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2006-08-31 15:54:22

deadpan-diva Posts: 0	Re: The Dead Pool Glenn Ford, Longtime Leading Man, Dies Email this Story Aug 31, 2:12 PM (ET) By BOB THOMAS Google sponsored links Satellite TV on Your PC - Install Satellite TV on Your PC Any Channel, from any Country ! downloadforpc.free.fr How to Burn Protected DVD - Copy any DVD movie to a blank CD. The Copies play in any DVD player. www.DvdEnergy.com BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - In his roles from westerns to romances, actor Glenn Ford portrayed strong, thoughtful protagonists, bringing his touch to three decades of film. On Wednesday, the 90-year-old actor who starred in movies such as "The Blackboard Jungle,""Gilda" and "The Big Heat" was found dead in his home, police said. A cause of death was not given, though Ford suffered a series of strokes in the 1990s. Ford appeared in scores of films during his 53-year Hollywood career. The Film Encyclopedia, a reference book, lists 85 films from 1939 to 1991. He was cast usually as the handsome tough, but his acting talents ranged from romance to comedy. His more famous credits include "Superman,""Gilda,""The Sheepman,""The Gazebo,""Pocketful of Miracles" and "Don't Go Near the Water." "It comes to mind instantly what a remarkable actor he was," actor Sidney Poitier, who also starred in "The Blackboard Jungle," said Wednesday evening. "He had those magical qualities that are intangible but are quite impactful on the screen. He was a movie star." A tireless worker, Ford often made several films a year, and continued working well into his 70s. In 1992, though, he was hospitalized for more than two months for blood clots and other ailments, and at one point was in critical condition "Noel Coward once told me, 'You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.' Well, I can still be amazed," Ford said in a 1981 interview with The Associated Press. After getting his start in theater in the 1930s, Ford got a break when he was signed by Columbia Pictures mogul Harry Cohn. In 1940, he appeared in five films, including "Blondie Plays Cupid" and "Babies for Sale." After serving with the Marines during World War II, Ford starred in 1946 as a small-time gambler in "Gilda," opposite Rita Hayworth. The film about frustrated romance and corruption in postwar Argentina became a film noir classic. Hayworth plays Ford's former love, a sometime nightclub singer married to a casino operator, and she sizzles onscreen performing "Put the Blame on Mame." Ford speaks the memorable voiceover in the opening scene: "To me a dollar was a dollar in any language. It was my first night in the Argentine and I didn't know much about the local citizens. But I knew about American sailors, and I knew I'd better get out of there." Two years later he made "The Loves of Carmen," also with Hayworth. "It was one of the greatest mistakes I ever made, embarrassing," Ford said of the latter film. "But it was worth it, just to work with her again." Among his competitors for leading roles was William Holden. Both actors, Ford said, would stuff paper in their shoes to appear taller than the other. "Finally, neither of us could walk, so we said the hell with it." Ford also played against Bette Davis in "A Stolen Life." One of his best-known roles was in the 1955 "The Blackboard Jungle," where he portrayed a young, soft-spoken teacher in a slum school who inspires a class full of juvenile delinquents to care about life. "We did a film together, and it was for me a great experience because I had always admired his work," recalled Poitier. "When I saw him in films I had always marveled at the subtlety of his work. He was truly gifted." In "The Big Heat," 1953, a gritty crime story, Ford played a police detective. "Acting is just being truthful," he once said. "I have to play myself. I'm not an actor who can take on another character, like Laurence Olivier. The worst thing I could do would be to play Shakespeare." An avid horseman and former polo player, Ford appeared in a number of Westerns, "3:10 to Yuma,""Cowboy,""The Rounders,""Texas,""The Fastest Gun Alive" and the remake of "Cimarron" among them. His talents included lighter parts, with roles in "The Teahouse of August Moon" and "It Started With a Kiss." On television, he appeared in "Cade's County,""The Family Holvak,""Once an Eagle" and "When Havoc Struck." He starred in the feature film "The Courtship of Eddie's Father," which later became a TV series featuring Bill Bixby. He was born Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford on May 1, 1916, in Quebec, the son of a railroad executive. The first name reflected his family's Welsh roots. When Ford joined Columbia, Cohn asked him to change his name to John Gower; Ford refused but switched his first name to Glenn, after his father's birthplace of Glenford. He moved to southern California at 8 and promptly fell in love with show business, even sneaking onto a Culver City studio lot at night. He took to the stage at Santa Monica High School. His first professional job was as a searchlight operator in front of a movie house. He started his career in theater, as an actor with West Coast stage companies and as Tallulah Bankhead's stage manager in New York. In 1939, he made his first Hollywood film opposite Jean Rogers in the romance "Heaven With a Barbed Wire Fence." His director, Ricardo Cortez, told Ford he would never amount to anything and the actor returned to New York. He didn't stay away from Hollywood long, though, signing a 14-year contract with Columbia Pictures. He married actress-dancer Eleanor Powell in 1943; the two divorced in 1959. They had a son, Peter. A 1965 marriage to actress Kathryn Hays ended quickly. In 1977, he married model Cynthia Hayward, 32 years his junior. They were divorced in 1984. Failing health forced Ford to skip a 90th birthday tribute on May 1 at Hollywood's historic Grauman's Egyptian Theatre. But he did send greetings via videotape, adding, "I wish I were up and around, but I'm doing the best that I can.... There's so much I have to be grateful for." --- Associated Press Writer Christina Almeida contributed to this report.

