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    It's distressing to see someone die, Young.

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    Moody Blues star Ray Thomas dies aged suddenly aged 76


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    Moody Blues star Ray Thomas passed away after a four year battle with prostate cancer. However, despite his illness, the singer’s death was said to be unexpected as his label expressed their ‘shock’ at his passing. He died at his Surrey home on Thursday 4 Jan after revealing a cancer diagnosis in 2014. In a statement, his record label said: ‘It is with profound sorrow and sadness that Cherry Red Records and Esoteric Recordings regret to announce that Ray Thomas, founder member, flautist and vocalist of the Moody Blues, passed away suddenly at his home in Surrey on Thursday.

    ‘We are deeply shocked by his passing and will miss his warmth, humour and kindness. It was a privilege to have known and worked with him and our thoughts are with his family and his wife Lee at this sad time.’ The singer and songwriter retired in 1999 after suffering from ill health, then later announced his cancer diagnosis in 2014. In a statement released at the time, he said: ‘My cancer was inoperable but I have a fantastic doctor who immediately started me on a new treatment that has had 90% success rate. ‘The cancer is being held in remission but I’ll be receiving this treatment for the rest of my life. ‘I have four close friends who have all endured some kind of surgery or treatment for this cancer and all are doing well.

    ‘While I don’t like to talk publicly about my health problems, after Alvin [Stardust]’s death, I decided it was time I spoke out. ‘A cancer diagnosis can shake your world and your family’s but if caught in time it can be cured or held in remission. ‘I urge all males to get tested NOW. Don’t put it off by thinking it won’t happen to me. It needs to be caught early. ‘It’s only a blood test – a few minutes out your day to save yourself from this disease. Love and God Bless, Ray.’ The Moody Blues were formed in 1964 with Mike Pinder, Denny Laine, Graeme Edge, and Clint Warwick. They enjoyed success with their hit singles Nights In White Satin and Go Now. They have sold 70 million albums globally. The Birmingham band, known for Ray’s finely crafted flute melodies, have sold 70 million albums globally.

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    Lead detective in Zodiac killer case dies at 86

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    January 11, 2018 | 1:20am



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    SAN FRANCISCO — Dave Toschi, the San Francisco police detective who led the unsuccessful investigation into the Zodiac serial killing a half-century ago, has died. He was 86.
    Toschi died Saturday after a lengthy illness, his daughter, Linda Toschi-Chambers, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
    Toschi was put on the Zodiac case after a San Francisco taxi driver was shot to death in 1969. He was removed nine years later when he acknowledged writing and mailing anonymous fan letters to the Chronicle lauding his own work.
    Five people were fatally stabbed or shot to death in Northern California in 1968 and 1969, and their killer sent taunting letters and cryptograms to the police and newspapers.
    The killer was never caught. He was dubbed the Zodiac killer because some of his cryptograms included astrological symbols and references.
    Duffy Jennings covered the killings for the Chronicle and grew close to Toschi.
    Jenning said Toschi visited the San Francisco murder scene on the anniversary of the killing for many years in a row to see if he overlooked any clues.
    “The Zodiac case gnawed at him,” Jennings said. “He said it gave him an ulcer.”


    Actor Mark Ruffalo portrayed Toschi in the 2011 movie “Zodiac.”
    Toschi was born in San Francisco and graduated from Galileo High School before serving in the Korean War with the Army. He returned to San Francisco in 1953 and was hired at the Police Department, where he worked until retiring in 1985.
    Toschi’s family said the retired inspector enjoyed music and books.
    He “could sing with the best of them,” said his daughter. “His greatest pleasure was his loving family, and we will miss his keen sense of humor, his gentle guidance and his unconditional love.”
    Toschi is survived by his wife, Carol Toschi of San Francisco; two daughters, Toschi-Chambers of San Francisco and Karen Leight of San Mateo County; and two granddaughters, Sarah Leight of Pacifica and Emma Leight of Los Angeles.
    Private services were held Wednesday.

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    MOTÖRHEAD FOUNDER ‘FAST’ EDDIE CLARKE DIES AGED 67

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    Today we lost another legend of the rock world as ‘Fast’ Eddie Clarke, guitarist and founding member of heavy metal legends Motörhead sadly passed away.
    He lost his battle with pneumonia and passed away with his family nearby.

    A statement on the band’s official Facebook page said “We are devastated to pass on the news we only just heard ourselves earlier tonight.
    “Edward Allan Clarke – or as we all know and love him Fast Eddie Clarke – passed away peacefully yesterday.
    “Fast Eddie…keep roaring, rocking’ and rollin’ up there as goddamit man, your Motörfamily would expect nothing less!!!”
    A founding member of the group alongside Philthy Animal (Phil Taylor) and Lemmy, the band led the charge for British Heavy Metal and will always be fondly remembered by their adoring fans.
    Our thoughts are with his family at this sad time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
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    MOTÖRHEAD FOUNDER ‘FAST’ EDDIE CLARKE DIES AGED 67
    Looks like the music biz is gonna have another rough year...

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    Jerry Van Dyke, Luther the Football Assistant on 'Coach,' Dies at 86

    The younger brother of Dick Van Dyke, the comic actor turned down 'Gilligan's Island' to star on the ill-fated 'My Mother the Car.'

    Jerry Van Dyke, the younger brother of Dick Van Dyke who earned four Emmy nominations for playing the befuddled defensive coordinator Luther Van Dam on the ABC comedy Coach, has died, a source close to his family confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 86.


    Van Dyke died Friday at his ranch in Hot Spring County in Arkansas, according to the Associated Press. His wife, Shirley Ann Jones, was by his side. No cause was immediately known.


    Van Dyke famously passed up the opportunity to star on Gilligan's Island in favor of toplining the short-lived My Mother the Car, considered one of the worst shows in TV history.


    Van Dyke started out as a banjo-playing stand-up comic, and his fun persona throughout his long career was that of a country boy, endearingly earnest and slow-witted.


