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Post by on_the_edge on Jul 7, 2019 4:07:38 GMT -5
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Post by Bazzy on Jul 7, 2019 4:31:41 GMT -5
 Football (soccer) / actor Vinnie Jones wife "Tanya" has died aged 53 from cancer |
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Post by Mike M on Jul 7, 2019 9:54:52 GMT -5
Technically a Giants QB (his stay with the team was quite brief) but it is still sad anyone dying that young. RIP. Jared Lorenzen was around the team for a while- he spent 4 seasons with the Giants. He only appeared in a couple of games due to the fact that he was backing up Eli Manning, who has still never missed a game due to injury in his NFL career. |
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Post by TTX on Jul 7, 2019 10:05:34 GMT -5
that is true. I saw games played and forgot about that he was actually with the team though not playing.
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Post by jimsteel on Jul 7, 2019 10:27:04 GMT -5
 Disney Star Cameron Boyce Dies Aged 20 The actor passed away in his sleep after suffering a seizure. The cause of death was announced as due to ‘an ongoing medical condition’. Cameron, from Los Angeles, shot to fame in the Disney Channel show Jessie before going on to appear in the Descendants movie franchise, though arguably one of his best known roles was in the comedy films Grown Ups and Grown Ups 2, where he played the son of Adam Sandler’s character. The 20-year-old was reportedly also set to appear as a series regular in HBO’s new show Mrs. Fletcher, as well as the TV spinoff of the film American Satan, titled Paradise City. Last year, Cameron was honoured with the Pioneering Spirit Award at the Thirst Gala which was sponsored by the Thirst Project, a nonprofit for which the young actor had raised $30,000 towards building wells for clean drinking water in Swaziland. |
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Post by jimsteel on Jul 7, 2019 22:36:00 GMT -5
 Martin Charnin, Tony-Winning Creator of 'Annie,' Dies at 84 He was the lyricist and first director of the show, which played 2,377 performances in its original 1977 Broadway run. Martin Charnin, the Tony-winning lyricist, writer and librettist best known for creating and directing the sensationally successful Broadway musical Annie, has died. He was 84. Charnin died Saturday in a hospital in White Plains, New York, three days after suffering a heart attack, his daughter, Sasha, told The Hollywood Reporter. She wrote on Facebook. "As loving as he was, [he] has kept all of us completely directionless. Which way do we go Daddy? Damn," she wrote. "Like he said and as corny as this sounds … the sun'll come out tomorrow." With more than 40 productions to his credit, Charnin penned lyrics for seven Broadway musicals and directed seven shows as well. He won his Tony Award for best original score, with composer Charles Strouse, for Annie. The show, produced by Mike Nichols, won seven Tonys in all, including best musical and best actress in a musical for Dorothy Loudon, who originated the role of unscrupulous, boozing orphanage administrator Miss Hannigan. Charnin also received three Emmys for his work on television variety specials and won a Grammy for Jay-Z's "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)," which sampled his lyrics from the Annie song of that name. He conceived the musical Annie, which premiered at Goodspeed Opera House in 1976 and opened on Broadway the following year, from the Harold Gray comic strip about Little Orphan Annie, a street-smart youngster who goes to live with a wealthy bachelor during the Great Depression. "I guess when you're in the business of making musicals, you look for ideas, you look for source material anywhere," he told The Guardian in 2016. "At that particular moment, all of Dickens had been taken, it all had been musicalized. If I'd found it in a bubblegum wrapper, I guess I'd have tried to get the rights to it. I read that book before I gave it away and ultimately ended up not giving it away, I was so taken by Harold Gray's original drawings." Charnin directed the original production and wrote the lyrics for the musical, which had music by Strouse and book by Thomas Meehan. It played for 2,377 performances on Broadway in its original run and has become a fixture of the American musical theater canon. "No matter how you bend it, it just doesn't break — it's just one of those iconic musicals in the history of theater, and we are very grateful and lucky and thrilled about how it has survived," Charnin told Broadway World in 2014. "In point of fact, there really aren't a lot of things out there like Annie." |
