Day: February 2, 2023

George Wilbur dead at 81

George P. Wilbur is most known to horror fans for playing Michael Myers in both Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers.

May he rest in peace

We have some bad news.. we are mourning the passing of George Wilbur, actor, stuntman, and the first Michael Myers to grace the cover of the Fangoria magazine (for 1988’s HALLOWEEN 4: THE RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERS)..

George P. Wilbur is most known to horror fans for playing Michael Myers in both Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers.

Wilbur is one of only a small handful of actors to play Michael Myers more than once.

He was also a stunt player on Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers.

George P. Wilbur’s career began with stand-in work for John Wayne in the 1960s, and he went on to amass over 100 television and film credits spanning six decades.

MAY HE REST IN PEACE..

Suspected Chinese spy balloon found over northern U.S.. Defense Dept officials have debated whether to shoot it down!

The U.S. military has been monitoring a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been hovering over the northern U.S. for the past few days, and military and defense leaders have discussed shooting it out of the sky, according to two U.S. officials and a senior defense official.

“The United States government has detected and is tracking a high-altitude surveillance balloon that is over the continental United States right now,” Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder told NBC News. “We continue to track and monitor it closely.”
— Read on www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/suspected-chinese-spy-balloon-found-northern-us-rcna68879

MORE ON THIS DEVELOPING STORY..

A Chinese surveillance balloon is collecting intelligence over the continental United States “right now,” senior U.S. officials disclosed Thursday, acknowledging that the Pentagon has been monitoring the craft for several days and briefly considered shooting it down before concluding that doing so posed a safety risk.

The balloon is traveling at an altitude “well above commercial air traffic and does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground,” Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder, a Pentagon spokesman, told reporters in a hastily arranged news conference where he addressed the ongoing situation. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) continues to track the balloon’s course, but officials would not specify its present whereabouts.

And this..

Montana’s Republican Senator Steve Daines sent a letter to the Department of Defense (DOD) demanding answers on the suspected Chinese spy balloon spotted above his state.

Daines sent a late letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday amid reports of the suspected surveillance balloon over U.S. airspace. 

DEVELOPING..

‘Genius’ Lanny Poffo dead at 68

Our first memory was Summerslam in the early 90s.. Poffo dead at 68

Lanny Poffo, a popular professional wrestler whose career spanned from the 1970s through the 2010s, has died. He was 68.

The news was announced by his friend “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan on Instagram.

The wrestling world and fan base is reacting with sadness at the news…

At this time the cause of death has not been revealed..

Flash: More monkey business, this time in a Louisiana zoo

First Texas and now a zoo in Louisiana .. why are monkeys being stolen?

Developing —and weird—story..

First a zoo in Texas, and now this!

Twelve squirrel monkeys have been stolen from a zoo in Louisiana after their facility was broken into over the weekend.

The theft happened shortly before midnight Saturday and authorities are investigating, Zoosiana said on its Facebook page.

“The individual targeted facilities of smaller primates and specifically compromised the Squirrel Monkey exhibit,” the zoo said.

The investigation at the zoo in Broussard, Louisiana, just outside Lafayette, comes as authorities in Dallas are investigating a series of unusual incidents involving animals at the zoo there, including the disappearance Monday of two emperor tamarin monkeys found a day later in an abandoned home about 15 miles away, officials said.