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Hip-hop troll goes to the Maury Povich show. Grammy-award winning rapper Lil Nas X (Montero Hill) is going to be on an episode of Maury.
Lil Nas X will be appearing on The Maury Show to confront his music video co-star Yai Ariza. Naserti claims his ex-boyfriend cheated on him and is married to an unknown woman and is co-parenting a child together. After the rapper reveals to the woman, Jai that he and Yai were in a relationship over a month, the child, Noah's paternity is questioned.
It will lead to the Maury Povich's famous quote "You are NOT the father!"
The 30-second clip which features the hit song That's What I Want" is being played in the background.
Shocking news to Montero.
The episode (uh, music video) will premiere on The Maury Show on November 17.
It appears to be a direct or subliminal diss to Boosie Badazz. The Baton Rouge rapper staged his own confrontational show when a performer dressed up as a Lil Nas X impersonator confronted him and his child exiting a store.
Boosie retorted the gay slur. Folks were quick to point out that this was possibly him filming a music video.
Lil Nas X trolled the rapper by saying that he and Lil Boosie are collaborating on a new hit. It set the rapper off and he went into a verbal tirade which included hateful gay slurs.
He said that this Boosie feud is "boring." The rapper said that "I'm going to leave that shit alone 'cause it's boring honestly."
Boosie said that the rapper should kill himself.
"Stop trolling me faggot, lol. U a whole bitch playing with a gangsta SMH. U can keep sucking dick n getting fucked n your ass n peace." -- quoted the rapper on Twitter.
The comments were pulled and he was suspended on Twitter for 12 hours.
The last president of South Africa during apartheid passed away.
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The last president of South Africa during the oppressive apartheid passed away from cancer. The 85-year old F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa’s last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country’s white minority rule.
De Klerk died after a battle against cancer at his home in the Fresnaye area of Cape Town, a spokesman for the F.W. de Klerk Foundation confirmed on Thursday.
De Klerk was a controversial figure in South Africa where many blamed him for violence against Blacks and anti-apartheid activists during his time in power, while some whites saw his efforts to end apartheid as a betrayal.
It was de Klerk who in a speech to South Africa’s parliament on Feb. 2, 1990, announced that Mandela would be released from prison after 27 years. The announcement electrified a country that for decades had been scorned and sanctioned by much of the world for its brutal system of racial discrimination known as apartheid.
With South Africa’s isolation deepening and its once-solid economy deteriorating, de Klerk, who had been elected president just five months earlier, also announced in the same speech the lifting of a ban on the African National Congress and other anti-apartheid political groups.
Amid gasps, several members of parliament members left the chamber as he spoke.
De Klerk with Nelson Mandela. Mandala served nearly a quarter of his life in the iron college. Four years after his release, he became president of South Africa.
Nine days later, Mandela walked free.
Four years after that, Mandela was elected the country’s first Black president as Blacks voted for the first time.
By then, de Klerk and Mandela had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for their often-tense cooperation in moving South Africa away from institutionalized racism and toward democracy.
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The caucus of white nationalists. The two Coonrans are Rep. Karen Donalds (R-FL) and Rep. Karen Owens (R-UT).
The House Republicans have their share of headaches within their conference.
The House members who voted for President Joe Biden's infrastructure package and impeachment of Washed Up 45 have become targets of ire from Republicans and extremists.
A monster they created due to their culture wars and willingness to embrace a cult and white extremism.
Rep. Karen Cheney (R-WY), Rep. Karen Kinzinger (R-IL), Rep. Karen Gonzalez (R-OH), Rep. Karen Katko (R-NY), Rep. Karen Upton (R-MI), Rep. Karen Malliotakis (R-NY), Rep. Karen Reed (R-NY), Rep. Karen Young (R-AK), Rep. Karen Van Drew (R-NJ), Rep. Karen Herrera Buelter (R-WA), Rep. Karen Rice (R-SC), Rep. Karen Meijer (R-MI) and Karen Fitzpatrick (R-PA) have been getting death threats and primary challenge threats from the far-right.
Here's the threatening voicemail Michigan GOP Rep. Fred Upton received after supporting the infrastructure bill via CNN
Keep in mind it has money for lead line replacement and PFAS cleanup. A community in Upton's district is in the midst of a lead crisis, another is a PFAS site pic.twitter.com/6AWnWbTGCK
Upton shared his death threat to the junk food media.
He blames Idiot Karen Greene and Karen McCarthy for it. He believes that the party's showboats are causing chaos. He said that his constituents want road and bridges fixed. He doesn't agree with Biden 100% of the time, but he felt that the need to get things done is important. He felt the party can't just be opposing Biden and be rewarded for doing nothing.
Katko 202-225-3701 Bacon 202-225-4155 Van Drew 202-225-6572 Young 202-225-5765 Upton 202-225-3761 Kinzinger 202-225-3635 Gonzalez (OH) 202-225-3876 Reed 202-225-3161 Smith 202-225-3765 Gabarino 202-225-7896 Malliotakis 202-225-3371 Fitzpatrick 202-225-4276 McKinley 202-225-4172
Of course, Karen Gosar shared that anime that showed him decapitating controversial do-nothing, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Biden.
That was condemned by the Democrats but no comment from McCarthy.
The QAnon leader has been very vocal about opposing Biden but he's been very active in opposing his own members who refuse to tow the line. Cheney was ousted from her leadership post when she cast that vote for impeachment. She is to the far-right and she lost to a former moderate in Karen Stefanik.
The two have been feuding ever since.
Cheney vows to stay on the committee investigating the January 6 riots and insurrection. She's gotten death threats and calls for her removal in the primary. She is the daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney.
“This madness has to stop,” said Upton, an 18-term moderate, who said his offices received dozens of threatening calls following his yes vote. That included one obscenity-laced rant that aides provided in which the caller repeatedly called Upton a “traitor” and expressed hope that the lawmaker, his family and aides would die.
The screaming banshee calls fellow Republicans traitors for supporting bipartisanship.
Upton closed his two Michigan offices for a day and reopened them after increasing their security.
This year’s bill, triple the size of the 2015 measure, is a keystone of President Joe Biden’s push to create jobs and build out the nation’s roads, water systems, broadband coverage and other projects. A compromise between Senate Democrats and Republicans, it will send money into every state and is the kind of bill that politicians have loved promoting back home for decades. Biden plans to sign it Monday.
Democrats say GOP opposition to the bill is indefensible on policy and political grounds.
“It’s a sad statement of how the other party has lost its way,” said Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) who’s leading the House Democratic political arm into a 2022 campaign in which Republicans have solid chances of capturing congressional control. ”If you want our country to fail so you can say things are bad and win power for yourself, you act like the House Republicans are.”
But for many Republicans, infrastructure projects — once an issue the two parties would reflexively work together on for mutual and national benefit — now offer a complex political calculation.
“When it comes to policy these days, we’re basically divided into two tribes. And you stick with your tribe and you don’t try to help the other tribe,” said Glen Bolger, a GOP pollster and strategist.
As president, Washed Up 45 repeatedly promised his own massive infrastructure plan but never produced one, making the phrase “infrastructure week” a Washington synonym for “pipe dream.” But he opposes the current package, and his ability to rally his conservative supporters against those who cross him was a factor as GOP lawmakers decided how to vote.
Even so, hard-right cries for retaliation against the 13 pro-infrastructure Republicans, largely moderates from the Northeast and Midwest, have prompted their own pushback.
“This notion that we’re going to have people that are on the fringe, in terms of the Marjorie Taylor Greenes of the world and others, imposing some kind of a purity test on substance is lunacy,” said Cheney.
Cheney has been at war with Washed Up 45 and the party’s far right ever since backing his impeachment early this year.
Cheney opposed the bill, saying it contained clean energy and other provisions that would hurt Wyoming. She said the 13 Republicans who backed it are “among some of our very best members” who did it “because it was the right thing for their districts.”
Obstructionist Leader Karen McConnell (R-KY) an unabashed partisan warrior, was among 19 Senate Republicans who voted for the bill in August. McConnell, who doesn’t have to worry about being reelected until 2026, said this week he was “delighted” the measure was heading to Biden.
A day earlier, McConnell had already drawn the former president’s wrath.
Washed Up 45 issued a statement denigrating GOP senators who’d backed the bill for “thinking that helping the Democrats is such a wonderful thing to do.” Those Republicans “should be ashamed of themselves, in particular McConnell,” Washed Up 45 wrote.
