Farrah Fawcett - Passes

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.....Another reminder that time marches on, it seems like just yesterday she was young beautiful and the world was her oyster. I had her picture in my locker back in grade school, I don't know anyone that didn't. I think much of what defines us is our experiences throughout life, the things we've seen, heard and remember fondly. A poster of a golden-haired beauty in a one-piece swimsuit bought at K-Mart might not seem to be very significant but I assure you it is. As a small part in the greater picture of our mortality (my mortality) it can mean a great deal. Farrah jumped into our consciousness at a wonderful moment in North American culture, fragmented memories of a fleeting micro-era that began with words like "bicentennial" and "pet rock and ended with MTV and Atari. She was the quintessential "IT" girl of he 70's and I for one will miss her terribly....

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By Jill Serjeant
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Farrah Fawcett, the "Charlie's Angels" television star whose big smile and feathered blond mane made her one of the reigning sex symbols of the 1970s, died on Thursday after a long battle with cancer. She was 62.
.....Fawcett, who first vaulted to stardom by an alluring poster of her in a red swimsuit, was diagnosed with anal cancer in late 2006. It spread to her liver in 2007, proving resistant to numerous medical treatments in Germany and California.

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"After a long and brave battle with cancer, our beloved Farrah has passed away" Fawcett's long time companion, actor Ryan O'Neal, said in a statement.
"Although this is an extremely difficult time for her family and friends, we take comfort in the beautiful times that we shared with Farrah over the years and the knowledge that her life brought joy to so many people around the world."
Fawcett's death in a Los Angeles hospital came just six weeks after the TV broadcast in May of a video diary she made chronicling her battle with cancer and her final months called "Farrah's Story,"

Andy Hallett

A sad day as we lose another talented actor years before his time. An agent for 33-year-old singer and actor Andy Hallett says the former cast member from the vampire TV series "Angel" has died of congestive heart disease. Hallett's agent Pat Brady says Hallett died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after having problems breathing. Brady says he has battled the heart condition for the past five years. Hallett was also on the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" as Lorne, a green-skinned good guy demon who runs a karaoke club and can read a person's aura when they sing.

Natasha Richardson

Natasha Jane Richardson (born 11 May 1963) is another one of my early heart throbs, a British actress known for her performances on stage, TV and in many films. The first time I saw this incredibly beautiful actress was in the movie The Handmaid's Tale were she played opposite Robert Duval in the lead roll of Kate Offreda, a concubine to the privileged rich classes in an oppressive futuristic society. Its was a very enjoyable film and a fantastic performance by Natasha, one worth remembering, if you have not yet seen it I recommend it highly.

.... In her personal life she has been married to Liam Neeson since late 1994. Richardson and Neeson have two sons: Michael and Daniel. Richardson has also helped raise millions of dollars in the fight against AIDS since her father, director Tony Richardson, died of AIDS-related causes in 1991. A good person with a good heart who is both talented beautiful.

.....As I write this blog a terrible tragedy has befallen Natasha, after suffering what appeared to be a minor fall during a private skiing lesson Monday on a beginner's trail at Mont Tremblant, Quebec, she later developed a severe headache, she has been flown back to New York were she has since fallen into a coma. Members of Natasha's family are gathered at the Manhattan hospital where she has been taken, she is not expected to survive. I pray, as we all do, that by some miracle she will survive and make a full recovery. 08/18/09, 8:00pm...

...08/19/09... With great sorrow I write that Natasha died yesterday in New York she was only 45... Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman said Thursday the death was ruled an accident, and the cause of death was an "epidural hematoma due to blunt impact to the head," It is a tragic loss. It's always sad when an actress as talented as Natasha dies before her time, we are left wondering what other great roles she may have portrayed if she had lived, rolls that will now never come to pass, roll that we have all been deprived of seeing...one can only speculate, my condolences to her family....

