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	Bob Hope: Shopping
		Bob Hope entertained American GI’s starting in May of 1941, when the country was at peace.
		In this landmark collection, Bob and Delores Hope welcome family and friends into their home for a nostalgic look at some of the funniest moments from past holiday specials and USO tours.
		Bob Hope proves that laughter is the universal language the world over in this 90 minute side-splitting salute to slapstick, satire, sketch comedy and zingers.
	www.tvdepot.com /bobhope/shopping/dvds.jsp (482 words)

	Bob Hope and American Variety (Library of Congress Exhibition) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bob Hope was among the 20,000 vaudeville performers working in the 1920s.
		Many of these performers were, like Hope, recent immigrants to America who saw a vaudeville career as one of the few ways to succeed as a "foreigner" in America.
		Throughout his extraordinary professional career of nearly seventy years, Bob Hope practiced the arts he learned in vaudeville and perpetuated variety entertainment traditions in stage musical comedy, motion pictures, radio, television, and the live appearances he made around the world in support of American armed forces.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/bobhope (159 words)

	Bob Hope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hope was born in Eltham, London, England, the fifth of seven sons.
		Hope and Lamour were lifelong friends and she is the actress most associated with his film career along with others such as Lucille Ball, Jane Russell, and Katharine Hepburn.
		Bob Hope is interred in San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Los Angeles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bob_Hope (2666 words)

	Bob Hope Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bob Hope Airport (IATA: BUR, ICAO: KBUR), formerly known as United Airport (1930-1934); Union Air Terminal (1934-1940); Lockheed Air Terminal (1940-1967); Hollywood-Burbank Airport (1967-1978); and most recently Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport (1978-2003), is located in Burbank, California, United States.
		On November 11, 2003, the authority voted to change the airport's name to Bob Hope Airport in honor of the late comedian Bob Hope, a longtime resident of nearby Toluca Lake, who had died earlier in the year and who had kept his personal airplane at the airfield.
		Bob Hope Airport has two terminals, "A" and "B," which are joined together as part of the same building.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bob_Hope_Airport (855 words)

	Bob Hope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hope is mostly remembered for his of golf and even played in a few tour events.
		Bob Hope Square is a landmark in Hollywood California.
		Written especially to commemorate Bob Hope's 100th birthday, The Spirit Of Bob Hope is a meaningful and informative biography that ranges from his birth in England, to his youthful career as a professional boxer, to his long and talented journey toward be...
	www.freeglossary.com /Bob_Hope (1237 words)

	Hope, Bob (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bob Hope is one of television's most renown comedians and actors.
		Hope regularly starred as a comic coward in caught in comic-adventurous situations, but he generally wound up winning the hand of the leading lady.
		Hope was one of the biggest names in show business when television began to develop.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/H/htmlH/hopebob/hopebob.htm (943 words)

	S. T. Karnick on Bob Hope on National Review Online
		Bob Hope was most certainly the most successful and influential comedian of the past century, which means, of course, that he was the most renowned comic ever.
		Hope's confidence onstage was in great contrast to the vast majority of his movie roles, in which he typically played a coward, hustler, con man, or other such phony.
		Bob Hope was never a hipster, never a trend-follower, and there were times when critics and even audiences, the latter usually so faithful to him, no longer enjoyed his work.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-karnick072903.asp (1271 words)

	Bob Hope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Leslie Townes Hope (May 29, 1903 - July 27, 2003), best known as Bob Hope, was a famous entertainer, having appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and television, movies and in army concerts.
		Hope was born in Eltham, England, as fifth of seven sons.
		Hope's turn as a movie star include the classic "Road To..." series of pictures in which he was paired with Bing Crosby and Dorthy Lamour, as well as the movie My Favorite Brunette.
	usapedia.com /b/bob-hope.html (577 words)

	Bob Hope Encyclopedia Articles @ ArtLives.com (Art Lives) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hope celebrated his 100th birthday on May 29, 2003 (Irving Berlin and George Burns were two other notable entertainment centenarians).
		According to one of Hope's daughters, when asked on his deathbed where he wanted to be buried, he told his wife, "Surprise me." He died two months later of pneumonia at 9:28 p.m.
		Bob Hope Airport: Hope had joked with his family that he wanted an airport named for him after hearing in 1979 that Orange County officials had renamed their airport after John Wayne.
	artlives.com /encyclopedia/Bob_Hope (1958 words)