That was just the tip of the iceberg for the attacks.
In an interview, the leader of the conservative House Freedom Caucus said GOP lawmakers should consider removing from their posts the 10 of the 13 defectors who are the senior Republican on committees and subcommittees. “I respect their right to vote their districts and their conscience. But that doesn’t mean that they should get the privilege of leading” House Republicans, said Biggs.
At a private Florida dinner Monday to bolster House GOP campaign prospects, the former president said he loves House Republicans but not the 13 who voted for the bill, according to an attendee who described the former president's remarks on condition of anonymity.
Earlier, House GOP leaders tweeted, and then deleted, that “Americans won’t forget” a vote for the “socialist” infrastructure bill. “Time to name names and hold these fake republicans accountable,” tweeted Boebert.
Before last week’s vote, QAnon leader McCarthy, said it would be “very difficult” for Republicans to promote backing the infrastructure bill during their campaigns because it is so closely linked to Democrats’ accompanying $1.85 trillion social and climate measure, which the GOP has solidly opposed.
Van Drew, who switched parties in 2019, said he supported the infrastructure bill because his state would receive over $20 billion “we desperately need.” Van Drew, who said he had heard “some cranky things” from some people, scoffed at the notion that the bill would “catapult the president” politically.
“If she wants to be mean to me, that’s fine,” he said of the colleague who labeled him and 12 others traitors. “I love America very much. I would never ever do anything to hurt this country.”
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When Norfolk Southern railroad abandoned the short line going into Kettering, Ohio at the Tenneco plant, something told me that the company is closing/
Railroads usually connect to facilities offering transport of products.
The CSX and Norfolk Southern lines travel through Dayton. CSX and the city own a five mile shortline that terminates near Trotwood.
Tenneco, a longtime automotive parts provider has announced it will be ending its Ohio facility.
It will put nearly 700 works out of their jobs. The company based out of Lake Forest, Illinois, near Chicago announced the news to the local junk food media.
The announcement was made to the workers at the facility. The executive director Steven Blow said in a communication blast, "This is a great team in Kettering and we recognize the impact this action will have on our team members. We will work to provide transition assistance for all affected team members, including some opportunities to transfer to other Tenneco locations. The company and union will be meeting in the coming weeks to bargain on these topics. This difficult decision is part of the company's need to realign its manufacturing footprint to respond to changing market conditions and capacity requirements."
The plant located on Woodman Drive in east Kettering will shutter.
Tenneco is a manufacturer and marketer of automotive products for original equipment and aftermarket customers. Its suppliers included Advance Auto Parts, BMW, GM and Toyota.
Union leaders for IUE-CWA which represents the Tenneco workers said that the company is trying to ship jobs to Mexico and China, citing their savings model. Which means they're outsourcing.
Some were angered by the news of the closure. The city of Kettering were told that that the plant was just restructuring.
The building was previously housed to a GM automotive facilities plant and then Delphi before it was bought by Tenneco. The company was there for almost 15 years.
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What pisses me off is the junk food media pundits calling this shooter a boy or teen. He's a grown ass man when he decided make that decision to travel from Illinois to Wisconsin to "protect" the streets.
He was not a registered EMS, a security guard, police officer or a member of the National Guard. He was just some punk who wanted to show off his "masculinity" by holding an AR-15 and parading around the city with a bunch of wannabes.
He shot people. He wasn't arrest on the spot. He ended up going home, eat a meal, call his pastor and his lawyer. He turned himself in Illinois. He got donations to help his bail. Got a shout out from washed up celebrity Ricky Schroeder and became a folk hero on the far-right.
On top of that, he flashes the WP symbol and drinks (mind you underage) with the Proud Boys.
Had he stayed home, he wouldn't be in the mess.
See Jacob Blake was shot in back and paralyzed when he entered a vehicle. They claimed he had a knife. He didn't attempt to stab the cop who shot him. He did put up a fight before entering the vehicle but he didn't pull a gun or the knife on the cop. He's still alive and thankful. He will sue the cop and the department.
But a cop walks and I believe the prosecution's failure to gather things may help this white terrorist walk.
Coming back from lunch, Kyle Rittenhouse's defense team argues that the prosecution is purposely aiming for a mistrial.
