AEL Larissa and Acharnaikos players sat for two minutes on Friday in a call for authorities to protect refugees — particularly children — crossing the Aegean Sea.
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The two minutes of silence came in the beginning of the match between AEL Larissa and Acharnaikos in the city of Larissa, Reuters reported.
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Let freedom fries ring!
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"When Heidi's first lady, french fries are coming back to the cafeteria!" he said to cheers.
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Get it?
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Ved wrote about his ownership of the tech juggernaut's domain name in a blog post on LinkedIn.
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In October, Ved told BuzzFeed he used to work at the tech giant.
"Though I have left Google, over the years I have reported several vulnerabilities to them, which they have acknowledged and corrected," he said. "Never asked for rewards, nor spoken about them."
“Tonight, I do the show in his honor.”
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Warner Bros. has released a short behind-the-scenes video.
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A survivor recalled hearing the screams of children as they burned to death.
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In a statement issued on Tuesday that identified Monica Loera, 43, by her birth name and used masculine pronouns, the Austin Police Department said Loera was shot around 3 a.m. local time on Jan. 22. She was taken to hospital, where she later died.
On Wednesday, police said they arrested JonCasey William Rowell, 29, over Loera's death. He was charged with first degree murder and is being held in the Travis county jail on a $250,000 bond, according to prison records.
According to his arrest affidavit, Rowell was invited to Loera's home by text message, but he later returned and argued with her about a possible theft, the Austin-American Statesman reported.
On Friday, a report in the Austin Chronicle revealed that Loera identified as a trans woman.
“She was funny, [and] beautiful,” a close friend told the Chronicle. “I never saw her as David, I saw her as Monica. She loved Madonna and she loved to cook.”
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Loera's death, which was Austin's first homicide this year, comes after a spate of trans homicides in 2015, with at least 22 transgender or gender-nonconforming individuals killed.
Nineteen of the victims were individuals of color, according to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, which documented the deaths.
"It may be a new year, but it's looking like, unfortunately we're telling the same horrific story," said Beverly Tillery, executive director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project, in an emailed statement to BuzzFeed News.
"Once again, our community is experiencing the double tragedy of both the homicide of a transgender woman of color and the added insult of police officials and media erasing her real identity from their accounts and reports.
"As our community continues to mobilize to address this violence, we will not tolerate the misnaming and mis-gendering that further devalues the lives of all transgender women," she said.
LINK: Why Are So Many Black Transgender Women Getting Killed in Detroit?
The boy, who was the only person hit, was rushed to hospital in a critical condition after being stuck at least three times in the upper body, according to a statement from the sheriff's office.
He died early Saturday.
"This shooting is believed to be gang-related," the sheriff's office said. "It doesn't appear that the victim nor any occupants of the car which the victim was in were the intended targets."
A white vehicle was seen fleeing the scene, and officials are asking witnesses to come forward.
“It’s no shock that [gangs] and violence go together,” Hackney told reporters. “The senseless nature of these killings continues to draw the attention of the public.”
Three maximum security inmates from the Orange County Jail remain at large, and authorities believe they are hiding in a stolen van somewhere in Southern California.
A 44-year-old English as a Second Language teacher was taken into custody on Thursday on suspicion of aiding three maximum-security inmates carry out a brazen escape in Southern California.
The Orange County Sheriff's Department believes Nooshafarian Ravaghi, 44, provided information, including Google maps, to the inmates and may have also given them tools to cut through a steel grate and inch-thick metal bars.
Jonathan Tieu, 20, Hossein Nayeri, 37, and Bac Duong, 43 — who were described as armed and dangerous — remain at large, sheriff's Lt. Jeff Hallock said at a news conference. Upwards of 10 people have so far been arrested on suspicion of helping the men, some of whom officials say belong to a Vietnamese-American gang in Orange County.
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As of Thursday, new leads have made officials confident the men remain in Southern California and are still together, Hallock said.
"We're extremely encouraged as of today," Hallock said.
The men are believed to be living out of a white GMC van, which was reported stolen on Sunday. A man matching Duong's description responded in south Los Angeles to an online ad to buy the van, then disappeared with it while out on a test drive, Hallock said.
