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Iconic Godzilla Actor Akira Takarada Dies at 87



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Apparently, he passed Monday, but the family kept it private. News started spreading among the kaiju fans, who are hit hard because he was a frequent GFest guest and kind to the fanbase. My mother's even Facebook friends with his daughter in law.

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RIP to Mr. Takarada. Definitely had a huge impact on the Godzilla franchise.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/o...mid=tw-nytimes

Don Young, the Alaska congressman who secured pork-barrel billions for his state over nearly a half-century and became the longest-serving Republican in the House of Representatives and the oldest current member of both the House and Senate, died on Friday. He was 88.

Mr. Young died while traveling home to Alaska, his office said. His wife, Anne, was with him.

In a state whose small population allows for two senators but only one representative, Mr. Young, who cultivated the image of a rugged frontiersman with outsize clout in Washington, was sometimes called Alaska’s “third senator.” To this day, most Alaskans have had no congressman in their lifetimes but Mr. Young, who was first elected in 1973, during the Nixon administration.

Early in his 24th term in 2019, he became the longest-serving Republican in House history, surpassing the tenure of the former speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon of Illinois, who as a teenager had followed the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates and went on to serve 23 House terms in three discontinuous segments between 1873 and 1923.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...d=winp1taskbar

Former Secretary of Education Lauro F. Cavazos Jr., the first Latino to serve in a Cabinet postion, died Tuesday. He was 95 years old.

Cavazos served under former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. He was first appointed by Reagan at the end of his term in 1988.

His death was confirmed by Texas Tech University, where he was president from 1980-1988.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl...d=winp1taskbar

Longtime NFL journalist John Clayton died Friday following a short illness. He was 67.

The Seattle Seahawks announced the death for Clayton's family in a statement. Clayton worked for the team in recent years as a sideline reporter on radio broadcasts.

Nicknamed “The Professor,” Clayton spent more than two decades covering the Pittsburgh Steelers for The Pittsburgh Press and the Seattle Seahawks for The News Tribune in Tacoma. Clayton moved to ESPN in 1995, becoming one of the lead NFL writers for the company. Clayton appeared on TV and radio for ESPN and worked at the company for more than 20 years.

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https://patch.com/massachusetts/worc...an-dies-age-85

Peter Stefan, a mortician and owner of Graham, Putnam, and Mahoney Funeral Home in Worcester's Main South neighborhood, has died at age 85, according to his social media page.

Stefan was known across the region for providing burial services for the poor and veterans, and gained national attention for burying Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

"It is with tremendous sadness that we mourn the passing of Peter Stefan. A man of principle and a staple of the Worcester business community, Peter was truly one-of-a-kind. He will be sorely missed by everyone whose lives he touched," Stefan's personal Facebook page said on Monday afternoon.

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https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/23/polit...ary/index.html

Madeleine Albright, the first woman US secretary of state, who helped steer Western foreign policy in the aftermath of the Cold War, has died. She was 84 years old.

Her death was confirmed in an email to staff of the Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy firm founded by Albright.

Albright was a central figure in President Bill Clinton's administration, first serving as US ambassador to the United Nations before becoming the nation's top diplomat in his second term. She championed the expansion of NATO, pushed for the alliance to intervene in the Balkans to stop genocide and ethnic cleansing, sought to reduce the spread of nuclear weapons, and championed human rights and democracy across the globe.She was a face of US foreign policy in the decade between the end of the Cold War and the War on Terror triggered by the September 11, 2001 attacks, an era heralded by President George H.W. Bush as a "new world order." The US, particularly in Iraq and the Balkans, built international coalitions and occasionally intervened militarily to roll back autocratic regimes, and Albright -- a self-identified "pragmatic idealist" who coined the term "assertive multilateralism" to describe the Clinton administration's foreign policy -- drew from her experience growing up in a family that fled the Nazis and communists in mid-20th century Europe to shape her worldview.

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https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/23/2...f-creator-dies

Stephen Wilhite, one of the lead inventors of the GIF, died last week from COVID at the age of 74, according to his wife, Kathaleen, who spoke to The Verge. He was surrounded by family when he passed. His obituary page notes that “even with all his accomplishments, he remained a very humble, kind, and good man.”

Stephen Wilhite worked on GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, which is now used for reactions, messages, and jokes, while employed at CompuServe in the 1980s. He retired around the early 2000s and spent his time traveling, camping, and building model trains in his basement.

Although GIFs are synonymous with animated internet memes these days, that wasn’t the reason Wilhite created the format. CompuServe introduced them in the late 1980s as a way to distribute “high-quality, high-resolution graphics” in color at a time when internet speeds were glacial compared to what they are today. “He invented GIF all by himself — he actually did that at home and brought it into work after he perfected it,” Kathaleen said. “He would figure out everything privately in his head and then go to town programming it on the computer.”

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https://www.pasadenaweekly.com/arts_...ce0452c34.html

Roscoe Mitchell Jr., whose stage name was Scoey Mitchlll, died March 19 after a colorful career during the ’70s and ’80s.

The comedian/actor, writer and TV director appeared on “Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour,” the “Ed Sullivan Show,” “The Joey Bishop Show” and 1970s game shows, including “Match Game,” “Tattletales,” “Hollywood Squares,” and had a recurring role on “Rhoda.”

In 1970, he starred in the short-lived series “Barefoot in the Park” (based on the Neil Simon play). It was the first American TV sitcom since “Amos ’n’ Andy” to have a predominantly Black cast.

