posty

Are these your active pronouns?

I would be more pissed for watching a crappy Robin Williams movie…

Does it really matter? That is the thing to do now...

Surprised it took this long after the Dems lost the House...

Hell, I would venture to guess that Neilia was a much better parent than Jill...

https://deadline.com/2023/06/treat-williams-dies-actor-everwood-hair-1235415225/ UPDATED with family statement: Treat Williams, the versatile and prolific actor best known for playing Dr. Andy Brown on Greg Berlanti’s Everwood during a nearly half-century career, died this afternoon. Williams was killed in a motorcycle accident in Dorset, VT. He was 71. Williams’ family issued a statement to Deadline, which reads in part, “Treat was full of love for his family, for his life and for his craft, and was truly at the top of his game in all of it. … To all his fans, please know that Treat appreciated all of you and please continue to keep him in your hearts and prayers.” Read the full statement below. Jacob Gribble, the fire chief for Dorset, told People that the accident happened around 5 p.m. ET and involved Williams’ motorcycle and a single car, the driver of which apparently didn’t see Williams. He was the only person hurt in the crash. A helicopter was called to airlift him to a hospital. Williams played the kindhearted lead on the WB’s Everwood for four seasons from 2002-06, a role that seemed to fit the actor perfectly. Williams received two SAG Award nominations for his work on the show. The series never was a ratings blockbuster, but it helped launch the careers of Chris Pratt, Emily VanCamp and Gregory Smith. Williams was well-seasoned by the time the show came around: His first big break came when he auditioned for a road company for Grease. “I came back and they put me on Broadway as the understudy to four of the male leads, including John Travolta and Jeff Conaway,” Williams told Vermont magazine. “I covered Teen Angel, Doody, Danny Zuko, and Roger. Within two weeks, I was on Broadway performing. It was a baptism by fire, but it was great.” He ultimately would appear in a half-dozen Broadway shows from 1974-2001, including Follies, Love Letters and the 1981 production of The Pirates of Penzance. He made his film debut in the 1975 thriller Deadly Hero. The following year he played a supporting role in Richard Lester’s The Ritz and also appeared in John Sturges’ The Eagle Has Landed. His big-screen breakthrough came in 1979, when he starred as George Berger in Miloš Forman’s Hair, based on the 1967 Broadway musical. Williams was nominated for a Golden Globe for that film. The actor’s many other big-screen credits include Steven Spielberg’s 1941 (1979), Sidney Lumet’s Prince of the City (1981), Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Dead Heat (1988), Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead (1995) and Deep Rising (1998). Williams posted online often about life in Vermont, sharing photos on social media of his farm and appreciation for country life. His final tweet came less than an hour before his death. “I’ve always had an enormous love for Vermont, both in winter and summer. There was something incredibly special about it to me, and the people here are incredibly honest, real, and good-humored,” he told an interviewer in 2022. “There’s also always something new to discover somewhere on a dirt road that you’ve never traveled on before. Every day I wake up so grateful to see the view that I see out of my window and to be living up here.” On TV, Williams’ career stretched back 40 years to a starring role in the 1983 telefilm Dempsey, about the former heavyweight champ to whom the actor bore more than a passing resemblance. He followed up with two more TV movies: A Streetcar Named Desire (1984), in which he played Stanley Kowalski, and J. Edgar Hoover (1987), playing the titular G-man. Dozens more TV movies followed, including the 1996 The Late Shift, which earned him an Emmy nomination for playing former uber agent Michael Ovitz, as well as the sitcom Good Advice with Shelley Long, which ran on CBS for two seasons from 1993-94, leading to Everwood. More recently Williams appeared in a six-episode arc on Blue Bloods as Lenny Ross, in the Hallmark Channel’s Chesapeake Shores from 2016-22 and in the HBO limited series We Own This City. He will soon be seen in Ryan Murphy’s FX anthology series Feud: Capote’s Women, in which he plays former CBS head and media tycoon Bill Paley. Williams is survived by his wife, actress Pam Van Sant, and their two children, Gille and Ellie.

Really? You must be kidding, right?

I would want out of Cleveland as well...

Hasn't been worth anything since WPD was removed...

GF is still around, now posting as BH... Just posting away in the old tweet thread and no one responding, just like GF...

Actually it is watching award shows...

cmh must want a thread about him from the tool...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65867291 Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, has been found dead in his prison cell, federal officials confirmed to the BBC. Kaczynski, 81, killed three people and injured 23 more during a mass mail-bombing spree between 1978 and 1995. He later pleaded guilty to his crimes. He was sentenced to life without parole in 1996 after evading capture for almost 20 years. The Harvard-trained mathematician was eventually caught in a Montana cabin. He was a man who fascinated America for decades, and he became the focus of numerous TV documentaries. Kaczynski spent the past three decades held at prisons across the US - most recently at a North Carolina prison medical facility. Prison guards at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, discovered Kaczynski's body this morning at around 00:25 local time, a spokesperson for the US Bureau of Prisons told the BBC. "Responding staff immediately initiated life-saving measures," the spokesperson added. "Mr Kaczynski was transported by EMS to a local hospital and subsequently pronounced deceased by hospital personnel." Before suffering from declining health which prompted his transfer to the facility in December 2021, he had been held at the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998. His violent campaign left a number of his victims permanently maimed. But his crimes were uncovered after he forced the Washington Post and the New York Times to publish his unhinged and violent manifesto, called Industrial Society and Its Future, in September 1995. They agreed to print the manifesto on the recommendation of the FBI and the US attorney general after Kaczynski said he would end his campaign if a national paper published his treatise. The 35,000-word anonymised document railed against modern life and claimed that technology was leading to Americans suffering from a sense of alienation and powerlessness. After reading the papers, Kaczynski's brother and sister-in-law recognised the tone and alerted the FBI, who had been searching for him for years in the nation's longest manhunt. In April 1996 authorities finally found the Harvard trained mathematician in a 10-by-14-foot (3-by-4-meter) plywood and tarpaper cabin outside Lincoln, Montana. The hut was filled with journals, a coded diary, explosives and two completed bombs. While the manifesto struck many as being overtly political in tone, Kaczynski never sought to embody the revolutionary mantle some attributed to him. In his own journals he wrote that he didn't claim to be "altruist or to be acting for the 'good' (whatever that is) of the human race", instead insisting that he acted "merely from a desire for revenge". His crimes seemed to begin shortly after he was fired from the family business by his brother for posting abusive limericks to a female colleague who had dumped him after two dates. From there he retreated to the Montana wildness and to the cabin he had built by hand, without heating, plumbing or electricity. His first attacks targeted Northwestern University in Illinois. The two bombing occurred almost a year apart on 25 May 1978 and 9 May 1979, injuring two people. Then, in November 1979, an altitude-triggered bomb he mailed in 1979 went off aboard an American Airlines flight. Twelve people suffered from smoke inhalation. The attacks earned him the monicker Unabomber from the FBI, as his targets seemed to be universities and airlines.

Video at link: https://www.milb.com/visalia/video/visalia-turns-a-slick-double-play

He was practicing for the next Jaws movie...

Can't have a call go against the Yankees, it isn't allowed...

He was going to be out anyway...

Such a damn shame...

Biden step up and pardon him...

Damn WP...

Been quite a while? With three posts and registering on May 29?

Good to see that the women are now getting the same prize money... Won't have to hear complaining from them, at least this tournament... Now just expand the final (at a minimum) to five sets for full equality...

RIP

I think you spelled retarded incorrectly...