Chris Langham obit

Chris Langham Dies: BAFTA-Winning ‘The Thick Of It’ Star & Child Sex Offender Was 77

 He was not on the list.

Chris Langham, the BAFTA-winning actor whose career was effectively ended after he was found guilty of downloading child abuse images, has died. He was 77.

Langham’s death on June 24 was announced Thursday in an obituary in The Times of London. The newspaper reported that the actor, who is survived by five children, died in June of pancreatic cancer.

Born in 1949, Langham was a prolific writer and performer who is best known for his work in Armando Iannucci’s political satire The Thick of It, in which he played Hugh Abbot MP.

Langham won a BAFTA TV Award in 2006 for the comedy performance, but a year later he was found guilty of possessing child pornography.

He was convicted of 15 counts of making an indecent photograph of a child between September and November 2005, but was cleared of having sex with an underage female fan. He was sentenced to six months in prison.

Langham always protested his innocence and said he downloaded the images when researching a role for the BBC comedy series Help. Paul Whitehouse, his co-star, contradicted this evidence in court.

Langham was the sole British writer on The Muppet Show, winning an Emmy during his five years working on the series, scripting lines for Miss Piggy.

He cameoed in Monty Python’s Life of Brian and appeared regularly in Not the Nine O’Clock News, an iconic BBC sketch series that helped launch the career of Rowan Atkinson.

Following his conviction, he featured in the odd screen project, such as 2020’s Vengeance, but his career was never the same again, despite him claiming that the likes of John Cleese stood by him.

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1999

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1996

 

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1996

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1995

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1993

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1992

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1992

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1991

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1991

 

Up Yer News (1990)

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1990

 

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Hotel porter

1990

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Marvin the Magnificent

1990–1992

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1990

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1989

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1986

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1986

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1985

 

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1985

 

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1985

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1985

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1982

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1982

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1980

 

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1979

 

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ITV Playhouse

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1978

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1977

 

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1976

 

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1973

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1985

 

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8.4

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Rowan Atkinson, Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, and Pamela Stephenson in Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979)

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1973

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8.2

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2005

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7.4

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8.4

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1979–1981

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Director

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Posh Nosh

8.8

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Director

2003

7 episodes

 

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8.1

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7.9

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2005

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2005

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2005

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2004

 

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6.0

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Self

2003

2 episodes

 

I Love Muppets (2002)

I Love Muppets

8.0

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Self

2002

 

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Self

1997

 

Secret Lives (1995)

Secret Lives

6.0

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1996

1 episode

 

The Good Sex Guide (1993)

The Good Sex Guide

6.5

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Friday Night (1992)

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1992–1993

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Up Yer News

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1990

1 episode

 

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7.6

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Self

1990

1 episode

 

Clive Anderson Talks Back (1989)

Clive Anderson Talks Back

7.1

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Self

1990

2 episodes

 

Stephen Fry, Clive Anderson, Josie Lawrence, Michael McShane, Paul Merton, Greg Proops, John Sessions, Tony Slattery, and Ryan Stiles in Whose Line Is It Anyway? (1988)

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1990

1 episode

 

Pleasure at Her Majesty's (1976)

The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball

6.7

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Self

1989

 

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Self

1986

 

The Secret Policeman's Other Ball

Self

1982

 

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The Royal Variety Performance 1982

4.4

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Self

1982

 

The Secret Policeman's Other Ball (1982)

The Secret Policeman's Other Ball

6.6

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1982

 

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London Night Out

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Self

1982

1 episode

 

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Self

1981

 

Fundamental Frolics (1981)

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5.9

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1981

 

Frank Oz, Jim Henson, Dave Goelz, Louise Gold, Richard Hunt, Kathryn Mullen, Jerry Nelson, and Steve Whitmire in The Muppet Show (1976)

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1981

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The Mike Walsh Show (1969)

The Mike Walsh Show

6.9

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Self

1978

1 episode

 

The London Weekend Show (1973)

The London Weekend Show

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Self

1977

1 episode

 

Omnibus (1967)

Omnibus

7.2

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Self

1976

1 episode

 

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Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News

7.6

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2009

 

The Secret Life of Brian (2007)

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7.6

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2007

 

The Smith & Jones Sketchbook (2006)

The Smith & Jones Sketchbook

6.9

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Roman Messenger (archive footage)

2006

1 episode

 

Have I Got News for You: The Best of the Guest Presenters - Volume 2 (2005)

Have I Got News for You: The Best of the Guest Presenters - Volume 2

8.3

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Self (archive footage)

2005

 

Communicate!

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Self (archive footage, uncredited)

1980

1 episode

 

Lance Rentzel obit

Former Cowboys WR Lance Rentzel, talented but troubled, dies at age 82

Rentzel was one of the most popular Cowboys players before his infamous fall in the 1970s.

 

He was not on the list.

Lance Rentzel, an electrifying Cowboys receiver married to a TV star when his guilty plea to indecent exposure in 1971 wrecked their glamorous lifestyle, if not his career, died Sunday in Virginia, according to his obituary. He was 82.

