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The first i remember her for, her most famous song i guess?

In memory of her:

 

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https://www.npr.org/2019/07/06/739224759/jo-o-gilberto-master-of-bossa-nova-dies-at-88

Joao Gilberto, Brazillian Bossa Nova artist, dead at 88

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Puerto Rico to face tropical storm Dorian in some hours, which after 4 days of extreme erraticness has now a set direct path towards the Island. Will be away until telecommunications and electricity are re-established after the event.

Hopefully we won't get deaths to lament...

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R.I.P. Valerie Harper, pioneering star of 'Rhoda' and 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show'

The sitcom legend passed away at 80.

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No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart.

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Robert Forster

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"Robert Forster passed away on October 11, 2019, at his home in Los Angeles. He was 78. Forster died after a short battle with brain cancer, his family confirmed. 

Forster appeared in over 100 films throughout his career, including, most recently, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. He was perhaps best known for his Oscar-nominated role as Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, though he also starred in The DescendantsWhat They HadMe, Myself and Irene, and as Tim Allen's father on Last Man Standing". /end quote.

https://www.ranker.com/list/celebrities-who-died-in-2019/celebrity-lists

 

 

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Kobe Bryant died today from a helicopter crash along with his 13 year old daughter:

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28569438/sources-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-die-helicopter-crash

He was 41. RIP.

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RIP.... The creator of Konami code, Kazuhisa Hashimoto died at age 61.... *:( 

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/26/21155132/konami-code-creator-dies-kazuhisa-hashimoto-easter-egg-cheat

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Crossover country superstar Kenny Rogers dies at 81

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Kenny Rogers, the smooth, Grammy-winning balladeer who spanned jazz, folk, country and pop with such hits as “Lucille,” “Lady” and “Islands in the Stream” and embraced his persona as “The Gambler” on records and on TV, died Friday night. He was 81

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/crossover-country-superstar-kenny-rogers-dies-at-81/ar-BB11uDMZ?q=17

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Tom Dempsey, whose 63-yard-field goal in 1970 set the NFL record and gave New Orleans Saints fans a rare raucous moment in the franchise's lean early years, died late Saturday of complications from the novel coronavirus, his family said. He was 73.

Dempsey — who overcame astronomical odds to establish what was then considered a virtually unbeatable record —  contracted the virus in March during an outbreak at the Lambeth House retirement home in Uptown New Orleans. He is one of at least 15 residents there to die after being stricken with the disease.

Before long-distance place-kicking became a staple of the sport, Dempsey's thunderous boot not only beat the Detroit Lions 19-17 on the last play of the game at Tulane Stadium on Nov. 8, 1970, but also stood as the NFL record for more than four decades. It beat the previous record by a full 7 yards. 

The Denver Broncos' Matt Prater bested Dempsey with a 64-yarder in 2013 — 43 years after Dempsey unleashed his cannon-shot opposite Lions' defenders who had been laughing at what they believed to be an impossible attempt.

Before Prater's kick, three others had also hit 63-yarders over the years.

Prater's kick came in the thin air of Denver, 5,000-feet above sea level, as had those by two of the players who tied Dempsey's mark. 

When his daughter, Ashley, told Dempsey that his record had finally been eclipsed, he quipped, “Must have been a heckuva kick.”

Nicknamed “Stumpy’’ by teammates, Dempsey seemed an unlikely football hero. He was born without fingers on his right hand or toes on his right foot. He wore a small, flat shoe on his kicking foot that is now on display at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

As a rookie in 1969, Dempsey delivered an All-Pro season but was cut by the Saints in 1971 after missing seven of eight kicks during preseason, which he attributed to falling out of shape while being treated to countless drinks and meals after his historic kick. But he rebounded and played for several other teams — the Eagles, Rams, Oilers and Bills — before retiring following the 1979 season.

Dempsey's right hand and right foot never deterred him from athletics growing up in Encinitas, California. He was a defensive lineman and kicker for San Dieguito High School, then briefly at Palomar College, where a clash with a coach cut his tenure short. Dempsey continued plying his trade by playing semi-pro ball in Massachusetts and caught on with the Saints after a couple of failed NFL tryouts. 

