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Oct 21, 2012 8:21:08 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Oct 21, 2012 8:21:08 GMT -5
R.I.P. George McGovern, former US Senator (D-SD) and 1972 Democratic candidate for president, who lost in a historic landslide to Richard Nixon died at age 90 at a hospice in Sioux Falls, S.D.
The South Dakota liberal had a long career as an influential politician, historian and author. Best known for his strong opposition to the Vietnam War and his staggering loss to Nixon, he also had a distinguished career in public service in the House of Representatives, the Senate and with the United Nations. On the issues, McGovern was a leading liberal Democrat who advocated for fighting world hunger, protecting farmers and ending the war in Vietnam. McGovern was a bomber pilot in World War II, flying 35 combat missions and earning the Distinguished Flying Cross. He became an early critic of the Vietnam War and a leader of the Democrats' liberal wing. Hw was a former history professor and director of the Food for Peace program in the Kennedy administration, He was elected to his first of three Senate terms in 1962. McGovern ran for president three times, also making a try for the nomination in 1968 and 1984. In 1972, he challenged Nixon on a platform opposing the war in Vietnam, but suffered one of the most lopsided defeats in U.S. history, taking only 37.5% of the vote and carrying only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. In his life after politics, he wrote books on ending world hunger and the Founding Fathers. After his daughter died of hypothermia while acutely intoxicated, he wrote Terry: My Daughter's Life-and-Death Struggle With Alcoholism. For several years he was proprietor of the Stratford Inn in Stratford, Conn. After the inn went belly-up, he wrote an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal in 1992 urging legislators to reduce red tape and frivolous lawsuits. "I…wish that I had had this firsthand experience about the difficulties that businesspeople face every day," Mr. McGovern wrote.
R.I.P. George McGovern, liberal Democratic Senator from South Dakota, definitely an endangered species today.
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Oct 22, 2012 20:44:17 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Oct 22, 2012 20:44:17 GMT -5
R.I.P. Russell C. Means, an Oglala Sioux, who staged guerrilla-tactic protests in the 1970s that called attention to the nation’s history of injustices against its indigenous peoples, has died at age 72 at his ranch in Porcupine, S.D. on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation from esophageal cancer. He is survived by his fifth wife, Pearl Daniels, and nine children.
Mr. Means was, by his own account, a magnet for trouble — addicted to drugs and alcohol in his early years and later arrested repeatedly in violent clashes with rivals and the law. He was tried for abetting a murder, shot several times, stabbed once and imprisoned for a year for rioting. As a leader of the American Indian Movement, he styled himself a throwback to ancestors who resisted the westward expansion of the American frontier. With theatrical protests that brought national attention to poverty and discrimination suffered by his people, he became arguably the nation’s best-known Indian since Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. His most notorious act was a 1973 protest covered by the national news media for months, when he led hundreds of Indians and white sympathizers in an occupation of Wounded Knee, S.D., site of the 1890 massacre of some 350 Lakota men, women and children in the last major conflict of the American Indian wars. The protesters demanded strict federal adherence to old Indian treaties, and an end to what they called corrupt tribal governments. Mr. Means retired from the American Indian Movement in 1988, but its leaders, with whom he had feuded for years, scoffed, saying he had “retired” six times previously. They generally disowned him and his work, calling him an opportunist out for political and financial gain. In 1989, he told Congress that there was “rampant graft and corruption” in tribal governments and federal programs assisting American Indians. Mr. Means began his acting career in 1992 with The Last of the Mohicans, Michael Mann’s adaptation of the James Fenimore Cooper novel, in which he played Chingachgook opposite Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeleine Stowe. Over two decades he appeared in more than 30 films and television productions, including Natural Born Killers (1994) and Pathfinder (2007). He also recorded CDs, including Electric Warrior: The Sound of Indian America (1993), and wrote a memoir, Where White Men Fear to Tread (1995, with Marvin J. Wolf). R.I.P. Russell C. Means, an extraordinary modern Oglala Sioux leader.
