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nivek

nivek

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Burt Young, Oscar-nominated Rocky actor, dies aged 83​

Burt Young, the veteran character actor best known and Oscar-nominated for his role as Rocky Balboa’s best friend, Paulie, in the Rocky films, has died aged 83. Young passed away on 8 October in Los Angeles, his daughter, Anne Morea Steingieser, told the New York Times on Wednesday. No cause of death was given.

Born Gerald Tommaso DeLouise in New York City’s Queens borough, the burly performer served in the US Marine Corps in the 1950s and later studied at Lee Strasberg’s Actors Studio. He went on to build a career playing mostly tough-guy and Italian-American characters on television and film.

He was best remembered for his role as Paulie Pennino in the 1976 film Rocky, playing the alcoholic butcher and pal to Sylvester Stallone’s lead character, Rocky Balboa, who made punching carcasses in the meat storage locker, where Paulie worked, part of his boxing training routine.

On Wednesday, Stallone paid tribute to his former co-star, remembering him as a “dear friend.”

“You were an incredible man’s [sic] and artist, I and the world will miss you very much,” he wrote on Instagram.

Stallone and Young in Rocky V.


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pigfarmer

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
He downed in a Jacuzzi and I literally just put in a Jacuzzi J-335 and peeled off all the 'be careful don't drown' stickers.

Eeeee. He didn't seem too healthy from his history of abuse and I can see how a tad too much heat might be overwhelming faster than you think.
 
michael59

michael59

Celestial
pigfarmer said:
He downed in a Jacuzzi and I literally just put in a Jacuzzi J-335 and peeled off all the 'be careful don't drown' stickers.

Eeeee. He didn't seem too healthy from his history of abuse and I can see how a tad too much heat might be overwhelming faster than you think.
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He was having a heart attack and called the ambulance himself. At least that's what they believe because when they got there there was no one else around.
 
The shadow

The shadow

The shadow knows!
Sorry to hear of the passing of Dwight Twilley, one of the members of the Oklahoma Power Pop Mafia who emigrated to Hollywood in the late '70s. I once saw Dwight Twilley on a bill with 20/20 (and the TUBES?!), which is vaguely interesting because Dwight Twilley was in a band with Phil Seymour, who played drums on some songs on that first 20/20 album. It's kind of weird because I can only remember having two conversations about Dwight Twilley in my life, and one of the two was last Saturday, with Domenic Marcantonio, because we were talking about Phil Seymour (the other one was with Scott Drake in Las Vegas circa 2000, when I was trying to remember the lyrics to a Greg Kihn song [don't ask]). With a name like "Dwight Twilley," I always wondered how he didn't wind up singing country music. Hopefully he led a virtuous life, so when mystics and swamis contact him in the Great Beyond and ask him what he's doing, he won't have to say "I'm On Fire." FB_IMG_1698634506614.jpg
 
Rick Hunter

Rick Hunter

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The shadow said:
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Rosalynn Carter, mental health activist, humanitarian and former first lady, dies at 96

Rosalynn Carter, who as first lady worked tirelessly on behalf of mental health reform and professionalized the role of the president’s spouse, died Sunday at the age of 96.
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I am sad
Truly a GOOD human being
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This 100%. She and her husband are very good people. I don't regard Jimmy as a bad president by any means. He was guaranteed not to be re-elected simply by the circumstances of the times.
 
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