Meanwhile, the judge's phone rings. The ringtone is Lee Greenwood's patriotic anthem "God Bless the U.S.A" pic.twitter.com/xGY3dJd4e4
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Prosecutors in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, who is charged with killing two men and wounding another during last year's protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, finished calling witnesses after five days of testimony https://t.co/Oj7OZkemV7pic.twitter.com/xYcvxThzqe
I get that feeling that the jury will acquit the 18-year old man who shot and killed two and injured one in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
The white terrorist actually sobbed while being cross-examined. And the judge went at the prosecutor after the state brought evidence into the trial despite being told that anything done is irrelevant.
It was class act of white privilege and distortions.
In dramatic and risky testimony in his own defense, the shooter, 18, portrayed himself as wanting to help others by providing medical aid and extinguishing fires during the protests last year in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He said he used his gun only after being attacked and ambushed.
Prosecutors sought to paint the shooter as a vigilante who carried an assault-style weapon into a volatile melee and wanted to use it, asking him about his ammunition and his playing violent video games.
"I did what I had to do to stop the person who was attacking me," The shooter said under questioning by Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger.
"By killing them?" Binger asked.
"Two of them passed away but I stopped the threat from attacking me," replied the shooter, whose testimony ended on Wednesday in the trial, which the judge said could be finished by Monday or Tuesday.
"By using deadly force?" Binger asked.
"I used deadly force," the shooter said. "... I didn't know if it was going to kill them. But I used deadly force to stop the threat that was attacking me."
Rittenhouse is charged in the killing of Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and the wounding of Gaige Grosskreutz, 27, during protests on Aug. 25, 2020. The shooter was 17 at the time of the killings, has pleaded not guilty.
The shooter has emerged as a divisive figure, with politics coursing through the case. He is a hero to some conservatives who believe in unfettered gun rights and see the shootings as justified during the Kenosha chaos. Many on the left see the shooter as a symbol of an American gun culture run amok.
By the night of the shootings, Kenosha had experienced two nights of tumultuous protests triggered by the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, who was left paralyzed from the waist down.
Several businesses were burned down and there was looting. Police used rubber bullets and tear gas to control crowds, which included men wearing military-style gear and carrying rifles who confronted the sometimes-violent demonstrators.
Dressed in a navy blue suit and dark blue tie, the shooter initially was composed on the witness stand until his attorney asked him to detail his encounter with Rosenbaum, who he shot four times. Video evidence showed Rosenbaum pursuing and throwing a plastic bag at the shooter before the fatal encounter. The shooter said Rosenbaum grabbed his gun.
The judge was caught reading a magazine during the trial.
"I didn't notice Mr. Rosenbaum until he came out from behind the car and ambushed me," the shooter testified, before he started to breathe heavily and lose his composure, shedding tears and sobbing, prompting the judge to call for a break.
Some jurors watched with a look of sympathy as he cried. The shooter's mother sobbed in the courtroom watching her son.
Earlier in the night, the shooter said Rosenbaum had threatened twice to kill him, first by saying that he would kill the teen if he caught him alone and then telling a group he was with "I'm going to cut your fucking hearts out." The slain man's fiance testified that Rosenbaum had bipolar disorder.
The shooter faces a misdemeanor charge of underage possession of his weapon along with five felony counts.
The defense made a motion for a mistrial after Binger asked the shooter about his decision to remain silent until now, as is his right, and about a video recorded two weeks before the shootings in which the teen talked about shooting men he thought were shoplifting at a pharmacy.
Kenosha County Judge Bruce Schroeder had already ruled the video inadmissible. He erupted at Binger after the jury left the courtroom and said he would consider the mistrial motion.
The judge was caught on camera reading a catalog for cookies and having a ringtone with Lee Greenwood's God Bless America, a far-right theme song among Republicans and Washed Up 45.
"When you say you were acting in good faith, I don't believe you," the judge said to Binger.
The prosecution pressed the shooter about why he took it upon himself to carry a gun and offer assistance normally provided by local authorities in a hazardous situation.
The teen, who had taken some first aid courses, brought a medical kit and testified to helping people with minor injuries. He said he was there to help guard a used car dealership.
"I brought the gun for my protection," the shooter testified. "I didn't want to have to kill anybody that night."
