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The only person who didn't think Kris was a genius in so many ways was Kris Kristofferson himself. So much talent in one person. Only Willy Nelson left now.
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Ethel Kennedy, matriarch of the famous family, dies at 96
The widow of Robert F. Kennedy had suffered a stroke last week and was receiving treatment when she died, her grandson, former Rep. Joe Kennedy III, said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries ... rcna102978
Ethel Kennedy, who lost her husband, Robert F. Kennedy, and brother-in-law, President John F. Kennedy, to assassins' bullets, and who channeled her grief into raising her 11 children and lifetime of public service, died Thursday. She was 96.
Kennedy had recently suffered a stroke and was receiving treatment when she died, former Rep. Joe Kennedy III, D-Mass., a grandson, said in a statement posted on X.
"It is with our hearts full of love that we announce the passing of our amazing grandmother, Ethel Kennedy," the statement said. "She died this morning from complications related to a stroke suffered last week."
Born Ethel Skakel on April 11, 1928, in Chicago, Kennedy's life was marked by tragedy even before Sirhan Sirhan made her a widow in 1968 by gunning down her husband while he was running for president.
Kennedy’s parents, coal magnate George Skakel and his wife, Ann Brannack Skakel, were killed in a 1955 plane crash.
Kennedy met her future husband in 1945 at a ski resort in Quebec. At the time, he was dating her older sister, Patricia, according to an official biography at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Five years later, "Bobby and Ethel" were married and their first child, Kathleen, was born on July 4, 1951.
By 1956, the young couple was living with their growing family in the sprawling Virginia mansion they bought from JFK. Meanwhile, Robert F. Kennedy's public profile was on the rise as chief counsel to the Senate Select Committee.
Like the rest of her family, Kennedy took part in JFK's presidential campaign and after he was elected in 1960, her husband was appointed attorney general.
Following JFK's assassination, Robert F. Kennedy ran successfully for the United States Senate from New York. Then in 1968, he launched his own presidential campaign with his wife's blessing.
"Kennedy's wife, always his most fervent believer, was the most consistent advocate of a race for the White House, " RFK biographer Evan Thomas wrote in "Robert Kennedy: His Life." "If she harbored private thoughts of becoming a widow, she did not discuss them."
Six months after RFK was killed, Kennedy gave birth to their last child Rory. Around that time, Kennedy founded the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights and threw herself into working for some of the same causes her husband had championed.
For her efforts, Kennedy was awarded in 2014 the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.
Kennedy never remarried, although in the 1970s she was often seen on the arm of singer Andy Williams, a family friend who denied they were romantically involved.
In the years after RFK's assassination, Kennedy's life was marked by more misfortune.
In 1977, her son Michael died in a skiing accident. Then in 1984, her son David was found dead of a drug overdose in a Palm Beach, Florida hotel room.
In 2002, Kennedy's nephew Michael Skakel was tried and convicted for the 1975 murder of his then-neighbor Martha Moxley. He was released in 2013 when a judge agreed that Skakel’s former attorney failed to defend him adequately.
And in 2019, Kennedy's 22-year-old granddaughter, Saoirse Kennedy Hill, died of a drug overdose.
Kennedy’s private pain over the death of her husband was thrust back into the public domain in 2021 when a California parole board recommended, for the first time, releasing RFK’s killer.
Then 93, Kennedy objected.
“Our family and our country suffered an unspeakable loss due to the inhumanity of one man,” Kennedy wrote. “We believe in the gentleness that spared his life, but in taming his act of violence, he should not have the opportunity to terrorize again.”
Kennedy was backed by six of her surviving children --- Joseph P. Kennedy II, Courtney Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Christopher G. Kennedy, Maxwell T. Kennedy and Rory Kennedy.
But two of Kennedy's other sons, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Douglas Kennedy, said Sirhan had done his time and supported his parole bid.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom agreed with Kennedy and in 2022 he blocked Sirhan's release from prison. And when Sirhan went before the parole board again in March 2023, his bid to be released was denied.
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The widow of Robert F. Kennedy had suffered a stroke last week and was receiving treatment when she died, her grandson, former Rep. Joe Kennedy III, said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries ... rcna102978
Ethel Kennedy, who lost her husband, Robert F. Kennedy, and brother-in-law, President John F. Kennedy, to assassins' bullets, and who channeled her grief into raising her 11 children and lifetime of public service, died Thursday. She was 96.
Kennedy had recently suffered a stroke and was receiving treatment when she died, former Rep. Joe Kennedy III, D-Mass., a grandson, said in a statement posted on X.
"It is with our hearts full of love that we announce the passing of our amazing grandmother, Ethel Kennedy," the statement said. "She died this morning from complications related to a stroke suffered last week."
Born Ethel Skakel on April 11, 1928, in Chicago, Kennedy's life was marked by tragedy even before Sirhan Sirhan made her a widow in 1968 by gunning down her husband while he was running for president.
Kennedy’s parents, coal magnate George Skakel and his wife, Ann Brannack Skakel, were killed in a 1955 plane crash.
Kennedy met her future husband in 1945 at a ski resort in Quebec. At the time, he was dating her older sister, Patricia, according to an official biography at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Five years later, "Bobby and Ethel" were married and their first child, Kathleen, was born on July 4, 1951.
By 1956, the young couple was living with their growing family in the sprawling Virginia mansion they bought from JFK. Meanwhile, Robert F. Kennedy's public profile was on the rise as chief counsel to the Senate Select Committee.
Like the rest of her family, Kennedy took part in JFK's presidential campaign and after he was elected in 1960, her husband was appointed attorney general.
Following JFK's assassination, Robert F. Kennedy ran successfully for the United States Senate from New York. Then in 1968, he launched his own presidential campaign with his wife's blessing.
"Kennedy's wife, always his most fervent believer, was the most consistent advocate of a race for the White House, " RFK biographer Evan Thomas wrote in "Robert Kennedy: His Life." "If she harbored private thoughts of becoming a widow, she did not discuss them."
Six months after RFK was killed, Kennedy gave birth to their last child Rory. Around that time, Kennedy founded the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights and threw herself into working for some of the same causes her husband had championed.
For her efforts, Kennedy was awarded in 2014 the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.
Kennedy never remarried, although in the 1970s she was often seen on the arm of singer Andy Williams, a family friend who denied they were romantically involved.
In the years after RFK's assassination, Kennedy's life was marked by more misfortune.
In 1977, her son Michael died in a skiing accident. Then in 1984, her son David was found dead of a drug overdose in a Palm Beach, Florida hotel room.
In 2002, Kennedy's nephew Michael Skakel was tried and convicted for the 1975 murder of his then-neighbor Martha Moxley. He was released in 2013 when a judge agreed that Skakel’s former attorney failed to defend him adequately.
