Nipsey Hussle obit

L.A. rapper Nipsey Hussle is dead at 33 after shooting outside his store

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Los Angeles rapper Nipsey Hussle, 33, is dead after being shot outside of his Marathon Clothing Company store in the city's Hyde Park neighborhood along with two other people, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti confirmed Sunday night on Twitter.

Law enforcement officials told the Los Angeles Times that Hussle, born Ermias Ashedom, was shot multiple times.

The two other people who were shot are in serious condition, according to NBC News.

Hussle was nominated for a Grammy Award this year for his 2018 album "Victory Lap." After a series of popular mixtape releases, it was his first and only major label album.

Warriors star Steph Curry tweeted about the shooting right after it happened, saying, "God please cover and restore @NipseyHussle right now!!!" During the Warriors' victory Sunday night over Charlotte at Oracle Arena, Kevin Durant and Draymond Green danced to a song by Russell being played for the crowd.


Curry appeared with Hussle last year on his YouTube show, "5 Minutes from Home," where they discussed everything from potty training to late-night dumplings. Curry spoke more about his admiration for Hussle after Sunday night's game.



"I got to know him last year and a great conversation about who he was as a person, what he stood for, what his message was, how he tried to inspire people, considering where he grew up and how he turned that into something extremely powerful," Curry said. "Definitely a sad and tragic event. Obviously, I send prayers to his family and his community."

Hussle was from the South Los Angeles area, where the shooting occurred, and has rapped and spoken about his involvement with the Rollin 60's Neighborhood Crips gang, one of the largest street gangs in Los Angeles, throughout his life. Since his rap career took off in 2008, he has also served as a community organizer, activist, and entrepreneur in Los Angeles. Hussle is survived by two children, one with model and actress Lauren London.


Hussle tweeted moments before the shooting, writing that "having strong enemies is a blessing." In December, Hussle was in a street brawl in West Hollywood, where he was seen on video throwing punches.


Hussle opened the Marathon Clothing Company where he was shot in 2017 on Slauson Avenue in South Los Angeles. Most recently, he released a 2018 album 'Victory Lap,' which was his first and only commercial album release. It was nominated for Best Rap Album at this year's Grammy Awards.

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James tweeted out his condolences after learning of Hussle's death. "So so SAD man!! DAMN man this hurt," James wrote on Twitter.

Tania Mallet obit

Tania Mallet, ‘Goldfinger’ Bond Girl, Dies at 77

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British actress and model Tania Mallet, who played Tilly Masterson in the 1964 James Bond classic “Goldfinger,” has died. She was 77.

The official James Bond Twitter account announced her death on Sunday. “We are very sorry to hear that Tania Mallet who played Tilly Masterson in ‘Goldfinger’ has passed away,” the tweet reads. “Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this sad time.”


Mallet was a first cousin to actress Helen Mirren. She was born in Blackpool, England, to British father Henry Mallet and Russian mother Olga Mironoff, a sibling of Mirren’s father.

Mallet was working as a model when she was cast as Masterson by producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli. She had previously auditioned for the role of Tatiana Romanova in 1963’s “From Russia With Love,” but lost the part to Daniela Bianchi.

In “Goldfinger,” Mallet’s character portrayed the sister of Shirley Eaton’s Jill Masterson, who betrays the villain Auric Goldfinger and is killed by him through “skin suffocation” after being completely painted in gold paint. Masterson, bent on avenging her sister’s death, is subsequently killed in the movie by Goldfinger’s servant, Oddjob (played by Harold Sakata), who throws a steel-rimmed hat at her.

Mallet told the James Bond fan site MI6 in 2003 that she had always been “more comfortable” in a small studio with “just a photographer and his assistant.”

“The restrictions placed on me for the duration of the filming grated, were dreadful, and I could not anticipate living my life like that,” she added.

Mirren said in her 2007 memoir, “In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures,” that Mallet was a “loyal and generous person” who helped pay for for her brothers’ education with her income as a model.