Before his infamous fall, Rentzel had been one of the Cowboys’ most popular players. Fast, glib, tall and handsome, he seemed to have it all.

But underneath the “golden boy” image he described in his book, When All the Laughter Died in Sorrow, lay mental illness. He wrote the book at the suggestion of his doctor. In it he described the incidents that led to his exits from Minnesota and Dallas.

Cowboys teammates stood by Rentzel, at least initially, but after the player’s guilty plea in ’71, Tex Schramm traded him to the Rams in a three-way deal that netted them, among others, Lance Alworth, a former star receiver nearing his career’s end.

“We know we are giving up one of the top flankers in the league,” Tom Landry said at the time of the trade, “but I thought he would be better off in another city where he had the same opportunity regularly.

“We found this in Los Angeles, and it was one of the teams Lance wanted to be traded to if he were traded.”

Rentzel played two seasons for the Rams, neither of which met the standards he established in Dallas, before a police raid of his home resulted in his arrest for possession of marijuana. Because he was already on “probation” with the NFL for his guilty plea in Dallas, Pete Rozelle banned him for the ’73 season.

Rentzel came back in ’74 for a third tour with the Rams before retiring.

Born Oct. 14, 1943, in Queens, N.Y., to Del Rentzel, an airlines executive who served as the Department of Commerce’s Under Secretary for Transportation under Harry Truman, and Marjorie Rentzel, Lance grew up in Oklahoma City, where he graduated fifth in his high school class. His obituary notes he was accepted into Harvard, Princeton and Yale but chose Oklahoma in order to play football for Bud Wilkinson. He graduated with honors from OU in 1965 with a degree in mathematics.

He earned 12 varsity letters in four sports at OU, according to his obit, but excelled in football, where he played halfback, receiver and punter. He was named first-team All-Big Eight, then played in the Senior Bowl and College All-Star Game, and the Vikings made him the 23rd pick of the ’65 draft.

Early in his second injury-plagued season, he drove to a St. Paul, Minn., playground, where he exposed himself to two young girls. After Rentzel pleaded guilty and promised to seek psychiatric treatment, the charges against him were reduced to disorderly conduct. He received no jail time.

In return for a third-round pick, the Vikings traded him in the spring of ’67 to the Cowboys. The slow start to his NFL career picked up speed. Paired with Bob Hayes, Rentzel and the world’s fastest man provided Don Meredith and Craig Morton the NFL’s most explosive set of receivers.

Between 1967-69, Rentzel accumulated 2,965 yards and 26 touchdowns over 42 games. In ’69, he led the league in yards per catch at 22.3 and touchdowns with 12.

He caught 13 passes for 223 yards against Washington in 1967, a mark that ranks seventh in Cowboys history. His greater feat came later that season in the NFL Championship Game, when he caught a 50-yard pass from halfback Dan Reeves in the fourth quarter of the Ice Bowl, giving the Cowboys a short-lived lead over Green Bay.

Rentzel’s star-crossed tenure in Dallas would prove to be brief, however. On Nov. 30, 1970, he exposed himself to a 10-year-old girl in University Park. He was arrested four days later. His lawyers said he had been undergoing psychiatric treatment “for some time,” though it was unclear if it was part of the court-ordered treatment in Minnesota. He was sentenced to five years of probation and mandatory psychiatric care with no jail time.

Rentzel’s wife, Joey Heatherton, a popular entertainer, soon divorced him, though Rentzel said the reason for the split was less his “crime” than his “Let’s-have-some-laughs-and-forget-it” attitude afterward.

Rentzel’s book sold well, but at least one critic wasn’t kind. Pete Axthelm, writing for The New York Times, said it lacked any substantive answers.

“One can hope that the writing of it contributed to Lance Rentzel’s personal rehabilitation,” he wrote. “And one must wish just as fervently that he had never decided to publish it.”

Rentzel continued to write, according to his obit, and ventured into the burgeoning world of computers. He was the director of Compucorp’s office of government affairs in 1984 when the company provided the largest computer operation at the Republican National Convention in Dallas. He moved to Alexandria, Va., where he remained a government contractor.

He leaves brothers Del Rentzel and Chris Rentzel of Dallas, and a daughter, Jenny.

“To all who knew him,” his obit reads, “Lance was larger than life – hilariously funny, unfailingly optimistic and happy, warm in spirit, and deeply loyal. He formed many close relationships over the years, most notably the enduring bonds that he shared with his teammates.”

Rentzel was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the second round (23rd overall) of the 1965 NFL draft. He was also selected in the sixth round (48th overall) of the 1965 AFL draft by the Buffalo Bills. Rentzel played sparingly as a backup running back due to recurring injuries and his contributions came mainly as a kickoff returner during his first two seasons. Rentzel set the record for the longest kickoff return (101 yards) in franchise history as a rookie, which was broken by Aundrae Allison's 104-yarder in 2007 and Cordarrelle Patterson's 109-yarder in 2013.

