode 7, Season 1)
[11:00 AM] ALL ON THE LINE - Julia Alarcon (Episode 8, Season 1)
[12:00 PM] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - The Zit (Episode 5, Season 1)
[1:00 PM] Kate! The Making of an Icon
[2:00 PM] Beautiful Losers
[3:35 PM] Oktapodi
[3:40 PM] Worlds Apart
[5:40 PM] Kate! The Making of an Icon
[6:40 PM] Wendy & Lucy
[8:10 PM] Fools Rush In
[10:00 PM] All on the Line
[11:00 PM] ALL ON THE LINE - Julia Alarcon (Episode 8, Season 1)
[12:00 AM] All on the Line
[1:00 AM] PLEASURE FOR SALE (Episode 5)
[1:30 AM] What Alice Found
[3:10 AM] Fools Rush In
[5:00 AM] Beautiful Losers (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has has 'Category 6: Day Of Destruction' (part 1), followed by 'Category 6: Day Of Destruction' (part 2).
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Topher Grace, Melissa McCarthy, and Beardyman.
Scheduled on a FRESHLopez Tonight are Jack Black, Elisha Cuthbert, and the Script.
'The Good Wife' cast members Christine Baranski, left, Julianna Margulies, center, and Mary Beth Peil attend the 70th Annual Peabody Awards at the Waldorf-AstoriaHotel on Monday, May 23, 2011 in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini
Steve Martin and his banjo are taking on the U.S. Capitol on July 4.
The 65-year-old entertainer is set to perform from the Capitol's west lawn during the annual "A Capitol Fourth" concert this year. Josh Groban, Little Richard, "Glee" star Matthew Morrison, "American Idol" winner Jordin Sparks and Broadway star Kelli O'Hara also share the bill.
Martin said his participation in the patriotic event inspired him to write a new song called "Me & Paul Revere," which talks about Revere's infamous ride from his horse's perspective. Martin will play the tune with his band, The Steep Canyon Rangers.
Jimmy Smits will host the Fourth of July concert, which will be broadcast on PBS, National Public Radio and the American Forces Network.
The office life depicted in Dilbert often preys on real-life attitudes and fears. Now, readers of the character can swap places with the eternally befuddled office drone and his not-so-sharp cubicle dwellers.
Peanuts Worldwide, the marketing agent for Dilbert, says readers can now personalize up to 25 separate Dilbert comic strips with their own images and share them online with others.
Created by Scott Adams, Dilbert is carried by more than 2,000 publications worldwide, printed collections and was even an animated series.
Using technology created by PixFusion, readers can upload a photo to www.pixfusion.com, select an animated strip and personalize it with their own image, becoming Boss, Wally, Alice or Carol.
Dolly Parton speaks during the private Medallion Ceremony at The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tenn. on Sunday, May 22, 2011. Reba McEntire, Bobby Braddock, and Jean Shepard were all inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Photo by Josh Anderson
Hollywood actress Julia Ormond pleaded with US lawmakers to pass a law halting the sale of men, women and children into forced labor.
Ormond told a panel of lawmakers how children are "chained, whipped and scarred for life while working on our carpets" and "Mayan agricultural slaves in Florida pick my tomatoes" just to keep prices down and profit margins high.
"Just as those forced into sex slavery, they deserve our compassion" and a federal law to protect them, said Ormond, who in 2007 founded the Alliance to Stop Slavery and End Trafficking (ASSET).
The British actress was testifying at a hearing of the House of Representatives' Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, a leader in the US fight against human trafficking.
Robert Plant and Buddy Miller teamed up to top the list of nominees for the 2011 Americana Awards with three apiece.
Each was nominated Monday for artist of the year along with fellow three-time nominee Elizabeth Cook and teamed up for several nominations on their collaboration "Band of Joy."
The album earned the former Led Zeppelin singer a nomination for album of the year. His all-star group of collaborators, which includes co-producer Miller and is also known as The Band of Joy, earned a nod in the duo/group category at the Oct. 13 awards.
Miller is also up for instrumentalist of the year.
The only major Jane Austen manuscript still in private hands comes up for auction on July 14th, auction house Sotheby's said on Monday.
"The Watsons" by the prolific author of "Sense and Sensibility" is estimated by Sotheby's at 200,000-300,000 pounds ($323,800-$485,700).
"Probably written in 1804, this heavily corrected draft represents the earliest surviving manuscript for a novel by Jane Austen," Sotheby's said in a statement.
None of the manuscripts of Jane Austen's completed novels survive, with the exception of two draft chapters of "Persuasion" (at the British Library), Austen's juvenile work "Lady Susan" (at the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York) and the fragment "Sanditon" (at King's College, Cambridge), the only other autograph novel manuscript of comparable length.
American novelist and screenwriter Elmore Leonard poses with his award at the 70th Annual Peabody Awards at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Monday, May 23,2011 in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini
Showtime has renewed Nurse Jackie for a fourth season.
