Clifton James 1920-2017 Haki miliki ya picha Rex Features Image caption Clifton James, who has died aged 96, played Sheriff JW Pepper in two Bond films
Mwigizaji Clifton James, aliyeigiza kama Liwali JW Pepper kwenye filamu mbili za James Bond, amefariki dunia akiwa na miaka 96.
Alifariki karibu na mji wake aliokulia wa Gladstone, Oregon, siku ya Jumamosi kutokana na matatizo ya ugonjwa wa kisukari.
James alifahamika sana kutokana na uigizaji wake pamoja na Sir Roger Moore katika filamu za Bonds za Live and Let Die na The Man with the Golden Gun miaka ya sabini.
Binti yake Lynn amesema: ""Alikuwa mtu mpenda watu na mwenye uwazi sana. Alipendwa sana na kila mtu.""
Aliongeza: "Sidhani alikuwa na adui hata mmoja. Kwa kweli tulibarikiwa kuwa na yeye maishani."
Mwaka 1973, James aliigiza kama liwali wa Louisiana JW Pepper kwenye filamu ya Live and Let Die, ambao alifanikiwa sana kuigiza tukio la kukimbizana kwa boti.
His character proved so popular he was asked to reprise the role in 1974"s The Man with the Golden Gun, involving another car chase, in Thailand, and a scene where he gets pushed into water by a baby elephant.
Haki miliki ya picha Getty Images Image caption James aliigiza na Sir Roger Moore katika The Man with the Golden Gun
Uigizaji wake ulifurahisha mashabiki sana kiasi kwamba aliombwa kurejea tena mwaka 1974 kuigiza tena filamu ya The Man with the Golden Gun, tukio la kukimbizana kwa magari Thailand. Kwenye kisa hicho, alirushwa kwenye maji na mwanandovu.
Sir Roger ameandika: "Nasikitika sana kusikia Clifton James ametuachas. Kama JW Pepper aliboresha sana na kuongeza ucheshi katika filamu zangu mbili za kwanza za Bond."
James pia aliigiza katika msururu wa filamu za runinga wa Dallas, filamu za Superman II na The Bonfire of the Vanities.
Aliigiza mara ya mwisho mwaka 2006 katika filamu ya ucheshi ya Raising Flagg.
Alitarajiwa kuigiza katika filamu iliyopwa jina Old Soldiers, kwa mujibu wa IMDB.
April, but two events have postponed it. Firstly, 15 April was a Saturday this year. There is a rule that the deadline has to be on the following Monday if this is the case.
So why wasnt it on Monday? Because it was a holiday in the District of Columbia on Monday Emancipation Day. This marks the day 31,100 slaves living in Washington were freed.
Despite the district"s relatively minuscule population compared to the rest of the US, this further delayed the deadline, pushing it to Tuesday.
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the nashville predators open postseason playThursday in Chicago as they take on the Blackhawks in the opening round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. And while there are thousands of fans in Tennessee getting excited for the game, one of them -- who might just be ever so slightly more famous than the rest -- is getting her spirit on with a perfect manicure and pedicure combination.
That, of course, would be the one and only Carrie Underwood, who showed off her nails -- ahem -- spirit fingers, on Instagram. The country superstar is married to Predators captain Mike Fisher and is clearly more than a little proud to cheer on the squad.
Will the gold accent nail be the good-luck charm the team needs to win Game 1? I guess we"ll just have to wait and see.
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First Take | Phil Jackson says Carmelo Anthony "would be better off somewhere else" | Apr 17, 2017
In a season littered with low points, the 2016-17 New York Knicks appeared to find rock bottom on March 12.
In Brooklyn, the 11-win Nets sank 14 3-pointers in the first half against the Knicks, effectively ending New York"s playoff hopes in 24 painful minutes. And head coach Jeff Hornacek wasn"t happy.
Hornacek lit into the Knicks in the visitors locker room of the Barclays Center, and according to people familiar with the matter, Hornacek"s diatribe was expletive-filled and delivered at a high decibel level.