On May 2, 1967, Rentzel was traded to the Dallas Cowboys in exchange for a third-round draft choice (#76-Mike McGill). Rentzel was converted into a flanker, where he became not only an immediate starter over Pete Gent but also one of the best wideouts in the NFL. Rentzel led the team in receptions with 58 for 996 yards (two yards less than Bob Hayes). If Rentzel had gotten four more yards and Hayes two more, it would have been the first time in NFL history that a team had two 1,000-yard wide receivers. In the tenth game of the season against the Washington Redskins, Rentzel had 13 receptions for 233 yards. His 13 receptions set a franchise record and stood for 40 years until it was broken by Jason Witten in 2007. The 233 yards were good enough for third on the team at the time (now sixth). Rentzel also starred in the 1967 NFL Championship, known since as the "Ice Bowl", scoring a fourth-quarter, go-ahead touchdown later negated by the Green Bay Packers' game-clinching drive.

Career information

High school     Casady (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)

College            Oklahoma

NFL draft        1965: 2nd round, 23rd overall pick

AFL draft        1965: 6th round, 48th overall pick

Career history

Minnesota Vikings (1965–1966)

Dallas Cowboys (1967–1970)

Los Angeles Rams (1971–1974)

Awards and highlights

NFL receiving touchdowns leader (1969)

Second-team All-Big Eight (1964)

Career NFL statistics

Receptions       268

Receiving yards          4,826

Rushing yards 196

Return yards    1,000

Total touchdowns        42

Bob Packwood obit

Bob Packwood, longtime Oregon Senator marred by scandal, dies at 93

 

Packwood built a reputation as a maverick Republican and champion of women’s rights. It collapsed amid revelations of sexual misconduct.

He was not on the list.

Bob Packwood, a longtime Oregon Senator who entered national politics young and ascended to the pinnacles of congressional power before his career ended in scandal, died Saturday. He was 93.

Packwood died in a residential care facility in southern California, where he and his wife rented a vacation home, according to one family friend. His family released an obituary to media outlets Saturday afternoon.

“It is with great sadness that I share the news that Senator Packwood passed away earlier today,” Packwood’s wife, Elaine Franklin, said in a statement from a private Facebook post that was also provided to OPB. “He touched many lives and leaves behind a lasting legacy of public service. He will be deeply missed.”

A moderate Republican, Packwood spent decades in the Senate building a reputation for bucking his party’s hard-liners and for supporting women’s rights. That included much-heralded stances in favor of abortion rights and securing landmark federal protections for the Columbia River Gorge.

But that reputation came crashing down in late 1992, just after Packwood had been re-elected to his fifth term in the Senate.

The Washington Post published an investigation detailing allegations by former female staffers and others who described a decades-long pattern of forceful kissing and other sexual misconduct by the Senator.

Packwood kept Congressional investigators at bay for years, while also serving in one of Washington, D.C.’s most powerful roles as chair of the Senate Finance Committee.

But in 1995, he ran out of time.

The Senate Ethics Committee voted to expel Packwood from the Senate, finding he had made unwanted advances toward more than a dozen women and tried to obstruct the investigation into his conduct.

Packwood resigned the next day, but spoke to OPB in 2013 about the scandal.

“In the majority of the cases, I could not remember the woman, could not remember the incident,” he said. “In some cases, it was one time, one night. And all of the charges, save one, were over 10 years old, and in two cases 20 years old, and I just couldn’t remember.”

In the years following his departure from the Senate, Packwood became a successful Washington lobbyist. But he kept a relatively low profile in his home state.

Still, his contributions to his party live on. Packwood played a major role in starting the Oregon GOP’s annual Dorchester Conference, now in its 60th year.

Robert William Packwood was born in Portland in 1932 to a family with a strong pedigree in state affairs. His great-grandfather attended Oregon’s constitutional convention and designed the state seal, Packwood would recall.

His father was a tax analyst at the state Legislature.

After graduating from Grant High School in Portland, Packwood attended Willamette University in Salem and began to dabble in Republican politics. It was there that he first met Mark Hatfield, an advisor who would eventually become governor and Packwood’s equally powerful counterpart in the U.S. Senate.

After attending law school in New York, Packwood returned to Oregon and began his rise through the political ranks. He won a seat in the state House of Representatives in 1962, crediting an army of volunteers – many of them women – who helped to get his name out.

By 1968, Packwood had learned the ropes in Salem and went for a larger prize. He challenged Democratic U.S. Sen. Wayne Morse and made an issue of Morse’s outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War. He won the race by three-tenths of a percent and, at 36, became the youngest senator in the country.

In the Senate, Packwood cultivated a reputation as a maverick.

He was the first Senate Republican to support the impeachment of President Richard Nixon. And he was among the first national politicians to embrace the environmental movement, pushing to protect Hells Canyon in 1975, and helping to preserve the Columbia River Gorge as a national scenic area.

Where Packwood generated most attention, though, was in his stance on abortion and women’s rights. He would ascribe his position favoring a woman’s right to choose an abortion, in part, to the female volunteers who assisted him on the campaign trail.

