Monday, June 27, 2005

100 Acre Wood Mourns

From Today's NYT:

Paul Winchell, 82, TV Host and Film Voice of Pooh's Tigger, Dies
By JULIE SALAMON
Published: June 27, 2005

John Fiedler, 80, Stage Actor and Film Voice of Pooh's Piglet, Dies
By MICHELLE O'DONNELL
Published: June 27, 2005

If you think this has nothing to do with politics, I remember reading somewhere that when Congressman Vito Marcantonio ran for mayor of NYC in 1949, Winchell campaigned for him. Marcantonio was probably the most left-wing person to sit in Congress. As I recall, Winchell would pretend to be a corporate fat cat with his ventriloquist dummy as incumbent mayor, William O'Dwyer.

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