	CNN.com - Bob Hope dead at 100 - Jul. 29, 2003
		Bob Hope was born Leslie Townes Hope on May 29, 1903, in Eltham, England.
		Hope made it to the silver screen with "The Big Broadcast of 1938." He teamed with Shirley Ross on the Oscar-winning song "Thanks for the Memory." The tune became a signature theme for Hope.
		Hope was a frequent television performer, and his NBC specials were some of the highest-rated shows of their time.
	www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/28/obit.hope (1829 words)

	Bob Hope Specials / Bob Hope
		Wisecracking Hope was one of the only radio and film stars to make a seamless transition into the new TV medium, and he did it by making each show a special.
		Hope began his monthly and semi-monthly television specials in 1950 when he was still the number-one box office draw in the land, starring in a long string of Paramount Pictures like Fancy Pants, Monsieur Beaucaire, Caught in the Draft and, of course, the seven classic 'Road' pictures with Bing Crosby.
		Bob Hope never wanted a weekly television series, wisely deciding that his brand of humor might get stale presented week after week on the small screen (and the screen was really small back then!).
	www.tvparty.com /movbob.html (771 words)

	CNN.com Specials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hope was born Leslie Townes Hope on May 29, 1903, in Eltham, England, the fifth of seven sons of William Henry Hope and Avis Townes Hope.
		Hope's mother was a former concert singer and aspiring actress, and his father was a stonecutter.
		Among Hope's countless honors (some sources claim he has received more than 2,000) are his induction in the Television Academy Hall of Fame, 54 honorary doctorates and the four stars that bear his name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
	edition.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2003/hope.obit/stories/bio (1544 words)

	OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts
		Hope made more than 50 films between 1938 and 1972, and many of them contain some of the boldest, most inconspicuously avant-garde strokes of postmodern sleight of hand ever seen on the screen.
		Hope, a glance at the audience, and a perplexed, "Couldn't be." The pair had already bonded in two "Road" pictures (there would be five more by 1962) and teamed as whimsical off-screen rivals on radio and the golf course.
		Hope created a basic film persona who embodied every man's urge to imagine himself as more than he is. When he looked in the mirror, which was often, he saw a dashing hero.
	www.opinionjournal.com /la/?id=110003576 (1223 words)

	NPR : Bob Hope Obituary
		Bob Hope was an American icon and a tireless morale-booster for servicemen from World War II to the Gulf War.
		Hope was featured regularly in several radio series throughout the 1930s.
		Hope was born in England and reached the United States at age 3, landing with his family in Cleveland, Ohio.
	www.npr.org /news/specials/bobhope (925 words)

	NPR : Bob Hope: 100 Years of Memories
		Bob Hope and Bing Crosby do their comedy routine in a 1937 radio broadcast.
		Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour in The Road to Singapore (1940).
		Hope entertained audiences for nearly every decade of the 20th century in a career spanning stage, radio, movies and television.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1277593 (701 words)

	Radio Hall of Fame - Bob Hope, Comedian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bob Hope is recognized as “The Most Honored Entertainer”; by The Guinness Book of World Records.
		Hope’s family moved to Cleveland when he was two.
		Bob Hope was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1990.
	www.radiohof.org /comedy/bobhope.html (237 words)

	Hopeless - Did Bob Hope ever say anything funny? By Christopher Hitchens
		Hope and comedy partner George Byrne at one point "did a little of everything, including the playing of saxophones, a flface routine and for another brief period were the dancing partners for Daisy and Violet Hilton, the celebrated Siamese twins.
		A Bob Hope joke was no laughing matter: It was a bland attempt at what we would now yawningly call inclusiveness.
		Hope was a fool, and nearly a clown, but he was never even remotely a comedian.
	www.slate.com /id/2086499 (1249 words)

	Bob Hope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bob Hope started out as a dancer in the local theatre, and later moved on to vaudeville.
		Hope has received over 50 honorary doctorates, and has been the recipient of thousands of awards.
		In 1990, Bob Hope was given an Ellis Island Medal of Honor for his outstanding work in the entertainment field, as well as being a superb humanitarian.
	www.neco.org /awards/recipients/bobhope.html (356 words)

