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Prankster tied red ‘It’ balloons to sewer grates: Pennsylvania cops
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 07:12 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 07:25 PM EDT
LITITZ, Pa. — Police officers in a small Pennsylvania town are evidently afraid of a certain homicidal clown.
The Lititz police department on Tuesday posted photos of red balloons a prankster tied to a pair of sewer grates.
A red balloon is the calling card of Pennywise, the sewer-dwelling, child-eating clown in Stephen King’s horror novel “It.” The hotly anticipated movie version opens in theatres Friday.
In a playful Facebook post, police write they admire the prankster’s creativity but were “completely terrified” while removing the balloons and “respectfully request they do not do that again.”
Police also suggest people watch previews of the movie with the lights turned on and the volume turned low.
The police department’s post ends with a famous line from the book: “You’ll float too.”
The Lititz police department on Tuesday posted on photos of red balloons a prankster tied to a pair of sewer grates. (Lititz Borough Police Department/Facebook)
Prankster tied red
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 07:12 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 07:25 PM EDT
LITITZ, Pa. — Police officers in a small Pennsylvania town are evidently afraid of a certain homicidal clown.
The Lititz police department on Tuesday posted photos of red balloons a prankster tied to a pair of sewer grates.
A red balloon is the calling card of Pennywise, the sewer-dwelling, child-eating clown in Stephen King’s horror novel “It.” The hotly anticipated movie version opens in theatres Friday.
In a playful Facebook post, police write they admire the prankster’s creativity but were “completely terrified” while removing the balloons and “respectfully request they do not do that again.”
Police also suggest people watch previews of the movie with the lights turned on and the volume turned low.
The police department’s post ends with a famous line from the book: “You’ll float too.”
The Lititz police department on Tuesday posted on photos of red balloons a prankster tied to a pair of sewer grates. (Lititz Borough Police Department/Facebook)
Prankster tied red
Former child actor Blake Heron, of 'Shiloh' fame, dead at 35
WENN.com
First posted: Saturday, September 09, 2017 12:27 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, September 09, 2017 12:59 PM EDT
Blake Heron, the actor who played Marty Preston in beloved 1996 movie Shiloh, has died.
Sources tell TMZ his girlfriend found Heron’s body at his Los Angeles home on Friday morning and called emergency services.
Paramedics worked on Heron for 40 minutes trying to revive him, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Details surrounding his death have not been released, but according to the outlet he had been sick for days.
Heron had previously battled heroin addiction and recently returned home from a rehab spell.
The 35-year-old also appeared alongside Mel Gibson in We Were Soldiers.
Born in Massapequa, N.Y., he moved to Georgia when he was seven and became a local child actor, booking ads for department stores.
His first real acting role came when he signed up for a part in TV mini-series Andersonville.
He moved to Los Angeles and landed his first starring role at the age of 12 in Shiloh.
'Shiloh' Star Blake Heron Dead at 35 | TMZ.com
Former child actor Blake Heron, of 'Shiloh' fame, dead at 35 | Movies | Entertai
WENN.com
First posted: Saturday, September 09, 2017 12:27 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, September 09, 2017 12:59 PM EDT
Blake Heron, the actor who played Marty Preston in beloved 1996 movie Shiloh, has died.
Sources tell TMZ his girlfriend found Heron’s body at his Los Angeles home on Friday morning and called emergency services.
Paramedics worked on Heron for 40 minutes trying to revive him, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Details surrounding his death have not been released, but according to the outlet he had been sick for days.
Heron had previously battled heroin addiction and recently returned home from a rehab spell.
The 35-year-old also appeared alongside Mel Gibson in We Were Soldiers.
Born in Massapequa, N.Y., he moved to Georgia when he was seven and became a local child actor, booking ads for department stores.
His first real acting role came when he signed up for a part in TV mini-series Andersonville.
He moved to Los Angeles and landed his first starring role at the age of 12 in Shiloh.
'Shiloh' Star Blake Heron Dead at 35 | TMZ.com
Former child actor Blake Heron, of 'Shiloh' fame, dead at 35 | Movies | Entertai
'It was just a tragic mistake'; Coronation Street actor John Michie's daughter killed
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First posted: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 11:23 AM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 11:29 AM EDT
Former Coronation Street star John Michie has called his daughter Louella’s death at Bestival a “tragic accident”.