    After working on several TV shows that never stuck, Van Dyke earned supporting actor Emmy nominations in 1990, '91, '92 and '94 for his work as one of Craig T. Nelson's assistants on the staff of the Minnesota State University Screaming Eagles on Coach. The series aired for nine seasons, from 1989 until 1997.


    “God knows I tried to make it earlier in life, but with all due respect to myself, nothing I ever did was any good,” Van Dyke told Peoplemagazine in a 1993 interview. "I would like to philosophize and say what it was that kept me going, but the truth is, I can't do anything else."


    More recently, Van Dyke had a recurring role as Tag Spence, the father of Patricia Heaton's Frankie, on The Middle. Dick appeared as his brother on the ABC sitcom in 2015, and the two often appeared on the small screen together. They also shared the stage for a production of The Sunshine Boys.


    In fact, one of Jerry Van Dyke's biggest and earliest breaks came in 1962 when he was hired to portray Rob Petrie's sleepwalking sibling Stacey on two episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show. (He was a sleepwalker in real life.)


    In 1963, Van Dyke appeared in the features Palm Springs Weekend, directed by Norman Taurog; Vincente Minnelli's The Courtship of Eddie's Father; and the John Wayne Western McClintock!


    All this led to September 1965 and NBC's My Mother the Car. Van Dyke was cast as an attorney named Dave Crabtree who buys a 1928 Porter Stanhope off a used-car lot and then discovers that the antique vehicle is the reincarnation of his mom.



    Ann Sothern provided the voice of the mother and spoke to her son through the car radio. (Some viewers noted that a 1928 Porter Stanhope didn't have a radio, but whatever.)


    Van Dyke said his agent had pushed him to star in Gilligan's Island, another farcical network comedy, but he opted for My Mother the Carinstead. The reason? "The My Mother the Car script read like Neil Simon compared to the Gilligan's Island script," he said in the People interview.


    My Mother the Car, in fact, came via an idea from Allan Burns and Chris Hayward, well-respected TV scribes who had created The Munsters. (Burns and another Mother the Car writer, James L. Brooks, went on to launch The Mary Tyler Moore Show.)


    However, My Mother the Car lasted just 30 episodes and was canceled after one season.


    "It was a nightmare doing that show," he said in 2013. "It was really a nightmare, because Ann Sothern … I never met her. I never, ever met her, so I had to talk to the producer’s clothing salesman, who did the voice for me."


    There also was talk about Van Dyke replacing Don Knotts midway through the run of The Andy Griffith Show (that, of course, never happened), and he was up for the part of the dimwitted handyman George Utley on Newhart (that went to Tom Poston).



    Jerry Van Dyke was born on July 27, 1931, in Danville, Illinois, five-and-a-half years after his brother. Their father was a traveling salesman, and when their parents traveled to Hollywood to see Dick's nightclub act in 1948, Jerry went along and decided to make comedy his career.


    After graduating from Danville High School (Gene Hackman also went there), Van Dyke formed The Jolly Frauds with a partner, and they toured the Midwest. He also took courses at the University of Illinois and Eastern Illinois State Teachers' College and excelled at sports.


    Van Dyke entered the Air Force in 1953 and performed for the troops in Korea. He taught himself to play the banjo, which became his trademark prop. (In 1964, Jerry Van Dyke and The Banjo Barons released a single, "I Wanna Say Hello!")


    He won a talent contest and traveled with Ed Sullivan for two years as part of the Air Force Revue, and after his discharge hosted a half-hour, daily variety TV show for the CBS affiliate in Terre Haute, Indiana.


    In 1962, Van Dyke did his act on The Ed Sullivan Show and The Andy Williams Show. A year later, he was a regular performer on The Judy Garland Show and the host of a CBS game show called Picture This.


    Following the quick demise of My Mother the Car in 1966, Van Dyke starred as a widowed nightclub performer with a young son on NBC's Accidental Family and as a gym teacher on CBS' Headmaster — that one starred Griffith in his first show after his iconic series ended — but both programs were short-lived.


    Van Dyke was memorable in a guest-starring stint as Wes Callison, the writer for Chuckles the Clown's show, on two episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and he played Mike O'Malley's dad on CBS' Yes, Dear.


    An avid poker player, he also appeared as Luther on The Drew Carey Show and Grace Under Fire, and his TV résumé included stints on That Girl; Gomer Pyle: USMC; 13 Queens Boulevard; Love, American Style; Fresno; Fantasy Island; Teen Angel and Raising Hope.


    Even with his success on Coach, Van Dyke remained in the shadow of his more famous brother. During his nightclub act in the 1960s, he would call his daughter Kelly Jean to the stage and say, “Tell the people who you are.” And she would say, “Dick Van Dyke’s niece.”
    Survivors include his second wife, Shirley Ann. Kelly Jean committed suicide in 1991 after a battle with drug abuse. She was 33.

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    Mississippi Burning killer Edgar Ray Killen dies in prison aged 92

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    Edgar Ray Killen, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted of the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, has died in prison at the age of 92, the state corrections department announced.
    The one-time Klan leader was serving a 60-year prison sentence for manslaughter when he died on Thursday night in the Mississippi State Penitentiary.
    A post-mortem will take place, but no foul play was suspected, the statement said.


    His conviction came 41 years to the day after James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, all in their 20s, were ambushed and killed by Klansmen.
    The three Freedom Summer workers had been investigating the burning of a black church near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
    The killings shocked the nation, helped spur passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and were dramatised in the 1988 movie Mississippi Burning.


    The part-time preacher and lumber mill operator was 80 when a Neshoba County jury convicted him of three counts of manslaughter on June 21 2005, despite his assertions that he was innocent.
    Killen was the only person to face state murder charges in the case.
    He did not say much about the 1964 killings during a 2014 interview with the Associated Press inside the penitentiary.
    He said he remained a segregationist who did not believe in racial equality, but contended he harboured no ill-will towards blacks.
    Killen said he never had talked about the events that landed him behind bars, and never would.
    Long a suspect in the 1964 killings, Killen had made a livelihood from farming, operating his sawmill and preaching to a small congregation at Smyrna Baptist Church in Union, south of Philadelphia, Mississippi.
    According to FBI files and court transcripts from a 1967 federal conspiracy trial, Killen did most of the planning in the ambush killings of the civil rights workers.
    According to evidence in the 2005 murder trial, Killen served as a kleagle, or organiser, of the Klan in Neshoba County and helped set up a klavern, or local Klan group, in a nearby county.
    Nineteen men, including Killen, were indicted on federal charges in the 1967 case. Seven were convicted of violating the victims’ civil rights. None served more than six years.


