miércoles, 19 de junio de 2013

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Actor James Gandolfini is dead at 51. A source tells the Daily News he suffered a massive heart attack in Italy. the New Jersey-bred actor who delighted audiences as mob boss Tony Soprano in “The Sopranos” has died following a massive heart attack in Italy, a source told the Daily News.

“Everyone is in tears,” the source close to the 51-year-old TV tough guy said.
A press-shy celeb who got his start as a character actor and became famous relatively late in his career — thanks to his breakout role on “The Sopranos,” Gandolfini has largely avoided the spotlight since the last season of the beloved show aired in 2007.
The burly Westwood, N.J. native has appeared in several supporting roles since then, playing the director of the CIA in “Zero Dark Thirty” and the gruff blue-collar father of a wannabe rock star in “Not Fade Away” last year.
Gandolfini hit Broadway in 2009 with the Tony Award-winning comedy “God of Carnage.”
“I seek out good stories, basically — that’s it,” he told The Star-Ledger last December.
“The older I get, the funnier-looking I get, the more comedies I’m offered. I’m starting to look like a toad, so I’ll probably be getting even more soon.”
Gandolfini’s wife, former model Deborah Lin, gave birth to a baby girl last October. The couple married in Hawaii in 2008.
Gandolfini — who spent part of his early career supporting himself as a bartender and nightclub manager — also has a son with his ex-wife, Marcy Wudarski.
His first break came in 1992 when he landed a role in a Broadway version of “A Streetcar Named Desire” that starred Alec Baldwin and Jessica Lange.
Smallish parts in major films followed — Gandolfini played a submarine crew member in “Crimson Tide” in 1995 and a gangland bodyguard in “Get Shorty” the same year.
Fame came for the Italian-American actor after 1999, as “The Sopranos” garnered critical acclaim and cult popularity on its way to becoming a TV classic.
Gandolfini won three Emmy Awards for his sparkling depiction of protagonist Tony Soprano, a mobster trying to balance the mundane stresses of family life and his unusual occupation: organized crime.

martes, 11 de junio de 2013

Bomb threats rattle Princeton U., Georgia state Capitol

Princeton University ordered the campus evacuated Tuesday due to a bomb threat to "multiple unspecified campus buildings."
A posting on the university website at 10:26 a.m. ET directed all students and employees to go home and "do not return to campus for any reason until advised otherwise."
The university said it is investigating the incident with "local, state and federal law enforcement agencies."
All employees except for essential public safety and facilities staff were told to go home or to evacuation centers and to not return to work until Wednesday. Students were directed to the Public Library and other buildings in the town of Princeton.
Regular classes have ended for the summer and commencement was last Tuesday, according to a tweet from the university. Most students left campus days or weeks ago.
The Ivy League school, located in central New Jersey about 50 miles southwest of New York City, is home to approximately 5,000 undergraduate students, 2,500 graduate students and 1,100 faculty. Its campus comprises 180 buildings on 500 acres. The Princeton area has about 30,000 residents.
About 98% of undergraduate students live on campus, according to the university website. It was not immediately known whether campus residence halls were being evacuated.
The Princeton threat was one of several incidents on Tuesday:
--A bomb threat near the Georgia state Capitol in Atlanta forced the evacuation of five buildings housing the state attorney general's office and the state Supreme Court, WXIA-TV reported. Bomb-sniffing dogs did not find any explosives, and employees were allowed back inside around 11 a.m.
--A threatening phone call shortly after 6 a.m. prompted an evacuation at Virginia's Richmond International Airport. Flights were halted and canine units were brought in to sweep the terminals and the parking decks. Nothing was found, and by 9:45 a.m. ET the airport had reopened.