The shooter said when he shot Rosenbaum he had his earlier threats in his mind and was also rattled by a gunshot fired nearby by another man, Joshua Ziminski. Rosenbaum had also wrapped his red shirt around his head, obstructing his face.
Binger repeatedly asked the shooter about whether he understood the power of his rifle and that Rosenbaum and the others could have similarly viewed him as a threat. While acknowledging Rosenbaum was unarmed, he responded that he had no choice.
"I pointed at him because he kept running at me and I didn't want him to chase me," Rittenhouse said. "I continued to shoot until he was no longer a threat to me."
The shooter said he shot Huber, who had swung a skateboard at him, because he pulled at his rifle, and fired at Grosskreutz, who was armed with a handgun, because he had pointed the pistol "directly" at the teen's head.
The shooter is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The shooter faces up to LIFE in the iron college if convicted.
The way I see it going, the prosecution may have blundered this big time. If he walks, then I would not want to be him when he's free. He's going to be like that asshole who shot Trayvon Martin.
Aaron Rodgers refusal to get vaccinated cost him and his team dearly.
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Aaron Rodgers: I got the coronavirus.
Hey, we thought you gotten the vaccine!
Rodgers: I said I was immunized from the coronavirus. I listened to Joe Rogan and I believed that using ivermectin will cure me of the coronavirus.
Scientists and medical professionals said that ivermectin is untested and not recommended.
Rodgers: You guys are too invested in wokeism.
But you may face fines and you could lose endorsements. Your team could face Fines or worse get the coronavirus.
Rodgers: It is what it is.
After that the team's loss, you believe NFL players should wear masks during press conferences? Should players get vaccinated to show that Americans are turning to folks like you for inspiration?
Can we forgive him for his utter stupidity?
Rodgers: It their decision. I am a role model to thousands of fans. I hosted Jeopardy! and participated in State Farm commercials with Jake. I am not worried. I'll find a company that will use my image and likeness. I am not a parent or a doctor. I did what was right for me. I don't impose my beliefs on anyone.
The NFL came hard on Rodgers after the Green Bay quarterback lied about being vaccinated. He caught the coronavirus during a Halloween Party. He also appeared at pressers without a mask and jeopardized not only himself, but fellow players, his coach, the Green Bay staff and his family.
Even his punishment is controversial. Some believe that he got off easy where folks like Colin Kaepernick are punished for far less serious issues.
Some NFL teams reportedly aren’t satisfied with the league’s handling of its investigation into the Packers and quarterback Aaron Rodgers over the violation of COVID-19 protocols.
The NFL fined the Packers $300,000 for not enforcing COVID-19 protocols concerning Rodgers, according to multiple reports. The quarterback and his teammate, wide receiver Allen Lazard, were both fined $14,650 each.
The violations of the league’s investigation included Rodgers not wearing a mask during his news conferences, and Green Bay’s failure to report that Rodgers and Lazard attended a team Halloween party. Unvaccinated players are not allowed to gather in groups of more than three, according to a league rule.
The NFL launched its investigation after Rodgers tested positive for COVID-19 last week, and went on to confirm that he is unvaccinated against the virus.
Other NFL teams are said to be “pissed” about what they feel is an unfair punishment, according to ProFootballTalk, compared to other disciplines the league has handed down to teams and players that have violated COVID-19 protocols.
“That’s bullsit.” one source told the website.
On Pat McAfee's show, Rodgers complains about the "woke mob" making him look like a bad guy.
For instance, Saints coach Sean Payton was fined $100,000 for failing to properly wear a face-covering in Week 2 of the 2020 NFL season. The team was also fined $500,000 last November for a maskless, post-game celebration, and was also docked a draft pick at the time.
The Packers are said to have been warned that future violations could result in a potential change in draft position or the loss of a draft choice, according to ESPN.
Packers president Mark Murphy later addressed the NFL’s investigation in a statement.
“We respect the League’s findings and we recognize the importance of adherence to the COVID protocols to keep our team and organization safe and healthy. We will continue to educate the team regarding the importance of the protocols and remain committed to operating within the protocols,” he said.
As of Wednesday, Rodgers has not publicly reacted to the results of the investigation.
During the quarterback’s weekly appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” on Tuesday, Rodgers sounded optimistic that he could play Sunday against the Seahawks. He also admitted that he “misled” the public in regard to past comments about his vaccination status.