His 63-yarder was one of the few highlights of the Saints' two-win season that year. 

The broadcast of the play, along with the playcall from CBS commentator Don Criqui, still makes Saints fans misty-eyed. 

“I don’t believe this ...,” Criqui said as the ball sailed nearly two-thirds of the field, then added as the ball cleared the bar by a yard, "It's GOOD! I don't believe it!" 

The miraculous moment so moved powerful Louisiana Congressman F. Edward Hebert that he had an account of “The Kick” by Dempsey inserted into the Congressional Record.

After retiring, Dempsey returned to New Orleans with his wife, Carlene. He helped her raise a family and — over the years — worked as an oilfield salesman, coached football at Archbishop Rummel High School and managed a car dealership for the late Tom Benson, who bought the Saints in 1985. 

In 2012, Dempsey publicly disclosed that he had been diagnosed with dementia and detailed the treatment he was receiving. He spent the final years of his life at Lambeth House.

Dempsey was diagnosed with COVID-19, the highly contagious respiratory disease, on March 25, Ashley Dempsey said. 

She said her father's fight against the virus started promisingly, but his condition gradually worsened.
 
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Brian Dennehy, the regular-guy actor whose bulldog build, good-guy demeanor and no-nonsense approach meshed in an array of memorable roles for film, television and the theater, has died. He was 81. 

Dennehy died Wednesday night of natural causes in New Haven, Connecticut.

“It is with heavy hearts we announce that our father, Brian passed away last night from natural causes, not Covid-related," his oldest daughter, actress Elizabeth Dennehy, wrote on Twitter. "Larger than life, generous to a fault, a proud and devoted father and grandfather, he will be missed by his wife Jennifer, family and many friends." 

Dennehy played the sheriff in Washington state who doggedly pursues Vietnam veteran John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) in First Blood (1982) and a district attorney who's out to save his own skin in the Harrison Ford-starrer Presumed Innocent (1990).

He also portrayed lawmen in Gorky Park (1983), Silverado (1985), F/X (1986) and its sequel, Best Seller (1987), The Last of the Finest (1990) and Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) and starred as hard-charging real-life Chicago detective Jack Reed in five NBC telefilms from 1993 to 1996, writing and directing four of them.

At 6 foot 3 and 250 pounds, the former college offensive lineman could also be a gentle giant, as when he portrayed the sympathetic bartender who counsels Dudley Moore in 10 (1979), the friendly alien leader Walter in Cocoon (1985) and Chris Farley's pop in Tommy Boy (1995).

Dennehy won Tony Awards in 1999 and 2003 for playing Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman — he was the fourth actor to play the iconic role on Broadway — and Tyrone in Long Day's Journey Into Night.

In the former, the imposing actor displayed "a grand emotional expansiveness that matches his monumental physique," Ben Brantley wrote in his New York Times review. "Yet these emotions ring so unerringly true that Mr. Dennehy seems to kidnap you by force, trapping you inside Willy's psyche."

He also starred opposite Christopher Plummer in a 2007 Broadway revival of Inherit the Wind.

Whenever he could, Dennehy retreated to the stage in Chicago, saying he preferred the Midwest "because I can sit down with rational people who make $50,000 a year and live in houses and have children and pay their taxes and shop at Sears."

He said he chose to live on a farm in northeast Connecticut because the biggest celebrity in his town was the guy who played Big Bird.

Brian Manion Dennehy was born on July 9, 1938, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the oldest of three boys. His grandparents came to the U.S. from Ireland, and his father, Edward, worked as a writer and editor for the Associated Press.

Raised in Red Hook in Brooklyn before moving at age 12 to Long Island, he was an offensive tackle for the football team at Chaminade High School in Mineola, New York. His coach once mentioned to him that "'as a football player, you'd make a great actor.' And we started doing theater," he told Newsday in 2013.

Dennehy also played football at Columbia University, spent time in the U.S. Marine Corps — though he would backtrack on a story he related about serving in Vietnam — and attended Yale as a graduate student. Early on, he honed his acting chops in regional theater, supporting himself as a meat truck driver, a Merrill Lynch stockbroker and a bartender.

