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    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gloria-dehaven-dead_us_579f082ee4b0e2e15eb6400e?
    Gloria DeHaven, Perky Star Of 1940s And 1950s Hollywood Musicals, Dead At 91
    The perky, singing actress gave Frank Sinatra his first big-screen kiss.
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    Gloria DeHaven. a versatile singer and actress, appeared in more than two dozen films in the 1940s and 1950s.
    Gloria DeHaven, the perky singing actress who starred in a parade of breezy Hollywood musicals in the 1940s and 1950s and gave Frank Sinatra his first big-screen kiss, has died at age 91, her agent said on Monday.

    DeHaven, who appeared in more than two dozen films starting as a child in a bit role in Charlie Chaplin’s last silent movie, died on Saturday in hospice care in Las Vegas, Scott Stander said in an email.
    The actress suffered a stroke a few months ago, the agent said.

    A versatile singer from a show business family, she thrived in Hollywood musicals, mostly from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio, until the genre fell out of fashion in the 1950s.

    DeHaven starred in “Two Girls and a Sailor” (1944) with Van Johnson, June Allyson and Jimmy Durante; “Summer Holiday” (1948) with Mickey Rooney; “Yes Sir That’s My Baby” (1949) with Donald O’Connor; “Summer Stock” (1950) with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly; and “So This Is Paris” (1955) with Tony Curtis.

    In the musical “Step Lively” (1944), DeHaven gave a young Sinatra his first on-screen smooch.


    In the late 1950s, DeHaven’s film career stalled and she turned to acting on television and in stage musicals and singing in nightclubs. She returned to the big screen for the 1997 comedy “Out to Sea” with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.

    She was born in Los Angeles on July 23, 1925, to parents who were vaudeville performers. She made her film debut with a small role in Chaplin’s “Modern Times” (1936) co-starring Paulette Goddard, a silent gem released in the era of talkies, exploring the pitfalls of modern industrialized society.

    “Chaplin needed two kids to play Paulette Goddard’s ragamuffin sisters,” DeHaven told the Toronto Star in 1989. “All we had to do was wear tattered clothes, eat bananas and do big takes. I thought, ‘If this is show business, count me in.’”

    Her breakout role was in the Lucille Ball musical comedy “Best Foot Forward” (1943), a film that also boosted Allyson’s fortunes.

    DeHaven’s marriage to actor John Payne, best known as the co-star of the classic “Miracle on 34th Street” (1947), ended in divorce. She was married four times to three different men (one twice) and she had four children.
     
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    Willie Wonka passes on...
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    Actor Gene Wilder, star of Mel Brooks movies, dies at 83
    Aug 29,`16 -- Gene Wilder, the frizzy-haired actor who brought his deft comedic touch to such unforgettable roles as the neurotic accountant in "The Producers" and the deranged animator of "Young Frankenstein," has died. He was 83.
     
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    Juan Gabriel – Mexican Musical Artist – 1950-2016


    Few non-Hispanics or Mexicans have ever heard of this guy. Yet, he had a massive fan base and He holds the record for most albums peaking at number one on the Top Latin Albums chart in a short period time. He sold over 100 million copies and was also a musician and composer. Born of poor farmers, he was put in a boarding school and ended up working in bars in Juarez. Openly gay, he had a son by in vitro and adopted 3 more. He performed 12 charity events per year and founded an orphanage for kids 6 to 12.
     
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    'Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp, brave courageous and bold...

    ... Long live his fame and long live his glory...

    ... and long may his story be told'...
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    TV's Wyatt Earp, Hugh O'Brian, has died at 91
    September 5, 2016 — Hugh O'Brian, who shot to fame as Sheriff Wyatt Earp in what was hailed as television's first adult Western, has died. He was 91.
     
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    Det. Harris on Barney Miller passes away at 71...
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    'Barney Miller' star Ron Glass dies at 71
    November 26, 2016. — Actor Ron Glass, who broke into theater while a student at the University of Evansville and later starred in the television series Barney Miller and Firefly, has died at age 71.
     