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mtman
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Oct 22, 2012 21:11:13 GMT -5
Post by mtman on Oct 22, 2012 21:11:13 GMT -5
Good riddance......He should have died in prison.
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Nov 24, 2012 9:22:31 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Nov 24, 2012 9:22:31 GMT -5
R.I.P. Larry Hagman, actor (Dallas, I Dream of Jeanie). died at age 81 of complicatioins of cancer at Medical City Dallas Hospital. In July 1995, he was diagnosed with liver cancer, which led him to quit smoking, and a month later he underwent a liver transplant. He is survived by Maj, his wife of 59 years, son Preston, daughter Heidi and five grandchildren.
Larry Hagman became a global icon playing the cunning J.R. Ewing in the TV blockbuster Dallas, the villain all loved to hate. Despite his fragile health, the actor had returned to Texas from his home in California to film season one of TNT’s Dallas reboot and part of season two. The original show, in which Hagman played a conniving businessman who people loved to hate, ran from 1978 to 1991 on CBS. The "Who shot J.R.?" cliffhanger series ending in 1980 -- which left it unclear if he was alive or dead -- broke viewing records and led to weeks of speculation about what had happened. Ewing survived.
Earlier in his career, Hagman was known for his role as Maj. Anthony Nelson, the master-turned-husband of a beautiful genie played by Barbara Eden in the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. He was orn in Texas to Benjamin Jack Hagman and Tony-winning Broadway star Mary Martin (South Pacific, Peter Pan, The Sound of Music). His father was a lawyer who dealt with the Texas oil barons Hagman would later portray. Hagman served in the Air Force, spending five years in Europe as the director of USO shows, and on his return to New York he took a starring role in the daytime soap The Edge of Night. His breakthrough came in 1965 when he landed the I Dream of Jeannie role opposite Barbara Eden.
In his later years, Hagman became an advocate for organ transplants and an anti-smoking campaigner. He also was devoted to solar energy, telling the New York Times he had a $750,000 solar panel system at his Ojai estate, and made a commercial in which he portrayed a J.R. Ewing who had forsaken oil for solar power. He was a longtime member of the Peace and Freedom Party, a minor leftist organization in California. Hagman told the Times that after death he wanted his remains to be "spread over a field and have marijuana and wheat planted and harvest it in a couple of years and then have a big marijuana cake, enough for 200 to 300 people. People would eat a little of Larry." Recently he acknowledged that Maj, his wife of nearly six decades ,had Alzheimer's disease, and he was battling throat cancer. R.I.P. Larry Hagman, the greedy, scheming TV villain we all loved to hate.
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Nov 24, 2012 11:35:27 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Nov 24, 2012 11:35:27 GMT -5
R.I.P. Hector "Macho" Camacho, Puerto Rican boxer, died at age 50 at the Centro Medico trauma center in San Juan, Puerto Rico, four days after being shot in the face. He suffered a heart attack overnight and was later taken off life support, having been declared brain dead shortly after the shooting. Hector "Macho" Camacho was a boxer known for skill and flamboyance in the ring as well as for a messy personal life and run-ins with the police. Camacho's mother, Maria Matias, said Friday night that she had supported removing him from life support after his three sons had arrived from the U.S. mainland and had a chance to see their father for the last time. Originally from Bayamon, just outside San Juan, Camacho was long regarded as a flashy if volatile talent, a skilled boxer who was perhaps overshadowed by his longtime foil, Mexican superstar Julio Cesar Chavez, who would beat him in a long-awaited showdown in Las Vegas in 1992. Camacho fought professionally for three decades, from his humble debut against David Brown at New York's Felt Forum in 1980 to an equally forgettable swansong against Sal Duran in Kissimmee, Florida, in 2010. Drug, alcohol and other problems trailed Camacho after the prime of his boxing career. He was sentenced in 2007 to seven years in prison for the burglary of a computer store in