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September 2, 2023 • Steven Carl Jurgens, 61, of Pampa, was arrested at 3:21 pm by PPD for criminal mischief with damages greater than $100.00 but less than $750.00. • Tausha …

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John Mortensen of New Richmond, WI, formerly of Maplewood, MN. Born in a boxcar in Crystal Township, WI, on the 24th of May, 1930. He was the first born of

John Mortensen of New Richmond, WI, formerly of Maplewood, MN. Born in a boxcar in Crystal Township, WI, on the 24th of May, 1930. He was the first born of

Viggo Mortensens Falling Finds Empathy for the Unredeemable Directed by Viggo Mortensen Starring Viggo Mortensen, Lance Henricksen, Laura Linney 6 "Im sorry that I brought you into this world so you could die." A father whispering that to his son is the first signpost of trouble to come in Falling, the new film from Viggo Mortensen as writer and director. A mostly prosaic recollection of 1950s simplicity is given a dark current, one that reverberates in the present, where the father, played by...

Viggo Mortensen is a terrific actor with a wealth of memorable screen work to his credit. Unfortunately, his feature directorial debut, “Falling,” does not, er, fall into that category, though it’s not for lack of trying: He also wrote, starred in, produced and scored this problematic film. It’s a grim, oddly misguided attempt to tell the story of the fractious relationship between a gay airline pilot, John (Mortensen), and his thoroughly insufferable dad, Willis (Lance Henriksen), as t...

Mick LaSalle February 3, 2021Updated: February 3, 2021, 7:59 pm Viggo Mortensen in “Falling.” Photo: Quiver The best thing about “Falling,” Viggo Mortensen’s debut film as a writer-director, is that every so often, and increasingly as the movie goes on, it’s borderline hilarious — by accident. It’s the story of a son in his 50s doing his best to attend to the needs of his elderly father, who is in the middle stages of dementia. Sometimes Dad doesn’t know where he ...

“As a baby, I crawled out of the crib twice, and they had to look for me,” Viggo Mortensen tells me. “Found me with a dog one time in the woods.” If you were to ask me which actor was most likely, as a baby, to have been found wandering in the woods with a strange dog, Mortensen would be at the top of the list. Throughout his career, before and since his breakout as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings, Mortensen has cultivated an aura of quiet eccentricity about him, bolstered by the vari...