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@LeQGdesSupers I would argue that the Superman films were already Justice Gang films with a Superman who got frustrated way too fast and was quite the yeller. Which is not what you’d think the premier superhero would be.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off came out 41 years ago and it’s time for a part two.
If you were a fan of the movie, you’re going to love this sequel!
Actually, it’s a commercial for elder care. It had such potential!
Cary Grant and Jennifer
Cary Grant was 62 when his only child, daughter Jennifer, was born on February 26, 1966, to his fourth wife, actress Dyan Cannon.
The marriage ended not long afterward, but becoming a father prompted a choice that surprised many who thought they understood him: at the peak of his fame, he stepped away from acting to raise her.
For much of his career Grant had seemed carefully remote, a man who had perfected an image and largely kept the world at a distance. Jennifer altered that.
While many of his peers continued chasing roles into their seventies, he spent the final two decades of his life on school pickups, listening to classical music with her on the lawn, and being present for the ordinary hours most people never associate with a movie star.
Friends observed that fatherhood seemed to enchant him in a way that caught even him off guard.
In her 2011 memoir Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant, published twenty-five years after his death, Jennifer wrote that he never steered her toward the spotlight. Instead he encouraged curiosity and kindness, introduced her to old films and good manners, and used a simple phrase—“good stuff”—to mark pure contentment.
He said it on ordinary afternoons over tea and eggs while Stravinsky played. He was not perfect about it; she has noted that her 1970s pop music in his Cadillac drove him a little crazy.
Their closeness remained steady as she grew older. When he later wanted to propose to his fifth wife, Barbara Harris, he asked for Jennifer’s approval first.
Cary Grant died in 1986 at the age of 82. Jennifer, then 20, had returned to college only two days earlier after spending Thanksgiving with him.
He left a Hollywood legacy few have matched. By his daughter’s own account, however, that was no longer the point in the last twenty years of his life. He had found something quieter than the spotlight and chosen it deliberately.
SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026)
Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.
We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.
America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.
His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.
Ian McKellen 29 October 2026
Photo: University of Huddersfield
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
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Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
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Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia