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Thursday, March 31, 2011
RIP Paul Baxley
Dukes star John Schneider broke the sad news to fans.
On April 16, The Dukes stars will reunite at Braemar Country Club to mourn their longtime director/stuntman Paul Baxley who also doubled for stars like Marlon Brando and James Dean.
Baxley passed earlier this month.
Baxley directed nine eps of The Dukes of Hazzard and performed hundreds of stunts on the show.
A crest fallen John Schneider has now asked Dukes devotees to join him and his fellow stars in remembering their fallen comrade.
"We have just received news of a ceremony to be held in his honor in April," Schneider e-mailed fans. "It will be attended by many of the cast and crew of The Dukes of Hazzard and it will be completely open to family, friends and fans."
BAXLEY, Paul (Paul Reginald Baxley)
Born: 9/24/1923, Casper, Wyoming, U.S.A.
Died: 3/4/2011, Palmdale, California, U.S.A.
PaulBaxley's westerns - 2nd unit director, stunt coordinator, actor stuntman.
Pirates of Monterey - 1947 [stunts]
Riders of the Range - 1950 [stunts]
Comanche Territory - 1950 [stunts]
Winchester '73 - 1950 [stunts]
Kansas Raiders - 1950 [stunts]
The Iron Mistress - 1952 [stunts]
Shane - 1953 [stunts]
Giant - 1956 [stunts]
Last of the Badmen - 1957 [stunts]
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral - 1957 [stunts]
Maverick (TV) - 1957 (telegram boy)
The Left Handed Gun - 1958 [stunts]
The Proud Rebel - 1958 [stunts]
The Badlanders - 1958 [stunts]
Yancy Derringer (TV) - 1958 [actor]
Buckskin (TV) - 1959 (Whitey)
The Restless Gun (TV) - 1959 (Will)
Laramie (TV) - 1959
Guns of the Timberland - 1960 (logger) [stunts]
Riverboat (TV) - 1960
The Tall Man (TV) - 1960 (Williams)
One-Eyed Jacks 1960 [2nd unit director, stunt coordinator]
Whispering Smith (TV) - 1961 (Corporal Forsythe)
Tales of Wells Fargo (TV) - 1962 (Olins, drunk)
The Travels of Jaime McPheeters (TV) - 1963-1964 [stunts]
Wagon Train (TV) 1963, 1964 (Reno, sentry, Jake)
The Appaloosa - 1966
The Great Bank Robbery - 1969 [2nd unit director, stunt coordinator]
The Avenging Angel (TV) - 1995 [2nd unit director, stunt coordinator]
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
RIP Esben Storm
By David Knox on March 29, 2011
Actor, writer, producer, director Esben Storm, who worked for many years in Australian children's television has died, aged 60.
He is believed to have suffered a heart attack yesterday, following heart surgery in December.
Storm worked as writer and director on such shows as Round the Twist (also playing "Mr. Snapper," pictured), The Genie from Down and Crash Zone.
In 2007 he was writer, director, producer and occasional actor on the SBS series Kick.
He also directed the features 27A, In Search of Anna, With Prejudice, Stanley, Deadly and Subterano plus the documentaries The Tasty Bust Reunion and America.
Other acting roles included Phoenix, Blue Heelers and Good Guys, Bad Guys.
His last acting appearance was on All Saints in 2008.
STORM, Esben
Born: 1950, Denmark
Died: 3/28/2011, Sydney, Australia
Esben Storm's western - actor:
Snowy River: The McGregor Saga (TV) - 1995 (Frobisher)
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Monday, March 28, 2011
RIP Farley Granger
Thesp appeared in Hitchcock's 'Strangers on a Train'
By Carmel Dagan
Actor Farley Granger, best known for his starring roles in two Alfred Hitchcock films, "Strangers on a Train" and "Rope," died Sunday of natural causes in New York City. He was 85.
Granger appeared in two films noir of note, both co-starrring Cathy O'Donnell: Nicholas Ray's "They Live by Night" and Anthony Mann's "Side Street."
He later made a great many appearances on television, including stints on several soap operas. He also had a significant legit career, appearing on Broadway in "The Seagull," "The Crucible," "The Glass Menagerie" and "Deathtrap."
In 2007, Granger published a memoir, "Include Me Out," in which he freely discussed life with his partner, Robert Calhoun, and as a bisexual in Hollywood.
Calhoun, a producer on CBS' "As the World Turns," predeceased him about three years ago. Granger leaves no immediate survivors.
GRANGER, Farley (Farley Earle Granger II)
Born: 7/1/195, San Jose, California, U.S.A.
Died: 3/27/2011, New York City, New York, U.S.A.
Farley Granger's westerns - actor:
Wagon Train (TV) - 1957 (Lt. Charles Avery)
Hondo (TV) - 1967 (Jack Graham)
They Call Me Trinity - 1970 (Major Harriman)
A Man Called Noon - 1973 (Judge Niland)
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
RIP Joe Wizan
Produced 'Along Came a Spider'
By Carmel Dagan
Joe Wizan, producer of films ranging from "...And Justice for All," with Al Pacino, to Morgan Freeman starrer "Along Came a Spider," died Monday, March 21, in Westlake Village, Calif., of natural causes after a long illness. He was 76.
Wizan started in the mailroom at William Morris and went to become a successful agent there and at London International Agency and Creative Management, the predecessor to ICM). Clients included Robert Altman, Sydney Pollack, Mark Rydell and John Boorman; agency proteges included Barry Diller, Jeff Berg, MGM prexy Mike Marcus and Mike Medavoy.
He segued into a career as a prolific producer, producing 24 films. In 1972 he produced three, including "Junior Bonner," with Steve McQueen, and "Jeremiah Johnson," with Robert Redford. He produced Robert Wise's 1977 thriller "Audrey Rose," and "...And Justice for All" in 1979.In the early to mid-'80s, as prexy of production at 20th Century Fox, he oversaw films including "Romancing the Stone," "Bachelor Party," "Revenge of the Nerds," "Ladyhawke," "Enemy Mine" and "Cocoon."
He produced the Burt Lancaster-Kirk Douglas reunion "Tough Guys" in 1986 and William Friedkin's "The Guardian" in 1990, and he was exec producer on "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot!" In 1997 he made the first of two films based on James Patterson's Alex Cross novel: "Kiss the Girls," starring Freeman and Ashley Judd. The sequel, 2001's "Along Came a Spider," was Wizan's last movie.
Born in Monterrey, Mexico, Wizan grew up in the Boyle Heights section of East Los Angeles, went to UCLA and served in the National Guard.
During the 1990s he created and hosted talkradio show "Inside the Movies" (later "The A List") on Los Angeles radio station KRLA; his guests on the shows included actors, screenwriters, directors, producers and studio execs. More recently he served as an adjunct professor at UC Santa Barbara's film studies department.
He is survived by his wife, Melanie; a son and a daughter; two stepsons; two grandchildren; two stepgrandchildren; and his sister.
WIZAN, Joe
Born: 7/1/1935, Monterrey, Mexico
Died: 3/2/2011, Westlake Village, California, U.S.A.
Joe Wizan's weserns - producer:
Junior Bonner - 1972
Jeremiah Johneon - 1972
El Diablo (TV) - 1990
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RIP Olivier Raoux
A victim of cardiac arrest on the island of Mullein, where he had gone to prepare for the filming of "Seigneurs" by Olivier Dahan, the head designer Olivier Raoux died Tuesday, March 23, 2011 at age 49. Raoux was preparing to return to the director of "La Môme", the film that earned him a César in 2008, and a British BAFTA nomination. Previously, he designed sets for numerous plays, including La Vérité si je mens 1 and 2 , Jet Set and "Rire et châtiment". Also in the credits of "Rivières pourpres 2", Olivier Raoux was very busy since the triumph of "La Môme" and had recently worked on "Les Enfants de Trimpelbach" (with the key new appointment to Caesar in 2009), "La Rafle", but the thriller "Proie" (in theaters next July) and the highly anticipated Marsupilami of Alain Chabat.
RAOUX, Olivier
Born: 4/1/1961, Noyon, Picardy, France
Died: 3/22/2011, Ile de Molene, Brittany, France
Oliver Raoux's western - production designer:
The Daltons - 2004
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RIP Helen Stenborg
by Jeff Labrecque
Helen Stenborg, an Obie Award-winning stage and film actress and long-time spouse of the late Tony Award-winning actor Barnard Hughes, died on Tuesday. She was 86. Stenborg was awarded the Obie for distinguished performance in 1986, when she appeared in Lanford Wilson's Talley and Son. In 1999, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as the pyromaniac Sarita Myrtle in Noel Coward's Waiting in the Wings, a production that starred her husband, Lauren Bacall, and Rosemary Harris. Her last Broadway performance was in 2002 as Rebecca Nurse in The Crucible with Liam Neeson and Laura Linney.
Stenborg also appeared on film in On the Hook with Frank Langella and Elliot Gould, Three Days of the Condor, Starting Over with Jill Clayburgh and Burt Reynolds, Enchanted and Doubt. She worked extensively in television, including a long stint as an evil housekeeper on the soap opera, Another World.