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While worried Flint, Michigan, residents were sounding the alarm last year on brownish, contaminated water flowing from their taps, leaked emails published Thursday show state government workers in the city were quietly receiving clean water in coolers — a full year before bottled water was made available to residents.
Progress Michigan obtained emails of Michigan Department of Environmental Quality workers from January 2015. According to the emails, state workers in Flint expressed concern about the quality of water in their offices following two boil water advisories as well as a city notice of unusually high levels of trihalomethanes.
At that the same time, residents in Flint were reporting brownish water flowing from their taps, but state officials had not yet confirmed the water was contaminated with lead. Authorities repeatedly told residents the water was safe to drink, and Gov. Rick Snyder would not go on to call a state of emergency in response to the lead-contamination crisis until 2016.
Still, on Jan. 7, 2015, a facilities notice for state workers in the city announced that purified water coolers would be placed alongside tap water drinking fountains. A state spokesperson did not immediately respond to a BuzzFeed News request for comment.
"While the City of Flint states that corrective actions are not necessary, [the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget] is in the process of providing a water cooler on each occupied floor, positioned near the water fountain, so you can choose which water to drink."
The notice said the water coolers would be provided as long as the city water did not meet "treatment requirements."
LINK: Michigan Officials: Lead Water Pipes Will Remain For Now In Flint
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Amazon stock had soared in the lead-up to what many expected would be a positive earnings report. It was up up almost 9% on Thursday, and its share price more than doubled in the past year.
But investors sold off the stock in after-hours trading following the earnings report, and the stock was down almost 13%. Amazon reported a $482 million profit for the quarter, which was more than double the $214 million profit in the same period in the previous year, but well below what analysts expected. It was also the largest quarterly profit Amazon has ever reported.
For the quarter covering the last three months of 2015, it had $35.7 billion worth of sales, up 22% from $29.3 billion a year ago but slightly below what analysts had expected.
One bright spot was Amazon web services, the company's cloud computing business. It reported $2.4 billion in revenue, just above what analysts expected, and $687 million in operating profit — a huge number given that all of Amazon made about $1.1 billion in operating profit for the quarter.
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Michigan officials on Wednesday wouldn’t estimate whether it would take weeks, months, or longer before Flint residents’ water would be safe to drink, and there are no current plans to replace the corroded lead pipes at the heart of the crisis.
“It’s not based on chronology. It’s based on having good test results that show it’s safe,” Gov. Rick Snyder said at a press conference.
Water testing by experts earlier in the crisis was questioned by state regulators, who maintained Flint’s water was safe more than a year after lead contamination began. On Wednesday, the state’s new interim environmental quality director said no longer would his department ignore the work of outside experts.
“We are on the same page, and we’ll make sure we’re on the same page,” said Director Keith Creagh. “There is no excuse...We’ll make sure the data is accurate, vetted, and transparent.”
Officials gathered Wednesday to lay out short-term plans for addressing the lead contamination crisis as well as talk of their commitment for longer term fixes.
Among the short-term actions would be continuing to supply bottled water and filters to residents, as well as asking the federal government to extend Medicaid eligibility to all children under the age of 21. Water testing would also continue, and a team of experts will be working with state and local officials to determine its safety.
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“This is about working together to address the issue,” Snyder said.
Lead from old pipes began leaching into water after the city’s water source was switched from Detroit to the more corrosive Flint River in 2014. Residents complained of their water’s brownish color, taste, and smell, and testing by outside experts confirmed a high presence of lead.
For months, however, officials questioned the accuracy of the tests. Emails showed blame being shifted between state and local leaders, and residents concerns being dismissed. A task force later found fault with state environmental regulators, and earlier this month, Snyder apologized for the state response and declared a state of emergency. The regional administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency also resigned.
The acknowledgements came far too late, according to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union also on Wednesday.
“Public trust has been eroded by government officials’ efforts to evade responsibility in this crisis,” the suit said. “The damage done to city pipes from the Flint River water means that lead will continue to contaminate Flint’s drinking water. This contamination poses an ongoing health risk to the city’s residents, especially young children, who are most vulnerable to the effects of lead.”
Snyder said the state’s first priority remained getting clean water to Flint.
“Our goal is to get the water coming out of the tap safe as soon as possible,” Snyder said Wednesday.
