2017 Hollywood Obituaries

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    We don't appear to have this yet so here goes:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...rcist-author-dies_us_587906b4e4b09281d0ea8956

    William Peter Blatty, Author Of ‘The Exorcist,’ Dies At 89
    Blatty’s famous story depicted a young girl possessed by a demon.
    01/13/2017 12:10 pm ET | Updated 2 hours ago
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    William Peter Blatty attends the special screening of “The Exorcist Extended Director’s Cut” at Il Gattopardo on Sept. 29, 2010, in New York City.
    William Peter Blatty, who wrote The Exorcist and won an Oscar for the screenplay adaptation of the horror story, has died. He was 89.

    William Friedkin, who directed the film version of “The Exorcist” in 1973, announced the author’s death on Twitter Friday.

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    Blatty died Thursday in a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, from a form of blood cancer, his wife, Julia Alice Blatty, told The Associated Press.

    Blatty’s chilling story of a Catholic priest attempting to rid a young girl of a demonic spirit was a best-seller after his earlier novels, mostly comedic, had failed to reach a wide audience, according to The Guardian.

    Set in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, “The Exorcist” captivated readers with the increasingly strange and unsettling occurrences happening around the main character, Regan MacNeil, and her family. It has sold more than 10 million copies.

    In an interview with The Huffington Post in 2011 after releasing a revised version of his breakthrough work, Blatty discussed the novel’s appeal.

    “Obviously, of course, a popular novel has to be a page-turning read. Second, everyone likes a good scare, so long as we know we’re not really threatened,” Blatty said via email.” And third - and most importantly, I think - because this novel is an affirmation that there is a final justice in the universe; that man is something more than a neuron net; that there is a high degree of probability - let’s not beat around the bush – that there is an intelligence, a creator whom C.S. Lewis famously alluded to as “the love that made the worlds.”


    The misperception that the events in the book, like scenes where Regan’s head spun around, were based on a true story possibly also increased sales, Blatty said to HuffPost.

    The film adaptation, starring Linda Blair as Regan, was also a smash hit and cultural phenomenon when it was released in 1973. It was so popular that fans waited in lines stretching for blocks to get tickets, and some even went to the extreme method of using battering rams to try to get into theaters.

    For a mainstream movie at the time, it was graphic. In a famous sequence, Regan vomits on a priest. In another, the 12-year-old character spews a stream of profanities.

    Yet while writing the novel, Blatty never thought of its a frightening read.

    “When I was writing the novel I thought of it as a super-natural detective story, and to this day I cannot recall having a conscious intention to terrifying anybody, which you may take, I suppose, as an admission of failure on an almost stupefying scale,” Blatty said in his interview with HuffPost.

    The screenplay netted an Oscar for Blatty in 1974, and the film became the first horror movie nominated in the best picture category, according to Variety.

    In 1983, Blatty published Legion as a sequel to The Exorcist. He also directed the 1980 film “The Ninth Configuration,” and 1990’s “The Exorcist III.”

    He married four times and had eight children, according to The AP. He was born in New York City, where he was raised by his parents, immigrants from Lebanon. The AP reported that he was valedictorian of Brooklyn Preparatory high school and attended Georgetown University on a scholarship.
     
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    Strangely this piece doesn't mention his mother Rosemary Clooney and his 1st cousin George Clooney:

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/miguel-ferrer-dies-ncis-los-211527976.html

    Miguel Ferrer Dies: ‘NCIS: Los Angeles’ and ‘Crossing Jordan’ Star Was 61
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    Miguel Ferrer, who had played Owen Granger on NCIS: Los Angeles since 2012 and co-starred with Jill Hennessy on CBS’ Crossing Jordan, died today of cancer. He was 61.

    The son of late actor Jose Ferrer, he also was to reprise his role as FBI Agent Albert Rosenfeld on David Lynch’s revival Twin Peaks on Showtime.


    Ferrer launched his career in the early 1980s with small guest shots on such series as Magnum, P.I., CHiPS and Cagney & Lacey and features including Heartbreaker, RoboCop, The Man Who Wasn’t There and Star Trek: III: The Search for Spock. He would go on to focus mostly on TV throughout that decade before landing the Twin Peaks role in 1990.

    The Santa Monica native toplined the short-lived Stephen J. Cannell-creator cop drama Broken Badges in 1991 and also starred in Lynch’s 1950s romp On the Air the following year. He appeared in a number of features during the 1990s but continued to star on short-run TV series including Fallen Angels and Al Franken’s LateLine.