    Killen’s federal case ended with a hung jury after one juror said she could not convict a preacher.
    During his state trial in 2005, witnesses testified that on June 21 1964, Killen went to Meridian to round up carloads of Klansmen to ambush the three victims, telling some of the Klan members to bring plastic or rubber gloves.
    Witnesses said Killen then went to a Philadelphia funeral home as an alibi while the attack occurred.
    The three bodies were found 44 days later, buried in a red-clay dam in rural Neshoba County.
    In February 2010, Killen sued the FBI, claiming the government used a mafia hitman to pistol-whip and intimidate witnesses for information in the case.
    The federal lawsuit sought millions of dollars in damages and a declaration that his rights were violated when the FBI allegedly used a gangster known as “the Grim Reaper” during the investigation. The lawsuit was later dismissed.
    In the 2014 AP interview, Killen repeated his contention that he was not a criminal, but a political prisoner.
    Of one thing he was certain: “I could have beat that thing if I’d had the mental ability.”

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    Russ Abbot Show's Blunderwoman, actress Bella Emberg, dies at age 80

    The comedy legend was also a regular on The Benny Hill Show.

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    Bella Emberg, beloved star of iconic TV sketch series The Russ Abbot Show and TheBenny Hill Show, has died at age 80.
    Her agent confirmed her passing on Friday night (January 12), telling BBC News that the actress will be "greatly missed" by her loved ones and by all of her fans from all over the world.
    Emberg — real name Sybil Dyke — is perhaps best known for her hilarious comedy character Blunderwoman, who foiled crooks alongside Cooperman on The Russ Abbot Show throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s.


    The comedy star was also a regular for more than a decade on another landmark British comedy series, the anarchic Benny Hill Show.
    Emberg's long and illustrious career stretched all the way back to the early era of British 1960s television, and over the years she wracked up memorable appearances in Doctor Who, Z Cars, Father Brown, The Tomorrow People and even Grange Hill.
    Her most memorable film role came in director Mel Brooks's cult classic History of the World: Part I, alongside fellow comedy greats Madeline Kahn, Sid Caesar, Harvey Korman and screen icon Orson Welles.

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    [QUOTE=harrybarracuda;3695811]Mississippi Burning killer Edgar Ray Killen dies in prison aged 92




    Very sad that this piece of shit only did 12 years for his cowardly crime. I hope he was in agony at the end.

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    Terence Marsh, Oscar-Winning Art Director of ‘Doctor Zhivago,’ Dies at 86

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    Terence Marsh, the Academy Award-winning art director and production designer behind “Doctor Zhivago,” “Oliver!,” and “The Shawshank Redemption” died in his Pacific Palisades, Calif. home on Jan. 9 after battling cancer for four years. He was 86.
    Marsh shared two Oscar wins for his work as art director on David Lean’s sprawling epic “Dr. Zhivago” and on Charles Dickens period piece “Oliver!,” directed by Carol Reed. He also received Academy Award nominations as production designer for “Mary, Queen of Scots” and “Scrooge.”
    He was nominated for three BAFTA Awards for “The Hunt for Red October,” “A Bridge Too Far” and “Scrooge.” Throughout his career, he collaborated with acclaimed directors such as Sydney Pollack and John Huston. Among the other films he worked on as production designer and art director were “The Green Mile,” “Clear and Present Danger,” “Absence of Malice” and “A Touch of Class.”
    Marsh produced, wrote, and acted in some of his films. He designed and made a cameo in Mel Brooks’ “Space Balls.” He designed, co-wrote, and co-produced “Finders Keepers” starring Jim Carrey.
    Born in the U.K., Marsh entered the film world in the 1950s as a draughtsman for Rank Studios where he learned production design skills. He was then hired as an assistant art director on “Lawrence of Arabia” in 1960 by production designer John Box, who became Marsh’s mentor. In 1975, Marsh moved to Los Angeles and became friends with Gene Wilder, whom Marsh worked with on “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother” and “Haunted Honeymoon,” which Marsh also co-wrote.
    Marsh last worked on “Rush Hour 2” in 2001. He is survived by his wife and three daughters.

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    Cornwall-based Falklands War hero Captain Rick Jolly has died aged 71

    He became the the first servicemen in British military history to be honoured by an enemy power

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    A Cornwall-based Falklands War hero has died at his home at the age of 71.
    Surgeon Captain Rick Jolly, 71, who lived in Crafthole, near Torpoint, was honoured by both the British and Argentinians for his lifesaving work in the 1982 conflict.
    In doing so, he became the the first servicemen in British military history to be honoured by an enemy power.
    The Royal Navy surgeon was the senior medical officer of 3 Commando Brigade, based in Plymouth, and saved the lives of British and Argentine forces during his command of the field hospital at Ajax Bay, where around 1,000 wounded were treated.
    Gulf War veteran John Nicholl wrote on Twitter: "Very sad to hear Surgeon Commander Rick Jolly has died.

    "Shared a glass of wine with him on a few occasions; a nicer chap you will not meet. A true hero of 1982 Falklands war; decorated by both sides.
    "He should have won the highest award 4 his rescue of 2 drowning sailors. RIP Sir."
    The field hospital was described as The Red and Green Life Machine and treated both British and Argentine casualties, reports the Plymouth Herald .
    Following the conflict, Captain Jolly was awarded an OBE by the Queen, while Argentine authorities appointed him to the Order of May for his dedication to their casualties in 1982.