And in 2019, Kennedy's 22-year-old granddaughter, Saoirse Kennedy Hill, died of a drug overdose.
Kennedy’s private pain over the death of her husband was thrust back into the public domain in 2021 when a California parole board recommended, for the first time, releasing RFK’s killer.
Then 93, Kennedy objected.
“Our family and our country suffered an unspeakable loss due to the inhumanity of one man,” Kennedy wrote. “We believe in the gentleness that spared his life, but in taming his act of violence, he should not have the opportunity to terrorize again.”
Kennedy was backed by six of her surviving children --- Joseph P. Kennedy II, Courtney Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Christopher G. Kennedy, Maxwell T. Kennedy and Rory Kennedy.
But two of Kennedy's other sons, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Douglas Kennedy, said Sirhan had done his time and supported his parole bid.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom agreed with Kennedy and in 2022 he blocked Sirhan's release from prison. And when Sirhan went before the parole board again in March 2023, his bid to be released was denied.
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Alex Salmond, leading figure in Scottish independence movement, dies at age 69
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/12/europe/a ... index.html
Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has died at 69, according to statements from Scotland’s main political parties and UK media reports.
Salmond was taken ill while in North Macedonia, according to British media reports.
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/12/europe/a ... index.html
Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has died at 69, according to statements from Scotland’s main political parties and UK media reports.
Salmond was taken ill while in North Macedonia, according to British media reports.
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Fleur Adcock, poet, born 10 February 1934; died 10 October 2024
Fleur Adcock, who has died aged 90, was one of the best loved and most esteemed poets in Britain and New Zealand. The full span of her work from 1960 until 2024 was published earlier this year in a 600-page volume of collected poems to coincide with her 90th birthday. She also translated Latin and Romanian verse, and edited The Oxford Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry (1982) and The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Women’s Poetry (1987).
Fleur’s deceptively relaxed conversational style is often barbed with an oblique take on reality. As the poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy said: “The sharper edge of her talent is encountered like a razor blade in a peach.”
Her poetry deals with life’s surprises and oddities, the unexpected or unexplained that can cut the ground from beneath your feet. Take the conceit of Regression, a poem from 1967: “All the flowers have gone back into the ground.” What appears familiar and recognisable becomes uncannily different as in dreams or nightmares.
In the same way Fleur probes the everyday with psychological accuracy. This appears in even her most tender poems, such as On a Son Returned to New Zealand (1971), about her first-born son, on his way home to his father: full of motherly pride in the first two lines – “He is my green branch growing in a green plantation. / He is my first invention” – she acknowledges the pain of parting with the wry comment, “No one can be in two places at once”.
Yet she is equally adept at melodrama: the awful realisation of the mistakes one has made, that haunt us in the middle of the night, occurs in Things (1979) when, at 5am: “All the worse things come stalking in / and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse”.
Fleur not only wrote about children, lovers, family relations, and increasingly, as she got older, her ancestors, but her world of affections, as the Australian poet Peter Porter called it, extends to animals both mythical and real, insects and creatures. In her precise observation, even the most insignificant or repellent win her admiration.
Slugs coupling “glide about, / silently undulating: two / slugs in a circle, tail to snout” and she exults at their climax: “they’ve dressed themselves in a cloud of foam, / a frothy veil for love-in-a-mist”.
In the groundswell of women’s poetry of the 1980s, Fleur – one of the few female poets to have joined Edward Lucie-Smith’s circle, the Group, in 1963 – became a voice to be listened to. She was an influence on a younger generation of poets that included Duffy, Carol Rumens, Vicki Feaver and Jo Shapcott, especially in writing about subjects such as smoking, celibacy, old age, masturbation, illness and bereavement, and thus opening up new topics for poetry.
There were some risqué tongue-in-cheek poems acclaiming the solo woman, like Smokers for Celibacy (1991), which concludes “Altogether, we’ve come to the conclusion that sex is a drag. / Just give us a fag”. Others celebrate women as superstars, fantastic figures of legend, elevated stratospherically, such as The Ex-Queen Among the Astronomers (1979), whose “hair / crackles, her eyes are comet-sparks” and who “brings the distant briefly close /above his dreamy abstract stare”.
Fleur was born in Papakura,[near Auckland] in New Zealand’s North Island, to John Adcock, a teacher, and Irene (nee Robinson), a music teacher and writer. Fleur’s sister, Marilyn (later the acclaimed novelist Marilyn Duckworth), was born the following year.
In 1939 the family travelled to Britain so that John could study for a doctorate in psychology at Birkbeck College, London, with war breaking out while the move was in progress. The sisters were evacuated, first to Grange Farm in Leicestershire – but other moves followed and Fleur counted 11 schools in seven and a half years.
Upon the family’s return to New Zealand, she studied classics at Wellington girls’ college and Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. In 1952 she married the poet Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, and they had two sons, Gregory and Andrew. They divorced in 1958; a second marriage of five months followed in 1962, to the writer Barry Crump, before Fleur departed for Britain in 1963.
She had already written most of her first collection, The Eye of the Hurricane (1964), which was published in New Zealand: many of these poems are placeless, reflecting her passion for the English landscape and inability to engage with the natural world of her native country.
When settings appear, as in her next volume, Tigers (1967), published in the UK, there is a sting. Stewart Island (1971) begins: “‘But look at all this beauty,’ / said the hotel manager’s wife”. It concludes with the image of a seagull descending with jabbing beak, and her comment, “I had already / decided to leave the country.”
Although Fleur’s work fitted into the mainstream of postwar British poetry despite its outsider interrogations, she carried out her personal explorations with the zeal of a newcomer. She developed a passion for places and journeys: the landscapes of Northern Ireland introduced her to her maternal roots, and made her aware of the ethnic complexity of her New Zealand identity; she fell in love with the Lake District, discovering Dorothy Wordsworth’s journals, as Arts Council creative writing fellow at Charlotte Mason College of Education in Ambleside (1977-78) , and then with the north of England, as Northern Arts literary fellow at the Universities of Newcastle and Durham.
Well established by then, and familiar to many as a poetry commentator for the BBC, she resigned in 1979 from her position at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office library to become a full-time writer. Later she supported herself when necessary by tutoring for the creative writing organisation Arvon.
After the publication of her Collected Poems 1960-2000 (2000), Fleur stopped writing for a decade. But then a late flowering occurred, with five new volumes, enough to double her previous output, as she became, in her words, “embarrassingly prolific”.
A strong motivating factor was her fascination with the past and ancestral voices; this was tied up with her reconciliation with New Zealand, a reunion effected over decades by constant travel back and forth, but now more intensely focused on the early years, her parents and their colonial origins.
