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Sadly, two more ubiquitous 20th century voice actors have left us, this time the voices of Disney's Tigger and Piglet. http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2005/06/27/Arts/TiggerPiglet_0506.html

But I want to note this because I take heart to learn that one of them leaves an unexpected inspirational legacy for us multi-interest spazmos:

Winchell also held 30 patents, including one for an artificial heart, a disposable razor and a flameless cigarette lighter. He donated his early artificial heart to the University of Utah for research. Dr. Robert Jarvik and other researchers at the university went on to construct the first artificial heart implanted into humans.

That's awesome!

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[little-peanut02.livejournal.com]

I did not know that....
stumbled upon you...hope you don't mind I added you. :-)

tops: rubber. bottoms: springs.

[ahkond.livejournal.com]

They were talking about this guy on the Howard Stern show this morning. Howard was into marionettes and ventriloquism when he was a kid, and Winchell had a long-running puppet show of some kind that Howard liked.