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2006-09-04 07:39:02

Jet-Propelled Wendy Posts: 0	Re: The Dead Pool Not a classic but woah.... Search: Advanced AP Stingray kills 'Crocodile Hunter' Irwin By BRIAN CASSEY, Associated Press Writer 56 minutes ago CAIRNS, Australia - Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44. ADVERTISEMENT Irwin was at Batt Reef, off the remote coast of northeastern Queensland state, shooting a segment for a series called "Ocean's Deadliest" when he swam too close to one of the animals, which have a poisonous barb on their tails, his friend and colleague John Stainton said. "He came on top of the stingray and the stingray's barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart," said Stainton, who was on board Irwin's boat at the time. Crew members aboard the boat, Croc One, called emergency services in the nearest city, Cairns, and administered CPR as they rushed the boat to nearby Low Isle to meet a rescue helicopter. Medical staff pronounced Irwin dead when they arrived a short time later, Stainton said. Irwin was famous for his enthusiasm for wildlife and his catchword "Crikey!" in his television program "Crocodile Hunter." First broadcast in Australia in 1992, the program was picked up by the Discovery network, catapulting Irwin to international celebrity. He rode his image into a feature film, 2002's "The Crocodile Hunters: Collision Course" and developed the wildlife park that his parents opened, Australia Zoo, into a major tourist attraction. "The world has lost a great wildlife icon, a passionate conservationist and one of the proudest dads on the planet," Stainton told reporters in Cairns. "He died doing what he loved best and left this world in a happy and peaceful state of mind. He would have said, 'Crocs Rule!'" Prime Minister John Howard, who hand-picked Irwin to attend a gala barbecue to honor President Bush when he visited in 2003, said he was "shocked and distressed at Steve Irwin's sudden, untimely and freakish death." "It's a huge loss to Australia," Howard told reporters. "He was a wonderful character. He was a passionate environmentalist. He brought joy and entertainment and excitement to millions of people." Irwin, who made a trademark of hovering dangerously close to untethered crocodiles and leaping on their backs, spoke in rapid-fire bursts with a thick Australian accent and was almost never seen without his uniform of khaki shorts and shirt and heavy boots. Wild animal expert Jack Hanna, who frequently appears on TV with his subjects, offered praise for Irwin. "Steve was one of these guys, we thought of him as invincible," Hanna, director emeritus of the Columbus (Ohio) Zoo and Aquarium, told ABC's "Good Morning America" Monday. "The guy was incredible. His knowledge was incredible," Hanna said. "Some people that are doing this stuff are actors and that type of thing, but Steve was truly a zoologist, so to speak, a person who knew what he was doing. Yes, he did things a lot of people wouldn't do. I think he knew what he was doing." Irwin's ebullience was infectious and Australian officials sought him out for photo opportunities and to promote Australia internationally. His public image was dented, however, in 2004 when he caused an uproar by holding his infant son in one arm while feeding large crocodiles inside a zoo pen. Irwin claimed at the time there was no danger to the child, and authorities declined to charge Irwin with violating safety regulations. Later that year, he was accused of getting too close to penguins, a seal and humpback whales in Antarctica while making a documentary. Irwin denied any wrongdoing, and an Australian Environment Department investigation recommended no action be taken against him. Stingrays have a serrated, toxin-loaded barb, or spine, on the top of their tail. The barb, which can be up to 10 inches long, flexes if a ray is frightened. Stings usually occur to people when they step on or swim too close to a ray and can be excruciatingly painful but are rarely fatal, said University of Queensland marine neuroscientist Shaun Collin. Collin said he suspected Irwin died because the barb pierced under his ribcage and directly into his heart. "It was extraordinarily bad luck. It's not easy to get spined by a stingray and to be killed by one is very rare," Collin said. News of Irwin's death spread quickly, and tributes flowed from all quarters of society. At Australia Zoo at Beerwah, south Queensland, floral tributes were dropped at the entrance, where a huge fake crocodile gapes. Drivers honked their horns as they passed. "Steve, from all God's creatures, thank you. Rest in peace," was written on a card with a bouquet of native flowers. "We're all very shocked. I don't know what the zoo will do without him. He's done so much for us, the environment and it's a big loss," said Paula Kelly, a local resident and volunteer at the zoo, after dropping off a wreath at the gate. Stainton said Irwin's American-born wife Terri, from Eugene, Ore., had been informed of his death, and had told their daughter Bindi Sue, 8, and son Bob, who will turn 3 in December. The couple met when she went on vacation in Australia in 1991 and visited Irwin's Australia Zoo; they were married six months later. Sometimes referred to as the "Crocodile Huntress," she costarred on her husband's television show and in his 2002 movie.