It was a sideways glance at her country of origin, fuelled by her curiosity about places and her unceasing search for connectivity, an elliptical rather than a full circle. Poems in The Land Ballot (2015) and Hoard (2017) record excursions and road trips: titles include Kuaotunu, Rangiwahia, Drury, Pakiri, Ruakaka, Alfriston, Helensville and Raglan. Reviving memories, they fill in those gaps invisible in the earlier work that had shaped her poetic signature.
They also completed Fleur’s voyage of discovery within the frameworks of her immediate past, the genealogical past and the deeper past of New Zealand’s colonial history.
Among many honours Fleur was awarded the Queen’s Medal for Poetry in 2006 and the New Zealand Prime Minister’s award for literary achievement in poetry, 2019.
She is survived by her sons, Gregory and Andrew, and six grandchildren, Oliver, Lilian, Julia, Ella, Cait and Rosa, and by her sister, Marilyn.
Fleur Adcock, poet, born 10 February 1934; died 10 October 2024
Guardian: Fleur Adcock Obituary
Fleur’s deceptively relaxed conversational style is often barbed with an oblique take on reality. As the poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy said: “The sharper edge of her talent is encountered like a razor blade in a peach.”
Her poetry deals with life’s surprises and oddities, the unexpected or unexplained that can cut the ground from beneath your feet. Take the conceit of Regression, a poem from 1967: “All the flowers have gone back into the ground.” What appears familiar and recognisable becomes uncannily different as in dreams or nightmares.
In the same way Fleur probes the everyday with psychological accuracy. This appears in even her most tender poems, such as On a Son Returned to New Zealand (1971), about her first-born son, on his way home to his father: full of motherly pride in the first two lines – “He is my green branch growing in a green plantation. / He is my first invention” – she acknowledges the pain of parting with the wry comment, “No one can be in two places at once”.
Yet she is equally adept at melodrama: the awful realisation of the mistakes one has made, that haunt us in the middle of the night, occurs in Things (1979) when, at 5am: “All the worse things come stalking in / and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse”.
Fleur not only wrote about children, lovers, family relations, and increasingly, as she got older, her ancestors, but her world of affections, as the Australian poet Peter Porter called it, extends to animals both mythical and real, insects and creatures. In her precise observation, even the most insignificant or repellent win her admiration.
Slugs coupling “glide about, / silently undulating: two / slugs in a circle, tail to snout” and she exults at their climax: “they’ve dressed themselves in a cloud of foam, / a frothy veil for love-in-a-mist”.
In the groundswell of women’s poetry of the 1980s, Fleur – one of the few female poets to have joined Edward Lucie-Smith’s circle, the Group, in 1963 – became a voice to be listened to. She was an influence on a younger generation of poets that included Duffy, Carol Rumens, Vicki Feaver and Jo Shapcott, especially in writing about subjects such as smoking, celibacy, old age, masturbation, illness and bereavement, and thus opening up new topics for poetry.
There were some risqué tongue-in-cheek poems acclaiming the solo woman, like Smokers for Celibacy (1991), which concludes “Altogether, we’ve come to the conclusion that sex is a drag. / Just give us a fag”. Others celebrate women as superstars, fantastic figures of legend, elevated stratospherically, such as The Ex-Queen Among the Astronomers (1979), whose “hair / crackles, her eyes are comet-sparks” and who “brings the distant briefly close /above his dreamy abstract stare”.
Fleur was born in Papakura,[near Auckland] in New Zealand’s North Island, to John Adcock, a teacher, and Irene (nee Robinson), a music teacher and writer. Fleur’s sister, Marilyn (later the acclaimed novelist Marilyn Duckworth), was born the following year.
In 1939 the family travelled to Britain so that John could study for a doctorate in psychology at Birkbeck College, London, with war breaking out while the move was in progress. The sisters were evacuated, first to Grange Farm in Leicestershire – but other moves followed and Fleur counted 11 schools in seven and a half years.
Upon the family’s return to New Zealand, she studied classics at Wellington girls’ college and Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. In 1952 she married the poet Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, and they had two sons, Gregory and Andrew. They divorced in 1958; a second marriage of five months followed in 1962, to the writer Barry Crump, before Fleur departed for Britain in 1963.
She had already written most of her first collection, The Eye of the Hurricane (1964), which was published in New Zealand: many of these poems are placeless, reflecting her passion for the English landscape and inability to engage with the natural world of her native country.
When settings appear, as in her next volume, Tigers (1967), published in the UK, there is a sting. Stewart Island (1971) begins: “‘But look at all this beauty,’ / said the hotel manager’s wife”. It concludes with the image of a seagull descending with jabbing beak, and her comment, “I had already / decided to leave the country.”
Although Fleur’s work fitted into the mainstream of postwar British poetry despite its outsider interrogations, she carried out her personal explorations with the zeal of a newcomer. She developed a passion for places and journeys: the landscapes of Northern Ireland introduced her to her maternal roots, and made her aware of the ethnic complexity of her New Zealand identity; she fell in love with the Lake District, discovering Dorothy Wordsworth’s journals, as Arts Council creative writing fellow at Charlotte Mason College of Education in Ambleside (1977-78) , and then with the north of England, as Northern Arts literary fellow at the Universities of Newcastle and Durham.
Well established by then, and familiar to many as a poetry commentator for the BBC, she resigned in 1979 from her position at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office library to become a full-time writer. Later she supported herself when necessary by tutoring for the creative writing organisation Arvon.
After the publication of her Collected Poems 1960-2000 (2000), Fleur stopped writing for a decade. But then a late flowering occurred, with five new volumes, enough to double her previous output, as she became, in her words, “embarrassingly prolific”.
A strong motivating factor was her fascination with the past and ancestral voices; this was tied up with her reconciliation with New Zealand, a reunion effected over decades by constant travel back and forth, but now more intensely focused on the early years, her parents and their colonial origins.
It was a sideways glance at her country of origin, fuelled by her curiosity about places and her unceasing search for connectivity, an elliptical rather than a full circle. Poems in The Land Ballot (2015) and Hoard (2017) record excursions and road trips: titles include Kuaotunu, Rangiwahia, Drury, Pakiri, Ruakaka, Alfriston, Helensville and Raglan. Reviving memories, they fill in those gaps invisible in the earlier work that had shaped her poetic signature.
They also completed Fleur’s voyage of discovery within the frameworks of her immediate past, the genealogical past and the deeper past of New Zealand’s colonial history.
Among many honours Fleur was awarded the Queen’s Medal for Poetry in 2006 and the New Zealand Prime Minister’s award for literary achievement in poetry, 2019.
She is survived by her sons, Gregory and Andrew, and six grandchildren, Oliver, Lilian, Julia, Ella, Cait and Rosa, and by her sister, Marilyn.