    His actions during the conflict were the stuff of legend - none more so than the moment he was lowered from a helicopter to pluck a drowning sailor from the sea.
    In an interview with The Herald in 2007, he summed up his modest character. He said his thoughts at the time were: "If I don't act now this man will die."
    The heroic act came shortly after Devonport-based HMS Ardent had been devastated by Argentine fighter bombers in Grantham Sound on the afternoon of Friday, May 21.


    As the helicopter approached the listing HMS Ardent, Rick and the helicopter crew found it hard to spot survivors in the water as plumes of thick, black smoke towered into the sky from the fires on board.
    But as they hovered closer to the ravaged Type 21 frigate, the co-pilot saw a man struggling to stay afloat.
    “The seawater was breaking over his face and it was clearly evident that he wasn’t going to survive for too much longer,” Dr Jolly said.
    “I knew then what I had to do. I tapped my crewman on the arm, lent across and shouted ‘Me – down’.
    “I sat in the doorway and contemplated what I had to do.
    “I looked at what I was wearing and suddenly remembered I didn’t have my immersion suit on. As well as my uniform, the only extra bits of kit were a pair of gloves and a thin lifejacket; I hadn’t intended to go for a swim.
    “Suddenly everything went quiet, as your body does when it prepares itself for serious demand.
    “I stepped out and began to be winched down 30 feet or so. I just remember thinking, ‘If I don’t act now this man will die’.

    “I dropped into the ocean and it was freezing: barely two degrees. My heart slowed down and my vision changed like I was in a tunnel.
    “I was then dragged through the water and soon reached the sailor. I bear-hugged him and before I knew it we were back in the helicopter cabin.
    “I literally jumped on the sailor and he vomited up all the seawater. He was alive. I was exhausted.”

    Rick said he felt a sense of pride and relief having saved John Dillon’s life.
    But no sooner had he caught his breath, than the Royal Marine corporal in the cabin beckoned for him to come closer. “He pointed down and gave me a sort of smile; I knew exactly what he meant,” added Rick in our interview in 2007, when he was a sprightly 60.
    “Taking a deep breath, I prepared myself for the second plunge.

    “I began to be lowered down and the wire became twisted. It was a very strange sight, spinning round seeing Ardent on fire, HMS Yarmouth’s crew on deck close by in their immersion suits and everything else going on.
    “I dropped into the water and I was too weak to lift him. He was in a terrible state, with a huge gash in his head and blood all over his face.
    “I submerged myself under water and placed a hook through his life jacket. He was in such a bad state, I’m not even sure he was aware he’d been saved. Even now, that whole experience fills me with the deepest spiritual sense of pride.”

    The second sailor Rick saved was Ken Enticknap, then a Chief Petty Officer, now a Commander.
    Rick also said he would never forget the welcome the survivors received from city marines as they stumbled on board Canberra for treatment.
    “We got back to Canberra and members of 42 Commando were waiting to climb aboard their landing craft and go ashore,” he said.
    “I couldn’t help but shed a tear as each marine patted the Ardent survivors on the back as they walked past. I’ll always remember one marine saying to one of the survivors, ‘You gave them hell; we’re going to do the same’. It really was a special moment.”

    Shortly after that Rick’s medical team was ordered to disembark, as Canberra was sailing. They boarded a landing craft just before midnight on May 21 and were soon heading towards Ajax Bay.
    Within days Rick’s improvised field hospital took shape, nicknamed the Red and Green Life Machine, with 120 doctors and senior rates.
    Over the next three weeks Rick and his team treated around 1,000 patients – including 200 Argentines.

    During the conflict – which claimed the lives of 258 Britons on sea and land – Rick’s staff ensured that every British soldier who arrived at the Ajax Bay hospital left alive.
    For his life-saving efforts, Rick was presented an OBE by the Queen.
    He was also awarded an equivalent honour by Argentina in recognition of his efforts to save the lives of its wounded soldiers – the first servicemen in British military history to be honoured by an enemy power.

    He retired from the navy in 1996, with the rank of Surgeon Captain.
    He penned his book The Red and Green Life Machine after returning from the South Atlantic. It was the first written by a serving participant in the UK Task Force.
    Dr Jolly said it was ‘a pleasant surprise’ that the book, published in 1983, went on to sell 10,000 copies in hardback and 30,000 in paperback. The book details the work of the 120 doctors and senior rates who ensured that every British serviceman who arrived at the Ajax Bay hospital left alive.
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    Dolores O'Riordan dead: The Cranberries​ lead singer dies aged 46


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    Dolores O'Riordan, frontwoman of the iconic Irish grunge band The Cranberries, has died at the age of 46.
    "Irish and international singer Dolores O’Riordan has died suddenly in London today," a spokesperson for the singer told The Limerick Leader.
    "She was 46 years old. The lead singer with the Irish band The Cranberries was in London for a short recording session. No further details are available at this time."
    The cause of death has not been revealed.
    O'Riordan joined The Cranberries, made up of brothers Noel Hogan and Mike Hogan after reading an advertisement in a local paper in 1989.


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    ^Shit...that sucks. RIP Dolores.

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    Looks like the music biz is gonna have another rough year...

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    Veteran British Actor Peter Wyngarde Dies at 90


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    Veteran actor Peter Wyngarde, who starred as flamboyant investigator Jason King in the iconic 1970s British police series “Department S,” has died. He was 90.
    Wyngarde died in a West London hospital, his agent Thomas Bowington told Variety.
    “Peter Wyngarde passed away peacefully in his sleep early evening Monday at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital,” Bowington said, adding that Wyngarde was “one of the most original and truly great actors I’ve ever seen and by far the most exceptional man I have ever met.”
    Wyngarde had a long career on stage and screen but is best known as handlebar-mustachioed investigator King. He also appeared in classic series including “The Avengers,” “The Saint,” and “The Prisoner.”
    The King character was an author and investigator in “Department S,” and in 1971 was given his own series, “Jason King.” The show was canceled in 1972, but Wyngarde continued to appear on stage and screen in Britain and internationally.
    His movie appearances included “The Innocents” and “Night of the Eagle.” He also starred in the 1980 movie “Flash Gordon.”
    Wyngarde was born in Marseille, France, to an English father and French mother.