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Post by jimsteel on Jul 8, 2019 6:31:20 GMT -5
 Lois & Clark Actor Eddie Jones Has Passed Away Eddie Jones, who played Jonathan "Pa" Kent on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, has passed away. He was 82. The actor, who also appeared in Trading Places and A League of Their Own, began his screen career in earnest in 1978, and has worked consistently ever since, amassing over 75 credits according to the Internet Movie Database. While he has a charm that served him well for years, it wasn't until he got a little older that he broke into the mainstream consciousness in a big way, playing Pa Kent on Lois & Clark. The series, which starred Dean Cain as Superman/Clark Kent and Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane, played on the then-current DC Comics continuity, in which Jonathan and Martha Kent were still alive and played an active role in Clark's life. Jones and his onscreen wife played by K Callan were regular figures in the series, often sharing screen time with Cain in spite of Clark living in Metropolis. After all, super-speed can be handy. In keeping with John Byrne's '80s revival of Superman in The Man of Steel, Jon and Matha were alive and an active part of Superman's career, helping him to come up with his costume as well as playing an active role in cheering on his romance with Lois. They were additionally sometimes used for comic relief, since the Kents came from a background that is less fast-paced and chaotic than a major city newsroom, let alone than superheroics. This demanded Jones and Callan to have a lot of range. |
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Post by jimsteel on Jul 9, 2019 9:59:31 GMT -5
 Billionaire and former presidential candidate Ross Perot is dead at 89 Billionaire philanthropist and independent presidential candidate Ross Perot is dead at 89, CNBC has confirmed. Perot, who ran for president twice in 1992 and 1996, died after a five-month battle with leukemia, said James Fuller, a representative for the Perot family. “In business and in life, Ross was a man of integrity and action. A true American patriot and a man of rare vision, principle and deep compassion, he touched the lives of countless people through his unwavering support of the military and veterans and through his charitable endeavors,” Fuller said in a statement. |
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Post by jimsteel on Jul 10, 2019 0:44:13 GMT -5
 Rip Torn, Actor Known for ‘Men in Black’ and ‘The Larry Sanders Show,’ Dies at 88 Rip Torn, the actor best known for playing Artie on HBO’s “The Larry Sanders Show” and Zed in ‘Men in Black’ died Tuesday at his home in Lakeville, Connecticut, his representatives said. He was 88. In a career spanning more than six decades, Torn established himself as a versatile performer, appearing in 10 Broadway plays and directing one, more than 80 feature films, and dozens of television appearances. Born Elmore Rual Torn Jr. in Temple, Texas in 1931, Torn studied acting at Texas A&M and the University of Texas and served a stint in the US Army before heading to Los Angeles in the mid 1950s to pursue an acting career. He made his film debut with an uncredited role in Elia Kazan’s 1956 film “Baby Doll” before relocating to New York City to study at the Actor’s Studio. From there he established himself as a prolific stage actor, making his Broadway debut in the original cast of Tennessee Williams’ “Sweet Bird of Youth” as as “Tom, Jr.”, a role he would reprise for the feature film and TV movie adaptations. We was nominated for a Tony award in 1960 and received a Theater World award for his performance. Known for his gravely drawl and sinister-looking smile, Torn excelled playing shady, amoral characters and outright villains, such as his depiction of the villain Maax in the fantasy film “Beastmaster,” but he could also project no-nonsense authority figures, like the celestial attorney Bob Diamond in Albert Brooks’ “Defending Your Life,” or Zed in the first two “Men in Black” films. And in one of his most celebrated later roles, he combined those attributes in “DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story,” playing the sleazy mentor Patches O’Houlihan, and delivering one of the film’s funniest lines: “if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.” |
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Post by on_the_edge on Jul 10, 2019 1:25:06 GMT -5
Man the last couple weeks have been rough. Rip lived a good long life but was so good, sad to see him gone.
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