Wayne LaPierre should stick to reporting news that's important to gun owners.  He should give up constantly trying to make himself and the NRA look like the only source of news and activism in the RKBA world.

So what set me off this time?  This post, Ignoring the Facts:

When it comes to firearm accidents, there's some very good news to report. Too bad you'll only hear it from me.

No, Wayne, actually I didn't hear it from you.  My post on this exact topic hit the internet two whole days before yours did, and I got my information from a Shooting Wire email, after which I did a quick Google and found more detailed information already online at the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

So quit trying to hog every scintilla of credit for yourself and admit that there are other sources of information as well as activism that have nothing to do with you.

Not claiming myself as a real "source," you understand, but pointing out that Shooting Wire and NSSF were on top of this well before Mr. LaPierre.

Brett was the British actor probably most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes.  He trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.  He made his first (although uncredited) appearance on film in 1954, and on stage in 1956.  He played many classical and Shakespearean roles on stage, and a wide variety of roles on film.

He auditioned for the role of James Bond twice, but lost both times to George Lazenby and Roger Moore.

His singing in My Fair Lady was overdubbed, although he was actually a very good singer.

He was married to actress Anna Massey during 1958-62 (after which they divorced), and they had one son in 1959, David Huggins.  He is now a cartoonist and novelist.

Brett remarried in 1976 to Joan Wilson, an American producer for PBS.  She died of cancer in 1985, and he was devastated by the loss.  His health began to decline and he never recovered from it.  He never remarried again.

Brett was a very heavy cigarette smoker, but he also took up the pipe after being cast as Sherlock Holmes.  He based his portrayal of Holmes on the original stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, rather than on previous portrayals by other actors (which is what just about every other actor seems to have done).  An obvious difference is the pipes he used as Holmes.  They are both historically accurate and in line with the descriptions given in the stories--not a single calabash to be seen.

Jeremy Brett suffered from bipolar disorder, which worsened after Joan Wilson's death.  He died of heart failure in 1995, probably brought on not only by his heavy cigarette smoking, but also by the medication he had to take to control his bipolar disorder and by a case of rheumatic fever he had when he was 16.