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CLIFF ROBERTSON

9.12.11
- CLIFF ROBERTSON.

CLIFF ROBERTSON, 70's Oscar winning actor, passed away on Septemebr 10th 2011 in Stony Brook New York due to natural causes. Robertson was best known for his roles like "J.F.Kennedy" in PT-109, "Charly" and was famously victimized in a Hollywood forgery scandal in 1977. Robertson was 88. This picture was taken during a speech Robertson made at Patricia Neal's Walk of Fame in Hollywood, at the end of the speech Robertson took of his hat and said "This is not a Nazi Hat, this is from Finland."




Andy Withfiled

9.12.11
- ANDY WHITFIELD

Actor ANDY WHITFIELD, who plays the title character, on Starz Channel, SPARTACUS: BLOOD AND SAND passed away due toi non-Hodgkins lymphoma on Sunday Septembet 11th in Sydney Australia . Andy fought non-Hodgkin Lymphoma for 18 months. Andy was only 39 years old....continue





Peter Falk

7.1..11 - PETER FALK

7.1..11 - Actor PETER FALK, best known for his portrayal of dishevelled, disorganized, but always get his man detective, COLUMBO died last week at the age of 83. He first played the part in a TV movie in 1968, and continued the character in various movies and series until 2003. Over an acting career that spanned 50 years, FALK earned 5 Emmys and 2 Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor. At the age of 3 he had acancerous eye removed and replaced with a glass one. It didn't slow him down, as FALK lettered in basketball, baseball and track in high school, and went on to a storied career. Of his beloved character COLUMBO, FALK told TV Guide "He's eccentric, oblivious to the impression he makes on people. His obsevvieness is hidden by his graciousness. He has a sly sense of humor, is by nature polite and totally devoid of pretension. But God help anyone who commits murder in Los Angeles." Amen for that.

We caught up with PETER FALK, and his beautiful wife SHERA in Palm Springs in 2005 at the PS Film Festival where he was promoting one of his last projects, The Thing About My Folks.


Peter Falk
Peter Falk
Peter Falk
Peter Falk
 










3.23.11 - THE GIRL WITH THE VIOLET EYES IS GONE


ELIZABETH TAYLOR died this morning, peacefully, at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, where she had been receiving treatment for more than a month for congestive heart failure. The Hollywood icon led a life, sometimes charmed, many times fraught with drama and difficulty.

She married 8 times, survived alcohol and drug addictions, brain tumor surgery, deadly bouts of pneumonia, a broken back on 4 different occasions, skin cancer, 3 hip replacements, heart surgery, a mistaken diagnosis of lung cancer, an attempted suicide in 1962, a pronouncement of death while filming BUTTERFIELD 8, and managed to navigate the minefield that is Hollywood stardom. And she was one of its biggest stars.

Her first leading movie role thrust her into America's spotlight, starring in NATIONAL VELVET at the age of 12. TAYLOR was nominated for Best Actress 3 years in a row for RAINTREE COUNTY in 1957, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF in 1958, and SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER in 1959, before she finally won her first Academy Award playing a high priced call girl in BUTTERFIELD 8, in 1960. In 1961, whilst on the set of CLEOPATRA, for which she set a record for her $1 million salary, ELIZABETH was "attacked" by the Vatican, which issued an unprecedented statement warning the world, and men at large of the "erotic vagrant" that "destroys families and devours men."

The missive was prompted by a major scandal, wherein TAYLOR, who was then married to singer and BUTTERFIELD co-star, EDDIE FISHER, carried on a very public affair with CLEOPATRA co-star RICHARD BURTON. Her marriage to FISHER had broken up the marriage of America's sweetheart, DEBBIE REYNOLDS and the singer, and was but months old when the romance with BURTON began. She was later quoted, "I'm not taking anything away from DEBBIE because she never really had it." She eventually divorced FISHER in 1964 and married BURTON for the first of 2 times in the same year.

Six years later she won another Best Actress award, again co-starring with RICHARD BURTON in the caustic WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?"

Her film career paled in comparison after that, but she turned her attention to AIDS fundraising and awareness in her later years, working tirelessly for AMFAR and MACY'S PASSPORT to raise millions for the disease that struck down, among others, her GIANT co-star ROCK HUDSON. She also befriended, and defended embattled legend MICHAEL JACKSON to his death, appearing at his funeral in 2009 looking shaken and frail.

She had a quick wit, and a sense of humor cast from years of being in the cauldron of Hollywood mega stardom. Some of her best quotes are listed below.

"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses."

"One problem with people with no vices is that they are pretty sure to have some annoying virtues."

"I had a hollow leg. I could drink everyone under the table and not get drunk. My capacity was terrifying."

"My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked."

"I don't remember much about CLEOPATRA. There were a lot of other things going on."

Do you think?

May DAME ELIZABETH TAYLOR rest in peace.

 




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