Fleur Adcock, poet, born 10 February 1934; died 10 October 2024
Guardian: Fleur Adcock Obituary
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Thanks Karearea - a favourite of Mrs FD2 too.
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Russian commander blamed for Ukraine shopping centre attack killed with hammer
Kyiv intelligence says Col Dmitry Golenkov has been liquidated with a ‘hammer of justice’
James Kilner
21 October 2024 4:46pm BST
A Russian air force commander blamed for a lethal attack on a shopping centre in Ukraine has been found bludgeoned to death with a hammer.
Ukraine’s military intelligence said that it had assassinated Col Dmitry Golenkov, a senior officer in Russia’s 52nd heavy bomber regiment, with the “hammer of justice”.
Golenkov was said to be behind one of the most egregious attacks on a civilian target of the war. Images of a rocket striking the shopping centre, and its aftermath, were circulated widely.
Ukraine said on Monday: “A Russian Tu-22M3 pilot has been liquidated on the territory of the Russian Federation. His head was smashed with a hammer.”
The Tupolev Tu-22M3 is a modernised version of a Soviet-era long-range strategic bomber.
I know we should celebrate the death of people who have made a good, positive contribution to humanity but with this Russian hero, all I can say is "Oh dear, how sad, never mind". A taste of their own medicine.
Kyiv intelligence says Col Dmitry Golenkov has been liquidated with a ‘hammer of justice’
James Kilner
21 October 2024 4:46pm BST
A Russian air force commander blamed for a lethal attack on a shopping centre in Ukraine has been found bludgeoned to death with a hammer.
Ukraine’s military intelligence said that it had assassinated Col Dmitry Golenkov, a senior officer in Russia’s 52nd heavy bomber regiment, with the “hammer of justice”.
Golenkov was said to be behind one of the most egregious attacks on a civilian target of the war. Images of a rocket striking the shopping centre, and its aftermath, were circulated widely.
Ukraine said on Monday: “A Russian Tu-22M3 pilot has been liquidated on the territory of the Russian Federation. His head was smashed with a hammer.”
The Tupolev Tu-22M3 is a modernised version of a Soviet-era long-range strategic bomber.
I know we should celebrate the death of people who have made a good, positive contribution to humanity but with this Russian hero, all I can say is "Oh dear, how sad, never mind". A taste of their own medicine.
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Kris Kristofferson played a sheriff in the film 'Lone Star'. His character was so nasty it made me squirm, but a great performance.
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An absolute hero who died back on the 21st October 1805. I think he had three weaknesses - Emma Hamilton, personal decorations and disobedience of orders but he had everything else in abundance.
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Nelson wasn't the only successful commander who disobeyed orders.Obit in Sydney Morning Herald
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A good man present at the action could make a better decision than those many miles away but it's unfortunate if he makes the wrong decision!Hydromet wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2024 10:56 pmNelson wasn't the only successful commander who disobeyed orders.Obit in Sydney Morning Herald
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'Tarzan' star Ron Ely dies at 86
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/tarza ... ly-dies-86
Ron Ely, known as the star of the television series "Tarzan," has died. He was 86 years old.
Ely's daughter Kirsten confirmed the news in an Instagram post published Wednesday.
"The world has lost one of the greatest men it has ever known – and I have lost my dad," Kirsten shared in a statement. "My father was someone that people called a hero. He was an actor, writer, coach, mentor, family man and leader. He created a powerful wave of positive influence wherever he went. The impact he had on others is something that I have never witnessed in any other person – there was something truly magical about him. This is how the world knew him."
She continued, "I knew him as my dad – and what a heaven-sent honor that has been. To me, he hung the moon."
Kirsten did not indicate how or when the actor died.
"My father’s life story was one of relentless perseverance, unending dedication to his family and friends, courage to do what was right, and willing sacrifice to facilitate the dreams of those he loved," Kirsten continued. "It was also a story of joy and love – something everyone close to him had the privilege of experiencing. Once you knew my father’s love, the world grew to be a brighter and more meaningful place."
She added, "I am doing my best to walk this path of loss with the strength and grace that I know he would want for me. I am picking up the pieces of my heart that feel like pieces of him – and cementing those firmly in place before I pick up the rest of the broken bits. It makes me feel like part of him is still here – and I need that – and the world needs that."
She continued, "My greatest comfort is knowing that my dad is with my momma and my brother. It is also my greatest sadness because I miss them all so much that it’s etched into my soul. I will proudly carry all of my favorite pieces of them – lovingly cemented into my heart – until we all meet again."
Ely first rose to fame in the 1960s after landing the lead role in NBC's "Tarzan." The TV series ran from 1966 until 1968.
He later appeared on other well-known shows including "The Love Boat," "Wonder Woman" and "Fantasy Island."
Ely also returned for Universal's "Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze" in 1975.
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https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/tarza ... ly-dies-86
Ron Ely, known as the star of the television series "Tarzan," has died. He was 86 years old.
Ely's daughter Kirsten confirmed the news in an Instagram post published Wednesday.
"The world has lost one of the greatest men it has ever known – and I have lost my dad," Kirsten shared in a statement. "My father was someone that people called a hero. He was an actor, writer, coach, mentor, family man and leader. He created a powerful wave of positive influence wherever he went. The impact he had on others is something that I have never witnessed in any other person – there was something truly magical about him. This is how the world knew him."
She continued, "I knew him as my dad – and what a heaven-sent honor that has been. To me, he hung the moon."
Kirsten did not indicate how or when the actor died.
"My father’s life story was one of relentless perseverance, unending dedication to his family and friends, courage to do what was right, and willing sacrifice to facilitate the dreams of those he loved," Kirsten continued. "It was also a story of joy and love – something everyone close to him had the privilege of experiencing. Once you knew my father’s love, the world grew to be a brighter and more meaningful place."
She added, "I am doing my best to walk this path of loss with the strength and grace that I know he would want for me. I am picking up the pieces of my heart that feel like pieces of him – and cementing those firmly in place before I pick up the rest of the broken bits. It makes me feel like part of him is still here – and I need that – and the world needs that."
She continued, "My greatest comfort is knowing that my dad is with my momma and my brother. It is also my greatest sadness because I miss them all so much that it’s etched into my soul. I will proudly carry all of my favorite pieces of them – lovingly cemented into my heart – until we all meet again."
Ely first rose to fame in the 1960s after landing the lead role in NBC's "Tarzan." The TV series ran from 1966 until 1968.
He later appeared on other well-known shows including "The Love Boat," "Wonder Woman" and "Fantasy Island."
Ely also returned for Universal's "Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze" in 1975.
