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Lauren Bacall, Hollywood’s Icon of Cool, Dies at 89
Lauren Bacall, Hollywood’s Icon of Cool, Dies at 89
The sultry and sexy actress was electric in the 1940s films “To Have and Have Not” and “Key Largo” opposite her husband, Humphrey Bogart
By Mike Barnes and Duane Byrge
Lauren Bacall, the willowy actress whose husky voice, sultry beauty and all-too-short May-December romance with Humphrey Bogart made her an everlasting Icon of Hollywood, has died, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. She was 89.
Bacall died Tuesday morning of a stroke in her longtime home in the Dakota, the famous Upper West Side building that overlooks Central Park in Manhattan, a family member told TMZ, which first reported the news.
Bogart and Bacall were one of the most popular Hollywood couples, onscreen and off, and their 11-year marriage was the stuff of romantic lore. In 1981, their love provided the lyrics for Bertie Higgins’ 1981 pop hit “Key Largo” — “We had it all, just like Bogie and Bacall.”
They met just before they filmed her first movie, To Have and Have Not (1944), directed by Howard Hawks, her mentor. Although only 19, Bacall and her smoldering cool was the perfect match for the 44-year-old Bogart and his tough guy-persona.
Her best-remembered films, many of them considered classics, were with Bogart: To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947) and Key Largo (1948).
After Bogart died at age 57 of esophageal cancer in January 1957, Bacall had a romance with Frank Sinatra. Days after she accepted his marriage proposal in 1958, The Los Angeles Herald reported on the impending nuptial on page 1 and Sinatra broke things off, refusing to speak to her for two decades.
Visage frontman and Eighties Icon Steve Strange has died age 55
Visage frontman and Eighties Icon Steve Strange has died age 55
Steve Strange, Visage lead singer, dies aged 55
Steve Strange, lead singer of 1980s pop band Visage, has died aged 55 following a heart attack, his record label says.
The Welsh New Romantic Icon – best known for the hit Fade To Grey – died in hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
Ex-Visage bandmates Midge Ure and Rusty Egan said they were "devastated" to hear of his "untimely passing", adding: "Steve was a major face of the 80s."
Boy George tweeted he was "heartbroken" about the death of Strange, saying he was "such a big part of my life".
Duran Duran frontman Simon Le Bon tweeted that Strange was "the leading edge of New Romantic. God Bless him".
Fellow 1980s pop star Billy Idol tweeted: "Very sad to hear of my friend Steve Strange passing, RIP mate."
Spandau Ballet guitarist Gary Kemp dedicated the band’s performance in Italy to "a maverick to the end", while his brother and the band’s bassist, Martin Kemp, tweeted: "RIP Steve Strange goodbye my dear friend. I will miss you!"
Strange, pictured with Boy George in 2001, was known as a New Romantic pioneer
Strange’s agent, Pete Bassett, said he would be remembered as "a hard-working, very amusing and lovable individual who always was at the forefront of fashion trends".
"Up until last year he was putting together a book of fashion styles based on the New Romantic movement and it comes as a great shock.
"We understood that he had certain health problems but nothing we knew was life threatening.
"His friends and family are totally shocked, we had no idea anything like this was likely to happen."
He had suffered ill-health, including in December last year when he was admitted to Princess of Wales Hospital, in Bridgend, with a bronchial infection and an intestinal blockage.
BBC News – Steve Strange, Visage lead singer, dies aged 55
I had the pleasure of spending time with Steve on a few occasions and he was a man of fascinating contradictions. Tempestuous, kind, witty, cutting, determined yet sometimes vulnerable. I was there for his first live gig after several years away from the stage and while he was understandably nervous backstage the moment he picked up the mic and the music started it was like someone had flicked a switch and he was electrifying, every inch the consummate performer, and he owned the stage. I am incredibly sad that I’ll never get to walk into a dressing room and hear him call out with the name he always called me, or that I’ll never feel the shiver of excitement that hearing the opening notes to Fade to Grey again and knowing that I was about to see the man behind that iconic track nail it yet again.
Rest in peace, Steve. :sadwavey:
Visage frontman and Eighties Icon Steve Strange has died age 55
Visage frontman and Eighties Icon Steve Strange has died age 55
Steve Strange, Visage lead singer, dies aged 55
Steve Strange, lead singer of 1980s pop band Visage, has died aged 55 following a heart attack, his record label says.
The Welsh New Romantic Icon – best known for the hit Fade To Grey – died in hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
Ex-Visage bandmates Midge Ure and Rusty Egan said they were "devastated" to hear of his "untimely passing", adding: "Steve was a major face of the 80s."
Boy George tweeted he was "heartbroken" about the death of Strange, saying he was "such a big part of my life".
Duran Duran frontman Simon Le Bon tweeted that Strange was "the leading edge of New Romantic. God Bless him".
Fellow 1980s pop star Billy Idol tweeted: "Very sad to hear of my friend Steve Strange passing, RIP mate."
Spandau Ballet guitarist Gary Kemp dedicated the band’s performance in Italy to "a maverick to the end", while his brother and the band’s bassist, Martin Kemp, tweeted: "RIP Steve Strange goodbye my dear friend. I will miss you!"
Strange, pictured with Boy George in 2001, was known as a New Romantic pioneer
Strange’s agent, Pete Bassett, said he would be remembered as "a hard-working, very amusing and lovable individual who always was at the forefront of fashion trends".
"Up until last year he was putting together a book of fashion styles based on the New Romantic movement and it comes as a great shock.
"We understood that he had certain health problems but nothing we knew was life threatening.
"His friends and family are totally shocked, we had no idea anything like this was likely to happen."
He had suffered ill-health, including in December last year when he was admitted to Princess of Wales Hospital, in Bridgend, with a bronchial infection and an intestinal blockage.
BBC News – Steve Strange, Visage lead singer, dies aged 55
I had the pleasure of spending time with Steve on a few occasions and he was a man of fascinating contradictions. Tempestuous, kind, witty, cutting, determined yet sometimes vulnerable. I was there for his first live gig after several years away from the stage and while he was understandably nervous backstage the moment he picked up the mic and the music started it was like someone had flicked a switch and he was electrifying, every inch the consummate performer, and he owned the stage. I am incredibly sad that I’ll never get to walk into a dressing room and hear him call out with the name he always called me, or that I’ll never feel the shiver of excitement that hearing the opening notes to Fade to Grey again and knowing that I was about to see the man behind that iconic track nail it yet again.
Rest in peace, Steve. :sadwavey:
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