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AndyinPA wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:07 am https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyppre55gyo
Dame Joan Plowright, one of Britain's most celebrated stage and screen stars and the widow of Sir Laurence Olivier, has died at the age of 95.

Her career spanned 60 years and included an Oscar nomination for the 1991 film Enchanted April.
RIP
Seems like just yesterday that "Joan and Larry" were on Dick Cavett. I recall seeing pictures of the National Theatre's sign announcing his death. Hard to believe it was 36 years ago. Now she is gone. :( :( :( :( :( :(
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I first saw Dame Joan in “Enchanted April” and became enamored. Hubby quotes her character from “I Love You to Death”. She was a marvelous actress!
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Flatpoint High wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 11:41 am
neonzx wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 9:15 am
Flatpoint High wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 9:11 am https:/ /www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS91gT3XT_A&t=17s
She was dumped in the burn in hell thread
not even Hell wants her. Hell has some Standards
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(Vincent Price's daughter Victoria) Price recalls her father's 1977 one-man-show where he played the openly gay Oscar Wilde to great acclaim and rebuffed the anti-gay Anita Bryant efforts of the day in television interviews saying Wilde had already written a play about Ms. Bryant: "A Woman of No Importance."

Vincent Price's Daughter Confirms Father's Bisexuality
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/20/us/cecil ... index.html

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Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood, has died, her family said Monday in a statement. She was 67.

“This morning our beloved Cecile passed away at home, surrounded by her family and her ever-loyal dog, Ollie. Our hearts are broken today but no words can do justice to the joy she brought to our lives,” it read.

Richards died just hours before President-elect Donald Trump was set to be sworn in to a second term as president.
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I wonder what Ann would say about the dotard?
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sad-cafe wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 5:38 pm I wonder what Ann would say about the dotard?
Ann who?
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Cecile Richards's mother was the esteemed former governor of Texas, Ann Richards, who also left us much too young. :brokenheart:
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:( :( :(
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NYT preliminary obituary:
Cecile Richards, Former Planned Parenthood President, Dies at 67
Ms. Richards oversaw the United States’ largest provider of reproductive health care and sex education from 2006 to 2018.

By Remy Tumin Jan. 20, 2025

Cecile Richards, a former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and one of the country’s most well-known defenders of abortion rights, died on Monday. She was 67.

Ms. Richards was diagnosed in 2023 with glioblastoma, a type of brain tumor. She died at home, her family said in a statement. A former political organizer, Ms. Richards was a daughter of former Gov. Ann Richards of Texas.

Ms. Richards was the president of Planned Parenthood from 2006 to 2018, overseeing the country’s largest provider of reproductive health care and sex education during a period in which the care it offered was most under attack — under President George W. Bush and again under President Donald J. Trump. She helped fend off an onslaught of attempts by Republican-controlled state legislatures to pass laws to restrict access or cut funding.

“If I have one regret from my time leading Planned Parenthood, it is that we believed that providing vital health care, with public opinion on our side, would be enough to overcome the political onslaught,” Ms. Richards wrote in an essay in The New York Times in 2022. “I underestimated the callousness of the Republican Party and its willingness to trade off the rights of women for political expediency.”
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keith wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 1:43 am
Flatpoint High wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 11:41 am
neonzx wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 9:15 am
She was dumped in the burn in hell thread
not even Hell wants her. Hell has some Standards
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(Vincent Price's daughter Victoria) Price recalls her father's 1977 one-man-show where he played the openly gay Oscar Wilde to great acclaim and rebuffed the anti-gay Anita Bryant efforts of the day in television interviews saying Wilde had already written a play about Ms. Bryant: "A Woman of No Importance."

Vincent Price's Daughter Confirms Father's Bisexuality
I saw his one man Oscar Wilde show at the Concord Amphitheater, in Concord, CA. He was brilliant. general seating was the grass.
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And now I love Vincent Price even more.
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Garth Hudson, the last surviving member of The Band.
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Jules Feiffer, Acerbic Cartoonist, Writer and Much Else, Dies at 95

In his long-running Village Voice comic strip and in his many plays and screenplays, he took delight in skewering politics, relationships and human nature.

