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Topol, the Israeli actor who played the milkman Tevye in both the Broadway play and movie “Fiddler on the Roof” (1971), passed away. He was 87. He also had a role as Dr. Zarkov in the movie version of “Flash Gordon” (1980) and in the James Bond movie “For Your Eyes Only” (1981).You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login
Rolly Crump. Well known to any Disney parks fan. He was instrumental in bringing the weird and creative to Disneyland, and spent his later years interacting with fans in the coolest of ways. Everyone who met him has a Rolly story.You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login
Actor Lance Reddick has died of natural causes at the age of 60. I think his best work was in "The Wire," where he played Baltimore PD Lieutenant Cedrick Daniels: a show I'm coincidentally 'binging' currently (I realized I'd only, criminally, seen the 1st season; I'm currently almost done w/season 2). He's always in the John Wick films, and has been doing press for JOHN WICK 4; he played Charon, the concierge of The Continental.You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginFun trivia I didn't know until now: he got his Bachelors in Music Composition from Eastman, one of the top music schools in the country! He also got his Masters in Drama from Yale. I knew he had the acting chops, but now I kinda really need to hear his music compositions! Real bummer
He is notable for his work in the satirical magazine Mad, including his trademark feature, the Mad Fold-in. Jaffee was a regular contributor to the magazine for 65 years and is its longest-running contributor. In a 2010 interview, Jaffee said, "Serious people my age are dead."[4]With a career running from 1942 until 2020, Jaffee holds the Guinness World Record for having the longest-ever career as a comic artist.[5][6] In the fifty years between April 1964 and April 2013, only one bimonthly issue of Mad was published without containing new material by Jaffee.In 2008, Jaffee was honored by the Reuben Awards as the Cartoonist of the Year. New Yorker cartoonist Arnold Roth said, "Al Jaffee is one of the great cartoonists of our time."[9] Describing Jaffee, Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz wrote, "Al can cartoon anything".
An unconfirmed but credible source is reporting the Al Jaffee has passed on
His death, at a hospital, was caused by multi-system organ failure, his granddaughter Fani Thomson said.
Conceived in 1964 as a poor-cousin parody of the multi-page foldouts that were appearing in glossy magazines such as Life and Playboy, the fold-in became a regular feature and often provided the sole note of direct editorializing in the pages of Mad.One 1968 panel, done at the height of the Vietnam War, showed students outside a job center and asked, “What is the one thing most school dropouts are sure to become?”It folded to depict a student in a cannon with the caption: “Cannon fodder.”A picture showing 1972’s presidential candidates splashing around in a swimming pool promised to reveal what the public could expect this election. When folded, the image became a giant toilet with a caption reading “The same old stuff.”
Harry Belafonte, singer/actor/civil rights activist, died at 96 You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginThis guy did more with his fame than most as far as the civil rights movement, and he was just as great as a singer & actor: I mean, he brought calypso to the mainstream for _multiple_ generations (my generation thanks to either The Muppet Show as a youngin and/or BEETLEJUICE a bit older in middle school)Daylight came and he want to go home, I suppose...
When I was in my late teens and wanted to get into the music business, Harry Belafonte said he’d have dinner with me and let me pick his brain (my dad was one of his doctors). In retrospect, I wish I had known more about his bio back then (it’s embarrassing to think how much I thought I knew when I was that young), because it would have been an amazing opportunity. Still, sitting down with him over a meal was a memorable experience. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk