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Article: Bob Hope; Thanks for everything.(NEWS)(Editorial)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- July 29, 2003
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Andy Warhol said that in this age of celebrity, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. Bob Hope was famous for 75 years.
His death at age 100 brings to a close a classic line of superb entertainers who began in vaudeville, and graduated to the Broadway stage, radio, motion pictures, live shows, recordings and television. Jack Benny, George Burns, Sid Caesar, Lucille Ball, Jackie Gleason, Red Skelton, Phil Silvers; this was an extraordinary generation of talented people. But none did more to buck up American spirits than Bob Hope.
Already a fixture on radio and in the movies by the late 1930s, he began entertaining troops early in World War II and ...