“They each had, if not personally experienced it, had something very close to a personal experience,” Packwood told OPB. “And they described how brutal it was, how unsanitary it was, and I thought, well, this is wrong.”

Packwood unsuccessfully introduced a bill to legalize abortion in the early 1970s. With the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision at the Supreme Court, he was thrust into the national limelight as the voice of support in Congress.

Packwood said he at first assumed furor over the issue would subside.

“It did not, and it went on,” he said in 2013. “It’s going on. I guess it’s going to go on.”

Packwood was also one of two Senate Republicans to vote against the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who had been accused of sexual harassment.

Packwood said at the time that his vote was based on Thomas’ legal theories, not the allegations against him.

Packwood also played a major role in the nation’s tax policy, eventually ascending to chair of the Senate Finance Committee. And he was among the Senate’s staunchest defenders of Israel.

But the events Packwood would ultimately become best known for were darker. The Washington Post investigation that was published on November 21, 1992, marked the beginning of the end of the senator’s career in elected office.

It detailed allegations that Packwood had forcibly kissed female staffers, attempted to remove one woman’s underwear by force in his office, tried to force himself on another woman in an Oregon hotel room, and more.

The earliest allegation stemmed from Packwood’s first year in the Senate, when a staffer at his Portland office said he came up and kissed her on the neck. “Don’t you ever do that again,” the staffer, Julie Williamson, said she told Packwood.

According to the Post, “Williamson said Packwood then followed her into an adjoining room, where he grabbed at her clothes, pulled on her ponytail and at one point, stood on her toes” to prevent her from kicking him as he tried to remove her undergarments.

Stories from other women followed a similar pattern.

The article launched a three-year process in which Packwood first welcomed – and then obstructed – a Congressional investigation.

That investigation turned up damning evidence from Packwood himself. The Senator’s personal diary included some shocking entries.

In a 2017 memoir, former U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer included one excerpt detailing Packwood’s account of an encounter with a staffer, NPR noted. It read:

“If she didn’t want me to feather her nest, why did she come into the Xerox room? Sure, she used that old excuse that she had to make copies of the Brady Bill, but if you believe that, I have a room full of radical feminists you can boff. She knew I was copying stuff in there. I had my jacket off and my sleeves rolled up, revealing the well-defined musculature of my sinewy arms which are always bulging with desire. I know what she wanted. This didn’t require a lot of thought.”

The investigation concluded with a nearly 200-page report detailing findings that Packwood had committed at least 18 instances of sexual misconduct between 1969 and 1990. The document also concluded that Packwood attempted to obstruct investigators’ work, and that he had sought to use his position as a senator to win work for his then-wife.

Rather than being formally expelled by the Senate, Packwood opted to leave on his own.

“It is my duty to resign,” he said on the Senate floor. “It is the honorable thing to do for this country, for this Senate… I leave this institution not with malice, but with love.”

Barney Frank obit

Barney Frank, longtime Jewish congressman from Massachusetts, dies at 86

Frank served in Congress for 32 years until his retirement in 2013.

 He was not on the list.

Barney Frank, the Jewish Democrat who advocated for LGBTQ rights in Congress and who coauthored the last major finance reform bill, has died at 86.

The former Massachusetts representative died in hospice care at home in Ogunquit, Maine, where he lived with his husband, Jim Ready, close family friends told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Frank served in Congress for 32 years as a progressive until his retirement in 2013. Among his signature accomplishments were co-authoring the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in 2010 in response to the banking crisis and pushing for the repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy in the U.S. military.

In fighting for gay rights, Frank was motivated by his own experience as a gay man. When he came out in 1987, he was the first member of Congress to choose to do so. He became the first member of Congress to enter a same-sex marriage in 2012.

In his last weeks, Frank made an effort to share his warnings for the Democratic Party at a time of change. To JTA, he said party leaders should join with the progressive wing in pressing to cut off aid to Israel until Israeli leaders change their policies — a decision that he had been hard to reach given the liberal Zionism with which he was raised in New Jersey in the years surrounding Israel’s creation.

“I guess I held on longer than I should have to, ‘Well, we can work with them,’” Frank said about the current Israeli government. “But it’s become clear to me, particularly due to what they’re allowing to happen in the West Bank, that it is important morally and politically to repudiate the policy of supporting Israel’s military activity.”

He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1981 to 2013. A Democrat, Frank served as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee from 2007 to 2011 and was a leading co-sponsor of the 2010 Dodd–Frank Act. Frank, a resident of Newton, Massachusetts, was considered the most prominent gay politician in the United States during his time in Congress.

Born and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey, Frank graduated from Bayonne High School, Harvard College, and Harvard Law School. He worked as a political aide before winning election to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1972. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1980 with 52 percent of the vote. He was re-elected every term thereafter by wide margins. In 1987, he publicly came out as gay, becoming the first member of Congress to do so voluntarily. From 2003 until his retirement, Frank was the leading Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, and he served as committee chairman when his party held a House majority from 2007 to 2011. In July 2012, he married his long-time partner, James Ready, becoming the first member of Congress to marry someone of the same sex while in office. Frank did not seek re-election in 2012, and was succeeded by fellow Democrat Joe Kennedy III.

Prior to his time in the House of Representatives, Frank served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1973 to 1981.

Frank was born on March 31, 1940, in Bayonne, New Jersey, one of four children of Elsie (née Golush) and Samuel Frank. His family was Jewish, and his grandparents had emigrated from Poland and Russia. Frank's father ran a truck stop in Jersey City—a place Frank described as "totally corrupt"—and when Frank was 6 or 7, his father served a year in prison for refusing to testify to a grand jury against Frank's uncle. Frank was educated at Bayonne High School, before matriculating at Harvard College, where he resided in Matthews Hall his first year and then in Kirkland House and Winthrop House. He graduated in 1962.

Frank's undergraduate studies were interrupted by the death of his father, and Frank took a year off to help resolve the family's affairs prior to his graduation. In 1964, he was a volunteer in Mississippi during Freedom Summer.

He taught undergraduates at Harvard while studying for a PhD in government, but left in 1968 before completing the degree, to become Boston mayor Kevin White's Chief Assistant, a position he held for three years. He then served for a year as Administrative Assistant to Congressman Michael J. Harrington. In 1977, Frank graduated from Harvard Law School, where he was once a student of Henry Kissinger, while serving as a Massachusetts state representative.

In 1980, Frank ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 4th congressional district, hoping to succeed Reverend Robert Drinan, who had left Congress, following a call by Pope John Paul II for priests to withdraw from political positions. In the Democratic primary held on September 16, 1980, Frank won 52% of the vote in a four-candidate field.  As the Democratic nominee, he faced Republican Richard A. Jones in the general election and won narrowly, 52–48%.

For his first term, Frank represented a district in the western and southern suburbs of Boston, anchored by Brookline and his hometown of Newton. However, in 1982, redistricting forced him to run against Republican Margaret Heckler, who represented a district centered on the South Coast, including Fall River and New Bedford. Although the newly configured district retained Frank's district number—the 4th—it was geographically more Heckler's district. Frank focused on Heckler's initial support for President Ronald Reagan's tax cuts, and won with 60% of the vote.

n 2010, Frank ran for his 16th term. Public opinion polling showed him facing his first credible challenge since defeating Heckler in 1982. His opponent was Republican Sean Bielat, a U.S. Marine veteran and businessman. In mid-September, an internal poll showed Frank leading 48–38%. In late October, he loaned his campaign $200,000. In early October, The Cook Political Report changed its assessment of the district from "solid Democratic" to "likely Democratic"—meaning that while Frank was favored, a victory by Bielat could not be entirely ruled out. While Frank had a 3-to-1 advantage in terms of cash on hand, Bielat outraised him in September.[36] On October 25, a survey by The Boston Globe showed Frank leading 46–33%. Frank won re-election to his 16th term, 54–43%

In 1985, Frank was still publicly closeted. That year he hired Steve Gobie, a male prostitute, for sex, and they became "more friends than sexual partners."[40] Frank housed Gobie and hired him with personal funds as an aide, housekeeper and driver and paid for his attorney and court-ordered psychiatrist.

In 1987, Frank evicted Gobie after being advised by his landlord that Gobie kept escorting despite the support and was doing so in the residence. Later that year, Gobie's friends persuaded him that he had a gay male version of Mayflower Madam, a TV movie about an escort service. In 1989, Gobie tried to initiate a bidding war for the story between WUSA-TV (Channel 9), The Washington Times, and The Washington Post. He then gave the story to The Washington Times for nothing, in hopes of getting a book contract.

Amid calls for an investigation, Frank asked the House Ethics Committee to investigate his relationship "in order to ensure that the public record is clear." The Committee found no evidence that Frank had known of or been involved in the alleged illegal activity and dismissed all of Gobie's more scandalous claims; they recommended a reprimand for Frank using his congressional office to fix 33 of Gobie's parking tickets and for misstatements of fact in a memorandum relating to Gobie's criminal probation record. The House voted 408–18 to reprimand Frank.

In 2003, a documentary film about Barney Frank entitled Let's Get Frank was released. The documentary recounted Barney Frank's struggle coming out in public and political life as a prominent gay man, the height of which was his reprimand following the Gobie scandal, and documented Frank's dedicated defense of U.S. President Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial in January and February 1999. At the time of its release, Let's Get Frank received mixed reviews, some celebrating the film, as Ken Eisner did in Variety, and others struggling with director Bart Everly's distinct style and the dual telling of Frank's own personal story along with that of the Clinton Impeachment Trial through Frank's eyes, as Ed Halter did in The Village Voice.

Claudine Longet obit

Claudine Longet, Singer-Actress Who Shot Skier Spider Sabich, Dies at 84

Married to Andy Williams, she recorded pop albums and starred with Peter Sellers in ‘The Party’ before being convicted of criminally negligent homicide. 

She was not on the list.

Claudine Longet, the French-born singer, actress and ex-wife of Andy Williams who was at the center of a scandalous 1976 trial and media circus after she fatally shot her boyfriend, Olympic skier Spider Sabich, has died. She was 84.

Her death was reported Thursday by her nephew Bryan Longet. No details of her death were immediately available.

The enchanting, doe-eyed Longet recorded albums of breathy pop for A&M Records before she sang the Henry Mancini-Don Black song “Nothing to Lose” in Blake Edwards’ The Party (1968), in which she portrayed an aspiring actress alongside Peter Sellers.

A onetime Las Vegas showgirl, Longet had married “Moon River” crooner Williams in December 1961 and appeared on his long-running NBC variety show and Christmas specials, often with their three children.

After she and Williams divorced in 1975, Longet and the kids were living with the California-born Sabich at his chalet in Starwood, Colorado, when she shot him on March 21, 1976, in his bathroom with a .22-caliber German‐made gun that had been purchased by his father. She claimed the gun accidentally discharged as he was showing her how it worked.

Longet was with the 31-year-old Sabich in the ambulance when he died on the way to the hospital from a single gunshot wound to the abdomen. A month later, she was charged with reckless manslaughter and faced as many as 10 years in prison.

At her Aspen trial, Williams escorted her to and from the courtroom, testified on her behalf and provided legal assistance. “I thought it was unfair, I thought she was innocent, I thought it was an accident,” he told Cynthia Bowers in a 2009 interview for CBS Sunday Morning.

With the prosecution facing significant hurdles because of mishandled evidence and illegal search practices, a jury after four days of testimony and 3 1/2 hours of deliberations convicted Longet, 36, of criminally negligent homicide, a misdemeanor, in January 1977. She was given two years’ probation, fined $250 and sentenced to 30 days in jail (she was able to serve most of her sentence on weekends).

The Sabich family later filed a civil suit against Longet for $1.3 million, but the case was settled out of court. Longet agreed not to speak publicly about Sabich or the murder and to never publish a book about her life and the trial, and her career as a singer and actress was done.

Claudine Georgette Longet was born in Paris on Jan. 29, 1942. Her father was a businessman specializing in X-ray technology; her mother was a doctor. She was in a production of The Turn of the Screw when she was 10, then appeared on French television and in plays in Milan and Venice.

Hired by nightclub impresario Lou Walters (Barbara Walters’ father), Longet had moved to Las Vegas and was dancing in a Folies Bergère revue at the Tropicana in 1960 when she first met Williams alongside a highway in town.

“My manager and I were driving down there and we saw this lovely girl and her girlfriend, who was also quite pretty, pushing this car,” he told Bowers. “And so, being gallant — and also because they looked pretty good — we stopped to see if we could help them.”

They started dating, and after Williams proposed to her in Paris — she had returned home to her parents, who were alarmed that she was dating an older man — they wed at a church in Bel-Air on Dec. 15, 1961 (she was 19, he was 34).

In 1963, Longet appeared for the first time on The Andy Williams Show and acted on episodes of McHale’s Navy and Dr. Kildare. She later guest-starred on installments of Combat!, 12 O’Clock High, Mr. Novak and Hogan’s Heroes before playing a novelist named Nicole who has a romance with Ben Gazzara’s character on the first-season finale of NBC’s Run for Your Life.

On the May 1966 episode, Longet mimicked playing the guitar and sang an English-French version of the bossa nova song “Meditation.” That got her a contract at Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss’ new A&M label, which released “Meditation” as a single. Her first album, 1967’s Claudine, produced by Tommy LiPuma, sold more than a million copies.

She would record three more LPs for A&M before jumping to Williams’ new Barnaby imprint for 1969’s We’ve Only Just Begun. She and her husband separated around that time — “We just sort of grew apart, I was never home … it was all my fault, I just didn’t take care of my marriage,” he said — though she would continue to appear on his TV shows through 1974. (Her last album was 1972’s Let’s Spend the Night Together.)

Meanwhile, Longet also showed up in the 1965 McHale’s Navy feature and Massacre Harbor (1968) and on TV in The Name of the Game, The F.B.I., The Bold Ones, Love, American Style, Alias Smith and Jones and The Streets of San Francisco.

Longet and Williams were close friends of Robert F. Kennedy and his wife, Ethel, and they were watching his televised primary victory speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles upstairs in the senator’s suite on June 4, 1968.

After Kennedy was shot shortly after midnight in the hotel by Sirhan Sirhan, the couple joined RFK’s family and other friends at Good Samaritan Hospital, and they were there when he was pronounced dead on June 6, nearly 26 hours after the shooting.

Longet and Williams attended Kennedy’s funeral at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York on June 8 — Williams and a choir performed “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” — and were on the funeral train that took his body to the Arlington National Cemetery in Washington for burial.

She and charismatic Vladimir “Spider” Sabich, who was the model for Robert Redford’s character in Downhill Racer (1969), first met in 1972 at a celebrity skiing exhibition in Bear Valley, California.

At the time of the shooting, they had been living together for a couple of years but their relationship was on the rocks, as she wrote in her diary. (Since officers failed to attain a search warrant, that evidence was inadmissible in court.)

