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I've never watched Law & Order. I remember Richard Belzer from, of all things, Alan Thicke's single season of "Thicke of the Night" back in the early 80s.

We've lost another former child star. What's so weird to me about this is that recently, out of nowhere, the thought came to me that John Astin would be the last survivor of The Addams Family, even though he's in his 90s. I knew nothing about her health problems. R.I.P. Lisa Loring https://deadline.com/2023/01/lisa-loring-dead-actor-original-wednesday-addams-1235243958/

Gina leaves behind the inevitable feuding over the estate situation, which actually started long before her death, and who in her life was or wasn't taking advantage. She has a much-younger "ex-husband" she supposedly married in Spain in 2006 then claimed years later he had committed fraud with an imposter by "marrying" her by proxy. Her long-time aide lives in her house with his companion and there are accusations of him taking advantage. Her son, her only child, was estranged from her and claims the aide took advantage of her diminished mental capacity.

Another untimely passing. I remember him being all over tv in the 70s. He was an excellent child/teen actor. And Salem's Lot is a favorite of mine. He left acting and, apparently, fell on hard financial times the last couple of years; there was even a gofundme page set up on his behalf, which didn't raise very much.

I must admit I didn't know who she was until I read that she was in one of my favorite films, Fiddler On The Roof. She played the ghost of Fruma Sarah, Lazar Wolf's dead wife, who was part of Tevye's "dream" sequence.

Cher posted on Twitter that her mother has died. Georgia Holt was 96.

I loved this one. They became my 2nd favorite couple on the show ever, after OG Clint & Viki. They had great chemistry.

He was on DOOL as Robert LeClair on and off from 1972-1987 but is probably best remembered for his role on Hogan's Heroes. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/robert-clary-dead-hogans-heroes-1235263555/

R.I.P. Andrew Prine https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/andrew-prine-dead-chisum-wide-country-westerns-1235255201/?fbclid=IwAR2l6aPPSJcjyAQigMAEp3tc_Ok25k7fpqPZl2AZ75ebecAD4aRLXq0R9K8

Amber Tamblyn (GH) is doing a book tour.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/robert-brown-dead-here-come-the-brides-1235231988/ Robert Brown, ‘Here Come the Brides’ Actor, Dies at 95

So I've had the same smartphone for the last 5 years, a Samsung Galaxy S7. It's actually my first smartphone (yeah, I came late to the party). Anyway, I am now considering a new phone. I've never owned Apple products (except for those little ipod shuffles for playing music) and I went with Samsung for this phone cuz I owned a couple of their tablets so I was familiar with the environment. My main motivation at this point is memory. My current phone only has 32GB plus I use a memory card. Still, between the bloatware that I can't delete and apps that I can't move, I'm often having to move or delete things to make room while their app upgrades eat away at the memory. Plus, I've been seeing screenburned icons for years. That being said, it's been a good little phone functionally. I've been researching both the newer Samsungs and the iphones (particularly the 13 pro) and reading comparison articles on iphone vs. android but am still undecided. Any recommendations or insights? Thanks!

I hear ya. I'm in the same boat. I've taken a long break as well around the same story time...Maggie thinking she's dying. I think Marc Alaimo (who I love on Deep Space Nine) is about to reappear as Frank. Also been about as long since I've watched Dark Shadows (in the middle of the Adam storyline). I did tend to ff some...Maggie's stuff is pretty repetitive and I just find Mike an annoying man-child. Not sure when I'll start up again, though...I've been trying to get a couple of online businesses going.

I can't help but wonder if she is not going to survive this and by her own hand. If she was unable to handle whatever was going on before, everything in her life just got much, much worse. If she's burned as badly as they say she is, the physical and emotional trauma from that alone will be a tremendous struggle.

TMZ is reporting that Anne Heche crashed her car today into a garage and house, igniting a fire. She was hospitalized with burns and is "expected to live." https://www.tmz.com/2022/08/05/anne-heche-crashes-car-home-burned-fire/

Sigh...Star Trek is my favorite show of all time. I hate every time we lose one of the actors. 😪

R.I.P. Paul Sorvino https://wgntv.com/news/deans-list/paul-sorvino-goodfellas-law-order-actor-dies-at-83/?fbclid=IwAR0FqRuqptkWJPJw8sgTcfY6X_4LQ9OS8Nn-IeHIvLMkX1xz3kE9ba2XbkE

GH seems to have a fair amount of these situations. I'm also reminded of the death of Rosalind Cash and how, at Mary Mae Ward's funeral on the show, Cash's real life-friends Esther Rolle and Lou Rawls, among others, were there. Although John Perkins (Father McShane, RH) wasn't a priest, I read that he was very active in his Catholic church at the time. Probably helped to make him so believable in the role. I think, also, Jumbo Marino's portrayer, Fat Thomas, wasn't too far removed from his role. I tend to think of him as the Luca Brasi/Lenny Montana of RH...not much of an actor but comes with a certain familiarity.