Actor Jonathan Frid Dies at Age 87

Frid passed away on April 13 from natural causes at Juravinski Hospital in Ontario, Canada.

Frid who created a sensation when he first appeared in the seminal gothic horror soap spawning a rabid fan base that suddenly trust the daytime soaper into national prominence as both girls and boys followed the daily adventures of the tormented bloodsucker and the Collins family.
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Shipwreck worth 3 Billion

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A treasure hunter said he has located the wreck of a British merchant ship that was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Cape Cod during World War II while carrying what he claims was a load of platinum bars now worth more than $3 billion.

If the claim proves true, it could be one of the richest sunken treasures ever discovered.

But an attorney for the British government expressed doubt the vessel was carrying platinum. And if it was, in fact, laden with precious metals, who owns the hoard could become a matter of international dispute.

Treasure hunter Greg Brooks of Sub Sea Research in Gorham, Maine, announced that a wreck found sitting in 700 feet of water 50 miles offshore is that of the S.S. Port Nicholson, sunk in 1942.

He said Wednesday that he and his crew identified it via the hull number using an underwater camera, and he hopes to begin raising the treasure later this month or in early March with the help of a remotely operated underwater vessel.

“I’m going to get it, one way or another, even if I have to lift the ship out of the water,” Brooks said.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joe Simon, who along with Jack Kirby co-created Captain America and was one of the comic book industry’s most revered writers, artists and editors, has died at age 98.
Simon’s family relayed word of his death Thursday, posting a short statement on Facebook and telling The Associated Press through a spokesman that Simon died Wednesday night in New York City after a brief illness.

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(Rolling Stone) — No rock icon has sealed his vault as tightly as Bob Seger.

Six early albums have been out of print for decades, he has no box set, and the words “bonus track” seem to be anathema to him.

He held back on a two-disc hits collection for years, but he’s finally relented. Good thing. Previous sets didn’t have his 1968 garage-jam classic “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man,” and this set has a smoking cover of Little Richard’s “Hey Hey Hey Hey (Going Back to Birmingham).”
All the big hits are here, though nothing sounds as glorious as the live “Travelin’ Man/Beautiful Loser” medley.
An insane amount of material still remains locked up, however. Hey, Bob, cough it up!

*Welcome back Bob..although you never really left us!

In addition to the tour, the band is also set to celebrate its 40th anniversary with their first full album featuring Roth behind the mic since 1984′s 1984.

Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, Wolfgang Van Halen, and David Lee Roth will reunite next year and hit the road as Van Halen for the first time since 2007.

In addition to the tour, the band is also set to celebrate its 40th anniversary with their first full album featuring Roth behind the mic since 1984′s 1984.

The Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor announced that Cheetah died Dec. 24 of kidney failure.

Sanctuary outreach director Debbie Cobb on Wednesday told The Tampa Tribune newspaper that Cheetah was outgoing, loved finger painting and liked to see people laugh. She says he seemed to be tuned into human feelings.

Based on the works of author Edgar Rice Burroughs, the Tarzan stories, which have spawned scores of books and films over the years, chronicle the adventures of a man who was raised by apes in Africa.

Cheetah was the comic relief in the Tarzan films that starred American Olympic gold medal swimmer Johnny Weissmuller. Cobb says Cheetah came to the sanctuary from Weissmuller’s estate sometime around 1960.

The boy who lived dominated the box office this past year with more than $1.3 billion worldwide, making him the undoubted winner in a less-than-stellar year financially for movies, but “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2″ wasn’t the only sequel to succeed. Eight of the top 10 earners at the theaters belonged to sequels, prequels or remakes.

This trend is what Jeff Bock, box-office analyst for Exhibitor Relations, sees as the big box office story of 2011, for good and bad. “You can’t deny sequels’ potency at the box office, with seven of the top 10 grossing films of 2011 being continuing sagas (eight if you count ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’,”Bock said.

Pop Artist James Rizzi

Rizzi’s managers, Art 28 GmbH & Co. KG, based in Stuttgart, Germany, said in a statement on its website that the artist died peacefully at his studio in New York’s SoHo district on Monday. They gave no cause of death.

Rizzi was born in Brooklyn and studied art at the University of Florida. He returned to New York in 1974 and first made his name as a street artist.

He became known for his bright, cartoon-like drawings and 3-D constructions. In 1996 Lufthansa commissioned him to decorate a jet with pastel stars, birds and travelers.

Rizzi developed a large international following, especially in Germany. Last year a school in Duisburg was named for him.

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Nuff Said!