RIP

[Jan S]

American actress(Wednesday in the Addams family series).

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/30/e...cli/index.html

[xilman]

Originally Posted by Jan S

American actress(Wednesday in the Addams family series).

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/30/e...cli/index.html

My favourite character has always been Thing, followed by Uncle Fester.

Did you know Uncle Fester went on to do very well at MSFT, eventually replacing BillG as head-honcho?

[tServo]

She was an American TV and movie actress best known for the sitcom "Laverne & Shirley".
She was also in the movies "American Grafitti" and the most excellent "The Conversation",
a personal favorite.

[Nick]

Kit Hesketh-Harvey

[Uncwilly]

Terence Dickinson, Canada’s Famous Amateur Astronomer and Popularizer, Dies at 79
His book NightWatch has been a go to recommendation for new amateur astronomers for decades.

[Jan S]

Pakistani military officer and former president.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-22248479

[xilman]

Burt Bacharach has joined the 94 club.

[xilman]

Raquel Welch

[Dr Sardonicus]

From the "Good, but sooner would have been better" department:

Teddy Joseph Von Nukem

A Missouri man who was among the most prominent Neo-Nazis at the infamous 2017 Charlottesville rally has shot himself dead on what was supposed to be the first day of his drug trafficking trial.

Teddy Joseph Von Nukem, a 35-year-old father of five young children, was found dead by his wife outside their spacious $400,000 Rolla, Missouri home on January 30.

He was due in court in Arizona that day, charged with smuggling 15kg of fentanyl pills in his car as he crossed from Mexico into the U.S. in March 2021.

Von Nukem admitted that he had been paid $215 to transport the drugs.

Von Nukem became interested in Nazi Germany during high school, and as an adult in 2012 changed his name from Teddy Landrum in a nod to his German heritage and the video-game character Duke Nukem.
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When Von Nukem failed to appear in court for his January 30 hearing, U.S. District Judge Rosemary Marquez issued a warrant for his arrest.

At almost exactly the same time, Von Nukem's wife found his body outside their home in the snow, still warm, and called police.
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[Dr Sardonicus]

Originally Posted by xilman

Raquel Welch

Besides Fantastic Voyage and One Million Years BC, Racquel Welch was also in a 1972 movie, Fuzz (a then-common slang term for police). The screen play was by Evan Hunter who wrote the "87^th Precinct" novels under the pen name Ed McBain. The movie includes a recurring character in the novels, a master criminal known as "The Deaf Man," played by Yul Brynner.

[Dr Sardonicus]

Richard Belzer

NEW YORK — Richard Belzer, the longtime stand-up comedian who became one of TV's most indelible detectives as John Munch in Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: SVU, has died. He was 78.

In October 1996, Belzer and Clark Johnson were filming a scene for Homicide: Life on the Street when a shoplifter blundered onto the set, saw the two actors portraying cops with guns drawn, dropped the goods he had stolen, and raised his hands. Actual cops working security made the arrest.