Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Dead Already by John LaRue Dead Already by John LaRue. Известность за Актёрское искусство. Известно авторство 45. Пол Мужской. Дата рождения 1917-06-15. Дата смерти 1996-05-21 (78 лет) Место рождения Gretna, Louisiana, USA. Также известность как. Lash LaRue Alfred Wilson LaRue Alfred LaRue Alfred La Rue Al LaRue Al La Rue Al 'Lash' La Rue 'Lash' LaRue 'Lash' La Rue Lash Larue Alfred 'Lash' LaRue Alfred 'Lash' La Rue. Войти для для отчёта о проблеме. Lash La Rue. Биография. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alfred "Lash" LaRue (June 15, 1917 – May 21, 1996) was a popular western motion picture star of the 1940s and 1950s. He had exceptional skill with the bullwhip and taught Harrison Ford how to use a bullwhip for the Indiana Jones movies. LaRue was one of the first recipients of the Golden Boot Awards in 1983. LaRue was originally screen tested by Warner Bros. but was rejected because he looked too much like Humphrey Bogart, then one of the studio's contract stars . He began acting in films in 1944 (at age 27) as Al LaRue, appearing in two musicals and a serial before being given a role in a Western film that would result in his being cast in a cowboy persona for virtually the rest of his career. He was given the name Lash because of the 18-foot (5.5 m)-long bullwhip he used to help bring down the bad guys. The popularity of his first role as the Cheyenne Kid, a sidekick of singing cowboy hero Eddie Dean, not just brandishing a whip but using it expertly to disarm villains, paved the way for LaRue to be featured in his own series of Western films. After appearing in all three of the Eddie Dean Cinecolor singing Westerns in 1945-46, he starred in quirky B-westerns from 1947 to 1951, at first for Poverty Row studio PRC, then for Eagle-Lion when they took over the studio, and later for producer Ron Ormond. He developed his image as the cowboy hero Lash LaRue, dressed all in black, and inherited from Buster Crabbe a comic sidekick in the form of "Fuzzy Q. Jones" played by Al St. John. LaRue played the Cheyenne Kid sidekick in about 8 films, before he starred in his own film series, playing a character actually named "Marshall Lash LaRue". Those 11 films (from 1948-1951) are the ones that western movie fans refer to as the "Lash LaRue" film series. He was different from the usual cowboy hero of the era: dressed in black, he spoke with a "city tough-guy" accent somewhat like that of Humphrey Bogart, whom he physically resembled. His use of a bullwhip, however, was what set him apart from bigger cowboy stars such as Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. His influence was felt throughout the dying medium of B-westerns; for example, he had an imitator, Whip Wilson, who starred in his own brief series, and even Roy Rogers started picking up and using a bullwhip in some of his Republic Studios Westerns made in the same period. He also made frequent personal appearances at small-town movie theaters that were showing his films during his heyday of 1948-51, a common practice for cowboy stars in those days. However, his skillful displays of stunts with his whip, done live on movie theater stages, also convinced young Western fans that there was at least one cowboy hero who could do in real life the same things he did on screen. He continued working in films and television until he retired in 1990. LaRue died of emphysema in 1996 (age 78) at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, and was cremated at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. He was survived by his wife, Frances Bramlett LaRue, three sons and three daughters. PreachingToday.com - The Story of a Profitable Subscription Site. CHALLENGE Christianity Today International has been running a profitable free content site online since 1994. Although the site appealed to a broad consumer audience, market research showed that a solid 20% of visitors were professional pastors. Also, the organization had a history of success selling offline resources to pastors, such as books, audio-tapes and CD-ROMs. So, after a great deal of internal thought and discussion, the organization decided to take the plunge and experiment with a subscription-based site. John LaRue, VP Internet Research & Development, says, "Advertising is good for this market segment, but we didn't need another product to generate traffic to sell it. We already have other areas for church leaders where we're selling ads. In fact like anybody else we tend to have more space online then we can sell. I kept asking if this should be free, but the market research gave us an indication of what percent of the audience would pay and the numbers were really good compared to other products -- both online and print." CAMPAIGN Despite the fact that Christianity Today has been in business since 1956 and as LaRue says, "We understand our niche pretty well", the team did not make any assumptions going into the development process. First they carefully surveyed pastors both by direct mail and by email. LaRue says, "The mailed version was a four-page traditional survey with a whole bunch of ideas. This