He scored a big break when he was cast in David Rabe's off-Broadway Vietnam War play Streamers and won acclaim. 

After guest-starring roles on shows including KojakPolice Woman and M*A*S*H, Dennehy fittingly made his movie debut in the Burt Reynolds comedy Semi-Tough (1977), playing a football player who dangles a woman over the ledge of a terrace. 

In 1978, he appeared with Stallone in F.I.S.T. and as a San Francisco cop in Foul Play, then was given a shot at starring on his own TV series. He portrayed a hotel house detective on the 1979 CBS crime drama Big Shamus, Little Shamus, but it lasted just two episodes.

After recurring as D.A. Jake Dunham on ABC's Dynasty, Dennehy played a father and fire captain on ABC's Star of the Family, but it was axed after 10 episodes in 1982. (His other short-lived shows included 1994's Birdland, on which he played a hospital chief of psychiatry, and 2001's The Fighting Fitzgerald — he was a retired firefighter in the one.)

Dennehy had more television success in one-offs, collecting five Emmy nominations for his work in telefilms and miniseries. He received one for Showtime's filmed version of Death of a Salesman and one in 1992 for starring as serial killer John Wayne Gacy in Fox's To Catch a Killer

He also delivered a fiery portrayal of college basketball coach Bobby Knight in the 2002 ESPN movie A Season on the Brink, based on the John Feinstein book.

More recently, Dennehy had recurring roles as an Irish mob boss on Public Morals, a sheriff on Hap and Leonard and a KGB agent on The Blacklist.

His expansive résumé also included the films Never Cry Wolf (1983), Legal Eagles (1986), The Belly of an Architect (1987) — one of his favorite films — Return to Snowy River (1988), Gladiator (1992), The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1995), Romeo + Juliet (1996), She Hate Me (2004), Righteous Kill (2008), The Next Three Days (2010), Knight of Cups (2015), The Seagull (2018) and Driveways (2019).

Survivors include his second wife, a costume designer he wed in 1989; his children Elizabeth, Kathleen, Dierdre, Cormac and Sarah; and grandchildren Jack, William, Clementine, Hannah, Molly, Olivia and Lucy. -TMZ

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The famous legendary Bollywood actor, Rishi Kapoor was dies at 67 because of cancer. :( 

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https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/entertainment/2020/04/30/039bobby039-actor-rishi-kapoor-dies-at-67

https://www.bharian.com.my/hiburan/selebriti/2020/04/683436/rishi-kapoor-meninggal-dunia

Thanks for making nice Hindi movies!


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Actually, I thought this guy died a long time ago.

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Ken Osmond, best known for his role as the troublemaker Eddie Haskell on the television comedy “Leave It to Beaver,” died on Monday morning. He was 76.

Sources tell Variety Osmond died at his Los Angeles home surrounded by family members. The cause of death is unknown.

“He was an incredibly kind and wonderful father,” Osmond’s son Eric said in a statement. “He had his family gathered around him when he passed. He was loved and will be very missed.”

Henry Lane, Osmond’s former partner at the Los Angeles Police Department, also confirmed the news and said he had suffered from respiratory issues.

After “Leave It to Beaver” finished its run in 1963, Osmond returned for the telefilm “Still the Beaver” in 1983 and for the revival series “The New Leave It to Beaver.” His sons on the series were played by his real-life sons Eric and Christian. He returned to the role a final time in 1997’s feature film “Leave It to Beaver.”

Osmond, a native of Glendale, Calif., began his career as a child actor with his first speaking part at age 9 in the film “So Big,” starring Jane Wyman and Sterling Hayden, followed by “Good Morning, Miss Dove” and “Everything but the Truth.” He also guest-starred on television series, including “Lassie,” “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet,” “Wagon Train,” “Fury”  and “The Loretta Young Show.”

 

 

 

In 1957, Osmond auditioned for the Eddie Haskell role, which was originally intended to be a guest appearance, but those involved with the show were so impressed with Osmond’s portrayal that the character became a key component of the series throughout its six-season run of 234 episodes.

