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Lauren Thompson
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"If I must die you must live to tell my story to sell my things to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, so that a child somewhere in #Gaza while looking heaven in the eye awaiting his dad sees the kite flying up above, and thinks for a moment an angel is there bringing back love." - Refaat Alareer
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Robert Duvall (January 5, 1931 – February 15, 2026, age 95)

One Oscar: Tender Mercies (1984)

Six Nominations: The Godfather (1973) * Apocalypse Now (1980) * The Great Santini (1981) * The Apostle (1998) * A Civil Action (1999) The Judge (2015)
February 17, 2026 at 4:04 AM
18 February 1964 – Matt Dillon, 62, US actor.

My Bodyguard (1981) Tex * The Outsiders * Rumble Fish * Drugstore Cowboy * Saint of Fort Washington * Mr Wonderful * To Die For * There's Something About Mary * Wild Things * Crash (OscarNom) Wayward Pines * The House That Jack Built * The Fence (2025)
February 17, 2026 at 5:24 AM
18 February 1950 – Cybill Shepherd, 76, US actress

Last Picture Show (1971) The Heartbreak Kid * Daisy Miller * At Long Last Love * Taxi Driver * The Lady Vanishes * Yellow Rose * Moonlighting * Alice * Baby Brokers * Cybill * The L Word * Psych * The Client List * How to Murder Your Husband (2023)
February 17, 2026 at 5:17 AM
18 February 1950 – 2009 John Hughes, 59, (Heart Attack), US director, screenwriter.

Director/writer: Sixteen Candles (1984) * The Breakfast Club * Weird Science * Ferris Bueller's Day Off * Planes, Trains and Automobiles * She's Having a Baby * Uncle Buck * Curly Sue * Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
February 17, 2026 at 5:14 AM
18 February 1933 – 1975 Mary Ure, 42, (Overdose), Scottish actress. John Osborne ​(m. 1957-63)​ Robert Shaw ​(m. 1963)

Storm Over The Nile (1955) Look Back in Anger (+ film) Sons and Lovers (OscarNom) Duel of Angels (with Vivien Leigh) * Custer of the West * Where Eagles Dare * The Exorcism (1975)
February 17, 2026 at 5:11 AM
18 February 1932 – 2018 Miloš Forman, 86, Czech-US (from 1968) director, screenwriter

Firemen's Ball (1967) US: Taking Off * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Oscar) Hair * Ragtime * Amadeus (Oscar) Valmont * People vs Larry Flynt (OscarNom) Man on the Moon * Goya's Ghosts * A Walk Worthwhile (2007)
February 17, 2026 at 5:08 AM
18 February 1925 – 2016 George Kennedy, 91, US actor, author.

Phil Silvers Show (1956-59) Lonely Are the Brave * Charade * Strait-Jacket * Cool Hand Luke (Oscar) The Flight of the Phoenix * Guns of the Magnificent Seven * Earthquake * Airport '75 * Virus * The Naked Gun Trilogy * Dallas (1988-98)
February 17, 2026 at 5:04 AM
18 February 1919 – 2006 Jack Palance, (b. Volodymyr Palahniuk), 87, US actor

A Streetcar Named Desire (1949 Broadway) Panic in the Streets * Sudden Fear (OscarNom) * Shane (OscarNom) * Second Chance * The Big Knife * Attack * The Professionals * Bagdad Café * Young Guns * City Slickers (1992 Oscar)
February 17, 2026 at 5:00 AM
18 February 1915 – 2002 Phyllis Calvert, (b. Bickle), 87, English actress.

The Man in Grey (1943) * Fanny by Gaslight * Broken Journey * Appointment with Danger (US) * Mandy * Child in the House * Indiscreet * Oscar Wilde * The Battle of the Villa Fiorita * Twisted Nerve * Mrs Dalloway (1997)
February 17, 2026 at 4:58 AM
18 February 1890 – 1963 Adolphe Menjou, 73, US actor

The Sheik (1921) * A Woman of Paris (1923) - - Morocco (1930) The Front Page (OscarNom) * A Farewell to Arms * Little Miss Marker * A Star Is Born * Roxie Hart * Across the Wide Missouri * Man on a Tightrope * Paths of Glory * Pollyanna (1960)
February 17, 2026 at 4:56 AM
18 February 1890 – 1956 Edward Arnold (Schneider), 66, (Brain Hemorrhage), US actor.

The Glass Key (1935) * Meet Nero Wolfe * Easy Living * You Can't Take It with You * Mr Smith Goes to Washington * Meet John Doe * Johnny Eager * Eyes in the Night * City That Never Sleeps * Miami Exposé (1956)
February 17, 2026 at 4:54 AM
17 February 1945 – Brenda Fricker, 81, Irish actress.