Mississippi. While arresting him on the burglary charge in January 2005, police also found the drug ecstasy. A judge eventually suspended all but one year of the sentence and gave Camacho probation. He wound up serving two weeks in jail, though, after violating that probation. His wife also filed domestic abuse complaints against him twice before their divorce several years ago. "Hector was a fighter who brought a lot of excitement to boxing," said Ed Brophy, executive director of International the Boxing Hall of Fame. "He was a good champion (super-featherwieght, lightweight and junior welterweight). Roberto Duran is kind of in a class of his own, but Hector surely was an exciting fighter that gave his all to the sport." The fighter's last title bout came in 1997 against welterweight champion Oscar De La Hoya, who won by unanimous decision. Camacho's last fight was his defeat by Duran in May 2010. He had a career record of 79-6-3. In recent years, he divided his time between Puerto Rico and Florida, appearing regularly on Spanish-language television as well as on a reality show called "Es Macho Time!" on YouTube. In San Juan, he had been living in the beach community of Isla Verde, where he would readily pose for photos with tourists who recognized him on the street, said former pro boxer Victor "Luvi" Callejas, a neighbor and friend. His life essentially ended sitting in a parked car with a firend outside a bar in his hometown city of Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Police spokesman Alex Diaz said officers found nine small bags of cocaine in the friend's pocket, and a 10th bag open inside the car. Camacho's friend, identified as 49-year-old Adrian Mojica Moreno, was killed in the attack.
R.I.P. Hector "Macho" Camacho, ex-champion boxer,
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Dec 5, 2012 16:40:35 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Dec 5, 2012 16:40:35 GMT -5
R.I.P, Dave Brubeck, legendary jazz pianist and composer, died at age 91 of heart failure after being stricken while on his way to a cardiology apppointment. Brubeck is survived by four sons, one daughter, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Dave Brubeck's pioneering style in pieces such as "Take Five" enthralled listeners with exotic, challenging rhythms. Brubeck had a career that spanned almost all American jazz since World War II. He formed The Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1951 and was the first modern jazz musician to be pictured on the cover of Time magazine — on Nov. 8, 1954 — and he helped define the swinging, smoky rhythms of 1950s and '60s club jazz. His seminal album Time Out, released by the quartet in 1959, was the first ever million-selling jazz LP, and is still among the best-selling jazz albums of all time. It opens with "Blue Rondo a la Turk" in 9/8 time — nine beats to the measure instead of the customary two, three or four beats. The album also features "Take Five" — in 5/4 time — which became the Quartet's signature theme and even made the Billboard singles chart in 1961. It was composed by Brubeck's longtime saxophonist, Paul Desmond. "When you start out with goals — mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically — you never exhaust that," Brubeck said. "I started doing that in the 1940s. It's still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two elements."
In later years Brubeck composed music for operas, ballet, even a contemporary Mass. In the late 1980s, Brubeck contributed music for one episode of an eight-part series of television specials, This Is America, Charlie Brown. His music was for an episode involving NASA and the space station. He worked with three of his sons — Chris on bass trombone and electric bass, Dan on drums and Matthew on cello — and included excerpts from his Mass "To Hope! A Celebration," his oratorio "A Light in the Wilderness," and a piece he had composed but never recorded, "Quiet As the Moon." In 2006, the University of Notre Dame gave Brubeck its Laetare Medal, awarded each year to a Roman Catholic "whose genius has ennobled the arts and sciences, illustrated the ideals of the church and enriched the heritage of humanity." More acclaim came his way when it was announced that he would be a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors at a ceremony in late 2009.
R.I.P, Dave Brubeck, one of jazz's greatest and pioneering pianists.
