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Patrick Stewart Dies: ‘Star Trek’ & ‘X-Men’ Actor Was 86 - Yahoo News UK
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Sir Patrick Stewart, the star of Star Trek: The Next Generation, died yesterday at his home in Los Angeles following a battle with Alzheimer's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia. He was 86.

A statement from his rep confirmed the news.

"We announce with great sorrow the passing of Sir Patrick Stewart yesterday at his home in Los Angeles, in the loving care of his beloved wife Sunny, following a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia," the statement reads. "He has been held in the warm embrace of family and friends, surrounded by live music, prayer, tears, laughter, and the kind of profound emotion that only he could inspire after a lifetime of devotion to us all. We will forever cherish the peaceful ease and reflection on his face, an enduring reminder of his invincible grace."

Stewart, the distinguished stage and screen actor and New York Times best-selling author whose career spanned nearly six decades, was a three-time Olivier Award winner and a Tony Award nominee for his stage work, and received multiple Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Awards nominations for his work across television and film.

For seven seasons on the drama Star Trek: The Next Generation and several film installments, beginning with Star Trek Generations in 1994, Stewart played the role of Jean-Luc Picard. He later reprised the role in the record-breaking global hit Paramount+ series Star Trek: Picard, for which he won a Critics Choice Super Award for Best Actor in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Series. The series concluded its third and final season in April 2023.

Stewart also was celebrated for his portrayal of Charles Xavier, also known as Professor X, a role he originated in the 2000 film X-Men and reprised throughout the franchise's many hit sequels including the hit Logan, opposite Hugh Jackman as Logan/Wolverine. Stewart also reprised the role in Avengers: Doomsday, set for release on December 18, 2026, marking his eighth time portraying the character.

In 2023, Stewart became a New York Times best-selling author upon the publication of his memoir, Making It So, which chronicles his life from his earliest days in Yorkshire, England and through his long career. The memoir was published by Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, and a companion audiobook, read by Stewart himself, won an Audie Awards honor for Autobiography/Memoir and was named one of the year's best celebrity memoir recordings by Audible.

His many screen credits included Steve Martin's L.A. Story; Jeremy Saulnier's Green Room; Starz's Blunt Talk; Robin Hood: Men in Tights; Conspiracy Theory; The Lion in Winter; I, Claudius; Moby Dick; Hamlet; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; Ricky Gervais's Extras; The Kid Who Would Be King; Match; The King of Texas; Jeffrey; Dune; Coda; Excalibur; and voice work on Seth MacFarlane's animated hits Family Guy and American Dad as well as films such as The Prince of Egypt, Chicken Little, and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.

In 2026, Stewart voiced the role of Sir Ritchfield in Amazon MGM Studios' comedy The Sheep Detectives, opposite Jackman as George, a shepherd who reads detective novels to his sheep every night until a mysterious incident forces them to become detectives themselves.

For his stage work, Stewart was honored with three Olivier Awards, the first of which came in 1979 for his performance in Peter Brook's production of Antony and Cleopatra. Stewart's association with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) saw him appear in more than 60 productions, including his Olivier-winning performance as Claudius in Hamlet opposite David Tennant. He was also named an Honorary Associate Artist of the RSC in recognition of his indelible contributions to the theater.

Stewart's Broadway and West End appearances included his Tony-nominated and Evening Standard Award-winning performance as the title character in Macbeth, directed by Rupert Goold in a production that played London's West End, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), and Broadway; his work opposite Ian McKellen in repertory productions of Harold Pinter's No Man's Land and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot; as well as The Caretaker; A Life in the Theatre; The Master Builder; The Ride Down Mt. Morgan; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Merchant of Venice; Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Twelfth Night; Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death; and The Tempest.

In December 2019, Stewart remounted his Olivier Award-winning solo stage show, A Christmas Carol, which he adapted himself and in which he portrayed more than 40 characters. He performed the piece frequently following its debut in 1991, including on Broadway and in London. The 2019 staging marked his first time performing the piece in 17 years, this time as a benefit production for City Harvest and Ars Nova.

His voice work was also recognized with a 1995 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for the English-language recording of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. In 2026, Stewart lent his voice to all 154 of William Shakespeare's sonnets, including reflections on the narration process, in the audiobook Patrick Stewart Performs the Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare, released by Simon & Schuster Audio on April 7.

Stewart was a vocal supporter of social justice, women's rights, domestic abuse advocacy, veterans' rights, the refugee crisis, animal rights, political reform, and much more.

In the 2001 New Year Honours list, Queen Elizabeth II appointed Stewart an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), and in 2010, he received a knighthood for his services to drama.

Born July 13, 1940, in Mirfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, Stewart left school at 15 to perform in local theater, and made his professional stage debut in 1959 at the Theatre Royal, Bristol in a production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Stewart became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966 and in 1967 made his debut TV appearance on Coronation Street . He made his Broadway debut in 1970 as Snout in Peter Brook's 1970 production A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Good dawgie.

You brought your leg into this topic to be humped. Nobody invited you.

When your first read is open there is nothing to process. When they have to account for the running game your first read will be open more often.

