We can just as well say water is wet. Women alone especially are screwed over in old age; there is nothing new here since I am experiencing this right now.
I would love nothing more than to retire, but I have to work at least ten more years to make up for the lost income from the illegal termination 14 years ago.
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Obits:
A couple of actors I am not really familiar with:
Paul Sorvino of Goodfellas fame has died at 83:
His publicist Roger Neal told DailyMail.com Sorvino died Monday morning in Indiana of natural causes. His wife of eight years, actress and political pundit Dee Dee Benkie, was by his side.
'Our hearts are broken, there will never be another Paul Sorvino, he was the love of my life, and one of the greatest performers to ever grace the screen and stage,' Benkie said in a statement.
Benkie, who often shared photos of their life together, posted a photo of Sorvino holding a shotgun on June 2, as Democratic lawmakers pushed for stricter gun control in the US - following a slew of mass shootings.
She captioned the photo, which is believed to be one of his most recent: 'You liberals who are talking about gun grabs. Try and come get our guns.'
In his over 50 years in the entertainment business, Sorvino was a mainstay in films and television. He would often say that while he might be best known for playing gangsters, his real passions were poetry, painting and opera.
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UK actor David Warner, 80, has died:
Warner was born in Manchester, in 1941. His parents were unmarried and he spent time in the care of both, describing his childhood as “troubled” and “messy”. His Russian-Jewish father sent him to a succession of boarding schools. His mother disappeared from his life when he was a teenager, he revealed.
After school he studied at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. From the outset, Warner was insecure about his acting ability and his looks. Tall (6 foot 2) and rangy, he never imagined himself as a leading man. But after joining the Royal Shakespeare Company, aged 21, he was cast as the lead in Karel Reisz’s critically acclaimed film Morgan, A Suitable Case For Treatment, and the RSC cast him as Hamlet in 1965.
Warner’s portrayal of Shakespeare’s prince as a proto-student radical horrified traditional critics but chimed with the younger audiences. “When I was a kid and saw Shakespeare, I never heard the actors for all the posturing and declaiming,” he later said. “I thought surely kids today were the same as I was, not wanting Shakespeare shoved down their throats. I wanted to make them come back again, of their own free will.
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