To do that most quickly, Snyder said officials would be working to recoat the interior of Flint’s lead pipes. Clean water is again coming into the city from Detroit, but the corroded lead pipes remain beneath Flint’s surface.
Conversations about replacing lead pipes — and even identifying their location — is a longer term issue, Snyder said.
“Where they are, we’re still mapping all that,” he said. “There’s a lot of work to be done there.”
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There are between 3 million and 6 million miles of lead pipes in the U.S., but records are often murky about exactly where they are, said Chris Sellers, a history professor at Stony Brook University.
“There’s certainly not much transparency from the water authorities or the EPA,” he said
Lead was prominently used in water systems in the early 20th century until the 1940s, but the material wasn’t outlawed from new construction until 1986. Lead pipes are more commonly found in cities in the Midwest and Northeast, but any city built during that timeframe could potentially face a situation like Flint.
“These problems are going to turn up again and again,” Sellers said.
Standards for the amount of lead in water systems were established only after campaigns against its use in paint in the 1970s and an EPA study that showed the extent of high lead levels in U.S. water systems. Sellers said the Flint crisis could be a turning point for a new type of environmental movement against lead.
Some richer cities have made it a priority to replace lead pipes, but few infrastructure upgrades have been achieved in cities that like Flint are struggling economically, Sellers said.
“The really fair solution is to have some kind of federal program,” he said. “It might require legislation. They might be able to do it by executive order… Certainly we need to be talking about the level of problem that is out there.”
Starry
Internet.
But through the air.
Chet Kanojia is not the first person to have this idea, but his new startup, Starry, promises to revolutionize how the internet gets delivered to people's homes — instead of using cables, it plans to use the air. If it can pull it off, Starry will bring some much-needed competition to the broadband market, where cable companies often have a local monopoly. But that's a giant "if."
Kanojia's last company, Aereo, also had grand visions of disrupting the airwaves, through tiny antennas that sucked up free-to-air TV signals and streamed them to viewers over the internet. It looked promising, until the Supreme Court ruled it was violating copyright laws, in a decision that effectively killed the company.
The secret sauce this time around is the use of high-frequency radio spectrum, which has been used for point-to-point communications in the military and in scientific research, but is still a fairly novel proposition for use by an internet service provider.
Using this spectrum means you can transmit huge amounts of data quickly, but it comes with drawbacks — in particular, it only works over short distances. To get around this, Starry requires a series of devices: Rooftop antennae every couple of kilometers, connecting to receivers on household windows that broadcast into the home.
Starry claims this setup can provide internet at faster speeds, with no data caps and at a lower cost than cable companies. The big savings come, Kanojia said, from the much lower cost of building out the infrastructure for the service. No digging trenches along roads and sidewalks, no mile after mile of cable and the maintenance crews that come with it.
"It's frankly amazing technology," Kanojia said. He estimated that the per-home cost of building out the service would be $25, not the $2,500 he said traditional fixed-wire broadband costs. But rolling out those huge networks of rooftop devices won't be easy.
And the details are still limited: Starry and its representatives declined to comment on where the service would launch outside of Boston (where it will have a trial this summer), how much it would cost, how much money the company had raised, or its valuation.
“Plug it in, set it up, and in a few minutes like magic, you have faster than broadband internet, through the air,” a slick promotional video said.
The company has about 50 employees, including several senior executives from Aereo. It has big name investors like Tiger Global, the private equity firm KKR, and Aereo backer IAC. While Kanojia's last venture flamed out after its defeat at the Supreme Court, he earned many fans in the tech industry for his hard-charging approach to shaking up an old, cushy set of incumbents.
And this time, he doesn't expect lawsuits to be his biggest headache — instead, the challenge will simply be delivering on the promise of a "magical" alternative to rolling out a cable network. "I don't see a legal problem," Kanojia told reporters. "It's a huge execution problem."
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Duke University announced Wednesday that all sorority activity will be suspended until further notice after a student was hospitalized for an alcohol-related issue.
The student was expected to recover, university officials said. But administrators will be meeting with sorority chapter presidents, as well as the Panhellenic executive board, to review alcohol use at rush and social events.
"The health, well-being, and safety of our students is the highest priority, and we look forward to working with sorority leaders to that end," Duke's vice president for student affairs, Larry Moneta, said in a statement.
The new sorority member was taken to a hospital in critical condition Tuesday night, the Duke Chronicle reported.
The emergency meeting of sorority and school leaders was scheduled for Wednesday evening.
Authorities in Vienna are investigating if the death of 25-year-old Lauren Mann, originally from Colorado, was murder.
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A 25-year-old American woman was found dead inside her Vienna apartment Tuesday evening, and authorities are working to determine if her death was murder.
Lauren Mann, originally from Colorado, had been working in Austria as an au pair, KMGH-TV reported. Mann was found dead inside her apartment Tuesday after her employer said she did not arrive at work, according to Vienna Online.
Initial results of an autopsy were inconclusive, and police are now interviewing her friends and acquaintances, particularly those who were with her last, Kronen Zeitung reported.
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Verfremdungseffekt is the German word for Sex Panther.
OK, that's not true at all. Sex Panther in German is Sex Panther. Verfremdungseffekt means "alienation effiect" or "estrangement effect" in German, and it might provide the secret to how Adam McKay, the director of Anchorman and Talladega Nights, made The Big Short, an Oscar-nominated hit about credit default swaps that's so far grossed over $87 million.
Don't worry, it makes as least as much sense as the financial crisis.
Adam McKay spoke to BuzzFeed News from Washington, D.C. where he was in town to attend a (storm-delayed) screening and discussion of the movie with a former Fed official, a fund manager, and financial journalists; he was attending a dinner hosted by Planet Money founder Adam Davidson, and trying to see populist Democratic senators Sherrod Brown and Elizabeth Warren.
The D.C. milieu suits McKay's adaptation of Michael Lewis's financial crisis chronicle. The movie is very Hollywood (starring Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, and Steve Carrell); it's wonky (a major plot point in the film is banks dragging their feet in correctly pricing complex financial instruments); and it's explicitly meant to stir up outrage at the nexus of Washington and Wall Street.
"Our goal was more than to effect direct change, which would be a little crazy, but to get the conversation going again and inform people," McCay says.
He's not exactly an unbiased observer. He relishes criticism of the movie from conservative outlets like Forbes, the Wall Street Journal's opinion pages, and the New York Post, which called his film "a $28 million campaign ad for Bernie Sanders." The Post "flat-out hates the movie, which I love," he says.
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McKay's political views are not hard to figure out. While much of Hollywood has gone all-in for Hillary Clinton — the entertainment industry and the financial industry are the third and fourth biggest donors to Clinton's campaign; Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks chief Jeffrey Katzenberg have both given the Hillary Clinton Super PAC Priorities USA Action $1 million — McKay donated $2,700 to Bernie Sanders in May, although he's shied away from a formal connection or endorsement of the campaign.
"I wanted the movie to speak for itself, I didn’t want to be known as the Sanders guy who made a movie," he says. "I didn’t want to think of it as a right wing / left wing issue, I wanted to let the movie have an impact."
But McKay did say that Sanders' anti-Wall Street rhetoric and his support for breaking up large financial institutions (as opposed to Hillary Clinton's focus on regulating the dangerous activities of a range of financial institutions) does in fact jive very well with The Big Short.
"My focus is on the banks capturing government, that’s really the thing and it’s the thing we can do the most about," McKay says. Or as the Vermont senator puts it, "Congress does not regulate Wall Street; Wall Street regulates Congress."
Sanders is not shy about associating himself with the movie — a video tweeted by the campaign shows a woman asking him if he had seen it. "Damn right I have" Sanders replies, saying it was an "excellent film."
A filmmaker to the left of the Clintonite wing of the Democratic party is nothing new in Hollywood, and nor are movies that criticize the financial industry. What McKay did in The Big Short was deliberately jump into the weeds of the more arcane aspects of the financial crisis using the agents of simplification and superficiality — the entertainment industry — that he thinks blinded America to the internal rot of the 2000s.
"Why did our culture miss this, the numbers were so obvious that there was a problem, how did our culture miss this?" McKay asks.
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To help explain, he uses what he calls "the 24 hour entertainment culture" both to build out the mid 2000s period he covers and to directly explain what happened. (This criticism of the inanity of the entertainment-news complex is a major theme of, yes, Anchorman, McKay told New York magazine.)
So we have Margot Robbie in a bubble bath giving an explainer on the rise of mortgage-backed securities, and Selena Gomez and University of Chicago professor Richard Thaler using side-bets on blackjack to describe the synthetic collateralized debt obligations that allowed investors and banks to make near-infinite bets on the direction of housing prices.
There are also little bits of the culture of the pre-crisis era: a Ludacris video, a Britney Spears interview, South Park, the cult-y rock band The Polyphonic Spree. "I was lucky that the explosions with those products happened to coincide with that point of the popular culture," McKay says.
"What were we paying attention to, what were the stories, what were the vibes of this country?" McKay muses, and says what he's doing is "kinda like John Dos Passos," whose 1930s U.S.A. trilogy combined narrative with biographical sketches, newspaper headlines, advertisements, and lyrics from popular songs to create an all-encompassing portrait of the United States in the early 20th century.
There's also something distinctively European about McKay's approach. In his willingness to use untraditional tools in a politically-minded film, McKay puts himself into a long line of artists well to the left of Bernie Sanders, like the German playwright Bertolt Brecht and the French director Jean-Luc Godard. The two Marxists thought that narrative disruption, breaking the fourth wall (at one point in The Big Short, Ryan Gosling's investment banker turns to the camera and explains that the current scene never really happened), and direct insertion of cultural artifacts could help provoke critical thought from the audience more than traditional narrative methods.
In Godard's A Married Woman, for example, discussions of the Holocaust and trials of Nazi officials give way to a montage of print underwear ads and characters mouthing advertising copy. "Certain forms of advertising are going so far as to become people's own thoughts," Godard said.
"I thought it was important for the movie to be straight ahead with the audience that everything is being spun twisted as advertising," McKay said about The Big Short.
The Big Short's quick cuts, montages, and stock footage disorient the viewer, evoking the twisted markets where investors betting that housing prices would collapse enabled banks to sell more products to investors who wanted to bet against a collapse of the housing market.
This all magnified the eventual impact of the crash, which was only softened by hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars that helped, in one egregious instance, a giant insurance company pay out its obligations to big banks. The stars of the film, who made righteous bets against Wall Street and the housing market, end with a hollow victory: they win the bets, but watch in the process as the rot at the heart of the financial system, and the country, is exposed.
"The stage began to tell a story. The narrator was no longer missing, along with the fourth wall," McKay explained. "The background adopted an attitude to the events on the stage — by big screens recalling other simultaneous events elsewhere, by projecting documents which confirmed or contradicted what the characters said, by figures and sentences to support mimed transactions whose sense was unclear."
OK, McKay didn't really say that. It was the German playwright and "estrangement effect" theorist Brecht in "Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction."
Here's what McKay really said: "They never imagined that things were so twisted and broken that it would end up that their investments were paid back by a bailout."
He's talking about the protagonists of The Big Short, who worry about whether the banks that took their bets against the housing market would stay in business long enough to pay out the winnings. Anchorman's dim weather guy Brick Tamland put it best: "There were horses, and a man on fire, and I killed a guy with a trident.”
"We’ve had some effect," McKay says.
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The new law requires refugees to hand over any valuables they’d managed to save in order to receive asylum.
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Supporters of the law argued it places refugees on the same footing as Danes, who must sell off their assets beyond a certain level in order to receive government financial assistance.
But critics, including the United Nations, say the law unfairly targets some of the most vulnerable people on the planet.
“I was being a parent. You know, a child does something wrong, you teach them what’s right.”
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"As a mom, I'm upset because — number one — the property belongs to me," she told local station WFAA.
Jackson was eventually arrested by police and forced to pay a $1,500 bond to get out of jail.
"I didn't want the police department telling me how to parent my child. It made no sense to me for them to show up and make a big deal out of something that was a small thing," he told CBS DFW.
"I was being a parent. You know, a child does something wrong, you teach them what's right," he said.
About 103 million people — a third of the U.S. population — were affected by the “crippling” storm in the Northeast and Southeast.
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The blizzard that swept through the eastern U.S. over the weekend was the sixth worst on record for the Northeast and the seventh worst for the Southeast, national weather researchers said Tuesday.
The Jan. 22-24 storm brought cities across Mid-Atlantic to a halt, triggered emergency declarations, and left at least 45 people dead.
According to the National Centers for Environmental Information, roughly 21 million Northeastern residents saw 20 inches of snow, and about 5.6 million people in the Southeast experienced over 10 inches of snow.
The storm earned a "crippling" category four rating in the northeast and southeast on the regional snowfall index's five-tier scale.
Rankings are based on the amount of snowfall in a region, the area covered by the storm, and how people in a region are affected. Though this week's storm was not the largest in size, it hit some of the most heavily populated areas of both regions.
Based on scientists' analysis, the storm was the sixth worst out of 199 Northeastern storms recorded since 1900. In the Southeast, it was the seventh worst out of 153 storms since 1900.
In the South, the snow hit residents particularly hard.
"Around 3.4 million people in the region saw over 15 inches of snow—in [regional snowfall index] terms, 15 inches in the Southeast is equivalent to 30 inches or more in the Northeast," the researchers said.
In the Northeast, the worst storm on record remains the February 1969 blizzard that affected 59 million people.
In the Southeast, the strongest storm was the January 1996 snowstorm that affected 31 million.
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Apple reported an $18 billion profit for the final three months of 2015, beating analysts expectations, but warned its revenues could decline in the coming quarter — a drop that would be the first such quarterly year-on-year decline in 13 years.
Apple shares have fallen 11.5% in the last year going into Tuesday's earnings report, with several of Apple's suppliers warning of soft demand for new iPhones. Apple's stock has fallen further than the tech-heavy Nasdaq, which is down 4% in the same period, and the S&P 500, which has fallen 7%.
iPhone sales peak each year in the holiday season, and they were flat in the last quarter of 2015 relative to the same period a year prior. For the coming quarter, Apple projected revenues between $50 billion and $53 billion, down from the $58 billion it made in the first three months of 2015.
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Vigoda in 2012.
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Abe Vigoda, the character actor who found fame in his senior years for his roles in The Godfather and the television comedy Barney Miller, died Tuesday at age 94.
His death was confirmed by his daughter, Carol Vigoda Fuchs, to the Associated Press. Fuchs said her father died in his sleep on Tuesday morning at her home in Woodland Park, New Jersey, of "old age."
"This man was never sick," she said.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1921, Vigoda began acting professionally in 1947, making a career of supporting parts in theater and television, including 1969-70 appearances in the gothic soap Dark Shadows, which became a cult hit.
But Vigoda's breakout role came in his villainous turn in Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 mafia film, The Godfather.
Playing the part of Sal Tessio, Vigoda's character plotted to kill Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) after the death of his father Vito (Marlon Brando) in a bid to take over the crime family. However, Tessio's plans are ultimately foiled by Corleone, who instead has his rival executed.
"I found him to be a quiet man. He kept mostly to himself," Vigoda recalled to CNN in a 2008 interview of working with Brando. "I respected his privacy. He was a great star. This was my first big thing — I felt lucky and grateful I was with these people."
He went on to appear in flashback scenes in the film's sequel, The Godfather: Part II in 1974.
Between 1974-81, Vigoda appeared alongside Hal Linden on the T.V. show Barney Miller as crotchety Detective Phil Fish, a role he played in a spin-off show, Fish, between 1977-78.
Vigoda as Detective Fish in Barney Miller in 1977.
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"There's something about my countenance, my demeanor if you wish, that suggests I have the world on my back," he told the Associated Press in 1977 of his sudden fame for playing gruff characters.
With a face, if not a name, well known to many Americans, Vigoda's lengthy career and old age became a light-hearted joke among many in the entertainment industry.
The actor often appeared on late night shows hosted by David Letterman and Conan O'Brien to poke fun at his old age or incorrect reports of his death.
Unlike bigger stars, Vigoda often remarked that he enjoyed being recognized by fans on the street.
"It's a very nice feeling that people recognize you," he told the AP, "particularly when it happens in middle age and you've been at your field for so many years and nobody knew you."
His appreciation for his fans, he said, came from a sense of earnest gratitude that he was able to make a career pursuing his passion of acting.
"So it does prove to me something: That if you don't make it in your youth, you can make it in your middle age or even old age," he said. "You believe in yourself, you should pursue it to the end of time, as long as you're on this earth."
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