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Star Wars actor Richard LeParmentier dies aged 66... 35 years after he was choked by Darth Vader
 
http://www.dailymail...arth-Vader.html
 

 

 
Fun facts: He was born in Pittsburgh in 1946, moved to the UK in 1974, and was married to Sarah Douglas (Ursa) from 1981 to 1984.  He had a cameo as a reporter in what the article claims as being Superman II.  He was also in Octopussy.
 
RIP.  Thanks for the iconic scene!

Dave Brubeck, a jazz musician who attained pop-star acclaim with recordings such as "Take Five" and "Blue Rondo a la Turk," died Wednesday morning at Norwalk Hospital, in Norwalk, Connecticut. Brubeck was one day short of his 92nd birthday. He died of heart failure, en route to "a regular treatment with his cardiologist."

http://www.chicagotr...,7126256.column


Time MOTY 1954


Kennedy Honors, 2009

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Godspeed Felix!

Felix Baumgartner of Austria just launched about twenty minutes ago.  His target altitude is 23 miles (125k-130k feet up) above the earth, at which point he will jump out of his capsule and free fall back to Earth and become the first person to break the sound barrier -- with his body, not in a vehicle.

It's also on Discovery channel right now.

Because it's already received several increasingly complete releases and is now in unlimited stock.

That is all.

Discuss! (No, wait, don't.)

First American woman in space passes away at 61 after seventeen-month battle with pancreatic cancer.

Ride made history in 1983 as a crew member on the space shuttle Challenger [STS-7] breaking the gender barrier for U.S. spaceflight. Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space in 1963, but it took another 20 years for NASA to follow suit.

http://www.msnbc.msn...3/#.UA3npqP1XW5

Very sad.