El artista responsable de la creación de super héroes como Daredevil y la serie satírica Howard the Duck, Eugene "Gene" Colan, murió esta madrugada a los 84 años.
La fanaticada de este ícono, incluído en el 2005 en el Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame, está de luto por la noticia, circulada desde temprano a través de comicmix.com y el propio blog del artista.
Colan nació el 1 de septiembre de 1926 y es más conocido como el artista de Marvel Comics, donde también trabajó en la clásica serie The Tomb of Dracula. También fue co creador del Falcón, el primer super héroe afroamericano de la corriente principal de este género.
PHILADELPHIA – "Jackass" star Ryan Dunn, who along with his cast mates made Americans cringe and snicker through vulgar stunts in their multimillion-dollar TV and movie franchise, was killed early Monday in a fiery car crash. He was 34.
Dunn, a daredevil whose most famous skits included diving into a sewage tank and shoving a toy car into his rectum, was driving his 2007 Porsche in suburban Philadelphia when it careered off the road, flipped over a guardrail and crashed into the woods before bursting into flames. A passenger was also killed, and speed may have been a factor in the crash, West Goshen Township police said.
The force of impact shattered the vehicle into several twisted and blackened pieces, leaving the Porsche 911 GT3 unrecognizable except for a door that was thrown from the crash and not incinerated. A 100-foot-long tire skid marked where the car left the roadway.
Both Dunn and his passenger were severely burned. Police said they were able to identify Dunn through his tattoos and hair, but the identity of his passenger was still unknown.
Dunn appeared on MTV shows "Jackass" and "Viva La Bam" and the three "Jackass" big-screen adaptations. He also was the star of his own MTV show, "Homewrecker," and hosted "Proving Ground" on the G4 cable network.
His longtime friend and fellow "Jackass" daredevil Johnny Knoxville tweeted on Monday afternoon, "Today I lost my brother Ryan Dunn. My heart goes out to his family and his beloved Angie. RIP Ryan, I love you buddy."
Dunn also starred in the yet-to-be-released film "Living Will." The film's website describes Dunn's character as a "party bum slacker (who) returns from the dead as a mischievous and perverted ghost."
In a statement, MTV praised Dunn's tireless humor and enthusiasm and said he would be missed.
"We are devastated by the tragic loss of Ryan Dunn — a beloved member of the MTV family for more than a decade," said Van Toffler, president of MTV Networks Music/Films Group. "The Jackass brotherhood will never be the same."
Dunn was born in Ohio and moved at age 15 to Pennsylvania, where he met Bam Margera on his first day of high school, according to a biography posted on his website.
Dunn, Margera, Christopher Raab (known as Raab Himself) and Brandon DiCamillo, under the moniker CKY for "Camp Kill Yourself," started making videos that featured them skateboarding and performing stunts.
Dunn was working as a welder and at a gas station when Knoxville, a friend of Margera's through the skateboarding circuit, asked the crew to allow their videos to be part of the series "Jackass," which became a hit on MTV and ran from 2000 to 2002.
Perhaps his most famous stunt, in 2002's "Jackass: The Movie," involved inserting a toy car into his rectum and going to an emergency room, where he made up a story that he was in mysterious pain after passing out at a fraternity party. Dunn's X-ray from the hospital became a popular T-shirt for "Jackass" fans.
In a 2000 stunt, he dived into a tank at a raw sewage plant wearing flippers, a mask and a snorkel.
A few hours before the 3 a.m. crash, Dunn tweeted a picture of himself drinking with two friends. The photo has since been removed.
Autopsies were to be conducted Monday, though it was unclear when the results would be released.
Ryan committed the ultimate act of Jackassery. May he rest in Peace
On your right, is the last known photo of Ryan Dunn while alive. This photo was tweeted from Ryan's account. It was taken down after the accident.
Hay que decirlo, Barack Obama sera o no sera muchas cosas, pero algo si es seguro. Es tremendo político y recaudador de fondos.