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https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/23/polit...ary/index.html

Madeleine Albright, the first woman US secretary of state, who helped steer Western foreign policy in the aftermath of the Cold War, has died. She was 84 years old.

WOW! rip and all but WOW!

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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...hssrp_catchall

Taylor Hawkins, long time drummer for enduring rock greats the Foo Fighters, has died. The shocking news was announced on a social media post from the band’s accounts, with no cause of death immediately given. Hawkins was 50.

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https://ew.com/tv/paul-herman-sopran...9e390001f13e4d

Paul Herman, best known for playing club owner Peter "Beansie" Gaeta on The Sopranos and for his roles in mob films like Goodfellas and The Irishman, died Tuesday. He was 76.

Herman's management company, The 5 Management, confirmed the news in a statement. A cause of death has not been disclosed.

"We are saddened at the loss of our beloved Paul Herman. A true character on and off screen," the statement read. "He will be deeply missed by all who knew him, and we will always remember the sound of his laughter and bold spirit. We ask that you respect the privacy of the family at this time."

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https://deadline.com/2022/04/barrie-...75-1234993051/

Barrie Youngfellow, who starred in the ’80s sitcom It’s a Living, died on Monday night, according to her family. She was 75. A cause of death was not disclosed.

“[Barrie] was the best of friends and had many loyal ones. Loved a good story and a nice bottle,” the family wrote. “Had a great laugh that confirmed her sense of life. Even during her decline, she could shoot off a good one liner.”

Youngfellow appeared in 120 episodes of It’s a Living between 1980 and 1989, with the series running on ABC for two seasons before airing in first-run syndication. The show followed a group of waitresses working at Above the Top, a fancy restaurant at the top of a skyscraper, with Youngfellow portraying waitress Jan Hoffmeyer Gray.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio on October 22, 1946, Youngfellow last appeared in an episode of Law & Order in 1998. She was also seen over the course of her career on such series as Blossom, Murder, She Wrote, Trapper John, M.D., It Takes Two, Filthy Rich, Good Time Harry, Paris, Three’s Company, The Jeffersons, WKRP in Cincinnati, The Eddie Capra Mysteries, Barney Miller, A.E.S. Hudson Street, Emergency!, Carter Country, Fernwood Tonight and The Streets of San Francisco. Additional credits included the features Three Women and Nightmare in Blood, and a number of TV movies.

Youngfellow is survived by her sisters Heidi and Kim Rivchun. Plans for a memorial have not been disclosed.

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https://deadline.com/2022/04/estelle...93-1234993091/

Estelle Harris, who played George Costanza’s (Jason Alexander) mother Estelle on the iconic NBC sitcom Seinfeld, died Saturday evening of natural causes in Palm Desert, California, just weeks before her 94th birthday.

“It is with the greatest remorse and sadness to announce that Estelle Harris has passed on this evening at 6:25pm,” her son Glenn Harris, who held her as she drew her final breath, told Deadline. “Her kindness, passion, sensitivity, humor, empathy and love were practically unrivaled, and she will be terribly missed by all those who knew her.”

Born in New York City on April 4, 1928, Harris appeared on 27 episodes of Seinfeld between 1992 and 1998. (The character had been named Estelle before she landed the part.) She began pursuing acting at assorted amateur community theaters as a young mother, and went on to find incredible success both on stage and on screen, also featuring in such series as Futurama, The Looney Tunes Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, iCarly, ER, Mind of Mencia, Phil of the Future, Dave the Barbarian, Kim Possible, The Proud Family, House of Mouse, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Godzilla: The Series, The Wild Thornberrys, Hercules, Cybill, Living Single, Moesha, The Mask, Night Stand, Star Trek: Voyager, The Tick, Aladdin, Good Advice, Mad About You, Married… with Children and Night Court.

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https://www.brooklynvegan.com/c-w-mc...oy-singer-rip/

C.W. McCall, the country singer known for 1975 #1 hit "Convoy," died on Friday at age 93. According to his son, he had been battling cancer and was in hospice care when he died.

Born Billie Dale Fries in 1928, he came to country sideways. In the early '70s he was working as creative director for Bozell & Jacobs, an Omaha, Nebraska advertising agency where he created a series of ads for Old Home Bread that starred a truck driver named C.W. McCall and featured him singing about his adventures on the road. Though the McCall in the ads was played by actor Jim Finlayson, Fries wrote the lyrics and sang, and the music was written by Chip Davis who would go on to found new age group Mannheim Steamroller. The ads were so popular, Fries and Davis parlayed it into an actual music career of truck driver songs which coincided (and fueled) the C.B. craze on the mid-'70s.

Though McCall had country hits with "Old Home Filler-Up an' Keep on a-Truckin' Café" (originally an Old Home Bread jingle), "Wolf Creek Pass", "Black Bear Road" and more, it was 1976 single "Convoy" -- about a coast-to-coast trucker rebellion led by a driven known as Rubber Duck -- that became a full-on worldwide sensation. The song topped the country charts and then did the same on the pop charts in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand -- it peaked at #2 in the UK -- and spawning a movie of the same name starring Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, and Ernest Borgnine.

McCall continued to have country hits after "Convoy," like 1977's "Roses for Mama," but mostly retired from music after 1979's C. W. McCall & Co, turning his attention to environmental activism and politics, serving as mayor of Ouray, Colorado for six years.

Rest in peace, CW.