	Solid! -- Bob Hope
		Hope was America's most-loved comedian, every president's favorite golf partner, and a tireless ambassador to American troops serving their country.
		Originally born in England, Hope moved to the states with his family in 1907.
		Bob Hope passed away in 2003 from complications related to pneumonia.
	www.parabrisas.com /d_hopeb.php (187 words)

	CBC News - Indepth Backgrounder: Bob Hope
		Hope made his first television appearance in 1947, when he headlined the first broadcast of KTLA, the first West Coast TV station in the United States.
		In 1983, Hope went to Beirut to entertain the troops there and he flew to Saudi Arabia in 1991 to put on a show for the troops massed there for the Gulf War.
		In May 1997, Hope was honoured with a dedication of a new fleet of military ships in his name – the USNS Bob Hope, and a month later the Air Force named a C-17 after him.
	www.cbc.ca /news/obit/hope_bob (1146 words)

	AMCTV.com BIOGRAPHY - Bob Hope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bob Hope was born Leslie Townes Hope on May 29, 1903, in the British town of Eltham.
		Hope then worked as a dance instructor before embarking on a career in vaudeville, where, within five years of his start as part of a two-man dance act, he had toured the country and graduated from the "small-time" stages, where tickets cost as little as ten cents, to the "big-time" -- $2.
		For his career and social contributions, Bob Hope holds a place in the "Guinness Book of World Records" as the most honored entertainer in the world, with more than two thousand awards and citations for humanitarian and professional efforts, including five Oscars®;, 44 honorary doctorates and seven civilian medals.
	www.amctv.com /person/detail/0,,682-1-EST,00.html (631 words)

	Bob Hope: Terms and Conditions
		Bob Hope Enterprises shall provide you with prompt notice of any such claim, suit or proceeding and shall reasonably cooperate with you, at your expense, in your defense of any such claim, suit or proceeding.
		Bob Hope Enterprises has not reviewed all of the sites linked to the Site and is not responsible for the content or accuracy of any off-site pages or any other sites linked to Bob Hope Enterprises.
		Bob Hope Enterprises may deliver notice to you under these Terms and Conditions by means of electronic mail, a general notice on Bob Hope Enterprises, or by written communication delivered by first class U.S. mail to your address on record in Bob Hope Enterprises' account information.
	www.tvdepot.com /bobhope/terms.jsp (2009 words)

	Bob Hope and Associates Insurance and Financial Services
		Hope-Bosworth House and the Hope-Merrill House in Geyserville, California.
		We at Bob Hope and Associates understand more than any other independent agent the unique insurance needs of your business.
		Bob Hope and Associates has the only program providing this unique set of coverages.
	www.bobhopeinsurance.com /pages/bedbreakfast.html (166 words)

	Bob Hope - Biography
		For a man who played third billing to Siamese twins and trained seals, Bob Hope has become the most recognized profile and talent in the world.
		Hope's entertainment persona has been evident in every decade of the 20th century -- from impersonating Charlie Chaplin in front of the firehouse in Cleveland in 1909, to celebrating an unprecedented
		The fifth of seven sons, he was born Leslie Townes Hope in Eltham, England on May 29, 1903.
	www.bobhope.com /bob.htm (172 words)

	Bob Hope - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Leslie Townes Hope, KBE (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003), otherwise known as Bob Hope, was a famous entertainer who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and television, in movies and in U.S. Army concerts.
		Hope made big money performing live; during an eight-week tour in 1940, for instance, he was reported as generating a then-record $100,000 in receipts.
		Hope was honored with a knighthood from the Knights of Malta and the Order of St. Sylvester from the Vatican.
	voyager.in /Bob_Hope (2006 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Showbiz \| Comedian Bob Hope dies
		A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said the Queen, who met Hope many times, was "very sad" to hear the news and would be sending a private message to his widow, Dolores.
		On Hope's 100th birthday, the President Bush established the Bob Hope American Patriot Award for civilians showing "extraordinary love of their country".
		Bob Hope was born Leslie Townes Hope at Eltham in south-east London in 1903, the son of a stonemason and a Welsh former concert singer.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/3103751.stm (713 words)

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