I'm really feeling my age now. I read lots of books by Kingsley Amis, Martin's father!
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I'm really feeling my age now. I read lots of books by Kingsley Amis, Martin's father!
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Irish actor Ray Stevenson has died at the age of 58.
The actor is known for starring in films including King Arthur, Punisher: War Zone and Marvel’s Thor films. He is also due to star in the forthcoming Star Wars spin-off series Ahsoka.
Stevenson died on Sunday (21 May), his publicist confirmed to Variety. A cause of death has not been given. His former co-stars, including Harry Potter actor Matthew Lewis and Rome’s James Purefoy, have led tributes to the actor.
Marvel fans will recognise Stevenson from his role in 2008’s Punisher: War Zone opposite Dominic West and Doug Hutchinson.
Stevenson was the third actor to portray Frank Castle (aka Punisher) on screen, following in the footsteps of Dolph Lundgren in 1989 and Thomas Jane in 2004. Jon Bernthal later portrayed the character in Netflix’s Daredevil and The Punisher shows.
Tina Turner dead at 83: Singer dies at home in Switzerland after long illness
Tina Turner dead at 83: Singer dies at home in Switzerland after long illness | Daily Mail Online
Sad news. A great entertainer was Tina. Just as hot as a woman could be.
RIP
Some girl convinced me to take her to see Tina in concert.
Can’t remember much about the show, but I do remember trying to remove an adhesive bra. Every time I see her now,.. she's apologizing.
Why were you wearing an adhesive bra? They are a pain!Quote:
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She was and why to this day she’s still apologizing
RIP Tina Turner
Great gal, legs, singer & performer. You're simply the best!
I remember the performance that Beyonce did as a tribute to Tina. Then here's Tina & Beyonce together, singing Proud Mary.
Beyoncé & Tina Turner - Proud Mary - YouTube
But of course what she was *really* famous for.... :rofl:
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Nutbush city limits..fantastic. RIP. Thanks for the memories Tina Turner.
My Dad took my Mum to see Tina Turner at the Capitol Theatre in Aberdeen when they were young.
Dad took binoculars with him “to get a really good look at her snatch”.
Mum said it was really embarrassing cos they were sat in the front row.
^ My mother said they performed with no panties. I thought she made it up.
Apparently she was worth $250m in the end.
Got Tina's 1990 Bahelona concert on Sky, the blonde backing singer with the reins is fukabke, she's ruining my concert :)
Two oldie U.S. actors have left us. Good innings, the both.
George Maharis, star of TV's 'Route 66' in the 1960s, has died at 94
George Maharis, star of TV's 'Route 66' in the 1960s, has died at 94 : NPR
Ed Ames, Singer and ‘Daniel Boone’ Sidekick, Dies at 95
He's also known for landing a tomahawk in an uncomfortable place on 'The Tonight Show.'
Ed Ames Dead: Singer, ‘Daniel Boone’ Sidekick Was 95 – The Hollywood Reporter
Bruce Willis.
That’s a big one.
Bruce Willis died?
^
If he did, no one is reporting on it.
Ah, misleading title, the bastards.
Arnold Schwarzenegger says friend Bruce Willis will be remembered as a ‘great star’ and a ‘kind man
He's pretty fkd tho and can't act any more.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's moving response to Bruce Willis retiring | CNN
Schwarzenegger recently talked to CinemaBlend about his friend and fellow action star.
The former governor of California was asked about Willis having to retire due to his health.
“I think that he’s fantastic,” Schwarzenegger said of Willis. “He was, always for years and years, is a huge, huge star. And I think that he will always be remembered as a great, great star. And a kind man.”
The Willis family announced last year the actor was stepping away from acting because he was diagnosed aphasia, a condition that can hinder ability to communicate, according to the Mayo Clinic.
His family has since shared that Willis is living with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), which is an “umbrella term for a group of brain disorders that primarily affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.”
Schwarzenegger said, “I understand that under his circumstances, health-wise, that he had to retire.”
“But in general, you know, we never really retire,” Schwarzenegger said. “Action heroes, they reload.”
Willis turned 68 in March.
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Did Bruce Willis Just Die Suddenly In Hospital?
30 May 2023
Bruce Willis Did Not Die In A Hospital
This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS created and propagated by people to generate income from page views and YouTube advertising, and here are the reasons why…
This photo that shows Bruce Willis on a hospital bed, was edited from a stock photo of an old man, taken by Raul Rodriguez. It’s titled “Elderly 80 plus year old man recovering from surgery in a hospital bed“.
