Hale played Della Street over, and over, and over, and over again – and even helped revive the character in the 1980s. “She never seemed unhappy about being identified with one character throughout her career. In 1993 she told The Chicago Tribune that Della Street was ‘a woman who knew what everybody was thinking.'”
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Actor John Hurt Dead At 77
David Lynch, who directed him in The Elephant Man, called him “simply the greatest actor in the world.” He made a thriving, and unusual, career in theatre, film, and television playing characters from Quentin Crisp to Caligula to Raskolnikov to Winston Smith to (for Mel Brooks) Jesus.
How Mel Gibson Went From Pariah To Oscar Nominee
“How did liberal Hollywood decide to once again embrace Gibson a few short years after leaked audiotapes and a domestic-violence accusation painted a picture of a him as an unhinged, abusive racist?” It’s not just that his movies are still making money, Kevin Lincoln reports – a lot of people there genuinely like the guy and say those tapes give an inaccurate picture.
Actor Mike Connors, Star Of ‘Mannix’, Dead At 91
“As the heroic good guy on the CBS action series, he was among the highest-paid TV actors in the early 1970s.”
Long-serving Mayor Of Harrisburg PA Worked On Museum No One Wanted, Then Stole Artifacts
“The fact that no one seemed to share in his dream of making a less disturbing Westworld on the banks of the Susquehanna did not deter Stephen R. Reed. Nope. He employed that coal-mining country grit in every step of his totally un-mandated, batshit quest to built another Gene Autry Museum in Pennsylvania. And then he got really carried away, and purloined more than 500 items that were slated for the non-existent institution and paid for with public funds, storing them (accidentally! he claims) at his house.”
Mary Tyler Moore, 80
“[Her] production company, MTM Enterprises, created groundbreaking TV shows during the 1970s and 1980s, including Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere. But she was primarily considered one of television’s finest comic actresses because of her roles on two of the most popular sitcoms of all time.”
Smithsonian Museum Of American Art Names A New Director
“Stephanie Stebich is currently the executive director of the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington State, where she has helped grow the museum’s collection, which has an emphasis on American art from the Northwest region.”
Will Lin Manuel Miranda Win A Full EGOT?
It stands for Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards. Only 12 other performers have held the title. (According to Vanity Fair, the acronym was coined in the 1980s by the “Miami Vice” actor Philip Michael Thomas, who has won none of the awards. It was re-popularized by Tracy Morgan’s character on the sitcom “30 Rock.”)
Pop Culture’s Fascination With Makeovers (But There’s A Dark Side)
“A fixation with ‘the makeover’ has been present in popular culture for decades. Its depiction in film, television and online has been a barometer of the shifting understandings of what it means to be an individual in the modern world, in response to changing norms of gender, youth, work and identity.”
Composer Veljo Tormis, Who Helped Inspire Estonia To Independence, Dead At 86
While he has been overshadowed in the West by compatriot Arvo Pärt, Tormis is revered in his native land. Doubtless thinking of such works as the ferocious Curse Upon Iron and Litany to Thunder, leading Estonian conductor Tõnu Kaljuste once observed, “If Arvo Pärt’s music is heaven, then Veljo Tormis’s music is earth.”