Talk:Sherman Hemsley

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The term "Sherm" for a PCP laced cigarette has nothing to do with Sherman Hemsley. This term was used in the late eighties and early nineties to describe a Sherman brand cigarette that was laced with PCP. People who smoked them were commonly known as "Sherm Heads."

Contents 1 Up, Up, and Away (2000 film) 2 Searching 3 his age during the filming of the Jeffersons 4 A source 5 Expanding Sherman Hemsley

[edit] Up, Up, and Away (2000 film)

He was also in the Disney Channel Original Movie Up, Up, and Away. Check the What Links Here in the toolbox when viewing the article to find other programs/films he played in. --Geopgeop 19:19, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Searching

I searched for "sherman hemsley", said it wasn't found. I searched for "sherman helmsley", showed a listing matching that name with 60% hit, when I went to it, the article name was "Sherman Hemsley." WTF? Osirisx11 16:50, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I just tried it myself and it worked fine, brought me right to the article without even a redirect. Perhaps you made a small typo that you didn't notice? Or maybe the servers hiccuped, no way to know now really. —Elipongo (Talk|contribs) 10:27, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] his age during the filming of the Jeffersons

I think it should be mentioned, that during the filming of the tv series The Jeffersons, he was much younger then the character he played. I mean, Sherman Hemsley was like 38, the character that he played was around 50 to 60. Isabel Sanford, who played his wife in this series was more then 20 years older then he was. --87.177.238.205 02:04, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A source

Does anyone have a source for this?

In 1987, Hemsley met with President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev during a celebrity appearance at the Cleveland International Peace Proceedings. Hemsley spoke with the two leaders, and was quoted as saying, "This Cold War guys - it's freezing out the little guy". It is unclear exactly to what Hemsley was referring.

Otherwise, it should stay out. Even if true, it is not encyclopedic. If false, it just makes wikipedia look bad by being kept in. 72.130.170.225 04:14, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

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i dont see sources for anything else, so they should also be removed Morthanley 22:42, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

that is the rules, so that is fine by me 72.130.170.225 23:47, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

At the same time, I actually looked up sources for this section, so I spent time looking up google news and lexisnexis for a source and found none. 72.130.170.225 23:58, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Expanding Sherman Hemsley

I've began a rewrite of the article with solid sources. Hopefully folks can help out by adding sourced material to this article. XinJeisan (talk) 22:29, 31 January 2008 (UTC)