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+ YouTube Video You just witnessed the strength of geek knowledge. N.W.A., Nerd With Attitude. Straight out of Vulcan!Comment
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This is a big one for kung fu fans, so I guess I'll cross post:
Hong Kong movie mogul Run Run Shaw dies
HONG KONG (AP) — Run Run Shaw built a Hong Kong movie and TV empire that nurtured rising talents like actor Chow Yun-fat and director John Woo, inspired Hollywood filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino and produced the 1982 sci-fi classic "Blade Runner." ...
His studio gave his age as 107, but his age according to the Western counting method may have been 106 because Chinese traditionally consider a child to be 1 at birth. TVB said he was born in 1907, but would not provide his birth date. ...
His path to Asian moviemaking dominance began in earnest in 1961 when he opened Movie Town, a vast, state-of-the-art studio in Hong Kong's rural Clearwater Bay. With 1,500 staff working on 10 soundstages, Movie Town was reputed to be the most productive studio in the world. At its busiest, actors and directors churned out 40 movies a year, most of them featuring kung fu, sword fighting or Asian gangsters known as triads.
The result was a library of nearly 1,000 movies such as "The One Armed Swordsman" and "The Five Fingers of Death," the latter being one of Shaw's most successful in the United States. ...Last edited by Space Cop; 01-07-2014, 02:00 PM.
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RIP Greg Martin, A Guy Who Drew Awesome Box Art
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*burns incense & lays down an offering to the ancestors for his safe trip to the afterlife....*Originally posted by Space Cop View PostThis is a big one for kung fu fans, so I guess I'll cross post:
Hong Kong movie mogul Run Run Shaw dies
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Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon dead at 85
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Ariel Sharon, the trailblazing former Israeli general and prime minister who was in a coma for eight years after he suffering a stroke at the height of his power, died on Saturday aged 85, his family and the government said...
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rac...ife-sam-670147
Sam Berns, the charming and precocious 17-year-old subject of Sean Fine and Andrea Nix's Oscar-shortlisted documentary feature Life According to Sam -- which could score a best documentary feature Oscar nomination on Thursday morning -- died Friday at his home in Foxborough, Mass., it was announced over the weekend. The cause of his death was complications from Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, or progeria, an extremely rare genetic condition that accelerates the aging process in children starting at birth and generally leads to death around the age of 13.
Sam's life with the disease and his parents' heroic race against the clock to find a cure for it within his lifetime was the subject of the film and helped to make Sam the face of the disease, which afflicts only one in 8 million children. Sam's death was announced by The Progeria Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by his parents, the doctors Leslie Gordon and Scott Berns, and is being widely mourned.
Sheila Nevins, the president of HBO Documentary Films, which distributed Life According to Sam, told People on Sunday that the news of Sam's death was "devastating." She continued, "To me, he was a star." Back in October, Sam had attended the doc's premiere in New York, watching it by himself in a room near the main screening room and emerging afterward with a napkin that he held up with the word "AWESOME!"
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft also weighed in on Sam's death, noting, in a statement issued Saturday, that he had invited the teen to be the team's honorary captain for Saturday night's playoff game against the Indianapolis Colts, and was looking forward to spending time with him and his family. Kraft met the Berns family at the HBO premiere back in October and invited Sam, a big fan of sports (and music), to give the team's players an impromptu motivational speech during a practice later that month, according to The Boston Globe.
Berns was asked to name his favorite player, but he didn't have one. It takes a team to succeed, he said.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25708277
Actress Alexandra Bastedo, best known for her role in the 1960s television sci-fi series The Champions, has died aged 67 following a long illness.
Bastedo, who had cancer, also starred in Absolutely Fabulous, Boon and The Agatha Christie Hour.
In later life, animal rights supporter Bastedo set up the ABC Animal Sanctuary near Pulborough, West Sussex, which announced her death.
The sanctuary said the actress would be "sadly missed" by all who knew her.
The charity said on Twitter: "It is with great sadness that we announce that Alexandra Bastedo passed away this Sunday afternoon after a long illness aged 67.
"She will be sadly missed by all those who knew and worked with her, and by all the volunteers at the ABC Animal Sanctuary."
Bastedo was married to theatre producer and director Patrick Garland from 1980 until his death from an illness in April last year aged 78.Comment
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/c...,3463036.story
Johnnie Mae Young, a pioneering female wrestler and World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Fame member whose career spanned eight decades, died on Tuesday, the organization said.
She was 90.
"There will never be another Mae Young," said Vince McMahon, the chairman and chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment.
Young died at her home in Columbia, South Carolina, where she had been under hospice care, a WWE spokesman said.
Known as "The Great Mae Young," she got her start in the sport at age 15 as a member of her Tulsa, Oklahoma, high school boys' wrestling team, according to a WWE biography. She began her professional wrestling career in 1939.
Her signature move was called the "Bronco Buster," in which the attacker jumps up and down on a seated opponent's chest, sometimes in a sexually suggestive way, WWE said.
While potential male wrestlers were off fighting in World War Two, Young and other women made inroads in the sport. She helped open Canadian wrestling to women and was among the first female wrestlers to tour post-war Japan in 1954, WWE said.
After several decades of performing, she turned her attention to training and coached her longtime friend Lillian Ellison, known as "The Fabulous Moolah."
Ellison was the first female member of the WWE's Hall of Fame. She died in 2007. Young became the third woman to receive the honor when she was inducted in 2008.
In their later years, Young and Ellison shared a home and sports complex in Columbia, where they trained would-be wrestlers. They also made comic appearances in televised WWE events.Comment
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RIP Mae
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Iggy is gonna be sad.
So am I.
R.I.P.Comment
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Mae Young and Moolah are back together again. It's like the lesbian wrestling version of The Notebook.
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At 90, she certainly lived a full life. R.I.P.
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