(age 82) in Jupiter, Florida, USA
He was 66 years old.
Rocker Tom Petty died Monday after being rushed to a Los Angeles hospital, according to Tony Dimitriades, longtime manager of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. Dimitriades confirmed Petty’s death on behalf of the performer’s family.
Born: c. 1945
Died: September 10, 2017 (age 72) in Indian Wells, California, USA
Fired Norm Macdonald from the “Weekend Update” on “Saturday Night Live” and eventually from the entire show.
Although he claims to have demoted Norm MacDonald on SNL for being “unfunny,” many insiders felt that MacDonald’s constant jokes about Ohlmeyer’s friend, O.J. Simpson, were the real reason.
President, NBC West Coast [1998]
Born: March 16, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey, USA
Died: August 20, 2017 (age 91) in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Married to:
SanDee Pitnick (13 February 1983 – 20 August 2017) (his death) (1 child)
Patti Lewis (3 October 1944 – 27 January 1983) (divorced) (6 children)
QUOTES:
I get paid for what most kids get punished for.
The doc told me I had a dual personality, then he lays an $82 bill on me. So I give him forty-one bucks and say ‘Get the other forty-one bucks from the other guy’.
Every man’s dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without falling into her hands.
[on Stan Laurel] His magic was, he loved the regular man. He loved plain people, and he loved being one of them. He enjoyed participating in the art of going out into the world and getting in trouble.
My dad used to say if you don’t get nervous, you don’t care. When I hear that first applause, my heart spreads across my chest, and I’m as happy as a pig in s..t!
[on the 1996 remake of The Nutty Professor] I have such respect for Eddie, but I should not have done it. What I did was perfect the first time around and all you’re going to do is diminish that perfection by letting someone else do it.
Date of Birth 22 May 1907, Dorking, Surrey, England, UK
Date of Death 11 July 1989, Steyning, West Sussex, England, UK (renal failure)
Birth Name Laurence Kerr Olivier
Nicknames Larry
Kim
Height 5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
[on needing to reshoot their torture scene in Marathon Man (1976) because Method actor Dustin Hoffman had gotten excessively drunk the first time so he’d look really out of it] Oh, why doesn’t he just *act*?
[on Marlon Brando] Brando acted with an empathy and an instinctual understanding that not even the greatest technical performers could possibly match.
[on Marilyn Monroe] Look at that face – she could be five years old.
People ask me why I’m playing in this picture. The answer is simple. Money, dear boy. I’m like a vintage wine. You have to drink me quickly before I turn sour. I’m almost used up now and I can feel the end coming. That’s why I’m taking money now. I’ve got nothing to leave my family but the money I can make from films. Nothing is beneath me if it pays well. I’ve earned the right to damn well grab whatever I can in the time I’ve got left.
[In 1983] If you’re 75, which I am, it’s damned hard to find parts. Lear is the only star part for an old man that I know of – I’ve never heard of a good play about Methusaleh. I played the title role only once before the Old Vic. I was 39. When you’re younger, Lear doesn’t feel real. When you get to my age, you ‘are’ Lear in every nerve of your body.
Omar Sharif (1932–2015)
Date of Birth 10 April 1932, Alexandria, Egypt
Date of Death 10 July 2015, Cairo, Egypt (heart attack)
Birth Name Michel Demetri Shalhoub
Height 5′ 11″ (1.8 m)
[on Barbra Streisand] I thought she was not very attractive at first. But gradually she cast her spell over me. I fell madly in love with her talent. The feeling was mutual for four months – the time it took to shoot the movie.
[on his prowess as a lover] See these hands? They are old. But they are soft. Only good for caressing.
[on Che! (1969)] I wasn’t satisfied with it. It was very awful because it was a movie about a very important figure in socialism and communism, and it was produced by the CIA. I didn’t know and I wasn’t aware of that. I had put a condition with them that this movie wouldn’t offend the reputation of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara.
[on being cast by David Lean in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)] They chose me for Lawrence of Arabia (1962) because I spoke English, had black hair, black eyes and a mustache. It was all luck. I was taken in a plane to the desert to meet David, and as we came in to land we could see him sitting all by himself. We landed right next to him, but he didn’t move one step. When I got off the plane, he didn’t say ‘hello’. He simply walked round me to see my profile. Finally, he said “That’s very good, Omar. Let’s go to the make-up tent.” I tried on a mustache, and it was decided I would grow one. I’ve shaved it off for a couple of films, but otherwise I’ve had it ever since.