Having to go through your progressions because your first and sometimes second reads are covered takes more time to process. Opposing D's can dedicate more players in coverage when you can stop the run with four up front. That has been the case all along until the Titans game when the Browns ran all over them.

The circumstances are what changed in this game.

This has nothing to do with processing information faster. He also said this.....


Are you trying to claim that isn't about time either? It seems my pointing out the falsehood in that statement really bothers you. That's a you problem.

I'm glad you decided to move on. You were making a feeble attempt at a silly argument. The weight you were adding to my jockstrap was making it very difficult to walk.

Rememberng Duanne Allman, who died on this day in 1971 at the young age of 24..................

I'm quite sure that "super fast" is related to his processing speed and decision making. Not some psycho-analytical statement related to his time to throw compared to every other snap in every other game using a stupid metric.

That's all. Now get your last word and go hump someone else's leg, l'il doggie.

You seem quite sure that ""super fast" isn't about time. Normal people think that when a person is claiming someone did something faster when they actually didn't is directly related to time. Hmmmmm....

I've used the exact same explanation as to why watson played better in several posts. It isn't my fault you weren't paying attention. It wasn't a pivot.

Claiming this was because watson had some epiphany that suddenly turned him from a frog into a prince in a week is nonsense.

But I get it. We now live in the world of "He didn't mean what he said".

The part that is missing is the single play.

Averages can be misleading.

Cool story. I was talking about your TTT (time to throw) stats you supplied to refute him getting the ball out faster. Those stats are trash, they take nothing into account besides a snap-by-snap measurement of how long the ball was in the QB's hands before a throw. I'm 100% sure his statement about being "super fast" was Watson's decisiveness, not a hyper-analytical stopwatch comment. You just saw something to argue about and took the opportunity.

Now you pivot and talk about all the other factors that led to Watson being more effective, and in doing so basically contradict your own original statements. That's fine, and all of your points therein are valid, but you're just trying to create another argument out of thin air.

TTT stats are trash. That's all.

You must have missed it. He's been claiming that if you don't support everything Netanyahu does including starving children and slaughtering tens of thousands of innocent women and children that you are antisemitic for a long time now. But is it really much different than claiming everyone who does not support trump is anti American? Because that too seems to have caught on.

So how long he held the ball wasn't almost exactly the same inn some other games and in one game even less than the game against the Titans? That doesn't prove this statement false?


This isn't some big secret. It isn't misleading any any way. It's a very basic concept.

Other teams were getting pressure and stopping the run with a four man fronts. They were applying pressure to watson much quicker on a regular basis.

This allowed them to drop more players into pass coverage. With more men in coverage the WR's were covered and it did not allow for his quick hit targets to be open nearly as much as they were in the Titans game. They didn't have to respect the run game before. With the run game clicking on all cylinders they couldn't sell out by attacking the QB or dropping more men into coverage like in games before.

Those are the factors that lead to holding the ball and or lower competition percentages. That tends to make QB's look worse than they actually are.

This is a team sport and without the ability to protect the QB and run the ball it makes for a huge difference in what a QB can and can not do. That's actually football 101 and those denying that are those who are either being deceptive, fooling themselves or being in denial.

watson played much better because the opportunities were there for him to do so unlike other games.

You can either use the passing game to open up the running game or use the running game to open up the passing game. In this case the Browns used the running game to open up the passing game.

None of this is difficult. watson did a great job of using the the opportunities given to him. Those same opportunities did not exist when the Browns lacked the ability to run the ball.

The ability to have a great running game was the new thing. everything else fed off of that. Or are you trying to say that the first game they had a dominant running game happened at the same time watson played much better is some freaky coincidence?

It took a lot longer than I expected for someone to default to the "anything less than total capitulation to Netanyahu = antisemitism" argument. It's a weak counter that only gets used as a sorta trump card when the facts are clearly leading to a lost argument.

This leader oversaw policy that resulted in decades of widespread famine in Gaza prior to 2023, and then responded to the Hamas attacks with his own attacks that have killed hundreds of thousands of civilians and further deteriorated public health with additional blockades. Conveniently ignoring the decades of history before the 2023 attacks as well as the response that was orders of magnitude larger than the primary attack just to try to justify Israel's part in the conflict is wild stuff.

Disagree. It is a new thing. You just had to watch it with your eyes and not rely on the most misleading stat in the history of football.

And what a blockbuster trade it was!

• Bears Receive:
• Jeffery Simmons (DT)
• 2028 fifth-round draft pick

• Titans Receive:
• 2027 first-round draft pick
• 2028 first-round draft pick
• 2027 fourth-round draft pick

All per ESPN.

I don't get to see practices and stuff, but if it were up to me I'd like to see both 2nd year QBs in Monken's system before sending them elsewhere. Who's to say they wouldn't also play better under a different coach/system?


... this is assuming no team wants to do a AJ McCarron type trade (minus faulty fax machines).

That only works when watson is protected for those two plus seconds and his WR's are open. Trying to pretend those weren't the problems that existed before before is to deny what we all saw.

