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Johnny Cash and John Ritter have both died
« on: Sep 12^th, 2003, 7:55am »

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I was really surprised to learn that these two entertainers have both died.

Cash was 71 and Ritter only 54. Cash had complications from diabetes. Ritter had a heart attack.

I will miss them both greatly.

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« Reply #1 on: Sep 12^th, 2003, 8:41am »

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Yes both were tremdous talents

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« Reply #2 on: Sep 12^th, 2003, 8:44am »

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Oh! Oh no. I love both of these men. I'm so sorry that they're gone.

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« Reply #3 on: Sep 12^th, 2003, 8:46am »

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I too will miss them dearly

I remember my father playing Johnny Cash music as I was growing up, hated it then but love it now as it triggers a bunch of memories

and I have always liked John Ritter, he was a funny, physical comedian. I also liked some of his more serious work

both will always be remembered Sad

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« Reply #4 on: Sep 12^th, 2003, 8:49am »

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The deaths reported this morning of these two, wow - really shocked me.

Johnny Cash had been ill for a very long time. I believe he was in hospital when his wife, June died about four months ago, and was unable to attend her funeral.

Johnny was sent home from hospital to rest and recuperate and died at home, some 36 hours later. His death doesn't surprise me. He was acutely ill, but I don't think he wanted to live without June.

But John Ritter - who was only 54....oh my. He was on the set (of taping) when he fell ill. They rush him to the hospital but he couldn't be saved.

He didn't have a heart attack - which was thought to have taken his life. It's called an aortic dissection which basically means the aorta ballooned out and he bled to death. Ewwww!

They will both be missed. God bless them both.

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« Reply #5 on: Sep 12^th, 2003, 10:53am »

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Johnny Cash, country music's "Man in Black," died on Friday, silencing a dark and brooding voice that for nearly 50 years sang plaintive tales of coal miners and sharecroppers, convicts and cowboys. He was 71.
"Johnny died due to complications from diabetes, which resulted in respiratory failure," manager Lou Robin said in a statement.

His death, at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, cast a late summer pall over Tennessee's Music City where he was easily the industry's most iconic performer.

It came four months after the death of his wife June Carter Cash, a member of one of the country's most famous music families. She succumbed to complications from heart surgery at the age of 73.

He had been in and out of the hospital constantly in the last few years, and recently had been treated and discharged from the same facility where he died.

Known as the "Man in Black" because he always wore black clothing typically topped with a long country preacher's coat, Cash was credited with being the inspiration for a generation of Nashville talent.

Over a career spanning some five decades, Cash compiled 10 Grammy Awards, including 2003's Best Male Country Vocal Performance for his song "Give My Love to Rose." He won his first Grammy in 1967 but continued to reap honors even at the twilight of his career.

He won the award for Best Cinematography in a Video at last month's MTV Video Music Awards for his video "Hurt." He had not been able to attend the MTV awards because he was in the hospital in Nashville with a stomach ailment.

He was also among the nominees for honors at the upcoming Country Music Association show in Nashville.

He was a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as well as the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

In recent years, Cash had also suffered from Shy-Drager, an illness similar to Parkinson's disease (news - web sites) that attacks the nervous system and affects muscle control.

Cash, a reformed drug and alcohol rabble rouser, said he loved the stark and spare sound of his early recordings made at Sun Records, the seminal Memphis studio, without overdubs or afterthought.

"That music has got a simple beat people can relate to, and a haunting quality that tries to go right to the gut and to the heart, and sometimes it does," he once said.

"I don't know where it comes from. I just like that mysterious sound. A song has to be something I can feel. And 'feel' covers a lot of space with me, meaning spirituality, gut feeling and heart feeling."

Ed Benson, head of the Country Music Association, said that Cash would be sorely missed. "He was not only a giant in the music business but a cultural icon ... something very few people can say," he said.

The Cash family will announce funeral arrangements, the statement from his manager said.

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Emmy award-winning actor John Ritter, who gained fame playing bumbling and lovable characters in a pair of television comedies decades apart, has died suddenly due to a previously undetected arterial problem, his representatives said on Friday.

Ritter, who was 54, collapsed on Thursday evening while filming "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter," the ABC television comedy which had reinvigorated his career and was a centerpiece of the network's upcoming fall season.