The 60-year-old actor, most famous for playing Karl Munro in the ITV soap and his current role as Guy Self in Holby City, told The Sun that despite reports that a 28-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of murder, he does not suspect any foul play involved in the 25-year-old’s death.
“We’ve lost our angel. It’s not murder - they were friends. It was just a tragic mistake, a tragic accident,” he told the newspaper. “She touched so many lives. She was so very positive, so bright, so out there. She had such energy. The tributes to her have been incredible.”
Police at the music festival in Lulworth, Dorset, were alerted at around 1a.m. on Monday to concerns about Louella’s welfare and a search was then embarked upon. Her body was then discovered in a wooded area at the edge of the festival site.
“Sadly, I can confirm the tragic death of John Michie’s daughter Louella at Bestival,” Michie’s agent said in a statement on Monday. “John and his wife Carol ask that the privacy of their family be respected at this traumatic time.”
While it was initially reported that a man was arrested on suspicion of murder, officers later clarified that he had been taken in “to enable officers to conduct an interview under caution to help establish the full circumstances”.
“Following the discovery of the woman’s body, we have now launched an investigation into her death,” Detective Chief Inspector Sarah Derbyshire said. “We have specially trained officers supporting her family at this very difficult time.
“Inquiries are now under way to establish how she died. A post-mortem examination will be carried out in due course and this should give us more of an indication as to the cause of her death.
“We are working closely with the festival organizers and I would appeal to anyone with any information about the incident to contact Dorset Police.”
Michie, who also starred as Detective Inspector Robbie Ross in drama series Taggart between 1998 and 2010, is also father to children Daisy and Sam.
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'It was just a tragic mistake'; Coronation Street actor John Michie's daughter k
WENN.com
First posted: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 11:23 AM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 11:29 AM EDT
Former Coronation Street star John Michie has called his daughter Louella’s death at Bestival a “tragic accident”.
The 60-year-old actor, most famous for playing Karl Munro in the ITV soap and his current role as Guy Self in Holby City, told The Sun that despite reports that a 28-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of murder, he does not suspect any foul play involved in the 25-year-old’s death.
“We’ve lost our angel. It’s not murder - they were friends. It was just a tragic mistake, a tragic accident,” he told the newspaper. “She touched so many lives. She was so very positive, so bright, so out there. She had such energy. The tributes to her have been incredible.”
Police at the music festival in Lulworth, Dorset, were alerted at around 1a.m. on Monday to concerns about Louella’s welfare and a search was then embarked upon. Her body was then discovered in a wooded area at the edge of the festival site.
“Sadly, I can confirm the tragic death of John Michie’s daughter Louella at Bestival,” Michie’s agent said in a statement on Monday. “John and his wife Carol ask that the privacy of their family be respected at this traumatic time.”
While it was initially reported that a man was arrested on suspicion of murder, officers later clarified that he had been taken in “to enable officers to conduct an interview under caution to help establish the full circumstances”.
“Following the discovery of the woman’s body, we have now launched an investigation into her death,” Detective Chief Inspector Sarah Derbyshire said. “We have specially trained officers supporting her family at this very difficult time.
“Inquiries are now under way to establish how she died. A post-mortem examination will be carried out in due course and this should give us more of an indication as to the cause of her death.
“We are working closely with the festival organizers and I would appeal to anyone with any information about the incident to contact Dorset Police.”
Michie, who also starred as Detective Inspector Robbie Ross in drama series Taggart between 1998 and 2010, is also father to children Daisy and Sam.
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Pompeii: The Last Day
BBC docudrama.
Pompeii: The Last Day tells of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD. This eruption covered the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash and pumice, killing all those trapped between the volcano and the sea.
POMPEII - THE LAST DAY - BBC - Discovery History Life (full documentary) - Video Dailymotion
BBC docudrama.
Pompeii: The Last Day tells of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD. This eruption covered the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash and pumice, killing all those trapped between the volcano and the sea.
POMPEII - THE LAST DAY - BBC - Discovery History Life (full documentary) - Video Dailymotion
The Sopranos star Frank Vincent dies after surgery following heart attack
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First posted: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 09:10 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 09:17 PM EDT
The Sopranos and Goodfellas star Frank Vincent has died during surgery after suffering a heart attack last week.
The veteran actor, who played Billy Batts in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, passed away in a New Jersey hospital on Wednesday, according to TMZ. He was 78.