By Andy Webster
Jan. 21, 2025
Jules Feiffer, an artist whose creative instincts and political passions could not be confined to one medium, died on Friday at his home in Richfield Springs, N.Y., west of Albany. He was 95.

His wife, JZ Holden, said the cause was congestive heart failure.

Mr. Feiffer was primarily known as a cartoonist. His syndicated black-and-white comic strip, “Feiffer,” which astringently articulated the cynical, neurotic, aggrieved and ardently left-wing sensibilities of postwar Greenwich Village, began in The Village Voice in 1956 and ran for more than 40 years. But his career also encompassed novels, plays, screenplays, animation and children’s books.

A recurrent element in much of his work was his acerbic view of human nature.

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Loretta Ford, co-founder of nurse practitioners, dies at 104
Amid resistance within the medical community, she helped transform the way millions of Americans receive their health care.

January 25, 2025 at 1:30 p.m. ESTYesterday at 1:30 p.m. EST
By Elizabeth Bass

Loretta C. Ford, a pediatric nurse who worked tenaciously to expand access to health services, co-founding the profession of nurse practitioner and helping to transform the way millions of Americans receive health care, died Jan. 22 at her home in Wildwood, Florida. She was 104.

The death was confirmed by her daughter, Valerie Monrad, but no cause was noted.

Dr. Ford, an Army Air Forces nurse during World War II who later obtained a doctorate in education, began her career in an era when nurses had a sharply limited role. They were expected to tend to and comfort the ill, counsel patients on ways to stay healthy and dispense medicines as prescribed by physicians, but they were not to diagnose or treat patients on their own, no matter how minor or common the illness.

As Dr. Ford liked to joke, a nurse could use a stethoscope to take a patient’s blood pressure but wasn’t allowed to move the instrument a few inches to listen to the heart.

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Another noteworthy obituary of a different woman who had an extraordinary career as a nurse and who lived to be 104.
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, 104, Dies; Army Nurse Broke a Color Barrier
After years of being barred from a segregated military, she became the first
Black nurse in the regular U.S. armed forces. She was later an Air Force officer.
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https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/stor ... ing-stones
Marianne Faithfull, the singer, actress, steely-eyed “It” girl of Swinging ‘60s London and subject of numerous Rolling Stones songs including “Wild Horses” and “Sister Morphine,” opened her 1994 autobiography with a disclaimer: “Never apologize, never explain — didn’t we always say that? Well, I haven’t and I don’t.”

Faithfull, who once described herself as “the drug-drenched Duchy of Chelsea,” died peacefully in London on Thursday accompanied by her family, a spokesperson confirmed to The Times. She was 78 and previously had been suffering from the long-term effects of a nearly fatal COVID-19 infection in 2020.
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I got Marianne's first album for Christmas in 1965 from a boy, Randy, who liked me and my whole family and hung out with us a lot. It may have been the first album I ever owned and I still have it. Unfortunately, Randy died of a drug overdose in 1975 after being discharged from the army after his tour in Vietnam. :brokenheart:
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https://apnews.com/article/dick-button- ... 4d8737b219
Dick Button, Olympic great and voice of skating, dies at 95
His commentary with Peggy Fleming was the best. RIP.
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Valérie André, Daring French Army Copter Pilot, Dies at 102
She was the first woman to fly rescue missions in a combat zone,
in Indochina and Algeria. She was also the first Frenchwoman
to become an army general.

Valérie André was 10 years old in 1932 when, armed with a congratulatory bouquet, she greeted the hero aviator Maryse Hilsz at the Strasbourg airfield in France.

She was already committed to becoming a doctor, an ambitious career goal for a young lady at the time. But she was so warmly received when she presented the flowers to Ms. Hilsz, who had just completed a record-breaking round-trip flight between Paris and Saigon, that she committed herself to another formidable objective: She decided to become an airplane pilot.

Valérie André not only pursued both professions; she thrived in them. She became a brain surgeon, a parachutist and a helicopter pilot who was said to be the first woman to fly rescue missions in combat zones for any military force. She was also the first Frenchwoman to be named a general and was a five-time winner of the Croix de Guerre, for bravery in Indochina and Algeria.
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