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Andrés García, Enduring Latin Sex Symbol & Telenovela Star, Dies @ 81

April 6, 2023 These portraits illustrate how the actor's physicality was his calling card. (Images via IMDb, movie still & tear sheet) Andrés García, who became a superstar of Mexican telenovelas after a career in films, died April 4, 2023, at 81. His widow, Margarita Portillo, shared (in Spanish) on Instagram, “With a pain that…
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Took It All Off: ‘The Great American Strip-Off’

If you're looking for a camp flashback to the '80s with some juicy sex thrown in, look no further than The Great American Strip-Off, an '80s Playboy Channel show that daringly offered topless girls and mixed male and female contestants in a reality show decades before its time. Disrobing for dollars (Image via video still)…
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Jean-Paul Belmondo, Icon of the French New Wave, Dies @ 88

Jean-Paul Belmondo, the French film icon closely associated with the New Wave genre of the early '60s, and who went on to become one of his country's most bankable action stars, died Monday, September 6, at his Paris home. An indelible image from Breathless (GIF via GIPHY) He was 88. Belmondo, born April 9, 1933,…
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Stamos’s Cure for Trigger Finger, Sirhan Sirhan to Be Freed?, Enos Envy & More

Links to the past, with relevance today: Full House-pital (Image via Instagram) PEOPLE: Even ailing, John Stamos, 58, looks good. He posted a selfie from a hospital bed following surgery for a condition known as "trigger finger." HUFF POST: Sirhan Sirhan, the 77-year-old convicted assassin of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968), has been granted…
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Sharon Gless Teases Memoir, RIP Nick Kamen & More

Links to the past, with relevance today: She writes, but will she make house calls? (Image via S&S) FACEBOOK: Sharon Gless's memoir Apparently, There Were Complaints (Simon & Schuster) is out December 7. In a video sent to superfan Michael Stern, she admits it took seven years to write and isn't sure she could ever…
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Robert Rodan of ‘Dark Shadows’ Dies @ 83

Robert Rodan, whose brooding performance as the monster Adam on Dark Shadows (1968) teased and pleased fans of the trippy alterna-soap, reportedly died March 25, 2021, of heart failure. Anything but a monster! (Image via ABC) He was 83. Born Robert Trimas in Newark, New Jersey, on January 30, 1938, the 6'4" actor actually had…
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Tippi at 91, Scoop on ‘This Was Hollywood,’ Dolly Mounring & More!

Links to the past: A coupla birds (Image via Instagram) INSTAGRAM: Melanie Griffith proudly shared photos of her living-legend mom Tippi Hedren in honor of the Hitchcock heroine's 91st, writing: "Happy Birthday Mom!! You are as beautiful today , at 91 years old , as you were at 22 in this first photo. I love…
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