Vincent also appeared in Raging Bull, Casino and Do the Right Thing.
Born in North Adams, Massachusetts and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey, Vincent was introduced to acting as a kid by his father, an amateur actor. Frank went on to study music and mastered piano, trumpet and drums, touring with various national championship drum and bugle corps.
His passion for drumming led to him becoming a session musician for acts like Paul Anka, Del Shannon, and Trini Lopez.
Vincent turned his attention to his first love of acting in the early 1970s and made his feature film debut in Ralph DeVito’s 1975 film Death Collector.
According to the late star’s website, Scorsese saw his work and cast him as Salvi in Raging Bull.
In his four decades as a working actor, he has shared the screen with Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Richard Dreyfuss, Anthony Quinn, Sharon Stone, and Sylvester Stallone, among others.
His voice is featured in the video game series Grand Theft Auto.
But fans of The Sopranos will remember him as New York mob boss Phil Leotardo.
Frank also wrote a book entitled A Guy’s Guide to Being A Man’s Man, which was published by Penguin Putnam.
Frank Vincent Dead at 80 From Heart Surgery Complications | TMZ.com
The Sopranos star Frank Vincent dies after surgery following heart attack | TV |
wenn.com
First posted: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 09:10 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 09:17 PM EDT
The Sopranos and Goodfellas star Frank Vincent has died during surgery after suffering a heart attack last week.
The veteran actor, who played Billy Batts in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, passed away in a New Jersey hospital on Wednesday, according to TMZ. He was 78.
Vincent also appeared in Raging Bull, Casino and Do the Right Thing.
Born in North Adams, Massachusetts and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey, Vincent was introduced to acting as a kid by his father, an amateur actor. Frank went on to study music and mastered piano, trumpet and drums, touring with various national championship drum and bugle corps.
His passion for drumming led to him becoming a session musician for acts like Paul Anka, Del Shannon, and Trini Lopez.
Vincent turned his attention to his first love of acting in the early 1970s and made his feature film debut in Ralph DeVito’s 1975 film Death Collector.
According to the late star’s website, Scorsese saw his work and cast him as Salvi in Raging Bull.
In his four decades as a working actor, he has shared the screen with Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Richard Dreyfuss, Anthony Quinn, Sharon Stone, and Sylvester Stallone, among others.
His voice is featured in the video game series Grand Theft Auto.
But fans of The Sopranos will remember him as New York mob boss Phil Leotardo.
Frank also wrote a book entitled A Guy’s Guide to Being A Man’s Man, which was published by Penguin Putnam.
Frank Vincent Dead at 80 From Heart Surgery Complications | TMZ.com
The Sopranos star Frank Vincent dies after surgery following heart attack | TV |
Actor Harry Dean Stanton dead at 91
Lindsey Bahr, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Friday, September 15, 2017 07:06 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, September 15, 2017 07:44 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES — Harry Dean Stanton, the shambling, craggy-face character actor with the deadpan voice who became a cult favourite through his memorable turns in “Paris, Texas,” ”Repo Man“ and many other films and TV shows, died Friday at age 91.
Stanton died of natural causes at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his agent, John S. Kelly, told The Associated Press. Kelly gave no further details on the cause.
Never mistaken for a leading man, Stanton was an unforgettable presence to moviegoers, fellow actors and directors, who recognized that his quirky characterizations could lift even the most ordinary script. Roger Ebert once observed that no movie with Stanton in a supporting role “can be altogether bad.”
He was widely loved around Hollywood, a drinker and smoker and straight talker with a million stories who palled around with Jack Nicholson and Kris Kristofferson among others and was a hero to such younger stars and brothers-in-partying as Rob Lowe and Emilio Estevez. “I don’t act like their father, I act like their friend,” he once told New York magazine.
Nicholson so liked Stanton’s name that he would find a way to work his initials, HDS, into a camera shot.
