Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar-nominee who made food and American diets his life’s work, famously eating only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died at age 53.
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His characters included network boss Guy Caballero and the vampiric TV host Count Floyd.
He won his Oscar for his performance as the intimidating Marine drill instructor in “An Officer and a Gentleman” opposite Richard Gere and Debra Winger.
His work spanned TV, theater and radio, and he starred in dozens of films from “Gosford Park” to “The King’s Speech” and the animated family movie “Paddington.”
His television series, “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” ran for five seasons, earned 22 Emmys and attracted not only children but adults to Saturday-morning TV.
A member of Chicago’s famed Second City comedy troupe, he was an immediate success in movies with the Cold War spoof “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming.”
Prosecutors plan to drop an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western film ” Rust.”
She also starred in director George Lucas’ 1973 film “American Graffiti” and director Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation” from 1974.
Actor Jeremy Renner says he is out of the hospital after being treated for serious injuries from a snow plow accident.
“Lollo,” as she was lovingly nicknamed by Italians, began making movies in Italy just after the end of World War II.
The Scottish actor rose to fame by playing a crime-solving psychologist on the TV series “Cracker.”
New Mexico’s Office of the Medical Investigator determined the shooting was an accident following the completion of an autopsy and a review of law enforcement reports.
The Academy Award-winning actress says she has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
He would often say that while he might be best known for playing gangsters, his real passions were poetry, painting and opera.
He died of natural causes early Friday in his New York City apartment, according to his manager, Matt Beckoff.
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