Shane Rimmer obit

Shane Rimmer, voice of Thunderbirds' Scott Tracy, dies aged 89

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Actor Shane Rimmer, who voiced the character of pilot Scott Tracy in Thunderbirds, has died. The official Gerry Anderson website carried the news, saying that the death of the 89 year old had been confirmed by his widow Sheila Rimmer. Rimmer died at home in the early hours of 29 March. No cause of death has been given.

Rimmer, who was born in Toronto in 1929 and moved to the UK in the 1950s, played the leader of the Thunderbirds crew in 32 episodes produced between 1964 and 1966. The actor also contributed his voice to other Gerry Anderson projects including Joe 90 and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, and appeared in person in the Anderson’s live action project UFO. Behind the scenes, Rimmer also wrote episodes of Captain Scarlet, Joe 90, The Secret Service and The Protectors.


As well as his work with Gerry and Sylvia Anderson he appeared in over 100 films including Dr Strangelove, Gandhi and Out of Africa. He played three different roles in three different James Bond movies, appearing in Diamonds Are Forever, You Only Live Twice, and The Spy Who Loved Me.
Rimmer was also regularly cast in science fiction and fantasy projects, having appeared in William Hartnell era Doctor Who story The Gunfighters, as well as in Space: 1999, and having minor roles in Star Wars and Superman movies. He also played two different characters in British soap opera Coronation Street – in 1988 as shopkeeper Malcolm Reid, and between 1967 and 1970 as Joe Donnelli, an American GI who had murdered an army colleague and eventually shot himself.
Rimmer had continued to work in his later years, and as recently as 2017 was supplying a voiceover in cult kids’ TV show The Amazing World of Gumball.

He told the Washington Times in 2017 that it was his Bond work he was most proud of. “That was crazy. I have no idea how it happened. I did Diamonds Are Forever first. It wasn’t much. I just came on and got into a bit of a slanging match with Sean Connery, who slangs very well. Then I did You Only Live Twice. They got rid of me up in space in that one. The third, The Spy Who Loved Me was a good one all around. It was Roger Moore’s favorite of all the ones he did. You just get a kind of intuitive thing about a movie. It worked very well.”

 Filmography

    

A Dangerous Age (1957) as Nancy's Father

Flaming Frontier (1958) as Running Bear

The Day the Sky Exploded (1958) as John McLaren (voice)

Dr. Strangelove (1964) as Captain "Ace" Owens

The Bedford Incident (1965) as Seaman 1st Class

Thunderbirds Are GO (1966) as Scott Tracy (voice)

You Only Live Twice (1967) as Hawaii Radar Operator (uncredited)

Thunderbird 6 (1968) as Scott Tracy (voice)

The Persuaders (1971) as Lomax

Diamonds Are Forever (1971) as Tom (uncredited)

Baffled! (1973) as Race Track Announcer / Commentator

Scorpio (1973) as Cop in Hotel (uncredited)

Live and Let Die (1973) as Hamilton (voice, uncredited)

Take Me High (1973) (uncredited)

S*P*Y*S (1974) as Hessler

Rollerball (1975) as Rusty, Team Executive

The 'Human' Factor (1975) as Carter, CIA Man

Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) as Colonel Alexander B. Franklin

Nasty Habits (1977) as Officer

Star Wars (1977) as Rebel Fighter Technician (uncredited)

Silver Bears (1977) as American Banker

The People That Time Forgot (1977) as Hogan

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) as Commander Carter (USS Wayne)

Julia (1977) as Customs Officer (uncredited)

Warlords of Atlantis (1978) as Captain Daniels

The Billion Dollar Bubble (1978)

Superman (1978) as Naval Transport Commander (uncredited)

Hanover Street (1979) as Col. Ronald Barth

Arabian Adventure (1979) as Abu

Charlie Muffin (1979) as Braley

Superman II (1980) as Controller #2

The Dogs of War (1980) as Dr. Oaks

Priest of Love (1981) as Immigration Officer

Reds (1981) as MacAlpine

Gandhi (1982) as Commentator

The Hunger (1983) as Arthur Jelinek

Superman III (1983) as State Policeman

The Lonely Lady (1983) as Adolph Fannon

Gulag (1985) as Jay

Morons from Outer Space (1985) as Redneck (Melvin)