The reigning NFL MVP will finish his 10-day isolation period on Saturday and must clear certain health hurdles before he can be cleared to rejoin the team.
President Joe Biden had hopes that Americans would take this shit seriously. Unfortunately, Republicans so fucking eager to return to power will keep Americans fixated on the culture wars. Now vaccinations are part of this culture war.
But those fighting the culture war by not vaccinating, not wearing face mask in public, not following protocols, and deliberately ignoring federal and international rules when traveling are going to be the first casualties of the war.
With this pandemic mostly affecting states where Republican governors are, we may have to return to wearing facial protection and cutting back services to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.
We came so far only to have a bunch of selfish idiots set it back. Just because they hate President Joe Biden.
The Republicans are so devoted to destroying Biden and the country for what....to regain power.
Pathetic.
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Best known for his role in Quantum Leap, from being a child actor to a well-regarded entertainer, Dean Stockwell passed away at the age of 85.
Former child star Dean Stockwell, the Oscar-nominated actor who turned his back on Hollywood again and again only to earn cult status in “Blue Velvet” and “Married to the Mob,” has died.
The veteran actor, who appeared in more than 200 roles that spanned film, television and theater, also starred in the movies “The Boy With Green Hair,” “Anchors Aweigh,” “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” and David Lynch’s “Dune.” He found fame on TV in the sci-fi series “Quantum Leap” and “Battlestar Galactica.”
Stockwell died early Sunday at age 85 of natural causes, agent Jay Schwartz said Tuesday in a statement to The Times. Schwartz was uncertain where Stockwell died.
“I had the pleasure of working with Dean Stockwell for a short period of time before his retirement from the entertainment industry,” his former manager Lesa Kirk said in a statement to The Times. “Dean was gentle, gracious and one of a kind, a class act. Dean will truly be missed.”
Stockwell was very much a child of Hollywood: He was born Robert Dean Stockwell in North Hollywood in 1936 into a show business family, complete with stage parents. His father was Harry Stockwell, who voiced Prince Charming in Walt Disney’s 1937 animated classic “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” and his mother, Betty, was an actress and dancer. His younger brother, Guy Stockwell, was an actor who appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows and later became an acting coach before his death in 2002.
Stockwell’s parents pushed him into theater at age 7, and as a young boy he made his Broadway debut with his brother in 1943’s “The Innocent Voyage.” Two years later, he signed as a contract player at MGM, where he made his film debut in “The Valley of Decision” with Greer Garson and Gregory Peck.
That same year he made a splash in Gene Kelly’s classic musical comedy “Anchors Aweigh,” alongside Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson. Over the next seven years, he appeared in 17 MGM films, including “The Green Years” (1946), “Gentleman’s Agreement” (1947), “The Boy With Green Hair” (1948) and “The Secret Garden” (1949).
By 15, he’d already made 20 films but disliked the attention, so he bid farewell to Hollywood in 1952, when he was just 16. To escape the pressure of stardom, he changed his name and roamed the country for five years, picking up what odd jobs he could.
But with few marketable skills, he returned to acting in 1957, appearing in a Broadway production of “Compulsion” as the intense leading man. He reprised the role for the 1959 film adaptation and won an acting award at the Cannes Film Festival for his performance. He also appeared as Edmund opposite Katharine Hepburn and Ralph Richardson in the 1962 film version of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.” That performance earned him another Cannes award.
Most memorable performance was the assistant to Scott Bakula in Quantum Leap.
The actor married “The Diary of Anne Frank” star Millie Perkins in 1960, but they divorced two years later. Despite his renewed success, Stockwell took a three-year break from the industry in the 1960s and became a self-proclaimed hippie, hanging out in Topanga Canyon with actors Dennis Hopper and Russ Tamblyn.
He made another comeback in the early 1970s, appearing in several television and film roles, only to leave the business again in 1976. He met his second wife, Joy Marchenko, on the beach during the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, and they wed in 1981.
Stockwell returned to Hollywood again, making his directorial debut with Neil Young in the offbeat apocalyptic comedy “Human Highway,” which he co-wrote and starred in with Hopper and Tamblyn, in 1982. But again he abandoned his acting career and sold real estate in Santa Fe, N.M.