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He’s been diagnosed with dementia.
Bruce Willis: Daughter Tallulah opens up about father's dementia diagnosis | CNN
Nice of him to hit cinemas with a dozen more turkeys in a couple of years while he still could.
Man with 200 million or so needs another 20 million.
Hollywood.
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Everyone should have watched Vanishing Point by now. If you haven't, now is the time.
Good innings.
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Barry Newman, Vanishing Point and Petrocelli star, dies at 92
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Barry Newman, the veteran actor known for playing a daring driver in the 1971 cult thriller Vanishing Point and the titular attorney on the NBC drama Petrocelli, died May 11 at 92.His wife, Angela Newman, told the Hollywood Reporter that Newman died of natural causes at NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center. "He was truly a light for so many, with an incredible, hilarious sense of humor that lit everything and everyone up," she added.
Born Nov. 7, 1930, in Boston, Newman attended Brandeis University, where he met Method acting innovator Lee Strasberg. After graduating and then serving in the Army, where he played clarinet and saxophone in the Army band, Newman moved to New York City to study acting under Strasberg. He made his Broadway debut as a jazz musician in Nature's Way, and later appeared in Maybe Tuesday and The Mousetrap.
Newman's big break came when he played defense attorney Anthony Petrocelli in the 1970 courtroom drama The Lawyer, which was loosely based on the Sam Sheppard murder case. Four years later Newman's character made the leap to the small screen for the TV movie Night Games and the subsequent series Petrocelli, which ran for two seasons. Newman earned Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for his performance as the maverick lawyer.
In Vanishing Point, Newman memorably played Kowalski, a car transport driver white-knuckling through an existential cross-country trip. The film went on to become an admired cult classic, as Newman recalled in a 2019 interview with Paul Rowlands.
"When it opened in London at the Leicester Square Theatre, people lined up around the block to see it," Newman said. "In England I was a hero, and in America I was just a guy picking up his bags at the plane terminal. It opened again in America after playing Europe and people then started getting on to the film. It became a cult film without me even realizing it. To this day, I'm always being asked to talk about it somewhere."
Newman's other screen credits included the films Fear Is the Key, City on Fire, Daylight, and The Limey, and the TV series Murder She Wrote, The O.C., and NYPD Blue. He stepped back from acting in 2009, after being diagnosed with vocal cord cancer.
Barry Newman dead: Vanishing Point, Petrocelli actor was 92 | EW.com
I saw that as a teenager. It is shocking to learn both Barry Newman and Cleavon Little were older than my parents at that time.
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Yes, I've added it to my list along with Fear is the Key, which I've never seen. Which prompted me to add Puppet on a Chain as well.Quote:
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The Girl from Ipanema, dies aged 83
Astrud Gilberto, whose dreamy interpretation of The Girl from Ipanema became the most popular version of the song, has died aged 83.
Paul Ricci, a collaborator with Gilberto, confirmed the news on social media, writing that he had been asked to announce it by Gilberto’s son Marcelo. “She was an important part of ALL that is Brazilian music in the world and she changed many lives with her energy,” he added.
Born in 1940 in the Brazilian state of Bahia and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Astrud Weinert married musician João Gilberto in 1959. In 1963, she accompanied him on a trip to New York where he would record with jazz artist Stan Getz and fellow Brazilian bossa nova star Antônio Carlos Jobim. The session’s producer wanted an English-language singer to help The Girl from Ipanema cross over to a US audience, and Astrud – who had no previous recording experience – was the only person who could speak it.
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Astrud Gilberto, bossa nova singer of The Girl from Ipanema, dies aged 83 | Music | The Guardian
Tony McPhee, singer and guitarist for rock band the Groundhogs, dies aged 79
Musician who led acclaimed band on and off between 1962 and 2015 – and scored three UK top 10 albums – had suffered a fall last year and a series of strokes
Tony McPhee, the singer and guitarist who led British blues and rock group the Groundhogs across six decades, has died aged 79.
A message was posted on the group’s Facebook page confirming that he died peacefully at home” on 6 June from complications after a fall last year. He had also suffered a series of strokes in later life.
McPhee was grounded in the early 1960s British blues scene that had taken hold in clubs including the Marquee in London’s Soho, where he watched musicians such as Cyril Davies. He joined a south London group, the Dollar Bills, in 1962 and renamed them the Groundhogs.
