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Actor Geoffrey Deuel, best known for portraying the outlaw Billy the Kid in the 1970 film Chisum has died, age 81. Deuel was the younger brother of the late actor Peter Duel.

https://deadline.com/2024/12/geoffrey-deuel-dies-chisum-actor-billy-the-kid-1236242554/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/geoffrey-deuel-dead-chisum-billy-the-kid-1236094156/

https://www.thewrap.com/geoffrey-deuel-chisum-young-and-the-restless-actor-dies/

 

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Bradley Whitford has shared his thoughts on Matthew Perry's passing, along with a Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip-era video of the two of them on his Instagram.  https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzE2

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News is breaking that Tina Turner has died at 83. Will update with links. First update: Will post later as more information becomes available. R.I.P. Ms. Turner! https://news.sky.com/story/t

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On 12/26/2024 at 12:20 AM, Notabug said:

The character played by Michael Gross, Bill Matix, most likely murdered his wife and one of her coworkers in a research lab at the hospital where I did my OB/GYN residency.  I left for the day, walking right past the lab, maybe half an hour before the bodies were found.  A very freaky time, it happened right about this time of year, in the week between Christmas and New Year's.

OMG how scary!  What was also scary is how Mike Lee was so loving to his family and such a psychopath.  

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18 hours ago, MissAlmond said:

Actor Geoffrey Deuel, best known for portraying the outlaw Billy the Kid in the 1970 film Chisum has died, age 81. Deuel was the younger brother of the late actor Peter Duel.

https://deadline.com/2024/12/geoffrey-deuel-dies-chisum-actor-billy-the-kid-1236242554/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/geoffrey-deuel-dead-chisum-billy-the-kid-1236094156/

https://www.thewrap.com/geoffrey-deuel-chisum-young-and-the-restless-actor-dies/

 

Wow, he really looked like his brother.

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MissAlmond

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Sports broadcaster Greg Gumbel has died, age 78.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/greg-gumbel-dies-cbs-sports-anchor/

https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/43185502/sports-broadcaster-greg-gumbel-78-dies-cancer

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/greg-gumbel-dead-sportscaster-1236094721/

https://deadline.com/2024/12/greg-gumbel-dies-cbs-sports-anchor-78-1236243047/

https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3534857/rip-greg-gumbel-the-man-who-helped-make-selection-sunday-the-event-that-it-is-today

 

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MissAlmond

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Actor Olivia Hussey best known from playing Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's film Romeo and Juliet and Mary in his 1977 miniseries Jesus of Nazareth has died, age 73.

https://deadline.com/2024/12/olivia-hussey-dead-romeo-and-juliet-actress-1236243102/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/olivia-hussey-dead-romeo-and-juliet-1236094870/

https://variety.com/2024/film/obituaries-people-news/olivia-hussey-dead-romeo-and-juliet-black-christmas-1236261093/

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Notabug

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8 minutes ago, MissAlmond said:

Actor Olivia Hussey best known from playing Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's film Romeo and Juliet and Mary in his 1977 miniseries Jesus of Nazareth has died, age 73.

https://deadline.com/2024/12/olivia-hussey-dead-romeo-and-juliet-actress-1236243102/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/olivia-hussey-dead-romeo-and-juliet-1236094870/

https://variety.com/2024/film/obituaries-people-news/olivia-hussey-dead-romeo-and-juliet-black-christmas-1236261093/

Hussey was also Dean Martin Jr's first wife and mother of his son.

Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet was quite controversial in its day due to the amount of nudity.  Hussey and Len Whiting, who played Romeo, later sued Zeffirelli's estate for damages claiming that they suffered long-term emotional damage due to it.  I think it was ultimately dismissed.  Hussey was 15, Whiting 16 when the nude scenes were filmed; so it would've never happened today.

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Spartan Girl

Spartan Girl

Olivia was one of the greats. Her Juliet was the best one in film, hands down. No one could ever compare. I hate that the role also caused her such emotional damage concerning the way Zeffirelli shot that scene, but I hope she found peace despite the outcome of the lawsuit.

RIP to the girl on the balcony.