helped develop which concepts came out on top. The online one was smaller and helped refine the features." Results showed that pastors were willing to pay for easy-access to illustrative stories, quotes or facts (known as "illustrations") that they could incorporate into their sermons to bring their message to life. LaRue says, "Pastors are constantly in need of materials." So, the new subscription site -- entitled PreachingToday.com -- was built around a database of 3,500 illustrations fully searchable by topic and bible verse. Plus, paid subscribers would receive 10 new illustrations per week via email. Additional content included an online journal featuring skill-building articles written by some of the best- known preachers in America. The site launched late 1999 with a direct mail campaign. The initial piece was a double postcard offering a 30-day free trial for $39.95. Copy included endorsements from a range of "celebrity preachers" to appeal to both evangelical and mainstream pastors. In addition, LaRue promoted the site online by placing promotional banners on sister-site ChristianityToday.com and including announcements in the site's appropriate free email newsletters. PreachingToday.com's visitors who weren't sure about paying for content had the option of receiving a free newsletter featuring just one weekly illustration and tantalizing headlines for the remaining nine. Buyers had their choice of three paid subscription levels: Basic (just the ten weekly emailed illustrations) at $19.95, Enhanced for a bit more and Premium (including the searchable database) for $39.95. After a year, PreachingToday.com raised its premium price to $49.95 to reflect the fact that the site's content had doubled in size. The site began renewing initial subscribers in October 2000 by sending an emailed, opt-out announcement 30 days before automatically billing subscribers' credit cards for another year. LaRue's "wonderful" customer service person followed up on all expired and changed cards via email and phone. RESULTS LaRue says, "We exceeded expectations the first year. PreachingToday.com is budgeted to generate more than $400,000 in revenue with a gross margin of 25% for the 2001 fiscal year. We currently have 7,500 paid subscribers and have seen no slow down in the growth curve since we launched." 95% of subscribers chose the Premium subscription (formerly $39.95, now $49.95.) About 5% of subscribers chose the $19.95 Basic subscription. Almost none chose the middle, "enhanced" subscription, so this option was dropped fairly early on. The site's renewal rate is currently a healthy 60-70%. Traffic has steadied to about 42,000 home page impressions a month, with four to ten times that many impressions on other subscribers-only pages. LaRue says, "We know pastors are going in there." Direct mail campaigns were definitely successful; however, LaRue learned not to put a phone number on the postcards. He says, "Registering people by phone became a customer service nightmare. Some people thought they could sign up for it but they didn't have to be online." Now all responses are driven to the Web site, and from there visitors can find a number to call customer service if they want to. Eva LaRue reveals home of John Callahan broken into; car, identity stolen after death: 'It's been a nightmare' Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what's clicking today in entertainment. EXCLUSIVE: Actress Eva LaRue, the ex-wife of late “All My Children” star John Callahan, has been reeling in the wake of his untimely death in March. The “CSI: Miami” star has been picking up the pieces to Callahan’s life since the longtime soap opera performer had his home ransacked and his personal and material property stolen in the days after his death due to a massive stroke. He was 66. “It has definitely been a roller coaster because not only is my daughter [Kaya Callahan] grieving so hard, but I'm grieving separately in my way, too, because he has been my great friend,” LaRue – who was married to Callahan from 1996 to 2004 – lamented to Fox News. Actress Eva LaRue with daughter Kaya McKenna Callahan and late ex-husband John Callahan. Callahan died in March 2020 of a massive stroke. (ABC/Virginia Sherwood) “And at the same time, somebody broke into his house right after he died and stole his identity, his car, his laptop,” continued the Emmy-winner. “They have been taking out loans and credit cards in his name and they’ve siphoned money out of his bank account – it's been a nightmare. A nightmare." LaRue, who also performed alongside Callahan on the ABC series, said trying to remedy the difficult situation has been daunting as tedious phone calls and emails have been taking much longer or have simply gotten nowhere. “As you can imagine, every phone call is being put on hold for like 20 minutes or an hour or two hours, and then people being like, ‘I'm sorry, we can't help you.’ It's just like a bureaucratic nightmare,” LaRue said. “Every phone call that we make to try to fix the situation is just insane.” LaRue said some progress has been made in apprehending the alleged culprit, which if the global coronavirus pandemic wasn’t enough of a burden, the predicament itself has “wreaked havoc” on their family. “It's just sick and messed up,” fumed the actress and model. “And I mean, the good thing is that they're circling the wagons around this person. And so he's going to get caught. But in the meantime, it's wreaked such havoc for the last four months, like such crazy havoc.” But despite the misfortune amid Callahan’s tragic passing, LaRue -- who recently took home an Emmy for outstanding guest performer for her role in “The Young and the Restless,” receiving her nomination just two weeks after Callahan’s death -- has been hard at work on the Pure Flix original limited series, “Finding Love in Quarantine." The show was filmed entirely in isolation and with a skeleton crew. “I thought it was such a sweet story and it was so topical how we're all just we're feeling so lonely and reaching out via social media and Zoom in all of these things -- like it was just so topical that I really wanted to do it,” LaRue said of the limited series that also stars Tom Arnold, Stacey Dash and David White. She continued: "I just loved the love story idea and I'm sure that it actually speaks to a lot of people because I know there were a lot of people that, that was the way that they were falling in love -- was just reaching out through all this madness in any way they could.” John Callahan as Edmund and Eva LaRue as Maria on 'All My Children.' (ABC/STEVE FENN) She said she jumped at the opportunity to play in this limited filming space because the art of human interaction has seemingly been a lost art in recent years with growing technology, social media, and pesky dating apps. Plus, the coronavirus pandemic has “forced” people back into human habits. “It’s exactly right. It forced people – the great thing about this insane [time] is that I think there's actually been a lot of interesting positives that have come out of this whole quarantine nightmare,” explained LaRue. “And that was a lot of self-reflection – which normally none of us ever slow down enough to do – and we’ve had an inordinate amount of self-reflection time and more than we'll probably ever have in our lifetimes again.” Added the writer and producer: “And the fact that we really realized how much we need real interaction – not just texting interaction – but how we actually need that face time and I think we all really realized how much we desperately missed human touch. There's definitely an appreciation factor that you came out of that over these last four months.” Given the strict social distancing guidelines, LaRue said it created a “weird” dynamic filming on an empty set and praised director Matt Shapira, as well as Tommy Blaze and David White, for their creativity in bringing the project together. Eva LaRue (Photo by Jason LaVeris/Getty Images) “I didn't get to work with everyone because of the way we shot it – we were shooting in quarantine. So we literally had – everybody was separate so that we wouldn't all be on the same set,” LaRue explained. “So the only person I worked with was Stacey Dash and the director/cameraman and the sound/lighting person. So we were just as minimal as you could get. “And then David White worked with his real daughter,” added LaRue. “So it's just the two of them in their house shooting. So everybody worked separately so that we could put this thing together in quarantine. David shot in his own home and then we shot in a separate home for me – and it was the director's home that Stacey and I shot in. And I don't know where they shot everybody else because I wasn't there on those days at all.” LaRue, who also starred on “CSI: Miami” for eight seasons from 2005 to 2012, said that machine would be impossible to reproduce in the era of COVID-19 and social distancing. “It's weird because I mean, everybody's tentatively coming back if they're coming back at all because it's so hard on a regular night – I mean, thankfully, this was a short-form series so we didn't have to meet,” she said. “But if we tried to come back with 'CSI Miami' – we had 300 people on that show between writers and producers and grips and lighting and sound and makeup and hair and wardrobe and interns and casting – all the stuff.” From left, Eddie Cibrian as Jesse Cardoza, Eva La Rue as Natalia Boa Vista, and Adam Rodriguez as Eric Delko in 'CSI: Miami.' (Photo by Robert Voets/CBS via Getty Images) “We had almost 300 people who made that whole baby run and I don't know if they could have – we simply couldn't have done it,” she added. “Maybe they could have done it with 100 people, but 100 people still wouldn't be allowed right now.” LaRue said she empathizes with the thousands of workers in Hollywood who all of a sudden found themselves out of a job due to COVID-19 and said everyone is united in the sense that no one knows if or when their job could be pulled. “It's going to be crazy because nobody knows anything,” she said. “I think that's the weirdest thing about this is that we've kind of trudged through life year after year, decade after decade pretty much knowing that we will have a job – some job somewhere, if not this job, another job – and that for the