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S television actor Ed Asner, winner auto-assembly line, though he said in a Uof a record seven Emmy awards, 1973 interview he had dreams of seeing has died at age 91, his family said South America-again foretelling a future Sunday. “We are sorry to say that our character-or Alaska. He then served in the beloved patriarch passed away this morn- army before finally making his way into ing, peacefully. Words cannot express the acting. sadness we feel,” his family wrote on the He appeared in a series of off- actor’s Twitter account. “With a kiss on Broadway plays, television shows and your head-Goodnight dad. We love you.” movies before getting his big break with His publicist said Asner died of natural “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” A liberal causes. activist, he participated in protests in sup- Asner originally made a name for him- port of labor unions and against the death self playing newsroom boss Lou Grant on penalty. He also served two terms as pres- “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” the iconic ident of the Screen Actors Guild. In May, sitcom that ran from 1970 to 1977, and Asner’s friend and “Mary Tyler Moore” co- then later on a spinoff show centered on star Gavin MacLeod passed away. Asner his character. He won three of his seven In this file photo actor Ed Asner and character Carl Fredricksen arrive for the premiere of shared his grief on Twitter. “My heart is Emmys for playing the character, and is Disney Pixar’s “Up” at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on May 16, 2009. — AFP photos broken. Gavin was my brother, my partner one of only two actors to win a comedy in crime (and food) and my comic conspir- In this file photo actor Ed Asner attends the and drama Emmy for the same role on dif- “Up,” which was nominated for the Oscar born on November 15, 1929 in Kansas ator,” he wrote. “I will see you in a bit premiere of “The Leisure Seeker” on January ferent shows. for best picture. In the film, Asner voices a City, Missouri. The youngest of five chil- Gavin. Tell the gang I will see them in a bit. 9, 2018 at the Pacific Design Center in West Asner won himself a new generation of hardened old man who ties thousands of dren, he worked on his high school news- Betty! It’s just you and me now,” he added, Hollywood, California. fans with his portrayal of another tough balloons to his house and flies it to South paper-foreshadowing his stint playing an referring to legendary actress Betty White, guy with a heart of gold: widower Carl America, seeking to fulfill his late wife’s editor on the small screen-and played who is currently the only living alum of the Fredericksen in the 2009 animated movie wish for adventure. Edward Asner was football. As an adult, he worked on an show. — AFP

Last week’s box office leader, Twentieth Century’s sci-fi comedy “Free Guy,” Slasher film slipped to second place, at $13.6 million. The family-friendly film stars Ryan ‘Candyman’ slices Reynolds as an Everyman bank teller who finds he is a character in a huge video game. In the third spot, also down one way to top N position, was Paramount animation “Paw Patrol: The Movie,” at $6.6 million. Based on a popular kids’ television show, it tells America box office the story of a boy named Ryder and the brave pooches who help him save Adventure City from an evil mayor. In niversal’s slasher film “Candyman” fourth was Disney’s family adventure film Uhas topped North American box “Jungle Cruise” at $5 million, bringing its offices in its opening weekend, with North American total just past $100 million. In this file photo taken on August 17, 2008 Jamaican 72-year-old musican Lee Scrath Perry an estimated $22.4 million take nearly The studio is also offering the movie on its and his reggae band perform on the world stage on the Hajogyar (Shipyard) Island in equal to its production budget, industry Disney Plus streaming service. And in fifth Budapest on the last day of the week-long Sziget festival in the Hungarian capital. — AFP watcher Exhibitor Relations said Sunday. was horror feature “Don’t Breathe 2” from Analysts said that three-day total sur- wizardry and eccentric persona. In 1973, Sony, at $2.8 million. Rounding out the top passed expectations for an R-rated film Perry built a backyard studio in Kingston, 5 were: opening in the Covid-19 era-and with pow- naming it the “Black Ark,” which would “Respect” ($2.3 million) Lee ‘Scratch’ erful Hurricane Ida depressing attendance birth countless reggae and dub classics. “The Suicide Squad” ($2 million) in some Southern states. The film, written Adept at layering rhythm and repetition, “The Protege” ($1.7 million) by Jordan Peele and with Yahya Abdul- Perry became a sampling grandmaster “The Night House” ($1.2 million) Perry, reggae Mateen II in the blood-spattered starring whose work created new courses for “Black Widow” ($855,000)—AFP role, had a budget of $25 million, accord- music’s future. The producer for a number ing to Hollywood Reporter. and dub wizard, of landmark dub records-along with Marley, he worked with Max Romeo, Junior Murvin