[Deathwatch] Marcel Marceau, mime legend, 84

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Mime legend Marcel Marceau dies

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/09/23/marceau.ap/index.html

 PARIS, France (AP) -- Marcel Marceau, who revived the art of mime and
brought poetry to silence, has died, French media reported Sunday. He
was 84.

France-Info radio and LCI television said the family had announced the
death of Marceau. No other details were released.

Wearing white face paint, soft shoes and a battered hat topped with a
red flower, the world-famous Marceau played the entire range of human
emotions onstage for more than 50 years, never uttering a word.
Offstage, he was famously chatty. "Never get a mime talking. He won't
stop," he once said.

A French Jew, Marceau survived the Holocaust -- and also worked with
the French Resistance to protect Jewish children.

His biggest inspiration was Charlie Chaplin. Marceau, in turn, inspired
countless young performers -- Michael Jackson borrowed his famous
"moonwalk" from a Marceau sketch, "Walking Against the Wind."

Many thanks to TheLenGuy for posting this obituary