It"s not uncommon for a coach to go off on his players after a pathetic showing. But what happened next was a bit surprising.
Carmelo Anthony, whose default demeanor is relaxed and easygoing, responded with anger and expletives of his own. For those accustomed to seeing anthony live by his oft-used idiom, "Stay Melo," it was jarring.
Anthony"s R-rated rant essentially questioned the direction of the entire organization, according to sources. Associate head coach Kurt Rambis fired back, calling out Anthony"s effort on defense.
Anthony responded again, but before things could devolve further, one Knick suggested that the players head back to the court and start warming up.
So they did.
Carmelo Anthony could waive his no-trade clause after his relationship with Phil Jackson turned frosty.Elsa/Getty Images
On the surface, some version of that incident has played out in dozens of NBA locker rooms over the years. But the way things unfolded on that Sunday afternoon in Brooklyn spoke to two glaring issues within the Knicks organization: a chasm between some veteran players and the coaching staff/management and, more importantly, Anthony"s uncertain future with the organization.
Over the past few weeks, Anthony has been subtly dropping hints that he"s ready to waive his no-trade clause and leave New York.
Those with knowledge of the dynamic between Anthony and the Knicks believe that, while no final decision has been made, Anthony is leaning strongly toward waiving the no-trade clause at this point. Anthony said on Wednesday night that he"d "love" to be back, but wants assurances that the Knicks are committed to winning.
No matter what is said publicly, some in the organization believe the only thing that would keep Anthony on the Knicks in 2017-18 is if owner James Dolan fires team president Phil Jackson, which is now highly unlikely, since the Knicks and Jackson quietly picked up their option on the remaining two years of his contract this spring, sources familiar with the situation told ESPN.
Jackson and the Knicks did each have the option to walk away from each other at the end of this season. It was built into the contract after Year 3 because Jackson had no interest in working through a lockout.
There may have been speculation that the standoff between Jackson and Melo would end with Jackson walking away or the Knicks declining their option on his deal, but sources told ESPN the options were picked up "awhile ago." Knicks owner James Dolan publicly reinforced his commitment to Jackson in a February 10 radio interview on The Michael Kay Show on ESPN New York 98.7 FM when he said, " he planned to honor his five-year contract with Jackson "all the way to the end."
So unless things change drastically, Jackson will have the latitude to try and move Anthony if the Knicks star chooses.
To do so, he needs to find a deal that makes sense for the 32-year-old, 10-time All Star. Jackson and the Knicks spoke to at least three teams before the deadline about trades involving Anthony, who said the team never presented him with a formal deal but admitted that he considered waiving his no-trade clause prior to the deadline.
After a roller-coaster season on and off the court, Carmelo Anthony said he would love to remain with the Knicks but admitted he was unsure what -- or where -- his future might be.
The Knicks and team president Phil Jackson quietly picked up their option on the remaining two years of his contract this spring, sources familiar with the situation told ESPN
Take a look back at the Knicks" season and look ahead to the offseason. Will they trade Carmelo Anthony?
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Barring something unforeseen -- such as a highly unlikely scenario in which Jackson and Anthony find common ground during their exit meeting on Thursday -- the Knicks remain committed to moving Anthony this offseason, according to league sources.
If they do execute a trade for Anthony, it will be one of the most important transactions in Jackson"s presidency. Some executives around the league believe that Anthony"s trade value would be higher if Jackson hadn"t endorsed a column that was critical of Anthony in February.
"That one was surprising," said an executive of a team who spoke to the Knicks about an Anthony trade. "I think [Jackson] really hurt himself there."
The back-and-forth between Anthony, Hornacek and Rambis in March was but one example of the instability that plagued the 2016-17 Knicks. It typified a divide caused by some players" lack of faith in the defensive game plan under associate head coach Rambis and Hornacek"s use of the triangle offense, according to sources.