She is survived by two children and a grandson.
STENBORG, Helen
Born: 1/24/1925, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.
Died: 3/22/2011, New York City, New York, U.S.A.
Helen Stenborg's western - actress:
Little House on the Prairie (TV) - 1977 (Betty Bowers)
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RIP Elizabeth Taylor
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Elizabeth Taylor, one of the last of the old-fashioned movie stars, has died.
Her publicist says Taylor was surrounded by her four children today when she died of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She had been hospitalized for about six weeks.
Taylor was 79.
Her son, Michael Wilding, says his mother was "an extraordinary woman who lived life to the fullest, with great passion, humor, and love." He says "her spirit will always be with us."
Taylor won three Academy Awards, two for acting and one for her humanitarian work, but is equally well known for her personal life.
The London-born actress was a star at age 12, a bride and a divorcee at 18, a superstar at 19 and a widow at 26. In all, she was married eight times -- twice to Richard Burton.
She was also afflicted by ill health. She underwent at least 20 major operations and she nearly died from a bout with pneumonia in 1990. In 1994 and 1995, she had both hip joints replaced, and in February 1997, she underwent surgery to remove a benign brain tumor. In 1983, she acknowledged a 35-year addiction to sleeping pills and pain killers. She was treated for alcohol and drug abuse problems at the Betty Ford Clinic.
A private family funeral is planned later this week.
TAYLOR, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor)
Born: 2/27/1932, Hampstead, London, England, U.K.
Died: 3/23/2011, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Elizabeth Taylor's westerns - actress:
Callaway Went That Away - 1951 [herself]
Giant - 1956 (Leslie Benedict)
North and South (TV) - 1985 (Madam Conti)
Poker Alice (TV) - 1987 (Alice Moffit)
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
RIP Reuven Shefer
Theater veteran, who was a member of the Theatre Club Quartet, Reuven Shefer passed away this morning at age 86.
The veteran theater actor, Reuven Schaffer was born in Tel Aviv in 1925 and joined the theater in the early seventies. He participated in plays "He Walked in the Fields", "Amadeus", "All My Sons", "As You Like It", "Joseph Cotton Stripes", "Merchant of Venice "and many others.
In 1957, he became a member of the Gideon Singers, with players Yaacov Ben Sira and the late Shimon Bar established the Theater Club Quartet, which continued singing and entertainment until 1967. The group was initially directed by Joseph Milo, a chamber veteran.
Later he also collaborated with Haim Hefer Dahn Ben-Amotz. Shefer wrote many songs for the quartet, including "This Panorama Street" and "Like Jaffa at Night", he appeared on stage at the Hamam Club in Jaffa.
Alongside his work in the theater, he appeared in the films "Saleh Returned", "Dalia Sailors", "Arbinkea", "Canal Belaumlich", "Azit Parachuting Dog" and "Charlie and a Half." In 2004 he took part in a series of documentaries "The Jewish State of Anat Zeltzer" and "Modi Bar - On" which dealt with Israeli humor. Reuven is survived by his wife, two daughters and five grandchildren. He will be laid to rest tomorrow in Yarkon Cemetery in Tel Aviv.
SHEFER, Reuven
Born: 1925, Tel Aviv, Palestine
Died: 3/22/2012, Tel Aviv, Israel
Reuven Shefer's western - actor:
Carlos - 1971 (Tassos)
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Sunday, March 20, 2011
RIP Wolfgang Spier
The actor and director Wolfgang Spier died on Friday evening March 18, 2011 after a long illness at the age of 90 years in Berlin, his family announced on Saturday.
As the "King of the Boulevard" Spier had staged more than 250 plays at various German theaters. On Berlin's Kurfürstendamm Theater, he was an institution. There, he celebrated with Harald Juhnke and Günter Pfitzmann great success. Spier was famous for his comedy series "The Odd Couple" with Grit Böttcher, Harald Juhnke. As a voice actor, he lent his distinctive voice to Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasence. On television, he also hosted the shows "One Against All" and "Three Times a Liar."
Spier was born in Frankfurt, Germany on September 27, 1920 and came to Berlin in 1929. Spier really wanted to be doctor but that was denied him during the Nazi era, because of his Jewish origins. His path led him to Wiesbaden State Theatre and in 1950 he returned to Berlin, where he founded the Theatre Club in the British center. Following were more than five decades of his own productions and theater roles, ranging from boulevard comedy to Shakespeare. Spier also appeared in one DEFA East German western "Prairie in the City" 1971 and a TV movie called "Mixikanische Revolution in 1968.
SPIER, Wolfgang
Born: 9/27/1920, Frankfurt, Main, Germany
Died: 3/18/2011, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Wolfgang Spier's westerns - actor:
Mixikanische Revolution (TV) - 1968 (Sterling)
Prairie in the City - 1971
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
RIP Pep Torrents
Voice actor Pep Torrents, who dubbed Al Pacino in "The Godfather" and became popular for his work on the series of TV-3 "Poble Nou", "Nissaga de poder" and "El cor de la ciutat", died at the age of 67 years on March 3, 2011 in Barcelona, Spain. Josep Torrents Garcia was born in Sabadell, Barcelona on September 3 1942 and worked in theater, film and television as well as being a director and voice actor. Pep started in the acting world in 1968 in the Cova del Drac, Tuset street of Barcelona. Since 1983 he has been devoted to aspects of dubbing director and voice actor and dubbed Alan Alda in "Manhattan Murder Mystery" and Anthony Hopkins in "The Elephant Man", among many other actors, in Spanish.
TORRENTS, Pep (Josep Torrents Garcia)
Born: 9/3/1942, Sabadell, Barcelon, Cataluna, Spain
Died: 3/3/2011, Barcelona, Cataluna, Spain
Pep Torretns western - voice actor:
Fistful of Dollars - 1964 [Spanish voice of Clint Eastwood]
A Long Ride from Hell - 1968 [Spanish voice of Wayde Preston, Ivan Scratuglia]
Sabata - 1969 [Spanish voice of Lee Van Cleef]
Keoma - 1976 [Spanish voice of Franco Nero]
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Monday, March 14, 2011
RIP Howard A. Roberts
Conducted, arranged music on Broadway, TV
By Variety Staff
Howard A. Roberts, a composer, conductor and musician whose wide-
ranging activities included theater and TV work as a musical director,
died March 10 in Chatsworth, Calif., of complications related to
diabetes. He was 86.
Roberts was musical director of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater and the
Donald McKayle Dance companies and was musical director for Harry Belafonte. As an actor and singer, he created the role of Robbins in the 1952 international company of "Porgy and Bess" starring Leontyne Price, William Warfield and Cab Calloway. He was the first African American tenor soloist for the Robert Shaw Chorale.
Early performing experiences included playing trumpet in the bands of Lionel Hampton and Lucky Millinder and as both trumpet player and musical director for Cab Calloway.
In New York in the 1950s and 1960s he performed as a singer and actor in "Shinbone Alley" and "Carmen Jones."
On Broadway, Mr. Roberts was musical director and conductor for the Tony Award-winning musical "Raisin," the 1976 revival of "Guys and Dolls," "Comin' Uptown," "The Wiz" and "Trumpets of the Lord" and was choral arranger for "The Great White Hope."
TV credits as musical director or conductor include "The Strolling '20s," "Belafonte at the O'Keefe Center" and variety series "The Leslie Uggams Show" on CBS; and "The Duke Ellington Special" and "Alvin Ailey: Memories and Visions" on PBS. He drew Emmy nominations for 1972's "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" and 1983's "In Performance at the White House," both on PBS. His compositions include original scores for television, including "Cindy" on ABC, "Ten Blocks on the Camino Real" and "Black New World" on PBS, as well as the original score for the feature film "Lord Shango."
Roberts produced recordings at Columbia Records for Tony Bennett, Diahann Carroll, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, Rhetta Hughes, Bobby Scott, Barbra Streisand and Simon Estes. He also worked as arranger and/or conductor on recordings for Estes, as well as Lena Horne, Michel Legrand, Galt McDermott, the Roy Meriwether Trio, Billy Taylor, Pat Williams and the Broadway cast albums for "Raisin" and "Guys and Dolls." He conceived, produced and conducted albums under his own name with the Howard Roberts Chorale: "Dream a Little Dream of Me" on Kapp Records and "Let My People Go: Black Spirituals/African Drums" on Columbia Records.
Roberts' collaboration with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater began in 1958, including his creation of the musical score for the company's signature ballet "Revelations" in 1960. He spent 15 years as musical director and conductor for the company.
Roberts composed the full-length musical theater piece "The Sun Do Move"; the score for the European tour of James Baldwin's "The Amen Corner"; the original musical "Blackbirds"; "Harlem Sweet" (from the works of Langston Hughes); "Black New World"; and the original score for the AMAS Repertory Theater production and of Langston Hughes' "Black Nativity."
