I saw Dawn when it came out & thought highly of it, & still do, but have to admit that I prefer the 2004 version. 

He was great in "North By Northwest" (as Leonard) and the Mission Impossible Series too ... one of my favorites as well and was incredible in Space 1999 too.

I had never heard of professor Mirzakhani, not being much of a mathematician, but wow... such a brilliant and inspiring person. We have lost something precious today. Intelligence is a rare thing in our world, and she was a great example of what a human being should be.

Actor/stuntman and Elvis buddy Red West has past away. Red and Elvis met in high school, in Memphis, when Red broke up a group of guys trying to cut Elvis' hair. They remained close friends until Elvis' drug use got out of hand, before the end.

Red was a regular stuntman on The Wild Wild West, and later joined Robert Conrad on Baa Baa Black Sheep (as Sgt. Micklin) and the tv pilot movie Hard Knox (as Top); and, of course, appeared in Road House, with Patrick Swayze. Unlike Conrad, he actually had been a Marine, and often played them, in tv roles.

makes me very sad.

he was an incredibly talented man.

and doing it on Cornell's birthday. . . I know they were close friends, but still. . .

R.I.P. Chester.

Like many late 80s kids, I listened to a lot of Linkin Park when I was in my teens. There was something about the anger and raw energy in their songs that really grabbed me at the time. And that was in large part due to Chester's singing.

Very sad news.

EDIT: I had to think about this for a bit, as there is much talk about him leaving 6 children (ranging from age 21 to 6) behind. My late father lost his brother to suicide by hanging, several years before I was born. He was 24 years old, and it was my father who found the body. This deeply scarred him emotionally, and led to a drinking problem that in turn affected my own childhood significantly.

So this pulls me in two directions; while I feel that everyone should be master of their own fate, at the same time one should consider the impact that their actions will have on the people around them. Of course, under ideal circumstances, Chester would not have had the desire to end his own life. It's a complicated matter which only those nearest and dearest to him know the details of.

As a somewhat cold comfort, Linkin Park's songs, especially on Hybrid Theory and Meteora, provided an outlet for a lot of teenagers to express their frustration and anger and angst. It was very cathartic to just scream along to the bridges and choruses of songs like 'Faint' or 'One Step Closer'. I think in that way Chester has helped many kids of my generation to vent their rage, and while seemingly only a little thing, that should not be underestimated.

John Heard, who played Macauley Culkin's father, in the Home Alone films, and the Sopranos has passed away. My wife was just recently watching both Beaches and Awakenings, which feature him in supporting roles. Fine actor; played great sleazeballs.