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Strutz @ Wed Feb 15, 2023 4:25 pm
Raquel Welch, 'Fantastic Voyage' star, has died at age 82
DrCaleb @ Wed Feb 15, 2023 5:23 pm
xerxes @ Sat Mar 18, 2023 2:34 pm
Lance Reddick, star of The Wire and John Wick, dies aged 60
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Lance Reddick, actor known for roles in The Wire and the John Wick franchise, has died at the age of 60.
According to multiple outlets, his representative confirmed that he died of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles. The actor had been recently doing interviews for his role in John Wick: Chapter 4, released next week. Earlier this week, he chose not to attend the film’s New York premiere.
Reddick’s best-known role was playing Baltimore police lieutenant Cedric Daniels in HBO’s hit crime drama The Wire. He had originally auditioned for the roles of Bubbles and Bunk Moreland. It was a rare prestige show to have a largely black cast at a time when television was mostly white. “It wasn’t until I got off The Wire that I realised that wasn’t the normal experience,” Reddick said to the Guardian.” In retrospect I see that it was really extraordinary.”
In a 2019 interview, he referred to it as “an iconic piece of history” and that he felt “very fortunate and proud of the work we did”.
Reddick’s TV roles also included Oz, Lost, Bosch and a lead role in sci-fi drama Fringe. Before his death he also filmed the part of Zeus for the upcoming TV adaptation of Percy Jackson.
On the big screen, Reddick’s credits included White House Down, Sylvie’s Love, Brother to Brother and a role in the blockbusting John Wick franchise. As well as his posthumous performance in the fourth film, he is believed to have filmed a role for a spin-off, Ballerina, led by Ana de Armas. He will also be seen in the upcoming remake of White Men Can’t Jump.
The Wire creator David Simon released a statement to the Hollywood Reporter to express his grief. “A consummate professional, a devoted collaborator, a lovely soul and a friend,” he wrote. “This is just gutting and way, way, way too soon for any of us who knew and loved him to contemplate.”
Wendell Pierce, Reddick’s co-star in the show paid tribute to him on Twitter. “A man of great strength and grace,” he wrote. “As talented a musician as he was an actor. The epitome of class. A sudden unexpected sharp painful grief for our artistic family. An unimaginable suffering for his personal family and loved ones. Godspeed my friend. You made your mark here. RIP”
Another fellow cast member Isiah Whitlock Jr wrote: “Shocked and saddened by the news that Lance Reddick has passed away. Truly heartbreaking. R.I.P. My friend. You will be missed. God speed.”
Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn also tweeted: “Lance Reddick was an incredibly nice guy, and an incredibly talented actor,” he wrote. “This is heartbreaking. My love goes out to all his family, friends and collaborators.” Stephen King tweeted that he was a “wonderful actor; wonderful man”.
Reddick is survived by his wife, Stephanie, and children, Yvonne Nicole and Christopher.
According to multiple outlets, his representative confirmed that he died of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles. The actor had been recently doing interviews for his role in John Wick: Chapter 4, released next week. Earlier this week, he chose not to attend the film’s New York premiere.
Reddick’s best-known role was playing Baltimore police lieutenant Cedric Daniels in HBO’s hit crime drama The Wire. He had originally auditioned for the roles of Bubbles and Bunk Moreland. It was a rare prestige show to have a largely black cast at a time when television was mostly white. “It wasn’t until I got off The Wire that I realised that wasn’t the normal experience,” Reddick said to the Guardian.” In retrospect I see that it was really extraordinary.”
In a 2019 interview, he referred to it as “an iconic piece of history” and that he felt “very fortunate and proud of the work we did”.
Reddick’s TV roles also included Oz, Lost, Bosch and a lead role in sci-fi drama Fringe. Before his death he also filmed the part of Zeus for the upcoming TV adaptation of Percy Jackson.
On the big screen, Reddick’s credits included White House Down, Sylvie’s Love, Brother to Brother and a role in the blockbusting John Wick franchise. As well as his posthumous performance in the fourth film, he is believed to have filmed a role for a spin-off, Ballerina, led by Ana de Armas. He will also be seen in the upcoming remake of White Men Can’t Jump.
The Wire creator David Simon released a statement to the Hollywood Reporter to express his grief. “A consummate professional, a devoted collaborator, a lovely soul and a friend,” he wrote. “This is just gutting and way, way, way too soon for any of us who knew and loved him to contemplate.”
Wendell Pierce, Reddick’s co-star in the show paid tribute to him on Twitter. “A man of great strength and grace,” he wrote. “As talented a musician as he was an actor. The epitome of class. A sudden unexpected sharp painful grief for our artistic family. An unimaginable suffering for his personal family and loved ones. Godspeed my friend. You made your mark here. RIP”
Another fellow cast member Isiah Whitlock Jr wrote: “Shocked and saddened by the news that Lance Reddick has passed away. Truly heartbreaking. R.I.P. My friend. You will be missed. God speed.”
Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn also tweeted: “Lance Reddick was an incredibly nice guy, and an incredibly talented actor,” he wrote. “This is heartbreaking. My love goes out to all his family, friends and collaborators.” Stephen King tweeted that he was a “wonderful actor; wonderful man”.
Reddick is survived by his wife, Stephanie, and children, Yvonne Nicole and Christopher.
Scape @ Sat Mar 18, 2023 4:18 pm
Amazing talent.
DrCaleb @ Sat Mar 25, 2023 10:16 am
Intel co-founder, computer chip visionary Gordon Moore dead at 94
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Moore, who held a PhD in chemistry and physics, made his famous observation — now known as "Moore's Law" — three years before he helped start Intel in 1968. It appeared among a number of articles about the future written for the now-defunct Electronics magazine by experts in various fields.
The prediction, which Moore said he plotted out on graph paper based on what had been happening with chips at the time, said the capacity and complexity of integrated circuits would double every year.
The prediction, which Moore said he plotted out on graph paper based on what had been happening with chips at the time, said the capacity and complexity of integrated circuits would double every year.
Scape @ Wed Apr 12, 2023 3:22 pm
DrCaleb @ Sat Apr 22, 2023 7:29 pm
Barry Humphries, renowned actor behind Dame Edna Everage, dead at 89
Strutz @ Tue Apr 25, 2023 10:07 am
Harry Belafonte, who mixed music, acting, and activism, dies at 96
Strutz @ Thu Apr 27, 2023 9:40 am
Jerry Springer, politician-turned-TV ringmaster, dies at 79
Scape @ Mon May 01, 2023 8:15 pm
DrCaleb @ Mon May 01, 2023 8:15 pm
Canadian folk music icon Gordon Lightfoot dead at 84
llama66 @ Mon May 01, 2023 8:58 pm
RIP Gordon, thank you for the great music. Truly one of the greatest singer-songwriters to have lived.
Strutz @ Mon May 01, 2023 9:58 pm
RIP 
DrCaleb @ Wed May 03, 2023 8:17 am
xerxes @ Mon May 22, 2023 1:33 pm
Actor Ray Stevenson, known for RRR, Rome and Thor, dead at 58
Ray Stevenson, the Irish actor who played the villain in RRR, an Asgardian warrior in the Thor films, and a member of the 13th Legion in HBO's Rome, has died at age 58.
Representatives for Stevenson told The Associated Press he died Sunday, but had no other details to share on Monday.
Stevenson was born in Lisburn in 1964. After attending the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and years of working in British television, he made his film debut in Paul Greengrass's 1998 film The Theory of Flight. In 2004, he appeared in Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur as a knight of the round table and several years later played the lead in the Marvel adaptation Punisher: War Zone.
Though Punisher was not the best-reviewed film, he'd get another taste of Marvel in the first three Thor films, in which he played Volstagg. Other prominent film roles included the Divergent trilogy, G.I. Joe: Retaliation and The Transporter: Refueled.
A looming presence at 6-foot-4, Stevenson, who played his share of soldiers past and present, once said in an interview, "I guess I'm an old warrior at heart."
On the small screen, he was Titus Pullo in Rome, the role that really got his career going in the United States and got him a SAG card, at the age of 44. The popular series ran from 2005 to 2007.
"That was one of the major years of my life," Stevenson said in an interview. "It made me sit down in my own skin and say, just do the job. The job's enough."
In the Variety review of Rome, Brian Lowery wrote "the imposing Stevenson certainly stands out as a brawling, whoring and none-too-bright warrior — a force of nature who, despite his excesses, somehow keeps landing on his feet."
He was Blackbeard in the Starz series Black Sails and Commander Jack Swinburne in the German television series Das Boot.
Role in upcoming Star Wars series
Stevenson also did voice work in Star Wars Rebels and The Clone Wars, as Gar Saxon, and had a role in the upcoming Star Wars live-action series Ahsoka, in which he plays a bad guy, Baylan Skoll. The eight-episode season is expected on Disney+ in August.
In an interview with Backstage in 2020, Stevenson said his acting idols were "the likes of Lee Marvin [and] Gene Hackman."
"Never a bad performance, and brave and fearless within that calibre," Stevenson said. "It was never the young, hot leading man; it was men who I could identify with."
Stevenson had three sons with Italian anthropologist Elisabetta Caraccia. They met while he was working on Rome.
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Damn, too soon. RIP
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