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Topic: Diane Linkletter


In the News (Sun 27 Dec 09)

  
  Art Linkletter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Art Linkletter (born Arthur Gordon Kelly on July 17, 1912) was the host of two of the longest running shows in broadcast history: House Party, which ran on CBS TV and Radio for 25 years, and People Are Funny, which ran on NBC TV and Radio for 19 years.
Linkletter recently opened the celebrations of the fiftieth anniversary of Disneyland at the age of 93.
The Scarlet Linkletter - Debunking the Diane Linkletter LSD myth
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Art_Linkletter   (268 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
LINKLETTER: It actually became a holiday, according to what I read, by a humor columnist in a local paper making it a subject of a kind of a humorous column, and then it was picked up by Nixon who said it's going to be President's Day.
LINKLETTER: Your friend might be coming down with Alzheimer's, but there are a number of dementias that have the same kind of memory loss, the same kind of problem and recollecting, so you can't be sure unless you...
LINKLETTER: That I have overcome and become a better man. Losing my son and my daughter, made me so much more appreciative of the other children, so much more aware of how important it is to tell the people you love that you love them because it can pass away so fast.
transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0202/18/lkl.00.html   (6114 words)

  
 Art Linkletter
Art Linkletter was abandoned as an infant, adopted and raised by a preacher.
Linkletter's daughter Diane allegedly committed suicide in 1969, under the influence of LSD, he says.
In his 90s, Linkletter served as National Chairman of USA Next, a group that promotes itself as "the conservative alternative to the liberal AARP (American Association of Retired Persons)".
www.nndb.com /people/643/000022577   (350 words)

  
 The Diane Linkletter Story - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Diane Linkletter Story is a 1969 short film by Baltimore, Maryland, USA filmmaker John Waters starring Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce and David Lochary.
Waters claims that the film is "accidental" -- he and his friends improvised a story while testing a new synch-sound camera (later used on Multiple Maniacs) on the day that Art Linkletter's daughter Diane committed suicide.
The film was unreleased in any form until it showed up on a 1990 videotape entitled Divine.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Diane_Linkletter_Story   (121 words)

  
 cannabisnews.com: Tricky Dick's Guide to Drinking and Toking
When 20-year-old Diane Linkletter leaped to her death from the sixth floor of her West Hollywood, Calif., apartment on Oct. 4, 1969, her father immediately fingered acid as the culprit.
No one in the mainstream media challenged Linkletter's improbable account, and the story of an acid-crazed Diane Linkletter jumping out a window because she thought she could fly became an established urban legend.
So when Linkletter strolled into the Oval Office shortly after noon on May 18, 1971, the stage was set for an historic meeting between a man who blamed drugs to cover up his own shortcomings as a parent and a president who would soon take covering up to new heights.
www.cannabisnews.com /news/thread12533.shtml   (2752 words)

  
 Hallucinogens 4 - Deadly Effects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
LSD's deadly effects remain unchanged, but with the passage of time new generations of young people are showing renewed interest in the drug.
Diane Linkletter, the daughter of radio and TV personality Art Linkletter, fell to her death from her sixth floor apartment window while under the influence of LSD.
She was murdered by the people who manufacture and sell LSD." Diane had previously told her father about a bum trip on LSD and that she felt she was being driven out of her mind.
deep6inc.com /previewlsd04.html   (150 words)

  
 The Diane Linkletter Experience - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
With Jefferson providing the role of guitarist/ vocalist the remained of the line-up was fulfilled in 1994 with the accompaniment of drummer Bret Tobias, guitarist Jesse..
With Jefferson providing the role of guitarist/ vocalist the remained of the line-up was fulfilled in 1994 with the accompaniment of drummer Bret Tobias, guitarist Jesse Flavin and bassist Ramone Sender.
However, with The Diane Linkletter Experience being a side project, their first release wouldn't see the light of day until three years after they first got together.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,596336,00.html   (286 words)

