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PROLIFIC CHARACTER ACTOR DEAD AT 95

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  Henry Silva (September 15, 1926 – September 14, 2022)
    
    
    
 

Henry Silva, the rugged New York actor who portrayed heavies
and heroes of various ethnicities in a career highlighted by
turns in A Hatful of Rain, The Manchurian Candidate and
Johnny Cool, has died.

Silva died Wednesday of natural causes at the Motion Picture
& Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills.

Silva also played the Draconian commander “Killer” Kane in
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979).
(The Hollywood Reporter)

 

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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Oliver Stone in Vietnam.

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William Oliver Stone is a film director, producer, and screenwriter. He won an Academy Award for Best
Adapted Screenplay
as writer of Midnight Express
(1978), and wrote the gangster film
remake Scarface
(1983). Stone achieved prominence as writer and          
director  of the war drama Platoon (1986), which
won
Academy Awards for Best Director and Best
Picture
. Platoon was the first in a trilogy of films  
based on the Vietnam War, in which Stone served
as an
infantry soldier. He continued the series with
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)—for which Stone
won his second Best Director
Oscar. Stone is 76
years old today.
 



 

  Midnight Express (Blu-ray)    

JFK [DVD] [1997]

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FAMOUS ATTORNEY HAS DIED

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Kenneth Winston Starr (July 21, 1946 – September 13, 2022)

(Fox News) – Ken Starr, a noted attorney who helped impeach
one president and defended another from the same fate, died
Tuesday at age 76.  

A statement released by his family said Starr died in Houston
of complications from surgery at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical
Center.

Starr was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to serve on
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. He also
served as U.S. solicitor general under President George H.W.
Bush.

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‘’THE MAN IN BLACK’’ DIED ON THIS DAY

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John R. Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003)

Cash is one of the best-selling music artists of all time,
having sold more than 90 million records worldwide. His
genre-spanning music embraced
country, rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, and gospel sounds. This crossover
appeal earned him the rare honor of being inducted into
the
Country Music, Rock and Roll, and Gospel Music Halls
of Fame.

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PORTLAND, OREGON (1959)

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