Merv Griffin dies

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Just reported on the morning news.

[warrior1]

1. Rest in Peace

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2. In Merv's honor,

I'm sitting here on the couch, with my right hand cupped against my right cheek (facial cheek, that is), and my head tilted down slightly, eyes looking up, and saying, "Oooooooh.... tell me about your trip to Europe... oooooh!"

[billyskank]

3. MERV GRIFFIN!

[Fire Walk With Me]

12. .

:thumbsup:

RIP Merv.

[seemunkee]

25. You beat me

I have a poster of this.

[John Kerry VonErich]

4. Wasn't he a republican?

nt

[nini]

14. Don't republicans die too?

:evilgrin:

[ronnykmarshall]

15. So what?

:eyes:

[John Kerry VonErich]

16. Couldn't remember if he was or not.

:shrug:

[ronnykmarshall]

20. Sorry about that

Didn't mean to be so snarky.

[reyd reid reed]

5. Rest in peace.

When I was sitting up last night, in the wee hours, I heard that he was gravely ill...a recurrence of his prostate cancer?...

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6. Yes, prostate cancer.

[graywarrior]

7. I wonder if Denny Terrio will attend the funeral?

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8. who?

[graywarrior]

10. Denny Terrio of Dance Fever who accused Griffin of molesting him

Denny ("Deney") Terrio is a choreographer, former film actor and one-time host of the television musical variety series Dance Fever from 1979 to 1985. He sued Merv Griffin, the show's producer, for sexual harassment; the $11.3 million case was later dismissed by a judge.<1>

Terrio achieved notoriety as the dance coach and choreographer for John Travolta in the movie Saturday Night Fever. During his heyday with Dance Fever he appeared in a number of films including The Idolmaker, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, A Night in Heaven and Knights of the City and guest starred on popular television series of the time including The Love Boat. Throughout the 90s he toured nightclubs, performing with Motion and judging dance contests. Terrio was referenced in the popular Steve Martin movie Dirty Rotten Scoundrels where Martin posed as a crippled veteran. Martin claimed that he lost use of his legs after he found his girlfriend having sex with Terrio.

In recent years he has appeared on several VH1 specials and co-hosted the 2004 PBS special Get Down Tonight: The Disco Explosion which featured many popular disco artists from the 70s and actress Karen Lynn Gorney. During the show Terrio and Gorney danced to Tavares's live performance of More Than a Woman, as Gorney had with John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever.

As of July 2005 Deney was hosting his own Disco radio show on the Sirius network

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11. Thanks for all that information, but

even after reading all that, the question remains: who?

[graywarrior]

13. Here he is. He was the host of Dance Fever years ago.

[John Kerry VonErich]

17. That's Adrian Zmed

nt

[JVS]

19. ecce homo

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21. That is hilarious

[Sannum]

9. And rent-boys weep...

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[Vidar]

18. RIP Merv. You were a class act.

[rug]

22. R_P

[bumblebee1]

23. What was Merv's middle initial, M?

M for Midas. Everything Merv touched turned to gold.

[pokerfan]

24. Yeah, but was a repuke

or a progressive?