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April 16, 2024

Beatles 1970 'Let It Be' Documentary, Out of Circulation for Four Decades, Headed to Disney+ After Restoration (Variety)



Full headline: Beatles’ 1970 ‘Let It Be’ Documentary, Out of Circulation for Four Decades, Headed to Disney+ After Restoration by Peter Jackson’s Team

By Chris Willman

For decades, the attitude toward the documentary “Let It Be” in the Beatles‘ camp seemed to be: Let it rest in peace. But the film is finally going to be seen again. A restored version of the 1970 movie is coming soon to Disney+, the same service that brought fans “The Beatles: Get Back,” the 2021 Peter Jackson docuseries that used outtakes from director Michael Lindsay-Hogg‘s original film.

The documentary will re-premiere on Disney+ May 8, certain to be a red-letter day for Beatles fans who have spent most of their lives wondering if it would ever be let out of the vault again. Not only has the 1970 film been dusted off, but it’s been restored by Peter Jackson’s Park Road Post Production using the same technology employed to make the vintage footage in “The Beatles: Get Back” look and sound as revitalized as it did.

The original film has been notorious for being the one item in the Beatles’ catalog that Apple seemed to want to suppress rather than exploit. “Let It Be” has not been officially in circulation in any form since the early 1980s, although muddy-looking bootleg copies have been widely available. Those boots were lifted off VHS and laserdisc versions that came out in the early days of the home video revolution; the movie never made it to a release in the DVD era, much less Blu-Ray or streaming.

“I’m absolutely thrilled that Michael’s movie, ‘Let It Be,’ has been restored and is finally being re-released after being unavailable for decades,” Jackson said in a statement. “I was so lucky to have access to Michael’s outtakes for ‘Get Back,’ and I’ve always thought that ‘Let It Be’ is needed to complete the ‘Get Back’ story. Over three parts, we showed Michael and the Beatles filming a groundbreaking new documentary, and ‘Let It Be’ is that documentary – the movie they released in 1970. I now think of it all as one epic story, finally completed after five decades. The two projects support and enhance each other: ‘Let It Be’ is the climax of ‘Get Back,’ while ‘Get Back’ provides a vital missing context for ‘Let It Be.’ Michael Lindsay-Hogg was unfailingly helpful and gracious while I made ‘Get Back,’ and it’s only right that his original movie has the last word… looking and sounding far better than it did in 1970.”

(Read more: https://variety.com/2024/music/news/beatles-let-it-be-film-restored-apple-streaming-1235972289/)

https://twitter.com/DisneyPlus/status/1780220388359971220

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A point of minor disagreement: Let It Be is not the ONLY thing in the Beatles archives they've suppressed. They also own the rights to The Beatles' cartoon show and indications have been they'll never release that because of the stereotypes in the cartoons. They also own the rights to the Beatles' recordings done live in Hamburg, and for some reason, haven't put those out either, even though the musicianship sounds wonderful.
April 16, 2024

The media as well as us need to stop calling Trump's Manhattan trial a hush money trial.

Trump's not on trial for hush money payments, though they are certainly part of the equation. As Keith Olbermann noted today, the trial is all about election interference. The payments, as they were, were to bury the stories that voters should have known about and which almost certainly would have kept him from being elected president. Trump and Pecker corroborated in this. And I believe Pecker is testifying against Trump in this trial. But election interference is the problem, not the hush money payments, which are not illegal, if I understand it correctly.

April 16, 2024

OAN and Smartmatic settle election defamation case

Source: CNN

By Marshall Cohen and Oliver Darcy, CNN

Voting technology company Smartmatic and the far-right network One America News said Tuesday that they had settled a defamation lawsuit stemming from the outlet’s lies about the 2020 election. “The case has been resolved pursuant to a confidential agreement,” OAN attorney Chip Babcock told CNN.

Both parties declined to share details about the settlement. The case against OAN was one of a spate of lawsuits filed against right-wing outlets in the aftermath of the election. In the wake of the 2020 presidential contest, pro-Donald Trump outlets spread lies wrongfully suggesting President Joe Biden had not been legitimately elected president. Smartmatic filed its lawsuit against OAN in 2021, alleging that the right-wing conspiracy network “victimized” the company and spread lies about its role in the 2020 election to “increase viewership and revenue.”