After her sentencing, Longet told reporters she was not bitter. “Because of the many cards and letters I’ve received, the prayers, I feel very good about everybody,” she said.

Her case was spoofed on Saturday Night Live in April 1976 when sportscasters played by Chevy Chase and Jane Curtin offered play-by-play of skiers being “accidentally shot” by Longet while competing in “The Claudine Longet Invitational” in Vail, Colorado. Announcer Don Pardo would read an apology on the air the next week.

The Rolling Stones also recorded a derisive song called “Claudine” for Some Girls that didn’t make it on their 1978 album, apparently for legal reasons.

Longet and one of her defense attorneys, Ronald Austin, moved in together shortly after her sentencing — he was married with two children at the time — and they wed in June 1985, remaining in the Aspen area on a 5.4-acre estate for years before moving to Hawaii.

She had three children with Williams, sons Christian and Bobby (who was named for RFK) and daughter Noelle, who reportedly died in 2023.

 

Actress

The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond

6.6

TV Movie

Marie Antoinette

1975

 

The Streets of San Francisco (1972)

The Streets of San Francisco

7.3

TV Series

Michelle Carl

1973

1 episode

 

Henry Mancini in The Mancini Generation (1972)

The Mancini Generation

TV Series

1973

2 episodes

 

Pete Duel and Ben Murphy in Alias Smith and Jones (1971)

Alias Smith and Jones

7.6

TV Series

Michelle Monet

1971

1 episode

 

Dick Martin and Dan Rowan in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967)

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

8.0

TV Series

Guest Performer (uncredited)

1971

2 episodes

 

How to Steal an Airplane (1971)

How to Steal an Airplane

7.2

TV Movie

Michelle Chivot

1971

 

Love, American Style (1969)

Love, American Style

6.8

TV Series

Susan (segment "Love and the Minister")

1970

1 episode

 

The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (1969)

The Bold Ones: The Lawyers

7.1

TV Series

Suzanne Rockford

1969

1 episode

 

The F.B.I. (1965)

The F.B.I.

7.4

TV Series

Danielle Chabrol

1969

1 episode

 

The Name of the Game (1968)

The Name of the Game

7.6

TV Series

Lianne Jevret

1968

1 episode

 

The Party (1968)

The Party

7.4

Michele Monet

1968

 

Ben Gazzara in Run for Your Life (1965)

Run for Your Life

7.6

TV Series

Nicole

1966–1967

2 episodes

 

Combat! (1962)

Combat!

8.4

TV Series

ClaudetteBabette

1964–1967

2 episodes

 

The Rat Patrol (1966)

The Rat Patrol

7.4

TV Series

Marianne Bertaine

1966–1967

2 episodes

 

John Banner, Robert Clary, Bob Crane, Richard Dawson, Ivan Dixon, Larry Hovis, and Werner Klemperer in Hogan's Heroes (1965)

Hogan's Heroes

7.8

TV Series

Michelle

1966

1 episode

 

12 O'Clock High (1964)

12 O'Clock High

8.1

TV Series

Liane GoletSuzanne Arnais

1965–1966

2 episodes

 

Ernest Borgnine, Carl Ballantine, Tim Conway, Joe Flynn, and Yoshio Yoda in McHale's Navy (1965)

McHale's Navy

6.3

Andrea Bouchard

1965

 

James Franciscus in Mr. Novak (1963)

Mr. Novak

7.4

TV Series

Shahri Javid

1965

1 episode

 

Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963)

Kraft Suspense Theatre

7.7

TV Series

Marie Ange

1964

1 episode

 

Dr. Kildare (1961)

Dr. Kildare

7.0

TV Series

Mme. Dupres

1963

1 episode

 

McHale's Navy (1962)

McHale's Navy

7.4

TV Series

Yvette Gerard

1963

2 episodes

 

Writer

The Andy Williams Christmas Show

TV Special

Writer

1974

 

The Andy Williams Christmas Special

8.9

TV Special

Writer

1973

 

Soundtrack

Pensando Sin Cansarme (2023)

Pensando Sin Cansarme

Podcast Series

performer: "Love is Blue" (L'Amour est Bleu)

2023

1 episode

 

Rose Hotel (2021)

Rose Hotel

6.8

Short

performer: "My Favorite Things"

2021

 

Hannelore Elsner, Uschi Glas, and Jutta Speidel in Club der einsamen Herzen (2019)

Club der einsamen Herzen

6.1

TV Movie

performer: "Sugar Me"

2019

 

Chuck, Lost Object Found (2018)

Chuck, Lost Object Found

performer: "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye"

2018

 

Julie Delpy, Dany Boon, Karin Viard, and Vincent Lacoste in Lolo (2015)

Lolo

5.7

performer: "Small Talk"

2015

 

Tomas von Brömssen, Josefin Neldén, Jonathan Andersson, Adam Lundgren, and Disa Östrand in Shed No Tears (2013)

Shed No Tears

6.9

performer: "Nothing to Lose"

2013

 

James Franco, Seth Rogen, and Danny McBride in Pineapple Express (2008)

