March 9, 2023 Via ExtraTV: Robert Blake, whose nearly 60-year career was overshadowed by a seamy murder trial — and acquittal — died Thursday, March 9, 2023, at his L.A. home of heart disease. He was 89. Fred on top (Image via TV Guide) Blake was born Michael James Gubitosi in Nutley, New Jersey, on…
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Topol, Famed for His Performances as Tevye, Dies @ 87
March 9, 2023 Chaim Topol, known as Topol professionally, died March 9, 2023, in Tel Aviv. He was 87. Fiddler's father (GIF via GIPHY) Last year, the entertainer's family announced he was in the final stages of Alzheimer's disease, requesting privacy from fans. Topol was born September 9, 1935, in what is now Israel. He…
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Ed Fury, Sword-and-Sandal Adonis, Dies @ 94
March 6, 2023 Better off Ed (Image by Bob Mizer/AMG) Ed Fury, a physique-model legend and legit movie star in the '60s, died at 94 on February 24, 2023. The sad news of Fury's passing was confirmed by his wife to various friends, who broke the news on social media. https://www.tiktok.com/@boyculturedotcom/video/7207517022647881002?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7200813291274503722 Born Rupert Edmund Holovchik…
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Angela Bassett’s Not Bitter About Oscar Loss, Yoko Ono Retires to the Country & More
March 3, 2023 Links to the past, with relevance today: Will she get an Oscar for her work in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever? (Image via video still) EW.COM: Angela Bassett, 64, is up for an Oscar this year, but she's not bitter about losing for What's Love Got to Do with It (1993). KENNETH IN…
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Walter Mirisch, Oldest-Surviving Oscar Winner, Past Academy President, Dies @ 101
February 25, 2023 Mirisch became a beloved and outspoken authority on the art and business of film. (Image via video still) Walter Mirisch, who was the only person ever to win the Irving G. Thalberg Award, an Oscar for Best Picture and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award — and who had been the oldest-surviving Oscar…
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Shelley Duvall on Her Return to Acting, Neo-Nazis vs. ‘Parade’ & More
February 22, 2023 Links to the past, with relevance today: I have faith her new movie won't be what used to be called "hagploitation." Everything she does has instant depth. (Image via video still) PEOPLE: Shelley Duvall, 73, has had a tough go of it, but lately, she's rebounding. In a new Q&A, she posits…
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Barbara Bosson, of ‘Hill Street Blues’ & ‘The Last Starfighter,’ Dies @ 83
February 20, 2023 Sad to report Barbara Bosson, who was the achingly vulnerable divorcée Fay Furillo on Hill Street Blues, died Saturday, February 18, 2023, in L.A. in her sleep. Bosson as Fay (Image via NBC) Born November 1, 1939, in Pennsylvania, she lived in Florida before moving to NYC to pursue acting. She was…
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Richard Belzer, Stand-Up Great & ‘SVU’ Mainstay, Dies @ 78
February 19, 2023 The great — and edgy — Richard Belzer died today at 78. The marvelous Munch (Image via NBC) He was at his home in France when he died, and his confirmed last words were: "F**k you, motherf**ker!" — definitely in keeping with his raunchy stand-up persona. Belzer was a comedian's comedian —…
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Stella Stevens, Comedic Sex Kitten Who Rocked ‘Poseidon,’ Dies @ 84
February 17, 2023 Another legendary Hollywood sex symbol has left the theater — blonde bombshell Stella Stevens died at 84 on Friday, February 17, 2023, in L.A. Modeling for Coppertone and promoting How to Save a Marriage ... in 1968 (Image via Coppertone) According to her actor-producer son, Andrew Stevens, 67, she had been in…
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Dick Van Dyke, 97, Still Poppin’! Watch Him on ‘The Masked Singer’
February 16, 2023 The sight of him next to Nick Cannon is something quite atrocious, but ... (Image via FOX) Dick Van Dyke is one of the most beloved entertainers of all time. Att 97, he is one of the most famous performers ever to reach such an advanced age — and is still active,…
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