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    US actress Debbie Reynolds dies
    Thu, 29 Dec 2016 - Hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds dies, a day after the death of her film star daughter Carrie Fisher
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    Canadian actor Gordie Tapp, a regular on "Hee Haw" has died
    December 28, 2016 — Canadian entertainer Gordie Tapp, who exercised his comedic chops as a regular on the popular American television variety series "Hee Haw," died earlier this month at age 94, the Canadian Broadcast Corp. announced. It said he died Dec. 18 from complications of pneumonia.
     
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    He lived to a ripe old age...
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    Bambi artist Tyrus Wong dies aged 106
    Sun, 01 Jan 2017 - The artist who created the distinct visual style of Disney's Bambi dies, aged 106.
     
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    https://www.yahoo.com/style/new-orl...-bid-farewell-to-carrie-fisher-190818723.html

    New Orleans Shows Us Exactly How We Should Bid Farewell to Carrie Fisher
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    Leijorettes marching group participates in the Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus’s Princess Leia Tribute Parade honoring actress Carrie Fisher. (Photo by Erika Goldring/Getty Images)
    A group calling itself the Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus held a parade on Friday in New Orleans in memory of Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher.

    “This is a public demonstration of our love for Princess Leia,” said Brooke Ethridge, one of the founders of the Leijorettes, a dance group that dons the white robes and hair buns of Fisher’s iconic character, in an interview with the New York Daily News, “Our first instinct was to hit the streets and parade and celebrate Princess Leia and Carrie Fisher.”

    Fisher passed away earlier this week at the age of 60 after suffering a massive heart attack while traveling by plane from London to Los Angeles.

    Fisher’s mother, Hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds, suffered a stroke and also passed away within a day of her daughter’s death. A joint funeral for the two women has been announced.

    Hundreds of people in costumes marched in the streets alongside Star Wars-themed parade floats. Many women in attendance wore Princess Leia’s instantly recognizable costume (and hairstyle) from 1977’s Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.

    Fisher is remembered as not only the fiery galactic heroine but also a passionate mental health advocate. In life she suffered from bipolar disorder and a long struggle with substance abuse.

    Fisher was also the author of autobiographical fiction and nonfiction that explored her struggles, in titles like Postcards From the Edge and Wishful Drinking. She also was a successful Hollywood script doctor.
     
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    Dat's one o' Uncle Ferd's all time favorite scary movies...
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    Exorcist writer William Peter Blatty dies aged 89
    Fri, 13 Jan 2017 - US author and filmmaker William Peter Blatty has died at the age of 89.
     
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    Hymie the Robot on 'Get Smart,' Dies at 85...
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    Dick Gautier, Hymie the Robot on 'Get Smart,' Dies at 85
    1/14/2017 - The actor started out as a stand-up comic and received a Tony nomination for playing the Elvis-like singer in the original production of 'Bye, Bye Birdie.'
     
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    Miguel Ferrer passes at 61...
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    'NCIS: Los Angeles' star Miguel Ferrer dies at 61
    Jan 19,`17 -- Miguel Ferrer, who brought stern authority to his featured role on CBS' hit "NCIS: Los Angeles" and, before that, to NBC crime drama "Crossing Jordan," has died. CBS said Ferrer died Thursday of cancer at his Los Angeles home. He was 61.
     
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    [video=youtube;h47cmkO4b7g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h47cmkO4b7g[/video]

    What I remember him from :D :(
     
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    https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/legendary-actress-mary-tyler-moore-194111602.html

    Legendary Actress Mary Tyler Moore Dies at 80
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    Mary Tyler Moore, who played TV’s first sexy housewife and then a single, career woman who could turn the world on with her smile and toss her hat in the air like no other, died on Wednesday. She was 80.

    A Type 1 diabetic, Moore had long suffered a variety of health problems, and in May 2011 underwent elective surgery to remove a benign tumor of the lining tissue of the brain. “I do have problems with my eyes, one eye in particular, and if I fall, I generally break a bone,” she told The New York Times in early 2012 from the Greenwich, Connecticut, home, she shared with Dr. Robert Levine, her husband since 1983, and their four dogs.

