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Hollywood Iconic Actor Dies @88

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Report has shown that a legendary actor known to have played visible Character in different movies, who appeared in more than 220 roles across seven decades, has died in Vermont on Tuesday.

M Emmet Walsh, the character actor who appeared in more than 220 film and television roles including Blade Runner, Knives Out and the Coen brothers’ films Blood Simple and Raising Arizona, has died aged 88.

However, Walsh’s manager, Sandy Joseph, confirmed to the industry publication Variety that he had died Tuesday in Vermont.

Born in New York in 1935 and raised in Vermont, Walsh landed his first uncredited film role – an extra in Midnight Cowboy – and his first credited film role in Alice’s Restaurant, both in 1969.

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He played a sportswriter in the Paul Newman sports comedy Slap Shot (1977), Dustin Hoffman’s parole officer in Straight Time (1978), the sniper hunting down Steve Martin in The Jerk (1979), and the LAPD boss who brings Harrison Ford out of retirement in Blade Runner (1982

Walsh told the Hollywood Reporter in 2017 that Blade Runner was the film he was asked about the most, saying that after he saw the finished product: “We didn’t know what to say or to think or do! We didn’t know what in the hell we had done! The only one who seemed to get it was Ridley.”

With his dry delivery and hangdog face, he was known for his ability to take on both menacing and comedic roles – and sometimes both at the same time, such as Loren Visser, the double-crossing private detective in the Coen brothers’ 1984 feature debut, Blood Simple.

The famed film critic Roger Ebert praised Walsh as a “poet of sleaze” for his performance and came up with the “Stanton-Walsh Rule”: “no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad”.

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“Every time, you try to figure something individual that works for the character. If you’re playing a villain, you don’t play villain,” Walsh told the Guardian about Blood Simple in 2017, adding: “Visser doesn’t think of himself as particularly bad or evil. He’s on the edge of what’s legal, but he’s having a lot of fun with all that.”

He also played small roles in Fletch (1985) and the horror flick Critters (1986), as well as Nicolas Cage’s chatty co-worker in Raising Arizona (1987), John Lithgow’s father in Harry and the Hendersons (1987), and Michael Keaton’s sponsor in Clean and Sober (1988). He also appeared in Romeo + Juliet (1996), My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997), The Iron Giant (1999), Calvary (2014) and Knives Out (2019).

“I have more fun playing 10 different people than I do playing the same person 10 different times,” he once told the Houston Chronicle. “One time it’s a garbage collector, and the next time it’s the president of Princeton.”

His final role was in the 2024 western Outlaw Posse alongside Whoopi Goldberg and Cedric the Entertainer.

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Over seven decades of television, Walsh appeared in shows including Starsky and Hutch, Frasier, The Twilight Zone, The X-Files, Home Improvement and Adventure Time. One of his last roles was as Grandaddy Roy in The Righteous Gemstones.

“It’s a good life being a character actor,” he once told the Orange County Register. “I’ve been around stardom. I’ve been around Redford and Hoffman, and it’s scary. That drive for stardom is like the greyhounds chasing the mechanical rabbit. By the time he catches him, he’s too tired to run anymore, and you’ve got to shoot him.”

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Omotola Jalade in hospital bed, battles life threatening illness + Video

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Famous Nollywood actress, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, has opened up about her battle with a life threatening illness.

The 46-year-old made this known in a video shared on her Instagram page on Thursday.

Captioning the trending video, she disclosed that she underwent surgery to remove her gallbladder.

While expressing gratitude to God, Omolola said “have you been told by the doctor that there’s nothing more we can do at this time? And you still feel like you are dying.”

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Explaining how it started, she said “I threw up all night. By the morning the most dilapidated stomach pain started and I was rushed again to the emergency for the third time!

“This time, I was wheeled in for a CT scan, ultrasound and an MRI. Then the doctor said I have to go in for surgery immediately to remove my gallbladder. So the fight for my life began.”

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TRENDING VIDEO: At midnight, work still ongoing in FCT, Wike fast transforming the narrative of governance

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Action packed FCT minister, Nyesom Wike is fast transforming the narrative of governance as captured in a trending video online.

In the video, work was still ongoing at 12midnight to meet up with the FCT Minister’s deadline.

Recall Wike was dubbed Mr Projects because of the massive projects he embarked upon in his home state, Rivers State.

He bagged the award of the most consistent governor in projects facilitation across Nigeria and earned himself an award as Mr Projects of Nigeria.

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Wike is fast transforming the capital city into a haven of modern day road networks like we have in civilsed climes.

He has even embarked on projects in no go areas of Abuja Satellite towns like Bwari, Karishi, Kubwa and others.

In the video comedian Gana aptly captured men and foreigners working in one of the major roads in Abuja.

The comedian explained in pidgin English that “see pipu dey work by 12midnight till early hours of the day.

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“Na so e suppose be as dem dey do for abroad wia pipu dey work for night to avoid traffic.

“Leader na leader any day anytime who say Wike no de work make una come see follow mi.

In the video caterpillars and other heavy equipment were sighted working.

On assumption last year, within 100 days in office Wike turned major areas of Abuja city into a massive construction yard.

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From Asokoro to Maitama, Zone E, Kado and hinterlands have one project or the other ongoing and some wrapped up.

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Appeal Court voids rape conviction of Lagos doctor, Olaleye

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The Court of Appeal in Lagos has nullified the rape conviction of Femi Olaleye, the Managing Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation.

In a ruling delivered on Friday, the appellate court held that the lower court made an error in its judgment, leading to Olaleye’s discharge and acquittal.

This development follows his October 2023 conviction by the Special Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Lagos.

The lower court had found him guilty on two counts: defilement of a child and sexual assault by penetration.

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