Born in Burlington, N.J., Roberts grew up in Cleveland. Roberts received his post-secondary education at Baldwin-Wallace College and Case Western Reserve U. and received his Bachelors of Music and Masters of Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music.
He was a member of AFTRA, the American Federation of Musicians and Actors Equity. He was also a member of the National Assn. of Negro Musicians.
Roberts' wife of 47 years, singer-actress Doris Galiber, died in 2001. He is survived by a daughter, Kim Roberts Hedgpeth, national executive director of AFTRA; a son, Brian; and two grandchildren.
A funeral service is scheduled for Saturday, March 19, at 10 a.m., at the Angelus Funeral Home in Los Angeles, to be followed by a memorial service in New York City at a date to be determined in late March.
Howard A. Roberts western - musician:
Charro! - 1969
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RIP Andrés Resino Fernández
The actor Andrew Resino, which became very popular for her role as bad in the series 'The Super', has died at dawn on Sunday at age 70 as a result of cancer.
Europa Press March 14, 2011
The actor Andrés Resino Fernández, born in the town of Toledo, died yesterday evening at the clinic in Santa Cruz Mompia Bezana (Cantabria) after struggling in recent years against cancer. Resino was married to actress Eva León [1948- ] from 1962-1972 producer, assistant director, actress Mercedes Resino.
Andres Resino became very popular at the end of his career for his role in 'The Super', the renowned series of Telecinco in which he portrayed the evil character Alfonso Torres from 1996 to 1999.
However, the actor was also linked to other projects on small screen productions such as "Agente 700", "Canguros", "Hermanos de leche" and "El a auténtico Ridrigo Leal" among others. Resino attended the university majoring in Political Science a the Escuela Oficial de Interpretación, intervino también en películas como "Días de viejo color", "La noche de Walpurgis", "La cólera del viento", de Mario Camus, "Aunque la hormona se vista de seda" and "Los amantes de la isla del Diablo". Resino also had a long theater career debuting in 1975.
RESINO, Andrés Fernández
Born: 11/6/1940, Velada, Toledo Castilla-La-Mancha, Spain
Died: 3/13/2011, Santa Cruz de Bezana, Cantabria, Spain
Resino Fernández Resino's westerns - actor:
Trinity Sees Red - 1970 (Carlos)
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Sunday, March 13, 2011
RIP Marina Coffa
COFFA, Marina
Born: 10/16/1951, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Died: 3/8/2011, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Marina Coffa's westerns - actress:
The Last Rebel - 1971 (Camelia)
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RIP Joaquín Blanco
BLANCO, Joaquín (Joaquín Blanco Calvache)
Born: 6/21/1938, Almeria, Andalucia, Spain
Died: 2/28/2011, Barcelona, Cataluna, Spain
Joaquín Blanco's westerns - actor:
Epitaph for a Fast Gun - 1965
Heroes of the West - 1965 (Fred)
Gentleman Killer - 1967 (Sam)
God Forgives... I Don't - 1967
And God Said to Cain - 1970
Dig Your Grave Friend... Sabata's Coming - 171 (Murdy)
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Friday, March 11, 2011
RIP Robert P. Marcucci
Discovered Fabian, Frankie Avalon
By Christopher Morris
Indie label owner Robert P. Marcucci, who discovered teen idols Frankie Avalon and Fabian and served as the model for the title character in 1980 film "The Idolmaker," died of natural causes on March 9 in Ontario, Calif. He was 71.
Philadelphia-born Marcucci and Peter DeAngelis' label Chancellor Records fueled the teen idol craze of the late '50s and early '60s, the era following rock 'n' roll's first explosion and before the British Invasion of '64.
The imprint, distributed by powerful ABC-Paramount, clicked big with the handsome young vocalist Avalon (born Francis Avalone), who notched the No. 1 hits "Venus" and "Why" in 1959 and five other top 10 singles. Many were penned by Marcucci and DeAngelis.
The 16-year-old Philadelphian Fabiano Forte scored a trio of top 10 records under the moniker Fabian; among those was "Hound Dog Man," the title song for his 1959 feature film debut.
Marcucci took songwriting credits on some of his charges' movie vehicles, including Avalon's "Beach Party" and Fabian's "North to Alaska."
Philly-based DJ and TV host Dick Clark was instrumental in the success of Marcucci's acts. "It was very much 'American Bandstand' that helped launch Frankie Avalon and Fabian, both," Marcucci told writer John Broven.
DeAngelis died in 1982. Marcucci sold Chancellor to Digital Music Group in 2006.
Screenwriter Edward Di Lorenzo took Marcucci as the inspiration for Vinnie Vacarri, a high-voltage record man played by the late Ray Sharkey in Taylor Hackford's pic "The Idolmaker." Marcucci served as technical advisor and had a bit role as a nightclub heckler in the film.
Marcucci went on to co-produce 1984 Bill Murray dramatic vehicle "The Razor's Edge" and the 1985 TV remake of "A Letter to Three Wives." He was later active in talent management.
Survivors include his son Marc. Son Robert Anthony Marcucci, an actor, predeceased him.
MARCUCCI, Robert P.
Born: 2/28/1930, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Died: 3/9/2011, Ontario, California, U.S.A.
Robert P. Marcucci's western - soundtrack:
North to Alaska - 1960
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Thursday, March 10, 2011
RIP Mario Clavell
At age 88 Mario Clavel says goodbye
The artist, author and interpreter of a vast romantic songs, died this morning at age 88, in Buenos Aires. With its boleros, songs, ballads, tangos and other dances nurtured the repertory of many performers.
The composer Mario Clavell, who was the author and interpreter of a vast romantic songs, died this morning at age 88, in Buenos Aires. With its boleros, songs, ballads, tangos and other dances nurtured the repertory of the most sought after performers.
"My father was dragging several complications that were aggravating," said Margaret, daughter of the artist who was born on October 9, 1922.
The daughter of Mario Clavel, who shone in several countries and was highlighted from songs like "Hold me like this", "Us" or "I want to be" announced that there will be no wake and Clavell's remains will be buried tomorrow morning Memorial in the private cemetery of the locality of Pilar.
CLAVELL, Mario Miguel
Born: 10/9/1922, Ayachucho, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dead: 3/10/2011, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mario Clavell's western - singer:
Los cinco halcones - 1962
The artist, author and interpreter of a vast romantic songs, died this morning at age 88, in Buenos Aires. With its boleros, songs, ballads, tangos and other dances nurtured the repertory of many performers.
The composer Mario Clavell, who was the author and interpreter of a vast romantic songs, died this morning at age 88, in Buenos Aires. With its boleros, songs, ballads, tangos and other dances nurtured the repertory of the most sought after performers.
"My father was dragging several complications that were aggravating," said Margaret, daughter of the artist who was born on October 9, 1922.
The daughter of Mario Clavel, who shone in several countries and was highlighted from songs like "Hold me like this", "Us" or "I want to be" announced that there will be no wake and Clavell's remains will be buried tomorrow morning Memorial in the private cemetery of the locality of Pilar.
CLAVELL, Mario Miguel
Born: 10/9/1922, Ayachucho, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dead: 3/10/2011, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mario Clavell's western - singer:
Los cinco halcones - 1962
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RIP Kippy Casado
The Mexican actress, who in the late 80's and early 90's led the winning time and in full swing at age 71 died of cancer
Mexican actress Kippy Casado died Sunday morning at 71 years of age.
Known more for the generations of the eighties and nineties shows as host of competitions, Casado also participated in several films.
Is etched in the collective memory of the Mexicans their program earn the time , which it held, she was one of the most successful betting Televisa between 1987 and 1990 and launched the careers of Gabriela Rivero , known as the master Ximena of Carousel as well as his own son, Juan Jose , who popularized the dance "The meneíto" and again later to duet on the show in full swing . It is also impossible to forget a "henpecked husband" as he called the canary Married guess the fate of the contestants.
In addition to Juan Jose Casado Alby is survived by her daughter and granddaughter, Elvia.
CASADO, Kippy
Born: 1939, Cuba
Died: 3/6/2011, Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico
Kippy Casado's western - actress:
El Bronco Reynosa - 1961
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
RIP Tara Ashton
Milwaukee in 1959. She went to Hollywood, where her agent Henry Wilson renamed her Tara Ashton, worked for the Steve Allen Show, for Jerry Lewis, appeared in the movie "Marriage on the Rocks" with Dean Martin, appeared in some of the "Beach Blanket" movies and in "Haunted Palace" with Vincent Price among others. She joined Debra Reynold's, Hollywood Christian Group, helped Frank Sinatra host a party for the Astronauts in Florida, dated other stars including Elvis Presley and Chad Everett until she met the love of her life actor Robert Dix. They married, she joined the Baha'i faith and had a son Rob, which caused her to return to Milwaukee to raise him with the help of her parents. She was an MGIC executive secretary and continued modeling until she retired. Although reticent to talk about her early days, she maintained contact with her old friends in Hollywood, including Harvey Korman and wife Donna and others.
She will be be deeply missed by her dear friends, Ken, Carla, Mark; the entire Milwaukee Bahai community, her beloved son Rob and his devoted wife Lynn, her sons and grandchildren; her ex-husband Robert Brimmer Dix, his wife and family.
