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Mark Balelo, a locker buyer on A&E's "Storage Wars" was found dead Monday at his California workplace, Balelo Inc, the Ventura County Star reported.
No cause of death has been given. An autopsy will be conducted today, according to The Ventura County Medical Examiner's office.
Balelo first appeared on the show in August 2011. In an April 2011 interview Balelo gained national headlines after he returned a stolen copy of Action Comics #1, the origin of the "Man of Steel" himself, Superman, to its rightful owner, actor Nicolas Cage.
During his career, Balelo was also known as an energetic auctioneer. During his auctions, he often wore a Superman costume.
Balelo was arrested on Feb. 10 by Simi Valley police for methamphetamine possession and was scheduled to appear in Ventura County Superior Court on Feb.19, county records show.


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Monday, April 29, 2013
RIP Jack Shea
Jack Shea, a TV comedy director for more than four decades who directed 10 Bob Hope overseas Christmas specials and multiple episodes of such sitcoms as The Jeffersons, Silver Spoons and Sanford and Son, has died. He was 84.
Shea died Sunday of complications from Alzheimer's in Tarzana, his wife of 59 years, television screenwriter Patt Shea, said Monday.
Jack Shea served three terms as DGA president from 1997-2002 and was a member of the guild for more than a half-century. He was the recipient of the prestigious Robert Aldridge Award in 1992, which honors extraordinary service to the DGA and its membership.
Shea did his first Christmas special with Hope in December 1962 and worked with the famed comic to entertain U.S. troops in such locations as Vietnam, Korea, Guantanamo Bay, Japan, Turkey, Greece, Spain and Italy, receiving his first of two career Emmy Award nominations along the way.
Shea directed 110 episodes of The Jeffersons (he also wrote three episodes and produced 24), 91 episodes of Silver Spoons, 22 of The Ropers, 15 of Sanford and Son and 14 of Designing Women, one of which earned him his second Emmy nom in 1987.
His first directing gig came at age 27 when he was asked to fill in for an ailing director on the primetime game show Truth or Consequences.
Born Aug. 1, 1928, in New York, John Francis Shea attended Fordham University, where he graduated with a BA in history in 1950. That year, he began his TV career working as a stage manager at NBC in Burbank on Philco Playhouse, among other programs.
He made the leap to associate director on The Bob Hope Show and went on to helm episodes of The Jerry Lewis Show, Death Valley Days and The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour. His other credits include Growing Pains, The Waltons, Valerie, The Royal Family, The Golden Girls, Punky Brewster and Full House. His last credit came on the Sherman Hemsley sitcom Goode Behavior in 1997.
In 1954, Shea -- who served two years in the Air Force during the Korean War as a television and motion picture director stationed in Los Angeles to produce educational films -- helped his co-workers organize the Radio & Television Directors Guild. Within a year, they had achieved a union shop where anyone on the directorial staff could join the guild for a $50 initiation fee.
Shea was one of the few leaders of the relatively small, New York-based RTDG working in Los Angeles, and he became president of RTDG's Hollywood local in 1958, holding that post until 1960, when the RTDG and the Screen Directors Guild merged to form the DGA. He served for more than 35 years on the guild's national board.
"Jack Shea occupied a truly unique position in the history of the modern DGA," DGA president Taylor Hackford said in a statement. "As the West Coast president of the Radio & Television Directors Guild in 1960, he was at the table sitting across from Frank Capra when the two guilds representing television and theatrical directors merged to form the modern Directors Guild of America.
"Beloved by his fellow directors, the DGA membership and the DGA staff, he always had a ready smile and keen interest in everyone he encountered. Jack enjoyed life and shared it with everyone around him; as a leader, his gentle manner and the kindest of hearts will be the things we miss the most."
Shea also served the DGA as a vice president, secretary and as a member of numerous other DGA committees. As president, he tackled issues including runaway production, diversity hiring and building a unified guild led by working members.
Patt Shea is a three-time Humanitas Award winner whose credits include All in the Family, Archie Bunker's Place and Cagney & Lacey. She and her husband resided in Studio City for more than 30 years.
In addition to his wife, Shea is survived by children Shawn, Bill, Michael and John Francis III and grandchildren Amanda, Michael, Dylan, Hudson Patrick, Katie and Jackson.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Jack Shea's name can be made to Regis High School in New York. A Catholic Mass for family, friends and professional acquaintances will be held at 10 a.m. May 9 at St. Francis De Sales Catholic Church in Sherman Oaks.
SHEA, Jack
Born: 8/1/1928, New York City, New York, U.S.A.
Died: 4/28/2013, Tarzana, California, U.S.A.
Jack Shea's western - director:
Death Valley Days (TV) - 1965, 1969
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RIP Lola Cervantes
Voice actress Lola Cervantes has died in Spain. She was 91 years old. Born María Dolores Cervantes Ruescas in Spain in 1922, Cervantes career began on Madrid Radio in 1946 and did much dubbing between 1940 and 1950 in Madrid, especially in Chamartín Studio. According to the magazine Radiocinema, #242 of March 12, 1955, Lola had doubled to date: Ann Blyth, Betty Grable, Susan Hayward, Norma Shearer, Diana Durbin, Gina Lollabrigida, Silvana Pampanini, Brbara Stanwyck, Maureen O'Hara, Jean Peters, Merle Opberon and Vivien Leigh.
In 1948 she presented the program "Issues for Women" from Monday to Saturday from 7:00 to 7:30 p.m. in the evening and "Female Office" from Monday to Sunday, 7:45 to 8:00 pm. In 1961, Lolita Cervantes presented with José Manuel Martos the program "Moon Waves" Wednesday from 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Cervantes was an excellent voice actress and radio host. She also dubbed villains such as Cinderella's wicked stepmother in the Spanish dubbing of the Disney classic.
According to my files Lola has dubbed over 40 Euro-westerns. Following is an incomplete list I'm sure of her credits for these films.
CERVANTES, Lola (María Dolores Cervantes Ruescas)
Born: 1922, Spain
Died: 4/27/2013, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Lola Cervantes' Euro-weesterns:
Four Bullets for Joe - 1963 [Spanish voice of Liz Poitel]
Charge of the 7th – 1964 [Spanish voice of Priscilla Steele]
Tomb of the Gunfighter – 1964 [Spanish voice of Silvia Solar]
Ballad of a Bounty Hunter - 1965 [Spanish voice of Pearl Cristal]
A Fistful of Knuckles - 1965 [Spanish voice of María Badmayer]
The Avenger – 1966 [Spanish voice of Elisa Montes]
Ballad of a Bounty Hunter – 1966 [Spanish voice of Perla Cristal]
Django Kill – 1966 [Spanish voice of Marilù Tolo]
Dynamite Joe – 1966 [Spanish voice of Halina Zalewska]
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - 1966 [Spanish voice of Rada Rassimov]
Rebels on the Loose – 1966 [Spanish voice of Mónica Randall]
Seven Dollars to Kill – 1966 [Spanish voice of Carroll Brown]
Days of Violence – 1967 [Spanish voice of Nieves Navarro]
Face to Face - 1967 [Spanish voice of Lidia Alfonsi]
Johnny West – 1967 [Spanish voice of Dada Gallotti]
Rattler Kid – 1967 [Spanish voice of Aurora de Alba]
Seven Pistols for a Massacre – 1967 [Spanish voice of Giulia Rubini]
The Avenger – 1968 [Spanish voice of Elisa Montés]
Blood and Guns – 1968 [Spanish voice of Paloma Cela]
Dead Men Don't Count - 1968 [Spanish voice of María Martín]
Gatling Gun – 1968 [Spanish voice of Evelyn Stewart]
Killer Adios – 1968 [Spanish voice of Paola Barbara]
Rattle Kid – 1968 [Spanish voice of Aurora De Alba]
Two Crosses at Danger Pass – 1968 [Spanish voice of Dyanik Zurakowska]
A Fistful of Knuckles – 1969 [Spanish voice of María Badmajew]
Garringo – 1969 [Spanish voice of María Martín]
Gatling Gun – 1969 [Spanish voice of Evelyn Stewart]
Quinto: Fighting Proud – 1969 [Spanish voice of Sarah Ross]
The Rebels of Arizona – 1969 [Spanish voice of Julie Newman]
Arizona Returns – 1970 [Spanish voice of Rosalba Neri]
Blood and Guns – 1970 [Spanish voice of Paloma Cela]
Fistful of Lead – 1970 [Spanish voice of Linda Sini]
Rebels of Arizona – 1970 [Spanish voice of Claudia Gravy]
Run Man Run – 1970 [Spanish voice of Chelo Alonso]
They Call Me Trinity – 1970 [Spanish voice of chica rubia]
Trinity is STILL My Name – 1971 [Spanish voice of Jessica Dublin]
The Grand Duel - 1972 [Spanish voice of Elvira Cortese]
Patience Has a Limit, We Don't – 1974 [Spanish voice of Rita de Lernia]
Viva Maria! – 1976 [Spanish voice of Jeanne Moreau]
Buddy Goes West – 1981 [Spanish voice of Sara Franchetti]
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RIP Aida Bortnik
An exceptional writer, Aida wrote several of the most memorable films: "La tregua", "La historia oficial" y "Tango feroz".
The great screenwriter and writer Aida Bortnik has died, she marked a before and after in the cinematography of our country, being the author of the screenplay for "La tregua" and, above all, of "La historia official" an Oscar and Golden Globe winner she was 75. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Argentina and many of her teammates echoed her death and mourned her death.
Her career and accomplishments like Platinum Konex the best writer of the decade and was positioned as a symbol of Argentine cinema. Her legacy was marked beyond borders: she was the first Latin American writer who managed to become a permanent member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Hollywood, which is responsible for choosing the winners of the Oscars.