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2006-10-23 04:24:36

mimi Posts: 14	Re: The Dead Pool By BOB THOMAS, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 18 minutes ago LOS ANGELES - To the millions watching the 1950s TV show "Father Knows Best," actress Jane Wyatt was the wholesome stay-at-home mom who, the series' title notwithstanding, could be counted on every week to solve crises on the homefront. "Each script always solved a little problem that was universal," she told The Associated Press in 1989. "It appealed to everyone. I think the world is hankering for a family. People may want to be free, but they still want a nuclear family." Wyatt, who won three Emmy Awards, died Friday in her sleep of natural causes at her Bel-Air home, according to publicist Meg McDonald. She was 96. "Ninety-six and a few months old is a wonderful life," her son, Christopher Ward, said Sunday. Wyatt had a successful film career in the 1930s and '40s, notably as Ronald Colman's lover in 1937's "Lost Horizon." She worked throughout the 1970s and 80s, appearing on TV shows including "St. Elsewhere." But it was her years as Robert Young's TV wife, Margaret Anderson, on "Father Knows Best" that brought the actress her lasting fame. She gamely delivered lines like "Eat your dinner, dear," or "How did you do in school today?" She appeared in 207 half-hour episodes from 1954 to 1960 and won three Emmys as best actress in a dramatic series in the years 1958 to 1960. The show began as a radio sitcom in 1949; it moved to television in 1954. In later years critics claimed that shows like "Father Knows Best" and "Ozzie and Harriet" presented a glossy, unreal view of the American family. In defense, Wyatt commented in 1966: "We tried to preserve the tradition that every show had something to say. The children were complicated personally, not just kids. We weren't just five Pollyannas." It was a tribute to the popularity of the show that after its run ended, it continued in reruns on CBS and ABC for three years in prime-time, a TV rarity. The show came to an end because Young, who had also played the father in the radio version, had enough. Wyatt remarked in 1965 that she was tired, too. "The first year was pure joy," she said. "The second year was when the problems set in. We licked them, and the third year was smooth going. Fatigue began to set in during the fourth year. We got through the fifth year because we all thought it would be the last. The sixth? Pure hell." The role wasn't the only time in her 60 years in films and TV that Wyatt was cast as the warm, compassionate wife and mother. She even played Mr. Spock's mom in the original "Star Trek" series and the feature "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home." "In real life my grandmother embodied the persona of Margaret Anderson," said grandson Nicholas Ward. "She was loving and giving and always gave her time to other people." She got her start in films in the mid-'30s, appearing in "One More River," "Great Expectations," "We're Only Human" and "The Luckiest Girl in the World." When Frank Capra chose her to play the Shangri-la beauty in "Lost Horizon," her reputation was made. Moviegoers were entranced by the scene — chaste by today's standards — in which Colman sees her swimming nude in a mountain lake. Wyatt enjoyed career longevity with her reliable portrayals of genteel, understanding women. Among the notable films: "Buckskin Frontier" (with Richard Dix), "None But the Lonely Heart" (Cary Grant), "Boomerang" (Dana Andrews), "Gentleman's Agreement" (Gregory Peck), "Pitfall" (Dick Powell), "No Minor Vices" (Dana Andrews), "Canadian Pacific" (Randolph Scott), "My Blue Heaven" (Betty Grable, Dan Dailey) and "Criminal Lawyer" (Pat O'Brien). "Father Knows Best" enjoyed such lasting popularity in reruns and people's memories that the cast returned years later for two reunion movies. She also remained active on other projects and in charity work. Wyatt was born in Campgaw, N.J., into a wealthy family in 1910, according to McDonald, her publicist. She was schooled at the fashionable Miss Chapin's school and Barnard College. She left college after two years to apprentice at the Berkshire Playhouse in Stockbridge, Mass., alternating between Berkshire and Broadway and appearing with Charles Laughton, Louis Calhern, Lillian Gish and Osgood Perkins. In 1935 she married Edgar Ward in Santa Fe, N.M., whom she met while in college. They had two sons, Christopher and Michael. Her sons said their mother had had health problems since a stroke at 85, but that her mind was sharp until her death. "She continued to go to the theater, loved movies and spent time in her garden. She enjoyed her latter years," said Nicholas Ward. A funeral Mass was scheduled for Friday, followed by a private burial. Wyatt also is survived by three grandchildren Nicholas, Andrew and Laura; and five great grandchildren.
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2007-01-10 13:18:10

