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Mystery Science Theater 3000 is doing a live stream marathon of all the Joe Don Baker movies they riffed on over the years. RIP Joe Don Baker.

Hollywood film actor Joe Don Baker died at the age of 89 on May 7, his family confirmed. The star played two different roles in three separate James Bond films as both a good guy and a villain. The actor was in 1987's The Living Daylights, 1995's GoldenEye and 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies. 'As we say goodbye to Joe Don, we hold onto the memories and the love he shared with us,' his family's statement began. 'Though he may no longer be with us in body, his spirit will always remain, a guiding light in the lives he touched. 'Rest...

WASHINGTON — Actor Joe Don Baker, who starred as the rugged Sheriff Buford Pusser in the box office hit "Walking Tall," has died at the age of 89, his family announced. In an obituary posted online, Baker's family remembered him as "a beacon of kindness and generosity." "Throughout his life, Joe Don touched many lives with his warmth and compassion, leaving an indelible mark on everyone fortunate enough to know him," the obituary reads. Baker first became a well-known public figure in 1972, when he starred in Sam Peckinpah's "Junior Bonner," followed by a role the next year as a...

Melting ice sheets in Norway have revealed a bunch of incredibly well-preserved arrows from the distant past. The array of arrows was found around the ice patches of the Jotunheimen Mountains in southern Norway during a 2019 expedition by Secrets of the Ice, a team of glacier archaeologists who scour the receded ice sheets for historical relics. One of the most impressive discoveries includes an Iron Age arrow, approximately 1,500-year-old, that was found lodged in the icy ground before being thawed out using lukewarm water. The team described the condition of this arrow as “awesome,” noting that it still had...

Chevy Chase was living out a scenario right out of a National Lampoon flick. The actor claims he was attacked in a road rage incident while traveling over the Tappan Zee Bridge in New York earlier this month when a passenger kicked him so hard he fell to the ground, TMZ reported. Chase, 74, told police that a black pick-up truck cut him off on Feb. 9 and he thought the truck might have hit his car, so he flashed his lights until the driver pulled over. He realized there was no damage, but still went up to the driver...

If you’re on the fence about attending Tuesday’s Landmark Commission meeting during which they’ll discuss the fate of the maybe-maybe-not imperiled Lakewood Theater, perhaps this’ll get you there: Burton Gilliam will be sitting in the audience. So, if nothing else, you can say you attended the same Dallas City Hall meeting as the actor who appeared in Blazing Saddles, Fletch, Paper Moon, Honeymoon in Vegas, those Rodeo Ford ads and … well, the list goes on and on. This will be Gilliam’s first-ever city-government meeting in his hometown. “So this’ll be kinda fun,” says the 1956 Woodrow Wilson High School...