Después de semanas de preparativos y espera, los alzacolas y soplapotes coloniales, que habían reparado y pintado residenciales públicos y avenidas llenas de rotos, se sintieron muy orgullosos cuando a las 11:25am, el famoso "Air Force One" toco suelo borincano. De ahí bajo el cuadragésimo cuarto presidente de los Estados Unidos de America, Barack Hussein Obama II. Fue un ensueño para los que sueñan ser mas americanos que los americanos, ver como ese presidente color "Café-Au-Lait" (¿Negro? No Way!)con esa sonrisa llevadera y carismática, solamente vista en CNN y Time Magazine saludo al ese publico que lo esperaba y dijo en un podio, flanqueado por banderas Puertorriqueñas y Norteamericanas, mucho y nada. Y los arrodillados aplaudieron delirantemente.
Después se fue para la Fortaleza a reunirse con su lacayo...digo gobernador de la colonia. Lo mas probable es que hablaron de lo mismo, mas fondos para Puerto Rico para terminar las obras que empezaron con otros fondos, si no se los hubieran robado todo...digo si no se hubieran agotado.
Se reunió con el contrincante del otro partido político, y almorzaron en una panadería Gallega de San Juan, la cual sus dueños ahora hablaran risueñamente de la vez que el presidente de EEUU. se sentó a comerse un Medianoche con una botella de agua, cuando ni hace poco, algunos de los regulares de ese negocio lo tildaban de negro sucio, talibán y comunista.
De ahí salio para el Caribe Hilton, a un almuerzo de recaudación de fondos, el cual los comemier...perdón comensales pagaron $35,000. el plato. Una foto con Obama costaba $10,000. mas.
Y el sonriendo, hablo un poco y se quedo con los cheques.
A las 3:30pm llego inmediatamente al Aeropuerto de Isla Verde.
A las 3:39pm alzo vuelo hacia Washington D.C. Capital Federal del Imperio.
Yo me imagino que mientras alzaba vuelo, el revisaba lo que había pasado aquí, el Millón y medio de dolares que recogió, sonrió y diría; "Thanks for the loot, Suckers!"
Mientras tanto atrás se queda un país desangrado por el crimen, la droga, el abuso policíaco y la corrupción gubernamental. Un país dirigido por unos mequetrefes, que por un momento en sus patéticas vidas, jugaron a ser gente importante.
¿Y el resto de nosotros? Bien, gracias por preguntar.
MADRID (AFP) – A German passenger stripped naked on an Iberia flight from Madrid to Frankfurt, forcing the pilot to turn the plane around so he could be removed, the airline said Friday.
"A German passenger took all his clothes off on the plane," on Thursday night, an Iberia spokeswoman said.
"Staff on board tried to dissuade him but he became aggressive and finally locked himself in the toilet. The pilot then decided to turn around and land in Madrid."
Once on the ground, police came on board and "took him away," the spokeswoman said. She said the airline has "no idea" why the man, who was not identified, decided to do what he did.
The passenger cooperated immediately when Guardia Civil police arrived and he was not arrested, said police spokesman Angel Blanco.
The Iberia pilot filed a complaint saying the passenger refused to obey crew instructions to sit down during the flight and then started shouting. But the complaint did not mention him stripping naked.
Police said the man was not drunk and they had no explanation for his behaviour.
Ok, no more alcohol for German passengers! This how World Wars and bad porn starts!
Jack Kevorkian, who was dubbed "Dr Death" for helping some 130 people to die, has himself died of a pulmonary thrombosis, aged 83, in a Detroit hospital. He had endured a long struggle with heart and kidney problems. "It was peaceful, he didn't feel a thing," said Geoffrey Fieger, his former lawyer, as if summarising in one of the trials prompted by Kevorkian's willingness to test the legal bounds of assisted suicide.
He earned his nickname after he was charged, in 1990, for assisting Janet Adkins, a 54-year-old Oregon woman suffering from Alzheimer's disease, to kill herself. At a campsite near Detroit, he hooked Adkins up in the back of his Volkswagen van to a machine he called "the Thanatron", a homemade device that, when the patient pressed a button, dispensed sodium pentathol to knock the patient out, then potassium chloride to kill them.