Osmond portrayed Haskell as sycophantic to grownups while making fun of them behind their backs. He was a high school friend of Wally Cleaver, older brother of Theodore “the Beaver” Cleaver, and constantly trying to entice his friends into activities that would get them into trouble.  During the final years of the show, Osmond was in the U.S. Army Reserve.

When the series ended, Osmond continued working as an actor, appearing on “Petticoat Junction,” “The Munsters” and a return appearance on “Lassie.” He appeared in feature films “C’mon, Let’s Live a Little” and “With Six You Get Eggroll,” but found himself typecast as Eddie Haskell.

Osmond joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 1970 and grew a mustache to be less recognizable. In 1980, Osmond was shot in a chase with a suspected car thief, though he was saved by his bulletproof vest. He was put on disability and retired from the force in 1988.

Osmond filed a class-action lawsuit in 2007 against the Screen Actors Guild, asserting that SAG had over-stepped its authority in collecting foreign royalties without disclosing the collection agreements until he and Jack Klugman threatened to file suit. The action was settled in 2010.

He is survived by his wife, Sandra, and two sons, Christian and Eric.

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Over a hundred thousand victims of SARS CoV2 in the USA alone.


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Words to live by:
"Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit... But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually..." 1 Corinthians 4-11

"Do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34
"Do not judge so that you will not be judged. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you." Matthew 7:1-3

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Larry Kramer, author and pioneering activist for LGBT and HIV-related causes, dead at 84.

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Vera Lynn - the voice some said was more familiar to them than Winston Churchill during WWII England - age 103.
Film aficionados will recognize one of her signature songs, "We'll Meet Again," from the ending of Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove.

 

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Ian Holm passed away today, Friday, June 19, 2020, at age 88.

"Ian Holm, star of Lord of the Rings, Alien and Chariots of Fire, dies aged 88" - Andrew Pulver, The Guardian, June 19, 2020

"Ian Holm: a virtuoso actor of steel, sinew – and charm" - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, June 19, 2020

Recent audiences may remember him as the elderly Bilbo Baggins from the "Lord of the Rings" movies, or as science officer Ash in "Alien," or maybe even Father Cornelius from "The Fifth Element," but I'll always remember him as the proud J. Bruce Ismay in the television movie "S.O.S. Titanic" who is reduced to a mentally broken recluse:

Speaking of madness, Ian Holm was also deliciously stern fun as Dr. Wallis in "The Madness of King George":

Anybody remember "Greystoke:  The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes"?

"Razor!  Mirror!"

 

"I can't lie about your chances, but...you have my sympathies."

 

Rest In Peace, Ian Holm.

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Milton Glaser, graphic designer who created the logos for DC Comics and the iconic "I Love New York" campaign, on his 91st birthday.

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Carl Reiner, comedian, screenwriter, director, and creator of The Dick Van Dyke Show, aged 98.


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Hugh Downs, broadcaster, news anchor, and radio/televsion host, at age 99.


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THE LAST GREAT FILM COMPOSER- ENNIO MORRICONE

ROME (AP) — Oscar-winning Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and often haunting soundtracks for such classic Hollywood gangster movies as “The Untouchables” and the epic “Once Upon A Time In America,” died on Monday. He was 91.

Morricone’s longtime lawyer and friend, Giorgio Assumma, said the Maestro, as he was known, died in a Rome hospital of complications following a recent fall in which he broke a leg.

During a career that spanned decades and earned him an Oscar for lifetime achievement in 2007, Morricone collaborated with some of Hollywood’s and Italy’s top directors, including on “The Untouchables” by Brian de Palma, “The Hateful Eight” by Quentin Tarantino and “The Battle of Algiers” by Gillo Pontecorvo.

The Tarantino film would win him the Oscar for best original score in 2016. In accepting that award, Morricone told the audience at the ceremony: “There is no great music without a great film that inspires it.”

In total, he produced more than 400 original scores for feature films.

His iconic so-called Spaghetti Western movies saw him work closely with the late Italian film director Sergio Leone.

Morricone was credited with nothing less than reinventing music for Western movies through his partnership with Sergio Leone, a former classmate. Their partnership included the “Dollars” trilogy starring Clint Eastwood as a quick-shooting, lonesome gunman: “A Fistful of Dollars” in 1964, “For a Few Dollars More” in 1965 and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” a year later.