“The [best acting] scrolls from Cannes, I threw in the fireplace one night,” he said in a 1990 interview with The Times. “I don’t know. I couldn’t get any work. I was depressed. I was [angry] one night and I threw ’em in the fire.”
But almost as soon as he left town, Hollywood came looking for him again.
Stockwell took supporting parts in a string of films before running into director David Lynch in Mexico City. Lynch said he thought Stockwell had already died.
“This person looked familiar, but [I told myself] it couldn’t be who I thought it was, and it made me feel a little nutty,” Lynch told The Times in 1990. “Then I realized it was Dean, and he was alive.”
The duo worked together on Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of “Dune,” in which Stockwell played the evil Dr. Wellington Yueh. He stuck with Lynch when the director began filming “Blue Velvet,” in which he played a pimp who coos while torturing a girl.
“I didn’t feel that I was taking a chance with ‘Blue Velvet,’” Stockwell told The Times. “I felt I was hitting the nail on the head. Dennis [Hopper] played an unforgivable psycho in the film, and I was supposed to be someone he admired. I realized I had to be stranger than he was.”
Still, Stockwell said he never felt he belonged in the mainstream of show business.
“I’ve always felt I was off to the side, somehow,” he told The Times in 1986. “People are always asking me: ‘Why do you keep making these offbeat movies?’ The answer is: They’re the only ones offered to me usually.”
But Hollywood eventually took notice and Stockwell earned a supporting actor Oscar nomination for Jonathan Demme’s 1988 comedy “Married to the Mob,” playing mafioso Tony “The Tiger” Russo.
Fresh off the nomination, Stockwell took on the role of Adm. Al Calavicci, a wise-cracking hologram and best friend to Scott Bakula’s time-traveling physicist, on NBC’s sci-fi series “Quantum Leap” from 1989 to 1993; he won a Golden Globe Award in 1990. The series earned both men a cult following that continued when Stockwell played John Cavil on Syfy’s acclaimed “Battlestar Galactica” from 2006 to 2009.
“How lucky were we to get him?” Bakula, who met Stockwell during their 1988 audition for “Quantum Leap,” said Tuesday in a statement to The Times. “A few months later he would be nominated for an Academy Award for his role in ‘Married to the Mob,’ but he was stuck with us. Serendipity? All I know is, he never tried to get out or complain, he loved the role and the show and the rest was history.”
Stockwell went on to appear in several more films, including action-thrillers “Air Force One” with Harrison Ford in 1997 and “The Manchurian Candidate” in 2004. He also had recurring roles in the short-lived series “The Tony Danza Show” and “JAG.” In 2014, he reunited with Bakula for a guest appearance on “NCIS: New Orleans.” In his later years, the pair also made the rounds at various comic book and sci-fi conventions.
An avowed environmentalist, Stockwell voiced eco-villain Duke Nukem in the 1990s environmental cartoon “Captain Planet and the Planeteers.”
His admirers raised the $30,000 sponsorship fee for the actor to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame by recycling bottles and cans.
Actor and longtime friend Tamblyn, who starred with Stockwell in “The Boy With Green Hair” and Hopper’s “The Last Movie” (1971), was among those who paid tribute to Stockwell.
“Dean. My oldest friend. A godfather-figure to my daughter, Amber. Brilliant artist. Loving dad. We met on the set of The Boy With Green Hair, stayed close til his last breath,” Tamblyn tweeted. “Rest easy now, brother. Give Dennis a hug from me when you see him on the other side.
Lydia Cornell, who worked with Stockwell on the “Quantum Leap” pilot, tweeted that he “always had a mischievous glint of humor in his eyes.”
His “Battlestar Galactica” costar Edward James Olmos also recalled their years working together.
“A true giant of a human being has passed,” Olmos tweeted. “I was so fortunate to have worked with him on Miami Vice and Battlestar. I will cherish the years we spent together He was a gift to all who truly knew him.”
Alex Winter, of “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” fame, praised Stockwell as well.
“Dean Stockwell was one of the greatest actors of his generation,” Winter wrote on Facebook. “Less showboaty and affected than many of his more famous contemporaries, but often more nuanced and interesting. I wanted him badly for my Showbiz Kids doc but he politely refused, he was done with the camera. RIP.”
Stockwell is survived by his wife, Joy, and their two children, Austin and Sophie.
