Jon Burlingame editorMike Lang, one of the preeminent pianists in Hollywood history, died of lung cancer Friday morning at his home in Studio City. He was 80.Lang played piano (or organ, harpsichord or celeste) on an estimated 2,000 film and TV scores dating back to the mid-1960s, including scores by virtually every great film composer of the past 50 years: John Williams (“Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Catch Me If You Can”), Jerry Goldsmith (“Gremlins,” “The Russia House”), John Barry (“Body Heat,” “The Specialist”), Henry Mancini (“10”), Alex North (“The Shoes of the Fisherman”), Elmer Bernstein (“The Rainmaker”), Miklós Rózsa (“Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid”) and many others.Composer Lalo Schifrin (“Mission: Impossible”) was among Lang’s earliest champions in Hollywood, adding Lang’s piano to what eventually became the Grammy-winning Paul Horn album “Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts” in 1965.
Mickey Rooney Jr. Dies: Musician, Mouseketeer & Hollywood Scion Was 77
18.07.2022 - 21:57 / deadline.com
Mickey Rooney Jr., the eldest son of Hollywood actor Mickey Rooney who went on to a show business career of his own that included being an original – if short-lived — Mouseketeer, an actor and a member of Willie Nelson’s band, died Saturday at his home in Glendale, AZ. He was 77.
His death was announced by Paul Petersen, the former actor and founder of advocacy group A Minor Consideration. Petersen, who posted the news on Facebook, did not specify a cause but said Rooney died peacefully.
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The first child of Mickey Rooney and his first wife, the singer Betty Jane Rase, Rooney Jr. and his brother Tim Rooney were hired by Walt Disney in 1955 as original Mouseketeers for The Mickey Mouse Club. Both Rooneys, as well as fellow Mouseketeer Petersen, were fired before the end of the first season.
“Mickey Junior was tall and talented,” Petersen wrote on Facebook. “He could sing, dance and act … and get in trouble. We three were fired for Conduct Unbecoming a Mouse!”
Rooney Jr. later appeared in several films, including the 1967 feature Hot Rods to Hell and the 1975 TV movie Beyond the Bermuda Triangle. A musician who played multiple instruments — guitar, keyboards, drums — Rooney Jr. formed a band with brother Tim in the 1960s and appeared on the TV music show Shindig! He later played in bands with Nelson and appeared alongside him in the 1980 feature Honeysuckle Rose.
Later in life, Rooney Jr., who had struggled with substance-abuse issues, became a born-again Christian and founded an evangelical ministry.
“Mickey Junior was the personification of ‘damaged goods,'” Petersen wrote. “He gave all he could. I was born on the same day as Mickey’s father and ‘The Mic’ gave me, unsolicited mind
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that? I would like to see someone take that rubric and go through [controversial US comedian] Bill Burr’s show, and see the content warning for the poster that's slapped outside of the venue that he's performing at. ”The 31-year-old, best known for her deadpan turns in comedy-drama Shrill and the Emmy-nominated sketch show I Think You Should Leave, says a “double standard” is afoot in comedy, not helped by the “pendulum swing of arguments about PC policing,” which means things now lurch towards the overly sanitised or the outright offensive. She used to err on that first side, she says.
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Rebecca Balding, 'Charmed' and 'Soap' Actress, Dies of Ovarian Cancer at 73
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Mike Patton opens up about agoraphobia diagnosis and mental health struggles behind Faith No More tour cancellation
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Steven Hull Raley, TikTok Star Known as 'Pissed Off Trucker,' Dies in Kansas Crash
, citing an incident report from the Kansas Highway Patrol, reports. According to the outlet, the crash occurred when Raley's 2019 Volvo semi-truck veered off the highway and through a fence. The truck continued for another quarter-mile before crashing back through the fence and crossing both sides of the interstate, eventually coming to a stop in a nearby ditch, the outlet reports.Following the crash, the social media star, who was wearing a seat belt according to officials, was taken to the Citizens Medical Center and pronounced dead, the outlet reports. Truckers Final Mile, an organization that works to reunite trucker families in times of crisis, is accepting donations on behalf of Raley's family to help get him home to Birmingham, Alabama, where he will be laid to rest, the charity said on Facebook.Getting home to his loved ones was the subject of Raley's last TikTok video, which he posted just hours before his death, the outlet reports.«All I care about is getting home,» he reportedly told his followers in his last post.