Filmography

1968............. The Charge of the Light Brigade

1986..............Gothic

1987............. A Month in the Country

1988............. Patty Hearst

1989............. Fat Man and Little Boy

1990............. The Handmaid's Tale

..................... The Comfort of Strangers

1991............. The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish

1992............. Past Midnight

1994............. Nell

..................... Widows' Peak

1998............. The Parent Trap

2001............. Blow Dry

..................... Chelsea Walls
2002............. Waking Up In Reno

......................Maid in Manhattan

2005..............The White Countess

......................Asylum

2007............. Evening

2008............. Wild Child

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Supplimental March 23, 2009

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LITHGOW, N.Y. – A somber group of friends and family gathered in a small Hudson Valley town Sunday to say a final farewell to Tony Award-winning actress Natasha Richardson. Liam Neeson, in a dark suit and sunglasses, was at the head of the casket as he and five other pallbearers carried his wife's coffin into St. Peter's Episcopal Church, near the home where the two married in 1994. After that a graveside service under a large green tent, the 45-year-old actress was buried in a nearby cemetery, near the grave of her maternal grandmother the actress Rachel Kempson, amid hilly horse farms about 80 miles north of New York City....

The Expendables - Stallone's new film.

This just in, and I can't wait...SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Arnold Schwarzenegger will spends a few hours playing himself later this year in a new movie by Sylvester Stallone. Stallone's publicist, Sheryl Main, revealed more details last Tuesday of Schwarzenegger's rare big-screen appearance. The governor said he has done just three cameos for friends since becoming governor in 2003.

......Shooting on the film, "The Expendables" will begin March 28 in Brazil and move to New Orleans for two months. Main says the governor will shoot his scene in Los Angeles.His role will be a familiar one: California governor.
......Stallone writes, directs and stars in the movie, a film about a group of mercenaries trying to overthrow a South American dictator. It also stars Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke and Forest Whitaker. I thinks it's great that the old guard is sticking together, when you put Stallone and Schwarzeneggar in the same film even if only for a few scenes, ya know good think are gonna happen...

Arthur C. Clarke Passes.

Any time J-Lo takes a shit it seems to make top news headlines, yet one of the greatest authors of our time passes away and it's hardly even freakin reported... Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the science fiction writer, died on March 18 he was 90. He wrote more than 70 books most notably the The Sentinel", which was later adapted for Stanley Kubrick's film "2001: A Space Odyssey"., nominated for a Nobel Prize he was also credited with inventing the concept of communications satellites in 1945. Rest in peace Mr. Clarke, a life well lived.

Logan's Run Re-make

I will update this blog as more info becomes available...For the time being it's enough to say that there's a re-make in the works...

This is an absolutely fantastic film, based on a novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson it was a spectacular screen adaption albiet not entirely true to the novel. This pre 1977 Sci-Fi film was unfortunately forgotten by most movie fans with the advent of Star Wars, it is never the less a absolute master piece which I consider to be one of the top 5 Science Fiction films of all time. Superb acting by Michael York, Jenny Agutter and Peter Ustinov combined with academy award winning special effects made this movie one of the most memorable I've ever seen. Some people feel this film is dated, I've never really understood what the hell that means, and I could not disagree more. This is a perfect movie without faults. It was nominated for three Academy awards back in 1976 Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Special Effects (won). I wait with anticipation and hope they don't f*ck it up...can anyone say "Rollerball Remake" ???

Ed McMahon bankrupt ?

LOL...OK, I'll admit I'm not the sharpest pencil in the case so perhaps I'm missing something here, but could someone please explain to me how a guy who should be worth 200+ million can get $644,000 behind on his mortgage payments. The guys going bloody bankrupt after years and years of making more money than God. McMahon bought the six-bedroom, five-bathroom, 7,000-square-foot house in January 1990. The mansion, which is listed at $6.25 million, is in a gated hilltop section off Mulholland Drive called The Summit. Britney Spears is among his neighbors. Of course when asked about his money problems he sighted the usual bullshit, the economy, divorce, legal cost for various endeavours including the home witch he's been trying to sell. Call me a cold hearted bastard if ya want but I hope they foreclose on his ass and throw him out on the street.

