G_M Posted September 20, 2023 Report Share Posted September 20, 2023 Ray Stevenson, actor in 'Thor,' 'RRR' and 'Ahsoka,' dies at 58 Morgan Hines USA TODAY Ray Stevenson, a veteran character actor best known for his roles in the "Thor" film franchise, "RRR" and the upcoming "Ahsoka" series, died Sunday at 58. His publicist Nicki Fioravante confirmed the actor's death, four days before his birthday, to USA TODAY in an email Monday. No additional details were shared about his death. His career in kicked off in the 1990s with television appearances before he made his film debut in Paul Greengrass' 1998 film "The Theory of Flight." Stevenson is known for his role as Dagonet, one of the knights of the round table, in Antoine Fuqua's 2004 adventure film "King Arthur," which brought him acclaim on an international scale. He landed a leading role in Marvel's 2008 "Punisher: War Zone," released months after his first leading role in the horror film "Outpost." Aside from the first three "Thor" films, in which he played Volstagg, his other prominent film roles included as Marcus Eaton in the "Divergent" trilogy, Cobra Demolitions expert Firefly in "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" and as retired secret agent Frank Martin Sr. in "The Transporter: Refueled." Stevenson played Gov. Scott Buxton in 2022's critically acclaimed "RRR." On the small screen, his role as Titus Pullo in "Rome" sparked his career in the United States, earning him a Screen Actors Guild card at the age of 44. He was also Blackbeard in the Starz series "Black Sails" and Commander Jack Swinburne in the 2022 German television series "Das Boot." Stevenson did voice work in "Star Wars Rebels" and "The Clone Wars" as Gar Saxon, and had a role in the upcoming Star Wars limited series "Ahsoka." In an interview with Backstage in 2020, Stevenson said his acting idols were "the likes of Lee Marvin (and) Gene Hackman." "Never a bad performance, and brave and fearless within that caliber," Stevenson said. "It was never the young, hot leading man; it was men who I could identify with." Stevenson has three projects set to come out soon, including "Cassino in Ischia," "Gateway to the West" and the upcoming Disney+ limited series "Ahsoka." Stevenson was born on a British army base in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, on May 25, 1964, according to IMDb. He moved with his family to Lemington, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in England when he was 8 years old and later went to Cramlington, Northumberland, where he spent the majority of his childhood, according to IMDb. The actor married Ruth Gemmel in 1997 before the couple split in 2005. He is survived by two children, Sebastiano Derek Stevenson and Leonardo George Stevenson, whom he shared with partner Elisabetta Caraccia. Contributing: The Associated Press Quote http://www.facebook.com/gachimuchi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve5380 Posted September 20, 2023 Report Share Posted September 20, 2023 5 hours ago, G_M said: Ray Stevenson, actor in 'Thor,' 'RRR' and 'Ahsoka,' dies at 58 He was nearly 59 when he died while filming in Italy. No details of the cause of death have been revealed. 59 was too early for a person like him to pass away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shyc Posted October 19, 2023 Report Share Posted October 19, 2023 Thanks for all the laughters. RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
People Posted October 29, 2023 Report Share Posted October 29, 2023 RIP Matthew Perry https://cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com/entertainment/matthew-perry-dead-54-friends-chandler-bing-376706 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve5380 Posted October 29, 2023 Report Share Posted October 29, 2023 11 hours ago, People said: RIP Matthew Perry https://cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com/entertainment/matthew-perry-dead-54-friends-chandler-bing-376706 RIP Matthew Perry. 54 is NOT an age to pass on... But he can be an example: From New York Times: The Friends star opened up about his decades-long battle with addiction in a memoir Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing which was published in 2022. Perry went to rehab 15 times and had undergone 14 surgeries to try and mitigate the damage done to his stomach lining due to alcohol and opioid use. The actor claimed that he almost died due to a gastrointestinal perforation in 2018 and spent months in the hospital. He was born into a wealthy Canadian family. He became successful as an actor. But unfortunately he had a flaw in his character. Not enough discipline to stay away from drugs and alcohol. It was amazing that he lived so long! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 24, 2023 Report Share Posted November 24, 2023 https://www.zaobao.com.sg/entertainment/story20231115-1450157 83岁资深前艺人唐琥病逝 陈秀环喊他“爹爹” 陈秋雁 发布 / 2023年11月15日 04:52 PM 唐琥（左）和陈秀环因1993年的古装剧《金牌师爷》结下父女情。