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    Bradford Dillman Dies: Star Of Broadway, Film And TV Was 87

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    Actor Bradford Dillman, who starred as Edmund in the original Broadway production of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night and had an impressive film and TV career, died on January 16 in Santa Barbara, CA. He was 87 and suffered complications from pneumonia, according to Ted Gekis of Gekis-Ribera personal management.

    Dillman was also known as the co-star with Dean Stockwell in the 1959 crime drama Compulsion, where he played killer Arthur A. Straus, a role modeled after the Leopold & Loeb case from the 1920s, where two teens killed a child in an attempt to create the perfect murder. One of his career highlights was sharing best actor honors with Stockwell and Orson Welles (who played their attorney) at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival.



    He was Robert Redford’s best friend in 1973’s The Way We Were, and also appeared in the Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry series, playing in The Enforcer (1976) and Sudden Impact (1983). He also had a major role in 1973’s The Iceman Cometh, playing Willie Oban in an adaptation directed by John Frankenheimer for the American Film Theater.
    Dillman won a Theater World Awards for his Broadway debut in 1956 in Long Day’s Journey into Night, creating the role of the author’s alter ego, Edmund Tyrone, for 390 performances.
    The lanky actor was born April 14, 1930, in San Francisco, the third of four children, spending summers in Santa Barbara acting in local theater productions.
    He later attended Yale University, then entered the U.S. Marine Corps and served as a lieutenant in the Korean War. After his honorable discharge, Dillman auditioned for Lee Strasburg and entered the Actors Studio alongside fellow classmates James Dean and Marilyn Monroe.
    Following Long Day’s Journey Into Night and a later role in Katharine Cornell’s Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Robert E. Sherwood’s Pulitzer Prize-winning There Shall Be No Night, Dillman signed to 20th Century Fox.
    He appeared in the 1958 films A Certain Smile and In Love and War, scoring a Golden Globe for most promising newcomer — male in 1959.
    In addition to his many film roles, Dillman became a TV staple in the 1960s and 1970s. He had a recurring role on the drama Dr. Kildare and starred with Peter Graves in the short-lived series Court Martial. He also appeared on such shows as The Name of the Game; The Wild, Wild West; Mission: Impossible; The Man From U.N.C.L.E.; Columbo; Ironside; Barnaby Jones; and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
    His autobiography, Are You Anybody?: An Actor’s Life, was published in 1997. He wrote a book himself, penning Inside the New York Giants, published in 1995.
    Survivors include his children Jeffrey, Pamela, Charlie, Christopher and Dinah and stepdaughter Georgia. He was married to Frieda Harding McIntosh. He was also married to model/actress Suzy Parker from 1963 until her death in 2003.
    The family is requesting donations in his memory to the Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care in Santa Barbara.

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    Oscar winner Dorothy Malone dies at 93

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    DALLAS — Actress Dorothy Malone, who won hearts of 1960s television viewers as the long-suffering mother in the nighttime soap “Peyton Place,” died Friday in her hometown of Dallas at age 93.


    Malone died in an assisted living center from natural causes days before her 94th birthday, said her daughter, Mimi Vanderstraaten.


    After 11 years of mostly roles as loving sweethearts and wives, the brunette actress decided she needed to gamble on her career instead of playing it safe. She fired her agent, hired a publicist, dyed her hair blonde and sought a new image.


    “I came up with a conviction that most of the winners in this business became stars overnight by playing shady dames with sex appeal,” she recalled in 1967. She welcomed the offer for “Written on the Wind,” in which she played an alcoholic nymphomaniac who tries to steal Rock Hudson from his wife, Lauren Bacall.


    “And I’ve been unfaithful or drunk or oversexed almost ever since— on the screen, of course,” she added.


    When Jack Lemmon announced her as the winner of the 1956 Academy Award for best actress in a supporting role for the performance, she rushed to the stage of the Pantages Theatre and gave the longest speech of the evening. Even when Lemmon pointed to his watch, she continued undeterred, thanking “the Screen Actors and the Screen Extras guilds because we’ve had a lot of ups and downs together.”


    Malone’s career waned after she reached 40, but she achieved her widest popularity with “Peyton Place,” the 1964-69 ABC series based on Grace Metalious’ steamy novel which became a hit 1957 movie starring Lana Turner. Malone assumed the Turner role as Constance Mackenzie, the bookshop operator who harbored a dark secret about the birth of her daughter Allison, played by the 19-year-old Mia Farrow.


    ABC took a gamble on “Peyton Place,” scheduling what was essentially a soap opera in prime time three times a week. It proved to be a ratings winner, winning new prominence for Malone and making stars of Farrow, Ryan O’Neal and Barbara Parkins.


    “RIP Dorothy Malone, my beautiful TV mom for two amazing years,” Farrow posted on Twitter.


    Malone was offered a salary of $10,000 a week, huge money at the time. She settled for $7,000 with the proviso that she could leave the set at 5 p.m. so she could spend time with her young daughters, Mimi and Diane. She had been divorced from their father, a dashing Frenchman, Jacques Bergerac.


    He had been discovered in France by Ginger Rogers, who married him and helped sponsor his acting career. They divorced, and he wooed and wedded Dorothy Malone in 1959. The marriage lasted five years and ended in a bitter court battle over custody of the daughters. “I wish Ginger had warned me what he was like,” she lamented.


    Malone married three times — two and a half by her calculation. Her second marriage, to stock broker Robert Tomarkin in 1969, was annulled after six weeks, Vanderstraaten said. A marriage in 1971 to motel chain executive Huston Bell also ended in divorce.


    “I don’t have very good luck in men,” she admitted. “I had a tendency to endow a man qualities he did not possess.” When a reporter suggested that she was well fixed because of the “Peyton Place” money, she replied: “Don’t you believe it. I had a husband who took me to the cleaners. The day after we were married he was on the phone selling off my stuff.”


