It’s easy to call acts of horror “evil.” It’s comforting to ascribe an external, unknowable motive to events so terrible we can’t imagine a motivation. The human mind is incapable of imagining what would drive a man to haul an arsenal of high-powered weapons into a hotel room, knock out …
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Jim Nabors, who rose to fame playing bumbling, wide-eyed gas-station-attendant-turned-Marine Corps recruit Gomer Pyle on two of the most popular TV programs of the 1960s, died Thursday at his home in Hawaii after being in ill health for several years. Nabors’ longtime partner, Stan Cadwallader, whom he married in 2013, …
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Members of California rock band Eagles of Death Metal played a brief, surprise set in Paris Monday honoring the victims and survivors of the Bataclan terrorist attack two years ago. Singer Jesse Hughes and guitarist Dave Catching performed a solemn cover of Duran Duran’s “Save a Prayer” and their 2015 …
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When a gunman who had coolly calculated his strategy for maximum damage opened fire on a crowded concert in Las Vegas earlier this month, he killed 58 people, making it the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Numerous media outlets have painstakingly assembled the stories of those who died …
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Bernie Casey, noted for his memorable roles in I’m Gonna Git You Sucka and Revenge of the Nerds, has died, The Hollywood Reporter reports.He was 78. A rep told THR that the athlete-turned-actor died following a brief illness on Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Casey launched his …
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Harry Dean Stanton, the legendary character actor and offbeat leading man who starred in Repo Man, Paris, Texas, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and Big Love in a career that spanned over seven decades, has died at the age of 91. Stanton died of natural causes in Los Angeles, …
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