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Post by TTX on Apr 23, 2018 20:02:45 GMT -5
I loved Schoolhouse Rock back in the day....best of the ministuff between Saturday cartoons.
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Post by jimsteel on Apr 30, 2018 15:55:13 GMT -5
 Pamela Gidley, actress who starred in ‘Twin Peaks’ movie, dead at 52 Actress Pamela Gidley who starred in the “Twin Peaks” prequel, “Fire Walk With Me,” died earlier this month. She was 52. Gidley’s death was announced Sunday in an obituary . It says that she “died peacefully in her home, on Monday, April 16, 2018 in Seabrook.” The cause of death was not immediately clear. |
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Post by jimsteel on May 1, 2018 23:39:00 GMT -5
 STORYJoe Clokey, Caretaker of the Gumby Empire, Dies at 56 His father, the late Art Clokey, created the iconic stop-motion clay figure in the early 1950s. Joe Clokey, a producer and the caretaker of the Gumby empire that began in the early 1950s with the creation of the pliable clay figure by his father, the late Art Clokey, has died. He was 56. Clokey died March 2 in Santa Barbara after an episode of cardiac arrest, family friend Cathie Lou Parker told The Hollywood Reporter. Affectionately known as "Gumby's Little Brother," Joe Clokey served as president of Premavision/Clokey Productions, the company behind the original TV shows that featured Gumby (and his pal, Pokey) and Davey and Goliath, a boy and his dog. Clokey remastered the Gumby library and promoted the friendly green guy through new products, productions, museum exhibits, festivals, TV shows, speaking engagements and parades. Clokey led the writing and production on Davey and Goliath's Snowboard Christmas, a 2004 special for The Hallmark Channel, and served as a story consultant on the 2006 documentary Gumby Dharma. |
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Post by TTX on May 13, 2018 16:29:38 GMT -5
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Post by Vegas on May 14, 2018 0:38:58 GMT -5
RIP Chuck Knox, third best head coach in Seahawks history (behind Pate Carroll and Mike Holmgren but ahead of Ken Patera's father Jack Patera.)
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Post by jimsteel on May 14, 2018 12:05:53 GMT -5
  MARGOT KIDDER 'SUPERMAN' STAR DEAD AT 69 Margot Kidder, the actress who played Lois Lane in "Superman," died Sunday in Montana ... TMZ has learned. Margot was at her home when she passed away, according to the spokesperson at Franzen-Davis Funeral Home in Livingston, MT. The cause of death is unknown at this point. Margot starred opposite Christopher Reeve in 1978's "Superman," and also in the 3 sequels. She continued acting right up until this year, taking small roles in TV shows and movies -- but also had stage roles ... including "The Vagina Monologues" on Broadway. She reportedly had 2 more roles yet to be released. |
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Post by TTX on May 14, 2018 12:18:33 GMT -5
RIP Margot.
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Post by TTX on May 15, 2018 11:53:16 GMT -5
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Post by jimsteel on May 17, 2018 23:27:24 GMT -5
 Veteran Character Actor Joseph Campanella Dies at 93 Joseph Campanella, a character actor who appeared in more than 200 TV and film roles over his 50-year career, died at his Sherman Oaks, Calif., home on Wednesday, his daughter-in-law told Variety. He was 93. Campanella appeared across five seasons of late ’60s and early ’70s crime drama “Mannix,” for which he earned a supporting actor Emmy nomination in 1968, and six seasons of ’70s sitcom “One Day at a Time.” He had a number of other co-starring roles on the small screen, including ’60s hospital drama “The Doctors and the Nurses,” the ’70s medical series “Marcus Welby, M.D.,” and ’80s primetime soap story “The Colbys.” In more recent years, the actor held a recurring role on daytime soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful” from 1996 to 2005 and worked on “The Practice” and “That’s Life.” Along with his on-screen roles, Campanella also built a career as a voice actor, voicing characters in ’90s animated shows “Spider-Man” and “Road Rovers,” along with narrating the “Discover” science series on Disney Channel. He appeared in three Broadway plays, with “The Captains and the Kings” in 1962, “A Gift of Time” in 1962, and “Hot Spot” in 1963. He was nominated for a Tony for his performance in “A Gift of Time.” Campanella is the younger brother of fellow actor Frank Campanella, who died in 2007. He was born in New York City and attended Columbia University before moving to Hollywood. He is survived by Jill Campanella, his wife of 53 years, as well as his seven sons and eight grandchildren. |
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Post by jimsteel on May 20, 2018 16:45:17 GMT -5
PEOPLE WE MISSED PASSING AWAY   Debbie Lee Carrington-58 Deborah Carrington, who broke into Hollywood by answering an ad for dwarf actors, and later performed stunt work and costume-specific roles in Hollywood blockbusters and campy horror movies, died on March 23 at her parents’ home in Pleasanton, Calif. She was 58. Her sister, Kathy Ellis, said that the cause had not been determined but that Ms. Carrington had dealt with health problems over the past year. Audiences might best remember Ms. Carrington, whose stage name was Debbie Lee Carrington, for her violent performance as Thumbelina, the 3-foot, 10-inch pink-clad prostitute in the 1990 sci-fi action film “Total Recall.” The movie told the story of a construction worker in the future who visits a colonized Mars. During a mob scene, Thumbelina stabs one of the movie’s villains with a bowie knife before jumping on a table and mowing down the police with a machine gun. Beyond her infamous shoot’em-up scene, Ms. Carrington played various costume-specific roles — suited performances that completely obscure the actor — in film and television. Such roles included Idee, one half of the Geex in the Disney short Captain EO, starring Michael Jackson; and the Alien Father in the original “Men in Black.” She also performed as a stunt double — often for child actors and dolls that had come to life — in films like “Titanic” and the “Child’s Play” slasher film series. |
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