That was a shock given that she was tweeting from hospital after her fall. 
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In an era of uncompromising racial segregation, Ms. Bryant was promoted to Black and White audiences alike as a sex goddess. Sheathed in cleavage-baring mermaid gowns so tight that she writhed more than walked, she had hits with the sensual numbers “Love for Sale” and “Drunk With Love,” both of which were banned from the radio.
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Jim Byers, a host on the Washington-area radio station WPFW who is at work on a documentary film titled “Joyce Bryant: The Lost Diva,” said that Ms. Bryant was cast in several movies but that her scenes were cut when Southern distributors refused to show a movie that depicted a Black woman in a glamorous role.
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Byers, the documentary filmmaker, said in an interview that he was drawn to Ms. Bryant because she was a person “determined to live her life on her own terms.”
“She was willing to walk away from everything that everyone wanted her to do, all the things that society expected her to do,” he said. “She turned her back on it … for her own strength of character.”
Yeah! Jim Byers hosts part of the “Latin Flavor” programming on Sunday evenings. Had no idea he was working on this.
(Should be non-paywalled)
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He was Angel on the Rockford Files.
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He was a most loveable weasel. Kill Jimmy
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He will be much missed in many places, perhaps most of all at Private Eye, where he had been a fixture for many years.
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Came here to post that as well. The following link has a number of good videos to watch.
He was an amazing dancer, mentor to younger dancers, and yet clearly he was hiding severe clinical depression.
This is a huge loss.
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Oh, damn. It was always such a joy to watch him dance; it was always like time itself stopped while he was performing.
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Must have put grates on all the windows.
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And here’s me thinking “He is said to have fallen down a flight of stairs after he began to feel unwell while at dinner with friends”… onto a knife. Twice.
“Does anyone else taste polonium in this dressing?”
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