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Dec 12, 2012 10:51:49 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Dec 12, 2012 10:51:49 GMT -5
R.I.P. Ravi Shankar (Chowdhury), Indian sitar virtuoso, died at age 92 in the aftermath of heart-valve replacement surgery due to upper respiratory and heart problems in San Diego, Calif. near his Southern California home. He is survived by his wife and two daughters, sitarist Anoushka Shankar Wright and Norah Jones.
Labeled "the godfather of world music" by George Harrison, the multi-Grammy winning Shankar helped millions of classical, jazz and rock lovers discover the centuries-old traditions of Indian music. "He was legend of legends," Shivkumar Sharma, a noted santoor player who performed with Shankar, told Indian media. "Indian classical was not at all known in the Western world. He was the musician who had that training ... the ability to communicate with the Western audience." He also pioneered the concept of the rock benefit with the 1971 Concert For Bangladesh. To later generations, he was known as the estranged father of popular American singer Norah Jones. Shankar won three Grammy awards and was nominated for an Oscar for his musical score for the movie Gandhi. His album The Living Room Sessions, Part 1 earned him his latest Grammy nomination, for best world music album.
R.I.P. Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar genius.
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Feb 27, 2013 14:22:56 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Feb 27, 2013 14:22:56 GMT -5
R..I.P. Van Cliburn, acclaimed classical pianist, died at age 78 of bone cancer at his Fort Woprth, Tex. home, which he shared with Thomas L. Smith, who survives him.
Harvey Lavan Cliburn (took his nickname from his middle name) Cliburn, a music legend, first became famous in 1958 at the young age of 23 when he won the International Piano Competition in Moscow at the height of the Cold War, returning home to a parade in his honor and the beginning of five decades of fame. In a sense he had been preparing for the contest for a decade, making his orchestral debut in Houston at age 12, entering Juilliard at 17, and playing Carnegie Hall at 20. When Cliburn returned to the United States the victor, he was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York.He was credited with improving cultural relations between the two superpowers, touring the Soviet Union several times through the 1960s during the height of tensions. Cliburn, considered one of the great pianists of the 20th century, performed for every U.S. president since Harry Truman and is believed to be the only parade of its kind ever accorded a classical musician. In 1962, some arts patrons and business leaders in the Fort Worth area, to honor their hometown hero, inaugurated the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, which became, and remains, the most lucrative and visible of these contests.
Cliburn's later recording of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 became the first classical record to be certified platinum. Cliburn's many awards include The Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Pres. George W. Bush, the National Medal of Arts presented by Pres. Obama, the Kennedy Center Honors, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Russian Order of Friendship presented by Pres. Vladimir Putin on behalf of the Russian people. R..I.P. (Harvey Lavan ) Van Cliburn, legendary 20th century pianist.
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Mar 5, 2013 19:45:19 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Mar 5, 2013 19:45:19 GMT -5
R.I.P. Hugo Chavez, Venequela's 'Comandante,'' , the charismatic leftist who dominated his country with sweeping political change and flamboyant speeches, has died at age 58, after a long battle with cancer
Adored or reviled for his self-styled populist revolution, Chavez held sway over Venezuela through a cult of personality, government reforms that championed the downtrodden, and an endless stream of rhetoric denouncing capitalism, imperialism and the United States. The "Chavistas" praised El Comandante for reducing extreme poverty and expanding access to health care and education. Critics blamed him for high inflation, food shortages, escalating crime and mismanagement of the country’s oil industry.
Chavez’s relations with the U.S were divisive. He called Pre. George W. Bush "the devil" and "the king of vacations." In 2010, he demanded Secretary of State Hillary Clinton resign "along with those other delinquents working in the State Department." He often lavished praise on Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi and Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, but his staunchest ally was Cuba. He kept the island nation flush with oil in exchange for its well-trained doctors and teachers, and he was visiting Havana when he fell ill in June 2011.