For several recent years, Darlene has provided devotion readings for the Sunday morning services at the Milwaukee Baha'i Center. Private funeral services are pending.
ASHTON, Tara (Darlene Lucht Brimmer)
Born: 3/17/1938, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
Died: 3/4/2011, Franklin, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
Tara Ashton's western - actress:
Five Bloody Graves - 1970 (Althea Richards)
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Sunday, March 6, 2011
RIP Angelo D'Alessandro
Most of D'Alessandro's creative ability was used in Italian television and documentary films. He was the creator of the TV series "The Living Gospel" for RAI. Among his credits were as director and screenwriter of the Euro-western mini-series that was later released as a feature film, "The Jack London Story" (1973). Born in Putignano, Bari, Italy on April 17, 1926, he enrolles as a physics student at the Free Academy of Theatre run by director Peter Scharoff where he graduated in 1948. Later after attending the Centro Sperimentale di Cinema in 1951 he worked as an assistant to Lattuada, Fellini and Lizzani, making his debut as a director with "The Attic" (1955). In 1998 he was a collaborator on the magazine "Cinema" as a theater critic.
D'ALESSANDRO, Angelo
Born: 4/17/1926, Putignano, Bari, Italy
Died: 2/1/2011, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Angelo D'Alessandro's western - director, screenwriter:
The Jack London Story (TV) - 1973
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Friday, March 4, 2011
RIP Charles Jarrott
Although "Anne of the Thousand Days" (1969) was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including best picture, and "Mary, Queen of Scots" (1971) received five Oscar nominations, Jarrott was not recognized by the academy for his work on the historical costume dramas. Other films he directed included the 1977 melodrama "The Other Side of Midnight" and the 1973 musical remake of "Lost Horizon."
Jarrott was born June 16, 1927, in London and during World War II served in the British Royal Navy after his mother agreed to let him join as a teenager. He started in the entertainment business as a stage manager and an actor. He began directing stage and television productions in England before moving to Canada, where he acted and directed.
His TV directing credits include "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" starring Jack Palance and airing on ABC in 1968, and "Poor Little Rich Girl" with Farrah Fawcett playing Barbara Hutton in 1987.
JARROTT, Charles
Born: 6/16/1927, London, England, U.K.
Died: 3/4/2011, Woodland Hills, California, U.S.A.
Charles Jarrott's western - director:
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (TV) - 1957
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
RIP José Conde
Lively and energetic, the actor was widely known for his many supporting roles in numerous films and television series for more than two-decade career. He was 56 years and among his works include roles in TV series such as "Sin Tetas no paradise"', "Family Doctor", "Central Hospital 'or' central Brigade". He had also recently appeared in "Time for Jose Mota" and "23-F: History of a betrayal".
CONDE, José (aka José Antonio Conde Cid)
Born: 1955, Ourense, Galicia, Spain
Died: 2/2/2011, Ciudad Lineal, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
José Conde's western - actor.
The Queen of Swords (TV) - 2001 (Don Miguel)
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RIP Paquito Diaz
March 4, 2011, 12:25amMANILA, Philippines
Filipino actor Paquito Diaz, best known for playing villain in most Filipino movies, has passed away. He was 73.
The actor passed away in their home in Daraga, Albay Thursday afternoon after he experienced difficulty breathing. Prior to that, Diaz was confined at the Estevez Memorial Hospital.
Diaz is best remembered playing opposite the likes of the late Fernando Poe Jr. He is the father of actor Joko Diaz and actress Cheska Diaz.
Diaz suffered a stroke in 2004 and had major brain surgery which practically ate up his savings. It was at this point that his body grew weaker and his health deteriorated.
Unofficial news about his death hit the news last week. However, it was only this Thursday that his wife Nena and daughter Joanna Diaz-Gallent confirmed and relayed the sad news
DIAZ, Paquito (Francisco Bustillos Diaz)
Born: 5/28/1937, Pampanga, Philippines
Died: 3/3/2011, Daraga, Albay, Philippines
Paquito Diaz's westerns - actor:
Alas, Hari at Sota - 1971
San Basilio - 1981 (Diablo)
A Man Called 'Tolongges' - 1981 (El Tigre)
Da Best in da West - 1984 (Diablo)
Cuadro de Jack - 1994
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
RIP George Courtney Ward
Saturday 26th February 2011
He may not be a household name himself, but photographer George Courtney Ward worked with some legends in his time.
George, who died at his home in Westbourne on Tuesday, February 15, aged 93, photographed some of the most famous names in cinema during his 30 years working at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire.
Dirk Bogarde, Michael Caine, Frank Sinatra, Lauren Bacall, Alec Guinness and Kenneth More were just some of the screen stars in George's portfolio.
He was understood to be a good friend of Lord Attenborough and worked on some of the best-loved British films, including Oliver Twist in 1948, This Sporting Life in 1963 and Great Expectations in 1946, and also designed the artwork for Brief Encounter.
George was born in Christchurch in 1917 and grew up in the town before becoming a stills photographer at Pinewood.
At first he commuted, but shortly moved to Fulmer in Buckinghamshire with his mother and aunt.
After more than 30 years working at Pinewood, George moved to Elstree studios in 1969 when the photographic department was closed down.
But when that studio was taken over in 1972, he decided to sell his house, retire and move back down to Bournemouth.
George had no close family, but his dearest friend, John Smith, remembers him as his "second father".
The pair met while they were both working in the photographic department at Elstree.
"He was a very independent man and he had a great love of music," remembers John, who would visit George regularly and phone him almost every day.
"He had a wonderful knowledge of music, going back to the 1930 and 1940s, and musical films, he had a great love of that as well. One of his idols was Dick Powell."
John, who lives in Hertfordshire with his wife Beryl, added: "He was a wonderful listener with a great sense of humour.
"He was a like a father to my wife and my son and he treated me as his own son because he really didn't have any close family.
"He was a wonderful man, totally respected in the industry. He made a lot of friends, everybody loved him, he was very, very warm.
"I learnt a lot from him. I've lost a great friend and really a second father."
George's funeral takes place at 12pm on Tuesday March 8 Bournemouth Crematorium.
WARD, George Courtney
Born: 1917 Christchurch, Dorset, England, U.K.
Died: 2/15/2011 Westbourne, Dorset, England, U.K.
George Courtney Ward's western - still photographer:
The Singer Not the Song - 1961
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Yesterday, while most were squarely focused on the Super Bowl, I'll admit that I had one browser up just to follow the PGA tournament in Phoenix (Waste Management Open). Pretty decent tournament with high quality players. Anyway, Wilson, a Menomonee Falls native whom I golfed against in high school, won the tournament – his 2nd PGA Tour victory already this year. He is now the leading golfer on tour. (Pocketed over $1 million for his effort yesterday alone.)
Check out this picture of Wilson who sported a cheesehead on the 16th hole while walking to the green. The 16th is a short part 3 hole that has become known as a wild party hole because of its stadium-seating – the crowd behaves like a football crowd, not a golf crowd. Absolutely awesome. Once again Packer fan-ness knows no bounds.
Congrats Mark on having a monster season already after barely 1 month. Amazing.

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Effective October 2014, Producer's Choice alfalfa and forage seed products will be renamed and distributed as Alforex Seeds. The Alforex Seeds name is derived from our vision of Alfalfa and Forage Excellence.
This change is designed to streamline grower access to the latest alfalfa varieties and forage seed technologies. The Alforex Seeds brand will feature former Producer's Choice PGI varieties growers are familiar with, along with support from the same team that successfully managed the Producer's Choice brand.


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Augie Meyers' style and his Vox Continental has become one of music's most distinctive keyboard sounds around. Augie can be heard with the Sir Douglas Quintet, Texas Tornados, Meyers' solo efforts as well as on landmark albums by Bob Dylan ("Time Out of Mind" and "Love and Theft") and John Hammond ("Wicked Grin"). Echoes of the Meyers' style and sound can be heard in the music of the Doors, the Kinks, the Animals as well as the Beatles just to name a few.
Rolling out of San Antonio, Texas in the early 60's, the Sir Douglas Quintet, a musical partnership formed with Doug Sahm, brought such hit tunes as "Mendocino" and "She's About a Mover." By fusing Tex-Mex, Conjunto and soulful rock together along with the power of Meyers' distinctive Vox organ, an impact that is still being felt in rock 'n' roll today. While the Sir Douglas Quintet never broke up and never succumbed to the lure of the oldies circuit, when Meyers and his musical cohorts decided they wanted to do something different, they did. That led to the formation of The Texas Tornados and a Grammy award-winning South Texas sound. Meyers worked steadily with Sahm until the kinetic guitarist/vocalist passed away in 1999. Meyers has always pursued projects that interest him as an individual and as a collaborator and has long refused to lock himself into one style of music.