mimi Posts: 14	Re: The Dead Pool LOS ANGELES - Yvonne De Carlo, the beautiful star who played Moses' wife in "The Ten Commandments" but achieved her greatest popularity on TV's "The Munsters," has died. She was 84. ADVERTISEMENT De Carlo died of natural causes Monday at the Motion Picture & Television facility in suburban Los Angeles, longtime friend and television producer Kevin Burns said Wednesday. De Carlo, whose shapely figure helped launch her career in B-movie desert adventures and Westerns, rose to more important roles in the 1950s. Later, she had a key role in a landmark Broadway musical, Stephen Sondheim's "Follies." But for TV viewers, she will always be known as Lily Munster in the 1964-1966 slapstick horror-movie spoof "The Munsters." The series (the name allegedly derived from "fun-monsters") offered a gallery of Universal Pictures grotesques, including Dracula and Frankenstein's monster, in a cobwebbed gothic setting
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2007-01-12 09:49:11

deadpan-diva Posts: 0	Re: The Dead Pool <!--quoteo(post=84394:date=Jan 10 2007, 04:18 PM:name=Mimi)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mimi @ Jan 10 2007, 04:18 PM) [snapback]84394[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> LOS ANGELES - Yvonne De Carlo, the beautiful star who played Moses' wife in "The Ten Commandments" but achieved her greatest popularity on TV's "The Munsters," has died. She was 84. ADVERTISEMENT De Carlo died of natural causes Monday at the Motion Picture & Television facility in suburban Los Angeles, longtime friend and television producer Kevin Burns said Wednesday. De Carlo, whose shapely figure helped launch her career in B-movie desert adventures and Westerns, rose to more important roles in the 1950s. Later, she had a key role in a landmark Broadway musical, Stephen Sondheim's "Follies." But for TV viewers, she will always be known as Lily Munster in the 1964-1966 slapstick horror-movie spoof "The Munsters." The series (the name allegedly derived from "fun-monsters") offered a gallery of Universal Pictures grotesques, including Dracula and Frankenstein's monster, in a cobwebbed gothic setting Yvonne DeCarlo was in like 70 movies and the only one I've ever seen is Band of Angels. With so many movies to her credit I can't beleive I haven't seen more.

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2007-03-13 10:31:57

deadpan-diva Posts: 0	Re: The Dead Pool Betty Hutton Dies at 86 By: Brian Scott Lipton Betty Hutton Betty Hutton, the stage and film star best known for playing the title role in the movie version of Annie Get Your Gun, has died at the age of 86 in Palm Springs, California, according to published reports. An official statement on her death is expected tomorrow. Hutton, who lived as a virtual recluse towards the end of her life, was born Elizabeth June Thornburg in Battle Creek, Michigan on February 26, 1921. She began singing as a child along with her sister Marion, and eventually became a band singer in the 1930s. She made her Broadway debut in 1940 at age 18 in the revue Two for the Show; later that same year, she appeared again on Broadway in Panama Hattie, opposite Ethel Merman. Hutton replaced Carol Burnett in the 1964 musical Fade Out-Fade In, and in 1980, she took over the role of Miss Hannigan in Annie. Her biggest success was on the big screen. In the 1940s, she appeared in such films as The Fleet's In, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The Perils of Pauline, and Red, Hot and Blue. In 1950, she was tapped to play Annie Oakley after Judy Garland left Annie Get Your Gun during filming. In 1952, she starred in Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth, but worked rarely after that. Hutton briefly had her own television series, The Betty Hutton Show, in which she played a manicurist who inherited the estate -- and children -- of a wealthy customer. She was married and divorced four times, and had three children: Candy, Lindsay, and Caroline.

