Mike Barnes
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Mike Barnes
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Life and Death at The Hollywood Reporter @THR
- #RIP Silvio Horta, 45, creator of 'Ugly Betty.' He said in 2008: "People would constantly ask me, 'Aren't you happy? You must be thrilled. You've got a hit show. You must be having the time of your life.' Well, no, I'm not. It's all consuming." bit.ly/39Q0x0I
- #RIP Buddy Van Horn, 92; he directed Clint Eastwood in three films after serving as his stunt double in lots of movies. "I've tried to talk him out of [doing his own stunts] sometimes, but not very successfully most of the time," he once said.
- Wonderful job by my colleagues at @THR paying tribute to those we lost to COVID-19 this year: bit.ly/2KI73hT
- #RIP Kobe Bryant. Asked by @ScottFeinberg in 2017 what he would have done if not for hoops, he said: "I'd be writing stories. Storytelling is something that's just a part of me, something that I love every bit as much as I've ever loved basketball." bit.ly/2GBRQtD
- #RIP the great Bernie Casey, NFL star, actor & above all a Renaissance man. Maya Angelou just loved his paintings. bit.ly/2hjrsY6
- #RIP Charles Kimbrough, so good on 'Murphy Brown.' Said Diane English: "When he came to read, he brought it all: ramrod posture, anchor voice, slick-back hair. He brought a credibility to the character. We didn’t want a Ted Baxter version of this guy." bit.ly/3Y7Ek6V
- #RIP Bill Daily, so great on 'Jeannie' and 'The Bob Newhart Show.' Before they made it in showbiz, Newhart did accounting work for him, and they worked together as pin-setters at a bowling alley. He thrived despite dyslexia. bit.ly/2Cy9WgO
- #RIP the angelic Georgia Engel, sweeter-than-sweet girlfriend and wife of the pompous Ted Baxter on 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show.' "The writers took a kernel of truth from all of us and then magnified it in our characters," she once said.
- #RIP the wonderful Katherine Helmond. She turned to comedy after her characters were "battered and beaten," she noted. "My agent said, 'I just can’t bear to see you knocked around on television any more. … We’re going to try for a sitcom.'" bit.ly/2GPZuCw
- #RIP Chadwick Boseman. As he told @THR in 2018: "Every person makes a seed grow. One person comes in and waters it. Another person tills the soil. But you know you are making an impact on the world. You know you are changing somebody's mind." bit.ly/32zM7iu
- #RIP the magnificent Gena Rowlands. In quite the testimonial, Tennessee Williams compared her to a work of art that “you place yourself in front of as if they were paintings in a museum, or sunsets, or mountains, or lovers walking slowly away from you.”
- #RIP the inspirational Valerie Harper. "I really want Americans and all of us to be less afraid of death, know that it's a passage," she said in 2013. "But don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral. While you're living, live."
- #RIP the wonderful Loretta Swit. Over a sensational 11 seasons, she said Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan “became even more unique because we allowed her to continue to grow — we watched her evolve. I don’t think that’s ever been done in quite that way.”
