Comedy legend Phyllis Diller dies at 95

By TODAY staff and wire

Phyllis Diller, the housewife turned humorist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, punctuating her jokes with her trademark cackle, died Monday morning in her Los Angeles home at age 95, her agent confirmed to NBC News.

"She was a true pioneer," Fred Wostbrock said. "The first female stand-up comedian. She paved the way for everybody. She paved the way for Joan Rivers, Ellen DeGeneres, Chelsea Handler. Phyllis was the first of the first. The first female to play Vegas ... she was on Broadway, she made movies.?She did it all."

Her longtime manager, Milton Suchin, told The Associated Press, "She died peacefully in her sleep with a smile on her face."

According to E!, her son Perry found her. She is also survived by two daughters.

Diller suffered a near-fatal heart attack in 1999. The cause of her death has not been released.

"I'm beyond saddened by the death of Phyllis Diller," comedian Joan Rivers posted on Twitter. "We were friends - Melissa and I had a wonderful time with her at lunch just a month ago.

"The only tragedy is that Phyllis Diller was the last from an era that insisted a woman had to look funny in order to be funny," Rivers tweeted. "If she had started today, Phyllis could have stood there in Dior and Harry Winston and become the major star that she was. I adored her!"

"Phyllis Diller was not only a great comedienne but her memorable teaming with Bob Hope brought female comics to the forefront," said comedian Don Rickles. "Her life was filled with goodness and she deserved the respect she received. ?She will be missed."

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She was a staple of nightclubs and television from the 1950s ? when female comics were rare indeed ? until her retirement in 2002. Diller built her stand-up act around the persona of the corner-cutting housewife ("I bury a lot of my ironing in the back yard") with bizarre looks, a wardrobe to match (by "Omar of Omaha") and a husband named "Fang."

Wrote Time magazine in 1961: "Onstage comes something that, by its own description, looks like a sackful of doorknobs. With hair dyed by Alcoa, pipe-cleaner limbs and knees just missing one another when the feet are wide apart, this is not Princess Volupine. It is Phyllis Diller, the poor man's Auntie Mame, only successful female among the New Wave comedians and one of the few women funny and tough enough to belt out a 'standup' act of one-line gags."

"I was one of those life-of-the-party types," Diller told The Associated Press in 1965. "You'll find them in every bridge club, at every country club. People invited me to parties only because they knew I would supply some laughs. They still do."

In 1992 she received the American Comedy Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Diller didn't get into comedy until she was nearly 40, after her first husband, Sherwood Diller, prodded her for two years to give up a successful career as an advertising and radio writer. Through it all, she was also a busy mother.

"We had five kids at the time. I don't how he thought we'd handle that," she told the AP in 2006.

A Chicago Tribune columnist, describing her appearance at a nightspot there in 1958, noted she was from San Francisco, hailed her as "the weirdest, wildest yet" ? and made sure to mention her five youngsters.

Her husband managed her career until the couple's 25-year marriage fell apart in the 1960s. Shortly after her divorce she married entertainer Warde Donovan, but they separated within months.

Through both marriages and other relationships, the foibles of "Fang" remained an integral part of her act.

"Fang is permanent in the act, of course," she once said. "Don't confuse him with my real husbands. They're temporary."

She also appeared in movies, including "Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number" and "Eight on the Lam" with Bob Hope.

In 1966-67, she was the star of an ABC sitcom about a society family trying to stave off bankruptcy, "The Pruitts of Southampton." Gypsy Rose Lee played a nosy neighbor. In 1968, she was host of a short-lived variety series, "The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show."

But standup comedy was her first love, and when she broke into the business in 1956 it was a field she had largely to herself because female comics weren't widely accepted then.

Although she could be serious during interviews, sooner or later a joke would pop out, often as not followed by that outrageous "AH-HHAAAAAAAAAAAA-HA-HA-HA!" laugh.

"It's my real laugh," she once said. "It's in the family. When I was a kid my father called me the laughing hyena."

Her looks were a frequent topic, and she did everything she could to accentuate them ? negatively. She wore outrageous fright wigs and deliberately shopped for stage shoes that made her legs look as skinny as possible.

"The older I get, the funnier I get," she said in 1961. "Think what I'll save in not having my face lifted."