（取自唐琥脸书） 前资深艺人唐琥因为脚趾发炎，发烧入院，不料11月15日早上10时多因心脏病复发病逝，享年83岁。据知，唐琥的儿子出国公干原定15日回国，无奈未能见到父亲最后一面。 唐琥离世的消息震惊新加坡娱乐圈。陈秀环在1993年的古装剧《金牌师爷》中饰演唐琥的女儿，两人的父女情缘从剧里延伸到戏外，每当看到唐琥，陈秀环都亲切地喊他“爹爹”。 她15日下午接受《联合早报》电访时说，两人最后一次见面是在2023年9月下旬的前新广同仁庆中秋聚会，当时开心合影，唐琥的精神看起来挺好的。唐琥当时也在脸书贴出合照，发文：“金牌师爷，演我女儿，秀环在庆中秋看到我还叫我爹，好感动！感恩。” 陈秀环说：“我觉得很难过，因为在古装剧里演过他的女儿，就一直叫他爹爹，他也叫我女儿，或者倩倩——就是我在《金牌师爷》的角色。” 陈秀环说，之前很多年没与唐琥联络，后来有一次她带妈妈去新山居然在那里巧遇唐琥。“我开心地抱住他，叫他爹爹，还一起拍照。我们当时交换电话后才重拾联络。” 她也记得，曾经营餐馆的唐琥做的五香特别好吃。“里面包有猪肝很好吃，他每次请我去吃，都不收钱。” 段伟明（后排右二）和唐琥（前排右一）10月29日出席管雪梅（前排中）的生日聚会。（管雪梅提供） “阿财”段伟明：同病相怜 段伟明告诉早报，15日早上接到唐琥的噩耗时非常惊讶，并感叹人生无常。“我不知道他的情况，但是从他的女儿传来的短信，得知他安详地离开。愿他一路走好。” 他最后一次见到唐琥是在10月29日，本地资深娱乐媒体人管雪梅的寿宴上，当时被安排同桌，两人还谈笑风生。段伟明说：“当时他OK，看起来状态不错，只说最近睡得不好，想不到突然心脏病发作。” 段伟明回忆：“我跟唐琥几十年前一起演过《缤纷八三》的短剧，当时电视台还叫SBC（新加坡广播局）。他在1970年代也是很了不起的歌台台主，从不吝啬地分享经验，对我来说他是一个好大哥。有时很简单的一句：财啊，吃饱了没有，就让我感觉很温暖。” “阿财”是段伟明在1986年电视剧《芝麻绿豆》中，家喻户晓的咖啡仔角色名字。 唐琥和段伟明先后在2021和2022年接受截肢手术。段伟明感慨地说：“唐琥当时传给我的短信我还收住，他鼓励我：小弟要坚强。我们的情况一样，他能感同身受，虽然是很普通的一句话，但我心里明白（他对我的关心）。” 资深媒体人管雪梅庆幸上个月见面 管雪梅自黑白电视的年代就认识唐琥，她庆幸在10月底的寿宴见上老友一面。 她说：“我打电话邀请他出席我的生日聚会，因为不放心，就说会安排车子载他，他一直说不需要，还说一定会来，叫我不必担心他。” 她之前知道唐琥因为发炎导致发烧入院的消息，不过听与唐琥通过电话的朋友说他的声音听起来好好的，原计划稍后探望。万没料到，15日就接到他离世的消息。 陈丽贞（左图后者）、何永芳（右图后排左起）、黄碧仁和段伟明在管雪梅的生日宴上与唐琥合影。（取自管雪梅脸书） 出席管雪梅寿宴而与唐琥相见，还开心合影的陈丽贞，闻知噩耗十分惊讶，也表示无限唏嘘。她说：“他是我很敬重的长辈，我在1988年入行，当时他拍古装剧比较多，印象中我们没有机会合作，不过我喜欢他的搞笑表演，总是让我会心一笑。” 电话另一端的陈丽贞感叹：“我真的很难过，老一辈的艺人给我们留下很多共同（电视）回忆。人生就是这样，希望他没有受苦，一路走好。” 唐琥的停柩处设于马西岭坡（Marsiling Rise）第129座组屋楼下，11月19日出殡。 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HDB Posted December 12, 2023 Report Share Posted December 12, 2023 https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kong-actress-kathy-chow-dies Hong Kong actress Kathy Chow dies Kathy Chow was known for her roles in broadcaster TVB’s television dramas in the 1980s and 1990s. PHOTO: KATHY CHOW/WEIBO Ian Cheng Correspondent UPDATED 10 MINS AGO FacebookX HONG KONG - Hong Kong actress Kathy Chow Hoi-mei has died at the age of 57. Ms Chow, who was known for her roles in broadcaster TVB’s television dramas in the 1980s and 1990s, died on Dec 11 following the “unsuccessful treatment” of her illness, according to her studio. The studio shared news of her death on Chinese social media platform Weibo on Dec 12. “May there be no disease in heaven, and may we know each other again in the next life!” it said. A similar statement was posted on her Douyin account at about 10pm on Dec 12. Known for her pixie face and girl-next-door appeal, Ms Chow made her acting debut in 1985. She rose to fame for her role as Zhou Zhiruo in the 1994 TVB drama The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre, an adaptation of a martial arts novel penned by novelist Louis Cha, who died in 2018. Ms Chow had just turned 57 on Dec 6, when she said on Douyin, China’s version of TikTok, that she was grateful for her supporters’ love and companionship over the years, and wished them health, safety and happiness. Before she died, the last update on her Douyin account was on Dec 8. She posted a series of photos from her past roles and asked: “Which drama do you know me from?” On Dec 11, news of Ms Chow’s death had spread on Weibo, with rumours of her having suffered from various diseases or conditions. According to Hong Kong entertainment website Dim Sum Daily, Chinese screenwriter Tan Fei had initially dispelled the rumours, stating that Ms Chow was alive and urged people to not spread false information. A former TVB political reporter also reportedly said that Ms Chow was still in hospital undergoing treatment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted December 27, 2023 Report Share Posted December 27, 2023 SEOUL - Lee Sun-kyun, a South Korean actor of the Oscar-winning film Parasite, was found dead, Yonhap news agency reported on Dec 27, citing police. Lee had been under investigation over illegal drug use allegations amid an ongoing government crackdown on illegal drugs. Lee was found unconscious next to briquettes inside a car at a park in Seoul on Dec 27 morning, after his wife reported to police that Lee had left home and she had found what appeared to be a suicide note, Yonhap said. Seoul’s Jongno police station did not immediately respond to phone calls. South Korea has tough drug laws, and drug crimes are typically punishable by at least six months in prison or up to 14 years for repeat offenders and dealers. Lee had been questioned three times by police, including for 19 hours over the weekend. The actor had said he was tricked into taking drugs by a bar hostess who then tried to blackmail him, Yonhap reported. Born in 1975, Lee starred as a rich family’s father in Parasite, and also played leading roles in South Korean movies including the 2012 thriller Helpless and 2014‘s All About My Wife, among others. Lee had the lead role in Apple TV+’s first Korean-language original series, which rolled out in 2021. Dr Brain, a six-episode sci-fi thriller, was about a cold-hearted neurologist, Koh Se-won, who tries to find clues to a mysterious family accident through brain experiments. REUTERS