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    Michael Douglas dons purple in honor of Prince at Tribeca Film Fest 

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    In this image made from video, Michael Douglas, center, sits with filmmakers Smriti Keshari, left, and Eric Schlosser, Saturday, April 23, 2016, in New York. Their groundbreaking multimedia installation on the threat of nuclear war, “The Bomb,” will close the Tribeca Film Festival. Douglas wore purple to honor the late music icon, Prince. (AP Photo)

    By John Carucci

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Michael Douglas paid simple homage to Prince at the Tribeca Film Festival with his attire: a matching purple shirt and pullover V-neck sweater.

    "He was such a private man, protected his work so much," he said Saturday night. "But he was an extraordinary talent, just an extraordinary talent. I really feel a loss."

    Besides being a fan, Douglas has a connection to Prince: he gave him his 1985 Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song Score for "Purple Rain."

    Douglas was at the festival to help filmmakers Smriti Keshari and Eric Schlosser promote their multimedia installation, "The Bomb." The immersive experience, which closed the festival, puts the viewer in the middle of the film, which is displayed on screens around them while a live band plays in the center.

    "I think this film, 'The Bomb' and the presentation, how beautifully it's done, is gonna bring in hopefully a new generation of younger people to make them conscious of the most important issue in our life that is least talked about," Douglas said.

    Douglas feels the less we talk about nuclear weapons, the more dangerous they become.

    "We cannot wait for a nuclear accident to happen before there's action to take place," Douglas said.

    Douglas has already brought the conversation of a possible nuclear catastrophe to the big screen, having produced and starred in the 1979 thriller, "The China Syndrome."

    "I was making a horror picture, involving a nuclear power station, and in doing our research and finding out about the half-life of plutonium and realizing, 'My God, this is really a monster.' And I've pursued this issue for years," he said.

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    Chuck Woolery, host of “Love Connection” and “Scrabble,” dies at 83

    Sunday, November 24, 2024
    Chuck Woolery hosts a special premiere of the "$250,000 Game Show Spectacular" at the Las Vegas Hilton Saturday, Oct. 13, 2007, in Las Vegas. (Ronda Churchill/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, File)

    Chuck Woolery, the affable, smooth-talking game show host of "Wheel of Fortune," "Love Connection" and "Scrabble" who later became a right-wing podcaster, skewering liberals and accusing the government of lying about COVID-19, has died. He was 83.

    Mark Young, Woolery's podcast co-host and friend, said in an email early Sunday that Woolery died at his home in Texas with his wife, Kristen, present. "Chuck was a dear friend and brother and a tremendous man of faith, life will not be the same without him," Young wrote.

    Woolery, with his matinee idol looks, coiffed hair and ease with witty banter, was inducted into the American TV Game Show Hall of Fame in 2007 and earned a daytime Emmy nomination in 1978.

    In 1983, Woolery began an 11-year run as host of TV's "Love Connection," for which he coined the phrase, "We'll be back in two minutes and two seconds," a two-fingered signature dubbed the "2 and 2." In 1984, he hosted TV's "Scrabble," simultaneously hosting two game shows on TV until 1990.

    "Love Connection," which aired long before the dawn of dating apps, had a premise that featured either a single man or single woman who would watch audition tapes of three potential mates and then pick one for a date.

    A couple of weeks after the date, the guest would sit with Woolery in front of a studio audience and tell everybody about the date. The audience would vote on the three contestants, and if the audience agreed with the guest's choice, "Love Connection" would offer to pay for a second date.

    Woolery told The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2003 that his favorite set of lovebirds was a man aged 91 and a woman aged 87. "She had so much eye makeup on, she looked like a stolen Corvette. He was so old he said, 'I remember wagon trains.' The... Read More

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