  
 WashingtonPost.com: Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure
Diane Linkletter seemed a picture-perfect young lady--rich, white, Christian, and loved.
Two-weeks later, Linkletter appeared at the White House for a hastily assembled bipartisan conference on the drug menace.
Rather, she was "a well-educated, intelligent girl from a family that has traditionally been a Christian family and has been straight." Linkletter added categorically that Diane "had no personal problems." It was the drug, and the drug only, that wreaked this tragedy.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/smoke.htm   (5354 words)

  
 Dreamland News: Filmography: Pink Flamingos
A dramatization of the tragic suicide of Art Linkletter's daughter, Diane, played by Divine.
What is particularly distasteful is that this project was filmed the day after Diane fell to her death out an open window, supposedly under the influence of LSD.
Diane's death was exploited by her own parents as an anti-drug message across the country, and as a sign our declining culture - thanks to the "hippie" movement!
www.dreamlandnews.com /films/diane_linkletter.shtml   (87 words)

  
 Keyword   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
America's Grandfather, Art Linkletter, will be exposing the liberal AARP on Hannity and Colmes Fox News Channel tonight at 9 EST.
Art Linkletter, USA Next's National Chairman, recently appeared on Your World with Neil Cavuto to discuss the liberal bias at AARP and the need for personal retirement accounts.
Linkletter Claims AARP is Country's Largest Liberal Lobby.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=linkletter   (1465 words)

  
 The Diane Linkletter Story (1969)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Plot Outline: A John Waters film where Divine plays Diane Linkletter, daughter of Art Linkletter and commits suicide.
Trivia: Filmed the day after Diane Linkletter took her own life.
Made around the time of "Mondo Trasho," this is what Waters calls an "instant movie." He read about Diane Linkletter's suicide in the paper one day, gathered some of his friends, and shot a dramatic recreation of it that same day.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0127514   (243 words)

  
 BartCop Entertainment Archives - Sunday, 6 March, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Art Linkletter, who hosted the television broadcast of the opening of Disneyland in 1955, returned to the park to help preview Disneyland's 50th anniversary plans.
Linkletter, who will turn 93 this summer as the Southern California resort celebrates its birthday, reminisced on Friday about hosting the live television coverage of the park's opening.
Turns out Diane Linkletter was NOT under the influence of LSD at the time of her death.
www.suprmchaos.com /bcEnt-Sun-030605.index.html   (2416 words)

  
 Swizzle-Stick
It was actually coined by a college friend during an all-night pot smoking session....the idea being a band that reflected Diane's [Linkletter, daughter of Art, who ran away from home and eventually killed herself by leaping from a balcony] mindset when she decided she could fly....
I was also fascinated by Art Linkletter's story of his crusade to get Diane back and off the streets.
Playing in DC the same night Art Linkletter was speaking there.
www.swizzle-stick.com /bin/column.php?id=Q0000543   (427 words)

  
 Mysterious Death   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
As an aside, many readers may remember the LSD related death of Art Linkletter's daughter Diane.
Art Linkletter basically ended his successful television career when he started crusading against drugs with a fervor that made it hard for middle America to find the afternoon talk show host funny anymore.
Not that it means anything (and I'm absolutely sure it doesn't), but Diane Linkletter's companion the night she was killed was Edward Durston.
www.tvparty.com /tvp-AC/wayne.html   (784 words)

