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Shelley Duvall, Star Of ‘The Shining,’ Dies At 75
Shelley Duvall, the intrepid, Texas-born movie star whose wide-eyed, winsome presence was a staple in Robert Altman’s films and co-starred in Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining,” has died. She was 75.
Dan Gilroy, Duvall’s longtime companion, revealed Thursday that she died in her sleep at her Blanco, Texas, home. Her acquaintance, publicist Gary Springer, explained that the cause was diabetic problems.
“My dear, sweet, wonderful life, partner, and friend left us last night,” Gilroy wrote in her statement. “There’s been too much pain lately; she’s finally free. Fly away, sweet Shelley.”
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Shelley Duvall, Star Of ‘The Shining,’ ‘Nashville,’ Dies At 75
Duvall was attending junior college in Texas when Altman’s crew, preparing to film “Brewster McCloud,” came across her at a party in Houston in 1970. They presented her to the director, who cast her as “Brewster McCloud” and made her his protégé.
Duvall went on to appear in several Altman films, including “Thieves Like Us,” “Nashville,” “Popeye,” “Three Women,” and “McCabe & Ms Miller.”
“He offers me damn good roles,” Duvall told The New York Times in 1977. “They’ve all been unique. He believes in me, trusts and respects me, and does not limit or frighten me, and I adore him. “I remember the first advice he ever gave me: ‘Don’t take yourself seriously.'”
Duvall, thin and gawky, was not the typical Hollywood starlet. But she had a charmingly candid demeanor and projected a unique authenticity. The film writer Pauline Kael dubbed her the “female Buster Keaton.”
In her prime, Duvall was a regular in some of the most important films of the 1970s and 1980s. In “The Shining,” she played Wendy Torrance, who watches in terror as her husband, Jack (Jack Nicholson), goes insane while their family is sequestered at the Overlook Hotel. Duvall’s screaming face, combined with Jack’s axe coming through the door, comprised half of the film’s most memorable image.
Kubrick, a famed perfectionist, was notoriously hard on Duvall while filming “The Shining.” His methods of subjecting her to multiple takes in the most distressing sequences took a toll on the performer. Some perceived Kubrick’s treatment as bordering on torture; one scene was reportedly shot in 127 takes.
Duvall told People magazine in 1981 that she cried “12 hours a day for weeks on end” while working on the picture.
“I will never give that much again,” Duvall declared. “If you want to get into pain and call it art, go ahead, but not with me.”
Duvall withdrew from films almost as rapidly as she appeared in them. By the 1990s, she was retiring from performing and withdrawing from public life.
“How would you feel if people were really nice, and then, suddenly, on a dime, they turn on you?” Duvall informed the Times earlier this year. “You wouldn’t believe it unless it happened to you. That’s why you’re hurt; you can’t believe it’s true.”
Duvall, the oldest of four children, was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on July 7, 1949. Her father, Robert, was a lawyer, and her mother, Bobbie, was in real estate.
Duvall returned to Texas in the mid-1990s. After starring in the comedy “Manna from Heaven,” she abruptly left Hollywood in 2002. Her location became a popular issue among online sleuths. One popular but inaccurate idea was that it was lingering stress from the rigorous shoot for “The Shining.” Another claimed that the damage to her home following the Northridge earthquake was the final straw.
To those who lived in the Texas Hill Country for about 30 years, Duvall was neither in “hiding” nor a recluse; yet, her circumstances were unknown to both the media and many of her former Hollywood colleagues. That changed in 2016 when producers from the Dr. Phil program tracked her down and aired a contentious hour-long interview in which she discussed her mental health difficulties. “I’m really unwell. “I need help,” Duvall remarked on the show, which was heavily condemned for being exploitative.
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Shelley Duvall, Star Of ‘The Shining,’ ‘Nashville,’ Dies At 75
“I found out the kind of person he is the hard way,” Duvall said to The Hollywood Reporter in 2021.
THR journalist Seth Abramovitch stated at the time that he went on a pilgrimage to find her because “it didn’t feel right for McGraw’s insensitive sideshow to be the final word on her legacy.”
Duvall attempted to revive her career by starring in the modest horror film “The Forest Hills,” was filmed in 2022 and premiered discreetly in early 2023.
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Retired Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce destroyed a Penn State football fan’s phone after the alleged heckler called his brother, Travis Kelce, a fag.
In now-viral footage published on X (previously Twitter) on Saturday, Nov. 2, the retired Philadelphia Eagles great was seen accompanied by football fans outside Beaver Stadium in State College, Pa., for the Penn State-Ohio State game.
As the individual capturing the tape lifted a fist to Jason, 36, and called his name for a fist bump, another man nearby hurled the homophobic slur at the retired Philadelphia Eagles star.
Hey, Kelce. How does it feel that your brother is a queer dating Taylor Swift?” the man questioned, referring to Travis, 34, who has been seeing Swift since 2023. Jason turned around seconds later, snatched the man’s phone, and crushed it to the ground.
“Looked like a Penn State student was getting in Kelce’s face for no reason,” the original X user who submitted the video remarked. “Wild scene in State College.”
“Kelce how does it feel that your brother is a f****t for dating Taylor Swift?”
Jason Kelce proceeded to slam this kids phone on the ground.
Looked like a Penn State student was getting in Kelce’s face for no reason. Wild scene in State College pic.twitter.com/3PEdZXWhSg
— Chives (@jarrett_daveler) November 2, 2024
Additional footage on X shows Jason smashing the phone on asphalt before picking it up and walking away. The phone’s owner, wearing a Penn State hoodie at the time of the incident, was shown in many videos strolling closely behind Jason and recording him before the conflict occurred.
Another footage published on X, which appears to have been filmed after Jason shattered the man’s phone, showed the hooded Penn State supporter trudging through a mob to pick up his phone off the ground.
“Give me my phone, bro,” he seemed to say to Jason.
The NFL alum seized the gadget first, then stood in front of the man and asked, “Who’s the fag now?” Others appeared to interfere.
The incident occurred while Jason was at Beaver Stadium for an appearance on ESPN’s College GameDay. The Ohio State Buckeyes won Saturday’s game 20-13 over the Penn State Nittany Lions.
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Shaun White, the Olympic snowboarding champion, already has an impressive medal tally, but his surprise proposal to Nina Dobrev deserves a gold medal.
On Wednesday, the couple announced their engagement on Instagram. Dobrev posted photographs of the two hugging under an arch of white roses and showing off her five-carat Lorraine Schwartz engagement ring.
“RIP boyfriend, hello fiancé,” Dobrev said in the caption.
However, the photographs only tell half the tale, as Shaun devised an elaborate plan to surprise Dobrev with his proposal.
Shaun White’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold
According to a Vogue interview published Wednesday, Shaun said he assembled a team of people from the couple’s inner circle and Vogue personnel to trick Dobrev into thinking she had been invited to an intimate dinner party with Anna Wintour.
Dobrev accepted the invitation, joking that Shaun made it “look so legitimate.”
He even asked Dobrev’s stylist to outfit her in Chanel for the event.
Dobrev said she recognized what was happening when she entered the venue and saw White standing beneath the flowery arch.
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Shaun’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold
“I went into shock,” Dobrev admitted, later adding that White “said all the right things” before she agreed.
According to the publication, after Shaun proposed, the couple partied into the early morning hours with close friends and relatives.
“Best night of my life,” Shaun captioned his Instagram story on Wednesday.
The duo first became romantically involved in 2020, and they have since publicly recorded their relationship, globe vacations, and White’s Olympic farewell on social media.
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Hollywood actress Teri Garr, known for her roles in classics like “Young Frankenstein” and “Tootsie,” has passed away at 79. She died Tuesday of multiple sclerosis “surrounded by family and friends,” said publicist Heidi Schaeffer.
Admirers took to social media in her honor, with writer-director Paul Feig calling her “truly one of my comedy heroes. I couldn’t have loved her more” and screenwriter Cinco Paul saying: “Never the star, but always shining. She made everything she was in better.”
Throughout her career, the performer, often known as Terri, Terry, or Terry Ann, seemed destined for show business from a young age.
Her father was Eddie Garr, a well-known vaudeville comic, and her mother was Phyllis Lind, one of the original high-kicking Rockettes at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. Their daughter began dancing classes at six and was performing with the San Francisco and Los Angeles ballet companies by age fourteen.
She was 16 years old when she joined the road crew of “West Side Story” in Los Angeles, and she began starring in small roles in films as early as 1963.
In an interview from 1988, she described how she landed the role in “West Side Story.” After being rejected at her initial audition, she returned the following day dressed differently and was accepted.
Teri Garr, a comedian
Teri Garr then found steady work as a movie dancer, appearing in the chorus of nine Elvis Presley films, including “Viva Las Vegas,” “Roustabout,” and “Clambake.”
She has also appeared on various television shows, including “Star Trek,” “Dr. Kildare,” and “Batman,” and was a featured dancer on the rock ‘n’ roll music show “Shindig,” the rock concert performance “T.A.M.I.,” and a cast member of “The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour.”
Her breakthrough role was as Gene Hackman’s girlfriend in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 thriller The Conversation. This led to an interview with Mel Brooks, who offered her the Gene Wilder’s German lab assistant role in Young Frankenstein if she could speak with a German accent.
“Cher had this German woman, Renata, making wigs, so I got the accent from her,” Garr once said.
The film established her as a great comic performer, with New Yorker film writer Pauline Kael calling her “the funniest neurotic dizzy dame on screen.”
Her big smile and off-center appeal helped her land roles in “Oh, God!” with George Burns and John Denver, “Mr. Mom” (as Michael Keaton’s wife), and “Tootsie,” in which she played the girlfriend who loses Dustin Hoffman to Jessica Lange and discovers he has dressed up as a woman to revive his career.
A gift for spontaneous humor
Teri Garr, best known for comedy, has shown in films such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Black Stallion, and The Escape Artist that she can also tackle drama.
She had a gift for spontaneous humor, frequently playing David Letterman’s foil during early guest appearances on N.B.C.’s “Late Night With David Letterman”.
Her appearances grew so frequent, and the pair’s good-natured bickering so convincing that rumors of romantic involvement circulated for a while. Years later, Letterman acknowledged those early appearances with helping the program become a success.
During those years, Garr began to experience “a little beeping or ticking” in her right leg. It started in 1983 and expanded to her right arm, but she thought she could handle it. By 1999, her symptoms had gotten so bad that she saw a doctor and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
After disclosing her diagnosis, Garr became a spokesman for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, giving hilarious remarks at events in the United States and Canada.
Source: AP
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