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Maureen O'hara, Irish actress and film collaborator with director John Ford and John Wayne, died at age 95. I've always had a thing about good looking Irish red headed women, so Maureen O'hara was at the top of that list. I've probably watched "The quiet man" at least 20 times and have repeatedly visited most of the sites shown in the film. Her mother lived to be 100 and Maureen often said she would live at least to that age. She almost made it. RIP!

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Former Sen. Fred Thompson, had TV and film roles, dead at 73

 

http://news.yahoo.com/former-sen-fred-thompson-had-tv-film-roles-231012877.html

 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Fred Thompson, a folksy former Republican U.S. senator from Tennessee who appeared in feature films and television including a role on "Law & Order," died Sunday, his family said.

 

 

 

He was 73.

 

Thompson, at 6-foot-6 with a booming voice, appeared in at least 20 motion pictures. His credits include "In the Line of Fire," ''The Hunt for Red October," ''Die Hard II" and "Cape Fear." By the early 1990s, Thompson said he had become bored with his 10-year stint in Hollywood and wanted to go into public service. That's when he headed back to Nashville and launched his Senate campaign. A man of many roles in life and on the screen, he was a lawyer by training and also once served as a chief minority counsel during the Senate Watergate hearings.

 

The family statement said Thompson died in Nashville following a recurrence of lymphoma.

"It is with a heavy heart and a deep sense of grief that we share the passing of our brother, father and grandfather who died peacefully in Nashville," it said. "Fred was the same man on the floor of the Senate, the movie studio, or the town square of ... his home."

 

Thompson, a lawyer, alternated between politics and acting much of his adult life. Once regarded as a rising star in the Senate, he retired from that seat when his term expired in January 2003...

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