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https://www.tmz.com/2021/01/04/tanya...yImBVgAjnOZx0I

Tanya Roberts death has been greatly exaggerated, because her rep now says she's alive, despite the rep not only telling TMZ she died, but sending out a press release with that information.

TMZ reported Sunday Tanya had died after collapsing at her home on Christmas Eve and being rushed to the hospital and placed on a ventilator.

The rep had told us she died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A. He told us Tanya's husband had informed him that Tanya had passed.

What in the everloving hell...

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https://news.yahoo.com/alexi-laiho-d...105428408.html

Alexi Laiho, frontman for Finnish metal band Children of Bodom, has died suddenly aged 41.

The musician, ranked consistently as one of the best guitarists in the world, had been suffering from longterm health issues, according to reports.

The news was announced in a statement posted on the Twitter account of independent label Napalm Records, from Laiho’s supergroup Bodom After Midnight.

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https://www.tmz.com/2021/01/04/tanya...yImBVgAjnOZx0I

Tanya Roberts death has been greatly exaggerated, because her rep now says she's alive, despite the rep not only telling TMZ she died, but sending out a press release with that information.

TMZ reported Sunday Tanya had died after collapsing at her home on Christmas Eve and being rushed to the hospital and placed on a ventilator.

The rep had told us she died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A. He told us Tanya's husband had informed him that Tanya had passed.

What in the everloving hell...

Daaaaaaamn...

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Looks like it's official, now. Damn!

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood...ial-type=owned

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/civil...b6ea7351c66821

Helen Viola Jackson, the last known widow of a Civil War soldier, has died at 101.

She died Dec. 16 at Webco Manor Nursing Home in Marshfield, Missouri, where she had been a resident for many years, according to a statement on her Facebook page.

In 1936, when Jackson was 17 years old, she married James Bolin, a 93-year-old widower who served in the 14th Missouri Cavalry during the Civil War.

The war ended in 1865, 156 years ago.

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/civil...b6ea7351c66821

Helen Viola Jackson, the last known widow of a Civil War soldier, has died at 101.

She died Dec. 16 at Webco Manor Nursing Home in Marshfield, Missouri, where she had been a resident for many years, according to a statement on her Facebook page.

In 1936, when Jackson was 17 years old, she married James Bolin, a 93-year-old widower who served in the 14th Missouri Cavalry during the Civil War.

The war ended in 1865, 156 years ago.

A 17-year-old marrying a 93-year-old? Ick.

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A 17-year-old marrying a 93-year-old? Ick.

If you keep reading the article it doesn't sound like it was a real marriage or physical relationship so much as quid pro quo charity:

Jackson’s father had volunteered her to stop by Bolin’s house each day to help with chores on her way home from school. Bolin did not want to accept charity and after a period of time, asked her to marry him in order to provide for her future, according to the statement.

“He said that he would leave me his Union pension,” Jackson told the historian Hamilton C. Clark in an interview. “It was during the Depression and times were hard. He said that it might be my only way of leaving the farm.”

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If you keep reading the article it doesn't sound like it was a real marriage or physical relationship so much as quid pro quo charity:

OK, that's less icky. Still kind of odd, but I can see the reasoning behind it, and it isn't terrible. Not something I would want for my kid, because I have beliefs about the meaning of marriage that would argue against using it in this way, but not something I would condemn somebody else for opting into.

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OK, that's less icky. Still kind of odd, but I can see the reasoning behind it, and it isn't terrible. Not something I would want for my kid, because I have beliefs about the meaning of marriage that would argue against using it in this way, but not something I would condemn somebody else for opting into.

Me too and agreed.

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He might be old. He might be gray. But he ain't too old to shift them gears.

(With apologies to John Lee Hooker.)

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...393_story.html

Neil Sheehan, a tireless chronicler of the Vietnam War who obtained the Pentagon Papers for the New York Times and later received the Pulitzer Prize for his book “A Bright Shining Lie,” a meticulously researched indictment of America’s role in that conflict, died Jan. 7 at his home in Washington. He was 84.

The cause was complications from Parkinson’s disease, said his wife, author Susan Sheehan.

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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...212051195.html

Marion Ramsey, best known for playing soft-spoken Officer Laverne Hooks in the “Police Academy” franchise, died on Thursday in her Los Angeles home, according to her management company at Roger Paul Inc.

Ramsey was 73. Her cause of death was unknown.

Ramsey was also a singer and Broadway veteran who appeared in the hit 1978 Broadway show “Eubie!”

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https://news.yahoo.com/dodgers-legen...170022934.html

Tom Lasorda, who in 20 years as the Dodgers manager won two World Series championships, four National League pennants and eight division titles and always insisted that he bled Dodger blue out of loyalty to the organization, has died at age 93.

The vibrant and voluble Lasorda spent 71 seasons with the Dodgers and was among the few remaining links to the club's Brooklyn roots. In and out of the hospital in recent years for heart, back and shoulder problems, Lasorda died of a heart attack Thursday night, according to the Dodgers.

A friend to presidents and Little Leaguers, a devout Catholic with a talent for rapid-fire profanity, a self-promoter who tirelessly raised funds for convents and disaster victims through banquets and speeches, Lasorda spanned several eras in baseball and — along with Vin Scully and Sandy Koufax — achieved near-mythical status among loyal Dodger fans.

“My family, my partners and I were blessed to have spent a lot of time with Tommy,” said Mark Walter, Dodgers owner and Chairman. “He was a great ambassador for the team and baseball, a mentor to players and coaches, he always had time for an autograph and a story for his many fans and he was a good friend. He will be dearly missed.”

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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...212051195.html

Marion Ramsey, best known for playing soft-spoken Officer Laverne Hooks in the “Police Academy” franchise, died on Thursday in her Los Angeles home, according to her management company at Roger Paul Inc.

Ramsey was 73. Her cause of death was unknown.

Ramsey was also a singer and Broadway veteran who appeared in the hit 1978 Broadway show “Eubie!”

Damn. That was a pretty good series.

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-79-1292671

Michael Apted, the acclaimed British director behind the revolutionary series of decades-spanning Seven Up documentaries and features including Coal Miner's Daughter, Nell and The World Is Not Enough, has died. He was 79.

Roy Ashton at the Gersh Agency confirmed Apted's death to The Hollywood Reporter. No details of his passing were immediately available.

Apted made his feature directorial debut with the war saga The Triple Echo (1972), starring Glenda Jackson and Oliver Reed, and his résumé also included Continental Divide (1981), featuring John Belushi as a romantic lead; the crime drama Class Action (1991), starring Gene Hackman; and the thrillers Gorky Park (1983), featuring William Hurt; Thunderheart (1992), with Val Kilmer; Blink (1993), starring Madeleine Stowe; Extreme Measures (1996), featuring Hugh Grant; Enigma (2001), with Kate Winslet; and Enough (2002), starring Jennifer Lopez.