Almost always cast as a crook, a codger, an eccentric or a loser, he appeared in more than 200 movies and TV shows in a career dating to the mid-1950s. A cult-favourite since the ’70s with roles in “Cockfighter,” ”Two-Lane Blacktop“ and ”Cisco Pike,“ his more famous credits ranged from the Oscar-winning epic ”The Godfather Part II“ to the sci-fi classic ”Alien“ to the teen flick ”Pretty in Pink,“ in which he played Molly Ringwald’s father. He also guest starred on such TV shows as ”Laverne & Shirley,“ ”Adam-12“ and ”Gunsmoke.“ He had a cameo on ”Two and a Half Men,“ which featured ”Pretty in Pink“ star Jon Cryer, and appeared in such movies as ”The Avengers“ and ”The Last Stand.“
While fringe roles and films were a specialty, he also ended up in the work of many of the 20th century’s master auteurs, even Alfred Hitchcock in the director’s serial TV show.
“I worked with the best directors,” Stanton told the AP in a 2013 interview, given while chain-smoking in pyjamas and a robe. “Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was great.”
He said he could have been a director himself but “it was too much work.”
Fitting for a character actor, he only became famous in late middle age. In Wim Wenders’ 1984 rural drama “Paris, Texas,” he earned acclaim for his subtle and affecting portrayal of a man so deeply haunted by something in his past that he abandons his young son and society to wander silently in the desert.
Wiry and sad, Stanton’s near-wordless performance is laced with moments of humour and poignancy. His heartbreakingly stoic delivery of a monologue of repentance to his wife, played by Nastassja Kinski, through a one-way mirror has become the defining moment in his career, in a role he said was his favourite.
“‘Paris, Texas’ gave me a chance to play compassion,” Stanton told an interviewer, “and I’m spelling that with a capital C.”
The film won the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival and provided the actor with his first star billing, at age 58.
“Repo Man,” released that same year, became another signature film: Stanton starred as the world-weary boss of an auto repossession firm who instructs Estevez in the tricks of the hazardous trade.
His legend would only grow. By his mid-80s, the Lexington Film League in his native Kentucky had founded the Harry Dean Stanton Fest and filmmaker Sophie Huber had made the documentary “Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction,” which included commentary from Wenders, Sam Shepard and Kristofferson.
More recently he reunited with director David Lynch on Showtime’s “Twin Peaks: The Return” where he reprised his role as the cranky trailer park owner Carl from “Fire Walk With Me.” He also stars with Lynch in the upcoming film “Lucky,” the directorial debut of actor John Carroll Lynch, which has been described as a love letter to Stanton’s life and career.
Last year, Lynch presented Stanton with the “Harry Dean Stanton Award” — the inaugural award from the Los Angeles video store Vidiots presented first to its namesake.
“As a person, Harry Dean is just so beautiful. He’s got this easygoing nature. It’s so great just to sit beside Harry Dean and observe,” Lynch said at the show. “He’s got a great inner peace. As a musician, he can sing so beautifully tears just flow out of your eyes. And as an actor, I think all actors will agree, no one gives a more honest, natural, truer performance than Harry Dean Stanton.”
Lynch also directed Stanton in “Wild at Heart” and “The Straight Story.”
Stanton, who early in his career used the name Dean Stanton to avoid confusion with another actor, grew up in West Irvine, Kentucky and said he began singing when he was a year old.
Later, he used music as an escape from his parents’ quarreling and the sometimes brutal treatment he was subjected to by his father. As an adult, he fronted his own band for years, playing western, Mexican, rock and pop standards in small venues around Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley. He also sang and played guitar and harmonica in impromptu sessions with friends, performed a song in “Paris, Texas” and once recorded a duet with Bob Dylan.
Stanton, who never lost his Kentucky accent, said his interest in movies was piqued as a child when he would walk out of every theatre “thinking I was Humphrey Bogart.”
After Navy service in the Pacific during World War II, he spent three years at the University of Kentucky and appeared in several plays. Determined to make it in Hollywood, he picked tobacco to earn his fare west.
Three years at the Pasadena Playhouse prepared him for television and movies.
For decades Stanton lived in a small, disheveled house overlooking the San Fernando Valley, and was a fixture at the West Hollywood landmark Dan Tana’s. He was attacked in his home in 1996 by two robbers who forced their way in, tied him up at gunpoint, beat him, ransacked the house and fled in his Lexus. He was not seriously hurt, and the two, who were captured, were sentenced to prison.
Stanton never married, although he had a long relationship with actress Rebecca De Mornay, 35 years his junior. “She left me for Tom Cruise,” Stanton said often.
“I might have had two or three (kids) out of marriage,” he once recalled. “But that’s another story.”
———
Associated Press writers Michael Balsamo and Andrew Dalton contributed to this report from Los Angeles. The late AP Entertainment Writer Bob Thomas also contributed.