Besides "La tregua" nominated for Best Foreign Film Oscar in 1974 - and "La historia...", from her pen were born some of the country's film classics: Stand "Crecer de golpe" (1976), she made with Sergio Renan, "Volver" (1982) starring Héctor Alterio, Graciela Dufau and Rodolfo Ranni, "Tango Feroz, la leyenda de Tanguito" (1993) the debut of director Marcelo Piña and was seen in our country by 1,700,000 viewers.
Aida 1990s ended with two eventful films "Caballos Salvajes" (1995) and "Cenizas del paraíso" (1997), both directed by Marcelo Piña.
"She was a teacher of life, a great writer," said a pained Juan Jose Campanella.
BORTNIK, AidaBorn: 1/7/1938, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died: 4/27/2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Aida Bortnik's western – screenwriter:Old Gringo - 1989
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Friday, April 26, 2013
RIP George Jones
George Jones, whose supple Texas voice conveyed heartbreak so profound that he became perhaps the most imitated singer in country music, died Friday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville after being hospitalized with high fever and irregular blood pressure. He was 81.
Hank Williams may have set country music's mythology and Johnny Cash its attitude, but Jones gave the genre its ultimate voice. With recordings that spanned 50 years, including Number One singles White Lightning, She Thinks I Still Care and He Stopped Loving Her Today, Jones influenced generations of country singers and was considered by many to be the greatest of them all.
Jones' life also included legendary battles with substance abuse, mostly alcohol, and four marriages, including one to fellow singer Tammy Wynette and another, his last and longest, to Nancy Sepulvado.
Ultimately, though, it was that voice that won Jones two Grammys, got him into the Country Music Hall of Fame and made him an American musical icon. That plaintive voice that seemed to break down at will and wallow in sorrow. That voice of honky-tonk eloquence that held tortured echoes of heroes like Williams, Roy Acuff and Lefty Frizzell. That finely nuanced voice that offered thrill rides of emotions, with twists and turns, slippery, bending notes and sudden drops.
Jones' performances weren't just an emotional rollercoaster, they were the whole theme park.
Born in a log cabin in the "Big Thicket" region of East Texas, Jones grew up idolizing Acuff and bluegrass great Bill Monroe. In his youth, he played on the streets of downtown Beaumont for tips. He met Williams at a local radio station in 1949, and the singer advised young Jones to stop singing like Acuff and start singing like himself.
By the time he began recording for Pappy Dailey's Starday Records in 1954, Jones had married and divorced and served a stint with the Marines in Korea. He first hit the national country charts in 1955 – the same year that Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash made their chart debuts – with Why Baby Why, a honky-tonk record featuring a double-tracked vocal. Jones' recording eventually was eclipsed by Webb Pierce and Red Sovine's cover, which topped the charts, while his stalled at No. 2.
His first Number One came with White Lightning, a moonshine novelty with an oddball, hiccupping hook. By this time, Jones already was a binge drinker and, according to his 1997 autobiography I Lived to Tell It All, he was heavily under the influence during the recording session and required 83 takes to get a usable version. White Lightning came out in March 1959, one month after its writer – J.P. Richardson, aka The Big Bopper – was killed in a plane crash along with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens.
The flat-topped singer placed multiple singles on the country charts each year during the '60s – ballads like The Window Up Above and If My Heart Had Windows; The Race Is On, with its rumbling, six-string bass solo; duets with Melba Montgomery and pop singer Gene Pitney. Occasionally, Jones topped the charts with Tender Years, She Thinks I Still Care and Walk Through This World With Me.
In 1969, Jones married Tammy Wynette – one of the most famous country music marriages ever, though it would last just six years. Jones followed Wynette to Epic Records and soon began working with her producer, Billy Sherrill, who would be responsible for his biggest hits of the '70s and '80s.
Jones and Wynette recorded a series of duet singles – including chart-toppers Golden Ring, Near You and We're Gonna Hold On – that outlined a fictive version of the couple's often-volatile relationship. The duets continued for several years after they divorced in 1975, and the two reunited professionally for a final album together, One, in 1995.
During the '90s, Jones released an album, followed by an autobiography, called I Lived to Tell It All – the irony in the title coming precisely because so many people hadn't expected him to.
His drinking and, eventually, his cocaine use, caused him to miss so many concerts that he earned the nickname No-Show Jones (he was also, more kindly, called The Possum).
He got in fights and destroyed motel rooms. He ventilated his tour bus by emptying the chambers of a pistol into its floor. He drove to a liquor store on a riding lawnmower when his second wife, Shirley Corley, hid all the car keys. At his most inebriated, he insisted on singing in the voice of a duck named Deedoodle.
Jones recounted multiple brushes with death in his book, but his best-known one came in 1999, when he crashed his Lexus SUV into a bridge abutment near Franklin, Tenn., while talking on his cellphone. Jones suffered a collapsed lung and ruptured liver and spent two weeks in a Nashville hospital.
Police found a partially empty bottle of vodka under the front passenger's seat, and Jones later pled guilty to driving while impaired and acknowledged that he had fallen off the wagon.
Even at the height of his substance abuse, Jones' personal troubles couldn't always overshadow his talent.
His name has appeared on more charting singles – 168, spanning 55 years – than any other country singer's, from 1955's Why Baby Why to Aaron Lewis' 2010 hit Country Boy, where he was a featured vocalist with Charlie Daniels.
He was a Kennedy Center honoree in 2008 and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.
Jones' greatest artistic achievement came with Billy Sherrill, his regular producer for much of the 1970s and '80s. Sherrill, an admirer of Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" musical architecture, constructed his own masterpieces using Jones' voice as scaffolding. Instead of competing with the singer's dramatic delivery, Sherrill complemented it with vocal choruses, theatrical string sections and tensile pedal steel guitar lines. Sherrill's lavish productions didn't bury Jones, they revealed previously unheard subtleties of expression.
The pair reached their peak with the 1980 release of He Stopped Loving Her Today, widely considered to be the greatest country record ever made and one that, according to many involved with its creation, took more than a year to get on tape because Jones was so wrecked by cocaine and bourbon.
"He said I'll love you 'til I die/She told him you'll forget in time," Jones sang as he began the Bobby Braddock/Curly Putman tune, needing only three minutes and 15 seconds to convey a lifetime of emotional devastation, the kind that takes hold of a man and doesn't let go, not ever.
He Stopped Loving Her Today revived Jones' career and perhaps saved his life. It gave him his first number-one hit in five years and won four awards from the Country Music Association, including Song of the Year twice. It also gave him the first of his two Grammys – he won again in 2000 for the post-wreck Choices.
In his later years, Jones often complained about the directions contemporary country music took, especially after radio stopped playing his records. But younger stylists revered him, particularly during country's commercial boom of the late '80s and early '90s. Several, including Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson and Vince Gill sang with him on 1992's I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair, released the same year Jones was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In the last 10 years of his career, he recorded with Shooter Jennings and Staind frontman Aaron Lewis, as well as with Dolly Parton and Merle Haggard.
Now, that voice has gone silent. They may lay a wreath upon his door. Soon, they'll carry him away.
But we will not stop loving him today.
JONES, George (George Glenn Jones)Born: 9/12/1931, Saratoga, Texas, U.S.A.
Died: 4/26/2013, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.
George Jones' western – actor:Bat Masterson (TV) - Joe
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
RIP Allan Arbus
By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK
Allan Arbus, who left the successful fashion photography business he and his wife, Diane, built to become an actor, most memorably playing the caustic psychiatrist Maj. Sidney Freedman on the hit television series "M*A*S*H," died on Friday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 95.
.Amy Arbus, his daughter, confirmed his death.
Mr. Arbus appeared in films like "Coffy" and "Crossroads" and was a TV regular during the 1970s and '80s, appearing on "Taxi," "Starsky & Hutch," "Matlock" and other shows. But his best-known role was Major Freedman, the liberal psychiatrist who appeared in a dozen episodes of "M*A*S*H." He treated wounds of the psyche much as Capt. Hawkeye Pierce treated surgery patients: with a never-ending string of zingers.
Alan Alda, who played Hawkeye, recalled Mr. Arbus as a very believable therapist.
"I was so convinced that he was a psychiatrist I used to sit and talk with him between scenes," Mr. Alda said in an interview with the Archive of American Television. "After a couple months of that I noticed he was giving me these strange looks, like 'How would I know the answer to that?' "
Allan Franklin Arbus was born in New York City on Feb. 15, 1918. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School and entered City College at 15. He left college a year and a half later for a job at Russek's Department Store, where he met Diane Nemerov, the daughter of the store's owners.
They married in 1941 and became passionate about photography. They shot fashion photographs for Russek's before Mr. Arbus left to serve as a photographer in the Army Signal Corps in Burma during World War II. When he was discharged in 1946 the Arbuses established a studio on West 54th Street for fashion photography and soon won a contract from Condé Nast to supply photos for magazines like Glamour and Vogue.
In 1956, Ms. Arbus dissolved their business partnership to work full time on her haunting shots of marginalized people. Mr. Arbus continued to work in fashion photography but also took up acting.
The Arbuses separated in 1959 and divorced in 1969, when Mr. Arbus moved to Los Angeles. Ms. Arbus committed suicide in 1971. In 1976, Mr. Arbus married Mariclare Costello. She survives him, as do his two daughters from his first marriage, Amy and Doon; and a daughter from his second marriage, Arin Arbus.
Mr. Arbus's last television role was on the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm" in 2000.
ARBUS, Allan (Allan Franklin Arbus)Born: 2/15/1918, New York City, New York, U.S.A.
Died: 4/19/2013, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Allan Arbus's westerns – actor:Here Come the Brides (TV) – 1969 (Dennis)
Greaser's Palace – 1972 (Jessy)
The Electric Horseman – 1979 (Danny)
Bret Maverick (TV) – (Phineas Swackmyer)
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RIP Vivi Bach
Danish singer, actress and TV presented was found dead at her island home in Ibiza, Spain on April 22, by her husband producer, actor Dietmar Schönherr. She was 73.
