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- domino harvey
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"Good gravy Marie" is one of those stupid lines that has somehow worked its way into my everyday vocabulary-- I am pretty sure I can recite the entire church crime scene sequence by heart. Seemed like a cool guy
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I've been cramming Twin Peaks as I've never watched the show before, and am just starting on his arc in season 2.
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- Polybius
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In re Michael Parks, please trust me that he was one of those guys (like Henry Darrow and Barry Newman) whose influence and place in pop culture was generally greater than most people who weren't around then remember.
He got the resurrection treatment from QT, which put him ahead of some of those others but I still think people sell him short, just as a matter of influence.
He got the resurrection treatment from QT, which put him ahead of some of those others but I still think people sell him short, just as a matter of influence.
- zedz
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Experimental musician Joanna Brouk, recently celebrated with a retrospective collection from Numero Group.
Numero obit
Numero obit
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William Hjortsberg. Author of numerous novels, including Falling Angel, which was adapted in Alan Parker's film
ANGEL HEART, and screenwriter of Ridley Scott's LEGEND
ANGEL HEART, and screenwriter of Ridley Scott's LEGEND
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His is one of many great performances in Nixon.
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He's well earned his tough guy reputation, but I have to admit I absolutely loved him playing more dandyish characters like in Dead Wood. He was also an amazing Gorilla Grodd.
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I'm more familiar with Booth's work, but I feel like him and Parks were probably up for the same roles a lot. Very strong similarities between the two, in at least what I've seen of Parks' work.
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I was just talking about him with someone yesterday (in the context of what a fabulous cast Tombstone had.)
Terrific foil for McShane on Deadwood, among many, many other good performances, dating back to his chilling portrayal of Jim Jones.
Terrific foil for McShane on Deadwood, among many, many other good performances, dating back to his chilling portrayal of Jim Jones.
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Really sad, especially with the script for the Deadwood movie having been completed, it would've been great to see him in the finale.
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- colinr0380
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For me the ultimate Powers Booth role was the starring one as the hydroelectric dam engineer who has his young son kidnapped by a tribe in a rain forest and then eventually finds him all grown up years later to have an awkward reconciliation (and to feel guilty about the environmental and cultural destruction wreaked on the indigenous tribespeople by the logging and the dam) in John Boorman's film The Emerald Forest. Its a film that sort of occupies the middle ground, splitting the difference between the more exploitative Italian cannibal films on one side and the eco-friendly, culturally sensitive Embrace of the Serpent on the other.
Oh and lowering the tone a little he also made for a deliciously over the top baddie threatening an ice hockey stadium final (?!?!) in Sudden Death with Jean Claude Van Damme! Its like White House Down but far better in that it knows how dumb and ridiculous its plot is, as well as how low key all the stakes are, and glories in going as far over the top with as little patriotic preachiness as possible, at least after the national anthem stuff to kick off the match! No film can include this fight scene and not be aware of how gloriously silly it is being, and yet still make the scene work in action terms too! (Still for my money Van Damme's best film!)
I've not had the chance to see Guyana Tragedy as yet, but it looks interesting. At the very least its got an amazing cast! (including Meg Foster five years before she teamed up with Powers Booth again, playing his wife in The Emerald Forest!)
Oh and lowering the tone a little he also made for a deliciously over the top baddie threatening an ice hockey stadium final (?!?!) in Sudden Death with Jean Claude Van Damme! Its like White House Down but far better in that it knows how dumb and ridiculous its plot is, as well as how low key all the stakes are, and glories in going as far over the top with as little patriotic preachiness as possible, at least after the national anthem stuff to kick off the match! No film can include this fight scene and not be aware of how gloriously silly it is being, and yet still make the scene work in action terms too! (Still for my money Van Damme's best film!)
I've not had the chance to see Guyana Tragedy as yet, but it looks interesting. At the very least its got an amazing cast! (including Meg Foster five years before she teamed up with Powers Booth again, playing his wife in The Emerald Forest!)
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Sad to hear about Powers Boothe--I like Deadwood and the other parts mentioned, but have to put a word in for his role in the heavily maligned but blissfully dumb (and personally loved) Macgruber.Caligula wrote:Really sad, especially with the script for the Deadwood movie having been completed, it would've been great to see him in the finale.
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Damn, Brad Grey...having done a very small job on a promotional shoot for The Sopranos, and what I know from other sources, I know he had a big role in the look and development of that show.
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- colinr0380
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And of course Ian Brady was briefly played by Andy Serkis in the 2006 film Longford (the emphasis being much more on Myra Hindley, played by Samantha Morton), which I still think is Tom Hooper's best film.
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- domino harvey
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- thirtyframesasecond
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I was watching Live and Let Die just the other weekend. Still one of my favourite Bond films.