Morricone was celebrated for crafting just a few notes, like those played on a harmonica in Leone’s 1984 movie “Once Upon A Time in America,” which would instantly become the film’s motif.

The movie is a saga of Jewish gangsters in New York that explores themes of friendship, lost love and the passing of time, starring Robert De Niro and James Wood. It is considered by some to be Leone’s masterpiece, thanks in part to Morricone’s evocative score, including a lush section played on string instuments.

“Inspiration does not exist,” Morricone said in a 2004 interview with The Associated Press. “What exists is an idea, a minimal idea that the composer develops at the desk, and that small idea becomes something important.”

In a later interview, with Italian state TV, Morricone cited “study, discipline and curiosity” as the keys to his creative genius. “Writing music, like all creative arts, comes from a long path” along life’s experiences, he said.

In his late 80s, Morricone provided the score for “The Hateful Eight,” Tarantino’s 2015 70-mm epic and the first time in decades that he had composed new music for a Western. It was also the first time Tarantino had used an original score.

In accepting Morricone’s Golden Globe for the music in his place, Tarantino called him his favorite composer.

“When I say ‘favorite composer,’ I don’t mean movie composer. ... I’m talking about Mozart, I’m talking about Beethoven, I’m talking about Schubert,” Tarantino said.

Italy’s head of state, President Sergio Mattarella, in a condolence message to the composer’s family, wrote: “Both a refined and popular musician, he left a deep footprint on the musical history of the second half of the 1900s.”

Morricone’s sound tracks, Mattarella said, “contributed greatly to spreading and reinforcing the prestige of Italy in the world.”

Morricone’s style was sparse, made of memorable tunes and unusual instruments and arrangements, and often stirred deep emotions. His music punctuated the long silences typical of the Spaghetti Westerns, with the characters locked in close-ups, staring at each other and waiting for their next moves. The coyote howl, harmonicas and eerie whistling of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” became Morricone’s trademark and one of the most easily recognizable soundtracks in cinema.

Minutes before handing Morricone the Oscar for lifetime achievement in 2007, Eastwood recalled hearing for the first time the score of “A Fistful of Dollars” and thinking: “What actor wouldn’t want to ride into town with that kind of music playing behind him?”

It was a night to remember for Morricone, who had been nominated for Oscars five times (“The Hateful Eight” was his sixth) but until then had never won.

Born in Rome on Nov. 10, 1928, Morricone was the oldest of the five children. His father was a trumpet player.

After studying trumpet and composition at the Conservatory of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in the Italian capital, he started working as a trumpeter and then as an arranger for record companies.

“I started working on very easy kinds of music pieces for the radio, for television and then for the theater, and then little by little I started to compose the film scores,” he told the AP in 2016.

In 1961 he wrote his first score for a movie, a bittersweet comedy set in the final moments of Fascism called “Il Federale” (known in English as “The Fascist”). That decade also saw Morricone cooperate with Pontecorvo, first on “The Battle of Algiers,” the black-and-white classic depicting the Algerian uprising against the French; and later on “Queimada,” a tale of colonialism starring Marlon Brando.

Morricone received his first Oscar nomination for original score with “Days Of Heaven,” a 1978 movie by U.S. director Terence Malick. Beside “The Hateful Eight,” the others were for “The Mission” (1986), “The Untouchables” (1987), “Bugsy” (1991) and “Malena” (2000).

Shortly before his lifetime Oscar, Morricone joked that he would have been happy without the coveted statuette, saying “I would have remained in the company of illustrious non-winners.”

But he also made no secret that he thought “The Mission,” with its memorably sweet theme of “Gabriel’s Oboe,” deserved the Academy Award. That year, he lost to Herbie Hancock’s “Round Midnight.”

Another renowned maestro, Riccardo Muti, cited his “friendship and admiration″ for Morricone. Muti on Monday recalled that when he directed the composer’s piece “Voci dal Silenzio” (Voices from the Silence” ) the work elicited “true emotion” from the audience, both in Chicago, where Muti directs the symphony orchestra, as well as during a performance in Ravenna, Italy.

