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Buttery Jeb
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#5426 Post by Buttery Jeb » Tue Sep 08, 2015 8:12 pm

Candida Royalle
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#5427 Post by doh286 » Thu Sep 10, 2015 6:58 pm

Dickie Moore
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#5428 Post by domino harvey » Thu Sep 10, 2015 7:00 pm

Classic on-screen kid from the classic Hollywood era, from Out of the Past to Heaven Can Wait
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#5429 Post by Donald Brown » Sun Sep 13, 2015 10:08 am

Moses Malone.
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#5430 Post by Perkins Cobb » Sun Sep 13, 2015 9:01 pm

I've pretty much stopped posting here, but this seems fitting as a last dispatch:

Janus co-founder William Becker.
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#5431 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Mon Sep 14, 2015 8:48 am

REO Speedwagon guitarist Gary Richrath
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#5432 Post by jwd5275 » Mon Sep 14, 2015 10:50 am

Perkins Cobb wrote:Janus co-founder William Becker.
Mr. Becker’s talents embodied the Janus logo’s twin goals — for example, when he negotiated with the French filmmaker Jacques Tati, who was over budget on a film and had gone into bankruptcy and lost all his titles to his lenders.

“We put up the final $25,000 that enabled him to get control of his films back from the banks,” Mr. Becker said.
I think we likely have a good explanation here for the Tati family loyalty to Janus / Criterion over and above their StudioCanal deal.
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William Becker dies at 88...

#5433 Post by The Masked Marvel » Mon Sep 14, 2015 1:34 pm

The New York Times has his obit here.

Rest in peace.

EDIT: My apologies to the mods for posting in the wrong area.
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Re: Passages

#5434 Post by bearcuborg » Sat Sep 19, 2015 8:52 pm

Jackie Collins...who I'm sure has lots of fans here...
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#5435 Post by MichaelB » Sun Sep 20, 2015 2:43 am

This would appear to be an excellent excuse to post her classic Graham Norton interview alongside John Waters.
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#5436 Post by colinr0380 » Sun Sep 20, 2015 4:29 am

I've not had a chance to see them as yet but there are also the two late 70s film adaptations of Jackie Collins novels, both starring her older sister Joan: The Stud and of course The Bitch (the latter directed by Gerry O'Hara, so it should be worth a watch!)
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#5437 Post by fdm » Wed Sep 23, 2015 3:56 am

Yogi Berra
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#5438 Post by FrauBlucher » Wed Sep 23, 2015 6:25 am

Wasn't Mr. Berra best know for this....
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Lemmy Caution
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Jimmy Olsen

#5439 Post by Lemmy Caution » Wed Sep 23, 2015 7:24 am

Jack Larson, best known for his role as reporter Jimmy Olsen on the first Superman TV show, died Sunday at his home in Brentwood, Calif. He was 87.
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"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
"It's deja vu all over again"
"You can observe a lot just by watching."
"It ain't over til it's over"
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#5440 Post by MichaelB » Wed Sep 23, 2015 7:31 am

Marcin Wrona, one of the more promising of the younger generation of Polish filmmakers, seems to have committed suicide last Friday night - bafflingly, as his third feature Demon had just premiered locally to some of the best reviews of his career and looked set to make a genuine international splash.

Daniel Bird, who knew him well during his creatively formative years, has written a heartfelt obituary.
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#5441 Post by manicsounds » Thu Sep 24, 2015 10:40 am

Actress Naomi Kawashima (54)
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#5442 Post by vidussoni » Thu Sep 24, 2015 7:18 pm

Sunset Blvd. co-writer D.M. Marshman, Jr.
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The Narrator Returns
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#5443 Post by The Narrator Returns » Mon Sep 28, 2015 8:24 pm

Catherine Coulson
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#5444 Post by gorgeousnothings » Mon Sep 28, 2015 8:41 pm

The Narrator Returns wrote:Catherine Coulson
This is heartbreaking. RIP
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Charles
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#5445 Post by Charles » Mon Sep 28, 2015 9:23 pm

Truly.
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Re: Passages

#5446 Post by jorencain » Tue Sep 29, 2015 6:59 pm

Not film related, but: Phil Woods. Pretty devastating for the jazz world: http://thejazzline.com/news/2015/09/alt ... ied-at-83/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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#5447 Post by vidussoni » Wed Sep 30, 2015 2:51 am

John Guillermin, according to Twilight Time's Facebook page.
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#5448 Post by bamwc2 » Sun Oct 04, 2015 6:56 pm

Lee Kazimir. He only made one documentary, but as a friend of mine from high school, I'm hit pretty hard by his suicide today.
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#5449 Post by MichaelB » Tue Oct 06, 2015 6:43 am

Chantal Akerman.
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jbeall
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#5450 Post by jbeall » Tue Oct 06, 2015 8:13 am

Terrible news. It doesn't appear from the news release that she was ill. RIP.
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