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RIP Sherman Hemsley

eeriepadaveeeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 41,793
edited July 2012 in All Encompassing Trip
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8/28/98- Camden, NJ
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
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  • JOEJOEJOEJOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,483
    How sad!

    I loved the Jeffersons...George was full of great one-liners, and Florence always had a great comeback!

    The show had some great quirky characters!

    Trivia: Roxie Roker, who played Helen Willis, is the mother of Lenny Kravitz.
  • DS1119DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    RIP
  • Dr. DelightDr. Delight Posts: 11,210
    To a deluxe apartment in the sky.................
    And so you see, I have come to doubt
    All that I once held as true
    I stand alone without beliefs
    The only truth I know is you.
  • SD48277SD48277 Posts: 12,243
    :(
    George is now with Weezy.
    ELITIST FUK
  • eeriepadaveeeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 41,793
    Anyone remember the episode of Fresh Prince Of Bel Air where he was on and dies in the episode. Will thought he killed him and all shenanigans break lose :lol: :(
    8/28/98- Camden, NJ
    10/31/09- Philly
    5/21/10- NYC
    9/2/12- Philly, PA
    7/19/13- Wrigley
    10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
    10/21/13- Philly, PA
    10/22/13- Philly, PA
    10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
    4/28/16- Philly, PA
    4/29/16- Philly, PA
    5/1/16- NYC
    5/2/16- NYC
    9/2/18- Boston, MA
    9/4/18- Boston, MA
    9/14/22- Camden, NJ
    9/7/24- Philly, PA
    9/9/24- Philly, PA
    Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
    Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
    RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    Aw man. He was a funny little dude with a huge mouth.

    When he was on All in the Family (that show spurred so many shows/actors!), one of my favorite episodes with him was when they went to Lionel's engagement party, not realizing he was marrying a white women.

    Hilarity ensued :D
  • CROJAM95CROJAM95 Posts: 9,788
    Loved watching with my grandfather... Funny stuff

    He was the man

    RIP
  • RKCNDYRKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    :(
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • rick1zoo2rick1zoo2 Posts: 12,632
    holy crap!

    it's like my childhood is dying, every couple of weeks it seems that another celebrity passes away
  • afroannnieafroannnie Posts: 12,995
    :cry: He taught me how to walk...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhtLTDK9yWA
    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
  • perfectlefts14perfectlefts14 Posts: 2,023
    RIP :(
    Tell the captain
    'This boats not safe
    And we're drowning.'
  • SatansFutonSatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    RIP Sherman. In my opinion you were the greatest dancer of all time.

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    "See a broad to get dat booty yak 'em, leg 'er down, a smack 'em yak 'em!"
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    8-)
    “It was 1978 or 1979, and Sherman Hemsley kept ringing me up. I didn’t know him from a bar of soap because we didn’t have television in Spain (where I was living). He called me from Hollywood saying, ‘I’m one of your biggest fans and I’m going to fly you here and put flying teapots all up and down the Sunset Strip.’ I thought, ‘This guy is a lunatic.’ He kept it up so I said, ‘Listen, can you get us tickets to L.A. via Jamaica? I want to go there to make a reggae track and have a honeymoon with my new girlfriend.’ He said, ‘Sure! I’ll get you two tickets.’

    I thought, ‘Well, even if he’s a nut case at least he’s coming up with the goodies.’ The tickets arrived and we had this great honeymoon in Jamaica. Then we caught the plane across to L.A. We had heard Sherman was a big star, but we didn’t know the details. Coming down the corridor from the plane, I see this black guy with a whole bunch of people running after him trying to get autographs. Anyway, we get into this stretch limousine with Sherman and immediately there’s a big joint being passed around. I say, ‘Sorry man, I don’t smoke.’ Sherman says, ‘You don’t smoke and you’re from Gong?’

    Inside the front door of Sherman’s house was a sign saying, ‘Don’t answer the door because it might be the man.’ There were two Puerto Ricans that had a LSD laboratory in his basement, so they were really paranoid. They also had little crack/freebase depots on every floor. Then Sherman says, ‘Come on upstairs and I’ll show you the Flying Teapot room.’ Sherman was very sweet but was surrounded by these really crazy people.

    We went up to the top floor and there was this big room with darkened windows and “Flying Teapot” is playing on a tape loop over and over again. There were also three really dumb-looking, very voluptuous Southern gals stoned and wobbling around naked. They were obviously there for the guys to play around with.

    [My girlfriend] Maggie and I were really tired and went to our room to go to bed. The room had one mattress with an electric blanket and that was it. No bed covering, no pillow, nothing. The next day we came down and Sherman showed us a couple of [The Jeffersons] episodes.

    One of our fans came and rescued us, but not before Sherman took us to see these Hollywood PR people. They said, ‘Well, Mr. Hemsley wants us to get the information we need in order to do these Flying Teapot billboards on Sunset Strip.’ I looked at them and thought they were the cheesiest, most nasty people that I had ever seen in my life and I gave them the runaround. I just wanted out of there. I liked Sherman a lot. He was a very personable, charming guy. I just had a lot of trouble with the people around him.”
    http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/03/0 ... -gong-fan/
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