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Actress Shelley Duvall, best known for ‘The Shining,’ has passed away. She was 75. “Duvall died in her sleep of complications from diabetes at her home in Texas, according to her longtime partner, Breakfast Club musician Dan Gilroy,” the New York Post reports. Shelley Duvall has passed away at the age of 75. pic.twitter.com/G26hiaRjKL — Pop Crave (@PopCrave) July 11, 2024 The great Shelley Duvall. Rest in Peace pic.twitter.com/KMgOgGZGOu — Mike Flanagan (@flanaganfilm) July 11, 2024 From the New York Post: Duvall was born and raised in Texas. In 1970, she met director Robert Altman at a party and he asked her to be in his movie “Brewster McCloud,” which marked her first-ever on-screen role. “I simply got on a plane and did it. I was swept away,” she said in a past interview. Duvall went on to star in more of Altman’s movies, including “McCabe and Mrs. Miller,” “Thieves Like Us,” “Nashville,” “Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson” and “3 Women.” She talked about collaborating with Altman (who died in 2006) in an interview with the New York Times in 1977. “He offers me damn good roles. None of them have been alike. He has a great confidence in me, and a trust and respect for me, and he doesn’t put any restrictions on me or intimidate me, and I love him,” she said. Duvall was also in 1977’s “Annie Hall” directed by Woody Allen. never talk about the shining that much but shelley duvall’s performance in the shining is genuinely one of the best i’ve ever seen. pic.twitter.com/W4f0qDg8D7 — chris (@slasherhomo) July 11, 2024 WATCH (WARNING – EXPLICIT LANGUAGE): RIP Shelley Duvall (1949-2024) The Shining (1980)Director: Stanley Kubrick pic.twitter.com/13ioHmIQnE — DepressedBergman (@DannyDrinksWine) July 11, 2024 “My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend left us. Too much suffering lately, now she’s free. Fly away, beautiful Shelley,” Gilroy told The Hollywood Reporter. The Hollywood Reporter added: In November 2016, a disheveled Duvall appeared on an episode of the syndicated talk show Dr. Phil and revealed that she was suffering from mental illness. “I am very sick. I need help,” she said. Four years later, THR‘s Seth Abramovitch visited her for a memorable story. Before she fled Hollywood for her native Texas in the mid-1990s, Duvall had a thriving career as a versatile, one-of-a-kind actress and head of her own production company, Think Entertainment, which created star-studded, innovative children’s programming for cable television that netted her two Emmy Award nominations. While attending junior college in her hometown of Houston, Duvall was discovered by Altman staff members and talked into taking a screen test. She then made her onscreen debut as teenage seductress and Astrodome tour guide Suzanne Davis in Brewster McCloud (1970). A decade later, Duvall sang and starred opposite Robin Williams as the iconic comic-strip character Olive Oyl, the strong-willed damsel in distress, in Altman’s live-action adaptation of Popeye.

The city of Springfield, Ohio, is begging for federal help with a housing crisis caused by a surge of illegal migrants. City Manager Bryan Heck on Monday sent an urgent letter to Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Tim Scott (R-SC) asking for federal aid. The city manager explained that Springfield is struggling to accommodate up to 20,000 new migrants from Haiti. “Springfield has seen a surge in population through immigration that has significantly impacted our ability as a community to produce enough housing opportunities for all,” Heck wrote. “Springfield’s Haitian population has increased to 15,000 – 20,000 over the last four years in a community of just under 60,000 previous residents, putting a significant strain on our resources and ability to provide ample housing for all of our residents,” he said. The city is set to have 2,000 more housing units over the next three to five years, but “this is still not enough,” the letter said. “Again, without further support at the Federal level, communities like Springfield are set up to fail in being able to meet the housing needs of its residents,” Heck wrote. The letter was presented by Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) during Tuesday’s hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee. Scott is the committee’s ranking member and chairs a subcommittee on housing. Vance noted that Springfield is “trying to build 5,000 new housing units, which is a very Herculean task in a town of about 55,000 people.” “But it’s also hospital services, it’s school services. There are a whole host of ways in which this immigration problem, I think, is having very real human consequences,” Vance said. Other cities have suffered similar crises over the last two years. New York City has seen an influx of more than 180,000 illegal migrants over the past two years and is still housing many of them. Chicago is currently paying to shelter about 13,000 of the more than 44,000 migrants who have arrived in the city over the last two years. Both cities have scrambled to find housing as their finances were squeezed. Overall, around 12 million migrants have entered the country illegally under the Biden administration. There have been more than 9.5 million migrant encounters as well as about 1.7 million illegal migrant gotaways, according to immigration authorities. Earlier this year, immigration surged to become the top issue on voters’ minds, bumping inflation down to second place, polls showed. Upon taking office, President Joe Biden reversed many of former President Donald Trump’s border policies aimed at slowing the flow of illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, including the Remain in Mexico policy, which forced illegal migrants to stay on the Mexican side of the border while they awaited asylum hearings.

On Thursday, the GOP-led House shot down an effort to use its rarely-employed inherent contempt power against Attorney General Merrick Garland for refusing to share audio from the classified documents probe against President Joe Biden. Four Republicans and 206 Democrats voted against the resolution, which sought to fine Garland $10,000 a day until he stopped defying a subpoena for the tapes, while 204 Republicans and no Democrats supported it. Twelve Republicans and seven Democrats did not vote. The lawmakers who broke ranks included Dave Joyce (R-OH), Mike Turner (R-OH), Tom McClintock (R-CA), and John Duarte (R-CA). Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), who introduced the resolution, said she planned to try again in the future. “Republican bills went down today. We will bring the vote back to the Floor with legislative appropriations when Members are here,” she said in a post to X. The congresswoman previously floated a resolution to hold Garland in inherent contempt of Congress that would have empowered the House sergeant-at-arms to detain the Biden Cabinet official until he complied with the subpoenas, but Luna ultimately opted to go with the fines. At issue are audio files of interviews with Biden and his ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer. Special counsel Robert Hur’s team declined to recommend charges against Biden, who is running for re-election, but described him as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” House Republicans subpoenaed Garland for the tapes in a standoff with the Department of Justice, which claimed that sharing the audio with Congress would impede future investigations. Meanwhile, Democrats argued that their GOP colleagues’ actions were tainted by politics. Lawmakers managed to obtain transcripts of the interviews, but Republicans insisted that they still needed the audio to conduct oversight and pushed forward with regular contempt of Congress proceedings, even after Biden asserted executive privilege over the tapes. The House voted in June mostly along party lines — with Joyce as the one GOP defector— to hold Garland in contempt, after which the Judiciary Committee sued Garland on July 1, asking a D.C. federal court to overrule executive privilege assertion and make Garland produce the tapes. Biden is increasingly facing a crisis of confidence among Democrats after the 81-year-old appeared confused and lost his train of thought during his debate against former President Donald Trump a little more than two weeks ago, but so far has refused to bow out of the race.