Actor Harry Dean Stanton dead at 91 | Movies | Entertainment | Toronto Sun
Rosie O'Donnell's ex-wife found dead
wenn.com
First posted: Friday, September 15, 2017 06:55 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, September 15, 2017 07:09 PM EDT
Rosie O'Donnell's ex-wife Michelle Rounds has been found dead.
The 46-year-old, who split from the actress and TV personality in 2014, reportedly took her own life at her home on Monday.
In a statement, obtained by TMZ, Rosie writes: “I am saddened to hear about this terrible tragedy. Mental illness is a very serious issue affecting many families. My thoughts and prayers go out to Michelle’s family, her wife and their child.”
Rosie and Michelle started dating in 2011 and they wed in June 2012. Rosie filed for divorce in February 2015, citing their relationship was irretrievably broken.
The couple adopted daughter Dakota, who is now four.
Rosie O'Donnell's Ex-Wife Michelle Rounds Dead at 46 of Apparent Suicide | TMZ.com
Rosie O'Donnell's ex-wife found dead | Celebrities | Entertainment | Toronto Sun
Lindsey Bahr, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Friday, September 15, 2017 07:06 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, September 15, 2017 07:44 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES — Harry Dean Stanton, the shambling, craggy-face character actor with the deadpan voice who became a cult favourite through his memorable turns in “Paris, Texas,” ”Repo Man“ and many other films and TV shows, died Friday at age 91.
Stanton died of natural causes at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his agent, John S. Kelly, told The Associated Press. Kelly gave no further details on the cause.
Never mistaken for a leading man, Stanton was an unforgettable presence to moviegoers, fellow actors and directors, who recognized that his quirky characterizations could lift even the most ordinary script. Roger Ebert once observed that no movie with Stanton in a supporting role “can be altogether bad.”
He was widely loved around Hollywood, a drinker and smoker and straight talker with a million stories who palled around with Jack Nicholson and Kris Kristofferson among others and was a hero to such younger stars and brothers-in-partying as Rob Lowe and Emilio Estevez. “I don’t act like their father, I act like their friend,” he once told New York magazine.
Nicholson so liked Stanton’s name that he would find a way to work his initials, HDS, into a camera shot.
Almost always cast as a crook, a codger, an eccentric or a loser, he appeared in more than 200 movies and TV shows in a career dating to the mid-1950s. A cult-favourite since the ’70s with roles in “Cockfighter,” ”Two-Lane Blacktop“ and ”Cisco Pike,“ his more famous credits ranged from the Oscar-winning epic ”The Godfather Part II“ to the sci-fi classic ”Alien“ to the teen flick ”Pretty in Pink,“ in which he played Molly Ringwald’s father. He also guest starred on such TV shows as ”Laverne & Shirley,“ ”Adam-12“ and ”Gunsmoke.“ He had a cameo on ”Two and a Half Men,“ which featured ”Pretty in Pink“ star Jon Cryer, and appeared in such movies as ”The Avengers“ and ”The Last Stand.“
While fringe roles and films were a specialty, he also ended up in the work of many of the 20th century’s master auteurs, even Alfred Hitchcock in the director’s serial TV show.
“I worked with the best directors,” Stanton told the AP in a 2013 interview, given while chain-smoking in pyjamas and a robe. “Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was great.”
He said he could have been a director himself but “it was too much work.”
Fitting for a character actor, he only became famous in late middle age. In Wim Wenders’ 1984 rural drama “Paris, Texas,” he earned acclaim for his subtle and affecting portrayal of a man so deeply haunted by something in his past that he abandons his young son and society to wander silently in the desert.
Wiry and sad, Stanton’s near-wordless performance is laced with moments of humour and poignancy. His heartbreakingly stoic delivery of a monologue of repentance to his wife, played by Nastassja Kinski, through a one-way mirror has become the defining moment in his career, in a role he said was his favourite.
“‘Paris, Texas’ gave me a chance to play compassion,” Stanton told an interviewer, “and I’m spelling that with a capital C.”
The film won the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival and provided the actor with his first star billing, at age 58.
“Repo Man,” released that same year, became another signature film: Stanton starred as the world-weary boss of an auto repossession firm who instructs Estevez in the tricks of the hazardous trade.
