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Joe Cocker: officer in the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.)? ... gentleman tomato farmer? ... Rocky Mountain high guy? ... casino performer? ... imminent retiree? ... clean as a whistle for eight years now?
Yes, the former ringleader of the legendarily amok Mad Dogs & Englishmen is all that today, and more.
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Lisa Blount, who played Debra Winger's best friend in the 1982 movie "An Officer and a Gentleman" and later shared an Academy Award as executive producer of the live-action short film "The Accountant," was found dead in her home in Little Rock, Ark., on Wednesday by her mother. She was 53.
Blount, the wife of actor and filmmaker Ray McKinnon, was found in bed holding a cell phone, which she had last used Monday when she told a friend she wasn't feeling well, according to Little Rock police.
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REDLANDS - Everyone who called about the man in last week's photo, Maj. Gen. John W. Sessums, described him as a gentleman.
Daughter-in-law Beverly Sessums of Redlands worked in a dental office where Sessums was a patient.
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By all accounts, corrections officer Stephen Anderson's answer to dealing with hardened prison inmates was compassion. Monday morning, when Anderson was allegedly shot to death by a prison inmate he had transported to University Hospital's Orthopaedic Clinic, colleagues and inmates alike mourned his passing.
Most people's impressions of correctional officers come from television or movies, where they are often portrayed as uncaring bullies who abuse their authority over inmates. Nothing could be further from the truth in Anderson's case.
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In October of 1891 the courtly gentleman was an established merchant and chief financial officer of the North Sea port of Lubeck, and his early death, at the age of fifty-one, was mourned in an ostentatious ceremony by the entire city.
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By Dennis McLellan
Los Angeles Times
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Actor Richard Gere is getting a George Eastman Award in upstate New York for his contributions to movies and humanitarian causes.
The star of such films as "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Pretty Woman" will be honored Feb. 16 during a ceremony at Rochester's George Eastman House, the restored home of the founder of photography pioneer Eastman Kodak Co.
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Irene was so upset she was shaking, but she did not lose it.
This is NOT an emergency," she began when she reached the switchboard at the South Salt Lake police department. "But I was wondering if you could send an officer to my home? My neighbor and I have a dispute.
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WHEN LT. DAN CHOI was approached by a producer for MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show in March, he wasn't exactly keen on becoming the newest face of "don...