Quote from Bob Dylan:
"Augie's my man. He's like an intellectual who goes fishing using bookworms. Seriously though, he's the shining example of a musician, Vox player or otherwise, who can break the code. His playing speaks volumes. Speaks in tongue actually. He can bring a song, certainly any one of mine, into the real world. I've loved his playing going all the way back to the Sir Doug days when he was featured and dominant. What makes him so great is that internally speaking, he's the master of syncopation and timing. And this is something that cannot be taught. If you need someone to get you through the shipping lanes and there's no detours, Augie will get you right straight through….Augie's your man."
Quote from John Hammond:
"Augie is one of the gems of the universe and is one of the greatest musicians that I've had the honor of working with. His musical instincts are impeccable, he's just a natural."


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Warren Ellis Takes On SECRET AVENGERS An Issue At A Time
At C2E2 two weekends ago in Chicago, Nick Spencer hinted that a rather big-name writer would be coming on board Secret Avengers following his Point One installment of the series and three Fear Itself tie-in issues. As announced Saturday afternoon during Marvel's "Cup O' Joe" WonderCon in San Francisco, it turns out that writer is Warren Ellis, he of Transmetropolitan, Authority, Planetary and Nextwave fame.For Secret Avengers, Ellis is revisiting the Global Frequency and Fell formula, with every issue being a done-in-one story. He's being joined by a variety of artists, starting with Jamie McKelvie (Phonogram, Generation Hope) in August's #16. Newsarama talked via email with both creators for more information on Secret Avengers — and some colorful commentary from Ellis. Newsarama: Warren, you're obviously pretty selective with the work-for-hire stuff you take on — what attracted you to Secret Avengers?
Warren Ellis: Ed Brubaker made me do it. Ed's a Hollywood guy now, and knows all kinds of scary people. If I hadn't taken the gig, I would have lost my LA privileges.
Nrama: And for this run, you're doing a series of self-contained, one-issue stories, similar with what you did with Fell. Why was that the right approach for this book?
Ellis: Well, Ed told me that one of the big influences behind the books conception was my Global Frequency. Which was a series of self-contained single issues (that predates Fell). So, I thought, I sort of remember how to write those, so let's take Secret Avengers all the way back there. I dunno if it's the right approach, but it's the one I'm using. It should contrast the book nicely with the other Avengers books. Since I started responding to this interview, Marvel's commissioned Naked Avengers from Bendis, but that opens with a six-issue arc entitled "Avengers Disrobed," so we're still good.Nrama: Jamie, you're re-teaming with Warren Ellis (who you worked with on an Osborn back-up), and noted on Twitter a few weeks ago that an Ellis script was making you go blind, so it sounds like something had a profound effect.
Jamie McKelvie: It's mostly because... well, you'll see when you turn to page 4 of the issue. You know how Warren used to joke "I can write 'double page splash, aliens appear over LA' in seconds and it will take Bryan Hitch three days to draw it?" That. It's great, though, when you're challenged it makes you get better.
Or curl into a ball crying.
Warren is great to work with. His scripts are very entertaining, and he knows how to write an action scene. I can pretty much see exactly what the page should look like as I'm reading the script. And, like I say, he's willing to push me so that I can grow as an artist.
Sorry, that was a bit hippie, wasn't it?
Nrama: Warren, a big part of the appeal of Secret Avengers is the unique lineup, with characters pulled from throughout the Marvel Universe. Are you going to be sticking with the lineup we've seen in the book so far, or maybe making a few alterations?
Ellis: Sticking with the lineup: there was nothing in Ed's run that was broken, after all. The one thing I am doing is, because of the self-contained single issues, using fewer of the overall cast per issue. Think of the entire cast as a pool from which people can be drawn per mission.
Nrama: Though your first issue is still about four months away, can you comment at all on the nature of the threats the Secret Avengers will be facing? Sounds like we're talking large-scale, global threats.
Ellis: Who told you that? Who's lying to you? Give me their names, Albert. I will deal with them. I am not like the others. I am your friend.
Also, Bendis just started writing Large-Scale Global Avengers. So I have to have the Secret Avengers beating up prescription drugs abusers outside pharmacies while disguised as a KISS tribute band now.
Nrama: OK, I'll forego any hackneyed Secret Avengers-as-KISS members jokes, and instead ask this: are there any characters from the lineup that you're especially looking forward to writing? Given what you did with, say, American Eagle in Thunderbolts, I think it's clear that you have the ability to pull a lot out of unexpected sources.
Ellis: What I will say is that Ant-Man is bullsh*t. Ed's all, "wow, you're not using Ant-Man! Ant-Man's so cool!" Which was Ed's way of saying "use Ant-Man or it will be the worse for you." But someone has to stand up to Ed Brubaker's evil And Ant-Man is a "superhero" of the size and essential usefulness of an errant blob of snot. Ant-Man is bullsh*t. Say it with me.Nrama: Jamie, are there any Secret Avengers characters you've found uniquely (or surprisingly) fun to illustrate?
McKelvie: I actually had a great time on all of them. They've got such different personalities, body language, and so on, that they each presented a different challenge. I've drawn two of them before — one of them only briefly — and it was nice to be able to work on and develop how I draw them.Nrama: A widescreen, action movie-type comic is a little different than what people might expect from you, Jamie, given quieter comics like this month's Generation Hope #5. So is this assignment you changing things up a bit?
McKelvie: Yes! I've been pegged as the guy who draws emotion and body language, and that's cool, because those are two very important aspects of telling a story with images. But this issue is kind of crazy full of action, punching, explosions and so on. And I loved working on it, so much fun. I don't want to spoil the issue but it's very, very different from what people might expect from me.Nrama: And with all this Bendis talk (fairly inevitable in any Marvel interview; essentially obligatory in one about an Avengers title) it brings to mind that he happens to be writing a comic book starring one of the Secret Avengers (Moon Knight, natch). Can readers expect some degree of interaction (however subtle it may be) between the two titles?
Ellis: Not so much. I've read the first couple of issues of Bendis' Moon Knight, and... well, you'll see why there won't be any real interaction between the two titles. Also, Bendis has co-opted the character for Large Hadron Avengers.
Nrama: Are you planning on using established Marvel antagonists in these stories, or is it more about establishing new threats, like what Ed Brubaker has done with the Shadow Council? Or, y'know, possibly more likely, a mix of the two?
Ellis: We all have to do what Ed says now. He dresses like one of those old-time Mafia dons from Godfather 2 these days, and talks about "dipping his beak" a lot. If I were to create new characters, he would say "this is not the act of a friend" and the next morning I'd wake up with my kid's horse's head in my bed.
So, yes, I'm still using the Shadow Council. But it amuses me to fold some old Marvel history in there too. I just hope Ed doesn't notice. Ed is very powerful. I think that, when he dies, some two hundred years from now, he will become some kind of destroying angel and Criminal will become the new Bible. I am hiding this warning to the world in this interview in the hope that he does not notice.
Nrama: If you can talk about it at this point, is there a finite number of issues you're on board for?
Ellis: Right now, just six issues. Which is why I'm not sure why I'm doing this apparently endless interview. Basically, I have a lot of different things on the go right now — most of which haven't been announced yet — so I said to Tom, I'll do six, and if I haven't completely screwed up the deadlines by that point, then I'd love to do another six.
Nrama: On the first issue, you're working again with Jamie McKelvie . How has that collaboration been?
Ellis: As far as McKelvie goes... incredibly talented, but, you know, everything Gillen ever said about him was true. Terrible person. And Gillen, Fraction, me, we all have to work with him, like this brilliantly-gifted disease circulating around us. Like herpes that can dance and sing. Can you imagine that? "It's herpes! But it does such beautiful renditions of 'Gaudete'!" Horrible. This is how I have to live, Albert.
I just got an email from Brevoort about Herpes Avengers. I have to go now.


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San Juan County taxpayers may find some relief in their tax bill according to preliminary discussions of San Juan County Commissioners regarding the recently released state certified tax rate.
County Clerk Norman Johnson presented the certified tax rate to the San Juan County Commission at their June 11 meeting.
Johnson said that with increased valuation and new growth in the county, the certified tax rate has dropped by two percent from the previous year. If it is accepted by the commission, it will bring approximately $275,000 in additional revenue to the county due to new growth.
Commissioner Phil Lyman said that historically the county has taken the state certified rate and observed that, "If we go with the state's accessing recommendations and then go with the state certified rate... basically we are letting the state set our taxes."
The commission discussed the increase in centrally-assessed property having the most impact on the increase in the value of the county. There has also been a significant revalue of business property in the county this year.
Commissioner Lyman expressed concern, "The general economy doesn't really reflect the value increases that we are seeing."
Lyman continued, "I love to see the centrally assessed properties go up. It gives us a nice ability to say we don't have to raise taxes to keep paying our bills, and we can lower the rate. It's an action on the part of the commission that shows good will."
"My goal would be to try and hold at least revenue neutral to what we collected last year," said Commissioner Bruce Adams. Lyman agreed, stating, "When values are going up, I would love to see us hold revenue neutral. It gives us a chance to reduce the rate below what the certified rate is."
Johnson said most homeowners would likely see quite a decrease in their tax bill if the commissioners choose a revenue neutral stance.
