Holly Bailey

On Monday, when I read that the craggy ex-cop turned character actor Dennis Farina had died of lung cancer in Scottsdale, Arizona, the first person I e-mailed was my dad. I’m the second-biggest Dennis Farina fan in my family. My dad loved Miami Vice, whose first-season finale featured Farina as the mob boss Al Lombard. To this day, we’ve never had a conversation about Farina that didn’t involve one of us repeating the words Lombard cold-bloodedly intones to one of his thugs, regarding the disposal of a traitorous lackey: “Take him out. Shoot him.”

That’s my Dennis Farina story. My dad has a better one. Back in the ‘90s, when he was a full-time ad guy, he had occasion to audition Farina as a potential voice for some radio and TV spots. My dad’s in a control room in San Francisco; Farina’s being piped in from somewhere else, maybe Chicago, via then-newfangled fiber-optic technology. He reads some copy. Everything goes well. Eventually the client will decide not to use Farina after all. But my dad takes advantage of the moment and asks Farina if he’ll do “Take him out. Shoot him”¹ as a favor.

Farina obliges. Gives him a couple of readings. Then, over the wire, he says to my dad, “Poetry, ain’t it, Jim?”

Alex Pappademas remembers Dennis Farina (via Grantland)

A 360-degree view of the scene when William and Kate showed off the royal baby outside the hospital (via Lewis Whyld)

Media photographers stand on tall stepladders as tension mounts outside St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge’s impending birth to a baby boy (Photo by Richard Baker—In Pictures/Corbis via LightBox)

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Photograph by Francois Xavier Marit—AFP/Getty Images

July 21, 2013. Competitors in the men’s 10-meter synchro platform preliminary diving event in the FINA World Championships at the Piscina Municipal de Montjuic in Barcelona.

From birth of the royal baby and the Pope’s visit to Brazil to the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean War and silhouettes captured across the world, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

Los Angeles, 2016 (at Los Angeles, California)
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Waiting for Trump. Scotland, 2016 (at Aberdeen, Scotland, UK)
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at Atlanta, Georgia
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at Atlanta, Georgia
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at Saint Paul, Minnesota
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Bruce, taken with iPhone. (at Saint Paul, Minnesota)
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