She was the daughter of a baker who originally came from Copenhagen, Denmark and became famous for her music, painting, and especially acting. Her breakthrough came in the late 1950s at the side of Hans Joachim Kulenkampff in movies like "So liebt und küsst man in Tirol" (1961) und "Verückt und zugenäht" (1962).
It was because of her blond hair and green eyes that she became known as the "Danish Bardot" and starred in films alongside Peter Alexander and Rex Guildo. In 1965 she met Dietmar Schönherr. For her, he divorced his first wife and married Vivi in 1965. The couple then wrote the concept for "Make a Wish", which was a 24 episode long TV series from 1969 until 1972. It was this TV series that made her famous.
BACH, Vivi (Vivianne Bak)Born: 9/3/1939, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Died: 4/22/2013, Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain
Vivi Bach's westerns – actress, singer:Bullets Don't Argue – 1964 (Agnes Goddard)
A Fistful of Songs - 1966 (Betty Johnson)
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RIP Nosher Powell
British boxer, actor and stuntman, Nosher Powell died in his sleep on April 20, 2013. The news was reported via the official Nosher Powell website and actress Francoise Pasquale on Facebook.
Powell was born in Camberwell, London, England on August 15, 1928. Powell was a heavyweight boxing champion in the worlds of unlicensed fighting and the professional arena. He also worked as a sparring partner for Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson and Muhammad Ali, amongst others. The last fight of his career was against Menzies Johnson. Nosher won the fight on points, over eight rounds. He had 52 fights winning 34 (11 by knockout), losing 16 times and fighting 2 draws. After retiring from boxing he became a stuntman and character actor. His younger brother, Dinny Powell followed a similar career, acting and stunt co-ordinating many films, as have his sons Greg Powell and Gary Powell.
Powell had an extensive but mostly uncredited career in stunt work and acting. In 1969, he portrayed the role of the powerful thug Lord Dorking in the TV series Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased).
POWELL, Nosher (George Frederick Bernard Powell)Born: 8/15/1928, Camberwell, London, England, U.K.
Died: 4/20/2013
Nosher Powell's westerns – actor, stuntman:Fistful of Dollars – 1964 (cowboy) [stunts]
For a Few Dollars More - 1965 [stunts]
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
RIP Marcel Vercoutere
Marcel Vercoutere and a makeup artist created a life-size robot that made it appear as if actress Linda Blair's head was spinning around. The result terrified moviegoers.
April 21, 2013
Long before the age of computer-generated special effects, Marcel Vercoutere helped create a scene widely considered among the most terrifying in movie-going history.
In "The Exorcist," the 1973 horror film that became a pop-culture phenomenon, the head of a helpless young girl twists completely around as a young priest battles the demon that inhabits her body. With its wild, animated eyes, the life-size robot used as a stand-in for actress Linda Blair was built by Vercoutere, the film's special effects director, with help from its chief makeup artist, Dick Smith.
Vercoutere, the special effects innovator who solved that technical challenge and others for "The Exorcist" and other films, died April 13 at his home in Burbank. He was 87.
The cause was complications of dementia, said his son Dan.
A self-taught welder, carpenter, set designer and explosives expert, Vercoutere was a creative, unruffled presence on the set of "The Exorcist," said Owen Roizman, the film's Oscar-nominated cinematographer.
"He had made this unbelievable robot and everything about it worked — it almost had facial expressions," Roizman said last week. "I was standing there looking at it and I said, 'You know what, we forgot something. We don't have any breath coming out.' Marcel just said, 'I'll deal with that.' He was so calm. And before you know it ... the dummy had breath."
"He was the guy we would all turn to when we needed a problem solved."
Marcel Vercoutere Jr. (pronounced "ver-coo-tehr") was born in Detroit on Oct. 28, 1925, the youngest of three brothers, and grew up in nearby Grosse Pointe. His father, Marcel, was an immigrant from France; his mother, the former Augusta Verstraele, had come from Belgium.
Eager to fight in World War II, Vercoutere Jr. tried to join the Navy at 16, his son said, but was turned away. The next year, he enlisted and spent three years in the Pacific theater, serving part of that time on the Peiffer, a destroyer.
After the war, he returned to Michigan, earned his high school diploma and worked as a welder. In 1954, he married Carolyn Hill, whom he had met at a motorcycle rally. She survives him, along with their sons Dan and Jon, stepdaughter Charlotte Brooks and a brother, Albert.
After marrying, the couple headed for Los Angeles, where Vercoutere found work at the area's movie studios, first sweeping stages, then as a welder and carpenter. Eventually, he became part of the creative team for various films, designing special effects and stunts for car crashes, exploding bridges, gunbattles and other scenes.
Special effects, Vercoutere said, was thoroughly addicting.
"All of us on motion picture crews have said at one time or another, 'I hate this job, it's terrible and I'll never do it again,'" he told The Times in 1981, when he was working at The Burbank Studios. "But when you see the product, you always come back for more."
Vercoutere created special effects for the fire and gunfights in "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" in 1971 and the perilous river scenes in "Deliverance" in 1972, along with effects for a number of television movies and series. But he was best known for his work on "The Exorcist," the William Friedkin-directed film that was nominated for an Academy Award for best picture. It would win two Oscars, for best sound and for best screenplay, by William Peter Blatty, who adapted his best-selling novel.
Vercoutere's talents figured in many memorable scenes. He used various techniques, including hidden wires, pulleys and offstage supports, to create the possessed child's violently shaking bed, along with her frightening levitation. He also built the set for the film's bedroom, where most of the action takes place, inside a giant refrigerated cocoon, to achieve Friedkin's desire for an icy atmosphere whenever the girl is possessed.
"If I had to name one person behind the camera whose contributions meant the most to the film, it would be Marcel Vercoutere," Friedkin said in an emailed statement.
After creating the film's life-size dummy and mechanical head, Vercoutere and colleagues decided to try it out near the film's New York set, he said in a 1998 BBC documentary, "The Fear of God: 25 Years of 'The Exorcist.' "
"We put it in the front seat of a taxi in the summertime in New York City," he said, chuckling. "And the people would stare at this thing and finally it would spin its head around, and that was it."
Born: 10/28/1925, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
Died: 4/13/2013, Burbank, California, U.S.A.
Marcel Vercoutere' westerns – special effects:Support Your Local Sheriff – 1969
McCabe and Mrs. Miller – 1971
Barbarosa - 1982
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Saturday, April 13, 2013
RIP Frank Bank
Actor Frank Bank died this morning Saturday April 13th, one day after he turned 71. Today is his friend and former co-star Tony Dow's 68th birthday.
Bank was primarily known for his role as Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford on the Leave It to Beaver sitcom in the 1950s and 60s. He reprised his role as Wally Cleaver's friend in the Still the Beaver TV movie and the 1980s sequel series, The New Leave It to Beaver, joining most of the original sitcom's surviving cast.
Bank made a brief cameo in the 1997 film Leave It to Beaver as "Frank."
In addition to Beaver, Bank appeared on several 1950s and 60s TV shows and also played comic book character Archie Andrews in the Life with Archie TV movie in 1962.
His autobiography, Call Me Lumpy: My Leave It To Beaver Days and Other Wild Hollywood Life, was published in 2002 and was currently a bond broker in Los Angeles.
BANK, Frank
Born: 4/12/1942, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.Died: 4/13/2013, Los Angeles, California., U.S.A.
Frank Bank's western – actor:Cimarron City (TV) – 1959 (Henry Purdy)
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Friday, April 12, 2013
RIP Jonathan Winters
USA TODAYBy: Ann Oldenburg
He was inspiration to many contemporary comics.
The world of comedy has lost a legend.
Jonathan Winters, who was known for his improv work that inspired many a contemporary stand-up comic including Robin Williams, Jim Carrey and others, has died. He was 87.
Longtime family friend Joe Petro III says Winters died Thursday evening at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural causes, reports AP.
A note on his website adds, "Rest in Peace, Mr. Winters."
Winters' career began when he won a talent contest in Dayton, Ohio, which led to radio gigs and appearances at comedy clubs, along with comedy albums.
He was a favorite guest on the late night TV circuit for decades, often appearing with Jack Paar, Johnny Carson and Steve Allen. And he often performed in character. One one of his best known was Maude Frickert, an old lady with a quick and acid wit. He had his own TV show in the 1950s.
Winters also appeared in nearly 50 movies, including a particularly notable role in the 1963 film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Eileen Schauder Winters, his wife of more than 60 years, died on Jan. 11, 2009. Jonathan is survived by two children and five grandchildren.
WINTERS, Jonathan (Jonathan Harshman Winters, Jr.)Born: 11/11/1925, Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A.
Died: 4/11/2013, Montecito, California, U.S.A.
Jonatahn Winters western – actor:
More Wild Wild West (TV) – 1980 (Albert Paradine II)
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
RIP Veljko Despotović
Serbian art director and production designer Veljko Despotović died April 6, 2013 in Belgrade, Serbia. He was 83. Born in Zagreb, Croatia on October 1, 1931 and graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture in 1958, after which he continued with designing theatre, film and television sets. Between 1950 and 1962 he was working as an assistant in the art department and as an architect in theatre, film and television. Since 1962 he worked as an independent set designer in Serbian and foreign films. He worked on over 150 domestic and foreign movies and co-productions.
Despotović won two Golden Arena awards for Best Production Design at the 1979 and 1984 editions of the Pula Film Festival, the Yugoslav national film awards. For his work on the films "The Man to Kill" (Čovjek koga treba ubiti) 1979; directed by Veljko Bulajić), "Burning" (Usijanje), 1979; directed by Boro Drašković), "Strangler vs. Strangler" (Davitelj protiv davitelja", 1984; directed by Slobodan Šijan).
DESPOTOVIC, Veljko
Born: 10/1/1931, Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia
Died: 4/6/2013, Belgrade, Serbia
Veljko Despotović's westerns - art director, production designer:
The Sheriff Was a Lady - 1964 [production designer]
The Treasure of the Aztecs - 1965 [art director]
Pyramid of the Sun God - 1965 [production designer]
Born: 10/1/1931, Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia
Died: 4/6/2013, Belgrade, Serbia
Veljko Despotović's westerns - art director, production designer:
The Sheriff Was a Lady - 1964 [production designer]
The Treasure of the Aztecs - 1965 [art director]
Pyramid of the Sun God - 1965 [production designer]
YouTube video of his set designs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNmDSjh4kUk
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
RIP Peter Duryea
Nelson Star NewsBy Greg Nesteroff
Published: March 26, 2013
To most of the world, Duryea was best known for a bit role in the pilot episode of the original Star Trek series.
But on Kootenay Lake, he was a revered East Shore elder and environmentalist who fought against clearcut logging and started a now-thriving nature retreat.
Duryea, who was also a writer, director, documentary filmmaker, boat guide, and naturalist, died at home Sunday at 73 after a long illness.
"He was a visionary — one of the most amazing I've ever met," says Susan Hulland, who like Duryea came to the area in the 1970s. "He always insisted on figuring out a good way to do things. I can remember hearing from him over and over again: 'Is there a better way?' He was always looking for win-win scenarios, even during down and dirty environmental squabbles."
One of those disputes led to the creation of the non-profit Guiding Hands Recreation Society and tipi camp. In a memoir published last July in the East Shore Mainstreet, Duryea recalled that in the mid-1980s the community was struggling against clearcut logging. They established the Stop Clearcut campaign, famous for its ubiquitous green stop signs.
News that 22 clearcuts were planned for the Pilot Peninsula set off "a wave of resistance" along the East Shore, Duryea wrote. "The idea grew that maybe we could show that using the land for conservation and educational purposes could lead to a sustainable industry of outdoor recreation."
In 1988, Alice Bruce offered her land at Cortiannas Bay, where a tipi camp was established as a retreat to inspire young and old. It took eight years before the camp could afford to hire five seasonal workers, and Duryea continued to nurture it until it became self-sustaining.
He chalked up his tenacity to obsessive compulsive disorder: "I can find no other explanation for my unswerving devotion to the cause. I guess the tipi camp was meant to be."
Born in Los Angeles in 1939, Duryea followed in his father's footsteps. Dan Duryea was a TV actor with many roles to his credit, and the two appeared together in two films and an episode of Daniel Boone.
However, Peter hadn't intended on it: he was majoring in math and physics at Amherst College in Massachusetts before someone asked him to appear in a play and he discovered he loved it. He worked in theatre in Houston and New York and then moved to Hollywood.
Duryea's filmography over nine years included six movies and 30 television roles, including appearances in Dr. Kildare, Dragnet, and Bewitched.
In November 1964, he was cast as Lt. Jose Tyler, navigator of the USS Enterprise in the pilot episode of Star Trek. "It reminded me of a western, but set in the future and it was very interesting," Duryea told the Nelson Daily News in 2001. "I was among the other many, many people who auditioned. I was really happy to be part of it and took the job really seriously. I can remember long talks with the director, Robert Butler, how to do the part."
Had NBC executives picked up the series based on that episode, Duryea would have had a regular role.
However, they rejected it and the pilot never aired in its original form. Later, a second pilot was approved with an entirely different cast, except Leonard Nimoy as Spock.
But Duryea didn't express regret at what might have been. Feeling drained by the pace and competitiveness of his lifestyle, he moved his family to Canada in 1973.
"I really needed more in my life than just what I could see coming from that career," he said. "I need heart and I needed a community."
He went first to Saltspring and Cortes islands before arriving in the Kootenays, where "the land and the setting made me feel like I'd come home."
In Gray Creek, Duryea put his stage skills to work in new ways. He founded the Kootenay Lake Players, a children's theatre collective that in three years produced nine original plays. The volunteer cast and crew created costumes, props, and sets and staged their works in the Gray Creek Hall. "Having come from Hollywood this was a delightful change for me," Duryea said.
But he did eventually revisit his most famous role in 2005, attending his first Star Trek convention in Las Vegas, where he was overwhelmed. "It was the total antithesis of my life here," he said. "I'm deep in nature, working with educational stuff and that's totally glitz and gambling … It couldn't be farther apart."
During Gray Creek's 2008 centennial, Duryea was presented with a community legacy award, recognizing his efforts to "protect natural areas and teach young people how to love and live with nature."
In recent years he also headed the volunteer board of the Kootenay Lake East Shore Eldercare Co-op, which tried to provide local affordable housing for seniors.
"It was yet one more example of Peter being the visionary," said local resident Frances Roback, "seeing the large aging population on the East Shore, and the complete lack of care facilities for seniors which compel people to move away."
The campaign didn't succeed in the end, she said, but not for lack of trying.
Duryea entrusted his archival files relating to his community work with the Gray Creek Historical Society, including more than 40 films.
Duryea is survived by his longtime partner Janice Bryan, with whom he owned a video production company, daughter Star, and a brother, talent agent Richard Duryea.
A private family service is planned for Thursday with burial in the Gray Creek cemetery.
DURYEA, PeterBorn: 7/14/1939, Los Angele, California, U.S.A.
Died: 3/24/2013, Gray Creek, British Columbia, Canada
Peter Duryea' westerns – actor:Taggart – 1964 (Jay Jason)
Daniel Boone (TV) – 1965 (Andrew Perigore)
The Bounty Killer – 1965 (Young Bounty Hunter)
The Virginian (TV) – 1966 (Nicky)
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Monday, April 8, 2013
RIP Annette Funicello
By Dennis McLellan
April 8, 2013, 10:11 a.m.
Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV's "The Mickey Mouse Club" in the 1950s who further cemented her status as a pop-culture icon in the '60s by teaming with Frankie Avalon in a popular series of "beach" movies, died Monday. She was 70.
Funicello, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1987 and became a spokeswoman for treatment of the chronic, often-debilitating disease of the central nervous system, died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Walt Disney Co. spokesman Howard Green said.
Funicello and her husband, Glen Holt, had moved from the Los Angeles area after a 2011 fire gutted their home in Encino.
Bob Iger, Disney's chairman and chief executive, said: "Annette was and always will be a cherished member of the Disney family, synonymous with the word 'Mousketeer,' and a true Disney legend. She will forever hold a place in our hearts as one of Walt Disney's brightest stars, delighting an entire generation of baby boomers with her jubilant personality and endless talent. Annette was well known for being as beautiful inside as she was on the outside, and she faced her physical challenges with dignity, bravery and grace. All of us at Disney join with family, friends, and fans around the world in celebrating her extraordinary life."
Funicello was a 12-year-old dance-school student when Walt Disney saw her performing the lead role in "Swan Lake" at her dance-school's year-end recital at the Starlight Bowl in Burbank in the spring of 1955.
She joined a group of other talented young performers hired to become Mousketeers on "The Mickey Mouse Club," the children's variety show that debuted on ABC in October 1955 and quickly became a daily late-afternoon ritual for millions of young Americans.
Like her fellow female Mousketeers, Funicello wore a mouse-eared beanie, a blue pleated skirt, and a white, short-sleeved turtleneck sweater with her name emblazoned in block letters across her chest.
But there was something special about the Mouseketeer with the curly black hair that unexpectedly turned her into the ensemble cast's biggest star.
Funicello made her acting debut on "The Mickey Mouse Club" serial "Adventure in Dairyland." She also appeared in two of the popular "Spin and Marty" serials about a Western dude ranch for boys, with Tim Considine and David Stollery in the title roles. And in 1958, Disney showcased his prized Mousketeer in her own "Annette" serial.
Mr. Disney, as Funicello always called her boss, also licensed Annette lunch boxes, Colorforms dolls, coloring books, comic books and even mystery novels featuring her in fictionalized adventures.
After "The Mickey Mouse Club" ended production in 1958 and wet into reruns, the 15-year-old Funicello was the only Mouseketeer to remain under exclusive contract to the Disney studio.
She made her feature-film debut in "The Shaggy Dog," a 1959 comedy starring Fred MacMurray. It was the first of four Disney feature films she appeared in over the next six years, including "Babes in Toyland," "The Misadventures of Merlin Jones" and "The Monkey's Uncle."
Funicello received a big career boost when Disney agreed to loan her out to American International Pictures to make "Beach Party," the song-filled, low-budget 1963 comedy in which she was first teamed on the big screen with Avalon.
In the wake of the success of "Beach Party," Funicello and Avalon co-starred in "Muscle Beach Party," "Bikini Beach," and "Beach Blanket Bingo."
FUNICELLO, Annette (Annette Joanne Funicello)Born: 10/22/1942, Utica, New York, U.S.A.
Died: 4/8/2013, Bakersfield, California, U.S.A.
Annette Funicello's westerns – actress:The Further Adventures of Spin and Marty (TV) – 1956 (Annette)
The New Adventures of Spin and Marty (TV) – 1957 (Annette)
Zorro (TV) – 1959, 1961 (Anita Cabrillo, Constancia de la Torrie)
Wagon Train (TV) – 1963 (Rose Pulaski)
Elfego Baca: Six Gun Law (TV) – (Chiquita)
Hondo (TV) – 1967 (Anne Williams)
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RIP Sara Montiel
Actress and singer Sara Montiel died on Monday at her home in Madrid. Arriving at her home to revive her, her personal physician found her dead. Montiel, who was 85 years of age, was accompanied by her daughter Thais. The body of the actress will be transferred to the morgue this afternoon San Isidro, confirmed by the mayor of Campo de Criptana, her hometown, Santiago Lucas-Torres.
An actress in more than fifty films and numerous albums, Montiel was a sexual and artistic icon of Spanish culture in the second half of the twentieth century.
Born Maria Antonia Abad Fernández in a hotel in Toledo, Sara Montiel was one of the first Spanish actresses to set foot in Hollywood, appearing in films like 'Veracruz' (1954), Robert Aldrich, 'Yuma' (1957), Samuel Fuller, and ' Serenade / Serenade Two '(1956), Anthony Mann. With this last director she was also married for four years, from 1957 to 1961. Some of the actors she worked with during this time were Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Charles Bronson and Vincent Price.