The development comes one year after Fox News reached a massive settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, another voting technology company that was similarly smeared in 2020. Fox News paid more than $787 million to end that lawsuit, becoming the largest publicly known defamation settlement in US history. Smartmatic still has pending lawsuit against Fox News, the smaller conservative channel Newsmax, and several pro-Trump figures who also pushed lies about the election.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/16/media/oan-smartmatic-settlement/index.html

April 16, 2024

TCM schedule for Saturday, April 20 - Garbo, Doris Day, Walter Matthau



The Day At a Glance

ESCAPES
Escape (1940)
Escape from East Berlin (1962)
Escape from the Iron Curtain (1957)
I Escaped from the Gestapo (1943)
MGM Parade Show #8 (1955)
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
MGM Cartoons: Doggone Tired (1949)
Believe It or Not #8 (1932) (short)
Copenhagen "City of Towers" (1953) (short)
Omaha Trail, The (1942)
Directors Playhouse: The Life of Vernon Hathaway
(1955)
Popeye: I Wanna Be a Lifeguard (1936)
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor (1939)
Patrolling the Ether (1944) (short)
Magic Flute, The (1975) (Musical Matinee)
Seventh Cross, The (1944)
Lady in the Lake (1947)
World, the Flesh and the Devil, The (1959)
- TCM PRIMETIME
TCM SERIES: TWO FOR ONE - PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON

Bugsy Malone (1976)
Bad News Bears, The (1976)
- NOIR ALLEY
Born to Kill (1947)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: QUEEN CHRISTINA
Abdication, The (1974)
Queen Christina (1933)

Full day's schedule

11:00 PM Escape (1940)



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A Nazi officer's mistress helps an American free his mother from a concentration camp.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy Cast: Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: According to the article "Hollywood's Friends and Foes" by Colin Shindler in the film history tome 'The Movie', this film " . . . though set largely inside a concentration camp . . . managed to avoid the mention of the words 'German' or 'Nazi' " throughout the whole movie.

Trivia: Author Grace Zaring Stone used a pen name when her book was published to protect relatives living in Europe from Nazi retribution.Similarly, no composer credit was given in the film for the same reason, and some of the actors used fictitious names.

1:00 AM Escape from East Berlin (1962)



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An East German helps dig a tunnel beneath the Berlin Wall.
Dir: Robert Siodmak Cast: Don Murray, Christine Kaufmann, Werner Klemperer
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: East German police on patrol boats tried to disrupt filming by shining searchlights at the cameras. Director Robert Siodmak assembled a decoy crew to distract the East Germans and filmed the scene along the canal a short distance away.

3:00 AM Escape from the Iron Curtain (1957) (Alternate title: Flight From Vienna)



A mission is planned to bring out a scientist from Hungary. Also known as Flight From Vienna.
Dir: Denis Kavanagh. Cast: Theodore Bikel, John Bentley, Donald Gray
Runtime: 57 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N


4:00 AM I Escaped from the Gestapo (1943)


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A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang.
Dir: Harold Young Cast: Dean Jagger, John Carradine, Mary Brian
Runtime: 75 mins Genre: Spy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: Frances Farmer was cast in the film and showed up for the first day of filming, but was later fired by Monogram for allegedly slapping a studio hairdresser. She was subsequently arrested for violating her parole from a previous drunk-driving charge. She reputedly appears in at least one montage sequence, but was essentially cut out of the finished film. This would be her penultimate picture. Her last would come 15 years later in The Party Crashers (1958).


5:30 AM Short: MGM Parade Show #8 (1955)
Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant perform in a clip from The Philadelphia Story. George Murphy introduces a clip from The Tender Trap.
Dir: null Cast: George Murphy, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant
Runtime: 25 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: N

6:00 AM Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)



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A drama critic and his family try to adjust to life in the country.
Dir: Charles Walters Cast: Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Please Don't Eat the Daisies is a 1960 Metrocolor comedy film in CinemaScope starring Doris Day and David Niven, made by Euterpe Inc., and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The movie was directed by Charles Walters and produced by Joe Pasternak, with Martin Melcher (Day's husband) as associate producer.

The screenplay, partly inspired by the 1957 book of the same name by Jean Kerr, a collection of humorous essays, was by Isobel Lennart.

The film also features Janis Paige, Spring Byington, Richard Haydn, Patsy Kelly, and Jack Weston. Spring Byington made her final film appearance here, but appeared in TV shows later. A television series starring Patricia Crowley and Mark Miller premiered five years later and ran for 58 episodes.

Trivia: The musical number Kate rehearses for the amateur show, "Any Way The Wind Blows," had been written for Doris Day's previous film Pillow Talk (1959). The song title was, for a while, even the working title of that film.

