Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday November 12 2003 — A7 Nation am®y off ‘lnl®m®yinra©©ini®ir§’ ffame does HARTFORD Conn ( AP) — Art Carney who played Jackie Glea- son's sewer worker pul lid Norton in theTV classic “The and went 'on to win the 974 Oscar for best actor in “Harry and Tonto” has died at 85 Carney died in Chester Conn on Sunday He had been ill for and says “jlcllooooo ball!" In jiisi doubled" another episode Norton inadver"Art was and is one of the most tently w ins the award for best cosendearing men I have ever met1' Honey-moonertume at a Raccoon Lodge party by the late actress Audrey Meadows show ing up in his sewer worker's (the caustic Alice Kramden oh "The Honey iiiooijcrO wrote ii) gear He told a Saturday Evening Post lier 1994 niehiiiir "lme Alice" : interviewer in 1961 that strangers She called him a! "w itty iuul were always 'asking him how he delightful companion wlio went some time liked it down in the sewer “I have oul of hisway to help each new' ' : The comic actor would be forevseasonal answers" he said Tn the actor lind his niche in the often ' summer: ‘I like it down there ' er identified as Norton Ralph bewildering world of The Jackie' because it’s cool' In the winter: 'I Kramden's bowling buddy and "" Gleason Show'" ' upstairs neighbor on j like it down there because it's Carney wnshorn intonn Irish-- : “The Hpneymooners”The sitcoih warm:’ then I've got one that isn't' Catholic family ih Mount Vernon seasonal: 'Go to hell'” 91 X and bap--tie- d appeared in various forms from ‘ 195 1 to 1956 and was revived T After "The Honeymopners" Arthur WilliamMailhew Car- ney Ill's father w fs a " briefly in 1971 The shows can still Carney' battled it drinking problem be seen on cable for several years His behavior newspaperman aiu) publicist'' With his tumcd-ii- p porkpie hut became erratic while costarririg Alter appoamigin amateur and unbuttoned vest over a white with Walier Matthau in the Broad- and i tit Hal i ng radio porspii---alitie- s Norton Ed with run Neil “The Simon's of “jv? way Carney’s Caftiey wYm a job in 937 his dopily exuberant “Hey Ral-phOdd Couple’ lie dropped out of traveling w jth I Idhicc lleivU's dance hand doing his impressions boy!" became iui ideal foil for 'the show and spent nearly half ' Gleason's blustery bullying Kram- - year in a sanitarium :andsinging noyelty siuygs His career resumed and in 1974 den Carney won three Emmys for He left lleidl aiul tried playing ' his role and his first taste of fame he was easi in Paul Maurksy's standup comedy in nightclubs lie failed But he won a job at S225 a “The first time I saw the euy Vllarry and Tonto'' as a week imitating act" Gleason once said “I knew I old widower who iravcls from I) Ron- -' : would have to work'twice as hard sevelt Winston Churchill and ' New York to Chicago withhis pet for my laughs He was funny as cat He stopped drinking during other world leaders tin a radio " ' AP photo show y Report Jo tne Nation" hell" In one episode he and Ralph ' the making of the film When it won him his Oscar Car- -' '' learn to golf from an instruction He was drafted into the Army in A scene from the classic television show The Honeymooners'is shown in this undated " 1944 and took part in the j) Day ' the “address to book Told cracked to ball" "You're ney reporters: photo Pictured are' from left: Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden Art Carney as Ed ' Norton gives a wave of the hand Looking at an actor whose price has Norton Audrey Meadows as Alice Kramden and Joyce Randolph as Trixie Norton s" 1 fF3 9 v ' 1 : ls irt ie 72-yea- r- : -- Musicians on tour to fight FCC’s media rules WASHINGTON (AP) — Balladeer Woody Guthrie sang of the hardscrabble life of America’s poor in the 1930s ' Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger ' protested the war in Vietnam ' Contemporary musicians have come together for hunger relief in Africa arid aid to ' American farmers In the latest version of piusi- I) cal efforts to promote social '5 consciousness and challenge'' -t- he government some rock'-- ' blues and country artists' have embarked on aipur to fight changes in federal rules ownership of newspa- v gov-erni- V ng Billy Bragg Lester Cham- bers' Steve Earle and other artists on the “Tell Us the Jour "contend the rules from the Federal Communica- 0"tions Commission will make it : harder for many performers to i get airtime Thn musicians are makingiheir case insohgina V tour that began Friday in Madison Wis and ends Nov 24 in Washington: The tough part says British k artist Bragg may be ' find a way to work “Federal Communications Commis- sion” into any of his lyrics ' ' “Entertainment’s the most important thing These gigs ' will be entertaining I promise you" Bragg said ’The most we can do is offer the audi- ence a different perspective and make people understand that music doesn't just come out of the radio” While the lour is meant to inspire grassroots activism on ' ' the issue some Washington political players are also involved The tour which also addresses trade issues is partly sponsored by the AFL-CIand Common Cause Both are pressing Congress to undo the FCC rules which eliminated decades-ol-d restrictions ownership ' Several major media com- - ' panics pushed for the change ' arguing the old rules predated ' the growth of cable satellite broadcasting and die Internet and harmed their ability to compete affiliates Several AFL-CIsuch as die Communication Workers of America and the Screen Acton Guild are affected by the rules said Joe direcUehlem die tor of strategic communica-- tions As die media industry " consolidates jobs are lost he said ' Uehlein declined to say bow modi the union was paying to help sponsor the tour “We view it as a way to - p : folk-roc- " : weD-kno- ! : O AFL-CIO- ’s -- through nootraditional he sad wCwll Pww T— VWe and Tit Oaawar Caro 5 |