In the land of music she was noted for her interpretation of the traditional repertoire of poems and couplets, revisited with her characteristic voice. She sang classics like 'Besame mucho', 'La violetera' and 'Amado mío''. Respected and idolized by the younger generations, she collaborated with musicians such as Joaquín Sabina, Jose Maria Cano, Javier Gurruchaga and Fangoria.
She received the Gold Medal for Merit in Work in 2008, and also received the Gold Medal of the Fine Arts (1958), the National Guild Awards Show (1959) and Writers Circle Film (1959), the title of Actress of the Year (1959) and the Gold Disc (1959.
The Film Academy in 1997 awarded her its Gold Medal and, among other awards, the Golden Eagle of Hollywood (1986, the Spanish Oscar), the Order of Arts and Letters French (1982) Circle Award Cinema Writers (1999), and a Silver Biznaga - 'The Gold Film' at the Malaga Film Festival (2007).
Her eventful love life included four husbands. After her marriage in 1957 with the American director Anthony Mann, in 1964 she married the producer José Vicente Ramirez Olalla and in 1979, after nine years together, with the Spaniard Pepe Tous. The latter was, according to his own Sara, "the love of his life," died in 1992 and with whom she adopted two children: Thais and Zeus.
In 1993 she married Tony Hernandez, a Cuban then 39, a declared admirer of the artist and of dubious reputation, who split in 2003. Among her shameful loves, "The Queen of couples' always quoted five men: the Nobel Prize winner Severo Ochoa, the poet Leon Felipe, Miguel Mihura playwright, filmmaker and director Mario Camus and Ernest Hemingway.
MONTIEL, Sara (Maria Antonia Alejandra Vicenta Elpidia Isadora Abad Fernandez)Born: 3/10/1928, Campo de Criptana, Ciudad Real Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Died: 4/8/2013, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Sara Montiel's westerns – actress:Little Love of My Life – 1952 (Rosita)
Vera Cruz – 1954 (Nina)
Run of the Arrow – 1957 (Yellow Mocassin)
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Friday, April 5, 2013
RIP Regina Bianchi
Regina Bianchi died today April 5, 2013, at the age of 92 at her home in Rome. Born Regina D'Antigny, she died in her sleep, an unforgettable performer and among the most popular actresses of the Neapolitan theater, she was born January 1, 1921 in Lecce, Italy. A great theater actress she worked with Eduardo and Peppino De Filippo. She will always be remembered for her performance in Filumena Marturano, replacing Titina De Filippo. She left show business for 14 years to raise two daughters she had with director Goffredo Alessandrini although the couple never married. She returned to appear in several large budget films such as "The Last Judgement" (1961) by Vittorio De Sica, "The Four Days in Naples" (1962) by Nanni Loy, for which she won the silver Ribbon, "Kaos" (1984) by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani and "Il giudice ragazzino" (1994) by Alessandro Di Robilant. During her career she also on TV in series such as 'I grandi camaleonti' by Edmo Fenoglio (1964) and 'Jesus of Nazareth' (1977) by Franco Zeffirelli. In 1996 she was awarded the title of Grand Officer of the Republic for artistic merit. Bianchi appeared in one Euro-western "Blood Red Rose" (1939).
BIANCHI, Regina (Regina D'Antigny)
Born: 1/1/1921, Lecce, Apulia, Italy
Died: 4/5/2013, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Regina Bianchi's western - actress:
Blood Red Rose - 1939
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
RIP Helena Carroll
04.03.13 | 01:53PM PTMichelle Salemi
Helena Carroll, an Irish stage, television and film actress died at her home in Los Angeles on March 31. She was 84.
Carroll was born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland. She moved to the United States in the 1950s, touring and performing on Broadway.
Carroll was the youngest of three daughters of Irish dramatist Paul Vincent Carroll and dress designer Helena Reilly. She had split her stage work between Dublin, London and New York and was co-founded the Irish Players acting group in Gotham.
She appeared on Broadway in "Oliver!," "Pickwick," "Little Moon of Alban," "Something Different," "Design for Living," "Waiting in the Wings" starring Lauren Bacall and both the Broadway and Los Angeles revivals of "Private Lives" starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
Carroll also appeared in films such as John Huston's "The Dead," "The Friends of Eddie Coyle," "The Jerk," "The Mambo Kings," "Rocky" and "Love Affair." She also worked on numerous television shows and soaps including "General Hospital," "Colombo" and "Murder She Wrote."
Carroll's last plays were "The Queen of Lenai" in Los Angeles in 2005 and "Philadelphia Here I Come" in Gotham in 2006.
CARROLL, HelenaBorn: 11/13/1930, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
Died: 3/31/2013, Woodland Hills, California, U.S.A.
Helena Carroll's western – actress:The Virginian (TV) – 1965 (Lucille)
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013
RIP Tomás Picó
Tomás Picó, actor and director, died in Tarifa (Cadiz), victim of lymphoma after a lifetime devoted to intense appearances in front of and behind the camera. The son of a renowned Basque architect, he opted for the interpretation of film and debuted at Teatro Eslava Madrid in 1960, where his gallant bearing of finesse marked him in the 1960s and 1970s. Emblematic song titles of the youthful Luis Lucia, he leapt to fame as a child prodigy of Rocio Durcal, in the great family of Fernando Palacios.
Other film credits are "Fulanita and Menganos" (Pedro Lazaga, 1976); "Erotic Games of the Bourgeoisie" (Micel Vianey, 1977) and "Cariñosamente infiel" (Javier Aguirre, 1980).
In the theater he shared the stage with Pepe, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Kiti Manver and Concha Velasco, and collaborated with the actor and director Luca Ronconi in Italy where he lived for nearly a decade. Picó, was a committed and passionate man of his profession to his beloved Tarifa, the Teatro Municipal Hall between 1995 and 2005. He also worked with the inmates of the prison in Algeciras. His teaching and his acting never fall was always relevant. Too bad such genuine people find it necessary to undertake the ultimate trip ahead of schedule and with such outstanding work.
PICO, Tomás (Tomás Picó Hormeño)Born: 1/16/1940, Cáceres, Llanos de Cáceres Spain
Died: 3/29/2013, Tarifa, Cádiz, Spain
Tomás Picó's westerns – actor:Mutiny at Fort Sharp – 1966 (Confederate soldier)
Seven Pistols for a Massacre – 1967
Dead Men Ride – 1971 (miner)
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RIP Milo O'Shea
The Irish actor, Milo O'Shea, has died after a short illness, his son has confirmed. He was 86.
The Dubliner, who had a long career on the stage and screen, died in a New York hospital on Tuesday night.
He is best remembered for his role in Franco Zeffirelli's film, Romeo and Juliet, the 1968 film Barbarella, and for his performance as Leopold Bloom in an adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses.
He also appeared in several hit US TV shows, including Frasier and Cheers.
He played a chief justice in The West Wing TV series, and also had a brief role in the Golden Girls in the 1980s.
In 1982, he starred alongside Paul Newman in the legal drama, The Verdict, and he also worked alongside Irish director Neil Jordan in the Butcher Boy.
He played a villain, Durand-Durand, in Roger Vadim's futuristic fantasy film, Barbarella, and years later, his character inspired the name of the 1980s pop group, Duran Duran.
In 2003, O'Shea starred in Puckoon, a movie based on a comic novel by Spike Milligan.
The satire, set in a village divided in two by the partition of Ireland, was mostly filmed in Northern Ireland and the border counties of the Irish Republic.
O'Shea began his acting career as a schoolboy in Dublin.
He moved to New York in the 1970s and lived there until his death.
He is survived by his wife, actress Kitty Sullivan, his two sons and three grandchildren.
Born: 6/2/1926, Dublin, Ireland
Died: 4/2/2013, New York, U.S.A.
Milo O'Shea's western – actor:Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion (TV) – 1977 (Brisly)
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
RIP Jesus Franco
Jess Franco dies, father of Spanish Series B
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
The director was hospitalized in Malaga since last Wednesday after suffering a stroke.
Irreducible to the last breath. Jesus Franco Manera, better known as Jess Franco (Madrid, 1930) has died today at age 82 in Malaga, where he was admitted since last Wednesday after suffering a stroke. The director, actor, writer, composer, producer and editor, considered the father of the Spanish B series, had just released his latest film vs Al Pereira. The Alligator Ladies (2012) in theaters Artistic Metropol Madrid; preestrenada film was the last Festival of Sitges.
The role of Jess Franco in the Spanish cinema is fundamental: nearly two hundred films directed under about 40 pseudonyms (Clifford Brown, Jess Frank, Wolfgang Frank, Lulu Laverne, Franco Manera, John O'Hara, Dan Simon, etc.) Between 50s of last century to the present filmed in Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, Italy and the United States gives a good account of his legacy. Eroticism, uncover, Series B, comic book aesthetic, low-budget fantasy film and flirting with porn are some of the hallmarks of this revered cult filmmaker worldwide.
Franco studied film at the Royal Conservatory and the Institute for Research and cinematic experiences in Madrid, before going to the French at the Sorbonne University. After working in various productions and perform several short, would the film up and roll up to four films before his first big hit Night Visions (1962), with the legendary Howard Vernon embodying first first Dr. Orloff, one of the characters most iconic filmmaker. Another of his most recognized is Necromicron (Necronomicon / Succubus) (1967), German film production finished participating in the Berlin Film Festival and opened wide the doors of the international market. Since then, would be known collaborations with Christopher Lee (who played great villains like Fu Manchu-The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969) and Dracula, Count Dracula (1970) - under the direction of Franco) and his prolific production in the horror genre series B. Among his classics, include Miss Death (1960), Vampyros Lesbos (1971), The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula Against Frankenstein (1972), Dracula Against Frankenstein (1974), Schoolgirls rape, sexual aberrations of a married woman (1981), The shameful orgies of Emmanuelle (1982), Barbys Killer (1996), women's crypt damned (2008) and Paula-Paula (2010).
