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Adam Rich Former Child Star of Eight is Enough Dead at 54

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1 year ago

2023-01-09

Adam Rich Former Child Star of Eight is Enough Dead at 54

Adam Rich, the child actor with a pageboy mop-top who captivated television audiences as “America’s little brother” on “Eight is Enough,” has died. He was 54.

Adam Rich died Saturday at his home in Los Angeles’ in a Brentwood neighborhood, according to Lt. Aimee Earl of the Los Angeles County Medical-Examiner Coroner’s office. The cause of death was being investigated, but it was not thought to be suspicious.

Rich had a limited acting career after appearing as Nicholas Bradford, the youngest of eight children, on the ABC hit drama from 1977 to 1981 when he was eight years old.

Betty Buckley, who played his stepmother on the show, posted on Instagram that she was shocked to learn of his death on Sunday and described Rich as a “light,” her “young pal” on set, and friend ever since.

“I adored him and loved working with him,” Buckley said, posting photos from the show of the two of them on a swing set, horseback, and with her arm around him while he slept. “He was so sweet, funny, young, and genuine. He made everyone on the show and our viewers very happy.”

Rich’s post-stardom public life was similar to that of other child actors whose promising careers were derailed by drugs and alcohol, as well as run-ins with the law.

Adam Rich Arrested

He was arrested for DUI in 2002 after nearly colliding with a parked California Highway Patrol cruiser in a freeway lane closed for maintenance. In April 1991, he was arrested for attempting to break into a pharmacy, and in October of that year, he was arrested for allegedly stealing a drug-filled syringe at a hospital where he was being treated for a dislocated shoulder.

Rich suffered from a type of depression that defied treatment, and he had tried to remove the stigma associated with discussing mental illness, according to publicist Danny Deraney. Over the years, he tried various experimental cures without success.

Deraney said he and others close to Rich were concerned when they couldn’t reach him in recent weeks.

“He was just a very kind, generous, loving soul,” Deraney said of his father. “Being a famous actor was not necessarily what he desired. He didn’t have an ounce of ego.”

Adam Rich opened up about his mental health on Twitter and revealed that he’d been sober for seven years in October. He admitted that he wasn’t perfect, citing arrests, multiple stints in rehab, multiple overdoses, and “countless detoxes (and) relapses,” and urged his nearly 19,000 followers to never give up.

“Human beings were not designed to suffer from mental illness,” Rich said on Twitter in September. “The mere fact that some people regard those as weak or lacking in willpower is completely laughable… because it’s the exact opposite! Fighting such illnesses requires a very strong person… a warrior, if you will.”

A modern day Mickey Rooney

Adam Rich shared an old photo of himself with one-time child star Mickey Rooney.

“Everyone used to tell me, ‘You are the modern-day Mickey Rooney,'” he said on Twitter. “However, when Mickey Rooney told me that himself, it meant a lot more to me!”

Adam Rich took part in a hoax created by Might magazine nearly 27 years ago about the actor being killed in a robbery outside a Los Angeles nightclub in 1996. The article was meant to be a satire of America’s celebrity obsession, but it fizzled when the spoof was revealed.

“I believe we were too subtle. “People didn’t get the joke,” Rich later explained to the Chicago Tribune. “I don’t want to die.”

Rich played the mop-top son of a newspaper columnist played by Dick Van Patten, who has to raise eight children alone after his wife in the show — and the actress who played her — died during the first season’s filming.

According to IMDB.com, Adam Rich starred in “Code Red” from 1981 to 1982 and voiced Presto the Magician on “Dungeons & Dragons” from 1983 to 1985. In two “Eight is Enough” TV movie reunions, he reprised his most well-known role.

The majority of his acting career, however, was spent in single-episode roles on some of the most popular TV shows of the time, including “The Love Boat,” “The Six Million Dollar Man,” “Silver Spoons,” and “Baywatch.” His most recent IMDB credit was as Crocodile Dundee in “Reel Comedy” in 2003.

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Photographer Alleges He Was Forced To Watch Megan Thee Stallion Have Sex And Was Unfairly Fired

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12 hours ago

2024-04-24

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Los Angeles – In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, a photographer who Megan Thee Stallion employed alleges that he was compelled to witness her engaging in sexual activity, was unjustly terminated shortly after that, and experienced mistreatment as her employee.

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Photographer Alleges He Was Forced To Watch Megan Thee Stallion Have Sex And Was Unfairly Fired

Emilio Garcia, in his lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleges that on a night out in 2022 in Ibiza, Spain, he was present in an SUV with the hip-hop singer when she engaged in sexual activity with another lady near him. He was incapacitated from exiting the moving vehicle, and even if he could do so, he would have found himself stranded in an unfamiliar land. According to the lawsuit, Garcia experienced feelings of embarrassment, mortification, and offense during the entire incident.

Alex Spiro, Megan’s attorney, stated that she intends to contest the complaint through legal proceedings.

“This is a monetary employment claim, without any filed allegations of sexual harassment, but with scandalous accusations aimed at embarrassing her,” Spiro stated.

According to the lawsuit, Megan admonished Garcia the following day, instructing him not to disclose what he witnessed while also criticizing and body-shaming him. The complaint alleges that Garcia, who was experiencing excessive workload, low pay, and a hostile work environment due to Megan’s possessive and abusive behavior, was wrongly categorized as an independent contractor while being treated as an exclusive employee.

According to the lawsuit, Garcia discussed those concerns with Megan during their conversation and was terminated the next day after working for her for four years. Subsequently, he lodged a job discrimination lawsuit with the California Civil Rights Department.

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Photographer Alleges He Was Forced To Watch Megan Thee Stallion Have Sex And Was Unfairly Fired

The lawsuit, initially disclosed by NBC News, names Megan, legally known as Megan Pete, her enterprises Megan Thee Stallion Entertainment and Hot Girl Touring and her record label, Roc Nation, as the defendants. No defense answer has been submitted yet. A representative of Roc Nation should have responded more promptly to an email requesting comment.

Garcia is pursuing monetary compensation, which will be assessed during the trial. He claims to have had significant emotional and bodily harm as a result of his treatment at work, his termination, and seeing the incident in the SUV.

Megan, a 29-year-old woman, was previously embroiled in a significant legal controversy. She endured a deluge of online harassment after being shot by rapper Tory Lanez. A jury determined that Lanez had fired at her feet while they were on a street in the Hollywood Hills in 2020. She provided testimony throughout the trial, which led to the conviction of Lanez on three felony charges. Subsequently, a court imposed a 10-year prison sentence on him.

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Photographer Alleges He Was Forced To Watch Megan Thee Stallion Have Sex And Was Unfairly Fired

Megan was already a prominent emerging artist at the time of the shooting and has achieved immense success as one of the most prominent figures in hip-hop. In 2021, she won a Grammy for the best new artist category. Additionally, she attained the top position on the music charts with her tracks “Savage,” featuring Beyoncé, and as a featured artist on Cardi B’s “WAP.”

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Yoko Ono To Receive Edward MacDowell Medal For Lifetime Achievement

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3 days ago

2024-04-22

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NEW YORK — MacDowell, one of the country’s finest artist residence programs, has honored Yoko Ono with a lifetime achievement award. The trailblazing artist, filmmaker, and musician will receive the Edward MacDowell Medal this year, following in the footsteps of Stephen Sondheim and Toni Morrison, among others.

“There has never been anyone like her; there has never been work like hers,” MacDowell board chairman Nell Painter said in a statement Sunday.

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Yoko Ono To Receive Edward MacDowell Medal For Lifetime Achievement

“Over seven decades, she has pleased eyes, aroused mind, encouraged feminism, and supported refugees with imaginative works. Enduringly new and contemporary, her unusually powerful output resonates to our current times, which are in desperate need of her leitmotif: peace.”

In a statement, Ono’s son, Sean Ono Lennon, described the award as “an incredible honor.”

“The history and list of prior awardees are extremely impressive. It makes me very glad to see her work valued and celebrated in this manner,” he remarked.

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Yoko Ono To Receive Edward MacDowell Medal For Lifetime Achievement

Ono, 91, has made few public appearances in recent years and is unlikely to attend the July honors event at the MacDowell campus in Peterborough, New Hampshire. David Newgarden, Ono’s music manager, will receive the award on her behalf.

Ono first rose to prominence as a member of the avant-garde Fluxus movement of the 1960s, before becoming internationally famous after meeting John Lennon, with whom she married from 1969 until his death in 1980. Their many collaborations included the songs “Give Peace a Chance,” “Imagine,” and “Happy Xmas (War Is Over),” which served as the foundation for “War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko,” this year’s Oscar-winning animated short film.

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Yoko Ono To Receive Edward MacDowell Medal For Lifetime Achievement

Over the last 40 years, Ono has had a busy career as a visual and recording artist, with albums like “Season of Glass,” “Starpeace,” and “Take Me to the Land of Hell.” She was recently featured in a career retrospective at London’s Tate Modern.

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Dick Van Dyke Earns Historic Daytime Emmy Nomination At Age 98

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4 days ago

2024-04-21

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Los Angeles — Dick Van Dyke, 98, is contending for a historic Daytime Emmy.

The actor was nominated Friday as a guest star in a daytime drama series for his role as amnesiac Timothy Robicheaux on Peacock’s “Days of Our Lives.”

Van Dyke is the oldest daytime Emmy nominee. When producer Norman Lear won his final Primetime Emmy nomination in 2022, he was 100 years old. He died the following year.

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Dick Van Dyke Earns Historic Daytime Emmy Nomination At Age 98

Van Dyke is up against Guy Pearce, an Australian actor from Amazon Prime Video’s “Neighbours.”

Van Dyke earned four Primetime Emmys, including three in the 1960s, for his legendary comedy series “The Dick Van Dyke Show.”

Selena Gomez, an actor and singer, is nominated in the culinary series category for her Food Network special “Selena + Chef: Home for the Holidays.” The Food Network’s “Valerie’s Home Cooking,” hosted by actor Valerie Bertinelli and which concluded last year, is also nominated in that category.

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Dick Van Dyke Earns Historic Daytime Emmy Nomination At Age 98

CBS will cancel “The Talk” after its 15th season later this year. Akbar Gbajabiamila, Amanda Kloots, Natalie Morales, Jerry O’Connell, and Sheryl Underwood were nominated for daytime talk show hosting.

The main actress nominations are Tamara Braun of “Days of Our Lives,” Finola Hughes and Cynthia Watros of “General Hospital,” Katherine Kelly Lang and Annika Noelle of “The Bold and the Beautiful,” and Michelle Stafford of “The Young and the Restless.”

The lead actor nominees include Eric Braeden of “The Young and the Restless,” Scott Clifton, Thorsten Kaye, and John McCook of “The Bold and the Beautiful,” and Eric Martsolf of “Days of Our Lives.”

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Dick Van Dyke Earns Historic Daytime Emmy Nomination At Age 98

The Daytime Emmys will be broadcast live on CBS on June 7 in Los Angeles. The show is back to its regular schedule after being postponed until December due to strikes by Hollywood performers and writers. The hosts and Lifetime Achievement award recipients will be announced later.

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