Playing blues and R&B, their career took off in 1964 when John Mayall and his band were unable to back visiting US blues star John Lee Hooker on a UK tour date, and the Groundhogs were deputised. Hooker then rehired them for another tour the year after, and recorded an acclaimed album with them; Hooker and the Hogs. McPhee later described Hooker as “fantastic – great fun and a real gentleman”.
The Groundhogs became a go-to band for other touring blues artists, such as Little Walter and Jimmy Reed, but they then split for a time in the mid-60s. McPhee recorded solo tracks with producer Jimmy Page, and took session work (sometimes under the name Tony “TS” McPhee) – he joined Mayall and Eric Clapton in the backing band for the Champion Jack Dupree album From New Orleans to Chicago.
A short-lived psych-rock group with Groundhogs bassist Pete Cruickshank, Herbal Mixture, also found some success, and supported the Jeff Beck Group. McPhee also turned down sideman slots with Mayall and jazz bandleader Chris Barber, later calling the latter decision one of his regrets.
He and Cruickshank then revived the Groundhogs name with a new lineup, with the group’s debut album arriving in 1968. This marked the start of McPhee most commercially successful period: amid a fertile rock scene with British bands branching out from blues, R&B and rock’n’roll into psychedelia, progressive rock and heavier moods, the Groundhogs’ energetic, frequently cosmic sound chimed with the spirit of the age.
Tony McPhee, singer and guitarist for rock band the Groundhogs, dies aged 79 | Pop and rock | The Guardian
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Robert Hanssen: Convicted US spy found dead in Colorado prison
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June 5 (UPI) -- Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent who sold U.S. secrets for $1.4 million to the Soviet Union and later Russia, was found dead Monday in his Colorado prison cell, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
"At approximately 6:55 a.m., inmate Robert Hanssen was found unresponsive at the United States Penitentiary Florence ADMAX in Florence, Colorado," a release from the Federal Bureau of Prisons said.
"Responding staff immediately initiated life-saving measures. Staff requested emergency medical services and life-saving efforts continued," the release added. "Mr. Hanssen was subsequently pronounced deceased by EMS personnel."
As of Monday afternoon, the Bureau of Prisons had not released a cause of death.
Hanssen, 79, had been serving a life sentence at the prison known as the "Alcatraz of the Rockies" since July 17, 2002, after pleading guilty to 15 counts of espionage and conspiracy to avoid the death penalty.
Hanssen was an FBI agent for more than two decades and began spying for the Soviets in 1979, about three years after he joined the bureau. Before his arrest, he was a counterintelligence specialist with the bureau's National Security Division, which gave him access to information from the National Security Agency and the State Department.
He was arrested in February 2001 near his Virginia home while conducting a "dead drop" for his Russian handlers. FBI agents found the package containing highly classified information and a separate package containing $50,000 cash.
According to the federal indictment, Hanssen gave the Soviets and Russians documents "which directly concerned satellites, early warning systems, means of defense or retaliation against a large-scale attack, communications intelligence and major elements of defense strategy."
The indictment said Hanssen also gave Russia the identities of "individuals acting as agents of the United States (in Russia)," which resulted in the executions of two of them, including Soviet Gen. Dmitri Polyakov.
While Hanssen stopped spying for several years after his wife confronted him, he resumed spying in 1985 using the alias "Ramon Garcia" in exchange for cash, diamonds and foreign bank deposits.
"I apologize for my behavior. I am shamed by it. Beyond its illegality, I have torn the trust of so many," Hanssen said during his sentencing in 2002.
"Worse, I have opened the door for calumny against my totally innocent wife and our children. I hurt them deeply. I have hurt so many deeply."
Robert Hanssen, ex-FBI agent convicted of spying, dies in prison at 79 - UPI.com
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Oddly seems mainly black men face execution and not traitors can some of our American brothers explain why, is it they are stored for possible exchange or are years in prison seen as more of a deterrent?
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They weren't entirely sure what secrets he had sold.
not many will miss him
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Robinson was easily one of the most divisive individuals on the American political scene. Fortunately for him while spewing hate for minority groups and others he was able to do as many conservative religious figures and amass a wealth of 100 million USD.
Next up, Jimmy Swagart or Kenneth Copeland/ It's be nice if enough of them were in their afterlife to form a quorum.
8 Richest Pastors in America | Net Worth Joel Osteen, Pat Robertson, Kenneth Copeland | Pastor's Salaries - Beliefnet
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(I do like Fridays though)
Theodore ‘Ted’ Kaczynski, known as the ‘Unabomber,’ dies in federal prison
Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died Saturday. He was 81.
Fvck RIP