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Deep in the feels over Greg Gumbel, who was one of the best in-studio hosts ever (go find the clip of Charles Barkley telling the story of how, as a young player, he used to wash his uniform by showering in it…Greg is all of us).  And he called a great Chiefs game every once in awhile.

@Spartan Girl you’re 100% on Olivia-as-Juliet.  All the guys in my 9th grade class were in love with her; all the girls wanted to be her (as in: kissing Leonard Whiting, the perfect Romeo).  

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Spartan Girl

Spartan Girl

8 hours ago, voiceover said:

@Spartan Girl you’re 100% on Olivia-as-Juliet.  All the guys in my 9th grade class were in love with her; all the girls wanted to be her (as in: kissing Leonard Whiting, the perfect Romeo).  

When I first saw it in my freshman class, everyone was blown away by how young she was. We all really thought she was 13/14 like in the play (she was 17). And of course, they all reacted how you’d expect during the love scene, which makes me wince knowing what we know now.

Speaking of Leonard Whiting…

 

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Regardless of how Zefferilli pressed forth for her to show more flesh than she was comfortable with (which does deserve the condemnation,etc.), I hope Miss Hussey was able to take  comfort that in her multifaceted portrayal of Juliet that she was able to get so many viewers of all ages empathize if not identify with this doomed teen couple's struggle and angst despite the costumes and late Elizabethan dialect  Moreover, her performance opened people's eyes to WHY Shakespeare's plays and sonnets have been classic literature for centuries instead of just dismissing them as boring antiques!

I hope her family was supportive of her in her twilight. RIP, Miss Hussey.

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14 hours ago, voiceover said:

Deep in the feels over Greg Gumbel, who was one of the best in-studio hosts ever

And here's what, IINM, may have been his first studio-host gig on CBS-- that of the last season of what was then The Prudential College Football Report (1989); I say that because it would be the last season for CBS' halftime studio college gridiron coverage under that name (Jim Nantz had four previous seasons [1985-88] under that name, the first thing he ever did for CBS Sports)...

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Bastet

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I can't stand the play Romeo and Juliet, so I've never liked any of the few film or stage versions I've tried, so that movie (which I did see, once) is not what I associate Olivia Hussey with -- to me, she's the OG Final Girl from Black Christmas. 

And Cicily in the 1978 version of The Cat and the Canary.  It's not the good movie I thought it was as a kid, but I still watch it for nostalgia and because I like the cast.  I like her and Honor Blackman together.

I have both on DVD, so maybe I'll have a little tribute marathon tonight.

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Zella

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1 hour ago, Dimity said:

Same for me.  I was always glad I avoided Romeo and Juliet in high school.  We "did" a different play every year and I loved every one of them (big fan, Will)  but knew I'd hate R&J. 

Yeah I read it for high school, college, grad school, and then grad school again as a TA in a Shakespeare class, and I just never really cared for it much beyond Mercutio. Love pretty much every other Shakespeare play I read (except for Antony and Cleopatra), but with each reread, my belief that he thought these people were idiots strengthened. Actually that was my issue with Antony and Cleopatra, too, now that I think about it. LOL 

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Actress Dayle Haddon dies from carbon monoxide poisoning.  And also found at her home was Walter Blucas, father of actor Marc Blucas. He is in the hospital in critical condition. 

I mainly remember Haddon as Jane in the 1978 Disney film 'The World's Greatest Athlete' (I had a crush on Jan Michael Vincent and saw the movie multiple times at the theater). She did a lot of TV in the 70s.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/28/entertainment/dayle-haddon-death/index.html 

 

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shapeshifter

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5 hours ago, BooksRule said:

Actress Dayle Haddon dies from carbon monoxide poisoning.  And also found at her home was Walter Blucas, father of actor Marc Blucas. He is in the hospital in critical condition. 

I mainly remember Haddon as Jane in the 1978 Disney film 'The World's Greatest Athlete' (I had a crush on Jan Michael Vincent and saw the movie multiple times at the theater). She did a lot of TV in the 70s.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/28/entertainment/dayle-haddon-death/index.html 

 

“… investigation ‘indicates a faulty flue and exhaust pipe on a gas heating system caused the carbon monoxide leak’” (cnn.com/2024/12/28/entertainment/dayle-haddon-death/index.html).
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ProudMary

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This comprehensive In Memorium video (22:51) has short, simple narration over soft piano music. Two photos of each individual are shown, the first during their heyday, the second a more recent photo. Obviously, it's longer than the average IM video, but it seems to cover many more talented people than some others. I think it's well done.