Of course, the counterargument is that this year"s team could have fought for a playoff spot if players gave consistent effort on both ends of the floor. Some in the organization felt that the defensive habits of Derrick Rose and Anthony had a negative influence on the club"s young players. Both veterans finished among the bottom 15 at their respective positions in ESPN"s defensive Real Plus-Minus, a measure of a player"s contribution to his team"s defense.
Another, more subtle, sign that this team didn"t have great chemistry came on Jan. 10.
Rose returned to the Knicks" practice facility that morning and apologized to his teammates and coaches for going AWOL the night before. He said that he didn"t mean to put his teammates and coaches in a bad spot. When he was done addressing the team, no one said a word, according to people familiar with the matter. It was an odd response, and one that reinforces the notion that this team wasn"t cohesive.
Will the Knicks bring back the oft-injured Derrick Rose, who averaged 18 points in 64 games this season?AP Photo/Seth Wenig
The Knicks now face an important decision as Rose enters free agency. Should they bring back the oft-injured guard, who is coming off meniscus surgery, for a short-term deal? Or let him walk and sign or draft another point guard?
When Jackson spoke with ESPN"s Jackie MacMullan earlier in the season, it sounded as the Knicks wouldn"t hesitate to move on from Rose.
"We had the opportunity to play with Derrick and see if he does have enough left in the tank ... before we have to get into that [free] agent market again," Jackson told MacMullan.
But before Rose"s most recent injury, the Knicks hadn"t ruled out the possibility of re-signing the 28-year-old if they didn"t have any luck with other point guard targets, such as pending free agents Jrue Holiday and Jeff Teague, according to sources.
Assuming the Knicks renounce Rose"s cap hold, they should have more than $20 million to spend on free agents this summer. (That number, of course, would have been higher if Jackson hadn"t agreed to a four-year, $72 million contract for Joakim Noah, who had an eventful, yet unproductive, first season in New York.)
New York finished tied with Minnesota with the sixth-worst record in the NBA and will end up with a top-10 pick in June"s draft. With Kristaps Porzingis and w***y Hernangomez looking like two-thirds of a promising young frontcourt, Jackson and the Knicks have a chance to build something sustainable in the next two offseasons.
Despite the challenges facing the franchise -- and the fact that they"ve lost at least 50 games in each of the past three seasons -- Jackson is said to be extremely excited about the future of the Knicks.
It seems like Jackson"s version of the future is unlikely to include Anthony. But the player -- and not the team president -- will have the final say.
"I have a lot of thinking and reflecting to do," Anthony said shortly before walking out of the Knicks locker room and into an uncertain offseason. "It"s all on me at this point."
The star acted opposite Sir Roger Moore in 1973"s Live And Let Die, and again the following year in The Man With The Golden Gun following an outpouring of praise from fans of the beloved spy franchise.
His family confirmed the sad news last night, adding that he died at his home in Oregon from complications relating to his diabetes.
Clifton as Sheriff Pepper in Live And Let Die (Photo: Mirrorpix)
James" daughter Lynn paid tribute to her nonagenarian father, saying: "He was the most outgoing person, beloved by everybody.
Amazing story of the real life James Bond who outwitted the Nazis in WW2
"I don"t think the man had an enemy. We were incredibly blessed to have had him in our lives."
Sir Roger also paid tribute to his old co-star, tweeting: "Terribly sad to hear Clifton James has left us. As JW Pepper he gave my first two Bond films a great, fun character."
In one of his most famous Live And Let Die scenes, Clifton"s hapless Sheriff is trying to apprehend a suspect when James Bond flips his speedboat over the law-enforcer"s car - leaving the baddie in pursuit of Bond to crash his own boat into the Sheriff"s car.
Clifton"s acting career spanned decades after he took up classes following the end of WWII.
Clifton alongside Roger Moore in The Man With The Golden Gun (Photo: EON Productions)
He drew upon his Bond experience for his later role as a corrupt (and still bumbling) sheriff in The Reivers, in which he starred opposite Steve McQueen.