Natalie Gulbis

As I get older, my damn eye sight is not all that good anymore. Can you please help me with this? Is that, or is that not, a graphite shaft?

Damn I'm taking up golf...or at least taking up watching it...

Eva Mendes Calls Substance Abuse Joke "Tacky"

Get over it sweetheart...The actress snapped at a reporter for Interview magazine who joked that Alcoholics Anonymous would have to be changed to Alcoholics Unanimous because of the prevalence of problems in Hollywood. Not that I don't feel some sympathy for these pathetic idiots because I do. But I have to be honest, at the end of the day they've pretty much been given the keys to the kingdom, they have more money and power than most of us will ever see. If they choose to snort that money up their nose or drink it away then they better bloody well expect to the butt many jokes. She goes on to say ...

"I'm proud of people who have the determination and the fearlessness to actually go and face their demons and get better," she says. "This is a life or death situation."

Determination and fearlessness ??? ...give me a break. Its easy to deal with an addiction when you have access to a $2000.00 a day facility like Cirque Lodge. There's nothing fearless about it, try doing it like the rest of us sweet cheeks, with NO help at all. Weather it's quiting smoking, drinking, or a heroin addiction, in real world people for the most part are forced to quite on their own, that's fearlessness and determination.

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Cheers.

Paris Hilton `like, totally ready to lead'

Another one of my guilty pleasures, I won't Deny it. I like this chick I think she's like totally cool, she's alot smarter than you people think. Every time you sit at the water cooler bitching to yer friends about how much you hate her, remember that all you're really doing is increasing her notoriety. Cha- Chinngg!!!!

WASHINGTON–"I'll see you at the debate, bitches."

With that tongue-in-cheek rejoinder to Barack Obama and John McCain, the latest collision of American politics and popular culture was complete, with the comic entry of Paris Hilton into the U.S. presidential race.
Hilton, famous for simply being famous, has posted her own video response to McCain's earlier campaign ad in which he painted Obama as a shallow celebrity in the same vein as Hilton and troubled pop singer Britney Spears – as a man known worldwide, but not necessarily ready to lead.
Hilton's campaign ad became an immediate online hit on comic Will Ferrell's FunnyorDie.com website with more than 4 million views in 24 hours.
But the socialite's intervention in the ongoing debate over gas prices here is just the latest trivialization of the overriding issue in the presidential campaign.

In the video, Hilton calls McCain "that wrinkly, white-haired guy" and refers to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee as the world's oldest celebrity.
As she reclines on a lounge chair in a bathing suit, searching a magazine for the world's best tanning locales, she assures Americans she is "like, totally ready to lead," then weighs in on the number one campaign issue: high oil prices.

The link is here...

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/64ad536a6d

Go Paris !!!!

She's got my vote, unfortunatley under U.S. law, Hilton would not in fact be eligible to hold the office of the presidency for eight more years, she's still way too hot...errr, I mean young.

James Bond Blu-ray Collection Vol. 1 and Vol. 2

I promised myself I aint gonna replace any of my old DVDs with Blue-ray, I'm not gonna frackin do it!!!.. not a chance... But for those idiots that do like to burn cash... spread over two collections on high definition Blu-ray. Volume 1 includes decked-out ultimate editions of "Dr. No," "Die Another Day," and "Live and Let Die," while Volume 2 features the Bond classics "For Your Eyes Only," "From Russia with Love," and "Thunderball." ...enjoy.

Micheal Crichton

We lost another great man this month, Michael Crichton, passed away on November 4, 2008. I have to admit I've never been a big reader, not because I don't like it... I just never seem to find the time, but I was always a big fan of his work. I have read the following Crichton books: The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Congo, and Sphere. It is always sad when a great storyteller dies and we are left wondering what other great stories we may have read if he had lived. He died of cancer in Los Angeles early this month, he was only 66. He will be missed...