Muti called Morricone an “extraordinary” composer both for films and in classical music.

Asked by Italian state TV a few years ago if there was one director he would have liked to have worked with but didn’t, Morricone said Stanley Kubrick had asked him to work on “Clockwork Orange.” But that collaboration didn’t happen because of a commitment to Leone, Morricone recalled.

Morricone is survived by his wife Maria Travia, whom he cited when accepting his 2016 Oscar. Married in 1956, the couple had four children, Marco, Alessandra, Andrea and Giovanni.

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Biographical material for this report was contributed by former AP correspondent Alessandra Rizzo.

 

 

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Mary Kay Letourneau, American schoolteacher convicted of the statutory rape of one of her students (whom she would later marry and have children with), age 58.


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"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level." - Quentin Crisp
"I believe in talking behind peoples' backs. That way, they hear it more than once." - Fran Lebowitz
"Ordinary morality is for ordinary people." - Aleister Crowley
"No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.' " - Dani Bunten Berry

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Nick Cordero, Canadian musical theatre star and Tony-nominated actor (Bullets Over Broadway), age 41.


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GOOD TEXTURES ARE MADE, NOT FOUND.
(I get tired of saying that in BAT threads.)

"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level." - Quentin Crisp
"I believe in talking behind peoples' backs. That way, they hear it more than once." - Fran Lebowitz
"Ordinary morality is for ordinary people." - Aleister Crowley
"No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.' " - Dani Bunten Berry

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Grant Imahara, the engineer and robot enthusiast of Discovery's masterpiece Mythbusters, has suddenly died at the age of 49 from a brain aneurysm.

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"If you try to please everybody, you often times end up pleasing nobody, especially yourself. When somebody offers to do a favor for free, like making a mod for SimCity 4, you shouldn't be overly critical of something generously given to you. In other words, you shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth." - Twilight Sparkle after playing SimCity

"Being a mayor or a content creator for SimCity 4 is a heavy responsibility, Patrick. Each city and each custom content is like a child, and must be treated as such." - SpongeBob Squarepants after playing SimCity

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." - Frank Zappa

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

Welcome to Fairview, my new city journal *:D

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The Japanese entertainment world has been stunned by news that young actor Miura Haruma took his own life yesterday, July 18th, 2020.  He was only 30 years old, with most of his life potentially still ahead of him.  It is not known what had been troubling the popular, always-smiling actor, and the contents of his apparent suicide note has not been revealed publicly.  Devastating news for his family and friends.

Though more recently seen internationally as the lead in the "Attack on Titan" live-action movies, among fans Miura is better known from the movies "Koizora," "Kimi ni Todoke," and "Eien no Zero," and especially from his television work in series like "Gokusen," " Bloody Monday," "Samurai High School," and "Last Cinderella."  I admit, I am a fan, and actually posted about many of these very shows here on Simtropolis in topics like "Your Favorite Movies."

First love in "Koizora":

Dream boyfriend in "Kimi ni Todoke":

The dramatic farewell on the overpass in "Eien no Zero," aka "The Eternal Zero", is going to be even more tearful now:

 

 

Fellow idol actor Shirota Yuu's scheduled live performance on the TBS music special "Ongaku no Hi 2020" unexpectedly became a heartbreaking live television farewell tribute to his co-star and friend as the news broke just before he went on stage:

 

Rest In Peace, Miura Haruma.

 

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Olivia de Havilland, two-time Academy Award winning actress and last surviving star of 1939's Gone With The Wind, at age 104.


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GOOD TEXTURES ARE MADE, NOT FOUND.
(I get tired of saying that in BAT threads.)

"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level." - Quentin Crisp
"I believe in talking behind peoples' backs. That way, they hear it more than once." - Fran Lebowitz
"Ordinary morality is for ordinary people." - Aleister Crowley
"No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.' " - Dani Bunten Berry

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RIP Peter Green, Founding member of Fleetwood Mac passed away in his sleep, aged 73.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53541579

 

"Can't help about the shape I'm in
I can't sing, I aint pretty and my legs are thin
But don't ask me what I think of you
I might not give the answer that you want me to"

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