    Moore was diagnosed with diabetes at 33, and “I thought I’d have to recline on a chaise the rest of my life,” she told PEOPLE in 2009. After that, she said, “there have been challenges, but I’ve triumphed.”

    That she did, capturing America’s heart in the process.

    Two Classic Roles

    Not only was the beautiful brunette with the big brown eyes and distinctive voice a certifiable TV legend, with two indelible characters to her name — Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show from 1961-66, and Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Moore Show from 1970-77 — but for the past several years she was a tireless advocate for two causes that also remain part of her legacy: animal rights and juvenile diabetes research.

    In the ’70s, she was also a behind-the-scenes TV powerhouse at MTM Enterprises, formed with her then-husband Grant Tinker and responsible for such landmark shows as Rhoda, The Bob Newhart Show, Lou Grant and Hill Street Blues.

    Reversing the usual trend of film stars who moved into TV, Moore did the opposite: going on to the big screen in triumphs that included an Oscar nomination for 1980’s Ordinary People. She was also given a special Tony Award for her Broadway role in the Brian Clark drama about harsh decisions faced by a once-vital sculptress paralyzed below the neck after a car accident, Whose Life Is It Anyway?

    Unfortunately, Moore personal life was seldom as sunny as the TV roles she played. As PEOPLE said of the star in a 1980 profile, she was stifled as a young woman in the strict Roman Catholic atmosphere of her parents’ Los Angeles home when she married a 27-year-old food broker named Richard Meeker.

    Their son Richie came along 11 months later, when Moore was 18. By the time he was 3, she had steady work on TV. When he was 6, she and Meeker divorced. Six months later, she married Tinker, who had four children from a previous marriage.

    The heavy workload of both parents left little time for their children. “I demanded a lot of Richie,” Moore later admitted. “I was responsible for a lot of alienation.”

    Their relationship grew strained as Richie grew up and rebelled, and for a long period mother and son were estranged. They did reconcile, and Richie even began landing some small acting roles on TV. But in a 1980 accident, Richie died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 24.

    “I have never seen Mary so distraught,” MTM colleague Gavin MacLeod told PEOPLE. Moore, Tinker, Meeker and his second wife took Richie’s ashes to a beautiful, desolate area of the Sierras that he had loved and scattered them in the Owens River.

    Work as Therapy

    With the help of her psychotherapist, Moore began to deal with the tragedy. To keep going, she kept busy. More than 6,000 letters of condolence had come in. Hour after hour, Moore sat and answered them in her own hand.

    Looking ahead, she decided the sooner she got back to work the better. She hired a story editor to find her a new movie — drama or comedy, just so it was good — and as the scripts arrived she read them.

    Moore candidly recounted the tragedy in her 1995 memoir After All, which also chronicled her troubled marriages and struggle with alcoholism. A second book of hers, 2009’s Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes, addressed her disease.

    Though less active as she grew older, Moore recently turned up as the jail cellmate on her former Mary Tyler Moore Show costar Betty White’s sitcom Hot in Cleveland. Next to prisoner Mary’s bed behind bars was a large M, just like the one that used to adorn the wall of Mary Richards’s first Minneapolis apartment.

    “Stands for murder,” Moore said, earning a big laugh from the audience.

    At the 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards, where she was given a Life Achievement Award, Moore, introduced by Dick Van Dyke, told how there were six other Mary Moores belonging to the union when she started in the business. Rather than change her name, as she was advised, she used her middle name — which was also her father George Tyler Moore’s middle name — and signed up with SAG as Mary Tyler Moore.

    That way, she said, she made her father happy, “and tonight,” she told the adoring crowd, “after having the privilege of working with the most creative and talented people imaginable, I, too, am happy, after all.”
     
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    You don't see Bambi and The Exorcist together very often...


    MTM!!! :( I grew up with Mary Tyler Moore. And my mother loved her.
     