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Tony Ditcham, midshipman who won a DSC protecting the East Coast convoys against German E-boats
He found himself alone on the burning E-boat, amid ammunition exploding in the heat and spraying bullets everywhere
Tony Ditcham: one of the youngest winners of the Distinguished Service Cross
Telegraph Obituaries
23 October 2024 3:02pm BST
Tony Ditcham, who has died aged 102, was continuously at sea during the Second War World and, as a midshipman, was one of the youngest winners of the Distinguished Service Cross.
In the early hours of February 20 1941, 19-year-old Midshipman Ditcham was the junior officer in the Hunt-class destroyer Holderness engaged in the bitter campaign to protect against German E-boats the East Coast convoys carrying essential supplies to London.
Holderness, joining her sister ships Mendip and Pytchley, and using her new-fangled radar, detected three stationary contacts which were lying in wait to attack a convoy. Holderness open fire instantly and two of the boats roared off. Holderness gave chase, but a third boat lay still in the water. After a high-speed chase involving smokescreens, searchlights and star shell (shells containing a flare or other light source), Holderness returned to the damaged E-boat.
Seizing a Lewis gun, Ditcham cocked it and put the butt to his shoulder, asking “Open fire Sir?” “Christ no!” replied his captain, “they are hauling down their ensign.” He called instead for a boarding party, which Ditcham commanded and which he had already exercised in the drill for capturing an E-boat and securing its codes and charts.
He led by jumping from the fo’c’s’le, which was about 10 feet above the enemy’s deck, reckoning that he could just about clear the gap – but knowing that if he missed, wearing winter woollies, a pistol and his Gieves fleece-lined, leather seaboots (which he had not yet paid for), he would sink like a stone.
The Hunt-class destroyer Holderness
Landing among the German crew who were looking woebegone, he started towards the bridge when the German captain peered over the bridge, shouted something intelligible and disappeared below. Five seconds later, as Ditcham reached the bridge, it spouted a sheet of flame, blowing him to the deck, and engulfing the superstructure in a raging fire.
The German crew and the British boarding party were evacuated to Holderness and Ditcham found himself alone on the burning E-boat until he was thrown a rope and hauled onboard his own ship, amid ammunition which was exploding in the heat and spraying bullets everywhere. The flames were only extinguished when the E-boat suddenly sank.
Sometime later Ditcham learnt that he had been awarded the DSC for this action but was too shy to “ship” the ribbon on his uniform, until at lunch two weeks later his captain, at the head of the table remarked: “I observe that Ditcham is improperly dressed. Mid, you must put your medal ribbon up!”
Anthony Greville Fox Ditcham was born on July 25 1922 in London, the son of Vivian Ditcham, who served in both world wars.
Young Ditcham was trained in HMS Worcester, the Thames Nautical Training College, and with this advantage in life he joined the Royal Naval Reserve and was sent to sea in the battlecruiser Renown, flagship of Force H, in May 1940, when she took part in Operation Hats, the first military convoy to Malta.
After serving in 1941 and 1942 in Holderness, Ditcham was briefly in the destroyer Reading (an American Lendlease ship so lively it “rolled on wet grass”, as the saying goes), also in the North Sea, before joining the brand-new destroyer Scorpion in the 21st Destroyer Squadron.
Scorpion, in which Ditcham took part in the Battle for North Cape
In Scorpion, Ditcham took part in the Battle for North Cape on December 26 1943. His action station was in the control tower above the bridge where, while searching the Arctic darkness through his binoculars for the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst, star shells burst overhead – and, he recalled, “where there had been nothing but black, there was this enormous ship brilliantly illuminated”.
As Ditcham called down the voicepipe “Enemy insight!” he remembered thinking “What a beautiful ship!” The enemy had clearly been taken by surprise with her gun turrets all facing fore and aft. There was a thunderous crash as the battleship Duke of York fired a broadside, and he counted 10 great shells climbing up into the sky – able to track them because the driving bands which imparted spin glowed in the dark and made them look like tracer bullets. Then “‘suddenly they plunged down towards their target and a huge wall of water rose up, completely concealing Scharnhorst.”
Later in the battle, Scorpion, in company with her Norwegian sister ship, Stord, closed on Scharnhorst at full speed to fire torpedoes. When Scorpion was only 3,500 yards away, Scharnhorst veered sharply, and Ditcham cried “Shoot!” hitting the German’s superstructure several times with Scorpion’s 4.7-inch guns.
At about 19:45 Scharnhorst sank bow first, sliding into the depths with her propellers still turning, while Scorpion slowed to a halt and began searching for survivors. There were scores of men, rising and falling in the heavy sea, their cries whipped by the wind towards Scorpion, which wallowed in the troughs of huge waves churned up by a Force 8 gale.
Despite frozen hands covered in oil, Ditcham and others climbed down scrambling nets to haul up some 30 numbed and dazed seamen. The menace to the Arctic convoys from German capital ships was ended.
Less than six months later, Ditcham’s and Scorpion’s role at D-Day was guarding the eastern flank of Operation Neptune, the allied landings in Normandy. When sailing was announced on June 5, his captain phlegmatically remarked: “The party is on.”
At 05:45, Scorpion had taken up her bombarding position close inshore when there was an explosion, and he saw the Norwegian Svenner break in half. For the next several days Ditcham directed Scorpion’s guns against enemy shore positions, and on June 13 she had the privilege of ferrying USN Admiral Harold “Betty” Stark from Portsmouth to Normandy.
Ditcham completed his war in the destroyer Finisterre in the Far East, and in 1945 he organised a race meeting in Shanghai for his ship’s company, borrowing 30 horses form the Chinese army and the racecourse from the US army.
After the war Ditcham studied at Cambridge and London universities before joining the overseas civil service in Nigeria, where he won the Nigeria Polo Cup in the 1950s. But while he was a district officer in northern Nigeria he contracted polio and convalesced at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. In 1961 he took a job in the British motor industry until his retirement in 1982.
He built a comprehensive library of naval history, some of which is now held by the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle. He wrote his memoirs, sought out old wartime friends and sailed offshore in his eight-metre sloop, The Golden Flagon. He worked as unpaid stable lad exercising racehorses at Ann Price’s yard, and in 1983 he rode across Wales from Presteigne to Aberystwyth.
His memoir, A Home on the Rolling Main: A Naval Memoir, 1940-1946, is published by Seaforth, while his papers are spread between the Imperial War Museum and Churchill College, Cambridge.
Tony Ditcham married Janet Mary Bateman in 1956 in Nigeria. They divorced in 1979, and there was a brief second marriage (1988-91) to Ann Hilton. He is survived by a son and daughter of the first marriage: a daughter predeceased him.
Tony Ditcham, born July 25 1922, died October 2 2024[/i][/b]
An excellent memoir of his wartime service - 'A Home on the Rolling Main'.