Also, as those remembered here are shown in chronological order by the date of their death, David Soul is the first person mentioned.

 

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I also remember Olivia Hussey as Richard Thomas' wife in the 1990 TV miniseries adaptation of Stephen King's IT. That final scene where she's been in a catatonic state by Pennywise and Thomas breaks her out of it by putting her on his  bike and talking her back. I thought that must have been hard to be sitting sideways on the front of a speeding bike down a hill while keeping a completely blank expression! Also like the idea of John Boy getting Juliet!

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19 hours ago, Bastet said:

I can't stand the play Romeo and Juliet,

My seventh grade English teacher told us that other English teachers would be introducing their students to Shakespeare using Romeo and Juliet, but she hated that story, so she introduced Shakespeare by teaching Julius Ceasar instead.

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12 hours ago, Zella said:

Yeah I read it for high school, college, grad school, and then grad school again as a TA in a Shakespeare class, and I just never really cared for it much beyond Mercutio. Love pretty much every other Shakespeare play I read (except for Antony and Cleopatra), but with each reread, my belief that he thought these people were idiots strengthened. Actually that was my issue with Antony and Cleopatra, too, now that I think about it. LOL 

My theory is that everyone's favorite Shakespeare plays are the first ones they encounter that aren't Romeo and Juliet.  We read it freshman year, but in sophomore year we read Julius Caesar which is one of my favorites.  I remember I read somewhere that R&J was Shakespeare's parody of the trite love stories of his era.  In a normal story their ruse would have worked and Romeo and Juliet would have escaped and lived happily ever after, so Shakespeare decided to play with the formula as it were.

On 12/28/2024 at 5:58 AM, Spartan Girl said:

When I first saw it in my freshman class, everyone was blown away by how young she was. We all really thought she was 13/14 like in the play (she was 17). And of course, they all reacted how you’d expect during the love scene, which makes me wince knowing what we know now.

In my class the reaction was the same: Wow! She's really young!  But during the love scene the teacher just opened her jacket and stood in front of the screen so we didn't see anything.

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Enigma X

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I like so many other Shakespeare plays better, but honestly, I didn't hate Romeo and Juliet—just not in my top tier. I also didn't hate the movie. I just hated, as an English Lit major in the '00s, that so many professors showed it ad nauseum. In fact, it was lit classes, not film classes. In many cases, it didn't need to be shown at all.

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20 hours ago, Zella said:

I've always interpreted it through the lens of "Look at these dumbasses" rather than a sincere love story. Mercutio is where it's at in that play.  LOLOL 

Which is why I adore the Baz Luhrmann adaptation. Baz understood Shakespeare is not meant to be played straight and a bit of camp is required.

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Bastet

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52 minutes ago, CarolinaPam said:

Former President Jimmy Carter has died at age 100. 
https://www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/peanut-farmer-president-jimmy-carter-s-life-photos-n1080366

This thread is for deaths of celebrities in the entertainment industry.  Normally deaths of politicians don't have any place on this site to be discussed, but - for now, anyway - it's happening in the post-election feelings thread, starting here.

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ProudMary

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This is yet another good video tribute to some of those who died in 2024 from CBS Sunday Morning. (21:33) There are several of historical relevance who have not been included elsewhere along with other interesting groupings and/or connections. It's not just a listing; it tells a story. Well done.

 

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I'm also not a fan of Romeo and Juliet. The quickness of meeting to marriage doesn't work for me. It's the reason Jack and Rose didn't work for me in Titanic. I get their are some scenerios, where a couple could fall in love real quickly if they had gone through a lot in a short amount of time. But most of the time it's just too fast. Romeo and Juliet taking the cake by meeting, then marrying because their suddenly in love. Romeo was waxing poetry about another girl earlier.  That's before getting into their families hate each other to the point of fighting in the streets. 

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Bastet

Bastet

1 minute ago, ebk57 said:

Linda Lavin died

Dammit.  She came through our theatre in Broadway Bound.  She was a delightful person, and a real talent.

Dammit, indeed; she was one of those actors I enjoyed in everything I saw them in.  I loved her as Alice, and was always tickled to see her pop up as a guest star in something I watched.  I hadn't seen her in anything since Mom, in which she appeared twice and was delightful both times -- fantastically funny, but real (on a pretty outlandish show) -- so was very happy to see her earlier this month on No Good Deed, even though that was a smaller role with no layers.

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The news comes as a shock as Lavin has been working as recently as this month. She died unexpectedly due to complications from recently discovered lung cancer, her PR representative told Deadline.

That's tough.  But, on the other hand, so is lingering.   

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shapeshifter

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6 hours ago, ebk57 said:

Linda Lavin died

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The news comes as a shock as Lavin has been working as recently as this month, promoting her new Netflix series No Good Deed and filming the upcoming Hulu comedy series Mid-Century Modern, on which she is one of the leads. She died unexpectedly due to complications from recently discovered lung cancer, her PR representative told Deadline.

A trailblazer to the end — Linda Lavin demonstrated that it’s possible to be cut down in the prime of one’s life at 87.

The NY Times seems to not have had an obituary prepared — nor would that be expected.

AP’s is obviously a brief prequel to an obituary: apnews.com/article/linda-lavin-dies-obituary-d2fd2a9ffc3f4c078ea4d86da877d538

Linda Lavin sparkled as feminist Detective Wentworth in 5 episodes of Barney Miller before she was Alice.

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Enigma X

Enigma X

1 minute ago, Irlandesa said:

I'm kind of surprised.  Isn't it a well-known practice that newspapers have obituaries prepared for famous people so they're ready to go upon death, even if unexpected?

When I worked for Encyclopaedia Britannica, we did. It was slightly morbid. I remember we had Farah Fawcett's ready, but it was upstaged (I hate saying it like that) by Michael Jackson unexpectedly dying the same day.  I will say since EB is not a newspaper, quickly sticking in a death date until you can get to the meat of the article is easier than writing a full obituary but EB preferred doing a bit more than that back then.

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shapeshifter

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Here's a gift link for the NYT obit for Linda Lavin: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/arts/linda-lavin-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lU4.N69t.CiHe7IBW46oL&smid=url-share

I guess they're planning to update it later and thought it was better to publish what they had?
The comments sort of fill in the gaps regarding her most recent work.

ETA: Just checked, and they did add another paragraph:

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This year, Ms. Lavin appeared in three episodes of the Netflix comedy “No Good Deed.” And in 2025 she’ll be seen in leading roles in two other productions: alongside Nathan Lane and Matt Bomer in a new comedy series on Hulu, “Mid-Century Modern,” about three gay men who retire to Palm Springs, Calif.; and in the movie comedy “One Big Happy Family,” to be released in January.

 

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GHScorpiosRule

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And think I only ever saw a few scenes of Olivia Hussey’s Romeo and Juliet. I’ve only ever seen”seen” this play when mentioned on other shows and it didn’t really interest me, as much as Caesar, MacBeth, Othello, or Hamlet did. And because I skipped Freshman English, didn’t have to read it. But the one show where I saw her appearance that just tickled me was in When Boy Meets World, playing Topanga’s aunt, I think. And Topanga complained about how her aunt didn’t have any idea what it was like to be in love! And lo and behold, in walks Olivia Hussey! Who of course, was known as Juliet!

The news about Linda Lavin HURTS. I grew up watching Alice, and seeing Tommy (Phillip McKeon, late brother of Nancy from Facts of Life) grow up. In later years, she was amazing as the head of the family who orchestrated her daughter-in-law’s murder on Law & Order: Criminal Intent and hilarious as the probation officer or something or other on The Good Wife, calling Lemond Bishop as “Mr. Lemon.”

RIP to both of these great ladies.

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Notabug

Notabug

6 minutes ago, GHScorpiosRule said:

 

The news about Linda Lavin HURTS. I grew up watching Alice, and seeing Tommy (Doug McKeon, late brother of Nancy from Facts of Life) grow up. 

Tiny correction: Tommy was played by Philip McKeon who died too young of cancer.  Doug McKeon, no relation to Philip or Nancy, is still alive and was also a child actor.

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