The dark drama starring Emmy winner Edie Falco has averaged 2.8 million viewers a week during its third season.
The Monday night half-hour from creators and executive producers Liz Brixius and Linda Wallem draws 762,000 viewers on Mondays, with 71 percent of Showtime subscribers watching via On Demand, DVR and replays throughout the week.
U.S. cable network Showtime has decided not to move forward with "United States of Tara."
The Toni Collette comedy, which centers on a mom who suffers from multiple personalities, will be ending after its third season ends this summer.
Tara, created by Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, premiered in 2009 to solid ratings, but began to diminish in viewership as seasons progressed.
It premiered its current season to 411,000 total viewers and a 0.2 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, down significantly from its Season 2 launch, when it averaged 816,000 and a 0.4.
Harper Lee's sister says the author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" has indeed cooperated with a memoir about her. And the publisher has set a release date: fall 2013.
The law firm Barnett, Bugg, Lee & Carter had released a signed statement last month from Harper Lee disputing an announcement by Penguin Press that Marja Mills' "The Mockingbird Next Door" had been written with "full access" to the media-shy novelist.
But Alice Lee, Harper Lee's sister, is a partner in the firm and said in a signed letter dated May 21 and released Monday by Penguin that the statement was prepared without her knowledge and "does not represent" the feelings of either sister. A woman who answered the phone at Barnett, Bugg declined comment and hung up on a reporter seeking comment.
A day after a "60 Minutes" report claimed that Lance Armstrong took performance-enhancing drugs, Nike has released a statement supporting the cyclist.
A representative for Anheuser-Busch told THR that Armstrong will continue to be a spokesperson for Michelob Ultra.
"Lance has performed as an extraordinary athlete in a demanding sport, making him admired by millions who lead active lifestyles. That was our opinion when we signed him and that is our opinion today," the company says in a statement.
At least three of Armstrong's ex-teammates claimed the cyclist used PEDs. Tyler Hamilton, Armstrong's fellow cyclist for the first three of his seven Tour de France victories, said he even witnessed Armstrong inject the blood-boosting drug EPO.
Bianca Jagger, right, shakes hands with Sheikh Fahad Al Salem Al Sabah after the closing session of the forum, Renewing Dialogue for Peace and Advancing Freedom and Human Rights in Today's World in Kuwait City on Monday, May 23, 2011. Jagger attended the forum in her capacity of Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador and member of Amnesty International. Sheikh Fahad, president of the Fahad Al Salam center for Dialogue among Civilizations closed the two days forum attended by world leaders, academics and NGOs. The workshop's aim was to engage world personalities in issues relating to individual freedoms and democratic values, including the importance of education and promoting citizen journalism and advancing the role that traditional and social media can play in this process.
Photo by Gustavo Ferrari
After becoming famous (and infamous) for spouting off about politics, former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele is going to make a career out of it at MSNBC.
The network announced Monday via Politico that it's hired Steele as a political analyst and he will soon "regularly appear on the full lineup of MSNBC programming."
Since leaving the RNC, Steele has been shopping himself around as a political analyst. In the process, Steele has revealed he's even less willing to toe the party line now that he's no longer a party official.
Actor and show host Ken Jeong leaps in the air in the press room at the 2011 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas on Sunday, May 22, 2011.
Photo by Dan Steinberg
California preacher Harold Camping said Monday his prophecy that the world would end was off by five months because Judgment Day actually will come on October 21.
Camping, who predicted that 200 million Christians would be taken to heaven Saturday before the Earth was destroyed, said he felt so terrible when his doomsday prediction did not come true that he left home and took refuge in a motel with his wife. His independent ministry, Family Radio International, spent millions - some of it from donations made by followers - on more than 5,000 billboards and 20 RVs plastered with the Judgment Day message.
But Camping said that he's now realized the apocalypse will come five months after May 21, the original date he predicted. He had earlier said Oct. 21 was when the globe would be consumed by a fireball.
It's not the first time the independent Christian radio host has been forced to explain when his prediction didn't come to pass. He also predicted the Apocalypse would come in 1994, but said it didn't happen then because of a mathematical error.
Rather than give his normal daily broadcast on Monday, Camping made a special statement before the press at the Oakland headquarters of the media empire that has broadcast his message. His show, "Open Forum," has for months headlined his doomsday message via the group's radio stations, TV channels, satellite broadcasts and website.
Actress Zoe Kravitz poses for the cameras during a photo call for the film X-Men, First Class, in London, Monday, May, 23, 2011.
Photo by Alastair Grant
A 44-year-old Canadian man says he concocted a lie that he was mugged so he wouldn't have to tell his wife that he had no tickets to Oprah Winfrey's final show.
Robert Spearing faces felony charges for telling police that two men roughed him up in Chicago and took the coveted tickets.
