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Post by WTIC on Jul 30, 2019 16:21:50 GMT -5
Interesting fact Blade Runner was in the year 2019 Rutger Hauer died the same year as his character Roy Batty died What a weird coincidence! R.I.P., Rutger! I need to watch Blade Runner (finally)! Anyway, because it's Star Trek (from Memory Alpha, the ST Wiki at memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Jeremy_Kemp) -- Edmund Jeremy James Walker (3 January 1935 – 19 July 2019; age 84), usually credited as Jeremy Kemp, was an English actor who portrayed Robert Picard in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fourth season episode "Family" in 1990. He began his acting career in the 1950s and featured in a number of war films through the 1960s and 1970s, including the WWI film The Blue Max (1966, scored by Jerry Goldsmith) and the WWII TV miniseries The Rhinemann Exchange (1977, with Stephen Collins, Rene Auberjonois, John Hoyt, and Katherine Woodville). Kemp appears also in the famous World War II sagas Winds of War and War and Remembrance as Brigadier General Armin von Roon. In 1975, he guest starred in the sci-fi series Space: 1999, starring Martin Landau, Nick Tate, and Clifton Jones, in the episode "Voyager's Return", which is similar in theme to the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Friendship One". In a 1984 episode of Granada Television's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," he played the main antagonist, Dr. Grimesby Roylott, the tyrannical stepfather of the character played by Rosalyn Landor. His last role was in the Conan: The Adventurer television series and movies in 1998. --------- R.I.P., Mr. Kemp! At first, looking at the pictures posted, I thought it was the actor (Gene Lyons) that portrayed Ambassador Robert Fox in the Trek classic "A Taste of Armageddon". Nope, not him: memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Gene_Lyons |
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Post by TTX on Jul 31, 2019 13:32:27 GMT -5
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Post by WTIC on Aug 2, 2019 0:11:35 GMT -5
 The granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy found dead on the Kennedy compound! Up here in Massachusetts, that's some mighty BIG news, and unfortunately, more tragedy: |
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Post by on_the_edge on Aug 3, 2019 0:39:46 GMT -5
I used to love him on Inside The NFL. |
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Post by jimsteel on Aug 6, 2019 14:27:24 GMT -5
 Toni Morrison, 'Beloved' author and Nobel laureate, dies at 88 Toni Morrison, author of seminal works of literature on the black experience such as "Beloved," "Song of Solomon" and "Sula" and the first African-American woman to win a Nobel Prize, has died, her publisher Knopf confirmed to CNN. She was 88. Morrison's novels gazed unflinchingly on the lives of African Americans and told their stories with a singular lyricism, from the post-Civil War maelstrom of "Beloved" to the colonial setting of "A Mercy" to the modern yet classic dilemmas depicted in her 11th novel, "God Help the Child." Her talent for intertwining the stark realities of black life with hints of magical realism and breathtaking prose gained Morrison a loyal literary following. She was lauded for her ability to mount complex characters and build historically dense worlds distant in time yet eerily familiar to the modern reader. Themes such as slavery, misogyny, colorism and supernaturalism came to life in her hands. A decorated novelist, editor and educator -- among other prestigious academic appointments, she was a professor emeritus at Princeton University -- Morrison said writing was the state in which she found true freedom. "I know how to write forever. I don't think I could have happily stayed here in the world if I did not have a way of thinking about it, which is what writing is for me. It's control. Nobody tells me what to do. It's mine, it's free, and it's a way of thinking. It's pure knowledge," Morrison said. |
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Post by jimsteel on Aug 6, 2019 15:05:58 GMT -5