Trivia: In an early example of product placement, Quaker Oats is featured prominently in the film due to a cross promotion with the producers. In a national ad campaign, Quaker offered children under 12 free admission to the movie if accompanied by an adult. Each "specially marked" box of Quaker Oats contained an "MGM ticket" good for one child's admission when accompanied by someone over the age of 12 paying adult admission prices. The April 18, 1960 issue of Life magazine features a full page ad (page 18) on the promotion.

8:00 AM Cartoon: Doggone Tired (1949)
A hunting dog is told he needs to get a good night's sleep to be ready to hunt the next morning, but a rabbit throws some wrinkles into those plans.
Dir: Tex Avery (fred) Cast: Non-Speaking Role
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:08 AM Short: Believe It or Not #8 (1932)
This short entry in Robert L. Ripley's "Believe It or Not" series showcases such sights as the largest book in the world. Vitaphone Release 1362.
Dir: null Cast: Robert L Ripley, Alfred J. Goulding
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:16 AM Short: Copenhagen "City of Towers" (1953)
This film takes the viewer on a tour of Copenhagen's most popular attractions.
Dir: null Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick, Malcolm Arnold, James A. Fitzpatrick, Hone Glendinning
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:25 AM The Omaha Trail (1942)



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The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war.
Dir: Edward Buzzell Cast: James Craig, Pamela Blake
Runtime: 64 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


9:30 AM Short: The Life of Vernon Hathaway (1955)
A meek daydreamer starts living his dreams in real life, in this episode of the Screen Directors Playhouse television series.
Dir: Norman Z. McLeod Cast: Alan Young, Cloris Leachman, Jay Novello
Runtime: 30 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N


10:00 AM Cartoon: I Wanna Be a Lifeguard (1936)
A lifeguard is needed at the local pool and Bluto and Popeye apply for the job. Both men go through a variety of aquatic stunts and Popeye wins the position. This of course starts the usual brawl with Bluto losing once again.
Dir: Dave Fleischer. Cast: Lou Fleischer, Jack Mercer, Mae Questel
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:08 AM Burn 'Em Up O'Connor (1939)



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A race car driver tries to solve a series of track-side murders before he's next.
Dir: Edward Sedgwick Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Cecilia Parker, Nat Pendleton
Runtime: 70 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: N



11:30 AM Short: Patrolling the Ether (1944)

This details how the U.S. government created the R.I.D. to locate foreign enemy radio broadcasts.
Dir: Paul Burnford Cast: Emmett Vogan, Lee Phelps, Connie Gilchrist
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N


12:00 PM The Magic Flute (1975)



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Based on Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte: When a young couple is separated, the boy is given a magic flute that he uses to reunite him with his love.
Dir: Ingmar Bergman Cast: Josef Kostlinger, Irma Urrila, Hakan Hagegard
Runtime: 134 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N

Oscar nominations:
COSTUME DESIGN -- Henny Noremark, Karin Erskine

Trivia: The film's soundtrack is the first ever recorded in stereo for a television production.

2:30 PM The Seventh Cross (1944)



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Seven men escape from a concentration camp and fight their way to freedom.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Hume Cronyn {"Paul Roeder"}

Trivia: First joint film appearance of real life couple Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. The film was also Cronyn's only Oscar nomination.

4:30 PM Lady in the Lake (1947)



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Philip Marlowe searches for a missing woman in this mystery shot entirely from the detective's viewpoint.
Dir: Robert Montgomery Cast: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Lloyd Nolan was almost blinded when the glass splinters from a bullet that smashed a window hit him in the face. He was rushed to the hospital and a doctor carefully removed a shard of glass from the edge of his cornea.


6:15 PM The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)



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One woman and two men are the only people left alive after a nuclear disaster.
Dir: Ranald Macdougall Cast: Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: To film the striking images of a deserted New York City, the cast and crew had to start filming at dawn in order to capture the city before the early morning rush. This gave them no more than an hour or two per day in which to film the sequence.

8:00 PM Bugsy Malone (1976)



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The story of gangster Bugsy Malone told with an all-child cast.
Dir: Alan Parker Cast: Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Florrie Dugger
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC:

Oscar nominations:
MUSIC (Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score) -- Song Score and Adaptation Score by Paul Williams

Trivia: Over 1,000 cream pies were thrown during the making of the movie.

10:00 PM The Bad News Bears (1976)



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An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
Dir: Michael Ritchie Cast: Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC:

The Bad News Bears is a 1976 American sports comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie and written by Bill Lancaster. It stars Walter Matthau as an alcoholic ex-baseball pitcher who becomes a coach for a youth baseball team known as the Bears. Alongside Matthau, the film's cast includes Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow, Joyce Van Patten, Ben Piazza, Jackie Earle Haley, and Alfred W. Lutter. Its score, composed by Jerry Fielding, adapts the principal themes of Bizet's opera Carmen.

Released by Paramount Pictures, The Bad News Bears received generally positive reviews. It was followed by two sequels, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training in 1977 and The Bad News Bears Go to Japan in 1978, a short-lived 1979–80 CBS television series, and a 2005 remake.

Trivia: The film's poster art was drawn by Jack Davis, one of the founding illustrators for MAD magazine.

NOIR ALLEY: 12:00 AM Born to Kill (1947)



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A murderer marries a young innocent then goes after her more experienced sister.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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Triva: According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tallulah Bankhead was first considered for the role of Helen that went to Claire Trevor.

2:00 AM The Abdication (1974)



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Seventeenth-century Queen Christina of Sweden journeys to Rome to embrace the Catholic church and falls in love with a cardinal.
Dir: Anthony Harvey Cast: Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Cyril Cusack
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Adaptation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

4:00 AM Queen Christina (1933)



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Greta Garbo stars as the 17th century Swedish queen fiercely devoted to her country who fights at the head of her army like a man but who loves like a woman. Crowned queen when she was five years old, the beautiful Christina leads a sexually ambiguous life as she fights to defend her Protestant country ...
Dir: Rouben Mamoulian Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Queen Christina is a pre-Code Hollywood biographical film, produced for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1933 by Walter Wanger and directed by Rouben Mamoulian. It stars Swedish-born actress Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in their fourth and last film together.

The film portrays the life of Queen Christina of Sweden, who became monarch at the age of six in 1632 and grew to be a powerful and influential leader. As well as coping with the demands of ruling Sweden during the Thirty Years' War, Christina is expected to marry a suitable royal figure and produce an heir. When she falls in love with a visiting Spanish envoy, whom she is forbidden to marry because he is a Roman Catholic, she must choose between love and her royal duty.

The film was a major commercial and critical success in the United States and worldwide.

Trivia: Greta Garbo initially requested that Laurence Olivier play the male lead, Don Antonio, since she was impressed by his performance in Westward Passage (1932). In July 1933, the press announced that Olivier would take the part. However, when they did rehearsals in August, Garbo and Olivier had no chemistry. Garbo found herself unable to relax with him; in fact, every time he touched her, she froze. Olivier was released, although MGM Studios honored his negotiated salary of $1,500 a week for four weeks minimum. When they brought in John Gilbert, the results were magical. Even though his career was failing, Garbo requested that he be cast in the role instead. It was only due to Garbo's star power that Louis B. Mayer would hire him as he hated Gilbert.

Trivia: The jeweled gown that Christina wears when she formally receives Antonio at court has survived. The exhibit "Hollywood Costume" curated by Deborah Nadoolman, which was installed at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in 2012 and later the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles in 2014, featured the gown.
April 15, 2024

John Sterling, 85, Yankees' longtime radio voice, retires

Source: ESPN

By Jorge Castillo, ESPN Staff Writer

John Sterling, the longtime radio voice of the New York Yankees, has decided to retire, effective immediately, the club announced Monday.

Sterling, 85, joined the Yankees' broadcast in 1989. He went on to call 5,420 regular season and 211 postseason Yankees games. Sterling had taken on a reduced role in recent seasons and traveled less often due to health concerns. This season was his 36th in the booth, and 20th working alongside Suzyn Waldman.

"I am a very blessed human being," Sterling said in a statement. "I have been able to do what I wanted, broadcasting for 64 years. As a little boy growing up in New York as a Yankees fan, I was able to broadcast the Yankees for 36 years. It's all to my benefit, and I leave very, very happy."

Known for his individualized home run calls and signature Yankees victory call, Sterling was in the booth for 5,060 consecutive games from September 1989 to July 2019 when he missed a series with an illness. The native New Yorker was on the air for 24 postseason trips, seven World Series appearances, and five World Series titles.



Read more: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39950221/john-sterling-85-yankees-long-radio-voice-retires



https://twitter.com/Yankees/status/1779983173167812669

https://twitter.com/Yankees/status/1779983175520805167

https://twitter.com/Yankees/status/1779983177789940143
April 15, 2024

John Sterling, 85, Yankees' longtime radio voice, retires (ESPN)

By Jorge Castillo, ESPN Staff Writer

John Sterling, the longtime radio voice of the New York Yankees, has decided to retire, effective immediately, the club announced Monday.

Sterling, 85, joined the Yankees' broadcast in 1989. He went on to call 5,420 regular season and 211 postseason Yankees games. Sterling had taken on a reduced role in recent seasons and traveled less often due to health concerns. This season was his 36th in the booth, and 20th working alongside Suzyn Waldman.

"I am a very blessed human being," Sterling said in a statement. "I have been able to do what I wanted, broadcasting for 64 years. As a little boy growing up in New York as a Yankees fan, I was able to broadcast the Yankees for 36 years. It's all to my benefit, and I leave very, very happy."

Known for his individualized home run calls and signature Yankees victory call, Sterling was in the booth for 5,060 consecutive games from September 1989 to July 2019 when he missed a series with an illness. The native New Yorker was on the air for 24 postseason trips, seven World Series appearances, and five World Series titles.

Read more: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39950221/john-sterling-85-yankees-long-radio-voice-retires

https://twitter.com/Yankees/status/1779983173167812669

https://twitter.com/Yankees/status/1779983175520805167

https://twitter.com/Yankees/status/1779983177789940143

April 15, 2024

Golfers follow the sun. Now they are paying closer attention how to protect themselves from it (AP)

By Doug Ferguson

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Camilo Villegas wasn’t just trying to refine his golf swing as he prepared to play in the Masters for the first time in nine years. He was constantly checking the fine print on the ingredients in sunscreen. It reached a point a few weeks ago when the 42-year-old Colombian was trying three brands — one for his face, another for his arms, a third for his legs during practice rounds when PGA Tour players can wear shorts. Nothing is left to chance.

“The first one I realized was more of a cosmetic. It didn’t really work as strong as I wanted,” Villegas said. “I’m trying a Korean brand now, and that has worked pretty good.” Skin cancer has his attention — along with many of his fellow golfers. There seems to be a renewed emphasis on sun protection. Golfers are more exposed to the sun for longer periods of time than players in any other sport. The weekday rounds last five hours. Throw in an hour of practice before the round, sometimes after, and it adds up quickly.

“The amount of time we spend in the sun, you’ve got to protect yourself,” Villegas said. “The sun is burning you.” No need telling Stewart Cink. He was walking off the practice range at Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor, Florida, last month when he was asked why sun protection was important to him.

“Well, as someone whose maternal grandmother passed away from melanoma, and someone who’s out in the sun a whole lot and someone who already had a big chunk of stuff cut off the side of my face,” he said, pausing to smile. “It very important, not to mention what my wife is going through with her (breast cancer) treatment. It would be dumb not to.”


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/golf-skin-cancer-sunscreen-villegas-cink-fddd508cca48b1de4622e70158d33225

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I don't go anywhere without my sunblock after dealt witih melanoma.
April 15, 2024

Golfers follow the sun. Now they are paying closer attention how to protect themselves from it (AP)

By Doug Ferguson

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Camilo Villegas wasn’t just trying to refine his golf swing as he prepared to play in the Masters for the first time in nine years. He was constantly checking the fine print on the ingredients in sunscreen. It reached a point a few weeks ago when the 42-year-old Colombian was trying three brands — one for his face, another for his arms, a third for his legs during practice rounds when PGA Tour players can wear shorts. Nothing is left to chance.

“The first one I realized was more of a cosmetic. It didn’t really work as strong as I wanted,” Villegas said. “I’m trying a Korean brand now, and that has worked pretty good.” Skin cancer has his attention — along with many of his fellow golfers. There seems to be a renewed emphasis on sun protection. Golfers are more exposed to the sun for longer periods of time than players in any other sport. The weekday rounds last five hours. Throw in an hour of practice before the round, sometimes after, and it adds up quickly.

“The amount of time we spend in the sun, you’ve got to protect yourself,” Villegas said. “The sun is burning you.” No need telling Stewart Cink. He was walking off the practice range at Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor, Florida, last month when he was asked why sun protection was important to him.

“Well, as someone whose maternal grandmother passed away from melanoma, and someone who’s out in the sun a whole lot and someone who already had a big chunk of stuff cut off the side of my face,” he said, pausing to smile. “It very important, not to mention what my wife is going through with her (breast cancer) treatment. It would be dumb not to.”


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/golf-skin-cancer-sunscreen-villegas-cink-fddd508cca48b1de4622e70158d33225

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I don't go anywhere without my sunblock after dealt witih melanoma.
April 15, 2024

Four stars for the "Stormy" doc on Peacock

It tells her story from the beginning up to the trial that starts tomorrow. It’s very well done.

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