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    I sure had a crush on her as a teenager

    One of my favorite episodes

    [video=youtube;PpE7ZiBCyd8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpE7ZiBCyd8[/video]

    The dress maybe ugly but she sure is hot in it
     
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    She was an Elvis Girl too.

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    Mary Tyler Moore passes at 80...
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    US actress Mary Tyler Moore dies aged 80
    Wed, 25 Jan 2017 - The Oscar nominated actress, who rose to fame in 1960s sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show, has died.
     
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    Moore and Mannix in the same week...
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    Mike Connors, ‘Mannix’ Star, Dies at 91
    January 26, 2017 - Mike Connors, best known for playing detective Joe Mannix on 1960s and ’70s show “Mannix,” died Thursday in Tarzana, Calif. He was 91.
     
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    2017 may turn out to be worse for obituaries than 2016:

    http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/barbara-hale-dead-perry-mason-secretary-della-street-1201971817/
    Barbara Hale, ‘Perry Mason’ Actress, Dies at 94

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    Barbara Hale dead Perry MasonCBS-TV/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK
    JANUARY 27, 2017 | 04:42PM PT
    Barbara Hale, who played secretary Della Street in the “Perry Mason” television series and movies, died Thursday. She was 94.

    According to a Facebook post by her son William Katt, Hale passed away at her home on Sherman Oaks, Calif.

    “Lost my beautiful wonderful mom Barbara Hale yesterday afternoon,” Katt, star of the television series “The Greatest American Hero,” wrote Friday. “She left peacefully at her home in Sherman Oaks Ca surrounded by close family and dear friends. We’ve all been so lucky to have her for so long. She was gracious and kind and silly and always fun to be with. A wonderful actress and smart business woman she was most of all a treasure as a friend and mother! We’re all a little lost without her but we have extraordinary stories and memories to take with us for the rest of our lives.

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    Hale played Street, assistant to Raymond Burr’s titular lawyer, in nine seasons of the series and 30 television movies. She spent her early career under contract with RKO, and went on to star in “Higher and Higher” with Frank Sinatra, “Lady Luck” with Robert Young and Frank Morgan, “The Window,” “Jolson Sings Again,” “Lorna Doone,” and “The Far Horizons” with Charlton Heston.

    “Perry Mason” aired on CBS from 1957 to 1966 and starred Burr as a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney. The show was one of the first hour-long series in television history. Hale won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1959 for playing Street, and reprised the character when “Perry Mason” was revived in the 1980s as a series of television movies by NBC.

    Hale was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. Among her later film roles were “Airport” and “Big Wednesday.”

    Born in DeKalb, Illinois in 1922, Hale was the second child of Willa and Luther Hale. Her father was a landscape gardener. Her late husband, Bill Williams, starred in the western series “The Adventures of Kit Carson” and died in 1992. She is survived by her son William Katt, daughters Johanna Katt and Juanita King, six grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

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    I spoke too soon:

    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/john-hurt-dead-elephant-man-809521

    John Hurt, Oscar-Nominated Star of 'The Elephant Man,' Dies at 77 (Report)
    5:19 PM PST 1/27/2017 by Cheryl Cheng , Duane Byrge

    John Hurt

    The British actor of stage and screen also received an Academy Award nom for 'Midnight Express' and was memorable in 'Alien,' three Harry Potter films and 'Doctor Who.'
    John Hurt, the esteemed British actor known for his burry voice and weathered visage — one that was kept hidden for his most acclaimed role, that of the deformed John Merrick in David Lynch’s The Elephant Man — has died, according to reports from several British newspapers. He was 77.

    The two-time Oscar nominee's six-decade career also included turns on the BBC’s Doctor Who and in A Man for All Seasons (1966), Midnight Express (1978) and three Harry Potter films.

    He announced in June 2015 that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

    On screens big and small, Hurt died what seemed a thousand deaths. “I think I’ve got the record,” he once said. “It got to a point where my children wouldn’t ask me if I died, but rather how do you die?”

    On his YouTube page, a video titled “The Many Deaths of John Hurt” compiled his cinematic demises in 4 minutes and 30 seconds, from The Wild and the Willing (1962) to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), 40 in all.

