1 August 2017

RIP Sam

By icefogger

The actor, and Pulitzer winning playwright, Sam Shepard died on Thursday. Shepard wrote over 55 plays, winning the Pulitzer for “Buried Child”; and acted in over 50 films, getting an Oscar nomination for his role as Chuck Yeager in “The Right Stuff”.

Shepard died of complications from ALS. He was 73.

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2 responses to “RIP Sam”

• Larry Janicsek
  August 2nd, 2017 at 12:35 AM

  Can you spare a stick of “Beemans” ????

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  • icefogger
    August 2nd, 2017 at 3:01 AM

    “… it takes a special kind of man to volunteer for a suicide mission, especially one that’s on TV.”

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