She felt different about plastic surgery later, though, and her face, and other body parts, underwent a remarkable transformation. Efforts to be beautiful became a mainstay of her act.

Commenting in 1995 about the repainting of the Hollywood sign, she cracked, "It took 300 gallons, almost as much as I put on every morning." She said her home "used to be haunted, but the ghosts haven't been back since the night I tried on all my wigs."

She recovered from a 1999 heart attack with the help of a pacemaker, but finally retired in 2002, saying advancing age was making it too difficult for her to spend several weeks a year on the road.

"I have energy, but I don't have lasting energy," she told The Associated Press in 2006. "You have to know your limitations."

After retiring from standup, Diller continued to take occasional small parts in movies and TV shows ("Family Guy") and pursued painting as a serious hobby. She published her autobiography, "Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse," in 2005. The 2006 film "Goodnight, We Love You" documented her career.

Her other books included "Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints" and "Phyllis Diller's Marriage Manual."

When she turned 90 in July 2007, she fractured a bone in her back and was forced to cancel a planned birthday appearance on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno." But it didn't stop her from wisecracking: "I still take the pill 'cause I don't want any more grandchildren."

Born Phyllis Driver in Lima, Ohio, in 1917, she married Sherwood Diller right out of school (Bluffton College) and was a housewife for several years before getting outside work.

She was working as an advertising writer for a radio station when a comedy turn at San Francisco's Purple Onion nightclub launched her toward stardom.

She made her network TV debut as a contestant on Groucho Marx's game show, "You Bet Your Life." (Diller, asked if she was married: "Yes, I've worn a wedding ring for 18 years." Marx: "Really? Well, two more payments and it'll be all yours.")

She credited the self-help book, "The Magic of Believing" by Claude M. Bristol, with giving her the courage to enter the business. For decades she would recommend it to aspiring entertainers, even buying it for them sometimes.

"Don't get me wrong, though," she said in a 1982 interview that threatened to turn serious. "I'm a comic. I don't deal with problems when I'm working."

"I want people to laugh."

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The Associated Press and E! contributed to this report.

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Bankruptcy Is No Longer A Bad Word! Tips To Help You Along ...

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The head of one of the UK's leading cancer research organisations has hailed a golden age in prostate cancer drug discovery as for the fourth time in two years results are published finding a new drug can significantly extend life.

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine today shows the drug enzalutamide can significantly extend life and improve quality of life in men with advanced prostate cancer ? in findings that could further widen the treatment options for men with the disease.

The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and its partner hospital The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust jointly led the new Phase III trial of enzalutamide and the Phase III trials of two other drugs, cabazitaxel and abiraterone. Abiraterone was also discovered at The Institute of Cancer Research and was recently made available on the NHS. A further drug sipuleucel-T has also been shown to extend life in the two-year period.

Professor Alan Ashworth, chief executive of The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), said cancer research in the UK was finally delivering new treatment options for men with advanced prostate cancer after a long period where the options were limited.

Professor Ashworth said: "Advanced prostate cancer is extremely difficult to treat, and it's taken a massive coordinated effort to finally bring new drugs into the pipeline, after decades where there were no options once old-style hormone treatment stopped working.

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Median survival with enzalutamide was 18.4 months, compared with 13.6 months for men receiving a placebo. Around 43 per cent of men taking enzalutamide as part of the AFFIRM trial reported an improved quality of life, compared with 18 per cent of men taking a placebo. In November last year, the trial's Independent Data Monitoring Committee recommended that the trial be stopped early and men who received the placebo be offered enzalutamide.

The Phase III trial was jointly led by Professor Johann de Bono, head of the Drug Development Unit at the ICR and The Royal Marsden.

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Journal reference: New England Journal of Medicine

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The moderate-liberal politician continues her criticism of the ruling African National Congress. From IOL (South Africa): "The ANC had cultivated an 'anti-small business' environment in favour of politically connected big businesses, DA [Democratic Alliance] parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko said on Monday."

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Nissenbaum Law Blog: What Constitutes Home Improvement Under ...

