Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Your Name Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: RIP Lou Gossett Jr ? Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 11:48:33 +1300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 82 Message-ID: References: <580933323.733413284.803337.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <2jld0jhop8uqdptv9b6b39hvkqhrhc6c5f@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 22:48:34 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="cfe92000d9230dc26a57cf1bedfa1110"; logging-data="599688"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19CagHZjhnlWW5Z5QHc60NL78iDgPfTcUc=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:4/VryTAcg8LdFSRt3vTOlDDUs9c= Bytes: 3964 On 2024-03-29 14:56:17 +0000, shawn said: > On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 06:55:16 -0700, anim8rfsk > wrote: > >> RIP Lou Gossett Jr ? > > Sadly it is true. > > https://apnews.com/article/louis-gossett-jr-dies-1e86e1441ec8b614a282f3de22490a07 > > > LOS ANGELES (AP) - Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a > supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal > TV miniseries "Roots," has died. He was 87. > > Gossett's first cousin Neal L. Gossett told The Associated Press that > the actor died in Santa Monica, California. A statement from the > family said Gossett died Friday morning. No cause of death was > revealed. The media of course still has to keep pushing the "Political Correctness" idiocy. :-\ Louis Gossett Jr: First black man to win supporting actor Oscar dies -------------------------------------------------------------------- Louis Gossett Jr, the first black man to win the best supporting actor Oscar, has died at the age of 87. The New York-born actor won the Academy Award in 1982 for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in An Officer and a Gentleman. Gossett also won an Emmy in 1978 for his role in Roots, the ground-breaking TV mini-series about slavery. His death was confirmed by his family to the BBC's US partner CBS. No cause of death was given. Gossett made his Broadway debut as a teenager and later starred in shows such as A Raisin in the Sun and Golden Boy. He went on to gain critical acclaim across a six-decade career. Gossett continued acting into later life and his last role was in the 2023 musical remake of The Color Purple. In the film, a reimagining of Alice Walker's 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, he played Ol' Mister Johnson, father of Albert "Mister" Johnson, played by Colman Domingo. Writing on Instagram, Domingo called him "a true great. A true legend". "What an honour to have been able to give him his flowers on his last day of his final film The Color Purple where he played my father," he wrote. "Fantasia [Barrino] sang it best ... He ran his race for us. We are forever indebted. May we stand firmly on his shoulders. Lift him up today. RIP" Barrino, who played lead character Celie in the film, also wrote: "Louis Gossett Jr, what an awesome man you were and the stories you told us, I'll never, ever forget." She added that he had "paved the way for black actors and actresses". Gossett also starred in Backstairs At The White House, The Story Of Satchel Paige, The Josephine Baker Story, for which he won a Golden Globe, and Roots Revisited. He also starred in the cult 1980s science fiction film Enemy Mine as the alien Jeriba Shigan, alongside Dennis Quaid.