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#6301 Post by bearcuborg » Sat Jan 14, 2017 7:21 pm

Dick Gautier, who played Hymie - the robot on Get Smart - dead at 85.
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#6302 Post by Werewolf by Night » Sun Jan 15, 2017 5:42 pm

Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka
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#6303 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Sun Jan 15, 2017 6:32 pm

It's a massive shame that case sat like it did collecting dust until he was unreliable enough to prosecute.
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#6304 Post by dx23 » Sun Jan 15, 2017 10:18 pm

I guess the lawyer wasn't lying when he said Snuka didn't have a lot of time left.
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#6305 Post by Omensetter » Mon Jan 16, 2017 11:08 am

Mark Fisher
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#6306 Post by djproject » Mon Jan 16, 2017 7:22 pm

Eugene Cernan, the last man on the moon
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#6307 Post by oh yeah » Mon Jan 16, 2017 11:40 pm

Omensetter wrote:Mark Fisher
Really?

I'm stunned... Mark was utterly brilliant. I didn't know him personally, but I never had the impression he was either particularly old, or sick, so this is quite a shock. Edit: I've just read on Wiki that his wife confirmed it was a suicide. Horribly tragic.

In his honor I want to post this brilliant analysis/discussion of Kubrick he started, from the old google newsgroup.

R.I.P.
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#6308 Post by Lemmy Caution » Tue Jan 17, 2017 12:20 pm

bearcuborg wrote:Dick Gautier, who played Hymie - the robot on Get Smart - dead at 85.
Gautier co-wrote the 1968 movie "Maryjane" and the 1972 film "Wild in the Sky," starring Georg Stanford Brown.

Anyone familiar with those films?

I always thought Gautier did a terrific job as Hymie, weirdly believable, even as the jokes he was given (mostly to do with over-literal understanding of phrases) were rather uneven.
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#6309 Post by Jean-Luc Garbo » Tue Jan 17, 2017 5:34 pm

Omensetter wrote:Mark Fisher
David Stubbs's tribute is quite touching. I found Fisher's work invaluable when I got into postpunk but his film readings were especially insightful. He'll definitely be missed.
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#6310 Post by MichaelB » Thu Jan 19, 2017 11:59 am

Bill Margold, legendary porn actor turned genre historian and legacy-defender in later years.
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#6311 Post by Feego » Thu Jan 19, 2017 12:44 pm

MichaelB wrote:Bill Margold, legendary porn actor turned genre historian and legacy-defender in later years.
My only familiarity with Margold is from his interview on the now defunct Subversive Cinema's edition of Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical, where he mostly condemns the current porn industry for the extreme gymnastics required of performers and looks back fondly on the, ahem, natural qualities of 70s performers.
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#6312 Post by domino harvey » Fri Jan 20, 2017 1:43 pm

Miguel Ferrer discussion moved here
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#6313 Post by Arthur House » Sun Jan 22, 2017 7:33 pm

Can Drummer Jaki Liebezeit
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#6314 Post by hearthesilence » Sun Jan 22, 2017 8:31 pm

You can also add Pete "Overhand" Watts (Mott the Hoople's bassist) and Mike Kellie (drummer for the Only Ones and others - Johnny Thunders's "You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory" - later a producer). Tough days for the rhythm section.

Also Maggie Roche.
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#6315 Post by colinr0380 » Mon Jan 23, 2017 1:59 pm

Gorden Kaye, best known as hapless bar owner René from BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo. He's also in a couple of the BBC Shakespeare series from the early 80s: in the adaptations of Much Ado About Nothing and King John.

Feature film-wise he did make a couple of brief appearances in Terry Gilliam films: in Jabberwocky (as "Sister Jessica"!) and as an officious desk clerk in the lobby of the Ministry of Information in Brazil.
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#6316 Post by Robin Davies » Mon Jan 23, 2017 2:10 pm

hearthesilence wrote:You can also add Pete "Overhand" Watts (Mott the Hoople's bassist).
Pete Overend Watts.
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#6317 Post by hearthesilence » Mon Jan 23, 2017 2:14 pm

Robin Davies wrote:
hearthesilence wrote:You can also add Pete "Overhand" Watts (Mott the Hoople's bassist).
Pete Overend Watts.
Agh, damn you autocorrect!
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#6318 Post by thirtyframesasecond » Mon Jan 23, 2017 3:41 pm

colinr0380 wrote:Gorden Kaye, best known as hapless bar owner René from BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo. He's also in a couple of the BBC Shakespeare series from the early 80s: in the adaptations of Much Ado About Nothing and King John.

Feature film-wise he did make a couple of brief appearances in Terry Gilliam films: in Jabberwocky (as "Sister Jessica"!) and as an officious desk clerk in the lobby of the Ministry of Information in Brazil.
'Allo 'Allo still makes me laugh, even now. It's completely of its time (Thatcher's Britain) and you wouldn't get away with a lot of it now; homophobia, stereotypes of French, Germans and Brits, cartoony obsessions with bosoms, but it never felt mean and had some quite brilliant comic timing with its absurd plot lines. It's one of those sitcoms I'd love to show non-English natives, see what they make of it.
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#6319 Post by antnield » Mon Jan 23, 2017 5:03 pm

Werner Nekes.
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#6320 Post by dwk » Mon Jan 23, 2017 10:58 pm

Hiroki Matsukata
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#6321 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Wed Jan 25, 2017 11:00 am

Butch Trucks
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#6322 Post by dx23 » Wed Jan 25, 2017 3:44 pm

Mary Tyler Moore
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#6323 Post by domino harvey » Wed Jan 25, 2017 5:26 pm

Noooooo
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#6324 Post by FrauBlucher » Wed Jan 25, 2017 5:50 pm

In honor of the great Mary Tyler Moore
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#6325 Post by FrauBlucher » Fri Jan 27, 2017 7:20 am

Another TV star of the 70s....Mike Connors
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