His legend would only grow. By his mid-80s, the Lexington Film League in his native Kentucky had founded the Harry Dean Stanton Fest and filmmaker Sophie Huber had made the documentary “Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction,” which included commentary from Wenders, Sam Shepard and Kristofferson.
More recently he reunited with director David Lynch on Showtime’s “Twin Peaks: The Return” where he reprised his role as the cranky trailer park owner Carl from “Fire Walk With Me.” He also stars with Lynch in the upcoming film “Lucky,” the directorial debut of actor John Carroll Lynch, which has been described as a love letter to Stanton’s life and career.
Last year, Lynch presented Stanton with the “Harry Dean Stanton Award” — the inaugural award from the Los Angeles video store Vidiots presented first to its namesake.
“As a person, Harry Dean is just so beautiful. He’s got this easygoing nature. It’s so great just to sit beside Harry Dean and observe,” Lynch said at the show. “He’s got a great inner peace. As a musician, he can sing so beautifully tears just flow out of your eyes. And as an actor, I think all actors will agree, no one gives a more honest, natural, truer performance than Harry Dean Stanton.”
Lynch also directed Stanton in “Wild at Heart” and “The Straight Story.”
Stanton, who early in his career used the name Dean Stanton to avoid confusion with another actor, grew up in West Irvine, Kentucky and said he began singing when he was a year old.
Later, he used music as an escape from his parents’ quarreling and the sometimes brutal treatment he was subjected to by his father. As an adult, he fronted his own band for years, playing western, Mexican, rock and pop standards in small venues around Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley. He also sang and played guitar and harmonica in impromptu sessions with friends, performed a song in “Paris, Texas” and once recorded a duet with Bob Dylan.
Stanton, who never lost his Kentucky accent, said his interest in movies was piqued as a child when he would walk out of every theatre “thinking I was Humphrey Bogart.”
After Navy service in the Pacific during World War II, he spent three years at the University of Kentucky and appeared in several plays. Determined to make it in Hollywood, he picked tobacco to earn his fare west.
Three years at the Pasadena Playhouse prepared him for television and movies.
For decades Stanton lived in a small, disheveled house overlooking the San Fernando Valley, and was a fixture at the West Hollywood landmark Dan Tana’s. He was attacked in his home in 1996 by two robbers who forced their way in, tied him up at gunpoint, beat him, ransacked the house and fled in his Lexus. He was not seriously hurt, and the two, who were captured, were sentenced to prison.
Stanton never married, although he had a long relationship with actress Rebecca De Mornay, 35 years his junior. “She left me for Tom Cruise,” Stanton said often.
“I might have had two or three (kids) out of marriage,” he once recalled. “But that’s another story.”
———
Associated Press writers Michael Balsamo and Andrew Dalton contributed to this report from Los Angeles. The late AP Entertainment Writer Bob Thomas also contributed.
Actor Harry Dean Stanton dead at 91 | Movies | Entertainment | Toronto Sun
Rosie O'Donnell's ex-wife found dead
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First posted: Friday, September 15, 2017 06:55 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, September 15, 2017 07:09 PM EDT
Rosie O'Donnell's ex-wife Michelle Rounds has been found dead.
The 46-year-old, who split from the actress and TV personality in 2014, reportedly took her own life at her home on Monday.
In a statement, obtained by TMZ, Rosie writes: “I am saddened to hear about this terrible tragedy. Mental illness is a very serious issue affecting many families. My thoughts and prayers go out to Michelle’s family, her wife and their child.”
Rosie and Michelle started dating in 2011 and they wed in June 2012. Rosie filed for divorce in February 2015, citing their relationship was irretrievably broken.
The couple adopted daughter Dakota, who is now four.
Rosie O'Donnell's Ex-Wife Michelle Rounds Dead at 46 of Apparent Suicide | TMZ.com
Rosie O'Donnell's ex-wife found dead | Celebrities | Entertainment | Toronto Sun
Pole to Pole (1992)
Episode 2: Russian Steps
Monty Python star Michael Palin travels from the North Pole to the South Pole along the 30 degree east line of longitude, using aircraft as little as possible.
In this episode, his epic journey takes him to Russia, where he samples copious quantities of home-made vodka and takes a trip from St Petersburg to the port of Odessa before rushing to catch the last boat to Istanbul
Pole To Pole with Michael Palin-2-Russian Steps - Video Dailymotion
Episode 2: Russian Steps
Monty Python star Michael Palin travels from the North Pole to the South Pole along the 30 degree east line of longitude, using aircraft as little as possible.