R.I.P. Hugo Chavez, the polarizing president of Venezuela who cast himself as a "21st century socialist" and foe of the United States,
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Apr 8, 2013 9:54:37 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Apr 8, 2013 9:54:37 GMT -5
R.I.P. Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, the United Kingdom's "Iron Lady" and first woman prime minister (1979-1990) who led a conservative resurgence in Britain, died today at age 87 of a stroke after suffering from dementia for 8 years.
Margaret Thatcher was the longest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of the 20th century and the only woman ever to have held the post, who forged a legendary conservative partnership with US President Reagan. A grocer’s daughter with a sharp tongue and a no-nonsense style, Thatcher was elected to Parliament at age 34 and climbed the Conservative Party ladder. She became its leader at age 50 and swept into 10 Downing St. four years later.
Thatcher transformed the British economy and took on its welfare state and powerful unions. Her government closed or sold state-owned industries, notably struggling steel plants and coal mines, to the private sector and radically cut taxes and public spending to restart a stagnant nation. Under her leadership, Britain fought and won a war with Argentina for the Falkland Islands i the South Atlantic Ocean — determined to preserve one of the last outposts of the British empire. A spokesman said that Prime Minister David Cameron would cut short a visit to Europe to return to Britain. Cameron’s office said that Thatcher would receive a ceremonial funeral with military honors at St. Paul’s Cathedral. R.I.P. Margaret Thatcher, the "Iron Lady" of British politics.
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Apr 12, 2013 17:29:57 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Apr 12, 2013 17:29:57 GMT -5
R.I.P. Jonathan Winters, the wildly inventive actor and comedian who appeared in such films as It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Worldand The Loved One, has died of natural causes at age 87 at his home in Montecito, Calif.. The comedic actor is survived by his two children and five grandchildren.
Jonathan Winters played everyone from an alien baby to a crotchety grandma, and inspired numerous comedians in the field of improvisational comedy. Winters became known for his numerous classic comedy characters and routines, including sharp-tongued Maude Frickert, whom the comic said he based on a large, humorous but bedridden relative. His other popular recurring characters included countryish Elwood P. Suggins, wealthy B.B. Bindlestiff, football coach Piggy Bladder and Princess Leilani-nani, the world's oldest hula dancer.
He worked in more than 73 movies and TV sitcoms with one of the most popular being Mork and Mindy. Winters won an Emmy in 1991 for his work as the goofy father of Randy Quaid on the short-lived sitcom Davis Rules. He also won two Grammys and the second-ever Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Friom 1867-69 he hosted his own TV comedy show
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Apr 12, 2013 17:31:55 GMT -5
Post by Forever Sunshine on Apr 12, 2013 17:31:55 GMT -5
Awwww! I always liked Jonathan Winters. RIP
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Apr 12, 2013 18:03:04 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Apr 12, 2013 18:03:04 GMT -5
Maria Tallchief, dazzling prima ballerina of the New York City Ballet, died at age 88 in Chicago, Ill. Ahe is survived by her daughter, her sister (ballerina Marjorie Tallchief) and two grandchildren. She was the daughter of an Oklahoma oil family who grew up on an Indian reservation as the daughter of an Osage Indiian father and a Scottish-Irish mother and found her way to New York City to became one of the most brilliant American ballerinas of the 20th century, She achieved renown with George Balanchine’s City Ballet, dazzling audiences with her speed, energy and fire. Indeed, the part that catapulted her to acclaim, in 1949, was the title role in the version of Stravinsky’s “Firebird,” one of many that Balanchine created for her. In addition to “Firebird,” Balanchine created many striking roles for her, including those of the Swan Queen in his version of “Swan Lake,” the Sugar Plum Fairy in his version of “The Nutcracker,” Eurydice in “Orpheus” and principal roles in such plotless works as “Sylvia Pas de Deux,” “Allegro Brillante,” “Pas de Dix” and “Scotch Symphony.” One of her last roles was the title role in Peter van Dyk’s “Cinderella” for the Hamburg company in 1966. She retired from the stage soon afterward. Ms. Tallchief became part of dance life in Chicago, where she founded the Ballet School of the Lyric Opera there in 1974 and was the artistic director of the Chicago City Ballet, which presented its first season in 1981. Proving more successful as a teacher than as a director, she resigned that post in 1987. Among many other honors, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1996.