    One of his most memorable came when he played Kane, the first victim in Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979), in which he collapses over a table and a snakelike alien bursts out of his chest. (How'd they do that? There was an artificial chest screwed to the table, and Hurt was underneath.)

    “Ridley didn’t tell the cast,” executive producer Ronald Shusett told Empire magazine in 2009. “He said, ‘They’re just going to see it.’ ”

    “The reactions were going to be the most difficult thing,” Scott explained. “If an actor is just acting terrified, you can’t get the genuine look of raw, animal fear. What I wanted was a hardcore reaction.”

    Hurt then lampooned the famous torso-busting scene for director Mel Brooks — whose production company produced 1980's The Elephant Man — for the 1987 comedy Spaceballs.

    The Elephant Man received eight Academy Award nominations, including one for Hurt as best actor, but went home empty on Oscar night. (Hurt lost out to Robert De Niro as boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull.)

    In 1980, he recalled the extensive makeup needed to become the kind-hearted man with the monstrous skull.

    “It never occurred to me it would take eight hours for them to apply the full thing — virtually a working day in itself. There were 16 different pieces to that mask,” he said. “With all that makeup on, I couldn’t be sure what I was doing. I had to rely totally on [Lynch].”

    Hurt also garnered an Oscar best supporting actor nomination and a Golden Globe win in 1979 for Midnight Express, in which he portrayed a heroin addict in a Turkish prison. The Alan Parker drama was based on the true story of Billy Hayes (played by Brad Davis), an American college student caught smuggling drugs.

    “I loved making Midnight Express,” he said in 2014. “We were making commercial films then that really did have cracking scenes in them, as well as plenty to say, you know?”

    His more recent film appearances came in Snowpiercer (2013), The Journey (2016) and Jackie (2016). He is set to be seen in the upcoming features That Good Night and My Name Is Lenny and was to play Neville Chamberlain in the upcoming Joe Wright drama Darkest Hour.

    John Vincent Hurt was born Jan. 22, 1940, in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. He studied art at his parents’ behest, earning an art teacher’s diploma. Disillusioned with the prospect of becoming a teacher, Hurt moved to London, where he won an acting scholarship at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He studied there for two years, securing bit parts in TV shows.

    “I wanted to act very early. I didn’t know how to become an actor, as such, nor did I know that it was possible to be a professional actor, but I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9,” he told The Guardian in 2000. “I was effused with a feeling of complete and total enjoyment, and I felt that’s where I should be.”

    Hurt made his London stage debut in Infanticide in the House of Fred Ginger in 1962. That year, he acted in his first film, The Wild and the Willing, and his role as the duplicitous baron Richard Rich in Oscar best picture winner A Man for All Seasons helped him become more widely known in the U.S.

    Hurt often played wizened, sinister characters. In his younger years, his wiry frame, sallow skin and beady eyes curled together in performances that bespoke menace and hard-wrought wisdom. He was especially effective playing psychologically ravaged characters, like when he was a jockey plagued with cancer in Champions (1984) or the viciously decadent Caligula in the 1976 BBC miniseries I, Claudius.

    Hurt brought his peculiarly powerful persona to the role of Mr. Ollivander in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) and Part 2 (2011).

    He also had a recurring role as Trevor “Broom” Bruttenholm in Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) and was the voice of the character in the 2007 TV movie Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron.

    Other film credits include The Sailor From Gibraltar (1967), Sinful Davey (1969), 10 Rillington Place (1971), The Osterman Weekend (1983), White Mischief (1987), King Ralph (1991) and Rob Roy (1995). He played a fascist leader of Great Britain in V for Vendetta (2006) and was Professor Oxley in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008).

    Hurt also was known for his rich, nicotine-toned timbre, which won him many voiceover assignments. He was the narrator in The Tigger Movie (2000), Dogville (2003), Manderlay (2005) and Charlie Countryman (2013) and lent his dulcet utterances to The Lord of the Rings (1978), Watership Down (1978), The Black Cauldron (1985), Thumbelina (1994) and the Oscar-nominated short film The Gruffalo (2009).
     