Reunion at Fairborough (1985) as Joe Szyluk

The Holcroft Covenant (1985) as Lieutenant Miles

Dreamchild (1985) as Mr. Marl

White Nights (1985) as Ambassador Smith

Out of Africa (1985) as Belknap

The Last Days of Patton (1986) as Dr. Col. Lawrence Ball

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986) as Harvey Coward

Whoops Apocalypse (1986) as Marvin Gelber

The Bourne Identity (1988) as Alexander Conklin

A Very British Coup (1988) as Marcus Morgan

Crusoe (1989) as Mr. Mather

A Kiss Before Dying (1991) as Commissioner Malley

Company Business (1991) as Chairman, Maxine Gray Cosmetics

Year of the Comet (1992) as T.T. Kelleher

Piccolo Grande Amore (1993) as Mr Hughes

A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995) as Coach

Space Truckers (1996) as E.J. Saggs

One of the Hollywood Ten (2000) as Parnell Thomas

Spy Game (2001) as Estate Agent

The War of the Starfighters (2003) as Tantive Base Operative (voice)

Batman Begins (2005) as Older Gotham Water Board Technician

Mee-Shee: The Water Giant (2005) as Bob Anderson

Alien Autopsy (2006) as Colonel

Lovelorn (2010) as The Barman

Dark Shadows (2012) as Board Member 1

Darkwave: Edge Of The Storm (2016) as Captain S. Anderson

Maury Laws obit

 

Maury Laws, Rankin-Bass Composer-Arranger, Dies at 95

Laws arranged and conducted the "Rudolph" song score and was Grammy-nominated for writing the music for TV's animated "Hobbit."

He was not on the list.

Maury Laws, who as musical director for Rankin-Bass productions supervised the scoring of such animated TV classics as “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Frosty the Snowman” and “The Hobbit,” died March 28 in Appleton, Wisc. He was 95.

Laws’ greatest achievement in TV was arranging and conducting all of the music for the 1964 stop-motion animation version of “Rudolph,” which featured new songs by original “Rudolph” songwriter Johnny Marks. Laws’ warm orchestral settings for such songs as “Holly Jolly Christmas,” “There’s Always Tomorrow” and the title tune helped to make the hour-long show a holiday season perennial.

The success of “Rudolph” led to a series of animated specials by the Rankin-Bass company. Laws worked with Fred Astaire on “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town” (1970), Danny Kaye on “Here Comes Peter Cottontail” (1971), Angela Lansbury on “The First Christmas” (1975) and Judy Collins on “The Wind in the Willows” (1987), often writing the songs with lyricist and co-producer Jules Bass and then creating the dramatic underscore.

Laws was nominated for a 1979 Grammy for the music of “The Hobbit,” a 1977 animated TV adaptation of the J.R.R. Tolkien prelude to “The Lord of the Rings” novels. He later scored “The Return of the King,” a 1980 TV-movie sequel also based on the Tolkien saga.

Rankin-Bass historian Rick Goldschmidt told Variety that “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town” and “Here Comes Peter Cottontail” were among the composer’s favorites. “Maury’s music was full of magic,” Goldschmidt said. “He wrote his music with a super-bouncy feel loaded with glockenspiels and xylophones. He said this came from his work on holiday commercials for General Electric, a few years before ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.’ His songs are as much a part of Christmas as decorating the tree and exchanging presents.”

For the big screen, Laws scored the Hans Christian Andersen anthology “The Daydreamer” (1966), the cult favorite “Mad Monster Party” (1967) with Boris Karloff, the live-action Marco Polo musical “Marco” (1973), the fantasy “The Last Dinosaur” (1977) and the period adventure “The Bushido Blade” (1981).

His television credits also included the Saturday morning cartoon “King Kong” (1966), “Cricket on the Hearth” (1967), “The Little Drummer Boy” (1968) and the animated classic-literature anthology “Festival of Family Classics” (1972).