Watson's average time before releasing thew ball in the Titans game was 2.74 seconds according to Gemini AI. They state that according to NFL Next Gen Stats tracking in week 1 it was 2.82 seconds against the Jags and 2.55 seconds against the Panthers. In week 6 against the Ravens it was 2.89 seconds. just over one tenth of a second longer. He has had games he has held the ball longer than these games but it fluctuates and this isn't some new thing as it seems you are presenting it.

The Browns have not had this many good young players since I don't know when.

I don't want to get too far down the road on this. We are 7 games into the 2026 season.

Deshaun Watson turned 31 in September. We are playing Rodgers Sunday who will be 43 in December.

Nobody knows how this year will end.

If we win Sunday the odds to make the playoffs go to 80% plus.

When this season does end how Berry and Browns address DW only they know.

One thing is for certain whoever plays quarterback for the Browns in 2027 will have a good team around them.

We could let Sanders go too. Their numbers were similar and Gabriel wasn't playing hot potato with the football.

No he did not. I know this is difficult for you but majority means more than half. He did not get more than half of the votes. He got well above the majority of the vote in the last election and much less than the majority of the vote in this election.

Latest numbers: Recent projections have Netanyahu’s bloc taking 53 seats, a drop from the 68-seat coalition he led in the outgoing Knesset. The opposition bloc is set to take 48 seats, while Arab parties are projected to win a record 19 seats.

Netanyahu only got 53 seats. Far less than half and 15 less than in the last election. I bet you didn't even know there were Arab parties in Israel did you? That leaves 67 seats that he lost total. That's more than half that refused to vote for Netanyahu.

Who will actually rule Israel will be decided by which of the two top candidates those Arab parties decide to align with. So it's the Arab parties that will decide who rules Israel. Ironic isn't it?

Oh wow... it's a full-blown firesale.

Sauce Gardner or some sort of upgrade at CB (either slot or quality depth outside).

Doing that against a defense like the Steelers would be VERY significant, IMO.

I've heard (probably on here) the theory that our new direction is likely that of building an offensive roster that doesn't need a top-tier QB to win.

While getting a talent like JS certainly fits well into that strategy, spending up to 3 firsts does not... especially when it's becoming more and more clear that additional investment in the Oline is needed.

Jeffrey Simmons traded to the Bears

Browns May Have Found Football’s Next Dynamic Duo in These Two Rookies

Cleveland has two young studs on their roster, and they are on pace to take over the league

Louis Timura
|Oct 28, 2026

Coming into the 2026 NFL Season, the Cleveland Browns were in desperate need of wide receiver help.

Luckily for the organization, they were able to draft KC Concepcion and Denzel Boston in this past year's NFL Draft.

Seven weeks into their young careers, Concepcion and Boston are already proving that they are poised to be the NFL's next dynamic duo.




Putting Up Big Numbers

In the first seven weeks, each receiver has put up some big-time performances for the Browns.

For Boston, he leads all rookie receivers in touchdowns with three. Meanwhile, Concepcion is coming off a dominant game where he had eight receptions for 129 yards.

The two receivers rank second and third in total receiving yards, only behind the first receiver drafted, which was Carnell Tate.

Looking at the pace, both guys are projected to get close to that 1,000-yard mark. If they keep up the production they have had, there is no doubt they could both reach quadruple digits in their first season.


The Future

As long as the injury bug doesn't come around too often or severely, Cleveland has their wide receiver room set for the foreseable future with the two rookies and second year man Isaiah Bond.

It's all just a matter of who the quarterback is.

If the Browns can find a top-tier guy, they will have the chance to put together a team that can win lots of games, go on playoff runs, and maybe just try and compete for that coveted championship.

Regardless, having multiple great receiving options means whoever does inevitably take over the offense will have help. It does not fully matter if the Browns have a top quarterback or not.


Young Team, Big Goals

Outside of Boston and Concepcion, the Browns have had back to back phenominal draft classes.

Some other big names the Browns have drafted in the past two season are:

Carson Schwesinger (2025)
Mason Graham (2025)
Quinshon Judkins (2025)
Harold Fannin Jr. (2025)
Shedeur Sanders (2025)
Spencer Fano (2026)
Emmanuel McNeil-Warren (2026)
Austin Barber (2026)

If the Browns can figure out a quarterback that can take them to the playoffs in the near future, they can capitalize on all these star players being on their rookie contracts.

It's also a good time to note that they just traded for Jared Verse, who was drafted in 2024 and won DROY after his rookie campaign.

While Deshaun Watson has been winning games, how sustainable is the injury-prone 31-year-old? Now more than ever, Cleveland truly is a quarterback away.


Still More To Come

After the 2025 NFL Draft, I thought the Browns had to have just gotten lucky by getting so many great players. Then, they clearly did it again.

Something has changed in the front office, and Andrew Berry is seeing prospects clearer than ever.

Now is a great time to be reminded that Cleveland has 11 picks in the upcoming 2027 NFL Draft. Not only do they have two first-round picks, but over the past two seasons have been known to trade up and down and move all around the board while collecting more and more assets.

What if the Browns have another winning draft?

The future is clearly bright for a team with such a dark past. Cleveland, it's time to get excited.


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