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AMERICANALMANAC (Ken Jacobs) - Christopher Lambert, 69, collapses at Pittsburgh Comic-Con while signing autographs

The actor best known for "Highlander" was rushed by ambulance to a Pittsburgh hospital after collapsing at Steel City Comic-Con on Saturday, though his representative insists he is "perfectly ok." Christopher Lambert was signing autographs for fans at the annual pop culture convention when he suddenly went down, according to a witness who contacted TMZ. […] The post Christopher Lambert, 69, collapses at Pittsburgh Comic-Con while signing autographs appeared first on American Almanac .

The actor best known for "Highlander" was rushed by ambulance to a Pittsburgh hospital after collapsing at Steel City Comic-Con on Saturday, though his representative insists he is "perfectly ok." Christopher Lambert was signing autographs for fans at the annual pop culture convention when he suddenly went down, according to a witness who contacted TMZ. Paramedics loaded the 69-year-old French actor into an ambulance and transported him to a local hospital. His photo op session was canceled, and convention organizers scrambled to update attendees. Steel City Con confirmed Lambert "had to leave the event due to a personal issue" but offered no medical details. Lambert's representative later told Page Six that the actor was resting in his…Open

AXIOS (Zachary Basu) - How America gamified its war with Iran

The U.S. government is treating strikes on Iran like a video game, inviting the country to watch as memes and montages subsume the human cost of war. Why it matters: The Trump administration didn't invent the gamification of war, nor did it invent wartime propaganda — a tool of statecraft as old as armed conflict itself. - But packaging live combat as social media content — scoring real kills in real time, and broadcasting it to an audience of millions — is a first in the history of American warfare. Zoom in: Two weeks into Operation Epic Fury, much of the White House's online messaging has been gleefully trollish — a stream of videos splicing real missile strikes with footage from Call of Duty , Wii Sports and Hollywood…