In Great Am. Restoration Services, Inc. v. Patricia Lenti, et al., 2012 NY Slip Op 03140 (N.Y.A.D. 2 Dept., April 24, 2012), the Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division (Second Judicial Department), addressed whether, under New York City?s Administrative Code, a contractor is required to possess a license to perform work on a house.

The facts were straightforward. After a fire at the defendants? house, they hired Plaintiff to temporarily ?cover holes in the roof, remove water from the premises, remove both salvageable and unsalvageable personal property, store such property, and remove debris.? Id. at 2.? One of the issues was whether the Plaintiff needed to be licensed under the NY Administrative Code.

In that case, the Supreme Court (Nassau County) had granted the Contractor?s (?Plaintiff?) motion for summary judgment on the issue of liability in an action to recover damages for breach of contract.? The lower Court also denied defendants? cross motion to dismiss the complaint pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(7).? The Plaintiff appealed.

The Appellate Division upheld the lower Court?s decision because the Appellate Division felt Plaintiff established its prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law. Id.? Plaintiff submitted the contract between the parties that laid out the work that Plaintiff was to perform.? The contract clearly stated that defendants would be responsible for any charges not covered by the defendants? insurance policy.? Plaintiff also submitted proof that it satisfactorily completed the work and never got paid for that work pursuant to the contract.? Id.?

The Appellate Court stated that since the defendants failed to ?raise a triable issue of fact in response [to the evidence Plaintiff submitted for review], the Supreme Court properly granted the plaintiff?s motion for summary judgment on the issue of liability.? Id.?? The Appellate Division also stated that the lower Court properly determined that the work Plaintiff performed on the defendants? home did not constitute ?home improvement? as defined in Administrative Code of City of New York (?Code?) ? 20-386(2).? Under ? 20-386(2), ?home improvement? is defined as

The construction, repair, replacement, remodeling, alteration, conversion, rehabilitation, renovation, modernization, improvement, or addition to any land or building, or that portion thereof which is used or designed to be used as a residence or dwelling place and shall include but not be limited to the construction, erection, replacement, or improvement of driveways, swimming pools, terraces, patios, landscaping, fences, porches, garages, fallout shelters, basements and other improvements to structures or upon land which is adjacent to a dwelling house.? ?Home improvement? shall not include (i) the construction of a new home or building or work done by a contractor in compliance with a guarantee of completion of a new building project, (ii) the sale of goods or materials by a seller who neither arranges to perform no performs directly or indirectly any work or labor in connection with the installation of or application of the goods or materials, (iii) residences owned by or controlled by the state or any municipal subdivision thereof, or (iv) painting or decorating of a building, residence, home or apartment, when not incidental or related to home improvement work as herein defined.? Without regard to the extent of affixation, ?home improvement? shall also include the installation of central heating or air conditioning systems, central vacuum cleaning systems, storm windows, awnings or communication systems.

Administrative Code of City of New York ? 20-386 (2).

As determined by the lower Court, since Plaintiff did not perform work that rose to the level of that constituting home improvement, it was not required to possess a license pursuant to the Code ? 20-387(a).? Consequently, Plaintiff was not required to plead that it was duly licensed by the Department of Consumer Affairs of the City of New York as a home improvement contractor.? This finding justified the lower Court?s denial of defendants? cross motion to dismiss the complaint ?pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a)(7) for failure to plead that it was so licensed.?? Great Am. Restoration Services, Inc. v. Patricia Lenti, et al., ?2012 NY Slip Op 03140 (N.Y.A.D. 2 Dept., April 24, 2012).

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Uganda Ebola outbreak 'under control'

A recent outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus is "under control" but has not yet been fully eradicated, a Ugandan health official said Monday.

Two suspicious cases were admitted to a hospital close to the scene of the outbreak over the weekend, bringing to nine the total number of people currently in isolation, the official said.

"We can now comfortably say that it is under control, but cannot say that we are absolutely finished with it," Paul Kagwa, assistant commissioner at the Ugandan health ministry, told AFP. The last confirmed case was on August 4.

Sixteen people have died since the latest outbreak started in early July in Uganda's western Kibale district, some 200 kilometres (120 miles) from Kampala, and around 50 kilometres from the border with Democratic Republic of Congo.

A total of 165 people living in the community remain under observation, while 243 people who were thought to have come into contact with the virus have turned out negative, Kagwa said.

