RIP Shirley Temple Black

[rcarlberg]

Gosh, I didn't realize she was still alive!
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/m...at-85/5387311/

[ThomasKDye]

It's amazing she lived this long. She outlived 98% of the Little Rascals.

[Casey]

I grew up watching her movies Sunday mornings after church. Nice woman. Sleep in peace.

[gpeccary]

Such wonderful memories of watching her movies growing up. She brought a lovely distraction in some tough times to a lot of people. And in light of all the sad unfortunate deaths lately, natural causes! Bon voyage.

[spellbound]

Rest in peace.

[Reid]

Beautiful lady! By coincidence, I was reading her Wikipedia page last night. RIP

[Shadow]

Gosh, I didn't realize she was still alive!

She's not.

[nycsteve]

It's amazing she lived this long. She outlived 98% of the Little Rascals.

Who's left?

[JKL2000]

She was cute and talented, and I enjoyed many of her signature cocktails as a kid. RIP.

[Jerjo]

I understand that Ambassador Black and Zappa were among the first guests to Havel after his election to head the Czech Republic. Oh, that must have been an interesting conversation on the flight over.

R.I.P.

[rcarlberg]

I understand that Ambassador Black and Zappa were among the first guests to Havel after his election to head the Czech Republic. Oh, that must have been an interesting conversation on the flight over.

From an American point of view, that was a bizarre, at any rate a foreign, moment in the Eastern Bloc Revolution. No right-minded American would dream of asking Shirley Temple about Frank Zappa. Americans know that the United States is a divided country, at war with itself since the mid-1960s or earlier, splintered into culture and counterculture, right and left. Or who can say what the divisions are, except that they persist, like a guerilla war that has festered in the jungle unto the second or third generation? The charming Temple, beloved for “The Good Ship Lollipop” and other entertainments, is not from the same America as the pirate-bearded performer of those classics from 1967 and ’68, “Lumpy Gravy” and “We’re Only in It for the Money.” Not to mention “Alien Orifice” and “Dicky’s Such an Asshole!” No way on earth was Shirley, the sweetheart of the GOP, going to have anything to say about Frank, the Mother of Invention. The TV crew, however, did not consist of right-minded Americans. The crew was in the grip of a delusion. They seemed to think that Ambassador Black was going to say, “We in the United States are proud of our contributions to music and blah blah blah… On the occaision of the arrival of such a distinguished…, allow me to express…”
As was endless recounted to me by every Czech I met in those revolutionary, frightening weeks, Mrs. Black looked horrified, even humiliated. Heads turned away from the camera. Face buried itself in hands. Televised mortification! Mr. Zappa’s music loomed like a distant sun that had never once cast a beam of Mrs. Black’s lonely shore. Face reemerged from hands. The ambassador from the United States volunteered that she did know something about Mr. Zappa’s daughter, Moon Unit. Czechoslovakia was aghast. People had no way to account for the United States ambassador’s boorish airport behavior, except to mark her down as a cultural ignoramus who lacked the aplomb to boast to all of Central Europe about one of America’s finest sons, the brilliant Zappa, a world figure in the field of popular music.

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[Shadow]

I understand that Ambassador Black and Zappa were among the first guests to Havel after his election to head the Czech Republic. Oh, that must have been an interesting conversation on the flight over.

R.I.P.

Shirley- "Would you pass the yellow snow"
Frank- "Are you done with that sausage patty?"
Shirley- "Is that a real pancho?"
Frank- "Don't touch my baby seal"
Shirley- "Is that your foot that stinks"
Frank-"LOOK, there's St. Alfonso"

[gpeccary]

Shirley- "Would you pass the yellow snow"
Frank- "Are you done with that sausage patty?"
Shirley- "Is that a real pancho?"
Frank- "Don't touch my baby seal"
Shirley- "Is that your foot that stinks"
Frank-"LOOK, there's St. Alfonso"

Dude that shit was hilarious!!

[rapidfirerob]

RIP Shirley. She brought a lot of happiness to a lot of folks.

[Frankie]

Apropos (or not):
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...co-400856.html

[hippypants]

Shirley Temple Black's daughter, Lori Black used to play bass for the Melvins at one time:

[rcarlberg]

Wow, prog connection. Nice loop!

[JKL2000]

She was totally prog!

[Casey]

^ Wow! Forgot that.

[JKL2000]

Of course, sometimes she needed a good spanking:

[rcarlberg]

Wow, the things you learn on PE.

[Digital_Man]

Wow. Sad news. I've seen snippets of her when she was a child actress in some movies but don't think I ever saw a whole film. Later on she was involved with politics. Anyway, RIP STB.