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Actor Richard Widmark Dies at 93


Richard Widmark, the actor whose menacing portrayals
in numerous film noir thrillers made him synonymous with the genre,
died Monday at age 93.
Actor Richard Widmark Dies

Hollywood actor Richard Widmark has died at the age of 93. He passed away at his home in Connecticut on Monday after a long illness, according his wife Susan Blanchard. The Minnesota-born star enjoyed a career spanning more than four decades, during which he made over 70 films. He made his silver screen debut in 1947, aged 33, as a psychopathic killer in Kiss Of Death - a role which earned him an Oscar nomination and scooped him a Golden Globe prize as well. Widmark went on to star in 1950s classics like Night And The City, Broken Lance and appeared alongside Marilyn Monroe in 1952's Don't Bother To Knock. He will also be remembered for his roles in Judgement At Nuremberg (1961) and 1964's Cheyenne Autumn. Widmark made his final big-screen outing in 1991 thriller True Colors. He is survived by his second wife Blanchard and a daughter from his first marriage to writer Jean Hazlewood. (*)

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In other news:

Meurtre élucidé 29 ans plus tard

Un homme et une femme dans la soixantaine sont arrêtés relativement à un double meurtre survenu en août 1979. La soeur de la victime a été arrêtée et a comparu au palais de justice de Longueuil. (plus)

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(Better late than never: it took about 30 years for the Quebec Clouseaus to figure this one out... I stand slightly relieved, also, upon learning of this case as I am also learning that OTHERS have killed their neighbors - even when said neighbors are RELATED to them! And just because they were too noisy as well - my exact same reason for having WANTED TO murder many a neighbor, over the years...! I confess! To mere thinking of it though; not crime-committing! Well, okay, plenty more reasons can be found and somebody extremely wise (for their age) once said that "the only good neighbor is the dead neighbor" - but I am digressing right now...!)

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All fine and well - but... WHY did W.E.N.N. take off any mention of another passing in the film industry a mere 24 hours after it was reported? What, is only Mr. Widmark worthy of remembering...?

Here is the other industry demise:

•	Oscar-winning "Nuremberg" writer dies in L.A March 28, 3:57 AM ET, Reuters

Oh I get it, W.E.N.N. - writing about Nuremberg is not politically correct...!

In other news:

Trois chasseurs de phoque périssent en mer, un autre chasseur toujours porté disparus

Three or four seal-killers, their hands still sullied with the blood of the poor creatures they just clobbered to death, drowned to death on their way back home...

Boo-hoo. Somehow, it doesn't quite ring true as the "Perfect Storm" story - and even there, I was not so displeased at all to see the SEA take back what was his, while taking to oblivion Marky Mark and his buddy gorgeous George there...
(See, Mark, if you weren't such a Mark, you would've wanted to be AQUAMAN and would've survived that Perfect Storm so that you could have made a SEQUEL - "the Perfect Storm II: Back Out To Sea" or something... That sure would have done better than your last bunch of flops at the box-office, eh? My apologies to the real-life Perfect Storm tragedy victims: I just cannot miss a single opportunity to poke fun at Marky Mark...!)

As for the seal assassins (no, not those Dubya sent after God-Knows-who, in his would-be sacrosanct war against terror...) - I see only poetic justice there, really... The sea had enough of them.

Wisely, this seal hunt is done for the year.
You better, "Madelinots"...
Now if only your fellow trade workers would do likewise and put a stop to it - before they too sink in the cold waters up there...


Meanwhile, I would be remiss if I didn't remind all that they're still looking for these two CRAPULES:

Recherchés pour la mort d’un enfant (28/02/08)

Varsity news:
death threats on campus, between employees, not students - now that's odd!
Students know better than that: they haze!
And somebody employed by such an august establishment of ADVANCED LEARNING should also know better than that: for it is all in the way that you SAY IT!
You can say, for instance, "you will surely die, dude" - for it is an evidence!
Just don't mention that you intend to be the Reaper's assistant in any way...

Menace de mort à l’Université Bishop (18/02/08)

And finally - another casualty of the road...
If the rising costs of owning and USING a car won't get you, reckless driving, be it your fellow man's or your own, surely will!

La route fait un mort en Beauce (11/02/08)

Mea Culpa -
I may have forgotten to make any mention of it, in last month's February Farewells...

Truth is, I can't keep up...!
I've no idea how the Grim Reaper does it...
"It" really must be "a whole team" of reapers - as seen on modern TV cult favorite (it is one in my book anyway) Dead Like Me...
Catch a repeat, if you can - while you can...

March 14th - my late, great Dad's Birthdate and his namesake's in the news again, too...

The late John Ritter, with his wife Amy Yasbeck.

