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kip_w ([personal profile] kip_w) wrote2007-08-12 06:14 pm

merv

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Merv Griffin has been very sick, and now he has passed on. Mark Evanier has a tribute, including a couple of brief anecdotes.

Somehow, I feel like watching The Man With Two Brains again.
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[identity profile] asimovberlioz.livejournal.com 2007-08-13 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
It's a sad loss, but at least the elevators are safe to use again.

[identity profile] richardthe23rd.livejournal.com 2007-08-13 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, the ultimate most-marginal-character-turns-out-to-be-the-killer plot.

[identity profile] womzilla.livejournal.com 2007-08-14 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
That was my first thought. My second was even more violent.

[identity profile] kip-w.livejournal.com 2007-08-14 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
My first thought was the song, "My Name is Not Merv Griffin" (to a tune written by Charlie Chaplin for, I think, Modern Times) that they used to play on Doctor Demento when it was on the radio in my area.