The total incubation period for Ebola is around 21 days, meaning that it would take roughly two more weeks before the outbreak can be declared over, Kagwa said.

The rare haemorrhagic disease, named after a small river in DR Congo, killed 37 people in western Uganda in 2007 and at least 170 in the north of the country in 2000.

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Sell Products Online Using eCommerce and WordPress | Small - SPC

Many small businesses today not only operate out of a brick and mortar, but online as well. In fact, a growing number of small businesses are deciding to operate only on the internet, with no physical location.

The choices of eCommerce platforms are growing rapidly and can become a little overwhelming sometimes. At SPC, we select specific eCommerce shopping carts based on the customer?s business need. Whether a customer needs to list and sell one downloadable digital product, or hundreds and even thousands of individual products, there is a solution out there.

The incredible flexibility of WordPress and the large numbers of developers building plugins and add-ons creates a very customizable solution for many small business customers. The ability to change the website design, customize the look and feel, publish website content, and manage products and information places the WordPress platform at the top of the list for most website consultants as the go-to platform for professional business websites.

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One of the more popular eCommerce shopping carts for WordPress is called WP eCommerce (or, WPEC). WPEC leverages many of the inherent functions of WordPress that makes adding and managing products an achievable task for even the most novice online sales person. The shopping cart is officially a plugin, but it is way more than just a plugin. Essentially, it?s another software application that runs within WordPress, a larger software application.

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I prefer to keep the total number of products below 200 for this eCommerce solution as the management of each individual item can become tedious at best. Allowing for bulk uploading using a .csv file does make the initial upload of products easier, but there is still a rather large amount of work that needs to be done at the individual product level. For large numbers of products (200+ individual SKUs) in the several hundred to thousands range, there are more applicable platform packages out there that facilitate the larger inventories. We?ll discuss those in another post.

Reach out to us and discuss how we can help bring your business online and generate revenue.

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One Size Fits All (and other publishing nonsense) | Burdens Do a ...

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Yesterday I was reading an article that ran in FORBES magazine about the most effective ways to market a newly published book in this increasingly unstable publishing world.

It contained the usual information to utilize social media to the fullest, tell readers what they gain by reading your book, plan periodic giveaways, etc. What struck my attention was this author?s closing remarks on using a book (even a self-published one) to create a stir of excitement about you and your business so that you?ll earn scads of money on a speaking circuit.

I get the logic behind the advice?the problem is this?most of the writers I know and love?love to write and speaking is a far off distant second.

I?m right there with this majority.

The fact is there are writers who speak because they are now compelled to do so by the pressure inflicted upon them by the publishing world.

And there are speakers who write because a book is a nice add-on to their business.

How I dream about the days when writers could simply write and speakers could simply speak without the additional pressure to push into areas they aren?t interested in pursuing (and are not as equally gifted).

Despite what the publishing professionals promote, there is no One Size Fits All marketing plan that works for everyone.

Everyone has their limits.
I know I have mine.

I?m happy to write, promote, do radio/tv?but I refuse to get on a plane every weekend to speak so I can sell.

I know myself well enough and if it ever comes to that?then I will stop writing for good.

Thankfully?that day hasn?t yet arrived. So until then, I?m pleased to share with you the back cover copy of my newest book, One Size Fits All: Making Healthy Choices, Stepping Into a Meaningful Life, to be released in late September.

Celebrate with me that at least for this season, I can continue to write while enjoying a life that doesn?t include stepping onto a plane on a regular basis.

In One Size Fits All, you will discover that much of life and health is about making good choices. What we say yes to, as well as what we say no to, matters in our everyday decisions. Information, no matter how valuable, remains worthless unless we grab hold of its principles and put them to use in our lives. Each one of us determines the quality of life as it pertains to our health. Throughout every chapter of One Size Fits All, discover how much influence you have over your life despite periodic seasons of setback, illness, or injury. As you read, you will learn how every individual?s unique lifestyle plan includes making meaningful choices to build a healthy life. One Size Fits All provides comprehensive prescriptions for life that will encourage, strengthen, and fortify you to be your healthy best: mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually.

Source: http://michelehowe.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/one-size-fits-all-and-other-publishing-nonsense/

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