Passages
- Dr Amicus
- Joined: Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:20 am
- Location: Guernsey
Re: Passages
Sir Gerald Kaufman, long serving Labour MP (he was Father of the House), film fan and author of the BFI Film Classic on Meet Me In St Louis.
- flyonthewall2983
- Joined: Mon Jun 27, 2005 3:31 pm
- Location: Indiana
- Contact:
- Lemmy Caution
- Joined: Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:26 am
- Location: East of Shanghai
Re: Passages
Not sure why, but a heap of great Jazz pianists came from Pittsburgh:fdm wrote:Horace Parlan, back on the 23rd.
Earl Fatha Hines, Mary Lou Williams, Errol Garner, Dodo Marmarosa, Ahmad Jamal, Horace Parlan, Sonny Clark, Billy Strayhorn.
- Feego
- Joined: Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:30 pm
- Location: Texas
Re: Passages
That's very sad. I believe it's been more than a year since he was last on TCM or made any public appearances, and there had been reports of poor health.The Narrator Returns wrote:Robert Osbourne
- dx23
- Joined: Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:52 pm
- Location: Puerto Rico
Re: Passages
He brought a lot of great knowledge and gave TMC the gravitas that it needed to be successful.
- FrauBlucher
- Joined: Mon Jul 15, 2013 8:28 pm
- Location: Greenwich Village
Re: Passages
That's sad news.
- movielocke
- Joined: Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:44 am
Re: Passages
a shepherd to classic film for so many
- ando
- Bringing Out El Duende
- Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:53 pm
- Location: New York City
- Minkin
- Joined: Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:13 pm
Re: Passages
Awful news. I had wondered if something was up - as it seems like Ben or special guests had taken over most of his hosting duties lately. They also hired a new host, so perhaps TCM knew time was limited.The Narrator Returns wrote:Robert Osbourne
Robert Osbourne was always so loving towards the movies being shown. I always found it hilarious when you'd get some subtle sense of annoyance that he had towards his guest's less than insightful comments (Drew Barrymore). Or imagining him erupting in anger "get out of my house!"
There was also the really poorly made "Robert Osborne's 20th Anniversary Tribute" that came out last year - where he sits in a directors chair (that makes him seem awkwardly small) and various family members trot out on stage while Alex Trebek tries to keep order with his MC duties - its delightfully chaotic.
Weird to think that Lucille Ball got him to focus on criticism rather than playing a redneck character in The Beverly Hillbillies!
He will be sadly missed, and no amount of Ben could ever replace him.
- hearthesilence
- Joined: Fri Mar 04, 2005 4:22 am
- Location: NYC
Re: Passages
Oscilloscope posted a nice tribute.
From the Variety obituary of Robert Osborne:
After a fan guessed that he would not know what turned out to be a familiar title, he responded,
“Well, do you want me to tell you who’s in it in order of their billing or would you rather I tell you what theater it played in New York and for how long?”
- ianthemovie
- Joined: Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:51 am
- Location: Boston, MA
- Contact:
Re: Passages
I remember being so tickled by his cameo in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt a couple of years ago, in which he played himself and did a mock-TCM introduction to the fake gay musical Daddy's Boy.
- The Fanciful Norwegian
- Joined: Tue Nov 02, 2004 2:24 pm
- Location: Teegeeack
Re: Passages
Fred Weintraub, owner of Greenwich Village hotspot The Bitter End turned producer (Enter the Dragon, Black Belt Jones, Truck Turner, Gymkata, etc.)
- FrauBlucher
- Joined: Mon Jul 15, 2013 8:28 pm
- Location: Greenwich Village
- Polybius
- Joined: Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:57 pm
- Location: Rollin' down Highway 41
Re: Passages
I can actually remember Robert Osborne from when he was doing similar duties on The Movie Channel. I was very happy to see him when I first got TCM in 1998.
I share everyone's high regard and affection for him and he will be sorely missed.
I share everyone's high regard and affection for him and he will be sorely missed.
- colinr0380
- Joined: Mon Nov 08, 2004 4:30 pm
- Location: Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, UK
Re: Passages
Robert James Waller, the author of The Bridges of Madison County (I hadn't realised until looking at imdb that there was apparently a mid-2000s TV film of a stage version with Mireille Darc and Alain Delon in the Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood roles!)
- hearthesilence
- Joined: Fri Mar 04, 2005 4:22 am
- Location: NYC
Re: Passages
The film gets knocked because of the source material, but Eastwood does some excellent work as a filmmaker in that movie - the climactic rainy car at the stoplight scene feels effortless and masterful on his part. (And of course Meryl Streep is terrific.)
-
- Joined: Thu Mar 17, 2011 5:29 pm
Re: Passages
RIP Murray Ball
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment ... d=11816852" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
he brought a slice of heaven to us.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment ... d=11816852" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
he brought a slice of heaven to us.
- antnield
- Joined: Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:59 pm
- Location: Cheltenham, England
-
- Joined: Sun Sep 20, 2009 5:23 am
- Location: Florida
Re: Passages
Underground cartoonist Jay Lynch. And his NY Times obit.
- jbeall
- Joined: Sat Aug 12, 2006 9:22 am
- Location: Atlanta-ish
- domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
- Joined: Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:42 pm
Re: Passages
Used to teach his poem "the Virgins" every year, RIP
- hearthesilence
- Joined: Fri Mar 04, 2005 4:22 am
- Location: NYC
Re: Passages
James Cotton, the legendary blues harmonica player
- ando
- Bringing Out El Duende
- Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:53 pm
- Location: New York City
Re: Passages
Walcott? crushed