The former star of "Three's Company" was taken to Providence St. Joseph hospital in Burbank, California, across from the studio where he had been working.

Surgeons at the hospital were unable to save him, and he died from a "dissection of the aorta," which results from an unrecognized flaw in a main artery from the heart, his publicists, Wolf-Kasteler & Associates Public Relations, said.

Ritter was best known for his portrayal of Jack Tripper in the 1970s situation comedy "Three's Company," which won him Emmy, Golden Globe and People's Choice awards.

A prolific actor, Ritter recently reconnected with television audiences as the star of "8 Simple Rules."

Ritter played Paul Hennessy in the family comedy about a father dealing with his precocious daughters which was one of the Walt Disney Co.-owned network's hits in the 2002 season.

"All of us at ABC, Touchstone Television and The Walt Disney Company are shocked and heartbroken at the terrible news of John's passing. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife and children at this very difficult time," ABC said in a statement.

Born into a Hollywood family, John Ritter was the son of country singer and actor Tex Ritter and graduated from Hollywood High School, where he was student body president.

He graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in drama and went on to act in film, television and on the stage.

He is survived by his wife, Amy Yasbeck and their daughter, Stella and three children, Carly, Tyler and Jason, from his first marriage to Nancy Morgan.

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« Reply #7 on: Sep 12^th, 2003, 10:55am »

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I'm not entirely surprised about Johnny Cash because he is getting pretty old and I knew he had some health problems. I am shocked about John Ritter though!

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« Reply #8 on: Sep 12^th, 2003, 10:59am »

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I know we have one member here from London, Ontario and I too grew up in London, Ontario.

Johnny Cash proposed to his wife June in that lovely hometown of mine.

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In 1961, she turned down an offer to appear on a variety show, for which Woody Allen was a writer, in favour of going on tour with Johnny Cash.

The couple married seven years later after Cash proposed to her on stage on London, Ontario, Canada.

She was a couple of years older than him. I think it was either 1968 or 1969 that he proposed to her on stage.

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« Reply #9 on: Sep 12^th, 2003, 9:11pm »

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This is both sad and unfortunate. They'll both be missed. On a Survivor-related note, I posted an article in Survivor Gossip about John Ritter's death. It turns out that Colby Donaldson had just signed to appear on one or more episodes of "8 Simple Rules." ABC, obviously, doesn't know what they will do
about the series.

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Re: Johnny Cash and John Ritter have both died
« Reply #10 on: Sep 12^th, 2003, 11:46pm »

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May they both Rest In Peace.

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« Reply #11 on: Sep 14^th, 2003, 11:32am »

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Johnny Cash will rest in peace alongside his beloved June. I've been reminising about the first time I saw him. The Oakridge Boys opened for him in Las Vegas at the Hilton and June had flown back to Nasville to be with her ailing Mother. How magnificent and powerful he was on stage. The last time we saw them in the early 1990's just about the time they were ending tours. We were at the front table and they both were wonderful with their performance and interacting together on stage. This was a truly devoted couple. Knowing she wrote "Ring of Fire" after meeting him makes sense, as she adored him.

They were a wonderful couple to say the least, taking in John Scheider to live in their guest house to help him get off drugs. What a good christian thing to do for a downed man! This is the kind of couple they were!

When we hear the instruments start up, we'll know we're about to hear Johnny Cash , for no other songs start quite like his do! A bit of an off key sound, along with a great beat!

John Ritter's life was cut way too short. No doubt you are making jokes and giving all the angels something to laugh about with your antics.

May you all rest in peace, you're already very missed.

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Re: Johnny Cash and John Ritter have both died
« Reply #12 on: Sep 15^th, 2003, 10:34pm »

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For those who loved John Ritter....just noticed this will be on tomorrow on ABC

SEPTEMBER 16

8/7c ABC News Special: "A Life of Laughter: Remembering John Ritter"

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« Reply #13 on: Sep 15^th, 2003, 10:53pm »

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Does anyone know any contact emails? Rumor has it, they want to cast a grandfather to replace Ritter's character.....I'm thinking Jonathan Winters.

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« Reply #14 on: Sep 15^th, 2003, 11:09pm »

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I thought Winters was dead!

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