Patrick Stewart died yesterday at 86, after Alzheimer's and Lewy body dementia. In 2020 he read a Shakespeare sonnet a day to strangers online, and the first one he chose was Sonnet 116: 'Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.' Who would keep reading to you if you forgot everything?
Six decades of being the steady one in the room. Captain, instructor, sheriff, dad.
Actor Tom Skerritt has died. He was 93.
His career spanned more than six decades and included memorable roles such as Cmdr. Mike "Viper" Metcalf opposite Tom Cruise in the 1986 blockbuster "Top Gun" and the spaceship captain in the science fiction classic "Alien."
He also appeared in the films "M.A.S.H.," "Steel Magnolias," and "A River Runs Through It."
On television, Skerritt won an Emmy for his portrayal of Sheriff Jimmy Brock in the CBS drama "Picket Fences."
His family says he died Wednesday of natural causes.
The roles get the headlines. The Red Badge Project is the part of him that keeps going.
Tom Skerritt is gone at 93.
Most people knew him as Viper in Top Gun. I knew him as one of ours. Four years in the United States Air Force before Hollywood ever called.
He made Seattle home, and he gave back. He co-founded TheFilmSchool there, and he started the Red Badge Project to help veterans work through PTSD by writing their stories.
Plenty of stars talk about supporting the troops. He actually did it.
Blue skies, Viper. Rest easy.
We Remember:
🪦 Pretty Boy Floyd(1934)~Gangster~30~Execution
🪦 Jane Dornacker(1986)~Journalist~39~Crash
🪦 Fernando Valenzuela(2024)~Pitcher~64~Cancer
🪦 Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow(1891)~Physiologist~45~Overdose
🪦 Jacob Wetterling(1989)~Victim~11~Murder
🪦 Jibanananda Das(1954)~Poet~55~Crash
#LITD #DethDay #RIP
some grief takes two years to say out loud. he waited until he could sing it
Harry filming with John Wilson in New York City recently (via kawaiicafe.nyc)
Wilson is an acclaimed documentarian with projects such as The History of Concrete and How to with John Wilson, has worked with David Byrne, and is a close collaborator of Nathan Fielder’s.
