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    He was a good kid..

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    I loved the Perry Mason show. Great opening music

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    https://www.aol.com/article/enterta...-galactica-richard-hatch-dies-at-71/21709256/

    'Battlestar Galactica' star Richard Hatch dies at 71
    MARAH ALINDOGAN, AOL.COM
    Feb 7th 2017 7:51PM
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    Richard Hatch, the star of the original 1970s TV show "Battlestar Galactica" has died at 71 after a tragic battle with pancreatic cancer, his manager confirmed.

    The actor passed away on Tuesday afternoon in his Santa Clarita, California, home with son Paul by his side. He went into hospice care a few weeks before his death, according to TMZ.

    "I will always remember him fondly for his inspiring sense of youthful wonder, his boundless passion for creative expression, and his huge, kind heart," his manager Michael Kaliski said.

    Hatch played Captain Apollo in the hit series that ran from 1978 to 1979. His performance earned him a Golden Globe nomination. Years later in 2003, he played the character of Tom Zarek in the reimagined series.

    The storied actor got his start on the soap opera "All My Children." He appeared in other notable TV shows such as "Hawaii 5-0," "Baywatch," "Murder She Wrote" and "Dynasty." Hatch also wrote five "Battlestar" novels.

    Ronald D. Moore ✔ @RonDMoore
    Richard Hatch was a good man, a gracious man, and a consummate professional. His passing is a heavy blow to the entire BSG family.
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    Irwin Corey, Comedian and ‘Foremost Authority,’ Dies at 102
    By RON WERTHEIMERFEB. 7, 2017
    Irwin Corey performing in 1966. An admirer, the critic Kenneth Tynan, called him “Chaplin’s clown with a college education.” Credit ABC Photo Archives, via Getty Images
    Irwin Corey, the cunningly befuddled comedian who spent more than 70 years perfecting his portrayal of “the world’s foremost authority,” died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 102.

    His death was confirmed by his son, Richard Corey.

    Although he inhabited other characters in stage and film roles, Mr. Corey was best known as his alter ego, the professor of some unspecified discipline who could foment clouds of inspired nonsense.

    Dressed in his trademark outfit — black swallowtail coat, string tie and sneakers — with his hair marching in several directions at once, Mr. Corey was a caricature of every windbag who ever emptied his lungs. He was also taking aim at everyone who did not share his unrepentant leftist’s view of the world.

    Still, when he declared, “If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going,” who could disagree?

    “What I do is deflate the coat of righteousness that people wrap themselves in,” he once said offstage, adding that his target was “the guy who gives his opinions as if they were handed down from the Mount.”

    No question was too simple that Mr. Corey couldn’t complicate it. His response to “Why do you wear tennis shoes?” was a classic example: “Actually, that is two questions. The first is ‘Why?’ This is a question that philosophers have been pondering for centuries. As for the second question, ‘Do you wear tennis shoes?,’ the answer is yes.”

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    Mr. Corey in 2004. Credit Jim Cooper/Associated Press
    Among his admirers was the critic Kenneth Tynan, who called Mr. Corey “Chaplin’s clown with a college education.”

    Mr. Corey never wavered in his left-leaning political views. He was outspoken in his admiration for Fidel Castro, although he was glad to find a joke in United States tensions with Cuba. “What you have to do to prevent conflict with Cuba,” he said in 1970, “is to shove Florida up the Mississippi, where she’ll be 500 miles away.”

    One of Mr. Corey’s best-remembered routines was staged not in a club or broadcast studio but at Alice Tully Hall in Manhattan, at the National Book Awards ceremony in 1974. That year the fiction prize was shared by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Thomas Pynchon. No one in the crowd had any idea what the reclusive Mr. Pynchon looked like, and when Mr. Corey arrived to accept the award for him (the novelist had approved the stunt), many people thought they were getting their first look at Mr. Pynchon.