Casualty (1984-2010) * My Left Foot (Oscar) * The Field * Home Alone 2: Lost in New York * So I Married an Axe Murderer * Angels in the Outfield * Swann * The War Bride * Veronica Guerin * Inside I'm Dancing * Albert Nobbs * The Catch (2023)
February 17, 2026 at 4:25 AM
17 February 1934 – 2003 Alan Bates, 69, English actor.

Nothing but the Best (1965) * Zorba the Greek * Georgy Girl * Far from the Madding Crowd * The Fixer (OscarNom) * Women in Love * Butley (Tony Award) * A Day in the Life of Joe Egg * Hamlet * Fortune's Fool (Tony Award) * Gosford Park (2002)
February 17, 2026 at 4:23 AM
17 February 1929 – 2025 Dame Patricia Routledge, 96, English actress, singer.

How's The World Treating You? (1966 Tony Award) * To Sir, with Love * Pretty Polly * Darling of the Day (Tony Award) * Victoria Wood (Kitty) * Talking Heads * Keeping Up Appearances (1990-95) * An Ideal Husband (2014)
February 17, 2026 at 4:21 AM
17 February 1919 – 2001 Kathleen Freeman, 78, US actress.

Mr Belvedere Goes to College (1949) Singin' in the Rain * Nutty Professor * The Disorderly Orderly * Support Your Local Sheriff/Gunfighter * Blues Brothers * Gremlins 2 * Hocus Pocus * Naked Gun * Blues Brothers 2000 * Nutty Professor (2001)
February 17, 2026 at 4:16 AM
17 February 1914 – 1990 Arthur Kennedy, 75, US actor.

OscarNom: Champion (1949) Bright Victory * Trial * Peyton Place * Some Came Running (1958)

Death of a Salesman (1949 Tony Award) Too Late for Tears * Rancho Notorious * Murder, She Said * Elmer Gantry * Lawrence of Arabia * Nevada Smith (1966)
February 17, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Robert Duvall (January 5, 1931 – February 15, 2026, age 95)

One Oscar: Tender Mercies (1984)

Six Nominations: The Godfather (1973) * Apocalypse Now (1980) * The Great Santini (1981) * The Apostle (1998) * A Civil Action (1999) The Judge (2015)
February 17, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Fifteen years ago today Larry the Cat arrived at Downing Street in a cage. He's seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak, and still going strong.🤞

Only two others Prime Ministers have served longer than Larry: Sir Robert Walpole (1721-1742) and William Pitt the Younger (1783-1801, 1804-1806)
February 15, 2026 at 11:27 AM
"I have the feeling there's something inside you - something nobody knows about. Something secret - I'll find it out."

"It's not good to find out too much, Charlie."

"He thought the world was a horrible place. He said people like us had no idea what the world was really like."

#Hitchcock (1943)
February 15, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Hardcore (1979) Neo-noir by Paul Schrader starring George C. Scott. "A conservative midwestern businessman searches for his teenage daughter who goes missing in California."

1. #DonaldTrump "You still talking about the" #EpsteinFiles

2. A decent father after viewing the horrors in #EpsteinFiles
February 15, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Reposted by Lauren Thompson
The #DHS Center for Countering #HumanTrafficking (CCHT) established in 2020 leads #USA efforts to combat trafficking coordinating 16 DHS components including #ICE and HSI.

"Detain first ask questions later?" Unless you're a billionaire, and your name is in the #EpsteinFiles
dhs.gov/topics/human...
February 15, 2026 at 1:33 AM
16 February 1964 – Christopher Eccleston, 62, English actor.

Let Him Have It (1991) * Shallow Grave * Our Friends in the North * Gone in 60 Seconds * 28 Days Later * Second Coming * Dr Who * Heroes * GI Joe * Accused * Thor: The Dark World * Legend * The Leftovers * Dodger * True Detective (2024)
February 15, 2026 at 1:27 AM
16 February 1921 – 1981 Vera-Ellen (Rohe), 60, (Cancer), US dancer, actress

Wonder Man (1945) * The Kid from Brooklyn * Words and Music (Gene Kelly dance 'Slaughter on Tenth Avenue') * On the Town * Three Little Words * The Belle of New York * Call Me Madam * White Christmas * Let's Be Happy (1957)
February 15, 2026 at 1:24 AM
16 February 1901 – 1970 Chester Morris, 69, US actor

Alibi (1929 OscarNom) The Big House * Red-Headed Woman * The Gay Bride * Public Hero #1 * Law of the Underworld * Blind Alley (remade as Dark Past) * Five Came Back * Boston Blackie (1941-49) * Blind Spot * Unchained * The Great White Hope (1969)
February 15, 2026 at 1:23 AM
15 February 1931 – Claire Bloom, 95, English actress.

Limelight (1952 BAFTA Award) * Richard III * Look Back in Anger * Brothers Karamazov * The Haunting * The Spy Who Came in from the Cold * Charly * Brideshead Revisited * Clash of the Titans * Shadowlands (BAFTA Award) * The King's Speech (2010)
February 15, 2026 at 1:11 AM