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I had admired Mr. Dennehy — who died on Wednesday, at 81 — as a smart, risk-taking and undersung actor onstage and onscreen. He was a heartbreakingly sensitive lout as the parvenu Lopakhin — a brute with a touch of the poet — in Peter Brook’s production of Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” (1988) at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. His performance as the serial murderer John Wayne Gacy in the 1992 television film “To Catch a Killer” was a penetratingly human portrait of a monster, and it haunted my nightmares for a long time. But nothing I had seen Mr....

None of it happened. Dennehy had served in the US Marine Corps between 1958 and 1963 but did not set foot in Vietnam. The closest he came to combat was playing inter-service American football in Okinawa. Dennehy publicly apologised for his deception in 1999. But there are reports that he continued telling embellished stories of courage under fire to anyone silly enough to listen. Once an actor …

Brian Dennehy, the veteran actor of stage and screen, died on Wednesday, his daughter Elizabeth said. He was 81. “It is with heavy hearts we announce that our father, Brian passed away last night from natural causes, not Covid-related,” Elizabeth wrote on Twitter. “Larger than life, generous to a fault, a proud and devoted father and grandfather, he will be missed by his wife Jennifer, family and many friends.” The tall, imposing Dennehy, who was born in Bridgeport, Conn., was a fixture at the movies in the 1980s and ’90s, appearing in such films as “First Blood,” “Tommy Boy” and...

Brian Dennehy, the winner of two Tonys in a career that also spanned films including “Tommy Boy,” “First Blood” and “Cocoon,” and television, died on Wednesday night in New Haven, Conn. He was 81. “It is with heavy hearts we announce that our father, Brian passed away last night from natural causes, not Covid-related. Larger than life, generous to a fault, a proud and devoted father and grandfather, he will be missed by his wife Jennifer, family and many friends,” his daughter, actress Elizabeth Dennehy, tweeted on Thursday. The imposingly tall, barrel-chested Dennehy won his first Tony for his performance...

LONDONDERRY, N.H. — A New Hampshire high school English teacher is facing a charge she sent a 15-year-old male student nude photos of herself that were then circulated around the school. Police say 41-year-old Melinda Dennehy of Hampstead turned herself in on Friday. She was charged with indecent exposure and lewdness and then released on a $10,000 bond. Dennehy was placed on paid administrative leave by Londonderry High School administrators on Wednesday, the day school officials and police were notified about the pictures going around school.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Bill Zeiser at bill.zeiser@gmail.com (516) 448-5489 Website: www.911neverforget.us SPEAKER LIST FOR THE 9/11 NEVER FORGET COALITION DECEMBER 5 RALLY When: Saturday, December 5th, 2009 12:00 noon; Where: Foley Square, New York City; Who: The 9/11 Never Forget Coalition, a diverse group of 9/11 victims, family members, first responders, active and reserve members of the military, veterans, and concerned Americans, is holding a major rally on December 5th to protest Attorney General Eric Holder’s plan to bring the 9/11 terrorist conspirators to trial in New York City. Confirmed speakers list: DAVID BEAMER David Beamer is the father...

Judge Tosses Most of Baylor Death Lawsuit 1 hour, 15 minutes ago By ANGELA K. BROWN, Associated Press Writer WACO, Texas - A judge on Friday threw out most of the wrongful-death lawsuit filed against Baylor by the father of slain basketball player Patrick Dennehy Jr. Patrick Dennehy Sr. sought unspecified damages in his lawsuit, which claims that his son became the target of "violent threats" because he intended to expose wrongdoing in the basketball program. Judge Ralph Strother said the university could not have foreseen the slaying of the 21-year-old Dennehy, whose body was found in a field near...

WACO, Texas - Former Baylor basketball player Carlton Dotson was indicted Wednesday for the murder of his teammate and roommate Patrick Dennehy. The McLennan County grand jury heard evidence for about 90 minutes before handing down an indictment against Dotson, who has been jailed in his home state of Maryland since his July 21 arrest. The indictment alleges that Dotson shot Dennehy on or about June 12. Dennehy's body was found in a field near a rock quarry southeast of town July 25. He had been shot twice in head according to an autopsy report. District Attorney John Segrest and...

Certainly, their grief cannot begin to compare with that of Patrick Dennehy's loved ones, but friends of disgraced former Baylor University basketball coach Dave Bliss are also coping with a sense of loss. There's the shock of watching his 34-year college coaching career vaporize – poof! – in a furnace of scandal in the weeks after Mr. Dennehy's slaying. There's the distress of seeing a man they've long known, or thought they knew, become a pariah, the new undisputed, nationally vilified example of all that is wrong with college athletics. Suddenly, the only Bliss portrait the public ever saw has...

Secretly recorded tapes show former Baylor basketball coach Dave Bliss told his assistants and players to lie to investigators looking into program violations and say a slain player had paid tuition by dealing drugs, two newspapers reported Saturday. Bliss, who resigned Aug. 8 after the investigation into Patrick Dennehy's death, has admitted being involved in paying players' tuition and acknowledged the attempted cover-up to both the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, which obtained the tapes, and to The Dallas Morning News. "The bizarre circumstances painted me into a corner and I chose the wrong way to react," Bliss told the Star-Telegram. Since...

Report: Taped Bliss conversations show cover-up ESPN.com news services Dave Bliss is no longer the Baylor basketball coach. But the shockwaves keep coming. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported in its Saturday edition that Bliss directed a cover-up during the recent investigation into his program, and that his comments were caught on a hidden tape recorder by one of his assistant coaches. According to the paper, Bliss wanted his players to provide false information concerning slain teammate Patrick Dennehy. The Baylor coaching staff had been accused of arranging payments for Dennehy's tuition, but Bliss asked his players to say Dennehy dealt...

<p>Following slaying of Dennehy at Baylor, coaches plan to keep closer tabs on players.</p> <p>Lamar's Billy Tubbs, a college basketball coach for 28 seasons, will for the first time have a rule that his players can't own guns.</p> <p>Dallas — In 28 seasons as a college basketball coach, Billy Tubbs never had a rule preventing players from owning guns. He will this fall.</p>

At Baylor, Questions and More QuestionsBy SELENA ROBERTS THIS does not dilute a devastating loss, but there is an expectation of a conclusion once a missing person's body is discovered, if only as the end to an agonizing unknown.Not all expectations unfold neatly, though. Sometimes a death is the beginning of a discovery into a secret double life, providing an unexpected peek into a hidden dark side.The exposed, however, is not the Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy. Certainly, there are questions about how he could have met such an unimaginable death, how a friend and a teammate like Carlton Dotson...