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#6951 Post by Morbii » Sun Jan 07, 2018 8:36 am

No!!!

She was always my favorite of the Yé-yé girls.

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#6953 Post by Roger Ryan » Mon Jan 08, 2018 9:50 am

flyonthewall2983 wrote:Ray Thomas of The Moody Blues
Was kind of hoping he'd be able to intend the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony this year.

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#6954 Post by fiddlesticks » Mon Jan 08, 2018 4:35 pm

Jesse Crumb, underground comic artist and son of Robert Crumb, killed in a traffic accident on New Year's Eve. Jesse appeared in Terry Zwigoff's Crumb (1995) and contributed artwork to the booklet in the Criterion release.

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#6955 Post by mfunk9786 » Tue Jan 09, 2018 2:26 pm

Adult film star Olivia Nova, another apparent suicide

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#6959 Post by FrauBlucher » Sat Jan 13, 2018 12:27 pm

A tough 3 week stretch for sports broadcasting. First Enberg and now Jackson.

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#6960 Post by djproject » Sat Jan 13, 2018 11:34 pm

Edgar Ray Killen, involved in the 1964 Freedom Summer Murders as a Klansman and would inspire the 1988 film Mississippi Burning (the reason I wanted to note that passage here).


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#6962 Post by Feego » Sun Jan 14, 2018 9:36 pm


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#6963 Post by Calvin » Mon Jan 15, 2018 1:36 pm

Dolores O'Riordan, lead singer of The Cranberries at the tragically young age of 46.

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#6964 Post by hearthesilence » Mon Jan 15, 2018 2:26 pm

Calvin wrote:Dolores O'Riordan, lead singer of The Cranberries at the tragically young age of 46.
Memorably heard in Chungking Express.

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#6965 Post by bearcuborg » Mon Jan 15, 2018 2:36 pm

I’ve been on a 90’s era Irish rock kick lately-Ash, Cranberries and Hothouse Flowers have been on constant play...what a loss.

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#6966 Post by colinr0380 » Mon Jan 15, 2018 2:41 pm

While the Cantonese version of the track over the end credits of Chungking Express is the iconic use of the song in cinema, it did also turn up a couple of years after that over the opening scenes of the Nora Ephron film re-teaming Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, You've Got Mail (in its English language version naturally!)
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#6967 Post by hearthesilence » Mon Jan 15, 2018 3:03 pm

colinr0380 wrote:While the Cantonese version of the track over the end credits of Chungking Express is the iconic use of the song in cinema, it did also turn up a couple of years after that over the opening scenes of the Nora Ephron film re-teaming Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, You've Got Mail (in its English language version naturally!)
Ah, of course! It's been ages since I've seen the film, I forgot the recording used was actually sung by Wong in Cantonese.

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#6968 Post by PfR73 » Mon Jan 15, 2018 3:04 pm

"Zombie" (my personal-favorite Cranberries song) was performed by Ruby Rose's character's band in the recently-released Pitch Perfect 3. I really liked Dolores O'Riordan's voice, it's a shocking loss.

EDIT: And I just remembered that "Dreams" is actually used as a plot-point in Sound Of My Voice, and that "Linger" is a plot-point in Click.

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#6969 Post by Feego » Mon Jan 15, 2018 3:24 pm

Hers was truly one of the defining musical voices of the 90s. I am shocked and very saddened by this news.

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#6970 Post by thirtyframesasecond » Mon Jan 15, 2018 3:36 pm

colinr0380 wrote:While the Cantonese version of the track over the end credits of Chungking Express is the iconic use of the song in cinema, it did also turn up a couple of years after that over the opening scenes of the Nora Ephron film re-teaming Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, You've Got Mail (in its English language version naturally!)
Dreams also plays over the second to last scene of Mission Impossible where Tom Cruise unconvincingly has a post-Channel Tunnel pint with Ving Rhames (same London pub as used in Get Him To The Greek btw!)

Linger also had an Alphaville-riffing video.

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#6971 Post by colinr0380 » Mon Jan 15, 2018 6:16 pm

thirtyframesasecond wrote:Linger also had an Alphaville-riffing video.
I had never seen that before!

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#6974 Post by thirtyframesasecond » Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:18 am

Buttery Jeb wrote:Hugh Wilson
I reckon the first Police Academy movie would still raise a giggle. Maybe. I remember seeing it when I was very young and I just remember the one bit where some statuesque blonde cop seduces another guy in the academy. It was one of the first times I remember seeing anything sexual when watching a film :oops:

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#6975 Post by colinr0380 » Wed Jan 17, 2018 1:20 pm

I kind of liked Guarding Tess too, which struck me as an amusing combination of The Bodyguard and Driving Miss Daisy! On the other hand The First Wives Club has just blurred in my mind into a contextless montage of the least interesting representations of 'empowerment' - women dancing in joy and high fiving each other in fashion departments to celebrate having gotten rid of the man in their lives (but not their money) set to the overly literal soundtrack of Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves/You Don't Own Me/etc! I seem to remember there being a heck of a lot of squealing and screaming going on! (But that did seem to set the template for a certain kind of film for a while afterwards: The Banger Sisters, The Women and so on. As well as pre-dating Sex and the City by a few years)
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