    When she was born in Chicago on Jan. 30, 1925, her name was Dorothy Eloise Maloney (it was changed to Malone in Hollywood “because it sounded too much like baloney,” she said). When she was 3 months old, her father — a telephone company auditor — moved the family to Dallas where she was raised in a strict Catholic household.


    “As a child I lived by the rules,” she said in 1967, “repeating them over and over, abiding by them before I fully understood their full meaning.”


    In 1942, an RKO talent scout saw her in a play at Southern Methodist University and recommended her for a studio contract. Her first three movie roles were walk-ons with no lines; her later roles were not much improvement. A move to Warner Bros. in 1945 provided greater opportunity.


    In her first film at Warners, “The Big Sleep,” she was cast as a bookshop clerk who is questioned by Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart). She closes the shop, lets her hair down, takes off her glasses and seduces the private eye in a shelter from a thunderstorm. Her other films at the studio were less provocative. They included “Night and Day,” ”One Sunday Afternoon,” ”Colorado Territory,” ”Young at Heart” and “Battle Cry.”


    Free of her Warner Bros. contract, Malone was cast by Universal in “Written on the Wind,” which she later termed “the most fun picture I ever made.” Important films followed: “Man of a Thousand Faces” as the wife of Lon Chaney (James Cagney); “Too Much, Too Soon” as Diana Barrymore, the alcoholic daughter of John Barrymore (Errol Flynn); “The Last Sunset,” a Western with Kirk Douglas and Rock Hudson.


    None of the roles matched her Marylee Hadley in “Written on the Wind,” and she welcomed the offer of “Peyton Place.”


    “At the time, doing television was considered professional death,” she remarked in 1981. “However, I knew the series was going to be good, and I didn’t have to prove myself as a star.”


    After the series ended, she appeared in TV movies, including “Murder in Peyton Place” (1977) and “Peyton Place — The Next Generation” (1985).


    With her feature career virtually ended, she moved to Dallas to take care of her parents. After they died, she continued living in Dallas, making occasional returns to Hollywood and forays into dinner theaters. In 1992 she was again in a top feature, playing an aging lesbian murderer in the Sharon Stone-Michael Douglas sex thriller, “Basic Instinct.” It was her final on-screen role.


    Funeral arrangements were pending Friday. Besides Vanderstraaten, Malone is survived by a son, retired US District Judge Robert B. Maloney, and a daughter, Diane Thompson, all of Dallas.

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    Distinguished Second World War hero dies at the age of 95

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    A SECOND World War bomber pilot who was decorated by King George VI and flew with the famous Dambusters Squadron has died at the age of 95.



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    Ken Trent moved to Jersey in 1968 after a successful business career. He passed away in the early hours of Thursday at Jersey Hospice with his family at his bedside.
    Mr Trent joined the RAF in 1941 at the age of 18 and after flight training in Canada he became a Lancaster pilot with the rank of Flight Lieutenant when he was 21. In 1944, he flew the first of 54 missions over Europe – including 11 missions with 617 ‘Dambusters’ Squadron after the raids on the Ruhr Valley dams.
    Mr Trent was twice awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, first by the King, and on the second occasion by Sir Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris, the head of Bomber Command.
    He also met the inventor of the special bouncing bombs used to breach the dams, Barnes Wallis.
    Mr Trent flew in the Normandy campaign in 1944, and in precision-bombing missions targeting submarine bases, and Hitler’s mountain-top retreat at Berchtesgaden.
    In 2016 he published his memoir, Bomb Doors Open, with the help of writer and BBC journalist Chris Stone.
    ‘“Just do it” was Ken’s motto in life and he stuck to it right to the very end. In the last conversation I had with him he talked about his beloved Lancaster bomber, and how he reckoned he could still fly one today,’ Mr stone said.
    ‘He was a man of great humanity, whose boisterous laugh and wicked sense of humour hid a deep humility and gratitude that he had survived where many of his comrades had not. I cannot express how privileged I am to have called him my friend.’

    Despite his first RAF number being the rather ominous 133300, his only injury in the war was a cut above his eyes.
    Recalling the incident in an interview with the JEP when his book was published, Mr Trent said: ‘I was lucky a few times. Once a piece of flak came through my windscreen. It made a hell of a noise and I couldn’t see because of the wind streaming in. Then the flight engineer said, “Are you all right skip?” and I didn’t know what he meant until he said, “Look at your hands.” He saw my face was running in blood and my hands were covered in it, but I didn’t realise. Small bits of glass had hit me and there was a bigger piece above my left eye.’
    Leaving the RAF after the war, Mr Trent established a successful network of shops which he sold in the 1960s. He moved to the Island as a wealthy immigrant and immersed himself in Island life, indulging his lifelong passion for sailing and joining the Royal Air Forces Association Jersey branch.

    Branch member Peter Clarke said: ‘We have lost a great friend and the Island has lost a local hero. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his widow, Ann, and his entire family.’
    Mr Trent was bitten by the sailing bug as a young boy and went on to become twice overall champion of the East Anglian Offshore Racing Association Series in his yacht Vae Victis, which was designed by his friend Alan Buchanan, who also left the east coast of England and settled in Jersey. Mr Buchanan’s son Richard, also a yachtsman, says Mr Trent as a wonderful man with a ‘larger-than-life character’.
    ‘Even in later life you would see him bombing around town on his mobility scooter. That was Ken, he certainly had his money’s worth right up to the last minute – and that is the way he would have liked it.’

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    Ursula K. Le Guin, the immensely popular author who brought literary depth and a tough-minded feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy with books like “The Left Hand of Darkness” and the Earthsea series, died on Monday at her home in Portland, Ore. She was 88.

    The critic Harold Bloom lauded Ms. Le Guin as “a superbly imaginative creator and major stylist” who “has raised fantasy into high literature for our time.”



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    South African jazz legend Hugh Masekela dies, aged 78

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    JOHANNESBURG (AFP).- South African jazz legend Hugh Masekela died on Tuesday aged 78, his family announced, triggering an outpouring of tributes to his music, his long career and his anti-apartheid activism.