If the commission decides to take a hard revenue neutral stance and lower the certified tax rate, it could mean a 12-18 percent decrease in county property tax to many property owners.
Adams asked that Johnson bring several options to the commission between a revenue neutral stance and the certified tax rate. He also asked for projections regarding increased health care and liability insurance costs so the commission can consider lowering the rate while allowing for increased costs and possible employee increases.
Commissioner Lyman discussed the county benefits package and pointed out that while the county insurance costs are roughly $1,100 per employee, the school district cost is closer to $1,700 with a lesser quality package than that which the county offers. Johnson pointed out that by being self-insured, the county has been able to keep costs lower for the benefits package.
The commission expressed having a goal to bring San Juan County back close to the middle of the statewide rankings for property taxes over the next few years. "I think it's a worthy goal for San Juan County to try to pull ourselves back," said Lyman.
Johnson said that the rate needs to be set in the next few weeks if possible so they can begin the process of sending out valuation notices. The commission will discuss the issue further at their next meeting.
Commissioner Adams presented an amendment to the San Juan County OHV ordinance to allow any person 12 years of age or older, with a registered ATV and a wearing a helmet, to ride on any B or D road in San Juan County.
"We think it's appropriate in this county to have people be able to use their OHV on county roads," said Adams. A public hearing on the amendment will be held at Commission meeting in two weeks before a decision is made.
The Commission approved a resolution for a Declaration of Emergency for drought and fire in San Juan County. The declaration is effective immediately
In other business, the commission approved a contract with the Utah State Department of Agriculture for the Coyote bounty program. This is the last time the program will be offered through the county for bounty payments.
A new program will be run by the state and is thought to be increasing the bounty from $20 to $50 but also increasing the requirements that must be met for payment including GPS coordinates of where the animals was taken and a required class before a person can be certified to hunt coyotes and collect the bounty.
The commission also approved the Aging Waiver Contract with the State of Utah. Aging Director Tammy Gallegos told the commission that no county money is put into the program, which provides $450,000 for client care and $85,000 for administration.
The Aging Waiver provides funding for in home care for up to 100 frail and elderly clients to be placed in their homes instead of nursing homes and provides nursing, housekeeping and companion care.
Gallegos reported that there are 85 people in San Juan County in the program at this time, with the majority of clients coming from reservation areas.


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In the early days of the Afghan war, a heavy reliance on cash flooded the theater with U.S. currency. In an effort to get cash off the battlefield, the Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer worked with the Army to develop a set of business intelligence tools to tackle the problem and help broaden cost awareness across the department. In the process, the Army developed a way to proactively manage the people, equipment and supplies in theater.
The Theater Requirements Generation Tool helped create accurate requirements through the use of checklists and drop-down menus. TRGT also ensured that offices "articulated their requirements," and that new requirements were properly validated. Since October 2012, TRGT has improved visibility of more than 1,900 requirements with a combined value of $6.7 billion, according to the office. What does this have to do with cash? The tool helped the Army to pinpoint requirements, follow the money and dry up the cash demand.
A second tool, the Theater Requirements, Contracts and Execution Reconciliation, is a dashboard designed to replace the manual processes of tracking contract data. TRCER aggregates contract and financial data to help track expenditures and obligations and to support better decision-making, according to the office, which estimated the tool led to more than $110 million in cost savings in fiscal year 2012.
A third tool, the Acquisition Common Operating Picture, helps track the status of construction and other contract actions across the Afghan theater. Altogether, the business intell tools have led to the improved visibility of billions of dollars and millions in cost savings, DOD said.
Built on platforms such as Microsoft .Net and SharePoint, TRGT, TRCER and ACOP are agile enough to deliver new capabilities to users in 30- to 90-day increments.
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A rap and reality television star who launched a social media rant against the NYPD after the department sent out an advisory looking for him for allegedly roughing up his ex-girlfriend and stealing her cellphone says he won't taunt police on Twitter anymore and is willing to turn himself in.
Joe Budden directed his ire at the NYPD via Twitter on Saturday after it sent out his picture and asked the public for help tracking him down.
In one expletive-punctuated tweet, the 33-year-old city native said he would sue. In another, he told the NYPD's account to alert the "Man hunt" that he'd be at an Astoria strip club Saturday night.
NBC 4 New York found him on his New Jersey doorstep Monday, getting ready to take his dog for a walk.
"You guys found me rather easily," the "Love & Hip Hop" star said. "And I'm wearing pink! Who runs wearing pink? I'm not on the run."
"It's been a frenzy. It's been a frenzy. I was surprised at all of it to be honest," Budden said, adding he felt like he was being treated like a fugitive. "The media circus, the witch hunt, the man hunt."
Budden said he regrets sending the taunting tweets and doesn't plan to send any more. He said he turned himself in to New Jersey authorities on a domestic violence charge and was released.
He said he's willing to do the same in New York, where he's wanted on a robbery charge for allegedly snatching his girlfriend's cellphone and twisting her arm during a dispute in his car in Manhattan last week.
Budden says the cellphone in question belongs to him, not his girlfriend, but he says he wants to do whatever it takes to rectify the legal situation and move forward.
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|System: X360, PS3, PC
|Review Rating Legend
|Dev: Gearbox Software
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: Ubisoft
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: June 3, 2008
|2.5 - 2.9 = Average
|5.0 = The Best
|Players: TBA
|3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
|ESRB Rating: Mature
|3.5 - 3.9 = Good
by Adam Brown
April 14, 2008 - I walked into a somewhat out-of-the-way building in San Francisco not knowing what to expect. After a short elevator ride, I'm ushered, along with others, into a cozy theater complete with a huge HD projection screen and a phenomenal surround sound system. The room grew dark as the screen illuminated, revealing what I came to see. Although this may sound like a movie screening, it was actually the kickoff of a press event for the upcoming Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway.
The Brothers in Arms series has always put a major emphasis on its storyline and characters. Hell's Highway will be no exception, filled with interesting characters and a compelling story. While in the theater, we were treated to a new trailer and quite a few of the game's story based cutscenes. These cinematics looked amazing on the big screen and should elate fans of the previous Brothers in Arms titles.
Without giving anything away, the story will continue the story arc of the previous games and answer quite a few questions that have been eating away at fans for years. The dialogue between characters feels very natural and genuine while giving you insight into each character's individual personality. The subject matter, as always, will be quite serious in tone, but there is definitely a fair amount of comedy appropriately implemented to lighten the mood.
Although it is the third game in the series, the creators likened Hell's Highway to the Empire Strikes Back of the Brothers in Arms series. The game takes place during Operation Market-Garden, which was actually one of the Allies biggest missteps in World War II. This will create a good change of pace from most war games that usually only cover successful military operations. Aside from the storyline and setting, the game also plays extremely well.
After the video presentations, we were finally able to play through a couple levels of a near-finished build of the Xbox 360 version of the game. Hell's Highway plays similarly to previous titles with a good mix of strategy, squad mechanics, and, of course, shooting. Your squad is controlled using the left trigger. The commands are context sensitive so if you pull the trigger and aim at the ground, your squad will move to that position. If you do the same and aim at an enemy, they will lay suppressing fire upon them.
Suppression will work basically the same for enemies as it will for the player. Enemies have a gray circle above their head; the more fire directed towards them the more the circle will fill in with red. Once fully red, the enemy will be completely suppressed. This means they will fire less frequently, and when they do, their shots are far less accurate. Similarly, when you are fired upon, your screen will begin to grow red as the potential danger of being shot grows. The redder your screen, the more danger you are actually in. When this happens, you will need to find cover quickly or risk being picked off by your German adversaries.
Cover will function differently this time around. Instead of all cover being impervious to damage, as in the past, it will instead react realistically. Hiding behind an overturned table will only buy you a few seconds before it is completely shredded by enemy fire. Covering behind a pile of sandbags will afford safety from most gunfire, but a grenade or rocket could still send the cover flying. The destructible cover makes this game feel a lot more realistic and immersive than in any of the previous titles in the series. You'll no longer just be able to crouch behind a damage immune haystack and plan out your attacks at your leisure. This change forces players to constantly think on their feet about what to do next.
Graphically this game is gorgeous. The cinematics look exceptional, with tons of detail in character's faces such as scars and eyeballs that change shape as lighting changes. While not quite as sharp as the cinematics, actual gameplay looks great as well. Richly detailed characters and environments are made even better by great effects such as fire, explosions, camera grime, realistic lighting, and the red that fills your screen when in danger. The game also includes a slow motion death camera that will spring into action when appropriate. If you lob a grenade into a group of three foes, you will likely be treated to a cinematic view of their corpses, often missing limbs, flailing realistically through the air. Headshots can also trigger these events if spectacular enough, having brain matter splattering beautifully on nearby walls, buildings, and grass.
Fans of the previous Brothers in Arms games will surely not be disappointed by Hell's Highway. All of the improvements that have been implemented should make this the best Brothers in Arms title yet, if not the best World War II shooter on the systems that it will be gracing. Unfortunately, Gearbox was unable to tell us anything about the multiplayer aspect of the game other than that it will exist. If their past outings are any basis for guessing, the online gameplay of Hell's Highway should be excellent as well. We'll just have to wait a couple of months to find out first hand.
