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 This is a concern in my part of the woods as a church down the road from where I live has been reported to have 18  cases of COVID-19.

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Speaking of which, this is a horrible consequence of the pandemic.

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This is incitement against public officials:



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We have Trump to thank for the massive poverty in the U.S. thanks to this plague.
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Obituary:  Actress Rhonda Fleming, 97, died on October 14 of aspiration pneumonia.  She was known as  "The Queen of Technicolor" during the 1940s. 


Fleming was discovered by an agent while running to school, with her first top-featured role being in Alfred Hitchcock's "Spellbound." This role led to her starring in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" with Bing Crosby. She went on to star in more than 40 films during Hollywood's Golden Age of filmmaking.


NYT: 


Rhonda Fleming was born Marilyn Louis on Aug. 10, 1923, in Hollywood, the younger of two daughters of Effie Graham, a model and actress, and Harold Cheverton Louis, who worked in the insurance industry.

 

While she was still a student at Beverly Hills High School, Marilyn was spotted by an agent and given a few small film roles. David O. Selznick, the powerful movie producer, saw her, put her under contract and changed her name to Rhonda Fleming.

 

After a few uncredited screen appearances (in her first three movies she played Dance-Hall Girl, Girl at Dance and Girl on Train), she made her official film debut in “Spellbound” (1945), Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thriller. She played a sex-hungry mental patient being treated by Ingrid Bergman’s character; she often told interviewers that she had to look up the word “nymphomaniac” to know exactly what her character was supposed to be.

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