The state of Michigan sought to press civil charges, but because Adkins in effect killed herself, and Michigan had no laws prohibiting assisted suicide, the charges were eventually dropped, though his licence to practice medicine was revoked in 1991.
Kevorkian's trial became a cause celebre. Fieger compared him to Socrates, while prosecutors warned that this was the first step on the slope to genocide. As Ron Rosenbaum, whose Travels With Doctor Death became a landmark essay, asked: "Is this the trial of Socrates or Dr Mengele?" It was a loaded question that Kevorkian himself often did little to defuse.
He was born Jacob Kevorkian in Pontiac, Michigan, to parents who fled the Turkish massacre of Armenians in 1915. In high school during the second world war, he established his credentials as a contrarian by learning both German and Japanese. After gaining his medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1952, he served as an army doctor, first during the Korean war and then in Colorado, where he taught himself the piano and became a devotee of Bach.
He returned to Pontiac as a hospital pathologist. Then he began proselytising for better use of dead bodies, even going to death row at a prison in Ohio to persuade the convicts to consider euthanasia in the hope that their organs could be reused. Years later he would write articles for a German magazine, Medicine and Law, appearing to condone some doctors in concentration camps because they advanced medical knowledge in the face of otherwise useless destruction. In 1961 he stirred national controversy by using blood from recent cadavers for transfusions. Time magazine called it "blood from the dead".
His career became patchy, employment as a pathologist alternating with an early attempt to set up a computerised diagnostic centre or a scheme to market a new kind of baseball cap. He wrote a number of books and essays, but by the time he set himself up as a "death counsellor" and expert on "bioethics", he had even been rejected as a paramedic. By then, however, he had also developed the Thanatron, using parts collected in junk shops. A later version, called the Mercitron, used carbon monoxide, which Kevorkian said imbued a pinkish tone to the flesh which left the dead body "better looking" than it had been in life.
Outside the realms of death, Kevorkian was an accomplished musician, composing and playing the piano and the flute on The Kevorkian Suite: A Very Still Life, a jazz disc released to bemused reviews in 1997. He also painted, allegedly sometimes using his own blood. A limited print release of six works was issued by a suburban Detroit gallery. One was used as an album cover by the "sludge metal" band Acid Bath.
The Adkins case was the first of six encounters with the law that Kevorkian faced throughout the 1990s, approaching them as increasingly farcical stages for political theatre, even donning 18th-century dress and entering the courtroom in stocks. Critics, however, pointed out cases in which Kevorkian failed to perform due psychiatric diligence, most notoriously one obsese woman with no medical problems, but in an abusive relationship with her former psychiatrist.
His legal odyssesy ended when, in November 1998, he gave the television programme 60 Minutes a film of him administering a lethal injection to Thomas Youk, a 52-year-old man in the final stages of ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, who was shown giving his informed consent. Kevorkian dared authorities to stop him, and they responded. He was convicted of second-degree homicide and sentenced to 10-25 years in prison.
He served eight years before being paroled on compassionate grounds while suffering from Hepatitis B, contracted while performing transfusions in Korea. He promised not to advise or help people with their deaths, but resumed being a very vocal public voice, though by now his eccentric profile made him unwelcome in many sectors of the assisted suicide movement.
Following his release, he became popular on the lecture circuit and television talk shows, adding Armenian issues to his topics. He published a prison memoir, GlimmerIQs, which included nonsense rhymes and limericks, and a book about overpopulation called When the People Bubble POPs.
In 2008 he ran for Congress in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and collected nearly 9,000 votes, or 2.6%. In 2010 he was the subject of a documentary film, Kevorkian, directed by Matthew Galkin. The same year Al Pacino won an Emmy for playing Kevorkian in Barry Levinson's HBO television drama You Don't Know Jack.
Kevorkian did not marry, and leaves no survivors. He never minded being called Dr Death. "Everyone is going to die," he said. "Aren't you interested in what's going to happen?"
• Jack (Jacob) Kevorkian, assisted suicide campaigner, born 26 May 1928; died 3 June 2011
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