    They soon learned otherwise. Beginning his remarks, as he often did, “However,” Mr. Corey referred to the author as “Richard Python” and said, “Today we must all be aware that protocol takes precedence over procedure.” He continued: “Marx, Groucho Marx, once said that religion is the opiate of the people. I say that when religion outlives its usefulness, then opium will be the opiate. Ah, that’s not a bad idea.”

    The Times reported the next morning that Mr. Corey’s “series of bad jokes and mangled syntax” left “some people roaring with laughter and others perplexed.”

    Irwin Corey was born Irwin Eli Cohen on July 29, 1914, in Brooklyn. Along with five of his siblings, he became a ward of the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum, which released him to his own devices when he was 13. The future “professor” had one year of high school.

    Irwin Corey still likes the spotlight after eight decades in comedy. Publish Date April 13, 2008. Photo by Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times. Watch in Times Video »
    Before drifting into performing in the late 1930s, he worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps, becoming its boxing champion in the 112-pound class, then hanging up his gloves after he knocked an opponent out cold. He was also a button maker and an enthusiastic member of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.

    In 1938 he was hired to help write and appear in the union’s musical show “Pins and Needles,” and he soon began to develop his signature comedy style of zany improvisation. (“I ad-lib it,” he explained. “I don’t need new material.”)

    He appeared in the revue “New Faces of 1943” and in nightclubs like the Village Vanguard. The folk singer Richard Dyer-Bennet awarded Mr. Corey the rank of professor after hearing his fractured lecture on Shakespeare.
    Mr. Corey and his wife, the former Frances Berman, lived for many years in Great Neck, on Long Island, and later in the East 30s in Manhattan. Frances Corey died in 2011. In addition to their son, Mr. Corey is survived by two grandsons and two great-grandchildren. His daughter, Margaret, died in 1997.

    During World War II, Mr. Corey served briefly in the Army. He later said he had been discharged after about six months when an Army psychiatrist asked him if he was homosexual and he replied, “That’s none of your business.” He immediately resumed his civilian career.

    Mr. Corey appeared in stage productions, including works by Molière and Chekhov, a U.S.O. tour of “Oklahoma!” (as the Persian peddler) and seven Broadway shows. He said he once played Jesus in Boston: “It was a piece of typecasting for a short Jewish atheist.”
    Mr. Corey panhandling in 2011 for money to donate to Cuban charities. Credit Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
    In 1974 he played Marlo Thomas’s father in Herb Gardner’s Broadway comedy “Thieves.” In his review in The New York Times, Clive Barnes called Mr. Corey “a clown of shining absurdity” and said he had “manic moments of near genius.” Reviewing Mr. Corey’s performance in a 2004 revival of “Sly Fox,” Ben Brantley wrote in The Times, “The nonagenarian Professor Irwin Corey makes a winningly precise art of being addled.”

    His feature films included “How to Commit Marriage” (1969), starring Bob Hope and Jackie Gleason; the hit comedy “Car Wash” (1976), whose cast also included Richard Pryor and George Carlin; and Woody Allen’s “Curse of the Jade Scorpion” (2001).

    Mr. Corey perfected his portrayal of the professor in clubs like the hungry i in San Francisco and Le Ruban Bleu, Upstairs at the Downstairs and the Playboy Club in New York. On radio, his professor was a tutor to Edgar Bergen’s dummy Charlie McCarthy. He then made the transition to television, becoming a familiar figure alongside talk-show hosts from Steve Allen to David Letterman, even though some network executives were leery of his political views.

    He kept performing into his 90s and beyond, and not always in typical show-business locales. As The Times reported in 2011, for many years he would stand in traffic on East 35th Street, near the Manhattan exit of the Queens-Midtown Tunnel and a short walk from his home, almost every day, soliciting change from drivers. Some recognized him, but most apparently assumed he was just another homeless panhandler.

    He said he donated whatever money he was given to a charity that buys medical supplies for children in Cuba. But that was not really the point.

    “This is not about money,” Mr. Corey’s longtime agent, Irvin Arthur, told The Times. “For Irwin, this is an extension of his performing.”

