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Jack Palance, the living legend, real life cow-boy-actor, is no longer living. Now he's just the regular kinda legend.

He died in Montecito, CA and was surrounded by family.

The Oscar-winning actor first appeared in a film in 1950, as a murderer named "Blackie", and he is known to many younger audiences as a co-star in "City Slickers", with that loser Billy Crystal.

AP reports his age at 85, but his family says he's 87. Either way this classic cinema star with the intimidating face will be missed. He should stand as a role model for all of us, by being a modest hero, and teaching us to only accept our Oscar with a round of one handed push-ups.

Couldn't find any footage of the push-ups, but this was pretty funny.

Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu Jr., better known as Bruno Kirby to those of us who loved him in City Slickers and When Harry Met Sally, passed away today in Los Angeles due to complications from Leukemia. He played the young Clemenza in Godfather II, and was also recently on HBOs "Entourage" playing a character modelled after Jeffrey Katzenberg.

The Autry Center, taking advantage of the holidays, is featuring 5 midday movies just this week. Every day at 2pm, they're screening a western, free after you pay the museum's admission ($7.50). Funny thing is, these aren't your dust-blown classics; they're more of the offbeat-slash-forgotten type. Which is kind of cool: the John Ford/John Wayne pic Three Godfathers, the minimal-dailogue Jeremiah Johnson with Robert Redford, the are-they kidding? Silverado, and ending with the oh yes, they are kidding, City Slickers with Billy Crystal. Which all goes to show that the gay cowboy lovestory is not the first reworking of the genre.