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‘Laugh-In’ star Ruth Buzzi, scowling lady with the handbag, dead at 88 | Hollywood

‘Laugh-In’ star Ruth Buzzi, scowling lady with the handbag, dead at 88 | Hollywood

Published by Parlour News

By Will Dunham ‘Laugh-In’ star Ruth Buzzi, scowling lady with the handbag, dead at 88 WASHINGTON – Comic performer Ruth Buzzi, who played a counterpoint to the 1960s sexual revolution for laughs as the frumpy, hairnet-wearing, handbag-swinging spinster on U.S. prime-time television hit “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In,” has died at age 88. Buzzi succumbed to complications from Alzheimer’s disease at her ranch home near Fort Worth, Texas, on Thursday, 10 years after she was diagnosed, her longtime Los Angeles-based agent Mike Eisenstadt said in a statement. “Her husband of almost 48 years, Kent Perkins, expressed to me that she was making people laugh just a few days ago,” Eisenstadt said in an email message to Reuters on Friday. Born and raised in New England, Buzzi moved to California after high school to study acting and joined the Pasadena Playhouse for the Performing Arts, alongside future Oscar winners Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman. She went on to an entertainment career spanning 60 years. She was best known for her work on “Laugh-In,” a groundbreaking NBC ensemble …

Scowling, banging pieces, wild expressions: In chess, being stoic is art form but emotional players add to its theatre | Chess News

Published by Webster

As a dense fog of complexity envelops the board during the Candidates game between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Hikaru Nakamura, the faces of the two men in charge of marshalling the 24 wooden pieces betray their inner thoughts. Here’s Ian Nepomniachtchi, planting his palm on the side of his face, seemingly struck by how he’s allowed the game to get so complicated. He mutters to himself. Scowls at his pieces. He wears the desperation of a man sitting on a ticking explosive trying to guess which wire to disconnect. He looks skywards, as if beseeching Caissa, the goddess of chess, for inspiration. He plants both palms on his temple as if trying to block his thoughts from leaking out. He lowers his head to stare at the board from a different angle, hoping for a fresh perspective. Now, he buries his head into his folded arms, seemingly taking a nap. And then, it’s the turn of his opponent, Hikaru Nakamura, to put on a performance. He’s spent just five minutes blitzing his first 22 moves while …