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BALTIMORE – UMBC softball returns to America East action over the weekend, as it travels to Binghamton for a three-game series against the Bearcats. The schedule for the weekend has been updated with the Retrievers opening the series with a single game at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 5 at the Bearcats Softball Complex and closing the series with a doubleheader on Sunday, April 6 at noon. All the action will be live free of charge on the America East digital network.
The Retrievers (22-11, 0-2 AEC) are coming off a doubleheader sweep of Howard on Wednesday. UMBC's offensive exploded for 20 runs and a .308 batting average in the series. The Retrievers' offensive efforts were highlighted by a pair of grand slams in game two from senior Caitlin Chance (Easton, Md./Easton) and sophomore Jordan Sganga (Edgewater, Md./South River). Sganga finished the day with a team-best seven runs batted in.
Junior Taylor Hall (Cosby, Va./Cosby) registered doubles on three of her four hits against the Bison to enter UMBC's top-10 in career doubles (33) and extra-base hits (55). The catcher leads the team with a .414 batting average and a .727 slugging percentage. Hall and Chance are among the top-30 hardest players to strikeout, entering the week, with a combined seven strikeouts.
In the circle, pitcher Jessica Holte (Ashland, Va./Atlee) leads the squad with a 1.79 ERA and a 13-4 overall record. Holte posted her second shutout of the season in her 19th appearance. Pitcher Nicole Casagrand (Horsham, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) has added a 4-2 record with a 3.02 ERA, while Kelly Lane (Albany, N.Y./Colonie Central) is holding opponents to a team-low .249 batting average in 55.0 innings of work.
Binghamton (9-10, 0-0 AEC) has won three of its last five games including a doubleheader sweep of St. Bonaventure on Tuesday. Junior Caytlin Friis homered twice and drove in three runs in the victory. The Bearcats have two players batting over .300 on the season in Lisa Cadogan (.326) and Taylor Chaffee (.325). Cadogan has 17 walks on the season and a .508 on-base percentage. The sophomore has driven in a team-best 12 runs. Chaffee has seven extra-base hits for a team-best .600 slugging percentage.
In the circle, Demi Laney has posted an 8-4 record with a 2.96 ERA. She is holding opponents to a .277 batting average and has struck out 51 batters.


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Arencibia learns challenges of catching knuckleball
After setting club record with three passed balls, catcher gets into groove
TORONTO -- J.P. Arencibia has known all along that catching R.A. Dickey was going to be a challenge, but on Opening Night, he got a glimpse of just how difficult it can be.
Arencibia was charged with three passed balls in the first three innings before he settled into a groove with the veteran knuckleballer.
The 27-year-old has prepared himself for the ups and downs that come with catching that type of pitcher and says the most important thing is to try and leave the miscues in the past.
"Frustrating wouldn't be the word for it, I think it's a challenge," Arencibia said after the Blue Jays' 4-1 loss to the Indians on Tuesday night at Rogers Centre. "First thing that they told me was, 'Listen, you're going to miss balls, you're going to miss balls with guys on third base and they're going to score, and you have to put it behind you.'
"There are going to be pitches that he throws that no one could have caught unless you have a fish net that's for large fish. It's not going to be an easy ball to catch. That's the fun of catching it. I think it's a challenge, and once you're able to settle in and stuff like that, it was a lot easier."
Arencibia's three passed balls set a Blue Jays single-game record. The previous record was two and had been done on 11 different occasions.
The number of errors might seem high, but it becomes more understandable when put into context. Dickey's catcher with the Mets last season, Josh Thole, also had a three-passed-ball game and twice committed two. The errors will never be completely taken out of the equation, but the goal is to limit the total number whenever possible.
Arencibia did make one noticeable adjustment after a conversation with veteran backup catcher Henry Blanco between the third and fourth innings that seemed to make a difference. Blanco noticed that Arencibia was setting up with his body a little too squared to Dickey.
That's normally the ideal position for a regular pitcher, but when Dickey is on the mound, Arencibia tends to slightly turn and open up his right leg, which creates an increased ability to react to balls.
"Right away, that inning, I opened up and I was a lot more free," said Arencibia, who didn't commit another passed ball the rest of the way. "That could be part of it for me, just whatever the excitement. You don't think about things like that. You're really trying to concentrate. You creep, creep, creep to where you feel normal and then you notice.
"Once I turned it, opened it up and made it free again. Those are just in-game adjustments you're going to have to do, and everyone is going to do them, especially as you get more experience, you learn to make those adjustments."


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The midterm elections were a game changer, for sure. But before a new cadre of congressman and women are sworn in, and before power in the House officially moves from left to right, the lame duck Congress has work to do.
The survivors, losers, and those senators not on the 2010 ballot return to Capitol Hill on Nov. 15 to address a host of outstanding issues. Among the most crucial:
Tax hikes
Raise taxes? Or postpone that decision for another 18 months or two years, as some Democratic members would like?
The 2001 and 2003 income tax provisions expire on Dec 31. If Congress takes no action before then, a family of four, with two earners, making $85,000 a year, will pay about $1,800 more in federal income taxes in 2011, according to the nonpartisan Tax Foundation.
Obama has proposed higher tax rates on couples filing jointly with incomes of more than $250,000 and on individuals with incomes above $200,000. He'd leave in place the current rates for people with incomes less than $250,000.
Reining in spending
Fiery campaign rhetoric about "out of control federal spending" aside, the long-term increase in federal debt is more threatening than any one year's excess spending.
The Congressional Budget Office warned last summer that "growing budget deficits will cause debt to rise to unsupportable levels." And growing debt would "increase the probability of a sudden fiscal crisis."
A bipartisan commission (headed by former Clinton chief of staff Erskine Bowles and former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson) is due to issue a report by Dec. 1 on how the federal government can restrain spending and cut the deficit by one third by 2015.
The commission includes discordant members, from staunch conservatives such as Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas to former labor union leader Andy Stern. It is hard to see the required 14 out of 18 members agreeing on a consensus set of proposals.
But ever since last spring's Greek sovereign debt crisis, there's been an increasing sense among some voters and members of Congress that the federal spending is on a fiscally unsustainable course.
New stopgap spending bill
Congress has passed a continuing resolution (CR) allowing the government to keep itself funded until the beginning of December. So the lame duck session will need to pass a new CR in the next few weeks, or some government agencies would begin to shut down.
Averting Medicare cuts
Medicare's payments to doctors will be cut by nearly 30 percent by New Year's Day. Congress seems likely to avert these cuts which are mandated by a law it passed in 1997.
Congress designed the 1997 law to keep Medicare's payments to doctors in line with the growth rate of the overall economy, or growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
But for eight years, Congress has voted to postpone the annual cuts and instead add them to next year's scheduled cuts.
The American Medical Association is urging Congress to pass a 13-month "patch" to avert the cuts.
There's no way to know what would happen if the 30 percent cut took effect: some doctors would continue serving Medicare patients just as before and would absorb their decline in revenue. But some might stop serving Medicare patients altogether, a trend that has already begun in some places. It "will be a catastrophe" if the cuts take effect, said Dr. Cecil Wilson, president of the American Medical Association.
Congress's habit of postponing the cuts makes budget forecasts somewhat unrealistic. Federal law requires budget projections to assume that current law will be in effect in future years so the ten-year budget forecast assumes that Medicare spending will be curbed when experience shows that it won't.
Greenhouse gas regulations
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, and other industry groups want Congress to impose a moratorium on the Environmental Protection Agency's regulations affecting stationary sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, such as power plants.
The new regulations go into effect on January 2, 2011. If not delayed, the EPA rules would hinder economic recovery and job creation, business leaders argue.
Kyle Danish, an environmental lawyer with the Washington firm of Van Ness Feldman, said Congress could either defund or delay EPA regulatory efforts.
Danish said a congressionally ordered delay in EPA rules seems more likely than defunding.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., has offered a bill would delay the impact of EPA greenhouse gas regulation of stationary sources for two years, "That would allow time both for Congress to act on climate change and for the economy to recover," Danish said.
When it was introduced earlier this year, Rockefeller's bill attracted support from a number of moderate Democrats in the Senate, Danish said.
"Supporters of a defund or delay amendment will want to attach the amendment to a bill that is very difficult for the President to veto, such as the CR," he said.
During the lame duck session, "when Democrats still hold the leadership positions in both chambers, it may be easier for them to fend off this sort of amendment. Starting with the new Congress, however, it may be harder for them to play defense."
Worth noting: 30 of the House Democrats who voted for the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade GHG legislation last year were defeated on Tuesday. (Ironically one of the few GOP House members to vote for the Waxman-Markey bill was Mark Kirk, who won the Illinois Senate election Tuesday.)
The bill passed in the House by only seven votes and was never acted on by the Senate.