 Barry Coe, Actor in 'Peyton Place,' 'Follow the Sun' and 'Bonanza,' Dies at 84 He nearly became the fifth Cartwright on the NBC Western, but his stay on the show lasted one episode. Barry Coe, who starred in the Peyton Place movie and on the short-lived Hawaii-set ABC adventure series Follow the Sun, has died. He was 84. A longtime resident of Sun Valley, Idaho, Coe died July 16 in Palm Desert after a battle with the bone marrow disease myelodysplastic syndrome, his family announced. A Golden Globe recipient in 1960 for most promising male newcomer — shared with James Shigeta, Troy Donahue and George Hamilton — Coe also appeared with Elvis Presley in Love Me Tender (1956), with Sal Mineo, Terry Moore, Gary Crosby and Barbara Eden in A Private's Affair (1959) and with Alan Ladd in One Foot in Hell (1960). He also recurred as an assistant director on the Hollywood-set NBC drama Bracken's World in 1970 and played the character Mr. Goodwrench in TV commercials for General Motors through the early '80s. He was born Barry Clark Heacock in Santa Monica on Nov. 26, 1934. After his father, Warner Bros. publicist Frank Heacock, was killed in an auto accident in 1940, his mother remarried, and the family traveled through the U.S. He attended high school in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and then USC before he was signed by Fox, which gave him small roles in the 1955 releases House of Bamboo and How to Be Very, Very Popular. On Peyton Place (1957), Coe played Rodney Harrington (Ryan O'Neal's role on the subsequent ABC series) and got to kiss Diane Varsi and elope with Moore. He portrayed freelance magazine writer Ben Gregory on Follow the Sun, which aired for one season (1961-62) on ABC. Created by Roy Huggins (Maverick, The Fugitive, The Rockford Files), the 20th Century Fox Television series also starred Brett Halsey, Gary Lockwood and Gigi Perreau. Coe was hired to replace an unhappy Pernell Roberts on Bonanza in 1962, and on the episode, "The First Born," which launched the fourth season, his character, Clay Stafford, signs on to work on the Cartwright ranch while claiming to be the half-brother of Little Joe (Michael Landon). According to the website Bonanza: Scenery of the Ponderosa, Landon "was jealous of Coe and also considered him to be competition and his screen time would be lost." Production on the episode was shut down for three hours while writers debated the fate of Coe's character, and Clay winds up leaving the ranch, never to return. Coe went on to appear on Mission: Impossible, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and General Hospital and in such films as A Letter to Nancy (1965), MacArthur (1977) and Jaws 2 (1978), his final credit. His film résumé also included The Bravados (1958), Thundering Jets (1958), But Not for Me (1959),The Wizard of Baghdad (1961) and The 300 Spartans (1962). |
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Post by TTX on Aug 6, 2019 16:04:06 GMT -5
RIP Toni.
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Post by Bazzy on Aug 7, 2019 13:05:48 GMT -5
 While I was away (music festival) English singer and impressionist "Joe Longthorne" from Hull died aged 64 - he had been fighting cancer for a few years R.I.P |
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Post by jimsteel on Aug 10, 2019 9:42:48 GMT -5
 AND SOME GOOD NEWS Billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, 66, kills himself in his Manhattan jail cell, 24 hours after files in his case were unsealed and two weeks after he was placed on suicide watch ahead of his sex trafficking trial Jeffrey Epstein has hanged himself inside his New York City jail cell. The billionaire pedophile was found in cardiac arrest shortly before 7am on Saturday at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Manhattan. The 66-year-old was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. Epstein was awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy and sex trafficking and was being held at the high-security complex without bail. The financier - who once boasted high-profile friends including Prince Andrew and President Bill Clinton - was arrested on July 6, accused of arranging to have sex with dozens of underage girls at his residences in New York City and Florida between 2002 and 2005. He had plead not guilty to the charges. The shocking news of Epstein's death comes just two weeks after he was hospitalized following a first suicide attempt inside his prison cell. On July 24, Epstein was rushed to hospital under police guard after he was discovered semi-conscious on the floor of his prison cell in the fetal position. He spent several hours receiving medical attention before he was transported back to the Metropolitan Correctional Center. Epstein was said to be on suicide watch, although The New York Times reports that it is now unclear whether additional measures had been put in place to ensure he did not try to take his own life for a second time. DailyMail.com has reached out to the Metropolitan Correctional Center for comment. Meanwhile, the billionaire's death comes just 24 hours after the court unsealed more than 2,000 pages of documents detailing the lurid allegations of his sexual abuse of underage girls. |
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Post by TTX on Aug 10, 2019 10:14:09 GMT -5
Not surprising he took the coward's way out.
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