Happy Birthday actor Powers Boothe
Born: Powers Allen Boothe
June 1, 1948 in Snyder, Texas, USA
Married to: Pam Cole (25 May 1969 – present) (2 children)
QUOTES:
[accepting his Emmy Award, 1980] This is either the most courageous moment of my career or the stupidest… I also thought long and hard whether or not I would attend, but I came here because this is America and one must do what one believes. I believe in the Academy. I also believe in my fellow actors in their stand.
Hell, I’ve played as many guys who get the girl as I have heavies. I’ve done love scenes with Jessica Lange [Blue Sky (1994)] and Jennifer Lopez [U Turn (1997)], and I won’t kid you, they’re fun.
I’ve been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I’ve also been lucky to always be involved with quality actors, quality directors, quality writers.
[2007, on beginning as an actor] One role leads to another. For the first 10 years [that] I was a professional actor, all I did was Shakespeare. And the show I did in New York that brought me out [to L.A.] was a flat-out comedy. And they never let me do comedy.
Read reviews of the best of the actor:
 Sin City2005 dir. by Robert Rodriguez Frank Miller starring Mickey Rourke Willis |
 24: REDEMPTION2008 TV Movie Directed by Jon Cassar Stars: Kiefer Sutherland Cherry Jones |
 Best of 24 TV show |
Richard Harris (1930–2002)
Born: October 1, 1930 in Limerick, Ireland
Died: October 25, 2002 (age 72) in Bloomsbury, London, England, UK
I came to England first in 1954 looking for a bedsit, a room to sleep in while going to my academy. And outside the Earl’s Court tube station there was a little tobacco-list and paper shop and they had a board. A glass-filled in board with rooms for rent. And I saw one for thirteen shillings a week and it said, “No Irishmen or black need apply” and I took my jersey and I put it down over my hand and I put my hand right through the glass and I took it out and I kept it for the rest of my life. That’s how we were treated here in 1954. That would cause me grievance. That would cause me anger.
| PATRIOT GAMES 1992 dir. Phillip Noyce Stars: Harrison Ford RICHARD HARRIS |
 Unforgiven1992 dir. Eastwood Starring Eastwood Gene Hackman |
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 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone2001 dir. Chris Columbus Starring Richard Harris |
 SUBMIT your TV PILOT or TV SPEC ScriptVoted #1 TV Contest in North America. |
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Vincent Price (1911–1993)
Born: Vincent Leonard Price Jr.
May 27, 1911 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Died: October 25, 1993 (age 82) in Los Angeles, California, USA
Married to: Coral Browne (24 October 1974 – 29 May 1991) (her death)
Mary Grant (25 August 1949 – 15 August 1973) (divorced) (1 child)
Edith Barrett (23 April 1938 – 4 June 1948) (divorced) (1 child)
Read reviews of the best of the actor:
 THE EVE OF ST. MARK1944 dir. John M. Stahl Starring: Anne Baxter William Eythe |
THE LAST MAN ON EARTH
1944
dir. Ubaldo Ragona
Cast:
Vincent Price
Franca Bettoia
 HOUSE OF WAX1953 dir. Andre De Toth Starring: Vincent Price Frank Lovejoy |
 DEAD HEAT1988 dir. by Mark Goldblatt Stars: Treat Williams Joe Piscopo |
 Laura1944 dir. Preminger Starring Gene Tierney Dana Andrews |
 THE FLY1958 dir. Kurt Neumann Starring: David Hedison Patricia Owenss |
 THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES1971 dir. by Robert Fuest Stars: Vincent Price Joseph Cotten |
 DR. PHIBES RISES AGAIN1972 dir. by Robert Fuest Stars: Vincent Price Robert Quarry |
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Raul Julia (1940–1994)
Born: March 9, 1940 in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Died: October 24, 1994 (age 54) in Manhasset, New York, USA
Married to:
Merel Poloway (28 June 1976 – 24 October 1994) (his death) (2 children)
I knew there was something special about the theatre for me. Something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.
| FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND 1990 dir. Roger Corman Starring John Hurt Raul Julia |
 TRADING HEARTS1988 dir. Neil Leifer Stars: Raul Julia Beverly D’Angelo |
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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