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Post by Bazzy on Apr 4, 2018 12:26:34 GMT -5
 Soccer 1970+80's star Ray "Butch" Wilkins played for Manchester United , Chelsea , A.C Milan , Glasgow Rangers , Q.P.R & England star R.I.P |
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Post by jimsteel on Apr 5, 2018 22:08:10 GMT -5
 Director, Studio Ghibli Co-Founder Isao Takahata Passes Away Anime director and Studio-Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata passed away in a Tokyo hospital on Thursday. He was 82. The Japanese websites Sanspo and NTV News 24 reported the news, and both cited unnamed related parties who said that Takahata had been in declining health since last summer. Takahata joined Toei Douga (now Toei Animation) in 1959 after graduating from the University of Tokyo. He had a long career directing such classics as Little Norse Prince Valiant (Taiyō no Ōji - Hols no Daibōken), Alps no Shōjo Heidi, Anne of Green Gables, and Panda! Go, Panda! before he co-founded Studio Ghibli with Hayao Miyazaki. He went on to create the feature films Grave of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday, Pom Poko, and My Neighbors the Yamadas. Takahata's final film as director was The Tale of Princess Kaguya, which debuted in 2013. Takahata told entertainment news website Variety in 2016, "I have several projects that I still have in mind that I am currently working on to get closer to realizing. Whether those will be finalized as films is something that no one, myself included, can know." |
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Post by Bazzy on Apr 5, 2018 23:56:24 GMT -5
 Sport - Darts legend 5 times world champion Eric "Crafty Cockney" Bristow has died aged 60 from a heart attack R.I.P |
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Post by TTX on Apr 6, 2018 7:11:23 GMT -5
RIP Takahata.
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Post by markyhitch on Apr 6, 2018 13:42:55 GMT -5
Soccer 1970+80's star Ray "Butch" Wilkins played for Manchester United , Chelsea , A.C Milan , Glasgow Rangers , Q.P.R & England star R.I.P The main thing I always remembered Ray for was his goal against Brighton in the 1983 FA Cup Final. So glad they showed it on the news in tribute to him. |
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Post by jimsteel on Apr 6, 2018 23:30:00 GMT -5
 Susan Anspach, 75, Dies; Daring Actress in Maverick Films Susan Anspach, the radiant and rebellious actress who personified the 1960s-into-the-’70s counterculture in films like “Five Easy Pieces” and “Blume in Love,” as well as in the stage musical “Hair,” died on Monday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 75. Her son, Caleb Goddard, who announced the death on Thursday, said the cause was coronary failure. Ms. Anspach (pronounced ONS-bok) had the distinction of playing Sheila, the good-girl-turned-hippie female lead, in the Off Broadway production of the musical “Hair” that immediately preceded the Broadway run. The show, which shocked some audiences with its antiwar message, celebration of nonmarital sex and all-nude final scene, ran 45 performances at the Cheetah Theater, a club on West 53rd Street. That was in December 1967. When “Hair” opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theater in April 1968, Lynn Kellogg was Sheila. Ms. Anspach’s film career, which began soon afterward, hit the ground running. Her first role was in Hal Ashby’s “The Landlord” (1970), about a young white man (Beau Bridges) who buys a building in a black neighborhood in Brooklyn. Her second movie, the same year, was the now-classic “Five Easy Pieces,” directed by Bob Rafelson, in which she played the sophisticated New Age intellectual who sleeps with Jack Nicholson’s character despite being engaged to his brother. Continue reading the main story In “Play It Again, Sam” (1972), there she was in flashbacks as Woody Allen’s blatantly critical ex-wife. (“I don’t feel any rapport with you, and I don’t dig you physically,” she says, cautioning him a minute later, “Don’t take it personal.”) In “Blume in Love” (1973), she left her stuffy divorce-lawyer husband (George Segal), let her hair go wild and moved in with a shaggy out-of-work musician (Kris Kristofferson) who wrote songs about being free. |
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Post by jimsteel on Apr 6, 2018 23:35:12 GMT -5
 Nigerian singer Alizee allegedly killed by Danish husband Singer's Danish husband arrested as police investigate murder Before her passing, Alizee was scheduled for a Warri concert alongside D'banj, Simi, Reminisce, Duncan Mighty and others, in April 2018. A Dane, Peter Nielsen, has been arrested in connection with the murder of his Nigerian wife, Zainab, and their four-year-old daughter. Zainab is a musician popularly known as Alizee. They were murdered in the family’s residence at Ocean Parade, Banana Island, in the early hours of Thursday. While the circumstances surrounding the incident were still sketchy, the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Chike Oti, has confirmed the incident as well as the arrest of the suspect for murder. He said, “The state Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, has ordered the arrest of the suspect and he is in police custody. It is pre-emptive now to ascertain the cause of the incident. The CP has dispatched crime scene investigators to the place to pick evidences for analysis, which can be used for prosecution. The command has also written the Embassy of the suspect that the police are investigating the case.” |
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Post by TTX on Apr 7, 2018 6:56:30 GMT -5
very unfortunate that last one. RIP.
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Post by throwingtoasters on Apr 8, 2018 19:28:55 GMT -5
 My friend and sometime mentor Chuck McCann has passed away. If you are around 40 or older, you've definitely seen and heard him in many things over the years. Far Out Space nuts with Bob Denver, the Beagle Boys on Duck Tales, countless guest starring roles on TV. His credits are nothing short of amazing. IMDB - www.imdb.com/name/nm0564841/ - He was always willing to lend a voice to any podcast projects I had going on and I learned so much from him. One of the good ones. A legend. Thank you Uncle Chuck. |
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Post by TTX on Apr 8, 2018 20:07:02 GMT -5
I remember Chuck. RIP.
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