His other notable career highlights include Cool Hand Luke, The Bonfire Of The Vanities, The A-Team and Dukes Of Hazzard.
His last film appearance was in 2006"s Raising Flagg, although he was also cast in 2016"s Old Soldiers, which had to stop production because of the deaths of several older cast members.
Hans Zimmer - Interstellar - Main Theme (Piano Version) + Sheet Music
Hans Zimmers natural habitat is a dark, windowless room.
As one of Hollywoods most successful film composers with scores for dozens of movies stretching from Interstellar and The Dark Knight back to The Lion King and Driving Miss Daisy the 59-year-old Oscar winner spends untold hours in screening rooms and recording studios, including his own private space tucked into a larger complex on a quiet industrial street in Santa Monica.
Filled with polished woodwork and red velvet furniture, it has proved to be an inspiring spot for the man whose music combines lush orchestral arrangements with unconventional electronic textures.
But that didnt keep Zimmers friends from pushing him to try a change of scenery.
This whole thing started with Johnny Marr and Pharrell Williams sitting me down and going, Youve got to get out of here and look your audience in the eye, the composer said the other day, referring to the Smiths guitarist (whom Zimmer drafted to play on Inception) and the hip-hop producer turned pop star (with whom Zimmer worked on Hidden Figures).
And theyre right, he added. At some point you have to see if any of the stuff youve been doing while hiding behind a screen actually resonates with people.
Thats what Zimmer is doing this week by launching the North American leg of his first concert tour, scheduled to stop Friday night at the Microsoft Theater before moving on to a performance Sunday at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio. (The tour, which the German-born musician took through Europe last year, will return to Los Angeles on Aug. 11 for an encore at the Shrine Auditorium.)
At Coachella, where the bill is dominated by singers and rappers such as Lady Gaga and Kendrick Lamar, Zimmers instrumental music will no doubt be an oddity. But the composer insists the show hes put together is far from the buttoned-up occasion one might expect.
The reason I didnt do this for the longest time is that Ive always had a problem with the way we present orchestral music, he said, reclined on a sofa with a cup of coffee. Why would you spend an evening of your precious time with a man with his back to you and a bunch of people in suits reading the paper?
Instead, hes promising a more rock-informed experience, with Zimmer not as conductor but as frontman leading a group of more than 70 musicians through freewheeling renditions of some of his favorite themes.
One of those musicians is Marrs 25-year-old son, Nile, who also plays in the British indie trio Man Made and says the Zimmer outfit is basically the biggest band youve ever seen playing the most epic music youve ever heard.
The band approach isnt entirely new for Zimmer. Before he moved into composing for movies, he played briefly as a member of the Buggles, Trevor Horns late-70s new-wave group that scored a hit with Video Killed the Radio Star.
But after that the record company just wanted us to do the same thing again and again and again, he said. So you suddenly realize in rock and roll youre very easily typecast.
Film music, in contrast, offered limitless variation. I wrote Driving Miss Daisy and Black Rain in the same month, and they couldnt be any more different.
Zimmer, who plays keyboard, guitar and banjo in the show, intends to show off the stylistic breadth of his work on tour. But he wont show images from the movies themselves they seduce an audience into ignoring the players onstage, he says. Nor does he plan to deliver any kind of canned commentary.
Scripted, Im terrible, he said. Cant do it. Long time ago, Jeffrey Katzenberg asked me to take part in a presentation about animation at Lincoln Center. And his main press person, I overheard her say, Dont script Hans hes like a plank of wood.
The only way I can treat this is like Im having a dinner party with a few friends. Sometimes I ramble on and lose my way, and sometimes somebody in the band says, Come on, lets play some music.
Is his head sufficiently full of anecdotes that he can conjure stories at the mention of a title?
Go ahead, he said. Name one.
Rain Man.
My first movie in Hollywood, he shot back. Id come to Los Angeles not knowing anybody, not knowing my way around. So I wrote the whole score in Barry [Levinson]s office.
Another windowless room.
Its my fate.