https://www.straitstimes.com/life/parasite-actor-lee-sun-kyun-found-dead-amid-drug-allegations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted March 11, 2024 Report Share Posted March 11, 2024 Oh no .. creator of Dragon Balls have passed away! Akira Toriyama, Dragon Ball manga author, dies at 68 : NPR OBITUARIES Why 'Dragon Ball' creator Akira Toriyama was so important to the world of anime MARCH 8, 20243:58 PM ET By Diba Mohtasham This black and white photo taken in May 1982 shows Japanese manga artist Akira Toriyama, whose death was announced on March 8, 2024. Akira Toriyama, one of the most influential manga authors of all time, has died at age 68. His production company, Bird Studio, said in a statement on Friday that the cause of death was an acute subdural hematoma. The studio said the Japanese author was in the process of creating several manga works, but they did not say whether the works will still be released despite his passing. Toriyama was born in Nagoya, Japan, in 1955. He was known globally for his best-selling manga series Dragon Ball, which follows the adventures of an eccentric young warrior named Son Goku, who possesses superhuman strength and practices martial arts. "Toriyama's character Goku is so iconic that he has his own float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade," journalist and author Lauren Orsini told NPR. The Goku from "Dragon Ball" balloon floats during the 95th-annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Nov. 25, 2021, in New York City. She added that Toriyama took a lot of inspiration from the classic 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West. The 1984 comic gave rise to the hugely popular anime series Dragon Ball Z, multiple films, and video games. "He's directly inspired what we expect role-playing games to look like today," Orsini said. "If Dragon Ball hadn't existed, we might not have some of the other major anime that there are," Orsini said, referring to creations like Naruto and One Piece. "We certainly wouldn't have had America's largest distributor at the time, Funimation. The entire fandom landscape would look different." The franchise has a fan base globally, especially in Latin America. But beyond the world of anime and manga, Toriyama's influence can be seen in somewhat surprising ways as well. The poop emoji, for example, drew direct inspiration from a character in Toriyama's first major hit in the 1980s, Dr. Slump. Toriyama received various awards, including France's Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters. "Thanks to the support of so many people around the world, he has been able to continue his creative activities for over 45 years," his studio's statement said. "We hope that Akira Toriyama's unique world of creation continues to be loved by everyone for a long time to come." Toriyama died on March 1, and a funeral service was held with his family and a few relatives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve5380 Posted March 26, 2024 Report Share Posted March 26, 2024 Famous Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini died at 82 three days ago. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/mar/24/maurizio-pollini-obituary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurizio_Pollini What an intellectual GIANT and defender of liberal causes! I enjoyed his playing all my life, and today I found a video of young Pollini playing a Beethoven concerto with a young Claudio Abbado as director. What a treat! Young Pollini displays here an excellent technique, watching his hands is an educative experience. He also maintains a perfect posture, something many pianists lack. He is among the great ones! Another great, Vladimir Horowitz, had a famous quote: "pianists are either Jewish, gay or bad". Pollini was not Jewish, he was not bad, so... what is left? Pollini here looks cute, but he was married, and he is survived by his son. But... I know from personal experience that this does not mean anything... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shyc Posted May 28, 2024 Report Share Posted May 28, 2024 Rip https://www.8days.sg/entertainment/asian/ex-tvb-actor-ngan-kwok-leung-who-suffered-skin-cancer-passes-away-71-830931 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Football Fan Posted June 8, 2024 Report Share Posted June 8, 2024 Former Lion and two-time Malaysia Cup winner Haslir Ibrahim dies at 73 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tihocan Posted June 11, 2024 Report Share Posted June 11, 2024 Morgan Spurlock, 53 😶 https://variety.com/2024/film/obituaries-people-news/morgan-spurlock-dead-super-size-me-1236015338/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve5380 Posted June 11, 2024 Report Share Posted June 11, 2024 1 hour ago, Guest Tihocan said: Morgan Spurlock, 53 😶 https://variety.com/2024/film/obituaries-people-news/morgan-spurlock-dead-super-size-me-1236015338/ How sad, he died from cancer at 53 y.o. We should take notice and visit a McDonald's as little as possible... I remember in Singapore I only stopped a few times at the one nearby after losing protein in Absolute... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steppenwolf Posted June 12, 2024 Report Share Posted June 12, 2024 (edited) RIP Françoise Hardy... Edited June 13, 2024 by steppenwolf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted June 12, 2024 Report Share Posted June 12, 2024 14 hours ago, Steve5380 said: How sad, he died from cancer at 53 y.o. We should take notice and visit a McDonald's as little as possible... I remember in Singapore I only stopped a few times at the one nearby after losing protein in Absolute... He died from cancer at 53 yo, because he ate nothing else but MCD every day for a month? 🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted June 17, 2024 Report Share Posted June 17, 2024 On 6/12/2024 at 6:51 PM, Guest Guest said: He died from cancer at 53 yo, because he ate nothing else but MCD every day for a month? 🤔 The McDonALDS experiment was way back in 2003. He got back into shape after that. I don't think his cancer was caused by the McD experiment. He had other health problems and was also a chronic alcoholic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted June 21, 2024 Report Share Posted June 21, 2024 Actor Donald Sutherland, star of M*A*S*H and Hunger Games, dies aged 88 https://www.straitstimes.com/life/entertainment/actor-donald-sutherland-star-of-mash-and-hunger-games-dies-aged-88 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HendryTan Posted July 3, 2024 Report Share Posted July 3, 2024 To the older folks who did your first processing with Word Perfect in the 1980-90s. Bruce Bastian, co-creator of the Word Processing Program, LGBT Activist has died at 76. ______________________________________________________________________________________ https://www.wsj.com/tech/bruce-bastian-wordperfect-lgbtq-activist-dies-at-76-6da293f4 Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect Co-Creator Who Became an LGBTQ Activist, Dies at 76 While his company was producing the world’s dominant word-processing software, he came out as gay to his wife, sons and Mormon community By Chris Kornelis July 2, 2024 12:00 pm ET When Alan Ashton was a computer-science professor at Brigham Young University in the mid-1970s, the director of the school’s marching band knocked on his door and said he wanted to use a computer to choreograph the band’s halftime shows. Ashton was easily persuaded; he was a trumpet player whose Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Utah was “Electronics, music and computers.” Bruce Bastian, the graduate student who was working as BYU’s marching-band director, turned out to be a quick learner. “He was very conscientious, very thorough,” Ashton said in an interview, “and just absolutely brilliant.” Within a few years, the two were at work on a program that would turn them into two of the richest people in the nation, founders of the company that made WordPerfect, the dominant word-processing software in the 1980s and early ’90s and one of the first pieces of software many Americans bought when they brought home their first PCs. But behind the hundreds of millions of dollars and blockbuster success, Bastian’s personal life, he later said, was in “free fall.” Between the time he and Ashton released what would later be known as WordPerfect to the public in 1980 and when they sold the company for $1.4 billion in 1994, Bastian told his wife, four sons and his Mormon community that he was gay and leaving both his marriage and the church. When he died, June 16, at the age of 76 from complications associated with pulmonary fibrosis, he had been living a different life: A longtime advocate for LGBTQ rights, Bastian was married to a man, and had found a way to maintain relationships with his family, who remained dedicated members of the church that rejected his sexual orientation. “I kind of have three parts of my life,” he said in 2010 during one of several extensive interviews he gave to the Mormon Stories podcast, “the pre-WordPerfect life, the WordPerfect years, and now the LGBT years.” The pre-WordPerfect life Bruce Wayne Bastian was born in Twin Falls, Idaho, to Arlon and Una Bastian on March 23, 1948. His father went back and forth between farming and running a grocery store. His mother was a homemaker and a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who took her six children to church on Sunday. Her husband didn’t join them. Bruce Bastian later said one reason was because his father moonlighted as a jazz musician and that members of the church looked down on the fact that he performed in places where there was drinking and smoking. As a child, Bastian felt like he was different, but he didn’t understand it. People around him could sense it, too. “My grandmother, when I was 9 or 10 years old, she’d call me ‘Bruce Ann,’ which was very embarrassing,” he said on Mormon Stories. “I don’t