ACTOR TONY CURTIS DIES AT AGE 85

September 30th, 2010 by maureen | No Comments | Filed in Hot News

Sep 30, 2010

Actor Tony Curtis dies during age 85

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  • Tony Curtis, a Hollywood heartthrob who fashioned a career as a reputable singer in such drive-in theatre as Sweet Smell of Success, The Defiant Ones as well as Some Like It Hot, has died during a age of 85.

    Curtis, a father of singer Jamie Lee Curtis, died Wednesday during his Las Vegas area home of a cardiac arrest, a Associated Press reports, quoting a Clark County Coroner.

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    GLORIA STUART, ‘TITANIC’ ACTRESS, DIES AT THE AGE OF 100 AFTER HOLLYWOOD …

    September 27th, 2010 by maureen | 1 Comment | Filed in Hot News

    Originally Published:Monday, Sep 27th 2010, 3:35 PM
    Updated: Monday, Sep 27th 2010, 4:08 PM

    Gloria Stuart, the blond movie bombshell of the 1930s who resurfaced the half century after as the nauseating heart of the blockbuster “Titanic,” died Sunday during the age of 100.

    In the 1997 James Cameron film, Stuart played the comparison incarnation of Kate Winslett’s Rose Calvert - the impression who incited the movie from the tragedy in which 1,490 people died in to the bittersweet story where the singular locket showed adore could endure.

    “Titanic” didn’t lead to the Betty White-style change of heart for Stuart’s career, though it gave her the happy finale which she pronounced she had not wholly expected.

    She starred in dozens of drive-in theatre in the 1930s, operative with tip directors similar to John Ford as well as in all personification the pleasing blonde. She pronounced during the time of “Titanic” which she outlayed many of those years indignant as well as undone which she was not asked or authorised to fool around more.

    She was most appropriate well well known for personification Claude Rains’s swain in “The Invisible Man,” whilst movie fans mostly bring “The Old Dark House” as the single of her excellent performances.

    She left behaving after World War II as well as incited to painting, where she adopted the obsolete character suggestive of Grandma Moses. She after grown the line of vacant artists’ books.

    She returned to behaving irregularly in after years, receiving the single spotlight purpose as Peter O’Toole’s wordless dance partner in “My Favorite Year.”

    She was nominated for an Oscar, the Golden Globe as well as the Screen Actors Guild endowment for her purpose in “Titanic.” She stays the oldest singer nominated for an Academy Award.

    She was additionally well well known in Hollywood as an early romantic in the Screen Actors Guild, in partial from her disappointment during her own career.

    She distinguished her 100th birthday Jul 4 during the intemperate Hollywood celebration attended by, between others, “Titanic” executive James Cameron.

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    FORMER SINGER WITH BOY BAND LFO DIES OF LEUKEMIA

    September 9th, 2010 by maureen | 1 Comment | Filed in Hot News

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rich Cronin, former lead thespian of a child rope LFO as well as a bard of a 1999 strike “Summer Girls,” died upon Wednesday after a conflict with leukemia, luminary headlines site TMZ reported. He was 35.

    The headlines was additionally reported around Twitter by Lance Bass, a former part of of ‘N Sync, who described Cronin as “an extraordinary guy.” It was not transparent where Cronin died.

    The Boston local co-founded LFO — reduced for “Lyte Funky Ones” — in 1995 with Brad Fischetti as well as Brian Gillis (who was after transposed by Devin Lima). They sealed a understanding with Lou Pearlman, a now-imprisoned cocktail impresario at a back of ‘N Sync as well as a Backstreet Boys.

    But Cronin sought to compute his rope from alternative masculine outspoken groups, that relied upon outward songwriters as well as producers to broach soulful cocktail hits. LFO introduced hip-hop as well as stone in to a equation, as well as strike No. 3 upon Billboard’s Hot 100 singles draft with a inevitable summer anthem “Summer Girls.”

    The follow-up, “Girl upon TV,” reached No. 10, though successive singles unsuccessful to moment a tip 40. The rope pennyless up in 2003.

    Cronin was diagnosed with cancer in 2005, as well as set up a substructure to lift income for a Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

    (Reporting by Dean Goodman; modifying by Belinda Goldsmith)

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