In statements about the tour, Zimmers handlers have said h**l be joined onstage by special guests an especially tantalizing prospect at Coachella, with its densely packed roster. Yet the composer initially played down that idea at his studio, saying hed been completely and utterly consumed by an upcoming movie and hadnt arranged any specific cameos.
Then he kept talking.
Look, Kendrick and I are playing the same night, he said. I havent talked to him about it, but weve done things together. And I think there might be a chance I can persuade Pharrell to come and do something.
Stanley Cup Champions 2016 Pittsburgh Penguins A rookie, a sophomore and a superstar walk into an NHL game. Little did they know that when put on a line together, they would absolutely dominate on the ice. This is what the Pittsburgh Penguins have for their first line.
The Pittsburgh Penguins had a brilliant line in the HBK line last playoffs, but with the sudden injury of Carl Hagelin it seems as though we wont see a repeat of that. however, the penguins current first line consisting of Sidney Crosby, Jake Guentzel and Conor Sheary may do just the trick.
The three members of the line have went from simply being a make-shift line to fill injury problems into a permanent line that brings a lot of success. Each player brings something new to the table, and as a whole they are very good.
Sidney Crosby
Lets take a look at the centre-piece for this line. The captain and the superstar Sidney Crosby is arguably the greatest hockey player in the world right now. You can say hes so good that he makes everyone around him better. If this is the case, you may be wondering whydoes this line matter?
This line is special. Crosby has shuffled around with linemates many times in the past. This time however, things are clicking very right. Just taking a look at his stats this season, Crosby had one of his best goal scoring seasons ever, including taking the only Maurice Richard trophy that he solely won (he shared it with Steven Stamkos in 2009-10). Crosby finished the season off with 44 goals and 45 assists in 75 games.
Crosby played with Sheary and Guentzel for the majority of the second half of the season. A.K.A, the time when Crosby and the Penguins really started to heat up. You have to give credit where credit is due. Crosbys success is due to his linemates in a huge way.
Now just looking at the two playoff games we played so far you can tell this line is working. Especially in game two, Crosby had three points on the night. Two of these points came from a goal that was assisted by both Guentzel and Sheary, and then another assist on Guentzels goal.
You could think that hes so good that hes just making Guentzel and Sheary better, but lets consider how good both of these guys have also been.
Jake Guentzel
The new rookie in town has made a name for himself. After getting called up thisseason he put up 16 goals and 17 assists for 33 points in only 40 games. This is amazingly impressive for a call-up who was expected to do much less.
He may be the newest one on this line but he has been playing great. A lot of his play doesnt show up in his numbers, but thats OK. You can see that he knows where to go, which is crucial while playing with someone like Sidney Crosby. He brings a great, big game with a good amount of offensive flair that compliments both Crosby and Sheary nicely.
Conor Sheary
I feel like Ive talked about Conor Sheary so much already that its wearing out, but its OK because this has to be enforced. Conor Sheary is good. Hes really good. And his season has been a big reason as to why this line and the entire Pittsburgh Penguins team has been finding success.
In only his sophomore season, Shearyput up 23 goals and 30 assists for 53 points in 61 games. This is a huge escalation from his rookie campaign, and it ranked him fourth on the team in goals and points.
You got to see that this success is coming from his play with his line. 21 of his 23 goals and 27 of his 30 assists were at even strength. Its clear to see that Shearys escalation in his game is because this line works so well.
New Dominant Playoff Line?
The HBK line of the 2016 Stanley Cup playoffs was something out of a movie. Carl Hagelin, Nick Bonino and Phil Kessel absolutely exploded on the ice and solidified their line as the most dominant in hockey.
This year, with Hagelin out of the lineup due to injury, this line of Crosby, Guentzel and Sheary may step up to be the new dominant line. Although the HBK line seemed to click perfectly, The chemistry seems to be building with this new line, and they have spent the majority of the second half of the regular season together.
Like I mentioned before, the line already combined for five points while playing together in game two. If they keep playing like this, we may see something really special emerging here.
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