    "After a protracted and courageous battle with prostate cancer, he passed peacefully in Johannesburg," Masekela's family said in a statement.

    It hailed his "activist contribution" to music, which it said "was contained in the minds and memory of millions."

    President Jacob Zuma praised Masekela as a "jazz artist, legendary trumpeter, cultural activist and liberation struggle veteran."

    "He kept the torch of freedom alive globally fighting apartheid through his music and mobilising international support," Zuma said.

    "It is an immeasurable loss to the music industry and to the country at large."

    South African singer Johnny Clegg described Masekela as "an outstanding musical pioneer and a robust debater, always holding to his South African roots."

    Masekela fled white-ruled South Africa in 1960, and did not return until after the release of Nelson Mandela in 1990.

    Among his greatest hits were the beloved anthem "Bring Him Back Home", demanding Mandela's freedom from jail, and "Grazing in the Grass".

    Keeping up his international touring schedule into his 70s with energetic shows, his concerts at home often became mass sing-alongs.

    A teenaged Masekela was handed his first trumpet -- and later a Louis Armstrong hand-me-down -- through anti-apartheid activist priest Father Trevor Huddlestone.

    "I took to it like a fish to water. I was a natural," he recalled.

    'Music captured my soul'
    He spent his early years in a conservative small town east of Johannesburg, surrounded by coal mines that relied on cheap black labour.

    "It was in those days in Witbank that music first captured my soul, forced me to recognise its power," he wrote in his candid autobiography "Still Grazing".

    Growing up under the worst of apartheid's racial laws that classified blacks as second-class citizens, Masekela was desperate to leave the country that he described as cursed.

    "When the airplane finally took off, it was as though a very heavy weight had been taken off me -- as if I had been painfully constipated for 21 years," he said of his flight to London.

    Despite his long exile, the aching pain of a country ripped apart by skin colour never left his music.

    Masekela moved on to New York to study at the Manhattan School of Music and fell into a fast-paced life alongside fellow South African legend Miriam Makeba and giants of music like Dizzy Gillespie and Harry Belafonte.

    Masekela and Makeba were briefly married in the 1960s, and later continued to collaborate.

    His first No. 1 was the 1968 breezy single "Grazing in the Grass" which topped the US charts while he was living in Los Angeles and hanging out with stars like Jimi Hendrix and Marvin Gaye.

    Personal struggles
    He later returned Africa, where he played with icons like Nigeria's Fela Kuti, and in 1974 helped organise a three-day festival ahead of the "Rumble in the Jungle" boxing clash in Zaire (the Democratic Republic of Congo) between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman.

    In the 1980s, he built a mobile recording studio in Botswana where he lived for several years, toured with Paul Simon of "Graceland" fame and helped with the score for the hit musical "Sarafina!"

    A charismatic horn blower and vocalist, Masekela's songs ranged from the haunting "Stimela" about trains taking black workers to South Africa's mines, to the cheeky energy of "Thanayi" about a large woman's struggle with food.

    But his life was also filled with excess -- women, alcohol and drugs -- with which he struggled from his youth.

    "I was drunk on money -- when I could find it -- drugs, which were never hard to find, love, lust and music, and in no hurry to sober up," he wrote.

    Affectionately known as "Bra Hugh" -- South African slang for "brother" or "mate" -- Masekela finally returned home after the release of Mandela, who telephoned him while he was in New York.

    Arts Minister Nathi Mthethwa said Tuesday that "the nation has lost a one-of-a-kind musician."

    "He uplifted the soul of our nation through his timeless music."

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    Mark E. Smith. The Fall singer / frontman dies age 60.

    Cantankerous, long time singer and only original band member of indie pioneers The Fall, Mark E. Smith died yesterday.

    Fucking nutcase, but occasionally hilarious. RIP.
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    I first saw The Fall in 1977 at Rafters in Manchester and they were like nothing else on earth. But the singer? Strewth! He was raging, spitting fire! Incredible. So I trundled off and made a Fall T-shirt, which in a roundabout way landed me the job of playing bass in the band in May 1978. I was 16.
    I was a Bowie- and Lou Reed-fixated boy, but Mark introduced me to [Captain] Beefheart and [Frank] Zappa. For a few years, he really was like the older brother I never had. Mark was 21, but had many traits and thought processes that were more akin to those of a pensioner. I remember him once saying to me: “People don’t have their own smell any more. Everyone bathes too much.” He would often be scathing about the lack of principles and guts of the younger generation coming up behind him. He had this unique way of looking at the world, which, of course, was reflected in his words and sometimes his actions.
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    introduced me to [Captain] Beefheart
    there's a blast from the past...

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    Mort Walker, creator of 'Beetle Bailey,' dies at 94


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    Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Creator of the legendary comic strip "Beetle Bailey," Mort Walker, died of pneumonia Saturday at his home in Stamford, Conn. He was 94.
    Walker was a lifelong cartoonist who drew his first comic strip, "Lime Juices," at age 12. By age 15 he began publishing a strip called "Sunshine and Shadow" and at age 18 he became the chief editorial designer of Hallmark Cards.
    Along his career path he published other comic strips including "Hi and Lois," a "Beetle" spin-off he launched in 1954.
    According to his family, Walker died in his studio surrounded by cartoon troops in various forms including toys, comic books and strips.
    "Beetle Bailey," known as the longest-running comic strip drawn by its original creator, showcased calamities of a lazy Army soldier at the fictional Camp Swampy. Inspiration for the comic came to Walker as he served a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War II.
    From its debut in 1950 to the day he died, Walker drew each day's "Beetle Bailey." His assistant for more than 30 years, Bill Janocha, said Walker worked ahead so "months of his work exists and will be appearing throughout 2018."
    Janocha said thousands of hand-drawn sketches have been saved, "so Mort's writings and layouts can potentially continue to help steer 'Beetle Bailey' for years to come."