Jury Clears John Ritter Doctors

Panel votes 9-3 against finding docs liable in $67M wrongful-death case
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The worst thing about this may yet be that E!Online dubbed this news to be lumped into the "What's Hot" category...

How about a new category now: the "What's Not Right" news, hmm?

March Mourning

Anticipated mourning
as well as ongoing mourning, this month...


Condamné à la décapitation
Mohamed Kohail

Mohamed Kohail MAY die - and his family MAY be mourning him this month...
Archbishop Rahho, for his part, DID DIE - and there can be no doubt that *his* journey on this earth has been ended in a most sickening and cowardly way, by another's hands...


This photo taken in Nov. 2007 shows Chaldean Catholic archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho posing by St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. The body of Rahho, kidnapped in Iraq last month, was found just outside the northern city where he was abducted, the auxiliary bishop of Baghdad said Thursday March 13, 2008. Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho was seized in Mosul and three of his companions were killed Feb. 29 when gunmen attacked them soon after he left mass.
(AP Photo/Courtesy of Rev. Amer Youkhanna, ho)

Another instance that proves yet again how intricately linked death and taxes truly are...

Sued: Crocodile Hunter

Creditors want Steve Irwin's zoo to cough up millions.» More details

• Irwin's son loves snake bite
• Watch cool clips of Steve Irwin
• Irwin's wife challenges whale killing

Canadian faces beheading

Family, government appeal man's Saudi death sentence.» Details

• Harper seeks clemency for man
• Liberal MP stages intervention
• Family to exhaust appeals for case
  

• Creditors hound late Crocodile Hunter
• Clinton hints at team-up with Obama
• Couple's new triplets are 'one in millions'
• Canadian man faces Saudi beheading
• Dangerous music vid banned for health
• Secret to eating meat and staying thin

That news item about "one-in-millions triplets" proves that, no matter how many Death reaps, Life is still battling back...

Students are not just in danger abroad - as for everyone else, danger exits right on our home turf and in the humdrum, run-of-the-mill existence that is campus life as is the case more particularly here...

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Some news from another network source now - and another language as well...
Montréal
Un octogénaire happé à mort par un autobus Mise à jour : 14/03/2008 21h26

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Regardez les images captées par l'hélicoptère TVA.

"À Montréal, un octogénaire a perdu la vie dans un accident survenu vendredi
après-midi dans le secteur de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
L’homme de 82 ans a été
happé par un autobus dont le conducteur a été pris d'un malaise alors qu'il
circulait sur le chemin de la Côte-Saint-Luc.
Le chauffeur d'autobus a heurté
quelques véhicules stationnés dans la rue avant de happer la victime, qui
montait à bord de sa voiture.
L'homme de 82 ans a été traîné sur plusieurs
mètres sous l'autobus."

Rue Parthenais
Incendie mortel à Montréal Mise à jour : 13/03/2008 07h56
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"Un incendie a fait une victime, la nuit dernière, à Montréal.
La tragédie est survenue un peu après minuit, rue Parthenais.
Les pompiers ont été appelés à intervenir pour un début d'incendie au troisième étage d'un immeuble à logements.
Le sinistre a été rapidement maîtrisé, mais les pompiers ont découvert un homme d'une cinquantaine d'années qui avait été sévèrement brûlé.
Son décès a finalement été constaté.
La cause de l'incendie n'est pas connue. L'enquête a été confiée à la section des incendies criminels du Service de police de la Ville de Montréal."

In other lugubrious news...

Horrifying road rage death
Apparently deliberate hit and run shocks B.C.» Watch
Massive manhunt ends with arrests
'It's getting more nerve-racking now'
Road-rage sparks Toronto shooting

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Ok, OK - Here's an all-American U.S. Video now...

Dying girl's wish denied

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  Results were inconclusive for an autopsy performed on the body of a woman found dead days after French authorities denied her euthanasia request, the Dijon prosecutor said Friday. (March 21)

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  'Line Rage' at Disney World could send mom to prison for 15 years

• Some mothers are indeed terrible examples for their kids - does that mean that those prospective moms should have taken the m.a. pill...?
  
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  Pharmacists refuse to sell morning after pill over moral beliefs

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  At least 16 dead in Midwest flooding

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  Officials: force of flying ray killed woman AP - Fri Mar 21, 5:09 PM ET

  Authorities say a 57-year-old woman died from blunt force head trauma, struck by a spotted eagle ray leaping from the ocean into a boat. The animal died from the collision. (March 21)

And to end on a less lugubrious but truly luminous note -
another video-link with a song and video-clip at the other end that reflects Life, Hope, the passing of the years, nostalgia therefore -saudade- but the lyrical evermore quality of it all - the certainty that we shall be together once again, one day... All that I simply see in this song by the irresistible Isabelle Boulay.


Isabelle Boulay : Simplement tout


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