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2007-10-18 17:30:45

mimi Posts: 14	Re: The Dead Pool Rough week, Deborah Kerr and Joey Bishop. RIP [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif[/img]
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2007-11-14 06:27:01

mimi Posts: 14	Re: The Dead Pool LOS ANGELES - Laraine Day, who appeared in nearly 50 films including the Alfred Hitchcock thriller "Foreign Correspondent," has died. She was 87. Day died of natural causes Saturday at her daughter's home in Utah, where she moved following the death of her husband of 47 years, producer Michel Grilikhes, earlier this year, said publicist Dale Olson. Day starred opposite Joel McRea in 1940's "Foreign Correspondent" and also appeared in such films as "Mr. Lucky," "I Take This Woman," "The Story of Dr. Wassell," "My Dear Secretary" and "The High and the Mighty." She appeared in her last movie, "The Third Voice" in l960, the year she married Grilikhes. During a break in her film career, Day co-starred on a national theatre tour with Gregory Peck in "Angel Street," and also took the stage in "Lost Horizon," 'The Women" and "Time of the Cuckoo." In 1951, Day became one of U.S. television's first female talk-show hosts in "The Laraine Day Show." Day penned the memoir "Day With Giants" in 1951 about life with baseball manager Leo Durocher, to whom she was married from 1947 to 1960, a period in which she was sometimes called "The First Lady of Baseball." Day's first husband was singer Ray Hendricks. Day made her film debut in a bit part in "Stella Dallas" in 1937. She changed her birth name and first won fame as Nurse Mary Lamont in the film series "Dr. Kildare," starring Lew Ayres. Day is survived by her twin brother, three daughters, a son and numerous grandchildren.
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2007-11-14 10:56:32

KittenWithaWhip Posts: 34	Re: The Dead Pool Did you ever see her in "The Locket"? Oh she was so good in that film as a pathological liar, kleptomaniac and psychotic. Excellent film!

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2007-11-14 11:06:20

mimi Posts: 14	Re: The Dead Pool We just saw that a few weeks ago, and LOVED it!!
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2007-11-30 21:28:59

the_librarian Posts: 0	Re: The Dead Pool RIP True spirit of America Youtube: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-PKx2GlC7U" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-PKx2GlC7U</a> [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif[/img]

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2007-12-02 19:40:19

KittenWithaWhip Posts: 34	Re: The Dead Pool Show of hands, now. Who thought Evel Knievel would ever die of natural causes ?

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2007-12-03 02:31:05

the_librarian Posts: 0	Re: The Dead Pool Aha, See, that's what they want us to think! It actually happened like this..... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif[/img] Pardon the pun, but just finished reading Jack Higgin's, The Eagle Has Landed. ------------ Good point tho, I always thought he would go out on a bike......or something like that.....

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2007-12-05 16:30:01

KittenWithaWhip Posts: 34	Re: The Dead Pool <!--quoteo(post=37374:date=Feb 9 2004, 07:51 PM:name=KittenWithaWhip)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(KittenWithaWhip @ Feb 9 2004, 07:51 PM) [snapback]37374[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> Nothing I can say is going to bring taste to this topic, but a lot of people run dead pools. I think we should too. No money will be bet, of course, but who do you think will be the next one to go? Think carefully, now. You only get one name to a user, not two or three. Bets start anew when an obituary hits the paper. Either someone wins or no one wins and the slate is wiped clean. Film and television celebrities only, please. Now...think hard. Who is left? Who is most likely to go next? You know... I was thinking of shutting this thread down and resurrecting it as a pool, the way I'd originally intended. I think we should have a little prize though, for whoever guesses correctly. What do you think I should put up? If it's money it's going to be a teensy amount like $5. Maybe we could get someone to donate some leftover Atomic goods for the cause, eh?

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