know if she saw some things or just was trying to tease me or what, but I didn’t take it as a compliment.” Bruce Bastian directed BYU’s marching band as he pursued a master’s in music, but switched to computer science. Photo: Ashton family By high school, he knew he was gay, but kept it to himself and prayed that it would go away. Bastian, who played clarinet and saxophone, among other instruments, studied music education at BYU in Provo, Utah. He took time off from school to go on a church mission to Italy. “I’ll admit that one of the reasons I went on a mission was because I thought: OK, so if I go on a mission and I prove to God that I can be a good missionary and I can do everything he says for two years, that he’ll take this away,” he said on Mormon Stories. The WordPerfect years After he earned his bachelor’s degree, Bastian directed BYU’s marching band as he pursued a master’s in music, but switched to computer science after he lost his job directing the band. It was an opportune time and place to be pursuing computer science. Ashton had emerged from a famous computer-science program at the University of Utah, where his professors included computer graphics pioneers David Evans and Ivan Sutherland. His fellow students included Ed Catmull, who went on to co-found Pixar; John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe; and Netscape co-founder Jim Clark. “So many people think that computing starts and ends with garages in California and dorm rooms in Massachusetts, and that’s not the case,” said Andrew Meade McGee, curator of computing at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. “It really is a highly dispersed story with many interesting places, and Utah is one of those early centers of creativity.” Ashton enlisted Bastian to work on the word-processing software he had designed. The pair ultimately built it for the city of Orem, Utah. They retained the rights to the program and brought it to market with their company, originally known as Satellite Software International. Bruce Bastian, left, and his WordPerfect co-founder Alan Ashton. The word-processing software dominated for a time. Introduced to the public as SSI*WP in 1980 and later rebranded as WordPerfect, it became the dominant word-processing software in the ’80s and early ’90s, and the Orem-based company grew to upward of 7,000 employees. In 1990, Ashton and Bastian were both listed on the Forbes 400 with their net worths estimated at $475 million each. WordPerfect was a hit when users relied on MS-DOS, but didn’t translate well to Windows. By the mid-’90s, WordPerfect was rapidly being overtaken by Microsoft Word. Ashton and Bastian—who never took the company public, and held 99% of it themselves—sold it to Novell for $1.4 billion in 1994. By then, Bastian and his wife, Melanie Laycock Bastian, had four sons, and the couple had divorced in 1993, several years after they separated and Bastian had come out to his family as gay. Around the same time, Bastian left the Mormon Church, which was vocally opposed to homosexuality. (Melanie Laycock Bastian died in 2016.) “Those decisions were really difficult, life-changing, but they were the best decisions of my life,” he told Outwords in 2018. “It’s hard for my children to understand how I could say leaving their mother was one of my best decisions, but it allowed me to be who I was.” The LGBTQ years Keeping his home base in Utah, Bastian spent the next three decades as a philanthropist and activist, donating millions of dollars to support organizations and causes related to the arts and LGBTQ issues, including Equality Utah, the Utah Pride Center and the Human Rights Campaign. In 2008, Bastian donated $1 million to the campaign to oppose California’s Proposition 8 ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage. Ashton, his WordPerfect co-founder and a devout Mormon, gave $1 million to support it. Ashton said that his donation was hurtful for Bastian—something he didn’t anticipate, but says he should have. He and Bastian had remained in touch over the decades and even in business, with shared real-estate holdings that dated back to their WordPerfect days. Ashton said the last time they saw each other was at a Utah Jazz basketball game last season. The two embraced and Ashton said he told Bastian how much he appreciated him. “I thought the world of Bruce,” he said, “and was grateful to be able to speak with him and tell him of my love for him and my appreciation and the blessing that he has been for me and for our family.” Bastian’s four sons remained in the Mormon Church and are active members to this day. Rick Bastian, his eldest son, said that they didn’t talk much about religion, and noted that he and two of his brothers—and their wives—attended their father’s wedding to Clint Ford in 2018. “We were all well aware of differences of opinion that we had, but at the end of the day, we cared about one another,” Rick Bastian said. “I truly believe you can love someone and show