He found himself alone on the burning E-boat, amid ammunition exploding in the heat and spraying bullets everywhere
Tony Ditcham: one of the youngest winners of the Distinguished Service Cross
Telegraph Obituaries
23 October 2024 3:02pm BST
Tony Ditcham, who has died aged 102, was continuously at sea during the Second War World and, as a midshipman, was one of the youngest winners of the Distinguished Service Cross.
In the early hours of February 20 1941, 19-year-old Midshipman Ditcham was the junior officer in the Hunt-class destroyer Holderness engaged in the bitter campaign to protect against German E-boats the East Coast convoys carrying essential supplies to London.
Holderness, joining her sister ships Mendip and Pytchley, and using her new-fangled radar, detected three stationary contacts which were lying in wait to attack a convoy. Holderness open fire instantly and two of the boats roared off. Holderness gave chase, but a third boat lay still in the water. After a high-speed chase involving smokescreens, searchlights and star shell (shells containing a flare or other light source), Holderness returned to the damaged E-boat.
Seizing a Lewis gun, Ditcham cocked it and put the butt to his shoulder, asking “Open fire Sir?” “Christ no!” replied his captain, “they are hauling down their ensign.” He called instead for a boarding party, which Ditcham commanded and which he had already exercised in the drill for capturing an E-boat and securing its codes and charts.
He led by jumping from the fo’c’s’le, which was about 10 feet above the enemy’s deck, reckoning that he could just about clear the gap – but knowing that if he missed, wearing winter woollies, a pistol and his Gieves fleece-lined, leather seaboots (which he had not yet paid for), he would sink like a stone.
The Hunt-class destroyer Holderness
Landing among the German crew who were looking woebegone, he started towards the bridge when the German captain peered over the bridge, shouted something intelligible and disappeared below. Five seconds later, as Ditcham reached the bridge, it spouted a sheet of flame, blowing him to the deck, and engulfing the superstructure in a raging fire.
The German crew and the British boarding party were evacuated to Holderness and Ditcham found himself alone on the burning E-boat until he was thrown a rope and hauled onboard his own ship, amid ammunition which was exploding in the heat and spraying bullets everywhere. The flames were only extinguished when the E-boat suddenly sank.
Sometime later Ditcham learnt that he had been awarded the DSC for this action but was too shy to “ship” the ribbon on his uniform, until at lunch two weeks later his captain, at the head of the table remarked: “I observe that Ditcham is improperly dressed. Mid, you must put your medal ribbon up!”
Anthony Greville Fox Ditcham was born on July 25 1922 in London, the son of Vivian Ditcham, who served in both world wars.
Young Ditcham was trained in HMS Worcester, the Thames Nautical Training College, and with this advantage in life he joined the Royal Naval Reserve and was sent to sea in the battlecruiser Renown, flagship of Force H, in May 1940, when she took part in Operation Hats, the first military convoy to Malta.
After serving in 1941 and 1942 in Holderness, Ditcham was briefly in the destroyer Reading (an American Lendlease ship so lively it “rolled on wet grass”, as the saying goes), also in the North Sea, before joining the brand-new destroyer Scorpion in the 21st Destroyer Squadron.
Scorpion, in which Ditcham took part in the Battle for North Cape
In Scorpion, Ditcham took part in the Battle for North Cape on December 26 1943. His action station was in the control tower above the bridge where, while searching the Arctic darkness through his binoculars for the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst, star shells burst overhead – and, he recalled, “where there had been nothing but black, there was this enormous ship brilliantly illuminated”.
As Ditcham called down the voicepipe “Enemy insight!” he remembered thinking “What a beautiful ship!” The enemy had clearly been taken by surprise with her gun turrets all facing fore and aft. There was a thunderous crash as the battleship Duke of York fired a broadside, and he counted 10 great shells climbing up into the sky – able to track them because the driving bands which imparted spin glowed in the dark and made them look like tracer bullets. Then “‘suddenly they plunged down towards their target and a huge wall of water rose up, completely concealing Scharnhorst.”
Later in the battle, Scorpion, in company with her Norwegian sister ship, Stord, closed on Scharnhorst at full speed to fire torpedoes. When Scorpion was only 3,500 yards away, Scharnhorst veered sharply, and Ditcham cried “Shoot!” hitting the German’s superstructure several times with Scorpion’s 4.7-inch guns.
At about 19:45 Scharnhorst sank bow first, sliding into the depths with her propellers still turning, while Scorpion slowed to a halt and began searching for survivors. There were scores of men, rising and falling in the heavy sea, their cries whipped by the wind towards Scorpion, which wallowed in the troughs of huge waves churned up by a Force 8 gale.
Despite frozen hands covered in oil, Ditcham and others climbed down scrambling nets to haul up some 30 numbed and dazed seamen. The menace to the Arctic convoys from German capital ships was ended.
Less than six months later, Ditcham’s and Scorpion’s role at D-Day was guarding the eastern flank of Operation Neptune, the allied landings in Normandy. When sailing was announced on June 5, his captain phlegmatically remarked: “The party is on.”
At 05:45, Scorpion had taken up her bombarding position close inshore when there was an explosion, and he saw the Norwegian Svenner break in half. For the next several days Ditcham directed Scorpion’s guns against enemy shore positions, and on June 13 she had the privilege of ferrying USN Admiral Harold “Betty” Stark from Portsmouth to Normandy.
Ditcham completed his war in the destroyer Finisterre in the Far East, and in 1945 he organised a race meeting in Shanghai for his ship’s company, borrowing 30 horses form the Chinese army and the racecourse from the US army.
After the war Ditcham studied at Cambridge and London universities before joining the overseas civil service in Nigeria, where he won the Nigeria Polo Cup in the 1950s. But while he was a district officer in northern Nigeria he contracted polio and convalesced at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. In 1961 he took a job in the British motor industry until his retirement in 1982.
He built a comprehensive library of naval history, some of which is now held by the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle. He wrote his memoirs, sought out old wartime friends and sailed offshore in his eight-metre sloop, The Golden Flagon. He worked as unpaid stable lad exercising racehorses at Ann Price’s yard, and in 1983 he rode across Wales from Presteigne to Aberystwyth.
His memoir, A Home on the Rolling Main: A Naval Memoir, 1940-1946, is published by Seaforth, while his papers are spread between the Imperial War Museum and Churchill College, Cambridge.
Tony Ditcham married Janet Mary Bateman in 1956 in Nigeria. They divorced in 1979, and there was a brief second marriage (1988-91) to Ann Hilton. He is survived by a son and daughter of the first marriage: a daughter predeceased him.
Tony Ditcham, born July 25 1922, died October 2 2024[/i][/b]
An excellent memoir of his wartime service - 'A Home on the Rolling Main'.
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Grateful Dead bassist and founding member Phil Lesh has died at 84
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/25/entertai ... index.html
Phil Lesh, bassist and founding member of iconic rock band Grateful Dead, has died. He was 84.
