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Jan-Michael Vincent, best known for his role as Stringfellow Hawke in 80s action-series Airwolf, and for a string of 90s action-thrillers has passed away at the age of 74. He made his on-screen debut in a supporting role in the 1967 tv film The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of...
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Reported by gossip-site TMZ but subsequently confirmed by his publicist, comes the sad news that Luke Perry has passed away at the age of 52. Perry was found at his home last week and it is believed he suffered a massive stroke earlier that day. He was rushed to...
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Veteran actor William Morgan Sheppard, who passed away this week at the age of 86, was one of those people you don’t easily forget. Visually and temperamentally, he was somehow an impossible cross between Popeye and Father Christmas, a young mischievous soul inside a savvy, dry-witted veteran’s body and...
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In a city and industry built on a foundation of a million maxims and intangible trends, there’s perhaps only absolutely one piece of definitive truth to offer. “Nobody knows anything..” said William Goldman, proving perhaps that one person, ironically, did. Ask many veterans of the film-making world and almost...
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News is beginning to circulate that comics-industry legend Stan Lee has died at the age of 95. Lee was born Stanley Martin Lieber in New York in 1922, the son of Jewish immigrants from Romania. As a young man he became a proofreader and text-filler at Timely Comics, the...
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The comic world has lost another one of its great this week with the sad news that artist Carlos Ezquerra has passed away after losing a bout with lung cancer. Though he might not have the fame and notability in America as he did in the UK and Europe,...
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Burt Reynolds – the archetype action hero of the 1970s and the man around whom the Smokey and the Bandit and Cannonball Run franchises were built – has passed away at the age of 82 and with him a certain era of Hollywood machismo also vanishes… In a career...
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He told stories of almost every superhero who ever wore a cape – and a few who haven’t. He was the man who brought Wolverine over the border and the X-Men to the masses. John Mosby remembers Len Wein who has died at the age of 69… Enter the...
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It’s been a tough year for the horror genre with the loss of several key movers and shakers. Earlier this year George A. Romero passed away and now comes news that Tobe Hooper, one of the elder statesmen of horror, died this weekend at the age of 74. The...
Jan-Michael Vincent, best known for his role as Stringfellow Hawke in 80s action-series Airwolf, and for a string of 90s action-thrillers has passed away at the age of 74. He made his on-screen debut in a supporting role in the 1967 tv film The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of...
Reported by gossip-site TMZ but subsequently confirmed by his publicist, comes the sad news that Luke Perry has passed away at the age of 52. Perry was found at his home last week and it is believed he suffered a massive stroke earlier that day. He was rushed to...
Veteran actor William Morgan Sheppard, who passed away this week at the age of 86, was one of those people you don’t easily forget. Visually and temperamentally, he was somehow an impossible cross between Popeye and Father Christmas, a young mischievous soul inside a savvy, dry-witted veteran’s body and...
In a city and industry built on a foundation of a million maxims and intangible trends, there’s perhaps only absolutely one piece of definitive truth to offer. “Nobody knows anything..” said William Goldman, proving perhaps that one person, ironically, did. Ask many veterans of the film-making world and almost...
News is beginning to circulate that comics-industry legend Stan Lee has died at the age of 95. Lee was born Stanley Martin Lieber in New York in 1922, the son of Jewish immigrants from Romania. As a young man he became a proofreader and text-filler at Timely Comics, the...
The comic world has lost another one of its great this week with the sad news that artist Carlos Ezquerra has passed away after losing a bout with lung cancer. Though he might not have the fame and notability in America as he did in the UK and Europe,...
Burt Reynolds – the archetype action hero of the 1970s and the man around whom the Smokey and the Bandit and Cannonball Run franchises were built – has passed away at the age of 82 and with him a certain era of Hollywood machismo also vanishes… In a career...
He told stories of almost every superhero who ever wore a cape – and a few who haven’t. He was the man who brought Wolverine over the border and the X-Men to the masses. John Mosby remembers Len Wein who has died at the age of 69… Enter the...
It’s been a tough year for the horror genre with the loss of several key movers and shakers. Earlier this year George A. Romero passed away and now comes news that Tobe Hooper, one of the elder statesmen of horror, died this weekend at the age of 74. The...
The Demeter is about to set off on a voyage across the sea from Eastern Europe to London. Its unusual cargo is a serious of crates with a dragon-like...
It was somewhat inevitable that the WGA (Writers Guild of America) and SAG (Screen Actors’ Guild) strikes still underway across the industry would start to have some creative repercussions....
John Sheridan is leaving Babylon 5 for the last time, ready to assume his role not as just the commander of a space-station but President of the Interstellar Alliance,...
A MI6 team is on a mission to infiltrate a cartel and nab its crime-boss from his Alpine retreat. However, things don’t go to plan and Rachel Stone, their...