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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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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...