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Marcia Cross: “I never watched the last episode of ‘Desperate Housewives’…and I don’t want to. »

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Sylvie Claire / March 23, 2023

More than 10 years after the end of the cult series, the interpreter of Bree Van de Kamp created the event at the SériesMania festival. During more than an hour, she evokes her beginnings, her memories, her personal fights. A great moment. We were there. 
  
When she arrived on stage in Lille on Tuesday night, she was given a rock star’s ovation. This is a feeling that today’s stars of the series that flood the platforms and the most traditional TV will probably never know. And certainly not a decade after the end of the fiction that would have raised them to the status of icon.
 
So 10 years ago (May 13, 2012), “Desperate Housewives” came to an end. A heartbreak for millions of viewers around the world, and for Marcia Cross – on whom time seems to have no hold! When “Desperate Housewives” drew the curtain, the redheaded actress admits that she went through two different states. “I was exhausted, because I had done all this, I had given birth to my twins, my husband had cancer for a while too… I crawled to the finish line, physically. But I realize I never watched the last episode. And I still haven’t. I don’t want to watch it.” Shooting that last episode of “Desperate Housewives” was “horrible,” she continues. “I remember, we were sitting there with the girls and Marc Cherry (the creator), it was very emotional.
 
Humble (always) and moved (sometimes) at the time of retracing her career, the interpreter of Bree Van de Kamp also tells that she almost passed by this role become cult, for personal reasons. “First, I said ‘I want to be Marie Alice’ (the narrator, dead, editor’s note). I wanted to start a family and I didn’t have a partner at the time. So I was thinking about adopting a baby and that meant I would have to be at home as a single parent.” So taking more time away from filming sets. But the creator, Marc Cherry, dedicated her to Bree. “And it changed my life!”. Not only his. Those of his sidekicks too, with whom the bond is unbreakable. “We were so happy, so lucky. This is our baby. And we’ll stay connected forever.
 
Eight years have passed between the opening on Wisteria Lane and the end of “Desperate Housewives”. Life, with its ups and downs, has taken its toll. Marcia became pregnant with twins while filming – sometimes even from her home, where for medical reasons some sets had been set up – season 3 of the show. Then, a few years after leaving Bree’s skin, she was diagnosed with cancer (of the anus). Now she talks about it openly, and in her own elegantly funny way. “What were the odds of me playing the most uptight character in the world and getting a cancer that is the worst you can talk about, that no one wants to hear the name ‘anal’? I’m fine, it’s been a long time coming. But I wanted to talk about it, I had no choice because people don’t know it, don’t know the symptoms ».
 
Lifting taboos, as she did through Bree, the perfect conservative housewife who will end up much more tolerant than at the beginning of the series. Talking about the evolution of the relationship between her character and her son, Andrew, a homosexual (whom she rejects at the beginning), she says she is proud to have carried this speech, to have helped the LGBTQ+ cause. Even though today in the United States, she also laments, there is backsliding on some issues. “We have a lot of issues right now. And we’re not talking about garbage cans in the streets… There are serious problems!” she smiles, referring to the state of the streets in a France on strike (and after being caught in the middle of a protest in Paris)…

 

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Matthew Perry, who played Chandler in the cult series “Friends”, has been found dead

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Steph Deschamps / October 31, 2023

Actor Matthew Perry, who played Chandler Bing in the hit sitcom “Friends”, was found dead in his home at the age of 54, US media reported on Saturday.
 
According to the Los Angeles Times, the actor was found dead in his bathtub at his Los Angeles home.   No signs of foul play were found, according to unnamed sources cited by the same newspaper and the specialized media TMZ, which first reported the death.
 
Matthew Perry was best known for his humorous role as Chandler Bing in the ultra-popular NBC series “Friends”, which ran for ten seasons from 1994 to 2004. The actor had struggled for years with his addiction to painkillers and alcohol, and had attended rehab clinics on several occasions.
 
In a recent TV appearance, Perry had surprised audiences by admitting to suffering from severe anxiety “every night” while filming “Friends”. According to TMZ, no drugs were found at the scene of the actor’s death on Saturday.
 
In addition to “Friends”, Perry has appeared in films such as “Fools Rush In” and “The Whole Nine Yards ».
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Massive Attack in mourning: the band “devastated” by the death of one of its members

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Sylvie Claire / October 25, 2023

Leading British trip-hop band Massive Attack announced on Tuesday the death of its guitarist Angelo Bruschini, who had been suffering from lung cancer. “Rest in Peace Angelo. A singularly brilliant and original talent,” wrote Massive Attack on its X (ex-Twitter) account, deeming it “impossible to quantify” his contribution to the band hailing from Bristol, England.   On its Instagram account, the band added that it was “devastated” by the loss of its guitarist.
 
Founded in the 1980s, Massive Attack rose to fame in the 1990s with their album “Mezzanine”, followed by “100th Windows”.  After playing in several bands, Angelo Bruschini joined the group in 1990, helping to shape the Bristol-based outfit’s musical identity.   Last July, Angelo Bruschini revealed on his Facebook account that he was suffering from lung cancer and that his health was worsening.
 
“I’ve had a superb life, I’ve travelled the world many times, met many wonderful people, but the door is closing,” he had written.
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Rocky loses an ally: actor Burt Young dies aged 83

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Steph Deschamps / October 21, 2023

American actor Burt Young has breathed his last. He passed away at the age of 83. 
 
For the moment, no details have been given as to the cause of his death.
 
He was best known for playing Paulie, the best friend of Rocky, played by Sylvester Stallone. This won him the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
 
The American not only starred in a boxing movie, he also practiced the sport and even turned pro.
 
Following the news of his death, his acting partner, Sylvester Stallone, posted a message on his Instagram account with a photo of them on the set of Rocky.
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