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I just woke up to a text from a friend about Infantino. This is the worst. That man was responsible for so much of me being a comic fan. I knew it was coming, but this is really sad for me.
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Carmine Infantino, R.I.P.
i can't find anything on this site about his passing. if this is a dupe, will a moderator please delete it?Comment
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There isnt a specific thread for him, but in the "wont be down for breakfast" thread they are talking about it.
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deletion confirmed: commencing in 3.............2.........
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Archie Writer, Sabrina Co-Creator GEORGE GLADIR Passes Away
George Gladir, a prolific writer for Archie Comics from 1959 to the present day, passed away Wednesday, the publisher confirms.
His most famous co-creation is Sabrina the Teenage Witch, introduced in 1962 by Gladir and legendary artist Dan DeCarlo. The character remains one of the most famous additions to the Archie cast, and has been seen in two different animated series, and a live-action sitcom that ran from 1996 to 2003. Additionally, Gladir wrote extensively for Archie, Josie and the Pussycats and the rest of the company's famous characters.
"I've had the pleasure and the honor of working and learning from George for 54 years," Archie editor-in-chief/co-president Victor Gorelick said in a statement. "As an editor, George made my job easy. He was always current, understood the characters, was funny and always sent reference. The entire staff at ArchieComics was saddened by the loss of George Gladir. We'll all miss him."
In 2007, Gladir received the Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing. Work by Gladir has been scheduled at least through Archie's most recent solicitations, for comics released in June 2013
I LOVE conspiracy theorists. They are like human versions of the cymbal clapping, dancing monkeys. No one takes them all that seriously and they get bored with them after about 10 minutes.Comment
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Seriously Spy Smasher, get with the times.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/p...eland/2060289/
NEW YORK (AP) — The Irish actor Milo O'Shea, whose many roles on stage and screen included a friar in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, an evil scientist in Barbarella and a Supreme Court justice on The West Wing, has died in New York City. He was 86.
Ireland's arts minister, Jimmy Deenihan, said in a statement announcing O'Shea's death on Tuesday that the Dublin-born actor would be remembered for "groundbreaking" roles, including a performance as Leopold Bloom in the 1967 film adaptation of Ulysses.
O'Shea also acted on Broadway, playing a gay hairdresser in 1968's Staircase. He was nominated for Tony Awards twice.
The public knew O'Shea best as a character actor. His bushy eyebrows and white hair made him a favorite of casting directors looking for priests. He played a drunken one on the TV show Cheers, a pedophilic one in the 1997 film The Butcher Boy, a charming one in the 1981 Broadway play Mass Appeal, as well as the tragedy-enabling Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet. He was a judge in the Paul Newman film The Verdict.
His loony turn as the pleasure-obsessed scientist Durand Durand in the 1968 science fiction romp Barbarella inspired a British rock group to name its band after his character. Duran Duran also put him in a concert video.
O'Shea moved to the USA in the mid-1970s and was a longtime resident of New York.Comment
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Originally posted by Andrew NDBComment
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli...e-aged-87.html
Baroness Thatcher, Britain's greatest post-war prime minister, has died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke, her family has announced.
Lord Bell, her spokesman, said: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning.A further statement will be made later."
Lady Thatcher died at the Ritz hotel at about 11am after suffering a stroke. Her children were not at her bedside as they were abroad. Her doctor and carer were there when she died.
Buckingham Palace said the Queen was saddened by the news.
David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said: "We've lost a great prime minister, a great leader, a great Briton.
"She didn't just lead our country, she saved our country, and I believe she'll go down as the greatest British peacetime prime minister."
Flags have been lowered to half mast at Downing Street.
Known as the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher governed Britain from 1979 to 1990.
She will go down in history not only as Britain's first female prime minister, but as the woman who transformed Britain's economy in addition to being a formidable rival on the international stage.
Lady Thatcher was the only British prime minister to leave behind a set of ideas about the role of the state which other leaders and nations strove to copy and apply.
Many features of the modern globalised economy - monetarism, privatisation, deregulation, small government, lower taxes and free trade - were all promoted as a result of policies she employed to reverse Britain’s economic decline.
Above all, in America and in Eastern Europe she was regarded, alongside her friend Ronald Reagan, as one of the two great architects of the West’s victory in the Cold War.