Laws was born in Hurdle Mills, N.C., in 1923. He taught himself to play guitar and was performing professionally by the age of 16. After service in World War II, he settled in New York to pursue a musical career, eventually becoming an arranger for such singers as Betty Hutton and Vaughn Monroe.

He wrote the arrangement of the hit novelty tune “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini” without credit in 1960. He met Bass while scoring TV commercials in 1962 and joined the Rankin-Bass company, doing orchestrations for its “Return to Oz” special in 1964 before “Rudolph” catapulted them into the major leagues.

In his later years, Laws arranged a suite of his Rankin-Bass music for orchestras. As he told writer Greg Ehrbar for “The Cartoon Music Book”: “I can’t believe how much people really want to hear this music. We had no idea what it was to become when we first created it. Of everything I’ve ever done in my life, this has become the biggest thing to people, and I couldn’t be more delighted and gratified.”

Laws is survived by his wife Karen, three children, two sisters, nieces and nephews. Services will be private, although plans for a memorial are underway.

Maury Laws died in Appleton, Wisconsin on March 28, 2019.

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Filmography

 

    Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)

    Return to Oz (1964)

    The Daydreamer (1966)

    The King Kong Show (1966–1969)

    Ballad of Smokey the Bear (1966)

    Mad Monster Party? (1966, 1967)

    Cricket on the Hearth (1967)

    The Wacky World of Mother Goose (1967)

    Mouse on the Mayflower (1968)

    The Little Drummer Boy (1968)

    The Smokey Bear Show (1969–1970)

    Frosty the Snowman (1969)

    The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians (1970)

    The Reluctant Dragon & Mr. Toad Show (1970–1971)

    The Tomfoolery Show (1970–1971)

    Santa Claus is Comin' to Town (1970)

    Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971)

    The Jackson 5ive (1971–1972)

    The Enchanted World of Danny Kaye: The Emperor's New Clothes (1972)

    The Osmonds (1972)

    Mad Mad Mad Monsters (1972)

    Willie Mays and the Say-Hey Kid (1972)

    The Red Baron (1972)

    Festival of Family Classics (1972–1973)

    That Girl in Wonderland (1973)

    Marco (1973)

    'Twas the Night Before Christmas (1974)

    The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)

    The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow (1975)

    Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1975, 1976)

    The First Easter Rabbit (1976)

    Frosty's Winter Wonderland (1976)

    The Little Drummer Boy, Book II (1976)

    The Muppet Show (1976-1981)

    The Easter Bunny is Comin' to Town (1977)

    The Last Dinosaur (1977)

    The Hobbit (1977)

    Nestor the Long–Eared Christmas Donkey (1977)

    The Stingiest Man in Town (1978)

    Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July (1979)

    The Return of the King (1979, 1980)

    Pinocchio's Christmas (1980)

    The Bushido Blade (1981)

    The Leprechaun's Christmas Gold (1981)

    The Flight of Dragons (1982)

    The Wind in the Willows (1985, 1987)

Joe Bellino obit

Joe Bellino, Navy's first Heisman winner, dies at 81

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Joe Bellino, the first Navy player to win the Heisman Trophy, died Thursday in Massachusetts, the Heisman Trophy Trust confirmed . He was 81.

A 5-9, 180-pound halfback, Bellino was dubbed the "Winchester Rifle" for his hometown of Winchester, Massachusetts, where he was a three-sport high school star good enough to be offered a contract by the MLB Pirates.

Instead, he chose the Naval Academy over offers from Notre Dame and several Big Ten schools.

In three seasons at the Naval Academy from 1958-60, he scored 31 touchdowns, rushed for 1,664 yards on 330 carries, returned 37 kicks for 833 more yards and altogether set 15 Naval Academy football records.

“The Heisman Trust joins the Bellino family in its sorrow,” Heisman Trust president William Dockery said in a statement. “He was a cherished member of our Heisman Family and will be missed.”

In 1960, Bellino rushed for 834 yards and 15 touchdowns and added three receiving TDs. He was a unanimous All-America selection, won the Maxwell Award and handily won the Heisman over Penn State quarterback Richie Lucas.