  
 Grown-Ups Say the Darndest Things by Bob Black
Art Linkletter and other luminaries from the optimism industry told thousands of crewcut bulletheaded zombies (and their “gals”) what they wanted to hear: When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are...
The big draw was, of course, Art Linkletter, still telling the same old stupid stories of fiveyear-olds funnier than he’ll ever be.
At first, he says, he went on the warpath with his anti-drug crusade — as if being Art Linkletter’s daughter weren’t reason enough, drugs or no drugs, to snuff it.
www.inspiracy.com /black/abolition/grownups.html   (1288 words)

  
 answers
Actually, Edgar Rice Burroughs lived for a time near the Southern California community of Tarzana and later named his character after the area.
Diane Linkletter accidentally jumped to her death while high on LSD.
Despite Art Linkletter's repeated public statements, Diane Linkletter committed suicide and was not under the influence of drugs at the time.
www.sonic.net /~crapgame/answers.html   (607 words)

  
 biography
In 1969, a few days after the suicide of Art Linkletter's daughter, John filmed The Diane Linkletter Story, an improvised mock re-enactment of what might have happened that night in the Linkletter house.
David Lochary and Mary Vivian Pearce played Diane’s parents.
The Diane Linkletter Story was Waters' first film with actual dialogue.
home.bak.rr.com /simplydivine/biography.htm   (1924 words)

  
 Across the 'Board
Bret Tobias, singer/guitarist (The Bigger Lovers, The Diane Linkletter Experience)
I think [mine and bassist Scott Jefferson's] old group, The Diane Linkletter Experience, was one of Brian's first customers.
We were all ridiculously wet behind the ears, not to mention completely loaded, and whenever someone who had a clue would stop by they'd offer advice like, "Duuuude, you can't set up your monitors so close to the tape machine or the frickin' speaker magnet'll erase yer tape."
www.citypaper.net /articles/2002-12-19/cover2.shtml   (739 words)

  
 WFMU's Beware of the Blog: DJ Comp of the Month: Mac's Big Seven Inch Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This collection was never offered during our marathons, Mac put it together specifically for the WFMU record library.
So sing along with the Telephone Pioneers of America, shed a tear with Art Linkletter, and lasso some tefillin with Harold Stern, the Jewish Cowboy.
If you like these, be sure to also check out Mac's Museum of Carboard and Oddity Records, one of the hidden gems of our vast website.
blog.wfmu.org /freeform/2005/10/dj_comp_of_the_.html   (363 words)

  
 Bigger Lovers/Paul Newman
You may not be familiar with Bigger Lovers as one big throbbing unit, but if you've spent any time in Philly rock clubs you've likely run into one or all of these Casanovas in one band or another.
The quartet harnesses the gentle-yet-firm songcraft of sexy Bret Tobias (guitar/vocals, ex-Moped and ex-The Diane Linkletter Experience) and sultry Scott Jefferson (bass, ex-Diane Linkletter).
Stud drummer Jesse Jameson (The Lucys) and hunk guitarist Ed Hogarty (Mesmer, Lefty's Deceiver and Sevaris) beef up the sound.
www.citypaper.net /articles/043098/sixpick1.shtml   (173 words)

  
 Columbus Alive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Bigger Lovers are the little pop band that could.
After forming in the wake of the break-up of the interestingly named Diane Linkletter Experience—both Bret Tobias and Scott Jefferson were members—the Bigger Lovers (which also includes bassist Ed Hogarty and drummer Pat Berkery) readied their debut, How I Learned to Stop Worrying, and prepared for its release in 1999.
Unfortunately, the small North Carolina label that was going to put out the record went out of business before it hit store shelves.
www.columbusalive.com /2004/20040609/060904/06090401.html   (955 words)

  
 October 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Later spawning pop words like Beatnik, Nudnik and Peacenik.
Diane Linkletter, the daughter of television personality Art Linkletter, gets high on LSD and leaps out of a window.
After a two week power struggle between Russian Parlimentary hard-liners and President Boris Yeltsin, Russian troops fire on and attack the barricaded Russian White House (Parliment building).
www.mpsc839.org /_Info/ALMANAC/10OCT/04.HTM   (203 words)

  
 ToxicUniverse.com - John Waters - Diane Linkletter Story, The Movies Review
ToxicUniverse.com - John Waters - Diane Linkletter Story, The Movies Review
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www.toxicuniverse.com /email.php?rid=10004839   (106 words)

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