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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Zsa Zsa Gabor is still alive despite receiving last rites 3+ years ago. Do last rites expire if the person hasn't expired with 90 days or so?<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:25:36 +0100<br>To: thansen@moscow.com; vision2020@moscow.com<br>From: lfalen@turbonet.com<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] 'Billy Jack' actor-writer Tom Laughlin dies at 82<br><br>
<div dir="ltr" style=""><div>Peter O'Toole 81 and Joan Fontaine 96 also passed away over the weekend.</div><div>Roger<br><br><br><br><br></div><div style="padding-left:5px;border-left-color:rgb(119, 119, 119);border-left-width:3px;border-left-style:solid;">-----Original Message-----<br>Subject: [Vision2020] 'Billy Jack' actor-writer Tom Laughlin dies at 82<br>From: "Tom Hansen" <br>To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <br>Date: 12/16/13 15:17:20<br><br>
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<div><span style=""><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/15/showbiz/billy-jack-tom-laughlin-obit/" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/15/showbiz/billy-jack-tom-laughlin-obit/</a></span></div>
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<div style=""><h1 style="padding:0px;border:0px currentColor;width:600px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="padding:0px;">'Billy Jack' actor-writer Tom Laughlin dies at 82</strong></h1></div>
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<div style=""> <strong style="padding:0px;">Los Angeles (CNN)</strong><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-- Tom Laughlin, the actor who wrote and starred in the "Billy Jack" films of the 1970s, died Thursday, his family confirmed Sunday. He was 82.</span> </div>
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<div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Laughlin's Billy Jack character was a heroic Native American ex-Army Green Beret who used his karate skills to fight racism and oppression.</span></div>
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<div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The second of the series -- titled "Billy Jack" -- was a low-budget independent film that became a box-office blockbuster in 1971. Laughlin's vigilante character defends a counterculture "Freedom School" from townspeople who harass and discriminate against the Native American students.</span></div>
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<div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The film was criticized by those who saw its central theme as a message that violence was an answer to injustice.</span></div>
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<div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Laughlin resorted to renting theaters himself to show the film after Hollywood studios refused to distribute it.</span></div>
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<div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Billy Jack character first appeared in "The Born Losers" in 1967, fighting a motorcycle gang. Laughlin co-wrote and directed the film.</span></div>
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<div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Laughlin later attempted a political career, putting his name on presidential primary ballots in 1992, 2004 and 2008.</span></div>
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<div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Laughlin's acting career began with TV and film roles in the 1950s, including a "lover boy" role in Sandra Dee's 1959 beach movie "Gidget."</span></div>
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<div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His wife of 60 years, Delores Taylor, also acted in his "Billy Jack" films.</span></div>
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<div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Laughlin died near his Thousand Oaks, California, home Thursday, his family said.</span></div>
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<div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He is survived by his wife, three children and five grandchildren.</span></div>
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<div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Photo of Tom Laughlin as 'Billy Jack', circa 1971.</span></div>
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<div style=""> <div style="padding:0px;border:0px currentColor;line-height:18px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="padding:0px;">STORY HIGHLIGHTS</strong></div>
<ul class="ecxcnn_bulletbin ecxcnnStryHghLght" style="list-style:none;padding:0px;border:0px currentColor;line-height:18px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<li style="background-position:0px 5px;padding:0px 0px 9px 7px;border:0px currentColor;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:14px;font-family:arial;font-size:11px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;">The Billy Jack character was a Native American ex-Green Beret vigilante</li>
<li style="background-position:0px 5px;padding:0px 0px 9px 7px;border:0px currentColor;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:14px;font-family:arial;font-size:11px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;">The low-budget "Billy Jack" became a box-office blockbuster in 1971</li>
<li style="background-position:0px 5px;padding:0px 0px 9px 7px;border:0px currentColor;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:14px;font-family:arial;font-size:11px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;">The film was criticized for its message that violence was an answer to injustice</li>
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<div style="">Rest well, Mr. Laughlin.</div>
<div style=""> <br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div>
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<div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div>
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<div>Tom Hansen</div>
<div>Moscow, Idaho</div>
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