The news was announced on Lesh’s verified Instagram on Friday, which said he died “peacefully” on Friday morning.
“He was surrounded by his family and full of love. Phil brought immense joy to everyone around him and leaves behind a legacy of music and love,” the announcement on social media read. “We request that you respect the Lesh family’s privacy at this time.”
CNN has reached out to a representative for the Grateful Dead. No cause of death was immediately available, but the Associated Press reported that Lesh had previously survived prostate cancer, bladder cancer and a liver transplant in 1998 brought on by a hepatitis C infection and years of heavy drinking.
A native of Berkeley, California, Lesh co-founded the band Grateful Dead in 1965 in Palo Alto with Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan and Bill Kreutzmann.
Beginnings
Also trained on the violin and trumpet, Lesh eventually earned second chair in California’s Oakland Symphony Orchestra while still a teen.
Lesh was driving a mail truck and working as a sound engineer for a small radio station in 1965 when Garcia asked him to play bass for a fledgling rock band, then known as The Warlocks.
After getting a feel for the instrument and studying with Garcia, the pair would often trade off on who would lead the melody of the songs they created, thereby establishing one of the many specialties the Dead would become known for – long and improvised passages that meant no two live performances of a certain song were ever alike.
“It’s always fluid, we just pretty much figure it out on the fly,” Lesh said during a rare interview with the AP in 2009. “You can’t set those things in stone in the rehearsal room.”
Although mostly known for his legendary and freestyle bass playing, Lesh composed music for some of the band’s most beloved songs, and also occasionally provided vocals. Among those tracks were “Pride of Cucamonga,” “Unbroken Chain” and “Box of Rain.”
In 2002, Lesh along with Weir observed what it felt like for the history-making group to perform onstage.
“It’s when the pipeline is open, and that eternal moment – as he is describing – which is where music really lives, is open to us and we become the vessel to which that passes, so in a way music is about bringing eternity to time,” Lesh told CNN at the time, in response to Weir’s remarks.
The band became known for its legendary live performances, blazing the trail for other popular groups to follow, like Phish.
Regarding the Dead’s staunch fanbase and following, Lesh said in 2002 “that it’s the community that really generates this music, and we are just there on the receiving end to tap into the pipeline and feed it back to them, maybe at a higher level. So we get it from them, and we give it back to them.”
Later years
After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995 following Garcia’s death, Lesh mostly abstained from joining the other surviving members for their onstage reunion performances.
However, he did take part in the 2009 Grateful Dead tour, and again in 2015 for a series of “Fare Thee Well” concerts marking the band’s 50th anniversary.
He continued to play frequently with a rotating cast of musicians he called Phil Lesh and Friends.
The Dead will be honored in January at a benefit gala ahead of the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. The band was honored with a lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy in 2007.
In a conversation with CNN in 2006, Lesh reflected on the feeling of performing with his bandmates.
“It’s paradise. At that moment, I’m not really there. And no one is. We are the music, and our personalities as such really cease to exist at all. We’ve been subsumed into the greater personality of the group mind, that’s what’s been created. That’s what’s created when we are creatively improvising, and the flow is really happening. When we are actually channeling, we are opening that pipeline to another reality that speaks to us. And we are acting as transformers, and we have to step that down into musical thought. But this is not something you can do consciously, learn how to do or be taught. It’s just something that happens to you when the stars are aligned properly and when your individual consciousness is open enough.”
Lesh is survived by his wife Jill, and sons Brian and Grahame.
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/25/entertai ... index.html
Phil Lesh, bassist and founding member of iconic rock band Grateful Dead, has died. He was 84.
The news was announced on Lesh’s verified Instagram on Friday, which said he died “peacefully” on Friday morning.
“He was surrounded by his family and full of love. Phil brought immense joy to everyone around him and leaves behind a legacy of music and love,” the announcement on social media read. “We request that you respect the Lesh family’s privacy at this time.”
CNN has reached out to a representative for the Grateful Dead. No cause of death was immediately available, but the Associated Press reported that Lesh had previously survived prostate cancer, bladder cancer and a liver transplant in 1998 brought on by a hepatitis C infection and years of heavy drinking.
A native of Berkeley, California, Lesh co-founded the band Grateful Dead in 1965 in Palo Alto with Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan and Bill Kreutzmann.
Beginnings
Also trained on the violin and trumpet, Lesh eventually earned second chair in California’s Oakland Symphony Orchestra while still a teen.
Lesh was driving a mail truck and working as a sound engineer for a small radio station in 1965 when Garcia asked him to play bass for a fledgling rock band, then known as The Warlocks.
After getting a feel for the instrument and studying with Garcia, the pair would often trade off on who would lead the melody of the songs they created, thereby establishing one of the many specialties the Dead would become known for – long and improvised passages that meant no two live performances of a certain song were ever alike.
“It’s always fluid, we just pretty much figure it out on the fly,” Lesh said during a rare interview with the AP in 2009. “You can’t set those things in stone in the rehearsal room.”
Although mostly known for his legendary and freestyle bass playing, Lesh composed music for some of the band’s most beloved songs, and also occasionally provided vocals. Among those tracks were “Pride of Cucamonga,” “Unbroken Chain” and “Box of Rain.”
In 2002, Lesh along with Weir observed what it felt like for the history-making group to perform onstage.
“It’s when the pipeline is open, and that eternal moment – as he is describing – which is where music really lives, is open to us and we become the vessel to which that passes, so in a way music is about bringing eternity to time,” Lesh told CNN at the time, in response to Weir’s remarks.
The band became known for its legendary live performances, blazing the trail for other popular groups to follow, like Phish.
Regarding the Dead’s staunch fanbase and following, Lesh said in 2002 “that it’s the community that really generates this music, and we are just there on the receiving end to tap into the pipeline and feed it back to them, maybe at a higher level. So we get it from them, and we give it back to them.”
Later years
After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995 following Garcia’s death, Lesh mostly abstained from joining the other surviving members for their onstage reunion performances.
However, he did take part in the 2009 Grateful Dead tour, and again in 2015 for a series of “Fare Thee Well” concerts marking the band’s 50th anniversary.
He continued to play frequently with a rotating cast of musicians he called Phil Lesh and Friends.
The Dead will be honored in January at a benefit gala ahead of the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. The band was honored with a lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy in 2007.
In a conversation with CNN in 2006, Lesh reflected on the feeling of performing with his bandmates.
“It’s paradise. At that moment, I’m not really there. And no one is. We are the music, and our personalities as such really cease to exist at all. We’ve been subsumed into the greater personality of the group mind, that’s what’s been created. That’s what’s created when we are creatively improvising, and the flow is really happening. When we are actually channeling, we are opening that pipeline to another reality that speaks to us. And we are acting as transformers, and we have to step that down into musical thought. But this is not something you can do consciously, learn how to do or be taught. It’s just something that happens to you when the stars are aligned properly and when your individual consciousness is open enough.”
