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Clint Eastwood on the passing of Geoffrey Lewis

 

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Geoffrey Lewis, the likeable character actor best known for his work in Clint Eastwood films, died of natural causes on Tuesday at the age of 79. Beginning with his role in 1973’s High Plains Drifter and culminating in 1997’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Lewis and Eastwood collaborated on seven films. Their brotherly rapport is perhaps best exemplified by the pair of bare-knuckle brawler movies they made—Every Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can—in which the two men played best friends battling bikers, cops, and mobsters. There was never any doubt who the star was, but Lewis always made the most of what could’ve been a two-dimensional sidekick.

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“I was very saddened by the news of Geoffrey’s passing,†said Clint Eastwood, in a statement. “I worked with him on many films and thought he was a wonderful actor and terrific performer. He had the most expressive face—which made working with him so fun. Geoffrey will be greatly missed.â€

 

Lewis was the father of 10, including actress Juliette Lewis. Several of his other children work in Hollywood, including daughter Brandy, who married actor Ethan Suplee.

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Legendary cricket commentator Richie Benaud has died in a Sydney hospice.

 

"At the moment it is pretty dire," fellow Channel Nine commentator Michael Slater said on radio station 2KY on Friday morning.

 

"Things are not looking terrific, everyone is rallying around him."

 

Richie Benaud at the SCG in 2013

Richie Benaud at the SCG in 2013 Photo: Getty Images

The 84-year-old was receiving radiation treatment for skin cancer since November.

 

Slater said the next 24 hours were crucial for the former Australian captain as his wife, Daphne, family members and the cricket fraternity kept a vigil at his bedside.

 

In 2013, Benaud was involved in a car crash outside his Coogee home that left him with two fractured vertebrae and ended his time in the commentary box.

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Besides his movies with Eastwood, I remember Lewis from the movie "Double Impact," one of the few Van Damme movies that I liked. At least he didn't wear his membership in Scientology on his sleeve, like Cruise and Travolta do. He must have been a good father, with 10 kids (several in the movie business) and none of them in the news for the wrong reasons. RIP

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PARIS (AFP) - French World War II hero Jean-Louis Cremieux-Brilhac, one of the first to condemn the Nazi gas chambers, died on Wednesday aged 98, President Francois Hollande announced.

 

A towering figure in the French Resistance, Cremieux-Brilhac also drew up the D-Day orders telling his countrymen how to react to the liberation of their country.

 

"The life of this great man reflects the century," Hollande said.

 

"A hero of the French campaign, he escaped his prisoners’ camp to rally in London in 1941" alongside Charles de Gaulle’s Free French army, Hollande said.

 

"He was one of the first to denounce the Nazi gas chambers in 1944."

 

Cremieux-Brilhac was born to a Jewish family on January 22, 1917 in Colombes, northwest of Paris.

 

As a young man, he spent many holidays in Germany where he witnessed the rise of the Nazis. He joined the army in 1939 and was taken prisoner in June.

 

During his time at Radio Londres, the mouthpiece of De Gaulle’s Free French army, he gave instructions to the French people ahead of the D-Day landings.

 

"The main message we sent was to put France in a state of general alert. And then there were specific instructions for particular sectors of the population -- like town mayors, police, factory workers and so on," Cremieux-Brilhac told the BBC in an interview last June.

 

After the liberation in 1944 and the end of the war, Cremieux-Brilhac continued his fight for democracy and freedom, Hollande said.

 

"He became an historian of reference on Free France after being one of its main actors," Hollande said.

 

"In the tumult of history, he lived an exemplary life of commitment and duty," the president added.

 

Cremieux-Brilhac also worked tirelessly to make scientific research a priority in French politics.

 

In 1980, he returned to his war years and began to write the history of 1939-40 France to explain how the republic was weakened to the point of complete collapse and how the Free French Forces fought to restore it.

 

Fellow Resistance fighter Daniel Cordier paid tribute to his old comrade, who he said was "very intelligent and very reserved".

 

"He was a man who was very free, very open, who listened to others, understood things very quickly and whose responses were always powerful," he told AFP.

 

 

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Guenter Grass dies

 

 

Guenter Grass, German Nobel literature prize winner and author of The Tin Drum, has died aged 87.

 

His publisher said he passed away at a clinic in Luebeck on Monday morning.

 

Born in what was then Danzig, Grass served in the German military in World War Two and published his breakthrough anti-Nazi novel, The Tin Drum, in 1959.

 

Later in life he became a vocal opponent of German reunification in 1990, and argued afterwards that it had been carried out too hastily.

 

Grass's work was "a formidable reflection of our country and a permanent part of its literary and cultural heritage," German President Joachim Gauck said in a statement (in German).

 

Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was "deeply dismayed" to hear of the author's death, the German foreign ministry tweeted.

 

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32285705

 

 

I used to devour everything by him I could get my hands on. In English, that is. I had to read Die Blechtrommel in German for a class and decided that was enough of that. :p

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