    In 2001, Ferrer landed a role in the NBC drama Crossing Jordan, starring opposite Hennessy’s Boston medical examiner. The show was among the top 20 in the year-end ratings for 2001-02 and remained on the air until 2007.

    After that series wrapped, Ferrer starred opposite Michelle Ryan in Bionic Woman, which lasted nine episodes, co-starred with Ally Walker and Tisha Campbell-Martin in the LAPD drama The Protector in 2011. But his next role would be his biggest.

    In 2012, Ferrer joined the cast of CBS’ popular spinoff NCIS: Los Angeles, opposite Chris O’Donnell, LL Cool J, Linda Hunt and others. He came in early on as the assistant director of NCIS and at first was a hard-as-nails unpleasant sort to the team. But during the course of the ensuing seasons, his Owen Granger warmed up to them and became a friend. There has been an ongoing mole-hunt storyline in the current eighth season of NCIS: LA, and Granger was stabbed while in police custody in the most recent episode that aired Sunday.

    Ferrer is survived by his wife Lori, sons Lukas and Rafi and his brothers and sisters.
     
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    Uncle Ferd says his mother was Hazel, Shirley Booth, with an E onna end...
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    Tributes to Deadwood actor Powers Boothe following his death aged 68
    Monday 15th May, 2017 - Stars have been paying tribute to veteran Hollywood character actor Powers Boothe who has died aged 68.
     
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    Roger Moore, star of 7 James Bond films, dies at 89
    May 23,`17 -- Roger Moore, the suavely insouciant star of seven James Bond films, has died in Switzerland. He was 89.
     
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    Batman, Family Guy actor Adam West dead at 88 after battle with leukemia
    Sunday 11th June, 2017 - Actor Adam West, who played Batman in the 1960s television series, has passed away at the age of 88 after a “short but brave” battle with leukemia, according to a statement from his family.
     
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    Flounder passes away...
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    Stephen Furst, of ‘Animal House’ and ‘St. Elsewhere,’ Dies at 63
    June 17, 2017 — Stephen Furst, who played naive fraternity pledge Flounder in the hit movie Animal House, has died of complications from diabetes, his family said Saturday. Furst was 63.
     
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    Playwright Sam Shepard passes away...
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    Sam Shepard, Pulitzer-Winning Playwright and Oscar-Nominated Actor, Dead at 73
    Jul 31 2017 - Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who became a movie star with his Oscar-nominated portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in "The Right Stuff," died at his home in Kentucky. He was 73.
     
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    Let's Make a Deal Host, Monty Hall, Dead at 96...
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    Monty Hall, Iconic Let's Make a Deal Host, Dead at 96
    September 30, 2017 - Game show icon Monty Hall, who co-created and hosted the original Let’s Make a Deal, has died of heart failure at the age of 96, the New York Times reports. He passed away on Saturday in his Beverly Hills, Calif. home.
     
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    Will Saint Peter ask Monty if he wants what is behind Door #1 or Door #2? :angel:
     
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    I understand that Mr Hall wanted to be a doctor but the school he applied to had a Jewish quota and he was denied admission. Sad that the medical profession lost him. But we were all blessed to have him instead. :)
     
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    Benson died...
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    ‘Benson’ Star Robert Guillaume Dies at 89 After Battling Prostate Cancer
    Actor Robert Guillaume, best known for his title role on the 1990s series Benson, died at the age of 89 at his L.A. home on Tuesday, October 24.
     
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    Ron Howard's dad dies...

    Rance Howard, actor and father of Ron Howard, dies at 89
    Sun November 26, 2017 - Rance Howard was cast in many of his son's movies;
    He had a regular role in the TV show "Gentle Ben"[/i]

     
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    Actress who played Louisa von Trapp in Sound of Music passes away...
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    Heather Menzies-Urich, The Sound of Music's Louisa von Trapp, dies
    25 Dec.`17 - Heather Menzies-Urich, who played Louisa Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, has died aged 68.
     
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    Rose Marie, 'Dick Van Dyke Show' passes at 94...
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    Rose Marie, 'Dick Van Dyke Show' star, dies at 94
    December 28, 2017 - Rose Marie, best known for her role as Sally Rogers on “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” died Thursday in Van Nuys, Calif. She was 94. Publicist Harlan Boll confirmed her death.
     

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