President Obama sounded pragmatic about the futility of pushing for Waxman-Markey type legislation in the wake of Tuesday's Democrat defeats.
"It's doubtful that you could get the votes to pass that through the House this year or next year or the year after," Obama said.
"The smartest thing for us to do is to see if we can get Democrats and Republicans in a room ... and seeing are there ways we can make progress in the short term and invest in technologies in the long term that start giving us the tools to reduce greenhouse gases and solve this problem."
"Cap-and-trade was just one way of skinning the cat; it was not the only way," Obama said.
Nuclear weapons treaty with Russia
According to Arms Control Association executive director Daryl Kimball, "one of the few domestic or foreign policy issues upon which there is a modicum of bipartisan agreement is the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty" which is awaiting Senate action.
"If Senate leaders agree to spare two to three days for floor debate and a vote on the treaty, it would very likely win well over the 67 votes that are needed for ratification," he said arguing that Tuesday's election results "don't fundamentally change that calculus."
The treaty with Russia would cut the number of strategic nuclear warheads on each side by approximately 30 percent and provide for monitoring and verification.
Obama nominees
Forty six of Obama's judicial and executive branch nominees are still on the Senate executive calendar awaiting action.
It's conceivable Republican and Democratic leaders could agree to confirm some of non-controversial judicial nominees before year end. But the most controversial – Goodwin Liu– will almost certainly not be confirmed.
Republicans oppose Liu because they think based on his academic writings that he would rule that health insurance and other benefits are constitutionally required.
To date Obama has gotten 123 of his judicial nominees confirmed by the Senate; 47 Obama judicial nominees are pending.
Oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
Also being stymied for now in the Senate is Obama's nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget, Jacob Lew.
Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., has put a hold on the Lew nomination to protest the Obama administration's moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
But when Interior Secretary Ken Salazar lifted the moratorium, she said that wasn't enough. Landrieu she wants the Obama administration to speed up "the granting of permits in shallow and deep water, and provide greater certainty about the rules and regulations (the oil and gas) industry must meet."
She said last month that once the lame-duck session begins, she will have had time to see if the lifting of the deepwater drilling moratorium "is actually putting people back to work."
Jobless benefits
Speaking of unemployment: without action by Congress, jobless benefits for two million unemployed people will run out by the end of December.
In September, 41.7 percent of the unemployed had been jobless for 27 weeks or more. The total number of jobless is 4.5 million higher today than in November 2008. Exit polls Tuesday found deep voter pessimism about the economy, a reflection of the persistently bad job market.
Repeal health care overhaul
"We will immediately take action to repeal this law," House GOP leaders vowed in their Pledge to America.
Exit poll data showed broad support among conservative voters and older voters for repealing the health care overhaul. These voters were the bedrock of GOP support in the elections. In the national exit poll sample a plurality of all voters, 48 percent, supported repeal.
But Senate Democrats would likely block any repeal attempt. In the new congress, House Republicans can use their control of investigating committees to grill administration officials on the law.
House Republican leader John Boehner has called the law a "monstrosity."
At his Wednesday press conference Obama said "there are going to be examples where I think we can tweak and make improvements," but continued to argue, just as he did before the election, that the bill would benefit Americans.
Debt limit
Sometime in the first of half of next year, the new Congress will need to vote on raising the debt limit. That vote will put some newly elected GOP members in an awkward spot since they campaigned on a pledge of opposing more borrowing and spending.
House Republican Whip Eric Cantor said last week, "We need to demonstrate a commitment and the fiscal discipline and an established track record, by the time that vote comes, of cutting spending," he said.
He specifically called for reducing the federal workforce and making federal pay comparable to that in private sector. He said GOP leaders need to "show the people that we are serious in terms of reducing the size of government and the federal deficit, in order to see that vote successful on increasing the size of the debt limit."
There are only six weeks between the start of the lame duck session on Nov. 15 and the last day of the year. Subtract weekends and Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day, there are only 34 days left, precious little time to do lots of deal making.


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|This is the article on the missing-nin. For other uses, see Kagura (disambiguation).
|カグラ Kagura
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Kagura (カグラ, Kagura) is a former Anbu of Konohagakure and a missing-nin created specifically for the story of the American-exclusive Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2.
Some time prior to the series, Kagura was an Anbu member who had wished to become Tsunade's apprentice, and, hopefully, the Hokage. However, she went rogue and left the village when Tsunade refused to take Kagura as her student, although it was only because of Kagura's lack of compassion for her colleagues. In the time since then, Kagura grew to hate her former village and remained cold and uncaring for the well-being of other people.
Kagura was an ambitious and self-centred woman who desired the title of Hokage. She wished to become Tsunade's apprentice in order to gain the power to achieve her dream, and when denied, she came to harbour a hatred for Konohagakure in return. She has no compassion for her colleagues, cold and heartless regarding to their well-being, a reason she was denied the rights to be Tsunade's disciple, and in turn, Hokage.
Kagura wore a revealing red outfit, showing her midriff, arms, and legs with her white hair tied back by a multi-coloured rope with bells attached to it. When seen up close her eyes are revealed to be an ice blue colour. She had multiple tattoos that resemble flower petals on the left side of her face and midriff as well as her left leg. She wears red high heeled sandals. She also kept her old Anbu blade sheathed on the same leg, and sometimes used it to attack, although she preferred to use her knives. Initially, she made use of her old Anbu mask to conceal her identity from those other than her subordinates, but she later discarded it.
Kagura fought mainly with knives attached to, and controlled by, chakra strings that seemed to be connected to her gloves. The strings allowed her to do a variety of things with the knives, from swinging around into or away from opponents to sending the knives upward into the opponent from the ground. She also used her old Anbu blade, albeit sparingly, and had some skill in taijutsu. Several of Kagura's notable moves using her knives are reminiscent of moves that Kidōmaru used in Naruto: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! 4, and these moves may have been initially designed for her to be a sort of spiritual successor to Kidōmaru in this way. However, the two have few similarities beyond these moves.
Plot Overview
Kagura first appeared with Bando, wearing her old Anbu mask to hide her identity while he gave her a status report on their plans. Later, the two reappeared together before Naruto and Kakashi. She did not speak to them in order to continue hiding her identity; Bando spoke for her at the time for this purpose. After a brief scuffle with the two Konoha ninja, Kagura's mask was knocked off and her face was revealed. Kakashi, recognising her as one of his former colleagues in the Anbu, explained who she was to Naruto and Gaara, the latter of whom then demanded to know why Kagura and Bando had tried to destroy Konohagakure. Kagura and her partner simply laughed at the question, with Bando saying that the plan had not been stopped by their hideout being discovered and infiltrated, and that it would all "go on unhindered." The two then disappeared, leaving Kakashi's question of what Bando had meant by unanswered.
Kagura continued to orchestrate her plan to destroy Konoha, acting from inside the village, until she appeared again near the end of the game's story. Tracked down to a hideout within the village's Pillar Room by Towa and Komachi, she easily defeated them after goading them into fighting her. They then decided to flee to report Kagura's true plans: she wished for revenge on Tsunade for refusing to take her as her apprentice. Kagura had no plans of allowing the two to escape, but at that moment, however, Kakashi and Sakura showed up to stop Kagura from killing either of the two.
After trading insults, Kakashi and Sakura then battled Kagura to try to keep her from getting her revenge on Tsunade. However, Kakashi's plan to stop Kagura was soon foiled when, before they could defeat her, it was revealed that Sakura had long since been placed under Kagura's same genjutsu that had been wreaking havoc in the village the whole time. Kagura used this genjutsu to force Sakura to hold a kunai to her own throat, and threatened Kakashi that she would make Sakura kill herself if he made a move. She then noted that she would be giving both of them a slow and painful death shortly. With both Sakura and Kakashi at her mercy, the tables were suddenly turned on Kagura when Tsunade showed up, apparently notified by Towa and Komachi, who'd escaped during Kakashi and Sakura's battle with Kagura, knocking Sakura out from behind before the genjutsu could force her to kill herself.
Tsunade and Kagura had a showdown in the hideout, which eventually ended in Kagura's defeat. Kagura, exhausted, demanded to know why Tsunade had this much power, and why she had become Hokage when she had previously claimed that she had no intention of taking up that position. Tsunade explained that she had been convinced to "put it all on the line for one fool's dream." She then explained why she had never let Kagura become her apprentice, and Kagura, realising her mistakes and voicing her regret, collapsed from exhaustion for a little while. Just before Naruto appeared, Kagura left on her own through teleportation.
Video Games
Kagura (game) is a playable character in the following video games:
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|Naruto Shippūden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3
|17 November 2009
|Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2
|21 October 2008
- "Kagura" is a Japanese word referring to a specific type of Shintō theatrical dance. This was referenced by one of Kagura's one-liners during gameplay, "Dance for me", and by the fact that, like many Kagura dancers, she wore a mask, although her mask was from her former position in the Anbu.
- In her appearance in Revolution 2, she was about the same height as Tsunade, but in her return in Revolution 3, she has grown noticeably taller.
- Kagura is mentioned in Kabuto's bio in the strategy guide for Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm.