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Thai actor Papangkorn Lerkchaleampote, better known as Beam, died suddenly in his sleep on Wednesday (March 23). He was 25. According to Thai media, he was found motionless in his bed by his mother, who realised he was not breathing when she tried to wake him up. He was sent to hospital and pronounced dead after attempts to revive him failed. According to the Bangkok Post, the Thai police found no signs of struggle in his room and no evidence of foul play. Preliminary investigations showed that Beam had played football on Tuesday night and eaten at a food stall...

Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky quoted William Shakespeare and Winston Churchill in an emotional address to both houses of the United Kingdom Parliament which ultimately appealed to British “greatness” to make sure “Ukrainian skies are safe” and to categorise Russia as a “terrorist state”. The Houses of Commons and Lords received an extraordinary address by the Ukrainian President on Tuesday afternoon, a short speech that expressed the Ukrainian experience of the renewed Russian invasion day-by-day for the past fortnight, and which also appealed to the United Kingdom to take further action.

The office of the Bahamian Minister of Foreign Affairs has confirmed Sidney’s death to TMZ … however, the circumstances surrounding his passing are not yet known, nor do we know where he died.

New York police have arrested a man in connection with the vandalism of a newly-unveiled statue of George Floyd earlier this month. The New York City Police Department Hate Crimes Task Force announced on Monday that it had charged 37-year-old Micah Beals of Manhattan with second-degree criminal mischief. Beals' attorney, Rebecca Heinsen of Legal Aid Society, declined to comment on the arrest or charge. Outlets including Newsweek and People report that Beals is an actor who goes by the stage name Micah Femia. He appeared in the 2013 movie Pop Star as well as one 2011 episode of NBC sitcom...

Attorney Alan Dershowitz blasted comedian Larry David after the Seinfeld co-creator and Curb Your Enthusiasm star “screamed” and “yelled” at him in a grocery store over his ties with the Trump administration, calling him a “knee-jerk radical” who “takes his politics from Hollywood” and doesn’t read or think a lot. “While he was writing bad jokes, I was helping to bring about peace in the Middle East. What has he done?” Alan Dershowitz told Page Six. “Larry is a knee-jerk radical. He takes his politics from Hollywood. He doesn’t read a lot. He doesn’t think a lot.”

TV actor Isaiah Stokes has been indicted for the February murder of Tyrone Jones, the Queens District Attorney's Office announced Friday. Stokes, 41, was arraigned Friday morning on a three-count indictment charging him with murder in the second degree and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, according to a press release. Stokes' next court date is set for July 19. If convicted of the charges against him, he faces up to 25 years-to-life in prison. "The defendant is accused of unloading nearly eleven shots during this brazen afternoon shooting," District Attorney Melinda Katz said...

Click here to read the full articleJudge Royce Lam­berth on Tues­day denied the release of Jacob Chans­ley, the “Q Shaman” who has been sit­ting in jail for near­ly 6 months for non-vio­lent charges con­nect­ed to the Jan­u­ary 6 Capi­tol riot.Jacob Chans­ley, the horned shaman seen roam­ing around the halls of Con­gress on Jan­u­ary 6th, has been locked up in Wash­ing­ton DC for sev­er­al months — with­out bail.Jacob did not cause any vio­lence, he lis­tened to offi­cers and he was let in the build­ing by Capi­tol Hill police.Chansley’s men­tal health has declined while in jail and he has no tri­al date...

Lee Aaker, Child Actor on 'The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin,' Dies at 77 5:51 PM PDT 4/13/2021 by Mike Barnes FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Courtesy Everett CollectionLee Aaker spent five seasons on 'The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin' He also appeared in such films as 'Hondo,' 'High Noon,' 'The Greatest Show on Earth' and 'The Atomic City' — all before he was 10. Lee Aaker, a child actor in the 1950s who starred as the orphan Rusty alongside a German shepherd on ABC's The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin and in films including Hondo and The Atomic City, has...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — George Segal, the banjo player turned actor who was nominated for an Oscar for 1966's “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” and starred in the ABC sitcom “The Goldbergs,” died Tuesday in Santa Rosa, California, his wife said. He was 87.

On January 6th, a mob of extremists stormed the United States Capitol. The riots resulted in the deaths of at least five people, and dozens of the participants were later arrested. One of them is Jacob Chansley, sometimes known as Jake Angeli or “The QAnon Shaman.” Chansley went viral during and after the riots for infiltrating the Senate floor while shirtless and wearing horns. Chansley was arrested three days after the riots and later publicly called on then-President Trump to pardon him, saying he felt he was answering Trump’s call. In a memorandum earlier this month arguing to keep Angeli...

Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin has said that materials stolen during yesterday's coup attempt by pro-Trump rioters on the U.S. Capitol may constitute a possible breech of national security. In this January 6, 2021 tweet, Congressional staffers hold up their hands while Capitol Police Swat teams check everyone in the room as they secure the floor of pro-Trump rioters in Washington, DC.

David Prowse, the champion English weightlifter and bodybuilder who supplied his 6-foot-7 frame — but not the voice or the deep breathing — to portray Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, died early in the morning on Saturday following a short illness. He was 85.

Wilford Brimley, who worked his way up from stunt performer to starring roles in films such as “Cocoon” and “The Natural,” has died. He was 85. Brimley’s manager Lynda Bensky said the actor died Saturday morning in a Utah hospital. He was on dialysis and had several medical ailments, she said. The mustached Brimley was a familiar face for a number of roles, often playing gruff characters like his grizzled baseball manager in “The Natural.” Brimley’s best-known work was in “Cocoon,” in which he was part of a group of seniors who discover an alien pod that rejuvenates them. The...

CNN — Nick Cordero, a Broadway actor who had admirers across the world rallying for his recovery, has died after a battle with COVID-19 according to his wife, Amanda Kloots. He was 41. "God has another angel in heaven now," Kloots posted on her official Instagram account Sunday night. "My darling husband passed away this morning. He was surrounded in love by his family, singing and praying as he gently left this earth." Kloots has been regularly updating her social media accounts with news of her husband's ups and downs as he battled the virus and complications, including an amputated...

Alec Baldwin made clear what he thinks about America, launching a fake news filled rant attacking Americans who’ve spent years praising the country’s greatness. The Left-wing actor also blamed President Donald Trump for those killed by the Chinese coronavirus. Baldwin called Trump a “maniac” responsible for overseeing “one of the worst [coronavirus] responses in the world.” “Americans have spent decades telling the world how great we [are],” the Boss Baby star said. “Actually, we don’t shut up about it. And yet we have more deaths from this crisis than anywhere. We have had [one] of the worst responses in the...

On Tuesday, Hollywood actress, Trump-hater and now apparent vicious anti-Semite Rosanna Arquette issued a tweet (later deleted) insinuating a Jewish conspiracy behind the ravaging of the world by the coronavirus, ranting, “I’m still confused, so Israel has been working on a corona virus vaccine for a year already ? (so they knew )Vaccines take a long time to know if they are safe and KUSHNER OSCAR is the major investor in the new vaccine that is supposedly coming here. lives at risk for profit.” Arquette’s vicious anti-Semitism drew immediate condemnation: Esoteric Jeff ✔@EsotericCD Great, we're now at the "Hollywood celebrities are...

Actor Charles Levin, 70, died over the summer, and now a new report is shedding light on what happened. Levin was reported missing by his son Jesse on June 28 after he called a friend to say he was lost somewhere near Cave Junction, Oregon. Now, DailyMail.com has obtained official reports from the case that reveal that on July 13 Levin’s car was found on a remote road. His body was discovered at the bottom of a 30-foot ravine. Documents from Grants Pass Department of Public Safety indicate that Levin had been dead for days. His body was naked and...

House Democrats are looking to prevent the whistleblower from being identified by holding the person's testimony at a remote location and potentially changing their appearance and voice. Democrats are going to great lengths to hide the whistleblower's identity out of fear the Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee could leak their identity, according to The Washington Post, which cited three people familiar with the discussions. Democrats are considering holding testimony outside the Capitol as well as a staff-only session that would bar lawmakers from questioning the whistleblower, according to the Post. Democrats are also weighing options to distort the whistleblower's...

Granted, most of her credits are from 2019. But you should know that this girl comes from a whole family of actors.

Walsh, who supported Trump in 2016, rode the wave of the tea party movement in 2010 to win a seat in the House by 290 votes over Democratic incumbent Melissa Bean. Walsh was soundly defeated for reelection by Tammy Duckworth by nearly 10 percentage points in 2012, leading to his radio career. For the 57-year-old Walsh, his candidacy for president becomes the latest act in a public life that is in many ways befitting for a former student at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. His provocative rhetoric has given him an outsized national platform on cable news outlets...