most part unless something really traumatic happens, there's always the hope that, 'OK, maybe this job ended but, you know, there's going to be a better one on the horizon or something better.'” “Right now, we're all really in this crazy limbo of, 'Will it get better?' And yes, eventually. But wow," she added. "This is the first time in my whole life – maybe in all of our existence – that there is really nothing promised to any of us right now. Period.” Dead dog and AK-47 shooting spree that also killed camel spurs Oregon lawsuit. A man is suing Art's Red Garter Steakhouse & Saloon in Josephine County for allegedly overserving his neighbor, who later went on a shooting spree that injured the man and killed his dog, with alcohol. Google Maps. A southern Oregon man is suing a bar for allegedly serving too much alcohol to his neighbor — who then went home, took out an AK-47 and started shooting in a wild spree that left the man wounded, his dog dead and a camel in a nearby wildlife preserve suffering from a stray bullet. John LaRue, 49, of Cave Junction claims in the lawsuit that his neighbor, Joseph Sallman, was known to “become violent and use firearms when he is intoxicated.” On July 1, 2017, Sallman started drinking at 7 a.m. at his grandmother’s restaurant, Art’s Red Garter Steakhouse & Saloon, the suit alleges. The bar served him an “excessive amount of alcohol,” the suit says, but it doesn’t state how much. That same day, the suit claims, Sallman showed up at LaRue’s trailer, which is parked next door to Sallman’s home, and “made threatening statements.” Later that day, Sallman shot off his AK-47. The two had been friends who had a falling out over two pistols that LaRue took from Sallman, LaRue told The Daily Courier newspaper in Grants Pass. A probable cause affidavit filed by Oregon State Police says the shooting occurred outside Sallman’s home as LaRue was driving by in his truck. A bullet “grazed” LaRue inside the truck, police said. But LaRue says in the lawsuit that he was shot three times and suffered “damage to the muscles, ligaments, tendons, nerves, and other soft tissue of the chest and right shoulder” and experienced “loss of feeling and use of his right arm” as well as post-traumatic stress disorder and grief over the death of his service dog, Ben. Sallman also hit a camel across the Redwood Highway at the Tiger Preservation Center, The Associated Press reported after the shooting. The camel, named Camille, died two days later, Robert Ringo, who runs the center, told The Associated Press at the time. The camel isn’t mentioned in the lawsuit. Sallman was arrested three days after the shooting and eventually pleaded guilty to attempted murder and first-degree animal abuse for the attack on LaRue and his dog. Sallman, 32, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He also paid LaRue $1,422 in restitution, court records show. The suit, filed last week in Josephine County Circuit Court, names the steakhouse and its owner, Linda Sallman. It seeks $1.5 million in noneconomic damages as well as $80,000 in medical expenses and $500 for the value of the dog. Linda Sallman, 76, told The Oregonian/OregonLive that the bar didn’t open until 9 a.m. the day of the shooting and that her grandson hadn’t been drinking there that morning. Art’s Red Garter Steakhouse & Saloon closed last April, Linda Sallman said, for reasons unrelated to the shooting. LaRue declined to comment through his attorney. Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission. Disclaimer. Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your California Privacy Rights (User Agreement updated 1/1/21. Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement updated 5/1/2021). © 2021 Advance Local Media LLC. All rights reserved (About Us). The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. John Callahan's Death Leaves 'All My Children' Co-Star and Ex-Wife Eva LaRue 'Brokenhearted' Eva LaRue, John Callahan's All My Children co-star and ex-wife, shared an emotional statement on Instagram Saturday afternoon following Callahan's sudden death. Callahan suffered a massive stroke on Friday and died early Saturday morning at the age of 66. The actor and LaRue were married from 1996 to 2004, and are parents to daughter Kaya, 18. "May Flights of Angels Wing You to Your Rest my Dear Friend," LaRue, 53, wrote on Instagram, alongisde a collection of photos. "[You're] bigger than life, gregarious personality will leave a hole in our hearts forever. We are devastated - My great friend, co parent partner, and loving father to Kaya. That big belly laugh, bear hugs, bad puns, ability to harmonize to any song, great kitchen table singing-fests, and two steppin bad ass! 'Johnny Numbers,' my All My Children soap stud, the great time keeper, Beatles fanatic ( I wish to God we could go back to 'Yesterday')." "Kaya and I are beyond broken hearted, so stunned, sorry that my thoughts are a mess. You gave the best most beautifully written tributes, and I am at a complete loss for words right now for you," LaRue continued. "I hope Heaven has baseball and that your team always wins! The Yankees has just lost their biggest Fan."