and The Congos-Perry was he released it to streaming on Sunday. dies at 85 key in taking Jamaican music to the inter- After dropping “The Life of Pablo” in national stage, crafting sounds that would 2016, West continued altering the record, endure for decades. adding vocals, new lyrics and remixes. ee “Scratch” Perry, the wildly influen- Always one to court controversy, West Ltial Jamaican singer and producer ‘Salvador Dali of music’ angered some fans after both DaBaby and who pushed the boundaries of reg- Perry’s layering techniques were the Manson appeared at his Chicago listening gae and shepherded dub, died Sunday. stuff of legend; he used stones, water and session on Thursday, on the porch of a He was 85 years old. No cause of death kitchen utensils to create surreal, often makeshift house meant to resemble was given, but Jamaican Prime Minister haunting, sonic density. According to lore, West’s childhood home. Also at the ses- Melissa McCarthy Andrew Holness said in a statement the he created drum effects by burying a mic sion was Kim Kardashian, who filed for visionary died while in the Noel Holmes divorce this year, ending her nearly at the base of a palm tree, and wove the ollowing weeks of delay and several Hospital in Lucea. “Today Jamaica has decade-long union with West. But at the sound of marijuana smoke blown into a stadium-filled public listening ses- lost the rhythm and soul of a prolific music mic into his works. “You could never put F Chicago listening event she fueled specu- sions, Kanye West’s “Donda” arrived icon who has inspired many,” Holness said lation they were getting back together after your finger on Lee Perry-he’s the Salvador Sunday morning. The two-hour, 27 track- in the release. “Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry was appearing in a white gown and veil.—AFP Dali of music,” Keith Richards told Rolling long album features a laundry list of spe- truly one of the most important and cre- Stone in 2010. “He’s a mystery. The world cial appearances, including from Jay-Z, ative figures to have come out of is his instrument. You just have to listen. The Weeknd, Travis Scott and Lil Baby. Jamaica.” More than a producer, he knows how to More controversially, Marilyn Manson-who A producer for a wide array of artists inspire the artist’s soul,” Richards told the is accused of rape and sexually and psy- including Bob Marley, Perry’s mastery tra- magazine. chologically abusing several women-and versed time and genre, his impact evident elissa McCarthy felt like her body “He has a gift of not only hearing DaBaby-who recently sparked anger for from hip hop to post-punk, from The was on “fire” when she underwent sounds that come from nowhere else, but M homophobic remarks during a perform- Beastie Boys to The Clash. Born March an unusual spa treatment - bathing also translating those sounds to the musi- ance-are credited on West’s 10th studio 20, 1936 in the rural Jamaican town of in water and grapefruit juice. The 51-year- cians. Scratch is a shaman.” The highly album. Kendal, Rainford Hugh “Lee” Perry left old actress stars with Nicole Kidman, sought-after producer-the likes of Paul Chris Brown, who pleaded guilty to school at age 15, moving to Kingston in Michael Shannon, Luke Evans, Samara McCartney recorded with him-continued to abusing mega star Rihanna 2009, is also the 1960s. “My father worked on the road, Weaving and more in new Hulu miniseries mix and release his own music with his listed as a composer and lyricist on the my mother in the fields. We were very ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’, which is based on band the Upsetters, but began suffering track “New Again.” The album-which touch- poor. I went to school... I learned nothing Australian author Liane Moriarty’s book of mentally in the 1970s. The Black Ark fell es on religious themes of redemption along at all. Everything I have learned has come the same name which follows a group of into disrepair. The studio ultimately burned with turmoil in West’s personal life- from nature,” Perry told the British music city dwellers who in search of spiritual heal- down; Perry holds he set it ablaze himself changed dramatically over the past month In this file photo rapper Kanye West speaks outlet NME in 1984. “When I left school ing check into an upscale California well- in the early 1980s. during West’s listening sessions held in during his meeting with former US President there was nothing to do except field work. ness retreat. Melissa has recalled the well- Perry began traveling and living Atlanta, Las Vegas and Chicago. It’s possi- Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White Hard, hard labor. I didn’t fancy that. So I ness treatment that she had which did not abroad, ultimately settling in Switzerland ble West will continue tinkering even after House in Washington, DC. — AFP started playing dominoes. Through domi- for a time with his family, and remained go well, as the citrus fruit essence left her noes I practiced my mind and learned to prolific until his death. “Pure Innovation. stinging all over and in some intimate areas. The ‘Spy’ star said: “I’ve gone to a spa read the minds of others.” Pure Imagination. This Man Was Plug Ins remains this alive in me (sic)” In a tribute to “This has proved eternally useful to long before you studio cats today can sim- once and got into this tub with extract of grapefruit or something and it was literally Chadwick following his death, the actress me.” He began selling records for Clement ply press one button and instantly created revealed that his tragic passing was a Coxsone Dodd’s sound system in the late sound chaos,” wrote Roots drummer on fire. “I’m trying - not very gracefully - to get out of the bath with some amount of “punch to her gut every morning”. Lupita 1950s, while also cultivating his own Questlove. “What a character! Totally age- wrote: “I write these words from a place of recording career. Perry broke ranks with less! Extremely creative, with a memory modesty and the person just stands there and goes, ‘Oh yes, it stings intensely.’ I was hopelessness, to honor a man who had Dodds over personal and financial con- as sharp as a tape machine! A brain as great hope. I am struggling to think and flicts, moving to Joe Gibbs’s Amalgamated accurate as a computer!” wrote the British like, ‘Well, let’s wash it off,’ and she goes, ‘It’s gonna keep burning for quite a while.’ speak about my friend, Chadwick Records before also falling out with Gibbs. artist Mad Professor, Perry’s longtime col- Boseman, in the past tense. It doesn’t In 1968, he formed his own label, laborator, on social media Sunday. And then I was done.” Melissa’s ‘Nine ichael B. Jordan has paid tribute to make sense. The news of his passing is a “Upsetter Records.” His first major single, Praising Perry’s “pioneering spirit and Perfect Strangers’ co-star Nicole, 54, has also had a spa nightmare, which involved a Chadwick Boseman on the first punch to my gut every morning. “I am “People Funny Boy”-a jibe at Gibbs-was work,” the Beastie Boys also tweeted an M aware that we are all mortal, but you come anniversary of his death. Michael, praised for its innovative use of a crying homage: “We are truly grateful to have saltwater tank. In a joint interview with 34, shared a picture of himself and his late across some people in life that possess an baby recording, an early use of a sample. been inspired by and collaborated with this Melissa for the US edition of OK! magazine, ‘Black Panther’ co-star, who passed away immortal energy, that seem like they have He gained fame both in Jamaica and true legend.”— AFP Nicole said: “I did that thing with my boyfriend at the time where you lie in salt- on August 28, 2020, after a secret battle existed before, that are exactly where they abroad, especially in Britain, drawing are supposed to always be - here! ... that acclaim for his inventive production, studio water in a tank. — Bang Showbiz with colon cancer. Michael captioned the image: “Not a day goes by bro... Love and seem ageless... Chadwick was one of miss you but I know you still with us.” those people. (sic)”. — Bang Showbiz faced and how it’s important not to dismiss Kerry Washington also shared a tribute to Paulson admits she “fatphobia”, which is very “real”. In an inter- Chadwick, 43, writing: “One year without view with the Los Angeles Times newspa- Chadwick Boseman. Thank you for watch- per, Sarah said: “It’s very hard for me to talk ing over us. We miss you King.” ‘regrets’ wearing a about this without feeling like I’m making ‘Avengers’ actor Mark Ruffalo wrote: excuses. “Can’t believe how fast time has gone. fat suit to play Tripp “I think fatphobia is real. I think to pretend Thinking of you today,” while Boseman’s otherwise causes further harm. “And it is a ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ co-star Viola very important conversation to be had.” If Davis shared: “This day last year you left arah Paulson has admitted, in hind- she was asked to wear one again, she this earth and us.. Man you are missed!” Ssight, she shouldn’t have worn a fat would decline. She continued: “I think the And Lupita Nyong’o, who played Nakia, suit for her portrayal of Linda Tripp in thing I think about the most is that I regret the love interest of Boseman’s character ‘Impeachment: American Crime Story’. The not thinking about it more fully. “And that is T’Challa, took to Instagram to share a spe- 46-year-old star plays the real-life civil ser- an important thing for me to think about and cial tribute to her late friend. She posted a vant who served a major role in exposing reflect on. I also know it’s a privileged place picture of them laughing together and Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky in to be sitting and thinking about it and reflect- wrote: “I did not know I could miss both his 1998 in the third season of the FX true ing on it, having already gotten to do it, and laughter and his silence in equal measure.

Sarah Paulson crime anthology television series. And the having had an opportunity that someone “I do, I do... One year after his passing, actress has reflected on the criticism she else didn’t have. — Bang Showbiz the memory of @chadwickboseman Michael B. Jordan and Chadwick Boseman