Boba and his fetching colour scheme (and his trusty amban phase-pulse blaster rifle) make their debut in The Star Wars Holiday Special. (Image: Lucasfilm)
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James Bond villain and Alien actor Yaphet Kotto dies at 81
Yaphet Kotto, best known for playing a villain in 1973 James Bond movie Live and Let Die, has died at the age of 81.
The actor also played a crew member in 1979 sci-fi movie Alien, and starred in US TV police drama Homicide: Life on the Street.
Kotto’s other credits included the 1980s action films The Running Man and Midnight Run.
He also received an Emmy nomination for playing former Ugandan President Idi Amin in the 1977 movie Raid on Entebbe.
His TV career also included roles in the A-Team and Law and Order, and he played Lieutenant Al Giardello in seven series of the gritty Homicide: Life on the Street, for which he also worked as a scriptwriter.
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Yaphet Kotto died this week at 81. The 1973 James Bond outing âLive and Let Dieâ was how I came to know him. At age 12, I remember hating that movie, and at the risk of sounding more enlightened than I was, the white smoothie vs. Black scum storyline creeped me out, even then.
Itâs the most aggressively racist Bond film, which is saying something. The Caribbean dictator and heroin kingpin played by Kotto dies a grotesque, sight-gaggy death, ingesting a compressed-gas pellet and exploding like a balloon, leading to a Roger Moore quip about his dead adversary having âan inflated opinion of himself,â thereby putting the the villain of color in his place, even in death.
Disney+ Adds Genndy Tartakovsky’s Star Wars: Clone Wars in April
Disney+ Adds Genndy Tartakovsky’s Star Wars: Clone Wars in April
As we learned during Disney’s Investor Day presentation back in December, Lucasfilm has tons of new
Star Wars TV shows in the works that should have fans renewing their Disney+ subscriptions for years to come. However, there’s plenty of room on the service for pre-Disney content as well, including an earlier look at the events of the Clone Wars. Via ComicBook.com, Disney+ has revealed the full list of new titles joining its streaming library next month. And old-school fans will be happy to learn that Genndy Tartakovsly’s