USA news on Youtube Dec 1 2017

Actor Jim Nabors, who gained fame playing the loveable Gomer Pyle on two hit TV shows,

died Thursday at the age of 87.

Nabors died at his home in Hawaii after being in declining health for a year.

Nabors first created the character of Gomer Pyle on the classic sitcom "The Andy Griffith

Show," which eventually led to a solo spinoff show for the character.

Besides acting, Nabors was an accomplished singer, releasing a number of hit albums over

the years.

USA Today has more.

Jim Nabors, who created one of TV's beloved comedic characters, Gomer Pyle, died Thursday

in Hawaii at the age of 87, his personal assistant Charisse Gines confirmed for USA TODAY.

The entertainer, who underwent a liver transplant in 1994 after contracting hepatitis B, died

peacefully at his home after his health had declined for the past year, his husband, Stan

Cadwallader, told the Associated Press.

"Everybody knows he was a wonderful man.

And that's all we can say about him.

He's going to be dearly missed," said Cadwallader, who married Nabors in early 2013

in Washington state.

The Alabama native had a long career that featured TV and movie roles, more than two

dozen albums and numerous concert appearances, including long-running shows in Las Vegas

and Hawaii, the latter of which became his home in the 1970s.

He bought a 500-acre macadamia ranch there.

He received a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1991.

Nabors was best known for his role as the sweet, gentle Marine in the title role of

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a CBS comedy that was a top-five hit during its five-season run

in the 1960s.

Gomer's dust-ups with his hard-nosed superior, Sgt. Carter (Frank Sutton), were the heart

of the show and the character's trademark exclamations — "Well, Golllll-ly!" and

"Shazam!"— became familiar to millions.

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Leatherface (2017) - Movie Review - Duration: 6:14.

Hi, I am Torstein from Cinema Terror and today I am back with another new film that I saw

at the fantastic recent horror movie festival called Ramaskrik here in Norway.

Leatherface is the newest entry into the apparantly indestructable franchise of The Texas Chainsaw

Massacre.

I can't say that I have enjoyed any movies from this franchise since perhaps the third

one, ironically also called Leatherface, released back in 1990.

Leatherface takes us back to the events that made Leatherface into the character that he

becomes, so this is a prequel in the same sence as the forgettable Texas Chainsaw Massacre

– The Beginning from 2006.

In this new one, we get to experience the upbringing of Leatheface and how he was taken

away from the Sawyer family to be put into a mental institution.

We then follow him as a young adult together with a few others when they break out of the

mental institution ten years later, with plenty of murder and mayhem included on the ride.

Now I will be honest and say that I originally had zero interest in any new Texas Chainsaw

movie, but the fact that this is directed by the French duo Julien Maury and Alexandre

Bustillo did make me curious that perhaps this might not be so bad after all.

So how was Leatherface?

Well, for me who haven't enjoyed any of the last five, six or seven, wheverer they are

at now, this one ended up being just another poor experience with me wanting to rather

watch the first, original again instead of any of this newer crap.

I have no idea what the idea of this film was supposed to be.

It does nothing to add to the Texas Chainsaw saga, in fact it actually does more harm than

good to it due to them messing with the Leatherface character, taking away his mystique, if you

will, and rather give him a lame backstory that feels out of character if you watch the

original Texas Chainsaw movie.

He goes from being a more of less normal young guy here, then in a very unconvincing twist

he goes bonkers and voila, he suddenly becomes the infamous Leatherface.

The reason for why he choose to wear a human mask is also unsatisfying here and you just

can't see how this little guy would go on to become the animalistic monster that scares

audiences worldwide back in the 70's.

Funny enough, most of the film is spent with others being the villain as Leatherface and

a few others are basically being forced to tag along with a crazy, murdering couple who

are on a murder spree on their way down to Mexico.

This couple gets too much screen time, putting other more important characters to the main

story in the background, including Stephen Dorff's character as the local police detective

who has a personal vendetta towards the Sawyer family and of course Vanessa Grasse's character

as nurse Lizzy.

She is setup early on to become sort of the final girl in the film, a good choice by all

means as she is absolutely gorgeous and still has a volunerable side to her, but she gets

nothing at all to work with here.

She is basically sticking around in the film as they needed someone for Leatherface to

go hunt after during the end.

So there are basically no characters to stay interested in, including mother fucking Leatherface,

and there isn't anything interesting when it comes to the visuals either, which is a

huge shame is you are familiar with some of Maury and Bustillo's first two films, Inside

and Livid.

I am very disappointed in their work here as I expected much, much more.

Even the violent scenes aren't all that great with many scenes of the kill scenes being

off screen with only blood spattering being shown.

And while you might mention that the original didn't have much blood, or practically any

at all in it, this one has a feel that it needed some more gory scenes while the original

didn't.

I am not sure if all blame are to be put on the French duo though as this has been a troubled

production that originally did its filming in May of 2015 in Bulgaria out of all places,

before reshoots being done a year later, with the film sitting in post-production all the

way up until this fall even if it originally was set to be released last year.

Even with being attached to such a huge horror franchise it is not quietly being dumped onto

streaming platforms with hardly any theatrical release at all.

Leatherface is another miss in a long run of misses from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre

franchise.

A lot of these films has made back its money, so it is understandable why they have kept

on making these, but judging by the limited release this one is getting, I am going to

guess that it will be a while until the next time we see Leatherface on the big or small

screen and I am good with that idea.

Leatherface might work for those who you that actually enjoy the majority of the movies

in this franchise, but I would not recommend this at all to anyone.

Leatherface has little to offer and even if I didn't go into it with huge expectations,

it was still able to disappoint me.

Leatherface is gets the low score of 1.5 out of 5.

Who else has sat through this film yet and what did you think of it?

If you like it then I would also be interested in hearing if you've enjoyed the previous

films that we have gotten from this franchise during the last ten, twenty years.

Let me know about it in the comment section below, and if you thought this review was

done decently enough, then make sure to check out the rest of my channel as well.

Thank you for watching.