Ashley Wheater, artistic director with Chicago's Joffrey Ballet, said Tallchief served as a role model to future dancers. "She's an inspiration for young kids today that come from all different ethnic backgrounds to know that they too can have that opportunity," Wheater said. R.I.P Marie Tallchief, prima ballerina who paved the way for countless American dancers of future generations.
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May 14, 2013 9:02:38 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on May 14, 2013 9:02:38 GMT -5
R.I.P. Dr. Joyce Brothers, pioneering TV psychologist and columnist, died at home in Fort Lee, NJ at age 85. Her husband, Milton Brothers, an internist who specialized in diabetes treatment, died in 1989. Besides her daughter, an ophthalmic surgeon, Dr. Brothers is survived by a sister, Elaine Goldsmith; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Her TV career spanned nearly six decades, beginning in 1955 as the only woman to ever win the television quiz show “The $64,000 Question” as an improbable authority on boxing. In 1958 she was offered a trial television show on NBC where she doled out advice on personal problems ranging from love, marriage and raising a family. The show took off and she gained fame by diving into subjects that at the time were seen as too taboo to speak about publicly. She was widely described as the mother of mass-media psychology because of the firm, pragmatic and homiletic guidance she administered for decades via radio and television. She was a panelist on many game shows, including “What’s My Line?” and “The Hollywood Squares.” Playing herself, or a character very much like herself, she had guest roles on a blizzard of TV series, from “The Jack Benny Program” to “Happy Days,” “Taxi,” “Baywatch,” “Entourage” and “The Simpsons.” She also lectured widely; had a call-in radio show, a syndicated newspaper column and a regular column in Good Housekeeping magazine; and wrote books. Her books include The Brothers System for Liberated Love and Marriage (1972). How to Get Whatever You Want Out of Life (1978) and Widowed (1990), a candid description of her own suicidal despair after her husband's death from cancer . Had it not been for “The $64,000 Question,” Dr. Brothers might well have remained a scholar whose publications ran toward “An Investigation of Avoidance, Anxiety, and Escape Behavior in Human Subjects as Measured by Action Potentials in Muscle,” as her doctoral dissertation was titled.
R.I.P. Dr. Joyce Brothers, by ministering to America via the airwaves and in print, you helped bring psychology into the mainstream of American society.
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mtman
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Jun 19, 2013 23:21:58 GMT -5
Post by mtman on Jun 19, 2013 23:21:58 GMT -5
CNN is reporting that James Gandolfini died in Italy from a possible heart attack
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Jun 20, 2013 11:45:18 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Jun 20, 2013 11:45:18 GMT -5
R.I.P. James Joseph Gandolfini, Jr., Emmy-winning actor (The Sopranos), died at age 51 in Rome, Italy of a massive heart attack. He is survived by his wife, Deborah,his son Michael and a baby daughter.
Gandolfini, from West Bergen, NJ and a Rutgers University grad, spent part of his early career supporting himself as a nightclub manager. His big break came in 1992 when he landed a role in a Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Alec Baldwin and Jessica Lange. He rose to fame as mob boss Tony Soprano on the hit HBO show (1999-2007). Gandolfini won three Emmy Awards for his sparkling depiction of Tony Soprano, an emotionally tortured mobster who tries to balance the pressures of being a mob boss with the stresses of family life.