A profile of Bellino in Sports Illustrated in November 1960 read, in part:

"(W)ith a football in his hands and the bulging, muscular posts that serve him as legs drumming down a football field, Joe Bellino becomes something special. At Navy they class him with the legendary Buzz Borries as one of the two great halfbacks in academy football history. With the Army game yet to come, Joe Bellino has already scored more touchdowns in one season (17) and in one game (4) than any Navy football player ever has. He has scored more points in a season (104) and gained more yards rushing (749 in 148 carries for a five-yard average). He has also caught 15 passes for 264 yards, quick-kicked 11 times for a 47-yard average and completed five of 14 passes for 112 yards and two more touchdowns. He blocks and tackles, thanks his teammates for throwing blocks for him and compliments officials when they make a good call. Last year he scored three touchdowns against Army (which no Navy player had ever done before) and even before the 1960 season began he was headed for All-America, as sure as there are missiles on a Polaris submarine. Nothing he has done since has damaged his reputation a bit."

Bellino’s No. 27 was retired following the 1960 season. After completing his four-year service obligation, he had a three-year stint with the Boston Patriots of the AFL.

Bellino was a 1977 inductee into the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame.

In addition to his football accomplishments at Navy, Bellino also was an outstanding catcher and outfielder on Midshipmen baseball teams.

Anthony 'Bronco' McLoughlin obit

Irish stuntman Anthony 'Bronco' McLoughlin has died

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Anthony 'Bronco' McLoughlin, the Irish stuntman who appeared in numerous hit films including Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Star Wars and Rambo II, as well as Father Ted, has died aged 80.


McLoughlin, who was from Ashford, Co. Wicklow, earned his nickname after he left school aged 16 to work as a cattle rancher in Australia.


On his return to Ireland in 1967, his skill as a horseman landed him a part as an extra on the Hammer adventure film The Viking Queen, which was being filmed near his home in Wicklow.

It led to many roles in movies, including playing a stormtrooper in Star Wars in 1977, and working as a stuntman on Richard Donner’s Superman.


He went on to perform and coordinate stunts in more than 40 movies, including playing a mujaheddin in Rambo III, performing stunts on Ryan’s Daughter, and famously being tied to the wooden cross that floats over the top of a waterfall in the opening scene of The Mission.


Closer to home, McLoughlin was also stuntman on five episodes of Father Ted, including a memorable scene in which he was on a park bench hoisted into the air at a fair ground on Craggy Island. He was also a stunt coordinator on four episodes of the comedy.


Speaking to RTÉ Entertainment, stunt coordinator and second unit director Patrick Condron, who described McLoughlin as his "hero and friend", said, "Bronco was the most modest man you could ever meet. Last December he won a life time achievement award from the British equity.

"He received well wishes from Daniel Day Lewis, Sly Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Harrison Ford and a host of others. His response was, "``I don't know what all of the fuss is about. I just went to work to pay my bills’"

"In Ireland we considered him as the grandfather of the stunt performers. A living legend and stunt ambassador who worked on the biggest Hollywood movies, a professional that was more than willing to share his knowledge and wisdom.

"All of us worked with him over the years, we only have the fondest memories of a real character and thorough professional. He was my teacher and mentor, my hero and my friend."

McLoughlin also had small parts in several James Bond films, and played a customs officer in the Arnold Schwarzenegger version of Total Recall where he caught an exploding head. He performed stunts in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and worked as stunt coordinator on The Field, and Man About Dog. In 2000's Ordinary Decent Criminal he opened the door that got smashed by a car, and he was the assassin in Gangs of New York.

He was a member of Stunt Register Ireland and was inducted into the Hollywood Stuntmen’s Hall of Fame.

According to IMDB, in a neat symmetry, his last role as a stuntman was on a 2014 episode of TV drama Vikings.

Bronco's funeral notice reads, "Bronco (Anthony) McLoughlin, Broom Lodge, Nuns Cross. Peacefully at his residence. He will be sadly missed by his wife Karen, his daughters Fiona and Frances, grandchildren, extended family and friends."