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Ian Holm, star of Lord of the Rings, Alien and Chariots of Fire, dies aged 88

 

Ian Holm, the versatile actor who played everything from androids to hobbits via Harold Pinter and King Lear, has died in London aged 88, his agent confirmed to the Guardian.

 

“It is with great sadness that the actor Sir Ian Holm CBE passed away this morning at the age of 88,” they said. “He died peacefully in hospital, with his family and carer,” adding that his illness was Parkinson’s related. “Charming, kind and ferociously talented, we will miss him hugely.”

 

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Jean Kennedy Smith, last surviving sibling of JFK, dies at 92

Jean Kennedy Smith, a former diplomat and the last surviving sibling of President John F. Kennedy, died Wednesday in New York, her daughter, Kym Smith, told CNN. She was 92.

 

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Joel Schumacher, director of 'St. Elmo's Fire,' dies at 80

 Joel Schumacher, the journeyman director who dressed New York department store windows before shepherding the Brat Pack to the big screen in “St. Elmo's Fire” and steering the Batman franchise into its most baroque territory in “Batman Forever” and “Batman & Robin,” has died. He was 80.

 

A representative for Schumacher said the filmmaker died Monday in New York after a yearlong battle with cancer.

 

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55 minutes ago, Hedge said:

 

 

 

Guess he should have lived in Georgia instead of Tennessee...

 

Seriously, though, RIP to a great musician.

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RIP: Ennio Morricone, Prolific Italian Soundtrack Composer, Dies at 91. “Morricone’s ripe, pulsating sounds enriched [Sergio] Leone’s low-budget shoot-’em-ups A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) — those three starred Eastwood — Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and Duck, You Sucker [aka A Fistful of Dynamite] (1971)…Morricone won his Oscar for his work on Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight (2015)

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I saw this this morning, the last thing Charlie Daniels wrote on his blog........ Excuse me, I think I got something in my eye.... 

 

My Beautiful America

Have you ever spent the late afternoon,
Watching the purple shadows deepen in the Arizona desert?
Or seen a herd of Elk plow their way
Through waist-deep snow on a cold Colorado dawn?
Did you ever see the sun go down in Hawaii
Or seen the stormy waves break over the rockbound coast of Maine
Or have you ever see an eagle fly up out of the mists of Alaska
Or a big October moon hanging full over the still Dakota badlands?

Have you ever tasted the gumbo in New Orleans, barbecue in Carolina
Or the chicken wings in Buffalo?
Have you ever had Brunswick stew in Macon, or cornbread in Birmingham?
Or briskets slow cook over hill country mesquite wood?

Did you ever drink the water from a gurgling branch in Utah,
Or stand on the mountain above El Paso Del Norte
And see the lights twinkling clear over into Mexico
Did you ever jingle horses in the pre-dawn stillness of a perfect Texas day
And watch their shod hooves kicking up sparks on the volcanic rock?

Or tended a trotline on a foggy Carolina morning,
Or heard the distant love song of a lovesick whippoorwill
On a pristine Tennessee late night?
Have you seen the faces on Mount Rushmore or stood at the Vietnam monument?

Have you ever crossed the mighty Mississippi,
Or been to the Daddy of ‘Em All in Cheyenne, Wyoming
Or seen the mighty Vols run out on the football field on a chilly autumn afternoon?

Did you ever see the Chicago skyline from Lakeshore Drive at night
Or the New England foliage in the fall,
Or the summer beauty of the Shenandoah Valley,
Or Indiana covered with new snow?

Did you ever seen a herd of wild horses running free
Across the empty spaces of Nevada?
Or caught a walleyed pike out of a cold Wisconsin stream,
Or marveled at the tall ships docked in the harbor at Baltimore?

Did you ever see the early morning dew sparkling on the bluegrass,
Or the wind stir the wheat fields on a hot Kansas afternoon
Or driven the lonely stretches of old Route 66
Have you ever heard the church bells peal their call to worship
On an early Sunday, in some small town in the Deep South?

Or passed through the Redwood Forest just as the sun was going down
Have you ever been to Boise or Baxley or Beaufort or Billings?
Have you ever passed through Sanford or Suffolk or San Angelo
Have you ever seen the falls at Niagara
The Ice Palace in Saint Paul
Or the Gateway to the West?

This then is America!
The land God blesses with everything
And no Eiffel Tower: no Taj Mahal,
No Alps, No Andes
No native hut, nor Royal Palace -
Can rival her awesome beauty,
Her diverse population, her monolithic majesty.
America the Free
America the mighty
America the beautiful

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
And to the republic for which it stands
One nation under God, indivisible
with liberty and justice for all.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops, and for the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

— Charlie Daniels

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Good bye to a great hero 

 

NYC Rabbi 'Romi' Cohn, a Holocaust survivor, dies of coronavirus complications at 91

By Ray Sanchez, CNN

 

Updated 3:00 PM ET, Thu March 26, 2020

 
Rabbi "Romi" Cohn in February 2015.
 
Rabbi "Romi" Cohn in February 2015.

(CNN)New York City Rabbi Avraham Hakohen "Romi" Cohn, who survived the Holocaust and saved dozens of families from the genocide, has died of complications from coronavirus, a family member said Thursday. He was 91.

Cohn, who led the House of Representatives in opening prayer in January for the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and International Holocaust Remembrance Day, died on Tuesday after being hospitalized last Friday, according to his sister-in-law, Judy Geld, and great nephew, Shulem Geldzahler.
Geldzahler said Cohn's death certificate indicates he died of acute respiratory distress syndrome caused by pneumonia and Covid-19. Geldzahler said Cohn was tested for coronavirus but he was not aware of the result.
Rep. Max Rose, who represents the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn where Cohn served, recalled the rabbi's "life of service" via Twitter on Tuesday, posting video of Cohn's prayer before the House in January.
 
 
"Rabbi Cohn lived an incredible life of service, helping 56 families escape Nazi tyranny," Rose wrote.
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1 minute ago, BillStime said:
 

 

 

 

Wrong thread.

 

 

PS: if you want to be considered an "essential worker" than you need to take the same risk as your checkout girl at WalMart.

 

 

 

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10 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Wrong thread.

 

 

PS: if you want to be considered an "essential worker" than you need to take the same risk as your checkout girl at WalMart.

 

 

 


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