I had no idea Lorene Yarnell died!!!

[Taverner]

GAH! I loved Sheilds and Yarnell. Yeah yeah yeah, I love Mime. A man shouldn't have to admit that in public. But here I am.

They were awesome!

Check out the Clinkers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km1QRnzIKpI

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[Paladin]

2. I Didn't Either. Saw It In Today's NYT Magazine.

I loved the Shields & Yarnell show, way back when. Really sorry to hear about this......

[MiddleFingerMom]

3. I've never understood "mime hate"...

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"Torn" mime:
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[Taverner]

4. Mimes are French. So the Antifraconic Saxons among us might have axes to grind

France is awesome, just like the UK.

[Taverner]

5. Of course at this point, I have envisioned a mime grinding an axe...

[MiddleFingerMom]

6. At least ONE of those mimes in that video is really really REALLY hot...

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You BET I would... ... ... ... ... ... ... or my name's not MiddleFingerMime.
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[pacalo]

7. Was it the socks or the headgear that got to you?

:rofl:

[gmoney]

8. well, I wouldn't quite call that mime as much as charades

and it does bug me that he gets the guitar slide wrong at the end... but it was brilliant to have Natalie Imbruglia walk on like that.

Wasn't Yarnell inside the "Dot Matrix" robot outfit in Spaceballs? (Voiced by Joan Rivers)

[MiddleFingerMom]

10. I think the guitar "mistake" at the end is intentional -- it IS, after all...

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[gmoney]

11. No, I've seen him get it right elsewhere

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZsxF2apwRw

I think he was just a bit nervous with Natalie right there and a huge audience and all...

[gmoney]

12. I was annoyed and creeped out the first time I saw it done...

I don't know... the make-up, the overly snug outfits, the silent-movie exaggeration of the gestures and all... and the general smugness of mimes I guess is the worst part for me.

Show me a mime with no clown make-up, street clothes, a little humility, and an understanding of nuance, and I might enjoy it. That might be a good description of Charlie Chaplin, actually... yes, give me Chaplin over Marcel Marceau any day of the week.

[MiddleFingerMom]

13. Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay):

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"It ain't braggin' if it's true."
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[SwampG8r]

9. shields was telling everyone

but no one heard him