In this episode, his epic journey takes him to Russia, where he samples copious quantities of home-made vodka and takes a trip from St Petersburg to the port of Odessa before rushing to catch the last boat to Istanbul
Pole To Pole with Michael Palin-2-Russian Steps - Video Dailymotion
NFLer-turned-actor Bernie Casey dead at 78
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 08:40 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 09:06 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES — Bernie Casey, a professional football player turned actor known for parts in Revenge of the Nerds and I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, has died.
His talent agent Erin Connor says Casey died Tuesday in Los Angeles after a brief illness. He was 78.
Born in West Virginia in 1939 and raised in Columbus, Ohio, Casey excelled in football and attended Bowling Green State University on an athletic scholarship.
He went on to play for the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams before going back to his alma mater to get a master’s degree in fine arts.
Casey’s acting career began with Guns of the Magnificent Seven in 1969. He appeared in some 35 films, including Boxcar Bertha and The Man Who Fell to Earth.
NFLer-turned-actor Bernie Casey dead at 78 | Movies | Entertainment | Toronto Su
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 08:40 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 09:06 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES — Bernie Casey, a professional football player turned actor known for parts in Revenge of the Nerds and I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, has died.
His talent agent Erin Connor says Casey died Tuesday in Los Angeles after a brief illness. He was 78.
Born in West Virginia in 1939 and raised in Columbus, Ohio, Casey excelled in football and attended Bowling Green State University on an athletic scholarship.
He went on to play for the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams before going back to his alma mater to get a master’s degree in fine arts.
Casey’s acting career began with Guns of the Magnificent Seven in 1969. He appeared in some 35 films, including Boxcar Bertha and The Man Who Fell to Earth.
NFLer-turned-actor Bernie Casey dead at 78 | Movies | Entertainment | Toronto Su
Tom Cruise partially responsible for 'American Made' pilots' deaths: Victims families
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First posted: Thursday, September 21, 2017 09:48 AM EDT | Updated: Thursday, September 21, 2017 01:59 PM EDT
Families of the two pilots killed making movie American Made have accused Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman of being partially responsible for their deaths.
Alan Purwin and Carlos Berl lost their lives when their small plane encountered bad weather and crashed in the Andes mountains in Colombia in September 2015. A third man, Jimmy Garland, survived.
Families of both Purwin and Berl have filed wrongful death lawsuits against the production companies for American Made, which was called Mena at the time of the incident.
Neither Cruise or Liman were named as defendants in the lawsuits, but in new court documents obtained by The Blast, the families have suggested they were both negligent by letting them take off on that fatal flight, which they described as “a spontaneous, rushed, ad hoc mission over unfamiliar terrain, in unfamiliar weather, from a small jungle airstrip.”
In the filing, the lawyers also wrote, “The demands of filming in Colombia, together with Cruise’s and director Doug Liman’s enthusiasm for multiple takes of lavish flying sequences, added hours to every filming day and added days to the schedule.”
They also claim that an executive producer had complained about the pair to the insurance company.
“DL (Liman) and TC (Cruise) (are) adding entire scenes and aerial shots on the fly,” the lawsuit states. “Had to bring in Uni Safety to help wrangle them. In the last 48 hours this has become the most insane s**t I’ve ever dealt with.”
The documents also contain an email Purwin sent to that same executive producer in which he called the film “the most dangerous project I’ve ever encountered” and added it “took every ounce of skill I had to insure TC, (cinematographer) Cesar (Charlone) and I wouldn’t be coming home in a box.”
The movie, in which Cruise played TWA pilot Barry Seal, who worked for the CIA and as a drug smuggler for Pablo Escobar’s cartel, is released in the U.S. later this month.
Tom Cruise partially responsible for 'American Made' pilots' deaths: Victims fam
WENN.COM
First posted: Thursday, September 21, 2017 09:48 AM EDT | Updated: Thursday, September 21, 2017 01:59 PM EDT
Families of the two pilots killed making movie American Made have accused Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman of being partially responsible for their deaths.
Alan Purwin and Carlos Berl lost their lives when their small plane encountered bad weather and crashed in the Andes mountains in Colombia in September 2015. A third man, Jimmy Garland, survived.