In 2008, the exquisite French Cinematheque devoted an extensive cycle comprising the bulk of his work and honoring the work of a director unaccustomed to institutional tributes. The following year, the Spanish Film Academy's Goya would give the honor for his film career. Today, in addition to keep rolling (Al Pereira vs. The Alligator Ladies is his last film), collaborated with the publication Cinemanía.
Franco was married was his principal muse, Lina Romay, who met working for the 70. Both lived in Malaga, where they were married on April 23, 2008. Romay died last year of a cancer victim.
FRANCO, Jesus (Jesus Franco Manera)
Born: 5/12/1930, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Died: 4/2/2013, Malaga, Andalusia, Spain
Jesus Franco's westerns - director, screenwriter, actor:
The Coyote - 1954 (co) [screenwriter]
The Judgment of the Coyote - 1955 (co) [screenwriter]
The Vengeance of Zorro - 1962 [screenwriter]
Zorro the Avenger - 1962 [screenwriter]
The Jaguar - 1963 [director, screenwriter]
Alias Smith & Jones (TV) - 1972 (guard)
Alias Smith & Jones (TV) - 1972 (guard)
The Crazy Nuns - 1974 [director]
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For this assignment, your job is to create a kind of lobotomized version of a board game (such as Monopoly) called Opoly.
Opoly works this way: The board is a straight linear track of variable length (you determine the length when you start up the game). There is only one playing piece, which begins the game just off the board, at position 0. Thus, if the board length is 20, then the board positions start at position 1 and end at position 20. To finish the game, the piece must land exactly on the last cell of the board (e.g., cell 20 in the example above).
The object of the game is to acquire reward. The reward amount is initialized to 12. If your board piece lands on a board cell that is divisible evenly by 5, your reward doubles. However, if your piece lands one cell shy of the final board cell, your reward is reduced to 1/5 of its current value (via integer division), and your piece must go back to the start position - position 0. Note, though, that if the position of the last cell is divisible evenly by 5, then reward is doubled just before the game ends.
In Opoly the game piece advances via a spinner - a device that takes on the values 1-2-3-4-5 at random, with each advance value equally likely.
Two additional rules:
1) if a spin would move the piece beyond the end of the board, the piece should not advance at all (thus, if the piece is at location 18 of a 20 cell board, and if the spinner spins a 5, this is counted as a move but the piece remains at location 18.) If a piece doesn't move at all, its current reward amount should remain unchanged, even if the piece sits at a location that is divisible evenly by 5.
2) if the next to last board location is divisible by 5, and if the piece lands on this location, the reward is reduced to 1/5 of its current value only - the reward is NOT also doubled. Example: the board size is 26, and the piece is at location 23, with reward 30. Suppose the spinner spins a 2. This puts the piece on the next to the last location on the board (25). This resets the reward to 6 = 30 * 1/5, and places the piece at location 0. Even though location 25 is divisible by 5, no doubling happens.
Here is the driver class for the game:
import java.util.*;
public class OpolyDriver{
public static void main(String[] args){
System.out.println("Enter an int - the size of the board");
Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in);
int boardSize = s.nextInt();
System.out.println("Board Size: " + boardSize);
Opoly g = new Opoly(boardSize);
Here is a sample run:
> java OpolyDriver
Enter an int - the size of the board
Board Size: 20
*O****************** 12 // current position is 2, current reward is 12
****O*************** 24 // current position is 5, reward is 24
********************O 96 // board size is 20, so reward doubles before game ends
game over
rounds of play 5
final reward 96
A requirement: your Opoly class must include and make use of the following methods, in addition to the Opoly constructor and principal method playGame(). These are:
* spin - generates a integer value from 1 to 5 at random
* move - advances the piece
* spinAndMove - spins the spinner and then advances the piece according to the rules of the game (uses spin, move methods)
* isGameOver - checks if game termination condition has been met
* drawBoard - draws the board using *'s and an O to mark the current board position. Feel free to improve on the display we've shown above.
* displayReport - reports the end of the game, and gives the number of rounds of play, and the final reward
How to proceed:
* First, decide on the attributes for the Opoly class. At any instant, what is the "state" of the board? What do you need to keep track of to give the final report? The answers to these questions will tell you what the attributes to Opoly can be.
* Second, write the Opoly constructor.
* Third, try to write the playGame method using the methods outlined above. A good way to proceed is to write a "dummy" drawBoard method first - instead of having it draw anything, merely have it print out the current position. Once you're satisfied with the general running of the game in this format, then work on the drawing part.
* My board rendering is particularly klunky. If you like, you may devise a better way to draw the board. Of course make sure that you get the numbers right.
Paste in your Opoly class in the box below:
NOTE: you may NOT use any import statements in your class. Use the Math class methods to generate your random numbers. Do NOT import the java.util library.


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July 6, 2014 – August 31, 2014
|# of Blue Whales Spotted
|Additional Sightings
|News and Notes
|3 Blue Whales Spotted!
|500 Common Dolphins
|AM whale watch had 197 guests and we saw 3 blue whales and 500 common dolphins. It was a great way to finish off the inaugural blue whale season.
|4 Blue Whales spotted!
|40 Common Dolphins
|The day was beautiful. We had cloud cover on the way out so it was not too hot. In fact it was a perfect comfortable cruise out about 5 miles. We saw 4 blue whales. One came up literally about 15 feet from our boat! The were feeding it seemed… the were very calm and stayed near the surface. A pod of 40 common dolphin came and rode the wake from the boat. We also saw some 50 jellyfish. (Blue "By-the-wind sailor" jellyfish, otherwise known by their scientific name Velella velella, have been washing up on West Coast beaches. Scientists say in the billions—over the last two months, with sightings reported as far north as Oregon and far south as here is San Diego.) The tourists were from all over the world include some salty sailors that were from the Tall Ships Festival here is San Diego this weekend. – Mike Stewart
|4 Blue Whales Spotted!
|150 Common Dolphins
Great day, one blue just swam and swam alongside of us for over 15 min. Not a bit afraid, great day. We saw four different blues and probably 150 dolphins, The Captain did a great job!
(Courtesy of Terry Baird)
|4 Blue Whales Spotted!
|150 Common Dolphins
|Saw 4-Blue whales in feeding mood. Great views, one of them came very close to the boat while we were drifting! Great show of common dolphins, 3 separate groups 50-150, lots of babies. A lot of bird life and tons of bait/feed.
|4 Blue Whales Spotted!
|1,000 Common Dolphins
|Many of the buoys on the way out of the harbor were covered with sea lines, a tease of what was to come. Sea birds could be seen in large numbers indicating the waters were full of fish. Just three miles out we spotted our first blow. Then another. Two blue whales close together. Captain Nick did a great job approaching the two without making them nervous so we were able to stay with them for some time and get some great pictures of the giants. More spouts could be seen in the distance so we moved further out encountering a small group of 25 common dolphins. As we continued we encountered another pod of 60 common dolphins but no whales. As sometimes happens, the whales had moved on. We did too. We turned around and returned to the original two whales and encountered two more blues on the way. Then the passengers were treated to a wondrous sight – a pod of at least 1,000 common dolphins, some with young. Our vessel was soon surrounded by the dolphins delighting the children and adults alike. In their midst was a sea lion jumping through the water chasing fish. Four blues and 1,000+ dolphins made for a perfect day.(Courtesy of Pam Garcia)
|6 Blue Whales Spotted!
|50+ Common Dolphins
|Today was a wonderful and clear day. In total, there were 6 blue whales that were close to the boat and over 50 common dolphins swimming alongside. Guests were thrilled with the sights! The narration along with the friendly staff made it a day to remember.
|8-10 Blue Whales Spotted!
|1,000 Common Dolphins
|It was a great day on Sunday. In my 5 years as a whaler I haven't seen anything like what we saw today. We got into a group of about 8-10 blue whales. They stayed in a group for over an hour. They were feeding on krill and sardines. Lunge feeding and rolling over to swallow there food.
Nick needs a bonus for saving fuel. He put the boat in neutral and just drifted for about 45 minutes. There was a dozen fishing boats in the area and the whales were having a feeding fest.
Felt sorry for some of the fishermen in small boats (the red one was maybe 20′ if they were lucky.) After one of the whales came within ten feet they left.
There were probably twenty whales in the area that we stayed in. We saw lots of blows in the distance besides the whales that we stayed with.
All in all one of the greatest days on the water that I have ever had.
(Courtesy of Terry Baird – Whaler)
|8 Blue Whales Spotted!
|50 Common Dolphins4 Bottlenose Dolphins
|It was a great day out on the water today. We had guests from Belgium, England, from several states, and a lot of local folks from San Diego. And the majority of them have never seen a whale in his natural environment, out in the ocean! Boy were they in for a treat! We had a slight overcast day, the seas were calm, and the excitement was in the air.As we headed to the nine mile bank, Captain Bill received a call from the navy "Mercy Ship" that was also in the area, that they had a multiple number of Blue Whales near their ship. So we headed towards their ship. And on the way, to our surprise, a big Blue Whale popped up right next to our boat, to the delight of everyone! This was just the beginning of a fantastic day. As we got closer to the Mercy Ship, all of a sudden we were surrounded with big Blue Whales! Then the Common Dolphins showed up, then here came a couple of sea lions to entertain us. You could hear the cameras snapping everywhere. Today we saw 8 Blue Whales very close to the boat, and several blows in the distance. We saw a total of about 50 Common Dolphins and 4 Bottle nose dolphins in the bay. It was a perfect summer day out on the water!
|6 Blue Whales Spotted!
|1 Mola Mola 400 Common Dolphins
|Great trip! Saw 6 whales, a couple of Mola Mola, and a couple hundred dolphins. Great day – weather was beautiful. Overcast and cool all day. The captain Nick guided to the only blue whale around, we stayed with it for over an hour. Saw 1 mola, and 300-400 dolphins. Great weather, and a great crowd.
|5 Blue Whales Spotted!
|550 Common Dolphins6 Mola Mola
The sky was overcast and silver gray, but humid and wonderfully pleasant. The water looked like mercury and very glassy. After heading out towards the 9 mile bank, we spotted 5 Blue Whales. Two kept with the boat, one fairly close, close enough to hear the breath when it surfaced, which is always very exciting. We spotted 6 Molamolas and approximately 550 Common Dolphins at various times. They were on a big feeding frenzy and were clustered very densely at one point surrounding a small boat. Several of them were bow riding and everyone got a big kick out of seeing them up close. A wonderful Brown Booby bird was spotted. Towards the end of the trip we had a squall come through which was tropical and refreshing. All in all it was another great Hornblower trip!