    He eventually became too frail to continue panhandling, but he remained in the public eye a while longer. In April 2014 he spoke at a screening of “Irwin & Fran,” a documentary feature about him and his wife, at the Anthology Film Archives in the East Village. That summer he spoke at a party for his 100th birthday at the Actors Temple in Midtown, where the festivities included a statement from the Manhattan borough president, Gale Brewer, declaring July 29 Irwin Corey Day.

    Even as his health declined, Mr. Corey’s spirit remained strong. As he himself put it more than once, “I feel more like I do now than when I first got here.”

    Peter Keepnews and Jaclyn Peiser contributed reporting.
     
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    Bill Paxton Dead at 61 Due to Complications from Surgery
    Stephanie Petit and Maria Mercedes Lara 4 hours ago

    Actor Bill Paxton died due to complications from surgery, PEOPLE confirms.

    “It is with heavy hearts we share the news that Bill Paxton has passed away due to complications from surgery,” a family representative said in a statement. “A loving husband and father, Bill began his career in Hollywood working on films in the art department and went on to have an illustrious career spanning four decades as a beloved and prolific actor and filmmaker. Bill’s passion for the arts was felt by all who knew him, and his warmth and tireless energy were undeniable. We ask to please respect the family’s wish for privacy as they mourn the loss of their adored husband and father.”

    The Texas native, who was nominated for an Emmy for his work in the TV mini-series Hatfields and McCoys, began acting in the 1970s. His earliest acting credits include minor roles in blockbusters such as Terminator (1984) and Aliens (1986).

    Paxton’s fame rose in the 1990s thanks to roles such as Morgan Earp in Tombstone (1993), Fred Haise in Apollo 13 (1995), the lead role in the 1996 hit Twister and as treasure hunter Brock Lovett in Titanic (1997).

    His television credits include a lead role in HBO’s Big Love, for which he earned three Golden Globe nominations, as well as Hatfields and McCoys.

    Paxton’s final big-screen role will be in the thriller The Circle, which is currently in post-production, alongside Emma Watson and Tom Hanks. Paxton said in a 2007 interview with PEOPLE that he and Hanks kept in touch after costarring in Apollo 13 — and Hanks was an executive producer of Big Love.

    “We write each other letters,” said Paxton. “I love that I’m working for Tom again. forged an alliance.”

    The actor is survived by his two children, James and Lydia Paxton, and his wife of 30 years Louise Newbury.

    Paxton’s son was recently tapped to join the actor in his new CBS drama.

    “I was thrilled to have my son guest-star on the eighth episode of Training Day,” Paxton told PEOPLE earlier this month. “He plays the son in a father-son robbery team, and my character, whose dad was also a criminal, tells him, ‘We’re both our father’s sons, but that doesn’t have to define us.’ It was surreal saying that to him.”

    Paxton was starring with Justin Cornwell in the new cop drama Training Day, which picks up 15 years after the 2001 Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke film of the same name.

    Paxton also spoke with PEOPLE about his latest TV obsession.

    “I loved watching Stranger Things with my daughter ,” he said. “But I had surgery last spring and binge-watched all of Downton Abbey while I was recuperating. I got so engrossed in it, I was devastated when I got to the end.”



    At 8 years old, Paxton witnessed a speech given by President John F. Kennedy the morning of his assassination. During the 2007 AFI Dallas International Film Festival, the actor shared recently discovered photos of himself as a young boy perched on the shoulders of a man who offered him a lift so he could see the president speak n the parking lot of the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth.


    Celebrity pals such as Rob Lowe, who starred alongside Paxton in the 1995 film Frank and Jesse, took to social media to mourn the loss of the veteran actor.

    “Devastated by the sudden loss of my close friend and one of the finest actors in the business, Bill Paxton. Renaissance man, raconteur and uniquely American national treasure,” Lowe wrote in a series of tweets. “His filmography speaks for itself. His friendship was a blessing. My love to Bunny, James and Lydia.”

    He continued, “In his memory, on this Oscar Sunday, watch ‘One False Move’ or ‘A Simple Plan’ to see this lovely leading man, at his finest.”
     
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