Hollywood Obituaries

This is CNN:

 

Zorba the Greek/Z/The Trojan Women:

 

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest/The Lady In Red/Star Trek DS9:

 

I remember when Shaw and CNN were propelled to the front with their fearless coverage of the Iraq war. They put themselves right in the middle of the city we were attacking and provided the first real-time coverage of a war. We had never seen anything like it before. We had a front row seat on the enemy's side. And it was amazing that Shaw and his team weren't killed just for being there.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ward

 

This wouldn't be the last time the Oscars were used for political statements:

 

Love Goddess:

 

Gaslight/The Manchurian Candidate/Murder She Wrote:

 

Sledge-o-matic:

 

Jennifer's dad/Love of Life/Days of Our Lives:

 

Hogan's Heroes:

 

Gone with the Wind:

 

Top Gun/Matlock/Walker, Texas Ranger:

 

Gilyard

Cause of death has not been revealed
although one report claimed he had a
chronic illness problem.


Nominations are open
Heart disease
HIV
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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/body-dumped-bronx-identified-green-193644245.html

Body Dumped In The Bronx Identified As ‘Green Book’ Actor Frank Vallelonga Jr.​

Thu, December 1, 2022



Deadline has confirmed that the NYPD has identified a body found dumped outside a Bronx sheet-metal manufacturing factory Monday as Frank Vallelonga Jr., a sometime actor most notable for his role in 2018’s Green Book. He was 60.


In Best Picture Oscar winner Green Book, Vallelonga Jr. portrayed a relative of Viggo Mortensen’s bouncer character Frank “Tony Lip” Vallelonga. Vallelonga Jr. was the real-life son of the bouncer portrayed in the film, who also was an actor best known for playing crime boss Carmine Lupertazzi in The Sopranos. (Vallelonga Sr. died in 2013). . .


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Cheers/Veronica's Closet/Fat Actress:

 

Babwa Wawa:

 

Really, Space, that was just tacky. Gilda Radner died some time ago and that is where that belonged.

From Wiki. "Walters interviewed every sitting U.S. president and first lady from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama.[9] She also interviewed both Donald Trump and Joe Biden, though not as presidents...Her interviews with world leaders from all walks of life are a chronicle of the latter part of the 20th century.[38][full citation needed] They include the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his wife, the Empress Farah Pahlavi; Russia's Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin; China's Jiang Zemin; the UK's Margaret Thatcher; Cuba's Fidel Castro, as well as India's Indira Gandhi, Czechoslovakia's Václav Havel, Libya's Muammar al-Gaddafi, King Hussein of Jordan, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, among many others. Other interviews with influential people include pop icon Michael Jackson, actress Katharine Hepburn, Vogue editor Anna Wintour, and in 1980 Sir Laurence Olivier..

By the way who else in American Journalism is going to do this. "In November 1977, she landed a joint interview with Egypt's president, Anwar Al Sadat, and Israel's Prime Minister, Menachem Begin" This was right before the Carter Peace Talks. Clearly both Sadat and Begin were pretty desperate to gain some advantage over the narrative reaching American audiences and Barbara Walters was the quickest surest way into American homes.

If you think it was easy being a woman anchor/journalist/ interviewer in an almost completely male dominated field, you could not be more wrong. Walters was treated liked absolutee garbage by more than one 'colleague', on more than one set, at more than one network. Being a pioneer in Television journalism was not easy in 1960-1970's and early 80's

Rest In Peace, Barbara.

 

I had to post really fast and that's what came to mind first .I do know all of her accomplishments.

 

I think you are being a bit sensitive. On The Today Show this morning they actually showed an SNL clip of Gilda Radner doing her Baba Wawa voice during their story on Walter's death. That was to illustrate her cultural impact by being lampooned on SNL.

That's a compliment.

 

CBS/NBC/CNN:

 

Beat the Devil/The Most Beautiful Woman in the World/Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell:

 

American Graffiti/Laverne and Shirley/The Conversation:

 

Close Encounters of the Third Kind/A Christmas Story/Absence of Malice:

 

Fantastic Voyage/One Million Years B.C./Myra Breckenridge: