Wayne Weaver

The Morgan County Sheriff’s Office Shave for the Brave team received 2021 top team honors during the recent St. Baldrick’s Foundation fundraising event held in Martinsville at the Brickhouse on Main. The team raised more than $1,300 for childhood cancer research. The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is a volunteer-powered charity that...Read Full StoryPat WilliamsFundraisingDean MintonCharityTeam MembersMartinsvilleJosh SparrowDan DowningDon FogelmanWayne SankeyBrickhouseChildhood Cancer ResearchResearch GrantsBlake Long

With a titanic run-time, a clunking score and a sequence in which Aquaman is serenaded by the DC Expanded Universe’s answer to Sigur Rós, Zack Snyder’s Justice League is clearly a long way from perfect. Yet in one respect Snyder’s four hour re-cut of the 2017 superhero team-up flick is...Read Full StoryBatman V SupermanBatman AnimatedBruce WayneMoviesCelebritiesSuperhero FilmsUniverseAquamanSuicide SquadHarley QuinnGothamAffleck 's BatBatmenDCWonder Woman 1984Ben AffleckZack SnyderRaymond ChandlerShakespeareChristian BaleChristopher NolanMichael KeatonTim BurtonGeorge ClooneyJeremy IronsJoss WhedonAndy MuschiettiJennifer GarnerMatt ReevesKevin ConroyRobert PattinsonDaniel CraigBarbara Muschietti

With Covid-19, we will not be measuring success by employment rates and cherry-picked data, but rather the staggering number of persons who died, writes Kent Sepkowitz. Judging Covid-19 management on anything other than those lost lives is not only disgraceful, it will also almost certainly lead us to make all the wrong decisions about a pandemic that has not left us.Read Full StoryFlorida HousePoliticsPublic HealthRingsSouth FloridaTrump White HouseFloridiansThe USCDCCNNDeSantis BrieflyTexasHeroesAmericaCaliforniaRon DesantisScott AtlasGavin NewsomJohn WayneKristi NoemGreg Abbott

An entrepreneur, globe-trotter and rare antiques collector, Darrell Lynn, is no stranger to building a successful business and doesn't shy away from a challenge. The Columbia native even has a knack for refurbishing dusty diamonds in the rough like the late 1950s shirt factory, once in disrepair, on North James Campbell Boulevard now known as The Factory at Columbia.Read Full StorySmall BusinessHousingRestaurantsBusiness ManagementIndustrial DevelopmentRetail BusinessBusiness DevelopmentCommunity BuildingFuture DevelopmentThe Factory At ColumbiaIndiana JonesPotter & SonsSalty & SweetConsignmentFactoryJohn WayneJames

Even though Zack Snyder's Justice League has become a hit with fans, Warner Brothers has no intention of doing something similar to David Ayer's Suicide Squad. Shortly after HBO Max greenlit Snyder's unadulterated four-hour cut of Justice League, Ayer made it known the version of Suicide Squad that hit theaters was far from his ultimate version, with his comments quickly spawning a #ReleaseTheAyerCut movement. Now that those hopes seem dashed, Ayer has offered a response of his own to the news.Read Full StoryWarnermediaHbo MaxMoviesBruce WayneWarnerMediaWarner BrothersThe Ayer CutHBO Max Greenlit SnyderJustice League SnyderLetoTheatersZack SnyderDavid AyerBen AffleckJames Gunn

Young Jazz pianist Joey Alexander released his new single “SALT” after his major-label debut album WARNA, and will release two more singles in April and May. Alexander has already made a name for himself and has had an eventful journey throughout his career all before turning 18. For about seven years, he has taken the jazz world by storm and achieved an extraordinary amount of success that is rarely seen. He already released five studio albums, My Favorite Things, Countdown, Joey.Monk.Live!, Eclipse and Warna. Alexander received three Grammy nominations and even performed at the preshow and during the 58th Grammy Awards. Also, two of his albums reached the Billboard Jazz Albums chart.Read Full StoryJazz MusicGrammy AwardsPianistGrammy NominationsBillboardWARNAEclipseCarnegie HallThe Rose TheaterVerve RecordsJazz Lincoln CenterLegendary Jazz MusiciansBluesBassTyson D. JacksonJoey AlexanderWayne ShorterEsperanza SpaldingJaleel ShawGilad Hekselman

He's ready for any challenge! Wayne Brady is a TV staple, thanks to Whose Line Is It Anyway? and Let's Make A Deal. Now, he's taken his hosting chops over to Fox's Game of Talents. Article continues below advertisement. OK! chats with the multitalented Emmy winner. Tell us about Game...Read Full StoryComedyBest Of Both WorldsBlended FamilyTv SeriesThe Game AwardsEmmyFoxTalentsAmazing TalentPart Game ShowPart Talent ContestExclusiveDiverse CharactersJason FordhamBarstowWayne BradyMandie TaketaJon Bernthal

The Bears varsity golf team took part in the Nederland Bulldog Invitational at Brentwood Country Club Monday morning. Behind a record setting round from senior Jack Burke, a second place finish by Timothy Weaver, and a tie for third by Will Van Pelt, the Bears (304) cruised to a 29 stroke win.Read Full StoryBearsVan PeltBrentwood Country ClubHardin-JeffersonHenry Homberg Golf CourseTexas State BobcatSenior Jack BurkeJunior Timothy WeaverFieldWest BrookTravis LoveBeaumontWyatt WozniakLC-MStroke

Gunsmoke was Dennis Weaver’s first big role. And he learned he landed the part while he was out delivering flowers. That was his side hustle to pay the bills until he started earning a living in Hollywood.Weaver played Deputy Chester Goode and was Marshal Matt Dillon’s right-hand man in Dodge City from 1955 to 1964. Earning a steady paycheck was great news for Weaver’s family. Weaver already was married with a wife and a son.Weaver’s acting career was set up, in part, because of athletics. Weaver aspired to be an Olympian in the decathlon. Running track had helped him earn a degree from the University of Oklahoma. He tried out for the 1948 Games but finished sixth in the trials. However, he stuck around New York to study at the Actor’s Studio, It was there he met actress Shelley Winters, who helped him land a contract in 1952 with Universal Studios.Weaver tried to use his classic training when he auditioned for Gunsmoke. But he quickly ditched that approach when the director asked him for something humorous. He said he mimicked the accent of a kid he knew in high school. It worked. Weaver was the first person cast for Gunsmoke and he earned an Emmy in 1959 for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama. But Weaver desired to do more in his acting career than playing Chester Goode. Weaver wanted to be a star and he wasn’t going to get that playing a Gunsmoke deputy.Dennis Weaver Said He Needed To Get Away From Gunsmoke Because He Wanted To Be a Leading Man“The reason I got away from Gunsmoke was that I wanted to leave the second banana role,” Weaver told the Toronto Star in 1987. “It was a very important — and frightening — step for me career-wise. I was a little naive. Gunsmoke was the only series that I had done up to that point and I thought, well, I’d just get another series and I’d get a successful one. But that’s not the way things happened.”By 1970, Weaver found a starring vehicle in McCloud. He was a lawman in New York.But Weaver was in movies, too. He caught the eye of a young director named Steven Spielberg, who cast him in Duel. That was Spielberg’s first-ever movie. This was 1971, so he still was four years away from Jaws, his first blockbuster. Then came E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Indiana Jones. And following those hits, there was Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan and Jurassic Park.Duel Was Spielberg’s First MovieBut first, there was Duel, a perfect TV horror movie. Dennis Weaver played a salesman who was chased down the highway by a crazed tanker truck driver. Spielberg wrote about casting Weaver in his book Steven Spielberg and Duel: The Making of a Film Career. Another Weaver film caught his eye.“I had always been a fan of Dennis Weaver, because he played the night watchman in Touch of Evil,” Spielberg wrote. “I probably wouldn’t have thought of Dennis Weaver, had it not been for Touch of Evil.”Weaver died in 2006. He was 81. Spielberg probably still is the best director in the business. And he remembered his first star. Spielberg called Weaver a “wonderful actor,” who wanted to “make the world a better place.” Weaver also was an environmental activist and even had his home in Colorado built with renewable items.“He was a willing and enthusiastic participant in much of the physical driving that was at the center of ‘Duel,’ Spielberg said. So, Gunsmoke hovered over Hollywood long after Chester Goode left Dodge City.GunsmokeCelebritiesHorror MoviesHollywoodIndiana JonesOlympianUniversal StudiosThe Toronto StarDeputy Chester GoodeE.T.Jurassic ParkManSchindlerDuelDodge CityDennis WeaverSteven SpielbergMatt DillonShelley WintersSpielbergRyan

Police officer Eric Talley was one of 10 people killed during a shooting at a Boulder, Colorado, grocery store on Monday afternoon. He was 51. Talley was the first to respond to the scene after the department began receiving calls of an active shooter at King Soopers located at 3600 Table Mesa Drive around 2:30 p.m. local time.Read Full StoryEric TalleyFbiCounty PolicePolice ChiefColorado ShootingCity PoliceAt Scene Of ShootingFBIATFThe Denver PostKCNC-TVTwitterColoradansOfficer TalleyKing SoopersMichael DoughertySam WeaverJared Polis