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RIP Robert Altman |
| November 21st, 2006 under Obits. [ Comments: none ]
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Robert Altman, the caustic and irreverent satirist behind "M-A-S-H," "Nashville" and "The Player" who made a career out of bucking Hollywood management and story conventions, died at a Los Angeles Hospital, his Sandcastle 5 Productions Company said Tuesday. He was 81. The director died Monday night, Joshua Astrachan, a producer at Altman’s Sandcastle 5 Productions in New York City, told The Associated Press. The cause of death wasn’t disclosed. A news release was expected later in the day, Astrachan said.
Access Hollywood
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RIP Jack Palance |
| November 10th, 2006 under Obits. [ Comments: none ]
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 Jack Palance, the craggy-faced menace in "Shane," "Sudden Fear" and other films who turned successfully to comedy in his 70s with his Oscar-winning self-parody in "City Slickers," died Friday. Palance died of natural causes at his home in Montecito, Calif., surrounded by family, said spokesman Dick Guttman. He was 87. When Palance accepted his Oscar for best supporting actor he delighted viewers of the 1992 Academy Awards by dropping to the stage and performing one-armed push-ups to demonstrate his physical prowess. "That’s nothing, really," he said slyly. "As far as two-handed push-ups, you can do that all night, and it doesn’t make a difference whether she’s there or not." That year’s Oscar host, Billy Crystal, turned the moment into a running joke, making increasingly outlandish remarks about Palance’s accomplishments throughout the show. It was a magic moment that epitomized the actor’s 40 years in films. Always the iconoclast, Palance had scorned most of his movie roles. "Most of the stuff I do is garbage," he once told a reporter, adding that most of the directors he worked with were incompetent, too. "Most of them shouldn’t even be directing traffic," he said. Movie audiences, though, were electrified by the actor’s chiseled face, hulking presence and the calm, low voice that made his screen presence all the more intimidating. His film debut came in 1950, playing a murderer named Blackie in "Panic in the Streets." After a war picture, "Halls of Montezuma," he portrayed the ardent lover who stalks the terrified Joan Crawford in 1952’s "Sudden Fear." The role earned him his first Academy Award nomination for supporting actor. The following year brought his second nomination when he portrayed Jack Wilson, the swaggering gunslinger who bullies peace-loving Alan Ladd into a barroom duel in the Western classic "Shane." That role cemented Palance’s reputation as Hollywood’s favorite menace, and he went on to appear in such films as "Arrowhead" (as a renegade Apache), "Man in the Attic" (as Jack the Ripper), "Sign of the Pagan" (as Attila the Hun) and "The Silver Chalice" (as a fictional challenger to Jesus). Other prominent films included "Kiss of Fire," "The Big Knife," "I Died a Thousand Deaths," "Attack!" "The Lonely Man" and "House of Numbers."
The year that he won the Oscar for City Slickers was my favorite Oscar because the schtick between him and Billy Crystal was so brilliant it made the show. He was a true class act and he will be missed. Here is a push-up for you sir!
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RIP 60 Minutes’ Ed Bradley |
| November 9th, 2006 under Obits. [ Comments: none ]
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 Ed Bradley, the award-winning CBS newsman who has been a correspondent for "60 Minutes" since 1981, died Thursday. He was 65. Bradley died of leukemia at Mount Sinai, CBS News announced. Bradley’s consummate skills as a broadcast journalist and his distinctive body of work were recognized with numerous awards, including 19 Emmys, the latest for a segment that reported the reopening of the 50-year-old racial murder case of Emmett Till. He was honored with the Lifetime Achievement award from the National Association of Black Journalists. Three of his Emmys came at the 2003 awards: a lifetime achievement Emmy; one for a 2002 "60 Minutes" report on brain cancer patients and for a "60 Minutes II" report about sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. Bradley grew up in a tough section of Philadelphia, where he once recalled that his parents worked 20-hour days at two jobs apiece. "I was told, `You can be anything you want, kid,’" he once told an interviewer. "When you hear that often enough, you believe it." After graduating from Cheney State College, he launched his career as a DJ and news reporter for a Philadelphia radio station in 1963, moving to New York’s WCBS radio four years later. He joined CBS News as a stringer in the Paris bureau in 1971, transferring a year later to the Saigon bureau during the Vietnam War; he was wounded while on assignment in Cambodia. Bradley moved to the Washington bureau in June 1974, 14 months after he was named a CBS News correspondent.
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RIP Pat McGee Band’s drummer Chris Williams |
| November 2nd, 2006 under Obits. [ Comments: 1 ]
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A Very Sad Day
Current mood: Shock, Sadness, Grief, Meltdown
We are deeply saddened to tell you that our drummer, friend and brother Chris Williams passed away peacefully in his home on October 28, 2006. Chris was a founding member of Pat McGee Band, a source of exuberant drumming and countless laughs. Words cannot convey how much we will miss him.
This is a painful time for all of us who love Chris so please forgive this brief message–we will give Chris the words he deserves when we gather our thoughts…
Chris’ family has requested a private Memorial Service, but if you wish to send condolences to Chris’s family please do so on our message board or comment on our MySpace page.
Pat, Chardy, Brian, Jonathan and Crix
We will update you about any changes to our calendar as soon as we know what is happening.
The Pat McGee Band via MySpace
I know many of you have heard of them, but they are an amazing bad. So sad.
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Very sad update on Rev. Run’s baby |
| September 26th, 2006 under Obits. [ Comments: none ]
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A rapper’s wife gave birth Thursday, but the scene quickly turned to tragedy after their newborn girl was pronounced dead. Rev Run, a.k.a. Joseph Simmons, shocked fans last year when he announced that his wife Justine was pregnant on his MTV reality show "Rev’s House." Justine’s pregnancy was the cliffhanger on the MTV show last season. It generated intense interest among viewers who have been anxiously following the pregnancy and awaiting the birth. Simmons, a member of the legendary rap group Run DMC, was at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood New Jersey Tuesday for the birth of his child. Doctors delivered the baby via c-section, revealing a cruel twist of fate — the baby was born with her organs outside the body. The newborn died a short time later. TMZ has learned that MTV cameras were inside the hospital at the time of the birth, though we do not know if they were in the delivery room.
Answer this…
This is so sad and to think they we will have to re-live this over and over on the show.
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