Of modern British prime ministers, only Lady Thatcher’s girlhood hero, Winston Churchill, acquired a higher international reputation.
Lady Thatcher had become increasingly frail in recent years following a series of small strokes in 2001 and 2002.
Her daughter Carol also revealed in 2008 that she had been diagnosed with dementia, which had increasingly affected her memory for the last decade.
Ill-health had prevented her attending an 85th birthday party in Downing Street arranged by David Cameron in October 2010.
It also prevented her attending the Royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29, 2011 at Westminster Abbey.
Lady Thatcher published two volumes of memoirs. The first, The Downing Street Years (1993), covered her time as Prime Minister, while the second volume, The Path to Power (1995), concerned her early life. She also published a magisterial volume on international affairs, Statecraft (2002).
She is survived by her two children. Her husband Sir Denis died in 2003.Last edited by Mister.Weirdo; 04-08-2013, 03:39 PM.Comment
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Wow, that's a big one. Thatcher was an enormous political force. And a very admirable woman.Comment
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Originally posted by Andrew NDBComment
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I thought Maggie died sometime in the 90s.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/obituari...,5659102.story
Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV's “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s who further cemented her status as a pop-culture icon in the '60s by teaming with Frankie Avalon in a popular series of “beach” movies, died Monday. She was 70.
Funicello, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1987 and became a spokeswoman for treatment of the chronic, often-debilitating disease of the central nervous system, died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Walt Disney Co. spokesman Howard Green said.
Funicello and her husband, Glen Holt, had moved from the Los Angeles area after a 2011 fire gutted their home in Encino.
Bob Iger, Disney’s chairman and chief executive, said: “Annette was and always will be a cherished member of the Disney family, synonymous with the word 'Mousketeer,' and a true Disney legend. She will forever hold a place in our hearts as one of Walt Disney’s brightest stars, delighting an entire generation of baby boomers with her jubilant personality and endless talent. Annette was well known for being as beautiful inside as she was on the outside, and she faced her physical challenges with dignity, bravery and grace. All of us at Disney join with family, friends, and fans around the world in celebrating her extraordinary life.”
Funicello was a 12-year-old dance-school student when Walt Disney saw her performing the lead role in “Swan Lake” at her dance-school's year-end recital at the Starlight Bowl in Burbank in the spring of 1955.
She joined a group of other talented young performers hired to become Mousketeers on “The Mickey Mouse Club,” the children's variety show that debuted on ABC in October 1955 and quickly became a daily late-afternoon ritual for millions of young Americans.
Like her fellow female Mousketeers, Funicello wore a mouse-eared beanie, a blue pleated skirt, and a white, short-sleeved turtleneck sweater with her name emblazoned in block letters across her chest.
But there was something special about the Mouseketeer with the curly black hair that unexpectedly turned her into the ensemble cast's biggest star.
Funicello made her acting debut on “The Mickey Mouse Club” serial “Adventure in Dairyland.” She also appeared in two of the popular “Spin and Marty” serials about a Western dude ranch for boys, with Tim Considine and David Stollery in the title roles. And in 1958, Disney showcased his prized Mousketeer in her own “Annette” serial.
Mr. Disney, as Funicello always called her boss, also licensed Annette lunch boxes, Colorforms dolls, coloring books, comic books and even mystery novels featuring her in fictionalized adventures.
After “The Mickey Mouse Club” ended production in 1958 and wet into reruns, the 15-year-old Funicello was the only Mouseketeer to remain under exclusive contract to the Disney studio.
She made her feature-film debut in “The Shaggy Dog,” a 1959 comedy starring Fred MacMurray. It was the first of four Disney feature films she appeared in over the next six years, including “Babes in Toyland,” “The Misadventures of Merlin Jones” and “The Monkey's Uncle.”
Funicello received a big career boost when Disney agreed to loan her out to American International Pictures to make “Beach Party,” the song-filled, low-budget 1963 comedy in which she was first teamed on the big screen with Avalon.
In the wake of the success of “Beach Party,” Funicello and Avalon co-starred in “Muscle Beach Party,” “Bikini Beach,” and “Beach Blanket Bingo.”Comment
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