He went on to play quite different roles including Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden hunt docudrama Zero Dark Thirty and starred in the remake of The Taking of Pelham 123. He went on a USO tour to Kuwait and Iraq in 2004, and found himself unable to forget the soldiers and Marines he met there. The result was his 2008 HBO documentary, Alive Day Memories, in which he spoke with 10 men and women who survived the war. The program was nominated for an Emmy Award for outstanding nonfiction special. Gandolfini was a frequent visitor to Italy, where his parents both grew up and his family still owns land near Milan. He was in Italy with his 13-year-old son, Michael, partly to attend the 59th Taormina Film Festival in Sicily.
R.I.P. James Joseph Gandolfini, Jr., Emmy-winning actor of The Sopranos dead at age 51.
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Jun 20, 2013 13:16:54 GMT -5
Post by jackthelad on Jun 20, 2013 13:16:54 GMT -5
No mention on the TV news or on here about the passing away of Slim Whitman in Florida at the ripe old age of 90 years. He was famous when Gondolfini was a baby, in the fifties he was top of the charts in Britain for 9 weeks running with is song Rose Marie, I think Britain and Europe appreciated is talent more than the Americans. However he was eventually inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in the United States in1968, an given a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Along with Elvis I still play there records, much better entertainers than present day so called artistes.
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Jul 20, 2013 18:35:00 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Jul 20, 2013 18:35:00 GMT -5
R.I.P. Helen Thomas, pioneering While House journalist, dies at age 92 at her Washington, D.C. apartment after a long illness,.
The journalist who scored a front-row seat at White House press briefings after years of reporting for wire services and broke several barriers for female correspondents. That included becoming president of the Gridiron Club, breaking a long line of all-male leadership when she was chosen for the position in 1993..Known for her persistent style of questioning, Thomas was most recognized for her work with United Press International, and covered nine presidents over her long career. She started as a copy girl at the Washington Daily News, moving to what was then called the United Press in 1943. She spent her last 10 years in journalism writing a column for Hearst newspapers, a post she retired from in 2010 after she was caught on a videotape saying that Israel should “get the hell out of Palestine.” Her comments spread quickly on the Internet, and Thomas announced that she would retire shortly before her 90th birthday. A 49-year veteran of the White House press, Thomas was known for getting the last word at presidential news conferences: “Thank you, Mr. President.” Her husband, The Associated Press’ Douglas Cornell, died in 1982.
Thomas covered 10 presidents over nearly half a century, and became a legend in the industry. She was a fixture at White House news conferences -- sitting front and center late in her career -- where she frequently exasperated government spokesmen with her pointed questions. She also wrote three books: Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times (1999); Thanks for the Memories Mr. President: Wit and Wisdom from the Front Row at the White House (2002); and Watchdogs of Democracy? The Waning Washington Press Corps and How it Has Failed the Public (2006).
R.I.P. Helen Thomas - you served our nation well.
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Jul 20, 2013 19:06:19 GMT -5
Post by Forever Sunshine on Jul 20, 2013 19:06:19 GMT -5
Awww a staple in the DC journalists line up!
RIP Ms. Thomas
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Oct 2, 2013 15:14:38 GMT -5
Post by Flying Horse on Oct 2, 2013 15:14:38 GMT -5
R.I.P. Tom Clancy, prolific author of military thrillers that turned into box office gold with movies (The Hunt for Red October, Clear and Present Danger, Patriot Games), died at the age of 66 in Baltimore, Md.
Tom Clancy's fast-paced thrillers demonstrated acute knowledge of the technical intricacies of Soviet weaponry and were mainly concerned with espionage and military tactics employed during and in the wake of the Cold War. Unfortunately, due to his nearsightedness, he was barred from being part of the military establishment but always harbored an enduring interest in the military. He wound up penning 17 No. 1 bestselling novels with 12 of them following the exploits of Jack Ryan, a patriotic CIA agent-cum-politician, whose fictional career reflected many of the changes in American foreign policy during the last three decades. His latest book, the techno-thriller Command Authority, is due to hit bookshelves on Dec. 3.
R.I.P. Tom Clancy, pre-eminent author of military thrillers, for books and movies.
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