that love without seeing the world the same way.” He said his father had remained on good terms with his mother. “From, say, the late ’80s on, was our family somewhat unconventional?” Rick Bastian said. “Absolutely. But we made it work and I think my dad—and especially my mom—deserves some credit for that.” Though Bruce Bastian was deeply critical of the teachings of the Mormon Church, Rick Bastian said he doesn’t think his father abandoned the idea of there being a God. “What God wants most is for you to be happy, healthy, fulfilled, and be able to be an authentic human being,” Bruce Bastian said on Mormon Stories in 2020, adding: “When I finally got to the point where I was authentic, wow, the happiness of heaven poured down upon me. I should write scripture, huh?” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve5380 Posted July 3, 2024 Report Share Posted July 3, 2024 Creating WordPerfect was quite an accomplishment, and no one should doubt that gays are not inferior to anyone when it comes to intelligence and capacity. Further details of his life also show that he was a very decent, moral person. Recognizing in himself the lack of guilt for being gay, against the heavy brain-washing by the Mormons, he still not rabidly turned against religious beliefs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Belinda Ang Posted July 4, 2024 Report Share Posted July 4, 2024 15 hours ago, Steve5380 said: Creating WordPerfect was quite an accomplishment, and no one should doubt that gays are not inferior to anyone when it comes to intelligence and capacity. Further details of his life also show that he was a very decent, moral person. Recognizing in himself the lack of guilt for being gay, against the heavy brain-washing by the Mormons, he still not rabidly turned against religious beliefs. He wasn't true to himself when he married a woman, then changed his mind to embrace his homosexual orientation, hurting innocent lives. I wouldn't consider that to be very decent or moral behaviour. He may have his struggles facing his Mormons community but he shouldn't have made use of his wife as his beard to pretend he was straight. I know that many people in religious denial of their sexual orientation do that, but that doesn't make it right when he got his wife and children involuntary involved in his charade and then having to face and accept his coming out and leaving them. I am sure it was painful for everyone, especially his wife and children who were losing a husband and father, but to him it was likely more of liberation and party time than grieving of loss like his wife and children. I am sure they would put up a brave front for him and give him their blessings, but that doesn't mean they didn't suffer any grief, heartbreak or trauma in the interim or aftermath. They may be filthy rich, but mental illness does not discriminate between the rich and poor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve5380 Posted July 4, 2024 Report Share Posted July 4, 2024 1 hour ago, Guest Belinda Ang said: He wasn't true to himself when he married a woman, then changed his mind to embrace his homosexual orientation, hurting innocent lives. I wouldn't consider that to be very decent or moral behaviour. He may have his struggles facing his Mormons community but he shouldn't have made use of his wife as his beard to pretend he was straight. I know that many people in religious denial of their sexual orientation do that, but that doesn't make it right when he got his wife and children involuntary involved in his charade and then having to face and accept his coming out and leaving them. I am sure it was painful for everyone, especially his wife and children who were losing a husband and father, but to him it was likely more of liberation and party time than grieving of loss like his wife and children. I am sure they would put up a brave front for him and give him their blessings, but that doesn't mean they didn't suffer any grief, heartbreak or trauma in the interim or aftermath. They may be filthy rich, but mental illness does not discriminate between the rich and poor. Hi Belinda, I see that you share a frequent idea of us gays when judging gays who nonetheless married a woman and started a family. I am such a creature. At 35, and being quasi virgin, I married and had children. I had no pressure to hide anything, although attracted to men I was not sure if this was due to my lack of experience with women. There is a continuum of orientations between gay and straight, and I probably was somewhere in between. I was good looking and my future wife was very beautiful. I found her very attractive, and SHE seduced ME, ha ha. Not long thereafter my son was born, and we became a happy family, that stayed together for 13 years. We separated amicably because she missed the life in the country, while I am a city guy. She remarried, and I didn't. I have now a great relationship with my son and his family. There was surely some pain and suffering