Families of both Purwin and Berl have filed wrongful death lawsuits against the production companies for American Made, which was called Mena at the time of the incident.
Neither Cruise or Liman were named as defendants in the lawsuits, but in new court documents obtained by The Blast, the families have suggested they were both negligent by letting them take off on that fatal flight, which they described as “a spontaneous, rushed, ad hoc mission over unfamiliar terrain, in unfamiliar weather, from a small jungle airstrip.”
In the filing, the lawyers also wrote, “The demands of filming in Colombia, together with Cruise’s and director Doug Liman’s enthusiasm for multiple takes of lavish flying sequences, added hours to every filming day and added days to the schedule.”
They also claim that an executive producer had complained about the pair to the insurance company.
“DL (Liman) and TC (Cruise) (are) adding entire scenes and aerial shots on the fly,” the lawsuit states. “Had to bring in Uni Safety to help wrangle them. In the last 48 hours this has become the most insane s**t I’ve ever dealt with.”
The documents also contain an email Purwin sent to that same executive producer in which he called the film “the most dangerous project I’ve ever encountered” and added it “took every ounce of skill I had to insure TC, (cinematographer) Cesar (Charlone) and I wouldn’t be coming home in a box.”
The movie, in which Cruise played TWA pilot Barry Seal, who worked for the CIA and as a drug smuggler for Pablo Escobar’s cartel, is released in the U.S. later this month.
Tom Cruise partially responsible for 'American Made' pilots' deaths: Victims fam
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’Coronation Street’ actress Liz Dawn dead at 77
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First posted: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 09:47 AM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:15 AM EDT
LONDON — Liz Dawn, the actress who played tart-tongued Vera Duckworth in the British soap opera “Coronation Street” for more than 30 years, has died, her family said Tuesday. She was 77.
Dawn’s family said in a statement that the actress died “peacefully in her sleep” Monday night.
“Coronation Street” has charted the goings-on in the fictional northern England community of Weatherfield since 1960 with a blend of dramatic story-lines and down-to-earth humour.
Born Sylvia Butterfield, Dawn was a nightclub singer before beginning an acting career with television commercials and guest appearances.
She appeared on the show from 1974 to 2008, as Vera, wife and verbal sparring partner to work-shy, pigeon-fancying Jack Duckworth. Their rocky but enduring relationship was at the show’s emotional heart.
Dawn was diagnosed with emphysema in the early 2000s, and Vera was written out of the show in 2008, dying in her sleep. Bill Tarmey, who played Jack, died in 2012.
“Coronation Street” executive producer Kieran Roberts said “Dawn was a true ’Coronation Street’ legend, a brilliant actor and a wonderful person.”
“Coronation Street” has fans around the globe — including rapper Snoop Dogg, who recorded a message to mark its 50th anniversary in 2010.
Dawn is survived by her husband Don Ibbetson, four children, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
’Coronation Street’ actress Liz Dawn dead at 77 | TV | Entertainment | Toronto S
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 09:47 AM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:15 AM EDT
LONDON — Liz Dawn, the actress who played tart-tongued Vera Duckworth in the British soap opera “Coronation Street” for more than 30 years, has died, her family said Tuesday. She was 77.
Dawn’s family said in a statement that the actress died “peacefully in her sleep” Monday night.
“Coronation Street” has charted the goings-on in the fictional northern England community of Weatherfield since 1960 with a blend of dramatic story-lines and down-to-earth humour.
Born Sylvia Butterfield, Dawn was a nightclub singer before beginning an acting career with television commercials and guest appearances.
She appeared on the show from 1974 to 2008, as Vera, wife and verbal sparring partner to work-shy, pigeon-fancying Jack Duckworth. Their rocky but enduring relationship was at the show’s emotional heart.
Dawn was diagnosed with emphysema in the early 2000s, and Vera was written out of the show in 2008, dying in her sleep. Bill Tarmey, who played Jack, died in 2012.
“Coronation Street” executive producer Kieran Roberts said “Dawn was a true ’Coronation Street’ legend, a brilliant actor and a wonderful person.”
“Coronation Street” has fans around the globe — including rapper Snoop Dogg, who recorded a message to mark its 50th anniversary in 2010.
Dawn is survived by her husband Don Ibbetson, four children, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
’Coronation Street’ actress Liz Dawn dead at 77 | TV | Entertainment | Toronto S