“Bohemian Rhapsody” is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was written by Freddie Mercury for the band’s 1975 album A Night at the Opera. The song is a six-minute suite, notable for its lack of a refraining chorus and consisting of several sections: an intro, a ballad segment, an operatic passage, a hard rock part and a reflective coda. “Bohemian Rhapsody” is one of the few songs to emerge from the 1970s progressive rock movement to achieve widespread commercial success and appeal to a mainstream audience.
Julia Lee Stander is an American actress. Her roles include Chantarelle/Lily/Anne Steele in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel (1999).
In Charmed she played young Gail in the episode “How to Make a Quilt Out of Americans”.
In 2006, Disneyland refurbished its Haunted Mansion attraction. For this project, Lee became the face and body of the character, Constance Hatchaway (voice by Kat Cressida). In 2007, Lee and Cressida’s version of Constance was also installed in Walt Disney World’s Mansion.
Remembering Corinne Michaels, born October 31, 1941 and passed away September 15, 2010.
Corinne Camacho was a veteran American television actress and singer-songwriter. After an impressive career in television, spanning nearly four decades, Camacho dedicated the majority of her adult life to being a mother, a life coach, opening hospice centers and writing children’s music.
Camacho was born Gloria Angelina Katharina Alletto. She studied piano as a child at the Conservatory of Music and Arts, and also in high school. After her family moved to Los Angeles, Camacho started her career as a model in the 1960s, before turning to acting and making her TV debut in 1967. The dark-haired, exotic-looking beauty went on to appear on such television shows as Medical Center (1969), Days of Our Lives (1965), Consenting Adult (1985), Cannon (1971), among others. She had recurring roles on The Rockford Files (1974) and Mannix (1967).
She was married to Drew Michaels and Richard Camacho, and was sometimes credited as Corinne Michaels. She later moved to New Mexico to run a hospice center in the 1990s and became a life coach in Oregon in 2001.
Also a singer, she composed children’s music. She released the album “Love Notes & Lullabies” in 2006. She died of cancer at age 68 on September 15, 2010 in Beaverton, Oregon. She is survived by her son, Chris Camacho, her daughter, Gabrielle Yasenchak, and two grandchildren. Camacho’s niece is singer and actress Zoey Tess.
Happy birthday Keegan de Lancie, born October 31, 1984.
John Keegan de Lancie is an American actor and son of actor John de Lancie and Marnie Mosiman. He is known for his role as Q, or Q Junior, on Star Trek: Voyager, where he played the son of Q, a longstanding character in the Star Trek franchise portrayed by his father, John de Lancie, in the episode “Q2”.
He has also appeared in several other popular television shows such as Ally McBeal and The Drew Carey Show.
Happy birthday Letitia Wright, born October 31, 1993.
Letitia Michelle Wright is a Guyanese-English actress. Beginning her professional career in 2011, she has played roles in several British TV series, including Top Boy, Coming Up, Chasing Shadows, Humans, the Doctor Who episode “Face the Raven” and the Black Mirror episode “Black Museum”; for the latter she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts named Wright among the 2015 group of BAFTA Breakthrough Brits for her role in the award-winning film Urban Hymn.
In 2018, she achieved global recognition for her portrayal of Shuri in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Panther.
She reprises the role in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.
In 2019, she received the BAFTA Rising Star Award.
Remembering David Ogden Stiers, born October 31, 1942 and passed away March 3, 2018.
David Ogden Stiers was a veteran actor who played Doctor Timicin in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Half a Life” in 1991.
Stiers is perhaps best known for his role as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III on the highly successful television series M*A*S*H from 1977 through 1983, for which he received two Emmy Award nominations.
Stiers also guest-starred in the first two chapters of the North and South trilogy.
His many feature films include Better Off Dead (1985, with Kim Darby), The Accidental Tourist (1988), Doc Hollywood (1991), Steal Big Steal Little (1995, with Pamela Winslow and Charles Rocket), Jungle 2 Jungle (1997, also featuring Dominic Keating), and The Majestic (2001). He has also appeared in numerous films from writer/director Woody Allen.
He has proven himself to be a talented voice actor, voicing characters in several films for Walt Disney Studios, including Beauty and the Beast (1991), Pocahontas (1995), and Lilo & Stitch (2002).
He also lent his voice to Disney’s acclaimed animated series Teacher’s Pet and its subsequent feature film adaptation. Stiers narrated Ric Burns’ sweeping New York: A Documentary Film, which tells the history of New York City, and performed voiceovers for George Lucas’s THX 1138, which also featured Ian Wolfe and Sid Haig. He has worked with computer game developer Cyan Worlds, Inc., voicing both the characters of Jeff Zandi and Dr. Watson in Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, and Esher in Myst V: End of Ages, the latter of which also utilized his likeness for the character.
Remembering John Candy, born October 31, 1950 and passed away on March 4, 1994.
John Franklin Candy was a Canadian actor and comedian, mainly in American films such as Spaceballs (1987), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), and Uncle Buck (1989).
Candy rose to fame as a member of the Toronto branch of the Second City and its related Second City Television series, and through his appearances in such comedy films as Stripes, Splash, Cool Runnings, Summer Rental, The Great Outdoors, Spaceballs, and Uncle Buck, as well as more dramatic roles in Only the Lonely and JFK.
One of his most renowned onscreen performances was as Del Griffith, the loquacious, on-the-move shower-curtain ring salesman in the John Hughes comedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
While filming the Western parody Wagons East!, Candy died of a heart attack in Durango, Mexico, on March 4, 1994, aged 43.
His final two films, Wagons East! and Canadian Bacon, are dedicated to his memory.
Remembering Michael Landon, born October 31, 1936 and passed away July 1, 1991.
Michael Landon (born Eugene Maurice Orowitz) was an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his roles as Little Joe Cartwright in Bonanza (1959–1973), Charles Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie (1974–1982), and Jonathan Smith in Highway to Heaven (1984–1989).