According to local reports, he later confessed to making up the story because he was afraid to tell his wife that they had traveled all the way to Chicago without tickets. He told police he faked his injuries by cutting his own forehead with a rock and scraping his hands on the sidewalk.
Spearing was charged with one count of felony disorderly conduct for filing a false police report. He is due for another court hearing next Tuesday.
Entertainment producer Simon Fuller poses for photographers after receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, Monday, May 23, 2011.Fuller is the creator of 'American Idol'.
Photo by Matt Sayles
Chile on Monday exhumed the remains of former president Salvador Allende, hoping to finally determine whether he committed suicide or was murdered during a 1973 coup.
Officials hope that a forensic analysis of Allende's remains will resolve a decades-old controversy over his death in his presidential palace on September 11, 1973 in the midst of the coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power.
The official version was that Allende killed himself with an assault rifle -- a gift from Cuban leader Fidel Castro -- as the La Moneda presidential palace was being bombed by Air Force planes and besieged by tanks and soldiers.
But neither the weapon nor bullets were recovered following his death, and Pinochet's military regime prevented Allende's family from seeing his corpse after the coup. There was no criminal investigation into his death.
In this photo provided by StarPix, Sixteen Lady Gaga look-a-likes perform in the Fuse network studio in celebration of Fuses's Lady GagaThon and Lady Gaga'snew album, Born This Way, Monday, May 23, 2011 in New York.
Photo by Amanda Schwab
Michelle Feldstein was prepared to provide special accommodations for the blind horse she recently added to the flightless ducks, clawless cats and homeless llamas inhabiting her animal shelter in Montana.
But nothing could prepare her for the 40-legged, seeing-eye entourage that accompanied "Sissy," a sightless, 15-year-old quarter horse.
"Sissy came with five goats and five sheep -- and they take care of her," said Feldstein, the force behind Deer Haven Ranch, a private rescue facility she runs with her husband, Al, on 300 acres north of Yellowstone National Park.
The seeing-eye sheep and guard goats are never far from the white mare, and they never lead her astray. They shepherd Sissy to food and water, and angle the horse into her stall amid blowing snows or driving rains.
Feldstein and her husband, a retired editor of Mad Magazine, underwrite their rescue operation. It can cost as much as $50,000 (31,030 pounds) a year for feed, veterinarian services, and winter-time heating of barns and water troughs for a total of 200 animals. The couple also run a guest house for humans whose profits are poured into the animal sanctuary.
Barbara Stuart, an actress with a familiar if not famous face on television for half a century, who appeared on nearly 80 television series that spanned much of the medium's history, died on Sunday in St. George, Utah. She was 81.
Starting with I Led Three Lives"" in 1954 and concluding with the Showtime series "Huff" in 2006, Ms. Stuart never achieved stardom. Viewers with sharp eyes and good memories might recall her as Miss Bunny the long-suffering girlfriend of Sergeant Carter on "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.," or as Peggy Ferguson, McLean Stevenson's wife on "The McLean Stevenson Show," but her television appearances were notable more for their frequency than their visibility.
Although she had recurring roles on "Pete and Gladys," as Gladys's friend Alice, in the early 1960s, and on "Our Family Honor," as Marianne Danzig, the wife of a crime lord played by Eli Wallach, in the mid-1980s, she usually worked on just one or two episodes of a series.
She showed up on "Batman" in 1966 as Rocket O'Rourke, henchwoman to the Puzzler, for two parts of a linked episode and then vanished from the series, only to resurface as Goldie Miner on an episode of "T.H.E. Cat." This was the pattern throughout a career that extended from the kinescope era to cable.
Barbara Ann McNeese was born on Jan. 3, 1930, in Paris, Ill., and grew up in nearby Hume. After graduating from high school, she took acting classes at the Schuster-Martin School of Drama in Cincinnati and then moved to New York, where she studied with Stella Adler and Uta Hagen. To pay for her classes, she modeled on the side. For professional purposes, she took the last name Stuart, a family name.
Her first television role came in 1954, when she played Comrade Martine Fenton in the cold war spy drama "I Led Three Lives." After being cast in the national touring production of "Lunatics and Lovers," with Zero Mostel in the starring role, she was hired for "The Great Gildersleeve," and the television parts came rolling in.
Her marriage to the actor Dick Gautier ended in divorce. In addition to her brother, Richard, of Santa Clara, Utah, she is survived by three stepchildren: Diane Christine Chormicle of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.; Denise Michelle Gautier of Arcadia, Calif.; and Rand Robert Gautier of Santa Rosa, Calif.
This image provided by the Los Angeles Zoo shows yellow legged frog tadpoles at the zoo in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Zoo officials announced Thursday May 19, 2011 that they have successfully bred the endangered mountain yellow-legged frog in an effort to save the species.
Photo by Tad Motoyama
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