Jim Parker Dies: BAFTA-Winning ‘House Of Cards’ & ‘Midsomer Murders’ Composer Was 88

Kerry Washington is looking back on some of the formative experiences and long-hidden traumas of her childhood in her emotionally charged new memoir, In an excerpt from Washington's forthcoming book — published by — Washington recalls the vitriolic fights her parents used to get into when she was a child, and how the fear and stress from their bitter battles impacted her own young mind.«From what I remember, most of my parents’ fights were about money, and about the fact that neither of them felt like they were in the marriage they wanted to be in, or more precisely, that they were married to the person they wanted to be married to,» Washington recalls in her book.The celebrated actress explains that her parents «both harbored deep disappointment over what their lives had become» and would scream at one another with deeply held anger. However, it was also important to them to keep face around their kids and other families.«We pretended to ourselves, to each other, and to the outside world that our family was not suffering the pain of life’s disappointments,» Washington writes, explaining that her parents would often save their brutal bickering for when she was asleep, wrongly believing that insulated her from the tension between them.«As a young child, I would lie in bed and listen for signs of how serious each battle was and when it might come to an end… I developed panic attacks at night,» Washington writes, saying that the panic attacks began when she was only seven.«They manifested first as a rhythm of anxiety that encircled my brain, then evolved into a rapid pulsing, a whirling frenzy of metallic thumps, like those nauseating old spinning rides at a county fair,» she recalls.

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Jim Price, a former Detroit Tigers catcher who would go on to be the voice broadcasting the baseball games, has died. He was 81.

Pop icon Beyoncé paid last night (August 6) for her fans to be able to get home after bad weather caused delays to her performance. During her stop in Washington D.C., the 41 year old was delayed from going on stage at the FedExField for two hours as there was a shelter in place order given due to the weather. However, she came to the rescue for fans who would be travelling home via trains as she paid a whopping $100,000 for the services to continue running for an extra hour.

Naman Ramachandran Carl Davis, the composer known for his BAFTA-winning score for “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” (1981), died of a brain hemorrhage on Thursday. He was 86.

American-born conductor and composer Carl Davis, who had lived in the UK since 1961, has died in Oxford aged 86.

Former child star Marc Gilpin, who starred as Sean Brody in the Jaws sequel, Jaws 2, has died aged 56. His sister, Frasier actress Peri Gilpin, announced the tragic news, saying her brother passed away in Dallas on Saturday, 29 July – according to the Hollywood Reporter.The actor had been battling glioblastoma, a fast-growing and aggressive brain tumour. Marc played the younger son of Roy Scheider's police chief Martin Brody in the 1978 film.

Big Brother season 25 airs tomorrow night (August 2) and the contestants were revealed this week.

Manori Ravindran Executive Editor of International The BBC’s “Oppenheimer” has finally landed on iPlayer. All seven episodes of the Sam Waterston-led drama series from 1980 is now available in full on the BBC streaming service. Until now, the BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated series was only available to rent or purchase on Prime Video.

Betty Ann Bruno, who as a child played a munchkin in the 1939 classic The Wizard Of Oz and went on to become a TV producer and longtime reporter in the San Francisco Bay area, died Sunday in Sonoma, CA, her family said. She was 91. No cause of death was given.

Creatives across the pop culture landscape were left reeling on Monday afternoon with news that Euphoria breakout Angus Cloud died today at 25, subsequently taking to social media to pay tribute to a young talent taken far too soon.

Kerry Washington is reconnecting with some former co-stars on the picket line.

Kerry Washington posted several snapshots with her Scandal costars Tony Goldwyn and Bellamy Young on Instagram on Friday. The reunion showed them filing out picket signs in support of the strike initiated by SAG-AFTRA.

Wow. Just a few short weeks ago we wondered how a lawyer could even begin to defend Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of brutally murdering four University of Idaho students last November. Now we’re seeing swing after swing from the public defender’s office!

Justin Peacock, a former lawyer who switched careers to become author and then TV writer-producer, died July 13 at his Los Angeles home of natural causes due to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, according to the L.A. County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s office. He was 52.

Sineád O’Connor, the troubled Irish singer and activist who scored a global smash with Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” in 1990 and was banned from Saturday Night Live for tearing up a photo of Pope John Paul II during her performance two years later, has died at 56, according to a statement from her family provided to Irish TV and radio broadcaster RTÉ. No details on the cause, date or place of her death were given.

Mark Simon, a longtime casting director for stage productions on Broadway and at Los Angeles’ Center Theatre Group, died July 16 in Los Angeles. He was 70.

experience as one thing that inspired him to get sober. While speaking to Rachel Bilson on her podcast, the comedian explained how starring alongside Sarah Jessica Parker in the Max series helped him realize that he needed to get sober.«When I was using — this is the most horrifying thing — I was in Hawaii and I was blackout drunk and my agent calls and says, 'They need you in New York,'» Lee, who plays Jackie Nee on the show, said.The change to the filming schedule meant that Lee had to get on a plane and head to New York right away.«So I get on a plane, go to New York.

Randy Fullmer, a Walt Disney Animation Studios effects animator, VFX supervisor and producer who worked on such classics as The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast, has died. He was 73. The studio said he died July 10 at his home in Woodland Hills, CA, after a long cancer battle.

Pamela Blair, who originated the role of the surgically enhanced Valerie Clark in the Broadway smash A Chorus Line, died Sunday at her home in Phoenix, Arizona, following a lengthy illness. She was 73.