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    The Swedish founder of the Ikea furniture chain, Ingvar Kamprad, has died at the age of 91, the company has announced.
    Mr Kamprad died at his home in Småland, Ikea confirmed in a statement.
    The company said that Mr Kamprad was "one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the 20th century".
    The Ikea founder had faced questions over his past links to the Nazis, which he referred to as the "greatest mistake" of his life.

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    Peggy Cummins: actress who made her name as a ferocious femme fatale in noir classic 'Gun Crazy'

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    “I wasn’t sexy enough,” said Peggy Cummins, in 2013, explaining why she was replaced in the lead role in the 1947 film Forever Amber – she had been shooting for months.
    The actress, who has died aged 92, was at a screening to mark the film that came to define her career – the 1950 film noir classic Gun Crazy.


    In that movie she played fairground cowgirl Annie Laurie Starr who teamed up with a gun-obsessed former soldier played by John Dall – the duo, who improvised much of their dialogue, set the template for 1967’s Bonnie and Clyde.
    Gun Crazy was the pinnacle of the Irish actor's brief but never dull career, which also included a British horror classic and a Carry On.
    The youngest of three siblings, she was born in Wales to her Irish parents who were on a visit to Prestatyn – her mother had gained some work as an actress and her father was a journalist.
    As child she had wanted to be a ballet dancer. She was eight years old when she got a role in a “silhouette” part with the Gate Theatre in Dublin.
    They cast her in the lead role of Let’s Pretend, making her London stage debut on her 13th birthday. In her teens she went on star in various radio plays, stage productions and films such as Mr O’Dowd (1940) and Welcome, Mr Washington (1944).
    In 1945, when she was just 18, Cummins was spotted by a 20th Century Fox scout while performing in Junior Miss on the London stage. It catapulted her into her first major role, as the Amber St Clair, for Otto Preminger’s lavish Hollywood period drama Forever Amber. She had particularly impressed the film’s producer Darryl F Zanuck who cast her above 200 other actresses who had auditioned for the part.
    At the time comparisons were inevitably made with Vivien Leigh’s casting for 1939’s Gone for the Wind. However, Cummins’s delight was shortlived. After nearly two months of production, the movie mogul Zanuck changed his mind. Cummins was considered too inexperienced for the role.
    So the young actress was summarily replaced by Linda Darnell, an experience Cummins later described as “shattering” after getting “a part like that”.
    However, she went on to make her 20th Century Fox debut with Joseph L Mankiewicz’s comedy The Late George Apley (1947), in which she played the daughter of Ronald Colman’s rich Bostonian. She went to display her enviable range with lead roles in Moss Rose (1947), starring as a Cockney singer-dancer opposite Victor Mature, Louis King’s Western Green Grass of Wyoming and British-American thriller Escape (1948), alongside Rex Harrison.
    Cummins was never less than compelling in these solid but unspectacular Fox productions, but it was her role of manipulative femme fatale in Gun Crazy that she’ll be remembered. Initially dismissed by The New York Times as “pretty cheap stuff”, Joseph H Lewis’s tangy B-movie, which was secretly co-written by the blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, is now revered. In 1998 Gun Crazy was even preserved in the Library of Congress for being “culturally, historically and aesthetically significant”. This honour wasn’t only for Cummins sexually charged performance but for an exquisite (and ground-breaking) off-camera heist sequence, executed in a single, three-minute take.
    Gun Crazy was to heavily influence Arthur Penn’s brutal Bonnie and Clyde (the beret Faye Dunaway sports seems like a direct reference to a beret-wearing Annie) and a swathe French New Wave film-makers. The film writer Eddie Muller has described Cummins’s performance as earning “her lasting fame as the tiniest, but most ferocious, femme fatale in the history of film noir”.
    While Cummins never reached such giddy heights again, she stayed in work throughout the 1950s (and away from Hollywood) in England, also marrying the late London businessman Derek Dunnett in 1950. In the same year she starred alongside Edward G Robinson in Alexander Korda and Gregory Ratoff’s melodrama My Daughter Joy (1950), the Ealing comedy Meet Mr Lucifer and Muriel Box’s Street Corner, both from 1953.
    She followed these up with a series of undemanding and somewhat frothy comedies and romances, including Ealing’s 1954 comedy The Love Lottery, with David Niven, Muriel Box’s To Dorothy a Son, with Shelley Winters, and Carry on Admiral (1957), an early Carry On… effort that also starred stalwart Joan Sims but none of the other regulars.


    However, it was in the same year that Cummins that bagged her second most significant role, Jacques Tournier’s excellent chiller Night of the Demon, about a US psychologist (Dana Andrews) investigating a satanic cult alongside Cummins’s Joanna. In a Time Out poll at the start of this decade the sinister Night of the Demon was placed 52 in a top 100 list of horror films.
    The handful of film roles that came after – including the rather frivolous 1960’s Your Money Your Wife, of which the Radio Timesopined “Nice title… shame about the movie” before giving it one star out of five stars, Dentist in the Chair (1960 and starring Bob Monkhouse) and her last film In the Doghouse (1961) – never matched the potency of Night of the Demon or indeed Gun Crazy.
    In 1961 Cummins retired from acting and went on to devote her time to her family and the independent charity the Stars Foundation for Cerebral Palsy. She is survived by her son David and her daughter Diana from her marriage to Derek Dunnett.
    Peggy Cummin, born 18 December, 1925, died 29 December 29 2017

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    Ikea Founder Ingvar Kampgrad spent today walking through eighteen different departments and a maze of passageways, just to get to his section of the afterlife.

    Kampgrad, who died aged 91 on Monday, was said to be frustrated as he rushed through lighting, soft furnishings, bedroom, kitchen, outdoor settings, and storage solutions, before finally getting to his section of heaven.

    Sources say that even though Kampgrad’s section was literally a metre from the entrance way, the only route available was to push through eleven thousand young couples buying bedside tables and forty million families with strollers.
    On the plus side, Kampgrad did find a cool ice-cube tray and an outdoor cushion set, which he hadn’t considered when he entered heaven.

    His funeral service is currently being assembled.

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