Pineapple Express

6.9

performer: "Love is Blue" (L'Amour est Bleu)

2008

 

Daddy Cool (2008)

Daddy Cool

5.0

performer: "Love is Blue" (L'Amour est Bleu)

2008

 

Michael Douglas, Candice Bergen, Albert Brooks, Ryan Reynolds, Lindsay Sloane, and Maria Ricossa in The In-Laws (2003)

The In-Laws

5.8

performer: "Un Homme et une Femme"

2003

 

The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)

The Kid Stays in the Picture

7.3

performer: "Wanderlove"

2002

 

Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham in Gilmore Girls (2000)

Gilmore Girls

8.2

TV Series

performer: "God Only Knows" (uncredited)

2001

1 episode

 

How to Steal an Airplane (1971)

How to Steal an Airplane

7.2

TV Movie

performer: "Sadness of a Happy Time"

1971

 

Flip (1970)

Flip

7.4

TV Series

performer: "C'est si bon"

1971

1 episode

 

A Flea in Her Ear (1968)

A Flea in Her Ear

5.5

performer: "A Flea in Her Ear"

1968

 

The Party (1968)

The Party

7.4

performer: "Nothing to Lose"

1968

 

Ben Gazzara in Run for Your Life (1965)

Run for Your Life

7.6

TV Series

performer: "Quand tu m'as Parlé" (Insensatez)performer: "Un Amour, un Sourire, une Fleur" (Meditação)

1966–1967

2 episodes

 

The Andy Williams Show (1962)

The Andy Williams Show

7.4

TV Series

performer: "My Favorite Things"performer: "Sunrise, Sunet", "What now my Love ?" (Et Maintenant), "My Guy"

1966

2 episodes

 

Self

Biography (1987)

Biography

7.7

TV Series

Self (voice)

2003

1 episode

 

E! True Hollywood Story (1996)

E! True Hollywood Story

6.5

TV Series

Self

2000

1 episode

 

Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, and Michael Strahan in Good Morning America (1975)

Good Morning America

4.4

TV Series

Self

1977

1 episode

 

Johnny Carson in The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

8.5

TV Series

Self - Guest

1968–1975

2 episodes

 

The Andy Williams Christmas Show

TV Special

Self - Singer

1974

 

Merv Griffin in The Merv Griffin Show (1962)

The Merv Griffin Show

6.6

TV Series

Self

1972–1974

5 episodes

 

The Andy Williams Christmas Special

8.9

TV Special

Self - Singer

1973

 

Dean Martin Presents: The Bobby Darin Amusement Co. (1972)

Dean Martin Presents: The Bobby Darin Amusement Co.

TV Series

Self

1972

1 episode

 

Jeff Lowe in The American Sportsman (1965)

The American Sportsman

8.1

TV Series

Self

1972

1 episode

 

Andy Williams, The Osmonds, Bobby Williams, Dick Williams, and Christian Williams in The Andy Williams Christmas Show (1971)

The Andy Williams Christmas Show

8.4

TV Special

Self

1971

 

Monsanto Presents Mancini

TV Special

Self - SingerSelf - Host

1971

 

Don Knotts in The Don Knotts Show (1970)

The Don Knotts Show

7.5

TV Series

Self

1971

1 episode

 

Flip (1970)

Flip

7.4

TV Series

Self

1971

1 episode

 

The Andy Williams Show (1969)

The Andy Williams Show

7.9

TV Series

Self

1969–1970

5 episodes

 

Tom Jones in This Is Tom Jones (1969)

This Is Tom Jones

7.8

TV Series

Self

1969

1 episode

 

The Andy Williams Magic Lantern Show Company

TV Special

Self

1969

 

Andy Williams and The Williams Brothers in The Andy Williams Christmas Special (1968)

The Andy Williams Christmas Special

7.8

TV Special

Self - Singer

1968

 

The Andy Williams Christmas Show (1967)

The Andy Williams Christmas Show

8.0

TV Special

Self - Singer

1967

 

Love, Andy

TV Special

Self

1967

 

Mondo Hollywood: Hollywood Laid Bare! (1967)

Mondo Hollywood: Hollywood Laid Bare!

6.0

Self (uncredited)

1967

 

The Andy Williams Show (1962)

The Andy Williams Show

7.4

TV Series

Self

1963–1967

6 episodes

 

Jack Benny in The Jack Benny Program (1950)

The Jack Benny Program

8.5

TV Series

Self

1964

1 episode

 

Joey Bishop in The Joey Bishop Show (1961)

The Joey Bishop Show

6.6

TV Series

Self (as Mr. and Mrs. Andy Williams)

1964

1 episode

 

Archive Footage

Compression (1995)

Compression

6.4

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

2023

1 episode

 

Power, Privilege & Justice (2002)

Power, Privilege & Justice

8.1

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

2006

1 episode

 

City Confidential (1998)

City Confidential

8.6

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

2003

1 episode

 

Christopher George, Claudine Longet, and Gary Raymond in Massacre Harbor (1968)

Massacre Harbor

6.7

Marianne (archive footage)

1968