Art Linkletter Died at 97

[leftyladyfrommo]

Just saw this as a news alert.

His show was so funny - Kids Say the Darndest Things.

[AngryAmish]

1. too soon, too soon

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. Wasn't he an arch conservative?

Can't remember. But I'll miss him anyway. Doesn't make his show any less funny.

[Wednesdays]

20. At this point, it doesn't matter

I seriously doubt his political views changed the political landscape much, one way or another.

[tonysam]

30. I don't care, either.

He had one of the longest marriages in show business history, by the way. He was married 74 years, from November 25, 1935.

[Ratty]

37. I've never thought a long marriage reflected on a person's character

Some people stay married way way longer than they should. However if he's going to talk the family values talk then I guess he deserves kudos for walking the walk. Can't say that for a lot of family values conservatives.

[Ratty]

21. I believe so

He was a spokesman and organization for USA Next, a conservative alternative to AARP. USA Next is pretty arch.

[leftyladyfrommo]

22. Friends with Charlton Heston?

God, I don't know. Just seems to me he was involved in politics for a while but it was a long time ago.

[babylonsister]

7. OK...

:rofl:

[Greyhound]

2. ..

No comment.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. Excellent effort on his part.

:applause:

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. RIP

[no_hypocrisy]

5. I was hooked on his show when I was a toddler.

House Party was far more interesting than Romper Room.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drxihabHA0w

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. I especially one little boy who was talking about the octopus' testicals.

The roof came down.

[icee]

9. I can remember my mom watching him every day in a different

time, when America was a better place. I remember well Kids Say the Darndest Things.

[Blue-Jay]

10. I guess he'll never reunite with Paul Simon.

[joeybee12]

11. They guy was everywhere in the 50's and 60's...one of the best-known

celebrities of that time...RIP.

[lpbk2713]

12. I would watch his show when I came home from school.

But that was long ago and far away. :eyes:


RIP Art.

He outlived his son Jack by a couple of years.

[leftyladyfrommo]

15. I didn't know Jack died.

I remember him kind of. Did he take over the shows?

[lpbk2713]

16. I didn't know it either.

I had just checked Wikipedia. Someone had updated it already reflecting Art's death.

[tonysam]

31. Only two of his five children survive him. n/t

[icee]

13. I remember my mom watching him every day at a time

when America was a better place. I remember well Kids Say the Darndest Things.

[butterfly77]

14. I thought he died years ago..

[elocs]

17. I remember watching him when I was a little kid,

before the left/right political battle lines were drawn.

Of course, we know here that all Republicans must eat shit and die and never be missed or mourned. Such is our classlessness.

[leftyladyfrommo]

18. Politics was way different back then.

I'm not even sure what Republicans believed in during the 50's and 60's.

[joeybee12]

19. They were more progressive than Dems in many ways...it was the 60's

and Goldwater and the exodus of the Southern dems to the Repuke when they started their descent into madness.

[activa8tr]

24. Actually, I remember it from the 50's

So he was around for a while.

[elocs]

23. Yes, and it's so much better now. I can be sorry if someone dies, even a Republican.

It's allowed by decency if nothing else. If I become like them it is my loss.

[grantcart]

25. Married 75 years - that must be a record for show biz personality.

[tonysam]

32. It just about is. Kitty Wells comes closest, I believe, when she married in 1937. n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

26. That's sad. I remember his black & white TV show and the feature, 'Kids Say the Darnest Things'.

[DrDan]

27. RIP . . .

[Jokinomx]

28. When I was in Middle School...

1971 - 72 he came and spoke at our school in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We didn't get very many celebrities up there... so we were all excited. He spoke of his conservative point of view of course and afterward I even shook his hand. lol What I remember most was his soft pillow hands hehehe, I worked on a farm and couldn't believe someone could have such soft hands. To this day, whenever I hear his name, I remember that.

RIP Art ... you did make the planet a better place.

:toast:

[stopbush]

29. Link

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100526/ap_on_en_tv/us_obit_art_linkletter

[NNN0LHI]

33. Abe Vigoda is not dead

http://www.abevigoda.com/

[tonysam]

34. Archive of American Television

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five

Part Six

[Raine]

35. R-I-P Art

My mother always had on House Party, I thought it was a good show and liked it too.

[tonysam]

36. I saw it every day after school. n/t

[Manifestor_of_Light]

38. Blamed his daughter's death on drugs.

Who knows if it was drugs, or an accident, or maybe he was a pushy, impossible to please dad??? Possibly?

I've heard of kids who did drugs because daddy did nothing but YELL at them all the time. Nothing the kid did was ever good enough. And kids who died because they were into drugs and the lowlifes they were hanging around with.

[unkachuck]

39. Linkletter and raygun were buds....

....as so often is the case, the good die young....