Lesh is survived by his wife Jill, and sons Brian and Grahame.
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Teri Garr dead at 79: Oscar nominated star of Tootsie, Young Frankenstein, and Friends passes away
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/a ... iends.html
eri Garr - who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in Tootsie - has passed away at the age of 79.
She is also known for her roles in Young Frankenstein, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, and as Phoebe's mother in iconic sitcom Friends.
The veteran actress passed away in Los Angeles on Tuesday after a long battle with Multiple sclerosis (MS).
In 2002 the talented star had revealed that she had been diagnosed with the chronic disease that damages the central nervous system (CNS). Years later she suffered an aneurysm in 2006.
As she had nearly 160 credits to her name starring in influential television shows and films from the 1970s to 1990s, she was an influential performer to many including SNL legend Tina Fey.
The peak of her career came in 1983 as she was nominated in the Best Actress in a Supporting Role category for her work as Sandy Lester in Tootsie.
She ultimately lost out to castmate Jessica Lange from the same film who happened to the the loan winner out of ten nominations that year.
Her most famous television role came from when she starred as Phoebe Abbott in three episodes of iconic sitcom Friends from 1997 to 1998.
In the episode The One At The Beach, her character discloses to Lisa Kudrow's character Phoebe Buffay that she's her birth mother.
Teri had returned to the role in two other episodes titled The One With Jellyfish and The One With Phoebe's Uniform.
Another one of her iconic roles was as Ronnie Neary in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters Of The Third Kind in 1977.
She portrayed the wife of Richard Dreyfuss' character Roy as the film won the Best Cinematography Oscar in 1978 for Vilmos Zsigmond.
However her breakout role was as saucy assistant Inga in 1974 Mel Brooks classic Young Frankenstein where she starred opposite Gene Wilder.
1997 to 1998 (pictured with Lisa Kudrow in 1998)
However her breakout role was as saucy assistant Inga in 1974 Mel Brooks classic Young Frankenstein where she starred opposite Gene Wilder
The talented thespian was originally born in Ohio but eventually moved to Los Angeles.
She attended Hollywood High School and attended Cal State Northridge before eventually moving to New York to study acting.
Teri actually started her career as a go-go dancer including in six Elvis Presley features and rock concert The T.A.M.I. Show.
In the 1960s she had small parts on sitcoms including That Girl, Batman, and The Andy Griffith Show.
Her first speaking role came in 1968 as she starred in Head which was the offbeat feature film from the pop band The Monkees.
Teri went on to become a regular singer and dancer on The Sonny And Cher Show.
Then one of her biggest career breaks came when she landed a role in Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 flick The Conversation.
Years later she was casted again by the iconic filmmaker Coppola as she starred in 1981 flick One From The Heart.
Teri was also a late night staple as she appeared frequently on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Late Night With David Letterman and even hosted Saturday Night Live three times.
However her career slowed down a bit in the 1990s as she starred in 1994's Dumb And Dumber, an episode of ER in 1999, and of course her aforementioned guest spot on Friends.
The talented star recalled her career in autobiography - titled Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood - which was published in 2006.
Garr is survived by daughter, Molly O’Neil, and grandson Tyryn.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/a ... iends.html
eri Garr - who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in Tootsie - has passed away at the age of 79.
She is also known for her roles in Young Frankenstein, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, and as Phoebe's mother in iconic sitcom Friends.
The veteran actress passed away in Los Angeles on Tuesday after a long battle with Multiple sclerosis (MS).
In 2002 the talented star had revealed that she had been diagnosed with the chronic disease that damages the central nervous system (CNS). Years later she suffered an aneurysm in 2006.
As she had nearly 160 credits to her name starring in influential television shows and films from the 1970s to 1990s, she was an influential performer to many including SNL legend Tina Fey.
The peak of her career came in 1983 as she was nominated in the Best Actress in a Supporting Role category for her work as Sandy Lester in Tootsie.
She ultimately lost out to castmate Jessica Lange from the same film who happened to the the loan winner out of ten nominations that year.
Her most famous television role came from when she starred as Phoebe Abbott in three episodes of iconic sitcom Friends from 1997 to 1998.
In the episode The One At The Beach, her character discloses to Lisa Kudrow's character Phoebe Buffay that she's her birth mother.
Teri had returned to the role in two other episodes titled The One With Jellyfish and The One With Phoebe's Uniform.
Another one of her iconic roles was as Ronnie Neary in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters Of The Third Kind in 1977.
She portrayed the wife of Richard Dreyfuss' character Roy as the film won the Best Cinematography Oscar in 1978 for Vilmos Zsigmond.
However her breakout role was as saucy assistant Inga in 1974 Mel Brooks classic Young Frankenstein where she starred opposite Gene Wilder.
1997 to 1998 (pictured with Lisa Kudrow in 1998)
However her breakout role was as saucy assistant Inga in 1974 Mel Brooks classic Young Frankenstein where she starred opposite Gene Wilder
The talented thespian was originally born in Ohio but eventually moved to Los Angeles.
She attended Hollywood High School and attended Cal State Northridge before eventually moving to New York to study acting.
Teri actually started her career as a go-go dancer including in six Elvis Presley features and rock concert The T.A.M.I. Show.
In the 1960s she had small parts on sitcoms including That Girl, Batman, and The Andy Griffith Show.
Her first speaking role came in 1968 as she starred in Head which was the offbeat feature film from the pop band The Monkees.
Teri went on to become a regular singer and dancer on The Sonny And Cher Show.
Then one of her biggest career breaks came when she landed a role in Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 flick The Conversation.
Years later she was casted again by the iconic filmmaker Coppola as she starred in 1981 flick One From The Heart.
Teri was also a late night staple as she appeared frequently on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Late Night With David Letterman and even hosted Saturday Night Live three times.
However her career slowed down a bit in the 1990s as she starred in 1994's Dumb And Dumber, an episode of ER in 1999, and of course her aforementioned guest spot on Friends.
The talented star recalled her career in autobiography - titled Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood - which was published in 2006.
Garr is survived by daughter, Molly O’Neil, and grandson Tyryn.
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Guardian: Teri Garr, actor from Tootsie and Friends, dies aged 79“There was a time when Teri Garr was in everything. She was adorable, but also very real. Her body was real, her teeth were real, and you thought that she could be your friend.”
Rest in peace, Teri.
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Utterly beautiful and a brilliant actress. RIP.
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Apparently she was in an early episode of Star Trek as well, but I’ve not been able to find it, so more Young Frankenstein
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