Credit to: Jan Newell – Whaler
|1 Blue Whale Spotted with several other sea creatures
|7 Risso Dolphins 150 Common Dolphins 7 Bottlenose DolphinsSeveral Sea LionsMola Mola fish
|A single blue whale thrilled viewers with several fluke views and many back shots. The blue stayed fairly close to the boat, surfacing numerous times. Then another treat – a small pod of 7 Risso dolphins entertained viewers. Several pods of common dolphins, some with young pups, came to say hi, totaling around 150 common dolphins. Also a pod of 7 bottlenose. Three small rafts of sea lions also seen swimming through the ocean. Several passengers saw a mola mola. A few short showers could not dampen the excitement on the boat at seeing so many sea creatures.
|8 Blue Whales Spotted!
|Captain's Report: Spotted 8 blue whales today! The weather was clear and a great cruise overall. Blue Whale Trivia: Blue whales may be found in all oceans of the world. They migrate to tropical-to-temperate waters during winter months to mate and give birth to calves. They can feed throughout their range, in polar, temperate, or even tropical waters.
|6 Blue Whales Spotted!
|150 Common Dolphins
|Our guests were excited as we left the harbor, ready to see some Blue Whales! As we headed out towards the 9 mile bank, we passed a mola mola, then came across a pod of about 150 common dolphins, much to the delight of the passengers. After being about 8 miles off shore, we saw our first blow of a Blue Whale. Then we started seeing blows all around us. As we got closer to the whales, we just cut the engine and drifted. And we got quite a show. We got to see about six whales up close and personal. One of the whales came pretty close to us and we got to see his huge back and then he showed off his fluke, everybody cheered!! It was a great day on the calm seas and everybody left with a smile on their face as we came back to the dock
|4 Blue Whale Sightings Up Close Plus 15+ Whales on US side of Border
|Surprised at first by a blue who popped up without warning close to the ship's bow. We then spent the morning with the magnificent mother and calf as they treated us to close views including a fluke and traveled from one side of the boat to the next. The sea was calm as a lake today and the overhead clouds allowed the easy detection of the blue below the water's surface. Saw total of 4 blue whales today up close and personal!
|6 Blue Whales spotted!
|100 Common Dolphins
|CAPTAIN'S REPORT: Nick says the water and weather was clear and warm. The guests had a great day and sighted 6 blue whales! The passengers also saw common dolphins swimming and jumping towards the bow.Blue Whale Trivia: The largest mammal to ever inhabit the earth, these blue-gray mammoths of the sea average 75-80 feet in length in this hemisphere and weigh in excess of 100 tons!
|20 Blue Whales!!!
|200 Common Dolphins
|Beautiful, clear day on the water. Our first encounter was a small pod of bottlenose dolphins. But soon there was a cry of "There she blows!" as we ventured only about five miles out. Blue whales spouts began to appear everywhere. Soon we had blues on the port and starboard sides. Several swam beneath the boat and emerged with a loud bellow fairly close to the boat, often startling the passengers who shouted in glee. The passengers were treated to a rare sight of whale poop. Then to make the day even more perfect, we encountered two more pods of dolphins as we began our journey back.
|6 Blue Whales just five miles offshore!
|100 Common Dolphins
|Last week a small boat was capsized off the SD coast near Tijuana with two passengers on board. No injuries to the whale or passengers occurred. The boat was totaled! See the clip. From the Captains Erik and Bill: We had a stellar day, with 6 blues just 5 miles offshore. Our guests had thrilling views, as a couple if the Big Blues came right near us to wave a big hello. Spectacular views, nice calm seas. Warm summer breeze " It doesn't get any better" Bill REPORT: 6 blue whales, close views, 1 tail fluke. 100 Common dolphin. Whale spotters of the day: Riley, Aaron and Miah Alvarez from Oklahoma, spotted today's 1st blue whales.Judy Lawrence, a seasoned and trained Whaler from the Natural History Museum posted: "Beautiful summer weather and great whales for Adventure's first blue whale trip.–Pictures and notes from Judy Lawrence.


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Farmer's Fight With Monsanto Reaches the Supreme Court
This week, the Supreme Court will take up a classic David-and-Goliath case. On one side, there's a 75-year-old farmer in Indiana named Vernon Hugh Bowman; on the other, the agribusiness giant Monsanto.
The farmer is fighting the long reach of Monsanto's patents on seeds — but he's up against more than just Monsanto. The biotech and computer software industries are taking Monsanto's side.
Bowman also is battling a historic shift that's transformed the nation's seed business over the past 20 years.
Despite all that, Bowman seems remarkably cheerful about his situation. "Confrontation does not take a toll on me!" he says. "You and me can argue about the Bible; we can argue about religion. I'll pound my fist and we can argue all day, and I won't lose a bit of sleep at night!"
More: Farmer's Fight With Monsanto Reaches the Supreme Court : The Salt : NPR


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Learn to Sell Pets Online Safely
selling pets online If you are selling pets online, you are in the business of bringing happiness to others.
However, to protect the integrity of your business as well as your animal safety, you need to take serious precautions.
Follow the advice in this post to learn how to build your web presence, and how to sell your animals safely to competent and competent owners over the Internet.
Build Your Web Presence
Before we get into how to sell pets online properly, let's first discuss how you can build a web presence that lets customers know you as a breeder.
One of the most important things you can do is immediately sign up for the Better Business Bureau. This way, when customers find your site, they can see that you have a clean record and learn more about your past customers.
Plus, registering with BBB proves to your customers that you are authoritative, invest in the health and wellbeing of your animals, and committed to customer service.
Next, it's time to focus on your site. Make sure you include lots of images of your animals (social media will also be a great marketing opportunity for you.) Blog about your process, include the "frequently asked questions" section and include your experience.
Also, it does not hurt to include glowing testimonials from your past customers. For a good example of a properly done dog website, see Crump's Bullies. Their homepage sites are connected to their social media accounts, clearly showing their contact information, and using images immediately linked to their target market.
How to Screen Potential Owners
As a rancher, you are responsible for ensuring that your animals will go to a safe environment where they will be well taken care of.
These days, everybody wants pets. In fact, the millennium prioritizes animal ownership of home ownership and even romantic relationships! However, just because someone wants a pet, does not mean they are eligible to have it.
Be specific about certain animal traits. For example, is it more hyper than others? Is that a bathroom control problem? Have you provided training? This will help ensure owners know what to expect, and whether they can provide the needed care or not.
Also, make sure you connect with potential owners via email. Ask about the age of the children they have at home, how they plan to give care and food, and if they have ever had an animal before.
Also, do not be afraid to ask where they will take care of the animals, and why they want to buy pets. You need to know your animals will not spend their lives in a cage or be used for terrible purposes.
You Are Ready to Sell Pets Online
Thanks to this post, now you have all the information you need to sell pets safely online and build your overall web presence.
Breeding and selling pets is a fun career that brings joy to many people. Make sure your animals find their dream home by following the advice on this post.


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Grumet-Morris and the Crimson took on New Hampshire in the 2005 NCAA tournament.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--A pair of Crimson goalies, senior Ryan Carroll and Dov Grumet-Morris '05, are among this week's guests on This Week in Harvard Hockey.
Ted Donato '91, The Robert D. Ziff '88 Head Coach for Harvard Men's Ice Hockey, also joins host Bernie Corbett for his regular Coach's Corner segment this week.
Carroll has won his last seven starts to help propel the Crimson into contention for a berth in the ECAC Hockey Championship semifinals in Atlantic City, N.J. Harvard visits No. 18 Dartmouth for a quarterfinal series this weekend.
Grumet-Morris, a 2004-05 All-America selection, played in four ECAC title games, winning two. He is Harvard's career leader in starts (112), saves (3,081) and save percentage and ranks second in wins (65) and goals-against average (2.25). He is currently a member of the American Hockey League's Connecticut Whale and has allowed four total goals in his last three starts.
Click below to listen to the interviews. Right-click and "Save Link as..." or "Save Target As.." to download .mp3 files.
This Week in Harvard Hockey
March 10, 2011
Crimson Profile - Ryan Carroll
Coach's Corner - Ted Donato
Beyond Cambridge - Dov Grumet-Morris


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Official Symbols and Emblems of Alabama
The First National Flag
"Stars and Bars"
National Flags that have flown over Alabama
Flag of the Kingdom of Spain
|Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto visited the Southeast U.S., including Alabama, in the 1540s.
Flag of Bourbon France
|Iberville and Bienville established Fort Louis de la Mobile as the capital of French Louisiana in 1702.
Flag of the British Empire
|Great Britain acquired French Louisiana east of the Mississippi as a result of the French and Indian War in 1763. The Louisiana territories west of the Mississippi were ceded to Spain.
Flag of Bourbon Spain
|Spanish Governor of Louisiana Bernardo Galvez captured Mobile from the British during the American Revolution.
Flag of the United States
|The United States annexed West Florida -- which included Mobile and Baldwin Counties-- from Spain in 1810.
Flag of the Alabama Secession Convention
|Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861.
First National Flag, Confederate States of America
|March 13, 1861 Alabama officially joined the Confederate States of America.
Flag of the United States
|Alabama was re-admitted to the Union after the Civil War.
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Janis Joplin
American singer and songwriter
Janis Lyn Joplin (19 January 1943 – 4 October 1970) was an American singer and songwriter.
- Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same fucking day, man.
- "Ball and Chain" Festival Express live 1970 (1967)
- Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz? My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends
- Mercedes Benz (1970)
- Music's for grooving man, and music's not for puttin' yourself through bad changes, y'know? I mean, you don't have to go take anybody's shit, man, just to like music, y'know what I mean? You don't. So... so if you're getting' more shit than you deserve, you know what to do about it man. Y'know, it's just music. Music's... music's s'posed to be different than that.
- Spoken on the live recording of "Piece Of My Heart" on "Cheap Thrills" (1968)
- Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.
- On being shunted off the front page of Newsweek magazine by the late ex-President Dwight D. Eisenhower following his death; New Musical Express interview, (12 April 1969); cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
- Work me, lord. Please don't you leave me. I feel so useless down here with no one to love. Though I looked everywhere, and I can't find me anybody to love, to feel my care...So, work me lord, oh, use me lord. Can I show you how hard it is trying to live when you're all alone? Everyday I keep trying to move forward but something is driving me, oh, back. Something's trying to hold on to me, to my way of life. So, oh, don't you forget me down here lord, no no no no no, don't you forget me, lord. Well I don't think I'm any very special kind of person down here, I know better. But I don't think you're gonna find anybody, not anybody who can say that they tried like I tried. The worst that you can say all about me is that I'm never satisfied...
- "Work me, Lord", live at Woodstock (1969)
One Good Man (1969)Edit
- Honey, I love to go to parties,
And I like to have a good time,
But if it gets too pale after a while
Honey and I start looking to find
One good man.
- One good man,
Oh ain't much, honey ain't much,
It's only everything...
- An' I don't want much outa life,
I never wanted a mansion in the south.
I just-a want to find someone sincere
Who'd treat me like he talks,
One good man.
- Well, I'm gonna show you, baby, that a woman can be tough.
I want you to come on, come on, come on, come on and take it,
Take another little piece of my heart now, baby!
- "Piece of My Heart" (1968) Though this song became well known as one of her greatest hits, it was actually written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns
- You know you got it if it makes you feel good.
- "Piece of My Heart" (1968) written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns
- Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose,
Nothing don't mean nothing honey if it ain't free...
And feeling good was easy, lord, when he sang the blues.
You know feeling good was good enough for me,
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.
- "Me and Bobby McGee" another of her greatest hits, the song was actually written by Kris Kristofferson, and first released as sung by Roger Miller
Quotes about JoplinEdit
- Janis knew more than I did about "how it was", but she lacked enough armor for the inevitable hassles. She was open and spontaneous enough to get her heart trampled with a regularity that took me thirty years to experience or understand. On the various occasions when we were together, she seemed to be holding in something she thought I might not want to hear, like older people do when they hear kids they love saying with absolute youthful confidence, "Oh, that'll never happen to me." Sometimes you know you can't tell them how it is, they have to find out for themselves. Janis felt like an old soul, a wisecracking grandmother whom everybody loved to visit. When I was with her, I often felt like a part of her distant family, a young upstart relative who was still too full of her own sophistry to hear wisdom.
Did we compliment each other? Yes, but not often enough.
- Grace Slick, in Somebody to Love? : A Rock-and-Roll Memoir (1998) by Grace Slick and Andrea Cagan
- Wow, that's heavy.
- "Mama" Cass Elliot, caught on camera mouthing this at the Monterey Pop Festival.


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More than a third of the world's adult population make little or no use of formal financial services. Accenture estimates that bringing unbanked adults and businesses into the formal banking sector could generate about $380 billion in new revenues for banks.
The majority of this population are found in low- and middle-income emerging markets. And even in high-income countries, large numbers of people don't use banks to help meet their day-to-day financial needs.
With income levels growing, financial inclusion is now on the agenda for public and private financial institutions. The time is right for banks to take advantage of the unbanked and underbanked market, by changing their current operating model and customer offerings, to effectively serve this fast-growing, lucrative market.
Why banks should act now:
Access to new revenues. Banks can improve their annual revenues significantly by:
Closing the small business credit gap at average lending spreads and conservative estimates of fee-based services.
Including unbanked adults in the formal financial system, and raising their financial services spending levels. Social dividends. Banks on the forefront of financial inclusion for low-income consumers will be well-positioned to reap both economic and goodwill value in return.
What unbanked and underbanked customers need:
Easy access: Because physical banking infrastructures are expensive to develop, alternative distribution approaches are emerging. The most powerful of these may be mobile financial services.
Appropriate products: Available financial services also means available at the right price and design—affordable for low-income customers and relevant to their needs.
Attractive to use: Products and services that effectively address the dormant tendencies of low-income consumers.
Banks must seize the financial inclusion opportunity by focusing on key action points:
Define a clear strategy to serve the mass market segment as long-term commercially viable business.
Create a simple, needs-based product set—transact, save, borrow, invest and protect. Multiple customer use cases built on an open platform that are affordable, transparent and include activity-based pricing.
Build low-cost branches, taking advantage of hub and spoke servicing. Extend agent network with correspondent branches and agents.
Create simple banking processes. Focus on customer needs and financial education. Enable customer self-servicing and instant/rapid customer fulfillment.
Target straight-through processing with zero back office. Automate controls and risk decision-making. Introduce digital customer credit and identification analytics.
Extend customer reach through third-party partner and agent management.
Digitize and automate processes. Ensure mobile and digital-first enablement. Create a just-in-time model with flexible, low-cost, managed services. Use big data and analytics extensively.


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A Team in Flux
Even with young talent, Barroway's recent suit against Isles' Wang shows they still have plenty of issues.
Earlier this summer, I discussed how the New York Islanders young talent indicated a bright future for the franchise. However, recent reports show the team's future could be just as murky as ever.


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Fans are undoubtedly excited for the start of The Walking Dead season 2, but there also many questions handing over this season, in light of showrunner Frank Darabont being fired from the series. Darabont was the driving force behind the show, and a major reason why season one of The Walking Dead was a hit. While it remains to be seen how the show will fare without Darabont influencing future episodes, fans of the acclaimed director can rest comfortably in the knowledge that he crafted the first part of season 2.
So, is The Walking Dead season 2 premiere episode, "What Lies Ahead" a satisfying return to the bleak world of Robert Kirkman's acclaimed comic book?
Short answer: This episode showed Darabont and the cast at their best.
When last we left the survivors of The Walking Dead, they had fled the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, after a discouraged scientist and a few dispirited survivors chose to end their lives, rather than face the zombie apocalypse. As season 2 opens, the survivors are still on the run and hoping to find salvation. But where does salvation reside in hell - and how does a world of savagery, brutality and death change a person? These are the hard questions that face Rick Grimes and his companions in season 2.
Review (Spoilers)
"What Lies Ahead" is easily the best episode of The Walking Dead since the pilot episode (which was also crafted by Darabont), and it demonstrated the incredible potential this show has. In one episode we got terror, suspense, mystery, gore, drama, shock, and even some elation. Best of all, every minute of the premiere qualified as genuinely compelling TV.
Darabont's experience as a director elevates this show to a level most TV programs can't hope to match. The "zombie herd" sequence on the highway - which was shot on a real Atlanta highway with 150 zombie extras over 4 days - is something that not only reaches the upper echelons of quality TV programming - it's also in the upper echelons of quality movie moments. (I'm certain that I wasn't the only one who felt like they were watching a movie during that highway scene.)
After such a fantastic beginning you would think there would be nowhere to go but down - but Darabont and the cast definitely retain a good amount of the energy they initially muster for the remainder of the episode. The search for the missing girl, Sophia, was not as cinematic as the highway sequence (and definitely adhered to a more episodic TV structure), but that's OK, since it was still pretty good TV. That feeling of dread and despair was always present, and made you tense at the thought that Sophia could indeed meet an unhappy end - leaving her mother and the rest of survivors' fragile morale shattered by the tragedy.
In the midst of that high tension, there were some great dramatic moments between the various characters, which sowed promising seeds for the arcs the survivors will be on this season. Some characters (Andrea, Shane) are more interesting than others (T-Dog, Dale), but the great thing about a show like this is that characters can (and will) die at any moment, so it's easy to keep the cast trimmed and still give the audience a shock or two when someone bites it (no pun).
Virtually every scene in the premiere was relevant, and expanded both the characters and the themes of season 2, so it's hard to pick a favorite. Some of the more undercooked characters from season 1 had great moments to shine - Daryl (Norman Reedus) in that nauseating dissection scene, or Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) finally showing spunk by defending Rick's honor - and on the whole the episode balanced the time spent with each character well, so that no one felt left out or irrelevant. A drastic improvement on one of the major issues with season 1.
Admittedly, the scene with Rick (Andrew Lincoln) in the church was a little bit over-dramatic (the whole church scene was, really), but it still laid out an interesting arc for Rick this season, as he struggles to keep it together and lead his people, even though this horrible existence eats away at his morale - and morality - the same as it does any other man. Now that Rick and the survivors are over their initial confusion and panic about the world they're living in, it'll be interesting to see what kind of person each of them becomes, as they're forced to make hard choices (how long do you search for a missing child in zombie land?) and face hard realities (death, loss, etc...).
Last but not least - what an ending! Just when you thought there might be a glimmer of hope (Rick, Shane and Carl encountering that gorgeous buck and having a happy bonding moment) - hope turns into horror in the span of a gunshot. There are not many shows that will go so far as to depict a child getting shot - but hey, this is The Walking Dead we're talking about. Expect the unexpected.
Whatever budget Frank Darabont was asking for - whatever creative decisions he was making - it's clear from this episode that AMC should've catered to the man. Mad Men may be the critical darling (which gets it the biggest investment from the network) - but TV like this Walking Dead season 2 premiere has the potential to attract the masses, and ergo, the advertisers. Hopefully the ratings will tell that same tale.
You can catch The Walking Dead season 2 Sundays @ 9/8c on AMC
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