by both sides, but no victimization. And definitely NO mental illness! I think that those gays who married women had no evil intentions, but we were somewhat confused. This is what I think of Bruce Bastian, and indeed... he did great things for the gay community that exculpates him of any blame. Maybe one day, with more experience, you will think the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Belinda Ang Posted July 5, 2024 Report Share Posted July 5, 2024 16 hours ago, Steve5380 said: Hi Belinda, I see that you share a frequent idea of us gays when judging gays who nonetheless married a woman and started a family. I am such a creature. At 35, and being quasi virgin, I married and had children. I had no pressure to hide anything, although attracted to men I was not sure if this was due to my lack of experience with women. There is a continuum of orientations between gay and straight, and I probably was somewhere in between. I was good looking and my future wife was very beautiful. I found her very attractive, and SHE seduced ME, ha ha. Not long thereafter my son was born, and we became a happy family, that stayed together for 13 years. We separated amicably because she missed the life in the country, while I am a city guy. She remarried, and I didn't. I have now a great relationship with my son and his family. There was surely some pain and suffering by both sides, but no victimization. And definitely NO mental illness! I think that those gays who married women had no evil intentions, but we were somewhat confused. This is what I think of Bruce Bastian, and indeed... he did great things for the gay community that exculpates him of any blame. Maybe one day, with more experience, you will think the same. 35 and quasi virgin, meaning you went to church and were saving your quasi virginity for marriage? Could that "somewhat confused" be a form of denial and ego defense mechanism and wanting to be in the closet? Like sometimes people around could tell someone is gay but only he doesn't know it himself? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HendryTan Posted July 5, 2024 Report Share Posted July 5, 2024 Please do NOT get off-topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hates women Posted July 5, 2024 Report Share Posted July 5, 2024 51 minutes ago, HendryTan said: Please do NOT get off-topic. Please ban that Karen woman. What the hell is she doing on a gay message board when clearly she's homophobic and judgmental. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Belinda Ang Posted July 5, 2024 Report Share Posted July 5, 2024 7 hours ago, HendryTan said: Please do NOT get off-topic. Erm. I was talking about people like Bruce Bastian who flips around their sexuality, so I was on topic. Because if a somewhat confused or even bisexual man divorced a woman and left the family and children to be with another man, then isn't that like a straight man divorcing and leaving his wife and children to be with another woman? It sounds more like a change of heart, rather than a fluid sexual identity? Otherwise, it will be a beard situation. Both are unfair to the wife and kids, imho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mp440028 Posted July 20, 2024 Report Share Posted July 20, 2024 And everyone forgot about good ol' Richard Simmons...... He will be missed (at least by me.... https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/richard-simmons-dead-fitness-guru-1236071297/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shyc Posted July 20, 2024 Report Share Posted July 20, 2024 11 hours ago, mp440028 said: And everyone forgot about good ol' Richard Simmons...... He will be missed (at least by me.... https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/richard-simmons-dead-fitness-guru-1236071297/ Didn’t see this news but yah he was one of the few day time show. Back in those days tv wasn’t 24/7. 😉 Started in late aftnn than some morning shows started and he was some of the few. 😞 Rip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mp440028 Posted July 21, 2024 Report Share Posted July 21, 2024 22 hours ago, shyc said: Didn’t see this news but yah he was one of the few day time show. Back in those days tv wasn’t 24/7. 😉 Started in late aftnn than some morning shows started and he was some of the few. 😞 Rip Yes, probably the most entertaining exercise shows on TV back then He died the same day as Shannon Doherty, and probably the news of her death overshadowed his. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dan Posted July 24, 2024 Report Share Posted July 24, 2024 Olivia Newton -John passed on and having a tribute for her in Singapore soon and elsewhere , amazing ……it’s very rare for a singer , especially having it performed in Asia ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Alain Delon admirer Posted August 18, 2024 Report Share Posted August 18, 2024 Actor Alain Delon dies, aged 88: French media report https://www.straitstimes.com/world/french-actor-alain-delon-dies-aged-88-french-media-report Such a handsome man !!! I have a crush on him when I was young looking at his old movies. Even if he was gay, I bet he would have thousands of lovers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Blue eyes Posted August 18, 2024 Report Share Posted August 18, 2024 Before Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Leonardo Dicaprio, there was Alain Delon. He was a notorious womaniser with his great looks to credit for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
singalion Posted August 22, 2024 Report Share Posted August 22, 2024 Magic moment: Sydney aquarium filled with song after sea birds mourn death of gay penguin Sphen Sea Life Sydney Aquarium keeper describes the unique and ‘very beautiful’ singing scene that unfolded as Sphen’s partner, Magic, and the gentoo colony were taken to see Sphen There wasn’t a dry eye among staff at Sydney’s Sea Life Aquarium as Magic and his fellow gentoo penguins cried out, mourning the loss of Sphen in an emotional scene never before witnessed by employees. Sphen, whose same-sex love story with Magic made the couple globally famous, appeared to die of natural causes as he approached his 12th birthday, the aquarium confirmed on Thursday morning. Penguin keeper Renee Howell witnessed the couple’s love story bloom from the beginning, and said the pair’s impact as a worldwide symbol of equality was “immeasurable”. “It’s one in a million,” she said. “You never really will get to see this again.” Sphen and Magic’s relationship began the same way as many other species – including humans, with courtship. Penguins will typically bow or sing to one another during this time, but gentoos are unique in that they will collect and present pebbles to one another. “You see [penguins] searching along the beach, along the ice, looking for those perfect pebbles to give to their partners,” Howell said. “They will use those pebbles to build their nest and that is where they will lay the eggs.” Sphen and Magic shot to fame in 2018 when news of their same-sex male relationship in the aquarium made global headlines. They had just celebrated six years together and successfully adopted and raised two chicks: Sphengic (Lara) in 2018 and Clancy in 2020. Howell said that same-sex partnerships are thought to be somewhat common among penguins, but what was different with Sphen and Magic was how they shared their duties as parents. “They took their individual [turns] on the nest, and they would go out and search for food, and then they’d come back and swap the care of the egg,” she said. “They definitely divvied up the roles really quite evenly between the two.” In the wild when one penguin dies and their partner doesn’t know what has happened, they will typically go searching for them. Howell said this is why keepers at the aquarium felt it so necessary to show Magic that Sphen had passed, so he could understand “his partner wouldn’t actually be returning”. The keeper said it was an incredibly emotional moment when Magic was taken to Sphen, alongside the gentoo colony and all of the staff members. Magic immediately started singing, with all the penguins around him joining in the chorus. “It was a very beautiful moment, the air was just filled with their singing,” Howell said. “It showed the impact [Sphen] had on his partner and that [Magic] actually recognised that his partner was there. “Soon after, he became quite protective of his partner and that was a very emotional time for us, but we needed to do that in order for him to hopefully comprehend what had happened.” Howell said staff at the aquarium had never seen anything like this occur before, so they aren’t entirely sure what the singing means. “But in that moment for us, it was a beautiful send-off.” Magic is now entering his first breeding season without his partner, but is still collecting pebbles for a nest – a promising sign. Knowing the impact Sphen had on the wider community is providing comfort to the entire team, who share strong bonds with the animals, Howell said. “To us, they weren’t just penguins. They all have their individual quirks and personalities, so it is definitely sad losing one of those members. “They inspired so many people across the entire world and to us, that is incredibly special and we’ll hold that with us for ever.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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shyc Posted November 4, 2024 Report Share Posted November 4, 2024 (edited) https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/04/quincy-jones-musician-michael-jackson-producer-dies Quincy Jones, one of the most important figures in American music, died at age 91 last night. Jones, whose career spanned more than 70 years, was a producer, creator and orchestrator for some of the world’s greatest performers. Edited November 4, 2024 by shyc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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