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Comedian Phyllis Diller, the former housewife whose raucous cackle and jokes about her own looks made her one of America's first female stand-up comedy .(USA TODAY) - Before Joan Rivers, Roseanne Barr and Ellen DeGeneres, Phyllis Diller crashed the mostly male comedy circuit party to become an icon in the .Find breaking news, multimedia, reviews & opinion on Minneapolis, St. Paul, the Twin Cities metro area and Minnesota.Phyllis Diller, who passed away Monday at the age of 95, performed one of her last stand-up comedy shows in Canada more than a decade ago.Gilbert Gottfried says way before people like Roseanne Barr and Kathy Griffin broke ground for women in comedy, there was Phyllis Diller.Phyllis Diller, the housewife-turned-humorist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, punctuating her jokes with her trademark Phyllis Diller dies with a smile HOUSEWIFE turned humourist Phyllis Diller has died in Los Angeles at age 95.Pioneering comedian Phyllis Diller died at age 95 Monday, bringing to an end one of the great comedic.Phyllis Diller, ~1955 Phyllis Diller in Las Vegas, where she performed her last stand-up routine in 2002. That show is included in the documentary that will be out .FILE-In this undated file photo, Comedian Phyllis Diller performs in character. Diller, the housewife turned humorist who aimed some of her sharpest

RIP: ‘Top Gun’ Director Tony Scott Dead in Apparent Suicide

Tony Scott, director of Top Gun and brother of Prometheus director Ridley Scott, has died from what appears to be suicide after jumping from the Vincent Thomas bridge near Long Beach, California, around 12:30 p.m. on Sunday.

The Wrap has reported that the 68-year-old British-born director’s identity had been confirmed by Los Angeles County Coroner Lt. Joe Bell. The U.S. Coast Guard found a suicide note in Scott’s vehicle, parked on the eastbound lane of the bridge. Scott climbed the apex at the south side of the bridge and jumped “without hesitation.” Details of the suicide note have not been released.
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Tony Scott’s recent projects included Unstoppable with Denzel Washington and Prometheus, on which he was a producer. Scott also had many TV credits in his career, including The Good Wife.
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Tony Scott is survived by his wife, Donna Scott, and two children. Our condolences go out to the Scott family. This is truly a tragedy and the entertainment world will be impacted by this great loss.

Senate Candidate Provokes Ire With ‘Legitimate Rape’ Comment

In an effort to explain his stance on abortion, Representative Todd Akin, the Republican Senate nominee from Missouri, provoked ire across the political spectrum on Sunday by saying that in instances of what he called “legitimate rape,” women’s bodies somehow blocked an unwanted pregnancy.Asked in an interview on a St. Louis television station about his views on abortion, Mr. Akin, a six-term member of Congress who is backed by Tea Party conservatives, made it clear that his opposition to the practice was nearly absolute, even in instances of rape.

“It seems to me, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare,” Mr. Akin said of pregnancies from rape. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something: I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be of the rapist, and not attacking the child.”

The comments, made during an interview with KTVI-TV that was posted on Sunday on the station’s Web site, provoked howls of outrage from Democrats and women’s rights organizations. Senator Claire McCaskill, the Democrat who will face Mr. Akin in the November